Xu Yi asked, "The Star Refining Furnace? You mean the furnace used to refine star ore? Is it really that important?"
Yan Jingming said, "Important? Of course it is. You could say the seven Star Refining Furnaces we have now are the very foundation of Spring City. This star is overrun with exotic beasts, and the conditions for survival are harsh. Why do so many cultivators, especially high-level cultivators, still come here? It's all because of the star ore. And the key to refining star ore is the Star Refining Furnace. Ore veins are scattered all over Tu Hun Star, but only a handful of factions have the strength to mine them. Why? There are two crucial factors: one is the method for channeling the ore bed, and the other is the Star Refining Furnace."
"Based on the nature of Tu Hun Star's ore veins, people have developed a total of thirteen methods for channeling ore beds. Put simply, without a set method, even a discovered ore vein is nothing but a pile of useless rocks. You have to use one of those thirteen methods to construct an ore bed before you can begin mining. And even then, the star ore you mine can only be refined in one of the city's seven Star Refining Furnaces. Spring City has a stranglehold on the star ore supply within a million li in every direction, and that is why it holds such sway today."
Xu Yi finally understood. He had wondered why people like Boss Gu would rather take jobs from those who hired killers than make a living on their own. He had thought that no matter how hard star ore veins were to find, or how difficult the exotic beasts were to fight, securing a vein would be worth any