Within less than half an hour, the array was complete.
A faint shimmer passed over the area as the isolating barrier activated. The space within felt immediately different. External disturbances were dampened, stray energies were filtered out, and the entire region became stable and contained.
Most of the elders departed once their work was done, leaving only one behind to oversee the process and assist if needed.
Lin Mu returned to the center of the cleared junkyard.
This time, there was no mountain of debris awaiting him.
Instead, there were chests.
Large, heavy, and numerous.
He approached them and opened the first one.
The moment the lid lifted, a wave of dense elemental energy washed over him. Inside were carefully sorted materials, each categorized by type and quality. Ores of varying purity, refined ingots, rare elemental stones, crystallized essences, and fragments of exotic alloys filled the container.
He opened another.
And another.
