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"Mr. Xiao, you're here? What treasure did you bring this time?"
Canglan City is the closest city to the border mountains in the Tiandou Empire. As Xiao Mu walked into the Canglan City auction house, a young service staff came up to greet him.
After Xiao Mu traveled through time, he didn't stay in the border mountains all the time. He had to go out from time to time to buy supplies.
While searching for soul fragments in the border mountains, he also unearthed a lot of valuable treasures, which earned him some gold soul coins.
Xiao Mu threw a bag on the counter.
"Everything I'm going to sell this time is in there."
"Okay, are you planning on buying it right away this time, or are you planning on waiting for the auction the day after tomorrow?"
The man said as he checked the things Xiao Mu brought.
Auction houses can provide auctions and earn commissions from them, or they can directly purchase valuable items.
Xiao Mu said, "If the price is right, I will sell it to you directly."
Selling it directly to the auction house would definitely earn less soul coins than the auction, but Xiao Mu was ready to leave here and was too lazy to wait for the next auction to start.
"You've got quite a lot this time. I can't make a decision. I'll have to ask Elder Fang to appraise the price."
The Mr. Fang he was referring to was Fang Kan, an appraiser at the Canglan City Auction House. Xiao Mu had dealt with him several times.
After a while, an old man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties came over.
"Xiao Xiaoyou, we meet again. You are so lucky to have picked up so many treasures again."
The things Xiao Mu dug out from the border mountains included soul guides, precious weapons, and more were some aristocratic ornaments.
Although these noble ornaments are of little use to soul masters, some nobles like to collect them, especially the ancient items of the Xingluo Empire.
Nobles often use the size of their collections to distinguish the length of their aristocratic history.
"I've seen everything you brought this time. The total price is 500 gold soul coins. What do you think?"
"oh?"
Xiao Mu knew that this old guy liked to bargain, but he didn't expect that he would give a more fair price this time.
"Okay, that's the price."
After the transaction was completed, Xiao Mu had just walked out of the auction hall when Fang Kan instructed the service staff beside him:
"Go find Sir Kamino immediately. I suspect Xiao Mu might be leaving Canglan City."
"Yes, I'll go right away."
After leaving the auction house, Xiao Mu casually put the gold soul coin into the jade pendant he had dug out.
It was only after he gained soul power that he discovered that this jade pendant was actually a storage soul guide, but there was nothing valuable inside.
"Palace Master, where are we going next?" asked Zhan Kaishan.
"Let's go to Tiandou City. Help me get my first two spirit rings on the way."
If you want to become famous and make the Soul Palace famous, you naturally have to go to a big place.
Tiandou City, as the capital of the Tiandou Empire, has a large population and diverse forces. It is a good place to make the name of the Soul Palace famous.
Xiao Mu bought a horse-drawn carriage, and Zhan Kaishan sat on the shaft as the driver.
Not long after the two left Canglan City, a group of people caught up with them.
Xiao Mu lifted the car curtain and recognized the person.
"Sir Kamino, are you going out hunting, or are you sending me off?"
Xiao Mu dug up a lot of good things from the border mountains. After Kamino knew about it, he tried to recruit Xiao Mu to work for him, but Xiao Mu refused.
This time he hurriedly caught up, obviously coming for Xiao Mu.
Sure enough, Kamino caught up and said:
"Xiao Mu, I'll ask you again, are you willing to become a member of my Kamino family and help me do things?"
He clearly had a threatening tone in his voice when he said this.
Xiao Mu asked with a half-smile, "Oh? What are you going to do if I don't agree?"
Kamino snorted.
"Since you're not accepting my offer, don't blame me for capturing you and personally interrogating you to uncover your secrets."
He recruited Xiao Mu from the very beginning because Xiao Mu could easily find lost treasures from battlefield ruins.
It's not that no one has searched the ruins in the border mountains before, but most people found nothing and wasted their time. However, Xiao Mu always got a lot of gains every time.
He suspected that Xiao Mu had some special method that could easily find treasures buried deep underground. If their Kamino family could obtain this ability, they would surely grow rapidly.
Kamino first used a soft approach to trick Xiao Mu into the family, and then slowly figured out his secrets.
But Xiao Mu was about to leave, so he had to take more drastic measures.
"I didn't expect your Kamino family to have a Soul King."
The middle-aged man next to Kamino walked towards the carriage, and five soul rings, one white, two yellow and two purple, rose up and surrounded him.
It was a rare achievement for a small noble family in a border city to produce a Soul King.
"Xiao Mu, it's too late for you to regret now. You probably don't know how powerful the Soul King is."
Xiao Mu was too lazy to pay attention to this clown and ordered Zhan Kaishan:
"You handle it. Don't kill this guy just yet."
"As you command."
Zhan Kaishan left the shaft of the carriage in an instant and arrived in front of the Soul King in the blink of an eye.
"Is the Soul King very powerful?"
A look of fear appeared in the Soul King's eyes.
He didn't see Zhan Kaishan's movements clearly at all, and didn't know how he came in front of him.
"This person's strength is definitely above mine."
He was about to use his soul skill in fear, but the next moment, his neck was in Zhan Kaishan's hands.
Crackling
There was a crisp sound of a neck being broken.
This Soul King, who Kamino said was very powerful, died before he could even use his soul skills.
"You... who are you? Don't come over here. Stop him quickly."
Kamino was terrified and quickly ordered his men to stop Zhan Kaishan.
But the strongest Soul King among their group died so easily, not to mention their weaker thugs.
Kamino asked them to stop Zhan Kaishan, but they retreated one by one, leaving Kamino alone in the blink of an eye.
"snort."
Zhan Kaishan hummed softly, and his invisible soul power chased after him.
Several guys who were fleeing staggered and fell to the ground one by one, completely losing their breath.
Zhan Kaishan threw the almost frightened Kamino in front of Xiao Mu.
"Palace Master, what should we do with this guy?"
Xiao Mu looked down at Kamino from a high position.
"You probably got the news about me from the Canglan City Auction House."
Kamino seemed to have just woken up from a dream and nodded repeatedly.
"Mr. Xiao, Mr. Xiao, it was those guys at the Canglan City auction house who deliberately led me to chase you. I was also deceived. You..."
It's enough to know that the auction house is also involved in this matter.
Without waiting for Kamino to beg for mercy, Xiao Mu's soul power surged out, forming a soul sword, which slashed towards Kamino, killing Kamino at the soul level.
This was just a little trick that Xiao Mu mastered after practicing the "Emperor Soul Art". There was no need for more advanced attack methods to deal with a mere Kamino.
"Palace Master, should we continue on our journey or..."
"No, let's return to Canglan City. Some people have done something wrong and need to pay the price."