Lin Qingzhu filed away the last Jade Slip, set down her brush, and shook out her aching wrist.
"Seventeen damaged Immortal Artifacts, six original cultivation texts, and twenty-three miscellaneous artifacts and items in total."
She pushed the ledger across.
"The law concentration ranges from twenty to seventy percent. As for their attributes..."
"A mess."
Zhou Xuan took the ledger and glanced through it.
Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, lightning, wind, space—more than eight law attributes mingled in the boxes covering half a wall. The fluctuations each item emitted interfered with one another, stirring the spiritual energy in the chamber into restless turmoil.
Emperor Jiang Wu's phantom emerged from the corner and circled the pile of objects.
"Here's the problem."
He raised a hand to gesture at the Black Iron Case in the corner, then pointed at the wall of sealed boxes.
"The Earth Vein Instrument is essentially a hollow vessel designed to devour things. It has no ability to harmonize them on its own."
"Throw something metal-attributed into it, and it eats it. Throw in something fire-attributed afterward, and the two clash. It'll explode on the spot."
Old Ancestor Xuanming came over and tapped one of the boxes with a finger. "And the law purity of this junk varies wildly. Some are high, some are low."
"Once the high-purity ones go in, they'll instinctively reject the low-purity dregs. The vessel's insides will turn into a pot of mush."
The Alliance Leader remained seated in the distance, but spoke up. "The Earth Vein Instrument's own rejection is an even bigger problem."
"Grand Hua Old Ancestor used the immense fortune from a blood sacrifice as a lubricant to bind the various origin sources together. We don't have fortune on that scale to draw upon."
Old Ancestor Cangwu sighed beside them. "Put plainly,