Cosmic Trading System

What Lang Jiuping said stirred something in Lin Yun.

In the past few days, he had searched many places but had found only a few spiritual items.

If he could join this circle, his search for spirituality might be much easier.

High-level spirituality was something that could not be bought even with money. It wouldn't be long before he planned to purchase a device that operated in a different mode for absorbing and refining spiritual energy. By then, a second-level spirituality would be inadequate.

He was in desperate need of a higher level of spirituality.

However, he didn't know much about this spirit seeker circle. If he rushed in... he didn't know if there would be any surprises...

"Let's not talk about this for now, you should know... there must be differences among special items, right? Otherwise, in the auction earlier, you wouldn't have bid low prices for some items and high prices for others..." Lin Yun pondered for a moment, then said.

"Mr. Lin, we are called spirit seekers because our goal is to find real spirit-items. Among these items, some look like they have spiritual properties, but in fact, they are just fake spirit-items. Mr. Lin, you may have already realized this..." Lang Jiuping smiled slightly as he spoke.

As long as someone regularly deals with such items, they will eventually realize this. Lin Yun's words suggested that he had also realized this, so Lang Jiuping did not hide anything in his speech.

"Fake spirit-items?" Lin Yun repeated under his breath.

He knew that the fake spirit-items Lang Jiuping was talking about must've been those items that possessed a large amount of spiritual energy but lacked spirituality.

At first glance, these items seemed to possess spirituality, but if they were left in a place without people for a while, it could be seen that the spiritual energy on them would dissipate before long — to call them fake spirit-items was not improper.

"There are different types of fake spirit-items. Some items indeed have spirituality, but it's faint and unstable. It may grow and stabilize, or it may dissipate slowly... These items also have certain value. They mostly appear in items from recent times, and sometimes they are even the works of current celebrities." Lang Jiuping paused before continuing.

"These items..." Lin Yun replied in surprise.

An item that had just developed spirituality was often faint, a detail that Little White had mentioned to him. The Cosmic Trading System had also introduced this type of spirituality, which was categorized as unranked spirituality.

The unstable spirituality could either dissipate or advance to level one and stabilize.

The price of this type of spirituality varied from a few to dozens of Spirit Crystals, depending on how the spirituality manifested itself.

During this period, Lin Yun was after fully developed and high-leveled spirituality. As a result, he mostly searched for it among temples and antiques — the spirituality in antiques had mostly advanced to the first level.

He had seen this type of spirituality in temples a few times.

He hadn't expected these items to also be classified as fake spirit-items.

"A fine example is Master Lu Buyan, a grandmaster of painting in Capital City. Each of his paintings is worth millions and sometimes even tens of millions. His painting skills are truly fascinating. Especially in recent years, at least one of his three paintings is able to develop spirituality." Lang Jiuping gave an example, expressing his admiration.

He greatly respected such masters. How extraordinary must one's realm be to have spirituality develop in a painting?

"There really are people like that?" Lin Yun asked in surprise.

He had only heard Little White talking about such occurrences in stories. He thought of it merely as legend. Even if such people did exist, he guessed one might not emerge in many eras. He was shocked that there actually were such people in this era.

Lu Buyan — he marked down this name. If he had time, he planned to pay him a visit.

Spirituality was an incredibly intriguing thing. He wanted to know the realm from which a painting could be born with spirituality.

"Hmm, not only Master Lu, but also several others can birth spirituality in their works, such as Master Jiuzhu from the carving world, Master Ji Lee from the Calligraphy World..." Lang Jiuping added, nodding slightly.

There was more than one person? And there were even people in the calligraphy world who could make characters with spirituality?

Lin Yun was genuinely stunned.

At this moment, he really learned something.

The earth was indeed filled with a large and varying population where all sorts of remarkable people could emerge.

He truly admired these people.

Lang Jiuping's designation of these individuals was correct. These people truly deserved the title of masters.

Jiuzhu, Ji Lee — he jotted down these two names once more.

Similarly, given the chance and time, he planned to meet these people to understand their extraordinary abilities and the degree of refinement in their art.

Upon hearing Lang Jiuping mention these people, his companions behind him also revealed expressions of deep respect.

As spirit seekers, they treasured spirit-items as if they were precious jewels. As such, they held great respect for people capable of creating works capable of birthing spirituality.

Compared to ordinary people, those who knew of the existence of spirituality understood even more clearly the capabilities of these individuals.

"Another type of counterfeit spirit-item contains a large amount of spiritual energy but lacks spirituality. Such items, due to their potential status as historical artifacts, can be valuable. However, they might not be historical artifacts at all, but items greatly adored by many people and therefore endowed with substantial spiritual energy.

They aren't intrinsically worth much...yet such items can also develop spirituality. Most items imbued with spirituality are created in such a way, but it is not easy for these items to acquire or maintain spirituality. There is a high degree of uncertainty involved. Therefore, besides historical artifacts, many of these items lack significant value..." continued Lang Jiuping.

"I understand," said Lin Yun with a slight nod.

"I have some matters to attend to shortly. If you don't have other business, you can stay here and we can have a more extensive discussion when I return. Let me tell you about a business matter now. Regarding the Buddha beads, you likely examined them in advance. I can assure you that not only do these beads possess spirituality, the spirituality within them is even better than ordinary spirituality.

I'm not sure if you can procure more spirit-items of this quality or if you know where to find them, but all of them can be traded for," Lin Yun paused before continuing.

"The Buddha beads have a spirituality that's better than ordinary? Could it be that the spirituality within them is of a higher level?" a man suddenly stood up, expressing his surprise.

"Higher-level spirituality?" Lin Yun was slightly taken aback.

These people already knew that not all forms of spirituality were the same? That would make things easier. If they were aware of this, they should have come across such items before. Then finding more wouldn't require blind searching.

"Spirituality can vary. Items with higher-level spirituality produce more wondrous effects. We have truly suffered a huge loss. Items with a higher-level spirituality can be sold for at least seven or eight hundred million in Huaxia Currency!" a man reluctantly agreed, greatly regretting their loss.

The beads had higher-level spirituality? How had they failed to see it?

Lin Yun had been able to purchase it for three hundred million...even if they had bought it for five hundred million, they still could have made a profit of two or three hundred million!

They wouldn't have backed down when Lin Yun offered three hundred million!

If Lin Yun hadn't been at that auction, they might have bought the item for less, maybe two hundred million...or even less, which would have meant a big windfall!

They had missed out on several hundreds of millions!

How could they not regret it?

"So it was a higher-level spirituality!"

"What a pity!"

"We've suffered a huge loss!"

The group behind Lang Jiuping was also shocked, expressing their regret one after another. Some of them even glared at Lin Yun, their eyes practically shooting fire.

If not for Lin Yun, the enormous profit would have been theirs!

As long as they bought the Buddha beads, they would have eventually discovered that they contained higher-level spirituality!

Purchasing something suspected of containing spirituality and then discovering that it does is a windfall!

Discovering that the spirituality is of a higher level is an even bigger windfall!

Such things were very rare even within their spirit-seeker circle!

And they missed it!

"The spirituality within the Buddha beads...was higher-level spirituality..." Lang Jiuping also said in great astonishment.

Then, he was filled with regret, but as the leader of the group, his mentality was better by much, and he quickly overcame these feelings.

"You don't need to say more, Mr. Lin being able to bid on the Buddha beads is due to his own capabilities. Just by the fact that Mr. Lin could identify the higher-level spirituality inside the beads so early on, we can't say we lost unfairly!" Lang Jiuping addressed his companions.

"The rules of our spirit-seeker circle only apply to the people within our group, helping us avoid mutual harm. In this auction, we already received such benefits. People outside of our circle have the right to appear in the auction and bid on items. An auction is a place where financial power reigns. If someone has the money, we can't unjustly prohibit them from making a steal. Clearly, Mr.

Lin has a superior eye for value and is more daring. We lost fair and square!" After a pause, Lang Jiuping calmly continued.

Upon hearing Lang Jiuping's words, Lin Yun couldn't help but see him in a new light.

In such a context of emotional contrast, the rationale the man could analyze was quite impressive, which proved his mentality was quite good.

The lie detection equipment he wore could let him determine that the rationale the man spoke of wasn't just for show, but his true thoughts.

The man spoke well.

The rules of the spirit-seeker circle only applied to the people within the circle.

If these rules were forced onto outsiders, then the circle would be too domineering.

So, he would have to consider carefully whether to join this circle or not.

Otherwise, if he discovered spirituality-containing items he couldn't bid on someday, it would be too speechless.