The entire Jade Trading Center was actually not that large. This was not a major trading center; the main trading center was in Yangon, Burma. There were two jade trading events every year, both focused on bulk transactions. Their main clients came from all over the world, though domestic buyers made up the majority.
Chinese people's fondness for jade had existed since ancient times. Jade could be said to represent a gentleman; polishing jade and nurturing jade had been practiced since antiquity!
Thus, to Chinese people, a fine piece of jade could not only be nurtured by a person—jade could nurture a person as well!
That was why cultivators had their reasons for using jade as Formation Bases and setting up formations!
The Jade Trading Center was divided into many sections, and Chen Mo was currently wandering through the Rough Material Area.
In some places, people were selecting stones and gambling on jade. One cut could make one rich, another could make one poor; every facet of life could be seen here!
As the only fellow present who could tell where jade was hidden, Chen Mo was merely watching the excitement. He felt neither contempt nor smug satisfaction toward those gambling on stones.
Life itself was a gamble. Win, and one could reach the peak and become a winner in life. Lose, and one would eat bran and swallow vegetables, living an ordinary life!
Wasn't Chen Mo the same? He was an ordinary person too. If he had not gambled, day after day for four years, that he would become a cultivator, he would never have received such an opportunity! If he had failed to become a cultivator, he might now have found a job paying a few thousand yuan a month and worked honestly to earn a living!
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