CHAPTER 89: 89 EACH HAVE THEIR OWN DOUBTS

She desired the Dragon Blood Stone, though these items were rare and seen as treasures by others, they were nothing compared to the Dragon Blood Stone, either being too young, impure, or just Beast Bone Relics formed by juvenile Exotic Beasts, offering her very limited help.

"Just these, nothing else?" Mu Hanyan asked with a clear look of disdain.

"Just these," Mu Nan replied.

Seeing the disappointment on Mu Hanyan’s face, Mu Nan felt somewhat indignant: I know you have high standards, but must they be this high? Don’t you know that any one of these treasures, even the least valuable Heart-clearing Jade could cover the Nanmu Chamber of Commerce’s expenses for a year? He had intended to keep them as central treasures of the mountain, but having owed the Big playboy ten thousand taels in gambling debts, he would have never considered parting with them otherwise. However, the disdain from others was quite disheartening.

"It doesn’t make sense," Mu Hanyan muttered to herself, furrowing her brows.

"What doesn’t make sense?" Mu Nan asked curiously.

"Lao Liu, when did you celebrate your fifteenth birthday?" Mu Hanyan asked.

"It was the same day you challenged Mu Feng, why?" Mu Nan was even more confused by her sudden question.

"It just doesn’t make sense, it completely doesn’t make sense," Mu Hanyan looked even more perplexed.

In her memory, years later when Mu Nan had made his name, at a banquet where he had drunk a bit too much, he animatedly recounted his rise. He had said that he had established the Nanmu Auction during hard times, barely breaking even until the day he turned fifteen, the day he acquired a Dragon Blood Stone.

With that Dragon Blood Stone, the Nanmu Auction truly made its first pot of gold and gained rapid fame, growing uncontrollably ever since. Had he not been consistently worried about the scandal of misappropriating clan assets exposing him to family punishment, he would have acted sooner and made his fortune earlier.

Of course, when exactly Mu Nan made his name was not important to Mu Hanyan, what mattered was the Dragon Blood Stone. According to him, shouldn’t it have been obtained more than ten days ago? Why was it missing?

Considering the intricate machinations, Mu Hanyan believed he had not lied. A treasure like the Dragon Blood Stone, he surely would not have hidden elsewhere. Could it be, that in his previous life, the fellow had been blathering while drunk? However, based on her understanding, Mu Nan was not that kind of person.

The speaker meant no harm, but the listener took it to heart. Zirong raised an eyebrow, hearing Mu Hanyan talk seemed purposeful as if she came to the Nanmu Auction with a specific target in mind? Unless her goal was an even rarer treasure, why else would she remain uninterested even after seeing treasures like the Jade Ganoderma, Heart-clearing Jade, and Beast Bone Relics?

What puzzled him more was, why, as the owner of the Nanmu Auction, didn’t Mu Nan know himself? He could see that Mu Nan wasn’t lying; he truly had no better cultivation resources to offer.

Everyone harbored their doubts, and for a moment, all fell silent.

Suddenly, a burst of commotion outside disrupted their thoughts.

"Let’s go see what’s happening first," Mu Hanyan said. The matter of the Dragon Blood Stone was suspicious, and for the time being, she was unsure what exactly was going on, and there was no need to waste her mental energy staying here doing nothing.