Douluo: The blue phoenix cries loudly, and the wind whistles through the air

Chapter 156 Picking up the leaks
“Things are valued for their scarcity. If you release all the medicinal herbs into the market at once, the price will inevitably drop,” Wu Qi said.

Of course, as a hard currency, no matter how much is sold at once, there will always be someone willing to buy it all.

With that, Wu Qi stood up and went backstage to trade directly with the private seller. The auction house's handling fee would be paid by the seller.

Upon receiving the goods, Wu Qi examined them closely. They were soft armors hand-woven from various high-strength metals.

The exterior is deliberately coated with a dark paint so that it is not easily noticed by outsiders when worn under clothing.

However, armor has a common weakness: it can only defend against attacks, not deflect impacts.

This Nine Treasures Ruyi Soft Armor has built-in padding, but it can only absorb a limited amount of impact.

Of course, even so, Wu Qi was very satisfied with this, after all, he had mastered the method of deflecting force, and the impact would not be fatal to him as long as the soft armor could withstand it.

……

The top-tier auction features a large number of items, which are presented one by one, making it very time-consuming.

At midnight, the auction reached its crucial point.

Every item that follows is a high-value item and should not be missed.

Without that spiritual bone, Dugu Bo's enthusiasm for the auction diminished considerably.

Seeing that there were no items they wanted to bid on, Wu Qi and the others left the auction house early.

The final items to be auctioned include two soul bones with a lifespan of 50,000 years. It will definitely be a bloody battle, and the few treasures they have are simply not enough to compete.

Back at the academy, Ning Rongrong took out the deep blue gem from her bosom.

"Rongrong, did you find anything?" Wu Qi asked curiously.

This gemstone is of good quality and has been hand-cut, so it still shines brightly under the moonlight.

The price wasn't too expensive either; Ning Rongrong spent 10,000 gold soul coins to buy it.

Ning Rongrong frowned. "I always felt that this thing was a bit strange. It looked very valuable, but upon closer inspection, it was just a gemstone."

"Oh?" Wu Qi took the gemstone and examined it carefully in the moonlight.

He could only notice that there was a through-cut mark on the girdle of the gemstone, but the crack was no longer noticeable after the craftsman polished it.

"There's another possibility: there's treasure hidden inside, but it's not visible to the naked eye due to the polarized light," Chen Ping analyzed.

Wu Qi knew that Ning Rongrong had a hobby of collecting gemstones, so he asked for her opinion, "If your feeling is right, there are indeed treasures in here, but we have to smash them to see them!"

Ning Rongrong waved her hand, "I have seven or eight more gems like this, bigger than this one. Go ahead and smash them."

Wu Qi and the others gave a dry laugh.

The world of the rich is indeed different from that of ordinary people.

Feng Xiaotian and the others haven't returned yet. It would be good to have Huo Wu use flames to burn them or Huo Wushuang use his claws to cut them.

Right now, the only option is for Chen Ping to use his tortoise shell to smash the gemstone.

Qian Gu Chang Kong used iron plates to enclose the area to prevent the treasures inside from being thrown out.

Chen Ping activated his martial spirit, and a heavy tortoise shell appeared in his hand. "I really smashed it."

Having received Ning Rongrong's affirmation once again, he swung the tortoise shell and slammed it heavily onto the gemstone.

A crisp, loud crash rang out, and the gemstone was smashed into countless fragments of varying sizes.

The group bent down and searched patiently on the ground.

Ning Rongrong, relying on her martial soul's unique appraisal ability, immediately spotted one of the transparent fragments. Wu Qi and the others chuckled dryly and quickly surrounded them.

At this moment, they finally understood why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was so wealthy.

Such a special ability as a martial soul is truly a gift from heaven. As long as one spends years roaming the continent, there's no worry about not making a fortune.

It is estimated that the early disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School used this method to enable the school to accumulate wealth rapidly and achieve its current scale.

"What is this? Gemstones embedded in gemstones, what kind of operation is this?" Qian Gu Chang Kong was puzzled.

Blue, purple, and gold gemstones are the most valuable. But what if a gemstone is blue on the outside and a transparent gemstone is embedded inside? Isn't that just a deception?
Of course, Ning Rongrong's intuition was correct, forcing everyone to reconsider the gemstone.

After a short while, Wu Qi asked, "Chen Ping, do you still need that soul tool you had before?"

With a better soul tool now available, the old one is definitely useless. However, he plans to sell it.

Wu Qi said, "Sell it to me for a thousand gold soul coins?"

Chen Ping didn't know why the other party brought this up, but he had no reason to accept money. "Captain, you gave me such an expensive soul tool. If you need this, you can take it."

Wu Qi didn't hesitate.

He placed the other person's soul tool on the hard stone floor and took out a large hammer from it.

Amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, he swung the sledgehammer and slammed it heavily onto the soul tool.

A slight fluctuation of soul power emanated from it, and the soul tool shattered, revealing its core.

Soul tools with a cubic space are all made of this kind of spatial jade. Tang San's Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon is made up of many pieces of jade.

For spaces larger than one cubic meter, other methods were used, but these methods have now been completely lost.

Previously in Soto City, Wu Qi noticed the exposed core of a soul tool in Flanders' small shop. Now that he has seen the real thing, he is certain that the white transparent stone hidden in the sapphire is the core of a cubic space soul tool.

Seeing this, the crowd, not being blind, immediately understood.

Chen Ping exclaimed, "Holy crap, who would go to such lengths to hide the core of a soul tool inside a gemstone!"

Ning Rongrong had heard similar stories before. "Some families will move their treasures and valuables in advance before they are wiped out. This may just be one of their methods."

It's possible that the surviving members of the family, unaware of the secret, sold it as an ordinary gem. Or perhaps the family was wiped out, and no one knew of the treasure hidden within.

"But how do we retrieve the treasure inside?"

"Just take it like this." After saying that, Wu Qi's soul power passed through his fingertips and entered into his body, and his spiritual power also permeated in.

Because of its age, the spiritual imprint within it was extremely fragile and was easily "shattered" by him.

Immediately afterward, he had a thought, and all the items inside were dumped out.

Wow~
Countless blue, purple, and gold gemstones, along with precious gold and silver items, were scattered all over the ground.

Feng Xiaotian and the others happened to arrive at the dormitory lobby and, upon seeing this scene, couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow, you guys struck it rich?"

A single golden gem the size of a pigeon's egg is worth at least tens of thousands of gold soul coins, and there are dozens of them here, not to mention countless blue and purple gems.

Following Ning Rongrong's guess, Chen Ping excitedly said, "We've seized the entire wealth of an entire family!"

The items here are worth at least one or two million gold soul coins.

After listening to everyone's explanation, Feng Xiaotian had to admit that Ning Rongrong was lucky.

The initial investment of 10,000 gold soul coins yielded a profit of over 100 times.

(End of this chapter)