Chapter 480: Chapter 508: 12 Zodiac Signs
The antique shop ownerâs eloquence was quite impressive, but Lin Xi always felt like he wasnât selling antiques, he was selling his own lip service!
Halfway through, seeing Shangguan Hong and the other three people so engrossed, he didnât want to listen anymore.
Because he had just couldnât resist using X-ray Vision on this porcelain bowl. After all, a free ride is still a ride, and he couldnât just let others be deceived.
But with just one look, inside it was imprinted with "Made in Jingdezhen, September 2017."
"Now youâre saying the Ming Dynasty emperor bestowed it upon Xin Qiji, I seriously feel like slapping you. Bestow it, my foot!"
So, utterly reluctant to keep listening, he wandered around the shop to look at other things. Anyway, he had nothing else to do, and he couldnât just leave the brat behind.
To be honest, if the X-ray Vision didnât have a time limit, heâd have scanned the whole shop by now.
Although scanning it all wouldnât help him distinguish between genuine and fake items, heâd at least be able to spot some fakes.
Like the bowl the antique shop owner mentionedâitâs a Xin Qiji bowl, my foot!
After watching for a while, the shop owner was still talking nonstop, making the four listeners extremely excited. Lin Xi guessed that if the other three had money, theyâd probably be bidding to buy it.
"It seems like I canât see anything out of the ordinary???"
Lin Xi was suddenly surprised. After looking for a while, he noticed that among the hundreds of items in the shop, there were two pieces that gave him a sense of closeness.
Whatâs going on?
Because these two items werenât on the display shelves but were placed among a pile of miscellaneous items.
After digging them out, one was an ordinary Jade Pendant, and the other was a porcelain cup.
The Jade Pendant was about the size for normal wearing, with black stains that were hard to clean off.
Upon closer inspection, the Jade Pendant was full of impurities, speckled, looking like low-grade jade, not worth much.
The porcelain cup, about the size of a thumb, was much cleaner than the Jade Pendant but was also covered in dust, appearing like something casually discarded.
Inside the cup, there was a trace of red rust, probably left by a small rusty iron item.
Lin Xi held them and carefully sensed them, finally understanding the reason for the feeling of closenessâit was because they emitted a hint of Spiritual Qi.
This Spiritual Qi, being too faint, was hard to detect immediately.
"Somethingâs not right!" he suddenly said to himself.
The feeling given by these two small items wasnât that simple, as if there was a layer covering their original shape.
In other words, their current appearance wasnât their true appearance.
As for their value, it should be extraordinary!
Because he had never encountered anything that could emit Spiritual Qi on its own before.
"At least one or two million per piece!"
Based solely on the Spiritual Qi contained within, theyâd be worth at least this much.
And the material that could lock in Spiritual Qi was certainly not as simple as it looked on the outside!
"X-ray Vision, activate!" Lin Xi silently commanded.
In an instant, the two small items seemed to shed a layer of clothing, fully revealing their true selves.
The grime on the Jade Pendant vanished, replaced by a mutton-fat color, smooth as condensed fat, with all its speckles gone, becoming finely grained, clearly not an ordinary jade, vastly different from before.
The small porcelain cup also appeared unusual, with a jade-like surface, exquisitely detailed patterns covering it. Upon closer inspection, it depicted twelve vividly lifelike little animals.
They were the rat, ox, tiger...
Isnât this the twelve zodiac animals?
This was astounding! A thumb-sized porcelain cup depicted the twelve zodiac animals.
Such exquisite items couldnât be crafted with todayâs technology, right?
In terms of value, the two small items should be about equal, and they contained roughly the same amount of Spiritual Qi.
One critical point is that the Spiritual Qi is dispersed without dissipating. This means the Spiritual Qi lingers on the surface without dispersing into the air, as if being confined by these two small items.
Just then, Lin Xi felt everyone in the shop looking at him.
"Uh?"
"Could they have noticed something unusual?"
If thatâs the case, the shop owner would definitely ask for a sky-high price for these two items.
The next moment he heard Shangguan Hong shout, "Brother-in-law, come over here!"
PS: I forgot todayâs updates, will continue writing, but donât worry, there will be at least four more updates.