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

Chapter 270 The Honest Older Man

"No, little guy, I've lived for thousands of years and I've never told a lie. You're asking me to tell such a big lie. Do you think that's appropriate?"

The senior colleague spoke very seriously, arguing his case forcefully.

“But you can save yourself hundreds of thousands of kilograms of resources just by opening your mouth, is that not allowed?” Tu Fei said righteously.

"This..." The old man was taken aback upon hearing this, seemingly considering the feasibility of the matter.

He looked at Li Heishui seriously for a moment, then immediately shook his head, "Forget it, I'll just give you an extra 200,000 jin of source."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Heishui's face darkened even more.

He was already very dark-skinned, the kind of person who could be found even if thrown into the dark. Now, hearing that others would rather spend hundreds of thousands of kilograms of resources than admit that he was fair-skinned, he became even more furious.

"Look, it's not that I don't want to speak up for you, it's just that other people also think you're shady!" Tu Fei said earnestly.

But despite the senior's earnest attempts to raise the price, Tu Fei ultimately failed to sell his item.

The divine source contains a drop of the essence blood of an ancient sage; this thing is extremely precious.

If Tu Fei really sells this thing... the thing is sold in the morning, and he leaves in the afternoon. Tu Tian can then use the millions of catties of source he has to hold a grand banquet and invite many people to come and admire Tu Fei's appearance and smile.

Tu Fei naturally knew how precious this thing was, so he just joked around with others, and even when others offered 1.5 million catties of source, he didn't waver.

As a descendant of a great bandit, he was never short of resources.

Compared to Yuan, he also lacks various unavailable divine items, such as the thing he has in his hand right now.

Yaochi Holy Land is probably regretting it now, but as a holy land, they naturally wouldn't go back on their word.

After confirming that Tu Fei would not sell the ancient saint's blood essence, the others couldn't help but look at Qi Hao.

They hadn't forgotten that the stone in Tu Fei's hand was given to him by Qi Hao.

If such precious items are randomly selected and given away, then how precious must the stones that Qi Hao himself selected be?
Unfortunately, from the first level onwards, Qi Hao did not cut the stones he selected in the stone workshop, but carried them with him.

He didn't even pay, but the Holy Land of Yaochi seemed to tacitly approve of his actions.

Someone asked Qi Hao to help them choose a stone, but Qi Hao merely glanced at the person and then turned and left.

The others then came to their senses. It turned out that Qi Hao was still unruly. He had restrained himself somewhat in the Yaochi Holy Land, which must have been because the Yaochi Holy Land and Qi Hao had reached some special agreement.

Besides Qi Hao, there are other people who have also attracted a lot of attention.

Ye Fan walked through the sacred land of Yaochi, but did not select too many stones.
He also felt some regret.

The people from the Yuanshu family were scared away by Qi Hao, so much so that no one dares to gamble with him on stones anymore.

If no one is gambling on stones with him, he can't be too ruthless when traveling alone in the Yaochi Holy Land. After all, the Holy Maiden of Yaochi Holy Land just invited him to come to Yaochi Holy Land in the future.

In the end, he only selected one or two stones from each floor, not going too far.

Ye Fan also declined all offers from others to help them select stones.

Unless he's insane, spending enormous effort selecting stones for someone worth hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of kilograms of Origin, just to make them money. Besides these few representative figures in Origin Arts, other young people are also seriously selecting stones, such as the Holy Son of Yao Guang, the Prince of Great Xia, and the Divine Body of the Ji Family…

However, their most outstanding talent lies in cultivation, not in source techniques, so not many people pay attention to them in the stone workshop.

Even Wang Teng, the number one in his generation in terms of realm and combat power, didn't attract much attention when selecting stones, let alone others.

However, Wang Teng possessed the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, which was superior to Qi Hao's Heavenly Eye. He actually saw some very unusual stones, some of which contained not only the source but also something even more precious inside.

There is something within a piece of stone that even surpasses the essence of an ancient saint!

Of course, Wang Teng did not cut the stone directly at the stone workshop.

In terms of source techniques, Qi Hao alone is enough.

The Yaochi Stone Archway has been open for several days, and it has been exceptionally lively. Some of the older generation of powerful figures who haven't appeared for a long time, and even those who were suspected by outsiders of having perished, have shown up.

Some of them haven't appeared for thousands of years, and even their descendants haven't seen them for a long time, so they are believed to have perished.

But this time, they appeared at the sacred Yaochi, shocking many people.

There were also some powerful beings who once roamed the Eastern Wilderness and even traveled as far as the Central Plains, the Southern Ridge, and the Northern Plains, leaving behind their invincible legends in many places. However, after a certain period of time, they also disappeared.

If they hadn't appeared this time, many people would probably have thought they had also perished.

However, this year's Yaochi Grand Ceremony did not seem to be as lively as others had imagined.

Because the people from the Yuanshu family were scared away by Qi Hao, and Qi Hao was summoned for a talk by the people of Yaochi Holy Land, he became much more restrained, so much so that there were not many famous scenes of gambling on stones at Yaochi Stone Workshop this time.

Although some people gamble on stones in some obscure and remote places, their methods and stakes are so appalling that others only stand and watch for a few moments before quickly losing interest and turning away.

"I really miss the days when Brother Ye gambled on stones with the Yuanshu family..." someone sighed softly, their words filled with nostalgia.

Although they knew that Qi Hao had also gambled on stones with people from the Yuanshu family, the stones had not been shown to everyone at the time, so they only heard about it from others later and had no sense of participation whatsoever.

Therefore, compared to Ye Fan's experience of gambling on stones, they still miss it more.

However, with the Source Arts families absent, no one else dared to challenge Ye Fan easily. As for Qi Hao... needless to say, as long as he stood there, those who claimed to have decent Source Arts skills would turn around and leave, running faster than rabbits, seemingly worried that staying there a little longer would attract Qi Hao's attention.

Even without the gambling war, some people still managed to cut out many excellent items. Even before leaving the stone market, many people were frantically raising prices, eager to buy the items as soon as possible.

"Is the Battle of Zishan still unresolved...?" Ji Haoyue raised her head and looked into the distance.

He only recently learned that the Ji family had also entered the fray, with the Ji family's Holy Lord personally going to Purple Mountain to explore its secrets.

He turned to Ye Fan and said, "Young Brother Ye, my Ji family's stone workshop also has some stone materials that even masters of Origin Arts are unsure about. Would you like to take a look?"

Ye Fan nodded upon hearing this.

His relationship with the Ji family is currently quite good. Although it's not as close as others might imagine, it's at least at a friendly level.

Ye Fan, accompanied by the large black dog, went to the Ji family's stone workshop and stayed there for a few days. Then, rumors began to circulate that the Ji family's stone workshop had unearthed something extraordinary...

(End of this chapter)