Peerless: I Became Huo Yuhao's Dark Personality

Chapter 88: Eve of Resurrection (Two in One)

"Okay." Seeing Xu Jiawei's helpless look, Xu Jiujiu couldn't think of any other solution in a short time. He responded in a low voice and hurriedly left the room.

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In auction room number three, while the Sun and Moon people were discussing, they suddenly heard a crisp sound coming from the door and all looked over.

"Come in." Ma Lao said loudly, with a hint of confusion in his eyes, wondering who was looking for them here.

The door was opened, and Xu Jiujiu, wearing a golden long dress, walked in with a friendly smile. She walked straight to Mr. Ma and spoke in a pleasant voice.

"You are the leader of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy, right? I have something I would like to discuss with you privately. Is that convenient?"

Although Mr. Ma had a strange look in his eyes, he nodded and walked out of the auction room with Xu Jiujiu.

"So she's the princess of the Xingluo Empire? Does she like Mr. Ma? Her taste is too unique."

As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, he felt a sharp gaze. He turned around and saw Ma Rulong with a dark face. He immediately waved his hands, shook his head repeatedly, and said sincerely:

"Captain, I'm not saying that Mr. Ma isn't handsome enough. You know, Mr. Ma has always been my idol. It's not surprising that he's favored by a princess of a certain country."

To Li Yan's surprise, Ma Rulong's face turned even darker after hearing what he said. Lin Xi, who was sitting next to Li Yan, couldn't help but sounded speechless.

"If you can talk, then talk more. If you don't shut up, I promise you'll get a loving lesson from the captain."

"What's wrong with me? Is there something wrong with what I said?" Micah rolled his eyes when he heard Li Yan muttering in a low voice.

"Xu Jiujiu's visit to Ma Lao is obviously related to this 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo, but I can't think of the specific reason."

"Actually, I guessed it a long time ago. It was just a test just now to see if you can analyze it." A trace of astonishment flashed in Li Yan's eyes, but the next second he made an expression as if it was as expected.

Upon hearing this, the people around him immediately looked at him with contempt.

"Tell me? What's the matter?" In the corridor, Old Ma spoke first, not knowing what Xu Jiujiu was up to.

"It's like this. Since the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy is a distinguished guest of the Starlight Auction House, we will give your academy special preferential treatment for the 100,000-year soul beast embryos being auctioned."

The storage soul guide ring on Xu Jiujiu's middle finger glowed faintly, and he took out five pieces of golden letter paper. The letter paper was not stacked neatly together, but crossed diagonally and held in Xu Jiujiu's palm.

From Mr. Ma's perspective, although he could not see clearly the content written on the surface, he could just see that the five pieces of letter paper had unique numbers in the upper left corner, from one to five. The one that Xu Jiujiu pulled out and handed over was the piece of letter paper numbered three.

Mr. Ma took the letter and unfolded the folded part. There was not much text on it, only a few lines. The content was summarized into two simple messages:

For all soul guides of level seven and above produced by the Sun-Moon Empire, the handling fee is reduced to 15%.

The handling fee for all soul guides produced by Mingdetang, regardless of grade, will be reduced to 10%.

"This is the importance our Starlight Auction House places on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy. There are several other distinguished guests who will need to appear for a while, so I won't bother you any more. I hope you will be satisfied with this auction."

Xu Jiujiu performed a royal etiquette gracefully, smiled and nodded, and then left into the depths of the corridor.

There should be no flaws in her performance just now, Xu Jiujiu thought silently in her heart. She carefully set the position of the letter paper so that the other party could see the number clearly.

Those in auction room number three received the letter paper numbered three, so it is easy to associate the whole thing, as the five pieces of letter paper correspond to auction rooms numbered one to five.

The other four pieces of letter paper were interference items set up by Xu Jiujiu for the people of Riyue, in order to cover up the purpose of obtaining the soul guides produced by Mingdetang.

I hope things will develop in a good direction, and I prayed in my heart for a long time.

Being able to come up with such a plan in such a short time is enough to demonstrate her ability, but the time was too short after all, and no matter how smart Xu Jiujiu was, she couldn't take all aspects into consideration.

Since the five pieces of letter paper are for the first five bidding rooms, whether they are distributed from number one or from number five in reverse order, when it comes to bidding room number three, there should not be five pieces of letter paper, but three.

Xu Jiujiu was only thinking about providing interference terms for the sun and the moon, so he made a mistake on this issue.

"Grandpa, what happened?" Ma Rulong asked as soon as Mr. Ma returned to the room.

"Take a look." Old General Ma handed the letter to Ma Rulong and repeated what Xu Jiujiu had just said.

The letter was passed from hand to hand among the people. After listening to Mr. Ma's story, everyone had a thoughtful look on their face.

"Five pieces of letter paper. The discount for our academy is in the soul guide equipment, and the discount for other forces should be in the areas they are good at and specialized in." Xiao Xiafeng said slowly, not feeling that there was anything wrong.

"No, five pieces of paper. We're in Auction Room 3. The discount information should be announced from highest to lowest status. Why would it start from Auction Room 3?"

Xiao Hongchen frowned, finding something unreasonable in it.

"I have another question. When five pieces of paper are placed together, only the number on the first piece should be visible. How did you see the number, Grandpa?"

Ma Rulong raised his doubts, and after General Ma explained where the letter had been placed, his doubts deepened. "Crossing each other? How would you normally place the letter like that when sending a message? It's like..."

"It's as if I wanted to let Mr. Ma see it on purpose." Micah took over the conversation, his face slightly serious.

"Yes, your analysis makes sense." Mr. Ma nodded, looking relieved.

"First it was the ninth-level soul guide god-making platform, and now there's a sudden discount on the handling fee. It's too much of a coincidence." Old Ma said in a cold tone. Xu Jiujiu's behavior just now made him feel like he was being caught in a big net.

A large net was set up to target Mingdetang's soul guide device, but what he couldn't understand was why the Xingluo Empire thought they would take action against this soul beast embryo.

None of them has an extremely noble status and can casually take out hundreds of millions of gold soul coins for bidding. This plan is aimed at Mingdetang soul guide device, but who will take the bait?
This is the case where those involved are often confused while bystanders can see things clearly. Jing Hongchen's death happened less than half a month ago, and the news must still be blocked, with only a few people knowing about it.

The head of Mingde Hall died. No matter how he died, it was a loss of national strength for the Sun and Moon Empire. The news was blocked as soon as Xiao Hongchen returned, and few people in the entire Mingde Hall knew about it.

Even though the Douluo Three Kingdoms have always had intelligence forces arranged in the Sun-Moon Empire, it is completely impossible for them to infiltrate Mingde Hall.

Apart from the academy's top management, there are only two types of people who can enter Mingde Hall: teachers and students. Teachers are guaranteed to be soul mentors of level seven or eight. Such talents are scarce in Douluo, so how could they be used as undercover agents?

The same goes for the students. Those who can enter Mingde Hall are all genius soul masters (except for a certain sword geek who was specially approved), and most of them are young people whose minds are easily influenced. Where in Douluo Three Kingdoms can you find someone with good talent, a mature and determined mindset to serve as an undercover agent? In a place where there are no more than a handful of eighth-level soul masters.

Therefore, the Xingluo Empire was unaware of the accident that had happened to Jing Hongchen, and continued to implement the plan that it thought was perfect.

When Mr. Ma learned the news of Jing Hongchen's death, he subconsciously excluded this factor, causing him to go in the wrong direction in his thinking.

Thirty minutes passed quickly, and Xu Jiawei, who was pacing back and forth in auction room No. 1, had not received any news yet, and his heart sank to the bottom.

If they had obtained the soul guide device of Mingdetang, Jiujiu should have come to inform him long ago. The current situation has only one explanation: the plan failed and they did not get the soul guide device produced by Mingdetang.

Thinking of this, Xu Jiawei sat down in the chair with a dejected look, as if all his strength had been drained away. The time had come, the result was set in stone, and there was no possibility of change.

The big net he had set up months in advance didn't even create a single wave, and at the same time, he himself was in a bad situation.

Through the analysis of the amount of funds obtained from the previous mortgage, the final transaction price of this soul beast embryo will not exceed 150 million.

Including the funds recovered later by hiring a group of soul masters, this soul beast embryo did not bring much substantial benefit to Xing Luo.

Looking at the auction as a whole, it was a huge loss. It was simply a failed auction.

Forced to pay 60 million gold soul coins and losing a 70,000-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone from a top-level soul beast, this auction couldn't even recoup its costs, let alone make money.

The only goal that was successfully achieved was to divert everyone's attention from the dark side of the game.

"Break time is up. The starting price for a 100,000-year soul beast embryo is 100 million gold soul coins. Each bid must not be less than 100,000 gold soul coins."

Xu Jiujiu's voice resounded in the auction rooms again. Her smile was still sweet and charming, but her eyes were not as bright as before.

"One hundred and fifty million, I wonder who dares to compete with me for it!" In auction room No. 2, the man with an unusually strong right arm said excitedly.

"I actually hope those people can buy this embryo away." The big-headed man raised the corners of his mouth, his tone inexplicable.

"Langya, what do you mean?" The burly-armed man gave him a puzzled look, obviously not understanding.

"Yutao, how did our Benti Sect get started?" Lang Ya asked this question with a mysterious smile.

"Of course it's robbery... I see!" Yu Tao said halfway when he suddenly realized something, and then his expression became strange.

"Now that you mention it, we should let other forces bid for it. Over 100 million gold soul coins, if converted into cultivation resources, it will be enough for our sect disciples to use for a long time."

"Let's wait and see. If the price exceeds 130 million, we won't fight over it. I'll check the buyers behind it then. I hope these people can be sensible." Lang Ya's eyes turned cold and his tone was stern.

……

"One hundred and twenty-nine million! Congratulations to this distinguished guest on successfully bidding on the 100,000-year soul beast embryo. This auction ends here. I hope everyone had a satisfying experience."

After a long while, Yu Tao looked at Lang Ya and shrugged helplessly, "We missed the target we expected to take, but it seems we can't do anything this time."

"We should leave immediately. With this 100,000-year-old soul beast embryo in our hands, there might be some little tails that are eyeing us." Lang Ya nodded, his tone a little serious.

"Let's see if they have the guts. If they dare to focus on us, we must be prepared for destruction!"

Yu Tao's eyes flashed with ferocity, and a crackling sound came from his right arm. It was not the sound of bones, but the sound of the air being twisted and torn.

"Yuhao, don't rush to absorb this Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone. Your body may not be able to withstand it. I will prepare some auxiliary pills for you later to reduce the risk of your body collapsing."

After returning to the Xingluo Royal Hotel, Xian Lin'er gave some instructions and then left. Huo Yuhao was just about to meditate for a while when he heard the voice of the Ice Emperor.

"Yuhao, don't listen to her. Absorb it now. With me here, I can control the power of this soul bone. This is a good opportunity to integrate some of the power I sealed away."

When the Ice Emperor's voice came, Huo Yuhao certainly had no doubts. What Xian Lin'er said was indeed correct, but who would have thought that there was an emperor of the Ice Jade Scorpion in his body? There would be no problem in absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion's soul bone.

Huo Yuhao took out the silver square box from the storage soul guide and opened it. The left arm bone of the Ice Scorpion lay quietly inside.

Observing closely, Huo Yuhao could feel the charm of this soul bone even more, which made his breathing become a little rapid. After hearing the urging of the Ice Emperor in his sea of ​​consciousness, he hurriedly began to absorb the soul bone.

The moment Huo Yuhao began to merge, he felt an extremely huge energy pouring in. Just as this extremely unstable energy was about to run rampant, the Ice Emperor took action.

In just a moment, as soon as Bingdi took action, this energy suddenly became as docile and obedient as sheep, and they went wherever Bingdi told them to go.

The process went extremely smoothly. Huo Yuhao only felt his whole body was cold, and the process of fusing soul bones was over. In addition, a corner of the seal of the Ice Emperor was opened.

To the Ice Emperor, this was an extremely weak energy, but to Huo Yuhao, it was extremely huge, not much inferior to the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone just now.

Huo Yumiao opened his eyes excitedly as his soul power broke through level 33. This was the most intuitive manifestation. Unless the improvement in physical fitness was very significant, a conclusion could only be drawn through testing.

Huo Yuhao had already felt the drastic drop in his cultivation speed after his Ultimate Martial Soul broke through to Soul Master. It reminded him of his cultivation speed at the first level of Innate Soul Power, which was as slow as a turtle's crawl.

How could Huo Yuhao not be excited when he was promoted two levels at once, and the upgrade had no side effects at all?

"Okay, just spend some more time to consolidate your power, and you will soon be able to adapt to this power." After the Ice Emperor finished speaking, there was no movement. Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao quickly closed his eyes and entered a meditative state again.

Two days passed in a flash, and today was another Shrek Academy competition. This time their opponent was still the Five Soul King Team, the same as the Xingluo Advanced Soul Instructor Academy.

This match also determines whether Shrek Academy can be revived again. If they win this match, they will be qualified to compete for the championship.

If they lose this game as well, there is basically no hope of qualifying, unless other teams in the group also have a record of two losses, but this is almost impossible.

As far as the known configuration is concerned, unless the two strongest all-Soul King teams in Shrek Academy's group collide, it is almost impossible for them to lose in the other games.

In other words, Shrek Academy must defeat one of the two all-Soul King teams to have a chance of advancing.

Will Shrek win?
(Are you ready? Not only Shrek Academy, but Yu Miao is also going to start the resurrection match.)
(End of this chapter)