"Scattered cultivators without a legacy or backing are just like that, overly focused on immediate gains, not knowing how many opportunities they've missed. They also attract calamities beyond their destiny," sighed Li Fan to himself, recognizing that his own path had largely been the same. The treasures he had encountered along the way were numerous, yet unassuming and inwardly magical, rarely flashy or luminescent. Perhaps the rarity of these items was due to the fact that few went out of their way to collect them, as everyone else was chasing after the largest and brightest treasures. But what use was it to snatch those treasures if one didn't have the other necessary items for artifact refinement? Could one simply gnaw on them raw?
Then again, maybe to those other scattered cultivators, unversed in the five arts and on side paths, the various cherished and hard-to-find exotics treasured by the grandees of Xuanmen were truly just worthless trash not worth picking up?
