The Young King Insect nest had already been filled in by seventy percent. A Blade Beast breeding chamber had been deliberately preserved here, along with several adult Blade Beast corpse specimens and clusters upon clusters of...
Glowing Stone Shards.
"This is the stuff."
Zhou Zhengde, the only ordinary person on the team, wore a pressure suit equipped with an oxygen supply system as he weakly explained:
"This stuff can't be collected. While it's on the ground, it feels somewhat like crystal, but the moment you pick it up, it shatters directly...
"Our methods can't detect any energy inside it.
"Research institutions conducted all kinds of analyses on the fragments, but their final conclusion was only that it was a type of stone, with a composition close to natural crystal.
"But look at these Blade Beast corpses. As long as they're placed around these Glowing Stone Shards, the crystal cores in their bodies gradually gain psionic energy.
"If there are no Blade Beasts and only crystal cores in various states are placed here, the psionic energy increase doesn't occur."
Wang Jixuan added, "There are many of these things in this Young King Insect nest. They seem capable of letting Blade Beasts gradually mature from their juvenile forms."
Zhou Zhengde continued, "These Glowing Stone Shards have never been found in the strata outside Blade Beast Lairs. Also, when this nest fell, those Blade Beasts were deliberately destroying these stone shards... This was the first nest where we cleared them out quickly enough to preserve this kind of stone."
Zhou Zhengde pointed at Wang Jixuan.
"He did it."
Wang Jixuan shrugged. "I got carried away."
Treant Beta exclaimed in admiration, "You wiped out an entire nest by yourself!"
Shaman couldn't help praising him as well. "That kind of endurance... No, I mean, is