Chapter 0425: Nearly Two Thousand Years

Back to the Hengyuan Dimension!
Nearly two thousand years!
Two thousand years wasn’t a long time for Huang Long, but what about Huang Xiong, Zhao Rong, and the others in the Hengyuan Dimension?
“I wonder how Father, Mother, my elder brother, third brother, and fourth sister are doing,” Huang Long thought to himself.
After watching Greg fly back to the Nether Sea, Huang Long suddenly became eager to return to the Hengyuan Dimension. He had thought about returning before, but never with such urgency as now.
Nearly two thousand years had passed since entering the Nether World, and now that matters there were finally settled, Huang Long felt it was time to return to the Hengyuan Dimension.
“Let’s go,” Huang Long said, turning toBrad, Bog, and the others behind him.
“Yes, young master!”
“Yes, master!”
Brad, Bog, and the others replied respectfully in unison. Then, Huang Long summoned a top-tier flying immortal artifact, and they all boarded it, disappearing into the sky as a streak of light.
In the Nether World, teleportation arrays existed on all six continents, allowing travel to other divine dimensions, mortal realms, or various dimensional spaces.
However, the teleportation array on the Wunda Continent was located in Quding Mansion, at the heart of the continent.
Quding Mansion was adjacent to the Dimos Mansion, where the Dimos family’s headquarters was situated.
Currently, they were at the northernmost part of the Wunda Continent. It would take some time to reach Quding Mansion, but since there were still over seventy years left before the two-thousand-year mark, Huang Long and his companions had plenty of time and didn’t rush.
On the way to Quding Mansion, Huang Long asked about the past thousand years since the twenty-four members of Bog’s group had been separated. Bog and the others explained everything in detail.
Huang Long learned that after separating from him, they hadn’t left the Canghai Continent but instead settled in another mountain range near the Ancient Forest. The twenty-four of them lived a life similar to that in the Dragon Mountains, going to the Ancient Forest every few years to hunt primal beasts. Once they had enough, they would return to the mountains and head back to the Ancient Forest again. Over the past nine hundred years, through continuous cultivation, they heard about the opening of the Land of Forgetfulness. Inspired, Bog and the others came to the Corner of Forgetfulness.
Out of impulse, Bog didn’t expect to encounter Huang Long.
Of course, during the duel, although Huang Long had changed his appearance to resemble Huang Hai, when the shadow of the five-clawed golden dragon behind him appeared, everyone recognized their master. It was just not convenient for them to approach him at that time.

“Hehe, it seems you haven’t slackened in your cultivation over the years,” Huang Long said with a smile after hearing what the twenty-four members of Bog’s group had to say.
All twenty-four of Bog’s group had broken through from lower gods to mid-level gods. Bog, the orc Natt, Gusta, and Fat Lion had even reached the later stage of mid-level gods, while the other twenty were at the middle stage.
In just two thousand years, or even less, these twenty-four had risen from lower gods to mid-level gods. Likely, not many godly warriors with such extraordinary talent could be found in the entire Netherworld, let alone those at the middle or later stages. As far as Huang Long knew, even the third-generation core members of the Runing family, like Fei De and Sturdin, did not possess such talent.
Of course, Huang Long knew that the key reason these twenty-four had achieved such success was that they had laid a solid foundation when following him back then, while also practicing immortal techniques.
“It is all thanks to the master’s grace that we are where we are today. Though the master is not by our side, we remember his words every day and at all times!” Bog replied with gratitude and respect.
Fat Lion laughed and said, “Master, you know what? After years of hard cultivation, look—my fat has gone!” With that, he stood up, revealing muscular frames instead of his previous fatness.
Huang Long couldn’t help but laugh, and Brad also smiled upon seeing this.
Gusta said gloomily, “Enough. You know you’re now slim—no need to show off in front of the young master.”
Fat Lion retorted with a smile, “Gusta, are you jealous? That I’m slim? Heh, I’m much slimmer compared to you.” Over the years, Fat Lion had lost his fat, but Gusta’s still hadn’t changed.
At that moment, Bog and the others also laughed.
Huang Long shook his head. After a thousand years, these two clowns were still as argumentative as ever. He couldn’t help but think of Franz, the fat man from the Runing family.
With his departure from the Runing mansion, it was uncertain when Huang Long would see Chester and Franz again.
“Master, what about you these past thousand years?” After a while, Bog asked about Huang Long’s experiences.
Huang Long didn’t hide anything and briefly recounted his departure from the Sea Continent to the Nia Continent, and later his journey to the Runing headquarters. He mentioned rescuing Brad from the Nimeng Mountains during the hundred-year trial, which explained why Brad, such an extraordinary warrior, regarded Huang Long as his master.
These days, although Brad had been living with Bog and the others, they, though curious, never asked him about his relationship with Master Huang Long.

So, in the days that followed, whenever Bog and the others felt inclined, they would compete on the training platform at the Flying Immortal Artifacts Center, with Brade acting as the referee and Huang Long observing and offering guidance. Occasionally, Huang Long would share some insights with everyone.

Days passed by one after another.

Years later, Huang Long and the others finally arrived at Quding Prefecture.

After arriving there, they did not stay in the main city of Quding but headed straight to the teleportation array.

The teleportation arrays that transported people from each continent to various planes and dimensional spaces were not located within the main cities but atop certain mountain ranges. The same was true for the teleportation array on the Canghai Continent when Huang Long and the others entered the Netherworld from the Hengyuan Plane.

However, the teleportation array on the Wengda Continent was not far from the main city of Quding. Half a month later, Huang Long and the others arrived at the mountain range where the array was located—the Qiji Mountains.

The Qiji Mountains were not large, covering only a few hundred thousand square miles, but atop these mountains resided hundreds of millions of armies of Prime Gods.

After arriving at the Qiji Mountains, they flew up to the highest peak and landed after a while.

“Stop! What are you doing?!” As Huang Long and the others landed, a squad of a hundred soldiers from the Prime God army approached. The senior god serving as the squad leader shouted.

Huang Long shook his head inwardly, knowing this was a routine question. Those who came here surely wanted to use the teleportation array; otherwise, why would they come here to cause trouble? The squad leader of the Prime God army was asking out of ignorance.

Bog glanced at Huang Long, who nodded in approval. Then Bog stepped forward and said, “Sir squad leader, we want to use the teleportation array to go to the Mortal Plane.”

“The Mortal Plane?!” The senior god squad leader was shocked upon hearing Bog’s words and stared at Huang Long and the others in surprise. The arrogance on his face disappeared. Generally, divine beings who came to use the teleportation array went to other divine planes; it was rare to see anyone go to the Mortal Plane—sometimes not even once in tens of thousands of years.

Transferring from the Netherworld to other divine planes required a considerable amount of divine stones, but even the descendants of powerful families could afford them. However, the Mortal Plane was different—each senior god needed 2 trillion divine stones, an amount even the descendants of powerful families could not provide.

And Bog and the others were mid-level gods, each requiring 1 trillion divine stones.

“Are you all going to the Mortal Plane?!” The senior god squad leader asked again to confirm.

“Yes,” Bog nodded.

After getting confirmation, the squad leader’s expression changed. A smile appeared on his face, and his attitude shifted. “So you friends want to go to the Mortal Plane. Please follow me.”

At this point, the high-ranking divine captain had already determined that Huang Long and the others were no ordinary people; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to provide dozens of trillions of divine stones for transmission to the mortal realm. A short while later, the high-ranking divine captain led Huang Long and the others to the transmission array. He turned around and said, “Everyone heading to the mortal realm—24 mid-ranking gods, 2 high-ranking gods, totaling 28 trillion divine stones!” Just as Bradd was about to step forward to hand over the divine stones, Huang Long raised his hand to stop him, then took out his divine card and handed it to Bog, saying, “Bog.” Although Huang Long had jokingly told Marshall that Bradd had plenty of divine stones and there was no need to worry about the transmission cost, he certainly wouldn’t let Marshall, a mere guard, “spend so much.” He still had more than 20 trillion divine stones. Back then, after Huang Long and Bradd killed KunNeil’s precious son in the Riga Mountains, they took the opportunity to plunder KunNeil’s treasure vault. Though that vault was only a portion of the wealth in the Riga Mountains, its amount was absolutely astonishing—20 trillion divine stones was just the tip of the iceberg. Bog took the divine card from Huang Long’s hand and said respectfully, “Yes, young master,” before handing it to the high-ranking divine captain. The high-ranking divine captain glanced at Huang Long with interest but said nothing. He then took the divine card to the side and transferred 28 trillion divine stones. A short while later, he returned in shock, handing the divine card back to Huang Long, his expression once again changing, even showing respect. This was because when he transferred the 28 trillion divine stones from the card, he saw the astonishing amount listed on it. Huang Long calmly took back the card and then went up onto the transmission array with Bog and the others. After that, the high-ranking divine captain respectfully asked Huang Long which mortal realm they wanted to go to, then activated the transmission array to send Huang Long and the others to the Hengyuan Realm. In a flash of light, Huang Long and the others disappeared. Watching them vanish, the high-ranking divine captain even felt a strange sense of relief. “They’re finally gone!” he whispered. “Captain, sir…” At that moment, a member of his team stepped forward hesitantly behind him. “What is it?” the high-ranking divine captain asked puzzledly. “Um, that person… he seems very similar to Huang Long!” the young member stammered. After a while, the high-ranking divine captain said blankly, “No, it can’t be such a coincidence!” Then he looked at the other members, but their expressions were the same as the young member’s. “Captain, just now, he seemed to call his subordinate Bog!” Silence ensued.