The fortune telling was so accurate that I accidentally accumulated a huge amount of merit!

Chapter 1273 Ancient Version of the Disclaimer
The man on the stage, looking at the excited crowd below, felt completely at ease, without the slightest worry about messing things up.

He only raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet when the noise grew so loud it was almost turning the entire auction hall upside down.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I know you are very excited, but please let me finish introducing the details of this item, okay?"

The man's voice was strong and clear, managing to bring the noisy situation under control.

Long Ling leaned back lazily in the chair, casually fiddling with the magical artifact she had taken out earlier.

He spoke calmly, "The people of Divine Sword Manor are quite interesting."

First, they deliberately exaggerated the condition of the item, and then placed it in a later part of the auction order. Wasn't that just deliberately trying to stir up most people's emotions?

Even if the people sitting downstairs are generous spenders, no one wants to be taken advantage of. The richer a person is, the more they care about being blatantly taken advantage of.

Long Ling turned to look at Yun Ran: "Tell me, what exactly is this thing that's worth the Shenjian Manor making such a fuss about?"

In Long Ling's view, the person on stage, who was clearly in control of the situation, deliberately allowed the emotions of the crowd to be stirred up, and even deliberately gave them time to ferment and brew.

In other words, those people in the audience still maintained their dignity, and since this was the Divine Sword Manor, they had some status and could keep the crowd in check.

If the location had been different, and the people had been different, a riot would definitely have broken out given the situation.

Seeing that Long Ling was clearly gloating, Yun Ran suddenly said, "It should be a fragment of the Heavenly Book, or a clue to a fragment of the Heavenly Book."

As for why the person on stage emphasized that the item was judged to be 80% fake by the appraisal elder of Shenjian Villa, it was naturally to shift the blame.

Who knows if the person who unlocks the incomplete scroll of the Heavenly Book will be lucky or not.

What if you get something you don't want after activating it, and then you have to argue with the Divine Sword Manor?

To eliminate this possibility, Shenjian Manor took a decisive step.

In Yunran's view, this was more like an ancient version of a disclaimer.

Long Ling didn't care too much at first. To him, even the most precious treasures were just so-so.

But he never expected that the thing covered by the cloth and completely opaque was actually the fragment of the Heavenly Book that Yun Ran had been searching for for so long.

Immediately, it felt like something pricked her buttocks, and she started to wriggle: "Really?!"

Heaven knows, he wanted to find the whereabouts of the Heavenly Book even more than Yunran did. Whether it was this Dream Mirror or that spatial rift before, he really didn't want to stay there any longer.

Long Ling's eyes lit up instantly, filled with a predatory intent.

It looked like he was about to rush over and snatch the item away at any moment.

In any case, none of the people downstairs were a match for him; he could kill them all with a single swipe of his claw.

Then, he could take Yunran and go home after work.

Long Ling's thoughts were almost overflowing, and the little paper doll immediately shrank back, afraid that it would be dragged down with Long Ling when she was criticized.

Sure enough, the next second, the little paper doll heard its master's cold, yet threatening voice: "If you want to die, you might as well let me just strangle you!"

The karmic entanglement between Long Ling and Yun Ran is now quite deep. If Long Ling dares to cause trouble, Yun Ran will be the first to be implicated. The little paper figure, in a corner where no one could see, gave Long Ling a sympathetic look.

Yun Ran's words made Long Ling pause, as if he had just remembered that if he killed indiscriminately, Yun Ran would also bear some of the consequences.

Knowing that she had touched a nerve with Yunran, Longling dared not cause any more trouble.

She quickly sat up straight: "Hey, look at you, I was just thinking, why are you in such a hurry?"

Long Ling calmed down, and the man on the auction stage downstairs finally began to introduce the items for auction.

"Ladies and gentlemen, although this item carries some risk, the potential returns are absolutely worth it. It may even give a mid-sized family the opportunity to become a top-tier family."

However, we at Shenjian Manor understand your concerns, so we have made a small change to the auction method for this item.

Only those individuals or groups possessing special tokens are eligible to participate in this round of auctions.

As soon as the man finished speaking, those who were waiting for Shenjian Villa to give an explanation for why they were putting something that was almost a fake up for auction were dumbfounded.

A young man in the middle of the room looked confused for a moment before nudging the person next to him with his elbow and asking a question.

"What does that mean? I don't quite understand."

"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? If I knew, how could I possibly be seated next to you?"

These words were so blunt that the young man who asked him was completely unable to refute them.

But just letting it go like this is definitely not an option.

The man craned his neck forward again and asked the person in front of him, "Uncle, what does he mean by that?"

The person in the front seat remained silent, whether out of shock or something else, it was unclear.

When the young man realized he hadn't gotten the answer he wanted, he started asking other people.

Long Ling looked down at the crowd of people, who seemed to be asking about the changes to the auction method for this item.

He immediately scoffed, "If anyone ever says the ancients were stupid again, I'll twist their head off first. That's a really clever move. It's just verifying qualifications before filming, isn't it?"

No wonder the Divine Sword Manor holds such an extraordinary position; in order to minimize their own troubles, they have deliberately eliminated all risks.

This round was a blatant way of kicking out those "poor devils," precisely because they were afraid that some of these poor devils would be unethical and regret their decision after bidding, coming back to cause trouble.

Only those who have had their funds verified have the capacity to bear the losses even if they lose the bet, thus the risk is naturally much smaller.

"It seems that the owner of this Divine Sword Manor is very knowledgeable about human nature, knowing that one should not touch the wallets of poor people."

From beginning to end, Long Ling was never worried that they would be ineligible for this round of auction.

Therefore, they put extra effort into mocking others.

Chi Yao suddenly spoke up: "According to the original trajectory, the person who obtained this fragment of the Heavenly Book was a member of the Murong family. However, I do not know what they obtained from it."

It wasn't that he couldn't find out; rather, in many previous cycles of repetition, he had never attended this auction, so naturally he didn't know the details.