Chapter 50: Starlight Auction
In the God Realm, Tang San looked at Wang Dong, who was shrinking into her hotel room, lying flat and sleeping, with a feeling of exasperation.
"Xiao Qi, how can you be so unmotivated? If this continues and a crisis appears on the Douluo Continent, won't I be powerless to reverse the situation?"
"Xiao Qi, Father will help you one more time, to assist you in finding your own happiness, so that Father can continue to protect the Douluo Continent."
As he spoke, several divine rings appeared behind Tang San, and the Sea God's divine force gradually descended into the Qiankun Asking Love Valley, extracting a significant amount of the Love God's power of law from within it.
After Tang San changed the Love God's law's binding target to Huo Yuhao, he used the Sea God's divine sense, which remained in Wang Dong's Spirit Sea, to integrate it into Wang Dong's body.
"Since the law has been extracted, the plan for the Imperial Beast of Destiny should also begin."
"If only Huo Yuhao's mental force wasn't so strong, I would have directly integrated a portion of Xiao Qi's divine sense into the Imperial Beast's Spirit Sea; why go through such trouble?"
"It's just that this way, the Golden Dragon Spear will likely be difficult to obtain. I can only wait until Huo Yuhao enters the God Realm to see if a trade is possible."
As Tang San spoke, he carefully avoided the Silver Dragon King's divine sense, integrating a stream of the Love God's law, several times stronger than Wang Dong's, into the Imperial Beast's body.
At this moment, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who was sleeping in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, suddenly woke up with a jolt. She had dreamt of many daily life scenes with Huo Yuhao after her future human transformation.
Immediately, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who was already curious about the human World and somewhat eager to try after watching the small portion of memories Huo Yuhao had transmitted, made up her mind.
After leaving a fake body in closed-door cultivation in the Star Dou Great Forest, she began her own human transformation process.
In a hotel in Star Luo City, Wang Dong also woke up somewhat groggily. Not yet fully detached from her dream, she subconsciously called out "Yuhao."
Then she suddenly reacted, her face flushing with shyness.
In her dream, she had ultimately entered the hall of marriage with Huo Yuhao after he ascended to the God Realm, and they even had several children together.
Wang Dong felt a sense of loss after waking from the dream. Biting her silver teeth lightly, she resolved in her heart to go and seek out Huo Yuhao.
In the following days, Shrek Academy won all the elimination matches with overwhelming force, entering the top sixteen.
After the last elimination match ended, Huo Yuhao was about to return to his room to cultivate when he felt that gentle, affectionate gaze from behind him.
Huo Yuhao helplessly turned to glance at Wang Dong, unsure what madness had possessed her lately; she had been staring at him with such eyes for several days now.
Huo Yuhao estimated it was another good deed done by Tang God King, but since the Destiny Power didn't send a warning, it seemed it shouldn't affect him.
Not long after returning to their room, the Shrek Academy group received an invitation from the Starlight Auction House.
As the largest auction house in Star Luo City, the auction of Battle Armor naturally also took place at this auction.
Not long after Huo Yuhao led everyone into the Starlight Auction House's private room, the auction was about to begin.
"Lang Ya, didn't Sect Master say that we Body Spirit Masters must rely on ourselves, and that spirit tools are useless? Why do you still want us to participate in the auction?"
In the Body Sect's private room, Yu Tao asked Lang Ya somewhat puzzled.
"It's not Sect Master's intention. The Sky Soul Imperial Family hopes we can help them bid for it. They themselves might not be able to escort it back safely, and all expenses this time will be paid by the Imperial Family."
Upon hearing this, Yu Tao lay down on the sofa in the private room and began to rest with his eyes closed. As a member of the Body Sect who always believed in their own strength and looked down on spirit tools, he had no interest in spirit tools.
Today's auction was conducted by a senior auctioneer Huo Yuhao didn't recognize. She had a very clear and refined appearance, and was not Princess Xu Jiujiu from the original timeline.
Huo Yuhao estimated that it was probably because she was about to join the Academy, and to avoid suspicion, she did not participate.
As items were auctioned off one by one, it finally came to the Two-Word Battle Armor made by Huo Yuhao.
However, before this auction, the auctioneer's voice sounded, beginning to introduce the transaction restrictions for this round of bidding.
"In the auction of this Two-Word Battle Armor, direct gold coin transactions are not accepted. Only rare metals and spirit tools equivalent to the gold coin amount will be accepted."
"The starting bid is fifty million gold coins. The auction now begins."
In the Sun Moon Empire's private room, Xiao Hongchen angrily punched the sofa.
"Damn it, those Douluo Three Kingdoms must have discussed this long ago, directly using rare metals for transactions to catch us off guard. They simply don't want us to win the bid."
Old Ma, sitting beside him, did not quite agree with Xiao Hongchen's view and shook his head.
"Xiao Hongchen, you still lack experience. If they truly didn't want us to win the bid, the best way would be to restrict payment to only natural treasures."
"Rare metals and spirit tools are our Sun Moon Empire's advantage. They want us to give them as many high-grade rare metals and spirit tools as possible."
Xiao Hongchen nodded in agreement upon hearing this, and then continued to inquire with some hesitation:
"Then should we still bid for this Battle Armor? Many of our high-grade spirit tools contain some emerging technologies."
Old Ma, however, took out a letter, opened it, and handed it to Xiao Hongchen, letting him read it himself.
"The Imperial Family has already intervened in this matter. The Imperial Family's intention is to obtain a set of Battle Armor at all costs, even if it's just to verify its performance, it is extremely important to us."
"Therefore, we must bid on the first set of Battle Armor. The Star Luo Imperial Family's calculations are very precise."
"Once the first set of Battle Armor falls into the hands of Dou Ling or Sky Soul, in the auction of the second set, the remaining one will compete with us, emptying their family's coffers."
"Only during the auction of the first set of Battle Armor can we reduce our consumption by leveraging the fact that the two nations of Dou Ling and Sky Soul believe they can outcompete each other in the next round."
After explaining it clearly to Xiao Hongchen, Old Ma did not hesitate, raising his bid card to participate in the bidding.
"One hundred fifty million."
"Two hundred seventy million."
"Three hundred million."
After Old Ma's third bid of three hundred million, the two nations of Dou Ling and Sky Soul finally stopped bidding, allowing the Sun Moon Empire to win it.
"Xiao Hongchen, you must be careful in the Star Luo Empire from now on. After I obtain the Battle Armor, I must immediately return to the Sun Moon Empire with it."
Under Old Ma's negotiation, at the cost of paying an additional eighth-grade spirit tool, he paid for the rare metals and spirit tools in advance and then left with the Battle Armor first.
Xu Jiawei looked at the storage spirit tool handed over by Spirit Transmission Douluo and tapped the table with satisfaction.
"Two ninth-grade spirit tools, ten eighth-grade spirit tools, and rare metals worth one hundred million, all new types of spirit tools we haven't seen before. The Sun Moon Empire is quite generous."
Seeing Spirit Transmission Douluo's slightly puzzled expression, Xu Jiawei continued:
"I've already asked Pavilion Master Huo. They can't analyze this Two-Word Battle Armor, and forcibly disassembling it would even cause an explosion."
"When Shrek Academy produces more Battle Armor later, the Sun Moon Empire will always find a way to get it. It's better to exchange for some high-level spirit tool technology now."
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