Chapter 68.3
Editor: Jodi
Jadeite of the golden silk variety, like floating flower jadeite, was rare, especially one that was of the high ice variety that was just below glass variety. It’s purity was just too high!
[So beautiful, how can there be such a gorgeous jadeite!]
[Woo woo woo, I really love it.]
[This is my first time seeing such high-quality golden silk variety!]
[I want to keep it.]
[How can God Yun be so powerful!!]
Bai Jing, tuning out the surroundings, continued to rub the rough stone, and when it was solved halfway, the cracks that had been caused by the cross lock appeared.
However just as everyone was feeling that it was a pity, these cracks disappeared not long after, shocking everyone in the crowd.
“This luck!!!”
“I suddenly feel that locks and cracks aren’t so scary anymore.”
“Wake up, you’re not God Yun!”
The final yield from this rough stone was 16 kilograms of high ice variety golden silk jadeite, and after cutting of the part with the cracks, 12.7 kilograms remained, divided into two pieces of about 6 kilograms each.
“God Yun, I just want one piece, 12 million starcoins!”
“13 million starcoins!”
“15 million starcoins!”
Many people were excited. Two pieces of jadeites of the high ice golden silk variety that were close to the glass variety, both of a manageable weight, they could get a piece no matter what, right?
The senior energy master from just a while ago shouted even more desperately. Having missed out on material of the glass variety, he definitely had to get this one of the high ice variety.
Bai Jing glanced at Gu Yuanzhao beside him who nodded at him with a smile.
This was just the first day of the Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium. There were many more rough stones to come, so there was no need to rush, as the best pieces could simply be auctioned at the Gu Conglomerate’s Auction House, with the priority focused on those with high purity for energy fluid extraction.
Bai Jing thought about it. Among the upcoming rough stones, there would definitely be one that could yield jadeite of the glass variety, so auctioning this high ice variety golden silk jadeite directly was also viable, given that the materials in the secret bid area weren’t cheap.
So in the end, the slightly larger of the two pieces fetched a high price of 20 million starcoins, bought by the senior energy master, while the other was bought by a well-known rough stone dealer for 18 million starcoins who was overjoyed with the deal.
Prices at the Sotho Star Planet’s Emporium, for both raw rough stones and jadeite, tended to be higher by 10%-20% than those at large auction houses outside.
After all, it was a place that was filled with billionaires as well as influenced by the intense gambling atmosphere, hence it was inevitable that biddings would be fierce.
However this didn’t mean that rough stone dealers would suffer losses.
For instance, the rough stones dealer who had spent 18 million starcoins on this high ice variety jadeite wouldn’t sell it immediately but would wait a year or more to find the right buyer, something which would potentially double his investment.
What’s more at present, the Imperial Energy Center owned the best mines as well as outlets, with the major families having divided up the next best, leaving few quality materials from the remaining mines, hence it was possible that the value would double up in a few years.
Bai Jing’s sixth rough stone was an authentic old mine type dark ebony skin rough stone. It wasn’t huge, resembled a child’s play ball, was round, and weighed about seven to eight kilograms.
Its surface was covered with a thick layer of wax shell, black and shiny, with clusters of green pine flowers.
And while there was a tiny chance of it producing high quality jadeite or even imperial jadeite, the rest of the 99.9% was that it was just plain stone.
And although people expected much of Gu Yun, the odds of this type of rough stone producing high quality jadeite was exceedingly low.
Most importantly, of the five rough stones that had been solved from before, only one had been a collapse in bet, which also meant that his rate of betting increase had reached 80%!
If it was another rise in bet…… Hiss, they didn’t dare think any further.
The surface of the dark ebony skin rough stone was somewhat thick because of the wax shell covering it, hence Bai Jing used the laser knife to cut around the shell a few times first.
And afraid of damaging the jadeite inside, the cuts weren’t deep, only about one centimeter deep, however since the rough stone was spherical, there was no sign of green on the cut surface.
[This is probably a collapse in bet, right?]
[If it’s a rise in bet again, then it will really be a miracle!]
[It’s already a miracle now—]
[God Yun is the strongest!!]
However just as the crowd were discussing fervently, little fatty Jin Mao’s excited shout came from stone-cutting machine number 3 that was on the side, “Hahaha, hibiscus variety, a great gain—!!”
Father Jin was also smiling, while the Stone Gambler Jia Kai who was standing next to him turned red-faced, wishing he could find a crack to crawl into.
Ever since Father Jin learned that his son had asked ‘Gu Yun’ to help inspect a few rough stones, and that the latter had agreed, he was overjoyed.
However he wasn’t someone without eyesight, and so didn’t dare disturb him until it was close to the bidding time, and only then did he let Jin Mao ask about two rough stones with a higher reserve price.
Little fatty had just become a level two Stone Gambler, while Jia Kai was a level five Stone Gambler, and so naturally, all the five rough stones they had picked had been chosen by him.
However after Bai Jing used his sense perception ability to check the two rough stones, he gave a negative feedback.
The performances of these two pieces were passable, however their reserve price was obviously too high, making it not worth so many starcoins.
Then after thinking about it, he gave Jin Mao the numbers of two rough stones that he was interested in that had good performances but that had reserve prices that were higher than expected, then advised them to act according to their capability and not to invest too many starcoins.
However after the auction ended, Jia Kai’s face looked somewhat ugly.
Father Jin obviously didn’t bid on his two rough stones as he had said he would and had instead spent nearly ten million starcoins bidding on another two!
And the reason he had given him was that the reserve price was too high.
However he had seen it clearly. The rough stones he had selected were obviously not even as expensive as the two that Father Jin had bid on!
However he couldn’t make a scene, as of the five rough stones, three of the ones he had chosen were in it.
But he still felt that Father Jin was just trying to placate him, because the total price of these three rough stones didn’t even add up to more than 2 million starcoins.
Jia Kai secretly held this anger in his heart, because no matter what was said, he was the one that had been hired by the Jin family. Gu Yun being like this was clearly not giving him a chance to live!
So, he took over stone-cutting machine number 3 right after the bidding ended, determined to get a rise in bet to prove himself.
However the reality disappointed him greatly, because of the three rough stones that he had selected, two were collapses in bet, while the other one, a ten-kilogram jadeite of the bean variety, was bought for 300,000 starcoins, making all this a loss of over a million starcoins.
And Jin Mao had just rubbed open one of the other two but had gotten a green onion heart of the hibiscus variety, one that looked to be about at least a dozen kilograms!
And then on top of that, there were various shouts of high grade jadeite rise in bets sounds that were coming from Gu Yun’s side. It really made him feel too ashamed to show his face.
He had decided. Starting from tomorrow, he would keep his mouth shut and play mute, to avoid further embarrassment.
However just as he was thinking this, another incoherent shout came from the side: “Holy sh*t, oh my god, I’m going crazy, it’s the glass variety—!!”
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