Chapter 428: Sotheby's Auction
The so-called worship is to provide worldly financial and material resources from the weaker party, and exchange some extraordinary benefits for those worldly masters who do not want to be contaminated with the worldly atmosphere, and cooperate for a long time, like offering to the gods and Buddhas, with all their heart, piety and prudence......
This kind of benefit is often something that ordinary people cannot do and is beyond the scope of ordinary human resources.
Xiao Tianxi was reluctant to sit down, firstly because Ye Fan and the Xiao family had a common enmity, and secondly, because Jiang Yuan's worship status represented that clan, which should not be disrespectful.
Gust was a little confused, unable to figure out the relationship and attitude between these Chinese people, and did not sit down.
Ye Fan looked at Jiang Yuan's ruddy baby-like face, and said with a slight smile: "Mr. Gust, it's better for you and this old Mr. Xiao to be casual and casual." ”
Often in and out of various social situations, the shrewd Gust immediately understood, turned his head and asked, "Okay, Mr. Xiao, what do you think?"
Xiao Tianxi raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said to Jiang Yuan in a low voice: "It's zero o'clock, seniors don't miss the time." ”
"Hmm. Jiang Yuan replied from his nostrils, in the eyes of these cultivators, the lives of ordinary people are not even as valuable as ants and gold, and he is willing to enter the world with Xiao Tianxi, just for the sake of the worship relationship between the two parties, as for deigning to board this Princess Grace cruise ship, there is nothing else to ask for.
Gu Shi and Xiao Tianxi left, Ye Fan observed this young cultivator who was extremely deep in the city government up close, and saw that his actual age was far more than his appearance showed, this Jiang Daoyou, at least forty years old, he was just a good look.
But at such an age, being able to step into the innate realm is already shocking.
At the same time, Jiang Yuan's perception was also quietly investigating Ye Fan's details, but the result made him unable to figure it out. It seems that the age of the other party is really like the appearance, if this is the case, at the age of twenty to achieve this kind of cultivation, it is enough to shock the ancient and the present, and it is enough to alarm the Quartet World!
No way, it's absolutely impossible.
With the thin aura of the earth today, if ordinary people want to cultivate to the innate level, it will cost at least one jiazi. Thinking about him, Jiang Yuan, as the contemporary proud son of the Medicine Sect, with the strength of the poor family, spends hundreds of billions of dollars every year to refine the body quenching and marrow cleansing pill, and only then did he enter the innate five years ago!
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan fakely laughed: "Hehe, Hua Daoyou is walking alone?"
"Oh, it's not, there's a friend who went to Taipei with me. Ye Fan said truthfully.
Jiang Yuan's eyes were slightly startled, and then he smiled quietly: "What is the matter with that Daoyou's trip?"
He didn't know Ye Fan's true identity, but thinking about it, that Hua Ying would definitely not be his real name. Peers are enemies, and most cultivators distrust each other and have bitter feelings against each other, and one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and the end is often doomed to defeat both.
"I said it was a honeymoon, do you believe it or not?" Ye Fan stared at him with a smile, both of them had a hypocritical smile in their eyes, and then raised their heads and laughed as if they had a tacit understanding.
"Believe, how can you not believe it?" After laughing, Jiang Yuan said: "Since this is the case, I am relieved." ”
Ye Fan pretended to be curious and asked, "What's the matter?"
"It's not a secret, Hua Daoyou, I'm here to ask for something. Jiang Yuan sighed: "This item is very important to me, and it is bound to be obtained tonight! Since Daoyou has no intention of fighting for it, it is the best." ”
"Oh, dare to ask?" This time, Ye Fan felt that he was not lying, since the meeting, the two have tested each other, put each other's words on each other, and left their hands everywhere, true and false, making it difficult to distinguish which sentence is from the bottom of their hearts.
Jiang Yuan narrowed his eyes, and spit out two words with a smile: "Extreme Ice." ”
What is this? I've never heard of it!
"Oh......" Ye Fan didn't know how to pretend to understand, nodded slightly, and showed a thoughtful look.
"Do you regret it?" Jiang Yuan's eyes loomed with murderous intent, if Ye Fan saw something different, he didn't mind opening a killing ring on this cruise ship, because that thing was a thousand times more important than anything, with the clan power he was in, he was not afraid of any loose cultivation, the only thing he was worried about was that if Ye Fan had a master of the same sect and sect to accompany him, with one enemy and two enemies, I am afraid that he would not be able to catch it and it would be difficult to win.
Sensing his thoughts and killing intent, Ye Fan smiled and waved his hand: "Fei Ye, Fei Ye." Jiang Daoyou likes something, how can the younger brother take advantage of people, but how can Daoyou get this thing of Extreme Ice?"
Jiang Yuan glanced at him, showed a relieved smile, and said, "Could it be that you don't know about the Sotheby's autumn auction that is about to open tonight on this cruise ship?"
"Oh? I don't know. I see. ”
Seeing that he didn't seem to be cheating, and didn't seem to be interested in Polar Ice, Jiang Yuan finally dispelled a little bit of vigilance, got up and said, "It's almost time, can you be interested in going together?"
"It's good to have nothing to do, but to see it. Ye Fan said with a smile.
The two of them have their own ghosts, and they are still testing each other, Jiang Yuan wants to know who he is learning from, but Ye Fan is already thinking about the big bad thing of killing people and overselling goods.
The relationship between Jiang Yuan and Xiao Tianxi is obvious, once he knows Ye Fan's identity, he will definitely launch an onslaught, and only by striking first and seizing the opportunity can he have a chance of winning. In front of this innate master with a mysterious background, Ye Fan was not sure that he would be able to win, and when he didn't know his opponent, he could only take one step at a time and adapt to the situation.
Founded in the 17th century, Sotheby's is the world's oldest, most professional and most high-end auction house, with hundreds of auctions held every year in auction houses in the world's top ten cities.
Sailing on the high seas, all kinds of auction items are more peculiar and expensive, and many treasures cannot be exposed in front of the world, but they can openly appear in this unknown spotlight.
For example, Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, antiques from the Old Summer Palace, and precious cultural relics smuggled from various countries...... It is presented in front of people's eyes, and finally changes hands and makes excess profits.
The old Sotheby's auction house, like the so-called banks of a permanently neutral country, engaged in the dual occupation of one dark and one bright, and made a lot of money.
When Ye Fan and Jiang Yuan arrived at this inconspicuous auction hall, the lights were already dim, and dozens of guests gathered here, whispering in the dim corner. On the stage, the black curtain is down, and the auctioneer is standing on the sidelines and flipping through the materials, about to start the auction of the first item.
The two sat down in a corner of the back row, and Jiang Yuan took the initiative to open the topic: "In today's world, the aura is thin, and there is a shortage of rare spiritual materials. ”
"Brother Jiang has a good reputation. Ye Fan modestly responded: "Brother Jiang has been in and out of overseas all the year round, and he has seen a lot of knowledge, and I hope to give more advice to my younger brother about this cultivation matter." ”
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be a ......" The high hat was thrown, Jiang Yuan felt very useful, squinted his eyes and replied with a smile: "Although Jiang Mou lives overseas, the so-called hearing of the Tao has a sequence, and the matter of cultivating the truth is not judged by age, but by the realm of cultivation. ”
This old fox does not leak a word, and does not want to reveal the slightest truth about his family.
The first artwork auctioned on the stage had been unveiled, and Xiao Tianxi hurriedly entered the door, sat down in the seat next to Jiang Yuan, and whispered hello.
His eyes swept over Ye Fan, very disdainful, as if, in his eyes, the other party was already a dead person.
"Ten million!"
When the lot entered the bidding stage, an old white gentleman called out a sky-high price.
"He's crazy, what's the point of playing like this?" Ye Fan muttered.
Raising the price like this, it's either childcare or stupidity. Hearing Ye Fan's words that he didn't understand the rules, Xiao Tianxi crooked his mouth and smiled coldly.
Most people who attend the auction here are already optimistic about a certain lot in advance, calling out the high price they can afford, making people feel that it is difficult to leave, and at the same time reminding everyone that they are determined to win, not a childcare who has come to muddy the waters.
"It's probably inevitable!" Jiang Yuan smiled faintly.
The first Qing Kangxi enamel glass bowl was finally sold for 15 million US dollars, and the winner was none other than the old white man.
When the host motioned for the auction lady to take out the second item, Jiang Yuan's condensed gaze stared at the tray without blinking.
This is the treasure spiritual material he is determined to obtain, Extreme Ice!
All things in the world are based on gold, wood, water, fire and earth, derived from hundreds of millions of living creatures in the world, after hundreds of millions of years of loss, among which the species with spiritual and special attributes have been as rare as panda blood.
The moment the red silk cloth was uncovered, Jiang Yuan's breathing was heavy!
The blue stone lying quietly in the pine box was the thing that was extremely cold to yin in the secular world, and the spiritual material extreme ice that exceeded the 10,000-year-old ice pith would not melt even if it was baked by ordinary fire at high temperatures.
"No matter how much the price is, you must win it!" The eagerness in Jiang Yuan's eyes was already full of countless killing intentions, if anyone dared to snatch this piece of extreme ice with him, he would inevitably escape the sad end of being empty of people and money.
For the sake of this piece of extreme ice, the Jiang family's cultivators have been searching and waiting for decades, and they must not fall short, in order to achieve their goals, he does not mind exposing his inhuman methods, even if it is shocking to the world, and he sacrifices a butcher's knife to mortals!
The auctioneer, Monograph, briefly stated the lot, which basically means that this blue meteorite is composed of unknown chemical composition, and the geometry of its mass, its size, and its surface temperature are cloudy.
A few Asian faces in the front row of the venue nodded their heads frequently, keeping a close eye on the price trend of the lot.
The fat-headed, big-eared Japanese man lowered his voice from time to time to ask the people next to him.
"The starting price is a million dollars, and the auction begins. ”
The host's gavel fell, and the venue was quiet for a moment.
A meteorite of unknown origin is not very attractive to most wealthy people in Europe and the United States, who would rather collect all kinds of antiques and oil paintings than spend a lot of money to buy a broken stone that is not famous.
It seems to be a little cold, if no one cares, the price will be very low, and even the auction will be lost, Xiao Tianxi, who is short of financial funds at hand, is secretly happy, but a voice next to him is raised: "Three million US dollars!"
Jiang Yuan's face suddenly became gloomy and cold, his eyes were like the eyes of a poisonous snake, and he turned his head and stared at Ye Fan!