Chapter 0858: The World of Ten Thousand Demons

Year after year passed as the Yellow Dragon sat in the void, constantly contemplating the Way of Hongmeng. Light flickered across its body, with celestial dragons swirling around it. Eventually, the Yellow Dragon seemed to vanish entirely, leaving no trace. If anyone had tried to sense its presence at that moment, they would have found nothing. It seemed the Yellow Dragon had completely merged with the World of Hongmeng.

On the sea of souls within the Yellow Dragon’s mind, clusters of radiant light continued to be tempered by the laws of the Way, undergoing constant changes. Initially, these lights were like a chaotic mass, but now they had separated, evolving into the principles of yin and yang, gradually becoming clearer.

Ten thousand years, twenty thousand years, fifty thousand years, sixty thousand years!

After sixty thousand years, on this day, the Yellow Dragon, which had disappeared into the void, reappeared. It opened its eyes, and two beams of light shot out, transforming into two colorful divine dragons. These dragons pierced through the void, revealing a sacred cauldron that extended outward for billions of miles! Wherever they passed, waves of energy surged, like two rivers of color.

“The Way of Hongmeng is truly as profound as the ocean!” the Yellow Dragon murmured to itself.

After sixty thousand years of contemplation, it had only grasped a fraction—perhaps not even that. Yet, its transformation was evident. Its aura was vastly different from that of sixty thousand years ago. Now, the Yellow Dragon stood like an endless abyss, its magical power seemingly boundless, like the waves of energy in the world.

After a while, the Yellow Dragon reined in its aura and stood up. In a flash, it arrived at the palace in the fourth layer of space.

After sixty thousand years of study, it had achieved some progress in understanding the Way of Hongmeng. Continuing to study would unlikely yield further breakthroughs in just a few more ten thousand years. Thus, the Yellow Dragon decided to explore the books on artifact and pill-making left by the Holy King of Hongmeng in the fourth layer of space.

Ten thousand years later, the Yellow Dragon emerged from the palace in the fourth layer.

“So that’s how it is. I never imagined that creating a divine artifact requires integrating the laws of the Way!” the Yellow Dragon exclaimed in awe.

Back then, the Yellow Dragon had combined many immortal artifacts from the Immortal Pavilion to create the divine artifact “All Realms.” Yet, even after being tempered in the sacred cauldron array for over a hundred thousand years, it still hadn’t reached the pinnacle of a postnatal spiritual treasure and become a divine artifact!

Now, after reading the books on artifact-making left by the Holy King of Hongmeng, the Yellow Dragon finally understood why.

The laws of the Way!

To transform an artifact into a divine artifact, it was necessary to integrate the laws of the Way! Moreover, the more complete these laws were, the higher the chance of successful transformation!

“It seems that to transform the divine artifacts of all realms into Supreme Dao artifacts, one must kill a Half-Saint!” Huang Long frowned. To kill a Half-Saint and extract the laws of the Supreme Dao from their bodies, then fuse them into the divine artifacts of all realms! But killing a Half-Saint is extremely difficult! It’s already impossible for a Divine King to kill another Divine King, let alone for a Half-Saint to kill another Half-Saint—even if they’re of the same rank—it’s hundreds or thousands of times harder than that. Even with the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron and the Chaos Bell, along with two Golden-Horned Saints, Huang Long can at most kill two Half-Saints from different eras. The chance of killing a Half-Saint from three different eras is only about 20-30%! “But I never expected that during the great war between the PanGu and Witch tribes back then, the sealing array deep within the Chaos Bell was damaged!” With a flash of his hand, the Chaos Bell appeared in his grasp. Over these 60,000 years of studying the HongMeng Dao, Huang Long finally discovered the problem with the Chaos Bell. Back then, during the war between the PanGu and Witch tribes that ruled the universe, the twelve Ancestral Witches of the Witch tribe, as well as Emperor Jun and Donghuang Taiyi of the Witch tribe, all perished. Treasures like the Chaos Bell and the River Map and Luo Book were severely damaged. All these years, Huang Long had thought the Chaos Bell wasn’t very powerful. Given PanGu’s ancient fame, its power should have been far greater, but he couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. Now, he knew. Moreover, Huang Long found a remnant consciousness deep within the Chaos Bell’s sealing array. This remnant consciousness belonged to Donghuang Taiyi! Back then, Donghuang Taiyi was the master of the Chaos Bell. If not for Huang Long’s breakthrough to Half-Saint status and his exploration of the Dao, he would never have discovered this hidden remnant consciousness. Of course, after finding Donghuang Taiyi’s remnant consciousness, Huang Long immediately destroyed it. “So, Donghuang Taiyi isn’t dead?!” Huang Long thought after destroying the remnant consciousness. Although this remnant consciousness of Donghuang Taiyi was extremely weak and in a dormant state, it was slowly recovering. If Donghuang Taiyi had died, his divine consciousness attached to the Chaos Bell would surely have vanished as well, making it impossible for him to exist. After a while, Huang Long shook his head and set aside the matter of Donghuang Taiyi. Even if Donghuang Taiyi was still alive, it had little to do with him. The most important thing now was to repair the Chaos Bell. From the books in the palace, Huang Long learned about the ranking of the Supreme Dao artifacts. In the 3,000 major worlds of the universe, although Supreme Dao artifacts were rare, there were still over ten thousand of them! The Chaos Bell ranked twelfth among them! Twelfth! It could be considered a super Supreme Dao artifact! Any artifact that made it into the top 100 was a mighty Supreme Dao artifact that could shake the heavens. But this was just the previous ranking, from the peak of the Chaos Bell’s power.

From the books, I learned that to restore the Chaos Bell, a supreme artifact, one also needs the laws of the great path!
“Unfortunately, the Xuanhuang River Map appears only once every trillions of years. Otherwise, with my current strength, if I could enter the Xuanhuang River, kill that Cambrian Sacred Beast, and seize its laws of the great path, I might be able to restore the Chaos Bell!” Huang Long couldn’t help but think of that Cambrian Sacred Beast in the Cambrian Abyss on the seventh layer of the Xuanhuang River.
Previously, Huang Long couldn’t gauge the strength of that Cambrian Sacred Beast and only knew it was a semi-saint. Now, having surpassed the level of semi-saint, he knew that beast was a semi-saint born in this era. With his current strength, he could definitely slay it.
“Hm? We’ve arrived at the Demon Realm!” At that moment, the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron emitted a hum as they entered a world filled with oppressive demonic energy.
Huang Long swiftly emerged from the cauldron. At a glance, he saw waves of demonic energy drifting like smoke and mist across the land. Towering giant trees stood on the barren ground, with cracks visible everywhere. Rows of peaks made of black sand and black stones stretched endlessly, but most of them were bare, with few plants or flowers.
Groups of demons roamed among these mountains. With a sweep of his spiritual sense, Huang Long found that within hundreds of millions of miles, there were likely tens of billions of demons, all of considerable strength. There were few lower gods; most were middle or upper gods!
“There are quite a lot of demons in this Demon Realm, and their overall strength is significant. I just wonder what the Demon World itself is like.” Huang Long had learned many secrets about the Three Thousand Great Worlds from the books left by the Hongmeng Sacred King in the cauldron. Among them was a great world called the World of Ten Thousand Demons, which was essentially the Demon World itself!
This Demon World was the birthplace of all trillions of demons. All demons in the Three Thousand Great Worlds could be considered branches of this Demon World. The demons in the Pangu World were like this, as were those in the Hongmeng World.
In the Demon World, powerful beings abounded, and their demonic flames dominated the heavens. Its strength ranked third, only behind the Central Great World and the Xuanhuang Great World!