Within the Star Abyss, after a Uniting Dao Pearl was shattered, most of its fragments would vanish into the unseen, pass through the strange place known as the Origin Realm, then flow into the Inner Realm and scatter in all directions, eventually to be found by cultivators, intentionally or by chance.
When Blood Drinking City had been destroyed, its Core Fragment had been lost in precisely this manner.
Barring any accident, that Core Fragment would most likely be stumbled upon by some fortunate cultivator and obtained by them, but that ultimately depended on luck.
When this Core Fragment had been lost, both Dragon City and the other Top Ten City Lords had dispatched great numbers of people to search in every direction.
Unfortunately, they had found nothing.
Not until Lu Ye returned from the Origin Realm and, with the power of the Spirit of the Uniting Dao Pearl, clearly sensed the Core Fragment's location and pointed Dragon Sovereign in the right direction.
That made things simple.
Dragon Sovereign immediately deployed a large number of people to search that direction, and they indeed found the Core Fragment that had once belonged to Blood Drinking City.
Though it was the foundation for creating a Universe-tier Uniting Dao City, Dragon Sovereign clearly had no such intention, so he kept it himself.
Until his previous secluded cultivation, when he handed it over to Lu Ye.
Thus, even after Lu Ye had given Blood Calamity and Si Shengya one Core Fragment apiece, he still had some to spare.
He even vaguely felt that he could merge these fragments into the Uniting Dao Pearl within his Inner Realm.
An ordinary Universe-tier Uniting Dao Pearl did not possess such an ability. A Universe-tier Uniting Dao Pearl was already of the highest quality; let alone a Core Fragment,