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He returned to the Riverside Cave Abode.
He summoned Meng Wanjun and questioned her carefully.
Li Ping discovered that although his six months away had been filled with experiences and one twist after another, Spirit Firmament City had remained peaceful, no different from usual.
The White-Gathering Pavilion was running in good order. There had been three commissions for third-tier pills, but since Li Ping was away from the city, Meng Wanjun had arranged for the clients to come for their pills to be refined once he returned.
There were also four secondhand items offered for purchase. Meng Wanjun had not dared make the decisions herself; these, too, required Li Ping's approval.
As for the matter he cared about most-acquiring the spiritual material "supreme yang wood"-there had been no news whatsoever.
After hearing her report, Li Ping nodded and dealt with the backlog of matters one by one.
First, he instructed Meng Wanjun to invite those wishing to sell their secondhand items to the White-Gathering Pavilion, where he would examine each item.
Refining third-tier pills was rather time-consuming, so that would have to wait until he finished inspecting the secondhand items.
With the precedent of the Wine-Brewing Cauldron, a treasure belonging to a fourth-tier Spirit Brewer, Li Ping had held considerable expectations for these four secondhand items. Yet after inspecting them, he was sorely disappointed.
Three of the four were merely worn-out ordinary magic artifacts. After purchasing them with spirit stones, Li Ping left them in the White-Gathering Pavilion and paid them no further attention.
The remaining item, as verified by the Inheritance Tree, was a talisman brush once used by a third-tier middle-grade Talisman Maker. It barely qualified as something useful.
However, Li Ping now possessed a