Besides, several First Rank centaurs did not leave but continued wandering through other shops, and soon they became interested in genetic potions and body tempering potions.
However, it was unclear whether it was because their bodies were already very strong, rendering the genetic potions and body tempering potions less effective for them, or perhaps after purchasing those combat tools they didn’t have much money left.
In any case, they only bought 100 vials of each, the genetic optimization potion, and the primary body tempering potion, and didn’t want even one vial of the intermediate body tempering potion.
Song Chi didn’t mind this. After the few dozen minutes of buffering, other aliens had also entered through the spatial gates. Now, apart from the hundred-odd centaurs in the Ruins Market, there were several hundreds of other alien races present. There was bound to be a lifeform that would purchase these genetic potions.
What was giving him a headache was the hundreds of pieces of exoskeleton armor, as up to now, none of the various alien species that had entered the Ruins Market were humanoid, let alone from the Starry Sea Human Race, which led to the exoskeleton armor being left untouched.
In the free trading area, at this moment, a number of alien species had already gathered. Song Chi continued to roam around this area as usual.
Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks, with a part of his mind shifting to the shops on the side of the street, particularly drawn to the group of centaurs again.
After summoning more of their centaur kin and having transported all the tungsten gold combat shields and tungsten gold lances back to their tribe, a few First Rank centaurs wandered into a shop specialized in buying items.
This was not the focal point, as many other alien races had previously entered this shop. However, after realizing that the shop was purchasing Titanium Crystals, all the aliens without exception quickly shook their heads and left. But currently, these few First Rank centaurs had already stayed in the shop for over two minutes.
Song Chi’s mind whirred, driving the Power of Laws within the Ruins Market Secret Realm to scrutinize the facial expressions of those few First Rank centaurs. He was soon taken aback.
From the subtle changes in the eyes of the few First Rank centaurs, it seemed that they truly possessed, or at least knew of, the existence of the mysterious substance, the Titanium Crystals, that the shop was purchasing.
Thinking of this, he immediately became excited.
Since the last trade fair, this shop had been specially used for purchasing strategic resources such as Titanium Crystals, even though he had added another type of item for purchase, which was not any other random thing but rather Starry Sea Oddities of Purple Quality or above.
Both of these were definitely heavyweight news.
Even if the Starry Sea Oddity of Purple Quality and above didn’t necessarily serve as a Fire Source for upranking the Seed of Torch, Song Chi was still willing to give it a try. Starry Sea Oddities of Purple Quality and above were rare indeed, and they warranted at least a glance.
Just as he was thinking this, the few First Rank centaurs inside the buying shop finished their eye contact and hesitated for a while. Eventually, the First Rank centaur who first entered the Ruins Market asked,
“Excuse me, is this ‘Titanium Crystal’ valuable?”
In the free trading area, Song Chi was shaken. With a thought: “Could it truly be possible?”
Then he quickly sent out another thought, manipulating the display screen in the buying shop to unfold a reply.
“Each crystal can be exchanged for thirty genetic optimization potions, or primary body tempering potions, and can also be traded for three intermediate body tempering potions. This type of body tempering potion has good effects for the vast majority of First Rank life entities in the Starry Sea.”
Seeing the reply emerge in the Starry Sea’s common language on the screen, the few First Rank centaurs exchanged glances once more, and then left together.
Compared to last time, Song Chi was even more tense. After all, this was Titanium Crystal, far too precious compared to Zero Rank and First Rank Floating Land Origin.
The brief ten-odd minutes felt endlessly agonizing to him, so when the group of First Rank centaurs reappeared in the Ruins Market, he immediately shifted his gaze towards them, while inwardly he was roaring silently.
“I hope it really is so…”
Titanium Crystal was an exceptionally rare special resource. In the Shattered Starry Sea, there were countless types of mineral resources, including many resembling Titanium Crystal, and his fear was that all of this might be a mistake.
In the buying shop, under Song Chi’s anxious watch, the few First Rank centaurs fumbled on their bodies and soon took out several dozen silver-white, lustrous crystals.
Song Chi’s spiritual focus converged, all gathering upon the several dozen shimmering crystals, to determine whether they were indeed titanium crystals.
Dozens of seconds later, Song Chi, who still stood in a certain area of the marketplace, bore a mask of extreme disappointment on his face. Though these crystals looked remarkably like titanium crystals in appearance, whether in size, shape, or color, lamentably, after his careful inspection, they turned out not to be titanium crystals, but a special mineral highly similar to them.
As for what kind of resource they actually were, Song Chi was also in the dark, because the official comprehensive resource guide of the Torch Civilization did not have any record of them, obviously a mineral yet to be discovered.
There’s a saying that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment; this phrase was a true reflection of Song Chi’s current state of mind.
He could only console himself, thinking that titanium crystals were such extremely rare resources that it would be abnormal to come across them effortlessly.
Once he recovered, his thoughts turned again, and the reply also came from the central light screen of the trading shop simultaneously.
“A mineral extremely similar to titanium crystals, not titanium crystals!!”
Seeing this sentence, several First Rank centaurs also felt a great disappointment, as their tribe wasn’t strong, being only a mid-small-sized tribe, hence the reserves of capital within their tribe were very limited.
The reason they did not buy gene optimization potions and body tempering potions in large quantities was not because of poor effects, but rather, after purchasing that batch of tungsten gold and high-level titanium alloy combat gear, the funds they could mobilize had nearly depleted.
They had originally thought that if these crystals turned out to be titanium crystals, they could be used in place of Floating Land Origin to obtain a large batch of genetic potions, but to their dismay, the crystals turned out not to be titanium crystals.
The faces of the few First Rank centaurs looked ugly. They had been coveting those genetic potions, even if they couldn’t use them themselves, they could be given to the young children in the tribe to set a sound foundation.
If so, coupled with that batch of top-rank combat gear, in less than twenty years, when the young children of the tribe grew up, the strength of the entire tribe would skyrocket. By then, if they managed to exterminate the few surrounding tribes, their tribe might very well leap over the threshold of a mid-sized tribe and become a large tribe in one go.
But this particularly wonderful vision broke apart at the very first step, how could they be uplifted by that.
At this point, Song Chi also shifted his spiritual focus away from the group of First Rank centaurs, since they were not titanium crystals, he naturally lost interest.
In the next twenty-plus hours, the number of alien species in the Zhu Tian Ruins Market broke through two thousand, making the free-trade zone even more bustling, a good omen that meant even if the goods sold in the shops were discounted, the revenue from transaction taxes would not be trivial.
As for all the merchandise in the shops, they were almost completely sold out in less than ten hours. Even those more than one hundred sets of exoskeleton armors were purchased by an incoming humanoid species.
Finally, near the close of the Ruins Market transactions, through trading, Song Chi exchanged more than ten thousand strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin for over one thousand strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin, and the exchange ratio remained at 1:11.
However, just before the Ruins Market transactions were about to end, those few First Rank centaurs grabbed Song Chi’s attention for the third time.
In the trading shop, after considerable thought, the First Rank centaur who entered first said something to the light screen in front of him, and it was this statement that made Song Chi shift his attention over at once.
“Although those are not titanium crystals, we had no intention of deceiving anyone with fakes. Besides, I know the whereabouts of an Orange Quality Strange Object Fire Seed.”
It was the latter half of this statement that caught Song Chi’s high attention.
Purple Quality Fire Seeds, as Strange Objects of the Starry Sea, were already rare enough, let alone an Orange Glory Quality Strange Object Fire Seed.
No matter whether this Orange Glory Fire Seed could act as a Fire Source UpRank for the Seed of Torch or not, its intrinsic value was inestimable with Low Rank Floating Land Origin.
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