After breakfast, Ye Chen and Ye Hai went to the famous Antique Street in Luo City.
The history of the Antique Street was almost as long as Luo City. The buildings were also the oldest, but the owners of the shops had changed a lot. Of course, most of them were inherited by their fathers, generation after generation.
Walking on the street, Ye Chen was overwhelmed by the variety of goods in the shops.
Ye Hai said, "The Antique Street is usually full of opportunities. There was once a man who bought an inconspicuous top rank soul stone with ten silvers and sold it to a Clasping Yuan Realm warrior. He made more than two million silvers and never had to worry about food or clothing for the rest of his life."
Ye Chen smiled. He knew about this as well. Soul stones were divided into four ranks: low rank, mid rank, top rank, and extreme rank. The difference between each rank was huge. Normally, a mid rank soul stone could be exchanged for fifty low rank soul stones, and a top rank soul stone could be exchanged for fifty mid rank soul stones. In other words, a top rank soul stone could be exchanged for two thousand five hundred low rank soul stones, which was two hundred and fifty silvers. It was enough for a normal person to live a peaceful life for ten lifetimes.
"Let's go to the Nine Cauldron Pavilion." Ye Hai pointed at the Antique Building twenty steps away.
Ye Chen nodded. The Nine Cauldron Pavilion was a thousand-year-old shop on the Antique Street. It had the most connections. In the middle of the lobby, there was a bronze cauldron. The leader of the Ye family wanted to buy it, but was rejected. It was said that the Nine Cauldron Pavilion had a very powerful background. Even the Ye family had to think twice before making a move on it.
As they crossed the threshold, no one came to greet them. They were all busy with their own business.
Ye Chen and Ye Hai did not care and walked straight in.
The first thing they saw was a huge bronze cauldron that was as tall as three people. It was cyan with a hint of black, perfectly round shape. There were many different ancient characters carved on its surface. It was supported by nine legs, which looked very stable. It looked like it could hold up the sky and bring great shock to people's souls.
Ye Chen took a deep breath. The last time he came here was four years ago. At that time, he was not very sensible. When he saw the nine-legged bronze cauldron, he did not feel much. He only felt that it was very imposing. Now that he saw it, he felt as if his soul was trembling, and his lively Zhen Qi was showing signs of stagnation.
Turning his head to look at Ye Hai, Ye Chen saw that Ye Hai was unmoved. Ye Chen felt strange, but he didn't say anything.
"Let's go to the second floor! The first floor is filled with small toys, "Ye Chen suggested after casually looking around and seeing that there were no antiques that caught his eye.
"Yes, the antiques on the first floor are no different from other antique shops."
The two of them walked side by side and arrived at the quaint and elegant second floor.
Compared to the first floor, there were very few people on the second floor. Including the shop assistants who were waiting at the side, there were only fifteen to sixteen people. It seemed extremely empty.
However, those who could come to the second floor were all rich. After all, even the most common antique on the second floor cost nearly a thousand taels of silver to buy. As for whether it was a profit or a loss, it all depended on one's luck.
"Tsk tsk, these stone figurines have at least a few hundred years of history!" Ye Hai was attracted by the stone figurines that were as tall as a person and were covered in cracks.
Ye Chen looked at them and lost interest. He separated from Ye Hai and walked to the other side.
Right then, there were already people who had chosen their favorite antiques. However, it was this antique that surprised Ye Chen.
"Hey, tell your shopkeeper that I want this wooden shelf. No matter how much it costs, it's not a problem." The person who spoke was a fat man with a rich face. He was wearing extravagant clothes and all ten of his fingers were covered with rings. He looked like a nouveau riche who had just made a fortune. He seemed to be impatient.
The shop assistant was depressed. Why did you want the wooden shelf that displayed the antiques? Aren't you deliberately making things difficult for me? He smiled and said: "Okay, I'll go and ask. Please wait a moment."
"Go and come back quickly." The fat rich man waved his hand and stared at the wooden shelf. He was afraid that it would run away.
Ye Chen felt that it was funny. However, he, who was always calm, started to think about it again. He could not judge a book by its cover. This wooden shelf might have some tricks up its sleeves.
After thinking about it, he focused on the wooden shelf and released his soul power.
Buzz!
There seemed to be an invisible ripple in the air, slowly seeping into the wooden shelf and searching carefully. As long as there was something special, Ye Chen would be able to sense it.
Eh?
"This wooden frame actually contains a spirit stone, and the Yuan Qi contained in it is dozens of times that of a low-grade spirit stone. So, it must be a mid-grade spirit stone, which is equivalent to fifty thousand silvers. But how did this fatty sense it? Or maybe he just wanted this wooden frame and had no other intentions?" Chen Fan wondered. Ye Chen was shocked. However, a mere fifty thousand silvers was not worth his attention. With his current power, it was easy to earn money. Of course, it was even easier to spend money.
The shopkeeper of the Nine Tripod Pavilion hurried up and said to the fat rich man with a smile: "Sir, are you sure you want this wooden shelf?"
The fat rich man rolled his eyes, "Name your price!"
The shopkeeper raised one finger, "Ten thousand silvers."
"Alright, very cheap. My father-in-law should like this old wooden shelf a lot." The fat rich man did not even frown as he took out a thousand gold note from his storage ring.
"As long as he likes it. Xiao Li, hurry up and help the customer clean the wooden shelf." The shopkeeper took the gold note and said to the worker on the side.
Ye Chen was speechless. If what the fat rich man said was true, then he really did not see anything special about this wooden shelf, and was only using it to please his father-in-law. Moreover, the shopkeeper did not know where he got this wooden shelf from, and used it as a decoration on the second floor. Therefore, he did not lose anything.
It seemed like there were too many strange things happening in the Nine Tripod Pavilion.
Shaking his head, Ye Chen walked past them.
There were too many antiques on the second floor. There was a half bronze mirror covered in rust, a black vase, and some cloth from an unknown era. There were even more broken armors and weapons, such as chainmail, steel armor, seven exquisite armors, long sabers, broken spears, broken swords, bent iron rods, meteor hammers without chains, and so on.
Releasing his soul power, Ye Chen looked through them one by one. His eyes were as calm as water.
Finally, the only thing that caught his eye was that meteor hammer. If it could be restored to its original form, its value would not be lower than the great blade in Ye Chen's storage ring, and it might even be more valuable.
Unfortunately, the broken meteor hammer had lost its sharpness, and after thousands of years of erosion, it had lost all of its spirit Qi. If he took it back, it could only be used as a decoration or an antique, and could not be used. This was something that Ye Chen could not accept.
Putting down the meteor hammer, Ye Chen was about to leave.
Suddenly, his eyes fixed on a broken sword in the gap between the wooden shelf and the wall. This broken sword only had a hilt and a small part of the blade. Its surface was dull and inconspicuous. Who knew how many years it had been hidden here without anyone noticing it?
Reaching out his hand to pick up the broken sword, Ye Chen observed it for a while, and then pushed his soul power into it.
"Hahahahaha …"
A desolate and vast laughter rushed into Ye Chen's mind. All of a sudden, Ye Chen felt like he had come back to the ancient times, where the world was chaotic, and only the laughter could be heard.
"What is going on?" Ye Chen cut off his soul power, and cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
The ability to use soul power to detect objects was something that Ye Chen had discovered not long ago. Different from soul power, soul power could detect deeper than the surface. Otherwise, he would not have been able to detect the mid-rank soul stones in the wooden shelf.
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