Chapter 429 - Marrow of Red Radiance Jade (1/2)

After Lu Fanghui left, Meng Chao sat on the bed cross-legged and thought for a long time, but he still did not understand what he meant.

“Wait. Did President Lu understand what I was trying to say? Why do I feel like he spoke at great length and sounded really excited and sincere, but when I think about it carefully, his words did not seem to carry any weight. Big Sis Ya, was your dad just lying to me?”

“It’s already good if he was willing to spend so much time lying to you!” Lu Siya sat cross-legged on the couch across from the bed, just like Meng Chao. She wore a patient’s gown and did not have any makeup on. In this getup, she did not look like the strong woman that she was.

But she said with a grin, “Ever since I graduated from university, my father has never encouraged me this way. I can tell that he really admires you. I’m serious.”

“Does he?” Meng Chao scratched his head.

“Of course. You don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes,” Lu Siya whispered secretively. “Sky Pillar Corporation invested in Kun-peng Dynamics, and one of my uncles who is my father’s greatest competitor in the family was in charge of it. He’s an ambitious person, and he really wanted Kun-peng Dynamics to become powerful so that it could fight against my father’s Sky Pillar Minerals on equal grounds.

“If the project to switch out all advanced armored airships really came to fruition, Kun-peng Dynamics would have obtained the major deal to produce new crystal engines, and there’s a high chance that Sky Pillar Corporation would gain another industry where it could develop aside from Sky Pillar Minerals.

“No matter how hard my father worked in this regard, it was useless. After all, Sky Pillar Minerals has always been the core industry of the corporation. No matter how well my father does with it, it’s all to be expected. Nobody will say that he worked hard.

“But that side failed to live up to expectations and was dragged into Zhou Tianshui and the abnormal beasts’ case. Once one criminal is discovered, the rest are discovered as well. Not only are many people in Kun-peng Dynamics under investigation, even that uncle of mine who is in charge of the investment and all the branch members who support him in the family are under suspicion.

“So, tell me, shouldn’t my father thank you properly?”

Meng Chao was stunned. “I was originally a little embarrassed for using so much of your resources over the past few days, but now that you said that, suddenly, I feel like it’s only right for him to use those resources on me. Say, could you get me three to five tons of that gene medicine as supper?”

“We can talk about the gene medicine later. My father is really sincere about working with you.” As Lu Siya spoke, she brought out a sealed metal tube from behind her. It was even thicker than her arm. “There is nothing else like this. He didn’t give this even to me on my birthday. You managed to take advantage of it instead.”

As she spoke, she opened the lid gently.

Faint sizzling sounds rose. White fog swirled in the air, and Lu Siya brought out a transparent, strengthened glass tube.

A faint blue but really thick liquid filled it.

Within it was a crystalline object with clear lines. If crystals had a nervous system, it would look like that.

Even if there was strengthened glass isolating it, its spirit energy magnetic field still surged out and crashed into Meng Chao’s vitality magnetic field, causing his heart to thump loudly.

Normal superhumans might never be able to see such a treasure.

Meng Chao’s eyes lit up, and he blurted out the name. “Crystal marrow?”

Lu Siya cocked her eyebrows and said, “As expected of the harvester chosen by Master Ning Shewo. You even know about crystal marrows. Yes, this is a crystal marrow Sky Pillar Minerals was able to mine deep in the Red Radiance Jade mine. That mine area is more than ten kilometers in a circular area, and there are more than ten ley lines of various sizes. If you add them together, they’re longer than one hundred kilometers, but we’ve only discovered this one crystal marrow for the time being, so you can imagine its value.”

Meng Chao stared at the crystal marrow, admiring it with a greedy expression.

Crystal marrows were a substance between a crystal and a monster material. It had both the properties of an organic object and inorganic object. They could only be occasionally discovered deep within large mineral mines. There were only a few of them, so they were worth cities.

The world of academia had all sorts of theories as to how crystal marrows formed.

The mainstream guess was that when crystal mines formed in ancient times, some ancient beast entered by accident, and when it died, the sturdier parts of its body mixed with the crystals. After billions of years of refinement through high temperature, high pressure, and spirit energy radiation, they slowly crystallized and turned into the crystal marrows of today.

In other words, crystal marrows were the fossils of ancient beasts embedded into crystals. As they were nourished by spirit energy, they retained part of their activity. The effects that they provided to a superhuman when he or she cultivated or trained was something that normal crystals and monster materials could never hope to provide.

Lu Siya had mentioned outside that Meng Chao’s two chain sabers broke during the battle and he needed to create brand new weapons.

The crystal marrow contained the incredibly violent power from Red Radiance Jades and a fierce soul from an ancient beast. Taking it directly would be too dangerous, and it would be a waste of a treasure, so it would be better to hire a craftsman to turn the crystal marrow into the core of a new weapon.

Meng Chao had already absorbed a lot of energy from the Red Radiance Jade tsunami, so his limbs and meridians were all like mini Red Radiance Jade ley lines.

His tutoress, Griffin Li Yingzi, was a top-class martial artist of the Beast Soul Style. Her research regarding beast souls in Agricultural University’s martial arts course was definitely the best in Dragon City as well.

With the weapon created by the Red Radiance Jade’s crystal marrow, Meng Chao would definitely be like a tiger who gained wings, and his fighting power would increase by leaps and bounds.

Meng Chao became really happy.

He hugged the Red Radiance Jade crystal marrow and wanted to say a few polite words when Lu Siya said, “I know that you’re indifferent to fame and wealth and don’t want any rewards, but only want to contribute to Dragon City. Coincidentally, I’m a woman who indulges in pleasure and is blinded by profit. If you feel guilty for taking that Red Radiance Jade’s crystal marrow, you can let me handle it.”

Meng Chao quickly hid the Red Radiance Jade’s crystal marrow under his butt.

Lu Siya smirked and said, “Now, you should believe in my father and my sincerity, right?”