Immortal Alliance City, street-stall area.
Only now did Cheng Buzheng finally understand what was going on.
That ordinary-looking middle-aged cultivator was not a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator, but a Golden Core Stage middle-stage cultivator.
Under Cheng Buzheng's Great Luo Dharma Eye, he could clearly see that this man's body contained a vast power.
This power was even greater than that of an ordinary Golden Core middle-stage cultivator. Clearly, the man was no ordinary cultivator of that stage.
Cheng Buzheng had also seen through the man's true appearance.
He only needed to go to the Wind Information General Hall and make a few inquiries to learn the man's background.
But the most urgent thing now was not to investigate the man's origins. It was to obtain the item he was about to get his hands on.
The Golden Core cultivator had haggled with the stall owner for a long time. Naturally, he wasn't doing it for the high-grade Treasure Tool, but for that dusty little pagoda.
Ordinary spiritual items weren't worth a Golden Core cultivator's time and effort to bargain over.
He was only doing this to keep the stall owner from getting suspicious!
This was also how most cultivators searched for treasures while changing their appearances and concealing their cultivation levels.
If Cheng Buzheng's guess was right, that Golden Core middle-stage cultivator was a third-tier Artifact Refiner, and his skill in the art of refinement was far from ordinary.
That was because the dusty little pagoda had been made from Star Iron!
Second-tier Spirit Material Meteorite Iron and Star Iron might seem worlds apart, but they had a very subtle connection.
Some Spirit Materials underwent subtle changes after being refined.
Star Iron was one such material. After being refined, it looked almost exactly like Meteorite Iron. And since it