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After the applause subsided, Huo Yanran spoke again: "The purpose of this event is to provide participants with a platform to showcase and trade various valuable items, and also to ensure long-term cooperation between our New Moon Hotel and all our friends in the future."

Here, we will announce a few rules.

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In fact, Huo Yanran was announcing the auction time, the bidding rules, and the payment methods.

Soon after the rules were read out, the first item was brought up for auction.

Although there was already a list of items and the participants had all seen it, everyone present was still quite surprised when they actually saw the 'Song Dynasty Ru Kiln Ice Crackle Sky Blue Glazed Porcelain Bowl' placed on the stage.

Most of the people present were knowledgeable, and they naturally knew the value of this item.

However, the fact that such a thing was the opening item naturally attracted everyone's attention.

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Seeing the reactions of those present, Huo Yanran smiled and spoke up.

"Everyone should know about this. It's a Song Dynasty Ru kiln ice-crack pattern sky-blue glazed porcelain bowl. As we all know, Song Dynasty porcelain is inherently valuable. Even ordinary folk kiln porcelain can easily cost tens of thousands of yuan."

Our appraisers have confirmed that this porcelain piece was one of the state gifts presented by the Song Dynasty to the Liao Dynasty royal family after the Song-Liao annual tribute agreement.

This bowl is 7.6 cm high, 12.3 cm in diameter at the mouth, and 4.6 cm in diameter at the foot. It has a beautiful shape, unique form, strong crackle glaze, and a fresh and refined appearance, making it a truly rare and exquisite piece.

The starting price is 20 yuan, and each bid must be at least 1000 yuan higher. Bidding begins now.

As Huo Yanran finished her introduction and announced the start of the auction, the price instantly jumped to 30, effectively kicking out the participants on the first floor.

Currently, the bidding is mainly conducted by participants on the second floor.

The competition was fierce; in less than a minute, the price of the item reached 90.

However, by this point, it's clear that there are hardly any competitors left.

There are only two or three companies still competing now.

Finally, after approximately five minutes of bidding, the price was set at 128 million yuan.

Bai Jing was quite satisfied with the price, and Da Jin Ya also showed a satisfied smile at this moment.

He can get 5% of the 128 million, which is 6.4 yuan.

In addition to the 64,000 yuan given to Big Gold Tooth, the Crescent Hotel also had to take a 5% cut from the auction.

In other words, only 115.2 million yuan actually ended up in the hands of Bai Jing, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang.

Of course, this is not a small number. After the first item was auctioned off, the subsequent items seemed rather ordinary.

Most of the starting bids were only ten or twenty thousand, and the final price rarely exceeded one hundred thousand.

Of course, this is by no means a small number.

The price tag of over 100,000 yuan shows that this is not a small amount.

Soon, after twenty or thirty items had been auctioned off, it was already mid-afternoon.

Finally, when an item was brought to the stage, Bai Jing's eyes lit up.

The next moment, Huo Yanran began to introduce the item.

"The ancient bronze mirror with animal patterns from the Western Zhou Dynasty has a simple and unique shape. Compared with ordinary Western Zhou bronze mirrors, it has animal pattern decorations. Moreover, there seem to be two movable bronze objects on the back of the mirror, with two empty grooves. It is likely that this object is not complete."

However, after trying, we were unable to remove the two movable bronze objects.

If anyone is interested, they could take a picture of it and study it.

The starting bid for this item is 30,000 yuan, with each bid increment no less than 1000 yuan. The auction is now open.

After the auction started, people placed bids one after another, but the increases were not large, only a thousand or two thousand each time.

Bai Jing joined the bidding midway through, but had no strong competitors.

In the end, Bai Jing acquired the Western Zhou bronze mirror for 37,000 yuan.

Furthermore, since Bai Jing had other items up for auction that were selling for far more than the bronze mirror, the waiter quickly brought the bronze mirror directly to Bai Jing.

Bai Jing took the bronze mirror and began to look at it with great eagerness.

The more he looked at Bai Jing, the brighter his eyes became.

At the same time, Bai Jing's suspicions became increasingly clear.

If Bai Jing weren't still inside, he would have burst out laughing.

Chapter 139 Zhou Tian Gua Mirror

Big Gold Tooth was somewhat puzzled by Bai Jing's expression, but he knew that Bai Jing probably recognized the object. So he immediately asked, "Second Master Bai, do you recognize this object?"

Bai Jing nodded with a look of delight and said, "That's right, I recognize this thing. It's a divination mirror with two divination symbols on it."

As he spoke, Bai Jing placed his hands on the two protruding spots on the back of the divination mirror, rotating them with a smooth and fluid motion.

The next moment, Bai Jing took two divination symbols from the divination mirror.

Bai Jing examined them carefully and was now certain that although these two divination symbols were not part of the same set as the Eyeless Dragon Talisman, they were treasures of the same level.

Because these two divination symbols are the Eyeless Phoenix Symbol and the Eyeless Rat Symbol, respectively.

As the saying goes, the phoenix does not see fire, and the rat does not see itself.

This is the other set of divination mirrors corresponding to the Guixu Divination Mirror.

Bai Jing didn't know what this divination mirror was called, so he might as well just call it that.

With this, Bai Jing not only obtained a divination mirror but also two bronze talismans, making his trip a complete success.

At that moment, Huo Yanran, who was conducting the auction on the stage, glanced at the second floor and noticed that Bai Jing had taken two small bronze objects off the mirror he had just won at auction.

Huo Yanran was momentarily stunned.

He never expected that Bai Jing could figure out something that so many people in their Nine Gates hadn't been able to figure out in such a short time.

Suddenly, Huo Yanran became somewhat curious about Bai Jing.

Bai Jing didn't notice any of this, but instead looked at the Eyeless Phoenix Talisman and the Eyeless Rat Talisman in his hand.

Holding the two divination symbols in his hand, Bai Jing carefully examined them and confirmed that they were indeed genuine copper symbols.

Then, Bai Jing looked at the four grooves on the divination mirror.

I couldn't help but think about going back and trying out the Dragon Talisman to see if it could be used on this device.

If it could be used, that would be incredible.

Speaking of divination mirrors, we must mention candle-illuminating mirror divination.

Candlelight divination and tortoise shell divination are two methods of divination used by the ancients.

In ancient times, Fuxi created the Pre-Heaven Bagua. When the Pre-Heaven Bagua was passed down to the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou invented the Post-Heaven Bagua based on the numbers of the Nine Palaces of the Hetu and Luoshu.

King Wen of Zhou integrated and deduced the trigrams of the pre-heaven and post-heaven, and finally developed the sixteen hexagrams of the whole sky, which were said to be able to "exhaustively investigate the changes of heaven and earth and generate hidden heavenly secrets".

Ancient people used specific tools to obtain certain images (hexagrams) for divination and prediction, and then interpreted them in a specific way to predict events such as spatial location, the rise and fall of life, and fortune and misfortune.

Divination by candlelight and tortoise shell divination, and divination by candlelight and mirror divination, are two methods of divination.

The first method is candle-based tortoise shell divination, which involves burning the tortoise shell to create cracks, then viewing the image through candlelight to interpret the resulting image for divination.

Candlelight divination primarily involves interpreting the image formed by candlelight passing through the copper holes of the hexagram symbols and projecting it onto the back of a mirror.

The divination mirror is a tool used for imaging.

The back of the divination mirror has a series of bronze boxes, each containing a corresponding hexagram. By rotating the mechanism on the back of the mirror in a specific way, a complete hexagram can be obtained.

The hexagram.

The eight bronze trigrams from the Later Heaven all share a common feature: none of them—whether they are dragons, fish, humans, ghosts, gods, rats, pheasants, or phoenixes—have eyes.

This blind spot is the "eye" of the divination, which allows candlelight to pass through and form an image on the back of the mirror.

Then, by interpreting the resulting image through inherited secret methods, one can obtain what one wants to know.

The complete set of sixteen hexagrams encompasses all things in the universe, and through the complete hexagram symbols, one can deduce everything in the world.

In other words, as long as one obtains and knows how to use all sixteen hexagrams of the day, one can achieve omniscience.

This should give you an idea of ​​how extraordinary this thing is.

However, what Bai Jing knew was that four of the eight talismans were created by the Hentian Division of the South Sea. As for who or what force created the remaining four talismans, that remained unknown.

Bai Jing didn't think much about it. If one day he could collect all eight talismans and two divination mirrors, he would definitely be able to see the truth.

Afterwards, Bai Jing put away the divination mirror and the bronze talisman.

The auction continued, but Bai Jing lost interest in the remaining items.

Soon, the auction ended, and Bai Jing went to the registration desk to register before preparing to leave.

But at that moment, a voice called out to Bai Jing.

"Sir, please stay."

Bai Jing was familiar with this voice; it was Huo Yanran, who had been presiding over the auction.

Bai Jing turned around and, sure enough, it was Huo Yanran.