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Chapter 310: The Battle Begins (5)

Chapter 310: Chapter 310: The Battle Begins (5)

All eyes were on Gu Yelin, whose cold, bloodthirsty black pupils tightly wrapped around Guh Siqing, making it hard for her to breathe, while his mere presence turned her complexion deathly pale. Ah Chen, who was cutting the stone beside them, paused for a moment, squinting his eyes meaningfully at Gu Yelin, full of warning.

Master Gu, who had always considered others beneath his notice, naturally ignored the insinuations of insignificant people like Ah Chen. He coldly stared at Guh Siqing until she panicked and hid behind Guh Siqi, then retracted his gaze.

Guh Siqing clenched her fists tightly, casting a resentful glance in his direction.

Gu Yelin! To treat me this way for the sake of An Yiqing!

No one had expected that Guh Siqing, who had previously defended her sister Guh Siyi with seeming integrity, hid a restless heart beneath her cold exterior!

Meanwhile, An Yiqing was oblivious to the subtle gesture Gu Yelin had made towards Guh Siqing. Right now, she was intently watching Zhang Yuksheng cutting the stone. The jade within this raw material was extremely precious and posed a thrilling challenge for her.

Zhang Yuksheng operated the Stone-Cutting Machine, following the marker lines An Yiqing had drawn, and cut with a decisive swipe! A thin layer of waste was removed to reveal the white rocky surface. However, this phenomenon of the stone crumbling from the first cut didn’t attract much attention, as everyone’s gaze was firmly fixed on the piece of Ink Jade in Ah Chen’s hands.

Ah Chen turned the raw material around, picking up the Stone-Cutting Machine and began to cut carefully. One slice... two slices... three slices...

As the expectant crowd watched, layer after layer of waste was removed, but the rich and enticing black color was nowhere to be seen.

This situation wasn’t unusual in the circle, perhaps because the volume of this piece of Ink Jade was not large, which is why there was so much waste.

Comforting each other with this thought, everyone hoped to feast their eyes on the rare Ink Jade.

As time ticked by, ten minutes had swiftly passed. Ah Chen had cut away four-fifths of the raw material, leaving only a thin slice.

If they didn’t understand by now, they would indeed be fools.

This was a piece of scrap! The only Ink Jade in the raw material was just a thin slice!

There’s a saying in the gemstone gambling circle, "Better to buy a line of green than a piece of green!" Everyone was astonished that this rare piece of Ink Jade turned out to rely on its green surface!

The so-called surface green meant that a large swath of green appears as soon as the raw material is cut. Upon further cutting, two outcomes are likely: a sizeable increase or a massive crumble. This massive crumble means that the jade inside the raw material is only a thin layer—as if it had grown flush with the stone body. It might look like a jackpot at first cut, but in reality, it’s a collapse.

The piece of raw material belonging to Guh Siqing was indeed a piece of genuine surface green, which was precisely why An Yiqing had secretly chuckled before.

Based on her observations over the past few days, she had roughly guessed the nature of Guh Siqing’s special ability: a more acute sense of raw materials containing jade. Though the ability was quite peculiar, it had its bugs. Whether the raw material contained scrap jade, surface green, or good jade, Guh Siqing could only rate it as top-notch. Just like the piece of raw material worth twenty million that Guh Siqing snatched from An Yiqing on the first day of the Jade Stone Association event, she did indeed sense jade, but had no way of knowing if it was fractured, which is why she suffered in silence. An Yiqing, however, possessed Clairvoyant Yuanqi and could clearly perceive the condition within the raw material, so for Guh Siqing, losing was inevitable!

The raw material had now been completely cut by Ah Chen, and the Ink Jade was truly just that thin slice, as if it grew tightly against the stone body, unextractable even with detailed sanding or grinding. Thus, this piece of raw material was worthless!