Flame Alliance in Turmoil, Luo Chen Arrives at Incense Burning Valley

That night.

Qin Tairan, the Flame Alliance's Law Enforcement Elder, openly tore up the immortal city's rules. He struck within the city himself and destroyed a black market.

Some said it had been a Fallen Cloud Sect operation, and that the Flame Alliance was striking back.

Others said Qin Tairan had coveted an item at the black-market auction and shamelessly seized it by force.

Still others claimed the black market had spread a flood of rumors harmful to the Flame Alliance, driving Elder Qin to kill in a rage.

Whatever the truth, several Golden Core Immortals from beyond the domain flew out of the black market that night and glared furiously at Qin Tairan.

If he had not held the advantage on his home ground, a great battle might have erupted then and there.

Luo Chen had not attended the auction himself. It was only the next morning that he learned what had happened from a bedraggled Tian Xingzi.

"We spread all the news you wanted us to spread."

"Here. These are the Spirit Stones from the auction of the Hundred-Year Thunder Essence. Twenty-three High-Grade Spirit Stones in all."

Luo Chen took the Storage Bag Tian Xingzi handed him and looked at him with a faint, teasing smile.

The look made Tian Xingzi distinctly uncomfortable.

Thunder Essence was a Fourth Order material.

Ordinary Magic Treasures did not contain it. Only when refining a Natal Magic Treasure would a small amount of Ten-Year Thunder Essence be added.

Once the refining of a Natal Magic Treasure was involved, the price was nothing like that of an ordinary Low-Grade Magic Treasure.

As one of its primary materials, Thunder Essence typically started at a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

And Hundred-Year Thunder Essence counted among the finest Fourth Order ores!

Twenty-three High-Grade Spirit Stones amounted