Chapter 74: Spiritual Awakening Vision

  Zhao Mengzhi's collection has over a hundred pieces, big and small, and he even set aside a room as an exhibition hall. Qu Wen only needed to open his spiritual awareness to distinguish the genuine from the fake, and at the same time absorb all the spiritual energy in the room. It took quite some time to make a round of inspection. If one didn't know better, they would think that he was excessively infatuated with collecting, so he looked even more carefully.

  After reading the lyrics, Zhao Meng asked nervously: "How is it? Is there anything wrong with our family's stuff?"

  Most of Zhao Meng's collection was bought back from major auctions, although there are also counterfeit products at auctions, the authenticity rate is much higher than that in antique markets. Among more than 100 pieces of collections, Qu Wen only picked out seven fake ones.

  "Basically that's it, Zhao Ge your collection has a pretty high authenticity rate."

  Zhao Meng's family had basically found someone to appraise all the items in their collection, and the remaining seven fake pieces were kept because of their high simulation degree and certain artistic sense, so they didn't want to throw them away. After getting Qu Wen's confirmation again, he felt exceptionally happy.

  "I heard you dug up some great treasures in Guizhou, coincidentally I'm free on Saturday, how about inviting a few fellow collectors over for a small gathering, what do you think?"

  At the antique exchange meeting, there will inevitably be antique appreciation, and I don't know what kind of treasures will appear. Qu Wen naturally won't let go of this rare opportunity.

  "Great, it's a rare opportunity to communicate with Tibetan friends in Chengdu, I'm eager for it."

  Back at the hotel, it was already 11 pm. Unexpectedly, I met Liang Shuang's father, Liang Zhisong, at Zhao Mengzhi's home. However, Liang Zhisong had a cheerful personality and didn't take his son's foolish actions to heart. Moreover, the Buddha statue had already fallen into Qu Wen's hands, so pursuing the matter further would be pointless. It was better to let it go and appear more magnanimous.

  According to Liang Zhisong, he is not very opposed to his son engaging in extreme rock climbing. However, this new sport has yet to be recognized by relevant domestic institutions, and it's hard to sustain itself with just personal investment. Moreover, such sports are only suitable for young people to play around with; they can't become a lifelong career, or else it will affect life when one gets old. The best approach is to have hobbies and careers coexist.

  Too lazy to think about the Liang father and son again, Qu Wen took out the newly dug green Tara Buddha statue and slowly wrapped it in Ling Jue.

  Due to the intense spiritual energy on the Buddha statue, it was impossible to swallow in one gulp. Qu Wen had no choice but to use his spiritual awareness to slowly absorb it, just like extracting silk from a cocoon, and it took him a full ten minutes to fully absorb the spiritual energy above.

  However, after inhaling too much spiritual energy, Qu Wen's body showed a state of saturation for a short time, and it was very clear that the spiritual energy surged into the brain, causing intense swelling pain. After another two or three minutes, as the spiritual energy gradually dispersed from the brain, the swelling pain gradually turned into a coolness, which slowly spread to every meridian in the body.

  "Huh?"

  When the spiritual energy passed through his eyes, Qu Wen suddenly saw a very faint blue halo appearing on the Green Tara Buddha statue in front of him, flickering on and off like the streetlights in a supernatural movie.

  "What's going on? I've never seen this kind of image before. Could it be that the Green Tara has too much spiritual energy?"

  Qū Wén didn't dare to confirm, thinking it was just an illusion caused by absorbing too much spiritual energy in the past few days. He closed his eyes and withdrew the spiritual awareness back into his body, and when he opened them again, the blue light on the Green Degree Mother also disappeared. However, when he released the spiritual awareness once more, the faint blue light on the Green Degree Mother began to appear again.

  "Could it be that the growth of spiritual awareness has caused a mutation in my vision? Will hearing and smell also increase?" After thinking for a moment, Quwen shook his head: "Don't worry about it for now, let's see if there are any special functions when spiritual awareness is concentrated on the eyes, best if I can see through!" As he spoke, Quwen couldn't help but chuckle to himself, a sly look appearing on his face. He remembered how he had unintentionally seen through Chen Wei's beautiful body at the talent recruitment market, even though it was still separated by one last layer, it was enough to make him ecstatic and hot-blooded.

  Thinking is doing is Quwen's habit, and immediately mobilize some Lingjue to the eyes. As the Lingjue condenses, the clarity of what the eyes see also increases, but still can't achieve the effect of penetration.

  "Is it just enhanced vision!? I'm not nearsighted, what's the use of enhancing my vision!" Qu Wen was extremely dissatisfied with his newly acquired ability and loudly cursed. After a while, he calmed down slightly and thought: "Maybe it's only useful for antiques and treasures, otherwise why would there be blue light on the Green Tara Buddha statue but nothing on ordinary things."

  After finishing, he hastily took out the Ming dynasty purple sandalwood three friends pattern box from his bag, and through the eyes that gathered spiritual awareness, he saw that the three friends pattern box also showed a faint blue light. When he retracted his spiritual awareness, the blue light on the three friends pattern box also disappeared.

  "It's only useful for rare and precious treasures. Then how can I distinguish the meaning of these glows, if there were a few more treasures around... Alright, let's go to the antique market again tomorrow and see what kind of reaction this new ability has on other antiques."

  Knowing that it's useless to rush, he gave up thinking about it and went back to sleep, sleeping soundly until dawn.

  The next morning, after the three of them had breakfast, Qu Wen hastily pulled Zhao Haifeng and Wei Dan to the antique market.

  As it was still early, many antique shops had not yet opened their doors, only a few small stalls were set up in advance, but this was already enough for Qu Wen to test his newly acquired strange ability.

  After a period of observation, Qu Wen found that if it was something after the Republic of China, through Ling Jue's line of sight, the spiritual energy on top would all present a faint milky white color. If it was something from the late Qing dynasty, the color would change to pale green. Occasionally, when encountering a few items from the mid-Qing period, the green color would be more intense, but none of them had any luster.

  "Could it be that the light only appears on Dongcai above the Ming Dynasty?" Qu Wen thought to herself, lowering her head and suddenly seeing the emerald ring on her left thumb. She remembered Chen Qiang saying that this was something he had bought back from an auction, which a Qing general used to wear.

  "This bead originally had a pretty strong spiritual energy, I wonder what kind of reaction it will have under Ling Jue's Spiritual Awareness?"

  The jade ring on his left hand once again emitted a spiritual aura, and he stared at it intently. A faint green glow then appeared before his eyes.

  "Oh, things from the Qing dynasty can also emit light? Does that mean ordinary objects only have color, while treasures will appear with a glow, and if the glow is stronger, the rarity of the object is also higher?" With strong curiosity, Qu Wen couldn't help but mutter to herself.

  Since having breakfast, Zhao Haifeng was dragged to the antique market by Qu Wenqiang. Along the way, Qu Wenqiang didn't say anything, but instead focused on looking at the things on the stalls, occasionally muttering a few words to himself, which left Zhao confused.

  "Awen, what's wrong with you today? You're always dazed and confused. Didn't you receive something good yesterday and now you're getting arrogant? Someone like you can't even get anxious properly."

  Qu Wen heard scratching his head and smiled foolishly: "I really was stupid, didn't Zhao Ge say that the day after tomorrow at his house would be a gathering of friends to exchange antiques?"

  Zhao Haifeng heard the inexplicable nod and nodded: "Hmm, what's the big deal."

  "Not much, just can't wait to see what good treasures everyone has brought!" Qu Wen said with a hearty laugh.

  Yesterday's collection rose slowly, giving some small blows to the barbarians. Brothers, please give it a bit more strength.