Before long, Shale stopped in front of the Buddhist shrine.
Tyrone City practices Theravada Buddhism, and it’s very prevalent; many people are Buddhists, and temples are everywhere.
Having a Buddha statue at ho is quite normal, but the one Zheng De offered to was a bit strange, with three faces on its head and a child-like figure with a frightening ghost face at its feet.
There were also many bizarre plaques on the altar, which Li Xiu couldn’t understand, looking quite odd.
Shale got excited, reached out to the statue, touched it a few tis, and then twisted its head, turning it 180 degrees.
Crack!
The floor slowly cracked open, and half of the room’s floor retracted inward toward the wall, revealing a staircase leading down.
"Heh heh, that old fox Zheng De sure is cunning. Almost everyone in Tyrone City is a Buddhist, so no one would dare disrespect a Buddha statue. By placing the chanism here, most wouldn’t dare to touch it." Shale said as he led the way down.
At the end of the stairs was the gate of a vault. Qin Shi directly ford a Demon Light Blade and sliced through the more than one-ter thick alloy door.
When they went inside, they were overjoyed; the room, dozens of square ters wide, was filled with many glass cabinets, with many of them containing various items.
There were so antiques and paintings, which Li Xiu and the others didn’t understand, but Li Xiu imdiately noticed a large glass cabinet holding a piece of Demon Armor.
The Demon Armor had sowhat exaggerated lines, with sharp angles in so places, a very technological style, matte finish, purple as the main color with black edges, giving a bio-armor look.
Li Xiu recognized the origin of that Demon Armor at first glance; it was the limited-edition S-Class Magic Armor "Ghost-faced" made by Space City Lab 1.
Although called limited edition, many S-Class Magic Armors are limited because the materials for making them are usually hard to gather for a second set.
The difference between limited and non-limited, theoretically, is mostly the different sources of the core material Demon Core and auxiliary materials.
Generally, non-limited magic gear’s Demon Cores co from the Trial Gate; cores obtained from the sa Trial Ground have entirely consistent properties.
However, the demon cores obtained by slaying Demon Spirits will differ from other cores, being not completely identical.
Moreover, Demon Cores obtained by slaying Demon Spirits can use a Demon Spirit as auxiliary material, making it very challenging to create an identical second set of armor.
This set of S-Class Ghost-faced Magic Armor was made using the Demon Core and body of an S-Class Demon Spirit, which was killed by Li Xiu himself.
"I didn’t expect this Ghost-faced to fall into Zheng De’s hands. This armor alone is invaluable. Despite having so many valuable items, he didn’t use them to pay off debts and instead scavenged from the lower-class poor. Truly typical upper-class behavior." Li Xiu lanted in his heart.
"Do you like it? If you like it, it’s yours." Shale chuckled.
Li Xiu glanced at Qin Shi beside him; seeing no intention from her to compete, he walked over to open the glass cover and took out the Ghost-faced Magic Armor.
Qin Shi wasn’t interested in looking at these things; she opened safe after safe, so containing Demon Cores, others gemstones. Although not many, each was a fine piece.
It wasn’t until she opened a safe filled with boxes of rubies that she excitedly collected them all.
"I only want these; the rest is yours." Qin Shi said.
Shale unceremoniously rummaged through the loot, but Pa Shan stood still.
Li Xiu wasn’t very interested in these gemstones, mainly since their purpose was entering the Trial Gate, having no other practical value.
As Li Xiu swept a glance over the gemstones, his gaze suddenly fixed on one of them.
It was a red gemstone; at first glance, it could be mistaken for a ruby, but upon closer inspection, it showed differences from a ruby.
Its color wasn’t as deep as a ruby, leaning towards pink, but it had a stronger luminescent feel, vivid and pure, shining under the light like a Jedi Knight’s Light Saber, emitting intense fluorescence.
"This is a red spinel, often an associated mineral with rubies. Though not a ruby, its value is quite high. This red spinel’s color might have reached the top color quality... Jedi Knight color. If I’m not mistaken, this Jedi Knight spinel should be from the Namiya mine, a source depleted decades ago. Generally, Namiya’s spinels are quite small with many impurities in the crystal. This Namiya Jedi Knight spinel seems over ten carats and remarkably pure, a real rarity. Such a rare top-grade red spinel’s worth is certainly no less than a ruby. Among Zheng De’s gemstone collection, this is among the top, without many rivals." Shale, rummaging through the safe, picked up the gemstone and tossed it to Li Xiu when he saw him staring at it.
Li Xiu caught the Namiya Jedi Knight spinel and stared at it intently.
Li Xiu wasn’t very knowledgeable about gemstones; he knew the globally recognized top gemstones like rubies, sapphires, eralds, diamonds, and cat’s eye, and was sowhat aware of spinels, but not in detail.
The reason for his interest wasn’t recognizing the gemstone’s value or its aesthetic.
The real reason, which might be hard to believe, was that upon seeing the gemstone, he felt a hunger in his stomach.
His mind was actually generating a desire to consu the red spinel, shocking Li Xiu himself and giving him a bad feeling.
Since, as far as Li Xiu knew, the only beings capable of eating gemstones were the Demon Spirits mysteriously descended from unknown places.
Now, having developed a desire to consu the gemstone made him worry more about whether the Demon Spirit larva inside him was truly dead.
Strangely, amidst nurous gemstones in the vault, even top-grade Pigeon Blood Rubies with higher value didn’t incite any desire; only this red spinel made him feel hunger.
"What’s going on? Could those Demon Cores have been eaten by too?" Li Xiu pondered with a frown, considering whether to consu the red spinel to see what would happen.
He quickly suppressed the urge and put the red spinel away for the mont, thinking if he consud it now, Shale and the others might see him as a monster.
"Looks like I need to find a professional place to thoroughly examine my body." Li Xiu silently planned where to get his body checked.
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