Although Li Chen was not a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he had dealt with cultivators at that stage and accumulated considerable experience. Now he felt all the more certain that advancing soon was practically a sure thing.
He quietly assessed the changes in himself, then took an object from the Storage Bag he carried. It was a gray-black lump the size of an egg, resembling quartz.
It was a strange substance Li Chen had discovered in this world, with properties remarkably similar to monocrystalline silicon.
This cultivation civilization had named it conductive stone after simple experiments revealed its ability to conduct thunder gang and even transmit magic power.
However, the people of this world had never studied it in depth. It was merely an obscure material with virtually no spiritual essence inside, not even worthy of being called a low-grade spirit material, and its uses remained unclear.
It was widespread throughout this world's mineral veins, the sort of cheap stuff that could be dug up by the shovelful once you found the right place. A few apprentices using crude purification methods could then turn out heaps of finished material.
Back when Li Chen was at the Octagonal Fort, he had discovered a rich deposit of it a hundred li beyond the wasteland. At the time, he was a master artisan's retainer, so he had no need to do the work himself and barely spent any money. A few casual words were enough to have several rogue cultivators bring back some ore for him when they passed that way. Apprentices in the fort had helped purify and refine it, producing several jin.
Those people had muttered at the time that this master artisan's retainer truly had peculiar tastes, playing around with mud and rocks.
They had no idea how delighted and astonished