Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Chapter 496: Chapter 246: End of the Auction (2)

”I still have one billion left over, although it’s insignificant in comparison, it’s some ready cash. If you don’t mind, just use it!”

The Xu Family Patriarch immediately responded: ”I also have over a billion left. If Brother Qin needs it, feel free to use it.”

Chu Xiu glanced at the two with a smile in his eyes. Without hesitation, he accepted their bank cards and said, ”The Qin Family will remember your kindness.”

After a pause, he flipped his wrist, and a Fierce Tier [Perfect] necklace appeared in his hand.

Although he had previously disposed of most of his equipment with Qin Xiang, there were still some pieces like this beautiful necklace, whose actual value exceeded its practical use. Unwilling to exchange it for a loss, he kept a few pieces.

Now, the necklace in his hand emitted a faint blue glow, as beautiful as a flawless sapphire, no less precious than the jewels auctioned earlier, and was worth at least two billion.

He handed the necklace to Qin Xiwen’s fiancée, smiling: ”Let this piece of equipment be my small token of goodwill to the younger generation. I hope the marriage between our families will strengthen our relationship further.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the young woman looked surprised and overwhelmed, glancing at her patriarch, who could barely contain his smile, urging, ”Ruoxue, hurry and thank Uncle Qin!”

The young woman quickly thanked him, while Qin Yunrou stood there, dumbfounded, staring at the necklace, her expression extremely complex.

What she had tried so hard to obtain before was casually given away by Chu Xiu.

She realized that Chu Xiu hadn’t bought it for her, not because he was stingy or short of money, but because he had clearly seen through her intentions and simply didn’t care.

And if he was so generous to outsiders, she thought that playing the role of a good and obedient descendant would surely bring her benefits.

Thinking of this, Qin Yunrou felt deeply regretful.

The Xu Family Patriarch, on the other hand, was contemplating if there were any young, handsome, and suitable heirs in the family for marriage alliances.

Chu Xiu didn’t bother with what everyone thought. After giving the necklace, he said no more and turned to leave the private box.

He gifted the necklace as an assurance to the three families.

If his expectations were correct, the three families would soon expand their businesses under his name. Even if he did nothing, the Qin Family would enter a period of rapid development.

At that time, the benefits Chu Xiu could gain would far exceed the value of a single necklace.

Of course, that is unless the Qin Family went and did something reckless.

”It all depends on their own fate now.”

With this thought, Chu Xiu didn’t dwell on it, proceeding to the backend of the auction.

He naturally didn’t have that much cash on him, but in the auction house, bartering artifacts for payment was a common practice. After all, who would have hundreds of billions in cash lying around?

Usually, there are two ways to barter artifacts: one is for an appraiser from the auction house to determine the value, while the other is to consign them for a later auction.

The former would fetch a slightly lower price, but not by much, since auction houses need to maintain their reputation. Lowballing would harm their credibility.

The upside is you can obtain the goods immediately, and Chu Xiu decided to use this method to quickly enter the world of [Hundred Ghosts Melting Furnace] and seize the first opportunity.

Soon, under the guidance of an attendant, he arrived at the back, where dozens of people had already gathered, including Jiang Lingfu.

He greeted Chu Xiu, introduced him around, and Chu learned that those with Jiang Lingfu were all [Heroic Spirits] from various prominent families!

Clearly, they were also interested in Chu Xiu, wanting to see how he would pay for the two hundred and fifty billion.

Under the curious gaze of everyone, Chu Xiu stepped forward and said, ”I want to barter with my artifacts.”

”No problem,” the auction director warmly welcomed him, ”Would you like us to appraise and price them, or consign them for auction?”

”Appraise.”

”Alright, these five are our senior appraisers, and the deviation in price for their appraised artifacts will not exceed 5%. Please take out your items.”

Chu Xiu nodded, waved his hand, and a pile of equipment appeared on the table.

This was Qin Yu’s original equipment, which Chu Xiu intended to offload.

After a round of appraisal, the total value came to 12.1 billion.

Chu Xiu nodded, then raised his hand again, and four [Upgrade Sparks (Legend)] appeared in the room.

This immediately caused a commotion, even the [Heroic Spirits] narrowed their eyes.

The previous King Tier equipment was nothing special, but Upgrade Sparks were not easy to come by, and four at once demonstrated Chu Xiu’s capability.

After an appraisal, the elder offered a price of 12.6 billion each.

Slightly lower than the auction price, but acceptable.

After some contemplation, he also took out and sold the previously acquired S-Class Profession for 10.1 billion.

Now, Chu Xiu was still short 187.4 billion, a significant gap remains.

”Seems I’ll have to sell some [Legendary] equipment.”

Chu Xiu thought to himself.

The valuable items he had left, such as equipment blueprints, were not something he would sell, as waiting for two weapon refining traditions to finish would easily multiply their value several times over.

Those forbidden items also couldn’t be sold, as they are hard to price, and forced transactions would yield particularly low prices; it’s better to exchange them at private trade meetings with those in need.

[Independent Anchor Points] were too valuable, and exchanging them for Huaxia coins would be a huge loss.

So, only selling equipment seemed viable.

After some thought, Chu Xiu again flipped his wrist, and three pieces of equipment appeared in the room!

[Immortal Corpse King Talisman]! [Vampire Count’s Wings]! [Qian Dapo’s Harp]!