Su Fan sat cross-legged on the Jade Couch in the guest-room hall, then took the Storage Ring the old man had given him from his robes.
His eyes suddenly narrowed, and a thread of pale golden Spiritual Sense emerged from between his brows, sweeping across the Storage Ring.
The instant his Spiritual Sense entered the Storage Ring, he saw a lustrous white Jade Slip floating quietly in the air. Beside it were two objects covered in verdigris and cracks—the two remnants of the Ancient Treasures.
He first took the Jade Slip in his hand, stroking its warm, smooth surface with his fingertips before pressing it against his forehead.
The moment his Spiritual Sense surged inside, countless arcane Runes and annotations flooded into his mind like a rising tide.
From how to identify the lingering echoes of Ancient Treasure spirits, to secret methods for repairing cracks in Treasure Artifacts, to analyses of the properties of various Ancient Treasure materials—every word was a pearl, condensed from the old monster's thousands of years of painstaking effort.
After a while, Su Fan abruptly opened his eyes. Unconcealed delight flashed through them as he carefully put the Jade Slip into his own Storage Ring.
He truly was an old monster who had immersed himself in Ancient Treasures for thousands of years.
Such attainments were far beyond what ordinary cultivators could match. To Su Fan, this Jade Slip was practically more precious than an entire Spirit Jade vein.
Next, he took out the two remnants of the Ancient Treasures and spread them across his palm for a careful examination.
Rather than Ancient Treasures, the two objects were more like fragments of two magic treasures.
One was a palm-sized fragment of a magic disc, with only a small section of its outer rim remaining. The Runes on