Changing Faces

"Zhong Shenxiu, our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Chamber of Commerce is willing to purchase one Lava Crystal Core for three hundred credits. This is our sincerity."

His voice was so loud that it echoed off the wall behind him. His eyes shone with the confidence of someone certain that this was a price Zhong Shenxiu could never refuse.

Zhong Shenxiu smiled.

The smile was faint, with only the slightest upward curve of his lips, yet a glint of coldness flashed through his pale golden vertical pupils. He shook his head and lightly tapped the tabletop with his fingers, producing a soft knocking sound.

"My apologies, Mr. Ning, but I see no sincerity in that. I trust that while you were out, you did more than merely verify the effects I mentioned. The actual results should have been no less than what I said—perhaps even better."

Ning Yihuai pressed his lips together.

That was indeed the case. He had taken the six Lava Crystal Cores to the Chamber of Commerce's testing room, used the most sophisticated instruments, and invited their most experienced appraisers. When the results came out, his heart skipped a beat.

The fire-attributed energy contained within those crystal cores was pure to the extreme, without the slightest impurity or any side effects.

When used to forge Soul Tools, they could raise the success rate by at least thirty percent. When used to refine pills, they could produce top-grade pills that had previously been impossible to make. When used to power large Soul Guidance Arrays, they could save at least half the energy consumption.

More importantly, if directly absorbed by fire-attributed Soul Masters for cultivation, they could multiply the speed at which one cultivated Soul Power!

One had to understand that these were crystal cores smaller than the palm of