[The treasure Chen Ye had obtained was utterly incomparable to the sapphire hidden within the Strange Stone you had cracked open today. What surprised you was that this item had once been personally handled and placed somewhere by one of the Ink Bone Origin Spirit's hosts. According to Ink Bone, even its host, who had held a lofty position within the Ink Transformation Clan, had considered keeping it rather than burying it somewhere.
However, for some reason, that person had ultimately not done so. It seemed there were people specifically assigned to oversee such matters, preventing the guards from stealing what they guarded. Even Ink Bone had never taken the initiative to ask its host why the Ink Transformation Clan went through the thankless effort of burying treasures.]
[But since it was a treasure Ink Bone had once come into contact with, you had asked exactly the right person. According to it, this sapphire-like object was called a "Dao Source Spirit Seed," and was said to be connected to the true Dao Source World Tree. Before the "real" Great Darkness Calamity, only the Dao Source World Tree could produce them. Every era, it could nurture them three times, producing twelve lower-grade, twelve middle-grade, and twelve upper-grade seeds in turn.
At the height of its power, it was hardly strange for the Ink Transformation Clan to have plundered several Dao Source Spirit Seeds from various places. Yet even for such a powerful and flourishing force, Dao Source Spirit Seeds counted as high-value treasures. There was nothing wrong with the Ink Bone Origin Spirit remembering them and calling them superior rarities...
Instead, after learning that the Strange Stone concealed a Dao Source Spirit Seed, the Ink Bone Origin Spirit became even more astonished by and approving of you. It knew perfectly well