Leaving Moonwatch City, Lu Xiaotian wore a grim expression. Wang Defeng had not provided the Golden Core Fruit he wanted. Its absence was not the important part; what depressed him was that a cultivator had once asked Wang Defeng to refine an earth-element Golden Core Pill and supplied an earth-element Golden Core Fruit. But the wait had been too long. After waiting more than four years, the other party had finally lost patience and taken the Golden Core Fruit back.
It had slipped right through his fingers. Lu Xiaotian slapped his forehead, but there was nothing to be done about it. Though the matter of the earth-element Golden Core Fruit remained unresolved, his trip to Moonwatch City had not been entirely fruitless. At the very least, he had traded a large number of magical artifacts for two seventh-rank Golden Astral Talismans. They could generate astral qi that wrapped around his entire body; even a Golden Core Early Stage cultivator would need several strikes to break through it. After enduring so many hardships, he placed extraordinary importance on such life-saving measures. Seventh-rank spirit talismans were usually priceless and unavailable on the market. Running into them was proof that his luck was still quite good. Of course, among the magical artifacts he had offered were several uncommon items, especially in the storage pouch of Poison Maitreya, which had actually contained two Danyuan artifacts. The large pile of other magical artifacts was also exceptionally rare.
With several cultivation realms at war, pills and magical artifacts alike were scarce commodities, let alone the fact that the artifacts Lu Xiaotian had offered in trade included two Danyuan artifacts. Otherwise, if he had simply tried to buy them with Spirit Stones, the steward of Treasure Talisman Pavilion might not have sold them to him.
For now,