by Shian Jeen
“But, this is still not enough.” Huwang Xiao muttered to himself as he put away the demonic beast’s core.
These five hundred and sixty-three pieces of beast core were insufficient for him to advance to peak half-step God Realm. He estimated he’d need at least another thousand beast cores.
‘Looks like I need to figure out another way after leaving this place.’ Huwang Xiao felt somewhat depressed. At the same time, his consciousness submerged into the token.
Thirty million?
‘En, I’ll be able to surpass that amount today.’
Huwang Xiao leaped up, swinging the Blades of Asura in his hands. Multiple blade lights gathered into a ferocious wind cyclone, carrying a skyful of beast cores rotating at high speed.
From the beginning, Huwang Xiao had only used his Blades of Asura to attack, combined with his Wings of Demon. Up until now, he had yet to summon the twin dragon martial spirits and soul transform.
Neither did he use the Godly Xumi Art.
Even so, it was sufficient for Huwang Xiao to win the first place.
When the curtain was about to fall on day nine, the scoreboard exploded in a bright light, rivaling the sun, piercing ten thousand zhang to the heavens. The crystal stone shook with vigor as the crowd watched with stupefied expressions. The person who everyone acknowledged to be this round of assessment’s number one was actually relegated to second place!!
And the board leader was no longer Gudu Leng.
First place, Huwang Xiao!
These two words at the very top of the scoreboard emitted a blinding radiance.
The moment Huwang Xiao took over the scoreboard, the entire square quaked as the crowd erupted in a tremendous uproar.
“He really did it, he took first place!”
“What kind of a freak is this Huwang Xiao exactly?!”
“Even Gudu Leng was overtaken by him!”
Concealed deep in the void, Li Zhiqun and Su Haodong both wore astounded expressions.
“Maybe this is temporary? There is still a day’s time, Gudu Leng could still snatch the top place back!” Su Haodong said. But, would Gudu Leng truly have any hope of regaining the top spot?
What he witnessed was Huwang Xiao pulling further away from Gudu Leng in a short time, widening the distance between them.
Thirty thousand, one hundred thousand, one million!
One hour later, Gudu Leng’s points were already ten million behind Huwang Xiao, and the gap between them only grew wider.
On the Cloudsea Mainland, within a certain space inside Gudu City, the giant body of an old man sat atop an immense altar. This old man’s eyes were completely cloudy white, including his pupils.
The old man’s white-colored eyes glimmered with a golden light, muttering to himself, “There’s actually someone that could overtake Leng’er points! I’m curious to know which unique physique this person possesses!”
This old man was none other than Gudu Leng’s family ancestor, Gudu Batian.
Just like Gudu Batian, other super forces’ family ancestors were guessing Huwang Xiao’s real talent and strength. On the other hand, Elder Zhang Tianchuan who was overseeing this time’s assessment reported the matter on the scene to the institute’s upper level with haste.
In general proceedings, an overseer like Zhang Tianchuan was not required to make any reports until after the assessment ended, but in this situation where Gudu Leng was actually surpassed by another person for more than an hour, and the difference only grew wider as time passed, prompted him to do so.
Who was Gudu Leng?
A genius that even their Black Warrior Institute’s Principal wanted to receive as a personal disciple, but now, there was a possibility that someone that was even more of a monstrous genius had appeared, what did this represent?
On the Black Warrior World surface, inside the Black Warrior Institute compound, Institute Principal Feng Yang was shocked listening to the report: “What?! Gudu Leng was overtaken!”
“It is so, Principal.” A Grand Elder affirmed. “This was reported by Zhang Tianchuan moments ago, it is a kid name Huwang Xiao, but… according to them, during the aptitude test, his strength was only within the 2000 points range.”
Institute Principal Feng Yang gradually calmed down, a light flickered in his eyes.
“Principal, this Huwang Xiao, how do you see him?” That Grand Elder hesitated.
“Monitor him.” Institute Principal Feng Yang spoke in a solemn tone, “Send someone to investigate this Huwang Xiao’s background.”
“Yes, Principal.”
While various forces lingered in shock, on Deepwood Star, Huwang Xiao was standing above a vast expanse of sea, slaughtering ghostly creatures.
The sea water was a pure black, with an endless number of ghostly creatures emerging from the bottom of the sea.
Circulating the true essence energy in his dantian, the true essence fire spread out from Huwang Xiao’s body, transforming the immediate several hundred li area around him into a sea of fire.
Huwang Xiao proceeded forward, and in his trail, all the new ghost creatures that just emerged from the sea was instantly burned to ashes, releasing their souls in the air. Seeing this, he displayed the Blood Deed Pact, opened his mouth and inhaled deeply. In less than a breath’s time, numerous ghost creatures’ souls were sucked into Huwang Xiao’s body, directly refined.
As for the God Realm ghost creatures, Huwang Xiao captured and sealed their souls before throwing them into the Linglong Treasure Pagoda.
By this point, Huwang Xiao no longer bothered with the points on the scoreboard. If there was a change in position, the token would quiver as an indication, letting him know.
Back on the square, the various forces’ experts and disciples continued to stare dumbly at the crystal stone in the air as Huwang Xiao’s points flew up again as if gaining a second wind. Although Gudu Leng’s points were also shooting up in a mad dash, it looked like a futile effort as the distance widened. At one point, it passed 130 million points in difference.
Jiang Shaoze in third place looked even more pitiful with over 600 million points between him and Gudu Leng. It would be more merciful not to mention Wang Biaoyuan.
Above the ghost sea, Huwang Xiao had just killed a mid-First Order God Realm, sealing its soul and putting it away inside the Linglong Treasure Pagoda when the airspace on the whole Deepwood Star shook like waves. In the blink of an eye, all the disciples re-appeared on the Hall of Heroes square.
Ten days had passed.
The assessment finally came to an end, and all the surviving students were sent out of the Deepwood Star.
Ten days ago, there were more than eighty million disciples, but after coming out, an approximate of only fifty million disciples remained, the others were turned into food for the demonic beasts, monsters, and demons.
When Huwang Xiao appeared, all eyes zoomed onto him, whether it was disciples of the Black Warrior Institute or other families’ disciples, participants or part of the spectating crowd. All their attention fell on Huwang Xiao’s body.
The look in their eyes was as if they were looking at a terrifying monster. Envy, hate, jealousy, shock, fear, all rolled into one.
At the end of the assessment, Huwang Xiao’s final score surpassed 3.5 billion points! This was a figure that made people go crazy! A figure that conjured up a bloody picture, a figure that made it hard to imagine or believe.
Killing a half-step God Realm demonic beasts brought 800 points, an early-First Order God Realm was 10,000 points, and a mid-First Order God Realm was merely worth 50,000 points. How many half-step God Realm and peak half-step God Realm demonic beasts did one have to kill in order to reach that staggering figure?
The previous first place winner didn’t even reach 2 billion points.
Gudu Leng’s score was equally astonishing, but it paled in comparison to Huwang Xiao’s. Gudu Leng’s points slightly exceeded 2.8 billion points.
Whereas Jiang Shaoze at third place
collected over 1 billion points.
“You’re Huwang Xiao?” At one point, Wang Biaoyuan stood in front of Huwang Xiao, in a slightly condescending bearing.
“Right.” Huwang Xiao replied indifferently.
“If I’m not wrong, you’re just a half-step God Realm, right? I’m very curious, a half-step God Realm like you, how did you manage to accumulate more than 3.5 billion points?!” Wang Biaoyuan questioned.
He ranking dropped to the fourth place. Failing to enter the top three made his mood extremely bad.
Ch.542
Many people in the square had the same query as Wang Biaoyuan in their hearts.
The gazes watching Huwang Xiao fluctuated slightly. That's right ah, this Huwang Xiao was just a half-step God Realm. How did a half-step God Realm achieve 3.5 billion points?! Strong as a half-step God Realm was, there was no way their strength could reach such a terrifying point!
Jiang Shaoze, Xu Shaoqing, Jiang Wei, Li Mingxuan, He Xiu, Yang Shiqi, Su Meiyi, Zhu Haixiang, and all other geniuses that participated in the assessment had the same doubt and disbelief.
In truth, even Gudu Leng found it hard to accept the result just like that.
He himself was a God Realm ah, acknowledged as Gufu Family’s strongest genius! His talent was highly praised by their Gudu Family Ancestor.
Yet, he was actually defeated by a half-step God Realm warrior!
Huwang Xiao’s expression remained aloof as he spoke, “How I achieved 3.5 billion points is not something I need to explain to you.” With that said, he turned around and walked toward the new disciple gathering area.
“Courting death!” When Wang Biaoyuan saw Huwang Xiao turn around, ignoring him, fury exploded in his eyes and he bellowed, “Immovable Wisdom King’s Godking Fist![1]” Hurling a fist at Huwang Xiao.
The air exploded from the sudden pressure.
Wang Biaoyuan’s punch gave the surrounding genius disciples an illusion that the surrounding air was like a large bubble about to pop.
Amidst shocked exclamations and gasps, everyone backpedaled or fled sideways to safety.
“This is the Wang Family’s divine rank battle kill that is not passed to outsiders, Immovable Wisdom King’s Godking Fist!”
“It is said that when one cultivates this skill to a certain stage, it can kill the enemy with just one punch. Moreover, even in death, that person will not move, standing immovable for ten thousand years!”
Shock filled the square.
Everyone’s attention was focused on Huwang Xiao as they watched Wang Biaoyuan’s Immovable Wisdom King’s Godking Fist about to strike the young man’s back. Each of them wanted to know how Huwang Xiao would respond to Wang Biaoyuan’s fist.
The Black Warrior Institute Elder Zhang Tianchuan was about to step forward to break the fight when a voice sounded in his ears, halting his action.
Before the fist was about to land, Huwang Xiao suddenly turned around, his right palm extended out, wrapping over Wang Biaoyuan’s fist. The air blast sounds immediately died down, the chaotic airflow returned to normal.
And the surroundings were dead quiet.
The spectating crowd was dumbfounded. ‘This… actually works?!’
Not far away, Gudu Leng’s pupils needled watching this, an unnoticeable black light flitted passed, but inwardly, he was shocked. In that split second, a myriad of possibilities ran through his mind except for the result he was seeing.
Jiang Shaoze, Xu Shaoqing, and the rest were equally astounded.
With a slight push from Huwang Xiao’s right hand, Wang Biaoyuan felt his body involuntarily stagger backward, being pushed dozens of meters back before he managed to regain his balance. Wang Biaoyuan’s face flushed beet red with fury as he stared at Huwang Xiao: “You!”Without another word, a golden light burst out from his body, preparing to attack again.
“Others cannot interfere?” Huwang Xiao remained stoic, cold gaze fell on the nearby Wang Family disciples.
Wang Biaoyuan looked at the Wang Family disciples around, barking, “This is a fight between me and him, no one is allowed to interfere!” His body once again burst out in a golden light as if a layer of golden qi enshrouded over his skin. A palpitating energy surged violently from Wang Biaoyuan’s body.
“Indestructible Vajra Physique!”
“Wang Biaoyuan has awakened his Indestructible Vajra Physique potential when he advanced to God Realm. The Indestructible Vajra Physique is very powerful, its defense is even scarier. At Wang Biaoyuan’s current strength, even a late-First Order God Realm cannot break past his defense!”
Seeing Wang Biaoyuan display his Indestructible Vajra Physique, the square was astir with excitement.
When Wang Biaoyuan displayed his Indestructible Vajra Physique, Gudu Leng’s cold expression was slightly tinged with a hint of sullenness. Admittedly, a Wang Biaoyuan applying the power of his Indestructible Vajra Physique was a strong enemy.
Huwang Xiao observed Wang Biaoyuan for a moment with a calm demeanor. Since someone came knocking on his doorstep, he might as well ‘reveal’ a small portion of his strength, let the Black Warrior Institute have a good look.
Wang Biaoyuan attempted to attack him in public, yet no one from the Black Warrior Institute tried to stop him. Huwang Xiao knew this was because the Black Warrior Institute also wanted to know the level of his strength, or more accurately said, they were suspicious of his 3.5 billion points?
By this point, Wang Biaoyuan had raised his momentum to the peak.
“You’re not using the sword?” Huwang Xiao’s gaze fell on the ancient sword hanging around Wang Biaoyuan’s waist. He could tell that this Wang Biaoyuan was a sword cultivator, one with proficient skills.
Wang Biaoyuan’s eyes were frosty, “Against you, I don’t need to use a sword.”
Huwang Xiao shrugged his shoulders at Wang Biaoyuan’s retort, since it is so, then he wouldn’t be polite.
“Nine-Nine Chained Punches! [2]” Wang Biaoyuan made a sudden lunge forward, both fists struck out with a killing intent. When his fists struck out, consecutive images of golden fists flew out, moving up and down, left and right, making it hard for anyone to predict their trajectory.
Huwang Xiao harrumphed, dashing forward instead of maneuvering to dodge the attack, extending both his fists.
“Doesn't this Huwang Xiao know that Wang Biaoyuan’s Indestructible Vajra Physique fists are as hard as a demi divine artifact?! He still dares to fight head-on with Wang Biaoyuan with his fists!”
“It seems like this Huwang Xiao’s fists are about to be wasted!”
Heads shook in pity as they watched.
A cold smirk crept up Wang Biaoyuan’s face watching Huwang Xiao trying to counter his attack in the same manner, but a cruel light flickered in the depth of his eyes.
In a split second, four fists collided, and a thunderous explosion trailed behind.
The smirk on Wang Biaoyuan’s face stiffened as his muscles tensed, the cruel light in his eyes was replaced with an unknown trepidation.
He looked at Huwang Xiao, but just as he was about to speak, a flood of horrifying power crashed against his whole person.
A sharp pain traveled from his fists, so strong that he couldn’t resist letting out an anguished scream. Wang Biaoyuan was sent flying back, repelled by the powerful force.
Huwang Xiao’s eyes narrowed with aggression. In a flicker, he appeared in the path of Wang Biaoyuan’s flying figure.
“Stop!” Wang Biaoyuan’s scream brought the Wang Family disciples and guards back to their senses. Four silhouettes rushed out, attacking Huwang Xiao.
“Scram!” Huwang Xiao’s voice reverberated like thunder, slapping a single palm at the four attackers. The four people’s actions froze in midair for less than a second before falling to the ground like meteors, crashing into the square at an even faster speed.
Huwang Xiao’s expression remained unchanged as he added another palm strike on Wang Biaoyuan’s back.
Poof!
Blood flew out like arrows. Wang Biaoyuan was sent flying higher into the sky, his screams sounded weaker and further away, disappearing into the layers of cloud.
Gently, Huwang Xiao feet touched the square ground once again, standing amidst a thick silence from all four directions.
The crowd sucked in a cold breath looking at the four Wang Family guards that were slapped to the ground by Huwang Xiao, lying on the ground with half a breath left.
These four Wang Family guards were all late-First Order God Realm!
Late-First Order God Realm!
Done in with a single palm!
Seconds later, Wang Biaoyuan’s scream was heard again from the sky above, falling back down at high speed.
A booming crash resounded when his body hit the ground. Spider line cracks zig-zagged on the square surface.
When everyone finally laid their eyes on Wang Biaoyuan, to their horror, they discovered that little flesh remained on Wang Biaoyuan’s Indestructible Vajra Physique arms, and there was a glaring handprint that seemed to protrude slightly on his chest all the way from his back.
The crowd was dumbfounded, was this the Indestructible Vajra Physique that rivaled a demi divine artifact? If they did not witness the fight from the beginning, they’d have thought it was a paper tiger!
Gudu Leng looked at Wang Biaoyuan, lying there as if he was going to faint into oblivion anytime, his face muscle slightly twitched. Brutal, too damn brutal!
‘Is he still human?!’ His larynx shifted as he observed Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao’s eyes swept over Gudu Leng, Jiang Shaoze, Xu Shaoqing, and the others. The message in his eyes to them was clear—Is there anyone else that would like to come up and question my strength?
1. Coined as The Immovable One, the Wisdom King is one of the Five Wisdom Kings, the one that guards the center. The Five Wisdom Kings guard the four directions and center, protectors of the Five Wisdom Buddhas. (relates to his Indestructible Vajra Physique) Pic & Source
2. Nine nine - a simple way of saying 9x9. In regards to the attack move, it gives the impression of 81 consecutive punches.
