The reason was that the Rank-8 Soul Tool Xu Jiujiu introduced was called the World-Opening Cannon. It had not come from Virtue Hall, but from a Rank-9 Soul Engineer.
Its wielder had to be a Titled Douluo, and its power was terrifying. Unleashed at full strength, it rivaled an all-out strike from a Level 95 Super Douluo.
That was not even the most important part. What mattered most was that this Rank-8 Soul Tool actually contained the Core Array of a Rank-9 Soul Tool. It was classified as Rank-8 only because the material of its casing fell somewhat short.
Xu Tianchen bought the Soul Tool outright for nine million Gold Soul Coins, two million more than its sale price in the original story.
Xu Tianchen felt that once he returned to the Sun Moon Empire, he needed to investigate this thoroughly. Which Rank-9 Soul Engineer had become so poor that he would sell a Soul Tool containing the Core Array of a Rank-9 Soul Guidance Cannon to the three great empires? Had he gone mad with greed?
Once that little interlude ended, the eighth item in the auction appeared on the soul guidance screen: a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone with an Ultimate Attribute that caused a sensation throughout the venue.
Not only did it draw Meng Hongchen's attention in Xu Tianchen's private room, but Xu Tianchen even sensed faint fluctuations of Soul Power coming from the room next door.
Displayed prominently on the soul guidance screen was a perfectly intact left arm bone, surrounded by an emerald-green halo and wisps of white mist. This arm bone had come from an Ice Jade Scorpion!
Xu Jiujiu also explained that the Soul Bone's Soul Skill was predicted to be an extraordinarily powerful offensive skill: Ice Explosion!
It could detonate anything containing the ice