Covering the Sky: I, Wang Teng, truly lack the bearing of an emperor.

Chapter 139 A Completely Different Choice of Stones
As the green light illuminated, the onlookers were all stunned.

They all speculated about the origins of this red-haired boy, who could produce such a pure alien source right away!

Buying that stone would have cost about a thousand catties of source material, but now, just the heterogeneous source material alone can earn back several times that amount!
"Young friend, you are truly extraordinary!" said the aging king of the Ji family, his voice filled with admiration.

No wonder the Peacock King and the Azure Dragon King dared to gamble on stones at the Ji Family Stone Workshop; it turns out they had made preparations and brought in very professional people.

However, the aging king of the Ji family did not care.

Gambling on stones is a game where you can win and lose, it's normal.

These stones are sitting here unsold; no one else will make a profit, but neither will they.

If no one buys some stones, it's normal for them to sit unsold for hundreds of years. Stone workshops won't easily cut stones, so those stones just accumulate year after year.

Ultimately, jade gambling is a gamble between customers and stone workshops.

In any round of betting, someone will inevitably win, and the other side will inevitably lose.

If no one is betting against it, the stone workshop may seem to be making no profit, but in reality, it is suffering a very serious loss.

Therefore, they are often not afraid of others cutting out something; on the contrary, they are more worried that others will pick through an entire layer but end up cutting nothing out.

If the former publicizes it, it will at least prove that their stone workshop has good stuff, which will attract more people to gamble. In that case, the more people there are, the more money the stone workshop will make.

If it is the latter situation, the stone archway will gradually decline and eventually become deserted.

"Keep picking," the red-haired boy said.

This time, he no longer concealed himself, observing the stones with his crimson pupils throughout, ignoring any that were of pure origin.

In the end, Qi Hao selected three more stones!

Some of these three stones were even rejected from the sixth or seventh floor. They were originally very expensive, but no one bought them because they had been sitting there for too long. So they were put on the fifth floor as a treasure to mark the floor.

The three stones had a total value of nearly 10,000 jin of source material, and Qi Hao directly tossed the green alien source material over.

Those alien sources are enough to buy these three stones.

With a flash of light, a palm-sized piece of divine energy was cut out from the first stone.

Just this large piece of divine source is enough to break even.

The stone cutters at Ji Family Stone Workshop turned green with rage.

This was the first time he had ever extracted both alien source and divine source in a single day. In the past, he would have been overjoyed.

But now, looking at the gloomy expressions of the two elders of the Ji family, he knew that something was wrong!

The two elders of the Ji family were indeed feeling troubled.

They never expected that the Peacock King and the Azure Dragon King would come with only a young boy and bring so many good things, which was hard for them to accept!

Alternative sources are already very valuable, let alone divine sources!

This kind of thing shouldn't appear in the first five floors!
However, that stone has been sitting there for more than ten years and has never been sold. Who knew that it actually contained divine energy?

Among the onlookers, some were so angry that they were pounding their chests and stamping their feet.

He claimed that he wanted to buy that stone a few days ago, but his best friend stopped him, and he missed out on the divine source! There are two other stones left, both of which are different types of sources, with different colors and sizes. In total, they should be worth several sources.

Qi Hao's gaze remained calm as he prepared to head to the sixth floor.

Even the aging king of the Ji family felt a pang in his heart.

He never expected that the Peacock King and the Azure Dragon King would bring someone who could use their pupil technique to identify stones!

It's likely that this young man has already picked out all the most valuable stones on the fifth floor!

However, since he himself had said that guests are guests, the aging king of the Ji family had no choice but to lead the other party to the sixth floor.

This place has already resembled a manor, with mountains and rivers converging here, almost equivalent to half a small world. This is because array patterns are gathering the terrain and expanding this area.

"The stones here are more expensive than those on the previous level, and some of them may contain special things sealed within them. So, young friend, you should think carefully before gambling on stones here," the aging king of the Ji family said, reminding Qi Hao.

“I understand, senior, there’s no need to worry,” Qi Hao said.

He thought he had already restrained himself, but in the eyes of others, he was still arrogant and disdainful of the king's reminders.

Even the Peacock King and the Azure Dragon King beside him couldn't help but feel uneasy, fearing that the aging king of the Ji family would make a move.

"Why don't you two seniors also take a look around here? What if you come across a stone you like?" Qi Hao said casually, then put his hands behind his back and swaggered around the sixth-floor stone workshop.

Originally, there were people selecting stones in the sixth-level stone workshop, and almost all of them were experts from the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.

However, upon seeing the Peacock King and the Azure Dragon King arrive, they immediately retreated, even abandoning the stones they had examined for a long time and felt might be worth selling.

It's easy to imagine how terrifying their infamous reputations are!
The Azure Dragon King and the Peacock King didn't pay any attention; instead, they were carefully selecting stones.

One of them was a notorious bandit, and the other had participated in numerous raids. Even without deliberate study, they had some knowledge of the simplest and most basic methods of stone appraisal.

The two of them walked among the stones, occasionally pausing to professionally tap the stones, listen to the echoes, or gently stroke them to feel their texture, or lightly tap them to project a seemingly profound light.

After going through this whole process, the onlookers subconsciously felt that the Azure Dragon King and the Peacock King were indeed formidable bandits, and they also had a certain level of expertise in stone appraisal!

However, when the Peacock King happily carried the stone he had chosen to Qi Hao, Qi Hao immediately showed his disgust on his face.

"You're really professional! I looked through the entire sixth floor, and this was the only empty stone there. It just so happened that you chose it." Qi Hao rolled his eyes and said with obvious disdain.

"How is this possible?" King Peacock exclaimed in shock.

"I've been involved in stone appraisal before, and I've even ventured into the sacred stone workshop to gamble on stones. How could I be wrong?" Peacock King refused to give up, believing that he was right and that Qi Hao was probably just trying to discourage him.

“If you take all the stones next to this one and buy them all together, you might make a small profit. But if you buy this one stone alone, you will definitely lose money,” Qi Hao said calmly.

Upon hearing this, the Peacock King was about to turn around when he saw that the Azure Dragon King had already collected all the nearby stones.

“I…” The Peacock King was stunned.

He had never seen anything like the Azure Dragon King!
In the end, the Peacock King personally took charge and, with lightning speed, shaved the entire stone into powder, but still, not a single glimmer of light appeared.

On the contrary, the Azure Dragon King selected eight stones, one of which was successfully sold. It was a very rare alien source with a value approaching that of a divine source.

And that stone was exactly the one near the stone that the Peacock King had chosen.

(End of this chapter)