Source Crystal Fragments, Miraculous Valley

The purple light was dazzling. Though Han Yi was anxious, he remained calm; the two did not conflict.

He first swept his Dao sense around and found no trace of any other cultivators nearby. Then he raised the Void Sword Realm to its limit.

Then his figure flashed as he fled down into the fissure below.

The purple glow seemed close at hand, yet after descending, he had traveled a full hundred thousand li before reaching the bottom of the fissure.

When Han Yi clearly saw the scene at the bottom, his slightly hurried breathing suddenly grew heavy, and his expression changed with it.

Excitement—frenzied excitement.

He had not felt such emotions in many years.

Given his current realm and opportunities, opportunities below the Heavenly Venerable level could scarcely stir his heart.

Yet at this moment, that emotion truly surfaced, because of the exaggerated sight before him.

Before him lay a river that had been dry for countless years. At the deepest part of its sunken riverbed, purple crystals dotted a stretch of ground roughly three li long.

Han Yi would never mistake the aura of these crystals. They were unmistakably Purple Extreme Source Crystals.

His figure moved, and he arrived beside the nearest crystal a hundred meters away, picking it up.

But after only one glance, his excited heart calmed somewhat.

Because the purple crystal in his hand was not, strictly speaking, a crystal at all, but a crystal shard.

The shard was only as wide as a fingernail, its edges uneven and slightly sharp. It was exceptionally thin, thinner even than ordinary paper. Only its dazzling purple radiance matched the rhomboid source crystals he had found before.

In terms of weight, this tiny shard was less than one percent of a complete rhomboid Purple Extreme Source Crystal.

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