Chapter 1080: Late Stage of the Hunyuan Taishang Realm

The core area of the Ruins Continent was surrounded by numerous innate prohibitions, making it even more dangerous than the Crimson Fire Demon Prison.
Thus, back then, even with the Chaos Bell, the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldron, and the Spirit-Communicating Jade, Huang Long did not dare enter this core area. But now that Huang Long had achieved sainthood and his true form had reached the pinnacle of excellence, he naturally paid no mind to these prohibitions.
Still, upon arriving at the core area, Huang Long carefully summoned a celebration cloud. A bright cloud hovered atop his head, enveloping an area of millions of miles around.
At the same time, he brought out the Spirit-Communicating Jade.
The jade possessed a spirit, and the Spirit King, in conjunction with Huang Long, activated its radiant light, shining in all directions—up to the nine heavens and down to the core of the earth. Within a billion miles, no treasures could hide.
As Huang Long’s strength grew, the radiance of the Spirit-Communicating Jade became stronger, allowing it to detect treasures more accurately. With the help of both the Spirit-Communicating Jade and the World Tree, Huang Long was confident that not a single fragment of the World Tree’s pieces in this core area would escape detection.
As he moved forward, suddenly, the voice of the World Tree rang out: “Huang Long, twenty billion miles ahead, beneath the desert!”
Twenty billion miles away, beneath the desert!
Without hesitation, Huang Long dashed toward the location indicated by the World Tree.
After a while, he arrived over a vast desert. The desert stretched as far as the eye could see, and to Huang Long’s surprise, its sand and stones were reddish-gold in color, each particle as clear as crystal, reflecting golden light under the sun.
“This is Red Gold Jade Sand!” said Huang Long.
“That’s right, it is Red Gold Jade Sand!” replied the World Tree.
Red Gold Jade Sand was a rare type of sand and stone in the universe. Though not as precious as innate treasures, it was still extremely valuable and could be used for alchemy and crafting. Even half-saints would fight over it if it were the size of a fist.
It was unexpected to find such a desert made of Red Gold Jade Sand in the core area of the Ruins Continent.
Seeing this, Huang Long brought out the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldron and directed its opening toward the desert to absorb some of the sand. After collecting a portion, he retracted the cauldron and, without taking too much, used his teleportation technique to move through the sand and waves toward the depths of the desert.
Following the direction indicated by the World Tree, Huang Long continued deep into the earth. After a while, he reached the core beneath the desert.
The core beneath the desert was actually a vast ocean of magma—a magma ocean of unimaginable size, with towering mountains rising above it.
Tens of thousands?!
Hundreds of thousands?!

Huang Long was stunned as he stared at these towering peaks. For they were fragments of the World Tree! Even Huang Long could hardly breathe steadily upon seeing them. Over the years, he had searched for many fragments of the World Tree to help it evolve and grow, but compared to what lay before him, all those he had found were insignificant. The number of fragments here was a hundred times, a thousand times—even ten thousand times more than what he had gathered before!

“Haha, are you being foolish?” At that moment, the voice of the World Tree rang out, “I told you long ago that the fragments of the World Tree left on the Wasteland Continent are by no means this few!” It was clear that the World Tree was delighted. Of course, now that these fragments were treasures for it to restore its strength, it would be strange if it weren’t happy. Over the years, Huang Long had absorbed top-tier divine artifacts to continuously improve himself, while the World Tree, having merged completely with the Heart of the World, had also grown significantly stronger.

“Good, let’s get started then!” Huang Long said cheerfully.

Immediately, the World Tree’s white jade roots stretched out from the void and wrapped around those fragments. Ignoring the magma deep in the earth, the roots reached straight to its bottom, completely enveloping a fragment that spanned thousands of miles in diameter and tens of thousands of feet in height. The World Tree wasn’t in a hurry; it would deal with them one by one. After merging with the Heart of the World, its ability to absorb and devour had increased by tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of times. What used to take decades to absorb such a fragment now took less than an hour. Under the embrace of the white jade roots, the fragment shrank and withered at a visible pace. Meanwhile, the branches of the World Tree grew thicker and more lush, with rings of green and golden light expanding outward. The white jade roots also grew thicker, larger, and more numerous!

After a while, the fragment was completely absorbed by the World Tree and became part of it. Huang Long didn’t pause and moved on to the second fragment! It was roughly the same size as the first. After that came the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. By the time the World Tree had absorbed half of the fragments in the magma, the World Tree in Huang Long’s Sea of Souls had grown one circle larger than before!

Previously, after the World Tree merged with the Heart of the World, it stood between heaven and earth as a towering giant tree. Now, it has grown even larger—just imagine how huge it must be! If the Yellow Dragon were to sacrifice the World Tree now, it might even be able to tear apart a world as vast as the Pangu Great World! With each inhalation and exhalation, the World Tree now emits twice as much spiritual energy as before, and it is even purer. In the past, it took 100 million years for the World Tree to generate one sacred spiritual vein; now, it takes less than 100 million years—only 50 million years! At the same time, the Yellow Dragon discovered that as the World Tree absorbed these fragments, his strength indeed continued to rise, just as the World Tree had said. The Yellow Dragon broke through to the mid-stage peak of the Hunyuan Taishang Realm and reached the late stage of that realm! That’s right, the late stage of the Hunyuan Taishang Realm! For Holy Ones of Hunyuan, after attaining sainthood, an important source for enhancing their strength is the primal essence of the Great Dao. Generally, Holy Ones of Hunyuan, by comprehending the forces of heaven and earth and practicing continuously, see a slight increase in the strength of the primal essence of the Great Dao over an era. But now, as the World Tree continuously absorbs these fragments and its strength recovers, it merges with the Yellow Dragon’s sea of soul. It can be said that the World Tree is the Yellow Dragon, and the Yellow Dragon is the World Tree. As the primal essence of the Great Dao of the World Tree grows stronger, the Yellow Dragon’s strength also increases. Thus, the Yellow Dragon’s power keeps rising. Time passes. The fragments of the World Tree in the magma at the Earth’s core are gradually fully absorbed by the World Tree. Meanwhile, within a dimensional space in the core area of the Ruins Continent, terrifying forces keep sweeping through, causing tremors and destruction wherever they pass.