Chapter 0879: Refining the Supreme Divine Pill

“It’s a bit troublesome!” Huang Long thought to himself.
On the edge of the central area of the Chaos Abyss, though not in the very center, it was still extremely dangerous.
“Let’s give up on this treasure for now. I’ll first devour and refine the two vice leaders of Jiutian, then strive to break through three eras!” Huang Long swiftly left the treasure vault, already having an idea in mind.
“Second brother!” When Huang Long emerged, Huang Yi and the others rushed forward to greet him.
“Let’s go outside first and talk!” Huang Long stepped out with everyone. Then, with a mere gesture of his hands, he gathered all the innate divine artifacts, precious materials, and supreme divine pills scattered across the outer layer—more than twenty planets’ worth—into the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron.
“It’s a shame there aren’t any great divine pills like the Yin-Yang Ultimate Pill!” Huang Liang said.
Huang Long smiled upon hearing this. “Do you think great divine pills like the Yin-Yang Ultimate Pill are everywhere?”
This time, there was a king-grade spiritual vein in the Jiutian Treasure Vault, which already satisfied Huang Long greatly. A single king-grade spiritual vein was worth more than hundreds of thousands of Yin-Yang Ultimate Pills!
After all, the Yin-Yang Ultimate Pill was only ranked 28th among great divine pills!
Huang Liang apologized, “I was just saying.”
Everyone laughed.
“However, by subduing that king-grade spiritual vein, I learned about the location of a treasure. Inside that treasure, there might even be great divine pills better than the Yin-Yang Ultimate Pill!” Huang Long continued.
From the memories of that king-grade spiritual vein, the treasure contained fifteen king-grade spiritual veins, five half-saint skeletons, and great divine pills—though it wasn’t clear exactly what kind.
“What? A treasure, with great divine pills?!” Huang Liang and the others stared at Huang Long.
Huang Long then explained everything.
Fifteen king-grade spiritual veins!
Five half-saint skeletons!
Great divine pills!
If the Jiutian Treasure Vault had shocked everyone, hearing about this treasure left them utterly speechless.
“The Chaos Abyss is dangerous. Right now, the most important thing is to strengthen our powers first, then go to the Chaos Abyss to retrieve the treasure!” Huang Long said.
Only then did everyone snap out of their daze.
So, Huang Long set up several innate grand arrays in the cosmic space outside the Jiutian Divine Realm before retreating to the sacred mountain of the Jiutian Sect to cultivate in seclusion.
Like Huang Long, everyone else also practiced hard inside the Sacred Cauldron.
Now, each of them possessed a first-grade spiritual vein, and with the help of great divine pills like the Yin-Yang Ultimate Pill, their strength improved by leaps and bounds at an astonishing rate.
Since such great divine pills contained the laws of heaven and earth, taking them and cultivating with them also helped improve their soul realms, so there was no need to worry about their soul realms falling behind.

Huang Long sat cross-legged at the center of the Sacred Cauldron Formation, releasing the divine bodies of the two Deputy Patriarchs of the Nine Heavens. Channeling his magical power, he activated the ten second-grade spiritual veins to propel the Sacred Cauldron Formation without restraint. As the formation operated, the divine bodies of the two Deputy Patriarchs were continuously refined. Streams of the semi-saints’ vital essence and primordial energy, along with the laws of the great path, were absorbed by Huang Long.

Originally, it would take hundreds of millions of years for a semi-saint to improve even slightly in strength. But by devouring and absorbing the divine bodies of the two Deputy Patriarchs, Huang Long’s strength improved constantly. As he consumed those bodies, the World Tree also drew mysterious forces from the void and merged them with Huang Long’s power, causing the pure white light among the colors to increase gradually.

Ten thousand years, twenty thousand years, eighty thousand years!

One day, clusters of colorful clouds suddenly condensed in the void of the Sacred Cauldron Formation. These clouds kept multiplying until they covered the entire formation space. Powerful forces emanated from these seas of color. A thunderous dragon roar sounded, causing the clouds to disperse. Huang Long’s figure appeared, his aura even more unfathomable than before. If his aura before was like an ocean, now that ocean was expanding, deepening, and gradually transforming.

“I have completely devoured and absorbed the vital essence, primordial energy, and laws of the great path from the two Deputy Patriarchs of the Nine Heavens. My indestructible physical strength has doubled, and the laws governing my soul power have also doubled. Yet I still haven’t broken through to the third era!” Huang Long sighed in secret joy.

The peak of two eras!

Indeed, his strength had now reached the peak of the later stage of two eras. He was already half on his way to the third era, just one step short of breaking through.

“The higher you go, the harder it is to break through!” Huang Long thought to himself. With each higher era, the difficulty of breaking through didn’t double—it multiplied several times! Even when breaking through five eras, after the first major hurdle, every subsequent improvement would be ten times harder! As for ten eras, there’s no need to say more!

“Never mind. In that case, I’ll first refine the Supreme Divine Pill!” Huang Long stretched out his hands and drew the materials for the Supreme Divine Pill from the Sacred Cauldron’s space—gold and jade, spiritual jade, fire souls, stone essences, Ice-Fire Grass, Unyielding True Iron, Nine Yang and Nine Yin Mud… Piles of rare treasures and innate divine artifacts, totaling hundreds in number!

After gathering all the materials, Huang Long waved them toward the center of the formation. One after another, the formations began to operate.

These precious materials and innate divine artifacts were continuously refined and melted into streams of glowing liquid. Then, a first-class spiritual vein emerged from the Yellow Dragon’s body and also merged into these glowing liquids.

To refine the Great Dao Divine Pill, one condition was to do so within the Great Dao Divine Cauldron, and another was to use the spiritual energy from a first-class or higher spiritual vein to balance the properties of the various ingredients.

As time passed—tens of thousands of years later—a flash of light appeared within the grand array. A rainbow glow spread out in ripples, accompanied by waves of celestial music echoing through the void. This was a sign that the Great Dao Divine Pill was about to be successfully formed!

However, just as the rainbow glow grew stronger and was about to reach its peak, purple-red thunder columns descended from the depths of the universe, ignoring the defenses of the sacred cauldron and directly striking at the nearly formed Great Dao Divine Pill.

These purple-red thunder columns contained characters representing calamities, each imbued with the power of the Great Dao. For half-saints to achieve breakthroughs, they must endure the Calamity of Destruction. Similarly, refining the Great Dao Divine Pill required overcoming the Divine Pill Calamity!

Only by surviving this calamity could its purest energy be absorbed by the pill, allowing it to take shape and embody a fragment of the laws of the universe. If not, the pill would be destroyed, and all those precious materials, innate divine artifacts, and spiritual veins would be lost!

The Yellow Dragon watched as the thunder calamity descended. With a cold snort, he was about to summon the Chaos Bell to scatter it when, suddenly, the divine artifact “All Realms” flew out on its own, heading straight toward the thunder calamity.

An astonishing scene unfolded: as “All Realms” flew out, the white jade roots of the World Tree stretched out and instantly devoured all the calamity-energy contained within those purple-red thunder columns!