This milky jade stone looked like a discolored rock, not only strangely shaped but also making one frown at first sight.
The dense, needle-like holes could trigger anyone’s trypophobia.
"This is the thousand-needles jade from White Blind Mountain, extremely hard, impervious to knives and fire, and utterly useless," Ya Molian explained as if it only bore the prestige of a sacred object from White Blind Mountain yet, in reality, it was worthless.
"Thousand-needles jade? This is really the first time I’m hearing of it," Lin Caisang said.
Lin Caisang reached out and touched the thousand-needles jade, and suddenly felt a warm sensation flowing into her body, spreading to every limb.
She was startled and quickly withdrew her hand.
"Brother Molian, is this Warm Jade?" she asked in a low voice.
"What makes you think that?" Ya Molian countered.
"Just now, when I touched it, I felt a warm current enter my body. Why don’t you try?" Lin Caisang suggested.
Upon hearing her words, Ya Molian was surprised.
As the thousand-needles jade only had a name to its credit, he had heard of it but never touched it, nor had he ever heard that thousand-needles jade was Warm Jade.
Warm Jade is actually a type of jade that, when placed on the body, provides a constant warmth like a stove and is especially beneficial for those practicing martial arts, as it helps them achieve twice the results with half the effort.
This type of jade is extremely rare, a single stone worth a whole city!
He was puzzled but reached out towards the large, almost human-sized thousand-needles jade.
Soon, he withdrew his hand.
"There is indeed a warm flow; it must be Warm Jade," he affirmed.
Nodding, he confirmed Lin Caisang’s words.
Whether Warm Jade can warm the body depends on the individual. This piece of thousand-needles jade, it seems, is only meant for the very few fated individuals.
"However, even the best Warm Jade is useless if it’s this big," he added.
The thousand-needles jade could not melt, nor could it be split into pieces. Such a large block, even if one were to buy it, then what? At most, it would serve as a decoration at home.
"Do you like it?" he asked.
Knowing this girl wouldn’t have asked for no reason, nor would she linger in front of this piece of thousand-needles jade without cause.
"I like it, but the jade is too big," Lin Caisang said hesitantly.
However, before she could dwell on it for long, she heard the man beside her already asking the jade shop owner, "How much for this piece of thousand-needles jade?"
As soon as the owner heard Ya Molian’s voice, he hurried forward.
Their earlier conversation had been too quiet for him to catch, but the thousand-needles jade had been sitting there for many years, ignored by all. If he could make a sale, he was sure to turn a tidy profit.
After all, it was profit without cost, inherited when he took over the shop. The previous owner didn’t want to bother moving the large, useless rock, so he left it like trash, and the current owner didn’t bother to have anyone throw it out either, so it just remained.
"Prince Mo, do you want to buy this thousand-needles jade? Actually, this thousand-needles jade... has no use," the owner cautiously said.
Although he was eager to get rid of the worthless rock, the man before him was Prince Mo. If Prince Mo realized in a few days that he had been swindled into buying a piece of junk, wouldn’t he come knocking on his door?
He couldn’t afford to offend such a patron.
So, he felt he had to make things clear.