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This made many people in the banquet hall begin to feel dissatisfied with Ye Shuang. It was probably because he had never seen such a treasure before, so he intentionally wanted to get a closer look at it so that he could boast about it in the future.

There were even some people with ill intentions who were considering whether they should secretly plot against Ye Shuang to make this arrogant fellow suffer a bit. However, due to their fear of Xunyang Restaurant and the fact that there were many people monitoring the banquet from inside the banquet hall, many people only thought about it for a bit and no one really dared to do so.

Even Sister Hua showed a hint of disdain on the stage. She was even more confused about Wei San's arrangements. Was it really worth Third Master Wei to place such a silly person in such high regard?

However, Ye Shuang did not care about the contemptuous stares from the others. He took the thousand-year-old fire jade from Wei Ran's white-gloved hand and flipped it around with ease.

Seeing Ye Shuang's casual action, Wei Ran, who was at the side, broke out in a cold sweat. This fire jade was similar in hardness to jade and also considered extremely weak.

"No wonder. This thing is not a true fire crystal. There's something strange about it!" At this moment, Ye Shuang was looking at the round, jade-like, pure white object in his hand. Inside was a treasure with red flames pulsing around it. After carefully examining it for a long time, he finally came to a conclusion.

In his previous life, Ye Shuang had seen too many of these crystals everyday, so he didn't treasure them much. At this moment, he realized that this crystal was slightly different from the many fire crystals he had seen in his previous life.

Although the appearance was similar to that of jade and there were even flames pulsing within the stone, Ye Shuang suddenly felt a piercing pain as he held the stone in his hand and felt the fire true energy that was contained within the stone flow through his meridians.

It had to be known that the Art of Great Destiny he was cultivating could assimilate all energy and true energy into the elemental energy that he needed. However, this kind of pain meant that the energy contained in the stone was definitely not something good.

"Mr. Ye, have you finished reading this fire jade?"

At this moment, Wei Ran, who had been on tenterhooks on the side, finally couldn't hold it in anymore after seeing Ye Shuang casually flip the stone in his hand. He reminded Ye Shuang in a low voice.

If something really happened to this thing when it hit the ground, even if I sold you, you wouldn't be able to afford it. Moreover, this is the key to San Ye's healing, if something really happened to it, Xunyang Restaurant would be in great danger.

He was the same as Sister Hua and still couldn't understand why Wei San valued Ye Shuang so much. However, compared to Sister Hua, Wei Ran, who was Wei San's distant nephew, respected his uncle very much.

Little You, who was standing beside Ye Shuang, gaped. He did not expect Ye Shuang to be so bold. Something worth nearly a billion yuan was just casually twirling it around, not even wearing a glove.

This guy, looking at his hands and feet, if he really failed and did something like this, the kind-hearted Little You would also quietly move closer to Ye Shuang. He stared at Ye Shuang's hands, afraid that he might be able to catch it.

"Un, I've finished reading it. I'll return it to you!"

Hearing Wei Ran's question, Ye Shuang smiled and casually returned the item to him. This caused the former to heave a sigh of relief. Holding the stone in his hand, he carefully returned to the arena as if he had obtained a precious treasure.

Little You's subtle actions did not escape Ye Shuang's eyes. Thinking about how this girl was actually thinking for him, Ye Shuang's heart warmed, and his impression of Little You deepened.

Although he knew that there was something wrong with the rock, Ye Shuang did not intend to expose it at this moment. After all, he did not know what was going on.

However, thinking about it carefully, this possibility wasn't very high. If Wei San did this, it would be equivalent to smashing his own signboard. Xunyang Restaurant's reputation in Jiang Jiu had always been pretty good.

Meanwhile, on the stage, Song Qi did not wait for Ye Shuang to appraise the treasure. Instead, she had already started to cut the remaining stone embryo.

He knew Ye Shuang's identity from the discussions around him. He was just the abandoned son of a family, what was he pretending for? You probably haven't seen this fire jade before, so you wanted to have a look at it and see the world.

So what if you are from a big family, you have no ability, if you are opened up by your family, you will die for the rest of your life. Even if your background is not very good, you are still the disciple of Master Cheng Yufeng.

This time, he was in the limelight again. After cutting this stone embryo, he was sure that he would be like his master, becoming a distinguished guest of the major forces. His future prospects were limitless.

As he thought of this, Song Qi became even more proud of himself. Amidst the anticipating gazes of the people in the banquet hall, he picked up the carving knife and started cutting at the stone embryo.

Since the situation inside the stone embryo was unknown, and the outer wall of the fire jade was extremely fragile, one had to be extremely careful when cutting it. Over the years, some of the fire jade furnaces had failed because of the poor cutting techniques of the craftsmen.

Fire jade was different from normal jade stones. If the cutting failed, then the entire piece would become useless. Therefore, in recent years, even if some powers obtained the stone embryo, they would not dare to cut it easily if they were not confident. For example, the Bai Clan, which sold the stone to Xunyang Tower, was like this.

It was said that this stone embryo had been stored in the Bai Clan for more than a hundred years. The reason why it hadn't been cut apart from the fact that the Bai Clan wasn't short of money was because they were afraid that if they met a craftsman who couldn't cut it and crippled it, everything would be over.

However, it was obvious that Song Qi's knife skills were not bad. He picked up the knife and carefully considered the stone core. After that, he easily drew a circle on the surface of the stone core.

"Sssii!"

With an ear-piercing sound between the carving knife and the stone, a burst of dust rose up. Then, a few small bits of stone fell down, revealing a large amount of the jade stone from the stone embryo.