Chapter 3954 — The Top-Tier Spirit Eye
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Very well. Since it has come to this, I'll conceal it no longer. You guessed correctly—the secret of how spent jade can be turned back into good jade lies within Mining Zone No. 10. The reason I've been able to dig up good jade here again and again is precisely because of it." A trace of helplessness colored Wei Zhao's expression.
The more helpless Wei Zhao appeared, the more gratified Meng Jueming felt, and the less wary he became—and the more readily the lie seemed true in his eyes.
"Just as I expected. No wonder no one else, ourselves included, can dig up good jade in this dead mining zone—yet you alone can. I said all along there had to be something fishy about it!" Meng Jueming wore a look of great foresight.
Looking back, because Wei Zhao kept digging up good jade here, he and Meng Zhou had gone to enormous lengths, wasting vast effort in this place, only to come away with a bloody nose and finally slink off in defeat.
But according to what Wei Zhao was saying now, if they had persisted a while longer back then, they might well have discovered this secret already. There would have been no need to wait until now.
Meng Jueming silently lamented this for a while, then impatiently pressed him: "Hurry up and tell me—what exactly is the secret!"
"The secret is simple. Within this dead Mining Zone No. 10, there exists a top-tier spirit eye. The concentration of spiritual qi is beyond imagination. Put any piece of spent jade inside, and within mere moments it will rapidly recharge and become good jade brimming with spiritual qi." In that brief space, Wei Zhao had sorted out his account.
"A top-tier spirit eye?" Though Meng Jueming had surmised as much from the start, hearing Wei Zhao say it still left him somewhat incredulous. "Is such a thing really possible? Even if a top-tier spirit eye truly existed, would it appear in this dead mining zone? Then why is everything here still spent jade? Why can't even a single piece of good jade be dug up in ordinary times?"
Wei Zhao shook his head and said calmly, "Don't misunderstand me. The top-tier spirit eye I speak of does not exist permanently. It appears only at certain specific times, and it moves. A moment ago it was here; the next it may have fled to some unknowable place. It's even possible that it vanishes outright—that is not beyond the realm of possibility."
"So troublesome?" Meng Jueming could not help frowning. At first hearing, Wei Zhao's account sounded fantastic, yet on closer thought it seemed quite plausible. Even a shrewd man like him could not detect the falsehood for the moment.
Only, this diverged somewhat from what he had originally envisioned. A top-tier spirit eye was very small and could shift and move at any time, which meant there would be all sorts of constraints in handling it. Amassing a great fortune in spirit jade by such means would be somewhat unrealistic.
Still, it was just as well. Even if the operation was a bit complicated and troublesome, so long as spent jade could be quickly turned into good jade, there was no great problem. There would still be a way to pocket a windfall in the end—at worst it would simply take a little more time.
"Then where is the top-tier spirit eye now? How can it be found?" Meng Jueming asked next.