For several consecutive days of the trade fair, Zhou Yan had been in a sweeping mode, which naturally attracted attention, even making some people want to scheme against him.
However, those people were not fools; they investigated Zhou Yan before making a move.
Then they discovered various things about Zhou Yan, which made those who wanted to act break out in a cold sweat.
If tens of thousands of lords from the ancient dynasty could not eliminate him, were they planning to form a group and send themselves to their deaths?
If Zhou Yan were easy to kill, others would have made a move long ago, and it wouldn't be their turn.
"Did you hear? The treasury of the Sun Never Sets Palace was stolen!"
"Good heavens, this is the funniest joke of the year. You're not serious, are you?"
"That's a treasury of tens of thousands of years, and it was stolen just like that. Do you know who did it?"
"It wasn't one group, but many gangs working together, and they committed many crimes."
"It seems a person called the Sky-Piercing Thief was leading them."
"So it was them. They are international master thieves, and they are truly formidable."
"Those people are truly audacious."
Today, Zhou Yan received some news. People were discussing the theft of the Sun Never Sets Palace, and they had targeted the Sky-Piercing Thief and others.
Poor Sky-Piercing Thief, he was burdened with another theft case.
Sky-Piercing Thief: I didn't do it, it wasn't us!
Regardless of the Sky-Piercing Thief's reaction, the people of Sun Never Sets had already decided it was them, and the participants also included Black Fox and over a dozen other gangs.
This left them stunned. How did they get dragged into this mess!
They felt extremely wronged.
But those who were robbed had already made up their minds. Whether it was them or not, they would first assume it was them and deal with the matter after catching them.
The Sky-Piercing Thief and others found themselves with more and more cases, with over a dozen theft cases being pinned on them.
Especially those who forcibly infiltrated those corporations, who were clearly people from the ancient dynasty, were also blamed on them.
This was incredibly absurd, beyond comprehension!
They were just a bunch of bandits. If they had the capability to forcibly infiltrate these corporations, why would they still be thieves? They would have changed to plain robbery.
But those people insisted on believing it was them. Did they dare to refute?
Did they dare?
The moment they appeared, they would be captured. Who would dare to show themselves?
They could only argue silently. Anyway, they were already heartbroken, so they didn't mind others adding insult to injury.
Even Zhou Yan felt that those people were somewhat pathetic. However, the fact that they hadn't been caught for several days showed they had some capabilities.
If they lacked ability, they would have been eliminated by numerous enemies long ago.
In the past few days, there had been too many commercial partners seeking cooperation with Zhou Yan. The main reason was that Zhou Yan's purchases were astonishing, and they all came to cooperate, wanting to become Zhou Yan's partners.
Among them were also some who wanted to swindle Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan directly let them understand the consequences of trying to swindle him. He infiltrated their company accounts and transferred all their company's wealth, then infiltrated their personal accounts and took all their money.
Although they suspected Zhou Yan had done this, there was no evidence. Should they confront Zhou Yan?
Did they dare?
Finally, it was the last day of the trade fair, and Zhou Yan participated in the auction.
This was the final day's auction. The organizers, through their efforts, had gathered a batch of extremely valuable items for auction. As for the items entrusted by the clients, they could only compensate them after the trade fair ended.
Did they dare not compensate? They certainly dared not fail to compensate, mainly because their reputation would be greatly affected, and they would face public criticism.
"I wonder what good items will appear in today's finale auction," Ye Bufan said as he and Zhou Yan entered and looked at the auction ahead.
"We'll see. I hope it's something I fancy. I have no interest in low-level items," Zhou Yan said.
As the two talked, the finale auction of the last day of the trade fair finally began.
The first item was a spiritual artifact, with a starting price of one billion spiritual coins.
"The first item is a spiritual artifact, so the subsequent items shouldn't be too low-level," Ye Bufan remarked.
"Six billion!" Zhou Yan bid directly.
The price of a spiritual artifact was just that, so no one competed with Zhou Yan. The first auction item was thus won by Zhou Yan.
After winning the bid, someone directly picked up the item and walked towards Zhou Yan, completing the transaction on the spot.
After Zhou Yan bought the first item, the second item began to be auctioned. It was a map recording many materials on the Lord's Continent, and many of them were locations of high-level materials.
Zhou Yan had no interest in this. With the Heaven and Earth Library, this map was of no use to him.
"Not interested?" Ye Bufan asked.
"I have something better, do you think I would need this?" Zhou Yan replied.
Ye Bufan also knew Zhou Yan's capabilities and said, "If I need any materials later, you have to tell me."
"No problem, these are minor matters." Zhou Yan was now wealthy and didn't take minor materials to heart.
Auction items were auctioned one after another. Zhou Yan didn't lack everything; he only bid for items that interested him.
The subsequent items indeed became better and better, with RRR-quality cultivation techniques and skills already appearing.
The competition was fierce, with many people vying for them, pushing the prices to wave after wave of peaks.
Next, a saint artifact level alchemy furnace appeared. This item immediately attracted Zhou Yan, who said, "I want this."
"The competition is likely to be fierce," Ye Bufan said.
"Then let's see if they dare to compete with me in terms of wealth." Zhou Yan was confident in his financial strength.
This saint artifact level alchemy furnace had a starting price of ten billion. Zhou Yan directly shouted, "One hundred billion."
Others had also gotten to know Zhou Yan. Every time he fancied something, he would bid very high.
But this item clearly had great appeal to others.
"One hundred and ten billion!"
"One hundred and fifty billion!"
"Three hundred billion!" Zhou Yan spoke again.
The price doubled directly. At this point, no one else spoke.
This saint artifact was worth at most around two hundred billion. Zhou Yan's bid was too high, and they all gave up.
Zhou Yan successfully purchased this saint artifact level alchemy furnace. He had only bid twice so far, yet he had made others retreat.
Following this, there was another saint artifact level armor. This armor was far more precious than weapons. According to Ye Bufan's estimate, this saint artifact armor would cost at least five hundred billion to acquire.
Zhou Yan also felt this saint artifact armor was very valuable and began to wait for the auction to start.