"You came at just the right time. I need to talk to you about something." Nine Radiance looked rather excited.
"Did you break through again?" Lu Ye was overjoyed.
Nine Radiance had already reached Seven Dao. If she broke through again, she would be at Eight Dao!
There was not yet an Eight Dao powerhouse in their group.
"No!" Nine Radiance shook her head. "Come in first."
As she spoke, she stepped aside, and Lu Ye walked in.
A short while later, the two sat down in Nine Radiance's room. Lu Ye asked in confusion, "What good news did you run into? If it isn't a breakthrough, why are you so delighted?"
Nine Radiance smiled, flipped her jade-white hand, and produced an object. "This!"
Lu Ye looked over and found a palm-sized Small Umbrella in her hand. He could not help asking, "The Heavenly Net Umbrella? What happened to it?"
Back in the Mechanical Armor Starry Sky, before Nine Radiance had forged her Dao Foundation, Lu Ye had given her this treasure for protection. The Heavenly Net Umbrella had remained in her possession ever since.
But logically speaking, the protective power the Heavenly Net Umbrella could provide should no longer have been of any use to the current Nine Radiance.
Based on Lu Ye's previous attempts, the power contained within such treasures was basically only equivalent to the power of one Dao. That was why devouring the Mystic Fire in the Fire Gourd and the Sword Qi in the Sword Gourd had only increased his Dao Power by a trace, far less efficiently than refining Dao Bones.
Moreover, when the Star Abyss Gate at the Myriad Phenomena Sea had opened years ago, Lu Ye had used the Fire Gourd against an Ox Demon without a Dao Foundation, yet the other