Chapter 0927: Arrival at the Ruins Continent

The Yellow Dragon’s body emitted a bright glow, its entire form humming as air currents swirled around it and shot out in all directions. In the void, thunderous roars echoed as waves of calamity thunder gathered!
These were not destruction thunderstorms, but rather the calamity brought about when a divine artifact ascended to a Great Path Divine Artifact!
The Yellow Dragon’s body ascending to a lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact also triggered such calamity.
Wave after wave of calamity thunder converged like dragons, forming an ocean of thunder—so powerful that it astonished everyone.
However, though this calamity of a lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact was fierce, it was far weaker compared to the destruction thunderstorms the Yellow Dragon had endured over six eras earlier. It was at most comparable to the destruction thunderstorms of a half-saint over three eras.
The roots of the World Tree, made of white jade, stretched out and intertwined above the Yellow Dragon’s head, forming layers upon layers of a vast net. Finally, the calamity of the divine artifacts descended.
Wave after wave of calamity thunder struck the white jade roots of the World Tree like meteorites, then were transformed layer by layer into purest energy, flowing into the Yellow Dragon’s body.
Just as before, the Yellow Dragon’s body underwent a complete transformation.
When the calamity of the divine artifacts ceased, the Yellow Dragon’s body had fully transformed into an existence akin to a lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact. In fact, the Yellow Dragon’s body itself was now that artifact. A single punch from it was even more powerful than those delivered by mid-era experts wielding lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifacts!
Yet as the Yellow Dragon’s body transformed into a lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact, the thirty-three divine artifacts within it, along with the Dragon Gate, also began to transform completely.
First, the Divine Artifact Thunder Drum triggered its own calamity and ascended to a lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact, just like the Yellow Dragon’s body.
As the Thunder Drum became a lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact, the Yellow Dragon felt its physical body and soul power increase by another ten percent. After that, the Demon Refining Tower also triggered its calamity and ascended to a lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact.
Following the Demon Refining Tower was the Sky-Piercing Umbrella, then the Heavens-Defying Sword, and finally the God-Sealing Lock.
Out of the thirty-three divine artifacts, five had ascended to lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifacts, just like the Yellow Dragon’s body. However, the remaining twenty-eight artifacts and the Dragon Gate did not ascend.
With these five artifacts ascending, the Yellow Dragon’s physical body and soul power continued to grow. Although it was still in the mid-stage of six eras, its overall strength had increased significantly.
After refining the divine bodies of Wu Zhi and the others and devouring two lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifacts, twenty thousand years passed within the Sacred Cauldron.
Twenty thousand years—equivalent to twenty days outside.
The Yellow Dragon stood up, feeling the strength of its body. With a roar, it realized that even Chi Rong would find it much harder to kill him now.

“A great number of divine artifacts—once I have enough of them, I can use the Supreme Artifact Refinement Technique to elevate all other divine artifacts and the Dragon Gate as well. By then, even if I encounter seven peak Half Saints from the later stages of an era, I’ll still be strong enough to fight!” Huang Long thought to himself.

At the same time, he compared his current strength: with just his own power, he could defeat those from the early stages of an era! With the help of the Chaos Bell and the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron, he could defeat those from the middle stages of an era!

Huang Long appeared out of thin air and summoned Huang Yi and the others. After years of seclusion and cultivation, Huang Yi and the rest had seen significant improvements in their strength, though they were still some distance away from reaching the peak of the early stages of an era.

The Chaos Bell had regained its full power, while the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron, thanks to Huang Long’s growing strength, could now control nearly a hundred thousand grand arrays. Once Huang Long could control all 129,600 grand arrays, he would be able to fully dominate the Sacred Cauldron and summon its spirit.

This time, during their journey to the Star King World, Huang Long’s faction’s strength had changed dramatically.

After summoning everyone, Huang Long left the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron with them and headed toward the central plane of this divine realm. Facing powerful forces such as the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Golden Dragon Clan, the Infinite Gate, and the Nine Cauldrons Pavilion, Huang Long felt even more the need to build his own faction!

He wanted to subdue a group of Half Saint warriors! Yes, an army composed of Half Saint warriors. If such a group helped Huang Long activate the Sacred Cauldron’s grand arrays, its power would increase greatly. Moreover, with these Half Saints around, Huang Long wouldn’t have to do everything himself when crafting the Supreme Divine Pills and top-tier divine artifacts—they could assist him!

Now, with abundant materials in the Sacred Cauldron, Supreme Divine Pills and top-tier divine artifacts could be produced continuously.

After leaving the Sacred Cauldron, Huang Long and the others flashed instantly to the central plane of this divine realm. Above a massive city in this central plane, Huang Long released a trace of his aura, enveloping the entire realm. Huang Yi and the others also didn’t hide their auras.

“Which friend has come to my Black Water Divine Realm?” Sensing Huang Long and the others’ auras, over forty figures rose into the sky from within the massive city below.

At the center was a burly man with a dark face—a peak Half Saint from the later stages of three eras, the strongest being in this realm.

Black Water Divine Realm? Without wasting words, Huang Long reached out and captured those forty-plus people in an instant.

After a short while, he subdued them all and implanted divine consciousness seals within them.

Among these more than forty people, aside from that dark-faced strongman, there were also three Semi-Saints—one with the strength of the early stages of three eras, and two with the strength of the late stages of two eras. The rest were all at the mid to peak stages of Divine King. After bringing all these forty people into the Sacred Cauldron, Huang Long imprinted the formulas for crafting the Supreme Divine Pill and some top-tier postnatal divine artifacts into their minds. Then, with those four Semi-Saints at the center, the other Divine King-level powerhouses formed a formation, sitting cross-legged in the center of the Sacred Cauldron formation. They drew out various precious materials and innate divine objects from the space within the Sacred Cauldron to begin crafting the Supreme Divine Pill and top-tier postnatal divine artifacts! Subsequently, Huang Long took out the treasures from the Black Water Divine Realm and left that realm with everyone. After that, he continued flying toward the Ruins Continent. Along the way, as he passed by various divine realms, Huang Long subdued all the powerhouses above the level of Divine King and brought them all into the Sacred Cauldron one by one. More than two months later, when Huang Long arrived at the edge of the Ruins Continent, the number of powerhouses above the level of Divine King in the Sacred Cauldron had reached over 1,100! Among them, there were 22 Semi-Saints. With over 1,100 powerhouses above the level of Divine King, Huang Long used his spiritual veins to alter the time within the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron, allowing the Supreme Divine Pill and top-tier postnatal divine artifacts to be continuously produced. In just over two months, the number of Supreme Divine Pills had reached over 30,000! There were also more than 200 top-tier postnatal divine artifacts! “Is this the Ruins Continent?!” Huang Long stood in mid-air, looking at the chaotic-looking space before him. This space was extremely vast; even with his current strength at the mid-stage of six eras and the use of his Heavenly Eye, he could not even glimpse a corner of it. Under his divine consciousness, the powerful auras of these stronghouses could be faintly sensed.