News of the Soul Devouring Carving Knife

Room 607

The interior was extravagantly luxurious. Thanks to the little rich girl Meng Hongchen, Wang Chen had managed to get in on her pass and immediately spotted a black Soul Tool combination lockbox on the table.

This type of lockbox had an extremely high security rating. It was a Class 6 Soul Tool, generally used to store highly confidential documents of utmost importance.

It could only be opened by entering the correct password. If the wrong password was entered three times, or if it was attacked by external force, the lockbox would destroy its contents.

Cracking the lockbox—or destroying it without damaging what was inside—was an exceptionally difficult task.

Even an Eighth-Level Soul Engineer would not dare guarantee that they could do it. Its security was as high as it could get.

Looking at the lockbox, Wang Chen silently wondered, Did Xiao Meng leave this for me?

Wang Chen walked over to the sofa beside the table and sat down. Looking at the Soul Tool lockbox, his fingers moved swiftly as he entered Meng Hongchen's birthday.

A red light lit up on the lockbox. Incorrect password.

After hesitating for a moment, Wang Chen entered his own birthday.

This time, a green light appeared on the lockbox. Correct password.

With a click, the lockbox opened.

There was a letter inside. Wang Chen took it out, unfolded it, and began to read.

Chen Gege, Grandpa won't let me meet you, so I came up with this way to keep in touch. Am I smart?

...From now on, I'll leave a letter here every Monday.

Hehe, Chen Gege, remember to write back when you see it. Missing you, Meng'er~

The letter was very long. It recorded the worries and troubles of Meng Hongchen's young girlish heart, along with all the interesting things she had encountered recently.

It took Wang Chen quite a while to come back to himself after finishing the letter.

He then took out some paper from his storage Soul Tool and began writing.

Unlike Meng Hongchen's letter, Wang Chen's letter contained no worries or troubles.

Aside from words of praise, encouragement, and reassurance, he mostly wrote about the amusing things he had encountered while watching the Soul Duel Tournament in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Wang Chen had never liked telling those around him about his worries and troubles. He would rather see more smiles on their faces.

After finishing, Wang Chen placed the letter in the Soul Tool lockbox, closed it, and set it back on the table, waiting for Meng Hongchen to open it the next time she came.

Afterward, Wang Chen sat on the sofa and sent a trace of Soul Power into the Soul Tool screen in the VIP room, activating it.

Then, using his VIP status, he began browsing the latest intelligence from the Sun and Moon Empire.

In the Sun and Moon Empire, Soul Tool technology was extraordinarily advanced. In some areas, it was already no worse than in his previous life.

There was also a Soul Tool communicator in the VIP room for contacting the Hundred Treasures Pavilion staff. He could send instructions to the staff and have them provide better service.

Wang Chen's black eyes swept rapidly over the Soul Tool screen. Thanks to his formidable Spiritual Power, he browsed information at an astonishing speed.

It was not quite reading ten lines at a glance, but close enough. More remarkably, Wang Chen could remember everything he had read.

Very quickly, Wang Chen discovered a piece of news that might not have mattered to others, but was immensely important to him.

The owner of the Soul Devouring Carving Knife, infamous and notorious, ranked ninety-ninth among the Ranked Carving Knives, had died yet again.

At the sight of this news, Wang Chen's eyes immediately flashed with brilliance.

The Soul Devouring Carving Knife! It was actually the Soul Devouring Carving Knife!

Although the original story had placed this Soul Devouring Carving Knife at an auction house in the Star Luo Empire, Wang Chen was not at all surprised to see it in the Sun and Moon Empire now.

After all, the Sun and Moon Empire was the center of Soul Engineers. More than two-thirds of the Ranked Carving Knives on the continent had originated in the Sun and Moon Empire. Even this carving knife's first owner had been a Soul Engineer.

Wang Chen guessed that the reason it had appeared in the Star Luo Empire in the original story was likely because of its infamous reputation. No Soul Engineer in the Sun and Moon Empire had been willing to take it, so they had eventually decided to toss it into the Douluo Three Kingdoms and let it plague the Soul Engineers there.

Perhaps everyone in the world now avoided this Soul Devouring Carving Knife as though it were poison, because it contained a curse. None of its owners had ever met a good end; not one had even survived for more than ten years.

But Wang Chen was definitely not among those people. He knew full well that the Soul Devouring Carving Knife's true form was Gold of Life.

Gold of Life was a supreme treasure capable of completely remaking a person. In particular, the immense life force it contained meant that once someone absorbed Gold of Life, they would find it hard to die even if they wanted to.

Wang Chen immediately focused and began reading the information about the Soul Devouring Carving Knife.

Soon, the corners of Wang Chen's mouth lifted into a smile.

After the Soul Devouring Carving Knife's owner died, his wife and son had become deeply terrified of it. They feared that one day, they too would be cursed to death by the Soul Devouring Carving Knife.

Thus, they had decided to auction it off, and the time and place of the auction had already been set.

One month from now! The Sun and Moon Empire's largest auction house, the Sun and Moon Auction House.

Wang Chen took a deep breath, unable to hide the heat in his eyes.

Because of its infamous reputation, the Soul Devouring Carving Knife was worth far less than other Ranked Carving Knives.

In the original story, Huo Yuhao had bought the Soul Devouring Carving Knife for 100,000 Gold Soul Coins at an auction in the Star Luo Empire.

However, in the Sun and Moon Empire, where Soul Engineers were so numerous, its auction price might be higher—but it definitely would not be too much higher.

Even if it was ten times higher, it would only be one million Gold Soul Coins. And one million Gold Soul Coins could not even buy a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Would buying the Soul Devouring Carving Knife for one million be a loss? No, absolutely not. More than not a loss—if calculated according to its value...

Life Gold was simply a priceless treasure. Compared to it, even a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, Soul Bone, and Gold of Life would become insignificant.

However, Wang Chen quickly reined in his joy, because let alone one million Gold Soul Coins, he could not even come up with 100,000 Gold Soul Coins.

After counting everything he had, he only had 20,000 Gold Soul Coins in total. Such a small amount was obviously nowhere near enough.

In that case, how was he supposed to bid for the Soul Devouring Carving Knife at the auction a month from now?

Very quickly, Wang Chen thought of the Family Competition three weeks later.

As long as he could take first place, the family would prioritize allocating resources to him.

If the family was unwilling to pay to help him buy the Soul Devouring Carving Knife, then he could only swallow his pride and live off a woman for once.

He would ask the little rich girl Meng Hongchen to lend him a hand and buy the Soul Devouring Carving Knife for him.