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 useless. Does anyone here

spirit coins each, they’re not too pricey. The real challenge, however, would be finding

those cultivators’ chatter, his interest was immediately piqued.

tortoiseshells. Astonishingly, those shells were all of the same size, and even more intriguing

tortoiseshell, and began to scrutinize it. The patterns on the

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

a million spirit coins for one item was no small sum. Moreover, they saw no

to hire a high-level charm master to draw the runic

hearing Alastair’s 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

buy

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

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

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

he stowed away the thirteen black tortoiseshells

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