653 Artifact Spirits and Flying Swords

Ye Qin arrived at the White Floating City market. The moment he stepped into the luxurious Heavenly Dao Merchant Alliance, Manager Li, who was speaking with a Golden Core cultivator, spotted him.

Manager Li had met Ye Qin once a month ago. He immediately shuddered and hurried over, his expression respectful. "Elder Ye, the Master said you would be coming to collect your goods these next few days and specifically instructed me to keep watch for you. Please follow me upstairs to an elegant room and wait a moment. The Master will arrive shortly. This way, please."

A month earlier, when Ye Qin had discussed commissioning artifact refinement with this Master, Manager Li had been present as the Master's trusted confidant. When he saw the vast quantity of top-tier refining materials Ye Qin had brought out, along with five eleventh- and twelfth-tier demon souls possessing divine abilities, and heard that Ye Qin intended to refine five minor divine ability flying swords in one go, he had been stunned on the spot.

Because of the special nature of minor divine ability artifacts, which required hunting Demon Cultivators to obtain demon souls for refinement, they were rarely seen. The minor divine ability artifacts possessed by the various Immortal Palaces were often passed down from elders to juniors through generation after generation. A single minor divine ability flying sword might have passed through the hands of more than ten Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Quite a few Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators in the East Sea cultivation world were still using Golden Core-stage Primordial Spirit artifacts. Usually, only upon reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage could they possess a minor divine ability artifact.

Those five demon souls alone meant that at least five powerful tenth-tier shape-shifting Demon Cultivators had died for them.

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