The main ingredients for the Seer Pathway's Sequence 4 Bizarro Sorcerer Potion were a Trickster Abomination's Lord eye and a Spirit World Plunderer's True Soul.
The other supplementary ingredients mostly came from Trickster Abominations and Spirit World Plunderers too.
They really squeezed those creatures dry.
Backlund was prosperous, but that did little to help Klein obtain the main ingredients for a Demigod-level Potion.
So far, he had only managed to find scraps of the supplementary ingredients.
Unless something unexpected happened, he would have to wait until he left Backlund to go adventuring before he could get what he needed.
Meng Chuan, however, happened to be that unexpected turn.
"Great Emperor, what did you mean by that?" Klein asked curiously, looking at Meng Chuan before him.
Did he want to become The Primordial One?
Whether he wanted to or not, he had to consider it.
"Exactly what it sounded like." Meng Chuan smiled. "The organization has an important mission for you, Comrade Klein!"
The Mysterious World was unusual. The stronger someone became, the closer they drew to The Primordial One. There was no escaping it.
Before Klein became the Heavenly Venerable, each rise in Sequence would bring him closer to the Heavenly Venerable and make it more likely that the Heavenly Venerable would awaken within him.
Before becoming one of the Old Ones, his chief concern, aside from fighting madness and loss of control, was resisting the Heavenly Venerable's Will.
Fighting madness and loss of control was different from resisting the Heavenly Venerable's Will.
But once he became the Heavenly Venerable, that second concern would shift. He would need to resist the will of The Primordial One instead.
He would no longer need to resist the Heavenly Venerable, because he would be the Heavenly Venerable. (Smug grin.jpg)
Of course, the will