In his mind, Huo Yuhao said helplessly, "How did I learn bad habits? I'm the Holy Son of the Holy Ghost Cult. I'm already bad by nature, alright?"
This Bibi Dong has been a bit strange lately. Is she raising me as her son? Huo Yuhao's inner thoughts naturally couldn't escape the connection of Bibi Dong's divine sense, and he was immediately blasted out of his spiritual sea.
"Get lost! You think you're worthy of being this empress's son?"
While the two were talking, they had already walked past the corridor of beauties. The white-gowned girl guided them up the golden staircase to the second floor of the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
The second floor was much quieter compared to the first. It seemed scattered, but all the display booths were placed in the most reasonable and eye-catching positions. Each booth was covered with a huge crystal glass case. Different items were placed on the display stands inside.
The white-gowned girl stopped. "Welcome, distinguished guest, to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion's Treasure Appraisal Fair. The fair is held on the second floor. The two distinguished guests may browse at their leisure. If you find an item you like, please go to the west side to register and purchase. If you need to buy on credit, you can also be evaluated there. The evaluation result will determine the discount the distinguished guest enjoys and the amount of credit they can have."
The current Huo Yuhao was just a new student, and he didn't have the treatment of a dual core disciple like he did the first time he came here in the original novel. If he offended a high-ranking official, he might even be expelled. He naturally wouldn't have any credit limit.
"I'll take a look at the soul bones first," Huo Yuhao had a lot of money himself and saw no need to owe Shrek a favor. As he spoke, he began to browse the second floor. The main purpose of this trip was to find a spatial-attribute soul bone.
Compared to ten thousand years ago, the number of soul bones produced on the continent had multiplied several times. Many large auction houses had soul bones for sale. Of course, this was not limited to the hunting of soul beasts.
As everyone knows, even for a Limit Douluo, the limit of their lifespan is only a few hundred years. Most Titled Douluo, before their death, would choose to strip out their soul bones to benefit future generations. It was not out of the question that some stingy great powers were visited by tomb raiders after their death. After all, every expert with a soul bone had more or less displayed the ability of their soul bone during their lifetime, making them easy targets for tomb raiders after their death.
There was another way: when two parties had a grudge, the loser would die, and incidents of killing people to take their bones were not uncommon.
Therefore, in the auction houses of the filthy rich Shrek City, there were already soul bone display booths, exhibiting countless soul bones of various grades.
However, most of these soul bones were hundred-year soul bones. Thousand-year soul bones were quite rare. It was likely that those high-grade soul bones had been sold cheaply to the students of Shrek Academy.
Huo Yuhao naturally had no interest in these low-grade soul bones. After a casual browse, he shook his head and walked away.
Seeing that Huo Yuhao was not at all interested in these low-grade soul bones, the white-gowned girl hurriedly came over. "Honorable Soul Master sir, if there really is no suitable soul bone for you here, you might as well try your luck at the Bone-Gambling Hall."
"Bone-Gambling Hall?" Huo Yuhao had never heard of such a place in the original novel.
"Yes. Some soul masters, after hunting soul beasts, choose to transport the carcasses of the soul beasts to the auction house for sale. The complete flesh and blood of a soul beast is also a precious supplement for some major families and sect disciples. And among them, there may even be hidden soul bones that were not discovered by the hunter. Therefore, it greatly tests the luck of the competitor."
Oh, to put it bluntly, it's making you spend a lot of money to buy a useless soul beast carcass. If you're lucky, you might get a soul bone from it. If you're unlucky, you've just spent hundreds of times the price for a very nutritious meal.
"Then let's go take a look," Huo Yuhao nodded. Not to mention that he had a cheat like Spiritual Detection, he also had two appraisal masters in his spiritual sea. He might be able to find a treasure.
"Please follow me," the white-gowned girl led the way in front. As her slender waist swayed, her snow-white skin was faintly visible, which made Huo Yuhao exclaim with delight.
Soon, the two of them passed through a corridor and came to a quiet side room. On tables of various sizes were displayed the miserable looking carcasses of soul beasts.
The white-gowned girl whispered something to a staff member at the side and had him lead Huo Yuhao in her place. It was clear she was not qualified to set foot in this place.
Huo Yuhao discovered that there were also a few soul masters wandering around here, and some of them were wearing the shit-green uniforms of Shrek Academy.
After the carcasses of these soul beasts were washed, they were all well-covered by glass cases to block the smell, so it wouldn't cause repulsion in those with weaker tolerance.
A male student in a Shrek uniform noticed Huo Yuhao, because although Huo Yuhao was wearing the Shrek Academy badge, he was not wearing that disgusting uniform.
"Hello, fellow student. Are you also a new student?" It was a fat male student with a head of messy black short hair. He was at least 1.7 meters tall, at least a head taller than Huo Yuhao. More importantly, his waist circumference was probably also close to 1.7 meters...
Just standing there, he was like a small mountain of meat.
"Hello, my name is Huo Yuhao," Huo Yuhao instantly understood the identity of the visitor. After all, with this body type, there was only one among the new students.
"Xie Huanyue," the fatty grinned. "You're here to gamble on bones too? How about we buy one together and give it a try?"
Huo Yuhao couldn't help but laugh. This fatty was described as having great wisdom appearing as foolishness in the original novel. His martial soul was a very rare beast soul called the Rubber Elephant. This martial soul was born with extremely powerful defense. Ordinary attacks would definitely not be able to break through his ball-like defense. There were only two ways: one was an ultimate attribute attack, such as high-temperature flames or ultra-low-temperature freezing, and the other was ultimate sharpness.
Although the original novel didn't give much background on Xie Huanyue, judging from the fact that he had reached level thirty soul power at the age of twelve, and was even higher in level than Ning Tian, the successor of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he was either backed by abundant resources or was an exceptionally talented person.
"Brother Xie, you're being too formal. Let's just be friends. Whichever one you fancy, I'll gift it to you," Huo Yuhao patted Xie Huanyue's back generously, with an air of "what's between us brothers."
The most expensive soul beast carcass here was only a little over a hundred thousand gold soul coins. To Huo Yuhao, who was worth over a hundred million, it was nothing.
Hearing this, Xie Huanyue's small eyes instantly widened. He was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing and grabbed Huo Yuhao's hand. "Alright! From now on, we're friends. If anyone among the new students messes with you, just report my name!"
"Then I'll have to rely on Brother Xie a lot in the future," Huo Yuhao said with a grin on the surface, but in reality, a chill ran down his spine. This fatty holding his hand felt like being stuck in a puddle of grease.
"We're one of us, one of us!" Xie Huanyue patted his large belly happily.
This guy was not polite at all. He actually directly chose the largest giant ape carcass, with a starting price as high as two hundred thousand gold soul coins.
Seeing his eyes light up at the carcass, Huo Yuhao's probing had also achieved its purpose. It seemed this heaven's chosen one did not have a powerful background like Ning Tian.
It would be a pity not to pull such a talented person onto his own warship.
Just as Huo Yuhao was thinking here, Bibi Dong's urgent voice sounded in his mind.
"Quick, Yuhao, choose that Purple Cloud Eagle!"
Huo Yuhao followed Bibi Dong's spiritual guidance and walked forward. On a table, the carcass of a bird with a wingspan of two and a half meters was displayed.
"This Purple Cloud Eagle carcass was accidentally discovered by a senior in our pavilion named Xiao Huohuo in the Star Dou Great Forest. The battle clothes woven from its feathers are not only light but also extremely strong in defense," the staff member kindly introduced.
"Then help me count this one in as well," Huo Yuhao said casually to the staff member with the look of a rich and willful person. Compared to the high price of two hundred thousand gold soul coins for the giant ape that Xie Huanyue had chosen, the starting price of this bird was less than fifty thousand.
The staff member didn't ask much. Because most of the soul masters who had the courage to come to the Bone-Gambling Hall were suckers. Out of ten thousand soul beast carcasses, one might not even find a single hidden soul bone. After all, a soul bone was basically discovered the moment a soul beast was killed. Even if it was hidden, the hunting team consisted of experienced soul masters, and these soul beast carcasses had already been carefully inspected by them.
"Hello, sirs, would you like to pay together?" The staff member had someone pack up the soul beast carcasses for Huo Yuhao's group and then asked them.
"Together," Huo Yuhao naturally stepped forward. At a time like this, being too pretentious would not win Xie Huanyue's friendship.
Seeing Huo Yuhao, who kept his word and bought the expensive soul beast carcass for him, the expression on Xie Huanyue's face at the side finally changed slightly.
"Let's go, Brother Xie," Huo Yuhao casually handed the large package containing the giant ape carcass to Xie Huanyue, preparing to leave.
"Young Master Huo, calling me Brother Xie is too much. If you don't mind in the future, you can just call me Fatty Xie," Xie Huanyue said sincerely to Huo Yuhao, holding the large package with ecstatic joy.
Huo Yuhao's thoughts stirred. He figured that in the original plot, this fatty probably couldn't afford this carcass due to his family's financial situation, which was why his strength was left further and further behind by the protagonist group later on.
Did my unintentional act just now cause a certain impact on the world line's changes?
He had never heard that the remains of a giant ape could bring about any change to a Rubber Elephant martial soul.