by Shian Jeen
Even so, when the demonic essence energy rushed into Huwang Xiao’s True Dragon Physique, pain ensued. It was similar to the first time he refined an early Tenth Order God Realm beast core, passing the days hovering between a trace of comfort and excruciating pain.
Finally, four months later, Huwang Xiao finished refining the first Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core, however, what confounded him was that after refining the Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core, he had merely advanced from an early Fourth Order to peak early Fourth Order God Realm, not even crossing over to mid-Fourth Order God Realm.
Calming himself, he proceeded with the next Highgod Realm divine dragon’s beast core, to the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth consecutively.
In the meantime, almost two years had passed.
By now, Huwang Xiao finally succeeded in advancing to peak late-Fourth Order God Realm, he was merely one small step from Fifth Order God Realm. Reaching peak late-Fourth Order God Realm, the number of time and space law threads within Huwang Xiao soul sea had exceeded nine hundred thousand. This was unprecedented, comparable to an average Sixth Order God Realm master’s. On top of that, their time and space law threads were significantly smaller than Huwang Xiao’s.
Ch.607
Sitting in a cross-legged position inside the Xumi Temple, Huwang Xiao took out the seventh Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core.
‘After refining this Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core, I should be able to advance to Fifth Order God Realm.’ Huwang Xiao muttered to himself. At the moment, he felt that he had reached the pinnacle of peak late-Fourth Order God Realm. In less than a month’s time, he would be able to break through.
A thought strayed into Huwang Xiao’s mind, ‘I wonder what that Xiang Mingzhi’s current cultivation is.’ When they met for the first time during the last auction, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi saw through his cultivation, stating that it was early Fifth Order God Realm.
Early Fifth Order God Realm? A glint flickered in Huwang Xiao’s eyes, but he quickly suppressed all stray thoughts and focused as he began refining the seventh Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core to break into the next level.
While Huwang Xiao was preparing to breakthrough to Fifth Order God realm, inside a secret space in the Azure Dragon Galaxy, myriad divine lightning streaks were crisscrossing from all angles.
The Five Elements Divine Lightning, Fifth Heavenly Stem Fire Lightning, Fire-metal Divine Lightning, Great Life and Death Vanquishing Divine Lightning, Illusion Derivation Divine Lightning, Boundless Divine Lightning, Yin Yang Star Divine Lightning, and the Heavenly Dragon Divine Lightning.
The destructive power of these different types of divine lighting streaked across every corner of the space like a rising tide. Just going by the land area in this space, it was as big as the Snow Wind Continent.
All of a sudden, the various types of divine lightning began to react violently as if provoked, striking at the void endlessly, roaring angrily.
At the center of this sea of lightning, a human silhouette gradually became clearer—the Azure Dragon Institute’s inner disciple leader, Xiang Mingzhi!
Xiang Mingzhi had his arms stretched wide to his sides, covered from head to toe in flashing lightning as the entire space’s divine lightning was devoured by his body. Subsequently, countless divine lightning streaks were released from his body like a surging river of lightning.
Inside this space, Xiang Mingzhi was akin to its overlord, a Primordial Thunder God that controlled all lightning between heaven and earth. If he so desired this piece of earth to be destroyed, destroyed it shall be, and if he was happy to see this land exist, then exist it shall!
On his forehead, a blue-colored ancient symbol appeared, bearing some similarities to Huwang Xiao’s golden symbol of the Dragon Pearl. Every time the blue symbol on his forehead flickered, the surrounding divine lightning in the space behaved according to his will, from violent and angry to gentle streaks.
A long time later, he gradually descended to the ground below.
‘My Nine Palace Divine of Lightning Technique finally broke through the sixth stage.’ A faint trace of delight flickered in Xiang Mingzhi’s eyes. The sixth stage allowed him to control all lightning energy within ten thousand li radius at will.
“Huwang Xiao, in another half a year, the Black Warrior Institute inner disciples’ assessment shall begin.” Xiang Mingzhi smiled coldly, “I hope you won’t disappoint me, otherwise if you’re too weak and die too easily, it wouldn’t be interesting.“
Just like Huwang Xiao and Xiang Mingzhi, many of the Black Warrior Institute and Azure Dragon Institute’s disciples were doubling their effort in closed-door cultivation.
In another yard on the Misty Rain Mountain Range, Jiang Bi was sitting in a meditative position on an icy bed. His body was shrouded in aureate light, golden spheres emerging behind him. Inside these golden spheres were individual golden arhat statues that resonated with the world.
Compared to the quick battle with Huwang Xiao three years ago, the golden arhat statues had grown incredibly distinct. In the past, one could only make out a blurry outline that seemingly resembled a golden arhat statue, but now, one could clearly make out the arhat statues’ silhouettes and a hint of facial expressions.
Yet, at this moment, his body actually released wisps of black energy, and these black wisps of energy were in fact ghost qi!
The shocking thing was, not only did these ghost qi wisps not clash with the Arhart Buddha qi, the two opposing energies were actually integrating. With the appearance of the ghost qi, the Arhat Buddha qi actually grew more intense.
Three years ago, Jiang Bi took a task, venturing down Ghost Abyss to kill the Six Blueface Ghosts. When killing the Six Blueface Ghosts, he came upon a secret manual, the Heavenly Ghost Record. Not only that, he also found the Heavenly Ghost Divine Pellets refined by the legendary ancient master, Supreme Heavenly Ghost.
In the past three years, he had been cultivating this Heavenly Ghost Record while taking these Heavenly Ghost Divine Pellets, and at the same time also cultivating his Golden Buddha Arhat Physique. His strength grew by leaps and bounds, sailing past bottlenecks as he broke through consecutively from early Fourth Order to late-Fourth Order God Realm.
Time continued to flow past, bringing the day closer to the Black Warrior Institute inner disciples’ assessment.
Other than disciples of the Black Warrior Institute and Azure Dragon Institute, the super forces were also looking forward to it with much anticipation, especially with the news that disciples from the Azure Dragon Institute inner disciples would be spectating. Consequently, the conflict between Huwang Xiao and Xiang Mingzhi was dug out again.
Both Huwang Xiao and Xiang Mingzhi were the Institute Principal’s personal disciple of their respective institute. Hence, the competition between Huwang Xiao and Xiang Mingzhi was taken as the competition between the Black Warrior Institute and the Azure Dragon Institute.
Indirectly, due to the date of the inner disciples’ assessment drawing nearer, the Cloudsea Mainland seemed to be livelier. According to the Black Warrior Institute’s rules, in every term of inner disciples’ assessment, the super forces and first rank forces could send representatives over to spectate the event. Of course, each force was limited to three people.
Within the Institute Principal’s manor, Feng Yang was sitting on the main host's seat with obvious worry shadowing his face. The tea on the table was excellent, however, it tasted bland in his mouth.
He was well aware of the many talks amongst the forces related to this term’s inner disciples assessment. While the Azure Dragon Institute inner disciples claimed to have come to spectate, he knew that Xiang Mingzhi was going to challenge Huwang Xiao. None of these people felt that his disciple Huwang Xiao would come out on top.
Of course, himself included. He too wasn’t confident.
Under the Jiang Family, Wang Family, Gudu Family, and that old witch Wang Na’s incitement, to say that the compromising com
ments about his disciple had been overwhelming was putting it lightly.
“The inner disciples’ assessment will start in another three months,” Feng Yang calculated, the frown in his forehead deepened, “I wonder what’s the result of that kid’s closed-door practice, Fourth Order God Realm?”
Advancing from Second Order God Realm to Fourth Order God Realm in five years was the highest expectation Feng Yang harbored toward this youngest disciple. Even so, he wasn’t confident that Huwang Xiao would be able to succeed.
The Fourth Order was a mid-level God Realm, this threshold had hindered countless peak late-Third Order God Realm masters. Could his disciple smash that threshold in such a short span of time? Despite knowing full well about his youngest disciple’s monstrous talent, his nagging doubt continued to persist.
While Feng Yang’s face scrunched together worrying about this youngest disciple, Huwang Xiao was inside the Xumi Temple when an audible crisp breaking sound came from his body, just like the noise of bones grinding during growth.
Huwang Xiao’s momentum soared sharply.
Fifth Order God Realm!
After refining the seventh Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core, Huwang Xiao finally broke through.
Very quickly, Huwang Xiao suppressed the overflowing joy in his heart and continued the refinement, circulating the Asura Tactics to fully refine the seventh beast core.
Another half a month passed by the time Huwang Xiao managed to fully refine the seventh Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core, stabilizing his recent advancement.
Consciously checking his internal situation, Huwang Xiao noticed that his Qi Sea and meridians seemed to have expanded. The god battle qi in his Qi Sea was abundant and vigorous, whereas the time and space law threads in his soul sea had exceeded a staggering one million treads, a hundred meters in length, and the size of a slender beauty’s thigh.
‘Finally, Fifth Order God Realm!’ For a moment there, Huwang Xiao’s spirit rose to the sky and began to look forward to the inner disciples’ assessment in two months’ time.
Ch.608
After solidifying his recent Fifth Order God Realm breakthrough, Huwang Xiao no longer secludes himself in closed-door cultivation. Coming out from his Yard No.1, he headed to Black Warrior City.
Very soon, his silhouette appeared in the Luo Tong Residence.
In these two years, his parents' strength had grown significantly, both his father and mother, Huwang Peng and Su Yan, had broken through to peak late-Fourth Order and late-Fourth Order Xiantian realm respectively. His younger brother Huwang Xiaohai and his sister had both stepped into Tenth Order Xiantian realm, whereas his only nephew, Guo Xiaofan, he was now half-step Saint realm.
Although Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu had yet to reach peak half-step God Realm, their strength had greatly improved. Blessed Buddha Emperor, Duanren Emperor, the Guo Family Ancestor, Yu Ming, Hao Tian, Fei Hou, and the others also showed significant improvement. Elf Queen Kelly was also a half-step God Realm, not forgetting the beastmen tribes as well.
In the two years period that Huwang Xiao was in closed-door practice, the Jiang Family had indeed sent masters over trying to assassinate the members of the Huwang Family, his parents being the prime targets. However, due to the Blazing Stonedragon Beast, Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger, and other demonic beasts’ protection, those assassins sent by the Jiang Family never returned.
This made Huwang Xiao especially glad that he had captured these demonic beasts, and at the same time, his hatred toward the Jiang Family deepened.
‘There will be a day when I shall personally annihilate the Jiang Family!’ A cold gleam flickered in his eyes.
A super force like the Jiang Family that had existed for more than a million years, no one would dare to say words like annihilating it. Not even the Black Warrior Institute Principal, the Azure Dragon Institute Principal, nor the other two galaxies’ Institute Principals. Yet Huwang Xiao didn’t have a shred of doubt that he could.
“Big brother, we’ve just returned from outside, the entire Black Warrior City is talking about the competition between you and that so-called Xiang Mingzhi.” His brother Huwang Xiaohai said, unconsciously revealing some hesitation at the end of this sentence.
Huwang Xiao wasn’t perturbed at all, “They’re talking about how tragically I'll lose, how miserable I’ll be played with by that Xiang Mingzhi, and then be killed by him.” He already knew about these denigrating comments circling around.
“Big Uncle, I even heard the Jiang Family, Wang Family, and Gudu Family have jointly set up a gambling house just for the fight between you and Xiang Mingzhi.” Guo Xiaofan fumed indignantly, “It is them who sent people to major cities in the Cloudsea Mainland to spread ill rumors about you, those rumors are really harsh to the ears.”
“A gambling house?” An idea struck Huwang Xiao.
“Yeah, there’s one in the Black Warrior City too, at the Big Void Street up in front.” Guo Xiaofan muttered.
His interest stirred, Huwang Xiao asked some questions about the gambling house. One hour later, alone, he headed leisurely toward the Big Void Street, easily locating the gambling house’s big building.
The insides of the gambling house were crowded as a beehive with disciples from top forces coming and going, waves of laughter and excited voices filled the air. Occasionally one or two sonorous voices cut across the hall.
“As long as someone says the sentence ‘Huwang Xiao is a little pup’ or a pig, a trash, or say ‘Huwang Xiao is a piece of shit’, then that person will be given one hundred Xuanwu coins!” A Jiang Family steward yelled loudly stood in front of the gambling house building. In front of him was a large pile of Xuanwu coins. At a glance, there seemed to be at least a million Xuanwu coins there.
“Huwang Xiao is a little pup! Huwang Xiao’s a pig! Huwang Xiao’s a trash! Huwang Xiao is a piece of shit!” A disciple of a small family stepped forward, shouting the words with a face full of flattery.
“Good!” That Jiang Family steward laughed in an exaggerated manner, and with a casual flick of his hand one hundred Xuanwu coins fell in front of the small family disciple, praising loudly, “Very good, these one hundred Xuanwu coins are yours!”
Following that, many more small families’ disciples rushed up to in similar flattering manner, shouting at the top of their lungs. Watching this, the present disciples from the Jiang Family, Wang Family, and Gudu Family hurrahed in elation.
An unnoticeable sharp light glinted in Huwang Xiao’s eyes.
He didn’t expect the Jiang Family would resort to such low and shameless methods, but since they were the ones who started it first, they shouldn't blame him.
Suppressing the anger in his heart, Huwang Xiao stepped inside the gambling house, coming to the counter where bets were taken. Behind the counter were three female disciples belonging to the Jiang, Wang, and Gudu Families. Of course, their appearances were more than pleasant to the eyes.
“Is there a limit to the betting amount?” Huwang Xiao asked with a cold impassive expression.
The Jiang Family female disciple giggled coquettishly, “It seems like this little brother doesn’t know that this gambling house was opened by our Jiang, Wang, and Gudu Families. No matter how high the bet is, we’ll accept it!” As she was saying this, her flirtatious eyes barely moved away from Huwang Xiao’s face, whispering suggestively, “Can little brother tell me how much you want to bet?”
Before coming here, Huwang Xiao had changed his appearance, but even so, he was still a good-looking young man, the three female disciples were charmed to the point they could barely think straight.
“I bet ten billion.” Huwang Xiao added with indifference: “Bet on Huwang Xiao’s win.”
“TEN BILLION!” All three females shrieked simultaneously in shock. A brief moment later, all three female disciples shook, quivering from head to toe with laughter.
“Little brother, you really know how to tell a joke.” The Wang Family female disciple’s slend
er jade-like finger tapped against Huwang Xiao’s firm chest, fawning like an experienced brothel prostitute, “If you really have ten billion, then I’m yours.”
Obviously, not a single one of them believed that Huwang Xiao had ten billion Xuanwu coins, and thought that Huwang Xiao was joking with them.
It was ten billion, not one million. Even with their Jiang, Wang, and Gudu Families behind them, they couldn't easily take out ten billion as they liked for a bet. Forget ten billion, even a hundred million was enough to crush dead the three of them.
“I’m not joking.” Huwang Xiao stated calmly, as he casually flicked his sleeve. Countless Xuanwu coins rained down from the void, issuing a muffled heavy ‘thud’ as they hit the floor. As if a giant mountain descended into the hall, even the whole building shook.
The family disciples present in the hall immediately looked over due to the commotion. Seeing the enormous mountain of Xuanwu coins, all of them were dumbstruck for a moment. The initially noisy hall fell into a sudden eerie silence.
Whereas the three families’ female disciples were gobsmacked staring wide-eyed at the tall mountain of ten billion Xuanwu coins before their eyes, their thighs turned to jelly, getting wet between their legs from excitement.
Ten billion ah!
All three female disciples’ eyes shone brightly. Their breathing quickened, rendering their twin peaks jostling up and down looking as if they were trying to break free from the bindings.
It didn’t take long for the Jiang Family, Wang Family, and Gudu Family’s Elders to appear in front of Huwang Xiao. No doubt, his ten billion bet had alarmed the three families' Elders.
“This esteemed brother, are you sure you want to place a ten billion bet… on Huwang Xiao’s win?” The Jiang Family’s Elder looked suspiciously at Huwang Xiao, furrowing his brows.
