On the second floor of the inn, Chen Fei turned a Rainstone over in his hand as he watched the crowds flowing along the street below.
Chen Fei had specifically bought the Rainstone earlier. Besides it, he had also purchased several other spiritual materials.
Their prices were not especially high, but there were not many channels through which to buy them.
Take the Rainstone in Chen Fei's hand. It was actually an auxiliary material that could be added when refining spirit artifacts, strengthening an artifact's toughness.
As for its other uses, there were very few. Moreover, it was not an indispensable auxiliary material in artifact refining, something that could be included or omitted.
Yet Phoenix Dance Pavilion had deliberately controlled several production areas for this very spiritual material and purchased it year-round. It was not only Rainstone; Phoenix Dance Pavilion also specifically acquired a number of other spiritual materials.
Many people guessed that among the materials Phoenix Dance Pavilion deliberately purchased, one or several of them were related to Phoenix Dance Pavilion's cultivation techniques.
But Phoenix Dance Pavilion bought too many kinds, and outsiders simply could not guess which spiritual material was truly its target.
Perhaps none of these purchased materials had any special use at all. Perhaps it was merely a smokescreen put up by Phoenix Dance Pavilion, to see whether anyone or any force dared target them.
Several of the top powers had truly done such things before, digging out enemies hiding in the shadows.
Everyone else could only speculate, and their guesses could not be confirmed. Chen Fei alone knew for certain that Phoenix Dance Pavilion's purchase of Rainstone was its true objective; the vast majority of the other materials were merely meant to blind the eye.
Rainstone could increase the cultivation speed of Phoenix Dance Pavilion's