Chapter: 5580

However, this person lived for a long time, actively or passively receiving information, which was certainly more than average people. He even heard about the term "Tomb Raider's Branch" from someone else.

Right away, Zhao Laozi asked Long Shengbo with a hint of curiosity, "Little brother, is it okay to let me take a look at what you're holding in your hand?"

Zhao Laozi knew that this old man wanted to see his pendant, and after saying so much just now, he must be trying to get closer to his money. So he pretended to be difficult and said, "Old sir, this pendant is given to me by my big brother as a token of trust, not something I can give away freely. You also know the origin of this thing roughly. It's indeed quite sensitive, so I won't let you see it that clearly, and I hope you can understand."

Long Shengbo didn't know what he meant.

Just in case, he always likes to use cash for security reasons, so his wallet is filled with money. This time, he simply took out two $100 bills from his robe and handed them to Zhang Erma's face, saying sincerely, "Little brother, I'll be honest with you this time. When I go back to my country, I will first visit Yanjing and then Jingling to find some antique artifacts that match my heart. Just by chance, your pendant caught my eye. I won't let you trouble yourself. Let me take a look at it. If it's really something good, I'll give you $1,000, and you can help me get in touch with your big brother. As for the specifics of the business, I'll talk to him."

Zhao Laozi didn't expect this old man to be so straightforward, giving out money without even asking.

As he said that, he took off the jade pendant and handed it to Long Shengbo's hand.

Long Shengbo was overjoyed, his hands tightly grasping the jade pendant as if afraid it would fall to the ground and break.

After taking the jade pendant, he immediately realized that this kind of thing is indeed an antique and a mid-Qing dynasty artifact.

As someone born in the Qing Dynasty himself, Long Shengbo still had a certain level of expertise in recognizing such things.

Since it's a genuine antique, combined with its faint bloodstained and rotten odor, he immediately concluded that this thing must have been dug up from the ground not long ago.

Perhaps it was kept together with a corpse beforehand.

Therefore, he hastily transferred some spiritual energy into it to explore what secrets it might hold.

After transferring the energy, Long Shengbo immediately sensed that the pendant contained an array operation in slow motion.

He was taken aback, thinking to himself: "This array operation is actually still running; I wonder what its effects are?"

As far as Long Shengbo was concerned, although he had mastered spiritual energy, he didn't understand much about magical tools and arrays.

He had a wooden sword, and the sword also contained an attack array, but he only knew how to use it, not how to refine it.

In fact, he didn't even understand the magical principles behind arrays or their basic logic.

So, when he saw the array left by Ye Chen here, he couldn't figure out its purpose for a while.

Actually, this is one of the passive defense arrays recorded in "Nine Celestial Scriptures". As soon as someone wearing the array's tool is attacked, the array will immediately activate and use its inherent energy to defend their master.

The strength and effects of the array are like simple arithmetic problems. If the attack received is less than the array's intensity, the master will remain unscathed; but if it exceeds the array's intensity, the array will do its best to defend the master, and what cannot be defended will have to be borne by the master themselves.

However, Long Shengbo had never seen this kind of array before, so he didn't understand at all what the jade pendant was used for.

Thinking about this, he couldn't help but curse his lordship in his heart: "That old fox, who has always kept secrets from us, even to the point where I don't know what this thing is used for when I get it. Even if I do get it, it's like having two eyes blinded by tears, wanting to know its true effects, but afraid that if it's good, he'll take it away and not give me any..."

Just as he was thinking about this, Zhào Lǎo Sì came up in front of him and said, "Sir, you've had a good look, haven't you? You can just return it to me now..."

"I was taken aback for a moment, and my heart was still hesitant: 'To people like us who practice cultivation, this kind of treasure is crucial. Even the noble lord is concerned about Lin Wan'er's mysterious pendant in her hand, which shows its importance to cultivators. I've been outside only once in many years to encounter a genuine treasure, and naturally I cannot let it go!'" JrNovels.com