Chapter 0453: Capture Him!

Huang Long glanced at the turbulent waves around him and realized it was a trap set by the Eight Great Families of Hell. Instead of resisting, he flew back, stepping onto the Dark Palace to evade the attack.
Just as he managed to dodge, countless flames surged up from the space below and rushed toward him. After several such attempts, Huang Long arrived in a space enclosed by the trap’s restrictions. There, he saw a massive stone stele several meters high, resembling jade—realizing it was one of the key elements maintaining the trap.
The stele was covered with mysterious runes, which glowed under the power of the trap. Huang Long extended his spiritual sense, but as soon as it touched the stele’s surroundings, the runes emitted a blinding light, blocking his spiritual sense.
Huang Long frowned. Though the stele’s restraining power was strong, he wasn’t without ways to break through it. However, doing so would surely alert the powerful warriors of the Eight Great Families guarding the area. And this was only one of the eight key elements. The Eight Great Families had set up eight such elements around Ice Mirror Lake. It was impossible for Huang Long to destroy all of them before those warriors arrived.
He tried launching a soul attack, gradually weakening the stele’s power and pushing forward. But when he was nearly a hundred meters away, the stele’s force, suppressed by Huang Long, grew increasingly unstable, like a volcano building up pressure before erupting. Realizing this, Huang Long had to stop. If he continued, the stele’s force would rebound with tremendous force.
Standing in front of the stele, Huang Long’s eyes flickered. After a while, he could only retreat swiftly.
“Young Master, how did it go?!” Bradd, who had been waiting outside, rushed forward upon seeing Huang Long emerge and asked.
Huang Long shook his head. “Can’t break it?” Bradd was surprised but soon understood. This was a trap jointly set up by the Eight Great Families of Hell. Even as a high-level mage, it wasn’t easy for Huang Long to break through.
“It can be broken, but…” Huang Long explained to Bradd that breaking the stele would alert the powerful warriors of the Eight Great Families guarding the area.
Hearing this, Bradd fell into deep thought.
“Let’s go back first,” said Huang Long, then flew back to Niga City with Bradd.
If he couldn’t break through the trap set by the Eight Great Families, he would have to compete for those three spots.

There was nothing else to be done. Not long after Huang Long and Brad left, the powerful warriors from the Eight Great Families who were guarding the area appeared in front of Ice Mirror Lake. Although it was generally impossible for anyone to break through their defenses and enter Ice Mirror Lake with them around, as a precaution, the warriors from the Eight Great Families would come and check for any abnormalities from time to time. After arriving and seeing that nothing was amiss with Ice Mirror Lake, they were about to leave when suddenly one of them exclaimed in surprise and stopped. “Elder Bartley, what’s wrong?” asked an elder from the Liwa Family, one of the Eight Great Families. Everyone stopped. “That’s not right. The restrictions of this Ice Mirror Lake formation have been activated,” said Bartley, the elder of the Akro Family, the leader of the Eight Great Families. After saying that, he flew down to the bottom of Ice Mirror Lake. Hearing this, everyone was shocked and quickly followed him down. “The water energy here is abundant. Someone must have entered this formation, which is why the formation has activated its attacks,” Bartley explained. The others looked solemn and silent, agreeing with Bartley’s reasoning. Although there was no obvious abnormality in the water energy in this area of the formation, given their cultivation levels, they could easily tell that the water energy was more abundant than usual. Then, they moved to another part of the formation. But their expressions grew even more serious. When they reached a focal point of the formation, their faces were filled with shock—this focal point was exactly the one Huang Long had tried to break through. “I never thought this person could actually reach the focal point within the restrictions of our formation!” Bartley exclaimed after a while. Among these dozen or so people were several advanced formation masters, but even they wouldn’t claim they could reach the focal point without knowing the layout of the formation’s restrictions in advance. “Could this person be a legendary formation master?!” an elder suddenly spoke, breaking the silence. Everyone exchanged glances. A legendary formation master?! Whether it was a Soul Master, Formation Master, Beast Tamer, Craftsman, or Alchemist, anything labeled as legendary was terrifying. “It can’t be a legendary formation master, right? For a legendary formation master, breaking through this focal point shouldn’t be difficult, yet it hasn’t been broken,” said an elder from the Leichi Family, one of the Eight Great Families. Everyone fell into deep thought. Was that really the case?! “Anyway, since someone has managed to break through our defenses, enter Ice Mirror Lake, and reach the focal point of the formation’s restrictions, we need to strengthen our defenses. The day Ice Mirror Lake opens is approaching, and we can’t afford any accidents,” Bartley added.

Everyone nodded solemnly in agreement with Bartley’s words.
Niga City.
Inside the villa, Huang Liang, who had been sitting there all along, felt bored and listless. He said to Huang Wei, “Elder brother, it’s rare to come to Niga City. Let’s go out and stroll around.”
Huang Wei showed hesitation. “Well…”
“Elder brother, what’s there to hesitate about? We’re not leaving the city—we’re just walking around inside. Is there really any danger in Niga City?” Huang Liang asked.
Huang Wei thought for a moment before saying, “Alright, let’s go out and walk around.” As his younger brother Huang Liang said, there was no danger in walking around Niga City.
Hearing this, Huang Liang was overjoyed. He stood up and said, “Elder brother, let’s go then.”
After leaving the villa, Huang Liang and Huang Wei stepped onto the streets of Niga City and began to wander around.
Perhaps because the Ice Mirror Lake was about to open, Niga City was very bustling.
Although the streets of Niga City were wide, at first glance, they were crowded with god-tier powerhouses, along with various mounts and beast carts.
Huang Liang and Huang Wei walked with the crowd when suddenly, there was a commotion ahead. The crowd exclaimed in alarm and stepped aside, clearing a path.
An army of the Main God dressed in light black clothing approached, followed by a group in light blue clothing, who seemed to be members of some family.
“Were it these two who did this?” After the army arrived, the leader at the front pointed at Huang Liang and Huang Wei and said to a young man beside him.
The young man, Yashi, looked at Huang Liang and Huang Wei and said, “That’s right, it’s these two.”
Although Huang Liang and Huang Wei were confused, they guessed what had happened—someone who looked similar to them must have attacked those family members in the city, and now the others mistook them for the culprits.
However, since they could afford an army of the Main God, their status must be high.
The leader of the army looked at Huang Liang and Huang Wei and said, “How bold of you! To dare attack people in Niga City!” Then he waved his hands and ordered, “Seize these two!”
Seeing the army surrounding them, Huang Liang and Huang Wei cried out, “Wait!” But the army didn’t stop.
“You say we attacked you? Who saw that?! Look carefully at those two’s faces—are you sure it’s us? We’re just lower-tier gods. How could we possibly attack you?!” Huang Liang pointed at the young man and snapped angrily.

This young man, Yahi, is a mid-tier god. It’s utterly impossible for two lower-tier gods to strike a mid-tier god.
The young man Yahi sneered, “Even if it’s not you, since you all wear the same clothes, you’re still involved!”
So this young man had already blamed Huang Liang and Huang Wei based on their identical clothing.
Gods on both sides of the street stood there, watching the spectacle.
“Arrest them!” the captain of the Supreme God’s army ordered again with a wave of his hand.
Huang Liang and Huang Wei were furious. They had made it clear earlier that anyone could see this had nothing to do with them, yet the captain still ordered their arrest—clearly intending to use them as scapegoats!
“You think just because we’re lower-tier gods, you can bully us and assume we’re easy targets?!” Huang Wei roared as he was captured by the Supreme God’s army.
“So what if that’s the case? What if it’s not?” the captain sneered mockingly, “Even if you’re a slave of some powerful family, when your master comes, he still has to kneel and beg for mercy in front of our Supreme God’s army!”
At that moment, Huang Long and Brade returned to the villa from Ice Mirror Lake.
“Brother and the third brother are out?” Huang Long frowned.
“Yes, young master,” Bog replied respectfully, looking helpless. The two had left, and they couldn’t stop them, as they didn’t want anyone to follow.
Understanding Bog’s difficulty, Huang Long didn’t blame him. Instead, he used his powerful divine sense to instantly locate Huang Wei and Huang Liang. Upon seeing their situation, his expression darkened.
“Young master, what’s wrong?” Brade and Bog asked, concerned by Huang Long’s expression. Could something have happened to Huang Wei and Huang Liang?!
“Bog, stay here. Brade, let’s go!” Huang Long retracted his divine sense and said, then vanished in a flash.
Bog replied respectfully, while Brade quickly followed Huang Long, also vanishing in a flash.
“Take them to the Supreme God’s prison!” the captain ordered, pointing at Huang Wei and Huang Liang.
The Supreme God’s prison—a prison space created by the Supreme God himself. Once inside, even the strongest warriors would lose a layer of their skin if they didn’t die.
“If we die, my second brother will avenge us!” Huang Liang glared at the young man Yahi and the captain of the Supreme God’s army.
“Oh, there’s a second brother too.” The captain laughed loudly. “I’m curious to see how your second brother will avenge you!”