The hall fell silent once more.
As Zhou Ming looked at the mountain of materials before him, a trace of satisfaction finally appeared in his eyes.
Especially that batch of Void Divine Iron.
There was so much of it, and its quality was so high that it was enough for him to accomplish many things.
"To do a good job, one must first sharpen one's tools."
Zhou Ming murmured inwardly.
The reason Liu Yuan and the others had suffered such a great loss this time ultimately came down to their equipment being too poor.
Whether it was the Cross-Realm Tokens or the attack talismans, they had all been refined from the "scrap copper and rotten iron" of the Flowing Light Domain, so their power was limited.
Before true behemoths like those in the Divine Luo Domain, they were naturally far from sufficient.
But things were different now.
With this batch of top-grade materials, Zhou Ming was confident he could raise their equipment by several tiers.
He reached out and began picking through the pile of materials.
A piece of Void Divine Iron, a section of Spacetime Crystal, a strand of Chaos Origin Gold...
Any one of these treasures would have been enough to drive countless Hunyuan Infinite Realm experts into a frenzy in the outside world.
Yet in Zhou Ming's hands, they were like ordinary clay, casually kneaded and combined as he pleased.
Profound Laws flowed around his fingertips.
Waves of dark golden light gradually lit up within the hall.
Zhou Ming began his secluded refinement of treasures.
Time passed quietly.
Several decades went by.
For an existence like Zhou Ming, several decades were no more than the flick of a finger.
Finally, one day.
The stone doors of the Realm Lord's Hall, which had remained shut for decades, slowly