Didn't Check the Almanac Before Going Out

"They? I'm worried they won't be able to make the decision!" Li Yuan smiled, but he did not continue arguing with the hostess.

He directly took a fluorescently glowing bone out of his belt.

"This is one of the items I intend to auction. Like I said, I hope to speak with whoever is in charge of your auction house. This thing is too precious. You can't make the decision." Li Yuan's voice sounded calm.

However, the moment they saw the glowing bone, every appraiser's attention was drawn to it.

Originally, they had been somewhat displeased by what Li Yuan had said. But after seeing what he held in his hand, all their dissatisfaction vanished.

If it really was that thing, then the masked man before them was absolutely right. They truly could not make the decision.

After a moment of silence, the oldest of the eight appraisers finally stood up shakily and asked respectfully, "Sir, is that in your hand the legendary spirit bone?"

"Of course. Genuine goods. You can appraise it."

"Th-this... Sir, please allow me to examine it. Right, Xiaoyu, hurry and fetch the chief steward. Only he can make the decision on something this precious." As the elderly appraiser trembled and accepted the spirit bone from Li Yuan, he did not forget to instruct the hostess beside him to find the auction house's steward.

"Yes, Elder Qian. I'll go right away." Hearing the old man's words, the hostess finally snapped out of her daze and hurried out in a fluster. It seemed she had gone to find this so-called chief steward.

As for the appraiser called Elder Qian, he acted as though no one else was around. Holding the spirit bone Li Yuan had brought out, he took out a magnifying glass and examined it with extreme care.

"This is the Left Arm Bone of a Thousand-Year Spirit Beast, a Wind Demon Wolf. It is a wind-element spirit bone, suitable for Agility Attack System Soul Masters. It can increase a Soul Master's speed, and the soul skill attached to it should also be wind-element."

"Sir, I am not mistaken, am I?" After his initial excitement, Elder Qian finally calmed down. Once he had finished inspecting the spirit bone, he returned it to Li Yuan and spoke with a confident expression.

Now it was Li Yuan's turn to feel awkward. He really did not know what kind of spirit bone this was. He only knew that it was the Left Arm Bone of a Thousand-Year Spirit Beast, with a wind-element soul skill attached: Grip of the Hurricane.

To Li Yuan, this soul skill was utterly useless. Other than granting him a wind attribute and increasing his speed, it had almost no effect.

As for anything else, Li Yuan genuinely had no idea. Not even Juhua, the former owner of this spirit bone, knew much about it.

After all, so many years had passed. How could Juhua still remember which spirit beast she had hunted when she obtained this spirit bone?

Even Juhua had forgotten, so Li Yuan naturally knew even less. Thus, after hearing Elder Qian's words, Li Yuan could only nod and say, "That's right. Elder Qian, everything you said is correct."

"Oh, right, Elder Qian, how much do you think this spirit bone is worth?"

After thinking for a moment, Li Yuan asked the question that concerned him most. If he remembered correctly, spirit bones were incredibly valuable on Douluo Continent. His spirit bone should sell for several million Gold Soul Coins at the very least.

Several million Gold Soul Coins, converted into RMB from his former world, would be worth at least several hundred million. To Li Yuan, that was definitely an enormous fortune. No matter how much he and Juhua could eat, it would be enough to feed them for... uh, one times seven is seven, two times seven is forty-eight, International Women's Day, Labor Day...

Well, anyway, it would be enough to feed them for a very long time!

"Hah, listen to yourself. Can the value of a spirit bone be measured in money? Vulgar. Utterly vulgar!" However, seeing Li Yuan look as though he had fallen into a pile of money, Elder Qian became displeased.

He glared at Li Yuan with a dissatisfied expression.

Seeing the old man blow his beard and widen his eyes, Li Yuan was completely baffled. I came to an auction house to sell a spirit bone. Did I come here to do charity instead?

"Old man, I'm just a vulgar fellow. Please tell me honestly, how much is this spirit bone worth?"

"This isn't a question of whether it's valuable. It's the kind of thing that's very precious..."

"Forget it. This old man won't keep playing the lute to a cow." Elder Qian had originally intended to explain things to Li Yuan and educate him a little. But seeing Li Yuan's money-obsessed look, he could not be bothered anymore.

After thinking for a moment, Elder Qian said, "This spirit bone is certainly very valuable. Even our Heaven Dou Auction House has auctioned spirit bones only a few times. As for their final prices, they ranged from several million to over ten million Gold Soul Coins."

"Strictly speaking, your Thousand-Year Wind Demon Wolf Left Arm Bone cannot be considered an especially precious spirit bone. Its price should be around five million Gold Soul Coins."

"Five million!" Li Yuan played with the Left Arm Bone in his hand, his heart burning with excitement. Five million Gold Soul Coins converted to RMB meant five hundred million.

Whether in his previous life or this one, he had never seen that much money!

At that thought, Li Yuan's eyes nearly turned into the shape of gold coins. How should he spend such an enormous fortune?

"Mr. Li, correct? Are you the one planning to auction a spirit bone?" Just then, the sound of footsteps suddenly reached Li Yuan's ears.

Immediately afterward, a middle-aged man appeared before Li Yuan, with the hostess who had just run out following behind him.

Not a beautiful woman. One-star review! Looking at the greasy middle-aged fat man walking toward him, Li Yuan felt a wave of disgust.

Sure enough, fairy tales were all lies. Who said auction houses were full of pretty young ladies?

Or perhaps his luck was simply terrible, for him to run into a greasy middle-aged man?

Li Yuan could not help grumbling inwardly.

Of course, complaints aside, when the middle-aged man appeared, Li Yuan still carefully observed him.

Judging by his appearance, he was an utterly ordinary man. He did not look like the manager of a large auction house so much as an office worker going through a midlife crisis.

That was right, the kind of middle-aged man whose receding hairline was nearly bald, whose face screamed lack of motivation, whose wife was fooling around with other men, whose daughter had started dating too early, whose son was a delinquent, and whose life was a complete mess.

That was why Li Yuan felt so unlucky. There were no alluring, sexy young ladies, and now he had to be received by such an appetite-killing man?

It seemed he really had forgotten to check the almanac before leaving home today. Well, Douluo Continent probably did not even have such a thing.