"In any case, let Ning Fengzhi and the others do whatever they want. When it comes time to sell them, we can be utterly merciless."
Since Subduing Demon Douluo had said so, no one objected.
The Heaven Dou Auction House.
Why did the Heaven Dou Auction House dare to auction slaves?
The original work made it very clear:
The two great empires publicly banned the slave trade, but the Heaven Dou Auction House was a gray-market establishment with royal backing. Royal nobles like Prince Xue Xing personally came there to inspect the merchandise. Xue Xing had intended to bid on the cat girl back then, and only Ning Fengzhi's interception kept her from falling into filthy hands.
The auction house itself raised a batch of commoner girls bought from childhood as "attendants." Officially, they were not called slaves, but "auction house property." In reality, their lives and deaths were entirely at the auction house's mercy. Cat girls and mutated Beast Martial Soul owners were auctioned in iron cages under the labels of "pets" and "playthings," exploiting loopholes in the law.
Slave-hunting groups captured commoners with mutated Beast Martial Souls and sent them here. The nobles had demand, members of the royal family took a cut, and the law only restrained ordinary people. It could not restrain the privileged class—Ning Fengzhi's words essentially meant, "Where there is light, there is darkness. Laws cannot govern those with power and influence."
Moreover, neither the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect nor the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family were good people. They were basically all members of the soul master nobility. How could they possibly care about slaves?
At that moment, Bibi Dong's hands and feet were bound to a chair, putting her alluring figure on full display.
"Damn auction house! Damn Clear Sky