As soon as Guanshi Hu cast his calculating eyes on Master Ivan, the old man noticed it, but he didn't pay more attention to Guanshi Hu because of it.
Yuan Zhan also noticed Guanshi Hu, and he really hoped that Guanshi Hu would do something. To be honest, he was bored and really wanted to find something to do.
"How do you plan to sell these ten devil bones?" the old man asked Yan Mo.
Yan Mo spread his hands, "As you always guessed, I don't understand the value of magic bones at all. What do you think?"
The old man pondered for a while, "The magic power contained in those ten magic bones is not too much, and none of them exceeds one hundred. Presumably, they were all low-level monsters in their lifetime. The most valuable one is the magic rabbit bone with healing power. The price of one bone is as high as 10,000. The value of other magic bones ranges from 2,000 to 3,500, and the average is 2,800. If you add up to 10, I will count you 36,000 bone coins. If you sell it alone, It's around that price."
"You want?" Yan Mo thought that the old man didn't like these low-magic bones, at least he didn't think so much.
"Of course." The old man stared at the young man helplessly, "Didn't you hear what I told you just now? Demon bones are rare, and any shop or bonesmith will not let them go easily, even if the magic power is less than ten magic power .Remember, if you want to become an intermediate bone craftsman in the future, you'd better not take it lightly when you encounter a magic bone. Although the magic bone is valuable, how can it be so expensive to refine it into bone tools?"
The old man nodded at the counter, "The cheapest bone treasure in my store is more than 30,000 bone coins. Even bone tools without special abilities, there is no less than 1,000 bone coins."
Yan Mo looked at the female village witch in surprise when he heard the price of the bone tools. He remembered that the village witches in Wadi Village, Huoguo Village and Qianshan Village all had bone tools on them, but the old man said that the cheapest bone tools cost one thousand More than bone coins, when he looked at his stepdaughter again, a picture of village witches in various villages and villages with no horns suddenly emerged in his mind to save face, pooling the financial resources of the whole village and generations to finally buy a bone vessel to wear. If this is true, then the Bone Refining Clan is too smart to know how to use this method to drain the Hornless Man's financial resources.
The stepdaughter didn't know what Yan Mo was looking at, so she quickly showed him a respectful smile.
The old man followed his gaze, guessed what he was thinking, and immediately laughed and said: "Most of the bones on the witches who live in the Hornless Village near the city are bestowed by the temple of the city, which is considered a status. Recognized. Like the village shamans near Wugan City, except for the bone tools, all kinds of feathers will be put on their heads. The horned people will know that the village is recognized by the horned nobles when they see the feathers on the shaman's head and the bone tools on his body. And to protect, not the savage community."
So what will happen to the Hornless community if it is not recognized? Yan Mo did not continue to ask. He also heard the quotations from those people just now, and after a rough calculation, the price given by the old man is relatively kind. Unless someone deliberately makes trouble with Alan's shop, the result of the bidding will not exceed too much.
"According to what you said, all 36,000 bone coins will be sold to your shop."
Hearing this, the old man made a gesture to the store steward. The store steward had been paying attention to this side. When he saw the gesture, he immediately understood it. He raised his voice and shouted to everyone in the store: "The seller has decided that these ten magic bones will not be sold separately. If everyone wants to bid, then ten together. Our shop bids first... "
The old man held up three fingers.
The store manager saw it and announced loudly: "30,000!"
Some people who want to buy it alone make noise.
The store manager pretended not to hear anything.
Yan Mo raised his eyebrows, not quite understanding what the old man meant.
The old man turned his head to look back at Yan Mo, and suddenly stretched out his hand to touch his head, Yan Mo held back and did not dodge, this is the sadness of his tender face, and his master Cha Wu also likes to rub his head.
Yuan Zhan felt that the old man had no malice, so he didn't move. Although he was very unhappy that someone touched his priest, but with a witch in front of him, he had a higher tolerance for similar old people than ordinary people.
The old man rubbed the soft hair of the little hornless man, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, baby, even though I have quoted the price, I won't take advantage of you. Thirty-six thousand is my low price. Later, if someone bids more than me Gao, you can sell them too."
At this time, there was already a sound of bidding in the store. Most of the boneware shops were calling for prices, and there were very few individual ones. In addition to being from a very good family background, the instrument masters are not considered to have strong financial resources.
"How? Do you want to learn how to refine bone tools from me?" the old man asked a little temptingly.
Yan Mo rolled his eyes at the old man, this level of spiritual hints should not appear in front of me, okay? Believe it or not, I cast a spell on you
The old man was stunned by Yan Mo's white eyes, and then suddenly laughed. It seemed that he had misjudged him, this young man without horns seemed not as well-behaved and honest as he imagined. But this made him even more satisfied with Yan Mo. The hornless man's talent in learning bone refining is not high. If he is a little more dull and stupid, it will be a teacher's nightmare.
Yan Mo had a good impression of the old man, and while thinking about what kind of bone vessel would be suitable, he raised his head and said honestly to the old man: "I think I have to explain to you that this necklace is very important to me, and I won't trade it to someone else. anyone."
The old man showed a regretful expression, but he was not surprised.
"But you are right, I did learn bone refining. If you are willing to teach me, I will be very grateful. Of course, if you need anything, I will try my best to find it for you, but there is no guarantee that I will find it "Although the old man's character looks good, Yan Mo doesn't want to take the risk of letting the other party know that he has other ancient bone tools, he doesn't want to test his humanity.
"Are you talking about your bone discrimination ability?"
Seeing that the old man misunderstood, Yan Mo simply pushed the boat along, "Yes."
The old man smiled, "I need a lot of magic bones. Maybe your ability is really useful to me. Although I can recognize most of the magic bones with experience and soul power, I don't have a third eye after all. Only those who are born with the third eye The great witches with three eyes can see through all disguises and see the most real."
The old man touched the spar between his eyebrows. His soul crystal was purple in color. Since he was promoted to a master bone craftsman, the color of the soul crystal has become purple-black, but the soul crystal is not the third eye after all.
"Son, you seem to be very confident in your ability? Then try this bone and tell me, what do you see?" The old man wiped the bone bracelet he was wearing, and a crescent-shaped bone appeared on the counter.
This is a test? The first time Yan Mo saw the bone, he knew it was an ordinary bone without magic power. The surface of this bone is very smooth, with a little luster, probably because it has been played with for a long time, but in Yan Mo's eyes, this bone is also beautiful on the surface, and there is no fluctuation in energy flow.
But Yan Mo didn't want the old man to know that he could tell the difference at a glance, so he deliberately picked up the bone and carefully identified it.
And when he just touched this bone... Huh
Yan Mo became a little interested, and his attitude towards this bone became a lot more serious.
After watching for a while, he finally saw the trick, and he was almost cheated!
"This is a refined bone." Yan Mo affirmed.
The old man showed praise in his eyes, "That's right."
"It's not that it has no magic power, but that the magic power has been used up."
The old man smiled deeper, "Yes."
"Its original bone pattern has been modified, and it has been modified... twice."
The old man was really surprised this time, "There are many bonesmiths who can tell that its bone pattern has been modified. But there are only a handful of people who can tell that it has been modified twice. It's not a matter of eyesight." , but involves profound knowledge of bone refining and understanding of bone patterns, now I have to wonder if you are not just a low-level bone craftsman."
Yan Mo responded with a very deceptive and foolish smile.
The old man had a weird expression, as if he really wanted to give Yan Mo a shot, but he held back, "Tell me, what else can you see?"
Yan Mo was hesitating between hiding his clumsiness, and Yuan Zhan's thick palm slipped from his shoulder to the back of his neck at this moment, smoothly.
Yan Mo made a decision instantly: "If I'm not mistaken, this is probably a part of a bone vessel, which is used to store and release magic power. It has been modified twice, probably because it was originally another bone vessel. The parts on one bone vessel were removed and installed on another bone vessel, but they did not match completely, so the bone patterns were adjusted again.”
"..." The old man looked at Yan Mo and said nothing for a long time, then turned his head and suddenly shouted to the shop manager: "Forty thousand!"
Manager Hu was resentful. He had just reached 360,000, and there were no other offers around him. Seeing that he could take down those ten magic bones, why not!
The store manager reported it three times in a row, and no one else in the store offered a price higher than 40,000. Some people saw that Master Ivan was willing to offer 40,000 bone coins, and even wondered whether the value of these ten magic bones was higher than 40,000. Gao, although they wanted to continue quoting, they stopped after thinking about it.
Thus, the bidding for the ten magic bones came to a conclusion.
Although the store steward felt that the price was a bit high, but the price the old man voluntarily called out, out of his firm trust in the old man, the store steward didn't feel that he would suffer a loss at all. He put away the ten bones and looked at the store with a smile on his face. Everyone shouted: "Our store also sells individual magic bones. Interested customers are welcome to stay and have a look. The price is easy to negotiate."
Some people were not reconciled, they didn't dare to talk to Master Ivan directly, so they surrounded the store manager, wanting him to sell the magic bones they each had their eyes on.
The store manager said haha and handled it with ease.
Manager Hu took a deep breath, fortunately his main goal was not the devil bone.
Yan Mo laughed, "Thank you." The addition of four thousand bone coins, is this a recognition of his ability
The old man looked a little more serious, "What's your name?"
Yan Mo didn't hide anything: "My name is Mo, silent Mo."
What he said was the free translation in the language of the Bone Refining Clan. After learning the spell with the witch, he realized that the real name and pronunciation of the witch cannot be casually told to others.
He tried, and using the word "Yan Mo" in the original language of Jiuyuan didn't have any effect on him. But if his full name is pronounced in his previous mother tongue, it will have a special effect. According to the witchcraft theory, this seems to be because his own soul only recognizes that pronunciation as his real name.
Coincidentally, in the lingua franca of the Eastern Continent, Yan and Yan have the same pronunciation, which is why people in the Yuanji Tribe thought his name was Yan Mo.
The old man pointed to himself, "I am Ivan, you can call me Mr. Ivan in the future."
Yan Mo understands that the master is the teacher in the language of the Bone Refining Clan. Does the old man recognize him by saying this? But the old man's next sentence quickly broke his guess.
"Although I asked you to call me Mr., I didn't include you in the door. You can only be regarded as an apprentice now. I will recognize you as my disciple when you get the qualification of senior bone maker one day. This is not just for you, I say this to all my students."
It just so happened that Yan Mo didn't want to be a master either, he had only one Master Curse Wizard, and if Curse Wizard knew that he had worshiped other masters, he dared to bet that his master would use the harshest curse to curse Qiang Wu even across the vast ocean. His disciples.
"Mr. Ivan." Yan Mo saluted with Jiuyuan etiquette.
The old man's expression slowed down, he put away the crescent bone, and waved to Yan Mo, "Come with me."
The counter door opened, Yan Mo turned to greet the queen daughter and the queen lion.
When Guan Shi saw that Master Ivan was going to take Yan Mo away, he became anxious, and immediately stepped forward two steps and shouted: "Master Ivan, please stay!"
The old man turned his head, Yan Mo and the others followed suit.
When the others heard Manager Hu calling out Master Ivan's identity, they didn't know what he was going to do, so they all looked at him.
The spectators in the store saw that the magic bone had been sold and were about to leave. At this moment, they suddenly heard a familiar name, and many people stopped in their tracks.
"Master Ivan? The only great bone maker in Ugan City?"
"Did I hear you right? Master Ivan is here too?"
"Where is Master Ivan? Who is Master Ivan?"
"You don't know, do you?" Someone whispered proudly: "This store is under the name of Master Ivan, and the bone treasures sold in it are of better quality than the upper store, but unfortunately the price is too expensive."
Now people who didn't know Master Ivan knew who the old man of the Black Horn tribe was, and the eyes of many low-level bonesmiths lit up. They didn't dare to bother Master Ivan right away, but I heard that Master Ivan is always willing to give advice to those who are talented or willing to work hard. He is also the one who has more apprentices among the big bone masters. If...
Even if they know that the hope is slim, everyone will dream that shit luck will fall on their head. When the others don't leave, several bone craftsmen look at each other, but none of them is willing to leave first.
Master Ivan frowned, and asked lightly: "Who are you? What's the matter? If you want to buy bone vessels, tell my shop assistant your request, and they will..."
"Master, I don't want you to make bone tools. I am the manager of Hood's bone tool shop. I ask you to stop because the hornless man behind you has something to do with my shop." Manager Hu respectfully saluted the old man , "May the light of God Pan'a cover you forever."
Master Ivan remained expressionless, "Oh? What does this little doll have to do with your shop?"
Yan Mo also wanted to hear what Guanshi Hu meant, so he didn't immediately deny it, and it was useless for him to deny it.
Manager Hu quickly weaved words, pointed at Yan Mo in front of everyone, and said, "This little man without horns is actually a bone-finding man hired by our shop's rogue, and our shop paid them for it. A large sum of bone coins. However, this little hornless man is very cunning, and he escaped on the way. We searched all the way, but we did not expect him to enter Wugan City. We almost let him run again."
Everyone: Do you believe it? Anyway, I don't believe it.
Of course, Master Ivan would not believe it. If what Manager Hu said was true, this little hornless man would have been put on a slave bone long ago. How could he be allowed to escape? What's more, there is a hornless demon warrior guarding him beside the little hornless man, but looking at Guanshi Hu's expression, he doesn't know the details of the warrior at all.
But Master Ivan didn't remind him of this, and just asked matter-of-factly: "So, this little baby is your slave?"
Manager Hu bit his bullet and said, "Yes."
"Then why isn't he wearing a slave bone?"
"I don't know the details. It is said that the little hornless man was sick at the time, so it is not suitable to wear the slave bone immediately."
"Then there is always a slave mark, right?"
"This... I didn't have time to type it either."
Master Ivan's expression was still very flat, and even his tone didn't change much, but when he threw it out, it blew up everyone in the shop like a bomb: "So you said that I, Ivan's apprentice, is from your shop without any evidence. slave?"
What? wait! What did Master Ivan say just now? Everyone doubted their ears.
Manager Hu hurriedly retorted: "We have someone who can identify him, and we can find his people. Master, we are not reckless..."
Manager Hu suddenly became dumb. What did Master Ivan say just now
Others in the store broke out after a moment of silence.
"What did Master Ivan say just now? He said that the hornless man was his apprentice?"
"Master Ivan's apprentice? A man without horns? This, this..." I wanted to say that this was impossible, but these words were indeed spoken by Master Ivan himself, and each of them could hear them clearly!
But a big bone tooler actually accepted a hornless man as his disciple
Anyone who knows a little bit about Master Ivan knows that Master Ivan never accepts disciples, he always accepts apprentices, and only when he has obtained the qualification of a senior bone craftsman, that is, a bone craftsman of level nine or above, can he recognize the other party's status as a disciple .
For this reason, everyone knows that there is no difference between an apprentice and a disciple in Master Ivan's mouth!
Manager Hu's expression changed back and forth, and there was constant noise in the store. Master Ivan's rhetorical question is even more exaggerated than the effect of a single stone stirring up thousands of waves. How many people's eyes are fixed on Yan Mo, if those eyes can be turned into reality, Yan Mo's back is 90% already on fire.
Manager Hu swallowed, and said with difficulty: "Master Ivan, are you really planning to take a man without horns as an apprentice?"
Master Ivan asked back with a smile: "Why? Are there any rules that prohibit me from accepting hornless people as apprentices?"
An idea flashed in Guanshi Hu's mind, and he blurted out: "But the last time the city lord asked you to accept his third son, you refused. Could it be that we nobles with horns are not as good as a man without horns?"
"What do you mean by that?" Master Ivan grimaced.
At this moment, Guanshi Hu also recalled that what he said just now was actually very bad, but the words had already been spoken, and it was impossible to take them back.
Manager Hu was determined, relying on the backing of a great witch behind the shop, he simply said shamelessly: "Master, this hornless man is indeed a slave bought by our shop, if you want evidence, I can get his clansmen to testify later. If you just feel sorry for him, there is no need to say that he is your apprentice, you are a great bone master, and you are the master under the great witch. Now you say that you want to take a hornless man as an apprentice, and other big bone masters want you. How to do it?"
When Guan Shi said it, he already had the faint meaning of threatening with a big witch.
How could Master Ivan not hear it? He smiled lightly and said: "What other people do is their business, and whoever I want to take as an apprentice is my freedom. Manager Hu, does the Hood know that you are bullying the big bone maker in his name like this? "
These words were very serious, so heavy that Manager Hu couldn't bear it at all.
Others in the store were also very dissatisfied with Manager Hu's aggressive attitude, everyone knew he was lying, especially the people who came from the Bone Bone Stall. Everyone guessed that Manager Hu had taken a fancy to the little hornless man's ability to distinguish bones, and wanted to force him into his subordinates so that he could completely squeeze the little hornless man.
On other occasions, they might sympathize with the little hornless man's experience, but they wouldn't say much, but it's different now that a big bonesmith is involved.
There was a buzz of discussion in the store, and some competing shops that had a bad relationship with Hood's Bone Tool Shop immediately began to ridicule Hu Guanshi, and some bone craftsmen explicitly accused Hu Guanshi of disrespecting the big bone craftsman as a commoner.
"God Pan'a! How dare I bully you, Master? I just..." Guanshi Hu was sweating, making one wrong step, one wrong step, and he was already riding a tiger. "By the way, I just don't want that hornless slave to deceive you. , Master Ivan, you have to believe me, I definitely have no disrespect to you. I... "
"I'll tell you again." Master Ivan concealed his distaste for Guanshi Hu, and said calmly: "My apprentice has long been accepted. I saw him by chance five years ago when I passed by the Silver Fox Forest. I thought he had a certain talent in bone refining, so I took him in. Otherwise, where do you think his bone discrimination ability comes from? Why did he come to my shop directly with magic bones? And why did I happen to be here today? In the store?"
Yes! Others were stunned. Master Ivan didn't say he didn't know, but they found out when he said it, what a coincidence. Those who thought that the master's quotation of 40,000 yuan was too high also felt that there was an explanation. Isn't this equivalent to giving bone coins to poor disciples in disguise
Some people nodded directly, and even the store manager had a look of sudden understanding, "I said why did the master come to the store today, so it was to meet the apprentices."
"Well, I made an appointment with him to meet in the city today, but I didn't expect this little guy to go to identify the bones first." Master Ivan had a helpless expression of "the little apprentice is not good."
The corners of Yan Mo's mouth twitched slightly. His new teacher had an upright and noble old professor's face, and his mouth was full of lies, which made him almost believe that he was really the apprentice he accepted five years ago.
The queen daughter and the queen lion had the weirdest expressions, but they held back and said nothing. In fact, they all suspected that Yan Mo was really Master Ivan's disciple.
Yuan Zhan stuck to his ear, and finally couldn't help asking him: "What are these people talking about?"
Yan Mo looked at him sympathetically: This is the sadness of not being able to understand the language in a foreign country. Others speak happily, but I can't understand anything. Yuan Zhan has been silent until now, not because he believes that silence is golden, but because he has to be silent, right
Suddenly, Yan Mo's heart moved, if his soul power was connected with Yuan Zhan's soul power, could Yuan Zhan understand everything he understood
Do as soon as you think of it, Yan Mo whispered: "Don't resist me, open your heart and soul."
Yuan Zhan would not resist him at all, feeling Yan Mo's soul power invaded, he naturally let go of his mental defense.
At this moment, Manager Hu struggled to force out a sentence: "Maybe my subordinates have identified the wrong person, I will go back and ask them carefully. Hehe, Master Ivan, you have a lot of adults, I hope you don't take what I said before to heart Come on, take your leave."
Manager Hu left in embarrassment, and the others gradually dispersed when they saw Master Ivan leading the little hornless man into the back of the shop.
And following the mouths of these people, the news that Master Ivan had accepted a hornless man as an apprentice quickly spread in Wugan City, and it had already reached the ears of the upper echelon before nightfall.
Here, when Manager Hu returned to the shop, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. He didn't achieve his goal this trip, and felt ashamed. Not only did he hate Master Ivan who didn't give him face, but he also deeply hated the most innocent Yan Mo and the others.
It's just a few hornless people, he doesn't believe that he really killed them, what will Master Ivan do to him!
"Go, find out which village the two hornless men following that little slave belong to! One of them has black feathers on his head and bone artifacts on his body. It is most likely a village witch from a nearby village."
"Yes, I'll check right away." The store clerk saw that Manager Hu was in a bad mood and disappeared quickly.