Chapter 0565: The Land of Gods and Wastes

The young man in blue, Bai Yi, and the middle-aged man in yellow, Lei Di, did not pay attention to Funa’s expression but instead looked at the Yellow Dragon, waiting for its decision.
Both of them were peerless warriors, yet they could not gauge the Yellow Dragon’s true strength. Thus, even though they had the Domi and Hob families backing them, they dared not act rashly. Moreover, the presence of over a dozen people behind the Yellow Dragon exuded such pressure that it made them feel oppressed!
What did this imply? They understood all too well.
Funa also stepped forward toward the Yellow Dragon, bowed slightly, and said, “My lord, our Stu family is willing to pay 320 million billion divine stones for these seeds of the Sacred Fruit of the Universe!”
Normally, the price for these seeds was 30 million billion divine stones.
Now, with three parties competing, Funa was offering 200 million billion more.
200 million billion divine stones might not seem like a huge amount, but it was still a significant sum for the Stu family. Of course, as a key member of the Stu family responsible for the shops in this marketplace, Funa could make such decisions on his own.
Bai Yi and Lei Di were surprised by Funa’s raised price and looked displeased. They hesitated.
After all, they were not like Funa, who was in charge of the family’s shops here. It would be great to buy the seeds at market price, but if they bought them at an inflated price, they might face punishment instead of praise from their elders.
The Yellow Dragon glanced at the three of them.
As Funa, Bai Yi, and Lei Di each pondered their options, suddenly, the hall lit up again.
The three were stunned and then looked in shock at the two additional white jade crystals in the Yellow Dragon’s hands.
“Impossible! How could this be?” They never expected the Yellow Dragon to have so many seeds of the Sacred Fruit of the Universe!
The Yellow Dragon handed out the seeds—one to each of the three—exactly three in total.
“Let’s go by market price,” came the Yellow Dragon’s calm voice.
Originally, the Yellow Dragon intended to sell twenty or thirty seeds, but it realized that so many seeds would only cause unnecessary trouble. After all, just three seeds had already drawn fierce competition among the Domi, Hob, and Stu families. Imagine what would happen if twenty or thirty seeds were released.
So, in the end, the Yellow Dragon decided to sell three seeds. The divine stones from those three seeds would be enough to buy several Chaos Stones.

Hearing Huang Long say he would sell it to the three of them at market price, Funa, Bai Yi, and Reddy were initially stunned before bursting into joy. They politely thanked Huang Long and handed over the divine stone to him.

Soon after, the three of them warmly invited Huang Long to visit their residence, but he declined each time. Not long after Bai Yi and Reddy left, Huang Long also left the shop with Warner and the others. Even after Huang Long and his group had been gone for a while, the manager Bill still stood there, sweating profusely.

“Bill,” Funa’s voice interrupted Bill’s thoughts. Bill quickly snapped back to reality, slightly panicked. “Lord Funa!”

“I heard you arranged for the young boy to handle the reception?” Funa asked, his expression unreadable. Bill’s face turned pale as he stammered, “Lord Funa, I… I…”

Funa turned to look at Bill with a sharp gaze. “Fortunately, nothing serious happened this time. Otherwise…” He didn’t finish his sentence. “Yes, yes!” Amid Bill’s incoherent replies, Funa turned and left the shop. Outside, he wore a smile as he took out a jade talisman to report to his family elders.

After leaving the shop with Warner and the others, Huang Long went to an inn. Both the first and second floors of the inn were crowded. Guided by the waiter, Huang Long and his group went up to the third floor.

“Did you hear? It seems there’s Gold-Stamped Heavy Sand at this trade fair!”

“No way, Gold-Stamped Heavy Sand? I heard it hasn’t appeared in several ages!”

“It’s true! Not only Gold-Stamped Heavy Sand, but also Chaos Stones, Green Building Blocks, and Sky Dragon Giant Eggs!”

Not long after Huang Long and his group sat down on the third floor, the chatter from a nearby table reached their ears. Gold-Stamped Heavy Sand? Huang Long was also surprised. He hadn’t expected such a rare item to be available at this trade fair. It was a mineral from the Mysterious Yellow River, taking tens of thousands of years to form into a size as small as a finger, even rarer than the Sacred Fruits of Heaven and Earth.

Listening to the conversation from the nearby table, Huang Long nodded. It seemed this trade fair was indeed worth attending. But hearing about so many rare items, he felt that the divine stones obtained from selling the three seeds of the Sacred Fruits of Heaven and Earth might not be enough. He thought about going to other shops to sell more of those seeds later.

Warner and the others clearly hadn’t expected so many legendary items to be available at this trade fair. They only knew there would be Chaos Stones that their master needed, but nothing about Gold-Stamped Heavy Sand or the other items.

At that moment, footsteps and giggles came from the stairs on the third floor. Hearing those giggles, Huang Long found them familiar, so he looked over. He saw a waiter leading two women—one in green and one in red—up from the second floor.
“Hey, sister, look! That country bumpkin!” As the girl in green stepped up, her beautiful eyes caught sight of Huang Long, and her eyes lit up as she smiled.
These two women were exactly the ones from the Skarn family he had met earlier by carriage. Huang Long never expected to run into them here again.
“Second sister, don’t be silly!” The beauty in pale red also didn’t expect to meet Huang Long here. She scolded her sister before giving Huang Long a slightly apologetic glance with her beautiful eyes. Then, guided by the waiter, they entered a private room on the third floor.
The private rooms were separate from the main hall, and of course, the cost was different. But Huang Long didn’t care where he sat, so he didn’t request one.
Country bumpkin? Huang Long shook his head and smiled. It seemed this title had been firmly established for him.
“Master, those two women from the Skarn family?” Warner spoke cautiously, watching Huang Long’s expression. He was afraid that the girl’s repeated mockery might provoke Huang Long’s anger, leading to trouble with the Skarn family.
In the Kale Continent, super-large families like the Skarn had the backing of supreme gods, or even supreme god-kings.
“It’s fine,” Huang Long said with an indifferent smile.
Only then did Warner breathe a sigh of relief.
That night, Huang Long and the others rented a room in the inn to stay overnight. The next day, they left the inn and headed toward the Trade Hall.
The Trade Hall was actually an open-air square, with stalls from various families of all sizes set up there, giving Huang Long the feeling of being back on the streets of the mortal realm with their stalls.
In the center of the Trade Hall was an open-air auction, where items like Chaos Stones were auctioned.
Huang Long strolled around casually, bought some things, then headed toward the auction in the center of the Trade Hall.
The open-air auction was centered around an auction platform, surrounded by rows of seats spreading outward in circles. At first glance, Huang Long estimated there were nearly a million seats.
However, even nearly a million seats were far from enough. By the time Huang Long arrived, almost all the seats were already occupied, and more descendants from various families were continuing to arrive.
Of course, seats also required divine stones. The closer to the auction platform, the higher the price. The first row at the front cost 100 million divine stones per seat.
Huang Long and the others sat in the later rows of the first circle.
After a while, the auction began.

The first item up for auction was a several-meter-long piece of charcoal-black stone known as Black Charcoal Stone. In the Chaos Divine Realm, it was an important material for crafting primary divine artifacts, and its price was quite high—starting at one trillion, with increases of ten billion each time.

One trillion divine stones wasn’t much of a deal for some families in the Chaos Divine Realm, but in a mid-tier divine realm, it would be an exorbitant price. Of course, such Black Charcoal Stones could only be auctioned in the Chaos Divine Realm.

As an important material for crafting primary divine artifacts, the Yellow Dragon had no interest in it and thus did not bid. In the end, the Black Charcoal Stone was purchased by a family named Larry. The Yellow Dragon had no memory of this Larry family; it was likely just one of the smaller families in the Chaos Divine Realm.

After the Black Charcoal Stone, dozens of other items were auctioned one after another. When a damaged primary divine artifact was put up for auction, the auction host said, “Next up is an unnamed divine tree.” Then, he ordered the unnamed divine tree to be brought out.

Upon seeing it, the Yellow Dragon’s eyes widened in shock—it was the Netherworld Divine Tree! To be precise, it was just a branch of the Netherworld Divine Tree! The branch was three to four meters long, as thick as an arm, and emitted a faint green glow.

“The Netherworld Divine Tree… yes, it’s definitely the Netherworld Divine Tree!” The Yellow Dragon’s heart was filled with turmoil.

The Netherworld Divine Tree had always been a mystery to the Yellow Dragon. Over the years, he had failed to find any information about it. Who would have thought he would encounter a broken branch of it here?

The Yellow Dragon tried to suppress his excitement.

“This divine tree came from the Godless Wasteland. Although we don’t know what it is, not even the divine fire of a supreme godly being can refine it,” said the auction host.

The Godless Wasteland was located north of the Kale Continent and was a habitat for demons and monsters. According to what the Yellow Dragon knew from the information about the Chaos Divine Realm, when the Godless Wasteland appeared, there were no continents in the Chaos Divine Realm, and even the godly strong ones lived there. It was only later that the holy kings created continents.

The Chaos Divine Realm had three continents: Kale, Saint El, and Torre.

Although the host couldn’t explain the origin of this divine tree either, everyone was quite agitated upon hearing that even the divine fire of a supreme godly being couldn’t refine it.

If even the divine fire of a supreme godly being couldn’t refine it, what did that mean? Could only the divine fire of the Supreme God work?!

Anything related to the Supreme God always piqued everyone’s interest.

The host then mentioned other features of the sacred wood one after another, paused for a moment, and said, “The starting bid for this sacred wood is one trillion. Now, I invite everyone to bid!” Since its specific functions could not be determined, the auction house set a relatively low starting bid.