Bibi Dong possessed Twin Martial Souls, and both her Death Spider Emperor and Soul Devouring Spider Emperor Martial Souls were top-tier Beast Martial Souls.
Besides her two Beast Martial Souls, Bibi Dong had reached level ninety-six in Soul Power and possessed seven Soul Bones, two domains, and two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
In short, Bibi Dong was immensely powerful.
Because of her great strength, Bibi Dong had just had the same thought as Tang Hao: to seize the Green Lotus Sword Martial Soul by force.
Now, it seemed she was lucky she hadn't acted. Otherwise, she would have been the one suffering.
Bibi Dong had clearly sensed that power just now.
It was immensely powerful!
She was absolutely no match for it!
"Ten."
"Nine."
"Eight."
"Seven."
Lin Yuan continued counting down.
Pinned to the floor by the immense force, Tang Hao struggled to speak. "Two! I... I... I choose two!"
As he spoke, the force pressing down on him was so overwhelmingly strong that veins bulged on his forehead and his eyes were shot through with blood.
Tang Hao's instincts told him that if the pressure continued, the immense force would very likely crush his internal organs until they burst.
Tang Hao didn't want to die, and he wanted even less to lose his arm and tongue. That was why he chose the second option, trading two Soul Bones for his tongue and arm.
Hearing Tang Hao's answer, Lin Yuan smiled in satisfaction. "Good."
Snap!
Lin Yuan snapped his fingers.
As the snap rang out, the force pressing down on Tang Hao vanished in an instant.
Lin Yuan held out a hand to Tang Hao.
He wasn't offering to help Tang Hao up.
He was asking for the two Soul Bones.
Tang Hao struggled to his feet. Looking at the hand Lin Yuan held out to him, he wore an expression of pain at the loss.
Tang Hao took two rectangular boxes from the Storage Soul Tool he carried with him.
After handing them to Lin Yuan, Tang Hao trudged back to sofa number eight, looking utterly dejected.
He couldn't win the auction.
He couldn't seize it by force.
In the end, he had lost two Soul Bones.
One of them was even the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor leg bone he had saved for his son, Tang San. It had come from his wife, Ah Yin.
Pain.
Tang Hao was in so much pain!
But he had no choice. If he didn't hand over the Soul Bones, he would lose his hand and tongue.
Losing his tongue was one thing, but if he lost a hand, Tang Hao would fall from a level ninety-five Titled Douluo to a level eighty-five Soul Douluo.
There was no other reason: both his left and right hands contained a Soul Bone.
Lose a body part containing a Soul Bone?
His Soul Power would drop ten levels outright.
Lin Yuan opened the boxes and inspected them. After confirming everything was in order, he put them into his Storage Soul Tool.
A mistake deserved punishment. Without it, the offender would never learn.
Lin Yuan believed that after punishing Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao, no one else would dare cause trouble.
With the little interlude over, Lin Yuan returned to his main task.
"Now, the auction will continue. The highest bid is currently one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. Does anyone bid higher? If not, the Green Lotus Sword Martial Soul will belong to guest number three."
As Lin Yuan finished speaking, a voice rang out. "Boss Lin, I have a question."
The speaker sat in seat number one. It was none other than the Snow Empress, who had come from the Far North.
"A question? Go ahead. What is it?" As Lin Yuan answered and asked her, he grew curious about what she wanted to know.
"Gold Soul Coins are human currency. We Soul Beasts don't have many, so could we use other valuable things as collateral for Gold Soul Coins, to make bidding easier for us?" The Snow Empress asked, her beautiful eyes fixed directly on Lin Yuan.
The system had already considered the Snow Empress's question, so Lin Yuan answered her without hesitation. "Yes. What would you like to use as collateral?"
"Soul Bones," the Snow Empress said. She then took Soul Bone after Soul Bone from the Storage Soul Tool she carried with her.
There were Thousand-Year Soul Bones.
There were Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
There were no Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
The Snow Empress had lived for over a hundred thousand years in the Far North, the second-largest Soul Beast habitat on Douluo Continent. During that time, she had encountered countless Soul Beasts. Some had died before her and produced Soul Bones, which she collected and saved one by one to keep Soul Masters from taking them and growing stronger.
Over those hundred thousand-plus years, the Snow Empress had accumulated at least two thousand Soul Bones, if not three thousand.
The Snow Empress hadn't brought many Soul Bones to the Lin Auction House this time, only enough to make a small mountain.
When the small mountain of Soul Bones appeared, powerful Soul Masters including Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, Chen Xin, and Yu Yuanzhen were struck as if by lightning. They froze on the spot, utterly dumbfounded.
They felt no greed at that moment, only shock.
They had all seen Soul Bones before, but so many at once? They had never dared even imagine it, let alone seen it!
His eyes wide, the blond-haired, heterochromatic Dai Mubai stared in disbelief at the Soul Bones piled into a small mountain.
After a long silence, Dai Mubai spoke in utter shock.
"I thought the two rich women were already wealthy enough, raising the bid by ten thousand Gold Soul Coins at a time. I never expected there to be an even richer woman. With that many Soul Bones, she could... could... could even buy my Star Luo Empire."
Beside him, Ning Fengzhi's gaze was also fixed on the mountain of Soul Bones. As he looked at them one by one, he had only one thought.
There's an even greater expert!
At first, Ning Fengzhi had confidently believed he was the richest person present, without exception.
But now, it seemed he wasn't. The Soul Beast Snow Empress was.
Mm, with that, Ning Fengzhi had one more reason to take down the Snow Empress.
Presumably, by the time this auction ended, the people from his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Heaven Dou Empire would have arrived.
Then they could make their move against the Ice Empress, the Snow Empress, Ice Bear King Xiaobai, and the two newly arrived Soul Beasts.
Looking at the pile of Soul Bones, Lin Yuan spoke to the system in his mind. System, scan them. How many Gold Soul Coins are they worth?
Lin Yuan soon received the system's answer.
[Approximately 20,000,000 Gold Soul Coins]
Looking at the scene before him, Lin Yuan had just one thought.
So many zeros!
After taking a deep breath, Lin Yuan addressed the Snow Empress. "You now have twenty million Gold Soul Coins."
PS: As for Gold Soul Coins, dear readers, please don't take them too seriously or get into heated arguments over them. We read novels for fun, so it's enough to enjoy yourselves. Dapao thought about it for a long time and still didn't know what price would be appropriate, so I just settled on twenty million Gold Soul Coins.
"Twenty million Gold Soul Coins? All right. I won't bid on this item. I'll bid when something I want comes up." As the Snow Empress spoke, satisfaction and anticipation appeared on her face.
"All right." Lin Yuan nodded to her.
"One hundred and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins," Qian Renxue said.
"Two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins!" Bibi Dong raised the bid.
"Three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins!" Ning Fengzhi raised it as well.
"Five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins!" Bibi Dong continued bidding.
Qian Renxue, who had been about to raise the bid, fell silent.
Though she disliked Bibi Dong, she understood that she couldn't oppose her at a time like this. Otherwise, it would harm Spirit Hall's interests.
"One million Gold Soul Coins!" Ning Fengzhi called out a high bid at once. He was determined to obtain the Green Lotus Sword Martial Soul and had to secure it.
"One million one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins!" Bibi Dong didn't give up. She continued bidding, her beautiful brows knitted into a deep frown. She seemed to have gotten a little carried away.
Seeing this, Lin Yuan hurriedly spoke up to remind them without hesitation. "Let me make this clear beforehand: whatever you bid, you pay. Don't make a bid you can't afford, or you'll bear the consequences."
Bibi Dong came mostly to her senses the moment she heard Lin Yuan's words.
One million one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins?
Spirit Hall could produce that amount.
But after paying it, she would have a hard time competing for the eight supreme treasures that followed.
Should she give up the Green Lotus Sword Martial Soul and bid on the eight supreme treasures afterward?
Or should she insist on the Green Lotus Sword Martial Soul and give up the eight supreme treasures that followed?
Bibi Dong sank into thought, unsure which to choose.
"One million two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins." Gritting his teeth, Ning Fengzhi called out a higher bid.
Seeing Ning Fengzhi make a new bid, Lin Yuan immediately fixed his gaze on Bibi Dong.
Bibi Dong didn't bid again.
She fell silent.
Time passed, second by second.
Seeing this, Lin Yuan raised the auction hammer in his hand.
"Counting down: three..."
Just as Lin Yuan was about to say the number one, Bibi Dong suddenly spoke. "Three million Gold Soul Coins! Ning Fengzhi, if you want it, it's yours! I won't fight you for it!"