CHAPTER 36 HEAVEN DAO AUCTION HOUSE

Heaven Dou Auction House 

Seeing someone approaching, one of the four young women took three steps forward to greet him, bowing slightly as she spoke:

"Guest, is there anything you require assistance with?"

Huang Yong said:

"This is the auction house. I need to buy something."

"May I ask whether you have the bidding qualifications certificate?"

"Bidding qualifications certificate?"

Huang Yong was stunned, any normal person could guess from his looks that he was a noble, but this woman still asked him for a qualification certificate.

'They are nothing but puppets trained to act as they have been commanded, they can't even differentiate between noble and civilians.

And he didn't remember what this bidding qualification certificate was(duck).

The young woman smiled slightly, saying:

"Only guests possessing a bidding qualifications certificate may enter the auction house to bid.

Certification exists in several different levels, of them the threshold to enter is ten thousand gold spirit coins."

"In other words, you must prove you have assets to an amount of ten thousand gold spirit coins and can participate in bidding. This is to ensure people cannot enter to bid maliciously.

Please forgive me."

"Oh, I happen to have something similar."

Huang Yong said while taking out the soul coin card the soul arena supervisor had given him.

Looking at the black card, the woman was surprised. You must know that the lower limit for a black card was 100 thousand gold soul coins.

The young lady had realized that this went beyond her, and hastily held out an inviting hand,

"Please follow me."

While speaking, she started walking into the auction house with small steps.

Huang Yong followed behind.

"Does the guest wish to go directly to the bidding area?"

The woman asked.

"Is there any place you guys showcase items that are not meant to be auctioned on the stage?"

"We happen to have such services, I will take the guest there."

Inside the auction house wasn't any feeling of glorious splendor. The floor was milky white marble, and on all the walls were all kinds of reliefs. 

The relief sculptures didn't have a lot of color, appearing simple and forthright, extremely elegant. Besides the reliefs were still some display windows on the walls.

Inside were arranged goods like porcelain or armour and such. If he didn't know what this place was, Huang Yong might have mistaken it for a museum.

The young woman who led him all the way acted very professionally, pausing every ten steps or so to make an inviting gesture, accurately showing the direction.

She took Huang Yong straight to the side of the hall, where a signboard with the words trade hung over a room.

Inside the room was a row of tables, different items were placed on the tables with a small board having all the information about the item.

"Here are all the items the auction house intends to sell but the items are not precious enough to be put on stage."

Huang Yong looked around and didn't find anything that precious even after using his system identification function.

'It is not easy to get leaks.'

Huang Yong turned to the woman and said:

"Do you people sell information."

"Yes, guest we do have information providing service, please follow me."

She brought Huang Yong through a sliding door behind the trade area.

Perhaps the owner of this auction house was very fond of circles, but even the interior doors of the auction house were semi-circular, giving a very thorough feeling.

Huang Yong couldn't help sighing in admiration from just a brief observation, not only was the scale of the auction house large, but moreover everything was clear and orderly, the division of work explicit.

Inside the room, there was a single table and a person in black clothes was sitting there. 

His/her face was covered with a vile, it was hard to differentiate if it was a man or a woman.

The woman came forward and said to the person

"Sir, this guest wants to buy some information."

After saying so, she moved to the back of the room so as not to disturb the conversation between Huang Yong and that person.

"Guest please take a seat."

The man in black clothes invited, after hearing his voice it was confirmed that this was a man.

Huang Yong sat on the seat in front of the table.

"What information are you searching for guest?"

"KILLING CAPITAL."

After about an hour or so Huang Yong came out of the information room along with the woman.

Huang Yong was a bit disappointed as all the information he got from the information seller about The Killing Capital was already known to him.

The only benefit he got was a book about killing capital, don't know who the author was but it cost him about 1000 gold soul coins.

Huang Yong said:

"Is the auction currently on, if not I better take my leave."

The receiving young woman to the side hastily said:

"Of course. Our auctions run constantly for twenty-four hours of the day. All auctions are conducted at the heart of the hall. Please follow me."

At the same time, the receiving young lady gave him a simple introduction to the rules here.

As the biggest auction house in Heaven Dou Empire, it was possible to bid for any items here.

The first rule of the auction house was to never ask about the seller. Moreover, he couldn't reveal the circumstances of bidding in the auction house outside.

Twenty-four hours of constant bidding, without rest.

Every night was a time when top-quality items were auctioned. 

Within those two hours, only buyers with cash deposits of over one million gold spirit coins could participate.

At any other time, any bidder could join.

"Take me to the auction, please."

Led by the young woman, Huang Yong finally got what he wanted, entering the heart of the Heaven Dou Auction.

The core of the auction was on the second floor.

From the main hall, eight staircases led inside. 

Before entering the auction, the young woman gave him a mask, telling him that everyone had to wear them to hide their true identity.

The young woman brought him directly to the entrance to the centre of the auction before turning around and leaving. 

There were other attendants within the auction heart.

The heart of the auction gave people a feeling more like a large auditorium, at a size similar to the central main Great Spirit Arena, at the centre was a circular platform, surrounded by rings of seats.

They were altogether arranged into five sections.

The three rows closest to the platform were red, and moving successively out from there the next were black, purple, yellow and white. It was set up according to the different levels of the bidders.

The receiving young woman had previously told him that the innermost red seats were accessed via a special passage, with special security personnel for protection. 

That was the area for so-called million-level VIPs, moreover one still had to be a person of considerable status to obtain red VIP qualifications.

The black seats outside were the common million-level VIP area, anyone could enter and become a black guest as long as they had money.

Further out, purple was the five hundred thousand purple level guests, yellow was the hundred thousand level common guests, and the white area furthest out was also the largest.

Anyone with wealth above ten thousand can sit there.

Huang Yong was taken to the purple-level guest section.

Looking around right now there weren't a lot of bidders at the auction, and only a sparse fifth or so of the seats were in use.

On the stage, a spirit tool similar to a ring was being auctioned, and the price had already reached forty thousand gold spirit coins.

Next to each seat were special buttons to call out bids, above them was separately written one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand and one hundred thousand, representing how much each bid would raise.

What attracted Huang Yong's attention was a middle-aged man sitting in the black area.

Although his face can't be seen due to the mask his hair and dress were visible.

With peculiar dark green hairs and a grey robe.

While Huang Yong was looking at the man, that man felt his gaze and turned around.

Looking at the dark green eyes of that man, Huang Yong had already got an idea who this person was.

Seeing that man's questioning eyes, Huang Yong greeted to show respect as a junior.

The man nodded, turned back and started paying attention to the auction.

'That was awkward.'

Huang Yong breathed a sign of relief, if he remembers it correctly, the middle-aged man on the front seat must be the future

"Jade Phosphor Douluo Dugu Bo"

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