Chapter Thirteen: The Fish-Shaped Jade Pendant

  Farewell Mu Qinglan, Zhao Yang had nothing to do and continued to wander around. As he walked, he unknowingly arrived at a nearby antique market.

  As for this antique market, Zhao Yang was still quite familiar with it. He had often strolled around here before, taking a look at all sorts of rare and precious antiques.

  The entire antique market is actually just one street. At this moment, there are many people strolling around inside, in addition to the antique shops, there are also many vendors selling their wares directly on the sidewalk.

  There are many kinds of objects in the market, such as jade, copperware, porcelain, woodcarvings, calligraphy and paintings, coins and so on. Although the market is not big, it has everything one needs, with all sorts of collectibles available.

  As for collecting antiques, Zhao Yang himself is not very interested and doesn't know much about it. So he just took a casual glance at the excitement.

  Following the crowd, Zhao Yang didn't deliberately go to see anything like others did. Just wandering around in a circle, when he was about to leave, someone suddenly nudged his arm with their elbow.

  "Hey brother, I have some old stuff here, want to take a look? Maybe you'll find something that catches your eye."

  Zhao Yang stopped in his tracks and turned around to look at the person who was talking to him. The man was a young man of about thirty, tall and thin, with a pointed chin and a sharp mouth, but his small eyes gleamed with a hint of cleverness.

  And judging from his expression, he seemed to be hiding something and didn't want too many people to hear what he just said.

  Zhao Yang, who was originally not interested, was stirred up a bit. Thinking that there was nothing to do around him anyway, he nodded and said, "Okay, where is your stall?"

  "Come with me over there."

  The young man pointed to a corner not far away, where a man in his late 40s or early 50s with a goatee and very thin was sitting on the ground, with a burlap sack spread out in front of him, displaying several items.

  He followed the young man to the stall, and the young man immediately said to the thin man: "Uncle Kui, bring out those few items from a few days ago for this little brother to take a look."

  The thin man raised his head and looked at Zhao Yang for a moment, then nodded and took out several things from a sack beside him, placing them one by one on the sacks spread on the ground.

  "Little brother, take a look, these are all genuine and valuable old items."

  As he watched the slender man take out several things in a row, Zhao Yang's gaze instantly fixed on a fish-shaped jade pendant.

  Without making a sound, Zhao Yang crouched down and picked up the jade Pixiu next to him, pretending to examine it seriously for a moment before putting it down and picking up the fish-shaped jade pendant again.

  Although Zhao Yang didn't have any experience in buying antiques, he had often gone to various spiritual markets in 'Di Yuan Xian Lu' and was well aware that when buying things, no matter what caught his eye, he couldn't directly reveal it, or else he would definitely be slaughtered.

  Just now looking at that Yu Pei jade was just Zhao Yang's cover, this fish-shaped jade pendant is his real goal.

  As soon as the jade pendant was in his hand, Zhao Yang immediately felt a faint coolness coming over him. His eyes swept across the fish-scale pattern carved on the jade pendant and found that there were still some residual mud left between the patterns, which had not been completely cleaned.

  After a brief glance, Zhao Yang put down the jade pendant and picked up another piece of jade next to it.

  After pretending to examine several pieces of jade for a while, Zhao Yang finally spoke up and said: "How much is this small piece of jade pendant? The sales look pretty good."

  The lean man glanced at Zhao Yang, his eyes flashing slightly, and then stretched out five fingers, saying: "If the little brother wants it, I'll sell it to you for 5,000 yuan cheaper."

  Zhao Yang heard this and immediately furrowed his brow, saying: "This small piece of jade pendant is also worth five thousand, isn't it a bit expensive?"

  "Little brother, this jade is a genuine antique, and 5,000 yuan is really not expensive."

  "I really can't tell if it's an antique or not. I just think this piece of jade looks nice, and people say that when buying jade, you have to consider the eye fortune. If the price is reasonable, I'll buy it. But if it's too expensive, I won't be able to afford it. Uncle, you can tell, I'm still a student."

  Zhao Yang said.

  In fact, Zhao Yang didn't understand these antiques, but with the eyesight he had cultivated from his over 500 years of experience in 'Di Yuan Xian Lu', he was extremely accurate in judging the age of objects. The jade pendant in front of him, including the other jade Pixiu, were indeed old objects with a history of at least several hundred years.

  It's one thing to be able to tell the age of something, but judging the value of an object is a whole different story, and Zhao Yang was purely a rookie in this regard.

  He wanted to buy that jade pendant not for the purpose of reselling it, but because this piece of jade was indeed extraordinary. It contained a very large amount of heavenly spiritual energy, which was extremely important to Zhao Yang.

  According to Zhao Yang's estimation, this jade should have been dug out from a certain tomb, and the location of that tomb happened to be near a spiritual cave. Under the nourishment of the spiritual energy for years, this jade pendant would have contained such a large amount of spiritual energy inside.

  Earlier, when the lean man took out this jade pendant, Zhao Yang had already discovered its uniqueness at a glance. Just now, holding this piece of jade to examine it was actually to sense the concentration of the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy contained within this jade pendant.

  The result made Zhao Yang quite delighted. Although the spiritual energy in this jade pendant was not particularly pure, it had a lot of quantity.

  Originally, the spiritual energy on Earth was scarce, and even in the "Land of Immortals", the density of spiritual energy was less than one percent. Zhao Yang's cultivation progress was extremely slow. Now that he had encountered this jade pendant, it was like a long-awaited refreshing rain for him.

  According to his estimation, as long as he fully refines the spiritual energy within this jade pendant, it would be equivalent to at least half a year of his usual arduous cultivation!

  If it weren't for Zhao Yang's limited funds now, the money in the card left by his grandfather would be at most 15,000 yuan, and after deducting the tuition fees for H University in a few days, he could use at most 6,000 to 7,000 yuan.

  Otherwise, it's not just 5,000 yuan, even if it's 50,000 yuan, Zhao Yang will definitely buy it without hesitation.

  The slender man looked at Zhao Yang, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Little brother, if you really want to buy this jade, I can give in the most five hundred yuan, four thousand five sell it to you. If less, then that's not possible."

  "It's still too expensive. If my parents found out that I spent over 4,000 yuan on just this jade pendant, who knows how they'll scold me!"

  Zhao Yang is a difficult road. The so-called father and mother are naturally nonsense.

  "Alright little brother, name a price. If old man thinks it's worth selling, I'll sell it to you. I can tell, you really like this piece of jade."

  The slender man apparently was also very eager to get rid of this jade.

  Zhao Yang hesitated for a moment, stretched out three fingers and said: "Three thousand! I can only offer up to three thousand, if it's any more, my living expenses for next semester won't be enough."

  The thin man frowned, "Three thousand is too low. Little brother, if you really want it, I'll take another step back and sell it to you for four thousand yuan, this is the lowest price."

  Zhao Yang made a hesitant expression, and after a moment, he shook his head reluctantly: "Forget it, I'll go check out other places first."

  Saying so, he made a gesture and stood up, ready to leave.

  Seeing Zhao Yang really want to leave, the thin man suddenly couldn't help but speak: "Wait a minute, young brother. 3,500! I'll sell it to you at cost for 3,500. If 3,500 is still too expensive, then I'm out of options."

  Upon hearing this, Zhao Yang couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief. He then turned around and said to the thin man, "Three thousand five it is, three thousand five. Who made me really like that piece of jade?"

  "Uncle, please wait a moment, I'll just go over there to the ATM to withdraw some money and bring it back to you."

  Zhao Yang also knew that this price should be the other party's bottom line, so he didn't continue to haggle. Being able to buy that piece of jade for only 3,500 was a huge profit for Zhao Yang.

  When Zhao Yang turned around and bought the jade, the thin man also let out a sigh of relief. In fact, the things he sold were indeed stolen from the tomb, and he was thinking of finding a way to get rid of these things in exchange for cash, so he was so anxious.

  Next to it was an ATM, Zhao Yang immediately went over to withdraw some money and came back to trade with the thin man.

  Jade pendant in hand, Zhao Yang couldn't help but feel delighted at heart.

  The thin man with a stack of banknotes also showed a smile, smiling and saying to Zhao Yang: "Little brother, next time you want to buy something, you must take care of my business. Usually, I set up stalls here."

  "Alright, alright. Definitely!"

  Zhao Yang smiled and replied. With the fish-shaped jade pendant in hand, he left the antique market feeling satisfied.