Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 235: Chapter 232 Blue Water Piao Hua VS Ocean Blue Chapter 235: Chapter 232 Blue Water Piao Hua VS Ocean Blue Three dark horses had raised the excitement with two consecutive surprises, and Zhou Zhen was brimming with confidence in the last piece he had remaining.

With these three jadeite pieces in his possession, winning the championship at the Stone Gambling convention, and even sweeping the top three places didn’t seem like a challenge at all. In that case, the million-dollar prize was nothing more than a display before swiftly returning to his pocket, and it would be a major promotional boost for Zhou’s Jewelry – literally a costless transaction.

The more Zhou Zhen thought about it, the more delighted he felt, and his gaze involuntarily drifted towards Yin Zeyan. That man was still bending over, carefully marking the stone, but even after a few cuts, there seemed to be no activity at all.

Zhou Zhen sneered inwardly. This Mr. Yin looked fierce but probably was just as much a simpleton as that woman Su Qingqing. He thought to himself how ludicrous it was for someone with such material to beat him, it was laughable.

Zhou Zhen felt that he had been overthinking it previously; Yin Zeyan was of no concern after all.

Yin Zeyan, not only subject to Zhou Zhen’s scorn in his mind but also displaying a cool demeanor, was immersed in his own world, calmly making adjustments to the machine and making another composed cut.

After removing the final piece of stone skin, he fetched a polishing machine and began to gently rub the stone, at which point the crowd became agitated once more as someone else struck gold again.

As a scoop of clean water was poured over the freshly exposed cut, the faintly blue jadeite shimmered with a beautiful and delicate glow under the sunlight.

Everyone was craning their necks to get a glimpse of that piece of raw material, but no one was paying any attention to Yin Zeyan’s progress in his stone solving.

“High Ice Type! It’s High Ice Type Blue Water Piao Hua! If the next few cuts reveal a deep enough green, this material will skyrocket in value!”

Excited shouts rose from below.

As the Blue Water Piao Hua was uncovered, the eyes of those underneath gleamed with frenzy, fixated on the Stone Solver Master as if only by doing so could they truly absorb the impact that the rough stone brought to them.

“It’s simply too beautiful, with such a pure color and full of luster, Blue Water Jade with Piao Hua, more stunning than Blue Elf gemstone, just like the deep blue sky…”

The final dark horse was High Ice Type Blue Water Piao Hua, and a wave of relief washed over Zhou Zhen, his eyes gleaming with pride and excitement as he cast a challenging glance at Yin Zeyan.

The experts began to speak, “With Blue Water Piao Hua itself being a rare find, plus this lustre and texture, today’s Stone Gambling championship seems to have reached a definite conclusion.”

Huo Sining stood among the crowd, her smile unchanged, but a cold sneer crept into her eyes.

What nonsense. Even a god can’t predict the outcome of the jade within; to draw such hasty conclusions before other materials have been unveiled, are these people truly experts in stone gambling?

Yin Zeyan slowly polished away the white mist at the edges, and within several minutes, a piece weighing seven to eight catties of jadeite was revealed. He calmly fetched a basin of water, pouring it slowly over the jadeite.

Meanwhile, Zhou Zhen resumed his self-starring show, having already “purchased” the golden silk type and Little Colorless, he now began to call out a price for the third piece of High Ice Type Blue Water Piao Hua.

“My goodness!”

Just then, an exclamation erupted from the crowd, causing a stir throughout the venue.

Zhou Zhen thought the exclamations were because of his generous high bids to purchase the three jadeite pieces, and he felt as if he was floating on air.

However, just as he was basking in his own pride, the Stone Solver Masters around him collectively turned their heads, their eyes filled with awe as they looked in a certain direction.

Over there, Ye Zixin’s complexion was ashen as she anxiously tried to catch his eye, while the other experts also looked at him with complex expressions.

Zhou Zhen’s heart sank, and he sensed trouble. Suddenly, he turned his head to follow the gaze of the crowd.

Right in front of the stone cutting machine where Yin Zeyan was, a whole piece of jadeite appeared before everyone’s eyes like a mass of yellow and blue flame.

“This is High Ice Type ocean blue, isn’t it? Such a big piece! My God, are my eyes deceiving me?”

“Such a large piece of High Ice Type ocean blue; it’s more than double the size of that Blue Water Piao Hua we just saw, isn’t it?”

“How come no one noticed when this person was cutting it just now? It’s already been solved; what a pity, nobody saw how it was done!”

“I noticed. He ground it out little by little after cutting away the stone’s skin. Everything was covered with dust and it was impossible to see the green. I even thought he had ruined it.”

“To keep his composure with such a large piece, and to only reveal it to us after he had completely exposed it!”

“…”

Zhou Zhen could no longer hear the buzz of discussion from the crowd; the moment he saw that piece of High Ice Type ocean blue, his mind buzzed, and he was utterly stunned.

Blue jadeite itself is very rare, and carving out Blue Water Piao Hua is already incredibly difficult, but to cut a fully colored ocean blue, how is that possible!

Zhou Zhen’s eyes were glued to the piece of jadeite in front of Yin Zeyan, as if trying to stare a hole through it.

The raw material was roughly close to ten pounds, and that intense blue, akin to the ocean, caught his eye, brilliant as a clear summer sky.

While green is the primary color of jadeite, there are also many other colors, such as red, blue, purple, etc., and each color has its perfect expression. When a piece of jadeite of a certain color reaches perfection, it’s termed a top-quality stone.

For example, among the top-quality ones are imperial green, Blood Beauty Purple Eyes, Chicken Oil Yellow, Blue Elf, and so forth.

Blue Elf, Purple Eyes, and Chicken Oil Yellow rank just below Imperial Emerald Green among high-grade jadeites.

The so-called Blue Elf is the cream of the crop among blue jadeites.

The charm of the Blue Elf lies in its color, perfectly combined with the jade’s icy clearness.

In the sunlight, such jadeite emits a beautiful and mysterious color, mesmerizing people like the vast starry sky or the deep ocean.

Many might not have a concept of the Blue Elf, but ocean blue and Blue Water Piao Hua are jadeites familiar to many.

The Blue Elf has a deeper color than ocean blue and a fuller blue than Blue Water Piao Hua. It must be a pure blue and reach full color, coupled with perfect clarity and water to be called Blue Elf.

Blue jadeite is rare in itself, and top-quality is even more scarce, like the Blue Elf, Blood Beauty, Purple Eyes; for most people, they exist only in legends, improbably encountered even over years or decades.

“One stone worth fifteen cities,” is by no means an exaggeration.

Even though the color of Yin Zeyan’s ocean blue isn’t full enough to qualify as a genuine top-quality Blue Elf, even so, such high-grade jadeite is no less than green jadeite of similar quality and clarity. With a good designer and master sculptor, it could even be a notch higher.