As the final item was sold, the Starlight Auction, open only to the four semifinalist teams and the highest-ranking nobles, finally drew to a slow close.
The atmosphere throughout the auction hall had yet to settle from the heart-stopping bidding war earlier.
Countless gazes, whether deliberately or otherwise, turned toward the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's private box.
Envy, jealousy, schadenfreude—countless complicated emotions intertwined in the air.
One hundred and seventy million Gold Soul Coins for a two-hundred-thousand-year Secret Art Soul Bone.
That news would likely spread throughout Star Luo City overnight.
Huo Yuhao followed Shrek's team out of the private box at an unhurried pace, turning a blind eye to the probing and awestruck looks around him.
However, just as they were about to leave the VIP passageway, a familiar figure approached them on her own initiative.
"Yuhao."
A cool, intelligent voice rang out. Ju Zi had somehow been waiting there already.
She was still dressed simply and neatly, her long black hair casually braided behind her head. Her calm, elegant temperament seemed utterly out of place amid the surrounding clamor.
"Sister Ju Zi." Huo Yuhao stopped and replied warmly.
Ju Zi did not waste words. She took an exquisite jade box from her Storage Soul Tool and held it directly before Huo Yuhao.
"This is for you."
Huo Yuhao froze slightly. The instant he took the jade box, he felt an extreme chill seeping from within.
He opened the lid and saw a crystalline Soul Bone shaped like a scorpion's arm, as though carved from ice crystals, resting quietly upon the soft lining.
The Soul Bone was around sixty thousand years old and emitted an incomparably pure ice aura.
Ice Jade Scorpion's Left Arm Bone!
Huo Yuhao's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly.
This Soul Bone had also appeared