Crisis-Ridden Source Crystal Space

When Hou Yanqing received the message Qi Dongming had sent someone to deliver, he did not believe it at first.

A Source Crystal Beast's body could be refined into some kind of spirit pearl for cultivating domains?

How was that possible?

Hou Yanqing knew that, strictly speaking, Source Crystal Beasts were like the spirit beasts within spirit realms formed from spiritual veins and spiritual energy—they were not living beings.

Just like spirit beasts, once killed, their bodies dispersed, leaving behind only spirit crystals.

Although Source Crystal Beasts could leave behind crystal fragments in addition to their Source Cores after death, that was because the Source Crystal Space itself was extremely special. The Source Crystal Beasts, originally formed from Source Crystal aura, had begun crystallizing in body, which was why they could be said to leave corpses behind.

But in truth, the corpses of Source Crystal Beasts were merely those crystal fragments. They were no different from the crystallized ground of the Source Crystal Space or those crystal trees, and possessed no tree-like power at all.

At most, they were simply rather hard!

But with the facts laid out before him, Hou Yanqing had no choice but to believe it.

The corpses of these Source Crystal Beasts also contained some Source Crystal power!

Could it be that the existence of the Source Core had caused the Source Crystal Beast's body to absorb some Source Crystal power as well?

In the end, that was the only explanation Hou Yanqing could come up with.

But no matter what, now that he knew Source Crystal Beast corpses were useful too, Hou Yanqing naturally had no intention of giving them up.

Very quickly, Hou Yanqing began instructing the others that while killing Source Crystal Beasts, they were to collect every crystal fragment left behind after