I'm Looking Forward to Your Primal Chaos Cauldron

The deep-red Fire Spirit Diamond lay quietly in Luo Chen's palm, gleaming like agate.

Inside it, a drop of bloodlike liquid flowed slowly through the crystal.

At first glance, it seemed alive.

Taken as a whole, it looked less like mineral crystal and more like amber.

Such a material was not suited to refining a Magic Treasure, because it contained impurities.

Yet, as though guided by a ghost, Luo Chen slipped the Fire Spirit Diamond into his pouch.

It was a feeling close to instinct.

"This is something good!"

Luo Chen closed the chest and swept another glance over Cangwu Mountain's treasury.

Chaotic, disorderly, everything placed wherever someone pleased.

Some of the treasures had origins even Luo Chen, for all his wide reading, could not identify.

But he did not dare take anything too valuable.

Nether Spring was highly tolerant of him!

But only so long as he did not cross her bottom line.

If he took something he should not, and she came after him for it, things would turn ugly between them.

As he left the treasury, Luo Chen took stock of the materials in his Storage Ring.

"Geng Metal, Black Sinking Wood... I gathered those and the other materials years ago. Now I even have the Fire Spirit Diamond."

"I can finally put the refining of my Natal Magic Treasure on the agenda."

"But!"

"With my skill at artifact refining, if I follow the method Azure Pill Valley provided, it'll take at least a dozen years just to produce the beginnings of a Magic Treasure."

"That's too long. I can't wait."

"Fortunately, there's a shortcut right in front of me."

The corner of Luo Chen's mouth lifted. He left the treasury, turned down another path, and headed deep beneath Truth Crossing Hall.

Down he went.

When he