The glance Lin Yuan gave the Snow Empress gave her a hunch.
The next item, the seventh in this auction, would be the hundred thousand tons of Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow she had been longing for!
The Snow Empress stared unblinkingly at the glass case in front of Lin Yuan.
The anticipation on her face was plain to see.
As the red silk cloth was lifted, the contents of the glass case-or rather, the auction item-came into the Snow Empress's beautiful eyes. The obvious anticipation on her face was visibly replaced by disappointment.
Floating inside the glass case was not the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow the Snow Empress wanted, but a dragon-head ring as black as ink.
Looking at the black dragon-head ring, Dai Mubai, with his blond hair and mismatched eyes, ventured a curious guess. "A ring? Is the item this time a Soul Tool? I wonder what kind."
Meanwhile, elsewhere, in a quiet room on the second floor of the Lin Auction House.
In the quiet room reserved for secluded cultivation, Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao sat cross-legged on the floor.
Boom!
Suddenly, a powerful surge of Soul Power erupted from his body.
That was right. Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao had broken through.
Thanks to the hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone, the Wind Lightning Wings, he had gone from a rank ninety-five Titled Douluo to a rank ninety-six Titled Douluo.
Feeling the strength he now possessed, Tang Hao's lips curled upward uncontrollably. He clenched his fists and murmured.
"If I faced Qian Xunji and the other two now, I would definitely slaughter all three of them with ease! Not one of them would escape!"
With that, Tang Hao rose from the floor.
At a thought from Tang Hao, a pair of enormous wings appeared behind him with a whoosh.
They were the Wind Lightning Wings, the hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone Tang Hao had just absorbed.
Although the Wind Lightning Wings were a pair, the left and right wings were completely different. The left wing was azure, while the right was purple. The refreshing power of the wind element swirled around the left wing, while the violent power of the lightning element swirled around the right. Wind on the left, lightning on the right: hence the Wind Lightning Wings.
Besides taking Tang Hao's Soul Power Level a step further, the Hundred Thousand Year External Soul Bone, the Wind Lightning Wings, had also given him a formidable skill and powers of the wind and lightning elements that could not be underestimated.
With the powers of the wind and lightning elements, Tang Hao could now be considered an elemental Soul Master. And he was not a Soul Master who had mastered just one elemental power, but an elemental Soul Master who had mastered the powers of two mighty elements: wind and lightning.
All in all, thanks to the Hundred Thousand Year External Soul Bone, the Wind Lightning Wings, Tang Hao's gains were no less abundant than on the day his wife, the Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin, died.
Tang Hao withdrew the Hundred Thousand Year External Soul Bone, the Wind Lightning Wings.
A solemn look appeared on his face, and he murmured again.
"From now on, I must think three times before acting."
As he murmured, Tang Hao recalled what had happened earlier.
What it was went without saying: his attempt to seize an auction item by force.
Whenever Tang Hao thought of how Lin Yuan had easily suppressed him when he tried to seize the item, leaving him unable to move, fight back, or offer the slightest resistance, with nothing to do but wait in despair for death, he could not help feeling fear at the memory.
Tang Hao had simply been lucky. Otherwise, he would have died there.
From now on, Tang Hao would never be so reckless.
The goddess of luck could protect him once.
She would not protect him forever.
After that experience, Tang Hao also realized just how extraordinary the Lin Auction House was. At the same time, he understood that Lin Yuan, like his name, was a bottomless abyss ten thousand fathoms deep, even more extraordinary.
Tang Hao's intuition told him that Lin Yuan was at least on the same level as his grandfather, the former Clear Sky Douluo Tang Chen, and might even be stronger.
Come to think of it, Tang Hao had not heard from his grandfather Tang Chen in decades. He did not know where his grandfather had gone or whether he was still alive.
Downstairs in the auction hall, under the gazes of the assembled Soul Masters and Soul Beasts, Lin Yuan smiled and began introducing the item.
"Everyone can see the ring in the glass case, I presume?"
"What I want to say is that it is not the auction item."
"What is inside it is the item being auctioned this time."
"The black dragon-head ring is a Storage Soul Tool with a vast internal space. Inside it are a full hundred thousand tons of cultivation resources! Every bit of those hundred thousand tons is Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow! Guests familiar with Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow all know that, for ice-attribute beings, it is a treasure second only to Immortal Herbs! So, honored guests, if you need Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, or someone close to you does, do not miss this item."
"If you miss it, who knows in what year of the monkey or month of the horse you will come across it again."
No sooner had Lin Yuan finished introducing the item on the raised platform than the Snow Empress, sitting on a sofa below, straightened and leaned forward. A smile appeared on her face, filled with surprise, astonishment, and delight, and she eagerly called out a bid: "One million Gold Soul Coins!"
The Snow Empress had thought the item would not be Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, but unexpectedly, it was.
Since that was the case, only four words filled her mind.
Take it at all costs!
As soon as the Snow Empress spoke, Bibi Dong's calm voice followed: "Two million Gold Soul Coins!"
That was right. Bibi Dong was planning to fleece the Snow Empress again.
The Snow Empress had spent twelve million Gold Soul Coins helping the Scarlet King buy the Green Lotus Core Flame earlier, leaving her with eight million.
Bibi Dong intended to fleece her of as much of those eight million Gold Soul Coins as she could, which would benefit Bibi Dong in the later bidding.
Come to think of it, there were two more items. She did not know what they were, or whether either would be suited to her.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, in the little-known Great Ferocious Land of the Star Dou Great Forest.
A mass of black shadow sped across the ground and entered the Great Ferocious Land.
It eventually arrived before a middle-aged man who was tall and broad-shouldered, with long black hair falling loose to his waist. His square face commanded respect without anger, and his golden vertical pupils held a deep, sharp gaze.
The shadow leaped from the ground and transformed into a small black dragon.
The little dragon's body contained the power of yin water.
On the continent today, only one person possessed the power of yin water.
It was none other than Hell Demon Dragon Zi JI, one of the six super Soul Beasts of the Great Ferocious Land, who was currently at the Lin Auction House.
The little black dragon went to the middle-aged man's ear and whispered to him.
After hearing the little black dragon's words, the middle-aged man felt as though he had been struck by lightning.
After quite a while, the middle-aged man came back to his senses and murmured in disbelief, "The Green Lotus Sword Martial Soul, the Ultimate Fire Green Lotus Core Flame, the Ice and Snow Empresses of the Far North are there, and the Dark Dragon King Essence Blood?"
Using a secret technique, Hell Demon Dragon Zi JI had told the middle-aged man everything she had seen and heard at the Lin Auction House.
The middle-aged man had an honored title.
Beast God.
His name was Di Tian.
Beast God Di Tian!