Chapter 0279: The Six Great Families of the Netherworld

The Netherworld is filled with powerful beings. Over countless trillions of years, through constant battles and reproduction, hundreds of millions of tribes, families, and factions have emerged. Among these, even those that rank among the top 100 can be described as giants.

Each Archgod in the Netherworld commands an army of ten billion soldiers, but each member of the top 100 families has no fewer than ten billion descendants. Especially the six most powerful families—Luning, Beikal, Terence, Stanny, Demos, and Gibran—have over ten trillion descendants each! The Luning family even reaches a terrifying figure of twenty trillion!

Twenty trillion! That’s twice the size of an Archgod’s army! Of course, an Archgod’s army of ten billion consists entirely of elites. In terms of strength, the twenty trillion descendants of the Luning family might not necessarily be a match for those ten billion. Yet this still illustrates just how powerful the Luning family has become.

The influence of these six great families spans the six continents of the Netherworld. Among the eight Supreme Gods in perfect mastery currently in the Netherworld, seven belong to these six families—two from the Luning family and one from each of the other five. The remaining one is the head of a separate estate.

Back in the Hengyuan Realm, Angus—the ancient Dragon God’s body that Huang Long seized from Dragon Emperor Fli on the Gods’ Continent—was a direct descendant of the Luning family.

“However, it seems impossible to retrieve Angus’s collection at the moment,” Huang Long thought with a shake of his head. Initially, Huang Long promised to inform Alis of the Beikal family about Angus’s situation once he arrived in the Netherworld, so as to gain access to everything Angus had accumulated over his life. But the Luning family’s headquarters is on the Nia Continent! The Nia Continent is located north of the Canghai Continent—how could Huang Long get there?! Not to mention the Nia Continent, even leaving the Saint Wen Estate is difficult given Huang Long’s current celestial cultivation level.

Before long, Huang Long and the others arrived at the Shangyi Hall. Compared to the Palace of the Nether King, the Shangyi Hall was similar—both were built from mineral veins, but instead of Secret Phoenix Stone, it was Luyong Stone. Luyong Stone is dark golden in color, emitting a faint golden glow under sunlight, exuding an awe-inspiring sense of wealth.

After entering the Shangyi Hall, Huang Long followed the instructions to the area where divine artifacts and divine souls were traded. Now, aside from the divine artifacts and souls obtained from killing the kings of the Tianyun Realm, such as Oster, many more had accumulated since entering the Netherworld. There were over fifty lower-tier divine artifacts and over forty lower-tier divine souls! Three mid-tier divine artifacts as well!

Before long, after selling those inferior divine artifacts and divine essences, there were over 40,000 more divine stones in the Five Pits Divine Cauldron. After deducting the costs, there were now around 70,000 divine stones left!
Borg and the others naturally didn’t need divine artifacts—the power of the magic weapons crafted by the Yellow Dragon was far beyond that of those single-function divine artifacts.
After selling the divine artifacts and divine essences, the Yellow Dragon headed to the ore trading area.
Now, he wanted to buy some ores to refine Borg and the others’ magic weapons as well as his own, aiming to transform them all into immortal artifacts if possible.
Once all his magic weapons were upgraded to immortal artifacts and each acquired an artifact spirit, they would be incredibly powerful. Back in the Hengyuan Realm, the Yellow Dragon had single-handedly defeated several godly beings, and the Immortal Pavilion, as an immortal artifact, had played a significant role in that!
Just imagine—when all these immortal artifacts attacked together, hehe! Even mid-stage gods would have to retreat far away!
Moreover, when hunting ancient primal beasts, if all these immortal artifacts were used, they could kill vast numbers of them—perhaps even a million per year, not to mention over a hundred years!
Additionally, the Immortal Pavilion’s upgrade to an immortal artifact was made possible by the divine body of the Dragon God Angus. Although the materials of the Immortal Pavilion were enhanced by the power of the Dragon God Angus, they were still insufficient and required higher-grade ores.
“Crescent Stones!” Upon arriving at the ore trading area, the Yellow Dragon stared at the crystal-clear ores emitting a moonlight-like glow before him, surprised to encounter Crescent Stones here.
These Crescent Stones were among the top-grade ores used to craft immortal artifacts.
“12,000 divine stones?!” But when he saw the price, his initial joy vanished instantly.
This Crescent Stone was only the size of two fists. If used to craft an immortal artifact, it could at most produce one artifact—and that required 12,000 divine stones?!
One immortal artifact required dozens of types of ores. If each one needed to be as expensive as a Crescent Stone, wouldn’t that cost nearly a million divine stones?!
After browsing further, the Yellow Dragon found that almost all kinds of materials needed to craft immortal artifacts were available, but their prices were exorbitant—often much higher than those of Crescent Stones.
After walking around, he frowned.
Did he really have to go to the Ancient Forest to hunt primal beasts and earn enough money before buying these ores?
Borg and the others clearly noticed the Yellow Dragon’s frustration over the ore prices and didn’t dare speak up.
Suddenly, the Yellow Dragon had an idea and went to the responsible person in the ore trading area.
“May I ask what kind of ore you’re looking for?” asked the middle-aged man, who was a high-ranking god.
“Do you have White Spirit Stones here?” the Yellow Dragon asked in return.

White Spirit Stone, a type of ore from the Plane of the Supreme God of Light. When trapped on the Forbidden Magic Mountain, Huang Long learned that the mountain was made of White Spirit Stone, so he paid close attention and brought back quite a lot when leaving the Tongtian River.

“White Spirit Stone!” The middle-aged man was momentarily stunned before his face lit up with joy. He smiled and said, “Buy it? Of course! Do you have White Spirit Stone?”

Huang Long felt relieved and nodded.

Since this was an ore from the Plane of the Supreme God of Light, Huang Long had thought it would be difficult to sell here. But seeing the man’s delighted expression, he realized the price should be quite good.

When the middle-aged man saw Huang Long nod, confirming that he indeed had White Spirit Stone, he became even happier and quickly invited Huang Long and the others into a small hall.

“I wonder how much White Spirit Stone you have?” As soon as they entered the hall, the middle-aged man asked eagerly.

Huang Long acted quickly, and soon, over twenty pieces of White Spirit Stone appeared on the ground, each about half a meter in size. These stones were those Huang Long had painstakingly taken down from the Forbidden Magic Mountain using the Green Rainbow Sword.

Seeing them, the middle-aged man’s eyes shone, his breathing became rapid. He stepped forward and touched each stone one by one. At the same time, a yellowish light emanated from his hands, seemingly to test the purity of the stones.

The higher the purity of an ore, the better its quality and the higher its price. For example, even for moonstone of the same fist-sized, those with more impurities could cost twice as much as those with fewer.

“Good, these White Spirit Stones are of excellent quality—top-grade!” After a while, the middle-aged man controlled his excitement and said to Huang Long with a smile.

Ores are classified into five grades: inferior, lower, medium, upper, and superior. Top-grade means very high quality.

Huang Long remained silent, waiting for the man to make an offer.

The middle-aged man pondered for a moment before saying, “Since your White Spirit Stones are top-grade, I’ll give you one million Divine Stones per piece. For twenty pieces, that’s twenty million in total.”

Twenty million! Bogu and the others were astonished.

Huang Long hadn’t expected the White Spirit Stone to be so expensive. If moonstone of two fist sizes cost twelve thousand Divine Stones, then half-meter-sized stones shouldn’t be worth this much. These White Spirit Stones were even more expensive than moonstone, and this was just the purchase price—when they resold them, the price would surely be even higher!

“Agreed!” Huang Long said.

Anyway, he had collected these White Spirit Stones on a whim. Receiving twenty million Divine Stones was beyond his expectations. Even if the middle-aged man’s offer was a bit low, Huang Long didn’t mind.

Moreover, he still had ten even larger pieces of White Spirit Stone in the Five Pits Divine Cauldron.

The middle-aged man was pleased upon hearing this and smiled, saying, “Good, you’re very generous!” Then he asked, “Do you have a Divine Card? I’ll transfer the Divine Stones to your card then.”
“A Divine Card?” Huang Long asked.
“It seems you don’t have one yet. A Divine Card is a card created jointly by the six major families of our Netherworld to store Divine Stones,” the middle-aged man explained.
After learning that Huang Long didn’t have a Divine Card, the middle-aged man voluntarily created one for him for free and transferred twenty million Divine Stones into it.
If Huang Long needed more Divine Stones, he could use the card to go to any trading hall in any city.
Holding the Divine Card in his hand, Huang Long had an idea. He reached into the Five Prisons Divine Cauldron. He remembered there were several such cards in the robbers’ space rings, but he hadn’t paid much attention to them back then.
He decided to check the amount of Divine Stones in those cards at the Divine Stone counter later, he thought to himself.
With Divine Stones, buying ores would be much easier next.
After a while, a small pile of various ores accumulated in the Five Prisons Divine Cauldron. However, after purchasing them, nearly ten million Divine Stones were spent.
Leaving the ore trading area, the Fire Cloud Beast King said, “I never expected the rocks from Dark Star Forbidden Magic Mountain to be so valuable!”
The Sky Peng Beast and other celestial beasts that had come out with Huang Long from Dark Star all nodded in agreement, expressing their approval while also showing regret. They thought, “If we had known, we would have brought more rocks.”
Huang Long smiled but said nothing.
After leaving the ore trading area, Huang Long and the others went to the Divine Stone counter. They took out the several Divine Cards they had obtained from the robbers and checked the amount of Divine Stones inside. To their surprise, there was quite a lot.
The four Divine Cards together contained over fifteen million Divine Stones!
This delighted Huang Long while also surprising him.
In fact, Huang Long didn’t know that Divine Cards weren’t easy to obtain. Generally, the first time one applied, they needed to store ten million Divine Stones. It wasn’t surprising that these four cards contained over fifteen million.
After leaving the trading hall, in high spirits, Huang Long took Bog and the others to the nearby Artisan Hall. Since he wanted to forge immortal artifacts, he needed to find a forging room in Silver Emperor City. The Artisan Hall rented out forging rooms, though the price was high—even the cheapest one cost a hundred Divine Stones per day!
But for Huang Long, who was now quite wealthy, this amount of Divine Stones wasn’t a problem at all.
After renting a top-tier forging room of a thousand square meters, Huang Long set up several spirit arrays inside to isolate the outside world, brought out the Five Prisons Divine Cauldron, and began his first forging in the Netherworld!
Immortal artifacts!