Chapter 75
Translator: T_Fan
“This is my first time here, but I’m not a newcomer.”
Lee Hyun answered as he stepped inside.
The eyes behind the eagle-owl mask swept over him from head to toe. The divine sense that briefly brushed against him before withdrawing held no particular hostility.
A cultivator wearing a goose mask, who had been seated by the wall, rose to his feet.
“Did you bring a letter of introduction?”
Lee Hyun handed him a small jade token.
The cultivator in the goose mask flinched after sending his divine sense into the jade token. He looked back and forth between it and Lee Hyun, then promptly returned the token with both hands.
“So you’re Inspector Cicada. I received word about you.”
At those words, the cultivators in the stone chamber all turned their attention toward him, and the man in the eagle-owl mask straightened slightly in his seat.
“Inspector Cicada?”
“That’s right.”
“Then the item we contacted you about before….”
“I brought it.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask rose from his seat.
“It seems I misjudged our guest. This way.”
He opened a stone door in one wall, and Lee Hyun followed him inside.
Once the stone door closed, the sounds from outside grew faint.
It was a private room furnished with a small table and chairs, and restrictions were engraved into the walls to prevent divine sense from passing through.
“Have a seat.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask gestured with one hand.
Lee Hyun sat across from him and studied the man.
A Golden Core cultivator.
Once, Lee Hyun would never have dared sit at the same table as a cultivator of such a lofty realm. Now, the man was personally offering him a seat.
Of course, Cicada was not receiving such treatment merely because he was an inspector of the Two Heavens Society.
The other man was hoping for something from Inspector Cicada.
Lee Hyun took a small jade bottle from his storage pouch.
When he removed the Spirit-Sealing Talisman and opened the stopper, a faint medicinal fragrance drifted out.
The eagle-owl-masked man’s gaze immediately fixed on the jade bottle.
“Please take a look.”
A round pill rolled out onto the table.
The man in the eagle-owl mask picked it up between his fingertips.
He examined its color, smelled its medicinal fragrance, then slowly sent a thin thread of divine sense into it. After remaining silent for quite some time, he nodded.
“It is indeed a Foundation Establishment Pill. Its medicinal strength is sufficient as well.”
“It was refined fairly recently.”
“So it seems. It has been well preserved too….”
The man in the eagle-owl mask carefully set the pill down.
Lee Hyun looked at the jade bottle.
Of the seventy-two Foundation Establishment Pills he had made when breaking through to Whole-Body Foundation Establishment, he had consumed sixty and kept the remaining twelve.
It had been less than two years since they were refined, and they had remained sealed with Spirit-Sealing Talismans the entire time, so there was no reason for much of their medicinal strength to have dissipated.
The man in the eagle-owl mask spoke.
“I was worried you might not be able to obtain the full quantity I requested. Foundation Establishment Pills are not particularly expensive to a cultivator of my realm, but regardless of their price, they are remarkably difficult to acquire.”
“Fortunately, Society Head procured them for us.”
“Then I should show you the item I promised as well.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask flicked his sleeve.
Clack.
A long blue-green metal plate appeared on the table.
It was about the length of an adult man’s forearm, and its surface was densely covered with lines resembling leaf veins.
Lee Hyun’s gaze moved to the side of the metal plate.
Six thin plates were stacked together without the slightest gap.
“The Six-Leaf Shield.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask lightly tapped one of the shield plates with his finger, producing a clear metallic ring.
“It is an artifact this old man once used.”
He stroked the shield plates for a moment.
“Since acquiring a defensive magic treasure, I have had no reason to take it out, but there was a time when I treasured it as dearly as my own life.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask infused it with energy, and the stacked shield plates slowly separated.
Shrrrk.
Six blue-green leaves rose above the table.
Each shield plate curved gently along one face. Tiny silver formation inscriptions repeatedly appeared and vanished between the lines that resembled leaf veins.
Lee Hyun examined the magic tool closely.
He noted the curved surfaces, the diagonally beveled edges, and the slightly different arrangement of formation inscriptions on each shield plate.
It was clearly a magic tool designed to be used with all six plates moving together.
“It is even listed in 《Yunzhou Artifact Appraisal》. I hear the latest edition ranks it eighty-third.”
Yunzhou Artifact Appraisal.
Lee Hyun had heard the name before while serving as society head of the Two Heavens Society.
The nine nearby cultivation nations, including Xuan Kingdom and Xu Kingdom, were collectively known as the Nine Kingdoms of Yunzhou.
The Nine Kingdoms of Yunzhou referred to the cultivation nations north of Kun Kingdom, and their territory did not overlap with that of the Nanming Twelve-Sect Alliance.
Yunzhou Artifact Appraisal compiled the assessments of numerous artifact refiners and appraisers to rank the two hundred finest magic tools circulating among those nine nations.
What did it mean to rank among the two hundred finest magic tools in the Nine Kingdoms of Yunzhou?
There were tens of thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators in those nations alone. Between them, they must have possessed at least a hundred thousand magic tools.
Simply ranking among the top two hundred made it a rare treasure, one that would be difficult even to lay eyes on no matter how many ordinary cultivator markets one searched.
Yunzhou Artifact Appraisal was similar in nature to the Nanming Hundred Artifacts Register, differing only in the region it covered.
Cultivators seemed rather fond of comparing things and assigning them rankings.
Mortals regarded cultivators as Immortals, but from what Lee Hyun had seen, the cultivators of the lower world were at least quite far removed from the Immortals mortals imagined.
If anything, they were even more worldly and greedy than mortals.
Lee Hyun studied the floating Six-Leaf Shield.
If it ranked eighty-third in Yunzhou Artifact Appraisal, then not only was it an exceptional supreme-grade magic tool, but depending on how it was used, it might even be better than the Sinking Moon Sword, which ranked eighth in the Nanming Hundred Artifacts Register.
Even among exceptional supreme-grade magic tools, their purposes differed, and rankings were influenced not only by actual performance but also by recognition and the reputation of their users.
“The restrictions seem to be linked together.”
“That’s right. The force striking one plate can be distributed across the others.”
“Impressive.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask moved his hand.
The six shield plates spun in a circle, then instantly converged into a large shield with their edges slightly overlapping.
A moment later, they separated again and moved around him to the front, rear, left, and right.
“You can gather them together to block in one direction, or separate them to defend from all sides. Against a powerful attack, however, it is better to stack the shield plates or interlock them at an angle.”
“Can it withstand an attack from a magic treasure?”
The man in the eagle-owl mask nodded.
“It can. It will not be damaged merely by clashing with a low-grade magic treasure.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask continued.
“That does not mean I am telling you to fight someone wielding a magic treasure. Fighting a Golden Core cultivator is a foolish thing to do regardless.”
“Of course.”
“And… there is one problem. Judging solely by its defensive power, it would not be strange for it to rank even higher. This is also why it does not.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask withdrew his hand, and the Six-Leaf Shield stacked itself plate by plate before settling onto the table.
“What is it?”
“It consumes a great deal of spiritual power. When you move only one or two plates, it is manageable enough. But if all six restrictions are linked and you take a powerful attack, you can actually feel your spiritual power draining away. Even this old man could only use it properly after reaching Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.”
“May I try controlling it myself?”
“Of course. Infuse it with your spiritual power.”
Lee Hyun placed a hand on the Six-Leaf Shield and sent spiritual power into it.
Before long, all six shield plates on the table rose into the air.
He immediately began changing their positions. Two plates stacked in front of him while the others moved to either side and behind his back, and there was no noticeable resistance in their movement.
The positions and angles of the shield plates shifted constantly through a variety of configurations.
The man in the eagle-owl mask was startled.
‘He may be an inspector of the Two Heavens Society, but he’s only a mid Foundation Establishment cultivator at best… and he can control it this easily on his very first attempt?’
In addition to powerful divine sense and abundant spiritual power, Lee Hyun possessed Tier-2 artifact-refining art and considerable attainments in formations, allowing him to quickly grasp the magic tool’s structure.
Hummm.
As faint azure light connected the shield plates, the rate at which his spiritual power drained noticeably increased.
‘As expected… an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator would have trouble using this.’
But consumption at this level placed little burden on Lee Hyun.
The man in the eagle-owl mask waited for a while, yet there was no change in Cicada’s breathing or the flow of his spiritual power.
‘Impressive. It seems becoming an inspector directly under the society head truly isn’t a position entrusted to just anyone.’
Lee Hyun spoke.
“Are you sure you want to sell such a fine item instead of passing it down to your disciples?”
The man in the eagle-owl mask looked down at the Six-Leaf Shield.
“Unfortunately, none of them are likely to become capable of handling an exceptional supreme-grade magic tool anytime soon. Most are younger fellows who need Foundation Establishment Pills far more.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask had apparently once served as an Elder of a small sect in Xuan Kingdom.
A few years ago, its sect master had been murdered and the sect had collapsed, scattering its surviving members in all directions. The man in the eagle-owl mask seemed to have taken several disciples who followed him and founded another small sect.
“With Senior’s realm, other sects would surely welcome you.”
“I cannot allow the lineage of my sect to end with my generation.”
“To devote yourself to those below you even after reaching such a realm… Senior’s disciples are fortunate indeed.”
“Hoho, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about it. Some are of my own blood, and I am old in any case. I’m only at early Golden Core and have no hope of becoming a Nascent Soul cultivator….”
The man in the eagle-owl mask continued.
“In any case, the Two Heavens Society is convenient. I don’t have to reveal my name or my disciples’ backgrounds every time I make a transaction.”
He lightly pointed at the jade bottle.
“Though I never expected it would be able to procure something like this.”
“Society Head will surely hope our dealings continue regularly as well.”
“Just who is Society Head? A Golden Core cultivator? And how long has the Two Heavens Society existed?”
“I don’t know that myself.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask pushed the Six-Leaf Shield toward the center of the table.
“In any case, I’ll make the trade. Nine Foundation Establishment Pills and five hundred mid-grade spirit stones. You can still honor the terms we agreed on before, yes? They haven’t changed at this late stage, have they?”
“Of course not.”
The man in the eagle-owl mask inspected the Foundation Establishment Pills one by one, while Lee Hyun watched as the ownership imprint remaining inside the Six-Leaf Shield was thoroughly erased.
After receiving the spirit stones as well, the man in the eagle-owl mask took out another small jade slip.
“It contains the Six-Leaf Shield’s artifact-control formula, along with some observations this old man made while using it.”
“Thank you.”
Lee Hyun put away the jade slip and the Six-Leaf Shield. He resealed the remaining three Foundation Establishment Pills and returned them to his storage pouch.
…
After the man in the eagle-owl mask left first, Lee Hyun called the cultivator in the goose mask aside.
“Show me the recent transaction records of the organizations under your command.”
“Yes, Inspector.”
The cultivator in the goose mask took out several jade slips he had prepared.
Lee Hyun read through them one after another.
“As expected, pills make up the largest share of trade.”
“That’s right. Cultivators are always short of pills. Fortunately, Xuan Kingdom has many rogue cultivator alchemists who carry on the lineages of former Danxiao Sect members who joined the Two Heavens Society in large numbers long ago, so we also have many members selling pills.”
“Are Poison-Warding Pills, Bone-Forging Powder, Spirit-Calming Pills, Origin-Opening Pills, and Profundity-Penetrating Pills in high demand?”
“Bone-Forging Powder? Baoguang Temple in Xu Kingdom buys it steadily. The same goes for Poison-Warding Pills.”
The cultivator in the goose mask paused briefly, then added.
“Spirit-Calming Pills sell well across even more countries. They would likely be popular anywhere in the Nine Kingdoms of Yunzhou. Pills that temper divine sense are extremely rare. I have never personally handled Origin-Opening Pills or Profundity-Penetrating Pills, so I cannot say for certain, but I’m sure they would be popular as well.”
“I see. I intend to entrust you with small quantities of those five. Look into selling them for me.”
“You’ll be supplying the goods?”
“That’s right. The Two Heavens Society has capable alchemists.”
“Haha, it is an honor to be given work by you, Inspector, but I worry whether I can represent the Two Heavens Society properly….”
“Don’t worry. I’m not assigning this only to you. Several branches will be given the same request, so there’s no need to feel too burdened. Just charge the brokerage fee according to the rules.”
The cultivator in the goose mask sounded a little more cheerful.
“There are also some things I want you to acquire.”
“Please tell me.”
“Purchase small quantities of various cultivation pills suitable for Foundation Establishment cultivators. The Two Heavens Society is studying the pill market. It doesn’t matter if they are made by members of the society itself.”
“Understood.”
Lee Hyun put down the last jade slip.
“And gather information about exceptional supreme-grade magic tools as well. Defensive magic tools such as enchanted robes and inner armor, offensive magic tools, anything is fine as long as it is worthwhile.”
The cultivator in the goose mask asked cautiously.
“Should I go so far as to purchase them?”
“No. Information only. They can be items coming up for auction or ones private owners are looking to sell. If there are artifact refiners who accept custom commissions, find out about them too. I’ll decide after seeing the goods.”
“Understood.”
***
Two months later.
Tunnel No. 3.
Six blue-green shield plates moved rapidly through the spacious cavern.
Shrrrk!
The shield plates that had gathered on Lee Hyun’s left suddenly scattered, then interlocked diagonally above his head.
They immediately began revolving around his waist before splitting into pairs and moving between his front, rear, left, and right.
When Lee Hyun curled a finger, all six shield plates stacked together at once.
Click.
Their movements were far smoother than when he had first obtained them.
The time he had spent bonding with the artifact and practicing its artifact-control formula had paid off.
‘Using it together with the Sinking Moon Sword should be no problem. Still, I should keep practicing until I’m fully accustomed to it.’
Lee Hyun put away the Six-Leaf Shield and walked toward the spirit fields.
Several Bonefuzzes in the distance raised their heads.
“Chirp!”
A ball of golden fluff poked its face out from inside one of the skeletons.
When Lee Hyun raised a hand, the fuzzbee promptly ducked back inside. Bonefuzzes had always been popular with the fuzzbees, and the little fellows treated the insides of the skeletons as their own homes.
Familiar medicinal fragrances drifted between the spirit fields.
They came from Yin Soul Grass, Purple Poison Orchids, and Bone-Rot Flowers.
Among the older plants were younger spirit plants that had been planted at staggered times.
Lee Hyun walked slowly while inspecting those suitable for alchemy.
Whenever he dug up and used spirit plants of the proper medicine age from a spirit field, he replanted seedlings in the empty spaces.
Anything planted now would take a long time before it could be used, but there was nothing wrong with having spirit plants of various medicine ages growing together.
The same applied to the main ingredients of Foundation Establishment Pills. He had replanted young seedlings in the spaces left behind after harvesting, which seemed likely to form the basis for steadily supplying the Two Heavens Society with Foundation Establishment Pills in the long term.
Since Lee Hyun cultivated the plants and performed the alchemy alone, the quantities were not enormous. Even so, the mere fact that the Two Heavens Society could independently supply a certain number of Foundation Establishment Pills when necessary would make it appear to be an organization with substantial reserves.
As Lee Hyun inspected the spirit fields, he stopped in front of the Spirit-Storing Ginseng.
He gently pushed aside the leaves, examined the color of the roots protruding slightly above the soil, then checked the record planted beside the spirit field.
‘These have passed 380 years as well.’
Lee Hyun took a jade slip containing a pill recipe from his storage pouch.
Origin-Opening Pill.
It was a pill used to advance from Foundation Establishment Stage 3 to Stage 4, and according to its pill recipe, the acceptable medicine-age range for Spirit-Storing Ginseng was from 200 to 390 years.
‘At this rate, they might exceed the medicine-age limit.’
In this place, three years had to pass for a spirit plant’s actual medicine age to increase by roughly one year, so he still had close to thirty years to spare.
But if he cultivated without thinking and let another hundred or two hundred years pass as he had in the past, the Spirit-Storing Ginseng before him would no longer be usable as an ingredient for Origin-Opening Pills.
Pills used to break through minor-realm bottlenecks were not easy to obtain in large quantities, so it was more convenient to refine and consume them himself whenever possible.
Lee Hyun examined another jade slip.
Profundity-Penetrating Pill.
It was a pill used to advance from Foundation Establishment Stage 6 to Stage 7.
This recipe also required Spirit-Storing Ginseng, but the acceptable medicine-age range was wider, from 250 to 450 years.
Midnight-Noon Grass, another main ingredient, likewise had an upper medicine-age limit of 450 years. Its current medicine age was more than 150 years lower than that of the Spirit-Storing Ginseng, giving him even more time.
‘The spirit plants for Profundity-Penetrating Pills are still nowhere near exceeding their medicine-age limits, so there’s no need to rush to Foundation Establishment Stage 6….’
Lee Hyun counted on his fingers.
‘The main ingredients for Origin-Opening Pills need to be harvested within thirty years at the latest. I could refine them ahead of time and seal them away… but if possible, it would be better to refine and consume them as soon as they’re harvested….’
The problem was that he needed to raise his entire body to Foundation Establishment Stage 3 before he could properly use an Origin-Opening Pill, while it was currently only at Foundation Establishment Stage 1.
That was also why Lee Hyun had ordered members of the Two Heavens Society to collect various cultivation pills for Foundation Establishment cultivators.
If he found pills with decent effects, he intended to purchase them in bulk with spirit stones and accelerate his cultivation.
‘First, let’s hurry and push it to late Stage 3. I’m rich, after all.’
…
After returning to the cultivation chamber, Lee Hyun took out several small jade bottles.
They contained Tier-2 pills for spiritual-power cultivation that a few branches had recently acquired for him.
Each bottle was labeled with the pill’s name and price, along with a brief description of its medicinal potency.
When he opened one bottle, a clear medicinal fragrance spread through the air.
Lee Hyun took out a pill, examined it briefly, then placed it in his mouth.
Gulp.
After that, he began taking each type of pill on different days to test its effects.
When choosing pills, medicinal strength was important, but so were the time needed to refine their medicinal strength, the burden they left on the body, and above all, how much cultivation progress he actually gained per spirit stone spent.
After spending nearly half a year testing pills and preparing a supply of pills for sale, Lee Hyun finally began cultivating in earnest.
***
Eleven years later.
The cultivation chamber in Tunnel No. 3.
Dense spirit light rippled over Lee Hyun’s reclining body.
The light began at his chest and spread into his limbs before eventually seeping evenly throughout his body from head to toe.
Huuuummm―
Liquid spiritual power flowed slowly beneath his skin.
Every part of his body outside the lower dantian produced spiritual power that was denser than before. Lee Hyun guided it without haste, circulating it through his entire body several times.
A long while later.
He slowly opened his eyes.
“Finally, Stage 3.”
Whole-Body Foundation Establishment Stage 3.
It had taken five years to reach Stage 2, then another six years of cultivation to reach this point.
Lee Hyun sat up and opened and closed his hand.
A thin layer of blue spirit light covered his skin before fading away. Even though he used the same hand seal, the power he could draw up from his entire body was noticeably greater.
He removed the stone tablet attached to the wall, used the Soil-Softening Art to erase the old writing, then carved new words into it with the Yang Metal Art.
【Age: 2,154】
【Realm: Foundation Establishment Stage 6 (lower dantian), Foundation Establishment Stage 3 (rest of body)】
【Spiritual Power: 3,672 → 5,828】
【Constitution: Primordial Body, Foundation Establishment Stage 3】
【Cultivation Art: Primordial One-Qi Art (Foundation Establishment Section)】
Lee Hyun floated the stone tablet in front of himself and admired it for quite some time.
His mood remained excellent until he looked at the ledger lying beside it.
…
Over the past eleven years, he had consumed a total of 3,600 cultivation pills.
That number excluded the ones he had taken while initially testing their effects, as well as pills used for detoxification or recovery.
He had mainly consumed three kinds.
Essence-Augmenting Pills, Dew-Condensing Pills, and Jade Marrow Pills.
All three were Tier-2 pills used by Foundation Establishment cultivators to accumulate spiritual power, but their medicinal potency and prices differed.
Essence-Augmenting Pills released their medicinal strength evenly, making it easy to refine within the body. Including brokerage fees, their average purchase price was three mid-grade spirit stones each, and these were the pills he consumed most often.
Dew-Condensing Pills had slightly weaker medicinal strength, but they were mild in nature and cost around two mid-grade spirit stones each. He mainly took them when the effects of Essence-Augmenting Pills began to diminish or when his meridians needed time to rest.
Jade Marrow Pills possessed the strongest medicinal strength of the three. Even after their medicinal strength had been absorbed, heat lingered in his meridians, but when taken while his body was in good condition, they produced clear progress in his cultivation. Each cost around four mid-grade spirit stones.
In total, he had spent 10,200 spirit stones.
And that was entirely in mid-grade spirit stones!
‘To think I ate my way through enough money to buy five Sinking Moon Swords and still have some left….’
Lee Hyun touched his somewhat lighter storage pouch.
‘Spending spirit stones really does make things faster.’
Had he not taken pills, there was no telling how much longer it would have taken to reach the same realm.
Lee Hyun had also taken the effect on the market into account when purchasing pills.
If a single branch continuously bought only one type, the supply would diminish and the price would rise. Whenever that happened, he sourced goods from another region or increased the proportion of other pills.
It would have been far more troublesome if the Two Heavens Society had not extended across several cultivation nations.
Most of the spirit stones needed for his cultivation were earned through alchemy.
Over the past eleven years, he had sold around one thousand packets of Tier-2 Bone-Forging Powder through the Two Heavens Society, along with nine hundred Poison-Warding Pills and six hundred Spirit-Calming Pills.
Before brokerage fees, their sale prices were generally two mid-grade spirit stones per packet of Bone-Forging Powder, three per Poison-Warding Pill, and nine per Spirit-Calming Pill.
He had also released two hundred forty Origin-Opening Pills and sixty Profundity-Penetrating Pills in several batches.
Origin-Opening Pills sold for around ten mid-grade spirit stones each, while Profundity-Penetrating Pills sold for about twenty.
Altogether, the proceeds came to roughly 13,700 mid-grade spirit stones.
However, around three thousand were spent just on supplementary medicinal ingredients, replenishing supplies needed for alchemy, and paying the Two Heavens Society’s brokerage fees.
He made pills and sold them, bought pills to consume with the spirit stones he earned, then made more pills.
Whenever he needed a large sum of money, he also separately sold spirit plants with high medicine ages. Over those eleven years, he had additionally sold two Tier-3 Yin Soul Grass plants and two Purple Poison Orchids.
Lee Hyun opened his spirit-plant ledger.
The main ingredients consumed in refining Bone-Forging Powder, Poison-Warding Pills, and Spirit-Calming Pills for sale amounted to one hundred twenty Bone-Rot Flowers, one hundred seventy Purple Poison Orchids, and one hundred eighty Yin Soul Grass plants respectively.
All of them had been selected from later generations of spirit plants sown at staggered times, choosing those whose medicine ages suited the Tier-2 pill recipes.
Once he grew proficient, a successful furnace batch generally yielded ten packets of Bone-Forging Powder, six Poison-Warding Pills, or four Spirit-Calming Pills.
The quantities of main ingredients recorded in the ledger also included those lost to failed alchemy attempts or discarded along the way.
…
Of course, consuming that many pills had not been entirely without consequences.
Even mild cultivation pills caused pill toxins to accumulate in the body after thousands were consumed.
Whenever that happened, Lee Hyun stopped taking them and sat beside the pond in the spirit fields. He peeled and ate Yin Water Lotus seeds while breathing slowly, pushing the turbid qi out of his body.
During this process, he also made an unexpected discovery.
It was the Stone Honey Peach.
One day, after taking Jade Marrow Pills repeatedly, Lee Hyun noticed that even after expelling most of the pill toxins, his mouth remained dry and heat still lingered in his meridians.
Out of habit, he picked a Stone Honey Peach and bit into it.
A short while later, however, the cool energy spreading from his stomach felt unusually distinct, and his parched meridians gradually began to relax.
‘Huh?’
After trying them several more times whenever similar symptoms appeared, he found that on days when he ate a Stone Honey Peach, both the heat and thirst subsided more quickly. His spiritual power also flowed much more smoothly when he began his next qi circulation.
This was especially true of fruit picked from the three oldest trees.
They seemed to help restore a body that had grown stiff from repeatedly absorbing powerful medicinal strength.
…
Lee Hyun closed the ledger and rose from his seat.
‘I should stop taking pills for a while. Once my body has recovered, I’ll finish cultivating to the peak of Stage 3.’
…
Some time later.
A Two Heavens Society contact point in western Xuan Kingdom.
The cultivator in the goose mask placed two jade slips in front of Lee Hyun.
One contained the settlement details from their previous transactions, but the other was unfamiliar.
“What is this?”
“We’ve finally received information about an exceptional supreme-grade magic tool. It actually ranks fifty-sixth in Yunzhou Artifact Appraisal.”
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