When Zhang Chen returned to the living quarters, where the temperature was merely one thousand degrees Celsius, perhaps because of the one hundred thousand degrees at the center of the forging room, he actually felt a coolness wash over his entire body.
One had to know that an ordinary human being would have been burned so thoroughly at such temperatures that not even ashes would remain before their neural heat sensors could finish reacting.
"The first year of smelting was not the compression process you saw later. Although the Candle Dragon's spinal column can be considered an exceptionally precious, high-quality Divine Artifact material, there were still components within that thousand-zhang-long spine that were useless for forging. The smelting process was meant to remove those useless materials and retain only the essence."
"I see... By the way, Master Cthulhu, I really must thank you this time. Back then, I took advantage of a loophole to have you forge an artifact for me. Thinking back on it now, I feel rather embarrassed."
Looking at the flawless "Dragon Devouring Arm" on his own arm, Zhang Chen could not help feeling somewhat apologetic toward Cthulhu, who had expended so much energy and paid such a great price for his Divine Artifact.
"It was a transaction I agreed to in the first place. Since Nyarlathotep was killed by you, the deal was fulfilled. Besides, being able to work with such top-tier materials and make a breakthrough in the path of artifact forging during my lifetime is something that greatly gratifies me as well. There is no need to thank me."
"There is something I need to ask you, Master Cthulhu. Do you still belong to the Chaos Realm?"
"From the moment I left the Chaos Realm, I was classified as a wanderer of Ling. I