Chapter 15

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I was careless!

Sitting in the auction hall, Su Mutian looked around and saw that everyone was wearing the masks issued by Sea Auction House.

Only the people seated near the front wore mostly brilliant masks with distinctive designs.

Some people did not even need masks, directly exposing their real faces.

Su Mutian could faintly sense the fluctuations of their Soul Power... unfathomably deep!

It was starting, it was starting. This demigod was starting again.

Su Mutian curled up in a certain corner, searching for traces of the Sea Charm Tribe.

He figured that anyone who could afford Sea Exchange's featured item for the day had to be sitting in the front rows.

The Sea Charm Tribe...

He had never seen them in Douluo either.

Just then.

At the center of the dazzlingly lit stage, a crimson-purple flower appeared. Its petals dropped specks of soul petals; when they met water, they dissolved, and when they touched the ground, they went out.

"Hua Luo Can Hong!"

"Hua Luo Can Hong!"

"The Immortal Herb Hua Luo Can Hong!"

The moment this herb appeared, it immediately drew shocked cries from all the experts.

"Wasn't today's featured item supposed to be the Ten Thousand Year Mermaid Spirit Beast?"

"How did an Immortal Herb suddenly appear?"

The crowd muttered among themselves, astonished that an Immortal Herb had suddenly appeared at Sea Exchange.

However, most people were like Su Mutian, not understanding what this immortal herb named Hua Luo Can Hong was, or what effect it had.

Immortal Herbs were not one bit cheaper than ten-thousand-year spirit beasts. It was just that ordinary spirit masters had no understanding of these immortal herbs' medicinal properties, so even if they encountered one, they would not realize they had found a treasure.

Just like when Poison Douluo occupied the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where many immortal herbs filled with the refined spiritual essence of heaven and earth had gathered. Poison Douluo himself did not recognize many of them, and in the end, Tang San gained all the benefits for nothing.

Rare immortal herbs such as Lovesick Heartbreak Red, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Infernal Delicate Apricot, Autumn Dew, and so on.

All of them were taken back by Tang San and given to his friends and family.

Combining them with one's own martial soul constitution and administering the herbs truly had the effect of increasing a person's strength.

"That's right. This is the famous ring-breaking immortal herb—Hua Luo Can Hong."

The auctioneer said, "Hua Luo Can Hong is an Immortal Herb that can quickly transform its medicinal power into Soul Power and store it within one's spirit rings. It is extremely rare.

It is said that several decades ago, an eighty-seventh-rank Spirit Titled Douluo used Hua Luo Can Hong to defeat a rank-ninety mighty expert who was only one spirit ring away from becoming a Titled Douluo.

From this, one can see how powerful this herb's effects are.

And from then on, Hua Luo Can Hong became famous throughout the Douluo Seas."

"However, the name Hua Luo Can Hong does sound inauspicious, and that is because of its side effect.

After using Hua Luo Can Hong, one's spirit rings will scatter like drifting blossoms. Back then, after that eighty-seventh-rank Spirit Titled Douluo fought that great battle, he dropped from an eighty-seventh-rank Spirit Titled Douluo to a sixty-third-rank Spirit Emperor. From then on, there was no news of him. It truly makes one sigh."

"However, Hua Luo Can Hong also has another effect. Under reasonable use, for those whose martial souls are compatible with it, consuming it after decocting it can nourish spirit rings, and there is a certain chance of evolving spirit skills.

That has always been a miraculous effect that people find hard to resist."

The auctioneer told this legendary story from the seas.

Even Su Mutian, who had a rough understanding of the various storylines of Douluo World, was hearing of it for the first time.

That was mainly because the original work was narrated with Tang San as the main focus. It was already not easy to clearly write the emotional line of Tang San's father, Tang Hao. As for Tang Chen's generation, it was impossible to go into detail on everything.

For Su Mutian, this was also the hardest era to get by in, yet it was also the easiest opportunity to change everything.

As soon as Hua Luo Can Hong appeared, certain spirit masters abruptly stood up.

Evolving spirit skills—what an enormous temptation that was!

It could make a martial soul with no offensive power possess a certain degree of aggression, or increase a martial soul's characteristics.

Wasn't Oscar, who had been provoked by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, unwilling to accept it, and so went out alone to train, then obtained the Mirror Beast spirit skill and gained the strength to protect himself, proving himself?

To be fair, among the Shrek Seven Devils, apart from the two exceptions Tang San and Xiao Wu, Su Mutian rather admired Oscar.

Dai Mubai, martial soul Evil Eye White Tiger, a descendant of the White Tiger; Ning Rongrong, the sect princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, one of the Upper Three Sects, with a naturally outstanding martial soul; Ma Hongjun, though unreliable as a person, had the martial soul Mutated Fire Phoenix; Zhu Zhuqing, the daughter of nobility, from a distinguished family that could hold a lofty position in the Star Luo Empire, where the strong were respected, so her martial soul naturally would not be too poor.

Only Oscar was an orphan adopted by Flender from childhood. For him to become a monster-level person was mostly due to his own hard work and talent, and likely had little to do with heredity.

If using Su Mutian's experience from reading novels in his previous life, someone like Oscar was the image of a traditional protagonist.

A loser's comeback story, no family, no background, an orphan start, all smiles and jokes, humorous yet not lacking depth...

Su Mutian felt inferior.

Tang San should have felt inferior too.

We deserve death. I'm also a stinking bastard with power, influence, and origins.

That was getting off track. Back to the point.

It was still far from the Shrek Seven Devils making their appearance.

Although Hua Luo Can Hong's effect was good, Su Mutian had no use for it for the time being.

Risking my rings scattering to experiment with this evolution? Am I crazy?

Wait!

Su Mutian covered his palm with his black robe and secretly took a peek at his White Sword.

There's no harm in trying, right?

Scatter for your grandpa!

I don't even have a single spirit ring! How are you going to scatter?!

But the next second, Su Mutian felt the pinch of his empty purse.

"Forty thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

Pfft—!

Su Mutian nearly spat.

Forty thousand Gold Soul Coins!

I fucking need a Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges Night to save money...

And then I'll get Bo Saixi a Where Does the Jade Beauty Teach the Flute...

To be honest, forty thousand Gold Soul Coins was not much to a wealthy household.

But when he thought back to the blacksmiths of Nuoding City in the Heaven Dou Empire, living each month on a single Silver Spirit Coin.

A bowl of noodles cost two Copper Spirit Coins; their lives truly were not easy.

Thinking this way, Su Mutian felt that squandering Gold Soul Coins was a shameless act.

Right, by the way, here was Douluo Continent's financial system:

One Gold Soul Coin equaled ten Silver Spirit Coins, which equaled one hundred Copper Spirit Coins.

The front row.

Su Mutian absolutely would not have imagined that Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu were inside Sea Exchange.

Both of them wore black masks.

"Fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins!" Tang Chen raised the price without hesitation.

Qian Daoliu said gloomily, "Brother Tang Chen, you and I are both at the limits between heaven and earth. What do you want Hua Luo Can Hong for? It harms more than it helps!"

Tang Chen shook his head. "Qian Daoliu, you don't understand."

"How do I not understand?"

Qian Daoliu said, "It's nothing more than that matter you told me about last time in Sea God Island's prison. You want to tamper with your spirit rings, using that to seek the Power of Gods."

"If you already know, why ask?" Tang Chen rolled his eyes at Qian Daoliu.

Qian Daoliu continued, "Brother Tang Chen, I know you are proud and ambitious, but please listen to my advice. The Power of Gods is not something human strength can touch."

The other party was clearly also especially attached to Hua Luo Can Hong, clinging to it tightly and not letting go as they called out:

"One hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

That directly blocked off everyone else who still had thoughts about this Immortal Herb.

One hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. Add a little more, and it would be enough to buy the Ten Thousand Year Mermaid Spirit Beast.