"Master, I really don't want to go back to that place! Without a master by my side, I will die alone! Master, as long as you need it, no matter what rare bug it is, I will do everything I can to help you get it back..."
Like a little monkey, the Living Treasure Window emerged from the system inventory with a whoosh and rushed straight at Liu Chen like a cannonball, hugging his body tightly and mumbling non stop. Its tears fell like a flood that had broken an embankment, crackling down in a pitiful display.
However, what was truly unexpected was that these tears were all extremely precious Gu refinement materials Clear Spiritual Water. This kind of water is an essential material for refining Rank 5 Gu insects. Seeing this, Liu Chen was secretly delighted, but on the surface, he remained silent and quietly collected the liquid.
"You can actually feel the passage of time while staying in the system inventory?" Liu Chen looked at the Living Treasure Window suspiciously and asked.
"Huh? So that place is called a System Inventory! I really don't feel that time is passing yet. I just can't see the owner at a glance, and I feel so lonely..." The Window raised its head, blinked its big round eyes, and looked at Liu Chen pitifully as it replied.
"Don't talk yet, let me finish." Liu Chen quickly interrupted its chatter, pulled it off his body, and said, "I want to exchange for some Gu insects."
"The Living Treasure Window will be very happy if it can help the owner! Let me tell you, if the owner wants any Gu, I can exchange it at the smallest price." When the Living Treasure Window heard that Liu Chen wanted to trade, the smile on its face became brighter than a blooming flower. It spoke happily, its tone full of confidence and enthusiasm.
Liu Chen felt a little relieved. He settled down, and without hesitation, the words that had been waiting since the summit of San Cha Mountain finally left his lips:
"I want a Fairy Wind Gu, a Seven Star Gu, and Light Of Glory ."
Since the day he had claimed the purple chest on that mountain peak and read through the Fixed Immortal Travel recipe for the first time, these three names had sat at the back of his mind like a debt waiting to be collected. He had reviewed the material list more times than he cared to count during the months that followed, each time reaching the same conclusion: without a channel that could access resources beyond ordinary Shang Clan City
trade, the recipe was nothing more than a beautiful map with no road beneath it.
Now, standing before the one thing in the world capable of reaching the Treasure Yellow Heaven directly, that road had finally appeared.
His words were like a barrage of fire, quickly and accurately announcing the insects and materials he required. Among them, the Fairy Wind Gu was undoubtedly the most precious; its value would need to be converted into approximately 800,000 Primeval Stones through ordinary channels , a sum that would bankrupt most Rank 4 experts before they even found a seller.
However, Liu Chen did not hesitate or worry at all. He was well aware of the ability of the Living Treasure Window. With its existence, he believed he would be able to exchange these precious insects and materials from the Treasure Yellow Heaven directly, bypassing the limitations of every market he had ever walked through.
The Living Treasure Window listened quietly to Liu Chen's needs, then closed its eyes and seemed to search the Treasure Yellow Heaven for the corresponding Gu. After a while, it opened its eyes, smiled, and said, "Well, let me see. There are still 2,358 Fairy Wind Gu in the Treasure Yellow Heaven, and the rest are even more numerous. To redeem these items, the owner needs one Rank 4 Gu and eight Rank 3 Gu. With me here, I can get any grubs my master wants."
Liu Chen was shocked by the response and also quietly awed by the sheer stock of Gu flowing through the Treasure Yellow Heaven, yet he felt a surge of deep satisfaction in his heart. From the Shang Clan City and inheritances he had plundered, he had harvested a large number of treasure boxes and obtained various Rank 3 and Rank 4 Gu that did not fit his current Sword or Wood Path systems. At first, he had only regarded these as loose backups and had not paid them much attention. He had not expected that these previously overlooked insects would become the exact currency he needed at this precise moment.
Good thing I kept them, he thought.
"Exchanged!" Liu Chen said without hesitation, his voice carrying a quiet edge of eagerness he rarely allowed to surface.
He quickly selected one Rank 4 Gu and eight Rank 3 Gu from among the many that were not suited to his current kit and placed them in front of the Living Treasure Window. The Window seemed to sense his intention and immediately opened its frame. A faint light flashed, and the Gu in Liu Chen's hands flew straight into the mouth of the Window as if being pulled by a powerful suction force.
Then, something amazing happened. After swallowing these insects, the Living Treasure Window spat out a wind-path Gu as beautiful as a jasper butterfly, as well as seven white gold, five-pointed star shaped Gu. The auxiliary materials Liu Chen had listed also appeared before him.
"Master, you must quickly refine these Gu!" The Living Treasure Window anxiously reminded him. "Once they lose the suppression of the Treasure Yellow Heaven, their wildness will recover, and then it will be difficult to control!"
Liu Chen knew that time was tight, so he didn't dare to delay at all. He immediately reached out and grabbed the new grubs. Refined in an instant.
He looked at the materials now sitting within his aperture. The recipe that had been dormant since San Cha Mountain stirred at the back of his mind like a sleeping beast finally waking. For the first time since he had read through those instructions in that remote ravine, every single component was accounted for. The Fairy Wind Gu, The Seven Star Gu, Light Of Glory . The shell of a Thousand Beast King level Fixed Wind Turtle, which he had already secured and set aside months ago, quietly waiting for this exact moment.
Everything was finally in place.
"Master, Master, do you need any more bugs?" the Window asked flatteringly, as if afraid he would no longer continue the trade.
Liu Chen thought briefly, then suddenly had an idea and asked: "Then help me see if there are any Lifespan Gu in this Treasure Yellow Heaven?"
Lifespan Gu , that was the most precious Gu in the world. Its rarity was even greater than that of Immortal Gu.
Hearing the question, the Window's face looked a little embarrassed, but it still answered honestly: "Master, there is indeed a ten year Lifespan Gu and a hundred year Lifespan Gu in this Treasure Yellow Heaven. However, the ten year Lifespan Gu requires an Immortal Gu Recipe to be exchanged, while a hundred year Lifespan Gu requires a complete Immortal Gu."
Liu Chen secretly lamented that these conditions were too harsh. After all, neither an Immortal Gu Recipe nor an Immortal Gu was so easy to obtain.
"I see. No wonder the Treasure Yellow Heaven can yield longevity rewards." Liu Chen shook his head helplessly and gave up the idea of exchanging for lifespan for now.
However, he did not give up entirely and asked the Window once more: "Let me ask you one more thing: is there Rank 5 Wood Charm gu in the Treasure Yellow Heaven?"
The Window's answer came with an apologetic tilt of its head: "Sorry, master, there are no Rank 5 Wood Charm Gu in this Treasure Yellow Heaven."
"Looks like there's no room to drill for loopholes." Liu Chen looked at Rank 2 in his possession and sighed quietly. He had hoped to extract longevity properties from such a Rank 5 Wood Charm gu through reverse refining, but this avenue was simply closed.
Without further deliberation, and before the Living Treasure Window could launch into another round of chatter, Liu Chen put it back into the system inventory.
He sat cross legged, his gaze falling on the Fixed Wind Turtle shell resting before him. It had been waiting here, stored and untouched, since long before the Window had ever appeared in his life. Now its moment had finally come.
The recipe surfaced cleanly in his mind. He had read it so many times by now that every line felt like a well worn path beneath familiar feet.
Liu Chen took a deep breath and mobilized the Golden Primeval Essence within his aperture. With a wave of his hands, the golden essence surged outward like a torrent, quickly wrapping around the Thousand Beast King level shell in a dense, luminous embrace.
This Fixed Wind Turtle shell was the foundational material for the space path Gu. The Fixed Wind Turtle was born with the innate ability to control wind and swim freely through the sky; even the most terrifying storm could be traversed with ease by such a creature. That same quality , the capacity to pass through the resistance of the world without friction was precisely what made its shell the ideal vessel for a teleportation Gu.
His Golden Primeval Essence converged within the shell, forming a vast, pot like shape. The refinement had begun. The road that had started on a misty mountain summit, months ago, with nothing but a purple chest and a recipe he could not yet use, had finally arrived at its destination.