This Half Sword Embryo was quite extraordinary.
Chen Changming swept his spiritual sense over it several times and discovered that it contained a great deal of metal-essence gold.
The particles of metal-essence gold were fine and evenly distributed, hidden deep within the dark green embryo like cold stars scattered across a night sky. Without careful examination, they would have been almost impossible to detect.
Metal-essence gold was an excellent material for refining Flying Swords, incomparably sharp and nearly indestructible. An ordinary sword cultivator might spend a lifetime searching without finding much of it.
Yet the quantity and purity of the metal-essence gold in this Half Sword Embryo far exceeded Chen Changming's expectations.
When he refined his life-bound Flying Sword in the future, this Sword Embryo could serve as one of its materials.
And once Chen Changming refined the sword intent within the Sword Embryo, it would make his Flying Sword even stronger!
At the thought, heat surged through Chen Changming's chest.
"I need a different face..."
Chen Changming quickly calmed down. He raised an eyebrow, and his face and build changed at the same time.
His bones gave faint pops, his muscles shifted, and his features seemed to be reshaped by an invisible hand.
He would soon leave the riverbed, so he needed to appear in a new guise.
Before long, Chen Changming had become an ordinary-looking young man at the Fifth Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm. His features were so unremarkable that no one would have spared him a second glance in a crowd.
After changing into a long green robe, he followed the tunnel and flew out of the river.
Hovering in midair, Chen Changming swept the area with his vigilant spiritual sense. Finding no one, he relaxed a little.
"On the way here, I refined all