Peerless: I Became Huo Yuhao's Dark Personality

Chapter 80: Xiao Hongchen: I will gather the army and destroy the beast! (Two in one)

Xiao Hongchen pondered secretly. The death of his grandfather was a great blow to him. He blamed all the mistakes on himself. After that, he devoted all his time to cultivating soul power and learning soul guides, hoping to gain strong power as soon as possible to avenge his grandfather.

Fortunately, Meng woke him up in time and prevented him from becoming extremely emotional. Now Xiao Hongchen would no longer say anything about destroying the Star Dou Forest. That was too unrealistic.

Soul beasts are the foundation of soul masters, not to mention the Star Dou Great Forest, which is known as the world's number one soul beast gathering place. Even the Jingyang Mountains, the largest soul beast gathering place in the Sun and Moon Empire, cannot compare to its soul beast density.

Destroying the Star Dou Great Forest will undoubtedly shake the foundation of soul masters. The three major empires of Douluo Continent will not agree. Xiao Hongchen only wants to find the 100,000-year-old soul beast that killed his grandfather.

In fact, Xiao Hongchen already had some guesses. After returning to the academy, he looked up a lot of information about the Star Dou Great Forest and also learned about the ranking of the top ten ferocious beasts today.

His grandfather was a level 93 Titled Douluo and a level 9 Soul Instructor. Not to mention a 100,000-year-old soul beast, in a one-on-one fight, he wasn't even afraid of the last few of the ten most ferocious beasts.

With this calculation, the range is actually very small. Excluding the few ferocious beasts with weaker strength, excluding the two ferocious beasts in the far north, and excluding the Evil Emperor in the Demon Forest, the ten ferocious beasts that can cause harm to grandpa are obvious.

The ranking from back to front is Xiong Jun, the King of Ten Thousand Monsters, Biji and Di Tian. Excluding Biji who has low combat power, he only needs to choose one from three.

But just because he knew the answer, Xiao Hongchen felt even heavier in his heart. For him now, any one of these ferocious beasts was an existence that he needed to look up to.

He will not stop pursuing strength, but he must also consider the possibility of his own insufficient strength in the future. It is a very simple question. If one person cannot defeat him, can't a group of people win?
What is the simplest and most advantageous organization for him? It is undoubtedly Mingdetang. Meng's talent is also amazing.

As long as his brother and sister become ninth-level soul masters, with the support of two ninth-level soul masters, the position of hall master will fall into their hands without any struggle.

Afterwards, he would carry out a series of reforms on Mingde Hall, develop the offensive soul guides to the extreme, and preferably make some achievements in order to win the support of the royal family.

By then, he will lead the army equipped with various high-level soul guides and avenge this blood feud no matter what!
If he could create a control system that could prevent the smuggling of soul guides produced by Mingdetang, it would greatly reduce the risk of technology theft, which would be a great achievement, and he would have the opportunity to take revenge.

Xiao Hongchen already had some ideas about this control system. He believed that as long as he was given some time, he could definitely make it.

"Viewing time is up. The starting price for the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade is four million gold soul coins. Each bid must be no less than ten thousand gold soul coins. Since you are all experts, I believe there is no need for further explanation. The bidding begins. If no one bids higher within one minute, the auction will be completed."

As soon as he heard the starting price of the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Sword, Wang Yan knew that his prediction was correct. The transaction amount of the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Sword could not be less than five million, and it might even be higher.

"Four million and two hundred thousand!"

"Four and a half million!"

There were voices coming one after another, and not a single bid was lower than 100,000. This situation is common in auction items with extremely high value. In order to get the most bids, most bidders have the same idea.

Raising the price by a large amount at one time shows one's determination to win the item, which can intimidate some rival bidders to a certain extent.

This situation mostly occurs in mid- and low-level auctions, because those who can participate in high-level or top-level auctions are all people with strong backgrounds, and naturally have a lot of wealth in their hands.

If you want to use money to make them surrender at an auction of this level, you will probably have to bid an additional price of at least millions to be effective.

The price continued to rise and finally stopped at 7.25 million. For the Starlight Auction House, this was undoubtedly a good start.

"Thank you to the VIP who just won the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Knife for your support of this auction. Now, we will move on to the second lot. Although they are disposable, they are very rare. It is quite difficult to assemble such a set. Please take a look, VIPs."

The image on the light screen changed again, and was divided into twelve areas of the same size. The twelve fixed-type soul guide shells were each in an area, and their styles were exactly the same except for the color.

"These twelve level six fixed-type soul guide shells are also produced by Mingde Hall. Each one has its own properties. After testing, these twelve fixed-type soul guide shells are enough to threaten the life of a soul master at the Soul Douluo level... Appreciation time, five minutes."

Just after the words "produced by Xu Jiujiu Mingdetang" fell, everyone in auction room No. 3 turned their eyes to Mr. Ma, with strange looks in their eyes, and the meaning was self-evident.

Old Ma coughed dryly and was a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect that just by giving an example casually, he would actually encounter the smuggling of fixed-type soul guide artillery shells. He cursed in his heart that the scum in the army were really crazy about money.

You said that the appearance of one fixed-type soul guide shell is fine, and a few are not unacceptable, but this complete set is too much, right?
Report! I must report when I get back! Ma Lao cursed in his heart, but he pretended to be as expected, as if he had guessed it a long time ago.

"Look, what did I say? Even the army, with its strictest disciplines, is like this. It's perfectly normal for a few soul guides to leak out of Mingde Hall.

The solution to this problem depends on you little guys. If anyone can really develop a complete control system chain to bind high-level soul guides and sell them, they might even be rewarded with a title."

"Grandpa, you seemed surprised too just now, right?" Ma Rulong said softly, which immediately made the other people's faces twitch. They wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.

"I don't understand what you are saying." Mr. Ma's expression was calm, as if he didn't care at all about Ma Rulong's sabotage, but perhaps only he himself knew his true feelings.

In auction room No. 6, He Caitou looked at the twelve fixed-type soul-guided shells of different colors with bright eyes. He excitedly approached the light screen with an infatuated look on his face and began to murmur unconsciously.

"They actually engraved the core magic array directly on the surface of the cannonball. Aren't they afraid it will be damaged when it leaves the gun? Double protection, I see..."

Hearing He Caitou's words full of praise, Wang Yan's eyes lit up and he walked towards Xian Lin'er who was sitting on the other side in a low voice. Since the Dean of the Soul Guidance Department of Shrek Academy was there, he naturally had to find Xian Lin'er for questions about soul guide devices.

"Dean Xian, are these shells of research value to our academy?"

Xian Lin'er fell silent after hearing this. She didn't want to hear anything more about Shrek Academy, but revealing her withdrawal now would undoubtedly cause more unnecessary trouble. After a moment's hesitation, she slowly spoke. "It has research value, but not much. Furthermore, Shrek's production of fixed-type soul guide shells is currently at level five, so the surface alone doesn't reveal much. Buying it would be more valuable for collection than research."

Xian Lin'er's words were all true, without a trace of falsehood. As long as it was a soul guide, low-level ones were still okay. Only a small number of soul guides would add a self-destruct array to prevent the soul guide from being disassembled for research.

But high-level soul guides are different, especially this kind of fixed-type soul guide shells, which are 100% equipped with self-destruct devices inside. Even if you get them, the most you can do is to look at the overall design of the shells and the idea of ​​the core magic array on the surface.

Apart from this, it has no other uses. Instead of wasting money to buy it, why not just use the Soul Guidance Device to record an image and look at it slowly?
Wang Yan frowned. It wasn't that he doubted Xian Lin'er's words, but he felt that Xian Lin'er's tone was very strange. She actually called the academy "Shrek"? It seemed a bit unfamiliar.

The second thing was Xian Lin'er's voice. How could the news of the fixed-type soul guide shell research being at the fifth level be spread outside? But Xian Lin'er didn't lower her voice at all. In such a room, Wang Yan was sure that everyone could hear it.

Wang Yan felt as if he had caught something, but he couldn't put his finger on it for the moment, so he had no choice but to give up. Since the most powerful soul engineer in their academy said so, he gave up the idea of ​​buying it.

"Viewing time is up. Twelve Level 6 Soul Guided Cannonballs produced by Mingde Hall. Starting price: 5 million Gold Soul Coins. Each bid must be no less than 10,000 Gold Soul Coins."

(Pricing was mentioned in the previous chapter, so let me remind you again!)

After a long time, Wang Yan's face was shocked. If he spent more than five million to buy a thing of little use, the consequences would be unimaginable. With this thought in mind, he silently thanked Xian Lin'er in his heart.

Obviously, although this auction is intended to divert the attention of major colleges from the shady dealings of the event, two very interesting phenomena exist at the same time.

Naturally, there are knowledgeable people in the powerful academies. They are financially strong, but they also know that buying such a thing will result in high cost and low return, so they will naturally not bid for it.

Even if colleges with average strength don't know much about it and think that this thing can make their technology leap forward, it is impossible for them to come up with such a large amount of funds. Therefore, even if they are willing, they are unable to do so and will not bid.

The one-minute time is quickly coming to an end, and still no one has made a bid. If no one has made a bid after the countdown ends, it means that the sale has failed.

There was a hint of regret in Xu Jiujiu's tone, and his voice was gentle and pleasant. When he spoke like this, people couldn't help but feel pity for him.

"It seems that today these twelve fixed-type soul guide shells have not found suitable owners for them. The last twenty seconds countdown. If no one bids, this item will be unsold."

"No? A princess like Xu Jiujiu actually resorts to such tricks? Isn't that too cheap?" In auction room No. 3, Micah stared at Xu Jiujiu who was pretending to be so pretentious, and was stunned.

This behavior of inducing bidders to bid is normal. After all, which auction house wants to see its items fail to sell?
For every competition, the Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy has made sufficient preparations, and the intelligence of each team is very detailed. They knew the identity of the royal princess Xu Jiujiu by analyzing the Xingluo Royal Academy.

In Micah's opinion, as a princess, this behavior was inappropriate and damaged the reputation of the royal family.

"Since she is hosting the auction, her current identity is just an auctioneer. She cannot be treated as Princess Xingluo." Xiao Hongchen spoke without a trace of emotion in his eyes.

"They're all motivated by profit. With a starting price of five million, even if they're just bidding on behalf of someone else, they can still get a good commission. Not to mention that this is something the auction house bought themselves, so they'll make even more. Those small cities might not even generate five million gold soul coins in a year in tax revenue."

Xiao Xiafeng said with a smile that he was born in a small city. To be precise, it was not even a small city, but a village or town nearby.

He inherited his father's steamed bun martial soul, but unlike his parents, he did not lack innate soul power. His innate soul power of level six allowed him to leap from a small city to the imperial capital, Sun Moon City (the real name of Mingdu).

As the most talented soul master in his hometown, even the city lord values ​​him very much, and he also learns a lot about the city.

The reason why it was said that the small city's annual tax revenue was less than five million was because the city lord at the time said this when he was chatting with him.

I still remember that what the city lord said most was that he hoped he could become an excellent soul guide, and that he might need to rely on him for help in the future.

"Wow, Xia Feng has a wide range of knowledge. If you give me this five million, I won't have to worry about rare metals for a long time." Lin Xi also said with a smile. His family background is very ordinary, just like Xiao Xiafeng's.

His parents emptied their savings to hire a soul master for him to obtain his first soul ring, which qualified him to enter the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy and allowed him to make a comeback from grassroots.

However, the cost of learning soul guides is extremely high. From the moment you start engraving the core magic array, you start a life of burning money.

Fortunately, as long as you become a first-level soul engineer, you can start selling soul guides to make money. This is how he grew up step by step.

Even so, he still had to worry about the gold soul coins. There was no way around it. The higher the level of the soul guide, the more precious the metal used. And if he wanted to grow, he had to make high-level soul guides, so money came and went quickly.

A fifth-level soul guide costs only about hundreds of thousands of gold soul coins, and the cost basically remains at a few thousand gold soul coins. It seems to make a lot of money, but once you start studying to become a sixth-level soul guide, you will find it very difficult to make ends meet.

The cost of a sixth-level soul guide alone is tens of thousands of gold soul coins. The amount of metal consumed in casual practice is often huge, just to familiarize yourself with one core magic array after another.

Specifically, it is to familiarize yourself with engraving the core magic array on high-grade metals. Each metal has its own unique hardness and characteristics, and only through hard work and practice can you become proficient in it.

If you work hard in your daily life, you will be more comfortable and less likely to make mistakes when making high-level soul guides. It would be really painful if you were just one step away from completing a sixth-level soul guide but it was completely scrapped because of a mistake in grasping the metal properties.

"Time's up, the next lot is..."

(End of this chapter)