Qian Jin looked at Duan Feng Bu’er, then at Cheke Fulit. He considered saying this item was only effective for Level One Awakened bloodline power, but since he hadn't even reached Level One Awakening himself, drinking it had no effect. If it was useless for Level Two Awakening, then why would Lucifer Liushui risk entering this place?

For Bloodline Warriors, the most crucial thing was to find every possible way to ignite the sleeping, sealed bloodline power within their bodies. The benefits gained from each awakening were absolutely beyond the imagination of ordinary warriors.

"Could it be? Lucifer Liushui isn't after this water?" Supporting the high tower, clicking to subscribe and vote, Qian Jin took out the Dì Mù from the Dou World. He hadn't examined the entire map closely just now; his attention had been entirely focused on the pool in this cave.

"This is..." Following the light of the torch, Qian Jin saw a much larger portion drawn beneath the map. Following the pool downward, there was actually another entrance on the left side, beneath the water! Proportionally, it looked like an entrance, perfectly square, two meters high and two meters wide.

A little further inside the entrance, what was drawn wasn't a symbol for danger or a magical beast, but the shape of a treasure chest.

Treasure! Even someone who had never seen a treasure map would know what that image represented.

There was treasure beneath this pool? Qian Jin glanced at Duan Feng Bu’er, then at the others: "You all wait here, I’ll go down and check." Duan Feng Bu’er nodded. Although he had drunk two more mouthfuls of the water, it hadn't triggered another bloodline power awakening. But no one could guarantee that submerging his entire body in the water wouldn't trigger an awakening again.

It had been timely to spit it out just then; if he were soaking in the water, he wouldn't even be able to shake the water off his body.

Cheke Fulit was injured and unfit to enter the water. Fen Tu Kuangge’s strength was slightly inferior, so he also chose to wait by the shore.

Underwater, why would there be treasure and a passage beneath the water? Qian Jin dove into the water, puzzled. Where had Lucifer Liushui obtained this map from? And how could it mark the area below?

Submerged, Qian Jin expanded his Dòu Xīn Yìshí (Battle Heart Consciousness) again. His body didn't need to sway left or right; he could effortlessly control the surrounding water currents to propel him rapidly downward. The small amount of air in the water could freely enter through his pores.

Dòu Xīn Yìshí is truly a wonderful thing! Qian Jin rapidly descended, continually praising it. With this ability, if he were buried in sand or water, he wouldn't have to fear suffocating to death. Once on the Human-Demon Battlefield, burying himself in the sand to ambush passing commanders or experts of the demon armies with a strong bow would be the absolute best method.

In the blink of an eye, Qian Jin had descended over two hundred meters and finally saw the entrance recorded on the map.

This? Qian Jin floated in the water, gazing at the entrance before him. He realized that this Ancient Desolate Sand Sea was truly filled with the bizarre and strange everywhere. Not long after entering, he had been shocked multiple times by what he'd seen here. No wonder many people said this place was not only a profound abyss of death but also a location of great fortune.

People with immense luck who entered the Ancient Desolate Sand Sea and made it out alive either became immensely wealthy or much stronger than before. Rumor had it that Jin Ze Tianlu had also ventured into the Ancient Desolate Sand Sea. He only stayed there for four days before returning to his original location, emerging as a rare powerhouse.

The square entrance rested silently before him. Qian Jin slowly reached out his hand, only to find that the moment his palm passed through the membrane and entered the opening, his hand could no longer touch any water droplets!

The other side of this entrance was dry! No water! A space where one could walk freely!

Qian Jin stepped into the entrance and breathed freely in the passage, exclaiming in wonder. It was too peculiar—the water stopped right at the mouth of the hole but wouldn't enter the cave below. The Ancient Desolate Sand Sea truly deserved its reputation as a magical place. To obtain such a map from Lucifer Liushui, his luck was genuinely good!

"Good luck? Escaping being killed by that ordinary warrior was good luck?" Lucifer Liushui sat on the sand, looking toward the direction of the mountain peak where Qian Jin was. "Xian Mo Lucifer Nihuan—the last map sent via Water Eagle indicated that mountain. At the very least, his legacy remains within! So close, so close to obtaining it! He destroyed one of my eyes; I must kill him, I absolutely must kill him!" The Blood Bat bloodline Demon Warrior knelt on one knee beside him, burying his head low, and pulled out a scroll from his robes:

"Princess, even if they obtain your scroll, they will only see the superficial treasure. Without this map, they cannot obtain the true treasure—the Dark Demon Armor!" Dark Demon Armor, what was the Dark Demon Armor?

Lucifer Liushui raised a hand to cover the empty socket where his right eye was lost and had stopped bleeding. His single remaining eye swept dismissively toward the Blood Bat bloodline Demon Warrior beside him. The Dark Demon Armor was indeed a set that couldn't be exchanged even for cities, but it wasn't the entirety of Lucifer Nihuan’s possessions.

The Lucifer Royal Family had always pursued powerful strength; the royal lineage that awakened bloodline power to enhance Dou Qi rarely paid attention to matters outside of demonic pursuits.

Lucifer Nihuan was a rare Fallen Angel bloodline Demon Warrior, and also a seldom-seen Mysterious Apothecary! A Mysterious Apothecary who specialized in mutated herbs! In terms of cultivation alone, he possessed the skill level of a Fifth-Tier Planter.

In the field of Mysterious Apothecaries, just like in general potion mastery, there were various branches: the materials stream focusing on monster and beast bodies, the mutated herb stream, and the body modification stream. Lucifer Nihuan was, among all Mysterious Apothecaries in the demon race at that time, nearly an authority on mutated herbs. Even the Mysterious Apothecaries of the Zhen Ce Imperial Dynasty held him in high regard.

"In the letters Nihuan sent back via Water Eagles over thousands of years, he mentioned that besides the Dark Demon Armor he stole, there were also all the newest mutated herbs he painstakingly cultivated—that is the greatest wealth! That warrior must not destroy those precious herbs." Lucifer Liushui thought of Qian Jin, and the socket of his right eye, which was still bleeding slightly, ached even more intensely. His fair, long fingers pressed against the socket, causing the veins on the back of his hand to throb. His sole remaining eye flared with fierce hatred: "I must kill him! My eye... I must kill him! I hope this unsophisticated warrior doesn't think all those things are useless herbs and just destroys them all." The Blood Bat bloodline Demon Warrior knelt quietly to the side, his eyes, which had very poor vision, frequently darting toward Lucifer Liushui’s expression, secretly sighing that such a possibility was extremely slim. It was possible a warrior might recognize some common herbs, but how could they possibly recognize herbs used in Mysterious Potions? Upon seeing the strange, moving herbs, they would instinctively attack and destroy them.

"Alas..." Lucifer Liushui gritted his teeth and sighed deeply, "This is likely too difficult! Judging by his attire, that warrior doesn't look like he belongs to any major power. How could he understand such high-level herbs? Perhaps he thought they were monsters from the Ancient Desolate Sand Sea the moment he saw them? And immediately launched an attack to destroy them." The damp cave, behind him was the emerald-green well water, hanging like a water curtain in front of the underground cave. In this lightless cavern, the curtain of water itself emitted a faint green glow, illuminating the narrow passage.

The magical Ancient Desolate Sand Sea, the magical cave, the magical water curtain, and the magical... plants!

A stream of peculiar fragrances rolled through the narrow passage. Qian Jin stared at the flowers and grasses covering the ground not far beneath his feet, repeatedly clicking his tongue in amazement. Every single one of these flowers and grasses was a mutated variety!

Or rather, they were hybrid flowers and grasses cultivated artificially from many different plant species, intended for the compounding of mysterious potions.

Someone had lived here! Qian Jin frowned slightly. Ordinary flowers and grasses could hardly survive, let alone reproduce, without sunlight. Only mutated hybrid flora possessed this kind of resilience.

A half-person-tall yellow Stink Flower, its body soft and fruit-like, automatically turned its head toward Qian Jin. The flower, which resembled a human mouth but was larger than a human head, was just about to open its "mouth"...

"That won't do," Qian Jin quickly rushed forward two steps and kicked the fruit-like body of the yellow Stink Flower. Hearing a gurgling sound from within its belly, the mouth that was about to open snapped shut again.

Qian Jin looked at the reaction of the yellow Stink Flower and let out a long breath, supporting the high tower, clicking to subscribe and vote. Luckily! Once this thing opened its mouth, the blast of air it expelled, if it stained clothes or skin, would remain for three days and nights, and even washing with all sorts of perfumes wouldn't remove that pungent stench.

A vine resembling a grass snake silently writhed and wrapped itself around Qian Jin's leg. Fine, sharp thorns rapidly grew outward from the vine.

"Mandragora Vine Flower?" Qian Jin squatted down, looking unexpectedly at the plant clinging to his leg. Oulala had said this thing was extremely difficult to cultivate and usually subsisted on blood. There were no blood-bearing creatures to be seen here; how did it survive? Could it be...?

Qian Jin turned back toward the emerald-green water curtain behind him. Was it this strange source of water that allowed the Mandragora Vine Flower to survive without blood? Would its medicinal properties have undergone any special changes? Supporting the high tower, clicking to subscribe and vote.

Qian Jin snapped off one of the thorns on the vine. Instantly, all the thorns on the vine retracted into its interior, and the vine wrapped around his leg quickly retreated back into the grass patch.

"A little sweet, and slightly numb," Qian Jin spat the thorn he had held between his teeth onto the ground and nodded. "It's still the medicinal effect of the Mandragora Vine Flower; nothing seems to have changed." Qian Jin stood up and cautiously explored forward, frequently observing the surrounding mutated flora. He frowned slightly: why were there only flowers and grasses? If a small group of Gold-Swallowing Six-Star Worms were raised near the Earth Gold Flower, it could make the Earth Gold Flower flourish more and generate its full medicinal potency.

Furthermore, if there were Five-Colored Earthworms and White Moths here, the Crystal Pitcher Plant could bloom six-colored petals instead of the current two colors, allowing for the collection of more diverse medicinal effects.