The chaos of a Beast Tide is a regional disturbance, easy enough to avoid by simply moving to a different place.
But conflicts between the Major Sects and Daoist Schools and the instability at the Song-Jin border were monumental shifts that would affect the entire landscape. This could easily lead to a situation where, if the nest falls, no egg can remain unbroken.
A faint sense of crisis began to stir within Lin Changheng.
He decided he had to do something.
The quickest ways to increase his strength lay in two things: artifacts and Abnormal Techniques.
For artifacts, this meant refining the Magical Treasure Embryo he possessed.
Over the years, Lin Changheng had used various channels—including attending auctions in Immortal Cities, trading with Pill Seekers, and posting missions for material collection—to gather a large amount of the conventional supplementary materials needed to refine the Magical Treasure Embryo.
