This time, it was not Wang Yan who bid, but Ning Tian, who had shown little interest until now.
A Soul Tool Shield that required only a little Soul Power to activate yet offered formidable protection was a lifesaving treasure for a support-type Soul Master like Ning Tian.
But the moment she bid, another VIP box across the room raised the price by fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
Ning Tian did not even furrow her brow before bidding again.
She had already decided to carry at least three Invincible Shields to protect herself against anything that might threaten her.
The price soon reached six hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, yet neither box showed any sign of stopping.
Elder Ma, who was leading the team, was beginning to feel a headache coming on.
He suspected the auction house had learned who they were and hired a shill to drive up the price.
The team members in his box looked surprised, though each had thoughts of their own.
"Damn, Invincible Shields can fetch this much outside the empire?"
As Soul Engineers from the Sun Moon Empire, they naturally were not short of money. But who would turn down more?
Besides, a Soul Engineer's daily research was expensive!
For one thing, the more unusual a Rare Metal's properties, the higher its price, ranging from a few dozen to hundreds of thousands of Gold Soul Coins per pound.
The tools needed to process those Rare Metals were not cheap either.
An Invincible Shield that cost only a few thousand Gold Soul Coins to make could go to the Star Luo Empire and become an item worth over a hundred thousand. Who could resist profits of several dozen times the cost?
But with the disagreeable Xiao Hongchen right there—and his grandfather the Hall Master of