Lin Xia withdrew his Soul Power, his face still carrying the lingering shock. Looking at Lou Gao, who was still fuming, he asked tentatively:
"Teacher, this... Ghost Douluo really returned everything that had been extorted over the past few years? With so many Gold Soul Coins and materials, are we... still going prospecting?"
Hearing this, Lou Gao stopped pacing and cursing. The anger on his face eased slightly as he rubbed the Storage Ring in his hand, his gaze turning profound.
Lou Gao nodded, his tone utterly resolute.
"We're going! Of course we're going!"
Lou Gao looked at Lin Xia, his eyes filled with determination and fervor.
"Xiao Xia, look carefully. There's a lot in here, and it's all genuinely valuable. There's enough Fine Iron and Cold Iron to last us, and even Mithril and Adamantite. But what are these things?"
"They're basics! Consumables!"
Lou Gao's voice carried the clarity of someone who saw through to the essence of things.
"What do we lack now? Rare minerals! Untouched deposits capable of carrying the cores of high-level Soul Tool Arrays, perhaps even containing special laws of power! The keys that can support our research into epoch-defining creations like Soul Tool Mechs!"
Lou Gao weighed the Storage Ring in his hand, his tone firm.
"Does this have any of that? No! What Ghost Douluo returned was, in the end, merely the ordinary stuff Miles had extorted from us over the years."
"We still don't have the truly top-tier, rare minerals that play a decisive role in Soul Tool cores!"
"What we need can only be found by going deep into unmined ore veins ourselves, trying our luck, and digging for it!"
An adventurer's light flickered in Lou Gao's eyes, along with a yearning for unknown treasures.
"Prospecting! We have to go! This