Chapter 1005: Leaving Lianbao City

The Yellow Dragon sat cross-legged at the center of the Sacred Cauldron Formation, drawing out all those top-tier Dao Divine Artifacts and fragments from the Sacred Cauldron’s space.
All those top-tier Dao Divine Artifacts and fragments floated around the Yellow Dragon’s body.
First, the Yellow Dragon merged those artifact fragments. It opened its mouth and sucked in thirty artifact fragments, then used the Supreme Transformation Technique to merge them one by one, turning them into part of its own body.
As it merged and transformed them, the Yellow Dragon’s body strength continued to rise.
2,996!
2,975!
2,922!
…
Thirty artifact fragments were roughly equivalent to four complete top-tier Dao Divine Artifacts. Once the Yellow Dragon fully merged those thirty fragments into its body, its strength rose to 2,759!
Next, the Yellow Dragon began the second round of absorption, merging, and transformation.
Again, it was thirty artifact fragments—about two hundred in total.
In this way, the Yellow Dragon absorbed, merged, and transformed them six times before turning all those top-tier Dao Divine Artifacts into part of its own body.
After turning all those artifacts into part of its body, the Yellow Dragon’s strength finally broke through the 2,000 mark, rising to over 1,600!
Over 1,600!
When the Yellow Dragon’s body had just broken through to the top-tier level, its strength was around 3,000!
That was a difference of twice as much!
The Yellow Dragon’s body was now even more powerful than when it had first reached this level!
After merging the artifact fragments, the Yellow Dragon then proceeded to merge those top-tier Dao Divine Artifacts themselves.
These top-tier Dao Divine Artifacts also varied in quality. The Yellow Dragon first merged those of lower quality, such as the few top-tier artifacts it had purchased in the Tianyi Palace of Tianyi Mansion.
Each time, it merged four of them. After fully transforming those four artifacts into part of its body, it would merge another four.
Finally, only the Three Dragon Swords remained. By then, the Yellow Dragon’s strength had risen to over 1,280!
Over 1,280!
“Now, even ordinary top-tier Dao Divine Artifacts can’t withstand a single punch from me!” The Yellow Dragon sensed its immense strength, its aura soaring high.
It threw a punch, and one after another, spatial holes appeared, lining up like cosmic black holes.
After a while, the Yellow Dragon calmed its excitement and turned its attention to the Three Dragon Swords.
Each of the Three Dragon Swords ranked in the top 1,100.
Floating in front of the Yellow Dragon, seemingly aware of their fate of being devoured, they emitted thunderous dragon roars.

Blues, reds, and greens lights intertwined endlessly. Seeing this, the Yellow Dragon smiled calmly, reached out with both hands, and seized the Three Swords of the Asking Dragon, bringing them into his palms. A ball of celestial fire emerged from his palms, completely subduing the three swords. After fully subduing them, the Yellow Dragon swallowed the swords into his body and used the Supreme Transformation Art to gradually transform them. As the swords transformed, his own body continued to improve. Tens of thousands of years later, when the Yellow Dragon had fully transformed the Three Swords of the Asking Dragon into part of his own body, thousands of dragon roars echoed within him. The spirit of the divine weapon Dragon Gate within his body, the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, roared incessantly, its dragon energy as vast as an ocean or a prison. The other thirty-three divine weapons also emitted continuous humming sounds. The Yellow Dragon’s body had actually risen to the 1,600th rank! 1,600—almost at the peak of top-tier Dao divine weapons. The Yellow Dragon stood up, and as his body moved, cracks appeared in the space around him! “So powerful! Now, my body’s strength is at least twice, if not more, than when I reached the top-tier level!” The Yellow Dragon felt his body’s condition and couldn’t help but feel joy. “If I encounter Elder Long Hai again and he launches an attack, even if I stand still, he won’t be able to kill me!” the Yellow Dragon estimated. Indeed, with his body now so close to the peak of top-tier Dao divine weapons, even if he stood still, no warrior from the later stages of the Twelve Eras could harm him! Because even the strongest warriors from those times couldn’t break through his defenses. How powerful is the body of a top-tier Dao divine weapon? No matter how strong Long Hai’s attacks were, he couldn’t shatter such a weapon. Of course, this was all assuming the opponent wasn’t using a king-tier Dao divine weapon. But even if Long Hai used one, the Yellow Dragon was confident he could match him with his current strength! “As long as I fuse two more top-tier Dao divine weapons of the same rank as the Three Swords of the Asking Dragon, I can reach the peak of top-tier Dao divine weapons. Then, if I find materials like the Dragon Yang Silver Stone and Golden Dragon Purple Wood to advance to king-tier, I’ll be able to reach king-tier!” The Yellow Dragon’s eyes sparkled. If top-tier was already so powerful, what about king-tier?! Once he reached king-tier, even a Holy King at the Hunyuan Supreme Realm might not be able to kill him with bare hands! It was time to leave the Treasure Refining City. This period of seclusion, plus the time it took for the Heavenly Goddess Tree to grow, had taken half a year in total. Half a year later, the Yellow Dragon emerged from the Treasure Refining Tower Courtyard. Compared to the auction, the Treasure Refining City was much quieter now.

“Brother Jin Guang, you’re leaving to depart from Refining Treasure City?” Hao Hui, the eldest elder of the Refining Treasure Tower, was surprised to hear that Huang Long intended to leave.
Huang Long nodded with a smile, “I’ve been a burden on the Refining Treasure Tower for half a year. It’s time to go!”
Hao Hui hesitated before speaking.
In the end, accompanied by Hao Hui and the others, Huang Long left Refining Treasure City.
“Elder, with Jin Guang leaving now, things likely won’t turn out well for him!” Zhuo Cheng, the fifth elder of the Refining Treasure Tower, frowned as he watched Huang Long’s retreating figure.
Hao Hui sighed and said, “We can’t do anything about these matters. It’s better not to get involved. Neither the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Jin Ba Men, the Wu Liang Men, nor the Heavenly Witch Sect are easy to deal with. But Jin Guang must also know that leaving Refining Treasure City now is dangerous. Why did he still choose this time to leave?”
“How many spiritual veins does Jin Guang have? How could he afford to spend a million top-tier spiritual veins just to buy a patch of Ten Thousand Spirits Soil?!” The elders of the Refining Treasure Tower discussed among themselves.
“Although Jin Guang is quite strong—at the middle stage of eleven eras—he still can’t escape being surrounded and attacked!”
“Let’s go back. We should hear news soon!”
Hao Hui and the others turned to return to Refining Treasure City.
Meanwhile, after leaving Refining Treasure City, Huang Long sensed the hidden auras around him and sneered inwardly. However, he ignored them, broke through the world crystal wall of the Golden Horn Great World, and left it.
Yet those people didn’t take action as they watched Huang Long leave the Golden Horn Great World.
“He’s quite patient!” Huang Long sneered. He knew they hadn’t acted out of fear of alerting the saints of the Golden Horn Great World. But now that he was outside the world, they should take action!
Sure enough, as soon as he thought this, sounds of breaking through space came one after another, with more than a dozen figures emerging from the void.