Volume One, Chapter One Hundred Sixty-One
If one was lucky enough to obtain a fragment, it would mean gaining one billion gold coins—more money than one could spend in a lifetime. With that much money, one could recruit troops and buy horses to build a faction of one's own, or purchase all manner of precious treasures to raise one's cultivation.
Such an enormous sum of money was enough to make people so excited they nearly went mad. Before long, the entire city learned the news, and the whole city became lively as everyone searched for that kind of bronze fragment.
The news quickly spread to nearby cities as well, stirring their people into an excited search for bronze fragments.
As far as Zhao Fu was concerned, money was plentiful. If he could buy bronze fragments with money, he would be willing to pay not just one billion, but even several billion. Anyone who had a bronze fragment would likely come to trade it, since the fragments themselves were of no use to them.
Of course, offering one billion gold coins for a single fragment would arouse suspicion, but once Zhao Fu said it was an heirloom left behind by his ancestors, everyone could understand.
This place was also rather remote, so no one could connect the bronze fragments Zhao Fu sought with the bronze fragments others were seeking, further lowering their guard.
Zhao Fu sat on a chair in the plaza and waited. He did not know whether this method would bring him a bronze fragment, but searching for them one by one himself would be far too difficult and waste too much time.
Before long, many people gathered around him with bronze fragments in hand. They excitedly and eagerly asked whether the fragments they held were the ones Zhao