Lin Chen sat in the best vip seat, he looked at the crystal counter over ten meters high with interest, inside it were dozens of uneven, translucent blue crystal ores placed in sequence.
"This is the treasure for the first round of appraisal, Mysterious Water Essence Mine. The sect who entrusted this hopes the appraisers can identify the highest quality part of the batch of Mysterious Water Essence Mine to forge ten third-rank weapons, needing only about seven zhang in size, the remaining Mysterious Water Essence Mine will belong to the Treasure Appraiser. Please appraise."
The entrusting sect will give part of the entrusted treasure to the Treasure Appraiser, this is an unspoken rule in the field. Of course, other generous rewards can also replace it.
Every Treasure Appraiser may be tied to a power, they are tied to each other, in order to obtain the reward from the entrusting side, they would usually appraise the best part of the treasure.
Because none of the Treasure Appraisers can be 100% certain that only they can appraise the highest quality.
This is like both sides of Treasure Appraisers, if one side sees through the best quality of the treasure, but does not point it out to the entrusting side, instead gives an answer that is not the best.
Then in this case, the opponent may also see the best quality of the treasure, and give a better answer than the former, then the reward will belong to the latter!
This is the true meaning of the existence of the Treasure Appraisal Conference! In order to avoid one side of the Treasure Appraiser power seeing through the quality of the treasure and profiting silently, there will be several Treasure Appraisal sects or powers at the Treasure Appraisal Conference!
As soon as the old man finished speaking, two young men raised their hands immediately.
"The 13th Mysterious Water Essence Mine has the highest quality."
"The 15th Mysterious Water Essence Mine has the best quality!"
The two young Treasure Appraisers gave different answers. The old man smiled slightly.
"Then let the two Treasure Appraisers come on stage to illuminate these two crystals, please illuminate without damaging the appraisal crystals."
Every Treasure Appraiser has one chance to 'illuminate', revealing the mysterious veil of the appraised treasure!
The two Treasure Appraisers each displayed their prowess, one operated the water elemental art, and the other cast the Treasure Appraisal Incantation, using spiritual power to elicit the energy of the Mysterious Water Essence Mine!
Boom!
Two pillars of light rose up, dense water elemental energy filled the entire platform, and the two Mysterious Water Essence Mines were illuminated to reveal their hidden essence!
But the 13th Mysterious Water Essence Mine's illuminated water elemental energy was clearly superior!
The illumination method is also a hard skill for Treasure Appraisers.
Because of the uniqueness of the Treasure Appraisal Conference, no one can prove whether a Treasure Appraiser's vision is accurate, being able to discern the hidden quality and opportunity of various treasures while also having the means to elicit the might contained within, this is the illumination in treasure appraisal!
This scene made Lin Chen's eyes wide open, because after the Mysterious Water Essence Mine was illuminated, it dropped a string of blue light balls, all of which were attribute light balls containing pure water elemental energy!
"What a pity, I can't rush up now to pick up these attribute light balls, otherwise my True Water Returning Origin Art could progress further."
Lin Chen regretted secretly, and continued to watch the Treasure Appraisal Conference.
After that, several more Treasure Appraisers went on stage to illuminate other Mysterious Water Essence Mines, the energy elicited exceeded that of the 15th Mysterious Water Essence Mine earlier, but was still slightly inferior to the 13th.
In the end, the young Treasure Appraiser who appraised the 13th Mysterious Water Essence Mine won!
For this, the many senior figures on the stage were not moved at all, some were even chatting and laughing, they didn't take this seriously at all!
This was just the prelude of the young people trying their hand, the real highlight of the Treasure Appraisal Conference was still to come!
"These are the five damaged weapons recently unearthed from the Ruins of Destruction, suspected to have the quality of fourth-rank on some individual weapons. Please appraise which of the damaged weapons has the highest possibility of being repaired. Reward: Three top-grade third-rank pills."
Many young people began to engage in fierce treasure appraisal competition; letting the seniors see the potential of the new power.
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"These are the seven damaged remnants of ancient heart methods unearthed, it is said that only one records a cultivatable heart method. Please appraise and illuminate which of the damaged heart method remnants contains the cultivation manual. Reward: Two top-grade third-rank pills that can restore spiritual power, and one top-grade green-rank combat skill."
The Treasure Appraisal Conference gradually progressed to the later parts, Lin Chen watched with great interest. Just as he couldn't help but feel itchy to try his newly cultivated Purple Golden Eyes, the cold voice of a girl resounded across the venue!
"The 2nd damaged heart method remnants records a cultivatable heart method."
Everyone was stunned, and looked towards the voice, it was the Nangong Family in the vip seats!
The Nangong Family, said to be comparable with the Shangguan Family in the past, but this ranking was already fifty years ago. Now that the Shangguan Family had restored their ancestral shrine, it was still undetermined who was superior.
As soon as she finished speaking, a strand of spiritual light shot out from the vip room, rolling into the second book among the seven damaged ancient books placed on the crystal counter, instantly illuminating rows of overbearing large words!
War Dragon Formula; Lower green-rank heart method, temper battle qi to nurture dragon momentum, every attack sends out is like a war dragon flying to the sky!
Hiss!
Rustling sounds of gasping aired throughout the venue, identifying a lower green-rank heart method with one move, the Nangong Family is indeed formidable!
"This heart method is incomplete, compared to a real green-rank heart method it still lacks some level, but this move is enough to show that the Nangong Family has begun to provoke us."
Shangguan Yunfan's eyes narrowed, since the other side had already made a move, they would have to respond!
Everyone looked forward to it, next was the face-off between the two top families after decades!
"These are the remains of three ferocious beasts that the client risked his life to retrieve from the most dangerous Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range in the wastelands a few days ago. The client hopes to identify which ferocious beast remains are most suitable for refining bone-tempering and essence-supplementing pills. If perfect appraisal results can be obtained, the client will gift one ferocious beast remain to the appraiser!"
On the high platform appeared three remains of giant beasts over ten zhang huge, the elder decisively looked towards the highest level vip area, these remains of ferocious beasts were existences that broke through the fourth rank, comparable to cultivators at the Earth Demonic realm!
Competing at this level, only the top appraisal families were qualified to appraise treasures!
"Bihan, it's your turn."
Shangguan Yunfan signaled to his daughter with a meaningful look, Shangguan Bihan nodded and stood up, her eyes like dazzling gems were covered by a hint of purple-gold!
"It's the second stage boundary, Eyes Like Observing Fire!"
Lin Chen recognized Shangguan Bihan's boundary, secretly surprised. Shangguan Bihan was only 20 years old, when she was born, her family ancestral shrine was already near closure, she was able to cultivate to the 'Eyes Like Observing Fire' boundary almost entirely through her own efforts and talent!
"The number 3 ferocious beast remain has the effect of long term preservation of its own blood essence. It has higher value for refining, when refining, extracting its bloodline essence can also achieve over 80 percent of its living state, best for refining top-rank bone-mending and marrow-replenishing pills, can play an extremely important role at critical moments of life and death!"
Shangguan Bihan's elegant and extraordinary voice sounded like heavenly music, spreading across the entire venue.
Accompanying her voice, fuzzy purple light rippled and permeated into the number 3 ferocious beast remain. The ferocious beast remain immediately emanated the sound of surging tides, its majestic vital energy was like shocking waves and raging tsunami, sweeping the entire venue!
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
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rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
