Chapter 128 Antique Appraisal

After opening more than a dozen packages, various styles of oil paintings were displayed before Wang Xiuyuan's eyes; he rubbed his temples helplessly.

At this moment, he deeply realized that sitting on a mountain of treasure but not knowing its value was a very painful thing.

"Hmm?"

A flash of inspiration struck Wang Xiuyuan's mind—wasn't this the solution!

It didn't matter if he didn't know; as long as the system could help him learn the relevant knowledge, it would be fine!

He was a man with a system, after all. There was a vast array of criminal skills and criminal knowledge in the sin mall; basically, any skill that could be used for doing bad things or committing crimes could be found there.

Antique and artwork appraisal is a very difficult skill to master. There are many ways to use this skill for criminal profit, such as deliberately appraising a fake as genuine or appraising a genuine item as a fake.

If combined with high-level forgery techniques, wouldn't that be a god-tier fraud skill?

[heavenly dao system]

Character: Wang Xiuyuan

Strength: 34, Stamina: 30, Intelligence: 30, Willpower: 30

(Average human value is 10 points, human genetic limit is 100 points)

sin points: 340400, merit points: 8738

System Skills: [Master-level Futures Trading Experience][Master-level Stock Trading Experience][Master-level Currency Trading Experience][Master-level Baji Quan][Master-level Black Dragon Eighteen Hands][CQB Close Quarters Battle Special Operations System Combat Experience][Master-level Rifle Marksmanship][Mastery Level Pistol Marksmanship][French Proficiency][Russian Language Mastery]

In just over a month, the amount of sin points Wang Xiuyuan possessed had significantly increased once again.

Part of it was the proceeds from dealing with the children from the Three Major Gangs, and the other part likely came from the contributions of the prisoners in the Private Prison.

After searching for a while, Wang Xiuyuan finally found the appraisal skills regarding antique artworks.

Master-level Eastern Painting and Calligraphy Appraisal Skill (Price: 20,000 sin points), Master-level Eastern Porcelain Appraisal Skill (Price: 20,000 sin points), Master-level Eastern Bronzeware Appraisal Skill (Price: 20,000 sin points), Master-level Eastern Jade Appraisal Skill (Price: 20,000 sin points), Master-level Eastern Ancient Books and Rare Editions Appraisal Skill (Price: 20,000 sin points)...

Master-level Western Oil Painting Appraisal Skill (Price: 20,000 sin points), Master-level Western Sculpture Appraisal Skill (Price: 20,000 sin points), Western...

Various appraisal skills appeared before Wang Xiuyuan's eyes, primarily categorized into Painting and Calligraphy, Porcelain, Bronzeware, Jade, Lacquerware, Ancient Books and Rare Editions, Oil Painting, and Sculpture.

Although there were many types of appraisal skills, the prices for these skills in the sin mall were not considered expensive; each appraisal category required only 20,000 sin points to exchange.

Categories like Eastern Porcelain, Painting and Calligraphy, and Jade, as well as Western Oil Painting and Sculpture, are the five most common and widely used appraisal skills in the field of antique collection; an average person who could master just one would be a renowned master-level figure.

Currently, there are countless antique artworks scattered among the people all over the world; it is the perfect time to make a fortune by picking up leaks.

Furthermore, the value of antique artworks has not been fully explored during this era, and they are at a historic low in value.

If he hoards a batch of antique artworks now, their economic value could easily increase dozens of times over in twenty or thirty years.

Huaxia antiques, in particular, have the highest investment value right now; as long as one collects genuine pieces, it is quite common for the value to increase tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times thirty years later.

Take porcelain vases from the Kangxi era, for example; in 1980, a large vase was only worth a dozen yuan, and even high-quality exquisite pieces were only worth about twenty yuan.

However, by 2010, any one of those vases could sell for high prices of two to three million; some would even be priced higher, meaning the economic value increased by a full 150,000 times.

Now is absolutely the best time to invest in Huaxia antiques.

Wang Xiuyuan's eyes flickered, and after careful consideration, he prepared to take all five appraisal skills at once: Eastern Porcelain, Painting and Calligraphy, Jade, and Western Oil Painting and Sculpture.

As an excellent Transmigrator, there was no reason for Wang Xiuyuan to watch such a good opportunity to make a fortune slip through his fingers.

"When Heaven gives and you do not take, you will instead suffer the blame; when the time comes and you do not act, you will instead suffer the calamity."

If you do not make good use of the opportunities bestowed upon you by Heaven, you will eventually suffer misfortune; if the time to make a fortune arrives but you do not take action immediately, you will eventually suffer for it.

Wang Xiuyuan still understood this simple truth.

Besides, there was plenty of space in the space ring; after buying these antique artworks, there was no need to worry at all about the problem of how to preserve them.

So why not take action sooner? This could also be considered a way to diversify investments.

Although antique artworks themselves carry a certain speculative nature, and various criminals also like to use them for money laundering operations,

the economic and collection value of antique artworks objectively and truly exists; otherwise, why would so many rich people buy these things for investment and collection?

We can doubt the character of those rich people, but we must never doubt their ability to make money.

Since he had decided to collect a large number of antique artworks in the future, Wang Xiuyuan simply hesitated no longer and directly exchanged for the Master-level Porcelain, Painting and Calligraphy, Jade, Oil Painting, and Sculpture Appraisal Skills.

With these five master-level appraisal skills, Wang Xiuyuan would definitely be able to sweep through the antique collection field in the future.

After exchanging for the antique artwork appraisal skills, Wang Xiuyuan did not exit the system interface; instead, he directly opened the grand prize wheel interface, intending to try his luck.

This trip to Munich made Wang Xiuyuan fully realize how rare the treasure information drawn from the system actually was.

This was such a huge amount of wealth; how could Wang Xiuyuan not be tempted? If it weren't for the fact that this kind of treasure information couldn't be exchanged directly from the system mall, he would have used all his sin points to exchange for treasure clues long ago.

'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage'

'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage' 'Ding! Awarded: Japanese Proficiency.'

'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage'

The first wave of ten-pulls only yielded Japanese Proficiency, which made Wang Xiuyuan very disappointed; however, it was a very practical language, so at least it wasn't a total loss.

'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage'

'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage' 'Ding! Awarded: Korean Proficiency.'

'Thank you for your patronage' 'Ding! Awarded: Spanish Proficiency.' 'Thank you for your patronage' 'Thank you for your patronage'

The second wave of ten-pulls actually yielded two language proficiencies in a row; Wang Xiuyuan almost spat out a mouthful of blood. Had he poked a nest of foreign language schools today? Why was it nothing but various language packs?

As the results of the third and fourth waves of ten-pulls came out, Wang Xiuyuan jumped up in joy.

'Ding! Awarded: Master-level Eastern Bronzeware Appraisal Skill Proficiency.' 'Ding! Awarded: A pair of X-ray Vision eyes.'