Chapter 0452: The Right Eye of the Chaos Dragon
“Greetings, Realm King Verli!” Huang Long suppressed his amazement and bowed to Brad.
Verli nodded, then looked at Huang Long. A strange glint appeared in her beautiful eyes as she said, “So you are Huang Long? There have been many rumors about you in recent years.”
Huang Long was momentarily speechless, unsure of what Verli meant by that. Brad also stood by silently.
“I’ve heard about your fourth sister from Bier. Let me take a look,” Verli said calmly.
Huang Long nodded and released his fourth sister, Huang Yi, from the Immortals Pavilion.
Verli approached Huang Yi, noticed the faint dark mist on her face, her expression turning serious as her beautiful eyes sparkled. She raised her delicate hand about a foot in front of Huang Yi’s forehead, and a soft green light emanated from her palm, covering Huang Yi’s forehead.
After a while, Verli withdrew her hand, her expression growing even more solemn.
“Realm King Verli, how is my fourth sister?” Huang Long felt uneasy. Could it be that even Verli, the Realm King of the Death Spirit Realm, couldn’t help her?!
“I can cure your sister,” Verli said.
Huang Long’s face lit up with joy.
“However, I need you to find two things for me,” Verli added, her tone shifting.
Find two things? Huang Long asked, “I wonder what those two things are?”
“The mist haunting your sister is different from the one from back then. To completely eliminate it, we need a Golden Fire Crystal and a Soul-Stabilizing Stone,” Verli explained.
Golden Fire Crystal? Huang Long and Brad exchanged a glance. Though they didn’t know what a Soul-Stabilizing Stone was, they were familiar with the Golden Fire Crystal. But was it the same as the one Verli mentioned?!
“It seems you’ve heard of the Golden Fire Crystal too. Indeed, the one I’m referring to is a type of fire crystal born from Ice Mirror Lake,” Verli confirmed their suspicions.
It really is?!
Huang Long was delighted, but soon frowned.
He had only recently learned about the Golden Fire Crystal. Earlier, while searching for the Right Eye of the Chaos Dragon, he and Brad had determined that it must be located in the Niga Prefecture or the Bujie Prefecture. Since the Left Eye of the Chaos Dragon had turned into the Ancestral Dragon Pool of the Runing family, the Right Eye should also have turned into a pool or lake. Thus, they investigated any special lakes in those two prefectures. Among them, Ice Mirror Lake in the Niga Prefecture caught their attention.
Lake of Ice Mirrors gives birth to a kind of Golden Fire Crystal, a highly precious spiritual crystal in hell. Besides being useful for crafting weapons and greatly aiding godly warriors in mastering fire-based laws, it also has a “crazy” effect: the Golden Fire Pill made from this crystal, once consumed, can refine one’s divine body and enhance various aspects of its capabilities, such as strength, defense, and even the soul. It can be said that this Golden Fire Crystal is even more coveted than the Sacred Fruits and Abyssal Beads of the Netherworld. However, just as the Land of Forgetfulness is controlled by the six major families of the Netherworld, Lake of Ice Mirrors, where this crystal is born, is under the control of the eight major families of hell. This is also why Huang Long frowned. Fortunately, unlike the Land of Forgetfulness, which requires an era-spanning period—opening only once every sixty trillion years or once every hundred thousand years—Lake of Ice Mirrors opens in four years. Four years isn’t a long time; Huang Yi can wait. But since the lake is controlled by the eight major families of hell, not everyone will be able to enter when it opens. Although these eight families allow three extra spots for those outside their ranks, the competition for these three spots must be fierce! Generally, those who succeed in obtaining them are peerless warriors. Though the Golden Fire Crystal doesn’t have much effect on refining the divine bodies of peerless warriors, they still have descendants. If they enter Lake of Ice Mirrors and obtain this crystal, they can use it for their descendants. “So, what about the Soul Calming Stone?” Huang Long asked. They already knew about the Golden Fire Crystal. But the Soul Calming Stone? They had never heard of it. Since the Golden Fire Crystal is rare, the Soul Calming Stone is likely not easy to obtain either, right?! “The Soul Calming Stone is born in the deepest depths of Purgatory,” said Verily. Huang Long and Bradd’s expressions changed upon hearing this. The deepest depths of Purgatory?! Purgatory is the home of prison beasts, and in its deepest parts, there are prison beasts whose strength rivals that of peerless warriors, even including the King of Prison Beasts who has reached supreme perfection in cultivation. The deepest parts of Purgatory are akin to the deepest areas of the Ancient Forest in the Netherworld or the bottom of the Abyssal Sea—its danger is unimaginable. “But you don’t necessarily have to go to the deepest depths of Purgatory. Although the Soul Calming Stone is extremely rare, over so many era-spanning periods, a few have been formed. Several godly warriors in hell have obtained them. As far as I know, the lord of Bugi Prefecture, which is near Niga Prefecture, possesses one such Soul Calming Stone,” Verily suddenly added. Huang Long and Bradd exchanged a glance, suddenly feeling relieved, and both turned to look at Verily.
Under the gaze of Huang Long and the others, a hint of embarrassment flashed across Verli’s face before she straightened up and said, “Although the lord of Buji Mansion possesses the Soul Calming Stone, don’t think you can borrow it easily. This Soul Calming Stone isn’t something that can be bought with divine stones.” Huang Long and Bradd remained silent. Indeed, as Verli said, even if they knew the lord of Buji Mansion had the Soul Calming Stone, borrowing it from him wasn’t easy at all. In the entire underworld, only a few divine-level powerhouses possessed this Soul Calming Stone, which showed just how precious it was. After confirming that the Mist Fiend in Huang Yi’s body required Golden Fire Crystals combined with the Soul Calming Stone to be completely eradicated, Huang Long didn’t hesitate and bid farewell to Verli, the king of the Death Spirit Realm, along with the others. However, when Huang Long and the others left, at Verli’s suggestion, Huang Yi was left behind in the king’s palace. Although Verli didn’t have the Golden Fire Crystals or the Soul Calming Stone to completely eliminate the Mist Fiend in Huang Yi’s body, she could control it through secret techniques, thereby alleviating Huang Yi’s pain to some extent. After some thought, Huang Long decided to leave Huang Yi in the king’s palace. As the king of the Death Spirit Realm, Verli naturally had no reason to deceive Huang Long. After leaving the king’s palace, Huang Long and the others had to use the same method they had used to enter the King Mountain to exit the Sea of Deathly Thunder. This time, Verli and the others witnessed Huang Long and Bradd leaving the Sea of Deathly Thunder, and they were stunned to see them do so. “Lord King, look! What kind of divine artifact is that bottle Huang Long is using?!” After a long while, Bixier couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity. Verli pondered for a while before shaking her head. After descending from the King Mountain and taking elixirs to recover, Huang Long and Bradd used the art of transformation and possession to send Bradd rushing ahead. It had taken Molin from the Death Temple three months to bring everyone to the King Mountain, but this time, it only took seven days to return to the former dead city. After returning, they didn’t stay long and quickly left the Death Spirit Realm through its entrance. Upon returning to the Pad Continent, Huang Long and the others stopped in Cana City for a day before continuing on their journey toward the Colin Continent. Fortunately, the Colin Continent was located right at the edge of the Pad Continent, so crossing the Pad Continent would lead them there. But even though Bradd was an unparalleled powerhouse, crossing the Pad Continent wouldn’t take just one or two months. The five continents of the underworld were roughly the same size as the six continents of the netherworld.
Two years later, Huang Long and the others finally arrived on the Colin Continent. After arriving there, they headed straight for Niga Prefecture.
“Phew, we’ve finally reached Niga Prefecture!” As Huang Long and the others stepped into Niga Prefecture, Bradd let out a deep sigh of relief, his face still showing signs of fear. Even though he had lived through countless eras, he had only experienced such frantic travel a few times. Recalling the journey from the Pad Continent to this Colin Continent, Bradd felt quite terrified.
“Let’s go. We’ll enter Niga City first,” Huang Long said to Bradd and the others, then led them into Niga City.
After entering Niga City, Huang Long and the others went to the Commerce Hall, bought a villa, and settled there temporarily.
There was still about a year left before the Ice Mirror Lake opened, so Huang Long couldn’t rush things. However, he planned to visit the Ice Mirror Lake in person before it opened.
That day, Huang Long told the members of the Huang family and Bog to stay at the villa in Niga City, then he and Bradd vanished from Niga City and headed south.
The Ice Mirror Lake wasn’t inside Niga City but in the center of a plain called Haiyuan, to the south of the city. It wasn’t far away—only tens of millions of miles.
It wasn’t long before Huang Long and Bradd arrived at the Ice Mirror Lake.
“This is the Ice Mirror Lake!” Huang Long and Bradd stood in midair, looking down at a lake that was nearly a thousand meters in size.
The lake’s surface was silver-colored, with layers of white ice mist hovering above it. Although they hadn’t approached yet, Huang Long and Bradd could already feel the intense cold.
The Ice Mirror Lake was extremely cold, yet it gave birth to the Golden Fire Crystal, a fire-type spiritual crystal. This strange phenomenon had never been explained by anyone in Hell.
Of course, the lake’s surface seemed only a thousand meters wide, but deeper down, it was like a small sea.
Huang Long extended his divine sense to probe the Ice Mirror Lake, but it was repelled by a restraining force. The lake’s surface shimmered with a faint silver light.
Huang Long knew this was the array restriction set up by the Eight Great Families of Hell.
“Young master, how is it?” Bradd asked, referring to whether Huang Long was confident in breaking through this restriction. After all, Huang Long had already broken through the Stone Forest Array that had trapped him before.
Huang Long replied, “Stay here. I’ll go down and take a look.” After a brief probe with his divine sense, he had a general understanding of the array restriction set up by the Eight Great Families.
Bradd nodded.
Huang Long vanished and fell into the Ice Mirror Lake. As soon as he entered, he saw waves rushing toward him from all sides.