Bai Ye curiously glanced at Fang Yuxin, but there was nothing particularly revealing on her face, so he had to refocus his attention on Feng Yue while releasing his Spiritual Sense to carefully perceive.
Upon this perception, he discovered the issue.
The energy in Feng Yue’s body was exceptionally pure, a rarity among ordinary superpower users unless they were particularly outstanding. However, it was too farfetched to conclude that Feng Yue had used an Elemental Crystal solely based on this phenomenon.
After all, Bai Ye was not a Wood Element Superpower User and his perception of life force was not as acute as Fang Yuxin’s. Fang Yuxin was certain that Feng Yue had used an Elemental Crystal because his life force was much more vigorous than that of other superpower users of the same rank. Moreover, his body’s enhancement was also much stronger. All these indicated that he was no ordinary superpower user!
Furthermore, on her way here, she noticed numerous ruins and meteorite craters, which lacked raw stones. Obviously, someone had snatched up the items ahead of time.
At that time, she began to doubt, suspecting that someone had discovered the functions of raw stones and Elemental Crystals, but she wasn’t entirely sure. It wasn’t until she saw Feng Yue and felt his abnormally robust life force and physical strength that she confirmed this person had used an Elemental Crystal; the remaining raw stones or Elemental Crystals must be in his possession.
However, she had no intention of snatching the raw stones and Elemental Crystals from him. Her stash already contained a fair amount of raw stones and Elemental Crystals; unlike Bai Ye’s misfortune of having his supplies stolen. Thus, the raw stones and Elemental Crystals in Feng Yue’s hands held no allure for her.
She didn’t harbor the grand ambition to monopolize all the raw stones and Elemental Crystals, leaving others with none to use!
Telling Bai Ye all this was just to see what he would do. She knew that all of Bai Ye’s supplies had been stolen, including the raw stones and Elemental Crystals. Now, with a pile of raw stones and Elemental Crystals in front of him, what would he choose?
Suddenly, she was very curious to find out.
Bai Ye felt that Fang Yuxin’s gaze towards him was somewhat off, which suddenly made him feel uneasy. Looking at Feng Yue, he finally spotted the problem again—Feng Yue’s physical strength was incredibly high!
He himself had absorbed many Elemental Crystals, with his body being enhanced step by step. Now, looking at Feng Yue, he had a good idea and understood why Fang Yuxin had said he was in possession of Elemental Crystals.
He pondered for a moment before asking deliberately, "You think a thousand Crystal Cores will satisfy us? What if I’m not content? Actually, I’m more interested in a certain type of stone you have."
Upon hearing this, Feng Yue’s face instantly turned pale, his eyes glaring fiercely at Bai Ye, filled with a blaze of anger and heavy wariness.
The raw stones and Elemental Crystals were his deepest secret. He had considered the possibility of someone close to him discovering the raw stones, but he never expected Bai Ye to be the first to find out!
How on earth did he discover it?
His mind was in turmoil, entirely unable to fathom where he had slipped up. Staring at Bai Ye in a state of shock and confusion, he suddenly formulated a guess—could this group be targeting those mysterious stones and Crystal Stones?
He had discovered how to use raw stones and Elemental Crystals by chance and had since been deliberately collecting such stones, even forbidding his subordinates to keep any for themselves.
With the help of his men, all the nearby Elemental Stones had been found and ended up in his possession. However, cutting the raw stones required spiritual power, and since he was not a Spiritual Ability User and dared not enlist one to cut the stones, he had to slice them bit by bit himself.
At first, he only thought they were magical stones that could be used for training spiritual power. It was only after cutting open the stones that he found the mysterious Crystal Stones hidden inside.
He had tried to absorb them, but to no avail, so he carefully hoarded the Crystal Stones. Later, using the pretext of awarding his subordinates, he conducted experiments and finally discovered the function of the Crystal Stones—superpower users of the same element who absorbed these Crystal Stones would become stronger!
Since then, while cultivating his own spiritual power, he also intentionally trained his subordinates, eventually turning them into the top ten experts second only to him in strength.
One could say that those mysterious stones and Crystal Stones were his closely guarded trump cards he did not wish others to know about. Yet, the matter had been uncovered by the other party!
Could there have been a snitch? No, he was certain that he had kept the secret very tight; apart from himself, no one knew where those mysterious Crystal Stones came from!