Chapter 0978: A Rare Treasure

He finally broke through ten eras! The Yellow Dragon couldn’t help but roar to the sky.
Its roar shook the heavens, reaching beyond the Sacred Cauldron. Outside the cauldron, terrifying whirlpools formed in the seas, with waves rising in layers.
Using his mental connection, the Yellow Dragon formed a magic seal with his hands. Instantly, all 129,600 arrays of the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron came alive. Having broken through ten eras, he could now activate all of them.
As these 129,600 arrays operated, the primordial energy of their core array condensed into a vessel spirit. This spirit, like the Ling Wang of the Spiritual Jade, took the form of a middle-aged man. However, unlike Ling Wang, this vessel spirit exuded greater composure and wisdom.
The vessel spirit of the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron bowed to the Yellow Dragon.
“From now on, you shall be the Cauldron Saint!” the Yellow Dragon ordered it to rise.
Chaos Bell—Bell Emperor! Spiritual Jade—Ling Wang! Heavenly Sacred Cauldron—Cauldron Saint!
The vessel spirit thanked the Yellow Dragon, then sat cross-legged deep within the Sacred Cauldron arrays. Working together with the Yellow Dragon, it accelerated the operation of the 129,600 arrays by half.
Although the Golden Turtle, Dragon, Phoenix, and Beast had helped the Yellow Dragon break through ten eras, their essence, vital energy, and cosmic laws hadn’t been fully refined. Soon, streams of their essence, vital energy, and cosmic laws began to flow out.
With full control over the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron and the operation of those 129,600 arrays, the Yellow Dragon refined the Golden Turtle, Dragon, Phoenix, and Beast ten times faster!
The Yellow Dragon sat down again, opened his mouth, and swallowed their essence, vital energy, and cosmic laws back into his body to refine and enhance himself.
Through continuous absorption and refinement, he stabilized his cultivation at the early stage of the tenth era.
Finally, when he reached the peak of the early stage of the tenth era, he fully refined the Golden Turtle, Dragon, Phoenix, and Beast.
Next, he continued refining the Sky-Soaring Winged Tiger, which was also at the early stage of the tenth era.
Years passed—ten thousand years, twenty thousand years!
After fully refining the Sky-Soaring Winged Tiger, the Yellow Dragon broke through once more, reaching the middle stage of the tenth era!
The middle stage of the tenth era!
The Yellow Dragon stood up, filled with joy. Before secluding, he was at the peak of the early stage of the ninth era; now, he was at the middle stage of the tenth! He had risen by an entire realm! His strength was now ten times, even a hundred times greater than before!
Previously, only by combining the Chaos Bell, the Heavenly Sacred Cauldron, and the Eighteen Golden Divine Annihilation Arrays could he match the peak warriors of the middle stage of the tenth era. But now, even just his core body was stronger than such warriors!
He believed even peak warriors of the late stage of the tenth era wouldn’t be able to withstand his attacks!
The Yellow Dragon estimated that his core body’s attacks were now on par with those of peak warriors of the late stage of the tenth era!

If combined with the Chaos Bell, the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldron, and the Spirit-Communicating Jade, it could rival the peak warriors of the first eleven eras!
“Congratulations, Second Brother, on finally breaking through ten eras!”
“Congratulations, Master!”
Huang Yi, Pi Long, Oak, and others all stepped forward to congratulate Huang Long.
Huang Long nodded with a smile.
Ten eras—finally broken through. Next, he needed to find the Heavenly Goddess Tree to help his true body break through to a top-tier Great Path Divine Artifact. Of course, he also had to find that Bloodbound One to see if he could exchange for the Demon Devouring Fruit in his possession. With the Demon Devouring Fruit, he could refine the second-best Divine Pill of Pilgrimage to All Gods, which could help Huang Long break through to the eleventh or twelfth era!
“Young Master, you now fully control the Heavenly and Earthly Sacred Cauldron and can lift the last restriction on it!” Oak said at that moment.
“The last restriction!” Huang Long replied, “Good, then I’ll lift the last restriction to see what’s in its hidden space!”
Immediately, Huang Long cast a spell to open the hidden space of the last restriction on the Sacred Cauldron.
“This is… top-tier spiritual veins?!” When Huang Long and the others entered this hidden space, they saw massive spiritual veins swirling within—each one a top-tier spiritual vein!
Huang Long scanned with his divine sense and found a total of 153!
Even Huang Long was greatly surprised.
153 top-tier spiritual veins—what kind of concept was that? This wasn’t even king-tier!
In the three thousand great worlds, top-tier spiritual veins were as rare as top-tier Great Path Divine Artifacts.
However, what truly caught Huang Long’s attention wasn’t these 153 top-tier spiritual veins but the mountains of huge stones piled up on the ground beneath them.
These weren’t just stones—they were fragments of Great Path Divine Artifacts!
In piles—23 piles in total!
“These are lower-tier Great Path Divine Artifact fragments, middle-tier, top-tier… and even king-tier and supreme-tier!” As Huang Long flew above the mountain piles of king-tier and supreme-tier fragments, his breathing became uneven.
Top-tier: 121, King-tier: 69, Supreme-tier: 25!
Huang Long was overjoyed.
Had the Hongmeng Sacred King predicted earlier that he would need these Great Path Divine Artifact fragments and thus collected so many for himself?!
121 top-tier Great Path Divine Artifact fragments were roughly equivalent to 13 top-tier Great Path Divine Artifacts. Adding the previous ones, that made 24 in total.
By then, once Huang Long found the Heavenly Goddess Tree and his true body rose to top-tier, he could devour and transform these fragments, lifting his rank from 3,000 to around 1,500 in one go!

Fifteen hundred. With the formidable defenses of the Yellow Dragon’s true form, even twelve peak warriors of different eras would find it difficult to kill it. So, the Yellow Dragon gathered up all these spiritual veins and fragments of great artifacts one by one. Previously, there were 85 top-quality spiritual veins in the Sacred Cauldron; adding the 153 now, that makes 238 in total! “Let’s go out!” After finishing all this, the Yellow Dragon suppressed his excitement and led everyone out of the Sacred Cauldron. I must find the Heavenly Goddess Tree! he thought to himself. “This sea is so strange—not only is it purple-black like purple-black jade, but it’s also extremely cold!” After leaving the Sacred Cauldron, Livia looked around the seabed in astonishment. The others were equally surprised. “This is the Mysterious Sea!” At that moment, the spirit of the Communication Jade, the Spirit King, emerged from it and explained. “Mysterious Sea?” The Yellow Dragon stared at the Spirit King. “Yes, the Mysterious Sea. It’s one of the forbidden areas in the Valley of Fallen Demons. Rumor has it that there live Mysterious Sea Demons in its depths—billions of them, extremely ferocious. Even half-saints from eras below the tenth might perish if they happen to encounter them! Besides these Mysterious Sea Demons, there are also countless powerful mutated magical beasts!” the Spirit King said. “Oh, a forbidden area, Mysterious Sea Demons?” The Yellow Dragon pondered. “Previously, the elder from the Treasure Refining Tower brought me here to the Mysterious Sea, but we didn’t go deep. Yet, I can sense that there are rare treasures deep within!” the Spirit King said. “Rare treasures?!” Thescoundrel Dragon’s eyes lit up. Seeing this, the Yellow Dragon shook his head and smiled. This kid… But since even the Spirit King said there were rare treasures, the Yellow Dragon really wanted to take a look. If something could be called a rare treasure by the Spirit King, then it truly must be one!