Chapter 0857: Comprehending the Hongmeng Dao

Having obtained the book “The Laws of the Hongmeng Dao” from the Holy King of Hongmeng, Huang Long scanned it with his divine consciousness and found its contents to be vast as the ocean—something that couldn’t be fully understood in just a few months or years. So, he stored it within his body to study it at a later time.
“Ock, do you know what the fifth layer of restricted space is?” Huang Long turned to ask.
With his current strength, he still couldn’t open the fifth layer of restricted space.
Ock shook his head. “I don’t know either. But to open the fifth layer’s restrictions, the young master will likely need to reach the cultivation level of a half-saint after five or six eras!”
“Five or six eras!” Livia and Huoyang were shocked.
Although Livia and Huoyang had lived for countless billions of years, they were merely god-kings born in this era. Five or six eras—how long would that be?!
Huang Long frowned.
Ock remained silent.
“Has there still be no news about Felix?” Huang Long suddenly asked after a while.
With Felix in escape, his existence remained like a thorn in Huang Long’s throat. Though Huang Long was now a half-saint, the presence of a supreme god-king hidden in the shadows posed a threat to those around him.
Livia, Ock, and Huoyang all shook their heads.
Over the past few months, they had ordered searches for Felix’s whereabouts, but he seemed to have vanished completely, leaving no trace. After all, as a peak god-king, even if he hid in some corner of the Hongmeng Continent, it would be difficult for others to find him!
“Then I’ll risk consuming some of my magical energy to figure out Felix’s location!” Huang Long mused, his eyes gleaming.
Under the puzzled gazes of Livia and the others, Huang Long soared into the air, sat in lotus position in the void, formed magical seals with his hands. Above his head, auspicious clouds appeared, illuminating the surroundings brightly.
Now that Huang Long had surpassed the half-saint level, the radiant auspicious clouds protected his body, ensuring he was immune to all evil forces and poisons.
Then, circles of colorful light appeared behind Huang Long. As these lights emerged, Livia and the others felt that the space around them sometimes slowed down, sometimes sped up, sometimes became chaotic, and sometimes reversed!
“What is this?!” Ock and the others were astonished.
One after another, scenes appeared within the light circles. Huang Long’s immense magical energy flowed continuously into the light circles, which then revealed countless realms and star systems in the Hongmeng world, with the images becoming increasingly clear.

After continuing for over an hour, the brilliant light shook violently and came to a halt on a certain image.
“Is this the Sea of Demons?!” The three of them, shocked, blurted out upon seeing the scene.
At that moment, the bright light disappeared, and the Yellow Dragon retracted his magical energy. His face turned pale, and he quickly swallowed several Innate Divine Pills before feeling somewhat better.
Calculating matters in the heavens was inherently a task that defied the natural order. Besides requiring great strength from the individual, each calculation consumed an astonishing amount of magical energy—more like depletion than consumption!
Once depleted, one had to practice again to restore it; if it were merely consumption, taking some Innate Divine Pills would suffice to recover. The two concepts were not the same.
Just now, to determine Felix’s location, the Yellow Dragon had expended hundreds of years’ worth of magical energy.
However, he could only figure out that Felix was hiding in the Sea of Demons; he couldn’t pinpoint his exact location within it.
Of course, this was enough to shock the three of them greatly, as they had never seen such miraculous powers before.
“Felix is in the Sea of Demons. Let’s go—we’ll head there now!” said the Yellow Dragon.
The three of them snapped out of their daze.
“Yellow Dragon, your cultivation technique is truly amazing! You were able to figure out that Felix is hiding in the Sea of Demons!” Fire Yang couldn’t help but say after leaving the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron.
The Yellow Dragon smiled and replied, “It’s not anything special. If I were the Immortal of Hunyuan Permanence, I could have pinpointed Felix’s exact location right away. But I didn’t expect Felix to hide in the Sea of Demons!”
What the Yellow Dragon said was true. If it were someone like Laozi, Yuan Shi, or Tong Tian—the Immortals of Hunyuan Permanence—they could determine Felix’s exact location instantly. Such immortals could draw on the power of the universe, making the magical energy depletion negligible.
After giving some instructions to Lus and Nisir, the Yellow Dragon left Mount Hairuo with the three of them and headed toward the demonic realm deep within the Chaos of Hongmeng.
The Sea of Demons was, in other words, the sea of the demonic realm.
“Good. We can take the opportunity to look for that Golden Jade along the way,” the Yellow Dragon thought to himself.
Initially, in order to break through to the peak of Quasi-Saint status and achieve the ability to slay two corpses, the Yellow Dragon had intended to refine Laozi’s Supreme Divine Pill to boost his magical energy. But due to time pressure, after refining and absorbing the divine bodies of people like Bota, he began to slay the two corpses.
This time, after killing Felix, he would find the Golden Jade, and finally, locate the True Iron of Rigidity—thus gathering all the materials needed to refine the Supreme Divine Pill.
Supreme Divine Pill!

Although it has little effect on Huang Long as a semi-saint now, it has a significant impact on Huang Xiong, Zhao Rong, Huang Yi, Susan, Vitiya, and others, even having a great effect on Li Weiya, the Divine King. Huang Xiong, Huang Yi, and the others, by taking the Supreme Divine Pill, can quickly reach the peak of the Supreme Deity. Once they merge with the Divine King’s essence, they will be able to advance to the level of a powerful Divine King sooner. Thus, Huang Long crafted a jade talisman and issued an order to Lu Su: anyone who finds a piece of Unyielding True Iron can exchange it for a Hongmeng Spiritual Treasure artifact. Huang Long believes that once this order is spread, all the gods in the Hongmeng Realm will spare no effort to gather that Unyielding True Iron. “I hope by the time I return from the Demon Realm, the Unyielding True Iron will have been found!” Huang Long muttered to himself. Since the distance between the Hongmeng Realm and the Demon Realm is vast—one at the edge of the Hongmeng chaos and the other deep within it—traveling at Huang Long and his companions’ speed would take at least two months. Therefore, Huang Long simply used the Sacred Cauldron of Heaven and Earth, entering it with Li Weiya and the others to cultivate. The spatial array within the Sacred Cauldron caused one thousand years inside to equal just one day outside; thus, two months equaled nearly a hundred thousand years. Huang Long intended to make good use of these hundred thousand years to comprehend the “Laws of the Hongmeng Great Path.” While Huang Long cultivated the Laws of the Hongmeng Great Path, Li Weiya and the others also retreated into the void of the sacred cauldron to cultivate separately. “What is Hongmeng? What is the Great Path? Hongmeng is the state at the beginning of the world’s creation, the natural vital energy…” Sitting in the void, Huang Long used his divine consciousness to delve into the book of the Laws of the Hongmeng Great Path, where it began like this. As Huang Long continued to comprehend, his understanding of the thirty thousand great worlds in the universe, the Great Path, and various mysteries from his past cultivation gradually became clear. Above Huang Long’s head, amidst the auspicious clouds, beams of brilliance flickered continuously. These beams, passing through the endless space and time, seemed to subtly blend with the Hongmeng Great World.