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"Dear guests, the next two lots are the highlights of today. They are both rare and valuable items. You may not even find a second one on the mainland. I hope you will cheer up and don't miss them."
Xu Jiujiu smiled sweetly and began to introduce himself.
"This eighth lot is still a soul bone, but this soul bone is different."
The light flickered, and a soul bone that was completely green appeared on the screen.
From the appearance, this is a left arm bone. A turquoise halo flows and fluctuates on it. The entire soul bone is like a turquoise liquid, and there is a faint white mist outside the soul bone.
Even through the screen, I can still feel the biting chill.
This is the "Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone!"
Xu Jiujiu's voice, with a hint of fanaticism, guided everyone.
"This is the top-level soul bone that our Starlight Auction House has collected in recent years. We originally chose to collect it, but the Soul Master Competition is coming soon, and the best soul masters on the continent have gathered together. We have invited all the remaining top 16 teams to attend this auction."
After getting everyone's attention, she changed her tone and sounded sincere.
"This soul bone is definitely a top-grade soul bone, but we still need to explain the advantages and disadvantages of this soul bone clearly before the auction."
"This soul bone has shortcomings. The most important one is its attribute. This soul bone can only be used by soul masters with ice attributes. In addition, its second shortcoming is that its soul skills are solidified."
"Besides that, there is another disadvantage, which is that the age of this soul bone is about 50,000 to 70,000 years. If you don't have enough strength and physical fitness, don't try to fuse it, otherwise it will burst."
The corners of the mouths of many soul masters who listened carefully to Xu Jiujiu's introduction twitched.
Is this a disadvantage?
It sounds like an advantage, right? It can only be fused with ice attribute soul masters, which means that this soul bone is highly compatible with ice attribute soul masters, and may even affect the strength of ice attribute soul masters. Some soul masters with weak ice attribute strength may greatly improve their control over ice elements, or even change them qualitatively.
As for the second point, the soul skills of the soul bone are solidified, which often proves one thing - this soul bone inherits one of the soul skills that its soul beast is best at.
The third point, the age issue, is a blatant use of advantages to impersonate disadvantages.
"Having said the disadvantages, the next thing I want to introduce is its advantages. The reason why I said that this soul bone may not be found in the second one is because this soul bone comes from the core circle of the Far North, and the soul beast that produced this soul bone is the Ice Jade Scorpion."
"The second point is the soul skill of this soul bone. Its soul skill is solidified, and there are fewer options, but its soul skill is very powerful, it is Ice Explosion!"
After Xu Jiujiu finished explaining everything, he smiled and looked at each box with a hint of anticipation in his eyes.
"This soul bone is of top quality, Xiao Ming, take it." Lei Zhen said.
The other two Soul Saints from the Body Sect also spoke up and persuaded Chen Ming to auction the soul bone.
This soul bone is not for others to use.
It is intended for Chen Ming.
Of course Chen Ming knew that this soul bone was of top quality, but he was not prepared to fuse it himself.
Foreign soul bones are foreign goods after all.
Compared to external objects like spirit bones, Chen Ming wants his own bones more. To train his own bones into spirit bones is the real skill.
Of course, he has not yet developed the corresponding secret technique.
However, with the secret method of replenishing soul rings, the secret technique of turning human soul bones into bones is not difficult to achieve.
Chen Ming looked at the left arm bone of the Ice Scorpion with the Ice Explosion Soul Skill on the screen and nodded slowly.
It takes practice to transform human bones into soul bones, but there must also be a goal to imitate.
Just like his current spirit rings, they were actually condensed by himself, but the contents filled were also external energy.
He needed a primer. Of course, turning human bones into soul bones also required this primer.
The introduction to the Ice Explosion Soul Skill is very crucial, and Chen Ming is indeed ready to master this soul skill.
As long as he masters the ice explosion, his explosion of ice and fire power will be even more terrifying.
He took action immediately.
He is determined to obtain this soul bone.
Unfortunately, Ling Luochen in box number one was also determined to win.
The ice attribute of the Ice Scorpion clan has reached the ultimate level. The appearance of this soul bone gave her hope of breaking through the ultimate ice.
Unfortunately, after seeing the desire to compete for Box No. 1, Chen Ming simply gave up the competition and waved to Qingli.
"This Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone has a fatal flaw."
Chen Ming's words made Qingli's face change drastically.
"My dear guest, you need to provide evidence for your words. Our auction house has conducted many tests on this soul bone, and the advantages and disadvantages have been clearly explained just now."
Chen Ming chuckled and said, "You don't have to get too excited. There is nothing wrong with this soul bone itself. I just want to add one thing, that is, this soul bone can only be absorbed by a soul master with the ultimate ice attribute, otherwise it will explode."
Qingli's eyes flickered. She didn't know whether what Chen Ming said was true, so after hesitating for a moment, she chose to contact her boss.
Soon, Xu Jiujiu stopped the auction, apologized, and came to box number three.
"Hello, I'm the auctioneer Xu Jiujiu. You were the one who said that this soul bone can only be absorbed by a soul master with the ultimate ice attribute, right?" Under Qingli's guidance, Xu Jiujiu found Chen Ming and asked politely.
"That's right."
"Do you have any basis for this? As you know, we are auctioning this soul bone. If we really cancel the auction, it will be a big blow to our auction house."
"Basis?" Chen Ming asked, "Has anyone in your auction house ever succeeded in absorbing this thing?"
He frowned for a long time.
She looked at Chen Ming with twinkling eyes.
To be honest, they have never tried it. After all, failure in absorption means death. And according to the results of their research, those who have a hope of successfully absorbing the spirit are already excellent spirit masters of the empire. They can't just joke about the lives of spirit masters of this level.
But she couldn't tell Chen Ming this clearly.
After hesitating for a long time, he left box number three.
"I'm sorry, but this soul bone has a huge drawback that we haven't studied thoroughly before. That is, it can only be absorbed by a soul master with the ultimate ice attribute, otherwise the body will explode and die."
"As for the source of this information, I hereby guarantee it in the name of Starlight Auction House and the Xingluo Royal Family."
She still chose to believe what Chen Ming said.
It's not about how reliable what Chen Ming said is, or how credible the reasons he gave are.
She is too naive to take the risk.
Who is in Box No. 1?
Ling Luochen, the genius of Shrek Academy who is in need of this soul bone, will be the Shrek Seven Devils of this generation.
If she died because of absorbing this soul bone, there would inevitably be a rift between them and Shrek.
It would be fine if no one told her this, Shrek was not an unreasonable person. The key was that Chen Ming warned her, and she had to make this information public.