The Undying Immortal System

Going through everything in my storage space was a pain, and I wanted to just dump it all out and start my collection from scratch. However, while most of my hoard had been trashed, there were still important items that needed to be saved.

I grabbed two storage bags and used them to help sort through what needed to be kept and what needed to be replaced.

My collection of herb seeds had been trapped below all the other boxes, so they had been spared. I also wouldn’t get rid of my collection of fire seeds, but I did need to purchase new boxes for all of them. For all of them except Emperor Li’s Earth-Rank seed, that was. Even after being bombarded in the chaotic maelstrom, that box had remained intact.

Aside from the seeds and the… seeds, the only items to come out completely unscathed were my Rank 6 weapon, my Rank 6 armor, and the plate of Rank 8 metal. They weren’t damaged because they were what was causing most of the damage.

Luckily, while the memory orbs’ boxes had been destroyed, the orbs themselves were undamaged. Seeing this, I quickly ran out and purchased a new jade crate with several partitions. I covered it in a layer of ziethanite and then had Shen inscribe it with the best defensive formation he could muster.

Shen didn’t even whisper a hint of protest at my request. He wanted to keep the orbs safe even more than I did.

I somehow forgot to tell him that my storage space lacked the energy density needed to make such a formation functional. Jin’s bar of beryllium oxide had pointed me down a path with solid possibilities for storing energy and fixing that problem. But I still needed more time to research it. However, I wasn’t going to let that stop me from getting free work out of a Formation Emperor.

While my fire seeds had survived the incident intact, my collection of spirit fires did not. They weren’t as useful as the seeds, but it was nice to be able to access two distinct types of flames at the same time. Unfortunately, when the spirit fires broke free from their containers, they dissipated into the aether of my storage space. While that was a bit of a loss, it was a recoverable one. None of the fires were anything overly special, and I could make new ones using my seeds or just buy them if I wanted a flame that I didn’t already have the seed for.

The biggest disaster was the destruction of my book collection. Most of the volumes had long since been copied into my mental library, but the Rank 6 books and a couple of Jin’s refining books had not been. I didn’t want to lose that knowledge, so I carefully placed all the damaged and destroyed scraps of paper into a large jade box for safekeeping. I had to hope the System would save me from needing to ask for new copies.