Chapter 68: The Spiritual Treasure Conference

  Behind Lingbao Pavilion is the Chen Family, one of the seven major families in Central Plains, with a strong and powerful force, and numerous top-notch experts within the clan.

  The Lingbao Conference attracts many top-notch Tian Shi from all over the world every year. It is a grand event held exclusively for Tian Shi to exchange Lingbao. As the host, the Chen family will bring out some of their renowned Lingbao at the end, and as long as the price is right or there's an equivalent-level Lingbao for exchange, the Chen family usually won't be stingy and would be willing to sell or trade.

  In the past, every Lingbao Conference has had stunning Lingbao appearances, and many Tian Shi from all over the world have come to try their luck. Especially those who are stuck in a bottleneck and urgently need certain Lingbao to refine their bodies and souls will spare no effort to exchange their own useless Lingbao for those that benefit their cultivation.

  Lingbao Pavilion, as the main pillar of Chen's family wealth accumulation, is the largest Lingbao merchant in the world. In the most prosperous area of Tianshui City, it has a vast mansion with a broad area.

  Ji Changkong and Bai Qingya arrived at the Lingbao Pavilion headquarters, only to find many heavenly warriors sitting on the flat stone ground, with some spiritual treasures placed in front of them. The prices were clearly marked, with some indicating that they could be exchanged for a certain number of yuan stones, while others stated that they would only accept specific rare spiritual treasures in exchange.

  To sell Lingbao, you must pay a certain amount of Yuanshi to the Lingbao Pavilion and receive an iron token. With the iron token, you can find a place in the Lingbao Pavilion to sell your Lingbao.

  Ji Changkong and Bai Qingya did not pay the yuan stone to exchange for an iron token, but instead drifted east and west, shuttling back and forth in various places within the Lingbao Pavilion, curiously sizing up the spiritual treasures laid out on the ground along the way.

  Many immortals also wandered around in the Lingbao Pavilion, gathering their spirits and searching for the spiritual treasures they needed.

  Everywhere were heavenly masters taking out spiritual treasures for sale, the stone ground was filled with all sorts of spiritual treasures, at a glance, the Spiritual Treasure Pavilion shone brightly under the sunlight, many spiritual treasures dazzled the eyes, making people unable to help but stop and linger.

  The Lingbao Pavilion was surrounded by experts from the Chen family on all four sides, and several teams of city guards were also stationed at various corners of the pavilion to prevent anyone from being so bold as to see the treasure and have evil intentions to steal it.

  In the past few Spirit Treasure Conferences, there were indeed some people with high and profound self-cultivation realms who snatched other people's Spirit Treasures and left, but under Chen Family Village's strict defense, not a single person was able to snatch a Spirit Treasure and leave the Spirit Treasure Pavilion. Instead, they ended up with a reputation in tatters, being scolded and criticized by people all over the world.

  Every session of the Lingbao Conference, the Chen family has been continuously strengthening its defensive strength. The Tian Shui City royal family also attaches great importance to the Lingbao Conference held by the Chen family. In recent times, they have dispatched top-notch masters from the imperial city to guard the Chen family. Several masters with the Seven Stars Heavenly Boundary who dared to rob treasures were all left behind, and many people have become more subdued.

  In recent Lingbao conferences, there has been no one who dared to steal the treasure in public again.

  Many immortals come and go around, the realm of Three Talents Heaven and Four Symbols Heaven is full of immortals, there are also many immortals in the realm of Five Elements Heaven and Six Harmonies Heaven, and even a few immortals from the realm of Seven Stars Heaven can be seen.

  Compared to the martial arts competition where I met Bai Qingya a few days ago, this Spiritual Treasure Conference has attracted many more top talents from all over the world. The number of masters is like fish in the river, everywhere you look.

  The Spirit Treasure Conference lasted for six days. For the first three days, the Spirit Treasure Pavilion was only responsible for security management and would not participate in the proceedings. During these three days, any Celestial Masters who came to attend could pay some spirit stones to find a place to sell their own spirit stones. As long as the price and conditions were agreed upon, both parties could trade freely, and the Spirit Treasure Pavilion generally would not interfere.

  "In the next two days, the Lingbao Pavilion will have someone specially testing the Lingbao. Only genuine treasures that can be called 'treasures' can enter the Treasure Hall for sale. The Lingbao that can enter the Treasure Hall must be authentic and valuable, worth a city's wealth. At that time, truly wealthy and influential people will gather in the Treasure Hall to select their treasures."

  "Of course, to place a spiritual treasure in the Spiritual Treasure Pavilion, aside from the spiritual treasure being worth a city, one also needs to pay a considerable amount of expensive fees to the Spiritual Treasure Pavilion, which is also one of the ways for the spiritual treasure to accumulate wealth."

  "On the last day, in the topmost floor of the Spiritual Treasure Pavilion within the Spiritual Treasure Hall, the Chen family will take out a portion of their family's spiritual treasures for sale. Of course, they can also be exchanged with other spiritual treasures. Generally speaking, when purchasing with yuan stones, the higher bidder wins. When exchanging with spiritual treasures, the pavilion will appraise the opponent's spiritual treasure before deciding whether to exchange, and they hold the initiative."

  As they walked, Bai Qingya told Ji Changkong about the situation of the Lingbao Conference. Along the way, there were many lingbao, and Bai Qingya would also stop to observe them. However, as they journeyed on, she seemed not to have found a satisfactory lingbao and hesitated to make a move.

  "If that's what you say, then the spiritual treasures sold along the way for the first three days, Lingbao Pavilion can't tell whether they are true or false?" Ji Changkong smiled and said.

  She nodded and smiled, "Yes, some people don't know the value of things and might be cheated into spending a lot of money to buy some worthless spiritual treasures. In the first three days, the Spiritual Treasure Pavilion gave everyone absolute freedom and didn't send anyone to appraise them specially. There are all kinds of people in the world, and naturally, there are also those who take advantage of loopholes to cheat fools, hehe. However, there are also some people with keen eyesight who can buy rare spiritual treasures at a low price during the first three days. After all, some of the people selling spiritual treasures don't necessarily understand their own items thoroughly."

  "For example, some declining family juniors will sell their ancestral spiritual treasures. After many generations, they may not even know how much the spiritual treasure in their hands is worth in yuan stones. They may urgently need a certain cultivation material and directly mark it as needing special yuan stones or a certain kind of spiritual grass that doesn't belong to the same level for exchange, and then be easily taken advantage of."

  "...this kind of thing happens every year, it's not surprising at all, this is also the place where the Lingbao Conference attracts the best talents from all over the world. After all, people often think they are the smartest and can get the most precious treasure at the lowest price!"

  With a smile, Ji Changkong listened to Bai Qingya's words while following her as she wandered around. He seemed uninterested in the spiritual treasures scattered all over the ground, not even giving them a glance.

  "Longkong, don't pretend to be nonchalant. The spiritual treasures sold in the past three days may really hide rare and precious items. I'm not deceiving you, in previous Spiritual Treasure Conferences, someone even exchanged a piece of ordinary green jade for an extraordinary divine sword, and someone used several pieces of common yuan stone to purchase the star gold that forged divine swords. Such things really happen every conference!"

  Jian Ji walked alone on the long road, not even glancing at the Lingbao beside her, while Bai Qingya explained with a solemn expression.

  Smiling and nodding, Ji Changkong said leisurely, "Bai Jie, I choose Lingbao, not relying on my eyes. Don't worry, I have a plan in mind. The so-called rare treasures must have some special power fluctuations. No matter how those power fluctuations are sealed or hidden, I can always sense a hint of them."

  Bai Qingya's eyes suddenly lit up, her face filled with excitement. She leaned in close to Ji Changkong and whispered, "You're not joking, are you? You can really sense the various power fluctuations within the Lingbao?"

  "Huh?"

  He had been strolling carelessly for a long time, when he suddenly let out a soft sigh, and without saying anything to the clear and elegant Bai Qing, he walked straight towards a middle-aged man with a sly look in his eyes.

  She bent down and picked up a jade hairpin from the various treasures in front of him, smiling and asking: "Uncle, how much is this jade hairpin?"

  "Ah!"

  The sly-looking man exclaimed and stretched out his thumb in praise, saying: "Little brother is really good at spotting treasures! He can actually pick out such a great treasure with one glance! This jade hairpin was refined by the Seven Star Heavenly Master as a divine weapon. When he fought against his enemy, he was killed, and I happened to pass by, risking being discovered to pick up the hairpin and leave. Unfortunately, my strength is not enough to bring out the power of the hairpin, and since I am a man, I naturally cannot use this hairpin, so I took it out for sale. Little brother is a connoisseur, as long as you give me 100 high-quality yuan stones, you can take it away!"

  According to the amount of yuan force contained, yuan stones can be divided into four types: lower grade, middle grade, upper grade and extreme grade. The yuan force contained in ten pieces of lower-grade yuan stone is equivalent to that contained in one piece of middle-grade yuan stone. Therefore, ten pieces of lower-grade yuan stone can be exchanged for one piece of middle-grade yuan stone, and so on.

  "Take this top-grade Yuan stone! If you sell it, I'll take it away. If not, I'm leaving!" With a flick of his wrist, Ji Changkong tossed the jade hairpin into the messy pile of various "spiritual treasures" in front of him and stood up impatiently.

  "Never mind, I think you're a good kid, so one top-grade yuan stone is just one top-grade yuan stone. You can take it, and it's only because of you, if someone else came to me with even more yuan stones, I'm not sure I'd be willing to sell...". As he flattered him, he took out the jade hairpin that Ji Changkong had dropped and handed it over to him with a smile all over his face.

  A piece of top-grade yuan stone fell down, and Ji Changkong turned around and left immediately. After leaving that person behind, he handed the jade hairpin to Bai Qingya, smiling: "Sister Bai, it's yours now."

  Bai Qingya couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time, took the jade hairpin and looked at it for a moment, hesitated for a while before saying: "That guy's name is Chen Wei, claiming to be from the Chen family of Lingbao Pavilion, but the Chen family has never acknowledged him. Every time there's a Lingbao Conference, he'll appear, specializing in using all sorts of fake goods to scam people. This jade hairpin, it's probably not even worth a low-quality yuan stone, I don't know where he got it from, exchanging it with some copper coins... Ah, you've been scammed!"

  Although that's what she said, Bai Qingya still happily put on the jade hairpin and said: "However, I appreciate your kind intentions, thank you!"

  "White Sister, give me the jade hairpin." Ji Changkong said with a wry smile.

  "Not for sale!" Bai Qingya took a step back, smiling and saying: "It's worthless if it's not worth anything, but wearing it on your head to tie up your hair is still possible, hehe, you said you can appraise any spiritual treasure, really, you're telling lies more convincingly than the truth, I almost believed you."

  With a wry smile, Ji Changkong shook his head and didn't explain much, only reminding her: "Bai Jie, you must take good care of Yu Chai!"

  "Hui's Hui, my good brother sent this thing, how dare Bai Jie be slow?" Bai Qingya said with a smile, feeling very happy in her heart. To her, although the jade hairpin was cheap, it was after all a token of Ji Changkong's thoughts, and she secretly decided that from now on, she would wear it every day.

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