Chapter 0372: Returning to the Luning Family Mansion

With his breakthrough achieved, Huang Long was in high spirits. Seeing Bradd’s shocked expression, he smiled and said, “I didn’t expect the Nimeng Fruit to be so effective. Truly, it lives up to being one of the Ten Sacred Fruits of the Netherworld.”
Bradd stared at Huang Long, speechless for a moment.
The Nimeng Fruit was indeed one of the Ten Sacred Fruits of the Netherworld, but it surely couldn’t help a mid-tier god at the peak level break through to an upper-tier god in such a short time?! Recalling Huang Long’s breakthrough earlier, Bradd looked at his newly recognized master with a strange gaze.
“Young master, are you from the Luning family?!” Bradd hesitated before asking.
The Luning family? Huang Long nodded. “Sort of.”
“Sort of?” Bradd looked at him in confusion. What did that mean?
Seeing Bradd’s confusion, Huang Long didn’t explain. He also possessed dragon veins, and his status was indeed that of a member of the Luning family, but he came from the Pangu World. His relationship with the Luning family was something he couldn’t easily explain to Bradd at the moment.
“Y-young master…” After a while, Bradd opened his mouth but hesitated.
“Ask whatever you want,” said Huang Long.
“Well, that ancient simple bell… what is it?” Bradd paused before asking, “Is it the main divine artifact for soul attacks?!” He then stared intently at Huang Long.
If Huang Long confirmed it, then his status as the new master would need to be re-evaluated.
“Could it be that you’re the son of the Luning family’s supreme god?” Bradd guessed. But the supreme god of the Luning family was said to have rejected the gods of light, Elvis and Bazel, and remained single ever since.
“The main divine artifact for soul attacks?” Huang Long shook his head. He knew Bradd was referring to the Chaos Bell. Not to mention this main divine artifact, not even any supreme divine artifact could compare to it.
However, Huang Long realized that even though he tried to use his soul power to activate the Chaos Bell in his mind, it still couldn’t be brought into use outside his mind. With a sigh of helplessness, he thought, “It seems I’ll have to wait until I reach the level of Taiyi Golden Immortal to be able to use this top-tier innate treasure.”
At present, although Huang Long had seemingly broken through from mid-tier god at the peak to upper-tier god, his actual cultivation level had only risen from the later stage of Golden Immortal to the peak stage—still one step away from Taiyi Golden Immortal.
Seeing Huang Long deny it, Bradd relaxed slightly and exhaled in relief. It wasn’t a main divine artifact!
But then again, if it wasn’t a main divine artifact, then what caused his soul to be shaken earlier? He frowned.
“Let’s not talk about this. The noise just now might have attracted the attention of the Riga Mountains. Let’s leave first,” said Huang Long.

Bradd nodded.
The two vanished in a flash.
Not long after Huang Long left, as he had expected, Felic, the peerless warrior from the Riga Mountains, along with several god-tier warriors from that region, appeared on the mountain peak where Huang Long had just achieved his breakthrough.
“Lord Felic, look!?” After the god-tier warriors from the Riga Mountains arrived, one of the higher-ranking gods respectfully suggested to Felic, pointing in shock at the flat land tens of thousands of miles ahead. They could clearly see that what appeared to be flat land was actually the result of a terrifying attack that had destroyed the mountains in that area; starting from this peak, the continuous mountain ranges ended here.
Felic’s eyes flickered with surprise and uncertainty as he rushed to the skies above that flat land and gazed down at the ground below. “What a powerful attack! What kind of law-based attack is this? Its power is truly immense!?”
But it couldn’t be Bradd! Felic knew Bradd’s strength, and Bradd practiced the Law of Destruction—there were no remnants of destructive divine power here.
So, could it be the person who helped Bradd break the valley’s restrictions?!
“Search thoroughly! Look carefully, and report immediately if you find anything!” After a while, Felic raised his head and said solemnly.
“Yes, Lord Felic!” The god-tier warriors from the Riga Mountains replied respectfully before flying away in groups.
After they left, Felic thought for a moment before looking toward the northeast and rushing there—exactly the direction in which Huang Long and the other had gone.
After leaving, Huang Long and Bradd continued flying without stopping until they were hundreds of millions of miles away from their original location before finally stopping.
“Younger master, what should we do next?” Bradd asked as they came to a halt.
“Hunt for beasts,” replied Huang Long.
Half of the trial period had passed. Since the task of killing a hundred Upper God Blue-Scaled Cloud Lions was already complete, Huang Long wasn’t in a hurry to return to the Luning Mansion. After all, traveling to the Ancient Forest wasn’t an easy task.
Over the fifty years from the edge of the Ancient Forest to the Nimeng Mountains, Huang Long hadn’t deliberately sought out mutated primal beasts, so his army of such beasts hadn’t increased much—still over 1.2 million. Huang Long planned to raise that number to at least 1.5 million before returning to the Luning Mansion.
Hunting for beasts began!
Thus, over the next fifty years, Huang Long calculated the time, using his Heaven-Seeing Eyes and divine senses to search for mutated primal beasts while deliberately moving closer to the Ancient Forest.
During those fifty years, Bradd finally understood the true meaning of Huang Long’s words about hunting for beasts.

Fifty years passed, year after year. Bradd watched as the Yellow Dragon’s army of 1.2 million Mutated Beasts continued to grow, increasing from 1.2 million to 1.25 million, then 1.28 million, breaking through 1.3 million. After forty years, it had even reached a terrifying 1.5 million!
An army of 1.5 million Mutated Beasts filled the skies—everywhere one looked, there was only a sea of them. Even Bradd, a peerless warrior, felt a sense of fear.
Over these forty years, since the Yellow Dragon focused on subduing Mutated Beasts rather than hunting ordinary beasts, his army grew much faster than that of the Dragon Mountain Range over eight hundred years. After all, during those eight hundred years in the Dragon Mountain Range, the Yellow Dragon had been focused on hunting ordinary beasts and had not made any deliberate efforts to explore.
“Young master, if this continues, in a million years, the Mutated Beasts in the Ancient Forest will likely disappear!” After forty years, on this day, Bradd said to the Yellow Dragon with a complex expression.
He was not wrong at all. If the rate at which the Yellow Dragon had subjugated Mutated Beasts continued, in a million years, even though the Ancient Forest was vast and the already scarce Mutated Beasts were numerous, they would be wiped out!
The Yellow Dragon smiled. A million years? He shook his head. At this rate, in a million years, his army of Mutated Beasts would number 10 billion! But could the Ancient Forest possibly have 10 billion Mutated Beasts?!
Over these forty years, the Yellow Dragon’s army had gained six more Supreme Divine Mutated Beasts—ten from the Trial Island and twelve from the Twin-Headed Tiger Xil, bringing the total to 36. Of course, these forty years weren’t just about adding more Mutated Beasts; there were also Illusory Beasts—two of them, plus the previous Thousand-Eyed Illusory Beast, making three in total!
“It’s almost time. Let’s return to the Runing Mansion,” said the Yellow Dragon.
Bradd nodded. Now he also understood that the Yellow Dragon had come to the Nimeng Mountain Range to complete a trial task for the Runing family. But just as Bradd was about to fly away, suddenly, something flashed before his eyes, and then a flying artifact shaped like a castle appeared before him.
“This… is a flying artifact?!” Bradd exclaimed in shock as he stared at the castle before him.
Although he had followed the Yellow Dragon, he had never seen him use a flying artifact, so he didn’t know the Yellow Dragon possessed one.
The Yellow Dragon nodded and smiled. “Let’s ride the flying artifact back.” With that, under Bradd’s astonished gaze, he flew into the castle.
Bradd came back to his senses and followed the Yellow Dragon into the castle with mixed feelings.

Upon entering, Huang Long activated the magic array within the top-grade flying immortal artifact. Instantly, the top-grade flying immortal artifact turned into a streak of light and disappeared from its original location under Bradd’s even more astonished gaze.
“A top-grade flying immortal artifact?!” Bradd didn’t know how to express his thoughts.
A few years later, Huang Long and Bradd were inside the top-grade flying immortal artifact, with the edge of the Ancient Forest in sight.
At the edge of the Ancient Forest…
“Sir, please, spare my wife and me,” said a middle-aged man earnestly to the blond young man across from him, his eyes filled with panic and pleading. Behind him was a beautiful woman who also retreated in fear as the blond young man and his men approached.
This middle-aged man and the beautiful woman were Simp and Belin, a couple from the Phoenix clan of the Hengyuan Realm who had entered the Ancient Forest for the Netherworld Trial.
Simp was terrified, death looming over him.
“Did entering the Netherworld mean we’d die here?!” he thought despairingly.
As the deadline for the Netherworld Trial approached, Simp and Belin, realizing they couldn’t complete the trial, tried to leave the Ancient Forest. But when they reached the edge, they encountered trouble.
Though he didn’t know the blond young man’s identity, his status as a high-ranking deity and the presence of over a dozen of his subordinates suggested he must be a scion of some powerful family.
“Spare you? Hehe, I’ve never given up on what I set my eyes on,” the blond young man laughed. Then he glanced at Belin behind Simp and said, “You’re quite attractive. Originally, if you handed over all your Primal Beast Crystals and Divine Stones, I would have spared you. But now, hehe, I’ve changed my mind!” In truth, he had no intention of sparing them; by his usual methods, he would have killed them after stealing everything.
The dozen high-ranking deity subordinates behind the blond young man also laughed.
Simp and Belin’s faces paled, with Belin especially furious. The meaning of the young man’s words was clear—he wanted to take them?!
In fact, the couple had long heard that in the Ancient Forest, scions of powerful families often hunted down lone divine-level warriors to steal their Primal Beast Crystals and Divine Stones. They had been extremely cautious, but still ran into trouble.
As Simp and Belin tried to retreat, they flew away. But barely had they risen into the air when, in a flash, the blond young man and his men surrounded them.