NABC Chapter 2 Electrolux and the Gold of Life
Chapter 2 Electrolux and the Gold of Life
The Starry Sky Royal Auction Venue.
Although it's called an auction, it's more like an underground city.
The entrance is hidden on the ground floor of a commercial building three streets east of the palace. Push open the inconspicuous stone door, and a spiral staircase leads straight down thirty meters underground.
Lighting devices were embedded on both sides of the staircase, illuminating the way with white light. The light was cool-toned and lacked warmth, but it was bright enough.
Xu Xinghan led Xu Jiujiu inside.
Upon seeing the token, the guards at the entrance bowed at a ninety-degree angle, skipping the formality of announcing their arrival, and respectfully led them through three gates to the backstage area.
"Your Highness, Princess, all the items for this auction are here. I have received His Majesty's orders. Please make yourselves at home."
The person in charge was a lean, middle-aged man with a professional smile. He tactfully stepped outside the door and didn't dare to follow.
The backstage area is more than twice the size of the front hall.
All four walls were lined with display shelves, from floor to ceiling, each shelf lined with dark red velvet.
Soul tools, rare metals, ten-thousand-year-old soul bones, unknown mineral crystals...
You could say that you can find everything here.
After a long while, his mouth opened into an "O" shape.
"Second brother, this time we're definitely going to fleece eldest brother!"
"Absolutely, don't be so polite with your elder brother."
His gaze swept from left to right and back again, quickly passing over each item in the auction.
Her silver hair fell to her shoulders, and her bright, sun-like eyes gleamed in the dim light.
His left eye was red, and his right eye was silvery-white, like two independent stars spinning in their eye sockets.
There is indeed a lot of stuff.
There were so many that even he was momentarily overwhelmed.
Just then, an aged voice resounded from the sea of spirit.
"Huh? It's actually the Gold of Life."
Upon hearing this, Xu Xinghan paused for a moment.
"Xiao Han, there's the aura of the Gold of Life here. That's a good thing; we must get it."
The voice was deep and resonant, like the long tolling of an ancient bell, carrying an undeniable weight.
Xu Xinghan asked knowingly, "Gold of Life? Elder Yi, what is that?"
Electrolux paused for a moment, then said in a calm tone, "That's a good thing. It can provide you with a lot of life force, and it's also good for me. It can stabilize this wisp of my divine consciousness."
Xu Xinghan said he understood.
The corners of his mouth lifted almost imperceptibly.
Yes, that's right.
The old man residing in his spiritual sea was none other than the former Necromancer Saint, the Undead Scourge, Elex.
Xu Xinghan was able to get his hands on him purely by luck and scheming.
The story begins a few years ago.
As a time traveler, Xu Xinghan was well aware of what he was doing.
His surname is Xu, and he is a prince of the Xingluo royal family. The sky above his head is called the Xingluo Empire.
According to the original story, decades later, the Sun Moon Empire's army pressed in, and Star Luo was defeated and lost its cities and territories. With Huo Yuhao's help, Star Luo Empire barely survived, but returned the throne to the Dai family.
Decades later, the Sun Moon Empire made a comeback, destroying the Star Luo Empire. The royal family fled overseas and became one of the principals of the Douluo Continent.
This outcome was unacceptable to Xu Xinghan.
So he has been making plans ever since the day he awakened his martial spirit.
The most direct solution is reform.
The Star Luo Empire has the highest acceptance of soul tools among the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
It doesn't have the bad habit of Shrek Academy that "soul tools are heretical," nor does it have the arrogance of the Heavenly Soul and the Douling Empire that "soul masters are the boss."
Xu Xinghan seized this opportunity and, in his capacity as a prince, joined forces with the reformists to vigorously promote the development of soul-guided technology in the court.
Investing money, poaching talent, building workshops—it's a one-stop shop.
Over the years, although Xingluo's soul tool technology could not catch up with that of Sun and Moon, it had transformed from a desert into a small oasis.
National affairs aside, personal strength is fundamental.
What is the most fundamental aspect of the protagonist Huo Yuhao?
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Electrolux.
These two are both outrageous.
Million-year-old soul beasts serve as intelligent soul rings, and undead demigods serve as personal grandfathers. Later, a soul spirit system was even developed.
Such a configuration would be considered cheating on others, but on Huo Yuhao, it's the standard configuration for a protagonist.
Xu Xinghan had no intention of letting such a great opportunity slip by.
A year ago, he "happened" to pass by the Starry Sky Forest.
"Just so happens" that he met a boy named Huo Yuhao.
"Just happened" to witness the entire process of the appearance of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.
The aura of a million-year-old soul beast swept across the sky, causing the entire forest to tremble.
Huo Yuhao fainted on the spot.
This was exactly what Xu Xinghan wanted. His second martial soul, the Sun and Moon Divine Eye, was also a spiritual-type body martial soul, and it was even more powerful than Huo Yuhao's.
According to Xu Xinghan's assumption, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm would most likely choose him as its host.
But the outcome was beyond his expectations.
No matter how powerful it appeared, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm could only struggle at most, and in the end, it still chose to sacrifice itself for Huo Yuhao.
He wasn't surprised that Tianmeng Ice Silkworm chose Huo Yuhao.
The protagonist's halo is a mysterious phenomenon, hard to explain.
But his target is not just Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.
Just as the fusion of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and Huo Yuhao reached a critical moment.
The sky and earth changed color.
A remnant of Electrox's soul was disturbed and emerged from a spacetime rift.
Just as Electrolux finished posing and was about to enter Huo Yuhao's mental world, Xu Xinghan made his move.
He focused his spiritual energy into a single line and sent a signal to that wisp of remnant soul.
It was not an attack, it was not an intrusion.
It is a unique spiritual resonance technique of the Star Gazing Instrument Martial Soul.
Using the number of stars as a medium, we communicate the wandering consciousness between heaven and earth.
To put it simply, it's an academic version of talking to your soul.
That sliver of spiritual energy pierced through Huo Yuhao's mental barrier and precisely touched that tiny gray sphere.
The small gray ball paused for a moment, then a few seconds later, it shifted its focus to Xu Xinghan.
It flowed slowly into his spiritual sea along the spiritual threads created by Xu Xinghan.
The whole process took less than three seconds.
Huo Yuhao didn't even feel anything.
The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was busy establishing contact with its new host and didn't notice anything amiss.
Only Xu Xinghan knew that from then on, his spiritual sea had gained the remnant soul of a demigod.
After entering the Sea of Spirit, Electrolux fell silent.
He only occasionally comes out to comment when something interesting happens.
Only today has the aura of the living gold made him so excited.
Xu Xinghan snapped out of his thoughts and scanned the display shelves backstage once more.
Gold of life.
where?
Xu Jiujiu had already circled around twice, holding three things in her arms, muttering to herself:
"This one looks nice, this one looks nice too, second brother, could you hold this for me?"
Xu Xinghan did not reach out.
His eyes, usually bright red and clear, suddenly narrowed.
The left eye flashed red light slightly, while the right eye shone brightly with silver light.
corner.
In the far corner, on a dark red velvet cushion lay an inconspicuous black carving knife, its surface covered with rust, like a piece of junk that had been forgotten for a hundred years.
But in Xu Xinghan's Sun and Moon Eyes, the piece of iron was emitting an intense, almost blinding, colorful light.
Gold of life.