"What? The Mei Clan Primordial Hundred-Treasure Transmutation Furnace!"
Huang Yunhao could no longer maintain his composure, and his expression changed despite himself.
He immediately approached the man and asked for details.
He was not the only one who had heard those words. The speaker had deliberately announced them, and when several elders from the great sects came over to inquire, he promptly explained the whole story.
It turned out that while sorting through the ancient notes recovered from the ruins, he had unexpectedly discovered an official letter detailing the Refining Furnace's transportation and allocation records. That had led him to his conclusion.
The administrator of the Pill Institute at the time had been a relative of the city lord and therefore enjoyed special privileges. He had moved a supreme-grade refining furnace, purchased at great expense by the public treasury, into his own courtyard. This involved a secret episode of the Pill Institute embezzling public assets for private gain, but unexpectedly, it had ended up benefiting those who came later.
Someone had even impeached the Pill Institute's administrator over this, and other official letters corroborated the matter.
Upon learning this, Huang Yunhao and the other elders from the great sects fell silent.
The ancients had no reason to falsify this matter, nor could they have foreseen that people in a later age would excavate these ruins and deliberately played a trick on them. Thus, it was very likely true.
The refining furnace Fang Qianyuan had obtained really was a treasure-and an extraordinarily valuable one at that!
"The Mei Clan Primordial Hundred-Treasure Transmutation Furnace? What is that?" Seeing Huang Yunhao sink into contemplation after his inquiries, Fan Yuntang hesitated briefly before asking.
Huang Yunhao came back to himself. With a somewhat strange expression, he told him, "It was a famous type of