The Azure Lantern was damaged, its flame light dim and ghostly.
The shopkeeper, who had not paid much attention to Luo Chen before, casually asked upon seeing this:
"Want to buy it?"
Luo Chen did not answer. Instead, he pressed for the lantern's origins.
The fat shopkeeper frowned as he perfunctorily replied, "Where else could it have come from? We bought it in! The Myriad Phenomena Pavilion is spread throughout cities and towns large and small across the Great Cataclysm Realm. So long as a treasure is even a little unusual, we buy it. This lantern isn't worth much. When the previous shopkeeper stepped down, he didn't take it with him, so it was left behind."
There was not much useful information in that explanation.
And as the fat shopkeeper had said, this lantern truly was not some precious item.
Yet to Luo Chen, it held extraordinary significance!
Because this lantern had once been his Magic Tool—the Damaged Azure Lantern!
Yes, it had merely been a Magic Tool, obtained when Luo Chen had casually wiped out the Shadow Reflection Sect during his journey to the Southern Border.
Later, on Mi Realm Mountain, Luo Chen had observed the Spatial Nodes there day and night in order to cultivate the Emptiness Restriction among the Seven Fundamental Restrictions. During that time, he had conducted many experiments. One of them, he had attempted several times.
He placed objects marked with clues inside a Storage Bag, then forcibly shattered the Storage Bag. Through the destruction of such a spatial magic treasure, he observed the most minute Space Fluctuations.
One phenomenon in those experiments had left Luo Chen deeply curious.
When the Storage Bag shattered, some of the treasures within would fall into the real world, while others would vanish bizarrely without a trace.
Even when