But they had never considered it. Ren had!
The Black Metal before them was something like a Source Stone!
Yun Zhongzi had failed to see through it. He had taken it for ordinary iron!
But Ren had inherited the Source Heavenly Art, so he could naturally spot the difference! The Source Stones of the Shrouding the Heavens World and this Black Metal both belonged to the same class of fossils. That meant the Source Heavenly Art worked on it too!
With the Source Heavenly Art, Ren could see that it was no ordinary metal!
Ren kept the Black Metal, gathered Sword Aura at his fingertips, and began cutting into it!
The Black Metal looked extraordinary, but beneath the sharp Sword Aura, it parted like tofu, revealing a fiery red glow within!
Yun Zhongzi stared in disbelief. Ren kept pouring out Sword Aura, gradually slicing away the Black Metal until a Crimson Gemstone began to emerge!
Before long, Ren cut away the last bit of Black Metal and took out the red gemstone, barely containing his excitement!
The fist-sized gemstone glowed fiery red and radiated a comforting warmth!
Ren studied it, puzzled. "What treasure is this? I don't recall seeing anything about it in the records I've read."
Ren was baffled, but the stunned Yun Zhongzi cried out, "That's Nirvana Jade, also called a Phoenix Stone! Damn it... How is this possible? How could such a precious treasure be inside a plain piece of Black Metal? It's unbelievable! I scanned the metal with my divine sense. It was utterly ordinary, with nothing inside it. How could it contain a Phoenix Stone?"
Yun Zhongzi was nearly beside himself. He could not make sense of what had happened! Worse, he was a master of the Artifact Refining Art, yet Ren, a beginner, had