At the same time, standing before the Heaven Dou Auction House, Qin Moyu's eyes lit up, intense interest immediately rising in their depths.
Oh-ho~ An auction house. Aren't these a staple of fantasy novels?
Auction houses generally sell two kinds of things: treasures they can't absorb internally, and treasures that can't bear the light of day.
And auction houses on the Douluo Continent occasionally offer rare treasures like soul bones. Only the capitals of the two great empires have auction houses of the highest caliber.
After all, with Spirit Hall looming like a mountain over the Soul Land I era, soul masters were expressly forbidden from slaughtering soul beasts en masse to obtain soul bones. That alone was much better than in the Soul Land II and III eras.
Although Spirit Hall itself also slaughtered soul beasts indiscriminately, with the double standard of "officials may set fires, but commoners may not even light a lamp," the overall environment in the Soul Land I era was still decent for soul beasts.
At least Spirit Hall was around. That organization had foresight, having anticipated early on that soul beasts might grow increasingly scarce.
Although some soul masters still relied on their strength to slaughter soul beasts indiscriminately, choosing to take the dangerous gamble of obtaining soul bones that way, they at least kept up appearances in public.
As the largest gang around, Spirit Hall really did kill those "evil" soul masters who relied on their own strength. Those soul masters wouldn't submit to Spirit Hall anyway, and Spirit Hall could punish them from the moral high ground.
*Unlike people from the other major powers, who were still smugly convinced that soul beasts were an inexhaustible resource. The general consensus in the Soul Master World of Soul Land I was that most soul