Preparation Results

"No matter what, let's first confirm the materials Yi Chen needs and see how much we can gather. Then we'll continue discussing this."

Seeing that everyone looked depressed, Lu Qingxian spoke up.

The assembled big shots nodded one after another. That was all they could do.

No matter how angry or frustrated they were, the matter still had to be resolved.

If they could not produce the materials Yi Chen needed, then the conditions they wanted were, without question, nothing but wishful thinking.

They immediately began contacting the Federal Research Institute, asking it to determine the names and properties of these materials as quickly as possible.

The result was exactly as they had guessed. They were all low-grade Immortal Minerals on roughly the same level as Immortal Enlightenment Stone.

They then contacted the higher-ups of the Council and the Military statistics departments, respectively, to check the reserves of these materials.

The results gave them a serious headache. Including Immortal Enlightenment Stone, there were sixteen materials in total, and not a single one had reserves that met the requirement.

There were even three among them that were Spirit Mines the Milky Way simply did not have at all.

"What do we do?"

No one had expected that the second payment of interest Yi Chen demanded would exceed their expectations by this much.

"The only way is to spare no cost and trade for them from other races through every possible channel."

Lu Qingxian gritted his teeth as he spoke.

Everyone fell silent. It was still the same reason.

If they could not provide them, they still had to find a way to provide them.

For materials that existed in the Milky Way, they would have to gather them by every means possible.

Even if they were in the hands of those