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Chen Xiaojun's gaze was heavy as it settled on Xiao Yi's slightly lowered lashes.
This belt... was the fruit of Lu Xiaoxiao's painstaking labor in the Research Department.
For nearly two years, the Research Department's Deputy Minister had practically lived among Soul Tool Matrices and all manner of rare materials, wearing himself down until a layer of his hair had turned white.
These refining methods came with Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements.
But the laws of heaven and earth and the foundations of energy in the two worlds were separated as though by Mountain Sea. Every mystery within them had to be explored, adjusted, and reshaped, bit by bit.
The finest starsteel, soul-absorbing crystal, blazing flame marrow...
Those fragments sparkling with starlight, those strange crystals capable of warping halos of light-each was a precious rarity kept at the bottom of the chest. Even after exhausting every effort, they had barely managed to create two sets.
The Chen Clan had grown through the explosive success of its various products over the past few years, but its consumption of materials was immense. Top-grade materials, in particular, were desperately scarce.
One set, slightly weaker in power, had already had some of its most essential precious materials stripped out by the Research Department as they tried to find substitutes, hoping that perhaps, just perhaps, one day they might... glimpse a crack in the door to mass production.
The set resting in his hands now had suffered no reductions. It incorporated the finest materials the Chen Clan could currently find and had consumed almost all of Lu Xiaoxiao's painstaking efforts over two years.
His fingers tightened unconsciously.
The candlelight cast deep shadows beneath his jaw.
Rather than a birthday