Asura Sovereign X

by Shian Jeen

  Huwang Xiao nodded his head and admitted, “Yes, I heard from the old man that this time’s Alchemist Grandmaster Competition will very likely have an additional reward for the first place winner, a godhead.”

  Liu Yun and QiWen exchanged a smile, probably only Huwang Xiao dared to call Senior Ascending Moon ‘old man’, if any other person dared to do so, that was like lamenting they had lived for too long.

  “Fourth Junior Apprentice-brother, I heard that Xiang Mingzhi is also participating in this Alchemist Grandmaster Competition.” Qi Wen spoke.

  “Oh, Xiang Mingzhi that guy is also participating?” Huwang Xiao was surprised.

  Liu Yun nodded, “Yes. Xiang Mingzhi is the Azure Dragon Institute Principal’s personal disciple, not only is his cultivation talent is amazing, even his alchemy talent is astonishing. From the rumors going around, it is said that his alchemy talent is by no means weaker than his cultivation talent. He also stated confidently that he will win the first place of this term’s Alchemist Grandmaster Competition.”

  The corner of Huwang Xiao’s lips curved into a sly devious smile, “Is that so? It’s been some years since I last saw him, I still remember how I burst his little birdie with one kick. I think he wouldn’t forget either.”

  Qi Wen couldn’t resist bursting into laughter hearing that.

  That year, Huwang Xiao directed a merciless kick at Xiang Mingzhi’s lower part before the audience during the inner disciples’ assessment. Qi Wen remembered that scene clearly.

  Liu Yun also couldn’t help laughing, “I’m sure he did not forget, and he also knows that you learned alchemy from Senior Ascending Moon. This time, he let out word that he will win the Alchemist Grandmaster Competition's first place, it is obvious that he’s aiming to defeat you. But, other than the Azure Dragon Institute’s Xiang Mingzhi, there’s also the Vermillion Bird Institute Principal’s personal disciple He Feifan, and the White Tiger Institute Principal’s personal disciple Wan Zhengxing, all of them will be participating in the competition. The latter two people are also skilled in alchemy.”

  Huwang Xiao nodded, he had met that Vermillion Bird Institute Principal’s personal disciple He Feifan once before when he went to visit Shi Xiaofei in the land of new moon. At that time, He Feifan was visiting Shi Xiaofei’s Master, Yang Yi.

  But Huwang Xiao did not expect He Feifan to be participating in the competition as well. Despite having seen He Feifan only once, Huwang Xiao did not have a good impression of him. He remembered clearly that He Feifan unknowingly exposed his killing intent at that time.

  “That He Feifan is a peak late-Tenth Order God Realm. In the last Highgod Advancement Tournament, I exchanged a few moves with him, he’s slightly stronger than me.” Afraid that Huwang Xiao might have a misconception about these people’s strength, Liu Yun explained, “As for that Wan Zhenxing, he is also a peak late-Tenth Order God Realm with unfathomable strength, if Fourth Junior Apprentice-brother runs into them, act with caution, especially when facing that He Feifan.”

  Huwang Xiao nodded seriously, “Eldest Apprentice-brother, rest assured, I will pay attention.”

  “Is younger sister-in-law still in the land of new moon?” Qi Wen suddenly asked. “When will we get to attend your wedding banquet?”

  Huwang Xiao was dazed for a moment before smiling, “Third Apprentice-sister is talking about me, but what about you and Eldest Apprentice-brother? I’ve been waiting for a long time to drink at your banquet.”

  The subtle relationship between Liu Yun and Qi Wen did not escape Huwang Xiao’s notice.

  Teased by Huwang Xiao, a tinge of blush colored Qi Wen’s delicate face, but Liu Yun seemed a little dispirited as if there was something difficult to talk about.

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  “Eldest Apprentice-brother, is something the matter?” Noticing Liu Yun’s expression, Huwang Xiao asked.

  Liu Yun shook his head, “Nothing.”

  Qi Wen also noticed Liu Yun’s expression and her originally blushing face lost a little glow, becoming lost in thought.

  Shortly after, Liu Yun and Qi Wen left.

  Huwang Xiao’s gaze lingered on the two people’s silhouettes as they left. He had a feeling that there was something troubling them, but if they weren’t willing to tell him, Huwang Xiao wasn’t in a position to ask too many questions.

  When they left, Huwang Xiao returned to his yard, continuing with his alchemy practice.

  ‘It seems like I need to make a trip to purchase a batch of ingredients.’ At the end of his practice, Huwang Xiao muttered to himself.

  Although refining ingredients had been pile up high inside the Hailstone Treasure, they had dwindled down quickly over the years as he learned alchemy under the Ascending Moon Old Man. More importantly, Huwang Xiao was reluctant to use those herbs above a hundred thousand years or those a million years in age as practice.

  Thus, Huwang Xiao decided to purchase a batch of ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years old ingredients tomorrow. Herbs and elixir ingredients ranging from ten thousand to a hundred thousand years old were most suited to refine divine grade and sacred grade pills.

  Though it was generally difficult to refine sacred grade divine pellets merely using a hundred thousand years old ingredients, Huwang Xiao wanted to use this opportunity to improve his alchemy skills. Achieving what another alchemist couldn’t, this was his aim. And Huwang Xiao’s ultimate aim was to achieve one hundred percent success rate every time. One must know, not even the slightest error was acceptable during the Alchemist Grandmaster Competition.

  In the afternoon, Huwang Xiao practiced his Asura Sword Skills.

  As his cultivation increased, Huwang Xiao had a feeling that there should be more to the Asura Sword Skill than those ten moves he had. Unfortunately, he did not possess the manual for them.

  According to his own conjectures, the Asura Sword Skill was probably created by a certain high expert of the upper Hell Plane, which was why Huwang Xiao planned to try looking for the latter part of the Asura Sword Skill in Hell after the Alchemist Grandmaster Competition.

  The night passed peacefully. When morning came, Huwang Xiao exited the Godly Mt. Xumi.

  When he was still an early Sixth Order God Realm, Huwang Xiao could refine one thousand drops of godforce in one night, and now, at late-Sixth Order God Realm, the number had increased to over three thousand drops.

  Huwang Xiao’s cultivation speed was so atrociously shocking that it rendered Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi speechless, with his eyes turning green with envy. At this rate, it was hard for Huwang Xiao’s strength not to increase.

  Genius elite disciples belonging to super forces and families would spend two to three thousand years of accumulation in order to reach Seventh Order God Realm from Sixth Order God Realm, not to mention the fact that this short span of time was only achievable with the strong support of their families’ rich resources and attentive nurturing. If it were geniuses from first rank families, the time would increase to five or six thousand years.

  Whereas Huwang Xiao, estimating based on his current cultivation speed, would likely breakthrough to Seventh Order God Realm in less than ten years’ time. All in all, he climbed from early Sixth Order God Realm to Seventh Order God Realm in less than two decades.

  No doubt, Huwang Xiao’s shocking speed was the rank five godhead’s credit. Without it, regardless of his talent, it would most likely take Huwang Xiao seventy to eighty years. After all, Seventh Order God Realm was an important dividing line. Once one broke through to Seventh Order God Realm, he would enter the ranks of high-level God Realm masters.

  In the whole galaxy, high-level God Realm masters were still scarce in number.

  After exiting the Godly Mt. Xumi, Huwang Xiao decidedly went into Xie Puti’s yard as he was passing by, dragging out a Xie Puti that almost ground himself away cultivating, insisting that Xie Puti accompanies him out for the day.

  Buckling under Huwang Xiao’s insistence, Xie Puti had no choice but to follow Huwang
Xiao to the Black Warrior City.

  Walking out from the transmission array, Huwang Xiao breathed in deeply the air of Black Warrior City as he patted Xie Puti on the shoulder, “It has been a long time since us brothers drank together. Let’s go, us brothers will drink to our hearts’ content today.”

  A short while later, they arrived at one of the biggest restaurants located in the center of the city, ordering the best wine and the best dishes, enjoying themselves.

  Leaving the restaurant after their fill of good wine and good food, they headed toward the city’s alchemy ingredients market.

  The alchemy ingredients market, located on Jadeite Sky Street, was close to Peace Spring Street that the Huwang Family visited the last time they were in the city. The several thousand shops lining the entire stretch of Jadeite Sky Street offered various kinds of materials for alchemy.

  After a short walk, Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti reached the Jadeite Sky Street.

  For each cultivator, it was undeniable that medicinal pills were an extremely important resource, hence, it was a given that Jadeite Sky Street was one of the busiest streets in the Black Warrior City. Every day there were countless family disciples, stewards, and Elders coming here to purchase alchemy ingredients.

  Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti moved slowly down the street while looking around the shops before arriving at the largest and most luxurious shop on the Jadeite Sky Street, named Boundlessly Auspicious.

  When the two of them walked into the shop, the hall was filled with disciples, both men and women, looking at and buying alchemy ingredients.

  This time around, it could be said that the situation was slightly better than last time. Just as Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti entered the hall, a shop assistant immediately approached them courteously.

  Huwang Xiao did not waste time, speaking frankly to the shop assistant, “Bring out all the herbs and elixirs ranging from ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years old, I’ll take them all.”

  Huwang Xiao’s speaking voice wasn’t loud, but then again, the people present in the hall were all disciples of prominent families, possessing a certain level of strength and excellent hearing.

  The hall immediately fell into a silence, so much that a drop of water hitting the floor would sound unnaturally loud.

  The shop assistant was also staring at Huwang Xiao with a flabbergasted expression.

  But, a few breaths later, nearly everybody in the hall was shaking their heads, snickering among themselves. Clearly, most of them thought that Huwang Xiao’s joke was not funny at all.

  However, there were certain people that took offense, ridiculing out loud, “Such gasconade! You want to buy all of Boundlessly Auspicious’ ten thousand to a hundred thousand years old elixirs? Kid, do you know how many Xuanwu coins that is? Can you even take out a hundred billion?”

  Not even the super forces’ Patriarchs were able to simply take out a trillion Xuanwu coins just to buy alchemy materials!

  They really didn't know where this kid crawled out from, actually daring to say that he wants to buy all of Boundlessly Auspicious’ ten thousand to a hundred thousand years old herbs and elixirs!

  Huwang Xiao turned his head, spotting the person who just spoke. It was a red-haired young man, but when Huwang Xiao noticed the young man’s robe, a faint smile appeared on his face. This young man was wearing none other than the Zhuo Family’s disciple robe, it seems like he and the Zhuo Family had a natural affinity for each other.

  In the meantime, Huwang Xiao couldn’t help taking a glance at Xie Puti.

  When Xie Puti also noticed the Zhuo Family disciple robe on that young man, his eyebrow raised up with interest.

  Seeing that Huwang Xiao was keeping silent, Zhuo Buzhi raised his voice even louder, “What? Scared now? Looking at you, forget a hundred billion, you probably can’t even take out a mere ten million. You actually dared to talk big and show off here, uttering nonsense, wanting to buy off all Boundlessly Auspicious’ ten thousand to a hundred thousand years old elixirs. Do you even know Boundlessly Auspicious’ background? It’s one of the Black Tortoise Galaxy’s largest alchemy ingredients shops.”

  The other family disciples around remained quiet, waiting to watch Huwang Xiao be humiliated.

  Yet, Huwang Xiao’s expression was calm and indifferent, “Only a hundred billion? I thought it would be a trillion.” Huwang Xiao waved his hands. Instantly, numerous Xuanwu coins rained down from midair like a cloudburst, shaking the hall floor.

  Everyone watching was stunned by the countless Xuanwu coins raining down all of a sudden.

  The golden glimmer of Xuanwu coins in the light dazzled everyone’s eyes.

  At this point, the loud thudding noises in the hall outside had alerted the Boundlessly Auspicious’ shop supervisor, Wan Baoding. Rushing out from the inner hall, he was met with the sight of Xuanwu coins falling down endlessly from midair, rendering him agape with shock.

  A long time later, the downpour of Xuanwu coins finally stopped.

  Every pair of eyes in the hall stared fixedly at that enormously tall and wide pile of Xuanwu coins, wondering if it was real or just an illusion.

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  Similar to the previous incident, those present in the shop’s hall were equally astounded.

  A beat later, the sounds of swallowing that came from several family disciples could be heard loud as rumbling thunder.

  The shop assistant that was serving Huwang Xiao looked around and saw quite a few people with saliva flowing out from their mouths without realizing it.

  Whereas the young man that had mocked Huwang Xiao earlier was staring at the enormous hill of glittering Xuanwu coins with bright eyes. He unwittingly walked toward the great pile of Xuanwu coins and picked one up, “This… is not an illusion?!”

  Not an illusion!

  More than a few family disciples who suspected it was an illusion immediately expunged the thought from their minds.

  Gradually, more and more people regained their wits, but they continued staring at Huwang Xiao and the mount of Xuanwu coins with disbelief.

  What kind of monstrous existence was this black-haired young man?! This was the first thought that flashed in everyone’s minds.

  Watching from the side, Xie Puti felt it funny seeing Huwang Xiao easily render everyone around wide agape with astonishment simply by throwing out a pile of Xuanwu coins. Then again, admittedly, if he had an endless amount of Xuanwu coins like Huwang Xiao did, he too would drown these people in Xuanwu coins until they shut the f*ck up.

  ‘This must feel immensely pleasurable.’ Xie Puti secretly thought.

  The Boundlessly Auspicious shop supervisor, Wan Baoding, finally came to his senses, his feet brought him before Huwang Xiao in a few brisk steps. Flashing his most flattering smile as his waist bent low in the most respectful demeanor, he asked how he could be of service to Huwang Xiao and what kind of alchemy ingredients he was looking for.

  The Boundlessly Auspicious was one of the Black Tortoise Galaxy’s largest alchemy materials shop, and as its supervisor, Wan Baoding himself held quite a high status.

  In front of one to ten billion, it would be difficult to make him show a flattering smile. However, facing more than a hundred billion, not only Wan Baoding, even the Jiang Family’s Patriarch Jiang WuHuwang wouldn’t hesitate to bend his waist way down low.

  “Bring out all the elixirs and herbs with ages between ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years, I’m buying them all.” Hearing the Boundlessly Auspicious supervisor inquiring what he was looking to buy, Huwang Xiao repeated what he said to the shop assistant earlier.

  Supervisor Wan Baoding wasn’t aware of Huwang Xiao’s prior request, thus when he heard what Huwang Xiao wanted, his knees nearly buckled from shock.

  Ten thousand to a hundred thousand years old elixirs! All of them!

  However, this time around, no one dared to mock Huwang Xiao.

  As strength returned to his legs, supervisor Wan Baoding swiftly ordered his su
bordinates to take out all ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years herbs inside the shop.

  At the side, Zhuo Buzhi’s face was looking extremely ugly, his eyes gleaming with hate, apprehension, and also feverish greed.

  At this moment, two oblivious women walked into the Boundlessly Auspicious shop, one of them calling out at Zhuo Buzhi, “Buzhi, have you bought the alchemy ingredients?”

  Instantly, everyone in the hall turned to look at the source of the voice, including Huwang Xiao. When he saw who they were, he felt a strong impulse to laugh. These two women were none other than Zhuo Wenting and Zhuo Wenshan.

  Seeing Zhuo Wenshan again, complex emotions floated to Xie Puti’s face, but he composed himself fairly quickly.

  The one who spoke was Zhuo Wenting. Only after the words left her mouth did she find the atmosphere in the hall a little strange. When she and Zhuo Wenshan saw Huwang Xiao’s figure in the hall, both women’s faces became ashen and their eyes widened in fear as if they ran into the most horrifying devil.

  Zhuo Wenting and Zhuo Wenshan’s reactions roused the curiosity of the people around.

  Was this docile looking black-haired young man so terrifying?

  “Sister, you recognize this punk?” Zhuo Buzhi too was curious, thus asking the question out loud.

  When Zhuo Wenting heard that Zhuo Buzhi actually dared to call Huwang Xiao ‘punk’, and on top of that, holding was a trace of malice in his voice, her already pale face became bloodlessly white.

  She hastily grabbed Zhuo Buzhi by the arm, heading toward the exit in panic, “Let’s leave, now!”

  Zhuo Wenshan also grabbed Zhuo Buzhi’s other hand, her face dreadfully pale, not daring to stay even a second longer in the hall.

  The three people disappeared from view in seconds.

  “Sister, what are you afraid of? Who’s that punk?” Zhuo Buzhi’s unresigned voice sounded from the entrance loud and clear.