Auctioning an Eighth-Grade Soul Tool! One Hundred Eighty Thousand Gold Soul Coins!

Auction venue.

Fourth floor.

Lin Shu, Lin Ye, the five company and platoon commanders of the Title Douluo Guard Regiment under his command, and Lin Yurou were all seated in a rather spacious hall.

From here, they could easily see everything in the auction hall through the windows.

Lin Shu had nothing else to do during the auction, so he simply sat here and watched quietly.

There were five auction items in this auction.

Four of those five items had come from Lin Shu's novice reward lottery draws.

The remaining one was a rather precious Soul Tool Lin Shu had taken from the Langya Auction House.

It was the first auction item of the day.

"A small bell!"

"It looks like a Soul Tool!"

"Only five items are being auctioned at this auction. They surely wouldn't bring out anything of ordinary value, so this little bell must be no low-grade Soul Tool!"

"Unfortunately, I'm not a Treasure Appraiser, so I can't tell its grade!"

"I'm a Treasure Appraiser, and a Sixth Grade one at that, yet I still can't discern its grade. It should be a Seventh-Grade Soul Tool or higher!"

As soon as a Sixth-Grade Treasure Appraiser spoke, everyone was startled.

A Sixth-Grade Treasure Appraiser was absolutely among the very best in the Land of Hundred Cities.

Naturally, everyone knew of him.

"It's Master Liu Yuan!"

"I never expected Master Liu Yuan to come as well!"

"Master Liu Yuan is a level seventy-eight Soul Sage and a Sixth-Grade Treasure Appraiser. Since he says so, this little bell truly must be extraordinary!"

"A Seventh-Grade Soul Tool would be immensely useful even to Soul Sages and Soul Douluo. The Langya Auction House is actually willing to put it up for auction, and even make it the opening item? What a grand gesture!"

"I wonder what grade the later auction items will be!"

On the auction stage.

After lifting the protective cover, Su Qian finally spoke slowly:

"I believe everyone has already made some guesses!"

"That's right, this bell is a Soul Tool!"

"However, it is not Seventh Grade, but an Eighth-Grade Soul Tool named the Golden Bell Shield!"

"The minimum requirement for using it is level fifty Soul Power. When activated with Soul Power, it transforms into a massive golden bell that envelops the user!"

"With this golden bell in place, no one below Soul Douluo can break it!"

"Even a Soul Douluo would need at least a quarter of an hour to break through it!"

"Of course, that only applies when used with level fifty Soul Power. If it is used with level sixty, seventy, or even eighty Soul Power, the duration it can withstand opponents below Soul Douluo doubles!"

"In other words, a Soul Emperor above level sixty can hold out for two quarters of an hour. By the same logic, a Soul Sage above level seventy can hold out for three quarters of an hour, while a level eighty Soul Douluo can hold out for half an hour!"

"Of course, if used by a Title Douluo, a Soul Douluo would never be able to break it. Powered by a Title Douluo's immense Soul Power, even someone with equal Soul Power would need at least ten breaths to break through!"

"The starting bid for this Eighth-Grade Soul Tool, the Golden Bell Shield, is ten thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

Once Su Qian finished her introduction.

Everyone in the auction hall was thoroughly astonished.

This was actually an Eighth-Grade Soul Tool.

In the Land of Hundred Cities, aside from the few forces guarded by Title Douluo.

The other forces had no Title Douluo guarding them. They only had Soul Douluo, and some did not even have Soul Douluo.

An Eighth-Grade Soul Tool like this was absolutely a treasure among treasures to them.

With this treasure, they could withstand a Soul Douluo for such a long time.

That way, should they encounter a powerful enemy in the future, their lives would be sufficiently protected.

After all, although the Langya Auction House had so many Title Douluo, in the Land of Hundred Cities, within the world ordinary people came into contact with, they might not see even a single Title Douluo in ten years.

With this treasure, it would provide an extremely solid safeguard for both a family's development and one's personal safety.

In an instant, someone spoke up:

"The Wang Family of Langya City bids twelve thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

"The Wang Family of Langya City is one of the top five families in Langya City, yet you're being this stingy? My Liu Family of Langya City bids fifteen thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

"My Eight Treasures Sect bids twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

"The Wu Family of Savage Martial City bids thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

"...Fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins!"

The price rose continuously, quickly reaching fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.

At this rate, it could continue climbing higher.

After all, the truly major forces of the Land of Hundred Cities had yet to make their bids.

Though the Land of Hundred Cities was tucked away in a remote corner, forces with Soul Douluo were not uncommon.

With roughly one force possessing a Soul Douluo in each city, there were over a hundred forces with Soul Douluo throughout the Land of Hundred Cities.

Setting aside those forces that already possessed Eighth-Grade Soul Tools, at least more than half of them did not.

Lin Shu watched quietly.

To be honest, this auction item was rather ordinary to Lin Shu.

But there was no helping it. To make up the five auction items, he could only take it out.

Though the Langya Auction House had been quite powerful before this, possessing a Ninth-Grade Soul Tool and many other treasures.

Those treasures were now gone, evidently used up by the First Elder and Second Elder.

Or perhaps secretly offered as tribute to Langya Hall.

With those two spendthrift elders around, it was already quite fortunate that they could still find an Eighth-Grade Soul Tool.

As Lin Shu watched in silence, the price of the Golden Bell Shield continued soaring, already nearing one hundred thousand.

At that price, in a prosperous region for Soul Master cultivation, one could nearly buy a set of Eighth-Grade combined Soul Tools capable of both offense and defense.

However, this place was relatively impoverished, and there were very few masters capable of forging Soul Tools, naturally resulting in higher Soul Tool prices.

At this moment, quite a few forces guarded by Soul Douluo had already joined the bidding.

"Still, there are more powerful people in this world than I expected!"

Lin Shu could not help thinking of another continent where Soul Power was also cultivated. Title Douluo there were exceedingly rare.

Even the so-called upper sects only had one or two Title Douluo guarding them, while the marshal of an Empire on that continent was merely a Soul Douluo.

But upon thinking it over carefully, it made sense. The Soul Master Continent was immensely vast and divided into five regions.

Forget the five regions—even this Land of Hundred Cities was larger than the Empire on the continent from the novel he had read.

A single region was far larger than that entire continent, so naturally, the number of powerful experts was far greater as well.

As Lin Shu pondered, the auction for the Golden Bell Shield finally came to an end.

It was purchased by a force from Savage Martial City.

One could tell from its name that Savage Martial City was the most powerful city in the Land of Barbarian Martial Hundred Cities.

Savage Martial Pavilion, an Imperial force, was located there.

However, it was not Savage Martial Pavilion that won the auction.

Savage Martial Pavilion was guarded by a Title Douluo and was an Imperial force, so naturally it did not lack an Eighth-Grade Soul Tool.

The one that won it was Moon Cauldron Pavilion of Savage Martial City.

This pavilion specialized in selling all kinds of Soul Tools.

They had likely bought it to study it, then forge new Golden Bell Shields.

Lin Shu did not particularly care about that.

The final transaction price was one hundred eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins!

"Not bad at all!"

Lin Shu was quite pleased as he watched one of his Title Douluo subordinates present the one hundred eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins to him.

The moment he took them into his hand, he silently said in his heart:

"System, convert all of it into Auction Points!"

"Yes, Host!"