"A refining furnace. It really is a refining furnace..."
"This is the legendary refining furnace, a mother artifact magic treasure..."
"The owner of these quarters must have been someone extraordinary, to bring tools from the public treasury for refining pills and medicines back to their own residence for convenient study. Still, judging by its appearance, it was probably used by a renowned master of the pill way, or a wealthy aristocratic clan scion, for research and cultivation. This refining furnace doesn't look very large. It should be a high-grade furnace suited to personal use, even more intricate than an ordinary one."
"If something like this still works, then it's truly... far too valuable!"
Although Ren Hao and the others came from humble, rough-and-tumble backgrounds, they had heard plenty of tales of overnight riches. Fang Qianyuan, a sect elite, understood even better how important such an item was to a major power.
In any case, this refining furnace had certainly reached the level of a magic treasure, and a fairly high-grade one at that.
It was only useful to an established power. No individual could easily keep it under their control, nor did they need to.
"Gentlemen, the Azure Cloud Sect will take this refining furnace. If it proves usable, we certainly won't shortchange you!" Fang Qianyuan made his decision on the spot and addressed the three rogue cultivators.
The words sounded strangely familiar, and thoroughly insincere, but he was not worried that these men would grow greedy at the sight of wealth and insist on fighting him for it.
To put it plainly, exploring hidden places and unraveling mysteries was a contest not just of fortune, but of strength!
When his father had stumbled upon a priceless treasure back then, had he been the only one to gain anything? There