"I did get something. I picked up a bargain."
Yang Ling spoke seriously.
Li Qing froze for a moment. A bargain at an auction? Which of the Sixth Ranks attending wasn't a sly fox?
"There was an Upper Sixth Rank Divine Weapon at the auction, called..."
"Wait, you don't mean the Heaven Swallowing Golden Sword?"
Li Qing blurted out.
Yang Ling nodded with a smile.
"That's the one."
Li Qing smiled wryly. "Young Master Xu... although that sword is Upper Sixth Rank, its spirituality seems to have dissipated. It has the shell of an Upper Sixth Rank weapon, but none of the essence of an Upper Sixth Rank Divine Weapon..."
"That's why the price was so low. I picked up a bargain."
"Young Master Xu, you may not have picked up a bargain. That sword has failed to sell several times already, which means all sides have determined that it has no spirituality."
A Divine Weapon without spirituality could no longer be called a Divine Weapon. Although it wasn't reduced to a fire poker, it was only a little stronger than an Upper Seventh Rank Divine Weapon.
Li Qing didn't dare say any of this and could only try to change the subject.
After chatting for a while, Yang Ling took his leave.
He had been keeping his guard up against the owner of that gaze all along.
Only after he had gone far away did that gaze leave him.
Yang Ling breathed a sigh of relief and continued away from the place at an unhurried pace.
Not long after he left, the White-Haired Elder appeared before Li Qing.
"Was that man a customer of your Divine Weapon Pavilion?"
Slightly startled, Li Qing immediately recognized this senior as an expert at the Third Prince's side and hurriedly nodded.
"Senior, that