Lu Wushuang and the Snow Emperor had been somewhat slower than you. When they saw the raw Exotic Space Hair Crystal ore you had mined, both their auras could not help but shift. Clearly, they understood the value of this mineral as well.
From its name alone, one could tell that Exotic Space Hair Crystal was a Dao material used to forge spatial treasures.
That was indeed the case. It was an exceptionally stable spatial material, useful for everything from forging Space Rings to constructing cross-world Spatial Teleportation Matrices, even repairing a world's wounds and resisting the incursions of other worlds.
Due to its stability, it had been designated the highest-priority Dao material for refining Spatial Teleportation Matrices, without equal. Even the Spatial Teleportation Matrix you had previously exchanged from the Xunlei Divine Sect at great cost contained only a tiny amount of Five-Ring Dao Grade Exotic Space Hair Crystal.
Furthermore, it possessed the Trait of being "almost nonrenewable." Even if there was a vein, it could not be repeatedly mined; the time required for a new vein to emerge was enough to outlive several generations. Thus, the people of the Three Pure Heavens called it the "true gold" of the cultivation world!
Many times, the Thirty-Six Heavens treated Immortal Fate Stones as the equivalent of hard currency. That alone proved that the public recognized their value and universal applicability.
Yet Immortal Fate Stones of the same size and grade still fell far short of Exotic Space Hair Crystal in terms of value. If the two were compared together, their exchange ratio was nearly three to one—three Immortal Fate Stones for a single Exotic Space Hair Crystal of the same grade and size. Moreover, those willing to exchange Exotic Space Hair Crystal for Immortal Fate Stones were exceedingly rare.
Thus,