Under normal circumstances, the Nine Nether Underworld King Flower could produce nine mature blossoms at once. Since it grew in places saturated with Corpse Qi, almost no cultivators could venture deep enough to pick them. Yet it had said that only five of its blossoms were mature. That could only mean one thing: cultivators had already ventured into Myriad Skull Cave and picked some of them. This was hardly good news for Ling Tian, especially since those cultivators might still be inside.
If that was true, then even if those cultivators were no match for Ling Tian, they could still seriously hinder or even threaten his efforts to capture the Nine Nether Underworld King Flower. After all, it was a Saint-grade Heavenly Treasure. Capturing it without interference was already difficult, let alone with someone getting in the way. The place where it grew was exceedingly unusual, which made capturing it far harder than obtaining other Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures. Even with seven Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures at his side to help, Ling Tian still might not be able to capture it.
As before, this concerned whether Lian Xin could be cured, so Ling Tian placed tremendous importance on the Nine Nether Underworld King Flower. He couldn't let anything go wrong.
"But if cultivators picked some of the Nine Nether Underworld King's blossoms, why didn't they take them all? After all, they all ripened at the same time." Youye raised the question. After a brief pause, he continued, "More importantly, if those cultivators could make it deep into Myriad Skull Cave, why did they only pick the blossoms instead of claiming the Nine Nether Underworld King Flower for themselves?"
"They probably knew it could only grow in a place like Myriad Skull Cave, where Death Nether Qi is concentrated, and nowhere else. After