Originally, Zhou Yi thought that the Shen family was the same as the invincible fortune teller, with only the royal family backing them.
However, after the background of the world of the strongest freeloader was integrated into this world, Zhou Yi realized that the backing of the Shen family had changed.
Even though the Shen family's biggest backer was still the Imperial family, but the Shen family was afraid that one day, because they held a huge amount of wealth, the Imperial family would use up all the birds and bows and cook the dead rabbits and dogs. So the Shen family kept using their wealth to build up other backers.
Other than the imperial family, the Shen family's biggest backer was the Sword Sect.
In order to completely bind the Sword Sect as their backer, the Shen family gave the Sword Sect 10% of the Shen family's shares. All the income of the Shen family had to be given to the Sword Sect.
The Sword Master Token in Zhou Yi's hand was equivalent to the Sword Sect's Sect Master coming personally. To put it simply, Zhou Yi had the right to control 10% of the Shen family's shares.
Among the invincible fortune tellers, Liang Chen had become famous by stepping on the Book of Changes during this auction.
During this auction, Liang Chen had used his relationship with Tian Xingzi to get the Shen family to help Liang Chen. At the same time, Liang Chen had also reached an agreement with the Shen family on the forging method of a mass produced Xiantian weapon. With this forging method, Liang Chen had obtained a huge amount of wealth, which was the foreshadowing for him to buy the Zhou family's assets in the future.
But now, the situation was completely reversed.
In the original novel, the Shen family wanted to rope in Tian Xingzi, the strongest individual cultivator, to become the Shen family's guest elder, so they did their best to help Liang Chen. However, compared to the Sword Sect, Tian Xingzi was not that important. As long as the Shen family was not a fool, they would know who to choose after seeing the Sword Master Token.
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"5.1 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes."
"5.2 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes."
"5.5 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes."
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"Seven billion Great Ming Treasure Notes."
While Zhou Yi was thinking about how to deal with Liang Chen, the hall was already filled with bidding sounds. In a very short time, the price of the perfect foundation establishment pill rose to seven billion Great Ming Treasure Notes.
Seven billion was still not the final price of the perfect Foundation Establishment Pill. After another ten minutes, the perfect Foundation Establishment Pill was sold for 12 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes.
12 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes was definitely a terrifying number. In this world, the Great Ming Treasure Notes were the number one currency in the world. The closest other countries had to the Great Ming Treasure Notes was a difference of more than 20 times.
Using Earth's exchange rate, this perfect foundation establishment pill was equivalent to hundreds of billions of US dollars. This was cash, not shares or anything like that. It was absolutely terrifying.
The one who bought the perfect Foundation Establishment Pill was a low-grade aristocratic family. After buying the Foundation Establishment Pill, this low-grade aristocratic family basically did not have the qualifications to participate in the subsequent auction. 12 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes was almost 70 - 80% of the liquid funds of the low-grade aristocratic family. The rest were fixed assets that could not be used unless it was necessary.
The liquid funds of a low-grade aristocratic family were only about 12 billion. From this, one could see how huge the figure of 12 billion was.
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"12 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes. Not bad. The card that Master gave me also has close to 20 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes. More than 30 billion Great Ming Treasure Notes. It shouldn't be difficult to get my opportunity. The feelings that this auction gave me are very strong. The opportunity here must be a big opportunity. I hope this big opportunity can help me increase my strength. This way, I will be more confident when I find the Book of Changes to take back my other opportunities.”
In the hall, Liang Chen, who was sitting in his seat, thought to himself after hearing the 12 billion bid.
"Bai Ling, do you understand that the starting price of the Shen family's auction is a few billion? My entire net worth is only over two billion.”
Feng Tianyu, the other lucky protagonist who heard the transaction price of the perfect foundation establishment pill, said to Bai Ling in his mind with some worry.
"Don't worry, the most precious items in the auction are the opening, middle, and ending time periods. The other time periods are just average and won't be too expensive. That treasure was a misjudgment of the Shen family and was placed in the first half of the auction. Its quality is also average, so no one will fight with you for it. With your two billion net worth, it's more than enough to buy it.”
Bai Ling replied immediately.
"Alright, I'm relieved." Feng Tianyu nodded in satisfaction after getting Bai Ling's confirmation.
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Time slowly passed. In the blink of an eye, two hours had passed.
In these two hours, Shen Xuan had brought out more than twenty items for auction.
To ordinary people, these 20-plus items were peerless treasures. However, in the eyes of the major factions, they were just ordinary treasures. There were not many people bidding for them, so the price was not particularly high. The total price of these 20-plus items was only about the same as the auction price of the perfect foundation establishment pill.
The Book of Changes did not participate in the bidding for these twenty items.
It wasn't that Zhou Yi didn't want to buy them, but these 20-odd items were too ordinary. He didn't care about them.
However, just as Zhou Yi was getting tired from looking at it, Shen Xuan took out an auction item that immediately roused Zhou Yi's spirit.
This item was a green pearl. It looked shiny and extraordinary.
"This bead is a natural gem that my Shen family accidentally obtained. Although it doesn't have any special function, it's extremely sturdy and impervious to water and fire. Even Martial Sage Realm experts can only leave traces behind, and the traces will be repaired very quickly. After my Shen family analyzed it, we think that it might be a special material. If we can smelt it, it might be used as a forging material for a top-notch divine weapon.”
"The starting price is 500 million Great Ming Treasure Notes.”
Shen Xuan took out the green bead and introduced it.
However, even though Shen Xuan said it in a flashy manner, no one bid for a long time.
The people who came to the Shen family's auction were not fools. Although Shen Xuan had said that the green bead was extremely precious, the Shen family must have studied it for a long time for it to be auctioned. The Shen family could not research it, so they took it out for auction. It was suspected to be a top grade divine weapon forging material. This was just an excuse. If it was really the case, would the Shen family take it out for auction?
Even if it was auctioned, the price would not be as low as 500 million. It would at least be ten times higher. In the eyes of everyone, this green bead was just incomparably sturdy. Shen Xuan's other words were just for show.
If the green bead was a little better looking, there would actually be people who would buy it. However, the green bead looked ordinary, and even those who liked good-looking things were unwilling to bid.
Shen Xuan waited for a few minutes, and when he realized that no one was bidding, he was prepared to announce that the green bead would not be auctioned off.
However, just as Shen Xuan was about to speak, a bid sounded.
"Five hundred million Great Ming Treasure Notes."
The person who made the bid was none other than Feng Tianyu, the main character of The Strongest Soft Rice King.
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