Alchemy Master

Chapter 560, The Art of Crystal Appraisal

Translator: Silavin

“Two million gold coins?”

Qin Yichen was slightly stunned. He had originally thought that the other party would propose at least five million gold coins to select Shooting Star Spirit Crystals, but he had not expected the latter to be so stingy.

“What, afraid your good luck has run out?” Seeing Qin Yichen’s expression, Ouyang Wensu’s face showed arrogance. In his view, Qin Yichen was afraid.

Actually, the reason Ouyang Wensu proposed within the range of two million gold coins was because he had not yet awakened his Divine Eyes. Although he could barely appraise crystals, the consumption on him was quite enormous.

Two million gold coins could at least allow him to select four or five decent Shooting Star Spirit Crystals. With his strength, this was already his limit.

“That’s not the case. With my luck, winning against you is more than sufficient.”

Qin Yichen shook his head, and words that made Ouyang Wensu furious slowly emerged from his mouth.

“Boasting shamelessly!”

Facing Qin Yichen’s previous insults, perhaps Ouyang Wensu could still tolerate them, but seeing that the latter actually dared to insult the Crystal Appraisal methods he was proud of, this had already made him somewhat unable to endure!

He decided that after this was over, he would definitely call over the prominent figures of the Imperial City to let everyone see how this youngster who dared insult his Dao of Crystal Appraisal would crawl out of Water Moon Crystal House!

“Hehe, you two gentlemen, please go upstairs then!”

At this moment, the manager of Water Moon Crystal House quietly wiped away sweat and hurriedly squeezed out from the crowd with a smiling face, pointing to the second floor of Water Moon Crystal House as he spoke to the two of them.

*Hmph!* Under the guidance of Water Moon Crystal House manager, Ouyang Wensu snorted coldly and, together with Ouyang Haotian, forcibly pushed past Qin Yichen and headed towards the second floor first.

“Grandmaster, please also come up, please come up.”

When the Water Moon Crystal House manager’s gaze swept over the two women behind Qin Yichen, a look of amazement also burst forth. However, being cunning and experienced, he concealed that strange look well. After exclaiming in admiration and speculating about Qin Yichen’s background, he spoke respectfully.

However, regardless of what Qin Yichen’s background was, today he had doubled the income of their Water Moon Crystal House, which was already enough to warrant such treatment.

Soon, as Qin Yichen and Ouyang Wensu went up, the several hundred gamblers downstairs also swarmed up, turning the originally elegant second floor into constant clamour. Fortunately, it was Water Moon Crystal House – even accommodating several hundred people was not an issue, The second floor did not seem crowded at all.

“Boy, just wait to crawl out of Water Moon Crystal House in front of everyone!”

In front of the spacious hall on the second floor, scanning the countless Shooting Star Spirit Crystals that were surrounded by precious aura as far as the eye could see, Ouyang Wensu could not help but mock.

However, when he saw the latter’s lips move slightly, he immediately raised his eyebrows and walked out first in a rather unnatural manner.

Obviously, Qin Yichen’s previous verbal offensive had left a deep impression on him.

Thus, under excited gazes, Ouyang Wensu did not say any more harsh words and directly walked towards those Shooting Star Spirit Crystals.

Then, under the gaze of many eyes, Ouyang Wensu walked to a Shooting Star Spirit Crystal priced at five hundred thousand gold coins and began examining it carefully from top to bottom. During this observation, there seemed to be a subtle glow in his eyes. If one were an Alchemy Master, they would definitely not be unfamiliar with that subtle glow.

That was the phenomenon that appeared when Spiritual Energy was channelled to the eyes until reaching a certain limit.

“*Siiii…* Ouyang Wensu’s Crystal Appraisal has actually reached the point where he can condense Pseudo-Divine Eyes!”

“Worthy of being Ouyang Zhutian’s Personal Disciple. In a few more decades, he’ll probably become a Divine Appraiser too!”

“The Ouyang Family’s fortune isn’t shallow. After experiencing such upheaval, they can still consecutively produce two Divine Appraisers!”

Seeing the subtle lustre from Ouyang Wensu, discussions immediately arose from all over the second floor, mostly envious.

Divine Appraisers were like gods in the hearts of countless crystal gamblers.

“This is called mastering a bit of Crystal Appraisal?”

However, the envious and jealous gazes of the many gamblers fell into Qin Yichen’s eyes, leaving him somewhat speechless.

In his view, Ouyang Wensu had not even touched the threshold of the Dao of Crystal Appraisal. Moreover, just looking at that method, it wasn’t difficult to see that this Crystal Appraisal technique was crude to the extreme. Even if he reached the great accomplishment stage, the success rate would probably be at most twenty to thirty percent.

With Ouyang Wensu not even having awakened his Divine Eyes, forcibly using Pseudo-Divine Eyes, whether he could have a twenty percent success rate was really uncertain.

If the Shooting Star Spirit Crystals he selected did not contain any Spirit Seeds, wouldn’t that directly count as his own victory?

Qin Yichen thought with some amusement.

In his view, even if he was not familiar with this place, just relying on a few Crystal Appraisal Techniques that he knew, Qin Yichen could completely crush the Crystal Appraisal technique that Ouyang Wensu was so proud of.

After about an hour or so, Ouyang Wensu had picked up more than ten Shooting Star Spirit Crystals to examine, finally leaving five Shooting Star Spirit Crystals with a total price of exactly two million.

Just looking at the five Shooting Star Spirit Crystals he selected, each had considerable lustre on the surface. Seeing his confident expression, everyone speculated that the probability of these Shooting Star Spirit Crystals producing Spirit Seeds was likely very high!

“Hey, it’s your turn!”

After finishing his selection, Ouyang Wensu exchanged glances with Ouyang Haotian, then called out to Qin Yichen.

“Hehe.” Qin Yichen just smiled faintly.

He was not unfamiliar with Ouyang Wensu. When he had first come to Heavenly Dragon Imperial City, the latter was already a famous Divine Appraiser.

However, later because of Ouyang Haotian’s affair, the Ouyang Family’s upper echelons had collectively vanished, and he too had disappeared without a trace.

So, regarding his so-called method, even Qin Yichen was not very clear about it.

But from what he could see now, Ouyang Wensu, or even the Ouyang Family’s so-called Crystal Appraisal Technique, was nothing more than the most superficial.

So-called Crystal Appraisal was actually just finding Shooting Star Spirit Crystals that contained Spirit Seeds.

Why was this called a superficial Crystal Appraisal Technique?

Because merely distinguishing whether or not Spirit Seeds were contained was not enough.

For example, those Shooting Star Spirit Crystals sold for over a million gold coins – who did not know they contained Spirit Seeds? There was no need for Divine Appraisers to identify them at all.

But what grade of Spirit Seeds were contained within those expensive Shooting Star Spirit Crystals – this was very important.

And what meaning did Ouyang Wensu’s so-called twenty to thirty percent in Crystal Appraisal hold?

Selecting more than ten Shooting Star Spirit Crystals to get one or two Spirit Seeds was not really profitable.

Just like now, Ouyang Wensu had selected five Shooting Star Spirit Crystals and had already spent two million gold coins. If he selected ten, even choosing cheaper ones, the price of Shooting Star Spirit Crystals wouldn’t be lower than three million gold coins.

At such prices, even opening two Spirit Seeds would result in losses.