Bi Ji's gaze settled on the crystal ahead, which shimmered with a strange azure glow.
She drew a deep breath.
Her eyes, usually as still as an ancient well, now brimmed with profound solemnity.
"This is called Life Gold."
At the name, both Ah Yin and Da Ming looked puzzled.
Clearly, the term lay beyond their knowledge.
"Life Gold isn't ordinary ore."
Bi Ji continued her explanation, her voice exceedingly grave.
"Nor is it some rare metal seldom found on the Douluo Continent."
"Whatever you do, don't regard it as a metal material."
Ah Yin leaned a little closer.
A brilliant light shone in her eyes, despite her usual gentle composure. "Then what exactly is it? Why do I feel such an incredibly powerful attraction to it?"
"Life."
Bi Ji delivered the word with resounding conviction.
"To be precise, it is the primal life force that disperses into the air after countless living beings throughout heaven and earth die."
"Plants wither, Soul Beasts fall, humans die..."
"When any life ends, an exceedingly faint trace of life origin returns to heaven and earth."
Bi Ji glanced around, taking in everyone's astonished expressions.
"These elusive, intangible traces of life force gather deep beneath the earth."
"After a million years, or even ten million years, of compression by the laws of nature, after an accumulation over ages beyond ordinary imagination!"
"They finally turn from gas into liquid, and then undergo countless rounds of refinement in liquid form... condensing into the solid crystal of life before us!"
Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air.
Ten million years of accumulation!
How many living beings' life force must that have gathered?
Bi Ji pointed a fingertip toward the azure crystal without touching it.
"It looks like metal on the outside, and feels like metal to