Chapter Summaries

Grandmaster brought Tang San and the others to the Heaven Dou Auction House, where he hoped to acquire a fragment of a map connected to a catastrophe foretold in an ancient text. He was determined to win the fragment and fulfill a promise he had made at Spirit Hall.

• Tang San, Grandmaster, Xue Beng, and Ning Rongrong joined Prince Xue Xing in Room Seven while Flender led the others to Room Twenty-One.
• Flender asked Zhu Zhuqing to watch for valuable items that could benefit the academy, and she agreed.
• Prince Xue Xing welcomed Grandmaster and the students, and Tang San found the prince’s manner reassuring.
• Grandmaster revealed that he had come to bid on a possible map fragment and recalled being entrusted with a fragment at Spirit Hall.
• Grandmaster remembered the warning that the map could lead to the Sealing Grounds of an Elder Undead and resolved to obtain the auction lot and fulfill his promise.

At the Golden Auction, Tang San learned that one of the three red-level items was a soul bone and bought a statue containing a Light Goddess Butterfly soul bone fragment. He accepted Xue Xing’s offer to pay for it as thanks for curing Old Bo’s poison.

• The auctioneer announced that the Golden Auction featured three red-level items, including a soul bone, and introduced the Light Goddess Butterfly statue as the first black-level item.
• Grandmaster identified the statue’s soul bone fragment and judged it impractical without a special method to activate it.
• Tang San bid five hundred thousand gold soul coins to buy the statue for the Gem Crystal Insect, which wanted to consume its treasure qi.
• Xue Xing offered to pay for the statue in gratitude for Tang San curing Old Bo’s poison, and Tang San accepted.