Chapter 3 needs more spiritual energy

  After resting for a while, Liu Yi Yang continued with his work.

  This time he calmed down very quickly, since it was related to yesterday's events, and similarly, it was something he couldn't control, so he simply stopped thinking about it and focused on doing his current work first.

  The bronze flower-shaped vessel was soon finished being preserved, and Liu Yi Yang picked up the second item that needed to be preserved.

  This is a Qing dynasty paperweight, the material of the paperweight is not good, but the workmanship is very good. Liu Yi Yang has been working in antique shops for so long and knows the price of these treasures. A paperweight like this would cost at least several thousand yuan.

  Several thousand yuan, and naturally can't be compared with hundreds of thousands or even millions of heavy equipment, but it is the best-selling item in the store.

  Currently, wealthy people are still a minority. Most people who truly love collecting and appreciating antiques prefer items that are not too valuable but well-preserved treasures.

  The book town is not big, and it will be much simpler to clean up.

  Just cleaned up half of it, Liu Yi Yang's hand trembled again, but this time he didn't say a word, just staring blankly in front of him.

  A faint red mist also rose from the body of this book seal, unlike the bronze flower-shaped seal, it emitted a red mist, and was much lighter than the purple one just now.

  A red mist slowly rose and finally lined up in a straight line, drilling into the center of Liu Yi Yang's forehead.

  This time, Liu Yi Yang didn't panic. He clearly saw the entire process, especially when the red mist directly entered the Yintang hole, that faint warmth made him feel very comfortable, like a warm spring bathed in the morning sunlight, lazy and unwilling to move.

  In just a minute, the red mist disappeared, and like the bronze flower-shaped town seal earlier, a visible but untouchable red glow began to surround the book seal.

  Liu Yi Yang sat in silence for a while before picking up his tools again and continuing his work.

  The book town has been cleaned up, and next is a small ancient jade ornament, which is still high-quality Hetian white jade.

  Seeing this nice little ornament, Liu Yi Yang's eyes showed a slight surprise. This was an ancient jade ornament, and it was made of top-grade jade material, which was not cheap.

  The shop mainly sells porcelain, and also has jade, bronze and many other miscellaneous items. Liu Yi Yang is not the only conservator in the shop, apart from him there is another older teacher with more experience.

  It was this teacher who taught him these things by hand, which gave him his current job.

  Generally speaking, anything that is expensive is personally maintained by the teacher himself. Liu Yi Yang only does maintenance on low-value antiques, most of which are worth several thousand or tens of thousands of yuan per piece, and some small items worth only a few hundred yuan to drive business.

  Liu Yi Yang wasn't particularly knowledgeable about antiques, but with just one glance, he understood that the value of this ancient jade in front of him was absolutely over 100,000. Such an item would normally never be entrusted to him for maintenance.

  Liu Yi Yang originally wanted to stand up, but after hesitating for a moment, he sat back down.

  The one who handed it over to him was Lin Feng. Lin Feng would never make such a mistake. Since this thing appeared here, it must be the task of handing it over to him. For him, taking care of such a valuable thing is also a kind of exercise.

  Cheering up, Liu Yiyang picked up the jade-specific maintenance tool and began to maintain this piece of ancient jade.

  The maintenance of jade articles is actually not troublesome, it just requires carefulness, especially for decorative pieces, any crevices cannot be missed, leaving other impurities behind.

  Liu Yi Yang had also conserved many ancient jade pieces before, it's just that this is the first time he has conserved such a valuable piece.

  Soon, Liu Yi Yang's mind was completely focused on this ancient jade.

  Just after he started working, his body trembled slightly again, and his pupils contracted unnaturally for a moment.

  On the surface of this ancient jade, a layer of fog also emerged. This time it was red fog again, but more than the fog that emerged from Shu Town. A large piece of red fog pierced straight into his brain.

  "Hmm!"

  Feeling that warmth, Liu Yi Yang couldn't help but hum a soft tune, this warmth was too comfortable, it was a kind of comfort that language could not express.

  Fortunately, his voice was very low and Lin Feng, who was guarding the warehouse outside, did not hear it. Otherwise, he would have to come in again to check on him.

  It took a full three minutes for all the red mist to dissipate, leaving Liu Yiyang's hand with an ancient jade pendant surrounded by a red glow.

  As soon as the red mist dissipated, Liu Yi Yang's body suddenly sat up straight there.

  Just now, at the moment when the red mist disappeared, he suddenly 'saw' a void black space, in which a huge ancient bronze mirror was suspended.

  This "look" wasn't something he saw with his eyes, but rather it seemed to appear directly in his mind.

  This scene didn't last long and disappeared in the blink of an eye, but at the moment the copper mirror appeared, he clearly felt a signal.

  This signal is: need more spiritual energy.

  Divine aura, enormous copper mirror?

  Liu Yi Yang, no matter how foolish he was, would also understand everything that happened today, including the mist emitted by these ancient artifacts, which were all related to the copper mirror that had entered his body yesterday.

  This shows that the copper mirror is still inside his body.

  There is also the spiritual energy that appears in the information, Liu Yi Yang does not know what spiritual energy is, but he also understands that spiritual energy must be related to the fog that just emerged, and it is possible that the fog is the spiritual energy needed by the copper mirror.

  He had realized that these mists appeared entirely because of the copper mirror in his body, and it seemed that only he, who possessed the copper mirror, could see them.

  Liu Yi Yang let out a long sigh of relief, at least today's strange events had an explanation, and he knew what was going on.

  The fog that has entered his body can be explained, but the copper mirror is still unclear. Fortunately, for now, the copper mirror doesn't seem to have any harm on him, so there's no need to worry about it for now. As for later, Liu Yi didn't think too much about it at this moment.

  Moreover, the copper mirror only tells itself that it needs more spiritual energy, but doesn't know how to obtain it or how much is needed.

  Looking down at the ancient jade pendant in his hand, Liu Yiyang suddenly remembered some books he had read before.

  After working in an antique shop, Liu Yiyang specially bought a lot of books about antiques and read a lot to improve his work ability.

  He remembered that in a certain book, it was said: the longer the antique, the greater its spirituality. In fact, all genuine antiques contain spirituality, and if one uses their heart to feel it, they can sense this spirituality. Things without spirituality are absolutely fake.

  Only he didn't know whether the spirituality this master was talking about referred to spiritual energy or those wisps of fog that had drilled into his mind.

  But no matter what, you have to try it out to know for sure.

  After finishing the maintenance of the antique display piece, Liu Yi Yang immediately picked up another item, this time it was a porcelain, a folk kiln from the late Qing dynasty.

  Qing dynasty folk kiln ceramics are currently very popular in the market. Most people can't afford to buy imperial kiln products and don't dare to buy them, only a few wealthy clients who don't care about money will spend a lot of money to purchase these items. However, such customers are in the minority. The majority of goods sold in stores are folk kiln ceramics with low value but high appreciation value. These products have low value, high sales volume and considerable profit.

  Today Liu Yi Yang has several pieces of porcelain among the things he needs to maintain.

  Strictly speaking, the maintenance of porcelain is not complicated, it's just that you have to be very careful. Porcelain has different shapes and forms, so the way you maintain it also differs.

  Liu Yi Yang used a damp cloth with clear water to gently wipe the body of this porcelain, the water temperature was specially adjusted, and the maintenance of porcelain is not just about touching some clear water.

  Under intense attention, this porcelain also emitted red mist soon, probably similar to the mist of Shu Town, and disappeared after a minute.

  At this time, Liu Yi Yang no longer had any surprise, but instead enjoyed the comfort brought by the mist entering his body.

  The first piece of porcelain was soon finished, and Liu Yi Yang continued to take out the second one. During the maintenance process, the red mist reappeared, but he had experience and didn't panic at all.

  Time flies quickly, more than two hours have passed in an instant.

  After maintaining everything, Liu Yi Yang finally stretched his waist comfortably, looking extremely satisfied.

  Today's time was the fastest he had ever felt, especially every time those misty vapors entered his body, that kind of comfort made him not want to stop.

  Moreover, after work today, he didn't feel any of his usual fatigue, but instead was exceptionally spirited, and continuing to work wouldn't be a problem.

  Antique maintenance is not an easy job, it requires focus and concentration, which consumes a lot of brain power. This is also the reason why he only works for two hours every day. Unless there's a special situation, the store won't let him work too long either.

  Apart from being in a better mental state, Liu Yi Yang also gained something else - he now understood how those misty vapors were produced. As long as his mind was focused on a particular object, the vapors would appear.

  However, this is not absolute. He now believes in the words of that book, the older an antique is, the more spiritual it becomes. Just now, he had maintained several modern stone carvings, all of which were made in the last few decades. No matter how focused he was, these things didn't produce any mist at all.

  He also specially took some tools in his hand for a test, and like modern stone carvings, there was no reaction at all.

  Not only that, but there was also a broken screen in the small house. The screen was an old item and had been damaged before. Later, during a move, it was accidentally disassembled.

  The screen only has a single strip, the workmanship is not very good, and even if it were complete, its value would not be high. After being thoroughly disassembled, there was no point in repairing it, so it was left standing in the warehouse.

  Later, Lin Feng felt that the screen was taking up too much space in the warehouse, so he moved it to Liu Yi Yang's small workroom. If it weren't for the fact that this was a genuine antique, Lin Feng might have simply discarded it.

  This broken screen finally became Liu Yiyang's test product, and the red mist emitted from the screen made him very satisfied. Moreover, the mist emitted by this screen was more than those porcelain, almost comparable to that ancient jade.

  Having put away all the tools, Liu Yi Yang stood up and carefully checked everything he had maintained today before leaving the small hut.

  His job was just maintenance. He couldn't take anything out of the hut, and Lin Feng would come to collect the maintained items and put them back in the warehouse after categorizing them.