Chapter 0383: The Fall of a Peerless Powerhouse

After leaving the Shangyi Hall, Huang Long and Bradd did not head straight to the Sea of Wind and Thunder. Instead, they stayed in Haiyuan City. According to Huang Long, they planned to stay there for two days.
Since they intended to stay for two days, the two needed to find a hotel.
It wasn’t long before they arrived at a hotel in Haiyuan City named Sea Breeze.
“Sea Breeze—a rather interesting name,” Bradd said with a smile as he looked at the sign before entering the hotel.
Huang Long said nothing and followed Bradd inside. Upon entering, they saw that the hotel was quite crowded. It was about ten times larger than ordinary large hotels in the mortal realm. However, there weren’t any empty seats on the first floor.
Yet, Huang Long noticed that the first floor was mostly occupied by mid-tier gods, with few high-tier gods.
When Huang Long and Bradd went to the second floor, it was much quieter compared to the first floor, with fewer people. Most of them were high-tier gods. Huang Long and Bradd found an empty table to sit at and asked the waiter to bring drinks and food, while also requesting a small courtyard to be reserved.
“Have you heard? A few months ago, another eighth-level Dark King powerhouse died in the Sea of Wind and Thunder!” came a conversation from a nearby table after the waiter left.
Huang Long glanced over and saw a middle-aged, strong man.
“I’ve heard about it. The news has spread far and wide. Many god-tier powerhouses in Haiyuan City are aware of it,” said a thinner middle-aged man next to the strong man, then shook his head and sighed. “An eighth-level Dark King, fighting for that Sacred Fruit of Heaven and Earth, the Dark Pearl, only to end up in the stomachs of those sea beasts, left with no bones left!”
Huang Long was intrigued.
The strong man continued, “Exactly. Ever since the Luning family issued that mission, more than a dozen eighth-level Dark King powerhouses have died. I don’t know how many high-tier gods have perished as well. Yet even so, many high-tier gods still rush to their deaths. It’s unclear whether this mission issued by the Luning family is a good thing or a bad one.”
Huang Long sat there, gradually understanding the full story.
Since the Luning family issued that mission, many god-tier powerhouses from the Netherworld had flocked to Haiyuan Mansion. In the few years since Huang Long arrived, more than a dozen eighth-level Dark King powerhouses had died. Now, the greatest threat in the Sea of Wind and Thunder wasn’t the wind and thunder storms but the sea beasts that lived there.
With so many god-tier powerhouses entering the sea to search for the Wind and Thunder Pearl, conflicts with those sea beasts were inevitable, resulting in their deaths.

Gradually, this provoked the wrath of the King of Wind and Thunder Sea Beasts, who ordered all of them to hunt down every human god-tier warrior who came to the Wind and Thunder Sea.
“Wind and Thunder Sea Beasts,” Huang Long frowned—this was certainly bad news.
Bradd also looked grave.
Under normal circumstances, the Wind and Thunder Sea Beasts posed little threat, but now it was different. With the King’s order, human god-tier warriors would have to face the entire sea of beasts. Although the Wind and Thunder Sea was merely an inland sea of Haiyuan Prefecture, accounting for only 1% of its area, it still contained hundreds of millions of beasts, including some as powerful as peerless human warriors, such as the King of Sea Beasts.
A while later, the waiter brought the food and drinks.
“Young master, the Wind and Thunder Sea is so dangerous now, don’t you think?” Bradd said hesitantly.
Huang Long shook his head. “I must go to the Wind and Thunder Sea.”
No matter what happened there, he wanted to obtain the Wind and Thunder Pearl. With 15 million mutated primordial beasts protecting him, along with the Five Elements Immortal Escape Technique, he should be safe from anyone except the most peerless warriors.
Seeing this, Bradd didn’t try to persuade him any further. Having followed Huang Long for over a hundred years, he knew no one could change his decisions. All he could do now was protect him when the time came.
A short while later, as the two were about to leave, they saw the five members of the Terrence family they had met earlier in the Shangyi Hall. Upon seeing Huang Long and Bradd, the five Terrence Jareds were also surprised. They then sat down at an empty table not far from them.
The people around them, upon seeing the five Jareds dressed in the Terrence family’s attire, looked at them with reverence. Even when they sat down, those at nearby tables carefully stood up and moved away, seemingly afraid of getting too close—knowing full well what might happen if they angered them.
In the eyes of the god-tier warriors in the Netherworld, the six major Lu Ning families were equivalent to the imperial family in the eyes of ordinary people in the mortal realm.
After the five Jareds sat down, they watched as the people around them left in reverence and satisfaction, their faces filled with pride.
At that moment, when they saw Huang Long and Bradd also getting up to leave, one of the young men laughed, “Two fools who don’t know fear. I thought they were bold enough to show us hostility earlier—turns out they’re just cowards.”
The other three young men beside Jared chuckled.

Everyone on the second floor turned to look at Huang Long and Brade. Many took pleasure in their misfortune, wondering what drugs these two had taken to dare provoke someone from the Terrence family. Judging from Jared’s attire, he must be an elder of the Terrence family—a peerless powerhouse!

Hearing this, Brade turned his face sideways, carrying Jared on his back, and sneered, “Jared? Hehe.”

Jared was surprised that this high-ranking deity knew his name.

“Dare you call an elder by name!” one of the young men shouted abruptly, pointing at Brade with growing intensity. His aura was quite strong, causing many tables and chairs around to fly.

Brade just chuckled and said nothing more before following Huang Long out of the hotel.

Jared watched as Huang Long and Brade left, lost in thought.

Had that middle-aged high-ranking deity recognized him? As an elder of the Terrence family, it wasn’t strange for divine-level powers in the Netherworld to know him. But the man’s expression seemed familiar too—someone he couldn’t recall.

When the young Terrence saw Huang Long and Brade leave without paying attention to his scolding, he grew angry. Just as he was about to stand up, Jared’s voice came through, “Enough. Sit down. Stop embarrassing me.”

Startled, the young man quickly replied, “Yes, Elder Jared,” and sat back down obediently.

In fact, he knew that even if he had tried to stop those two, he wouldn’t have dared to use force. After all, this was Haiyuan City, not the Terrence headquarters.

Huang Long and Brade left the second floor of the hotel and went to the courtyard prepared for them.

“Jared?” In his own courtyard, Huang Long thought of Brade’s address to that Terrence family elder and also remembered what Brade had said before escaping the valley’s rock forest. Could this Jared be Brade’s rival?

For over a hundred years, Huang Long had generally not interfered in Brade’s affairs, so he didn’t know who she was that Brade kept mentioning.

Two days later, Huang Long and Brade left Haiyuan City and headed toward the Sea of Wind and Thunder.

The Sea of Wind and Thunder was not close to Haiyuan City. At their pace, it would take them about two months to reach there.

However, on their way there, Huang Long heard even worse news: over a dozen days ago, a peerless powerhouse had died in the Sea of Wind and Thunder!

The death of an eighth-level Dark King powerhouse had already sparked much discussion in Haiyuan City. Now that another peerless powerhouse had died, the city—and even the Terrence headquarters—were abuzz with rumors.

The peerless warrior in the divine plane was already at the pinnacle of existence; under normal circumstances, it would be very difficult for them to perish, and even if defeated, they could escape. Then, news spread that the powerful Sea Scorpion clan from a region of the Abyssal Sea near the Thunderstorm Sea had joined forces with the Thunderstorm Sea to hunt down human warriors, and it was this peerless warrior who died at the hands of the Sea Scorpion clan. The reason these powerful Sea Scorpions joined the Thunderstorm Sea to hunt humans was that the king of the sea beasts in the Thunderstorm Sea was originally an elder of the Sea Scorpion clan. Upon hearing this news, even the peerless warrior Brade grew solemn and his heart sank. Initially, Brade thought that no matter how dangerous the Thunderstorm Sea was, with him protecting the Yellow Dragon, both would be safe. But now it seemed that even he, a peerless warrior, couldn’t guarantee his own safety, let alone protect the Yellow Dragon. “Brade, the Thunderstorm Pearl—I want to obtain it by entering the Land of Forgetfulness. But you don’t need to come with me to the Thunderstorm Sea,” said the Yellow Dragon. With the Thunderstorm Sea now so dangerous, the Yellow Dragon didn’t want Brade to follow him into peril. Brade shook his head resolutely and said, “Young master, you needn’t say more. Back then, when you saved me from the valley, I swore to be your guardian, so I must protect your safety.” The Yellow Dragon nodded and didn’t insist further. The Yellow Dragon and Brade headed toward the Thunderstorm Sea. Along the way, they encountered many divine-level warriors, but their flight direction was exactly opposite to that of the Yellow Dragon and Brade. The Yellow Dragon and Brade were heading from Sea Plain City to the Thunderstorm Sea, while these divine-level warriors were returning from the Thunderstorm Sea to Sea Plain City. It seemed that the news of peerless warriors perishing had made these divine-level warriors back down. Previously, they had come to the Thunderstorm Sea with a glimmer of hope, hoping to find the Thunderstorm Pearl by chance, but now such hope was impossible. Along the way, those divine-level warriors returning from the Thunderstorm Sea kept glancing at the Yellow Dragon and Brade as they continued toward the sea. It was indeed rare to see people still heading to their deaths despite even peerless warriors perishing. Some kind-hearted divine-level warriors even tried to dissuade the Yellow Dragon and Brade from going. As the Yellow Dragon and Brade got closer to the Thunderstorm Sea, they encountered more and more of these retreating divine-level warriors, group after group, all looking panicked. Gradually, the events unfolding in the Thunderstorm Sea also reached the Runing Mansion.

When Kennedy found out, his expression turned grim. He hadn’t expected things to turn out this way, and with the Yellow Sea, could it already be…?!