Ruby, sapphire, emerald, all kinds of gemstones are available, and many of them are of quite decent quality.
Even the owner of a small stall could pull out several top-grade gems over ten carats.
These are just the stalls in the market; on both sides of the market, there are rows of gemstone shops, and the gemstones inside are evidently more high-end.
The gem market that Li Xiu had seen in Tyrone City before was basically no different from a junkyard compared to this gem market.
"The Longevity Sky is indeed the Longevity Sky; it's estimated that eighty percent of the world's gemstones are gathered here," Li Xiu observed the boxes of diamonds, in all colors imaginable.
The blue diamonds and red diamonds that are rare outside are not considered anything special here.
"If there are enough resources, why worry about Demigod Shana not advancing to S-tier?" Li Xiu thought to himself as he looked at the boxes of blue diamonds.
"Commander Li." Li Xiu was admiring the gemstones on the street when he suddenly heard someone from a nearby stall calling him.
Li Xiu turned his head to look and saw that the person calling him was the stall owner. He scrutinized him for a moment but realized that he didn't recognize him.
"Hello, Commander Li, I'm Sun Tianlei, from the Sun Family among the Four Great Families. A few days ago, I was fortunate enough to witness your prowess in defeating Jing Li..." The middle-aged man came out from behind the stall, ran in front of Li Xiu, and said a long opening speech that nearly put Li Xiu to sleep.
"Is Commander Li here to buy gemstones? Please take a look at my stall, I'll give you a twenty percent discount." Sun Tianlei pointed at his stall and said.
"Why is someone from the Sun Family setting up a stall here?" Li Xiu glanced at his stall. Although there were quite a few gemstones, they were not much different from the neighboring stalls. It was hard to imagine someone from one of the Four Great Families setting up such a small stall here.
Sun Tianlei smiled wryly and said, "I don't mind if Commander Li laughs at me. The Sun Family has been here for millennia, and just the direct blood relatives with the surname Sun number over ten thousand, with even more branch families. There are some who do well, and others like me who are average. At least with the Sun Family's name, no matter how bad things get, we won't be bullied for no reason."
"It's not bad to have your own business." Li Xiu nodded and followed Sun Tianlei to his stall.
His stall mostly featured diamonds, but there were also plenty of the other four major gemstones, as well as tourmaline, olivine, apatite, aquamarine, and others. The selection was diverse, and the quality was good.
"Why are there so many people selling diamonds here?" Li Xiu asked, somewhat puzzled.
He had looked at so many stalls, and almost every stall had a large quantity of diamonds.
Seemingly seeing through Li Xiu's thoughts, Sun Tianlei chuckled and said, "Actually, the supply of diamonds is very large. The currently discovered diamond mines are already enough for hundreds or even a thousand years of mining. The reason you feel that diamonds are sold expensively outside is that most diamond mines are controlled by the Longevity Sky, and most of the diamonds mined are transported inside the Longevity Sky."
"I see." Li Xiu roughly guessed that this was the reason.
"Commander Li, if you like diamonds, I happen to have a special item here. Would you like to take a look?" Sun Tianlei said, and without waiting for Li Xiu to agree, he carefully took out a small cloth bag from his pocket, opened it, and poured out a pink diamond.
"Is this... an Argyle Pink Diamond?" Li Xiu originally intended to say he wasn't planning to buy diamonds, but seeing the pink diamond that Sun Tianlei poured out, he couldn't help but feel surprised.
The Argyle Pink Diamond in pink diamonds holds the same standing as the Namiya Jedi Knight in red apatite; both are synonymous with top quality.
Previously, the largest pink diamond in the world was dug out from the Argyle Mine of the Ancient Australia, with a weight of 12.76 carats, and was dubbed the Fancy Man Pink Diamond.
In the old world, many tycoons scrambled to purchase pink diamonds from the Argyle Mine, so much so that the Argyle Mine was sealed off, and the price of Argyle Pink Diamonds kept rising.
Having a diamond certificate from Argyle production can significantly increase a pink diamond's value.
The pink diamond in Sun Tianlei's hand, as dreamy as a young girl, is a standard diamond cut. Although it is not as large as the largest Fancy Man Pink Diamond, it still weighs seven to eight carats, which is quite large among Argyle Pink Diamonds.
Outside, Li Xiu remembered seeing an auction for an Argyle Pink Diamond that was only under six carats, with a starting price of 500,000 space coins per carat, amounting to three million for six carats, enough for Li Xiu to build a Demon Spirit Arena.
Sun Tianlei's Argyle Pink Diamond is slightly larger than the one Li Xiu saw at the auction before, and its color and clarity do not lose to that one at all.
The value of such an Argyle Pink Diamond is inestimable, even in a place like the Longevity Sky, where gemstones abound, it could probably fetch a high price, at least tens of millions of space coins upwards.
The reason Li Xiu paid so much attention to it was not because of the high value of the Argyle Pink Diamond, but because when he saw it, a strong sense of hunger arose in his abdomen.
This Argyle Pink Diamond is clearly a Demon Spirit Gemstone.
"Commander Li, this is my special item, to be honest, if it weren't for trying to buy a demon spirit for my son, I wouldn't have brought it out to sell. This is not something recently mined by diamond companies but an old piece dug from the ruins of the Ancient Australia, where the castle's owner was a great aristocrat..." Sun Tianlei narrated the origin of the Argyle Pink Diamond.
Actually, he couldn't explain it very clearly himself; he only knew that a group of Gem Hunters dug it out from that castle, as for the castle owner's background, he was half guessing.
"I didn't expect Commander Li to be interested in listening to stories." Li Xiu was engrossed in listening when he suddenly heard a familiar and annoying voice behind him.
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