Chapter 578: The Whereabouts of Spirit Tea
Although the storage ring is a necessary thing for immortal cultivators to travel at home and kill people and goods, many primary and intermediate disciples of the Immortal Sect have only a storage ring of a few dozen catties. The capacity of these three storage rings is enough to make many people covetous.
Changtian once told Ning Xiaoxian that if he wanted to cast a storage container with a huge capacity, it was not enough to have superb refining techniques, but also needed an extremely rare metal, which was not produced in this world, and could only be extracted from meteors that fell to the ground. In ancient times, due to frequent wars, the refining technique was developed to the extreme, and this precious metal was also looted, and the storage space was getting larger and larger, and finally there was a "Haina Bag" with a capacity of more than 500,000 catties like the fifth layer of the God and Demon Prison.
This kind of storage bag is necessary for transporting armaments and materials, otherwise on the battlefield of gods and demons, would precious military supplies be pulled and carried by pack beasts? If you load personal belongings, you will definitely not need such a large space, but if you are transporting the materials needed by the army, then the storage bags in the Gods and Demons Prison are actually far from enough!
After all, a long 30,000 years have passed. These rings were placed in ancient times, and immortal cultivators at that time may not be rare. However, the storage bag is also a kind of magic weapon, and it can't survive the destruction of time, except that the Haina bag can be nourished by the gods and demons without being damaged, most of the giant storage containers in the world are damaged, except for those giant demons who have lived for tens of thousands of years, or there are still in the hands of human monks and ordinary monsters.
She saw it in the lot book. There were more than 3,000 people who paid attention to these rings, and the estimated price of the largest one was raised to 220,000 spirit stones. Then it is expected that they will all be taken, and the number of spirit stones to be spent will be about 500,000. There are many people paying attention, but the price is not high, because each bid is only stacked a little bit.
In the final analysis, it is not the individual immortal cultivators who covet these three containers, but the immortal sect or the demon sect, or even the powerful chamber of commerce. Then the problem arises again. Compared to the large sects, these rings were too small in terms of number and capacity. For example, the spiritual tea garden in Yinliu will send about 150,000 catties of spiritual tea to Nanbu Continent every year. Its routes are also divided into more than ten lines, even if Ning Xiaoxian starts these three rings, it is just to save the manpower capacity on the three routes, and there is no change in the entire transportation pattern.
A guest who can sit in Hakuokyo-ri. Which one isn't a human elf? So. These three rings are paid attention to by many people, and there are many people who watch the excitement, but there are very few customers who are really willing to pay a lot of money to buy them.
The auctioneer, who had just come to the stage, probably analyzed the situation very thoroughly in his heart, and just wanted to sell it for a real price, so the tone of his introduction was very gentle, not as impassioned as the previous one.
Ning Xiaoxian and Steward Wu smiled. They waited all day until the three rings were played.
One of Bai Yujing's rules: treasures that will be auctioned within four hours. It must be locked in the main hall until it enters the store, unless a majority of the elders agrees. Otherwise, no one is allowed to approach or touch the lot.
When these three things come into play, they are half the winner, because-
The stolen spiritual tea, the Eight Achievements are hidden in these three storage rings.
There are many doubts about the disappearance of Ning Yuantang's spiritual tea, the most important and conspicuous of which is that the tea disappeared without a trace almost after leaving the back door of the ginseng medicine store. You must know that this is not dozens of catties or thousands of catties, but a full 100,000 catties of spiritual tea! The tea leaves are light and huge, and can fill dozens of carts, but even the city defense patrol has not seen the shadow of the cart transporting spiritual tea.
There are only two possibilities to do this:
First, Juan Niang bought a yard near the medicine ginseng store and loaded and unloaded it nearby. That is to say, not long after the car drove out of Ning Yuantang, it drove into the courtyard not far away, and then the robbers set up a suspicious formation and led Ning Xiaoxian and the others to the Li house, and then they left some people to unload and store in the newly purchased mansion leisurely.
Due to the short amount of time spent on the road, this method does have the potential to avoid the eyes and ears of the city's defenders. However, at this time, the mansions in the inner city of Zhongjing, such as the Li family, were generally less than 400 square meters. This is determined by the price of land, just like Xiamen Island, where Shui Yun lives now, the average price of houses is almost 30,000 yuan per square meter, and the money spent to buy a 100-square-meter house here can build two buildings in the countryside and there is still left.
The general private house is not designed to be loaded, and the backyard of the Li family has undergone a special renovation to fit some of the goods in the heavenly residence. Therefore, even if Juan Niang or Elder Qi bought a house in Zhongjing, they would have to go through special modifications before they could barely fit this huge volume of 100,000 catties of spirit tea, so it was impossible to hide it in some secret room or underground cellar.
Ning Yuantang's batch of goods was ordered half a year ago, if from the perspective of time, half a year is indeed enough for Juan Niang to renovate the house, but in order to pit Ning Xiaoxian, did she spend so much effort?
Even so, Ning Xiaoxian still sent a few hidden guards who were proficient in the art of concealment, patrolling and shuttling around the courtyard near the medicine ginseng store, looking for possible suspicions, while she herself took the rest of the people to play in the mountains and rivers, and at the same time lured away the people who were secretly watching.
However, it is not difficult to judge that the courtyard that has been converted into a warehouse will be very different from the garden layout of ordinary people's homes. Although there are many monks living in this vicinity, the hidden guards are very good at hiding their whereabouts, and they have not been found for two days. However, there are no unusual houses within a radius of six miles, so this possibility is basically very small.
The second possibility is that Juan Niang's subordinates used large-capacity storage containers, and when the spirit tea was shipped out, they loaded all of them in, so that whether it was the city guards or the hidden guards who followed them, they didn't want to find the shadows of these dozens of carts again, it was really convenient and fast.
The best thing is that neither the hermit stream nor the other people in the heavenly dwelling would have thought that these three rings contained tea leaves worth millions of spirit stones. Elder Bian and Steward Wu have also secretly investigated in the past few days, and found that in addition to the 10,000 catties of spiritual tea, the warehouse in the hands of Elder Qi and Juan Niang has not been filled with spiritual tea at all, which can be said to be untraceable.
When Heavenly Residence and Ning Xiaoxian were fighting over the supply of spiritual tea, Elder Qi only needed to arrange someone to take these three rings away, and he could earn 100,000 catties of spiritual tea for nothing! This account is extremely cost-effective, because under normal circumstances, the money to buy these three rings will not exceed 600,000 spirit stones, and paying 600,000 to earn 6 million is really a big advantage.
What, why did you ask Elder Qi why he was able to take these three lots out of Bai Yujing and hand them over to Juan Niang to steal? Hehe, that would involve a highly used word: the abuse of power for personal gain. Elder Bian behind Steward Wu was able to get out of Juanniang's seal from the tightly supervised Seal Supervision Division, and Elder Qi temporarily appropriated three rings from a lot that had not yet been sold, what was so unusual? Large organizations have always had the troubles of large organizations, and the more luxurious the building, the more potential termites, ants, cockroaches, and all kinds of small parasites will be, and this is the ecology of nature and society.
In the past 20 years, Tianshangju has handled a total of 32 storage rings, deducting the storage rings with a capacity of more than 30,000 catties, and the remaining storage rings with a capacity of more than 30,000 catties are a total of 26. Elder Bian went to check the account books, and the whereabouts of these rings did not point to Elder Qi. In other words, the possibility of Elder Qi himself possessing such a large-capacity storage ring is extremely small.
I have to say that Juan Niang's hand can be called clever. If you change your opponent, you may not even think that she will use this way, but unfortunately she met Ning Xiaoxian. As the owner of the Divine Demon Prison, as a person who holds a sea bag in her hand all the year round, when she found something suspicious outside Li's house, the first thing she thought about was how likely it was that Juan Niang used a large-capacity storage container to transport away the spiritual tea. And she still remembers that at Bai Yujing's auction preview, she did see these three rings, and their combined capacity reached 130,000 catties, which happened to be loaded into it with the tea cart, effortlessly.
This is what Changtian often mentions repeatedly, the gap in vision. Many times, what people want to be suddenly enlightened only needs a flash of thought between the lightning and the fire. And the difference between people is whether it is possible for you to have such thoughts in your head.
She discussed with Steward Wu repeatedly, and felt that the possibility of Juan Niang using these three rings accounted for at least eighty percent. Such a probability is enough for them to give it a try, and in the process of trying, they can even determine the remaining 20% probability.
Bidding began. Due to the seller's insistence, these three rings are bundled and sold, and they will not be retailed, and the starting price is 100,000 spirit stones.
"120,000 spirit stones!"
"135,000 spirit stones!"
"One hundred and fifty thousand!"
"Fifty-five thousand spirit stones!"
Sure enough, as she expected in advance, there were really a lot of bidders at first, and the black slate outside the box kept flashing, and the auctioneer only felt that he couldn't see it with two eyes. But the amount of each superposition is only twenty or thirty thousand spirit stones, and it is obvious that everyone is more cautious and does not want to spend too much money on the ring. After all, this is just an auxiliary magic weapon, and it is far less important than the armor and weapons that matter one's life and death.
When she slowly finished nibbling on a tender and juicy peach, the price of the ring had risen to 500,000 spirit stones.
As soon as she licked her slender fingers, the little maid standing on the side hurriedly took a fragrant snow-white handkerchief and asked her to clean her hands. (To be continued......)
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