The Thousand-layered Lotus grew a thousand miles beneath the dark, frigid underground of Gulan Star. Having not seen the light for tens of thousands of years, it had naturally absorbed a great deal of yin-cold energy.
Ordinary martial artists had to purge that yin-cold aura before they could absorb the Thousand-layered Lotus's energy.
But Gu Yi did not need to go through so much trouble.
He had already mastered laws such as yin and frost, so absorbing it posed no difficulty whatsoever.
Gu Yi sat cross-legged within a palace in the ancient city. His divine sense entered the Three-Element Gourd and enveloped a Thousand-layered Lotus.
Driven by Gu Yi's secret technique, the Thousand-layered Lotus transformed into a hazy gray beam of light and rushed directly into his Sea of Consciousness along his divine sense.
Threads of wondrous soul silk emerged from the Thousand-layered Lotus, merging into Gu Yi's Sea of Consciousness like a fine drizzle.
In an instant, Gu Yi's Sea of Consciousness surged violently, setting off wave after wave of towering tides.
Yet under the stabilizing presence of the visualized Cosmic Stars and the spear-shaped Golden Battle Spirit, the turbulent Sea of Consciousness soon calmed once more.
The Thousand-layered Lotus truly deserved to be a Primordial-grade soul-type Heavenly Material, Earthly Treasure. The soul energy it contained was even more immense than the soul energy formed from countless years' worth of vengeful spirits and yin souls within the Underworld Sea of the Sevenfold Underworld!
As the lotus leaves of the Thousand-layered Lotus withered and fell one by one, they transformed into pure energy and merged into his Sea of Consciousness.
Gu Yi's Sea of Consciousness rapidly expanded, while his Primordial Spirit Soul became ever more condensed and immensely powerful. His Soul Power continued to rise.
He gradually discovered that the