The Great Ruler: Raising From Liu Domain

Shattering Heaven Claws, peerless divine artifact. Forged from the twin claws of an avian divine beast. Ferocious and domineering, unmatched in sharpness.

Jiu You weighed the Shattering Heaven Claws in her hand for a moment, then casually tossed them to Liu Bai.

"What's this? You think this thing suits you, so you don't want it?" Liu Bai asked with a smile.

"Which eye of yours thinks this thing suits me?" Jiu You said irritably. Holding those pitch black claws, how could they possibly match a delicate and stunning beauty like her. The contrast was simply unbearable to look at.

Liu Bai patiently persuaded her. "You're judging treasure by appearance. Although the Shattering Heaven Claws are a rather unconventional weapon, their grade is extremely high. They are forged from the claws of an avian divine beast and are very practical."

"Forget it. It's just a peerless divine artifact. I already have my own."

As she spoke, a longsword wreathed in dark purple flames appeared in Jiu You's hand. The shape of the sword resembled feathers forged from the plumes of a luan or phoenix.

"Phoenix Plume Sword. Peerless divine artifact. Forged primarily from a single phoenix feather. It naturally carries phoenix divine flames."

As Jiu You spoke, a close fitting dark black battle armor rose from her body. The armor clung perfectly to her well proportioned figure, fully outlining her graceful and alluring form, adding a touch of temptation to her already valiant presence.

"Nine Nether Dark Armor. Forged from the unique Nether Primordial Stones of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan. It possesses extremely strong defensive power and can also enhance spiritual energy, thereby boosting combat strength. It is also a peerless divine artifact."

Liu Bai froze for a moment, then could not help but say, "A full set of peerless divine artifacts from your elders. You're really extravagant."

Jiu You waved her hand indifferently. "What's so special about that. My father originally wanted me to carry a quasi saint artifact for protection, but I thought it would be too cumbersome to carry around, so I didn't take it."

Liu Bai rolled his eyes directly. "Do you think I believe that?"

After joking around for a bit, Liu Bai followed the guidance of the array exploration and found several more treasures.

Among them was the consumable high grade divine artifact Ten Thousand Beasts Needle that appeared in the original story, as well as the Phoenix Transformation Divine Pill that was found together with it.

Liu Bai casually stored the Ten Thousand Beasts Needle away. Although it was a consumable item that would be gone once used, its advantages were extremely obvious. Its power far surpassed that of ordinary high grade divine artifacts, and it was extremely concealed and difficult to defend against. When used against enemies, it could achieve unexpectedly devastating effects.

As for the Phoenix Transformation Divine Pill, its appearance was that of a longan sized pill, emerald green in color. The surface of the pill emitted faint light that formed the image of a circling phoenix, faintly accompanied by clear phoenix cries.

"This Phoenix Transformation Divine Pill is refined using the refined blood essence of the phoenix race. If a similar divine beast consumes and refines it, their bloodline power will be enhanced. With sufficient fortune, it could even turn a crow into a phoenix," Jiu You said with a smile.

This item was far more valuable to her than any divine artifact. After consuming it, it might even stimulate her own bloodline again, allowing her cultivation to rise further.

Even if it failed to fully awaken her bloodline, merely strengthening the undying bird bloodline within her body would already be unbelievably powerful.

"It's a very good pill. Unfortunately, it's only a finished spiritual pill. If there were a pill formula, I could try to replicate it," Liu Bai said regretfully.

Jiu You was startled and stared at Liu Bai in shock. "This is a genuine Seventh-Rank Divine pill. Are you sure you can refine pills of this level?"

In the Great Thousand World, spiritual pills were graded similarly to spiritual array, divided into Nine-Rank. Pills from the Sixth-Rank onward were already referred to as divine pills. Although Jiu You had always known that Liu Bai also had the identity of an alchemist, he had never displayed any alchemy methods since arriving in the Northern Region. In her memory, Liu Bai's alchemy level was far inferior to his spiritual array master level.

A Seventh-Rank Divine pill. An alchemist capable of refining such pills would be an extremely revered existence even among the seven top powers of the Northern Region, and would be even more respected than a Seventh-Rank array master.

There was no choice. A array master was only powerful personally, but an alchemist could benefit others.

A single Seventh-Rank Divine Pill was enough to tempt even Ninth-Grade Sovereigns. If any of the seven top powers of the Northern Region possessed a Seventh-Rank Divine Pill master, their strength would absolutely expand rapidly in a short time.

Looking at Jiu You's shocked gaze, Liu Bai scratched his head. "It should be possible."

The upper volume of the Azure Pill Codex had already been cultivated to the highest level. Theoretically, he was qualified to refine Seventh-Rank Divine Pills. The problem was that he lacked suitable pill formulas.

Not to mention Seventh-Rank formulas, he only possessed a single Sixth-Rank formula.

"You really are something," Jiu You said as she gnashed her teeth in frustration. "If you had revealed this ability earlier, how could you have been treated so lightly back then. If my father and the others had known you could refine pills of such a high level, they would definitely have treated you even better."

Despite the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan having a long history, deep foundations, and vast collections, they had produced Spiritual Array Masters and Artifact Refiners throughout the ages, but never an alchemist.

Or rather, the entire Spiritual beast race, unless it was an extremely rare special race, essentially had no alchemy talent.

This was determined by the nature of spiritual beasts themselves.

Relying on their powerful bodies and bloodlines, spiritual beasts usually evolved or enhanced their strength by directly devouring heavenly and earthly spiritual objects. They never cared whether these objects were refined, nor did they consider efficiency or effects.

This habit had been formed since ancient times. After all, heavenly and earthly spiritual objects were abundant back then. They could devour them at will and rely on their long lifespans to slowly digest them.

However, after several great changes in the heavens and earth, especially the ancient war tens of thousands of years ago, not only did the Great Thousand World lose half of its territory, but all races also suffered massive losses of powerful experts. Resources were destroyed and spiritual objects became scarce. The current Great Thousand World was no longer the inexhaustible land of abundance it once was.

All these reasons caused spiritual beast races that relied heavily on the heavens and earth to suffer devastating blows. Many weaker races no longer had enough resources to cultivate true powerhouses for their clans.

Thus, the strong grew stronger, while the weak grew weaker.

Coupled with the increasingly intense competition between the human race and the beast race, the survival of the spiritual beast race became even more difficult.

Just look at the current Nine Nether Sparrow Clan. In the past, they had possessed many Heavenly Sovereigns and super divine beasts. But now, only a handful remained, not even a single Great Perfection Earth Sovereign.

If not for the fact that they still had a Heavenly Sovereign level expert supporting them from behind, the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan would likely have been swallowed up long ago.

For all these reasons, the beast race began to place importance on alchemists. However, due to their lack of alchemists, many medium and small races began attempting cooperation with humans. This was also why the two races that were once mortal enemies gradually saw their relationship change over the past ten thousand years.

Although the true core regions of the divine beast race still did not welcome humans, integration between the two sides had already begun to show results.

This could be seen from the fact that spiritual beast experts like Jiu You and the Sky Vulture Emperor appeared on the Skylaw Continent and openly joined factions.

Previously, Liu Bai had earned the recognition of the Tian Huang and many elders due to his identity as a Spiritual Array Scholar. But if he revealed his identity as an alchemist, even as a Seventh-Rank Divine Pill Master, the Tian Huang and the others would readily acknowledge him.

They might even proactively provide resources to nurture Liu Bai.

Of course, an even greater possibility was that they would hope to recruit Liu Bai as a son in law, tying him directly to the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan.

But that would be another story entirely. Something like a Dragon King son in law story.

"If you really can refine Seventh-Rank Divine Pills, or even Sixth-Rank Divine Pills would do, after this is over you can directly report it to the Domain Lord. She definitely will not be stingy with resources for you to practice. She can also help resolve the issue of pill formulas, and you can just reap the benefits," Jiu You said with a playful smile as she offered advice.

"Is that really a good idea…"

Thinking back to the scene where he had asked Mandala that little girl to search for high level array diagrams for him before, she had gone through quite a lot of trouble back then.

If he were to ask her again to search for high level pill formulas, that little girl would probably get angry on the spot.

"Just say it boldly. The Domain Lord will definitely agree readily," Jiu You said confidently as she patted Liu Bai on the shoulder.

Liu Bai felt somewhat speechless, but in the end he still did not refuse.

In the time that followed, Liu Bai continued to pay attention to whether there were any distorted spaces hidden within the stone islands.

If Liu Bai remembered correctly, in the original work Mu Chen obtained that mysterious black iron triangle within such a space.

Unfortunately, even after Liu Bai had searched through all the major light points detected by the exploration array and obtained quite a few divine artifacts and divine pills, he even managed to acquire a high grade divine artifact pill furnace, the thing he wanted never appeared.

"Could it be that because of spatial isolation, the Spirit Detection Array simply cannot detect the spiritual energy fluctuations emitted by that black iron triangle?"

After all, this Spirit Detection Array was only a Sixth-Rank array. It was different from the Spirit Seeking Plate in the original work, which Xiao Qingyun had obtained from the Fourth Hall Master. Its effectiveness was naturally extraordinary.

Thinking of this, disappointment immediately welled up in Liu Bai's heart.

It seemed that this time his protagonist halo did not activate.

But if he could not find it, then so be it. It was nothing more than a mid tier Saint Artifact anyway. Its greatest use was sensing the location of the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

But Liu Bai possessed Elder Yun He's elder token and could still find the Ancient Heavenly Palace. Therefore, the Starlight Suppressing Demon Pyramid was not that significant to him.

Of course, if Liu Bai could put away the pained expression on his face while saying this, it would be more convincing.

Soon after, Liu Bai and the others stopped exploring, because they all received Mandala's transmission to gather.

"It seems the Domain Lord and the others have already scouted the path. Let us go."

After saying this, Liu Bai and Jiu You quickly headed toward the gathering point.

At the same time, the various kings who had been scattered searching for treasures also rushed toward the same location.

Above a stone island, the kings gathered once again. Mandala looked at the smiles on everyone's faces and knew they had all gained something. However, she did not ask further, nor did she ask them to hand over what they had obtained.

"Prepare to move toward the Earth Sovereign secret treasury. Earlier, I already sensed that Myriad Saint Mountain and the Demon Gate have also entered this space. We are currently in the lead, so next we must stay one step ahead at every step. Everyone, stay sharp."

Previously, the three forces of Divine Pavilion, Netherworld Palace, and Sky Profound Palace had been tricked by Liu Bai into paying one hundred thousand Fallen Origin Pills, which destined them to be one step slower in entering the Earth Sovereign secret treasury.

As for Myriad Saint Mountain and the Demon Gate, they were originally lagging behind, but due to Liu Bai's generosity, they had caught up and even surpassed the four major forces including the Serpent God Palace.

However, since this involved the competition for Spiritual Divine Liquid, Mandala naturally did not want to let others seize the opportunity first.

"Move out!"

Mandala did not say more. With a wave of her small hand, she took the lead and transformed into a streak of dark light that shot forward. Her destination was naturally the distant Dark Pyramid.

Liu Bai and the others did not dare to delay and hurriedly followed.

With Mandala opening the way in front, anything along the path was destroyed by her violent aura, so the group from the Great Heavenlaw Domain moved extremely quickly.

However, this space was extremely peculiar. Although the Dark Pyramid did not appear far away, the actual distance was likely no less than tens of thousands of miles. Thus, even flying at full speed, it would take everyone two to three days to arrive.

Moreover, the closer they got to the Dark Pyramid, the more chaotic and violent the surrounding space became. Therefore, even with Mandala clearing the way ahead, Liu Bai and the others maintained the highest level of vigilance.

If someone were to be accidentally sucked away by those spatial currents, that would truly be unfortunate. At that point, even if Mandala took action, she might not be able to save them.

Soon, Liu Bai and the others arrived at the edge of the Dark Pyramid.

While marveling at the massive scale of the Dark Pyramid, Liu Bai could also feel that the power of the sealing runes on it was several times stronger than those outside.

Fortunately, they had obtained enough Fallen Origin Pills this time. Mandala alone still held nearly four hundred thousand Fallen Source Pills, which was more than sufficient.

Mandala raised her small hand, and the Bracelet appeared once more. Immediately after, a torrent formed from Fallen Origin Pills roared out.

This time, the amount was clearly much greater than before. A rough glance showed that there were over three hundred thousand.

Converted into Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, these three hundred thousand Fallen Origin Pills were equivalent to three million Sovereign Spiritual Liquid. Even for the Great Heavenlaw Domain, this was an enormous number. Thus, when they saw Mandala directly refine them into Fallen Spiritual Liquid, even the Three Emperors revealed pained expressions.

Liu Bai, however, felt nothing at all. After all, he did not need these Fallen Origin Pills for cultivation. Using them was fine.

Very quickly, Mandala opened a crack about one zhang wide in the seal.

"Prepare to enter. Be careful," Mandala turned her head and said to Liu Bai.

After receiving his response, she said no more, directly turned around, and stepped toward the crack. Behind her, Liu Bai and the others quickly followed.