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.”

authentic, it’s only useful when combined with charms. For us ordinary cultivators, it’s pretty much useless. Does anyone here know

The real challenge, however, would be finding a high-level charm master to inscribe the talisman. That’ll cost millions

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

a dozen or so black tortoiseshells. Astonishingly, those shells were all of the same size, and even more intriguing was

on the tortoiseshells were distinct, and spiritual energy emanated continuously from within.

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 attack the tortoiseshell can withstand, that’ll depend on the

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

were to hire a high-level charm master to draw the runic talisman, the cost

words, Jared was overjoyed inside, yet he managed to maintain a poker face. He was cautious not to let the vendor seize the opportunity to hike up

I were to buy all of these black tortoiseshells, would it be

stall owner asked, looking at Jared with a

price needs to be reasonable.” Jared casually fiddled with those black tortoiseshells, feigning

said, “There are thirteen black tortoiseshells here. You can just

purple spirit

stowed away the thirteen black tortoiseshells

didn’t linger and got up to