He looked into the room, and sure enough, it was that woman!

  her of the two people who knew each other well expected to meet here, making the atmosphere extremely awkward.

  The man with the goatee was surprised, "You two know each other?"

  Both of them replied in unison, "No, we don't."

  The goateed man's eyes spun around, clearly not believing their words.

  "Young man, these are the sed-tier talisman brushes from my little shop, all of excellent quality. Take a look and see whie you like."

  Lin Hao shifted his attention from the woman's curves to the talisman brushes. As the goateed man said, the quality of these brushes was quite good, though they were likely expensive.

  He picked up an ivory-white talisman brush and casually asked, "Shopkeeper, how much for this one?"

  "This White Cloud Ink brush is worth five hundred ay-eight spirit stones. If you're sincere about buying it, I'll waive the odd number for you."

  "Five hundred spirit stohank you, shopkeeper."

  The goateed man almost twisted his back at Lin Hao's cheeky iation. Is that how you waive the odd number?

  "No... it's not five hundred, it's five hundred ay."

  Lin Hao raised an eyebrow, inwardly pining. He thought he had met a generous person, but it turned out o spirit stones were waived.

  After some bargaining, Lin Hao finally settled on a price of five hundred and fifty spirit stones.

  "Shopkeeper, I don't have enough spirit stones. I use this talisman to offset fifty spirit stones?"

  Lin Hao took out spirit stones and a talisman.

  The goateed man took the talisman, g it, and excimed, "A top-grade talisman!"

  "Enough... it's enough!"

  His eyes instantly lit up with excitement. He didn't expect this young man to be able to dra-grade talisman. Talismans are divided into low-grade, middle-grade, high-grade, top-grade, and the legendary celestial grade.

  Most talisman masters only draw the first three. To create a top-grade talisman, one must have aremely high talent for drawing talismans and a profound uanding of talisman arts.

  A talisman master capable of drawing top-grade talismans is rare, perhaps one in a huhe goateed man immediately ged his attitude.

  "Young man, this top-grade talisman sell for sixty spirit stones in the market. I 't let you suffer a loss, so I'll give you some abar for drawing talismans."

  With that, the goateed man took out a box about one foot square, filled with abar.

  Goodness, the value of this abar is definitely more than ten spirit stones, at least twenty. This shopkeeper is quite generous.

  Lin Hao didn't stand on ceremony and put the talisman brush and abar into his ste bag.

  Beside him, Cui Qing'er was already stuhis little thief was actually a talisman master and could even draw top-grade talismans. It couldn't be true!

  She knew very well how rare talisman masters capable of drawing top-grade talismans were. In the vast Xuan Yi, among tens of thousands of outer sect disciples, only one could draw them. No, now there were two.

  "Uncle Liu, you sell me that Golden Light Shield?"

  Cui Qing'er had previously acquired two top-grade talismans, which she used up in a battle with Lin Hao. With the outer sepetition approag, she o prepare in advance, but she had no e with that genius talisman master and couldn't ask for help at this critical moment.

  "You want the Golden Light Shield?" Lin Hao sent a voice transmission.

  Cui Qing'er's beautiful eyes fshed with surprise. She didn't expect him to send her a voice transmission, and she replied.

  "That's right, do you have it?"

  "I do." Lin Hao paused for a moment and tinued, "e to my cave dwelling in three days, and I'll sell you three."

  As Lin Hao left the magical artifact shop and headed back to his cave dwelling, he paid attention to the topics discussed by the disciples.

  The Demo Hunting petition still had some lingeri, with many people discussing the events that took pce. However, more were talking about the uping outer sepetition.

  Every three years, the Xuan Yi holds an outer sepetition.

  The top-ranked disciples will receive generous rewards, and those who perform exceptionally well will be given special attention by the sed may eveaken as direct disciples by high-ranking elders.

  This is an opportunity, and Lin Hao ched his fist, determio seize it no matter what!

  Returning to his Senior Sister's cave dwelling, he found her already back, her dress looking brand new and even more delicate than before.

  He couldn't help but walk over and embrace his Senior Sister, "Senior Sister, you're so beautiful!"

  Li Qiushui's eyes, like clear water, held a yer of shyness.

  "You rascal, what are you up to again?"

  "Nothing, just admiring how beautiful you are, Senior Sister."

  "Senior Sister, the outer sepetition is about to start. What are your pns?"

  Sigh... Li Qiushui sighed softly, "The outer sepetition enerous rewards for the top three, and there's a ce to be noticed by an elder and bee a direct disciple. If my cultivation level hadn't fallen, I would definitely pete.

  But now I'm only at the eighth level of Qi Refining."

  Hearing her disappoi, Lin Hao forted her, "Senior Sister, there's still some time before the petition. If we train day and night, you might be able to return to the ninth level."

  Li Qiushui's cheeks turned as red as cherries, and she pyfully scolded, "Junior Brother, you be serious? We 't overdo that kind of 'training.'

  I have no hope of peting for the top three, but you have a ce!"

  She slipped out of Lin Hao's embrace like a nimble rabbit, her red dress trailing on the ground, her bare feet stepping on the fur of a demon fox.

  Her eyebrows slightly raised, she said softly, "Junior Brother, you might have a pete for third pce, but aiming for the top spot or sed pce is difficult."

  Lin Hao frowned slightly, "Senior Sister, why do you say that? Do you think the top spot will go to Wang Jingzhan or Jiang Mingfei, who are at the Great Perfe of Qi Refining?"

  Li Qiushui shook her head, "No, you and Jiang Mingfei are both at the Great Perfe, and your strengths are not much different.

  The two I'm talking about are truly at the Great Perfe. They could have broken through to the Foundatioablishment stage long ago, but they've been holding back, waiting for the petition to start before breaking through.

  Because ohey break through to Foundatioablishment, they bee inner disciples and 't participate ier sepetition. But there's a loophole in the petition: if you break through during the petition, you tinue."

  A hint of surprise fshed in Lin Hao's eyes. He didn't expect there to be such people who deliberately held back from breaking through just to seize the top spot in the petition. If they became Foundatioablishment cultivators during the petition, they would be unstoppable. How ing!

  Seeing Lin Hao a bit dazed, Li Qiushui forted him, "Junior Brother, you don't have to force yourself to aim for the top spot. As long as you make it to the top three and perform well enough, a powerful elder will take you as a disciple, which is better than being an inner disciple and randomly finding a master."

  Ah, Senior Sister is truly enting, alluring without beiive, every smile aure is utterly tempting.

  Lin Hao sighed and swiftly pulled his Senior Sister bato his arms.

  "Senior Sister, I uand, but my goal is not just the top three; it's the top spot. So please help me 'train.'"

  With nearly ten days until the petition, he felt his cultivation could advance further!