A Mortal’s Medicinal Elixirs

Chapter 27 Rare Imperial Ice Jade

“Is this Gem Wizard guy a big deal?‘ asked William.

“Very!” Tia replied in a slightly serious tone. “He debuted at the age of 15 and dabbled in stone gambling. He had far more wins than losses, and he had accumulated hundreds of millions in property by the time he was 20. At the age of 30, people were already calling him the Gem Wizard. I heard that as long as it’s good–quality jade, he’ll never miss it.”

William raised an eyebrow. “Since he’s so good at it, he should be filthy rich by now, right?”

Tia replied, “He didn’t get rich, though, and he currently has hundreds of millions in debt. You see, he not only loves stone gambling, but he also loves regular gambling as well

William understood immediately as he said, “So he’s addicted to gambling.”

“That’s why you have to be careful,” Tia said.

You’re the one who has to be careful. If I lose, you’ll have to marry Mr. Young over there, uttered William. Josh walked over to them gleefully and said to Tia, “What will it be. Tia? With Cesar here, you should get that guy to admit defeat while he can. Be a good girl and just marry into the Young Family.”

Tia snapped back, “Josh, the game hasn’t even started yet. Get off your high horse.”

Hearing her words, Josh laughed. “I can’t help feeling good whenever I think about you becoming my wife!” Then, he stopped smiling and glared at William, saying, “Kid, there’s still time for you to back out.”

William responded, “You’re so full of nonsense. No wonder Tia doesn’t like you.”

Josh’s expression turned cold. “Just wait and see!”

He dragged Cesar to the side to pick out the stones. William paid them no mind as he walked inside leisurely. When he passed by the small yard, he asked, “Are there stones in here as well?”

“Of course, and they’re all stones worth hundreds of millions. However, this yard will only be open to the public during the stone gambling festival. When the time comes, stone gamblers from all over the world. will participate. If you’re interested, we can come and have a look ourselves.”

Josh seemed to be absolutely confident that he would win this gamble, so he didn’t care about the price as he allowed Cesar to choose whatever he liked.

Seeing Josh’s nonchalant attitude, Tia suggested, “Josh, since you’re gambling stones, you should set a limit. The total price of purchase for both parties shouldn’t exceed 5 million each.”

Josh said indifferently, “No problem! No matter what, you’re already mine, Tia.”

“Keep dreaming. Tia couldn’t help but smirk.

Before she could finish speaking, Cesar spoke up. “Mr. Young, this is the one.”

It was a black jade ore from a secondary deposit. It weighed more than 200 pounds, and it was quite huge. There was an obvious hint of green on its surface, and it was worth 4.98 million!

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William from time to time with a smug expression on his face.

William ignored him. He looked at a few ores but wasn’t satisfied with them. The ores were expensive, yes, but the jade within was limited.

The jade merchants were too clever these days. Every ore in the Supreme Area was already appraised by professionals, and the merchants had a confident guess of how much the ores would be priced. So, it actually was quite difficult to find a jade so premium.

After looking for a bit, he felt dizzy again, so he subconsciously rubbed his temples. His action worried Tia slightly. “It’s okay. Take your time.” It was obvious that she was faking her calmness, and she was actually on pins and needles.

William replied, “I guess it’s not easy to get rich on stone gambling either. These ores aren’t really worth more than their price.”

“Of course.” The lady agreed with his sentiment. “If you buy 10 ores at random, you’re already considered quite lucky if you can get 2 worth more than their price.”

As they spoke, they passed by the northeast corner of the yard. William spotted dozens of variably sized leftovers from cut stones piled haphazardly in the corner.

but see through them for a moment. He discovered that an ore of almost 100 pounds contained a jade the size of a fist! This ore was surrounded by rocks, and a single jade lay within. Nothing

imperial ice jade was

ice jade was found, someone would quickly add it to their collection. Its price was astronomical, and an imperial ice jade pendant weighing not even an ounce would cost hundreds of thousands! If it were made into a bracelet, it would cost somewhere in the range of tens of millions! A reserved guess would land this

breath, then waved a salesperson over.

woman, and she hastily jogged over to

you with?”

pointed at the leftovers and asked,

“Sir, all these are leftovers from the cut gems. They’re all priced very

at the ore containing the imperial jade, asking,

one costs 800”

ore was obviously useless material, and it wasn’t even categorized, so it was even worse than the lowest–grade jade! She

ores like

hiding within, he

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could just nod and say, Fine. I’ll

guy trying to do? Why is he

are abandoned ones. Does he really think he could get an imperial

saw this, they all

then asked the assistant to load the

couldn’t help but say, “I have 50 million with me, so you can

“It’s okay. I’ll

eyes. It cost only 800, so of course, he was expected to pay

saying, “Be patient. The best is yet to

lightly, a little

of the area, where the stones were being cut. Josh was standing there, sneering as he waited for William

which cost almost 5 million was already showing something. As the ear–piercing noise sounded, Josh’s smile

saw William bringing a leftover

fool! You’re buying a useless ore just because you can’t afford an ore from the Supreme Area? Haha, what a

was unaffected as he glanced at the workstation. “What

seemed to have heard about their bet, and he

the ore. Cesar went forward and examined it. With just a glance,

jade inside. He laughed and declared, “Make two more incisions!” At the same

This ore piece is worth at least 7 million!

completely gone. Then, he looked

someone to move the 100–pound leftover ore to the workstation. After that, he drew a few lines on the ore with a pen, then said to the stone cutter,

work

cutting, and after the single

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was still completely white.

feeling that he was

was a smart woman, and she knew William had

to make 5 more cuts, but all 6 of them yielded nothing green. With every cut, the onlookers would sigh once, feeling that all this

up the ore that was already cut into a cube, then continued drawing lines

having the money to buy the ore, right? Sorry to break it

William said calmly. “I haven’t started cutting the stone

made, but why was he saying

with drawn lines to the stone cutter. This time, he said with a stern expression.

stone was already all cut up, so was it even necessary to

did as he was told.

bordering on zeal because this tiny stone would

Josh to wonder why he would