Lin Feng received each visitor with patience and composure, carefully weighing their accounts. He dismissed no fragment of a clue as insignificant, nor did he blindly trust any exaggerated claim.
Drawing on his extensive experience and precise spiritual sense, he filtered out most of the false, inflated, and worthless information. In the end, he selected several sound, highly credible leads that could be verified, recorded each in a dedicated jade slip, and planned his route. He would visit the star domains himself, verify the reports on site, and excavate them for proof.
The first lead pointed to the Shattered Star Shoal in the eastern Myriad Worlds Sea.
It was a field of wreckage left by a shattered star domain. Countless broken stars and floating rocks overlapped and interlaced throughout the desolate, rarely visited region. Rumor spoke of an ancient divine crystal vein abandoned for ten thousand years. Mighty cultivators had once mined it, but it had gradually fallen into disuse, and few ventured there to explore.
Lin Feng left Return to the Ruins City and crossed the void, traveling steadily without haste or impatience. After half a month, he finally reached the Shattered Star Shoal star domain.
Following the lead precisely to its source, he soon found the concealed entrance to the vein amid the layers of turbulent rubble.
The sight before him was exactly as the report had described. This ancient vein had been mined over countless years, and its rich central deposits had long since been emptied by those who came before. Only scattered peripheral deposits remained in its depths. Not only were these remnants sparse, but their quality fell far short of genuine core ore crystals. Their spiritual energy was impure, their grade mediocre.
Lin Feng felt neither disappointment nor disdain. On the path of cultivation, small