Chapter 0873: Breakthrough, Two Eras!

“Good! By devouring and absorbing this Great Path artifact, I can regain half of my peak strength!” The spirit of the Chaos Bell rejoiced, its voice as resonant as a great bell, filled with boundless dominance and imperial aura.
Half of peak strength?!
Just half of peak strength?!
Huang Long nearly fainted. This was terrifying—devouring and absorbing this Great Path artifact only yielded half of the Chaos Bell’s peak strength?!
Yet soon, Huang Long was overjoyed. To what extent would the Chaos Bell become once it fully regained its former peak strength?!
“This Death Zone Abyss is sparsely populated—perfect for seclusion. I’ll just retreat here to fully absorb the essence, vital energy, and Great Path laws of the Nine Heavens Sect Master, thereby breaking through to two new eras in my cultivation!” Huang Long thought to himself.
Immediately, he stored the Chaos Bell inside his body and used the EarthEarthEarth Style technique technique -> Earth Style technique technique to dive seven or eight hundred thousand feet underground, reaching the core of this Death Zone planet, then entering the Space of the Sacred Cauldron of Heaven and Earth.
There, Huang Long devoured and absorbed the divine body of the Nine Heavens Sect Master inside the Sacred Cauldron, while the Chaos Bell completely refined two Golden Horn Semi-Saints, the Heaven-Hatred Demon Ancestor, and one more Great Path artifact.
Huang Liang, Huang Yi, and the others also continued to consume innate divine pills and practice day and night.
Time passed.
Now, by activating the grand array of the Sacred Cauldron, Huang Long could experience ten thousand years inside the cauldron while only one day passed outside.
After tens of thousands of years, Huang Long, seated in the void of the Sacred Cauldron, saw his strength continuously rise. Streams of multicolored light shot into the sky, enveloping the entire Sacred Cauldron space and covering an area of hundreds of millions of miles around the planet’s core.
As Huang Long continued to devour the divine body of the Nine Heavens Sect Master and the Great Path laws, the World Tree among the artifacts of all realms drew strength from the vast universe and merged it with Huang Long’s power.
The multicolored light within Huang Long’s body merged with this energy, gradually undergoing subtle changes—faint strands of white light appeared within the multicolored glow.
This white was not pure white, but a kind of white that represented the ultimate expression of color. It seemed to encompass all colors and everything in the universe.
Suddenly, Huang Long, seated in the void, trembled violently. His physical body and the Sea of Souls underwent drastic changes—the Immortal Body became even more solid, the Sea of Souls expanded and deepened, and the Great Path laws shone with brilliant light.
From the depths of the universe, a force of destruction descended, aiming straight at Huang Long.

A Half-Saint warrior, after each great destruction of the universe, if they survive, sees their physical body and Soul Sea undergo complete transformation, leading to a significant increase in strength. However, if a Half-Saint accumulates enough power within an era to reach its peak and seeks to advance to a higher era, the laws of the universe will also send destructive forces upon them. This is known as the Destruction Calamity! If they survive the Destruction Calamity, the Yellow Dragon will truly break through the peak of one era and reach the next. If they fail to survive and absorb the destructive forces to transform themselves, they will suffer severe backlash from those forces and may even perish! When the destructive forces surged forward, the Yellow Dragon acted swiftly—his Chaos Bell appeared and directly charged at those forces. With a thunderous explosion, it seemed as though the entire universe was about to be destroyed. Through this collision, the Chaos Bell shattered the Destruction Calamity, turning it into pure destructive forces that seeped into the Yellow Dragon’s body, merging with his physical form and Soul Sea. The Yellow Dragon seemed to have experienced a great destruction of the universe, and his body and Soul Sea finally transformed. After fully transforming and breaking through two eras, the remaining essence and vital energy of the Nine Heavens Patriarch, along with the laws of the universe, continued to flow into his body. His strength kept rising—through the early, middle, and late stages of two eras—until it finally stopped at the late stage of the second era. The Yellow Dragon stood up, laughed heartily, and his formidable presence swept across the heavens. The entire planet cracked from within its core and eventually turned into debris, scattered throughout the universe’s space-time. Thus, a planet was gone! This planet was equivalent to a high-level divine realm. After breaking through two eras, the Yellow Dragon felt that the entire universe had changed. Before, he felt tiny like a grain of sand amidst the vastness of the universe, but now it was different. He even believed that as long as he continued to break through, he could truly control his own destiny and escape both the universe and its laws! “I’ve finally broken through two eras, and to the late stage of them at that. Not bad—the essence and vital energy of the Nine Heavens Patriarch, along with the laws of the universe, are indeed powerful. Truly befitting a warrior from the late stage of three eras!” the Yellow Dragon thought with delight. Now, his strength had more than doubled compared to before he broke through! And that didn’t even include the improvements brought by the Chaos Bell! Tens of thousands of years passed, and the Chaos Bell had completely refined and absorbed two Golden Horn Giants, the Heaven-Hatred Demon Ancestor, and one great divine artifact, restoring half of its former strength!

“I wonder what treasures the Heaven-Hating Demon Ancestor and the Nine Heavens Sect Master have in their spatial artifacts?!” After a while, Huang Long suppressed his joy and thought of the spatial artifacts of the Heaven-Hating Demon Ancestor and the Nine Heavens Sect Master. These were obtained by killing those two. To break through two eras, Huang Long had been in seclusion and thus hadn’t had time to check them yet. To kill the Heaven-Hating Demon Ancestor and the Nine Heavens Sect Master, Huang Long had sacrificed four first-class spiritual veins to activate the Sacred Cauldron Formation. Moreover, to break through those two eras, he had used one first-class spiritual vein and almost exhausted countless innate divine pills, leaving him with nothing. First, Huang Long opened the spatial artifact of the Heaven-Hating Demon Ancestor. “Hmm, these are all innate divine pills—there must be around 200 million!” As soon as he opened the first layer of the artifact, he saw a mountain range formed from innate divine pills, stretching for tens of millions of miles. Delighted, Huang Long realized that indeed, a half-saint from three eras had amassed a vast collection—just the innate divine pills alone were many times more than those of the Nine Separations Demon Ancestor. “I wonder what’s in the second layer?!” Unable to resist, Huang Long opened it. “Innate divine artifacts?! They’re all innate divine artifacts—one, two, over 180!” Stunned at first, Huang Long was then filled with extreme joy upon seeing over 180 innate divine pills. Among them was True Soft Iron! “These are the 150 innate divine artifacts from the auction—I never expected they were bought by this Heaven-Hating Demon Ancestor. Great, this works in my favor!” Huang Long recognized that those 150 artifacts were the ones auctioned at the event. Now that he had them, he didn’t even need to spend a single innate divine pill. “The last ingredient for the Supreme Divine Pill is finally gathered. I can now craft it!” Huang Long was overjoyed. By consuming the Supreme Divine Pill for cultivation, along with Huang Yi, Susan, Livia, and others, their progress would be tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of times faster than using innate divine pills. Coupled with the time-altering effects of the Sacred Cauldron, they could quickly reach the peak of the late Divine King stage! Then, Huang Long eagerly opened the third layer of the space. The third layer contained sealed spiritual veins, all first-class—over 20 of them! Over 20 first-class spiritual veins! “Over 20 first-class spiritual veins! Fantastic! Too bad there are no king-class spiritual veins!” Huang Long was overjoyed. If the third layer was like this, what about the fourth?