Ji Hao moved really fast, even faster than Feng Xing. He grabbed the crystal in his hand ahead of Elder Iron Yan.
The fist-sized crystal was ivory-white, only half-inch thick, and shaped irregularly. It looked like a broken leaf. However, it was incredibly heavy, only a slight piece like this weighed at least five-thousand stones. An ordinary elementary-level Novice Magus could only hold two crystal pieces like this at one time, using all of his or her power.
Once Ji Hao’s palm touched this crystal, he felt an extremely dense stream of power gushing into his body through his palm. The power was pure and warm, and felt like wine that had been in a cellar for over a hundred years. This stream of power had even brought Ji Hao a magical sense of pleasure.
“Highest-grade magic crystal!” said Ji Hao, after letting out a cough.
Ji Hao had seen highest-grade, fire-essence crystals back in the Cold Stream Valley within the Southern Wasteland. The fire-essence crystal was actually a small class belonging to the range of fire-power system magic crystals. However, amongst all kinds of magic crystals, the most precious, rare and useful kind was the kind that actually didn’t have any natural property. What is meant by this is that the power contained in this kind of magic crystal neither belonged to the fire-power system nor to any other special kind of power system. Nevertheless, no matter which power-system your own power had a natural affinity to, you could use this kind of all-adapting magic crystals to assist your cultivation. You would be able to absorb power from this kind of magic crystals.
A piece of all-adapting magic crystal was worth ten times more than any other special kind of magic crystal of similar quality and purity as itself. Moreover, this kind of magic crystals were too rare, you could hardly find it in markets. All powerful clans and organizations were trying as hard as they could to gather more all-adapting crystals. Not a single clan or organization would easily let this kind of precious magic crystal get out of their hands.
“I seemed to remember that silver tungsten mines happened to be accompanied by magic crystal mines,” murmured Yu Mu. He had learned quite much about all kinds of mines and magic crystals in the Magi Palace, “But, not this kind of highest-grade all-adapting magic crystals. Hmmm, I thought only other few rare kinds of highest grade metal mines could be accompanied by all-adapting magic crystals, isn’t it?”
Ji Hao shook his head, weighed this piece of magic crystal in his hand, then let out a deep growl at the bug queen, which had already become his slave.
The black bug that had darted out just now with this piece of magic crystal held in its jaws let out a shrill scream, slightly shook its body, then turned around and quickly flew back into the path where he had come from.
Ji Hao, all his team members, Iron Yan and tens of Rong Mountain Clan clansmen hurriedly followed it, running into the path, and rushing behind the black bug. After rushing along the downward slope for around three hundred miles, the path gradually became thinner and narrow. Obviously, this path recently made by the black bugs. Having walked another five to six hundred zhang along the narrow path, another cave that was hundred zhang wide, appeared in front of everyone. The cave was filled with extremely dense natural power. Milky-white dense fog gathered into streams that looked like real milk and was rotating slowly inside the cave.
A magical white light lit up the entire cave. This light was coming from the human-head-sized pieces of white magic crystals, which were thickly dotted on the stone wall of the cave. Some of these magic crystals were lighter in colour, and some were darker. Apparently, they were in different in quality and purity. On the stone wall nearest to the entrance, a piece of magic crystal had a breach on it and the shape of the breach was similar to the smaller piece of magic crystal held in Ji Hao’s hand.
Obviously, this piece of magic crystal was accidentally bitten out by the black bug. Right when it had broken it out of the wall, this black bug must have heard the calling of its queen, therefore, it had hurriedly rushed out with this small piece of magic crystal held within its jaws.
“An entire mine of highest-grade all-adapting magic crystals!” Ji Hao gasped in shock, turned around with a serious look at Iron Yan, and said, “Elder, I think we should really talk about this. This mine might bring your Rong Mountain Clan a destructive disaster, believe it or not!”
The face of Iron Yan twitched intensely. He held his tiny hammer, staggered into the cave, and took a deep breath. The visible, the dense milky-white fog that had condensed from pure natural power, transformed into two small swirls and ceaselessly swished into his body.
The natural power contained in the small piece of magic crystal held in Ji Hao’s hand, equaled to the total amount of power that a peak-level Junior Magus, who had awakened a hundred meridians, each filled with power, possessed. This meant that this small piece of magic crystal was enough to let an ordinary human warrior smoothly cultivate all the way to the peak Junior Magus level. On top of that, the power contained in such a crystal was extremely pure and dense, which would result in one’s cultivation being faster by at least ten times when compared to others.