Chapter 1040: The Yellow Dragon Returns to Pangu

The Yellow Dragon has returned, attaining sainthood!
Joy fills the Heaven-Reversing Treasure Vault. To everyone, the Yellow Dragon is both heaven and earth.
Originally, when the Yellow Dragon was in the Ancient Dragon Ruins, he killed many powerful beings. His divine body remained untouched, intended to be refined for the people of the Huang family when the time came.
But now that the Yellow Dragon has attained sainthood, he understands that having the people of the Huang family refine other beings’ divine bodies to enhance their strength will be detrimental to their future cultivation. It even goes against the will of the Heavenly Dao—the stronger they become, the greater the destruction calamities and inner demons, ultimately leading to destruction by the Heavenly Dao!
This is also why the saints of the Three Thousand Great Worlds did not use this method to boost their disciples’ strength.
Given this, the Yellow Dragon no longer forces others to improve their strength in such a way. Of course, the Yellow Dragon is an exception.
He possesses the World Tree, which represents the Heavenly Dao. Surely, the World Tree will not destroy him?
Still, inside the Heaven-Reversing Treasure Vault, everyone consumes great divine pills like the Fire Spirit Ice Flame Pill day and night. Coupled with the abundant spiritual energy there and their own supreme spiritual veins, their strength grows rapidly compared to other powerful beings.
Although the Yellow Dragon can no longer force others to improve their strength, he can still help them grow.
In a flash, the Yellow Dragon appears before the Wind and Thunder Divine Tree in the treasure vault. Above the tree, innate deities formed from lightning energies wander continuously, with flashes of lightning creating a magnificent sight.
A yellow glow appears in the Yellow Dragon’s hand, and a mass of Vital Soil of All Spirits emerges. Half of this Vital Soil, which he fought over with Qing Cang at the Auction Hall of the Treasure Refining Tower, was used to accelerate the growth of the Heavenly Goddess Tree; half remains.
Now, the Yellow Dragon scatters this Vital Soil, which turns into golden lights falling to the ground, turning the surrounding area golden. Vast amounts of earth-based spiritual energy rise from the ground. With a flash of golden light in his eyes, the Yellow Dragon sees this energy flowing like warm currents from the roots of the Wind and Thunder Divine Tree into every corner of the tree.
The Wind and Thunder Divine Tree begins to mature at a visible pace. Wind and Thunder Divine Fruits appear, accompanied by flashes of lightning.
The Yellow Dragon summons the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldron. With a wave of his hands, he transforms the world and places the Wind and Thunder Divine Tree inside the cauldron, altering time.
At his current level as a sage, the Yellow Dragon can effortlessly change everything in a realm.
It isn’t long before the Wind and Thunder Divine Tree in the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldron matures.

The Yellow Dragon raised his hand and, with a single gesture, Wind-Thunder Divine Fruits flew out from the Wind-Thunder Divine Tree. Then, with a slap, these fruits were sent into the bodies of everyone present. As soon as the Wind-Thunder Divine Fruits entered their bodies, powerful thunder energy continuously refined and transformed their essences. Golden light emanated from the Yellow Dragon’s hands, enveloping everyone to help them fully integrate the fruits. After integrating the Wind-Thunder Divine Fruits, their essences were thoroughly refined, impurities removed, and their divine tendons and immortal bones further strengthened, raising their strength even more. Afterwards, the Yellow Dragon and everyone entered the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron, sat in mid-air, and began to preach. As the sage spoke, golden lotuses emerged from the ground, a shower of flowers fell, and exotic scents filled the air. Heavenly dragons circled around the Yellow Dragon’s body. Everyone listened in rapt attention, their spiritual realms continuously refined and elevated. Thousands of years passed before the Yellow Dragon stopped. Seeing everyone either with closed eyes, scratching their ears, or faces full of excitement, he did not disturb them in their contemplation of his teachings and vanished from the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron. Upon arriving at the Heavens-Turning Treasure Vault, the Yellow Dragon pondered future plans. Next, he naturally had to return to Pangu. Besides searching for the Immortal Yuan Conch Wood, he also wanted to revisit his former place of cultivation, Erxian Mountain. There was another challenge: reviving Li Yifeng! Initially, the Yellow Dragon thought that once he reached the sage realm, his extraordinary powers would allow him to revive Li Yifeng, but now he realized this idea was wrong. Reaching the sage realm indeed allowed him to revive Li Yifeng, but it wasn’t as easy as he had imagined. He had asked the Golden Dragon Sage Lord, who revealed that in addition to sage powers, 999 materials originating from the Ghost World were also required. Some of these 999 materials were extremely rare, appearing only once in tens of millions of years. “It seems I’ll have to collect these materials slowly!” sighed the Yellow Dragon. Yet, since there was hope, reviving Li Yifeng was only a matter of time. As time passed and everyone woke up from the profound teachings of the Yellow Dragon, he gathered all the spiritual veins, innate divine artifacts, and divine pills from the Heavens-Turning Treasure Vault into the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron. It was time to set off back to Pangu! Along the way, the Yellow Dragon did not hide anything about his past life and briefly recounted it. Everyone was shocked to learn that his past life was as a disciple of the Chan School in the Pangu World, but they quickly accepted this fact. After all, having reached their current realm and strength, they were no longer surprised by many strange things in the Three Thousand Worlds. Thus, while the Yellow Dragon propelled the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron toward the Pangu World, he continued to refine pills, craft weapons, and preach, while everyone practiced cultivation and listened to his teachings.

Huang Long didn’t rush either, so it took several days before he arrived at the Pangu Great World, located to the east of the Ruins Continent. Huang Long led everyone out of the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron. Seeing the Pangu Great World, which resembled a giant dragon egg floating in the universe, he couldn’t help but feel excited and emotional. “Pangu, I’m finally back again!” “I’m finally back again!” Huang Long murmured to himself. Pangu—this place etched deep in his soul! Throughout his past and present lives, he had never forgotten this place, this place that haunted his dreams! “Second Brother!” At that moment, Huang Yi saw Huang Long staring at the Pangu Great World in awe and gently called out. Huang Long snapped back to reality and said, “I’m fine. Let’s go. I’ll take you to see the cave where I used to cultivate!” Erxian Mountain! Magu Cave! Immediately, Huang Long broke through the world crystal wall of the Pangu Great World, and they all flashed into the Pangu Great World. After entering, Huang Long looked at the blue skies, white clouds, green grass, and blue lakes of the Pangu Great World, feeling a sense of dizziness—as if nothing had changed. Susan, Livia, Vitya, and the rest of the Huang family also observed this Pangu Great World. “So this is the Pangu Great World where Second Brother was in his past life!” Huang Liang said at that moment. “It seems similar to the Hongmeng Great World!” Everyone laughed. “Let’s go!” Huang Long said with a smile, waving his hand as he led everyone toward Dongsheng Divine Continent. Pangu had four continents: Dongsheng Divine Continent, Xiniuhe Continent, Nanshanbu Continent, and Beiju Lu Continent, with Erxian Mountain located on Dongsheng Divine Continent. “I wonder what’s happening at Erxian Mountain now?” Huang Long thought as they headed there. Before long, Huang Long and the others arrived at Dongsheng Divine Continent. They flew, and soon Erxian Mountain appeared before them. Yet, even before reaching Erxian Mountain, Huang Long saw waves of demonic energy rising into the sky, enveloping the entire mountain.