What Lin Yuan saw was a pile of Transcendent Cores gathered together!
Although the Abyssal Sea was not truly the seabed, the solid properties of its water gave it a similar function.
When creatures in the upper layers died, aside from the few whose bodies were gathered by special terrain like the Behemoth Graveyard, the rest fell into the Abyssal Sea and were buried in its depths as its waters flowed.
Things like Transcendent Cores had similar weights, densities, and properties, which differed from those of the Abyssal Sea's water, so they easily gathered together during that flow.
The final result was the "mineral deposit" before Lin Yuan.
"Gather them up, quick!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yuan immediately directed the Phantom Lin Yuan over to the "deposit" and collected the cores one by one.
Although deposits in the shallow layers of the Abyssal Sea had usually formed relatively recently and were low in both quantity and quality, that was only in comparison to the large deposits deeper down.
This small deposit before him held over a hundred Transcendent Cores!
Most were D-rank and E-rank cores, but there were also a few B-rank and C-rank cores.
Combined with the cores left in Lin Yuan's warehouse, they actually gave him enough to compress another A-rank Core.
Lin Yuan happily refined it, immediately bringing the Transcendent Energy tank's reserves to 160/160.
The Abyssal Sea really was a treasure trove. He could pick up money just by walking around.
Of course, such good fortune did not happen all the time. As the Phantom Lin Yuan continued descending, it encountered no more deposits like that.
Still, although there were no more high-value deposits, Lin Yuan encountered plenty of other things.
Metal ore, behemoth bones, and the like were very common in the Abyssal Sea.