The moment Gu Bei heard that money was needed, he perked up. Wasn't money meant to be spent?
Qin Yue explained with a smile that something so extraordinary would never ordinarily have been put up for auction. The problem was that even the Divine Sects' higher-up had failed to unlock its functions; keeping it with him gave him nothing to do but look at it.
That threw a bucket of cold water over many people and brought them back to their senses. If even that higher-up could not make sense of it, what if they paid a fortune only to bring home an ornament?
Qin Yue said that the Divine Sects' higher-up had promised to buy back the Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers Painting for two hundred thousand Soul Stones if anyone discovered even one of its wondrous uses.
Nie Li understood immediately. The other party clearly had not finished deciphering the ten thousand Dao inscription patterns within the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting, so naturally, he could not unlock its wondrous uses.
And only Nie Li knew what those wondrous uses were.
Beneath the Sky Screen.
The item made quite a few people's eyes light up.
A masterpiece of ink and color created by a mighty figure of the primordial era who had poured all his energy into it.
That description alone was enough to prove that the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting was anything but ordinary.
But judging by the timeline, it was definitely still in that Divine Sects higher-up's possession, so they could not get their hands on it either.
Nie Li pressed a hand to his forehead. He felt he had been set up-by his own self on the Sky Screen.
*Could I still get my hands on