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State Preceptor of Yuan Yang Palace had brought a great deal of treasures from the Immortal Realm. The news had spread half a year in advance, and now Shi Feiyang had really returned with three large ships loaded with treasures. Officials and wealthy merchants from the Capital and surrounding regions, all those with power and influence, had all come.

They were still half skeptical, imagining in their hearts that it was most likely just Taoists deceiving people with elixirs and tricks. But upon arriving here, they were suddenly enlightened.

Who had ever seen pigeon-egg-sized multi-colored pearls? Or black pearls the size of grapes, yellow pearls as big as longan fruit - and the most difficult aspect was that they were all perfectly round and uniform in size!

According to common sense, finding even one pearl of such quality was already very rare, and many pearls when harvested came in all sorts of shapes, not always round.