As he thought, Li Mu stepped forward and quickly walked inside.
The moment he entered, he found the interior lavishly furnished, all in a shade of white jade.
The decorations were also exquisite, but compared to when the Treasure Gathering was held, it was exceptionally lively at this hour.
Many people had gathered here, either explaining what goods they wanted to buy or describing their requirements to the sales staff.
The sales staff, however, were extremely impatient with them.
Some would spare them a glance, while others could not even be bothered to acknowledge them.
Looking at the crowd still gathered here, a young woman stepped forward.
Her gaze swept over these people, so full of longing, her expression calm and unruffled.
"As we have already said, we do not process Gold Soul Coin withdrawals in the morning. Anyone urgently in need of Gold Soul Coins should submit an application and have it processed in the afternoon."
"For requests worth less than one thousand Gold Soul Coins, please try another auction house. Our Shrek Auction House does not accept them."
The woman's voice was ethereal and cold, her eyes filled with lofty superiority.
Hearing her words, the surrounding Soul Masters, even some of the powerful ones,
did not dare step out of line at all. They all shamelessly wore fawning expressions.
Under their gazes, a trace of arrogance appeared on the woman's face.
But just as she was about to turn and leave, she spotted Li Mu striding over from the entrance.
Li Mu's figure was not conspicuous here. Even his handsome looks did not make him stand out.
The only conspicuous thing was his uniform, the uniform of Shrek Academy.
At the sight of that uniform, the woman's indifferent expression suddenly softened considerably.
A faint smile also appeared on her face, and she personally stepped forward, coming straight up to Li Mu.
"Young man, you must be a student of Shrek Academy?"
"May I ask what you need? Is there anything I can help you with?"
There was a clear note of courtesy in the woman's voice.
Hearing her words and sensing the stark contrast in her behavior, quite a few people looked curiously at Li Mu standing there.
At her words, a rare hint of embarrassment appeared on Li Mu's face. He had not expected her to say that.
His expression remained fairly calm, however, and he nodded lightly.
Then he raised his hand, continually running through the list in his mind as he simply named several metals.
"Deep iron, blue pregnant steel, dragon blood iron... thirty standard portions of each of these metals."
Li Mu listed more than thirty kinds of metal in one breath, though few of them were particularly precious or excessively expensive.
Of course, the definition of expensive here differed from that in the Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires, as well as in the future.
Here, their value was determined by their appearance, such as crystals, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires.
There were also some particularly precious minerals that were difficult to mine, whose prices were generally much higher.
Then there were precious materials in the true sense of metal forging, such as materials used to produce fused metals or required for high-grade Soul Tools.
Their prices were likewise very high here, but low-grade Soul Tools, or ordinary Soul Tools, had no such requirements at all.
If he bought the metals Li Mu had just listed in the Sun Moon Empire, thirty portions would cost roughly four or five million Gold Soul Coins.
But here, the woman respectfully came out with an accounting board in hand and made a few simple calculations.
Then she extended her hand and gave her quote.
"That comes to fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins altogether. Would you like to pay by card or in cash?"
The woman's voice was very courteous. Four hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins might not amount to much for a powerful Soul Engineer.
But to ordinary people like them, four hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins was already an astronomical sum.
Hearing her words, Li Mu wasted no time talking and took out two red cards, handing them over.
Once the cards had been scanned, Li Mu also bought some spirit herbs and medicinal plants.
There was no purchase limit here. In other words, the Shrek Academy Auction House itself existed to make money.
Prices here were generally higher than those at auctions within Shrek Academy, but compared to the outside world, they were still fairly reasonable.
After buying a large quantity of spirit herbs, Li Mu had spent more than 3.4 million Gold Soul Coins in total this time.
Once the Gold Soul Coin transaction was complete, he walked outside and sensed the powerful spiritual power around him.
Numerous strands of spiritual power spread through the surroundings, and many people stared at him with covetous expressions.
Their eyes were filled with greed, but very few actually followed him.
Clearly, these people feared Shrek Academy's prestige-or rather, its methods.
As the number one academy in the world, Shrek Academy did not merely possess so-called prestige. Its people were also very ready to kill.
If anyone attacked a Shrek Academy student, they really would kill the offender, and even wipe out their entire clan.
Precisely because of this, Shrek Academy could acquire resources far faster than ordinary people.
Correspondingly, many matters were also easier to resolve.
Leaving Shrek City, he returned to Shrek Academy and had just reached the entrance.
Upon returning to his room, Li Mu saw Zhou Yi and Du Weilun at the door.
Zhou Yi's expression was icy. With her arms folded across her chest, she stared coldly at Li Mu, killing intent fully exposed in her eyes.
Du Weilun, meanwhile, looked utterly speechless.
He glanced at Zhou Yi, then nodded to Li Mu when he saw him arrive and spoke.
"Student Li Mu, were you the one who injured the fourth-year students Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan?"
Du Weilun asked very directly. Or rather, as far as he was concerned, there was no need to dance around a question like this.
After all, many students had witnessed it. Both of their injuries had been inflicted by Li Mu.
Li Mu could not even deny this, but he said nothing about it at all.
Instead of answering the question directly, he raised his hand and pointed straight at Zhou Yi.
"I think that question is secondary. What I want to ask now is what Teacher Zhou here means by this.
"Or rather, what does this matter have to do with Teacher Zhou of the Soul Tool Department?"
"This should be a matter for our Martial Soul Department, shouldn't it? Why is Teacher Zhou involved?"
As Li Mu spoke, he stared straight at Zhou Yi, their gazes meeting.
Li Mu did not yield in the slightest, nor did he feel any fear.
He and Zhou Yi had already torn away all pretense of civility. Or rather, there was no longer any room for reconciliation between them.
Under these circumstances, would he not have to be sick in the head to let Zhou Yi stand beside him and fan the flames?
Anyone whose head was on straight could not possibly tolerate Zhou Yi standing to one side, fanning the flames.
Sure enough, Zhou Yi's expression turned cold at Li Mu's words, while Du Weilun's expression also flickered slightly.
Because Li Mu was right about one thing: Zhou Yi was no longer part of their Soul Tool Department.
She even no longer had anything to do with their Martial Soul Department.
For her to come here now-or rather, to come and question Li Mu-
was not a good thing for him, or rather, for him and Yan Shaozhe.
Especially since Du Weilun did not know at this point that Yan Shaozhe had secretly schemed against Li Mu once.
Of course, even if he knew, he would not care. After all, Du Weilun followed Yan Shaozhe's lead completely.
And Yan Shaozhe had treated Li Mu with considerable courtesy.
Under these circumstances, unless Yan Shaozhe explicitly stated that he wanted to act against Li Mu, Du Weilun would turn a blind eye to it.