Asura Sovereign IX

by Shian Jeen

  Cracks started to appear on Huwang Xiao’s True Dragon Physique.

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  Bloody lines emerged on Huwang Xiao’s skin akin multiple blood dragons etched on his flesh, a ghastly sight that would make anyone palpitate.

  But, just as these dragon-like blood streaks emerged, a myriad of golden light shone through the cracks of his skin from the inside. Bit by bit, the red lines disappeared as his body mended.

  Before one could breathe in relief, in the next second, his skin split once more. And so it repeated, crack, mend, crack, mend, for three whole days!

  Three days!

  In these three days, the pain he experienced was akin to his soul having bad cramps.

  This hurt a million times more than the time his body exploded and was rebuilt by the Dragon Pearl. One couldn't imagine the excruciating pain of his body hanging on the verge of blowing up every second, yet this damn torturous pain repeated time and again with no end in sight.

  At one point, when Huwang Xiao felt like he could barely endure another second, as if he’d lose his mind from the pain, his overdrawn True Dragon Physique finally stopped cracking. From then on, regardless of how fiercely the innate spiritual embryo’s awareness struggled and resisted, crashing its spiritual energy against Huwang Xiao body, his True Dragon Physique remained stable as a rock.

  As the Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art diagram formation swallowed abundant spiritual energy, strands of space and time laws were also absorbed by it, transferring them to Huwang Xiao.

  Above Huwang Xiao’s soul sea, gleaming lights filled every corner. Time and space laws swayed like fine threads, growing stronger and longer with each glimmer.

  In the beginning, these time and space law thread were like fine, delicate wool threads measuring two to three centimeters, but as time passed, these time and space law threads grew thicker, growing longer.

  After half a year had passed, those time and space law threads were thick as a red thread[1] and ten centimeters long.

  Half a year refining the innate spiritual embryo brought unimaginable transformations to Huwang Xiao’s Qi Sea and dantian.

  The battle qi in Qi Sea was now a golden liquid of high viscosity, vibrant and potent, even his Qi Sea seemed to shake as if it was holding a bright sun that was about to explode. And within the space of his dantian, ten glossy beads formed from his true essence energy glittered, the primordial divine dragon inside each bead looked like they were about to break free from the bead.

  The innate spiritual embryo’s resistance had stopped altogether by now.

  Suddenly, a rippling sound came from Huwang Xiao’s body as he sat motionless in a cross-legged position at the center of the Xumi Temple, followed by dazzling crepuscular rays. He quivered visibly, feeling as if the battle qi within his Qi Sea had broken through a giant dam, rushing into a mysterious meridian.

  Simultaneously, the ten divine dragons inside the ten beads within his dantian flew out, the beads disappeared.

  On the outside, Huwang Xiao’s True Dragon Physique glowed like lustrous jade stone, refracting light.

  God Realm!

  After half a year of nonstop refinement of the innate spiritual embryo’s spiritual energy, Huwang Xiao finally broke through from peak half-step God Realm to God Realm!

  God Realm masters in the Black Tortoise Galaxy were like a pseudo-deity existence! In the vast galaxy, below the God Realm all were mortals. Regardless of world surface, in any family or clan, a God Realm master had a high standing.

  However, even after breaking into the God Realm, Huwang Xiao did not stop. Instead, suppressing the jubilance in his heart, he continued to refine and absorb the spiritual embryo.

  Eight months turned into nine months.

  One year passed.

  Not only did Huwang Xiao solidify his recent breakthrough to God Realm, his strength continued to rise, advancing through the orders.

  Early First Order God Realm, peak early First Order, mid-First Order, peak mid-First Order!

  Two years passed.

  One day, the figure sitting in the middle of the Ten Buddha Formation opened his eyes. This simple action was enough to cause the airflow to rumble like thunder.

  Huwang Xiao stood up, his eyes shining brightly sensing the tremendous power surging through him. Two years of closed-door practice, not only had he succeeded to break through to God Realm, he even advanced to peak late-First Order God Realm. Just a little bit more and he could step into Second Order God Realm!

  In his initial estimation, after refining the innate spiritual embryo, he would at most be able to reach late-First Order, reaching peak late-First Order was an unexpected pleasant surprise.

  Late and peak First-order couldn't be mentioned in the same breath, for the gap in strength was incomparable.

  His spiritual force delved into his own body, carefully noting the condition of his body. Each vein and meridian resembled a coiling primordial divine dragon, his viscera and six bowels were like clear crystals, as if they had transformed from flesh and blood to jadestone form. Honestly, this gave Huwang Xiao a fright.

  Recovering quickly, he immediately noticed that his True Dragon Physique’s defense and power had increased by at least tenfold. If his True Dragon Physique was said to be perversely strong prior to reaching God Realm, now it would be a super perverse physique.

  Huwang Xiao believed that he could crumble an ancient divine mountain with a mere punch.

  Going further down into his dantian, Huwang Xiao found something new: there were strands of immortal essence force circulating within.

  That’s right, immortal essence force! His true essence had fully evolved, turning into immortal essence force!

  Whereas in his soul sea, the threads of time and space laws had grown thumb-sized thick, one meter in length each, adding up to thirteen thousand, six hundred and fifty-two threads!

  Thirteen thousand, six hundred and fifty-two threads!

  Generally speaking, rare geniuses from super forces could form about a hundred of these time and space law threads in their soul sea, usually as thick as a red thread and no more than a dozen centimeters long.

  Second Order God Realm masters could accumulate up to over one thousand, even a peak late-Second Order God Realm barely had more than ten thousand time and space law threads.

  On the other hand, Huwang Xiao hadn’t even advanced to Second Order God Realm, yet he already formed more than thirteen thousand time and space law threads!

  If this matter was made known, people would be shocked to their core!

  The difference between a strong and weak God Realm master, other than their physical attributes, battle skills, and cultivation technique, the time and space law threads within their soul sea also played a crucial role.

  The more time and space threads they formed in their soul sea, the more powerful their attack would be, and the bigger the individual’s potential was.

  “Zeze, thirteen thousand six hundred and fifty-two threads!” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s envious voice sounded. “Moreover, each one is thumb-sized thick and one meter long. Little brat Huwang, aren’t you too perverse? Even some Third Order God Realm masters’ time and space threads cannot compare to yours.”

  Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was speaking the truth. Indeed, the majority of Third Order God Realm masters’ time and space law threads were severely lacking compared to Huwang Xiao’s.

  Huwang Xiao flashed a sheepish smile, “Really?”

  “Realer than a pearl[2].” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi subsequently added, “But, what ability did you get after refining the innate spiritual embryo?”

  Of course a peerless treasure such as the innate spiritual embryo had other benefits other than simple enhancement of cultivation and strength.

  Huwang Xiao became excitement being reminded of this, his hand extended up like he was gathering something from the void. Before the astonished Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi, ample pure spiritual energy sprung vigorously from the void, condensin
g into a piece of spirit stone!

  Spirit stone!

  Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi went totally blank!

  This! What was this? This little rascal could draw the spiritual energy hidden in the deep void, condensing them into spirit stones?!

  Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi felt like fainting, wishing he could faint right there and then. ‘Isn’t this too much? Doesn’t this mean this rascal’s future is radiant and gleaming with an infinite amount of spirit stones that he’ll never see the bottom of?!’

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  Yes, after refining the innate spiritual embryo, the ability Huwang Xiao obtained was transforming the pure spiritual energy within the void into spirit stones!

  Huwang Xiao looked at the spirit stone hovering in the air. His hand moved, a gentle force pulled the spirit stone to his palm. Spiritual energy flowed with vigor, plentiful and vibrant. However, Huwang Xiao was still slightly disappointed because the spirit stone in his hand was merely a grade two spirit stone.

  Although a grade two spirit stone was valuable in a small world surface like the Martial Spirit World, in the Black Tortoise Galaxy only grade one spirit stones and above had value.

  “Sweat, I say little Huwang rascal, you actually don’t know contentment!” Sensing Huwang Xiao’s thoughts, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi fumed, “This is the first time you’re using this ability and already you can condense a grade two spirit stone. As this ability of yours continues to grow stronger along with your strength, condensing a grade one spirit stone is only a matter of time.”

  The cloud of disappointment instantly vanished from Huwang Xiao’s face.

  That’s right, that was just his first time testing this ability, he easily condensed a grade two spirit stone from the void just like that. As he practiced more in the future, this ability would grow stronger. Condensing a grade one spirit stone was only a matter of time.

  Not restricted to grade one spirit stones, there was the possibility of condensing saint grade, even divine grade spirit stones, he’d be able to do it!

  Huwang Xiao once again extended his palm to the void, instantly attracting abundant spiritual energy rushing toward his palm, spiraling, condensing, becoming more compact until a second spirit stone was formed.

  This piece of spirit stone contained much ampler spiritual energy than the first one, and the flow of spiritual energy inside was much more stable. Despite that, it was still a grade two spirit stone.

  Adamant, he condensed one after another, tirelessly gathering, tirelessly transforming.

  Whorls of pure spiritual energy kept surging in the void, being turned into spirit stones one after another.

  One hour, two hours… three hours passed.

  Huwang Xiao swallowed a divine grade spirit pellet and initiated his martial spirit ability Instant Recovery, rapidly replenishing his depleted battle qi. Despite seemingly easy for him to condense spiritual energy into spirit stone, the amount of battle qi required in the process was a terrifying amount.

  If it weren’t for the fact that Huwang Xiao had broken through to peak late-First Order God Realm, this endless creation of spirit stones would have probably devoured all the battle qi in his Qi Sea in half an hour’s time.

  Having recovered his battle qi, Huwang Xiao continued to condense more spirit stones.

  Soon, the day had passed.

  Huwang Xiao’s speed of gathering and condensing spiritual energy became faster. The first piece of spiritual stone took him a dozen breaths’ time, but now, a day later, he merely needed two to three breaths’ time to condense one spirit stone as he grew apter and more familiar with controlling the ability.

  A day later, despite the spirit stones remaining grade two, they upgraded from low to medium grade two spirit stones. Though it was only a small improvement, Huwang Xiao was thrilled. At this rate, the day he’ll be able to condense low grade one spirit stone was not far away.

  Time flowed, taking away another half a month with it.

  The spirits stones he condensed improved from low grade to medium, and now they had reached high grade two spirit stones. Not to mention, the time it took had greatly reduced as well—one breath’s time. Huwang Xiao merely needed one breath’s time to churn out a piece of high grade two spirit stone.

  One month later.

  The spirit stones’ quality continued to improve, reaching top grade two spirit stones. Above top grade two spirit stone was grade one spirit stone!

  In this one month, every time Huwang Xiao’s battle qi was depleted, he would stop to recover, then start again the moment his battle qi recovered. He noticed that through this continuous cycle of depletion, the liquid form battle qi in his Qi Sea actually increased. Moreover, he noticed that this one month’s practice actually fine-tuned his control over battle qi.

  Two months passed.

  Huwang Xiao grasped at the void. In a flash, three spirit stones fell from the air.

  By now, within a breath’s time, he could condense three spirit stones.

  However, Huwang Xiao’s brows furrowed deeply looking at that three spirit stones. Two months had passed, but he was still unable to condense grade one spirit stones. Regardless of how much he tried to compact the spiritual energy when gathering it, the highest grade he managed to achieve until now was top second grade spirit stone.

  “The fact that you can already condense top grade two spirit stones in just two months is already admirable.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi spoke, “As for grade one spirit stones, it is not something that can be rushed, if it was that easy, then it wouldn't be so valuable.”

  Huwang Xiao inhaled deeply, nodding at Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s words. Then he turned over, looking at the large piece of jade stone that protected the innate spiritual embryo previously. This was a material that surpassed divine grade spirit stone in value.

  An idea flashed through his mind as he looked at the huge piece of jade stone. It was after refining the spiritual embryo that he obtained this ability, perhaps this jade stone that nurtured the embryo could help him condense grade one spirit stones.

  With that one mind, his spiritual force slowly submerged into the jade stone, arriving at a grayish space, almost like Chaos.

  Huwang Xiao quivered; that’s right, space!

  It was space!

  Spirit stones grade one and above all has an independent space within!

  As a God Realm master that was able to manipulate the time and space laws, creating an independent space could be done with a point of his finger.

  Retrieving his spiritual force out from the jade stone, Huwang Xiao immediately tried it out, hand grasping at the air. From the deep void, pure spiritual energy rushed out, turning into a spirit stone in a bright flash.

  This spirit stone was clearly different than the ones before.

  The flowing spiritual energy contained inside the spirit stone could be felt even on the outside, plentiful, vigorous, and stable. Not so much as a hair strand of spiritual energy leaked out as it hovered in midair. Like a clear crystal, emitting an alluring light.

  “Grade one spirit stone!” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi blurted out in shock when he saw this latest spirit stone. Just moments ago, he advised Huwang Xiao that it couldn't be rushed and in the next moment he already condensed a grade one spirit stone.

  Huwang Xiao stretched open his palm, a force wrapped around the spirit stone and flew into his palm. Turning the spirit stone in his hand, he chuckled in a silly manner. Finally, he succeeded in condensing a grade one spirit stone. Even more delightful was that this grade one spirit stone in his hand was close to a medium grade one.

  Immersed in his joy, Huwang Xiao tried another time. After bright flashes, pieces of grade one spirit stone fell from midair.

  However, after two months passed, Huwang Xiao noticed that regardless of how he tried, the best he was able to achieve was medium grade one spirit stone.

  “It’s most likely related to the time and space law manipulation that you refined.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi spoke after c
ontemplating the matter, “The stronger your comprehension in the two laws, the steadier the space you create inside a spirit stone will be, hence the purer the spiritual energy. Only then will the grade of spirit stone increase.”

  Huwang Xiao nodded in agreement.

  For now, it seems he would have to wait until he broke through to Second Order God Realm if he wanted to condense a high grade one spirit stone. Finding the crux of the problem, Huwang Xiao finally stopped.

  There were still five months to the outer disciple assessment, thus Huwang Xiao was in no hurry to exit.

  “Oh right, my Asura Tactics has reached the tenth layer, I can probably summon the Gates of Hell to cross over!” Huwang Xiao was instantly excited.

  Hell, a high level upper world surface comparable to the Divine World. Entering a place like that, absorbing the spiritual energy from a high level surface for his cultivation would bring unimaginable benefits to Huwang Xiao.

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  In that moment, Huwang Xiao immediately the ran Asura Tactics, attempting to summon the Gates of Hell according to the secret method stated within the Asura Tactics.

  Strands of black-red energy swirled around Huwang Xiao for a dozen minutes when all of a sudden, the space above him warped, revealing the shadow of a dark black gate.

  This dark black gate was three zhang tall and three zhang wide. Wisps of black-red energy similar to the energy around Huwang Xiao flowed out from the gate and with it an aura of desolate, bleak silence, deathly, frigid, sinister.

  “What is this?!” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was shocked.

  “This is the Gate of Hell.” Huwang Xiao explained in a concise sentence.

  When Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi found out that Huwang Xiao’s Asura Tactics could summon a gateway leading to Hell upon reaching the tenth level, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was agape with awe.