There were a hundred Nascent Souls in the box, a hundred faces flashing through Su Shi'er's mind.
Among them, Su Shi'er even saw several familiar faces—Nascent Soul cultivators he had encountered in the Hundred Thousand Mines. One of them was even Ren Ze's Nascent Soul, someone he knew.
But... Yin Qingxue's Nascent Soul was not among them.
Su Shi'er had long anticipated Ren Ze's fate. Though he mourned for him, he was not surprised. He merely silently added this debt to Bi Yun Xuan's account.
"Whew, thank goodness Fellow Daoist Yin's Nascent Soul isn't in this jade box. Though the hope is slim, it means there's still hope in the end."
Letting out a quiet sigh of relief, Su Shi'er turned most of his attention to the auction platform.
Just as he muttered to himself in silence.
Yu Lingling on the stage waved her hand again, stirring up intense spatial fluctuations from the formation.
As the ripples faded, another flat jade box appeared on the auction platform.
The jade box was made of similar material, but its shape differed. It was triangular, with all three sides equal. Its area was less than a tenth of the first flat jade box.
Inside the box, one, two, three, and four cultivators' Nascent Souls were arranged from top to bottom, for a total of ten, male and female alike.
Unlike the hundred Nascent Souls in the large box, all ten Nascent Souls in this triangular jade box had their eyes tightly shut. Their eyelids twitched faintly from time to time, clearly showing that they had fallen asleep.
That alone proved that the consciousness of these ten Nascent Souls still remained.
"Hmm? That is... Fellow Daoist Yin's Nascent Soul?!"
In the corner of the room, Su Shi'er's eyelids jerked beneath his Bamboo Hat. At