Feng Jun was not sure whether Duke Yongyi's question was a probe, but he made it very clear that these metals had nothing to do with cultivators—unless they were willing to use mundane objects as decorations.
To be honest, even in the Blue Star Realm, most Platinum-Group Metals existed as luxury goods—because they were beautiful enough.
Metals as useful as rhenium were ultimately few in number, though several types could serve as industrial catalysts.
Feng Jun was not worried that they would take those metals and put them to other uses. But simply saying that most Platinum-Group Metals had attractive colors and could be collected as luxury goods might cause a considerable outflow.
So he had to stress that these things were useless to other cultivators. As for whether they might not believe him, that did not matter. Cultivators would absolutely not be interested in things without spiritual energy.
Then, even if a little leaked out and was collected as a luxury item, they would still have to worry about this genuine cultivator coming after them to settle the score.
In truth, metal extraction in this plane was little more than better than nothing for Feng Jun. Large-scale extraction naturally had to be done on the Blue Star Plane. If he brought out enough mineral deposits, even the international prices of Platinum-Group Metals would be affected.
That was the proper way for him to make use of this plane. He would absolutely not touch the mineral reserves that Xia Nation had in abundance. For example, he had no interest at all in looking for Tungsten Ore, and even if he found some, he would not mine it.
However, small-scale extraction of Platinum-Group Metals on the Phone Plane also suited his original intention of building an industrial system. Trading basic Platinum-Group