He repeatedly examined the scabbard hanging at his waist. At this moment, the aura of the tiny Purpleleaf Zhenwu sapling could not be sensed at all; it was exactly like a scabbard circulating with magic power. For most Golden Core cultivators, nurturing a core-origin magical artifact involved softening it with liquid mist and spiritual herbs before swallowing it into the dantian.
However, there were also some cultivators from lineages who inherited container-type magical artifacts. After refining such an artifact, they placed their own core-origin magical artifact inside it and utilized the artifact to nurture it. Although the effect was not as strong as swallowing it directly into the belly for nurturing, every cultivator had to busy themselves with their own cultivation, and the primordial spirit and core essence consumed in nurturing artifacts could not be excessive, otherwise overdoing it would be as bad as falling short and would damage one's foundation.
Although container-type artifacts yielded slightly inferior results and required the consumption of some spirit stones or corresponding spiritual objects, under the accumulation of long years, they could still increase the power of a core-origin magical artifact quite a bit outside of cultivation.
Yet, container-type artifacts varied in quality, good and bad alike. One certainly could not judge Lu Xiaotian's background as extraordinary or his wealth as vast based merely on an ordinary scabbard. After all, with a large forest came all sorts of birds, and there were always some cultivators who loved to swagger through the streets, liking to hang lesser core-origin magical artifacts on their bodies to show off their might. Although such people were relatively few, they definitely were not nonexistent. Because of this behavior of hanging a scabbard, Lu Xiaotian's actions were by no means unique; at most, they could only be considered rare.
Comparatively, rather