The Treasure Appraiser

“If you had the chance, would you trade the thing you value least for the thing you want most?”

“Here, you can get anything: status, authority, wealth, happiness, life, purpose, opportunity... All you have to do is give up what pains you, and you can get what you want most. It’s an absolute bargain, a small investment for enormous returns.”

These words are etched into the heart of every Appraiser, and are the words they say most often.

Tang Jing has been an Appraiser for more than a decade. Over the years, he has witnessed society’s rawest “greed, hatred, and delusion.” He has seen desire spiral out of control, and people left with nowhere to turn. To him, these people are simply goods to be traded, or their owners. His duty is to take them to that place, the one people have named in legends: “The Immortal Temple.”

Then a little boy appeared, and Tang Jing discovered that even his heart, once as still as stagnant water, could stir...