A Man Like None Other

Jared strolled through the market with Alastair. Although the stalls were plentiful, they lacked worthwhile finds.

No sooner had they taken a few steps than they discovered a stall up ahead that was surrounded by a crowd.

“Let’s go. There must be treasures up ahead. Let’s check it out.” Alastair could tell at first glance that the stall ahead must be selling a valuable item.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have attracted such a crowd.

As soon as Jared and Alastair approached, they heard a flurry of heated discussions among the crowd.

“This black tortoiseshell is fake, isn’t it? This guy claims it can withstand attacks from an elite cultivator. What a joke!”

“It must be true, but suddenly acquiring a dozen or so black tortoiseshells is like hitting the jackpot.”

is authentic, it’s only useful when combined with charms. For us ordinary cultivators,

The real challenge, however, would be finding a high-level charm master to inscribe the talisman.

listened to those cultivators’ chatter, his interest was immediately piqued. He hurriedly squeezed his way

elderly man who appeared somewhat aged. In front of him, he had arranged a dozen or so black tortoiseshells. Astonishingly, those shells were all of the same size, and even more intriguing

couched down, picked up a black tortoiseshell, and began to scrutinize it. The patterns on the tortoiseshells

the tortoiseshell, it’s no more effective than a regular golden chain mail. However, if one can draw runic talismans and combine them with the black tortoiseshell, it’ll be capable of fending off attacks from elite cultivators. As for how powerful an attack the tortoiseshell can withstand, that’ll depend

for one item was no small sum. Moreover, they saw no use in having such a thing

to draw the runic

yet he managed to maintain a poker face. He was cautious not to let the

turned to the stall owner and asked, “If I were to buy all of these black tortoiseshells,

all of them?” the stall owner asked, looking at Jared with a hint

your price needs to be reasonable.” Jared casually fiddled with those

studied Jared, then glanced at his black tortoiseshells and said, “There are thirteen black tortoiseshells here. You can just pay me five million spirit coins for

out five purple spirit coins

stowed away the thirteen

the deal was done, Jared didn’t linger and got up to