To Yi Shuyuan, the damage to the Crystal Palace amounted to a devastating loss. He could scarcely imagine what it had cost to build that palace, with its blend of grandeur, beauty, and mystery.
It was not just Yi Shuyuan. Everyone else, even the Dragonkind themselves, felt a deep pang of regret, including Jiang Lang from the East Sea.
Still, there was no denying the Dragonkind's immense wealth. At least, the Southern Sea Dragon Lord boldly declared that if the Crystal Palace was gone, they would simply build another.
Of course, compared with the Crystal Palace, the losses suffered by this Pill Dao Grand Ceremony were what truly grieved everyone.
But as the saying went, the heavens had unforeseen storms, and nothing could ever be perfect in every respect. All things considered, this gathering had not been without gains.
The Crystal Palace was vast enough that, although the few intact halls accounted for less than a tenth of its original size, they could still accommodate everyone now on the Southern Sea floor.
Everyone gathered together the texts they had recovered from the surrounding waters. Of the hundreds of thousands of volumes, fewer than ten thousand remained, but these included many documents previously compiled and organized in the Dragon Palace-the very material that those led by the Northern Medicine Master Star Lord had risked their lives to protect during the tribulation.
Such were the wonders of worldly affairs. Now that the Spirit Treasure had emerged and there were no other concerns, Yi Shuyuan joined everyone in classifying and compiling the remaining texts, and their subsequent gains far surpassed those of before.
Perhaps because the Pill Dao tribulation had already passed, their progress afterward was smooth and unobstructed despite their limited resources. Experts in this path from the Four Seas and Four