Chapter 0823: Surge in Magical Power

There were over a hundred thousand alchemy arrays inside the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron!
To be precise, it was 129,600!
Exactly 129,600 people, corresponding to the number of “Yuan”!
One “Yuan” equaled 129,600 years!
These 129,600 arrays were divided into twelve groups: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai—each group containing 18,000 arrays.
However, at present, the Yellow Dragon only had preliminary control over the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron and had not fully refined it. Thus, it could only activate a small portion of the arrays—over 3,000 arrays from the Zi group!
Even so, with these 3,000 arrays in operation, the rate at which the Chaos Red Fiery Stone was refined was quite fast. As the Yellow Dragon infused its magical power, the arrays activated one after another, turning the Chaos Red Fiery Stone into thin strands of radiant light at a visible pace. These strands of light were the essence of the stone’s core—its purest vital energy!
As these strands of light appeared, occasional wisps of black smoke would emerge—these were impurities from the stone’s divine nature. In the world, aside from the Immortal Hunyuan who was free from such impurities, even the rarest divine artifacts contained impurities.
The Yellow Dragon’s current Yuan Dragon body was no exception.
Time passed. One hour went by.
The divine form of the Chaos Red Fiery Stone began to shrink continuously. After a day, its size had reduced by one circle. As days turned into weeks, the divine form had shrunk to the size of a fist!
Another day passed, and finally, the divine form of the Chaos Red Fiery Stone completely transformed into strands of vital energy and disintegrated.
Thus, the divine form of the Chaos Red Fiery Stone was fully refined!
A month was not a long time. If it weren’t for the Yellow Dragon using the powerful arrays of the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron for refinement, even the Five Hells Divine Cauldron would likely take decades—or perhaps never—to fully refine it.
Although the Five Hells Divine Cauldron was a top-tier immortal artifact, it paled in comparison to treasures like the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron.
After refining the entire stone into core vital energy, the Yellow Dragon sat in midair, activating the “Water-Fire Yuan Dragon Art,” continuously absorbing vital energy from all around.
One by one, each strand of vital energy entered the Yellow Dragon’s body and surged like a vast ocean, washing through every corner of its body, making its Yuan Dragon body increasingly refined and powerful!
Eventually, with every breath the Yellow Dragon took, it seemed as though a thousand or ten thousand celestial dragons were breathing within it, with powerful currents swirling around its body.

His immense magical power formed clusters of golden clouds around him, with a sea of golden clouds covering the entire small world. The Yellow Dragon’s magical power continued to grow, and the entire small world seemed unable to withstand its terrifying force, showing signs of expansion. Eventually, with each breath of the Yellow Dragon, the whole small world breathed along with it. This showed that the Yellow Dragon’s magical power had reached a level where he could control an entire small world with just his movements! By this time, over sixty years had passed! The Yellow Dragon showed no sign of waking up, immersed in a profoundly mysterious state. In his consciousness, his own body seemed to become void-like; he was the small world itself, and this small world was him. Within this small world, his thoughts were everywhere. Then, the Yellow Dragon’s thoughts continued to spread, gradually penetrating into all the small worlds whose first-layer restrictions had been lifted by the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron. Huang Liang, Pi Long, Thunder Beast, Lu Su, and others who were cultivating in other small worlds were all imprinted in the Yellow Dragon’s mind. “Is this Huoyang?” At that moment, the Yellow Dragon discovered a vast sea of fire—dark gold in color, as golden as ancient metals, yet not like fire at all. This was a manifestation of the fire element’s laws pushed to their extreme: fire could solidify! In the midst of the sea of fire, a figure sat in meditation, radiating intense golden light. The Yellow Dragon couldn’t see clearly, but he knew it was Huoyang, who had cultivated using the Primal Red Fiery Stone. It seemed another long while passed before the Yellow Dragon suddenly opened his eyes. Two beams of golden light shot out from his eyes into the void, passing through one small world after another, causing the air currents in each world to tremble and howl! With a breath, the Yellow Dragon retracted the golden clouds from his body. It was as if thousands of celestial dragons were breathing at once—the entire space of his small world roared violently. The Yellow Dragon stood up, feeling the vast magical power within him, and with a joyful expression, he threw a punch. Waves of punch energy struck the void, creating hole after hole! “Punch energy breaking through space—true punch energy breaking through space!” the Yellow Dragon exulted. “Now, my magical power has more than doubled compared to before!” Doubled! The Yellow Dragon had already been the greatest being below the Divine King, incredibly close to becoming one. Now that his magical power had doubled again, what could that mean?! Standing in the void, waves of fierce energy surged upward, like ancient monstrous beasts—whisper of a hand, and a small world could collapse.

“Over ninety years have passed.” After a while, Huang Long suppressed his joy and realized that it had been over ninety years since he last refined and absorbed the Chaos Red Fiery Stone; in another five or six years, it would be a hundred years.
With a flash, Huang Long appeared in the space where the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldrons stored divine pills. Looking at the endless peaks of divine pills, he sighed slightly again before opening his mouth and letting several innate divine pills enter his body.
His dantian began to circulate, absorbing their vital energy and transforming it into warm currents that flowed throughout his body.
“Fei Li, surely you never expected my magical power to soar to such heights!” Huang Long thought to himself with a cold snort.
With the union of the Heavenly and Earthly Cauldrons, countless spaces emerged, even containing treasures like the Chaos Red Fiery Stone. If Fei Li knew about this, he would surely regret it to the point of wanting to hit the wall.
Right now, Fei Li was still dreaming of capturing Sand and luring Huang Long out to seize the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldrons, not realizing that Sand was none other than Huang Long!
“Since there’s still time, I’ll use my magic to unlock the second layer of restrictions on the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldrons and see what treasures lie in that layer!” Huang Long thought.
“Huang Long.” At that moment, a voice sounded, and soon, Huo Yang’s figure appeared out of thin air.
“Congratulations, Brother Huo Yang, on your significant improvement in strength! It won’t be long before you break through to the middle stage of Divine King!” Huang Long said jokingly, delighted by his own soaring power.
Huo Yang smiled and replied, “Let’s rejoice together! My progress pales in comparison to yours!” What Huo Yang said was true—now, with Huang Long standing before him, he even felt a sense of danger!
A sense of danger? What did that mean?!
Huang Long’s current strength was already enough to pose a threat to him!
But he could see that Huang Long hadn’t made any breakthroughs. The fact that he was this strong without a breakthrough was what was truly terrifying!
What would happen once Huang Long did break through?
“I’m going to unlock the second layer of restrictions now. Let’s go to that layer together and take a look!” Seeing Huo Yang’s shock, Huang Long didn’t reveal his thoughts and simply smiled.