The black armor Void Rat Marquis left behind after his death was an eight-star Dao artifact.
Eight-star Dao artifacts were already rare, and defensive ones even more so. Though its effects were far inferior to White Lord, it was still exceptionally precious.
One such item was worth several other Dao artifacts of the same grade.
"Sadly, it isn't a nine-star Dao artifact..."
Chen Fan shook his head.
White Lord appeared on his shoulder. "If it were a nine-star Dao artifact, you wouldn't have been able to kill Void Rat Marquis. Be content!"
As Chen Fan's defensive Dao artifact, White Lord naturally held an innate dislike for other defensive Dao artifacts and, naturally, did not want Chen Fan to acquire a better one.
Chen Fan smiled and nodded. "You're right, White Lord."
Although White Lord had not been fully repaired, it was already exceedingly powerful. Ordinary nine-star defensive Dao artifacts might not even compare to it. Its sole drawback was its enormous energy consumption.
Of course, that was not actually White Lord's drawback, but a weakness in Chen Fan's own cultivation.
However, he still possessed quite a few energy crystals such as Origin Crystals. Even if his cultivation was insufficient, he could still sustain the expenditure.
Chen Fan picked up Void Rat Marquis's Golden Core. Within his Mind-Aspect World, he found a considerable number of storage treasures.
The various storage treasures had been sorted into categories, each containing different kinds of resources.
Pills were with pills, weapons with weapons, ores with ores.
"Void Rat Marquis was quite the obsessive-compulsive."
This naturally made Chen Fan's sorting much easier.
Yet among all those storage treasures, Chen Fan did not find any high-star Dao artifacts, nor any superior- or supreme-grade Saint-level pills.
Then, when he picked up an item shaped like a jade bottle