Blue Silver Grass Strategy

After saying that, without waiting for Ling Yi's response, he took a half step back and stood behind Ling Yi, waiting for Ling Yi to continue moving forward.

"..." Ling Yi looked at Jiang Yuan, then at his friends beside him, and received four pairs of eyes that said 'you can handle it yourself'. He shook his head helplessly, nodded to Jiang Yuan, and walked towards the circular building in front.

Under the watchful eye of a guard with at least a first-level soul master on each side, the six people entered the door. As soon as they could clearly see the huge space and splendid decorations inside, a well-dressed young man stepped forward and asked with a smile. road:

"Hello everyone, my name is Xiaotie, and I'm a staff member here. Is there anything I can help you with?"

Looking at this young man who was about the same age as Li Zhishu and whose aura was comparable to that of Long Yin, Ling Yi smiled in the same way... no, a more sincere smile, and said:

"Hello, my companions and I heard that there will be a large-scale auction here soon. I would like to ask, are there any requirements for participating in this auction?"

"Okay, I understand~" The young man named Xiaotie nodded in response, smiling.

After a pause, he slowly followed Ling Yi and the others, and began to introduce:

"Guest, that's it. The auction will be held in three days, on the third floor of our place~

Unlike the big shopping mall on the first floor, where every guest can browse freely, if you want to enter the auction hall on the third floor, you need to be certified as a bidder~"

As they walked and listened, Ling Yi spoke up at the right time and said, "Could you please tell me more about this bidding qualification certification~"

Xiao Tie nodded upon hearing this, and continued with a smile: “Generally speaking, the qualification certifications of all auction houses in major cities and main cities are almost the same, divided into several different levels, and the entry threshold is 10,000 gold soul coins.

In other words, you need an asset certificate of gold soul coins before you can participate in the auction. This is necessary to avoid malicious bidding, and I hope that some guests will forgive me~"

At this point, the young man named Xiao Tie observed the expressions of the six people in front of him inconspicuously. Seeing that Ling Yi and the others looked indifferent after hearing the amount of '10,000 gold soul coins', he immediately felt certain in his heart, and the smile on his face became more enthusiastic.

As they were talking, they had already walked to the weapons section in the big supermarket on the first floor. Ling Yi looked around and saw that all of them were fine products with more than 500 forgings. Occasionally, there were some swords with 700 or 800 forgings, which were supported by weapon racks that were obviously of great value, making them look even more extraordinary.

Turning to look at Xiao Tie, Ling Yi's voice was neither high nor low, magnetic and melodious, and he said with a smile: "Ten thousand gold soul coins are no problem, we brothers can take it out~"

Just when Xiao Tie's eyes lit up and he wanted to say something, Ling Yi changed the subject and continued, "I want to ask a few more questions~"

Xiao Tie said quickly: "Dear guest, please speak~"

Ling Yi: "The first question is, if we also want to use this auction to sell some things, what procedures are required?"

"That's easy~" Xiao Tie replied, "We have a special appraiser in our auction house. As long as you hand over your items to our appraiser for appraisal, if the value exceeds one thousand gold soul coins, it can be included in the auction in three days."

At this point, Xiao Tie paused, smiled at Ling Yi apologetically, and then continued: "It's just that if the auction is successful, our auction house will charge 10% of the transaction price as a handling fee. I hope you can understand~"

"It makes sense~" Ling Yi nodded, expressing his understanding of the auction house's charging of handling fees.

But having said that, I still have some complaints in my heart that I want to express.

The data in this world are really speechless.

If he remembered correctly, in the original novel, Tang San took Xiao Wu to the Tiandou Auction House, and the introduction he got seemed to be exactly the same as the Xiaotie in front of him.

Among all the information collected before, Ling Yi had already understood it clearly. He just accompanied the staff member named Xiao Tie to go through the process in order to make himself and others look less abrupt.

According to the information Ling Yi obtained, the handling fee of the transaction price at the auction seemed to be 10% regardless of the selling price.

This data is quite a joke.

Generally speaking, the higher the transaction price, the lower the handling fee ratio will be.

But this is not the case on the Douluo Continent. If the auction price is one million gold soul coins, the auction house will draw 100,000 gold soul coins. If the auction price is ten million gold soul coins, the auction house will draw one million gold soul coins.

Of course, if the bid is sold at the starting price of gold soul coins according to the minimum bidding standard, the auction house will only charge a handling fee of gold soul coins.

However, this data is still extremely painful.

If he were strong enough now, Ling Yi would want to open an auction. According to the prices of the auction items, he could set different handling fee ratios, ranging from 0.5 percent to 5 percent. This reasonable profit margin alone would be enough to snatch away more than 80 percent of the auction business in Douluo Continent!

Who doesn’t like small amounts of money, especially those valuable good things? A 10% handling fee is enough to make many people give up.

In Ling Yi's view, in such an extraordinary world, the profitability of the auction house should be ranked second. The most important thing is that we can use this platform to bring together good things from all over the continent to our eyes.

The value of many things is not necessarily high, but there is a price but no market. I want to buy it, but I don't know where to buy it.

It’s just like Ling Yi’s goal this time.

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Chapter 122 Blacksmith Master

Shabak Auction House, second floor, general item appraisal room.

Led by Xiao Tie, Ling Yi and his group of six filed in and saw three tables and three figures inside.

An old man with his eyes closed, and two middle-aged men each holding an object and studying it. Both of them were wearing black robes. I guess they are the professionals who are responsible for identifying the value of items here.

Xiao Tie took Ling Yi to the middle-aged man whose table was closest to the door and said to Ling Yi, "Dear guest, this is the third appraiser of our auction house..."

"Uncle Kui~" Xiao Tie said to the third appraiser: "Please appraise this distinguished guest's items and give an estimate of the price--"

"Oh?" Appraiser No. 3, who was called Uncle Kui, looked up at Xiao Tie, then at Ling Yi and the others. Coincidentally, Ling Yi also smiled and nodded at him. He immediately put down the crystal disc in his hand, put it aside, tapped the table with his fingers, and said:

"Okay, then please take out the things so I can take a look at them——"

"Ayin~" Ling Yi turned his head and looked to the side, looking past Qingqiu Xin and said to Long Yin: "Take it out~"

"Okay! Brother Yi~" Long Yin responded decisively. He swiftly untied the knot on his chest, took off the package on his back, and handed it to Ling Yi.

Ling Yi took it, put the package on the table in front of him, and without keeping anyone in suspense, he opened it directly, revealing a set of "clothes" inside.

The overall color of the 'clothes' is silver-gray, and against the dark green wrapping cloth, it looks gray and not very conspicuous.

Ling Yi picked up the folded "clothes" and spread it out on the table, then extended his hand to the appraiser No. 3 in front of him and made a "please" gesture.

Seeing how relaxed and casual Ling Yi was when picking up the 'clothes', Appraiser No. 3's eyes, which were originally filled with interest because of the metallic color on the 'clothes', became much calmer. He sat up straight with a calm expression and reached out his hands to touch the unfolded vest-style 'clothes'.

However, Appraiser No. 3, who had just touched the vest, was shocked: "This feeling——?"

To be able to make a living as an identification expert, one must not only be knowledgeable but also have a keen sense of perception.

Whether it is seeing with eyes, smelling with nose, touching with hands and so on, whether it is a single one or multiple aspects, one must always have talents beyond ordinary people.

Therefore, with just a touch, Appraiser No. 3 discovered that the material of this vest-style "clothes" was very unusual.

A look of interest reappeared in his eyes. He did not continue to pick up the vest to check it. Instead, he took a handkerchief beside him, wiped his hands thoroughly, and then reached for the vest again.

This time, Appraiser No. 3 grabbed the shoulders of the vest and lifted it up, preparing to pick it up for a closer look.

Who would have thought that at this moment, his movements would pause. After taking a look at Ling Yi who was still smiling, Appraiser No. 3 said nothing. He applied a little force in his hands, picked up the vest, and brought it in front of himself.

Next, appraiser No. 3 stood up and pulled the fabric of the vest hard. Then he took a transparent crystal with a bulge in the middle and thin polished sides, leaned over and looked at the vest that was put back on the table.

After reading it, he put down the transparent crystal and picked up a gleaming dagger again. He started to work on the vest in his hand, either stabbing or cutting diagonally...

As early as when appraiser No. 3 stood up and pulled the vest hard, the noise had already attracted the attention of the other two appraisers in the room.

When he picked up the dagger and operated it, the other middle-aged appraiser wanted to say something, but the old man raised his hand to stop him.

After about ten minutes, Appraiser No. 3 finally put down the vest and dagger in his hands, and said to Ling Yi with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "I'm ashamed to say that I can only see that this is a brand-new metal, woven with inner armor through the spinning technique, and the weaving technique is very skillful. The texture and performance of this new metal are also excellent, which makes the defense of this inner armor quite good. The specific level still needs further testing..."

Hearing this, Ling Yi and the others nodded and followed appraiser No. 3 towards the door at the innermost side of the appraisal room.

The old and middle-aged appraisers who were watching on the side immediately followed, while Xiao Tie turned around and walked out of the appraisal room.

Ling Yi and the others pushed the door open and entered a large interior space of about 100 square meters. The walls were covered with steel plates all around, and in the corner near the door, there were some instruments of various shapes piled up.

"Guest~" Appraiser No. 3 introduced to Ling Yi: "This is the weapons laboratory of our auction house, which is specially used to test the power of weapons and the defensive power of armor~"

As he was speaking, he saw three figures walking in from the door behind him.

The three figures were of different heights, weights and sizes, and of different ages. The oldest one looked to be in his twenties or nearly thirty, while the youngest one looked to be seventeen or eighteen. Xiao Tie stood on the right, in the middle was a tall and strong dark-faced young man, and on the left was a thin and small short-haired boy.

Next, appraiser No. 3 was seen putting the metal inner armor in his hand on a human-shaped wooden stake, while the three people including Xiao Tie took turns releasing their martial spirits and used their soul skills to attack the wooden stake wearing the metal inner armor.

The short-haired boy was named Xu Yixiu, and his martial soul was "White Hair Hedgehog". A circle of white soul rings hovered under his feet, and he launched a round of thorn-like flying needle attacks. Under his control, most of the attacks landed on the metal inner armor, but unfortunately they were all bounced off one by one, without even leaving a trace.

However, looking at the spikes that were three feet deep into the brown wooden stake, as well as one or two spikes that were stuck behind the stake and did not fall off, it was clear that even though the attack power of this soul skill had not reached the level of a hundred years, it was definitely a leader among soul skills under a hundred years old!

The short-haired young man Xu Yixiu returned empty-handed, and the one who followed him forward was actually Xiao Tie, holding a "straight-back knife" that was more than four feet long in his hand. His aura had changed from being harmless before to becoming fierce.

With a "clang", the second yellow soul ring under his feet shone brightly, and Xiao Tie instantly crossed a distance of three meters. Holding the knife in both hands, he chopped down diagonally, and slammed the metal inner armor on the wooden stake.

Unfortunately, apart from the fact that the wooden stake was bent back thirty degrees due to the force, there was still no trace left on the metal inner armor.

Just as the black-faced young man Wu Jinyuan summoned the "Hammer" martial spirit, and the one white and two yellow spirit rings around him moved up and down rhythmically, preparing to step forward, Jiang Yuan, who had been watching silently on the side, moved.

He stretched out his right hand, and his martial spirit "Iron Refining Gauntlet" appeared, with five circles of yellow, purple and black halos circling under his feet.

"Don't waste time~" Jiang Yuan said calmly, "This inner armor is enough to withstand more than five consecutive attacks from the fourth soul skill of a strong attack-type soul master!"

As he spoke, a fourth circle of purple light rings lit up from the inside to the outside, and a red beam of light emanated from Jiang Yuan's hand, hitting the wooden stakes and metal inner armor near the wall seven or eight meters away.

“Clang! Chi! Clang!”

First there was a sound of metal clashing, and then the base of the wooden stake was pressed against the steel wall by a huge force. Finally, the metal inner armor, unable to bear the stress, hit the steel plate, making a crisp sound.

"..."

After Jiang Yuan's attack, he withdrew his martial spirit and said nothing more. The laboratory fell into silence for a while.

Chapter 123: Wishful Treasures

After a few breaths, giving the auction house staff some time to relax, Ling Yi began to introduce:

"The "Sunken Silver Inner Armor" is made of 1,500 forged "Blue Sea Sunken Silver Alloy" softened and woven. It has excellent toughness and can be extended to 1.5 times its original size. Its defense is not reduced. It can resist five consecutive attacks of the fourth soul skill of a strong attack-type soul master. When facing a large-scale attack with a single-point attack lower than that of a soul master, the "Sunken Silver Inner Armor" will not break the defense within its protection range... Other than that..."

After a pause, Ling Yi looked around at the three appraisers and Xiao Tie, and said with a faint smile: "After the inner armor is attacked and worn out, it can be restored to a certain extent through the nourishment of soul power!"

"..."

After another period of silence, the old appraiser from the auction house came back to his senses first. He glanced at Jiang Yuan who was standing with Zhang Mufeng and the other three, then spoke to Ling Yi:

"My dear guest, this piece of 'Sunken Silver Inner Armor' of yours must have been made by a master blacksmith, or even a grandmaster blacksmith. Let's not talk about its defensive aspect, but if what you said is true, that the worn inner armor can be restored through the nourishment of soul power, then the value of the material alone is enough to make many blacksmiths fight for it and study it..."

"I think the starting price for your "Silver Inner Armor" can be set at 10,000 gold soul coins. What do you think?"

Faced with the starting price of 10,000 gold soul coins, Ling Yi naturally agreed.

"Blue Sea Silver Alloy" is a special soul metal developed together with "Heavy Mysterious Steel" and "Gold of Vitality Stage I".

Compared to the harder and heavier "Heavy Mysterious Steel", and the "Gold of Vitality Stage I" which simply pursues the smooth flow of soul power and deliberately reduces the metal properties, the "Blue Sea Silver Alloy" was developed by Ling Yi based on the magical alloy that Lou Gao used to research the "Eight Treasures Ruyi Soft Armor" in the original work. It pursues toughness and ductility.

The cost is not high. Except for a special mineral called "aquamarine" which is a bit expensive, the others are relatively common materials.

The price of one kilogram of "Iron Essence", the main material, is ten Gold Soul Coins.

Even if the "aquamarine crystal" produced from the deep sea is included, the total material cost is only more than 300 gold soul coins.

In other words, the cost of the craftsmanship of Ling Yi, the master blacksmith, has now reached ten thousand gold!

Following Xiao Tie to the outside of the appraisal room, which was also in a room on the second floor, Ling Yi and six other people applied for the bidding qualification certificates together.

As for the "Sunken Silver Inner Armor", it was directly delivered to the auction house and put up for bidding at a large auction three days later.

After retrieving his Gold Soul Coin stored-value card, Ling Yi took the catalog of goods for the large supermarket on the first floor given by Xiao Tie on behalf of the auction house, and left with Jiang Yuan and the other four, returning to the hotel where they were staying.

……

Three days later, in a large auditorium-style auction hall on the third floor of the auction house.

Ling Yi, Jiang Yuan and others sat quietly on a row of yellow chairs, looking at the round stage in the center of the hall in front of them.

Behind them were three rows of white seats, and in front of them were two rows of yellow seats like the ones below them, followed by purple, black, and, in the front, red.

At this time, the auction had already begun, but the area with red seats was empty. Obviously, this auction, which was of a considerable scale, did not attract any particularly distinguished people.

It was called the ordinary million-level VIP area. One could enter with a deposit of one million gold soul coins. In the three rows of black seats, there were more than a dozen men, women, old and young sitting scattered around.

In the future 500,000-level purple VIP area, there will be at least forty or fifty people, and there will be about seventy or eighty yellow VIPs like Ling Yi and others who have one hundred thousand gold soul coins in their stored value cards.

On the contrary, in the white area at the back, the number of people suddenly decreased, almost the same as in the black seat area, with only about ten people sitting very dispersedly.

In the entire auction hall, only one-third of the people were sitting scattered around.

There is no need to elaborate on the auction process, as it was unremarkable. The only thing worth mentioning was that Ling Yi's "Sunken Silver Inner Armor" was bought by a wealthy middle-aged man in the black VIP area.

Transaction price: 48,000 gold soul coins!

Ling Yi looked indifferent, but Zhang Mufeng next to him was very excited.

As the son of a blacksmith, Zhang Mufeng knew too well what this price represented.

You know, in "Muzhi City", whether it is the blacksmith shop opened by Zhang Mufeng's father Zhang Tie, or other senior blacksmiths, such as Wang Meng and others' blacksmith shops, the annual turnover is only more than 3,000 gold soul coins.