Volume 1: Initial Exposure Chapter 61: Self-Inflicted Injustice Cannot Be Tolerated

  At this time, Wang Ke and Xu Jingkai's stall was surrounded by a large crowd of people, because someone had shouted "Someone has found a mid-grade artifact here", as a result, more and more people came to watch.

  Xu Jingkai's face changed from green to white, from white to black, and then turned into a purplish color. The look of shyness and speechlessness was as if he wanted to find a crack in the ground to drill into.

  With the "mid-grade artifact" that he had praised to the sky in his hand, Xu Jingkai felt as if he was holding a hot potato, wanting to throw it away. However, with so many people around, if he left with his tail between his legs, he would lose face.

  But if he bought it, he wouldn't do such a foolish thing. Just now, he secretly used his divination technique to investigate and found that there was no spiritual energy fluctuation around this stall at all, which means that the antique in his hand was not a magical instrument at all, let alone an intermediate-grade one.

  At this moment, he felt as if he had dug a hole for himself and then jumped in, covering himself with mud.

  "What's going on? Didn't they say there was a mid-grade artifact for sale? The price of 500,000 isn't high at all! Why are they hesitating now? If you can't afford it, then hurry up and leave, if it's really a genuine mid-grade artifact, we'd all be happy to buy it!" someone shouted loudly from the crowd with a mocking tone.

  "Is that so! Is this guy a man or a woman? He's being ambiguous and stingy. I think he can't afford it, but is also reluctant to give up. Haha, occupying the toilet without doing his business, what a despicable person."

  "He's broke but still pretending to be rich, this kid has a bad character!"

  “……”

  The surrounding voices of discussion made Xu Jingkai's face even more unsightly, his heart filled with bitter and venomous emotions. He gave a vicious glance at Wang Ke who was standing beside him with a smile, then lifted his head to look at the stall owner whose face had also turned unpleasant, saying: "I don't want this thing, whoever wants it can have it!"

  The stall owner was furious, watching the cooked duck about to fly away. He hated that this bastard had given him hope and then shattered it into pieces. In his anger, he rushed out of the stall and ran to Xu Jingkai's face. His massive fist shook, but still didn't strike down. After hesitating for a moment, he grabbed Xu Jingkai's clothes with both hands and shouted: "This mid-grade artifact, why are you not buying it here? Are you intentionally trying to humiliate me? You think I'm easy to bully? Believe it or not, I'll ruin this bastard!"

  He took a few deep breaths, then suddenly pushed Xu Jingkai away, spat viciously to the side, and turned his head to shout at the surrounding onlookers: "Gentlemen, ladies, and fellow passersby, come and judge for yourselves! That young brother was originally going to buy this antique from me, but this little brat stuck his nose in and ruined my business. Tell me, shouldn't this scoundrel be taught a lesson?"

  Suddenly, more than a dozen loud responses came from the crowd.

  "This hit, this vicious hit, this guy is obviously up to no good!"

  "If this bastard dares to play tricks on me in front of my stall, I'll have to break his two dog legs. It's really a big forest with all kinds of birds, is it easy for others to do business? How can he be like that? He's really immoral!"

  "Get this annoying thing out of here..."

  “……”

  In everyone's eyes, Xu Jingkai was severely damaging the rules of the antique world because of the two angry curses from the stall owner. You know that when people are discussing business, others cannot intervene, even if you super like the item, you can't interfere. Liking the item is fine, waiting for the transaction to be completed and then buying it with money is also possible, or if the transaction fails, you can stand out and discuss business again, but interfering with the business between people is provoking them, it's a bad rule, an immoral behavior.

  Wang Ke smiled and watched Xu Jingkai leave with his head down, looking like a street rat, although he didn't run away quickly, but the embarrassed and hasty departure still made Wang Ke feel very pleased.

  Cheated Xu Jingkai again, Wang Ke also didn't plan to stay here anymore. After showing a apologetic expression to the stall owner, he turned around and squeezed out of the crowd.

  "Heaven's retribution can be survived, but self-inflicted retribution cannot. The law of heaven is cyclical, and the consequences of one's actions will be repaid. Today, I have finally seen the scene of someone getting their comeuppance." Li Ruoxi stood in front of Wang Ke with a smile as bright as a flower, her mouth curved into a perfect arc, clearly showing that she was also extremely pleased at this moment.

  Wang Ke smiled and said, "Originally I didn't want to bother with him, but that little brat kept following me like a ghost, previously he had already been cheated by me once, spending 150,000 yuan on a piece of trash handicraft, but he actually didn't know how to repent, so I also had no way out, and could only use this method to get rid of him."

  Li Ruoxi's eyes flashed with a hint of unusual color, and she smiled sweetly: "I've found that going against you is simply asking for trouble."

  Wang Ke burst out laughing and didn't say anything more about that topic. Instead, he looked at Li Ruoxi and asked: "Have you had lunch?"

  Li Ruoxi was taken aback, then her pretty face turned slightly red as she said: "I didn't feel hungry before, so I forgot about eating lunch. Now that you mention it, I'm feeling a bit hungry."

  Wang Ke was taken aback and lost his smile. He knew that Li Ruoxi hadn't gone out to look for work today, but had stayed at home reading books about antiques and artifacts. Since there wasn't much food at home, he had asked her a question, not expecting that she really hadn't eaten lunch.

  "Let's go, there are also many snack stalls in this antique market, although it's already past dinner time, there should still be something to eat." Wang Ke said with a smile.

  Just as Wang Ke was taking Li Ruoxi out to eat, a rumor spread like a whirlwind through the antique market, causing a huge stir. In just half an hour, almost everyone in the market had heard the rumor:

  "A strong spiritual fluctuation has appeared in the antique trading market, and many masters who have studied Feng Shui clearly feel it, indicating that a mid-grade magical artifact has emerged in the antique trading market."

  Wang Ke's expression changed strangely as soon as he heard the news when he and Li Ruoxi walked out of a fast food restaurant.

  To know, the value of a middle-grade artifact is at least over 500,000 and slightly better ones will exceed 1 million. Moreover, Feng Shui masters who can perceive the existence of middle-grade artifacts must be grandmasters of the Yin-Yang level to feel it.

  "Wang Ke, are there also levels of distinction in the way of Fa equipment?" Li Ruoxi curiously looked at the pedestrians who seemed to have been injected with hormones, watching as countless people wandered around on the streets, constantly searching for something in every store or stall, and asked.

  Wang Ke nodded and said, "That's right, the artifacts are divided into three levels: primary, intermediate, and advanced. The higher the level of the artifact, the greater its value, and the stronger its influence on Feng Shui. If an intermediate-level artifact really appears here, whoever finds it will probably get rich. Just now, when I was teasing Xu Jingkai, that kid actually boasted about the trashy antique I had my eye on, saying it was an intermediate-level artifact. How ridiculous!"

  Li Ruoxi suddenly enlightened and said: "It seems that the antique and artifact world is also vast, this knowledge is indeed profound!"

  Wang Ke smiled and said, "Let's just take a stroll around! Mid-grade artifacts are things that can be encountered but not sought after. Now almost everyone is frantically searching for mid-grade artifacts. If we join in, we probably won't gain anything. It's better to just take a casual look. Otherwise, the higher our expectations, the greater our disappointment."

  Li Ruoxi felt very good about Wang Ke's attitude and almost without hesitation nodded in agreement.

  Time slowly passed by, Wang Ke and Li Ruoxi strolled through the crowd, constantly stopping in front of one stall after another to see if there was anything they liked.

  "Huh?"

  As Wang Ke walked slowly past the entrance of an antique furniture store, he suddenly changed his expression, because in his perception, a faint and imperceptible spiritual fluctuation came from inside the store.

  That spiritual wave fluctuation was extremely small, if it wasn't for Wang Ke having a superhuman sixth sense, he probably wouldn't have felt it.

  "What's wrong?"

  Li Ruoxi saw Wang Ke stop and immediately followed suit, asking aloud.

  Wang Ke reached out and grabbed Li Ruoxi's wrist, striding towards the entrance of the antique furniture store. As they walked, he said in a low voice, "I sense that there's treasure inside, let's go take a look and see if we can find something good."

  Caught by Wang Ke's wrist, Li Ruoxi's pretty face turned red, but upon hearing Wang Ke's words, her stunningly beautiful face showed a crying-and-laughing expression: This guy must be thinking of getting rich and going crazy! He can feel the presence of treasures just walking on the street? Does he really think that every street is full of treasures? If it were that easy to pick up treasures, antiques or artifacts probably wouldn't be worth so much money, would they?

  However, she didn't express her own thoughts, and simply allowed Wang Ke to pull her along, striding into the store.

  In the spacious store, hundreds of pieces of furniture in various styles are on display. At this moment, many people are searching for something in the store, their brows furrowed and eyes scanning around.

  "Welcome, what kind of furniture are you two looking for?" A twenty-something salesman with a bright smile on his face suddenly became stunned when he saw Li Ruoxi's appearance, and his eyes also flickered with infatuation.

  Li Ruoxi deliberately ignored the fiery gaze of this partner, while Wang Ke seemed to have not seen the infatuated appearance of this partner who couldn't withstand the temptation of beauty. After clearing his throat, he opened his mouth and said: "We'll just take a look around, if we find something satisfactory, we'll naturally buy it, you go ahead with your work!"

  That fellow was startled awake by Wang Ke's dry cough, his pale face slightly reddened. After hearing what Wang Ke said, he suddenly showed a disappointed expression, quickly glanced at Li Ruoxi, and then nodded: "Okay, if you have something in mind, just call me, I'll be there immediately."

  Wang Ke secretly laughed in his heart. This kid actually said the four words "come and go as you please". It seems that Li Ruoxi's charm is indeed irresistible!

  At this time, he had already let go of Li Ruoxi's wrist, and the two walked shoulder to shoulder into the store for over ten meters before Wang Ke turned his head, looked at Li Ruoxi and smiled: "The beauty effect is indeed good, if it were me myself, that fellow probably wouldn't have said 'come whenever called'."

  Li Ruoxi gave Wang Ke a charming white eye and said with a pout: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and find the treasure."

  Wang Ke rubbed his nose, stopped in his tracks, and slowly scanned the surrounding area within a radius of about ten meters. Then, through his perception, he sensed that there was a spiritual energy fluctuation nearby, and only then did he speak up: "If I'm not mistaken, the artifact should be around here somewhere. By the way, there's something you might not know - a few days ago, due to my cultivation improvement, I unknowingly became a Feng Shui master, albeit a low-level one. But I can still manage to achieve the level of 'Wang Qi' (gazing at the air). What I'm sensing now is the spiritual energy fluctuation, which is what I've achieved through my Wang Qi skill."

  Feng shui master?

  Watching the air?

  Li Ruoxi blinked her eyes, she had heard of these two names before.