Yuan Crystal

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Properties and Denominations

Yuan Crystals form deep within earth veins and spiritual veins as they absorb and condense the primordial energy of heaven and earth. Martial artists at the Qi Condensation Realm or above can refine the energy stored inside them 59 213.

• Freshly mined crystals vary in shape and size; the uniformly sized crystals used as currency have been polished and processed 213.
• Higher-value crystals contain a greater concentration of Yuan energy 213.

Uses

• Cultivation: Refining Yuan Crystals can nourish blood and qi, support the meridians, temper the body, accelerate cultivation, and help overcome bottlenecks 2 59.
• Trade: They pay for pills, spiritual medicines, cultivation manuals, weapons, and other resources 2 59.
• Chen An’s system: Recharging the system with one Yuan Crystal provides one point exchangeable for one year of system cultivation time. After a later upgrade, the balance is called Crystal Points and remains usable for technique cultivation and deduction, but not for comprehending laws 3 4 276.

Veins and Mining

• Yuan Crystal deposits occur in underground earth veins. Yuan Masters can survey those veins to locate concealed mines 177 214.
• Mining damages a vein’s capacity to sustain local Yuan energy. After extracting ore from a small vein, Chen An closes the disturbed ground and resolves to mine more carefully 213.
• In the Great Luo Dynasty, Chen An finds many veins exhausted or already controlled by families, sects, or the authorities 214.
• Yuan Crystal mines are more widespread on the resource-rich Heavenly Court Ancient Star, where its present world continues to condense new Yuan Crystals 296.

Related Resource: Dao Crystals

Dao Crystals are a rarer, higher-grade type of Yuan Crystal. They contain much purer Yuan energy, can nourish a Dao Palace and stabilize a Primordial Spirit, and are useful to cultivators beyond the Half-Saint Realm 216. Unlike Yuan Crystals formed by the present world, they contain fragments of laws from the Divine Ancient Era and are not readily replenished 276 296.

• Chen An’s upgraded system converts one jin of Dao Crystals into one Source Point, which can be spent on comprehending laws 276.
• Dao Crystals can also seal objects or living beings against the erosion of time 276.