Let's Buy It and Assume It's a Scam

『Daoist(66.102) Selling: Earth-grade fire-attributed cultivation method, Flame Flower Art (炎華訣). 5 premium spirit stones.』

[A keepsake left behind by an elder of my clan. Not a single scratch on the jade slip.]

『Daoist(402.8) Selling: Kunwon Art (坤元訣). Earth-grade earth-attributed cultivation method. 4 premium spirit stones.』

[That's the final price. No haggling.]

These were the listings she had painstakingly narrowed down over an entire half-day.

This time, she hadn't swept up whatever caught her eye like she had last time.

First, she filtered out the posts with flowery language plastered all over them.

She had learned long ago that the more desperate a listing was to hook someone, the longer its sales pitch tended to be.

She skipped both the absurdly cheap listings and those priced sky-high.

She even dug through the sellers' previous posts one by one...