Chapter Fifty-Seven: Obtaining Great Benefits Through Theft

  "Actually, you don't have to say it, I already know. You must have helped him build a set of Hainan Huanghuali wood furniture, but then discovered that there was a rare and precious wood, Qinan, inside. Am I right?" Zhao Long said with certainty.

  "You... how did you know?" Liu Liu couldn't believe it, staring at Zhao Long in astonishment.

  "Hmm...” Zhao Long said: “There aren't many types of wood that are better than Hainan Huanghua pear, to make you all so excited and have a dispute over profits. It must be something extremely valuable. This thing shouldn't be very big, otherwise others would easily discover it, and you would also easily discover it, not just finding out later on. That means only Qinan wood could have such value. Currently, the market price for good quality Qinan is between 10,000 to 15,000 per kilogram. Am I right?"

  Qin Nan is worth tens of times more than gold, and a small piece of Qin Nan may be worth hundreds of millions. Zhao Long deliberately mentioned the price to increase his persuasive power. Zhao Long's ability to explain things so clearly seems very convincing, but it's actually based on his prior knowledge of the outcome.

  After listening to Zhao Long's words, Liu Liu couldn't help but take another look at him, and it was absolutely a different view.

  "Alas!" Liu Liu sighed and said, "It's also because I was greedy for a moment. I, Liu Liu, have always followed the rules when doing things, just making a profit from the middle price difference, helping people build a bridge, and occasionally exchanging some small things. This time, I knew that an official's family member had received news that someone was going to investigate them, so they wanted to transfer their assets. I know someone who is related to their family, so I contacted them. They have a set of Hainan Huanghua Li furniture, which I also went to see and thought it was pretty good."

  Liu Liu said and was about to take out a cigarette, Zhao Long handed him one, they lit up and Liu Liu took a puff before continuing: "Because I had collaborated with Shao Yu Song before, I found him and it turned out he was still in the hospital. But as soon as he heard about this matter, he immediately left the hospital early to go with me. In the end, we agreed on a price of 9.8 million for the furniture set. Even at this price, Shao Yu Song got a great deal, normally it would be at least 15 million or more. Because this set of furniture is extremely complete, even the dresser is made of Hainan Huanghua pear wood."

  "As a result, when we were moving out finally, I found a small compartment under the cabinet, and surprisingly there were three pieces of qin. They were well-preserved, each weighing about one catty. At that time, Shao Yushong stopped me from speaking out, telling me that the deal had been settled, and this family was definitely corrupt officials. I was also tempted at that time, plus Shao Yushong hinted to me that everyone would benefit later..."

  "Alas." Liu Liu sighed again, "After all, it's just a matter of greed, and he found an excuse that suits himself. Since the deal was already settled, what's inside the furniture is another story, so I didn't say anything. I didn't expect him to deny it when we got back..."

  "Let's go and take a look." As he watched the large cabinet being carried in, Zhao Long had an idea and pulled Liu Liu to walk towards it.

  Liu Liu didn't want to go in the first place, but Zhao Long's strength was too much for him to resist.

  "How did you come again, what do you want to do..." At this moment, Shao Yusu was following the cabinet, carefully moving inward, his eyes fixed on the bottom. Suddenly saw Liu Liu coming back, just shouted, but the next moment discovered Zhao Long, and his voice trembled slightly.

  Because of what happened that day, he could never forget it, and unexpectedly Zhao Long was a practitioner's son.

  "It's nothing, just taking a look at what good stuff Old Shao has dug up again. This is Hainan Huanghua pear wood, right?" Zhao Long said as he directly lifted the cloth covering it and patted it twice with his hand.

  "Light, light..." Xiao Yusu thought of stepping forward to stop him, but he was also a bit afraid, and his mouth kept saying: "Yes, yes, ordinary Hainan Huanghua pear wood, not worth much money, not worth much money."

  When Zhao Long patted the Hainan Huanghua pear wood furniture, he had already felt the wood energy inside. Before, Lao Shi mentioned that cultivating wood energy in the Nine Turns Five Elements Body Refining Technique could nourish other powers and was beneficial to the body. At that time, Zhao Long had found a tree that was thirty or forty years old, but he couldn't feel much wood energy, weak to the point of being less than one percent of the gold energy in a gram of gold. And yet, this little bit of wood energy was the foundation for maintaining the entire large tree's lush branches and leaves.

  But at this moment, there is a strong wood aura here. Compared to this wood aura, the three forces coming from the bottom are truly powerful. If we say that the amount of wood aura contained in this huge Hainan Huanghua pear furniture is one, then each of the three strange nanmu trees contains 100 times that amount. Together, they have three hundred times the wood aura contained in this Hainan Huanghua pear furniture.

  At this moment, Zhao Longjin's golden energy has completed the first cycle of nine times of body refinement, and his golden energy has reached the first cycle. His physical strength and sensitivity to the five elements' energy are also different from before.

  "Suck it all in." Zhao Long's heart skipped a beat as he informed Lao Shi.

  "You're crazy!" Lao Shi scolded: "Do you know what it means to measure one's strength before acting? Although Mu Zhi Qi is the energy of life, anything can be too much of a good thing... when water overflows, it spills..."

  "If it can't be killed, then absorb it. This thing is not ordinary. We can't run to someone else's store and absorb their things, but with Shao Yusu, we don't need to be polite. If this time doesn't absorb enough, maybe he'll have a defense next time and it will be hard to find again. Moreover, there are many forces watching me now, I also can't take action to rob his things." There's another thing Zhao Long didn't say, soon they would go to the Heart Intention Six Harmony Gate. He knew that this was different from going to a gambling ship, if he got on that stage, Lei Xiangyu would let people beat him to death with all their might.

  Although the Six Harmony Gate's intentions were not too serious, at most they would just be defeated, but Ou Yang Feng and his men had thoughts of humiliating themselves, thinking that Zhao Long would let them have their way. Originally he came back to buy some things for cultivation, now encountering this good opportunity, naturally he wouldn't let it slip away.

  "It's fierce enough, it's spicy enough, I like it. Be careful, it's coming." Lao Shi said, and in an instant, a huge power surged into his body. Before, only his left arm could store some strength, but this time the wooden energy instantly spread throughout his entire body, apparently because it was too enormous.

  Zhao Long was so excited that he reached the extreme, his body full of energy to the extreme, feeling the sky and earth changing, as if he was about to fly. He even had hallucinations, wasn't this too exaggerated? Zhao Long's conversation with Lao Shi was completed in an instant, and absorbing the wood aura was also a matter of a split second.

  "Hmm..." Zhao Long took several steps back in a row.

  "What's going on?" Shaoyu Song was confused, seeing Zhao Long take a few steps back after hearing his words. When did this guy become so obedient?

  Liu Liu looked at Zhao Long with a strange expression. At this time, the door of Tianyan Antique Shop opened, and Fatso walked out smiling with someone. The person who came out with Fatso was none other than Yi Sitao, and they were chatting.

  "Boss..." Fatso had sharp eyes and saw Zhao Long from afar, shouting and waving at him. Then he turned his head to smile at Yi Sito: "Fourth brother, have you seen such an irresponsible boss? He ran away for several days, and you haven't seen him in these few days. To punish him, we'll let him treat us later, and we'll have a good drink."

  Yi Si Tao has been looking for Zhao Long these past few days, but hasn't seen him yet. Instead, he's become familiar with Fatso. Fatso doesn't know Yi Si Tao's background, only that Boss calls him Fourth Brother, so he follows suit and calls him that too.

  "Come visit my place when you're free, I still have something to attend to, will be in touch." At this moment, Zhao Long's speech was very labored, as if he had eaten too many pills, and hallucinations appeared around him, with people constantly changing. He said a sentence towards Liu Liu's direction and ran forward directly.

  "Old... big... you... finally..." He ran in the direction of Fatso and his group, looking at Fatso's flesh constantly trembling, his voice was like shouting from across a cliff, Zhao Long didn't dare to stay any longer.

  "I... have something to do... Fourth Brother... see you later... teach him some knowledge about antiques..." Zhao Longren didn't stay, shouting towards the direction of Pangzi and others, he had already sprinted away. He felt that at this moment, he was controlling his speed slightly, but in reality, in the eyes of Liu Liu and Pangzi, he was not much slower than the world champion's 100-meter dash speed.

  "My god... Boss..." Fatso stretched out his hand, but could only watch Zhao Long's back disappear into the distance. The next instant, he was gone. Fatso's hand remained suspended in mid-air for a long time before he finally put it down.

  "Haha......" Yi Sitao was also stunned for a moment, but quickly recovered and said: "Zhao Long should have something to do, let's go. Today, Fourth Brother will treat you, order whatever you want."

  As for Shao Yusu and Liu Liu, they were also stunned for a while, not understanding what Zhao Long was up to. However, after watching the goods being moved in, Shao Yusu thought to himself, even if you're good at martial arts, so what? I've already planned to sell that shop, and with this deal, I'll buy out all the nearby storefronts later on. Before that, I'll drive you away first. To deal with a newcomer like you, I have a hundred ways to force you to close up shop without even showing my face.

  He didn't dare to confront him head-on, but Shao Yusu was still unwilling to give up in his heart and had already begun to think of ways to drive Zhao Long away.

  (Recommendation tickets, I'm really resentful, how can there be so few of them!!)