710: Chapter 708: It Seems I’ve Won!
[Seventh Update] 710: Chapter 708: It Seems I’ve Won!
[Seventh Update] The two made their way to the Lord’s Mansion.
Inside the mansion, a Treasure Appraisal Tower had been specially constructed.
Entry to the first floor was permitted for those worth over ten thousand in assets, the second for those worth over a hundred thousand, the third for over a million… and so on, up to nine levels in total, aning that entry to the ninth level required one to possess assets worth over a trillion.
Up to now, only three people had ever entered the Chai Family’s ninth level in Giant Peak City!
With a look of pride, Chai Hu pointed at the Treasure Appraisal Tower and said, “Since your wager is in the hundred billions, you naturally qualify for entry to the eighth level of the Treasure Appraisal Tower.
However, let make it clear beforehand that once you enter the tower, there is no turning back!”
The Chai Family had always conducted business fairly, without deceiving the young or old.
That was why they continued to collaborate with Titan Comrce Chamber even after the old chairman’s death and didn’t suppress them in the slightest.
Xiao Yi was well aware of this.
He could trust the character of the Chai Family mbers, and with a smile, Xiao Yi said, “After you.”
The two ascended to the eighth floor of the Treasure Appraisal Tower.
At that mont, three elders were sitting cross-legged inside the eighth floor.
“I pay my respects to the three Masters!”
Chai Hu greeted the three with great respect, then turned to Xiao Yi and said, “Xiao, these are the Chai Family’s eight-star Treasure Appraisers.
The total value of the treasures appraised by each of them is over a hundred billion.
Especially that middle Master Xun…” He pointed to the bald elder and continued, “He has appraised treasures worth over nine hundred billion Silver, and it won’t be long before he ascends to a nine-star Treasure Appraiser!”
Xiao Yi couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.
To appraise treasures worth over a hundred billion indeed wasn’t easy.
After all.
There were strict rules in the trade of Treasure Appraisers, and a failure in appraisal ant a deduction of twice the appraised amount in assets.
For example, an eight-star Treasure Appraiser who successfully appraised treasures totaling a hundred billion.
But, if they made a mistake while appraising a fifty billion treasure.
Their accumulated assets from appraisals would be wiped clean, demoting them to a no-star Treasure Appraiser.
The fact that these three could maintain their seats as eight-star Treasure Appraisers with over a hundred billion in value showed they indeed had so unique capabilities.
Master Xun chuckled and said, “Young Chai Hu, who have you brought us this ti?”
“Master Xun, Master Liu, Master Cheng, here’s the deal…”
Chai Hu promptly explained the situation to the three.
The three shook their heads in amusent.
Master Cheng, looking at Xiao Yi with a mocking glance, said tauntingly, “Young man, did you co here to deliberately donate money to my Chai Family?
If this stone has been appraised as a worthless rock by my Chai Family, then it certainly can’t have any value!”
Xiao Yi smiled and replied, “Elder Masters, don’t be in such a hurry to make a judgnt.
As the saying goes, ‘Even immortals struggle to asure a re inch of jade.’ Whether or not there are treasures in this stone, your word alone doesn’t settle it!”
“Hmm?”
The three elders were taken aback.
Master Cheng’s eyes also brimd with anger as he snorted coldly, “If what we say doesn’t count, are you suggesting that what you say does?”
Xiao Yi nodded, considering all eight-star Treasure Appraisers as nothing but trifles, and then said with a smile, “You’re correct, what I say does count.
I say it’s worth a hundred billion, and that ans it will be worth more, not less!”
“Ridiculous!”
“Presumptuous!”
“Ignorant junior…”
All three were fuming with anger.
Master Cheng, known for his fiery temper, slamd the table and said, “Co on then, let us see how this stone in your hand could possibly be worth more than a hundred billion.
If it really is of that value, I’d willingly take you as my master, and from then on, you would be the most honored guest of my Chai Family.
But if not, you won’t be leaving my Chai Family in one piece today…”
Xiao Yi shrugged his shoulders and gestured invitingly, “Please, Elders, proceed.”
Swish!
The stone imdiately fell in front of the three n.
The three people scrutinized and observed it closely, and in the end, they unanimously determined it was nothing more than a piece of scrap stone.
Master Cheng mockingly said in a sing-song voice, “Kid, you should start thinking about how you’re going to get ho after your limbs are broken when you lose the bet and this stone is opened!”
Master Xun shook his head and sighed, “Xiao Chen, right?
Apologize now and admit your mistake, and we will let you go.
This stone is truly just scrap…”
“Enough!”
Xiao Yi sighed, “You are, after all, only mortals with normal eyesight; you indeed cannot discern the true value of this stone.
Since that’s the case, allow to reveal its mystery!”
“Hmm?”
“Could there really be so secret?”
Master Xun and his companions looked at each other in dismay.
Master Cheng frowned and snorted, “He is rely bluffing.
If he could really produce a treasure of incomparable value from this broken stone, I would swallow this stone whole…”
He did not finish speaking.
Xiao Yi suddenly struck the stone with his palm, and with a crisp crack, cracks spread across the surface of the stone like a spiderweb.
Bursts of dazzling golden light started shooting out from the cracks, the light growing more and more brilliant until it ford a ball of golden light.
The outer layer of the stone began to peel off of its own accord.
Finally…
A dazzling golden sphere appeared in everyone’s view.
On the sphere, golden runes like tadpoles andered, now transforming into constellations, now into roaring dragons, and now into a symphony of the animal kingdom…
Majestic and profound, its beauty was unmatched!
This golden light bathed everyone’s bodies, casting them as if they were made of gold.
Hiss!
A series of sharp intakes of breath ca from the mouths of Master Cheng and the others.
Gurgle!
Chai Hu swallowed hard, his eyes fixed on the golden sphere, “What, what, what kind of treasure is this?”
Master Xun’s hands trembled as he stared intently at the golden sphere, his face full of disbelief, “Could this be the legendary Mother of Gold?”
“Mother of Gold?”
Master Cheng and Chai Hu exclaid in surprise.
What is the Mother of Gold?
Legend had it that only one pound of Mother of Gold could be refined from ten thousand pounds of gold, which was a rare material for forging an eighth-grade elental weapon.
Gurgle!
Master Xun cautiously and reverently held the Mother of Gold, his expression filled with excitent, “Yes, this is indeed the Mother of Gold.
The weight is at least a pound and a half, and moreover, it’s of the finest quality…”
Hiss!
Master Liu’s face was filled with shock, “A pound and a half…
As far as I know, half a pound of Mother of Gold was auctioned off in the imperial capital three years ago, and the final price was 230 billion.
Does this an that the piece of Mother of Gold in front of us is worth at least 690 billion Silver?”
“690 billion taels?
No, no, no…”
Master Xun shook his head, his hands carefully cradling the Mother of Gold as though he were handling a beloved woman in alchemy, his face full of tenderness and excitent as he spoke deliberately, “I’ve seen that half-pound of Mother of Gold, and its quality is inferior to this piece, and the weight is also lacking.
If this piece were truly taken to the imperial capital for auction, its value would be at least at the trillion level!”
Trillion?!
Chai Hu and the three masters looked at one another.
Xiao Yi’s lips curved into a slight smile and said, “It seems I have won this wager!”
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