Chapter 0469: Innate Spirit Stone
The next day, Bier came over and led Huang Long and the others to the main hall of the Kingdom of the Spirit Realm. Upon arriving, Villey, the King of the Death Spirit Realm, was already there.
Seeing Huang Long and the others arrive, Villey didn’t say much. She discussed a few matters related to the Spirit Realm array with them before saying, “Then let’s set off for the Death Swamp right now.”
Huang Long nodded.
After that, everyone followed Villey as they flew toward the Death Swamp in the far north of the Death Spirit Realm.
A few months later, Huang Long and the others arrived at the Death Swamp.
“Is this the Death Swamp?!” Looking at the vast expanse of the Death Swamp below, Huang Liang beside Huang Long couldn’t help but exclaim in awe.
This Death Swamp was far different from what he had imagined. It wasn’t filled with foul methane fumes or poisonous miasma as he had thought. Instead, the endless Death Swamp below appeared as a serene and beautiful blue ocean, with a light mist hanging in the air, like a sapphire covered by a veil of white.
“This is the Death Swamp,” Villey said, her beautiful eyes gleaming with an unusual expression as she gazed at the swamp below.
Huang Long felt a stir in his heart. Some rumors claimed that Villey, the King of the Death Spirit Realm, came from the Chaos Divine Plane, while others said she was born from the Death Swamp itself. Seeing her now, could it be true that she was born from the swamp?!
A cool breeze blew over the Death Swamp. Villey remained silent, and Huang Long and the others stood still.
“Let’s go. We need to head to the Spirit Realm array,” Villey finally said after a while. With that, she dashed forward toward the center of the Death Swamp.
The Spirit Realm array of the Death Spirit Realm was located at the center of the Death Swamp. Huang Long and the others closely followed.
Before long, they stopped alongside Villey. Looking down, Huang Long saw purple rings spreading across the surface of the blue-sapphire-like Death Swamp like ripples, covering an area of hundreds of millions of miles. These rings were spreading rapidly outward.
As the purple rings expanded, faint dark gray gases occasionally seeped up from the bottom of the blue swamp. Accompanying these gases was a wailing sound, like the cry of the wind.
Villiy saw the light black gas continuously seeping up from the bottom of the swamp. Her expression changed, and with a wave of her hands, soft green lights covered the area, gradually suppressing the light black gas. However, even after suppressing it, the solemn expression on Villiy, the Queen of the Death Spirit Realm, did not ease. Huang Long knew that the light black gas was the resentment that had originally been sealed within the spirit realm, and now that it had leaked out, it was easy to imagine what state the spirit realm array was in. “That was resentment. I didn’t expect it to have leaked out already,” Villiy said with a frown. The resentment had leaked out, yet she hadn’t received any reports from her soul messengers. Where were those soul messengers assigned to guard this place? They hadn’t shown up yet. Villiy formed a hand seal, but after a long time, there was no response. This was her secret method for summoning soul messengers. “It’s gone?!” Villiy felt a sense of unease. Things seemed to be slipping out of her control. Previously, when the spirit realm array was damaged, she had managed to seal off the leaking resentment temporarily—enough to last for hundreds of years. But now, the resentment had leaked out again. At that moment, Huang Long flew forward, heading toward the center of the purple light circle. As he approached, a mysterious force emerged from the purple circle and rebounded toward him. The closer he got to the center, the stronger the force became, until even Huang Long grew solemn. As he neared the center, golden clouds surged around his body, blocking the purple circle and that force. After a while, Huang Long reached the center of the purple circle. There, he saw a black vortex spanning hundreds of miles within the purple circle below. Frowning, he realized this was the area where the spirit realm array was damaged. Huang Long had suspected from the start that the array wasn’t as simple as Villiy claimed, but it was even worse than he had imagined. The black vortex continued to expand, like a bottomless dark hole, exerting a powerful sucking force that made it difficult even for Huang Long, who was high in the sky, to stay steady. “Huang Long, how is it?” Villiy’s voice rang out. With a sound cutting through the air, Villiy appeared beside Huang Long. “I need to examine it more carefully,” Huang Long replied without giving her a definite answer. He needed to study the array thoroughly before he could understand it.
Just now, under the display of the Yellow Dragon’s divine consciousness, this Death Spirit Realm Formation was not only superior to some of Pangu’s innate formations but also far more complex than the Ancient Formation that the Yellow Dragon and Li Yifeng had encountered in the Sea of Clouds back then. When Verli heard the Yellow Dragon say he needed to investigate further, she was not disappointed at all; instead, she felt delighted and looked forward to what would happen next. Since the Yellow Dragon hadn’t said outright that there was no solution, it meant there might be one after all. The several senior formation masters she had invited before, upon seeing the situation of this Spirit Realm Formation, had immediately given a definite answer: there was no way! Amid Verli’s anticipation as the King of the Death Spirit Realm, the Yellow Dragon slowly descended toward the black vortex. Faced with it, he didn’t dare be careless and exerted all his celestial power, causing golden clouds to swirl around his body as he landed carefully. Finally, he stopped about a hundred feet above the black vortex. After settling into position, the Yellow Dragon summoned the Five Directional Spirit Flags. The Central Wu-Ji Apricot Yellow Flag and the other four flags emitted light corresponding to the five elements. With the Yellow Dragon’s magical energy poured into them, they stabilized the five directions, causing the black vortex to spin more slowly. Then, the Yellow Dragon raised his hands and brought out the Thunder Gathering Vessel. After integrating the Right Eye of the Chaos Divine Dragon, his strength had greatly increased. He reforged the Thunder Gathering Vessel, which had absorbed death thunder, raising its rank once again—its power now comparable to that of ordinary spiritual treasures. When the vessel was unleashed, flashes of lightning appeared, along with purple, platinum, red, and other colored divine thunders that descended upon the black vortex. As these thunders struck, the vortex trembled violently, bubbling like boiling water. Above the vortex, a purple-black energy shield formed, and the resentment that had been sealed again by Verli began to stir once more. The weather above the vortex changed drastically; the once clear sky darkened, and eventually, it affected the entire Death Swamp. The vast surface of the swamp rippled as if caught in fierce winds. Those far away, including Bradd, Bogge, and the members of the Huang family, were all shocked. To prevent further trouble, Bradd even unleashed his divine essence, emitting divine power to protect the surroundings. After the Thunder Gathering Vessel unleashed its divine thunders at the vortex, the black gases around it condensed into countless terrifying evil spirits that rushed toward the Yellow Dragon. He then drew out his Immortal Slaying Sword and slew them one by one. This continued for several hours. After that time, the black gases thinned out and eventually disappeared. Only then did the Yellow Dragon retrieve the Thunder Gathering Vessel and use his divine consciousness to penetrate into the Spirit Realm Formation through the entrance of the black vortex.
At this moment, the black vortices also settled down. After a while, the Yellow Dragon withdrew his consciousness. “How is the situation?” Villey, the King of the Death Spirit Realm, stepped forward and asked anxiously. The Yellow Dragon pondered for a moment before saying, “It can be repaired.” Hearing this, joy appeared on Villey’s expectant face. “But…” At that moment, the Yellow Dragon’s tone changed. Villey’s joy vanished, and she grew anxious. “But what?” This spirit realm array was crucial to the Death Spirit Realm; how could she not care? She feared the Yellow Dragon would give another unfavorable answer, like those high-level array masters before. “To repair this spirit realm array, we need a type of innate spirit stone—the Five-Color Divine Stone,” said the Yellow Dragon. Although the Yellow Dragon could repair the damaged array, filling in the vortex black hole required a divine stone; ordinary divine stones wouldn’t suffice, and the ideal one was the Five-Color Divine Stone. In the Pangu World, the sky had been torn apart due to the war between the witches and demons, and Nüwa used this Five-Color Divine Stone to mend it. If it could repair the shattered Pangu sky, then fixing the vortex black hole should be no problem. “What?! An innate spirit stone!” Villey’s heart sank. Though she had never heard of the Five-Color Divine Stone, she knew what an innate spirit stone represented—it was an extremely rare treasure even in the Chaos Divine Plane, coveted by all the great sacred kings. “What does this Five-Color Divine Stone look like?” Villey asked after a while. Even if there was only a sliver of a chance, she had to try. The Yellow Dragon then described its appearance and characteristics. In truth, he wasn’t sure if such a stone existed in this world, as it wasn’t the Pangu World. After hearing his words, Villey frowned and shook her head. “I’ve never heard of this Five-Color Divine Stone.” No?! As the king of a realm, if she didn’t know about it, it likely didn’t exist at all! The Yellow Dragon mused, “If there’s no Five-Color Divine Stone, other divine stones will work too. But their effect won’t be as good.” “Oh, other divine stones? What other stones will do?” Villey’s eyes lit up. “The Reincarnation Stone!” the Yellow Dragon replied slowly. In the Pangu World, the Reincarnation Stone was an extremely rare immortal stone in the netherworld. It was unknown whether it existed in this hell. “The Reincarnation Stone!” Villey’s face lit up with joy, but it soon faded as she said, “I know about the Reincarnation Stone. But like the Soul-Stabilizing Stone, it originates from the deepest depths of purgatory, and it’s even rarer than the Soul-Stabilizing Stone.” If the Soul-Stabilizing Stone was rare, with only a few people in hell possessing it, what about the Reincarnation Stone?