Besides Supreme Spirit Liquid, Liu Yu had obtained some Sacred Artifacts and divine abilities from the Nine Mansions, along with other treasures, such as the Dragon Spirit Pearl.
However, these were mostly low-grade Sacred Artifacts and minor divine abilities. One of those minor divine abilities, the Little Wind-Calling Art, had quite an illustrious origin: it had been derived from the Great Wind-Calling Art, one of the Thirty-Six Peerless Divine Abilities.
The Dragon Spirit Pearl had formed from the spiritual energy and bloodline power of a mighty member of the Dragon Race at the moment of death. Judging by the energy fluctuations within it, it would offer considerable benefits even to the cultivation of a lower earth sovereign.
After exploring the Nine Mansions and some of the palaces, Liu Yu began making his way toward the Five Halls...
A vast azure sea stretched out before him, its surface churning with waves that occasionally surged tens of thousands of feet high.
Liu Yu slowly stepped out of the void and gazed into the distance. Islands dotted the sea, with clusters of palaces standing in long, unbroken rows upon them.
After surveying the area, Liu Yu turned his gaze toward the seabed.
The First Hall lay beneath the sea. The phantom clones Liu Yu had created were already searching the other halls.
Casually creating a few more phantom clones to explore the islands, Liu Yu moved and plunged beneath the sea.
Passing through stretch after stretch of underwater ruins, Liu Yu arrived before an ancient, dilapidated hall. A strange, delicate fragrance drifted out from within...
Deep inside the hall, eerie skeletal remains lay everywhere. In a plaza stood a lotus pedestal fashioned from dark red jade. Its gentle radiance illuminated an alluring flower within it, as black as ink.
The flower was roughly