Chapter 485 - Grade Six Antiques Master, Li Wei (1/2)
“What? You dare curse at me? Do you want to die?” Jia Xinlin said while releasing a force of spiritual energy that raced towards Chen Jin and Fang Bin in an attempt to push them down.
The pressure of the spiritual energy reached their bodies, and before the two could even react, they vomited blood and collapsed on the ground. They saw that Jia Xinlin had made no other moves against them, and it seemed that he only wanted to teach them a lesson. Chen Jin secretly let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he had secretly used a wisp of the spiritual energy from the naga robot to protect the two of them. Otherwise, this doppelganger would have died. He should improve his strength as soon as possible.
Chen Jin wiped the blood on the corners of his lips and said, “We are on the grounds of the sect, and you still want to kill us using your cultivation?”
As for Fang Bin, he was so scared that he had turned as white as a ghost. He pulled on Chen Jin’s sleeves in a silent request to stop talking. However, Chen Jin found nothing to be afraid of. It was inconvenient for him to use the naga robot because he did not want to expose its existence.
Jia Xinlin was somewhat shocked. He had just used a force of spiritual energy to suppress them. The two men’s Qi cultivation was only at the fourth level. Even if they were not seriously injured, at the very least, they should not be able to get up from the ground after collapsing. They had only vomited blood, how did that happen? Although he found it rather strange, he still said, “You have to know this, although the killing of fellow disciples in banned in this sect, no one cares if new disciples taught a little lesson.”
As Chen Jin listened to his words, he grasped their real meaning in his mind. Although what the other party said might not be completely true, the sect would not seriously punish those involved in this little thing. Even if he squealed to the higher-ups, it wouldn’t make a big difference. Hence Chen Jin thought for a little bit and said, “I don’t know if the sect will even care about this, but what right do you have to say that the stone I chose is good or bad?” Chen Jin thought, Hehe, even though you can’t be punished by the sect, I can still take a dig at you.
“Because I have been studying this for more than ten years. How could I not be clear about which stones have a higher probability of turning out to be a real storage stone and which stones are duds?” The old man saw that he had gotten his “face” back and acted like he was a very capable person by flinging out his sleeves in a very affected manner. He said calmly, “First, that stone of yours is very small. Although a small size does not mean that there is nothing good inside, its common knowledge that a big stone has a greater probability of containing treasures than a small stone. Secondly, the stone has a blueish-green hue. But the stones that come into the market are mostly stones originating from ancient times, and very few people sealed their treasures into the blue-green stone in the ancient times. Lastly, the goods are sealed within the stone via an array so a little residual power from the array would more or less remain on the stone. Even if it’s been a long time, this residual power can be detected. But your stone has no trace of any residual power from an array, so I conclude that it’s a just a piece of junk.”
“Ok, you say it’s junk, I say it’s the real thing. Let’s bet on this if you have the guts. If you win, I will pay you one hundred pieces of spirit stones. If you lose, get on your knees and apologized to me.” Chen Jin was provoking Jia Xinlin’s wrath while deliberately raising the stakes. When a person was angry, they were likely to agree due to the impulsivity generated from the rage.
Sure enough, when he heard that Chen Jin wanted him to kneel, Jia Xinlin immediately became fired up and said, “Good fellow, you’re the one who’s giving away free money, don’t blame me for this. I’ll bet you. You win if the value of the goods inside the stone is worth more than 500 spirit stones.”
When Chen Jin heard what Jia Xinlin said, he cursed him in his mind for being so shameless. A gemstone that cost one spirit stone turning out to contain within it goods that were worth more than 500 spirit stones? Jia Xinlin was very cunning too. But it didn’t matter, the things inside this stone were worth more than 500 spirit stones. He could be as cunning as he liked.
“Then, I would like to humbly request everyone here to act as witnesses. Afterward, I am willing to offer each person a spirit stone.” Chen Jin saw the opportunity and quickly made his request.
“I am willing.”
“Yes, I am willing too.”
While everyone was giving their response, Chen Jin had already come forth to the stone-cutting master, “I’ll be troubling you with this.”
“Hmm,” the stone-cutting master nodded without speaking much and applied his professional stone cutter to the stone.
In a short time, the “outer garments” of the gemstone were all cut off. In the fine stone pattern, the edge of a wooden box was faintly visible, its material was red sandalwood.
The master carefully cut open the blueish stone along the edges of the wooden box. He made a surface cut on the wooden box, and finally retrieved the box.
There was something inside. When the onlookers saw that after a wooden box was cut out from the gemstone, they looked at Jia Xinlin strangely. Their eyes seemed to be saying, didn’t you say that there was nothing inside? Didn’t you say that it’s junk?