Just as he stepped forward to take a closer look, the guard beside him furrowed his brows and warned him not to touch anything unless he intended to buy it.
He had barely finished speaking when a hand suddenly reached out to stop him.
It belonged to a young man in fine robes, evidently someone of considerable standing. The moment he raised his hand, the guard practically stopped daring to speak, his tone and expression turning thoroughly respectful.
Nie Li could guess that Li Fu had summoned this young man, who came from the Divine Flame Family.
But after opening a scroll, he understood why this pile of Inscription Scrolls had been left here.
Every last one was a Legendary Rank scroll inscribed with a forbidden Legendary technique!
The young man explained that all these scrolls had been passed down from before the Age of Darkness. The inscriptions on them had long since faded. People had tried activating them, but every attempt had ended in failure, so they had become chicken ribs-too tasteless to eat, yet too wasteful to throw away.
Nie Li naturally understood that as well. After so much time, of course they could no longer be used. But they were not ruined, either. All it would take was retracing the inscriptions with demon blood to make them usable again.
So he suggested that, since they were chicken ribs anyway, he might as well buy them and take them back to study.
The young man raised his eyebrows. Was this man not merely an alchemist, but also skilled in inscriptions? An inscription master?
Nie Li modestly claimed he knew only a little.
Whether the young man believed him was his own business.
The young man generously declared that, since Nie Li liked them, he could have them as