Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

This is a huge deal!

If this piece of innate cold soul were truly refined into the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow by him, and ultimately those nine Golden Crow Princes truly perished under this arrow...!

Then Huanglong, along with the "Sun Shooting" that shook the primordial world and involved the infinite fortune and karma of the Wu and Yao races, formed an enormous karmic bond!

Even if he was personally taught by a sage, he would still inevitably face the fate of death and the dissipation of his spiritual essence due to this karmic cause and effect!

The Chaos Bell of Donghuang Taiyi may ring for him!

However, risks and opportunities coexist.

Helping Hou Yi embroiled him in the conflict between the witch and demon races, drawing him into a web of karma.

However, if handled properly, it might yield unimaginable rewards, further settle the karmic ties with the Witch Clan, and even... seize this opportunity to gain a chance for oneself and the Dragon Clan in this cataclysmic calamity.

After a long silence, under Hou Yi's expectant gaze, Huang Long finally spoke slowly, his voice steady and solemn: "Senior Hou Yi, I'm not sure if you can forge a divine bow that you can use and that poses a deadly threat to the Golden Crow."

"However, I have an excellent material here that might meet the requirements."

Upon hearing this, Hou Yi's eyes lit up with an unprecedented brilliance, and he asked urgently, "What kind of material?!"

Huang Long said, word by word, "In my possession, I happen to possess a piece of 'Innate Cold Soul' obtained from the Northern Abyss. It contains the innate Taiyin essence, which is extremely Yin and extremely cold, making it the absolute nemesis of the True Fire of the Sun!"

"Extremely yin and extremely cold!?"

"A congenital cold spirit?!"

Hou Yi gasped. If Huanglong could describe it as extremely yin and cold, how could he not know the preciousness and power of such a rare treasure of heaven and earth?

His breathing suddenly became heavy.

But Huang Long changed the subject: "However, as you know, senior, with the quality of this material, if my master were to refine it, it would not be difficult to create a supreme treasure."

When Huanglong mentioned that Yuanshi Tianzun would take action, your expression suddenly changed. He felt that he didn't have enough influence to ask a sage to forge a weapon for him.

Even the Twelve Ancestral Witches might not be able to persuade a sage.

Hou Yi hurriedly said, "There's no need to trouble the Sage, you can handle this yourself!"

Hearing Hou Yi's words, Huang Long continued:

"With my current skill in crafting, even if I were to put all my effort into crafting it, I could at most bring its potential to the level of a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure."

Then Huang Long showed a hint of helplessness on his face: "But as I just said, the weapons of the Wu Clan are special. Even if I eventually forge a weapon that the Wu Clan can use, its ultimate power depends more on its compatibility with your own Dao and whether it can perfectly bear your power, rather than simply on the grade of the spiritual treasure."

He looked directly at Hou Yi and put forward a key condition: "Furthermore, if you really allow me to use this innate cold essence to forge a divine bow for you, you must know how precious this item is."

"This junior cannot bear such immense karmic consequences, therefore you must offer something of equal value, or even...!"

"Combine me for items or goods or gifts that are several times their value."

"Only in this way can I refine it without any reservations!"

Huang Long's words were like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing Hou Yi's initial elation and calming him down from his overwhelming joy, causing him to fall into deep thought, his brows furrowed into a deep frown.

Innate Cold Soul!

Such a divine object is of immeasurable value.

Furthermore, it was personally crafted by Huang Long!

Even though Hou Yi was one of the top shamans of the Wu tribe, with a prestigious position and the ability to mobilize a considerable portion of the Wu tribe's resources—the materials from the ancient ferocious beasts hunted, the rare divine iron ore mined, the unique spiritual herbs and bones collected, and so on.

But to achieve what Huang Long described—a value comparable to, or even several times greater than, that of the Innate Cold Soul—he calculated the difference between his available authority and the clan's treasury, and found it to be as vast as the difference between heaven and earth.

The Wu tribe is not skilled in crafting weapons or alchemy; they generally consume all the innate spiritual materials they collect.

Moreover, the perception of the "value" of many natural materials lies more in their hardness and weight, whether they can be used for body tempering or directly forged into crude weapons. For top-grade divine materials like the Innate Cold Soul, which contains the origin of laws, its true value far exceeds that of other materials containing innate origins.

After a full incense stick's time of silence, Hou Yi suddenly raised his head, a resolute glint in his eyes:

"Young friend, this matter is of utmost importance. What I can provide to meet your needs is beyond the capacity of one person or even one tribe. I must immediately report this matter, along with the existence of the Innate Cold Soul and the conditions you have proposed, to the Ancestral Witch of Buzhou Mountain! The Ancestral Witch will make the final decision!"

"Only the Ancestral Witch can afford the price you demand!"

Huang Long had anticipated this and nodded slightly: "Alright. I will await good news at any time."

For the next period of time, he accompanied Hou Yi as they moved between various tribes, large and small, within the territory of the Wu tribe.

At the same time, he traded his brewed blood date wine with the witch tribes along the way, exchanging it for a large amount of innate spiritual minerals and various spiritual root medicines that the witch tribes could not use.

He used some of them as "seeds" and placed them into the Xuanhuang Realm, where they were nurtured and developed by Xuanhuang Street.

He stored the rest away. These things may seem like ordinary resources now, but when the innate spiritual energy transforms into acquired spiritual energy in the future, their value will be immeasurable.

These were all his reserves for refining weapons and alchemy.

More importantly, Huanglong relied on his cultivation as a Great Luo Golden Immortal and his profound understanding of the secrets of fate.

It can capture the subtle fluctuations of heavenly secrets generated by the friction and resonance between the true fire of the sun around the Golden Crow Prince and the laws of the primordial world when he leaves Tanggu and travels through the sky and sea earlier and more accurately.

Whenever this happened, he would immediately inform Hou Yi of the warning and the approximate location.

Subsequently, Hou Yi would lead several great witches who had been preparing for a long time and were skilled in speed or had sealing abilities. These great witches would quickly open up spatial channels and rush to the airspace where the Golden Crows might appear. They could often successfully intercept the Golden Crow princes before they began to burn the earth and cause massacres on a large scale. Although they could not kill the Golden Crows, they could drive them away as much as possible, minimizing the losses of the witch clan.

On the other hand, Huanglong made a request to Houyi.

He took Hou Yi's great bow, which had been nurtured for millions of years with the essence of his own great sorcerer blood.

Without damaging its original structure, Huanglong carefully explored with his primordial spirit and cautiously sensed with his qi and blood, attempting to analyze the unique qi and blood circulation channels, the nodes that condense and bear evil qi, and the mysterious contract connecting it to its owner's bloodline within this weapon of the Wu Clan.

He hoped to glean from this the true meaning of forging weapons for the Wu tribe, and to find a feasible way to perfectly transform innate spiritual materials into divine weapons usable by the Wu tribe, especially how to establish a bloodline connection between the weapon and the Wu tribe, who lacks a primordial spirit, so that they could use each other as one's own limbs.

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