Chapter 0310: Lost Track?!
Two years later, at the agreed time, Huang Long rode the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx back at full speed. As a Chaos Primordial Beast at the peak of the intermediate divine realm and specializing in wind-based laws, it had fully mastered “speed,” allowing it to fly even faster than when Huang Long transformed into his dragon form.
It wasn’t long before they returned to the original location. Bog and the others were already waiting there. Seeing Huang Long return on the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx, they were greatly surprised. Clearly, they recognized this Chaos Primordial Beast as well.
“Master, is this the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx?!” Bog asked in shock. Though he recognized the beast riding with Huang Long as the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx, he still found it hard to believe. Chaos Primordial Beasts were practically extinct in the Netherworld, and this one was even the king among them.
Huang Long nodded.
With Huang Long’s confirmation, Bog and the others were stunned and focused their attention on the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx.
“Tsk tsk, the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx is so awesome! If only I could find one too!” The fat lion shook its head, its fat wobbling.
“Hah! How can you compare to the young master? Next time, I’ll find another mount!” Gusta patted the fat lion’s head proudly.
“Dare you! You’ll regret this!” The fat lion snapped angrily. If Gusta wanted another mount, did that mean he wouldn’t want it anymore?!
“And stop patting my head! I’m not done with you!” the fat lion roared.
Everyone burst into laughter at these two clowns.
“Alright, alright, let’s go back!” Huang Long said with a smile. Then, he released a top-tier flying immortal artifact.
“Is this a top-tier flying divine artifact?!” The Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx was astonished when it saw Huang Long bring out this oddly shaped artifact. Although it had been with Huang Long for a year, it didn’t know he possessed such a top-tier flying immortal artifact. It also knew that in the Netherworld, such artifacts were in the hands of the six major families and the Supreme God. Thus, it began to doubt Huang Long’s identity.
But thinking of Huang Long’s roles as a mage, soul master, and beast tamer, it resolved its doubts. Only the finest descendants of the six major families in the Netherworld could possess such talents, right?
Of course, it had no idea that the creator of this artifact, which it mistook for a divine one, was actually Huang Long!
After releasing the top-tier flying immortal artifact, Huang Long and the others boarded it. He inserted some spirit crystal stones, activating the artifact’s internal array to control its flight.
“So fast!” Watching the ancient forest recede into blur, the Wind-Flame Dragon Phoenix was surprised by the speed of this top-tier flying divine weapon.
This was the third trip to the ancient forest, and compared to the previous two, this time yielded the greatest gains. The Yellow Dragon was very satisfied with this expedition—the biggest achievement was taming the Wind-Flame Dragon Phoenix as a mount. Back then, the Wind-Flame Dragon Phoenix had managed to escape from two Level 7Nether King warriors. Although it was only at the peak of a mid-tier god, it was still stronger than ordinary higher-tier gods’ Chaos Primordial Beasts.
Although the Yellow Dragon paid a heavy price to tame this Wind-Flame Dragon Phoenix—losing nearly a thousand mutated Primordial Beasts—it managed to capture hundreds more after that, bringing the total to a thousand.
Over ten days later, the Yellow Dragon and his companions returned to the Dragon Mountain Range. When the Wind-Flame Dragon Phoenix saw everything on Taiyi Peak, its shock was no less than that of the young man with black hair, Li Yifeng, back then.
After returning to the Dragon Mountain Range, the Yellow Dragon and his companions stayed on Taiyi Peak for some time, absorbing the gains from this trip to the ancient forest.
A month later, the Yellow Dragon led Bog and others to Holy Literature City.
Previously, it had taken the Yellow Dragon and his companions four months to travel from Holy Literature City to the Dragon Mountain Range, but this time, with a top-tier flying immortal weapon, they only took less than ten days.
Upon arriving in Holy Literature City, the Yellow Dragon and his companions, dressed inNether King robes, entered the city without any hindrance. To avoid trouble, they used transformation talismans to change their appearances. After all, they were now well-known figures. If they appeared in Holy Literature City and were recognized, it could cause significant problems.
Once inside the city, the Yellow Dragon and his companions went straight to theNether King Palace.
This time, just like last time, they came to resell Primordial Beasts.
As before, it was Ralph, the chief administrator of theNether King Palace in Holy Literature City—a Level 5Nether King warrior—who received them.
Ralph stared at the Yellow Dragon and his companions in disbelief, thinking he had heard wrong. He asked again to confirm, “Sir, you want to sell sixty million Primordial Beasts?!”
Sixty million Primordial Beasts! Even in theNether King Palace, this was a huge deal.
In the palace’s records spanning countless eras, there had been few instances of a single transaction involving over 100 million Primordial Beasts. And he himself had only handled a few transactions involving over sixty million.
“Exactly!” nodded the Yellow Dragon.
Due to the transformation talismans, the middle-aged man with black hair couldn’t recognize the Yellow Dragon and his companions. However, despite several years having passed, he still remembered them, as the 25 million Primordial Beasts they had resold last time was the highest amount recorded in Holy Literature City in a million years.
Ralph took a deep breath, trying to calm the shock in his heart, but in the end, still with an excited expression, he handed over the largest space storage bags he rarely used to Huang Long and the others.
It wasn’t long before, when he took back the space storage bags from Huang Long and the others, he saw piles of primal beasts inside, as numerous as mountains stretching for thousands of miles, and he swallowed hard.
In a flash, he quickly checked the primal beasts resold by Huang Long and the others—and indeed, it wasn’t sixty million, but over sixty-one million!
“A massive family! Absolutely a super-massive family!” Ralph roared inwardly.
Just like last time, he assumed that Huang Long and the others were sent by some super-massive family from the Netherworld to resell the primal beasts.
This time, Ralph wisely didn’t ask any questions of them and instead directly transferred over 76 billion divine stones into Huang Long’s divine card.
After accounting for those used over the years, Huang Long’s divine card still contained nearly 100 billion divine stones!
Nearly 100 billion divine stones was already a considerable amount of wealth!
In the Netherworld, even some small tribes couldn’t afford such a sum—like the Dark Moon Tribe in the Purple Spirit Mountains back then—and Huang Long and the others had only been in the Netherworld for less than ten years.
Imagine: ten years—100 billion; a hundred years—1 trillion; a thousand years—10 trillion; ten thousand years—100 trillion!
100 trillion was an enormous amount of wealth anywhere in the Netherworld.
After reselling all the primal beasts except for a few useful ones, Huang Long and the others didn’t stay in Holy Scripture City. They left with 100 billion divine stones and headed back to the Dragon Mountain Range.
The second-level Nether King trial they had applied for earlier was already completed by them, but they didn’t apply to get approved. After all, if, like last time, twenty-five special Nether King cards that allowed them to hide their names and rankings appeared again, it would inevitably arouse suspicion. Holy Scripture Mansion would surely quickly figure out it was them. Marshall was currently in Holy Scripture Mansion, and Huang Long didn’t want to cause any trouble.
Watching Huang Long and the others leave, Ralph muttered to himself, “Another twenty-five people!” He remembered that the group that resold 25 million primal beasts a few years ago also numbered twenty-five. Although their appearances were different, wasn’t this too coincidental? Moreover, the primal beasts in the storage bag of over three million given to him were the same as last time—those beasts also died instantly with their souls shattered in one strike.
“Could it be the same family as last time?” Ralph guessed.
When Huang Long and the others left Holy Scripture City, inside Holy Scripture Mansion, Holy Scripture looked at the mansion’s steward, Webb, and said, “Are you saying that someone just resold sixty million primal beasts in the Nether King Hall?!”
“Yes, my lord!” Webber replied respectfully.
“Shengwen, do you suspect it’s the Yellow Dragon?” asked a middle-aged man nearby—Marshall, a supreme god at the peak of the Wood element.
“Yes,” Shengwen nodded. “Five years ago, the Yellow Dragon resold a batch of 25 million primal beasts!”
“So, in these five years, the Yellow Dragon and his men have hunted 60 million primal beasts?!?” Marshall could hardly believe it. Five years and 60 million—this wasn’t difficult for him, but what about the Yellow Dragon? He was only a mid-tier god, with subordinates who were merely lower-tier gods.
That’s terrifying!
“It’s almost certainly that Yellow Dragon. Again, twenty-five people, all wearing Level 1 Nether King attire. If they’ve managed to hunt 60 million primal beasts in just five years, it shows their combat strength is extremely high!” Shengwen took a deep breath.
Marshall nodded. This was the only plausible explanation.
“What happened after that?” Shengwen turned to ask Webber, the household steward.
“After that, we lost track of them!” Webber replied hesitantly, head bowed.
“What? Lost track?! What exactly happened?!” Shengwen looked surprised.
He had put in a lot of effort to track down the Yellow Dragon and his men. After all, more than a dozen highly concealed supreme gods were following them—yet they were lost?!
“Yes, my lord. After leaving Shengwen City, that Yellow Dragon immediately took off using a flying artifact!” Webber said helplessly.
Took off using a flying artifact?! Marshall and Shengwen exchanged a glance, both thinking of the same thing—only top-tier flying artifacts could allow someone to evade pursuit by supreme gods!
Did the Yellow Dragon possess a top-tier flying artifact?!
Although Marshall was a supreme god at the peak, even he didn’t have a top-tier flying artifact. As the ruler of this domain, Shengwen naturally had one, but it was granted by the Supreme God and didn’t truly belong to him personally—it was used for escort missions by his army of supreme gods.
“Could that Yellow Dragon’s flying artifact be a top-tier one?!” Shengwen asked Webber in astonishment.
“Well, I suspect it might be,” Webber replied hesitantly.
“Might? What do you mean?” Shengwen frowned.
“Because that flying artifact of his is much faster than even the top-tier flying artifact in our Supreme God’s army!” Webber took a deep breath and replied respectfully. That’s why he didn’t dare confirm whether it was indeed a top-tier artifact. Above top-tier flying artifacts were the Supreme God’s own flying artifacts, reserved for the Supreme God himself.