The middle-aged stallholder had seen enough of the world to recognize that Qin Hao was no ordinary Half-Step True God. Still, a customer had finally come along, and he had no intention of letting this opportunity slip away.
As soon as Qin Hao approached, he began enthusiastically introducing his wares, taking the initiative to pitch them.
"I'm just looking."
Qin Hao nodded slightly. Rather than showing any eagerness, he casually picked up the ancient books on the stall and began leafing through them.
The ancient books were very old.
Who knew where the middle-aged stallholder had dug them up? They were not even recorded on jade slips, but preserved as old paper books.
At a glance, they were clearly originals.
However...
After only a cursory look, Qin Hao could not help shaking his head inwardly.
They're all peerless arts, all right. Unfortunately, they're either incomplete or have excessively demanding Cultivation requirements.
One middle-tier peerless art, for instance, actually required practitioners to cripple their own cultivation and start again from scratch.
Other Half-Step True Gods would hardly be willing to do that.
True Gods were even less likely to agree. No one wanted to deliberately destroy the cultivation they had spent countless years painstakingly building just to practice this middle-tier peerless art.
Especially when its power was merely average.
Only a handful of the peerless arts were genuinely suitable for Cultivation. The ancient book that the plainly dressed middle-aged man had been holding earlier was one of those complete, usable arts.
The Luo Spirit Diagram.
As Qin Hao continued browsing, he picked up this ancient book as well. A brief look was enough for him to understand it.
The lower-tier peerless art, the Luo Spirit Diagram!
It was a body-refining cultivation technique, and an offensive one at that.
Its power was