The Man's Decree

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.”

charms. For us ordinary cultivators, it’s pretty much

pricey. The real challenge, however, would be finding a

chatter, his interest was immediately piqued. He hurriedly squeezed his

who appeared somewhat aged. In front of him, he had arranged a dozen or so black tortoiseshells. Astonishingly, those shells were all of

picked up a black tortoiseshell, and began to scrutinize it. The patterns on the tortoiseshells were distinct, and spiritual energy emanated continuously

is incredibly tough, it only works in conjunction with charms. Without drawing runic talismans onto 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

those ordinary cultivators, half a million spirit coins for one item was no small sum. Moreover, they saw no use

high-level charm master to draw the runic talisman, the

he managed to maintain a poker face. He was cautious not to let the vendor seize the opportunity to

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

the stall owner asked, looking at Jared with a

take them all, but your price needs to be reasonable.” Jared casually fiddled with those

are thirteen black tortoiseshells here. You can just pay me five million

hesitation, Jared pulled out five purple spirit coins and handed them

after, he stowed away the thirteen black tortoiseshells

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