Chapter 0928: Lava Blood Cave

The Wasteland Continent is located at the very center of the universe’s spacetime. At the southern edge of this continent lies the Central Great World! At its northern end is the Xuanhuang Great World! Besides these two great worlds, there is also the Pangu Great World, which is situated to the east of the Wasteland Continent. With the Wasteland Continent as the center, these three great worlds form a triangular configuration.

Upon reaching the edge of the Wasteland Continent, Huang Long dashed forward and entered it in an instant. The Chaos Abyss is home to ancient abyssal beasts and demons, while the Wasteland Continent is filled with countless fierce ruins beasts and demons. These beasts and demons all have grotesque appearances, huge mouths and fangs, and massive bodies.

After entering the Wasteland Continent, Huang Long did not rush to the central area. Instead, he practiced the Supreme Transformation Art while capturing fierce beasts and demons above the level of Divine Kings. When subduing the powerful forces in the Black Water Divine Realm, Huang Long obtained three lower-grade Great Path Divine Artifacts. After devouring these three artifacts, three more artifacts within him were upgraded to lower-grade Great Path Divine Artifacts, further enhancing his strength.

Previously, although Huang Long’s core had been upgraded to a lower-grade Great Path Divine Artifact, it ranked only around 17,000th. Now, after devouring three such artifacts, his strength was comparable to that of those ranked around 15,000th.

More than a month later, Huang Long reached the inner region of the Wasteland Continent. Beyond this inner region lay the central area. However, the inner region was vast and boundless. With his current strength, even if he traveled at full speed, it would take him three to four months to cross it. A person there was like a speck of dust in an endless ocean.

One day, as Huang Long sat meditating on an ancient tree, several sounds of breaking through the air came from afar.
“Heard it? That Lava Blood Cave has awakened again recently!”
“That’s right. I also heard that it has spewed out first-grade spiritual veins, half-saint skeletons, and even fragments of middle-grade and upper-grade Great Path Divine Artifacts!”

Several figures rushed past Huang Long in the sky and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Sitting on the ancient tree, Huang Long listened to their discussions and felt a stir in his heart. Lava Blood Cave?!

Huang Long was indeed familiar with this Lava Blood Cave. Within the Wasteland Continent, there were countless caves and treasures left behind by fallen half-saints, as well as many mysterious places. Among the mysterious places known within the Wasteland Continent across the 3,000 great worlds, there were fifteen in total. The Lava Blood Cave was one of them.

The Lava Blood Cave usually remains silent like a dead volcano, but every few hundred thousand years, it awakens and spews lava the color of blood. Along with this lava come spiritual veins of various grades, innate divine artifacts, and precious treasures from the earth and sky. Since each awakening of the Lava Blood Cave and the eruption of divine artifacts attract powerful figures from all sides to compete for them, many strong warriors have perished within it, including some semi-saints. Therefore, when the Lava Blood Cave awakens again and divine artifacts are emitted, their bones and the divine artifacts they used are also spat out. Each awakening and eruption lasts for three to four years, after which it falls back into silence. Huang Long pondered for a moment before taking off and flying far behind the group. Among these people, the strongest had only five eras of strength, while the weakest was a semi-saint at one era—Huang Long wasn’t worried that they would discover him. A day later, led by the group, Huang Long arrived at the Lava Blood Cave. The Lava Blood Cave was enormous! To be precise, it was a pool of blood—a blood pool covering an area of about a hundred miles. From above the pool, streams of heat resembling red blood wafted out, swirling to form waves of heat. Even from tens of thousands of miles away, Huang Long could feel the heat hitting him. This heat was even more terrifying than ordinary divine flames. Even the mightiest divine warriors couldn’t withstand such heat. Thus, Huang Long realized that those surrounding the Lava Blood Cave were all powerful warriors above the level of Divine Kings, most of them at or above the semi-saint level, with quite a number reaching even five eras or higher as semi-saints. Among these strong warriors, Huang Long noticed one whose presence was even stronger than Chi Rong’s back then! Ten eras! That’s right—this person was a semi-saint with ten eras of strength! Dressed in a purple robe, streaks of lightning flickered around his body. “What formidable demonic aura! It seems to be someone from the World of Myriad Demons!” Huang Long used his Heavenly Eye but couldn’t see the person’s true form, only knowing that they were from the World of Myriad Demons. Besides this person, two others caught Huang Long’s attention. One emitted boundless divine light and was from the Infinite Gate; their presence was no weaker than Chi Rong’s back then, likely a semi-saint at the peak of the later stages of nine eras. The other was Pang Cheng from the Xuanhuang Sect of the Xuanhuang Great World, whom Huang Long had met in Jiuding City before! Pang Cheng still wore a yellow robe, and every move he made exuded a kingly aura. However, this time, he wasn’t accompanied by any servants. Previously, Huang Long hadn’t been able to gauge Pang Cheng’s strength, but now he saw that he was at the peak of the later stages of nine eras, on the verge of entering the tenth era.

Just as Huang Long was observing the powerful warriors around him, a sudden sound cut through the air as another expert arrived. It was Chi Rong! Seeing Chi Rong, a cold glint flashed in Huang Long’s eyes. What a coincidence! Now that Huang Long’s strength had increased, and his core had risen to a lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact, coupled with the Eighteen Golden Divine Annihilation Formation, he was not only unafraid but also determined to turn the tables! With his current overall strength, it was not impossible for him to kill nine peak warriors from the later stages of their eras! However, Huang Long wasn’t in a hurry to act. “So it’s the Heavenly Dao Sect—Chi Rong is here too?!” “Chi Rong and Pang Cheng are said to be enemies. Do you think they’ll fight?!” “Who knows? Back then, they fought over the Panlong Clan’s Holy Maiden of Panlong. It’s said they were evenly matched. Unfortunately, that Holy Maiden had no interest in either of them!” As Chi Rong arrived, the powerful warriors around began to whisper among themselves. Huang Long used his Heavenly Ears to hear all their conversations, and he was surprised—Pang Cheng and Chi Rong were enemies?! And they became enemies over the Holy Maiden of the Panlong Clan? When Pang Cheng saw Chi Rong arrive, he was also surprised. The two exchanged glances, and an invisible force collided violently, causing the heat in the lava blood cave below to surge. All the powerful warriors around retreated in shock. “Hehe, Chi Rong. It’s been so many years, but your strength hasn’t improved much!” Pang Cheng said mockingly. Chi Rong sneered, “The same goes for you—you still haven’t broken through ten eras!” The air around the two of them stagnated. The powerful warriors watched from afar. Just then, the lava blood cave suddenly began to shake violently. The heat in the air intensified, and a liquid resembling crimson blood surged up from beneath the cave like giant blood pythons. Along with this blood-colored magma came streams of spiritual veins, half-saint skeletons, and more than a dozen fragments of Great Path Divine Artifacts of varying sizes.