"But there's one thing every Source of Souls has in common: without exception, they all contain large quantities of Soul Crystals!
"That's why I've attached so much importance to this Source of Souls, and why I was willing to risk being tracked down by the Kindling Human Civilization Alliance's cleanup fleet and waste time in this space. I wanted to break through its outer defenses and obtain the treasures that might have formed inside, along with the large quantity of Soul Crystals that was sure to be there!" The information Gatsby provided undoubtedly filled everyone aboard the Sky Peng Horizontal with anticipation. "Treasures? Cosmic Treasures? The soul power of powerful creatures?
Slurp! Shi Zunhou swallowed hard. The only thing he'd missed was "wisdom and knowledge." "A large quantity of Soul Crystals?
"How many could there be?" Mingzhi Guangxiu immediately zeroed in on what mattered most to him. What did the Sky Peng Horizontal need most at the moment? Without a doubt, Soul Crystals! To put it in more immediate terms, several of its top Shipborne Modules, including Cthulhu's Skull, couldn't be systematically enhanced because Soul Crystals were in such short supply. Looking further ahead, the importance of Soul Crystals was obvious from the resources required for the Sky Peng Horizontal to evolve into an Abyss Ship. For the Sky Peng Horizontal's next evolution—though that might still be a long way off— stockpiling as many Soul Crystals as possible had already become a shared goal among the ship's core crew! As the Sky Peng Horizontal's Minister of Commerce, Mingzhi Guangxiu had practically worked his brain cells to death trying to make it happen. But Soul Crystals were so scarce that he'd never managed to break through, or find another reliable source besides the Extraterrestrial Battlefield. So when he heard Gatsby mention