A lot could happen in thirty minutes.
At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Xiao Hongchen had dragged his teammates along and nearly sold off every kind of Soul Tool he had accumulated over the past few years.
Apart from the Soul Tools they needed for the tournament and a few high-level ones, they had pawned everything to raise Gold Soul Coins for today's purchase.
Whether or not they secured the item, those pawned Soul Tools were gone for good.
Without realizing it, he had become the traitor he himself had condemned ten days ago, personally handing another country a trove of Soul Tools built with Virtue Hall's latest technology.
But with such an opportunity before him, he could no longer worry about that. He gritted his teeth and consoled himself. "I'm preventing Level 9 Soul Tool technology from leaking. Trading a few Soul Tools below Level 8 for that is worth it."
Even so, he cursed himself for bringing so little money: a mere twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins. The shortfall was enormous.
"Damn it!"
Xiao Hongchen swore inwardly, then turned to his sister Meng Hongchen. "We could've taken that Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone for sure. Who suddenly raised the bid by fifteen million?"
Meng Hongchen's Martial Soul was the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad, a Soul Beast that lived on the fringes of the Far North.
What made it unusual was that every part of its body carried an icy, deadly poison—except its red eyes, which had the fire attribute.
That Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone would have suited Meng Hongchen perfectly, strengthening her ice attribute and, indirectly, her poison.
But they had missed it, and there was nothing he could do about that now.
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo coming up next, however, was something Xiao