Chapter 0922: Taking Advantage of the Situation—How Thrilling!

Yet, what Huang Long didn’t expect was that these eight people managed to sneak into the treasure vault without triggering its seals or alerting the powerful merchants guarding it.
“These eight know so much about the seals of the Jiudingxuan Treasure Vault!” Huang Long was astonished.
He memorized their route step by step.
Although the eight ignored the vault’s numerous seals, Huang Long believed it was impossible for them to enter so easily and steal its treasures—after all, the thirteen merchants, including at least seven Era Half-Saints, were no mere figments.
Sure enough, as the eight advanced to the deepest part of the vault, in front of its main door, and opened it, they finally alarmed the merchant warriors.
“Who are you?! How dare you invade the Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild’s treasure vault?!”
“You’re seeking death!”
The thirteen merchant warriors rushed over and surrounded the eight tightly.
The faces of the eight changed.
“Hold them off while I go in to find the top-grade spiritual veins and Earth Spirit Beads!” one of them said firmly before attempting to fly through the defenses and enter the vault.
The thirteen merchants were furious.
One silver-haired elder sent a palm strike, forcing the man back and shouting, “Tell us—how did you know about the top-grade spiritual veins and Earth Spirit Beads?”
Top-grade spiritual veins were already precious, let alone the finest ones!
To break through from the peak of one era to another, the physical and spiritual transformations required immense spiritual energy, which could only be obtained from top-grade spiritual veins.
As for the Earth Spirit Bead, it was a mid-tier Great Dao Artifact, nearly on par with a top-tier divine artifact. It was even more powerful than the Taiyin Jiuyang Pearl and had been found by the Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild on the Ruins Continent. It hadn’t been put up for auction but was meant to be sent to the headquarters. Who would have thought the news would leak?
“Who leaked this information to you?!” another guild elder roared in anger.
All eight were masked. An old man in a purple robe sneered, “Attack!” With that, black light surged around him, transforming him into giant black pythons, their demonic aura filling the air.
“Are you from the World of Ten Thousand Demons?!” the guild elder was enraged.
Both sides clashed violently.
Air currents surged, and space collapsed.
By now, all the seals within the Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild’s vault had been lifted. The seal energies intertwined, creating one space after another, forming new worlds. Thus, the power of the battle involving twenty-one people did not spread outward, failing to alert the gods of the Luoxing Divine Realm.
Seeing the eight provoke the guild elders and trigger the battle, Huang Long was overjoyed. He urged the Sacred Cauldron to sneak into the vault carefully.

Since the previous eight people had already opened the treasure hall’s doors, the guild elders didn’t have time to close them again, which actually helped Huang Long. After Huang Long used the Sacred Cauldron to enter the treasure hall, he deployed his divine vision and mental power to explore carefully. Along the way, seeing piles upon piles of precious materials, innate divine artifacts, and countless innate divine pills inside, Huang Long couldn’t help but marvel that the Jiudingxuan Guild was indeed one of the top ten guilds in the Three Thousand Great Worlds. Even just a branch guild’s treasury contained so much wealth that it astonished Huang Long greatly. Compared to the Doumu Treasury, the Jiudingxuan Treasury was insignificant, and even the Doumu Treasury paled in comparison to this branch guild’s treasury. The Jiudingxuan Guild was spread across the Three Thousand Great Worlds, and this branch was the largest guild in the Star King Great World. With countless years of accumulation, its wealth and treasures were naturally beyond comparison to the Doumu Treasury of the Doumu Star Ancestor. However, Huang Long did not take any of these precious materials, innate divine artifacts, or divine pills. Reasonably, breaking the seals on them would take time, and given the urgency—with the guild elders and those eight people potentially storming in at any moment—Huang Long had to find the Earth Spirit Pearl first. After just over a dozen breaths, Huang Long reached the depths of the treasure hall. “Huh? Half-Saint skeletons?!” Suddenly, he saw ten half-Saint skeletons sitting before him—ten in total! Each one retained its original power well, and they were even the skeletons of powerful Dragon Clan half-saints. Previously, Huang Long had acquired eight half-Saint skeletons, with Pili Dragon and Thunder Beast and the other six still without any half-Saint skeletons. These ten were more than enough. Delighted, Huang Long used all his strength to break the seals on the ten skeletons and swiftly scooped them into the Sacred Cauldron with a mere gesture of his hand. Then, he continued deeper. “First-class spiritual veins, king-class spiritual veins! There are so many!” As he went further, Huang Long suddenly stopped, staring in disbelief at the void before him. The void was filled with countless spiritual veins! All of them were first-class or above, resembling dense clusters of celestial dragons. With a sweep of his divine mind, Huang Long counted over a hundred thousand first-class spiritual veins and more than two hundred king-class spiritual veins! What kind of concept was that?! Even humans could form a massive army with such numbers. Even Huang Long’s eyes gleamed, and his breathing became rapid.

“This Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild truly lives up to being one of the top ten guilds!” Huang Long was overjoyed. He soared into the air, raised the Chaos Bell, and hurled it at those armies of spiritual veins, shattering their barriers and subduing them one by one before drawing them into the Sacred Cauldron.
One hundred, two hundred, one thousand, ten thousand…
Each time Huang Long captured them, it was a hundred at a time. In the blink of an eye, he had gathered ten thousand first-class spiritual veins!
At that moment, waves of power fluctuations came from outside the treasure vault, as if someone was about to break through and enter.
Huang Long grew anxious and exerted all his strength to activate the Sacred Cauldron Formation, the World Tree, and the Chaos Bell, along with the surge of vital energy, all to accelerate the absorption process.
In one go, another thousand!
A few breaths later, he had absorbed over a hundred thousand first-class spiritual veins into the Sacred Cauldron.
Immediately afterward, Huang Long turned to capturing king-class spiritual veins.
Ten, fifty, one hundred, two hundred—a total of two hundred and ten king-class spiritual veins were seized by Huang Long and placed into the Sacred Cauldron. However, the two hundred and fifty king-class spiritual veins from the auction of the Taiyin Jiuyang Pearl had not yet been stored in this treasure vault; otherwise, the number would be more than two hundred and ten.
After collecting the spiritual veins, Huang Long did not stop but continued to delve deeper.
“A Great Path Divine Artifact!” After a while, he arrived at the void where the Great Path Divine Artifact was sealed.
Floating in the void were a sword, a spear, an axe, and a pearl!
There were five Great Path Divine Artifacts in total. The sword, spear, axe, and sword were of lower rank, while the pearl, resembling a giant sun spanning countless billions of miles, was a medium-rank Great Path Divine Artifact!
It was the Earth Spirit Pearl!
Upon seeing this pearl and recalling the conversation between those eight people and the guild elders earlier, Huang Long guessed its origin.
With these five Great Path Divine Artifacts, he could restore the Chaos Bell to its full strength from years ago and even further enhance his Supreme Transformation Art! Huang Long’s eyes burned with passion.