Chapter Forty-Seven: Crimson Blood Jade Marrow

  "Great!"

  The boy's face turned red with excitement, and he punched the air, his eyes shining with a completely different look: "Thank you, Qin Yun!"

  Qin Yun smiled: "No need to be polite, we are all Qin family members, how can we watch you being bullied by outsiders!"

  The two were almost the same age, with Qin Yun being only a few months older than Qin Liren.

  But in terms of maturity and life experience, Qin Liren is far inferior to Qin Yun.

  Qin Liren fell silent for a moment before speaking in a low voice: "If it were someone else, they might not have been able to help me like this."

  He and all the fellow disciples of the Foreign Affairs Hall couldn't get along with each other, let alone have any friendship.

  Qin Yun didn't know what to say about this matter either, so he stretched out his hand and handed over the animal skin bag that the white-shirted youth had sent over: "Is this the unpolished jade you wanted?"

  The animal skin bag is not big, but it's heavy with a substantial weight.

  Qin Liren took it and opened the bag, pouring out a yellowish-brown stone, and let out a sigh.

  "Is this unpolished jade?" Qin Yun suddenly became angry: "We've been cheated! Let's go back and settle the score with that guy!"

  This piece of stone is only the size of a fist, with a rough surface covered in dark yellow moss, looking like an ordinary river rock, without any resemblance to white jade.

  So Qin Yun's first feeling was that he had been cheated, and had been played by the white-shirted youth.

  "Qin Yun, big brother..." Qin Liren hastily pulled him back: "This is the unpolished jade I've been eyeing!"

  "Ah?" Qin Yun was stunned.

  But after listening to Qin Liren's explanation, he realized that he had made a fool of himself.

  So-called Tianhuang, is the value of not having been polished and carved, still maintaining the original state of the jade material when it was first mined. Under this yellowish-brown surface, a superior beautiful jade may be hidden.

  Of course, it is also possible that there is nothing inside, which is called "gambling on the uncut jade", gambling on the buyer's eyesight and luck.

  In Lantian County, the tradition of gambling on jade has a long history. Those who are lucky may become rich overnight by betting on jade, but they may also lose everything in an instant. Yet many people are still obsessed with it.

  "Our Qin family's rough jade stones excavated from the mine, except for a portion that is processed in the city, are sent back to Qianchao City for auction. Qin Liren explained: 'There are hundreds of kilograms or even thousands of kilograms of rough jade stones, and good ones can be sold for tens of millions of silver coins!'"

  A piece of unknown jade was auctioned off for tens of thousands of taels of silver! Qin Yun couldn't help but take a deep breath.

  "The blue田玉 is renowned throughout the nine provinces, and top-grade white jade is extremely valuable. If an extreme-quality spirit jade were to emerge, it would be priceless!" Qin Liren said: "I think this piece of rough stone has a good omen, I wanted to buy it to try my luck, but didn't expect them..."

  He stuffed the uncarved jade back into Qin Yun's hand: "Brother Qin Yun, you won it back, how can I take it!"

  Qin Yun didn't understand jade at all and wanted to decline.

  But seeing Qin Liren's sincere eyes, he was moved: "Then I'll stay."

  "Wait a minute, let's go back to our place, I'll help you crack the stone and see how lucky we are!" Qin Liren's face showed a joyful smile.

  But he smiled and twitched the muscles on his face, baring his teeth.

  Qin Yun couldn't help but smile wryly, took out a bottle of wound-healing medicine from his bosom and handed it over: "This is top-grade wound-healing medicine, take it!"

  Qin Liren also had Wound Healing Pellets, but they were only low-grade ones. High-grade Wound Healing Pellets could only be exchanged with the family's military contributions.

  Holding the white porcelain medicine bottle in his hand, Qin Liren felt moved and an idea that couldn't be suppressed floated to the top of his mind: "Big Brother Qin Yun, from now on I'll follow you!"

  Qin Liren came from Dongshui City in Qinghe County, where he held a low position in the local Qin family and was often bullied due to his personality.

  Entering the Qian Chao Qin clan can be said to be his only chance to change his fate, and he is also extremely hardworking in ordinary times.

  But his talent is not bad, but without background, connections, and not much money, he can't afford to buy elixirs, and now he's still only at the Refining Qi First Heaven realm.

  Qin Haishan, who had been relatively good to him before, also kept his distance from him after relying on Qin Jun, so Qin Liren was in a difficult situation in the Foreign Affairs Hall and was not looked up to by others.

  If things go on like this, he will find it hard to pass the assessment in half a month's time. By the end of the year, there is an even greater possibility that he will be swept out by Qin.

  Qin Liren absolutely did not want to return to Dongshui City and be ridiculed by others, but he was even more at a loss as to what to do.

  Tonight, Qin Yun lent a hand to help him get out of trouble and also taught that arrogant white-shirted young man a lesson, which made Qin Liren feel grateful and like he had grasped a lifesaving straw.

  Even if it's just as a younger brother under Qin Yun who is ordered around, he would still be willing!

  Qin Yun did not understand Qin Liren's complicated thoughts, but he could see Qin Liren's excitement.

  He reached out and patted the other person's shoulder, laughing: "We are fellow villagers, watching each other is what we should do. If you're not afraid of offending Qin Wenbing and Qin Jun, we can be friends."

  "I have nothing to be afraid of!" Qin Liren said without hesitation.

  If it were before, he would have been intimidated by someone like Qin Hai Shan and wouldn't dare to talk to Qin Yun, but after tonight's events, this somewhat timid young man finally understood.

  Only strength is the most important!

  Without strength, he fawns on others and nobody pays attention to him. With strength, he can naturally trample his opponents underfoot!

  "Then we're friends!" Qin Yun laughed happily.

  He didn't have much to talk about with others in the Foreign Affairs Hall, so it was good that he had made another acquaintance.

  The two returned together to Moyang Dao Fentang.

  Qin Liren somehow found a short knife and was eager to help Qin Yun break the stone.

  His father ran a jade and jade ornament business in Dongshui City, so he had a good understanding of jade from an early age. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone out alone at night to buy rough jade.

  Qin Yun was also somewhat curious, so he had no opinion.

  In his room, Qin Liren placed the raw stone on his desk and secured it in place. He carefully cut away the surface layer of the stone with a short knife.

  The outer skin of jade is extremely hard and ordinary people can hardly break it open unless they use special tools.

  Although Qin Liren was a martial artist in the Refining Qi realm, even if the tool in his hand was not very useful, the layer of yellowish-brown skin was slowly shaved off by his knife edge.

  Inside, what is revealed is still a stone texture, and there is no sign of white jade.

  However, Qin Liren did not give up and continued to cut deeper.

  About half an inch into the original rock, when the knife edge broke open another layer of stone material, a shocking crimson appeared.

  "Hiss!"

  Qin Liren took a sharp breath in, his eyes gleaming with an unusual light, and the speed of his knife strokes suddenly accelerated.

  The outer layer of stone was stripped away layer by layer, and amidst the flying dust, the inner core of jade gradually emerged.

  In the end, what was presented before the two of them was a piece of red jade the size of a goose egg.

  Under the lamp light on the desk, this piece of red jade emits a bright and almost eerie red glow, but its surface still maintains the delicate texture of jade.

  If you look closely, you can vaguely see that there seems to be a liquid flowing inside the red jade, giving people a very strange feeling.

  "Wow...this is...!" Qin Liren stared at it with a blank expression, his eyes wide and his words incoherent: "It's going up, it's skyrocketing!"

  Qin Yun, who didn't understand jade, could tell that this should be a good piece of jade. However, he was nowhere near as excited as Qin Liren, and smiled, saying: "Looks like your eye for things isn't bad, luckily you didn't let that guy get the better of you!"

  Qin Liren's face changed several times, he took a few deep breaths, and his eyes became clear again.

  "Qin Yun big brother, this is not an ordinary spiritual jade, but a crimson blood marrow jade!"

  Lingyu is a top-grade jade that contains the spiritual power of heaven and earth, but it also has different types, among which the most top-notch is the five-color divine jade, extremely rare and difficult to obtain.

  Under the Five-Colored Divine Jade are the Four-Colored Marrow Jades, namely Crimson Blood Marrow Jade, Yellow Dragon Marrow Jade, Purple Shadow Marrow Jade and Ink Black Marrow Jade, which are also extremely valuable.

  The next grade is ordinary Lingyu, which is divided into common, high and extreme grades.

  Even ordinary spiritual jade is a rare good thing, and it's hard to exchange for ordinary gold and silver. High-quality and top-quality spiritual jade can be the treasure of many shops, mostly owned by sects and wealthy families.

  As for Chi Xue Su Yu, even as the treasure of the Qin family's ancestral temple, it is not an exaggeration!

  After listening to Qin Liren's explanation, Qin Yun finally knew the preciousness of this red jade.

  "Since it's so good, let's take it back and sell it at an auction house. We can split the money between us!"

  "Absolutely not!" Qin Liren's expression changed greatly: "Qin Yun, big brother, if you take this Chi Xuegui jade out, I'm afraid it will bring about a fatal disaster!"

  He put the crimson blood jade back into the beast skin bag and solemnly handed it over to Qin Yun: "I once heard my father say that someone had suffered a disaster of extinction because of a piece of yellow dragon blood jade in their home!"

  "Those auction houses are all backed by powerful families, and with our current insignificant identities and strength, we don't have the ability to keep this piece of jade, so this matter absolutely cannot be let known to a third person."

  "Qin Yun big brother, I know you have a strong inclination towards the way of the sword. In the future, if you can enter the Tian Cheng Sword Sect, this piece of Chi Xue Suo Yu will be your best stepping stone for advancement!"

  "I will thoroughly forget about tonight's events, and if someone asks in the future, I'll just say that all I got was a useless rock."

  Seeing Qin Liren's expression so serious, Qin Yun also felt the severity of the matter.

  An innocent man should not be blamed for holding a jade pendant. If the crimson blood jade were truly a treasure that everyone coveted, then hiding it would be the wisest choice, after all, he is now just an insignificant minor figure.

  However, Qin Yun himself had no shortage of secrets. The Heaven and Earth Supplementing Stone and the Great Self-Existing Sword Technique were both more precious than the Crimson Blood Jade. Having one more piece of Crimson Blood Jade wasn't much after all.

  Seeing Qin Yun carefully put away the Chi Xue Suo Yu, Qin Li Ren finally let out a sigh of relief, as if he had shed a heavy burden.

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  Sincere thanks to friends Yu Wang Liu and Xian Yun Bo for their rewards, seeking recommendations and support!