Gathering of Sages Residence looked like a tavern from afar, smelled like a tavern up close, but only upon entering did one realize that it was more than merely a tavern.
It was also a marketplace.
The space inside was far larger than it appeared from outside.
On the left stood a counter. Behind it, energy rippled around crystals of every color, some as large as bowls, others as small as grains of rice. These were magic cores!
Devils and magic beasts both possessed magic cores, much like the Demon Race's demon cores, though there were differences. Demon cores had a threshold: only upon reaching the Demon Star level, when demonic qi condensed, would a demon core form. When the demon core truly became solid, the demon had cultivated to the Demon King Realm. Below the Demon Star level, there were no demon cores.
Magic cores were different. They existed from the moment one emerged from the womb, merely growing step by step alongside one's cultivation.
The magic cores displayed in this counter brimmed with energy, yet contained no Demonic Energy. They seemed to be nothing more than pure sources of power.
Lin Su and Yao Gu approached the counter. The shopkeeper behind it bowed. "Young Master, would you like some magic cores? Finest goods, all brought in from beyond the pass within the past two months. Their demonic nature has been carefully removed, leaving pure energy sources."
Within the past two months, brought in from beyond the pass, their demonic nature carefully removed...
From that brief sentence alone, Lin Su gleaned a heap of information...
He raised his gaze. "How much?"
"Level-one magic cores cost five silver coins, level-two cores two taels of silver, level-three ten taels, level-four thirty taels, level-five a thousand taels, level-six ten thousand taels, and