After that, everyone in the Black Market looked at Jiang Chen differently.
Whichever stall he visited, the owner would come up, light a cigarette for him, and call him Brother Jiang.
This was not treatment unique to him. Artifact refiners enjoyed precisely this sort of status here, and he was an artifact refiner whose ability to expose fakes was almost freakish.
Even Liu Yunzhu, the artifact-refining Grandmaster in a nearby shop, could not help looking surprised. She could not figure out how he had identified the stockings the shopkeeper had worn, either.
"We artifact refiners have that ability?"
The alluring female Grandmaster stared blankly at the stockings on her own legs. "Looks like Master still held something back all those years ago..."
Jiang Chen then began buying all sorts of things.
He browsed the entire Black Market.
In the end, he bought ten bottles containing fifty Essence-Gathering Pills in total, at a hundred points per pill, leaving the shopkeeper grinning from ear to ear.
Essence-Gathering Pills were recovery supplies one grade above Spirit-Gathering Pills.
They were generally used by C-Class experts, though B-Rank Grandmasters would also use them when they were not in a hurry.
Generally speaking, after swallowing five pills and waiting an hour, a Grandmaster could recover most of their spiritual power. Their effects were quite potent.
Jiang Chen estimated that after enhancement, just one pill would let him maintain a Two-Star Card's complete demonization state until the Demon Transformation ended!
As for whether it could sustain a Three-Star Monster Transformation Card's complete demonization, he would only know after trying it.
He also sold off several Ghost Artifacts.
In addition, he gave the enhanced Assassination Short Knife, Qi-Concealing Jade Sword, and several Spirit-Gathering Pills +3 to Chen Xue and Sister Hong.
After his last Demon Transformation ended, his