Chapter 416 289: Attending a Banquet at the Su Family: The Young Ladies Are Frantically Touching Up Their Makeup

"But some of these items are family property, and I don't have the authority to give them away.

But that row over there…"

He pointed to a row of shelves on the left.

"That's my personal collection. Brother Han, if you see anything you like, just take it!"

Han Feng activated his Spiritual Vision, his gaze sweeping quickly over the shelves.

Suddenly, his eyes landed on an inconspicuous black wooden box in the corner.

The black wooden box in the corner of the warehouse wasn't locked. A thin layer of dust covered its surface, a clear sign it had been neglected for a long time.

Han Feng walked over and lifted the lid.

Inside the box lay a fist-sized crystal.

At first glance, it looked like a piece of translucent glass, something a naughty child might have tossed aside. It was dusty and completely dull.

Its surface was even covered in a web of fine cracks, looking as if it would crumble to dust at the slightest touch.

But in Han Feng's Spiritual Vision, the unremarkable stone exhibited a bizarre property.

When the free-floating Spiritual Qi Particles in the air passed over the stone's surface,

they slid past it like water over a smooth pebble, creating no resistance or ripples whatsoever.

And the information about the stone from his All Things Identification made his heart skip a beat.

[Item: Illusionary Void Crystal (Damaged/Empty Shell)]

[Source: Associated mineral from the edge of a spatial rift]

[Status: Core Energy has been depleted. Internal Spirit Pattern structure is on the verge of collapse.]

[Trait: Phantasmal Void (Possesses powerful refractive and absorbent properties against light, Divine Sense, and most radar frequencies.)]

[Flaw: Extremely fragile. Cannot withstand high-temperature smelting. If heated above 300 degrees, the natural Spirit Patterns within will instantly disintegrate, turning it to powder.]

[Evaluation: It's a useless shell, unless you can find a way to liquefy it for coating without destroying its structure.]

'It really is a treasure.'

A gleam appeared in Han Feng's eyes.

To a traditional Artifact Refiner, this thing was practically useless.

It couldn't be smelted, which meant it couldn't be shaped or fused with other metals to forge equipment.

Even if you managed to embed it in a piece of armor, it was more fragile than glass and would shatter at the slightest impact, offering no protection whatsoever.

That's why it was left here to collect dust.

'But in Han Feng's eyes, this was no piece of junk. It was the raw material for a natural Full-band Invisibility Coating.'

'If he could apply it evenly to the surface of his Escapee Battle Armor… with the right technique, this stone could give his armor a layer of Optical Camouflage combined with a Divine Sense Shield Net.'

'Once he entered the Dragon Abyss Mist Sea, he could just hunker down in the shadows. Even a Tier Four Demon Beast passing right by would probably mistake him for a rock.'

"Brother Han, you've been staring at this piece of junk for a while now. Don't tell me you've taken a liking to it?"

Su Jian leaned in and peered at the object in the box, a look of complete bewilderment on his face.

"My grandfather got this thing from a down-on-his-luck adventurer years ago. It looked mysterious at the time, so he thought it might be some kind of treasure.

But when he brought it back and had a few masters take a look, they said it was just a useless shell, all its Energy drained away."

Su Jian reached for the stone, then cautiously eased up, afraid he might crush it.

"This thing's incredibly fragile. It'll crack if you use even a little bit of force.

Aside from being pretty translucent, it doesn't give off any special colorful glint under the light. It's too shabby to even be used as a decorative piece.

Brother Han, if you like collecting rare stones, there are plenty of beautiful Rain Flower Spirit Stones over on those shelves. You don't need to take this."

Han Feng shook his head, closed the lid, and picked up the box.

"I'll take this one."

"Wait, Brother Han, you're saving me too much money with this choice."

Su Jian was getting anxious.

He had brought Han Feng here to build a connection, to show the Su Family's sincerity.

But after all that looking around, Han Feng had picked a piece of worthless junk.

If word of this got out, wouldn't people badmouth him behind his back? They'd say Su Jian, the Eldest Young Master Su, was stingy, fobbing off his savior with a piece of trash.

"This has a special use for me."

Han Feng smiled, not explaining further. "Besides, what's junk in one person's hands can become a treasure if used differently."

Seeing the confident look in Han Feng's eyes, Su Jian didn't know what else to say.

After all, this was the guy who could turn ordinary Tier Three Materials into something Pseudo Tier Four. His eye for things had to be exceptional.

"Fine. Since you insist, Brother Han, the stone is yours."

Su Jian waved his hand dismissively, then pointed to the adjacent shelves, his tone hardening.

"But this thing is worthless. Brother Han, you have to pick something else.

Otherwise, I'm not letting you out of this warehouse today! If word got out, how could I, Su Jian, ever show my face in public again?"

Han Feng found Su Jian's "if-you-don't-take-something-valuable-you're-looking-down-on-me" attitude rather amusing.

'This feeling of having a gift forced on him wasn't so bad, actually.'

"Alright."

Han Feng didn't stand on ceremony.

His gaze swept over the shelves again, quickly locking onto a metal ore glowing with a deep, cold blue light.

It was a fist-sized, deep blue piece of metal with intricate, natural patterns on its surface.

Even from several meters away, he could feel its inherent hardness and density.

[Item: Deep Sea Fallen Star Iron]

[Level: Tier Four Lower Grade]

[Trait: Extremely hard, exceptionally high Spiritual Power conductivity, and possesses the properties of a self-repairing, microscopic memory metal.]

'This was precisely the structural material he urgently needed.'

'With this and the Illusionary Void Crystal, he could not only create an invisibility coating for his Battle Armor but also vastly strengthen its structural frame.'