With his eighth soul ring fused, Jiang Hai's voyage across the sea could already be considered a complete success. The golden crystal vein and the Sea Eastern Azure God's breakthrough were entirely unexpected bonuses.
The sea stretched boundlessly, and the places where humans lived occupied only a tiny fraction of it. Countless resources lay hidden beneath its vast waters.
The golden crystal vein was only a small part of those resources, but even that vein, thousands of meters beneath the surface, was far from easy to develop. The sea soul beasts might not pose much trouble for a top-tier soul master like Jiang Hai, but mining an entire vein could hardly be left to top-tier soul masters doing everything themselves.
For Jiang Hai to extract all the golden crystal cores from the vein, both the Glazed Heart Mirror and his Level 10 Soul Tool, the Fate-Reversing Blade, had been indispensable. But how many Level 10 Soul Tools existed in the world?
Apart from the Fate-Reversing Blade, the only universally acknowledged Level 10 Soul Tool was Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Shield. Ye Xishui's Death God Tower was very likely a Level 10 Soul Tool as well.
Beyond those, there were no others. Jing Hongchen's Hongchen Mecha and Ye Yulin's Sun Moon Divine Needle were both merely half a step into Level 10.
The realm of a Level 10 Soul Engineer was, after all, close to that of a god. Even with the help of the flame of civilization, it remained a barrier that stopped far too many people.
However, this batch of golden crystal cores would greatly enhance the Civilization Research Institute's strength. Even setting everything else aside, over a thousand Level 7 and Level 8 Invincible Shields capable of withstanding attacks from Super Douluos would provide an epic