Douluo Continent: Starting with a Void Treasure Trove

"How about I exchange it for the ultimate technique of our Body Sect? Use this to pay off the debt. You have to believe me, even if it's not the Body Martial Soul, after being nurtured by the secret techniques of my Body Sect, one's own Martial Soul has a great possibility of secondary awakening."

"Moreover, there are many combat techniques here. Isn't this the kind of heritage that your Sun Moon Empire lacks?"

"I won't offer much more. 'The Secret of the Body' is the supreme technique of my Body Sect, worth five hundred million gold soul coins. As for the other combat techniques, I'll give you six of them, each worth fifty million gold soul coins. How about that?"

"I'll give you another two hundred million gold soul coins then. But you must remember that the secret of the main body cannot be revealed to outsiders; this is a rule set by our ancestors."

Du Bu Si began to analyze the situation for Xu Yang in a logical and well-founded manner.

If that were really the case, the Body Sect would probably be able to accept it if they tightened their belts for a couple of years.

If all else fails, the only option left is to hunt another 100,000-year-old soul beast. Let the 100,000-year-old soul ring go to waste. Exchanging a 100,000-year-old soul bone for gold soul coins is a really bad choice.

He was plotting to kill the poison.

"Poison Sect Master, look me in the eyes. Do you think I'm stupid and easy to fool? A few unique skills are worth eight hundred million gold soul coins, and you don't even allow them to be passed on?"

"Poison Sect Master, I'll give you one more chance. I can pretend I didn't hear what you said before."

"Even if you kill me and take my bones, you won't get a billion gold soul coins. I can tell you that all the soul bones on my body are 100,000 years old. Three of them were obtained from hunting soul rings, and the rest are the inherited soul bones of my Body Sect."

"What's more, you don't even want a 100,000-year-old soul bone."

Poison Undying started muttering to himself, "This is so unfair!"

"Poison Sect Master, I have another solution. You don't need to pay off the ten billion immediately. You can pay off two hundred million in the first year, and then increase the interest rate by fifteen percent each year. If you can pay off the ten billion gold soul coins within five years, the rest will be waived."

"But if not, the Body Sect must obediently pay me the principal plus interest for five years according to the interest rate."

Poison Undying was confused by things like interest, but he clearly heard one sentence: he could repay the billion over five years, and in the first year he only needed to pay two hundred million gold soul coins.

With an annual debt of 200 million, it won't immediately bankrupt the Body Sect within five years.

He thought Xu Yang was a truly kind person.

"Okay, it's a deal."

"I promise you, I will repay this debt according to your method of interest."

"As for the two hundred million gold soul coins, please allow me to raise some. I guarantee that I will deliver the gold soul coins to you before the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's auction ends."

"Senior Poison Never Dies is truly a man of few words. Then I will await your arrival at the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's auction."

"However, just to be on the safe side, let's draw up a written agreement first."

Xu Yang took out an IOU, filled it out neatly, had Du Busi put his fingerprint on it, and then put it into his storage soul tool.

Xu Yang cupped his hands in greeting to Du Busi, then led his group of four and a dragon toward the auction house.

"Xu Yang, what exactly did you mean by those annual interest rates you mentioned before?"

Based on her understanding of Xu Yang, Gu Yuena felt that Xu Yang must have set a trap for Du Busi. Unfortunately, Du Busi was also an honest man and couldn't see through Xu Yang's cunning schemes.

"If you calculate it this way, he will have to pay me back 200 million in the first year. If the interest rate is 15% in the second year, then he will have to pay me back 230 million in the second year, and 2.645 million in the third year."

"In the last year, he will have to pay me back about 3.4 million yuan."

"At this interest rate, it would be a problem for him to last until the fourth year, which would not trigger the condition that he would not have to pay off the remaining interest if he paid off the 10 billion within five years."

"He can only grit his teeth and swallow the remaining interest. If he were to pay it all off, he would have to pay an additional 3.4 million yuan in interest."

"Even if the Poison Sect Master goes all out and hunts down 100,000-year-old soul beasts in five years for the sake of the soul bone, it's just paying off the debt ahead of schedule."

"I never expected him to come up with a billion gold soul coins in a year."

"Besides, I had already prepared for the possibility that this clumsy trick would be exposed later, which is why I was in a hurry to draw up a written agreement."

Xu Yang took out the document that Du Bu Si had just signed and waved it around.

"As for me being unreasonable? Sorry, in Douluo Continent, might makes right. If you disagree, the Poison Sect Master can only grit his teeth and swallow it."

"So that's how it is."

Gu Yuena nodded. She knew Xu Yang had ill intentions, and now it seemed she was right.

Zhang Lexuan kept reminding herself that she should be more wary of Xu Yang in the future, lest she be sold out by him and still have to count the money for him.

"Now that we have raised enough start-up funds for the artificial soul ring project, let us thank the Body Sect and the Poison Sect Master for their generosity."

"An artificial spirit ring?"

Zhang Lexuan felt as if she had heard something incredible.

"Are she and Xu Yang still living in the same Douluo Continent? It feels like they're living in two different worlds. Has the Sun Moon Empire's soul tools advanced to the point where they can create artificial soul rings?"

"Alright, let's go and see what treasures the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, which is said to have gathered all the wealth in the world, has."

The group arrived at the auction house of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, which was very grand in appearance.

The entire structure is modeled after the martial soul of Ning Rongrong, the ancestor of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, from ten thousand years ago—the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. The auction is also divided into nine levels, with each level representing a higher level.

Each level represents a level of cultivation for a Soul Master, from Soul Warrior to Title Douluo. It is said that they can find the treasures they desire here.

Xu Yang led the group inside, and at the entrance he presented a gold card that proved his wealth and status. These special gold cards were distributed by the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School to some of its major clients.

If we had to cite a specific example, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School made a significant contribution to the unification of currency across the entire Douluo Continent.

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School enjoys a good reputation in trade between the Douluo Three Kingdoms and the Sun Moon Empire, and everyone is willing to give it face. Moreover, different currency systems are indeed very troublesome.

Therefore, the emperors were happy to let the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School promote this matter, which led to the Gold Soul Coin becoming the only circulating currency on the Douluo Continent.

Xu Yang went straight to the top floor and saw Di Ni'er, who was bored and spacing out, and Di Tian, ​​who was resting with his eyes closed.

"Xu Yang, Sister Gu Yue, you're back!"

The way they addressed Gu Yuena was something they had agreed on in private; in front of outsiders, they would call her by her pseudonym, Gu Yue.

As Di Ni'er spoke, she was about to pounce on Xu Yang.

However, he stopped himself from acting impulsively after seeing Zhang Lexuan.

"Wait, didn't you say you just wanted to get to know her? Why did you bring her back? Did you change your mind?"

"You'll have to ask my grandfather about this; it was his idea on a whim."

Xu Yang shrugged helplessly.

Zhang Lexuan didn't have any special reaction when she saw Di Ni'er; in her perception, she was just a girl with relatively high talent.

At ten years old, she possessed a soul power of level thirty. Even Ma Xiaotao, at that age, was far inferior to this lively girl.

However, Zhang Lexuan was stunned when she saw Di Tian resting with his eyes closed.

She blinked, trying to convince herself that she must have seen wrong.

Why does that man look so much like Di Tian, ​​the number one of the top ten ferocious beasts recorded by Shrek Academy?

Especially those two strands of blonde hair between her forehead!