Chapter 0932: The Treasures of the Lava Blood Cave

“Three lower-grade Great Path artifacts are enough to elevate the three artifacts within me!” Huang Long inhaled deeply, sucking all three lower-grade Great Path artifacts into his body in one go.
With his current formidable physique, Huang Long could easily devour not just three lower-grade Great Path artifacts, but even twice as many without any problem.
After swallowing all three artifacts, Huang Long activated the Supreme Transformation Art, gradually integrating them into his body until they were completely transformed into part of him.
As the three artifacts continued to transform, Huang Long’s physique became increasingly dense and strong. With a hum, one of the artifacts, the Execution Halberd, triggered an artifact crisis and was about to be elevated to a lower-grade Great Path artifact!
Once the Execution Halberd was upgraded, the Judgment Blade and the Golden Dragon Slash also became lower-grade Great Path artifacts!
By now, out of the thirty-three artifacts and the Dragon Gate within Huang Long’s body, eleven had been elevated to lower-grade Great Path artifacts.
The elevation of these three artifacts further strengthened Huang Long’s physique, making him even more powerful than before.
Previously, his physique was comparable to that of a lower-grade Great Path artifact ranked 15,000th, but now it was comparable to one ranked 14,000th.
Though the difference of 1,000 ranks seems small, their powers are incomparable—just like the gap between early-stage and mid-stage Divine Kings.
After devouring and transforming these three lower-grade artifacts, Huang Long then opened the spatial artifact belonging to the four of them.
All four were above the Half Sage level, having lived for over seven eras. The spatial artifact contained numerous innate divine treasures, precious resources, spiritual veins, and artifacts—far more than what Wu Zhi of the Infinite Gate had before.
In particular, the spatial artifact of the Nether Ancestor contained over 20,000 first-class spiritual veins and nearly 200 king-class spiritual veins!
Together, the four of them had over 50,000 first-class spiritual veins and more than 300 king-class spiritual veins.
Huang Long broke the restrictions on these spiritual veins one by one, subjugated them, and absorbed them into the Sacred Cauldron.
Now, within the Heavenly Earth Sacred Cauldron, there were over 211,000 first-class spiritual veins and 688 king-class spiritual veins!
However, despite the large number of spiritual veins, they were still not enough for Huang Long!
Because to practice the Supreme Transformation Art, he needed an enormous number of Great Path artifacts—not just a few or a dozen, but a whole batch!
First, he needed lower-grade ones; later, mid-grade, high-grade, and even king-class and supreme-grade artifacts!

Back then, the Jiudingxuan Merchant Guild auctioned that mid-tier Great Path artifact, the Taiyin Jiuyang Pearl, for 250 Wang-tier Spirit Veins. With Huang Long’s current financial resources, he could at most purchase a little over ten mid-tier Great Path artifacts like the Taiyin Jiuyang Pearl!
Besides Spirit Veins, Huang Long also found many fragments of Great Path artifacts among the four-person space artifacts. There were lower-tier, mid-tier ones, and even upper-tier ones in the Ancient Ancestor of the Netherworld’s space artifacts!
Huang Long was overjoyed. He extracted all over twenty fragments of Great Path artifacts, sucked them in with a breath, and swallowed them all. Once Huang Long fully transformed these fragments into part of his body, the four artifacts in his possession— the Sunset Bow, the Pure Light Divine Spear, the Indestructible Golden Shield, and the Wind-Fire Circle — rose to lower-tier Great Path artifacts.
By then, fifteen artifacts in Huang Long’s body had been upgraded to lower-tier Great Path artifacts. His physical body solidified once again, ranking among the lower-tier Great Path artifacts at position 13,000.
“Now, with just my physical body, I can kill eight semi-saints from the early era of this cycle!” Huang Long stood up, feeling the power of his body, and thought to himself. If combined with the Chaos Bell and the Sacred Cauldron of Heaven and Earth, he could even kill eight from the middle era of this cycle!
In other words, Huang Long could defeat powerful figures like the Ancient Ancestor of the Netherworld without relying on the Eight Golden Gods Extinction Formation.
Huang Long suddenly appeared.
“Second brother, your aura is so strong?! It’s much stronger than that of the Eight Golden Gods. Have you broken through to the seventh era?!” Huang Yi exclaimed in surprise as the others approached.
Each of the Eight Golden Gods in the Eight Golden Gods Extinction Formation was at the peak of the sixth era.
Huang Long looked at the others and nodded with a smile, saying, “Indeed. I have broken through to the seventh era!”
Everyone was overjoyed upon hearing this. Huang Long was the pillar of everyone; the stronger he became, the better it was for them. Huang Yi was even happier, as the stronger Huang Long became, the closer he got to attaining sainthood, and the closer the day Li Yifeng would be revived would be.
Afterward, Huang Long asked the others about what had happened outside during his years of seclusion. After learning more, he opened his Heavenly Eyes, piercing through layers of crimson blood lava in the Lava Blood Cave to see what was outside. Inside the Sacred Cauldron, Huang Long’s seclusion this time lasted over a hundred thousand years, while outside, only a dozen or so days had passed.
Above the Lava Blood Cave, Huang Long saw Pang Cheng and Fang Haotian, but he didn’t see Chi Rong—apparently, he had left. Although Chi Rong was gone, the number of powerful figures who came to the Lava Blood Cave had doubled compared to just a dozen days ago. Among them were even ten semi-saints from this era, and their aura was even stronger than Fang Haotian’s.

Huang Long pondered for a moment. It was now impossible to exit the Lava Blood Cave, so he decided to continue diving deeper into it. He then used the Sacred Cauldron to break through layers of crimson lava and move further inward.

Huang Long’s strength had greatly increased, making it much easier for him to use the Sacred Cauldron to dive deeper than before.

30,000 zhang, 40,000 zhang, 50,000 zhang!

It wasn’t until he reached 50,000 zhang that Huang Long began to feel the strain.

At that moment, he asked everyone to channel all their strength into his body through the Sacred Cauldron array, allowing him to dive even deeper. Gradually, he reached a depth of 60,000 zhang.

“This Lava Blood Cave is actually this deep?!” Huang Long extended his divine senses to probe deeper, but still couldn’t detect the bottom of the cave. His heavenly eyes could only see a blur of crimson lava.

Nevertheless, he continued to use the Sacred Cauldron array to dive further down.

Eventually, when he reached a depth of over 70,000 zhang, the Sacred Cauldron grew lighter as he entered a space.

This space was vast beyond measure—several times larger than the Nine Heavens Divine Realm. There was no crimson lava here; instead, streams of innate crimson energy continuously emanated from it.

“Is that… a spiritual vein?! So many spiritual veins?!” Suddenly, Pi Long was shocked, staring in disbelief at the distant heights.

In the distance, countless spiritual veins swayed like celestial dragons, filling the sky!

There seemed to be no end in sight!

Everyone was stunned, their eyes wide open.

Even Huang Long held his breath.

Back then, the hundreds of thousands of spiritual veins in the Jiu Ding Xuan Merchant Guild’s treasury had already surprised Huang Long, but compared to what he saw now, they were pitifully few!

Indeed, pitifully few!

Huang Long scanned with his divine senses and found over 1.6 million spiritual veins!

Over 1.6 million spiritual veins!

This was truly a vast army of spiritual veins!

The vast majority were of the first rank, and among them, many were of the king-class. Huang Long even spotted supreme-class spiritual veins—over a dozen of them!

“We’re rich! We’re rich! So many spiritual veins!” Pi Long exclaimed excitedly, speechless with joy.

Indeed, with so many spiritual veins, he could buy any treasure he wanted from any major merchant guild in any great world!