I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

“This statue is beautiful. The moment I saw it in the temple, I decided to take it,” Xiao Di said seriously. “So it wasn’t just stealing.”

...Was it a deliberate act of robbery?

Jingyang recalled that Xiaodi had once said she liked books, chess, and jewelry...

She usually appears to be indifferent to worldly affairs and doesn't bother anyone, but that's just because she has few personal desires. It's not that she doesn't bother anyone, but rather that very few people bother her.

The Buddha statue left by Vivigo is indeed beautiful, like a magnificent black jade. Even though it has lost its spirituality and is covered with cracks, it is full of a broken beauty. No wonder Xiao Di likes it.

Kurapika stared blankly at the black jade Buddha statue, his brows furrowing involuntarily. "Kagin, a statue..."

"What are you muttering about?" Jingyang asked curiously.

Kurapika rubbed his temples and said, "I think I've read about this in some book before, something related to the ancient artifacts of the Kagin Kingdom..."

"Don't bother if you can't remember," Jingyang said. "Take good care of yourself. There's a wedding we're going to attend soon, you haven't forgotten, have you?"

"The wedding, Crimson Eyes. How could I forget?" Kurapika steadied himself and suddenly asked, "How long did I sleep this time?"

Jingyang said, "You've been lying in this hospital for a week now."

"The wedding was in November..."

"It's in November—" Jingyang couldn't remember either. He turned to look at Xiaodi, opened his mouth to speak, then turned back. He pondered for a moment, "Never mind, I'll call and ask Xuanlu later. I might as well go with them, hitch a ride, and it'll seem more swaggering."

"Anyway, you should get some rest. Not only does your body need to recover, but your strength also needs to be restored," Jing Yang said with a smile. "I probably won't need you to play a significant role, but you don't want to hold us back, right?"

"Hmm." Kurapika closed his eyes, then opened them. "I'm hungry."

"Alright, the patient comes first."

Jingyang stood up and called out, pulling Xiaodi along, "Come on, let's get our cool baby something to eat. Oh, stop looking, he's not as handsome as me!"

Xiao Di swallowed the black jade Buddha statue whole with her bulging-eyed fish. Jing Yang then led her away from the ward, and on the way, she asked in confusion, "Why did it turn into this kind of material?"

"Who knows? Maybe Old Wei is a Conjuration type like you..."

Conjuration-type beings can even transform themselves, transforming into humanoids, motorcycles, airplanes, Gundams... so it's not surprising that they can turn a reef into a lump of black jade.

Thinking this, Jingyang took out his phone, intending to take a picture of the black jade Buddha statue and send it to Mao Tu Biyou, an expert, for advice.

Chapter 172 Pig Brain Overload Again

Jingyang had taken photos of the black jade Buddha statue before, so he directly sent Biyou a text message with a picture attached: "Sister Rabbit, can you take a look and tell me how much this is worth?"

After sending the message, he and Xiao Di ordered a nutritious and delicious meal for Kurapika and asked the nurse to bring it to his ward.

During the process, Jingyang's pocket kept vibrating. When he took it out, he saw that Biyou had replied to his messages almost instantly, and there were several in a row.

"A Buddha statue? It looks very new. I'm not an expert in appraising jewelry; you've asked the wrong person."

"However, this sculpting technique has a style reminiscent of the Kakin Empire. Did you buy it from Kakin?"

Where are they? Answer.

"This face looks familiar. Where did you get it? Was the face of this Buddha statue carved from a template?"

"Are you dead?"

Goodness, Sister Rabbit is indeed a hardcore surfer; within minutes, several messages came crashing down on her.

Jingyang and Xiaodi walked out of the hospital. It was lunchtime, so they were going out to find something to eat.

Jingyang casually typed: "What's so new about it? It's at least a 300-year-old antique! Are you kidding me? Just tell me, how much is it actually worth?"

The message was sent, and within seconds, Jingyang's phone rang.

"Hello." Jingyang answered the call and walked with Xiaodi on the street outside the hospital, looking left and right at both sides of the street, looking for a restaurant that suited their taste.

The call was from Biyou, who asked with a strong voice, "Is it really a 300-year-old antique?"

“It could also be 400 years.” Jing Yang nodded and walked into a local restaurant with Xiao Di. While choosing a table, he talked into his phone. “It depends on when the owner of the Buddha’s face carved the statue. I haven’t investigated it in detail yet.”

Since King Viggo of Zhenwu had eaten the rice of immortality, his reign in the Kakin Empire should have far surpassed that of other emperors, right?

The Black Mist Lion Elder's account only mentioned that a few hundred years ago, three or four hundred years ago, this magical beast that lived deep in the mountains far from human society, Jingyang was skeptical about the reliability of his memory of the years.

Back when he was on Ghost Island, Jingyang searched for True Martial King online, but found very little reliable information. Instead, rumors about his treasures and tomb raiding were rampant online.

In short, everything about Zhenwu Wang Wei Hugo = Hui Guo Rou seems to be shrouded in mystery.

Perhaps only those members of the Grey Flesh royal family possess the true records about him.

Thus, a natural question inadvertently surfaced in Jingyang's mind—why didn't Vivigo leave the immortal rice in the palace of Gray Guorou?

"Hello! Are you listening?" Bi You's voice on the other end of the phone pulled Jing Yang back to reality.

"These are the restaurant's signature dishes that you two have ordered. Please enjoy." Just then, the waiter arrived with a smile and started serving the dishes. Xiao Di grabbed a spatula and scooped two bowls of rice into her bowl.

Jingyang brought over a bowl, placed his phone beside him, picked up his chopsticks, mouthed "Let's eat" to Xiaodi, and said to the phone at the same time, "Tell me, I'm listening."

"I'm asking you," the phone wasn't on speakerphone, but Jing Yang could hear clearly by holding his breath, "was the face of this Buddha statue carved based on the image of King Kajin Zhenwu?"

“That’s right.” Jing Yang took a bite of the signature dish; it was indeed quite delicious. “You tell me, how lucky am I? I was walking around in the mountains, and hey, there was a dilapidated Guanyin Temple ahead. I went inside, and wow, there was such an old and valuable Buddha statue! And, hey, it even has the face of King Hugo! And then I—”

"Wait."

Before Jingyang could finish speaking, the phone made that sound, and then hung up with a series of beeps.

Jingyang held the food in mid-air with his chopsticks, looking at the phone screen where the call had ended, and asked, "What are you waiting for? You haven't said how much this is worth yet."

Little Di asked curiously, "Are you really going to sell the Buddha statue?"

“How could that be?” Jingyang laughed. “I just felt that King Zhenwu was a very strange person. Sure enough, he just teased her a little and she came here.”

Xiao Di looked at Jing Yang's phone on the table.

“She’s so skilled, she should be able to locate my phone,” Jingyang said. “No rush, let’s eat first. Kurapika still has a while before he’s discharged.”

Xiao Di also has a large appetite; the two of them together can eat the equivalent of five or six servings for an average person.

While eating, as Xiaodi ladled out a new bowl of rice, she suddenly asked, "Aren't we going to eat the rice that was put into the bulging-eyed fish?"

"What if we get an upset stomach and it brings bad luck to our later years? The old lion is a magical beast, after all, his constitution is different from ours. Besides, we can't even tell if he, as a magical beast, has bad luck in his later years." Jing Yang complained, indicating that they should play it safe for now. "We're still young. If we really can't go to the Dark Continent in the future, it's not too late to eat it. Anyway, the food won't expire or spoil if we put it in the bulging-eyed fish."

Xiao Di nodded in understanding and lowered her head to continue eating.

After they had almost finished eating, Xiao Di noticed that Jing Yang was drawing something on the table with his finger dipped in the drink.

She asked, "What is this?"

"The old lion drew the talisman on the little jade Buddha after the shaman's ritual," Jingyang said, puzzled. "You've completely forgotten that? You don't want to keep anything in your head that's not worth remembering..."

As he was talking, he noticed that Xiao Di was looking at him with her big, pale purple eyes, and there was a faint smile on her lips.

Jingyang suddenly realized, "You're pretending you don't remember?"

Xiao Di extended her slender white finger, dipped it into the half-cup of drink in front of Jing Yang, and then smoothly drew a symbol on the table, exactly the same as the one the Grand Elder drew on the small jade Buddha with blood, and the one Jing Yang drew on the table in front of him.

Looking at Xiao Di's smiling profile, Jing Yang couldn't help but laugh as well.

This was the first time Xiao Di had shown the lively and adorable side of a girl her age.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Di asked, puzzled by his laughter.

Jing Yang put on a stern face and asked, "You pretended to forget this time, but what about before? You always said you didn't remember before, were you faking that too? How many other times have I been unaware of something?"

Xiao Di said, "You saw through me the first time."

"Really?" Jingyang asked. "Think carefully, maybe it happened before, but you forgot?"

Xiao Di really tried hard to recall, and asked in confusion, "But if I did this before but have forgotten it now, I won't be able to remember it no matter how hard I try, right?"

Jingyang couldn't help but burst into laughter.

A smile also appeared on Xiao Di's lips.

Jingyang's laughter stopped abruptly. Had Xiaodi been on the second floor again?

She knew perfectly well that she had never done something like this before, but she pretended to recall it... acting cute to make me laugh?

My buddy is on the first floor, but she's already on the second floor?

But I, who had already seen through her thoughts, was actually already on the fifth floor!

Jingyang and Xiaodi stared at each other, seemingly trying to guess each other's thoughts, their eyes flashing back and forth. When he laughed, her big eyes would fill with doubt; when she smiled, Jingyang would pretend to be self-doubting, as if he thought he had been tricked... In the end, they both smiled at each other, finding it quite amusing.

As Jingyang laughed, his eyes fell on the symbols the two of them had drawn on the table with their drinks, and suddenly an idea struck him. "Wait a minute..."

Little Drop's eyes showed doubt, and this time it was genuine doubt.

She saw Jingyang raise his hand to wipe the water stains on the table, then extend a finger, gathering spiritual energy on it.

Jingyang pressed his fingers on the table and drew the pattern that the Black Mist Lion Elder had drawn on the small jade Buddha pendant, stroke by stroke. However, the Elder used blood to draw the pattern, while Jingyang used his spiritual energy.

Consciously gather and release the breath at your fingertips.

As Jingyang used his fingertips to smear energy across the tabletop, a black object resembling both text and a pattern appeared on the surface when the last stroke was completed.

Little Di recognized it: "This is the character for 'god'."

“As expected, symbols related to Nen abilities are inevitably connected to the character ‘God’.” Jing Yang was initially smug, then puzzled, “How many ‘God’ characters are there? Let’s call it ‘one ‘God’ character’ for now. Just like that… a ‘God’ character the size of two fingers can achieve the function of spatial teleportation?”

Just to be on the safe side, Jingyang called over the rock sparrow that had flown off to run wild a few days ago, and had it use its gathered spiritual energy to touch the character "神" (divine) on the table with its claws.

“It hasn’t disappeared…” Jingyang muttered to himself as he looked at Yan Que.

The Taliyah's head is adorned with a question mark, as if asking, "Could it have just disappeared?"

Xiao Di said, "Could it be because the Buddha statue is inside the bulging-eyed fish?"

"Try going to the restroom," Jingyang said.

Xiao Di then went to the restroom. In the stall, she first materialized the bulging-eyed fish vacuum cleaner, and then released the black jade Buddha statue. The half-person-tall Buddha statue wasn't very big.

After waiting a while, Jingyang received a telepathic message from the moon mark on the "Yi" ring on his finger: [As expected, it still has no effect. It's probably because the spiritual power contained within the Buddha statue has been completely exhausted.]

Little Drop put away the Buddha statue and the bulging-eyed fish, and quickly returned.

Amidst a table littered with leftovers, Jingyang sat at the table, rubbing a rock sprite in his hands, and said regretfully, "I thought I could get a teleportation skill for free! What a pity."

Xiao Di sat down and pointed to the character "神" (god) on the table, saying, "Perhaps there is also a character '神' inside the Buddha statue, which is a combination of the two, but the character '神' inside the Buddha statue was damaged, so it lost its function."

Jingyang thought about it and agreed.