Wang Lei. Lei Dong still remembered his name very clearly. This man was every bit as accomplished as the Artifact Refining Grandmaster painstakingly cultivated by the Yin Sha Sect. But Lei Dong also knew that he had an eccentric temperament. If he had not owed the Heavenly Demon a favor, he would not even have agreed to help refine the Asura Wings. To win over a talent like him, Lei Dong would have to produce something that stunned him and captured his interest.
Lei Dong had reaped a rich harvest from the giant clan in the Great Desert. He now held a batch of precious artifact-refining materials, including such Top Grade materials as Star Brilliance Stone and Fire-Lightning Essence Gold. But he knew these would not be enough to impress Wang Lei, the Artifact Refining Grandmaster. After turning it over in his mind, he realized that only the piece of Innate-grade material he possessed, Chaos Essence Iron, might stir Wang Lei's interest. After such a long period of mining, Innate materials had become so rare that they were even scarcer than the surviving Innate Spiritual Treasures. That reversal was enough to make any Grandmaster obsessed with artifact refining drool over Innate materials.
There was no Artifact Refining Grandmaster who did not hope to craft an Innate Spiritual Treasure with his own hands in his lifetime, yet few were ever granted that honor.
Restless after a long spell of quiet, Lei Dong took his beloved wife and headed east toward the Eastern Sea. Since there was no great urgency, he had the Flying Boat travel at an unhurried pace. Along the way, while accompanying Ding Wanyan—whom he had not seen in years—as she admired the sights, Lei Dong began to study the introductory artifact-refining knowledge he had obtained from the Yin