Shrouding the Heavens: Those Years as the Empress's Strictest Master

This mass of material barely qualified as spirit-grade material. At most, it was worth around a thousand catties of Pure Origin.

"This... is just Fire Jade Marrow? And such impure quality at that?"

The surrounding young geniuses were all well-informed. None of them came from humble backgrounds, and they recognized it at a glance.

In an instant, the immense gap between expectation and reality caused an uproar.

Song Zecen's carefree smile instantly froze. The hand holding the stone-cutting knife withdrew into his sleeve, trembling slightly.

Twenty catties of Divine Source had bought him a defective product worth a thousand catties of Pure Origin!

Though such a loss was hardly a major expense to him.

Still, losing so much face before everyone was truly embarrassing, especially after he had acted so flamboyantly and confidently, deliberately waiting until Chi Yao and Chi Xuan approached before making his move.

"The patterns were naturally formed, and bird cries manifested... yet it was only Fire Jade Marrow?"

"This stone was made far too realistically! Which fellow Daoist crafted it? There's an expert at this gathering—turning a thousand catties of Pure Origin into twenty catties of Divine Source in one move..."

"Even Senior Brother Song misjudged it. These stones are wicked today!"

Among the crowd, several outstanding disciples of the Heavenly Martial Holy Land looked slightly grim. They had just been lavishly praising him.

Nearby, Meng Lü, who had brought Tan Lin and the other two here, had a faint, barely noticeable trace of mockery flash through his eyes.

As for Shao Hanyun, within a distant hall, she merely cast a casual glance in this direction before withdrawing her gaze, as though none of this had anything to do with her.

In fact, I was deliberately showing off

"May I ask which fellow Daoist this