Douluo Continent: The Holy Evil Emperor.

Chapter 64 The Black Dress Lingers, the Princess Auctioneer (Seeking First Subscription!)

Considering that it was getting dark, Ye Qing was too lazy to continue wandering around outside and went directly to the Starry Sky Hotel, the residence of the Star Luo Empire's royal family, to stay.

If you want to understand the royal family's businesses, what better place is there than another royal property?

So that very evening, Ye Qing obtained some basic information about the Starlight Auction House from the hotel staff. After all, this information was public knowledge, and anyone who stayed in Star Luo City for a while would know it.

Moreover, this is the Xinghuang Hotel, and the guests who can stay here are all wealthy and powerful. Out-of-town guests often ask about the auction, so being familiar with the auction's information is basically a required course for the staff of Xinghuang Hotel.

First, let's talk about the auction specifications of Starlight Auction House.

First, there are the top-tier auctions, which are the auctions in the original work where the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and the Snow Emperor's Embryo were auctioned. This level of auction is also known as the Red-level auction, which is the highest-level auction in the Starlight Auction House. The auction items that can reach the top-level specifications can have a minimum transaction price of seven figures.

However, even Starlight Auction House rarely holds auctions of this caliber, as the treasures are limited and they are usually held only once every one or two years.

The next level up is the Black-level auction. Although it is not as prestigious as the Red-level auction, the treasures at the auction are still precious. Even soul bones often appear, or rather, a Black-level auction guarantees at least one soul bone.

After all, it's a second-tier auction, so the main auction items have to be some good ones to make it stand out. Black-tier auctions are usually held once every three to six months.

The next level up is the Purple-level auction, which is the same scale as the one where the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife appeared in the original work. The items that appear at the auction are basically low- to mid-level soul tools and some medicines or materials that are not particularly precious. Of course, for a free-spirited soul master, this level of auction is already quite grand. This level of auction is held about once a month.

Finally, there's the Yellow-level auction held daily. There's not much to say about this; it's a channel for Starlight Auction House to clear out its inventory. But in reality, the Yellow-level auction is Starlight Auction House's most profitable channel.

In any world, the grassroots level constitutes the vast majority.

Ye Qing was very lucky, or rather, he arrived at a very good time. At this time of year, both Shrek Academy and other academies were on holiday, and many students were on break from their respective academies.

Therefore, during this period, the flow of people in major cities has increased significantly. After all, the students who have been cooped up in the academy for almost a year want to go out and have fun with their families as soon as they get home.

Therefore, Starlight Auction House will also hold two large-scale auctions during this period: a purple-level auction two days later and a black-level auction seven days later.

Now all we can do is pray that the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife that Ye Qing wants will appear at these two auctions.

The items to be auctioned are usually kept secret. Only certain powerful forces can obtain the list of items before the auction begins.

Ye Qing, who came solely on his own behalf and not using his identity as a disciple of Mu En, certainly wouldn't be able to get a spot on the auction list.

It doesn't matter, it's only a week anyway. Even if he gets nothing this time, Ye Qing still has twenty days to hunt souls, which is basically enough.

And so, Ye Qing settled into the Xinghuang Hotel. During the day, he would eat and stroll around Xingluo City, and at night he would return to the Xinghuang Hotel to cultivate.

Ye Qing wasn't a robot. When he was studying at Shrek Academy, he didn't give himself much leisure time. Now that he's come to Star Luo City, it wouldn't hurt to relax a little and experience the local customs.

Two days passed quickly.

On the evening of the third day, Ye Qing walked through the doors of the Starlight Auction House. After verifying that he had sufficient assets, he successfully obtained the qualification to participate in the Purple-level auction.

To Ye Qing's disappointment, the Soul-Devouring Carving Knife did not appear at this purple-grade auction.

Perhaps because it hadn't failed to sell enough times, Starlight Auction House still believed that this Soul-Devouring Carving Knife, ranked ninety-ninth on the list of carving knives, could bring them more profit, so it didn't go down to the Purple-level auction house.

Ye Qing could only pin his hopes on the Black-grade auction a few days later.

After the Purple-level auction ended, Ye Qing left the auction house and returned to the Starry Hotel to await the start of the Black-level auction.

On the other side...

Xu Jiujiu, who is still relatively inexperienced and whose professional skills are not as high as they would be a few years later, is currently only a Black-level auctioneer, and she is the one who will be hosting this Black-level auction.

Xu Jiujiu, dressed in the black-level auctioneer uniform dress of Starlight Auction House, is backstage at the auction house, taking stock of the items to be auctioned in a few days.

Compared to the other auctioneers' slightly revealing long dresses, Xu Jiujiu's uniform was clearly different. Her long dress did not have a slit; instead, it covered her calves, revealing only her fair ankles, and her jade-like feet were clad in black rhinestone high heels.

The same applies to her upper body; the conservative long dress only vaguely reveals her collarbone, and her pair of fair arms are also covered by black gauze sleeves, until her fair and slender hands are revealed at her wrists.

Even such a conservative long dress could not conceal her natural radiance.

Sometimes, the same dress can look completely different on different people.

Xu Jiujiu is very happy now.

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Being an auctioneer was one of Xu Jiujiu's few hobbies, but she was still young before, and Xu Jiawei was not too willing for a princess like her to appear in public, so she had relatively little experience with it.

Rationality aside, she's still just a young girl, a young girl who's always so persistent about the things she likes.

Initially, she became interested in the auctioneer profession simply because she accompanied Xu Jiawei to an auction and watched the auctioneer's eloquent words ignite a frenzy of bidding among the guests.

She fantasized about what it would feel like to be so "powerful" that she could get people to spend money like crazy with just a few words. She thought it would be a lot of fun.

If she had been allowed to indulge her passion for being an auctioneer back then, she probably wouldn't have this hobby now.

But Xu Jiawei didn't satisfy her at that time, and becoming an auctioneer turned from an interest into a real hobby.

Have fun.

She takes every auction she is going to host very seriously, remembers the information of every item, and makes sure that there are no problems with the items so as not to affect her enthusiasm as an auctioneer.

"We're still missing one item for auction..." After finishing the inventory, Xu Jiujiu bit her lip in frustration.

"What should I add next?"

(End of this chapter)