In the small courtyard.
After Li Ping secured the Purple Crystal Furnace, the auction continued.
The second item up for auction was a second-tier mid-grade magic artifact crafted by True Person Blazing Fire.
Li Ping merely glanced at it before withdrawing his gaze indifferently and looking at the artifact furnace he had just acquired.
"Congratulations on winning a treasure, Fellow Daoist Li." Zhou Lingyan leaned over with a bright smile to congratulate him.
Li Ping nodded lightly. "Mm. A mere artifact furnace hardly counts as a treasure."
Zhou Lingyan's expression stiffened at his words. If it isn't a treasure, why did you fight over it?
Still, Li Ping had openly thrown courtesy aside during the auction and threatened a foundation establishment cultivator. That distasteful display of bullying the weak with his superior strength had made her realize that, although this Fellow Daoist Li was no demon cultivator, he was certainly no good man either.
What left Zhou Lingyan rather helpless, however, was that her charm technique seemed completely useless against him. She had no idea why.
She did not know that the purple qi chaos space stood guard within Li Ping's sea of consciousness. Forget her paltry charm technique-even the Blood God Mark created by an old nascent soul monster could not get past it.
After casually brushing Zhou Lingyan off, Li Ping fixed his gaze on the artifact furnace in his hands.
In the air just above the furnace, a line of text visible only to him slowly appeared.
[An artifact furnace used for many years by a Third-Tier Middle-Grade Artifact Refiner during his lifetime, mid-grade spirit stones ×200, three portions of Third-Tier Middle-Grade spirit materials, one Third-Tier Middle-Grade spirit flame. Used as nourishment, these grant mastery of Third-Tier Middle-Grade artifact refining.]
An involuntary smile flickered in