A short while later, inside the spirit jade vein, Lu Ye walked about and looked around.
Purple Jade was a top-tier spirit island, so naturally it had its own spirit jade vein. This was also the hallmark of a top-tier spirit island.
This was not his first time entering a spirit jade vein. There was one within the Core of Square Inch Mountain, and he had inspected it before.
He had seen the Merfolk Race's spirit jade vein countless times.
Though called a spirit jade vein, it was somewhat different from a true mineral vein. Ordinary mineral veins contained many derivatives and associated minerals, which made mining rather troublesome. Those derivatives had to be removed, and the minerals extracted came in varying degrees of purity, requiring certain methods to refine the needed ores.
But spirit jade veins were not like that.
The birth of spirit jade was itself the gathering and condensation of Starry Sky Energy. Once it reached a certain limit, the Starry Sky Energy condensed into spirit jade.
Thus, the spirit jade vein of every top-tier spirit island was the place where that island's energy was most concentrated.
Cultivators could excavate suitably sized hollows throughout the vein in advance, then simply wait quietly. Spirit jade would condense within those hollows, ready to be harvested at the proper time. Of course, they could also leave it alone; it made little difference.
In a special place like the Myriad Phenomena Sea, so long as the Myriad Phenomena Sea did not run dry, the spirit jade veins of all top-tier spirit islands would be inexhaustible. Fundamentally, the spirit jade harvested was merely the energy dispersed from the seawater of the Myriad Phenomena Sea gathering and condensing anew.
The spirit jade vein on Purple Jade Island was fairly substantial, but compared with