Chapter 0991: The Holy King’s Vital Essence

When Huang Long and the others entered the Heaven-Reversing Treasure Vault, they were stunned by what they saw. Before them lay a vast continent that stretched as far as the eye could see, with rolling mountains—all of which contained medicinal pills, divine artifacts, and precious treasures. Above, there were clusters of spiritual veins, ranked as first-class, king-class, and supreme-class! Yet what caught Huang Long’s attention wasn’t these spiritual veins but the enormous galaxy lurking above the continent! This massive galaxy stretched endlessly, encircling the continent completely. It emitted astonishing spiritual energy, shimmering with silver light, and occasionally, deities formed from this energy could be seen.
“This is a supreme-class spiritual vein?!” Huang Long exclaimed in shock.
Oak also cried out in astonishment alongside him. A supreme-class spiritual vein—one rank higher than even the supreme-class ones! Such veins were as rare as supreme-class divine artifacts. It was said that only after a great destruction of the world would a supreme-class spiritual vein emerge—just one! Those who cultivated with such a vein could progress a hundred or even a thousand times faster than others. If twelve peak semi-saints from the later stages of the twelve eras possessed one, it would make their transformation into saints even more successful, as their bodies and souls would absorb the spiritual energy of the vein. Moreover, the spiritual energy from supreme-class veins could be used to refine supreme-grade divine pills, with even higher quality. In fact, to create the legendary Qiankun Holy Pill, ranked first on the list of supreme divine pills, one still needed the spiritual energy of a supreme-class vein! Not even a hundred or a thousand supreme-class veins could compare to it!
Huang Long’s eyes burned with excitement—this was true treasure! He never expected the Heaven-Reversing Treasure Vault of the Heaven-Reversing Demon Ancestor to contain a supreme-class spiritual vein! This would make it even easier for him to reach the peak of the twelve eras and achieve sanctity by slaying his three corpses.
“That’s the Yin-Yang Wuji Pill!” Huang Yi’s voice rang out at that moment. Huang Long snapped back to reality and looked with the others. In one corner of the continent, a mountain formed by piled-up divine pills emitted invisible Yin and Yang energies. These energies formed Yin-Yang patterns in the sky. The divine pills piled up on that mountain were the 28th-ranked Yin-Yang Wuji Pill.
“And that one—could it be the Fire Spirit Ice Flame Pill?!” As everyone stared at the Yin-Yang Wuji Pill, Oak’s voice followed.
Everyone was stunned and followed Oak’s gaze.

In another corner, clusters of white flames emanated from a peak of Divine Pill Mountain. Around these flames, ice flowers drifted in the air, while each of the piled-up Divine Pills was as red as fire.
Fire Spirit Ice Flame Pill!
It ranked eleventh on the Great Dao Divine Pill List!
Even Huang Long was greatly surprised upon seeing this pile of Fire Spirit Ice Flame Pills.
Although it ranked eleventh and could not compare to the top ten Great Dao Divine Pills, it was still far superior to the Supreme Divine Pills Huang Long had crafted before!
“How did this Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor obtain so many Yin-Yang Ultimate Pills and Fire Spirit Ice Flame Pills?!” Pi Long said, slapping his tongue and drooling.
Huang Long and the others were also puzzled.
After a while, Huang Long stored all those sacred-grade and top-grade spiritual veins in the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron.
As for the first-grade and king-grade spiritual veins, Huang Long had Huang Yi and the others divide them among themselves.
Anyway, Huang Long already had plenty of first-grade and king-grade spiritual veins, so he wasn’t short of them.
Now, inside the Sacred Cauldron, there were 361 top-grade spiritual veins, over 12,000 king-grade ones, and more than 6.1 million first-grade ones.
Back then, Huang Long had spent quite a number of first-grade and king-grade spiritual veins to bid for the mid-tier Great Dao Divine Artifact, the Heavenly Lion Sword Formation, and the 99×1 Sword, in the Tianyi Hall of Tianyi Mansion. But later, by killing Jun Xuan, Chi Rong, and the chief and vice-chief leaders of the Star-Destroying Sect, the spiritual veins obtained from those ten-person space divine artifacts exceeded his previous spending.
Thus, the number of spiritual veins in the Sacred Cauldron not only didn’t decrease but kept increasing.
After storing those sacred-grade and top-grade spiritual veins in the Sacred Cauldron, Huang Long flew down to the palace suspended within the Heaven-Subverting Treasure Vault.
This palace was guarded by restrictions, but for Huang Long, they were meaningless, and he quickly broke through them.
This palace was the only one in the Heaven-Subverting Treasure Vault and was located at its center. According to Huang Long’s thoughts, it should not be that simple.
However, to his surprise, there was only one person inside the palace!
Or rather, a fallen divine body.
When Huang Long flew up to this person, he saw that the person had sharp sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, with astonishing demonic aura occasionally emanating from all around them.
“Is this the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor?!” Huang Long was stunned.
The Heaven-Subverting Map was crafted by the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor, bearing his aura, which was extremely similar to that of this fallen divine body.
“That’s right. I am the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor!” As if confirming Huang Long’s thoughts, a voice sounded from within the palace. Then, the divine body sitting in seclusion emitted a flash of light, and a figure appeared in the air.
This figure was identical to the divine body.

Of course, this was not the resurrection of the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor, but rather his mental entity left behind using his supreme secret art before his death.
“You’ve obtained my treasure map, which means you’re fated to be connected to me! You’ve gotten my treasure map and managed to break through the grand formation I set up to reach here—this shows your strength is no less than mine!” the mental entity of the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor said to Huang Long.
Huang Long nodded.
Although the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor had been a peak warrior at the end of eleven eras, Huang Long was confident that with his current strength, he could definitely defeat him.
“Inside this treasure vault are all the treasures I’ve collected throughout my life. Now that you’ve obtained it, I have a request for you!” The Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor paused for a moment before continuing, “Defeat that Qing Cang for me!”
“Defeat Qing Cang?” Huang Long was stunned.
The Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor nodded. “That’s right! Of course, if you agree, in addition to this Heaven-Subverting Treasure Vault, I can also give you a drop of the Sacred King’s essence blood!”
“What?! Sacred King’s essence blood?!” Huang Long’s body trembled violently as he stared at the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor in disbelief.
A drop of the essence blood of a Sacred King warrior—this was truly invaluable, even surpassing sacred-grade spiritual veins!
“What do you say?” the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor asked, looking at Huang Long.
“Okay!” Without further hesitation, Huang Long nodded.
He was already at odds with the Heavenly Dao Sect, and a battle with Qing Cang was only a matter of time. So, accepting this condition wasn’t a big deal.
However, Huang Long wondered why, if the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor had obtained a drop of Sacred King’s essence blood back then, he hadn’t consumed it to refine it himself.
Seeming to read Huang Long’s thoughts, the Heaven-Subverting Demon Ancestor continued, “Although Sacred King’s essence blood is precious, it cannot be consumed directly. It needs to be taken together with an innate divine liquid called the Wanluo Divine Water. Otherwise, consuming it directly will cause death—even for peak warriors at the end of twelve eras!”