Xiaozhe Mountain had already been ransacked by bandits or other ruthless opportunists from the Black Market amid the chaos. The vast majority of rare materials—such as Cloud-Cleaving Dust, Wood-Nine, and Blue Flame Jade, which were worth as much as or even more than the Jade-Intercepting Steel—had all been looted. Not a scrap remained.
However, according to the Sword Spirit, these materials were all unremarkable First Tier or even non-graded items; they weren’t even worth the space they took up in one’s pack. Theoretically, Jade-Intercepting Steel, being a Second or even Third Tier material, should never have been priced equally with them.
On the contrary, Enlightenment Stone was cheap in the Tianyuan Realm, but in Huaixu—at least in the era of the Sword Spirit—it was incredibly expensive, a versatile material used by those with a Solar-lineage Dao Foundation.
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