Hundred Saints City, East City Market.
Bai Xiaoqi walked ahead, her lively eyes curiously taking in the rare treasures displayed on the stalls to either side.
A little white beast lounged lazily on her shoulder.
Behind her, the burly Jin Long followed step by step. Long Teng, reduced in size, coiled on his shoulder, dark-golden scales flickering with tiny arcs of lightning beneath the sunlight, looking utterly extraordinary.
Under Little White's fiery golden eyes, Bai Xiaoqi and Jin Long had already picked up quite a few treasures, making them admire Little White all the more.
"Little White, over here!" Bai Xiaoqi excitedly looked toward a stall not far away, one covered in all manner of rusted metal.
Little White twitched its nose, then pointed a little paw at a golden fragment caked in mud in the corner of the stall.
The stall owner was a shrewd middle-aged man. Seeing customers approach—especially several youngsters who looked easy to fool—he immediately piled on a smile. "Fellow cultivators, you have sharp eyes. This fragment was unearthed from an ancient ruin. Who knows, it may conceal some earth-shattering secret..."
Bai Xiaoqi was no fool. She immediately began haggling.
In the end, she bargained the golden fragment down to a fairly low price.
However, just then, a slightly proud and icy voice rang out.
"That fragment belongs to me."
Everyone turned around to see a stunning woman in luxurious brocade robes approaching beneath the escort of a group of guards with no weak auras.
Her gaze swept over the fragment in Bai Xiaoqi's hand before falling upon Little White on her shoulder and Long Teng on Jin Long's shoulder. A trace of undisguised greed flashed through her eyes.
*There are high-grade spirit beasts in Hundred Saints City that I do not recognize? One has such