679: With your current level of cultivation, you simply cannot handle it!

The plaza had already erupted into chaos!

"They've come out!!"

"Heavens! That phenomenon just now was too terrifying!"

"That seven-colored flame... it must be a Divine Fire, right?!"

Sky-Rending Demon King stared intently at the Green Dragon who had been teleported out. Seeing his miserable state, a flash of heartache and disappointment crossed his blood-red eyes:

"Trash! You can't accomplish anything, you only ruin things!" He was more concerned about the reward! Where was the nine aperture spirit nurturing pill?!

Hum! Thirteen glowing jade boxes appeared out of thin air, landing precisely in front of the thirteen people who had passed the second stage. The jade boxes emitted an alluring treasure light.

An impatient Loose Cultivator couldn't help but open his jade box.

"Hiss—! high-grade heavenly artifact!!" A long sword with a chilling aura lay quietly inside, runes flowing across its blade, its pressure astonishing!

"Mine is also a high-grade heavenly artifact!"

"Mine is a Supreme Grade healing Treasure Pill!"

Exclamations rose one after another! The rewards for this second stage far exceeded everyone's imagination!

Even Liu Ruyan and the Myriad Sword Valley Elder looked at the jade boxes in their hands with surprise. Liu Ruyan had a set of Supreme Grade defensive Formation Flags, and Elder Zhao had a High Grade Flying Sword.

The Savage Demon Green Dragon slowly woke up. Intense pain made him grunt, but seeing the jade box floating in front of him, a greedy light instantly erupted in his eyes!

He struggled to open it!

A small cauldron, entirely dark gold, carved with nine coiled Dragons, and emitting an aura that could suppress the eight wastelands, lay quietly inside! That majestic pressure was clearly—

"supreme grade heavenly artifact?! The Nine Dragon Mountain-Suppressing Cauldron?!" The experts nearby who knew their stuff gasped in shock! Sky-Rending Demon King's eyes almost popped out of their sockets!

Yao Delong also calmly opened his jade box. Qiong Shuang's voice sounded in his mind at the right moment:

"Kid, it's the supreme grade heavenly artifact, the 'Mysterious Origin Spirit-Binding Rope'." He was not in the least surprised; Pill Venerable treated him differently, so the reward naturally wouldn't be bad.

The Savage Demon Green Dragon forced himself to endure his injuries, holding the dark gold small cauldron, feeling the vast power within it. The previous failure and severe injuries seemed like nothing now!

He looked at Yao Delong triumphantly and provocatively, as if saying: Look, what I got is the best! You struggled for so long, aren't you the same as me?

Sky-Rending Demon King's massive figure instantly appeared beside Green Dragon. His huge claw grabbed towards the Nine Dragon Mountain-Suppressing Cauldron without any politeness, his voice booming:

"Green Dragon! With your current cultivation Realm, you simply cannot grasp this supreme grade heavenly artifact! The terrifying power contained within it could cause a backlash if you are not careful! For your own good, I will keep it for you temporarily!"

His movements were rough, leaving no room for negotiation.

The crowd around them was in an uproar! This Demon King was actually forcibly seizing a treasure earned by his subordinate in public?

The Savage Demon Green Dragon's expression instantly became extremely ugly, his eyes filled with humiliation and unwillingness: "Lord Demon King! This... this was bestowed upon me by Pill Venerable..."

"Hmm?!" Sky-Rending Demon King glared with his blood-red eyes. The terrifying Demon King pressure instantly enveloped Green Dragon, causing his Qi and blood to churn, his wounds to burst open, and he almost vomited blood again!

"Do you dare disobey my words?!"

Seeing Green Dragon's pale face, he seemed to feel he had been too blatant. After thinking, he tossed the Yin Qi-filled, vengeful spirit-entwined Nine Nether Soul-Locking Chain that Tu Wanxiong had bribed him with earlier, throwing it at Green Dragon's feet like tossing a bone:

"Here, use this Medium Grade Heavenly Artifact, the 'Nine Nether Soul-Locking Chain', for now! This object is filled with intense Evil Qi, and it both generates and restrains your Wood Spirit Sacred Body, which is just right for tempering you! When you ascend to Demon King one day and can truly control the Nine Dragon Cauldron, I will naturally return it to you! My word is as good as gold!"

The Savage Demon Green Dragon looked at the chain on the ground emitting cold, vengeful Qi, and then looked at the Nine Dragon Mountain-Suppressing Cauldron, overflowing with treasure light, tightly gripped in Sky-Rending Demon King's claw. He cursed in his heart: "Bullshit! Return it? Even if the sun rose in the west, you greedy old thing would never return it!"

But the situation was stronger than the man; the Demon King's pressure made him unable to breathe. He could only lower his head in grievance, suppressing his humiliation, and silently picked up the Nine Nether Soul-Locking Chain, his voice hoarse: "Yes... thank you for the grace, Lord Demon King..." But in his heart, he had already cursed Sky-Rending Demon King ten thousand times over!

Yao Delong watched this farce with cold eyes, a playful arc curling at the corner of his mouth.

His gaze swept over the Nine Dragon Cauldron in Sky-Rending Demon King's hand, then looked at the Yin Qi chain at Green Dragon's feet, and finally, his gaze swept over the face of Tu Wanxiong in the crowd, who was hiding a cold, sinister smile.

'One is insatiably greedy, the other is sinister and vicious; they really are a perfect match.' Yao Delong sneered in his heart, 'Want to be the oriole? I'm afraid you don't have the teeth for it!'

"Junior Brother Yao!" A cold voice filled with gravity came over. Han Yun and Myriad Sword Valley's Hall Master Li quietly approached.

Han Yun's beautiful eyes vigilantly locked onto Sky-Rending Demon King's massive demonic body. Lowering her voice, she spoke very quickly: "Just now, Tu Wanxiong of the Nine Nether Sect made secret contact with that Sky-Rending Demon King, their auras merging; they must have reached some agreement! The target... is nine times out of ten us!"

Hall Master Li's calm, unruffled face also showed a trace of coldness. He stroked his long beard and added: "I fear it's not just the Yin Yang Sect. Such treasures in this Secret Realm move people's hearts; their appetites are very large. I'm afraid they want to swallow all the gains in the Secret Realm in one gulp!"

His gaze swept over the Cultivators in the plaza who were excited about obtaining heavenly artifacts, as if he were looking at a flock of fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Yao Delong nodded slightly: "Sitting back and reaping the benefits? That's quite a calculated plan."

He already had a plan in mind. Sky-Rending Demon King was at the Peak of the Late Void Refining Stage, Tu Wanxiong was at the Middle Stage of the Void Refining, plus those nearly a thousand Yao Beasts. It might be a bit troublesome, but as long as he had the Glazed Hearth Fire on him, the Great Sun Divine Fire protecting his body, and combined with the Nine Transformations of the Vast Sun, he had a ninety percent chance of winning in a direct confrontation!

As for those Soul Transformation Stage underlings? Once the high-level combatants were removed, the rest would be nothing but loose chickens and dogs!

"Junior Brother!" Liu Ruyan also approached, her stunning face full of worry. She exchanged a glance with Han Yun, and the two said in unison: "Send a message to the Sect! The rewards for these two stages are already supreme grade heavenly artifacts and Divine Fires—such Heaven-Defying items. The treasures of the third round of assessment are likely not something we can enjoy alone! Any delay might lead to complications!"

Yao Delong's eyes narrowed. The two women were meticulous and thoughtful. He was indeed powerful, but the opposition was combining open and covert methods, and with an insidious Sect like the Nine Nether Sect on the side, there was no guarantee they didn't have strange means to restrain him. Although he had trump cards, the power of the Sect, especially if great experts like the Peak Master or the Sect Master descended, would be the true anchor!