"Tell our sect members in Hall Three to buy that Dragon Whisker Ice-Fire Fruit."
Ning Tian beckoned toward someone nearby, and a young man in a moon-white Soul Master robe hurried over. After hearing her instructions, he nodded and quickly left the auction hall.
Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian exchanged smiles. The moment he had seen the Dragon Whisker Ice-Fire Fruit on this auction's catalog, he had asked Ning Tian to send someone into the Starlight Auction House ahead of time.
Although attending the auction required verification, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had deep roots and wealth rivaling a nation's. It also had a branch in Star Luo City, so securing admission to an auction was naturally child's play.
Xu Jiujiu paused briefly. With her intelligence, she could naturally tell that Huo Yuhao had come prepared, with that Dragon Whisker Ice-Fire Fruit as his target.
But if she now notified the auction house to force up the price, she would only anger Huo Yuhao. Turning a budding connection into a feud would defeat the whole purpose.
The Soul Tools at the auction sold one after another, and Wang Yan boldly bought most of them.
It seemed that Wang Yan had learned his lesson from the tragedy in the Mingdou Mountain Range. After reflecting on that bitter pain, he was preparing to launch a reform of Soul Tool use at Shrek Academy.
Yet even Mu En, the most authoritative figure in the Sea God Pavilion, had to use his strength and prestige to force those old sticks-in-the-mud in the Martial Soul Department to yield and purchase Soul Tools from the Soul Tool Department for their students.
Wang Yan, meanwhile, was still a man of little standing whose words carried little weight. As an ordinary teacher in the Outer Academy, he