Chapter 0988: Completion of the Sacred Dan

In the distance, the Huang family members and Livia watched this scene with faces full of surprise. Pi Long was even more excited, exhaling dragon breath and causing his dragon whiskers at the corners of his mouth to flutter.
“Congratulations, master! You’ve broken through to the eleventh era!”
“Congratulations, second brother!”
Everyone stepped forward to offer their congratulations.
Huang Long was overjoyed. He laughed heartily and nodded at them.
He had finally broken through to the eleventh era! He was equally happy inside.
If he could break through to the twelfth era, then the day when he would slay his three corpses and achieve sanctity would not be far away!
As long as he broke through to the twelfth era, given enough time, Huang Long would have no problem reaching the peak of the later stage of the twelfth era.
However, Huang Long also knew that each subsequent step would be even harder!
Not to mention breaking through to the twelfth era—even advancing from the early stage of the eleventh era to the middle stage was harder than progressing from the ninth era to the tenth!
In the Three Thousand Great Worlds, there were few strong beings at the tenth era, and even fewer at the eleventh era.
“I wonder what level my attacks have reached now?!” Huang Long thought, sensing the relentless power surging within him.
But if he encountered a strong being at the peak of the later stage of the eleventh era, Huang Long was confident he could defeat them!
As for those at the early stage of the twelfth era, he should be able to inflict serious injuries or even kill them!
Of course, Huang Long couldn’t guarantee it.
Because those at the twelfth era, one step higher, were saints who had achieved enlightenment.
The strength difference between those at the early stage of the twelfth era and those at the peak of the later stage of the eleventh era wasn’t just a simple doubling.
Huang Long saw that Huang Yi and the others had also broken through to the fifth era. He nodded inwardly, pleased for them. Although their chances of achieving sanctity were slim, if they reached the peak of the later stage of the twelfth era, combined with the Heavenly Dao laws taught by Huang Long, they would have the ability to protect themselves even against saints at the Hunyuan Taishang level.
“Where are we now? How much longer until we reach the Thunder Sea Abyss?” Huang Long snapped out of his thoughts and asked Ok.
“Reporting to the young master, it will take about half a month!” Ok replied respectfully.
“Half a month?” Huang Long pondered. “Half a month is 150,000 years. Very well, I’ll start refining the Divine Pilgrimage Dan now!”
He had obtained the Demon Devouring Fruit from the Valley of Falling Demons and Bloodless Expanse, completing all the ingredients needed to make the Divine Pilgrimage Dan. However, due to absorbing and transforming the divine bodies of people like Chi Rong, he hadn’t had time to refine it yet.
This Divine Pilgrimage Dan ranked second on the list of Great Dao Divine Dances—it was truly an excellent substance!

After being refined by Huang Long, once it reached the peak of the eleventh era, it would be possible to use the Ten Thousand Gods Pilgrimage Pill to break through to the twelfth era, just like his eldest senior brother Hong Peng!
“I wonder how my eldest senior brother is doing now that he’s gone to the Xuanhuang Great World,” Huang Long thought to himself.
As for his second senior brother Hong Yuan and third senior brother Hong Fang, as well as the second and third disciples under the Holy King of Hongmeng, Huang Long still hadn’t met them yet.
His eldest senior brother Hong Peng had said that after leaving the Hongmeng Great World, the three of them parted ways soon after, each seeking opportunities to improve their strength.
A moment later, Huang Long used his hands to draw out one by one the 111,800 ingredients needed to refine the Ten Thousand Gods Pilgrimage Pill from the space of the Sacred Cauldron.
Before long, those 111,800 ingredients floated in front of Huang Long. With a wave of his hands, they all fell into the Sacred Cauldron Formation. As the formation activated, the ingredients began to melt one by one. Huang Long continuously chanted spells, injecting them into the melting materials.
After all 111,800 ingredients had melted and impurities were removed, they began to fuse under Huang Long’s spells. With each fusion, a flash of light appeared in the resulting liquid.
With the presence of the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron, refining these ingredients was easy, but the fusion process was slow. Each ingredient required different amounts of time to fuse—some even took hundreds of years.
However, Huang Long knew that there was no rush in refining such a divine pill, and moreover, he had plenty of time now.
Thus, nearly a hundred thousand years passed.
Finally, the last of the 111,800 ingredients was fully fused.
At that moment, the liquid mass formed from these ingredients became extremely bright and vibrated intensely, as if it might disintegrate at any moment.
If it did disintegrate, all previous efforts would be wasted.
This was the final stage of pill formation—the most critical and prone to failure. Huang Long didn’t dare be careless. Following the refining spells taught by Hong Peng, he kept waving his hands, inserting spells into the mixture.
These spells, along with Huang Long’s power, continuously suppressed the liquid mass, balancing it and pushing it closer to completion.
Those watching anxiously realized this was the final moment of pill formation.
Just as Pi Long and the others stared in shock, suddenly, the liquid mass emitted a blinding flash of light, forcing them to close their eyes. Although they had seen Hong Peng refine the Ten Thousand Gods Pilgrimage Pill before, they were still stunned by what they saw.
In an instant, the light disappeared.

Then, a celestial music, as if sung by ancient gods, resounded between heaven and earth. Upon hearing it, everyone was utterly enchanted; their souls seemed to be baptized, and their spiritual realms greatly elevated.
“It’s time to refine the pill!” Huang Liang exclaimed joyfully.
Back then, when Hong Peng refined the Ten Thousand Gods Pilgrimage Pill, this very celestial music had sounded—it was a sign before the pill was completed!
As if in response to Huang Liang’s words, there was a soft rumble in heaven and earth, followed by the disappearance of the celestial music. A divine pill flew up from the grand array, hovering high in the air, surrounded by dazzling colors and radiant light.
The Ten Thousand Gods Pilgrimage Pill had finally been refined!
Delighted, Huang Long reached out with one hand and seized the pill.
Being ranked second, this pill was naturally not on par with the supreme divine pills such as the Supreme Divine Pill, the Crimson Blood Spirit Pill, the Azure Sea Mist Pill, and the Yin-Yang Ultimate Pill.
Although the Supreme Divine Pill ranked fifteenth, its effects were vastly superior.
A single Ten Thousand Gods Pilgrimage Pill could even equal a sacred-grade spirit vein!
At this moment, everyone stepped forward to offer their congratulations.
Huang Long nodded with a smile, then waved his hands to place the pill deep within the sacred cauldron.
When he reached the peak of the eleventh era, it would be time for him to consume this pill.
After refining the Ten Thousand Gods Pilgrimage Pill, bored, Huang Long opened one by one the spatial artifacts obtained from Jun Xuan, Chi Rong, Ye Hua, and the ten members of the Star-Destroying Sect.
“Jun Xuan and Chi Rong are core disciples of the Heavenly Dao Sect; their collections must be quite rich!” Huang Long thought to himself.
“Hm? Supreme-grade spirit veins!” Within Jun Xuan and Chi Rong’s spatial artifacts, Huang Long discovered many king-grade and supreme-grade spirit veins. As for king-grade ones, he no longer cared about them—only supreme-grade ones could catch his attention.
These days, even the World Tree could produce a supreme-grade spirit vein every hundred thousand years.
What delighted Huang Long even more was that he found some high-grade supreme divine artifact fragments in Jun Xuan’s, Chi Rong’s, and the leader of the Star-Destroying Sect’s spatial artifacts.