Chapter 212

"I bought you a hairpin," he said.

Ran Zirou's eyes lit up. "Where is it? Hurry up and bring it here!"

Chang Wu slowly turned to rummage through the ox cart. Chang Die came out just then, and when she saw her brother in such a sorry state, she cried out.

"Brother, what happened to you?"

His sister's concern comforted him. Chang Wu managed another smile and began recounting his rotten luck.

"I wanted to buy Miss Ran a bracelet, but I went to several stalls and couldn't even settle on a price. Either soldiers showed up to arrest people, or passersby started fighting. I got caught up in it and took several punches..."

Before he could finish, Ran Zirou urged him again, impatiently. "Hurry up. Where's the hairpin?"

Chang Wu searched a little faster and finally found a Coral Hairpin.

The red coral gleamed with a vivid, even color. It looked expensive.

Ran Zirou's heart gave a violent thump, and she snatched the hairpin from him.

"Wonderful! This is it!"

Hidden nearby, the powerful cultivators exchanged glances and shook their heads in amazement.

Was this what they called fortune?

While Chang Wu had been in town buying jewelry, they had thwarted him several times, yet the gears of fate had kept turning.

The hairpin containing the remnants of the Demon Prince's Soul had still ended up in Chang Wu's hands.

Before this, they had searched each of these towns in turn. They had even slipped into the bedrooms of wealthy ladies and young misses at night, but had found nothing unusual.

And now...

Several of them probed the hairpin with Spiritual Power.

Though the soul inside it was still asleep, they could faintly sense wisps of a peculiar aura.

More alarming still, anyone who had encountered Demonic Aura could