"But speaking of demand, Great Shaman Liehuo's branch on the Witch Alliance Continent needs this stuff most urgently! Because this is what Great Shaman Liehuo needs most of all. Whenever any turns up, he never lets it slip by. No amount is too much, and even a single piece is never too little."
"As far as I remember, this sort of thing... has appeared eight or ten times."
Grandma Shi frowned, pondering her memories. "But their whereabouts are all unknown now. Or perhaps they were used up long ago."
"There have also been Star Soul Stones that fell and immediately created the spectacle of a thousand miles sealed in ice and snow drifting over ten thousand miles... a single stone creating sprawling glaciers... such things have happened too."
"With things like these, people generally start searching the moment they fall, and a fortunate coincidence might lead them to one. Once the wondrous stone truly erupts and forms volcanoes, lava, or snowfields and glaciers... there's no point in searching any further."
"At that stage, it has already developed sentience and won't let anyone find it."
"This... is the pure essence of the cosmos..." Grandma Shi sighed in wonder.
Zuo Xiaoduo's imagination immediately ran wild. "Grandma Shi, does that mean there must be one beneath those icebergs and glaciers?"
"There should be. But even Great Shaman Bingming went looking and found nothing."
Grandma Shi saw through what he was thinking at a glance and shook her head with a helpless, wry smile. "Put that idea to rest."
"Okay, it's dead already." Zuo Xiaoduo nodded.
Yet inwardly, he thought, If I could find a piece like that for Nian Nian Cat...
After finishing his conversation with Grandma Shi, Zuo Xiaoduo endured the intense heat inside the Annihilation Sky Pagoda, placing the Blazing