"Hehe, just taking a look costs fifty thousand Yin Stones. Your sect earns Yin Stones far too easily, doesn't it?"
By this point, the cultivator surnamed Li had already steadied his mind. Seeing that late Nascent Soul-stage Great Cultivator looking so unfathomable, he could not help saying,
"Senior, you may not know this, but these three materials were obtained by our Xiangyun Pavilion only after exhausting every possible effort. If any senior can identify even one of them, our Xiangyun Pavilion is willing to exchange it for half the material's actual value. By that calculation, charging fifty thousand Yin Stones should not be considered excessive, right?"
The Core Formation cultivator showed no displeasure at Elder Li's questioning and still explained amiably,
"Ah, so there was such a matter. Then this Li was in the wrong. Here are fifty thousand Yin Stones; Fellow Daoist, please keep them safe. This Li would first like to examine these three precious items."
After taking the storage ring containing fifty thousand Yin Stones, the Core Formation cultivator gave it a brief glance, flipped his hand, and put it away. He then raised a hand, causing a formation plate to appear in his grasp. With a point of his finger, a barrier three zhang in circumference appeared before everyone.
It happened to cover the seated senior with his eyes closed, along with the stone table.
"Senior, please enter the barrier and inspect the three precious materials."
Without the slightest hesitation, Elder Li stepped into the barrier before him.
He was exceedingly curious about the precious refining materials that so many fellow cultivators had been unable to recognize. However, he also knew that he was extremely unfamiliar with artifact refinement, and there was an eighty-to-ninety percent chance he would not recognize those three precious items.
Yet he