Chapter 39: Selling the Map

Qian Duoduo opened the pill bottle, poured out a golden, round pill into his hand, sniffed it gently with his nose, and the fresh pill fragrance made him show a look of intoxication.

He thought that as expected, people who wrapped themselves tightly must have good goods on them.

Qian Duoduo showed an excited look. He hadn't been far from breaking through the Spirit Refining Stage and needed to collect resources for breaking through as soon as possible. This Spirit Gathering Pill came just in time.

He poured out all the pills and counted them carefully; there were ten. He couldn't help but move slightly.

The Spirit Gathering Pill was not an ordinary pill. If it were other pills, even a hundred wouldn't make him surprised.

But the Spirit Gathering Pill was different. The Spirit Gathering Pill was the one with the greatest refining difficulty among similar pills. The refining difficulty was exaggerated, and it couldn't be mass-produced at all.

Usually, it would be good to see one, but now seeing ten at once, this was not the work of an ordinary alchemist.

Qian Duoduo said with a somewhat solemn expression: "I don't know how many Spirit Gathering Pills you intend to auction?"

Long Xuan didn't intend to keep a low profile and said directly: "Not many, just four bottles, ten pills per bottle!"

Qian Duoduo was startled and showed a look of shock. Forty Spirit Gathering Pills and you call it not many? Then how much is many?

This exposed a piece of information with a very shocking value. An alchemist who could take out so many Spirit Gathering Pills must have a very high success rate in pill formation.

To have such a high success rate in refining Spirit Gathering Pills, his grade must absolutely not be low.

Conservatively estimated, he was a Grade Three Alchemist, and even a Grade Four Alchemist was possible.

Qian Duoduo's pupils shrank, his heart shocked to the extreme. That was a Grade Four Alchemist. The entire Far West Region didn't even have a Grade Three Alchemist. From this, one could imagine how noble the identity of a Grade Four Alchemist was; it was absolutely not something he could afford to offend.

At this moment, he had already imagined the fact that there must be a high-grade alchemy master behind this person, making him have to treat him carefully.

"So it's a high disciple of a Grade Four Alchemist. Disrespect, disrespect. Rest assured, the Spirit Gathering Pills from his old man's hands will surely be sold by the junior at the highest price."

Qian Duoduo's tone carried a bit of respect, but he still uttered a sentence to test him.

He couldn't figure out what kind of high person the master behind this person was, and he didn't know whether he was a Grade Three Alchemist or a Grade Four Alchemist, so he uttered a sentence to bluff him.

If he said it wrong, he would probably refute it, and even show a change in expression.

However, when Qian Duoduo looked at his face, he found that his face was wrapped tightly, so what kind of expression could there be?

Long Xuan certainly wouldn't refute it. He wished Qian Duoduo would misunderstand something; the more he imagined, the better.

"The price should be what it is; don't force it. His old man doesn't even look at this little money."

Long Xuan's sentence was of a very high level. The price of the Spirit Gathering Pill was so shocking. If this was considered little money, it was enough to show that his master was not simple.

"Actually, my intention today is not to sell Spirit Gathering Pills. I have a map marking an ownerless fossil mine vein in my hand. I am here today to auction this map. My map should be enough to be the finale in this auction, right?"

Long Xuan's tone was arrogant, pretending to unintentionally raise his voice so that everyone in the hall could hear.

He wished that the more people who heard it, the better. The more people who publicized it, the more he would sell.

Moreover, the more people who knew, the less the auction house could detain him in full view of the public.

Although he believed in the binding force of the Honesty Gu, he was afraid of "ten thousand, just in case." Dealing with everything cautiously only had benefits and no harm.

Sure enough, as soon as this sentence came out, everyone in the hall looked toward this side, and the entire hall instantly quieted down, so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.

Everyone who heard this news couldn't remain calm, one after another pricking up their ears and focusing their attention on this side.

That was a fossil mine vein. If it were a super-large mine vein, it could create wealth of 100 billion Spirit Stones, and it wouldn't be dug up for over a hundred years.

And you could take it down at a cost far lower than 100 billion Spirit Stones. Regardless of how many Spirit Stones you spent, it was a steady profit from a long-term perspective, and it was a huge profit.

Which family, if they mastered a fossil mine vein, wouldn't the wealth created be enough for this family to prosper for a thousand years, and even move from a weak clan to the ranks of strong clans?

In the face of such temptation, who wouldn't be jealous, who wouldn't be excited?

Everyone in the hall revealed fiery gazes upon hearing this news, their expressions incomparably greedy, and then they all used various methods to notify the clans behind them as quickly as possible.

After a short silence in the hall, it soon became chaotic again, and from time to time, people ran out of the door and ran wildly toward the distance.

Qian Duoduo's breathing also became rapid at this time, his round face showing a flushed color. Seeing forty Spirit Gathering Pills was already enough to shock him, but he didn't expect that more shocking things were yet to come.

Actually, someone would draw the location of a fossil mine vein into a map and bring it to the auction house for auction. He was seeing someone selling mine vein coordinates at an auction house for the first time. Simply crazy, he was stunned by such a big business.

This was far more than just being able to be the finale. Even if the value of all auction items in the entire auction was added together, it couldn't compare to a fraction of the fossil mine vein.

The value of an ownerless fossil mine vein was so shocking. He was the one selling this, so he knew best how huge the profit created by this thing was. It could be said to be something that must be taken down at all costs.

At this time, if he weren't surnamed Qian and constrained by the Honesty Gu, he would have grabbed the map regardless of anything.

At this time, the emotionally excited voice of the eldest miss Qian Jinjin also rang in his mind.

Qian Jinjin transmitted via soul: "Don't have any crooked thoughts. Arrange the auction as soon as possible. The faster, the better. Absolutely don't give those major clans time to sell their ancestral property!"

Qian Duoduo immediately understood her meaning in seconds.

It was against the rules for the auction house to intercept auction items and put them into their own pockets, and it was against the Honesty Gu.

But to openly bid for it at the auction was absolutely no problem.

After all, no one stipulated that the auction house could only sell but not participate in bidding.

The most important thing now was to be fast. Absolutely don't give those major clans time to prepare funds. In the face of the temptation of the fossil mine vein, those families would really sell their ancestral property.

By then, the auction price would roll to how high, so it must be "soldiers value speed." Before those major clans reacted, take down the map as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Qian Duoduo didn't dare to delay any longer and immediately said: "What a coincidence, there happens to be an auction to be held in a moment, and it just happens to lack a finale auction item. This auction item can completely be the finale, which can be considered to have solved my urgent need."

"However, this is the first time an auction house has auctioned an ownerless mine vein location, and there is no precedent to borrow from, so it's really hard to distinguish true from false."

"Directly going to the mine vein location to see can easily distinguish true from false, but information is valuable because of its uniqueness. Once we know the mine vein location, we can completely occupy the mine vein directly. By then, this map will also be worthless. I think this is also your concern; you absolutely cannot hand over the complete map to us."

"How about this, you don't have to hand over the map to us. When the time comes, whoever is the buyer, you directly hand over the map to the buyer."

"But in order to gain the trust of the buyer, we will use the ability of the Honesty Gu in public on the spot. What do you think?" Qian Duoduo said with a smile.

If it were in other auction houses, this kind of transaction couldn't be carried out at all. The seller wouldn't tell you the mine vein location, and if you didn't know the mine vein location, you couldn't distinguish true from false. This was a dead loop, unsolvable.

But it was easy to solve here at the Qian Clan Merchant Association. The Honesty Gu of the Qian Clan Merchant Association had the ability to detect lies.

You don't need to go all the way to the mine vein location to judge true from false at all, and they didn't have that time. Soldiers value speed. If it were really delayed for ten days or half a month because of this matter, it would be big trouble.

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