Hearing this, everyone looked dismissive, thinking Ye Feng was boasting.
After all, Ye Feng's request was too unreasonable; how long would it take to polish such a large piece?
According to the normal method of stone cutting, the first step should be to make a cut in the middle, so whether there was jade inside would be immediately apparent.
If not, they would then proceed to cut slowly from both sides.
However, Ye Feng, knowing the situation inside, could not possibly let them make a cut in the middle.
After all, if that cut were made, a complete piece of peerless jade would be split in two.
Its value would definitely be greatly reduced.
As some people were discussing, Master Wu had already started polishing.
Although he didn't know why Ye Feng had asked him to polish, he still did so diligently.
Firstly, he felt that this rough stone was unusual and had a high chance of yielding good quality jade.
Secondly, Ye Feng had successfully extracted good quality jade from two consecutive rough stones, each better than the last.
This made him trust Ye Feng's judgment greatly, and he expected this piece to also yield good quality jade.
He polished diligently, and after a short while, he suddenly stopped, his eyes widening like saucers, and he muttered, "No way!"
Seeing Master Wu suddenly stop and look dumbfounded, the people who had been discussing were all confused.
As they were wondering, Master Wu suddenly sped up and continued polishing with great focus.
This further piqued the curiosity of the surrounding onlookers.
"Master Wu's reaction, could it be that jade has appeared?"
"It should be! And it might be good quality jade, otherwise, he wouldn't react like this!"
"He's already produced two pieces of good jade; if he produces another one, he'll be truly amazing!"
"Haha! Where is there such good luck? I bet this piece isn't as good as the last one!"
"I think Boss Ye has good judgment. I bet this piece surpasses the last one..."
The people around began to speculate, even betting with each other.
Seeing this, Ye Feng smiled and ignored them.
After a while, an area the size of an egg was polished by Master Wu.
Looking at the polished area, he was completely stunned on the spot.
However, Master Wu was blocking the crowd's view, so they couldn't see what jade had appeared, and they couldn't help but ask.
"Master Wu, what's wrong? Did jade appear?" someone asked.
Master Wu nodded blankly, his expression very strange.
Seeing this, others didn't pay much attention and exclaimed in surprise.
"What, jade appeared?"
"Damn, it appeared after polishing just this much?"
"No way! Is this guy this lucky? Won't Young Master Tang lose for sure?"
The surrounding crowd started talking.
However, some immediately disagreed and retorted.
"Tch, what's the big deal? Young Master Tang's piece also showed jade before it was polished!"
"Exactly! And it was good glass-type jade! But what happened in the end? It turned out to be a waste stone!"
"So, even if this piece shows jade, there's nothing to be happy about! Maybe it's just a small patch on the surface?"
The people around hadn't seen what jade had appeared in the area Master Wu polished, and they started talking.
At this moment, Tang Zhiyang also heard that jade had appeared, and his face instantly turned extremely ugly.
"It's over, jade has appeared, what do we do now?" Tang Zhiyang said nervously.
Zhao Yanxuan sighed upon hearing this.
However, he hadn't completely given up and said, "Don't rush, it's just that jade has appeared, but it's not confirmed what kind it is! Who knows how much it's worth?"
"Yes, yes, Brother Yanxuan is right!" Tang Zhiyang quickly nodded.
But a second later, he suddenly thought of something and said, "But as long as jade appears, he can auction it for three to five million, and it will surpass ours!"
Hearing this, Zhao Yanxuan said, "Don't panic! Let's see first! And have you forgotten the merchants?"
Tang Zhiyang looked confused upon hearing this and frowned, "What do you mean?"
"If I can get them to inflate the price of your jade, I can naturally get them to suppress the price of Ye Feng's jade!" Zhao Yanxuan said with a sinister smile.
Hearing this, Tang Zhiyang suddenly realized, as if waking from a dream.
"Damn, Brother Yanxuan! How did I not think of this? You're amazing! Teaming up with you is truly my luck!" Tang Zhiyang said excitedly.
However, he didn't know how much Zhao Yanxuan despised him in his heart.
It could be said that Zhao Yanxuan would rather team up with a pig than with this guy.
This was because Tang Zhiyang always made pig-like choices; if he had listened to him earlier, they wouldn't be in so much trouble.
For example, Zhao Yanxuan was like a king-level support; he could win even with a dog in the bottom lane.
But he was supporting a blockhead like Tang Zhiyang, giving him a feeling of helplessness.
Now, Zhao Yanxuan had already found people to inflate Tang Zhiyang's price and suppress Ye Feng's price.
With this, one goes up and the other goes down, he didn't believe they still wouldn't win.
Currently, the value of the two pieces of jade differed by three million.
As long as the value of this piece of jade was below thirty million, he could get those merchants to suppress the price to below three million.
At this moment, someone asked Master Wu, "Master Wu, what kind of jade appeared!"
Hearing this, Master Wu came back to his senses and became extremely excited.
However, he didn't answer directly and instead said, "Hand polishing is too slow. I'll use the machine to polish it, and you'll know soon!"
After speaking, he moved the jade into the machine and began polishing it directly with the machine.
Master Wu first polished the horizontal surface of the jade, then the vertical surface.
As the polishing progressed, Master Wu's expression became more and more exaggerated.
Finally, after both the horizontal and vertical surfaces were polished once, Master Wu looked at the jade, completely petrified, his body trembling involuntarily.
Since the jade was inside the machine's casing, no one in the venue could see it, only Master Wu's reaction, which made them look confused.
Seeing this, the merchants immediately started discussing.
"Haha! It's probably too bad that Master Wu is too embarrassed to say it!"
"Exactly! It's probably some bean-type or glutinous-type jade! It made Master Wu tremble with anger!"
"Haha, that makes sense! But it's still jade, even if it's bean-type, I'll take it, for one hundred thousand!"
"I'll buy it as a souvenir too, two hundred thousand!"
"Three hundred thousand..."
Before they even saw what kind of jade it was, these people had already started bidding.
Calling it bidding was more like mockery, as offering such low prices could only be considered mockery.
Seeing this, Ye Feng looked up and noticed that three merchants had been continuously bidding.
These three were none other than the same three who had been inflating Tang Zhiyang's price earlier.
Finally, the three stopped bidding at two million nine hundred thousand.
"Two million nine hundred thousand, no more!"
"That's right, it's just bean-type jade, two million is already a huge profit!"
"Haha, let alone bean-type, even glutinous-type is a profit!"
The three laughed heartily, not hiding their intentions, which clearly showed they were doing it deliberately.
Currently, Tang Zhiyang's jade was priced three million higher than Ye Feng's.
And these three only bid up to two million nine hundred thousand, which made their intention too obvious: they were deliberately suppressing the price so that Ye Feng's price wouldn't exceed Tang Zhiyang's.
After the three finished speaking, one of them stepped forward and said to Master Wu, "Master Wu, please give me that piece of jade! I bid two million nine hundred thousand for it!"
However, at this moment, Master Wu suddenly turned his head and said, "What? You want to buy this imperial green for only two million nine hundred thousand?"