Chapter 0925: Huang Yi and Others Reach a New Level
The five members of Wuliang Gate led by Wu Zhi, along with the space artifacts of the other four disciples from five different eras, all possessed over 300 first-class spiritual veins and four to five king-class spiritual veins. Meanwhile, Wu Zhi’s space artifact not only had over 500 first-class spiritual veins but also more than 30 king-class spiritual veins! This showed that Wu Zhi held a much higher status in Wuliang Gate than those four disciples.
As for the two elders from Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild, who were at the peak of six eras, the number of spiritual veins in their space artifacts exceeded Huang Long’s expectations even more. Each of them had over 1,200 first-class spiritual veins and over 40 king-class spiritual veins!
The half-saint from the World of Ten Thousand Demons, who was at the peak of seven eras, had space artifacts containing twice as many spiritual veins as those of Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild’s elders. In total, the eight of them had over 7,100 first-class spiritual veins and 208 king-class spiritual veins! That’s right—208 king-class spiritual veins!
Half-saints needed spiritual veins for crafting, potion-making, and even bidding at auctions. Since all eight were disciples or elders from major forces in the Three Thousand Great Worlds, it was normal for them to possess so many spiritual veins.
Huang Long broke the restrictions on these spiritual veins one by one and brought them under his control, storing them all in the air above the Sacred Cauldron. Adding these to the previous spiritual veins, the Sacred Cauldron now contained over 160,300 first-class spiritual veins and 397 king-class spiritual veins!
“Great! Haha, with these spiritual veins, I can freely activate the Eighteen Golden Gods Annihilation Formation!” Huang Long was overjoyed. With this formation, he could sweep away all half-saints below the level of ten eras! However, unless necessary, Huang Long would not use the Eighteen Golden Gods Annihilation Formation—it was his ultimate trump card.
Next, Huang Long summoned Pi Long, Thunder Beast, and the others from the void of the Sacred Cauldron, then inserted the half-saint skeletons obtained from Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild’s treasure vault into their bodies one by one. Huang Long spat out a mass of vital energy to help them merge. Instantly, their strength soared, eventually reaching the peak of the late Divine King stage.
In this way, Huang Yi, Susan, Livya, Pi Long, and the other nineteen people all reached the peak of the late Divine King stage. Seeing this, Huang Long shattered the remaining four half-saint skeletons from Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild’s treasure vault, seized their fundamental essences with his hands, and continuously poured them into the bodies of Huang Yi, Susan, Livya, and the other nineteen people.
The strength of Huang Yi and the others rose slowly once again. Yet, despite their increased power, they still remained at the peak of the late Divine King stage. To trigger the half-saints’ destruction calamity and break through to the half-saint level, their accumulated strength was still not enough!
Initially, Fei Li, the Divine King of the Lei Peng clan, had remained at the peak of the late Divine King stage for countless billions of years. No matter how much he practiced, he couldn’t break through to Half-Saint status, which shows just how difficult it is to achieve that breakthrough.
Seeing this, Huang Long frowned and ordered everyone to gather at the center of the Sacred Cauldron Formation. Then, with a wave of his hands, he released the divine bodies of the four disciples from the Wu Liang Gate, each possessing the strength of five eras.
“I will now refine these four divine bodies, extracting all their essence, vital energy, and laws of the universe. You must use your cultivation techniques to absorb them fully and break through to Half-Saint status!” Huang Long commanded, his expression grave.
Realizing that not a single mistake could be made at this moment, everyone immediately sat in seiza position and focused on practicing their cultivation techniques.
As Huang Long activated the Sacred Cauldron Formation, the divine bodies of the four Wu Liang Gate disciples began to be refined. Streams of essence, vital energy, and laws of the universe flowed out from these bodies and were absorbed by Huang Yi and the others. However, since these four disciples were all Half-Saints of five eras, even a single stream of essence contained an enormous amount of vital energy.
For Huang Yi and the others, each stream was like an endless ocean. Once it entered their bodies, it pushed their meridians and internal organs to the point of explosion.
Although Huang Long tried his best to control the speed of refining the divine bodies, Huang Yi and the others’ own bodies still couldn’t withstand it.
But Huang Long was prepared. He summoned the Chaos Bell, and the Bell Emperor emitted pure innate star energy, continuously pouring it into their bodies to protect their meridians and internal organs.
The streams of essence and vital energy were transformed into pure vital energy and absorbed by Huang Yi and the others.
Their strength continued to rise, and a vortex of energy formed around the nineteen people, as if they were about to break free from their shells at any moment.
Finally, after Huang Long completely refined one of the Wu Liang Gate disciples’ divine bodies, Ok’s body suddenly emitted a bright glow, and the space around him resonated.
In the endless void, waves of Destruction Thunder descended and struck Ok.
Ok had been by the side of the Hong Meng Sacred King as his alchemy apprentice, accumulating the most experience. When the Destruction Thunder struck, the white jade roots of the World Tree from Huang Long’s Sea of Souls emerged from the void, instantly absorbing and transforming the Destruction Thunder into the gentlest form of energy for Ok to absorb directly.
The moment Ok absorbed this destructive energy, his divine body and soul underwent a complete transformation. A golden glow enveloped his entire body, and his power soared—hundreds of times stronger than before!
Ok was finally the first to break through to Half-Saint status!
After the divine bodies of the two disciples from the Infinite Gate were completely refined by the Yellow Dragon, Livya also summoned the Catastrophe Thunder, absorbing the power derived from the World Tree. Her divine body and soul underwent transformation, allowing her to achieve her second breakthrough to Half-Saint status!
Next were Huang Yi, Huang Liang, and the rest of the Huang family members. Finally, Susan, Vitia, the Thunder Beast, the Rascal Dragon, Borg, the Sky Blue Python Ox, and others also underwent transformations and reached Half-Saint status one after another.
All nineteen of them had reached Half-Saint status! They had become Half-Saints of an entire era!
Seeing this, the Yellow Dragon was overjoyed. Everyone had finally reached Half-Saint status. Even in the event of a great collapse of the world or the decline of heaven and humans, Huang Yi and the others would not perish as a result.
At this point, only the divine body of the last disciple from the Infinite Gate remained unrefined. With three or five Half-Saints of an era, their vital essence, energy, and cosmic laws were so abundant that they were sufficient for all nineteen of Huang Yi’s group to achieve breakthroughs. If there had been only three Half-Saints, perhaps only three or four people could have achieved breakthroughs at most.
After everyone achieved their breakthroughs, the Yellow Dragon refined the divine body of the last disciple from the Infinite Gate as well, allowing Huang Yi and the others to continue absorbing its vital essence, energy, and cosmic laws. Once they absorbed these, their Half-Saint strength became completely stable.
Originally, if Huang Yi and the others had to cultivate on their own to stabilize their Half-Saint strength—even by taking cosmic divine pills—they would need hundreds of thousands of years. Now, hundreds of thousands of years were saved.
“Second brother, I’ve finally reached Half-Saint status!” Huang Yi, Huang Liang, and the others were filled with joy.
In the past, Half-Saints were beings they had to look up to! Now, they too had become Half-Saints and would be minor overlords in the Three Thousand Great Worlds!
Susan, Livya, and Vitia cast grateful looks at the Yellow Dragon, their eyes filled with boundless tenderness. The Rascal Dragon, the Thunder Beast, and the others knelt down to express their thanks to the Yellow Dragon.
The Yellow Dragon told them to stand up and then said with a smile, “Although you’ve reached Half-Saint status, there’s still a significant gap between you and the true strong ones in the Three Thousand Great Worlds. You must keep cultivating hard to improve!”
Everyone agreed gladly.