After divorcing my celebrity wife, I became the world's richest person

As his voice fell, everyone\'s eyes widened, staring intensely at the two paintings.

This was, after all, a painting from legend, said to have been created by Zhang Zhongjing to teach his students, summoning top artists to illustrate based on his \'Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases.\'

Although the painting depicted landscapes, it concealed numerous medicinal herb illustrations and prescriptions.

However, to see what was hidden in the painting, one would need to use some special methods.

The media reporters at the scene rushed forward and started snapping pictures of the paintings, completely ignoring the Buddha head.

"Mr. Chen, which of these two paintings is the real one?"

A sly flicker passed through Chen Yu\'s eyes, "Of course, it\'s the one on the right-hand side!"

With these words, the venue once again erupted into a frenzy. Read new chapters at мѵʟ

"What are you waiting for, host? We want this painting! Name your price quickly!"

Someone shouted, and the host came to her senses. She promptly pressed the communicator by her ear, had a quick discussion with the organizers, and then directly announced a staggering price of three billion.

The place was silent for only a moment before it erupted once again.

Such a price elsewhere would represent the full assets of a medium-sized family, but to those present, it was nothing remarkable.

Their frenzy even exceeded Chen Yu\'s expectations.

While everyone was going mad with their bids, Chen Yu approached a middle-aged man responsible for managing the items backstage.

Chen Yu had noticed this guy early on.

Though he had been standing there doing seemingly insignificant tasks, he was able to control the order in which the treasures were brought up.

"Since these events were set into motion by me, it\'s only right that I take responsibility. I\'ll purchase these ruined Buddha heads and the fake painting at a proper price!"

The middle-aged man\'s face broke into a joyous smile; he had been worrying about how to deal with these items, but Chen Yu had come to him out of the blue.

"Mr. Chen, we should be thanking you. Without you, we might have never known that we possessed such a rare treasure in our hands. As for those Buddha heads, just follow the procedure and you can take them directly. Don\'t worry about the money, it\'s not important!"

All of this was almost within Chen Yu\'s expectations, so he said nothing more and directly found Katherine to help him take all these items away.

Once everything was arranged, Katherine sat next to Chen Yu with a bit of a grievance.

"Mr. Chen, I really don\'t know why you want these pieces of junk. Now that we know they are fake, we shouldn\'t have gone through so much effort."

Chen Yu just smiled and said nothing, contentedly sipping his red wine.

Earlier, when he had spotted the issue with the Buddha heads, Chen Yu had immediately instructed the system to scan everything at the scene.

He discovered that within the Buddha heads, two were merely stone embryos and even imitations from the late Qing dynasty.

The rest were all precious treasures from between the third year of Tang Zhenguang to the first year of Tianbao.

Among them was the famous \'Central Heaven Buddha Head.\'

Legend had it that this Buddha head was crafted from tricolor gemstones and was exceedingly valuable.

Thus, Chen Yu directly smashed one of the stone embryo Buddha heads to create a distraction and took the opportunity to take away all the other Buddha heads.

As for the \'Typhoid Hundred Herbs Chart,\' Chen Yu had taken the real one and left the fake behind.

This painting was originally created by hundreds of top artists, and apart from the secret hidden within it, it was impossible to tell the real from the fake.

The replica, too, had been replicated by a great many artists summoned by Li Hongzhang during the late Qing dynasty.

However, they failed to replicate the essence of the painting.

At this moment, the auction was still intensely competitive.

Hidden within the "Cold Damage Herb Map" was the entire "Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders," including a vast number of ancient medical prescriptions.

If one could get their hands on it, it would be like getting hold of a medical code. Just by analyzing the prescriptions, one could lie there and make money for a lifetime.

Since Chen Yu found the "Cold Damage Herb Map," two whole hours had passed, and the price had soared to 25.6 billion, yet the major families were still stubbornly clinging on without letting go.

Honestly, such a price was already insane, and if the outside world found out, they would only curse and call it madness.

Yet, just how precious medical drug patents are was something only these super families understood.

Just take an anti-cancer drug, for example—one injection could sell for the sky-high price of 1.2 million!

Moreover, each family qualified to attend this banquet owned assets worth tens of trillions. To them, a mere two or three hundred billion was nothing to fuss about.

It was precisely because they saw through the value of the "Cold Damage Herb Map" that the organizers allowed Chen Yu to take away the Buddhist relic head so generously.

In the end, the "Cold Damage Herb Map" sold for the terrifying price of 42.6 billion.

Hearing this result, Chen Yu couldn\'t help but feel a little guilty.

After all, that painting was just a replica. The number of prescriptions that could be gleaned from it were few, and buying it for such a high price was definitely a loss.

But being able to bring back so many national treasure-level gemstones still brought some consolation to Chen Yu.

"By the way, Mr. Chen, why didn\'t you let Victor join the bidding? Is this painting not worth buying?"

Katherine\'s voice pulled Chen Yu back to his thoughts.

"I just don\'t think it\'s worth it!" Chen Yu said perfunctorily and did not elaborate further.

Katherine didn\'t ask any more and simply topped up Chen Yu\'s glass with wine.

In the middle of the night, the auction gradually dispersed, and the guests who had come to the banquet returned to their rooms one by one.

Just then, a harsh alarm suddenly sounded.

Chen Yu abruptly opened his eyes, and immediately a wealth of information displayed within his mind.

[System Alert: Ship has sustained deliberate damage, please board the lifeboats immediately]

Analyzing the information in his mind, Chen Yu discovered a large hole had been made in the ship\'s hull, and it was deliberately manipulated to look like damage from running aground.

Chen Yu immediately realized that someone intended to deliberately damage the ship to commit insurance fraud.

Exhaling lightly, Chen Yu didn\'t say much, since this kind of insurance fraud was not uncommon among the super families; as for the outcome, that would be up to the insurance company!

Chen Yu followed the staff and quickly evacuated to the lifeboat.

It had to be said, the organizers behind the scenes were truly humane. They had made all the preparations well in advance, and they safely evacuated everyone from the Queen Elsa before it sank, without any casualties.

At that moment, a terrifying explosion was suddenly heard not far away, and a strange-looking ship appeared with many men in black standing on it.

"We\'ve heard that a rare treasure has surfaced on the ship. We\'ve come to inspect it and hope to purchase it at a reasonable price. We also hope everyone will cooperate, otherwise, bear the consequences!"