Transmigration! Inheriting the Auction House!

Soul Master Continent, Year 3 of the Yaoquan Era.

Eastern Martial Region, Savage Martial Land.

Langya City.

Langya Auction House.

At this moment.

Inside Langya Auction House, a young figure awakened from unconsciousness.

"Young Master, you're awake!"

Pain!

It hurt too much!

The moment Lin Shu opened his eyes, he felt waves of excruciating pain surging through his mind.

Who knew how much time passed before the pain finally faded away.

At the same time.

Lin Shu finally understood everything.

According to his memories, he had transmigrated to the Soul Master Continent, a world where Soul Power reigned supreme.

The Soul Master Continent was boundless and had always been incomparably chaotic. Powers from all sides constantly waged war, and conflict never ceased.

Eight years ago, an extraordinary woman emerged from the Papal Hall of the Central Martial Region. Her name was Su Yao.

She was barely over thirty, yet she was already considered invincible among Title Douluo. Rumor had it that she had reached Level Ninety-Nine and was not far from becoming a god.

Relying on the terrifying foundation of the Papal Hall and her own nearly invincible strength, she established a vast Empire, the Yaoquan Empire, in merely five years.

This Empire encompassed nearly all Human Race forces and territories across the Soul Master Continent, an unprecedented feat.

Su Yao was also known as Empress Yao and Emperor Yao!

With the Human Race's forces and territories nearly achieving unification, the old distribution of benefits naturally had to be rearranged.

As a top-tier Auction House in the Savage Martial Land of the Soul Master Continent's Eastern Martial Region, Langya Auction House—

—had originally been subordinate to Langya Hall, one of the continent's three top Tool Soul powers.

With such backing, few in the Savage Martial Land had dared to provoke Langya Auction House.

However, this also came with tribute requirements that were difficult to bear.

Nearly eighty percent of its annual profits had to be handed over to Langya Hall, leaving only twenty percent for Langya Auction House to maintain its operations.

After the Yaoquan Empire was founded, the Yaoquan Empress decreed that any Human Race force willing to submit to the Empire would receive its protection and only need to pay a ten percent tax.

Under such a policy, Lin Shu's father, Lin Langya, the Guild Master of Langya Auction House, had naturally been overjoyed. He prepared to travel to the Yaoquan Empire to register and submit to the Empire from then on.

After all, not only was the Yaoquan Empire powerful, but its tax was only ten percent rather than the previous eighty percent protection fee.

However.

Someone somehow leaked the news.

While Lin Langya was on his way to register with the Yaoquan Empire, he suffered a mysterious ambush.

In that ambush, two Title Douluo died, including his father and a Guardian Elder of the Auction House.

As for the guards traveling with them, all were Soul Sages or Soul Douluo above Level Seventy. No fewer than thirty were killed or injured.

After that ambush, Langya Auction House's strength plummeted, and it could no longer hold its place among the Savage Martial Land's top powers.

Internally, many elders refused to accept that the young Lin Shu had become the Guild Master of Langya Auction House and wished to seize power.

Externally, many forces from the Savage Martial Land constantly provoked them.

Worse still, Langya Hall continued demanding protection fees.

Lin Shu had also wanted to seek the Yaoquan Empire's protection. Yet even his father, a Title Douluo, along with a Guardian Elder and more than thirty powerful guards, had been mysteriously killed on the road to the Yaoquan imperial capital.

Because of that, Lin Shu had no choice. He could not go himself and could only secretly send others in his place, but every one of them vanished without a trace.

Lin Shu guessed that Langya Hall was most likely behind this.

Otherwise, an ordinary force could not have so easily killed two Title Douluo and more than thirty experts with Soul Power above Level Seventy.

To accomplish that, they would need at least five Title Douluo!

The Savage Martial Land had a total of one hundred and eight cities. Although it had numerous powers and over a hundred clans and sects, only two or three possessed five Title Douluo.

Langya Auction House counted as one of them!

One of the others belonged to the Empire. It was called Savage Martial Pavilion, a force subordinate to the Papal Hall under the Yaoquan Empire!

Another belonged to Hammer Heaven Sect and was called Stone Gate!

Savage Martial Pavilion, being affiliated with the Empire, could not possibly attack Langya Auction House.

Stone Gate, which belonged to Hammer Heaven Sect, was a possibility.

However, that force knew Langya Auction House was subordinate to Langya Hall, so it might not dare act so rashly.

After all, a single move could affect the whole situation. If it truly did so, it could very well trigger a war between Hammer Heaven Sect and Langya Hall.

Hammer Heaven Sect, Langya Hall, and Seven Kill Sword Valley were the continent's three top Tool Soul powers, their strength roughly equal.

Once Hammer Heaven Sect came into conflict with Langya Hall, Seven Kill Sword Valley would definitely add fuel to the fire in secret.

Of course, Stone Gate might also have acted without Hammer Heaven Sect's knowledge.

However, Lin Shu was more inclined to believe that Langya Hall had done this.

Only overwhelming strength could have carried it out so cleanly. Lin Shu knew something of Stone Gate, Hammer Heaven Sect's subordinate force. Its strength was comparable to Langya Auction House's, and its high-end combat power, such as its Title Douluo, was even slightly inferior.

Although Lin Langya had only brought sixty percent of the guards' strength with him, Stone Gate clearly could not have wiped them all out.

Even if it truly had acted, Lin Langya and that Guardian Elder were both Level Ninety-Three and Level Ninety-Four Title Douluo, practically at the peak among ordinary Title Douluo.

Stone Gate had no Super Douluo above Level Ninety-Five, so how could it have denied Lin Langya and the Guardian Elder even a chance to escape?

Lin Shu continuously pondered, sorting through every clue in his mind.

"Langya Hall... what a Langya Hall!"

"My Langya Auction House has paid tribute to you for more than thirty years, handing over eighty percent of our profits every year, yet now you commit such inhuman deeds!"

At this moment, Lin Shu's hatred for Langya Hall had reached its peak.

"Still, this must be planned carefully!"

He shook his head.

Lin Shu did not dwell on it further.

The reason his original body had fallen unconscious was because he had been too anxious and secretly tried to contact the Empire through other means.

As a result, he had been poisoned to death as well.

Now that he had transmigrated here, if he wanted revenge, he definitely could not act recklessly.

Lin Shu looked toward the bedside.

Standing there were a middle-aged man in his early forties and a young woman of seventeen or eighteen.

They were the only people he could rely on for now!

The middle-aged man was a powerful expert his father had arranged to protect him, named Lin Ye. His father had once said that he could trust Lin Ye completely, just as he trusted his father.

For his father to say that showed this man's absolute loyalty. Now that Lin Shu had awakened, he could see the concern in his eyes.

As for his strength, he should have entered the Title Douluo realm. After all, he was also one of Langya Auction House's Guardian Elders.

Langya Auction House had four Guardian Elders in total.

One of them had died in the ambush alongside his father.

The other two had been invited by the First Elder and Second Elder to oversee Langya Auction House!

The remaining one was Lin Ye.

Ever since the First Elder and Second Elder learned of his father's death, they had constantly sought to drive him out of the Auction House and seize the Auction House his father had built for themselves.

Lin Shu even suspected that the First Elder and Second Elder were the ones who had leaked the news of his father's trip to the Empire to report and register.

Otherwise, no other force could possibly have known such a secret, much less set up an ambush.

At his side, Lin Ye saw Lin Shu awaken yet remain silent and could not help asking anxiously:

"Young Master, what's wrong?"

He had seen earlier that the Young Master had been poisoned. With the Young Master's strength, he should not have been able to withstand that poison.

Now that Lin Shu had awakened, the guilt in his heart was finally mixed with great relief!

He hated himself for being too eager to avenge the Guild Master. After hearing a few rumors, he had secretly left to investigate.

He had never expected that in such a short time, the Young Master would nearly lose his life.

Now, he also understood that someone within Langya Auction House secretly wanted the Young Master dead.

Someone who could so easily approach the Young Master was most likely a Title Douluo.

After all, the Young Master was the Guild Master's son. After the Guild Master's death, in order to keep the Young Master from suffering the same fate, he had immediately deployed the Langya Guards secretly trained by him and the Guild Master to protect the Young Master. The Young Master's defenses were exceedingly strong.

They were all experts with Soul Power at Level Seventy or Eighty. Only a Title Douluo could approach the Young Master without a sound.

However, he did not think further about these matters. Even if revenge was necessary, he first had to confirm the Young Master's current condition!

At this moment, he desperately wanted to know whether the Young Master's silence after awakening meant there were lingering effects.

Just as he was about to speak again.

Lin Shu finally spoke:

"Uncle Ye, Yu Rou, leave first. My mind is a little confused right now. Let me calm down!"

"This..."

Lin Ye hesitated.

After everything that had happened recently, he felt that he had to remain by the Young Master's side at all times.

Lin Shu could see his concern and said:

"Just stay outside the door. Even if someone truly comes to assassinate me, with your strength, you would not fail to notice from outside!"

"Yes!"

Lin Ye and Lin Yurou quickly left Lin Shu's bedroom.

After they left.

Only then did Lin Shu silently ask in his heart:

"System, what functions do you have?"