First of all, an ordinary-looking middle-aged man bought a fist-sized meteorite for eleven million.
Li Yao had noticed this meteorite with sharp edges and corners.
According to the staff of the Bountiful Treasures Pavilion, this meteorite had emitted seven different colors of light when it fell into the Tian Yuan Realm. There was even a video attached as proof.
Other than that, there was nothing unusual.
After using all kinds of detection methods, they could only detect that 99% of the meteorite was made of common metals in the Tian Yuan Realm, and the remaining 1% was made of unknown materials that had never appeared in the Tian Yuan Realm.
As a result, after the middle-aged man bought the mysterious meteorite for more than ten million, he took out a tube of light gray liquid from his pocket and gently sprinkled it on the meteorite.
Within three minutes, the meteorite flashed with seven-colored mystic light, exactly the same as the meteorite in the video when it broke through the atmosphere.
All of a sudden, the crowd was in an uproar. They all knew that the middle-aged man had picked up a treasure.
Although they didn't know what material was hidden in the meteorite, judging from the seven-colored mystic light, it was worth much more than eleven million. Maybe it was worth dozens of times more.
The middle-aged man's unexpected pick had made a good start for the trade fair.
After that, all the unknown materials were bought at high prices.
There were even several customers who had their eyes on the same unknown material at the same time. They auctioned it on the spot and raised the price with each other.
However, not everyone was as lucky as the middle-aged man.
Another man wearing a black mask, after a fierce competition, spent a total of 35 million to buy an oval-shaped rock with a green pattern.
It was said that it was very likely to be the fossilized egg of some prehistoric ferocious beast.
This cyan pattern rock was found in an underground relic in the Tian Yuan Realm by the exploration team.
During the exploration, quite a few Cultivators, including two Building Foundation Stage Cultivators, were killed or wounded.
Therefore, this rock was marked at a low price of twenty million.
The Bountiful Treasures Pavilion could guarantee that the exploration was true. Many of the buyers were familiar with the cultivators who participated in the exploration and knew about it.
However, whether this cyan pattern rock was the fossilized egg of a prehistoric ferocious beast was up to the buyer to judge.
The eggshells of prehistoric ferocious beasts were all made of special materials that could resist the prying of telepathic thoughts.
In addition, after billions of years, the egg had turned into a fossil, making it even harder to figure out the secrets inside.
If this oval-shaped rock was really a fossilized egg of a prehistoric ferocious beast, then its value would not be as simple as tens of millions. It might even be worth a billion.
Therefore, the man wearing the black mask bought it for thirty-five million. Then, he used a destructive tool to drill a hole in the surface of the green-striped rock. Then, he probed it with his Divine Sense.
In the end, he gained nothing.
Inside the stone, it was still a stone.
Thirty-five million was wasted just like that.
Even though Li Yao had just received a large sum of money from the Aurora Autos, he was still shocked by such a huge gamble.
As for the black-masked man and the other guests, they seemed to be used to it. After a few sighs, they began to "bet" on the next treasure of heaven and earth in high spirits.
According to Manager Lin of the Bountiful Treasures Pavilion, the Bountiful Treasures Pavilion's trade fair for unknown and defective materials could only be considered as an amateur level.
The Bountiful Treasures Pavilion mainly traded real materials that had been appraised.
This kind of unknown material that had not been appraised was only occasionally done for fun.
The guests came here with the intention of passing the time.
In some places, there were professional trade fairs for unknown materials and magical equipment. The treasures there were more mysterious, and the prices were higher. The guests who participated in them were more professional, too.
That was what real treasure gambling was like!
These professional trade fairs had a special name, which was' Secret Treasure Exchange Fairs'.
Li Yao was greatly tempted by Manager Lin's words. He memorized the addresses and the way to participate in several secret treasure exchanges and decided to visit them when he had the chance.
He was not trying to make a fortune through treasure gambling. However, as a refiner, he was always curious about unknown materials and magical equipment and wanted to see them for himself.
Right now, there were more important things for him to do.
Yuan Qi had completely cracked the double barriers and found out the hidden connections. He told him the correct way to open the barriers.
He had to find an absolutely safe place where he could dig out all the secrets inside the Cosmos Ring!
…
One day later, in the Upper East Side of Floating Spear City …
Inside a business suite in a splendid building …
Li Yao was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. Looking at the thousands of twinkling lights, he was quite emotional.
Two years ago, he had stood in a corner of the slum and looked at this building longingly, hoping that he could stay in it for a night and have a meal. That would be the greatest happiness of his life.
However, when the day came, he found that the exquisite food, the gorgeous clothes, the luxurious room … These material comforts did not bring him as much joy as he had imagined.
Right now, he had higher pursuits and greater ambitions.
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao snapped his fingers. The curtains were automatically closed without any sound.
He took out four light yellow diamond-shaped crystals from his pocket and placed them in the four corners of the room.
With a telepathic thought, the four diamond-shaped crystals started to spin at a high speed like gyroscopes.
A strange fluctuation immediately enveloped the entire room.
They were the barriers that he had bought from Yuan Qi.
Since Yuan Qi was a top-tier cryptographer, he was also a top-tier master of design of barriers. With the protection of the four gyroscopic crystals, Li Yao would not be discovered by the outside world even if he were to turn the place upside down.
Li Yao connected his mini crystal processor to the Cosmos Ring and typed in the key to crack the barriers.
The Cosmos Ring slightly shivered. Two streams of spiritual energy flowed out one after another.
Two ripples were raised as if two stones had been thrown into a pond in a row.
Li Yao was so nervous that his heart was about to stop beating.
One of his spiritual threads sneaked into the Cosmos Ring tentatively, only to discover that there were indeed two new smaller storage spaces outside of the main storage space!
It was a very weird feeling. If he tried to describe it, it was like three bubbles, one big and two small, squeezed together.
But inside the two small bubbles …
Li Yao waved his spiritual threads hard and pierced them into one of the bubbles, retrieving everything inside.
"Marrow crystals?"
More than twenty transparent, glamorous crystals were placed on the bed, making Li Yao dizzy and breathless.
They were the real Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures!
Cultivators cultivated by swallowing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Spiritual energy was usually in the form of gas, liquid, and solid.
As for the other two special states, plasma and super solid, they could only appear under extreme circumstances and were not within the scope of normal training.
Spiritual energy was the most widely distributed and could be found everywhere in the world. When Li Yao had just awakened, he had 'seen' countless light spots floating in the air, which he had absorbed with his spiritual threads.
Those light spots were all spiritual energy.
Although they were widely distributed and easy to absorb, their density was too low to meet the needs of training.
The condensation of spiritual energy was spiritual liquid.
Strengthening drugs, recovery drugs, and even the blood of demon beasts could all be regarded as spiritual liquid. The spiritual energy contained in them was hundreds of times higher than spiritual energy.
When spiritual energy invaded metals and rocks, it would slowly change the nature of metals and rocks over billions of years of evolution. Eventually, crystals would be formed, which could also be regarded as a solid form of spiritual energy. They were the main source of spiritual energy for Cultivators.
Crystals had a wide range of applications. Not only could they be consumed by Cultivators for training, they could also be refined into crystal cells to drive magical equipment.
It was safe to say that crystals were the foundation of the modern Cultivation civilization.
Marrow crystals were a special kind of crystal. They were the essence of a mother lode of crystals that had been slowly condensed under high temperature and pressure for billions of years.
The spiritual energy contained in a marrow crystal was at least hundreds of times higher than that of crystals of the same volume, and its purity was more than 99%.
In the market, Crystal Essences were priceless.
This was because no Cultivator would be willing to sell the marrow crystals.
Once they were discovered, they would definitely use them for their own training or to refine powerful magical equipment or miraculous medicines that could bring people back to life.
However, marrow crystals were not something that could be used casually.
The spiritual energy contained in them was too immense. One moment of carelessness and severe consequences would be caused.
For example, if Li Yao did not know the mysteries of marrow crystals and refined them in the same way that he refined regular crystals and then absorbed them, he would definitely not be able to bear it and would explode and die.
The utilization of every marrow crystal was entirely different. All kinds of 'primers' had to be used to refine them.
Some primers were very common. Some primers were Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures themselves. Some primers were even rarer and harder to find than marrow crystals.
There were many secret arts to identify and refine marrow crystals in the classics of the Hundred Smelting Clan.
Li Yao frowned as he identified them carefully. His ecstasy a moment ago turned into deep hesitation.
"Blood Chalcedony, Liquid Silver Essence, Deity Dissolving Stone, Sea Orchid …"
"Why are they all the rarest marrow crystals?"
Li Yao discovered that all the marrow crystals were of the rarest and most eccentric kind.
Many marrow crystals were only recorded in the classics of the Hundred Smelting Clan and had long been lost in the modern world of Cultivators. In the entire Tian Yuan Realm, it was possible that nobody other than him knew how to refine them.
Pondering for a long time, Li Yao knocked his head and scolded himself.
"Of course they are rare!
"If they were not rare, the snake demon king would've used them for his training a long time ago. I wouldn't have had a chance at all!"
Li Yao estimated that the marrow crystals had been collected by the snake demon king over the past hundred years. But because they were too rarely-known, the snake demon king did not know how to refine them at all.
Even if he did, he would not be able to use them for his training without enough primers, nor would he be willing to trade them.
Therefore, the snake demon king had set aside a secret space in his Cosmos Ring to store the marrow crystals. He was planning to refine them when he found enough primers in the future.
But as it turned out, Li Yao was the one who benefited from it!
Different from the snake demon king, Li Yao knew exactly how to refine the marrow crystals.
Although the primers were complicated, it was still possible to find a few of them on the Nexus in the information age.
"If there is no other way, I can make the marrow crystals into bombs. Hehe. Chances are that they will be ten times more powerful than the demon core bomb of the mutant lion dragon!
"Let's put the marrow crystals aside and see what's in the storage space!"
Li Yao pierced his spiritual threads into the second bubble softly.
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