At those words, both the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage and the old stallholder looked astonished.
Xu Taiping offered no explanation. Under everyone's astonished gazes, he simply raised the ancient porcelain vessel in both hands and declared:
"Sage Zeng above, please accept this disciple's bow."
As he spoke, Xu Taiping enveloped the ancient porcelain completely with his divine soul power and answered the artifact spirit's seemingly maddened questioning:
"Your master was Zengzi, one of the Five Sages of the Confucian Sect."
The instant this divine soul message rang out, a tremendous boom sounded, and a surging tide of vast righteous qi abruptly swept across the Ruin Market street like crashing waves.
At the same time, a pillar of light formed from vast righteous qi pierced straight into the firmament like a sharp sword.
In an instant.
This stretch of the heavens, originally illuminated by starlight alone, suddenly shone as brightly as though a great sun hung overhead, lighting everything within it with perfect clarity.
At that moment, quite a few Confucian Sect disciples on the street were the first to react:
"A Confucian Sect Sacred Treasure!"
"That is a sacred treasure of our Confucian Sect!"
"A sacred treasure of our Confucian Sect has appeared in this Ruin Market!"
To disciples of the Daoist sects and Buddhism, as well as martial artists, a Confucian Sect sacred treasure was, at most, an antique.
But to Confucian Sect disciples.
A single Confucian Sect sacred treasure was enough to create a Dao Integration Realm expert.
One could therefore imagine how the Confucian Sect disciples of the Upper Realm felt upon discovering that another Confucian Sect sacred treasure had appeared.
Meanwhile, Luo Hong and Xu Laosan, who stood closest to Xu Taiping, froze for a moment before shock and regret suddenly appeared in both their eyes.
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