After looking for a while, Rao Baoyue said in surprise, "Doesn't that mean this is a magic treasure from ten thousand years ago?"
"Absolutely!" Tang Yan nodded firmly.
"Do you know what this is?" Rao Baoyue asked, pointing at a pattern on the back of the metal plate.
Tang Yan looked closely and saw two curved lines joined at their tails. Unable to tell exactly what they were, he frowned and said,
"They look like fish. They probably represent some faction."
"Clever. They are indeed fish, but they don't represent a faction. They're the personal signature of Artifact Refiner Xiang Xiaoyu!" Rao Baoyue explained.
"Senior Xiang was an Artifact Refiner ten thousand years ago?" Tang Yan asked in surprise.
"She's a friend of mine, and she only turned a hundred this year. I never imagined Xiaoyu was so remarkable. At a mere hundred years old, she's already refined a magic treasure that's been passed down for ten thousand years." Rao Baoyue let out an exclamation.
Tang Yan's scalp instantly prickled, and he began cursing Shopkeeper Qin's ancestors.
In a flash of lightning, Tang Yan reacted and cursed, "In broad daylight, beneath the clear heavens, to think such an unscrupulous merchant was hiding near the Pill Alliance!
"He actually sold me some little trinket from a previous year as a ten-thousand-year-old magic treasure!
"And he dared charge ten mid-grade spirit stones!
"Is this the collapse of morality, or the loss of humanity?"
Merely playing the victim wasn't enough. He also had to highlight the gift's special qualities. Tang Yan continued, "Master, although the magic treasure's age was wrong, the pieces stored inside it are unmatched under heaven!"
No sooner had he spoken than Tang Yan felt an invisible force clamp down on him. Before he could react, a tremendous force knocked