(Third Update)
"Ah!" Li Xiaoya came back to his senses. He was still in Dong Santong's cave abode, discussing things with Blue Ice and the others. Seeing everyone looking at him curiously, he cleared his throat. "Ahem! It's nothing!" He paused and hesitated before adding, "Right! I know what that Metal Island is made of!"
"Oh? You do? What is it?" Blue Ice asked delightedly.
"...!" Dong Santong and Mother Li exchanged knowing looks. Both knew about Second Better, and realized that Li Xiaoya had probably been staring into space because Second Better was telling him where that material came from.
"It's heavenly starstone!" Li Xiaoya said happily. Although Blue Ice was the person he knew least well among them, after going through life and death together several times, he trusted her character. She was not the sort of cultivator who forgot loyalty at the sight of profit.
"Heavenly starstone?" Everyone froze at his words and echoed them in confusion. None of them actually knew what it looked like. That was understandable for Blue Ice and Dong Santong, but Mother Li was a genuine cultivator with several hundred years of cultivation behind her. Even she did not know, which was rather surprising.
"Well, this heavenly starstone..." Li Xiaoya explained its wondrous uses to everyone.
"Ah! In that case, this really is an extraordinary treasure!" Mother Li said with feeling after hearing his explanation.
"Yes!" Blue Ice sighed as well. "What a pity! Such an enormous piece of heavenly starstone is occupied by that Sea Flood Dragon now. There's no way we can get it!"
"Why don't we simply go snatch it?" Dong Santong suggested gravely.
"Er! Fellow Daoist Dong, you mustn't underestimate that Sea Flood Dragon. Its hide is far too thick. Even Fellow Daoist Li's Dragon-Devouring Wave couldn't hurt