Chapter 4021 — A Grudge Is Born
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Fortunately, the other visitors from Middle Island beside Zheng Tianjie rose in time to restrain him. Unlike Zheng Tianjie, they were neither so arrogant nor so reckless; they knew full well that letting things run their course would bring them nothing but harm.
"What are you doing? Let go of me! Are you trying to mutiny?" Zheng Tianjie refused to give up, but the men beside him were no weaker than he was. With them joining forces to hold him down, Zheng Tianjie could not move a muscle, however formidable his strength.
This fool may not have much upstairs, but his raw strength is astonishing! Wei Zhao watched from afar. Even without directly feeling the qi radiating from Zheng Tianjie, he could sense the man's power indirectly. He and I are simply not on the same level.
"Young Hero Lin, there is really no need for you to back down. Five hundred thousand spirit jade is a bit much, but the Hong Clan Merchant Guild can still afford it," Hong Zhong spoke up from the side. Given the immense help Wei Zhao had rendered the Hong Clan Merchant Guild this time, no sum of spirit jade would be too great—they would pay it for him without a moment's hesitation.
After all, in recent days, though the Hong Clan Merchant Guild had been secretly undercut by Wang Tong and his cronies and was desperately short of high-end goods, it correspondingly had spirit jade in extraordinarily abundant circulation. Five hundred thousand was nothing at all.
"There is no need. The value of this ten-piece forging set, in my view, is at most thirty thousand. To get into a spat with a fool and let it climb to five hundred thousand—is that not sheer madness?" Wei Zhao shook his head.
He had no idea what price the top-grade elixirs he had refined for Hong Zhong would ultimately fetch, but the man's support had already gone far beyond what was reasonable. There was simply no justification for wasting spirit jade.
Still, watching Zheng Tianjie from afar, his face twisted into a murderous expression as though he meant to devour Wei Zhao alive, Wei Zhao silently nursed his own grudge. First you set your sights on my woman, and now you want to snatch my forging materials. You bastard—just you wait!
In his former days in the mortal realm, Wei Zhao had been a ruthless man, and even now on the North Island, he was the sort who would ruin anyone who rubbed him the wrong way. This time, he was genuinely angered.
Seeing Wei Zhao say as much, Hong Zhong said no more and nodded at once. "Very well, then. In any case, the forging materials you need, Young Hero Lin, are surely not to be found at this one seller alone. I shall think of something in due course; there should be a way to gather them for you."
Wei Zhao merely gave a noncommittal "Mm." Only the one who tied the knot can undo it. His mind was now fixed entirely on Zheng Tianjie. Whether for Tianchan's sake or for the forging materials, he and the man were bound to settle accounts once and for all.
With the primary target of this trip slipping through his fingers, the rest of the auction no longer had much to do with Wei Zhao.
Though with the spirit jade in hand and Hong Zhong's backing, his resources were in no way inferior to Zheng Tianjie's, and he was competitive enough for any rare lot—yet unfortunately, Wei Zhao's heart was no longer in it.
In fact, it was not only Wei Zhao. After the upheaval just now, even Zheng Tianjie had lost interest in the auction. There was only one thing on his mind now: once back, have his people investigate Wei Zhao's background as quickly as possible, then find an opportunity to finish off this blind bumpkin!
With those two most conspicuous figures out of the running, the auction finally settled into a normal rhythm. Though the final price of each lot still ran much higher than usual, it was no longer as absurd as before. R1152