Antiques: Awakening the Spirit Eye at the Start

Lin Yuan, a poor young man, inherits his grandfather's antique shop and unexpectedly awakens the 'Spirit Eye'—by touching antiques, he can see their 'past'; by gazing at broken porcelain, he can hear voices from a thousand years ago. But the power comes at a cost: each use consumes mental energy, and severe use can lead to unconsciousness. Starting with a folk kiln blue-and-white porcelain from a stall in Qingxi Town, he goes on to authenticate treasures, expose fakes, thwart conspiracies, and protect cultural heritage—confronting the contract scars of the Ye family's 'Ghost Eye' and uncovering the shocking secret of the Guixu organization's 'breaking the Dao with artifacts.' With five levels of artifacts (Mundane Spirit, Spirit Tool, Treasure Spirit, National Spirit, Divine Artifact), the millennium-long standoff between the Artifact Cultivation Society and Guixu, and three female leads (Su Nian, Ye Qingyao, Yue Lingshuang) each with their own stance, this is a world-building that doesn't collapse over a million words. This is an antique appraisal story, but not just appraisal. It's a legend of 'proving the Dao through artifacts.' — Description from novelcodex.org