Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 652: Chapter 649 Worm Jade

Liu Yuxuan, who had been keeping an eye on Huo Sining’s every move, couldn’t help but reveal a triumphant smile at the corners of her mouth at Huo Sining’s performance.

Before she had touched the giant stone with her hands, Huo Sining had several guesses in her mind, which were nothing more than the jadeite quality ranging between ice-type and glass-type.

However, when she reached out and pressed down, she was stunned. Staring blankly at the piece of jadeite rough, she had no idea what words to use to describe it.

Utilizing her Heavenly Eye to see through, the yellow-brown skin gradually faded from the bottom of her eyes, revealing the luminous green jade flesh.

There was no doubt it was a giant piece of glass-type jadeite, but at that moment, a strange image emerged at the bottom of Huo Sining’s eyes...

”What is this?!”

Huo Sining almost couldn’t keep from screaming out in shock.

Inside the giant piece of glass-type jadeite, there was a huge leaf.

Unbelievably, the leaf was crawling with insects, yellowish in color, about as thick as Huo Sining’s thumb, and four to five centimeters long!

If you were to ask what Huo Sining feared most, there was only one thing, and that was insects.

Especially those wriggling invertebrates, which always made Huo Sining feel her skin crawl, incredibly uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Huo Sining was reasonably rational. After taking a deep breath, she finally calmed down.

Through the Heavenly Eye, she could confirm that there was something inside this eerie rough piece.

The insects and the huge leaf had already become jadeitized, a condition similar to amber.

These insects were not stiffened like specimen corpses nailed inside the jadeite but were out foraging when they suddenly encountered a drastic change in the earth’s crust.

Consequently, the insects were as if suddenly cast with a freezing spell, mistakenly entering this piece of jadeite and getting encapsulated within it.

Over time, these insects also became jadeitized and became a part of the jadeite. So now, what was presented before people was the most naturally vivid moment of the insects’ life.

Huo Sining could even imagine billions of years ago, when the jadeite started to form, the intense tectonic movements along with plummeting temperatures, plate and magma dynamics.

High temperatures, coupled with rapid freezing, allowed the insects and leaf within the jadeite to retain their original shapes, and after a long period, formed something akin to worm jade, similar to amber.

A moment frozen by nature billions of years ago, how many seasons had changed before it could once again see the light of day?

Worm jade, jadeitized tree, Huo Sining had come across these terms in books about jadeite, but very few had actually cut out worm jade and jadeitized tree.

Worm jade is highly valuable, which may be related to people’s curiosity. Many collectors are very interested in bizarre things, the stranger, the rarer.

Although Huo Sining was unsure of the market value of worm jade, she remembered that the value of worm jade was higher than ordinary jadeite, and even the poorest quality would see its value skyrocket if there were insects inside.

In the world of stone gambling, there’s a saying, ”One worm, one hundred thousand,” which means that for each additional worm in jadeite, the value increases by a hundred thousand yuan. That was the saying from more than a decade ago, now, let alone a hundred thousand, it’s likely worth millions, even tens of millions.

Now this piece of jadeite from the Liu Family, considering just the value of this massive piece of glass-type jadeite, one could already describe it with an astronomical price.

If we also factor in so many ancient insects and leaves, this piece of jadeite is no longer just about the value of the jadeite itself; it holds tremendous value for research into the ancient geological formation of the earth and both flora and fauna!

Huo Sining certainly knew what this meant.

This was an extremely natural piece of jadeite that, once cut, wouldn’t need carving; it would only require a bit of polishing to create a naturally perfect and harmonious picture, becoming the most moving piece of Jade Carving.

Huo Sining inwardly admired Liu Yuxuan’s good fortune and couldn’t stop sighing in her heart.

If her guess was right, Liu Chongren was about to split this jadeite with her, but how could she bear to cut such a delicate piece of Worm Jade in half?

However, she was determined not to lose. She held quite a grudge against Liu Yuxuan and, given the Liujia people’s nature of insisting on settling scores, should she lose, they definitely wouldn’t let her off easily.

Now was a crucial time for the development of Jade Beauty. If Huo Sining lost to Liu Yuxuan at this time, the Liu Family would most certainly publicize it broadly. By then, her jade shop might also be doomed to close its doors.

In front of so many domestic jewelers, Huo Sining felt as if she were on the cusp of a storm. Now wasn’t the time to play dumb; it was better to straightforwardly show some real skill and intimidate the Liu Family.

Thinking about this, a slight smile appeared on the corner of Huo Sining’s mouth.

After inspecting the raw material, she wandered around the surface of the entire stone for a while, examining the inner structure of the jadeite from all angles before turning to get paper and pen.

To avoid being caught on camera in her area, she specifically found a corner to sit down in.

After seeing Huo Sining’s performance, Liu Chongren could not suppress his curiosity; the girl’s method of examining the raw stone could be described as ”clumsy” at best.

Having gambled on stones for so many years and seen countless gamblers, it was his first time encountering someone who inspected raw stones so carelessly.

That she wasn’t using the magnifying glass and the strong flashlight properly was one thing, but even her attitude towards examining the Pine Flower and Python Band seemed indifferent.

Liu Chongren even doubted whether Huo Sining, that girl, had managed to see clearly what exactly those Pine Flowers were.

Of course, Liu Chongren didn’t really think that Huo Sining didn’t know anything; he just assumed that she was doing it on purpose to confuse her opponent and then strike like a tiger feigning stupidity.

But the more she behaved like this, the more Liu Chongren’s interest was piqued.

He had long been prepared for this, having installed cameras before the banquet to monitor Huo Sining’s every move. He was confident that, with the video captured, he would be able to spot Huo Sining’s flaws when it came to stone gambling.

The method of stone gambling used by Huo Sining was entirely different from theirs. Liu Chongren was certain that she must know some stone gambling tricks, perhaps she was the rumored descendant of the Yue Family.

Huo Sining leaned on the edge of the table, with her left hand propping her cheek as she thought hard, tapping with her right hand holding a pen, seemingly in deep contemplation about how to fill out the type and color of the jadeite rough.

Since it was a bet between Huo Sining and Liu Yuxuan, after Huo Sining was done, Liu Yuxuan also took the stage.

Although Liu Yuxuan had already inspected the rough material no less than a hundred times before, it was still necessary to go through the motions since it was a gamble.

So Liu Yuxuan also went through the motions and inspected the huge rough material. In just a few short minutes, while Huo Sining was still contemplating, Liu Yuxuan had already sealed her written results in an envelope, and stamped the seal with wax.