"But almost no hundred-thousand-year soul beasts choose to do this. Why? Because after turning human, they lose almost all their cultivation. Apart from retaining their memories of their soul skills, without needing to hunt soul beasts again to obtain them, they become almost no different from humans. Their bodies are fragile, and they can only cultivate one step at a time. Moreover, because they are still soul beasts at their core, they can still provide humans with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone after death. That makes growing strong far harder for them than for humans. Nor can they simply cultivate in seclusion until they become Titled Douluos. To progress, they must interact with human society. This makes the method extremely dangerous, and fewer and fewer hundred-thousand-year soul beasts choose it now. Only those with exceedingly poor bloodlines who broke through through a lucky twist of fate would make such a choice."
"After all that, you may be wondering why I'm emphasizing things you already know. But everything I've just said is intimately connected to today's auction lot. This mass of swirling air before you is a hundred-thousand-year soul beast that chose transformation and rebirth. During that transformation, a powerful human happened to capture it and seal it within a Level 9 Soul Engineer's God-Sealing Platform. In a sense, this swirling air can be considered the embryo of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Never mind me-I imagine none of you have ever seen anything like this either!"
At Xu Jiujiu's words, the venue immediately fell so silent one could have heard a pin drop. Intense greed surfaced in everyone's eyes.
If the previously auctioned "Materials Science" was a priceless treasure to a nation or a faction, then this soul beast embryo was a priceless