Although I'm not entirely confident in buying it with money, however...

  "No matter what, I must get this bald stone slab!" A cold glint flashed in Teng Qing Shan's eyes. Even if some family really bought it, halfway through, Teng Qing Shan could completely 'borrow' it to take a look for a year or two, and then find an opportunity to 'return' it to the other party!

  Around the corridors, many family representatives looked at the bald stone slab.

  "Don't worry, everyone. Our Shu's Merchant House has confirmed that this set of stone slabs is indeed the one with the 'Thirty-six Open Mountain Styles' carved on it from the divine axe mountain nine sets of absolute learning. If there's any mistake, our Shu's Merchant House will double refund! "Shu Fan Lang laughed loudly and looked around at everyone, "Does anyone have any objections? No objections, let's start bidding!"

  "Let's get started!"

  "Old Master Sito, I believe you wouldn't dare cheat so many families, haha..."

  Laughter filled the corridors of every household.

  "Alright, since that's the case!" Situ Fan's eyes lit up, his voice growing louder and more sonorous. "There are a total of 36 number plates, with a starting price of 30,000 taels of gold. Each bid must increase by at least 5,000 taels of gold. Let's begin!"

  Situ Fan shouted "Let's start", but the surroundings suddenly fell silent.

  Every family looked at each other, and for a while, no family quoted a price.

  Because everyone is clear ——

  Thirty thousand taels of gold is just the base price, and it's likely that you'll need ten times that amount to actually buy it!

  "Everyone has started yielding now." Situ Fan smiled.

  "Then I, as a junior, will make the first bid." A clear and pleasant voice came, and Teng Qing Shan looked over to see that it was the girl wearing the pink fox fur coat who had spoken. She raised the numbered sign in her hand and smiled, "I'm from the Dan Tai family, and my bid is 50,000 taels of gold! Everyone, I'll start things off, please go ahead!"

  In the central pavilion of the pond, Situ Fan's smile grew even brighter: "Number three sign, Dantai family, bid - 50,000 taels of gold! Is there a higher price?"

  "Sixty thousand taels of gold!" The voice also came from a distant corridor.

  Hong Qingshan looked at him and didn't seem anxious.

  Fu Dao, sitting at a table next to Teng Qing Shan, looked over at him and said in a low voice, "Mr. Teng, isn't the young lady from the Dan Tai family quite something?"

  "What's her name?" Li Kun asked curiously.

  "Dantai Qing." Fu Dao replied.

  After answering, Fu Dao surprisingly also picked up the sign next to the table and raised it, shouting: "Ten thousand taels of gold!"

  "Number Twelve Card, Mr. Fu, bids ten million taels of gold!" Sito Fan's voice rose by a pitch.

  "Fu Dao, you also want to buy it?" Teng Qing Shan looked at him in surprise.

  "I'm not buying, I'm a lone wanderer, what am I doing here?" Fu Dao said with a smile. Li Kun asked on the side: "Aren't you known as 'Lei Dao Wu Sheng', using knife methods? Why do you need this set of bald stone slabs? I think the legendary 'Lei Dao Tian Shen' knife method is more useful to you."

  Fu Dao smiled: "I want to buy it, of course, it has a use. But this purpose, I'm afraid is confidential."

  Hong Qingshan nodded.

  In the midst of the conversation, each of the big families in this garden has already called out a price several times! Each time, the increase is at least 10,000 taels of gold. This extravagance... If an ordinary rich man were to hear it, he would probably be stunned.

  "150,000 taels of gold!" The Great Elder also raised his signboard.

  "Number sixteen, Xu said business trip, priced at 150,000 taels of gold." Sutu Fan's voice immediately echoed in the garden.

  "Heng brothers, if the price isn't high, I'll take it." The elder looked over with a smile, "Over 6,000 years ago, even the Divine Axe Mountains only had nine sets. After all these years, there might be two or three well-preserved sets left in the world! This thing is worth buying."

  Teng Qing Shan listened and exchanged a glance with Li Kun beside him.

  "What a lot of trouble." Teng Qing Shan muttered to himself.

  One after another called out prices.

  "Twenty million taels of gold!" It was that Dantai Qing again! The little princess had bid for the second time.

  Fu Dao's face looked somewhat unsightly beside him.

  "Hmm? It seems that Fu Dao also wants to get it." Teng Qing Shan glanced at him, and Fu Dao listened as the bidding continued. The current bid had already risen to twenty-three taels of gold. Those family members, except for a few who had given up, all looked unhappy.

  Fu Dao coldly said: "Twenty-eight million taels of gold!"

  A surge of 50,000 taels of gold at once!

  The garden was slightly quieter for a moment, and many people looked at Fu Dao. Listening to Fu Dao's voice... Many people present felt that Fu Dao was somewhat annoyed.

  "Thirty million taels of gold!" He Lianhao, the Wind Clan's patriarch, said with a smile.

  "Huh?" Fu Dao looked over involuntarily.

  "Number thirty-six, Tianfeng family, bidding thirty million taels of gold!" Situ Fan's face lit up with excitement, and the surrounding families were in an uproar - not because of the high price, but because... the Tianfeng family, who had been silent until now, had actually spoken up to join the bidding!

  The usually calm Mount Qingcheng didn't even raise an eyebrow.

  "This is getting troublesome!"

  The old man from the Xue family, who was standing beside him, smiled and said in a low voice, "This set of jadeite stone boards, I estimate, would be worth around 300,000 taels of gold. However, looking at today's situation... many families want to get their hands on it. If they really start bidding against each other, the price will be hard to predict. The Situ family has indeed invited a lot of families this time!"

  "Thirty million taels of gold, and no more?" In the central pavilion, Sifu Fan Lian shouted out loud.

  It's been a while since anyone has bid after Tianfeng family made their offer.

  Tianfeng Family's He Lian Huo Xing was smiling as he looked around.

  "Thirty-one million taels of gold!" A cold voice came from beside Teng Qing Shan.

  Hong Qing Shan turned his head to look, and Fu Dao's face was icy cold at this moment, as if anyone dared to bid again, he would eat people. Tian Feng family's He Lian Huan Xing looked over here with a smile.

  "Three hundred and fifteen thousand taels of gold!" The clear voice rang out once more.

  "It's this little princess again." Fu Dao was furious.

  "Fu Dao, aren't you going to name a price?" Teng Qing Shan looked at him, Fu Dao shook his head, his face looking unpleasant: "I'm not some big family that can come up with gold easily, the most I can gather is 3.1 million taels!" It's easy for a strong cultivator of the First Heaven Golden Elixir to get money, but... getting a large sum of wealth is difficult!

  An ancient family, the places where money is hidden are very careful, and generally, there are few people in the family who know the location of the treasure.

  Even if Fu Dao comes to rob.

  But isn't it hard to kill the entire family? To do such a massacre? A congenital Golden Elixir cultivator, his congenital True Yuan wasn't enough to be wasted like that. After all, he wasn't Tun Qing Shan.

  But it's hard to find the treasure location!

  Teng Qing Shan was lucky once, the Black Iron River Liu family moved to a sea island, the Chun Shen family slaughtered them and took over. Because the island is so small. The Black Iron River Liu family had just arrived... So the Chun Shen family easily found the location of the hidden treasure! Teng Qing Shan then took it by chance.

  "Thirty-one million five hundred thousand taels of silver for the Dongtai family, is there a higher bid?" shouted Situ Fan again.

  "Thirty-two taels of gold!" The voice came from beside Mount Tengqin again, this time it was the Great Elder who made the bid.

  Qingyun Mountain looked over and smiled: "This bald iron stone slab is rare and precious after all. It can be sold for 3.2 million taels of gold, that's acceptable! If the price goes any higher, I won't sell it."

  "Thirty-three million taels of gold!" A voice came from the Tianfeng family's side.

  It's Hualien again.

  "It seems like the Tianfeng family is going to get it after all."

  "Originally thought it could be bought for less than 300,000 yuan, but that's impossible now."

  There were many whispers around.

  "Brother Teng..." Li Kun looked at Teng Qing Shan beside him, and Teng Qing Shan glanced at the Tian Feng family in the distance before raising his signboard for the first time. He said calmly, "42 million taels of gold!" Teng Qing Shan's voice was not loud, but it echoed in every person's ear within the garden.

  Silence!

  The entire garden suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked over here. The young princess of the Dan Tai family also stared at Teng Qing Shan in astonishment.

  No one had expected that once obscure Mount Qingcheng would suddenly be valued at such a staggering price!

  And... it was on the basis of '330,000 taels' before, and jumped to '420,000 taels'. 420,000 taels of gold, these super wealthy families, each one has the ability to take out so much money, but is it worth it? Treasures always have a price that they should have.

  Bald head stone slab, not enough to drive people crazy.

  If it were the thirty-six carvings left by Emperor Yu himself, placed here. To say nothing of three million taels of gold, even thirty million, or hundreds of millions, or even higher! It would be worth it. Unfortunately, this is just a set of bald stone slabs, and even if one could obtain them, it would be extremely difficult to cultivate the extraordinary axe technique.

  "Forty-two taels of gold, is there a higher bid?" shouted Cai Fang from the central pavilion.

  On the garden corridor, all the big families lowered their flags and drums, only whispering about the price of Tong Qing Mountain being so fierce.

  "My Tianfeng family, not long ago, just exterminated a Yanhe Huang family that provoked my Tianfeng family and obtained 500,000 taels of gold. These gold will be spent here... 500,000 taels of gold!" That Tianfeng family's He Lianhao said casually, "If anyone offers a higher price, my Tianfeng family won't want it."

  No sooner were these words spoken than many families began to discuss and marvel at them.

  Teng Qing Shan's face looked somewhat unsightly.

  500,000 taels of gold?

  I only have thirty-two million taels of gold, and the merchant promised to lend me twelve million taels of gold. Adding them together is only forty-four million taels of gold! But the other side asked for fifty million taels of gold at once, a terrifying price.

  "It's no wonder they're the number one family in the world." Fu Dao shook his head and sighed, "To annihilate a small family, they've managed to swindle 500,000 taels of gold. This amount of wealth is nothing to them, but for us..."

  There were many comments and gasps of amazement.

  No one else is bidding! After all, such a large amount of gold is also important to these big families. The Tianfeng family is the overlord of Beihanguo, the number one family in the world, and naturally they are wealthy and generous. But other families like Fang, Wang, and Lang, etc., can't afford to splurge tens of thousands of gold!

  "Tianfeng family, to destroy a family and get so much gold?" Teng Qing Shan also felt that the Tianfeng family was wealthy and arrogant, and his eyes flashed with cold light, "It seems I have no other choice!"

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