"Like gold, yet not gold; like jade, yet not jade. Beneath its imposing, ancient simplicity lurks a trace of icy savagery. This material truly is extraordinary!"
As Xiao Chen repeatedly ran his fingers over the Hidden Lantern, inscriptions lit up across it, vivid as blood. Feeling its peculiar material, he was rather astonished.
He was widely traveled and knowledgeable, with a discerning eye.
Yet he had never encountered such a mysterious, unfathomable metal.
The lantern's body was a dusky red, like the setting sun, its surface covered in ancient characters. Some resembled dragons, others phoenixes; some were engraved, others inlaid. Stranger still, emblems of wondrous manifestations lingered without fading, coiling around its stem.
All the ancient characters were crimson as blood. Unlike the lantern's main body, they seemed to be fashioned from an exceedingly rare spiritual jade, quite extraordinary in its own right.
Some ancient runes even seemed to bear flame patterns, radiating a dim firelight whose power remained undiminished a hundred meters away.
"Could this divine metal be melted down and used in Dragon Slayer?"
Looking at the Primordial Antiquity Hidden Lantern with its gently flowing firelight, Xiao Chen's eyes burned with eagerness.
Once the Hidden Lantern was lit to guide the way to the Spirit Treasury,
its spiritual essence would eventually perish.
After he unearthed the Heavenfire Gold-Fusing Force hidden within, eight or nine tenths of its value would be gone.
He did not want to waste such extraordinary material and intended to put it to full use.
Dragon Slayer was damaged and needed divine metal to nourish it.
The divine iron contained in this Hidden Lantern looked perfectly suitable to him.
However, this was merely a bold conjecture. He still did not know whether it was feasible.
Leaving everything else aside, the Hidden Lantern's sheer hardness made