by Shian Jeen
Lin Sen’s miserable screams echoed in the air. The gathered disciples were stunned; this, really was this term’s new disciple?!
Huwang Xiao didn’t even spare a backward glance as he entered the Supreme Harmony Hall. The disciples standing at the entrance waiting to watch a good show retreated rapidly like the tide, opening a wide berth for Huwang Xiao.
After he stepped into the hall, a dark red-haired young man blocked Huwang Xiao’s path with an arm, his expression frosty, “Little punk, do you know who you just hit?”
The dark red-haired young man was dressed in a red brocade robe, proof of his inner disciple status. A late-First Order God Realm.
“Don’t know.” Huwang Xiao remained indifferent, “Even if I know, so what?”
The dark red-haired young man’s expression turned sullen in an instant; a new disciple still dared to act so arrogantly before an inner disciple!
That was literally a reckless act!
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The garnet haired young man’s eyes were icy-cold glaring at Huwang Xiao, “Little punk, do you really think passing the new disciple assessment means that no one dares to take your life? Let me wake you up, every year, the number of Black Warrior Institute outer disciples who lose their lives outside performing various tasks isn't small.”
This was a naked threat.
There were fatal risks everytime the Black Warrior Institute’s outer disciples went out to perform tasks, and in general, the institute wouldn't employ resources to investigate the cause of death of an outer disciple.
“Is that so?” Huwang Xiao retorted with a cold sneer, “Then, could it be that you don’t know that quite a number of Black Warrior Institute’s inner disciples also lose their lives while performing tasks outside.”
“You!” A sharp glint exploded in the garnet haired young man’s eyes, murderous intent roared in his heart. But he didn’t make any move, for inner disciples were forbidden from attacking outer disciples. This was one of the Black Warrior Institute’s strict rules which he dared not violate, thus he forcefully suppressed the urge to kill the punk in front of him.
“Little punk, in two months’ time, all new disciples are required to perform a task outside, I’ll see how long you can keep your arrogance.” The look in his eyes grew increasingly frosty.
The underlying meaning of his words was that two months later when Huwang Xiao went out to perform his task, he would deal with Huwang Xiao. However, the support behind him had to be substantially powerful seeing that he dared to say that in public.
Throwing that sentence to Huwang Xiao, the garnet haired young man snorted and walked away.
Huwang Xiao did not stop him
“I can feel a flaming ice energy coming from this young man, he's probably a Lin Family’s core disciple.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi added, “Only the core members of the Lin Family who practiced their Lin Family’s secret technique, the Flameice Cardinal Technique, can emit this kind of energy.”
The Lin Family was one of Black Tortoise Galaxy’s super forces. In the past, perhaps Huwang Xiao would have spared some thoughts on the matter, but things were different now.
‘Still, I must break through to God Realm at the earliest possible.’ Huwang Xiao thought to himself. At his current strength, he was considered unrivaled against Second Order God Realm and below, however, if he ran into an enemy above Second Order God Realm, he would be caught in a sticky situation. Regardless of time and place, one’s own strength was the most crucial.
Of course, Huwang Xiao wasn’t so naive as to assume that the sole identity of a personal disciple of the Black Warrior Institute’s Principal would enable him to walk sideways in the galaxy.
A short while later, Huwang Xiao received both his disciple identity token and robe from the Supreme Harmony Hall. Leaving the Supreme Harmony Hall, Huwang Xiao went straight back to Feng Yang’s manor instead of loitering in the streets.
In the Black Warrior Institute, outer disciples were not allocated their personal yard. Usually, four disciples shared a room, which was an inconvenience for Huwang Xiao to cultivate. Therefore, for the time being, Huwang Xiao stuck to living in Feng Yang’s manor so he could cultivate without disturbance.
He planned to move out once he was promoted to an inner disciple, where each inner disciple was given their personal courtyard. Even though his Master Feng Yang did not mind it, Huwang Xiao preferred being less dependent on his Master.
After Huwang Xiao walked into Feng Yang’s palace-like manor, in the distance, an inner disciple came out from the shadows with a shocked expression staring in the direction where Huwang Xiao’s silhouette disappeared. It was a long time later before he recovered, quickly turning away.
Some time later, the same inner disciple arrived at a courtyard, reporting to the garnet haired young man who wanted to deal with Huwang Xiao what he saw.
The garnet haired young man, Lin Jun, was stunned at what he heard, “Are you sure that punk entered the Institute Principal’s manor?!”
“Yes, Senior brother Lin Jun.” That inner disciple inquired, “Do you think that could be…?!”
“Huwang Xiao!” Lin Jun’s expression darkened; a new disciple able to enter and leave the Institute Principal’s manor as he pleased, even a blind person could discern this new disciple’s identity.
No wonder a new disciple dared to show such arrogance! Not even putting an inner disciple like him in his eyes!
“Senior brother Lin Jun, I think we should just forget about this matter.” That inner disciple carefully persuaded.
A light flickered in Lin Jun’s eyes, he waved a hand at the disciple saying, “You’re excused for now.”
That disciple acknowledged softly and backed out from the courtyard.
Lin Jun remained where he was with his hands behind his back. Forget about it? Unfortunately, his heart was unwilling to let things slide!
As for Huwang Xiao, after returning to Feng Yang’s manor, he continued to cultivate by taking the Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellets He planned to refine all twenty thousand pellets that Feng Yang had given him earlier within half a month, refining everything before the apprenticeship ceremony.
To refine all twenty thousand pellets in half a month’s time, on an average count, he’d need to refine over one thousand three hundred pellets daily.
Sitting in a meditative pose inside the Xumi Temple, his mouth opened and inhaled more than two hundred Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellets into his body. Circulating the Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art, the formation diagram inside his body appeared, releasing abundant amount of true dragon essence energy.
Two hundred pellets’ medicinal energy rushed into the diagram formation like a raging river and was instantly disintegrated, becoming part of Huwang Xiao’s body.
Huwang Xiao had noticed this when he was refining the first one thousand Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellet that he received as reward. This Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art’s diagram formation was able to increase Huwang Xiao’s energy refining speed. This was the reason Huwang Xiao was confident that he could refine all twenty thousand pellets in half a month’s time.
Still, Huwang Xiao dared not refine too many at one time.
His True Dragon Physique had reached minor completion, refining two hundred pellets at one time was already the limit of what Huwang Xiao could endure.
Time flowed.
Each time, Huwang Xiao would refine the pellets in batches of two hundred.
Half a month later, inside the Xumi Temple, Huwang Xiao opened his eyes, breathing out turbid qi from his mouth, coming to a stand on his feet.
After half a month of tedious refining, he finally finished the twenty thousand Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellets. Twenty thousand pellets later, Huwang Xiao’s battle qi, true essence energy, and True Dragon Physique saw a great leap in strength, even his soul gained a significant level of clarity. If the news of Huwang Xiao refining twenty thousand Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellet
s was made known, a large number of people would be frightened to death.
Feng Yang was struck dizzy when he found out that Huwang Xiao had refined all one thousand Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellets in fifteen days, but now the number had increased by twenty times…
Huwang Xiao exited from the Xumi Temple. At this time, the sun was rising on the horizon, but the whole Black Tortoise World was already bustling, for today was the Black Warrior Institute Principal’s apprenticeship grand ceremony.
The Black Tortoise Galaxy’s numerous masters arrived in the Black Tortoise World through transmission arrays from different parts of the galaxy.
The whole Black Tortoise World was in a convivial atmosphere, every city was decked out in colorful lanterns and streamers. Above the airspace of each city, flowers of every color glowed brightly as they spun.
Group after group of Black Warrior Institute disciples lead guests from every family toward the institute’s central grand hall, where the apprenticeship ceremony would be conducted.
By the time Huwang Xiao came out from the Xumi Temple, Institute Principal Feng Yang was already in the grand hall, greeting the guests that arrived from all over the galaxy. Before that, he had instructed Elder Zhang Tianchuan to wait for Huwang Xiao to come out from closed-door practice and lead him over to the grand hall.
On the way, Zhang Tianchuan explained in detail to Huwang Xiao the steps involved in the apprenticeship ceremony and what he needed to pay attention to. The apprenticeship ceremony involved many complicated steps, and Huwang Xiao committed each of them to memory.
When Zhang Tianchuan led Huwang Xiao into the grand hall, the many high expert guests present almost immediately turned their attention toward him.
On this day, in the entire Black Tortoise Galaxy, Huwang Xiao was the center of attention, not only because he was about to become the Black Warrior Institute Principal’s personal disciple, but also due to the talent and strength he displayed during the new disciple selection assessment that had shocked everyone, including some super forces’ Ancestors that had gone into seclusion for many years.
That was why many Highgod Realm Ancestors were also present at this grand apprenticeship ceremony, something that had never happened in the past apprenticeship ceremonies of the Institute Principal.
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Being the focus of so many high experts, any average people would be so nervous that they might start walking backward. However, Huwang Xiao’s body quivered slightly with a small burst of Buddhism energy as he walked into the grand hall with a calm expression.
Noticing the Buddhism energy emitted from Huwang Xiao’s body, the many high experts present showed various expressions.
There was still time before the apprenticeship ceremony began when Huwang Xiao arrived. Institute Principal Feng Yang dragged his youngest disciple around the grand hall, introducing him to various Ancestors and Patriarchs of different super forces and families.
Other than Institute Principal Feng Yang, representatives from the other twenty-one super forces from the Black Tortoise Galaxy had arrived, which included both Ancestors and Patriarchs.
Among the other twenty-one super forces, seventeen Ancestors came to attend the ceremony. This scene made the other experts present astonished, each of these Ancestor level characters hardly ever appeared in public.
When the introduction came to the Gudu Family’s Ancestor, Gudu Batian, he laughed heartily with Institute Principal Feng Yang, “Feng Yang, this disciple of yours really makes me envious. He has only cultivated for thirty years! I estimate he’ll breakthrough to God Realm in ten years, in that case, he only took forty years of cultivation to reach the God Realm, this is shattering the entire Black Tortoise Galaxy’s record ah!”
Some family Patriarchs, sect Sovereigns, and elders did not know beforehand that Huwang Xiao merely had thirty years of cultivation experience. Hearing Ancestor Gudu Batian talk about it now, great waves of shock swept through the grand hall.
In the millions of years of the Black Tortoise Galaxy’s history, the person who broke through into the God Realm in the shortest time was one of Jiang Family’s Ancestors, Jiang ShaoHuwang, achieving that feat in eighty years.
Whereas this Huwang Xiao only needed forty years!
Just moments ago, these Patriarchs and Sect Sovereigns assumed that Huwang Xiao’s talent was higher than Gudu Leng’s, but never did they imagine that Huwang Xiao’s talent was this monstrous!
Institute Principal Feng Yang joined in the laughter as he said to Ancestor Gudu Batian, “Even though this disciple of mine managed to reach half-step God Realm in thirty years of cultivation, who really knows when he will reach peak half-step God Realm. As for God Realm, it’s still too early to say. It is Ancestor Gudu’s great-great-grandson Gudu Leng that makes people envious. Rumors say that he has comprehended the Gudu Family’s supreme secret technique, the Solitary God's Infinitude up to the ninety-ninth destruction layer!”
The guests who heard this were once again shocked.
Gudu Family’s Solitary God's Infinitude!
This was a supreme technique created by the Gudu Family’s first Ancestor, with a total of three hundred layers. According to rumors, at the one-hundredth layer, its power was earth-shaking, enabling the cultivator to produce Godforce!
Moreover, it was said that after achieving the hundredth layer, even if one died, they could be reborn!
Rumor has it, other than the first Gudu Ancestor, no one else was able to cultivate the secret technique until the one hundredth layer. No one expected Gudu Leng to have already reached the ninety-ninth step at his age!
With Gudu Leng’s talent, it was absolute that he would be able to achieve the hundredth layer.
Ancestor Gudu Batian chuckled with satisfaction, “Leng’er has only achieved the ninety-ninth layer so far, whether he can reach the one hundredth layer is hard to say.” Then he looked at Huwang Xiao, “Little Huwang kid, you must work hard in the coming three years. Three years later, there will be a new disciple assessment. My family’s Leng’er will be challenging you at that time, he’s very sulky that you snatched the first place this time.”
Huwang Xiao saluted in a manner that was neither haughty nor humble, answering, “Sure, three years later, I will accept Brother Gudu Leng’s challenge.”
Feng Yang continued to introduce Huwang Xiao to other super forces’ Ancestors and Patriarchs, and to forces that were in a good relationship with the Black Warrior Institute.
While this was going on, these Ancestors and Patriarchs were extremely courteous. After the relevant guests had been greeted, Feng Yang introduced Huwang Xiao to his three other disciples.
His eldest Senior-Apprentice Brother was named Liu Yun. He had a gentle outward appearance, well-mannered, looking no more than thirty-something in age. Definitely a good looking man. The second disciple, Chen Yang, was taciturn by nature. The third disciple was called Qi Wen, and was also Huwang Xiao’s Third Senior-Apprentice Sister, a beauty with a pair of spirited eyes that seemed to speak.
ly, all three of them were out to perform tasks and had just returned. This was Huwang Xiao’s first time meeting them.
As the hour inched closer, Patriarchs, sect Sovereigns, and other guests continued to arrive at the grand hall.
For the apprenticeship ceremony, Institute Principal Feng Yang only invited the super forces as well as the first ranked forces, so the guests who made their way here were the super forces’ Ancestors, or the first ranked forces’ Patriarchs and experts.
“Windland World, Lu Family’s Patriarch arrives, congratulatory gift, a pair of Yin Yang Fish!”
“Nine Windings World, Wu Family’s Ancestor arrives, congratulatory gift, a piece of Divine World’s Night Astral Stone.”
The voice of the Black Warrior Institute Elder in charge of receiving guests rang sonorously through the hall.
Huwang Xiao’s heart skipped a beat every time he heard the names of the gifts. These Patriarchs and Ancestors’ congratu
latory gifts were each rare and precious treasure even by the standard of large auction houses.
Two hours later, the apprenticeship ceremony began.
Due to Zhang Tianchuan’s detailed explanation earlier, Huwang Xiao managed to get through the apprenticeship ceremony without making any mistakes. Everything went well during the ceremony.
At the end of the ceremony, Huwang Xiao respectfully performed three kowtows to Feng Yang and greeted ‘Master’ as he served a cup of spiritual tea. Feng Yang was all smiles as he received the cup of tea. Taking a sip from it, he said, “Good, good, good disciple, quickly rise!”
He even personally stood up to help Huwang Xiao up.
This little action was duly noted by all guests present with shock in their eyes. Just from this, they could clearly see how much the Institute Principal cherished Huwang Xiao.
No one noticed the ray of jealousy flitting across the eyes of Feng Yang’s second disciple.
With that, the apprentice ceremony came to an end. Feng Yang invited all the guests to the banquet tables, where Ancestors and Patriarchs raised their wine cups in endless congratulatory toasts, lively chatter filled every corner of the hall that lasted until dusk. Only then did the guests bid farewell and took their leave from the Black Tortoise World.
Feng Yang and Huwang Xiao returned to Feng Yang’s manor, and excused his other three disciples back to their own courtyards.
Arriving at the manor, Feng Yang called Huwang Xiao to his side, giving him a spatial ring, “These are the congratulatory gifts from the Ancestors and Patriarchs that came today.”
Congratulatory gifts from the Ancestors and Patriarchs!
Surprised, Huwang Xiao looked at the spatial ring. Just as he wanted to refuse, his Master threw his head back and laughed, “Silly kid, keep it, as Master is giving them to you, I do not lack these things.”
Huwang Xiao could only obey.
Watching Huwang Xiao put away the spatial ring, Feng Yang added, “From what Ancestor Gudu said today in the grand hall, it seems like he’s very confident that Gudu Leng would be able to practice the Solitary God's Infinitude to the hundredth layer within three years’ time. At that time, Gudu Leng will definitely be a threat.” His voice contained concern toward Huwang Xiao.
