Bell of Time-Sound

The Five-Colored Ship held treasures such as barren copper, Nirvana Melting Beads, Calamity Ash Profound Iron, Chaos Jade, and Jade Gold. They had been left behind by Nanxuan Geng, a supreme being of the Ancient Universe. Su Yun had not yet had time to open the ship's storerooms and inspect them.

Only when Ou Yewu of Tongtian Pavilion arrived with Yuan Shuo's skilled craftsmen did Su Yun have Yingying open the storeroom behind the first door of the treasure ship.

This storeroom contained barren copper. The metal was yellow-orange, similar to copper, but its weight was unimaginably great.

This metal possessed an extraordinarily marvelous trait: it was incomparably stable, so stable that even chaos could not assimilate it!

Its other characteristic was its affinity with the Dao.

Yingying flipped through Nanxuan Geng's memories and said, "According to Nanxuan Geng's records, during his era, some powerful experts would, before their deaths, steer Five-Colored Ships into the Chaos Sea to gather barren copper. They ground this metal into thin copper foil and carefully covered their skeletons with it, then placed themselves in the Chaos Sea and let themselves drift with its currents. They hoped to preserve their cultivation in this manner, reach another universe, and be reborn there."

Ou Yewu led the other Tongtian Pavilion experts in recording barren copper's properties. "This treasure can be used to trace the imprints of the Pavilion Master's divine weapons."

Everyone stepped forward and began testing it, attempting to melt the barren copper.

Tongtian Pavilion was brimming with experts, most of them immortals. Ou Yewu and the others had cultivated immortal fire precisely to forge Immortal Weapons and sharp tools. Yet when they each brought forth their immortal fires, they discovered that barren copper did not absorb even a trace of their flames' energy!

They burned