Chapter 154 Fang Yi's Identification Method
"Xiao Gu, you can also leave some good materials for those outside..."
Seeing the jade raw materials piled in the conference room, Yu Xuan shook his head with a smile. He knew that the reason why Gu Junshan's business has grown in recent years was because he had made friends with the Jade Prince of Xinjiang Province in his early years and almost monopolized the raw stone market in the Jiangnan area, so that the little jade merchants could only get goods from him.
"Teacher Yu, don't look at me with that kind of look. I have been in the high-end market in the past few years, and I have put all the ordinary materials outside..."
After hearing Yu Xuan's words of half seriousness and half ridicule, Gu Junshan immediately screamed. Of course, Yu Xuan did not wrongly accuse him. At least eighty or ninety percent of the cheap jade ornaments at various tourist attractions in the Jiangnan region were monopolized by Gu Junshan.
"Okay, don't say so much. Are all the good materials that have come this year here?" Yu Xuan naturally would not be serious about Gu Junshan. He waved his hand and walked straight to the other side of the venue.
"Old Yu, let alone, there is really a good piece of material this year..."
Seeing Yu Xuan walk into the venue, Gu Junshan smiled bitterly. Although he is the largest jade merchant in Jiangnan, Gu Junshan really can't do anything wrong with a nearly ashes expert like Yu Xuan.
"Don't say it first, let's take a look..."
Before Gu Junshan finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yu Xuan. He pointed to the raw stones on the ground. Yu Xuan looked at Fang Yi and said, "Fang Yi, take a look first. If there is any good material to be arranged on the side, don't make any quartzite or something for me..."
"Old Yu, I'm not mistaken..." Fang Yi's face turned red after hearing Yu Xuan's words. Fortunately, he brought the teacher and Yu Xuan over here today, otherwise he would have lost his temper in front of Lan Lian.
"Brother Sun, do you want to show who picked out the most valuable thing?" Yu Xuan ignored Fang Yi, but turned to look at Sun Lianda. He knew that although Sun Lianda was not specializing in jade, he also had deep attainments in it.
"Brother Yu, you want me to make a fool of myself, right?" Sun Lianda laughed and said, "I haven't touched jade for some time now. Let's take a look today. Let's choose each one, and then look at who has the most valuable ones!"
Hetian jade is a nephrite. It is different from jadeite. Most of the raw stones of Hetian jade are cut or peeled, and the stone skin has a strong light transmittance. Experienced experts can basically see the direction of the jade meat in a piece of stone through the raw stone.
However, the outer layer of jadeite's raw stone is not transparent at all, and even if the world's most advanced instruments are used, it cannot be transmitted into the stone skin, so as to determine whether there is jade in it. Therefore, the saying "It is difficult for gods to break the jade in the sky" is more about jade.
"Dr. Lan, do you take a look?" Seeing that the teacher and Yu Xuan ignored him, Fang Yi turned to Lan Lian and said, "Mr. Gu is an expert. Director Lan, please ask him for help. You can definitely buy good things..."
In fact, Fang Yi’s main purpose here this time was to see if these jades contained the aura that he absorbed from the dragon-shaped jade pendant that could enhance his spiritual cultivation. As for helping Lan Lian buy jade, it was the second place.
In addition, he lost someone at the entrance of the hotel just now, and Fang Yi also knew that his ability to identify jade was far from the people present, so Fang Yi himself admitted that it was much more reliable to go to Gu Junshan to choose a piece of jade than to find him.
"Well. Well, I'll listen to Mr. Fang..."
Lan Lian thought for a moment and nodded in agreement with Fang Yi's opinion. Although she knew that Fang Yi had some unknown skills, she had specialized in her skills. Fang Yi's previous performance in buying the jade shows that he did not know much about jade.
"Mr. Gu, I'm going to trouble you..." Lan Lian and Fang Yi had different goals. She really wanted to buy a piece of jade that could make talismans, thereby solving the problem that had troubled her for several years.
"What's the matter with Mr. Lan? You can come here, that's to give me Gu's face..." After hearing Lan Lian's words, Gu Junshan couldn't help but be overjoyed and hurriedly took Lan Lian into the raw stone area and introduced it to Lan Lian.
"Dr. Lan, look at this piece of material, it is a mountain material. Although it is quite large, it is not as valuable as the size of the fist...." In front of Lan Lian, a woman who still has charm and status, Gu Junshan still wanted to show off and introduced it very hard.
"Mr. Gu, what is mountain material and what is seed material?" What just made Gu Junshan depressed was that Lan Lian basically knew nothing about jade, and the questions he asked made him speechless.
"Dong Lan, mountain material refers to jade material that opens from the rock walls. Most of the jadeware is made of mountain material, and the seed material is formed by water washing in the riverbed all year round. Just like the seed material of Hetian jade, it usually only appears in the Hotian River, so the price is also very high..."
Since Lan Lian raised the question, Gu Junshan could only answer her patiently, while Fang Yi squatted on the ground, holding a strong flashlight and looked at the materials one by one, which was similar to Yu Xuan and Sun Lianda, but it was quite normal.
"Well? These jades can only contain true energy, why doesn't there be any of them containing that breath?" Fang Yi checked the jade very quickly, and almost squatted next to a piece of jade for more than ten seconds, and he would change it immediately. However, as Fang Yi moved, his face became increasingly ugly.
This is because Fang Yi discovered that when he injected true qi into these jade rough stones, these rough stones could carry his true qi, but in these jade, he could not absorb any aura except Fang Yi's own true qi.
After trying more than a dozen raw stones of different sizes and purity in succession, Fang Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seemed that the mysterious aura in the dragon-shaped jade pendant was not contained in the jade itself, but was not known how it was formed after all.
What Fang Yi didn't know was that the dragon-shaped jade pendant he got was a plaything object for a Taoist practitioner many years ago. The aura contained in it was the pure essence that the former owner of the jade pendant accidentally instilled in the past years when he played with it, rather than the jade itself.
Just like if Fang Yi often plays with a jade object, after a long time, the jade will naturally become a magic weapon, and his spiritual consciousness and true energy will be left behind. Of course, before entering the realm of refining qi and transforming into gods, Fang Yi's spiritual consciousness and true energy are far from comparable to the energy in the dragon-shaped jade pendant.
"From the future, find some ancient jade worn by ancient Taoists and try it out to see if there is such aura inside?" Although Fang Yi didn't know the origin of the dragon-shaped jade pendant, his idea was right. He vaguely guessed that the jade pendant should have something to do with the Taoist alchemists in the past.
After obtaining this result, Fang Yi suddenly lost interest in the jade stones all over the ground. At best, these things can only make some excellent magic weapons, but they are not helpful to his cultivation.
"Pick one piece..." Since we are here to select jade to make magic weapons for Lan Lian, Fang Yi cannot do it empty-handed, and the failure rate of jade tools for making magic weapons is extremely high, so buying more is also a precaution.
Unlike Yu Xuan and others who chose jade to look at the jade meat inside, Fang Yi held a strong light flashlight just a decoration. He only needed to put his palm on the original stone and instill the true energy with his spiritual sense, and basically he could tell whether a piece of jade was good or bad.
After trying so many times before, although Fang Yi was very dissatisfied with the conclusion he came to, he also discovered that when his true energy enters some jade, he will feel a little obstacle, while some jades are very smooth.
Fang Yi just found another piece of seed material that is the size of a thumb and tried it. He found that although the material is very small, the true energy it can hold is many times larger than some mountain materials the size of fists.
Therefore, according to Fang Yi's inference, jade that is easier to accept his true qi should be of higher purity, otherwise it is a relatively poor raw stone. Fang Yi also found that the larger the raw stone, the worse the purity is—
Chapter completed!