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.

This ore was surrounded by rocks, and a single

An imperial ice jade was concealed within, and it would weigh

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

then

was a young woman, and she hastily jogged over to him. “Sir, is there anything I can

you with?”

and asked, “Do you sell

these are leftovers from the cut

pointed at the ore containing the imperial jade, asking,

this one costs

it wasn’t even categorized, so it was even worse than the lowest–grade jade! She actually asked for 800 in exchange for

ores like

treasure hiding within, he would’ve turned around and left, not even

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he could just nod and say, Fine. I’ll buy this

guy trying to do? Why

are abandoned ones. Does he really think he

other people saw this,

payment, then asked the assistant to load the

50 million with me, so you can pick

head. “It’s okay. I’ll

her eyes. It cost only 800, so of course, he was

assured her, saying, “Be patient. The best is yet to

a

toward the eastern side of the area, where the stones were being cut. Josh was standing there,

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

William bringing a leftover

a useless ore just because you can’t afford an ore from

“What do you know? I have a

bet, and he couldn’t help but give William a pitiful look.

the ore. Cesar went forward and examined it. With

“Make two more incisions!” At

green! This ore piece is worth at least 7 million! You win! If it were

anger from before completely gone. Then, he looked at William with

the workstation. After that, he drew a few lines on

set to work

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still completely

others sighed, feeling that

smart woman, and she knew

of them yielded nothing green. With every cut, the onlookers would sigh

into a cube, then continued

money to buy the ore, right? Sorry to break it to you, but leftover ores are nothing more than that. It will never be as good as

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

but why was he saying that the stone wasn’t cut yet?

lines to the stone cutter. This time, he said with

the stone?” Everyone was stunned. The stone was already all cut up, so was it even necessary to

stone cutter had his doubts, but he did as he was told. Following William’s requests, he began sanding the stone with

the workstation with utmost focus bordering on zeal because this tiny stone would be worth

to wonder