This chapter opens in the basement of a bar called the "golden hall." It's the last day of the qualifying round of the Xishui alliance's soul tool competition. There are 30 minutes until the final engineer finishes his or her soul tool. This is the last chance for anyone to enter the competition, and it's a shame that they haven't been to the auction house before. The auction house is the largest auction house in the whole of China, and the only people who can enter are those who have already entered the competition. The two nobles decide to stay outside and wait for the other participants to enter, but they don't know how much money they can make by betting on the number of people who will pass. The nobles wonder how much of a bet the two of them can make today. The bet can go up by 10 times, but the odds can be varied. The only way to increase the bet is to go for multiple wagers, which means you can go for as many people as you want. There's no such thing as a qualifying round, the nobles say. They'll be providing the raw materials for the soul tools, and they'll have an hourglass to see how many people are using them. The hourglass will rustle if you're late, and if you can't rustle, then you'll get disqualified. The standard soul workbench is worth 5,000 gold soul coins, so the noblemen will have to find it on the spot and use it to make the soul tool