Chapter 0390: Submitting the Family Task

“What else?” Bradd laughed coldly.
“Otherwise, death!” Dri spat slowly, his aura surging. The other two members of the Timos family also raised their auras. If Bradd and his companions refused to cooperate, they would have to kill them for those four Wind-Thunder Beads.
Bradd turned to look at Yellow Dragon. The sudden change was unexpected.
Yellow Dragon glanced at Dri and his two companions, a killing intent flashing in his eyes, before giving Bradd a slight nod.
Bradd felt relieved and no longer hesitated.
“I originally wanted to give you a chance and spare your lives,” Bradd said slowly, looking at Dri and his companions. “But since you don’t cherish it now, there’s no choice—you must die!”
Hearing Bradd’s words, Dri and his companions were stunned before bursting into laughter.
“A chance to spare our lives?” Dri mocked, but suddenly, his voice stopped.
At that moment, an overwhelming aura erupted from Bradd, soaring into the sky, its force so immense that it halted all air currents within a hundred thousand miles.
Faced with this aura, Dri and his companions felt suffocated.
“A peerless powerhouse!” Their faces paled in shock—he was indeed a peerless powerhouse!
Such an aura couldn’t belong to even an advanced eighth-level Dark King; not even the peak of level eight could possess such power. There was only one explanation—Bradd had hidden his strength earlier.
“Elder, we didn’t mean that just now! Please, don’t misunderstand!” Dri quickly tried to explain, recovering from his terror after Bradd revealed his true strength.
“Misunderstand?” Bradd’s eyes emitted two streams of gold and silver light as he laughed coldly. “Didn’t you plan to keep those four Wind-Thunder Beads for yourself? Without any intention of silencing us?”
Dri panicked, “No, absolutely not! Elder, you saved us—how could we be ungrateful? I even planned to report your kindness to our family headquarters when we return, to thank you for saving our lives.”
“Yes, yes!” The other two nodded frantically, adding their pleas.
“So, it was really my misunderstanding?” Bradd sneered, not acting immediately, but his killing intent growing stronger.
“No, it’s not,” Dri said, his face grim. “It’s us who were wrong. Elder, please spare us.”
The other two also hurriedly begged for mercy.

Bradd shook his head and spat in hatred, “What I hate the most are ungrateful wretches like you who repay kindness with hostility!” He couldn’t help but think of Jared from the Terrence family, who had treated him in the same way back then.
The three of Derry’s group paled at these words and tried to plead for mercy again. But just then, Bradd flashed away, turning into a beam of golden light. As the bright light shone, the three of them recoiled in shock—already struck by it.
Time stopped.
For a moment, the three felt the icy cold of the seawater in the Sea of Wind and Thunder. Then, golden lights burst forth from their bodies. After that, their bodies shattered into fragments and scattered in all directions, with their divine avatars unable to escape as well.
Eight divine essences emerged, including those of their main bodies and avatars.
Huang Long waved his hands and trapped them in the Five Prison Divine Cauldron. Then he turned to look at the four stormy clouds and, without hesitation, used the Thunder Gathering Vessel to capture them one by one.
Now, there were eleven Wind and Thunder Beads in the vessel—one more than the ten required for the mission.
“Let’s go back!” Huang Long held the Thunder Gathering Vessel and smiled. With the beads collected, it was finally time to return to the Runing Mansion.
Bradd also felt relieved. With more and more powerful beings gathering in the Sea of Wind and Thunder, it had become increasingly dangerous. He had long wanted to leave this perilous place.
A few months later, Huang Long and Bradd arrived in Haiyuan City.
Haiyuan City was much livelier than when they first came. Back then, it was mostly dominated by wind-type divine-level powerhouses, accounting for 80% of them. Now, in addition to those, divine-level powerhouses of other elements could be seen everywhere, most of them being high-ranking gods.
“Have you heard? Even Lord Marshall has been stirred up this time!”
“Lord Marshall? Has he come to the Sea of Wind and Thunder too?”
“I heard that Lord Marshall has already arrived in Haiyuan City!”
“Lord Marshall has actually come to Haiyuan City?!”
“That’s right. He’s currently in the city lord’s mansion.”
As Huang Long and Bradd walked down the streets of Haiyuan City, they suddenly heard two high-ranking gods whispering in the distance. They were surprised. Marshall? Although he had never met this Marshall, Huang Long was quite “interested” in this wood-type supreme god whose records he and Bogge had broken. Over the years, news about Marshall had constantly reached his ears.
“Marshall has come to Haiyuan City?” Bradd was also surprised upon hearing the two high-ranking gods talking.

Apart from Marshall, Huang Long and Brade also kept hearing news of other peerless powerhouses arriving. After stopping in Sea Plain City for two days, they did not linger any longer. As more god-tier powerhouses flocked to the Sea of Wind and Thunder, the two set off back to Runing Mansion. After a rapid journey, several years later, Huang Long and Brade returned to Runing Mansion. Upon returning, Huang Long had no mood to travel around with Brade like they had after the last hundred-year trial; instead, he went straight to the Runing headquarters and headed to the Tianhe Hall. Unlike submitting the task during the last hundred-year trial, the vast Tianhe Hall was somewhat desolate, with hundreds of disciples scattered in its corners. Coincidentally, when Huang Long and Brade arrived at the task submission desk, it was the same female disciple who had recorded Huang Long’s task last time. When Huang Long approached, she clearly remembered him as the “special” disciple renowned throughout their family and recognized him at once. Her face showed slight panic as she said, “Lord Huang, Lord Huang Hai!” Last time, under Daniel’s coercion, she had tested the authenticity of the Azure Scaled Cloud Lion Beast Crystal in front of everyone in the hall, feeling quite uneasy. Over the past decade, she had always remembered this incident, fearing that Huang Long might take it out on her. Seeing her panicked expression, Huang Long understood her concerns, smiled, and said, “I’m here to submit a task. Please help me record it.” “Submit a task?” Seeing Huang Long’s expression, her anxious heart relaxed slightly, but then she froze—had the family assigned another trial task to Lord Huang Hai? However, she couldn’t recall anything like that. Just as she was puzzled, Huang Long’s voice came through: “These are ten Wind and Thunder Beads. The task assigned by the family hasn’t been completed by anyone, has it?” As soon as his words faded, ten Wind and Thunder Beads appeared on the Tianhe Hall’s desk, emitting ten pulses of purple light that illuminated the entire hall. Huang Long’s voice wasn’t loud, but the entire hall seemed to fall silent instantly. Disciples scattered in every corner of the hall turned to see the ten purple-lit Wind and Thunder Beads on the desk. “Wind, Wind and Thunder Beads!” “They’re actually Wind and Thunder Beads?!” After being stunned, hundreds of disciples immediately erupted into loud exclamations and cries of surprise. “I know that person! It’s Huang Hai! He’s the one who defeated Daniel last time!” Soon, some direct descendants in the hall recognized Huang Long, causing even greater uproar.

Huang Long, in the eyes of the Lu Ning family’s descendants, was still mostly mocked for challenging Bishop Bishop—seen as overconfident—but some of them had begun to change their opinion of him after his astonishing actions at the Tianhe Hall last time.
As before, the female disciple at the service desk stood there, staring fixedly at the ten Wind and Thunder Beads on the desk, showing no reaction for a long time.
“What? Has someone completed the family task?” Huang Long asked.
Of course, when he entered the Lu Ning estate, Huang Long already knew that no one had completed the family task yet.
“No, no, not yet,” the female disciple at the service desk snapped back to reality and said in shock. But compared to last time, she was even more agitated.
Ten Wind and Thunder Beads, a family task!
What did that mean? Besides ten high-ranking divine mutated beasts, there was also a Heavenly Sacred Fruit and a Nether Pearl. If they could enter the Land of Forgetfulness, they would get all of those rewards.
The female disciple at the service desk thought about this, and so did the other descendants at the Tianhe Hall—they all thought of the tempting rewards of the family task. For over a decade, this reward had made the Lu Ning family’s descendants envious, with endless discussions about who would receive it—whether it would be someone from another clan or an internal descendant.
And now, it was Huang Long, that special descendant who challenged the eldest elder Bishop Bishop, who had completed it?!
After hearing what the female disciple said, Huang Long nodded calmly, “Then please submit the task for me.”
“Yes, yes, Lord Huang Hai!” the female disciple hurriedly replied.
The Lu Ning headquarters was a large estate in the south of the city.
“What? Someone has collected the ten Wind and Thunder Beads and completed the family task?” Bishop Bishop stared at the stone talisman in his hand, shocked. The message on the talisman came from the Tianhe Hall.
As the eldest elder of the Lu Ning family, Bishop Bishop was in charge of this family task.
“Who exactly completed that task?” As he rushed toward the Tianhe Hall, Bishop Bishop began to wonder. Was it due to the nervousness or carelessness of the female disciple at the service desk, who failed to mention who had completed the task in her haste?
A short while later, Bishop Bishop arrived at the Tianhe Hall.
“Eldest Elder!” Bishop Bishop arrived, and the descendants bowed to him.
After nodding, Bishop Bishop froze when he saw Huang Long in front of the service desk. Then an idea flashed through his mind—could it be? He remembered that Huang Hai had gone to the Sea of Wind and Thunder!
Now, Huang Hai had returned!
“Who completed this family task?” Bishop Bishop tried to suppress his excitement and turned to ask the female disciple at the service desk.