by Shian Jeen
Huwang Xiao took out the Great Dragon Saber and cut it against his own skin, but it merely left a white line on his palm!
He inhaled deeply, exiting the Xumi Temple a short while later.
Just as he exited, he summoned Tiger Tribe’s Patriarch Chuck over. Seeing Chuck arriving, Huwang Xiao said, “I will not use the Poison Corpse Scarabs, no battle qi, no battle skills, if you can defeat me, I shall reward you with one hundred pieces of Dragon Blood Crystal!”
“One hundred pieces Dragon Blood Crystal!” Chuck was stunned at first before excitement took over.
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“Liege Lord, is what you’ve said, for real?!” Swaying between joy and disbelief, Chuck asked for affirmation.
If he defeated the Liege Lord he’d get a hundred pieces Dragon Blood Crystals!
He knew very well that before entering closed-door practice more than two years ago, Liege Lord Beast God was only a Seventh Order Saint realm, but regardless how much one could enhance their strength during closed-door practice, Liege Lord Beast God should, at most, be a mid-Seventh Order Saint realm.
“For real.” Huwang Xiao replied with a serious face.
Moments later, both appeared above a peak in a mountain range several hundred li outside of Sacred Tiger City.
Two figures stood on opposite sides in silence.
Huwang Xiao made the first move, both hands formed into claws as he flew toward Chuck.
In that instant, the five elements power— water, fire, earth, wood, and metal erupted like a volcano, violent tremors shook the mountain range below as if the entire mountain was about to crumble into dust under Huwang Xiao’s hand.
Chuck was genuinely alarmed by Huwang Xiao’s momentum, quickly countering with a Sacred Tiger Fist.
The tempestuous collision was ear-splitting, scary shockwaves blasted outward onto the boulders and cliffs, pulverizing everything into dust.
After the impact, Huwang Xiao and Chuck retreated back more than a hundred meters from each other. In that one exchange, Chuck felt a numbing sensation on both hands, the expression on his face showed his shock. Amongst the beastmen, other than the previous Lion Tribe Patriarch Andrew, he could confidently claim that he had the strongest physique, but now he was forced back by Huwang Xiao to the point of feeling numb! Moreover, there was a slight tingling pain!
“Haha, come, let’s continue!” Huwang Xiao laughed eagerly, waving his fist this time. The frightening speed caused great friction against space, causing a sharp scratching sound against the wind that traveled several li.
Even before Huwang Xiao’s fist arrived, Chuck already felt a prickling danger, the overwhelming destructive power enveloped him as his face went pale. Lacking the confidence to take the hit head-on, he steered to the side with force. Still, he dodged Huwang Xiao’s powerful fist.
Chuck looked over and was aghast to discover that in the place he stood in just now, space looked as if it sunk in, imprinted with a giant fist.
Space was something intangible to begin with, how could someone’s fist be imprinted in space? What mind-blowing concept was this!
Before Chuck could compose himself, another powerful tide of energy rolled toward him, startling him. Huwang Xiao flickered into a blur, launching another attack, aiming a palm at Chuck. Panicked, Chuck’s palm shot out to block the attack.
Blow for blow, the two exchanged more than a dozen moves.
After a dozen exchanges, Chuck’s shock deepened, and a foreboding fear sprouted in his heart, for he noted that Huwang Xiao’s physique was sturdier than even his own, probably more terrifying than an ancient mythical beast. Just now, he landed a full force punch on Huwang Xiao’s chest, but he merely staggered several steps back, without even a scratch on him. What depressed Chuck above all was that his own hand actually felt pain down to the bones.
He highly doubted that ancient mythical beasts’ flesh was tougher than this!
In total, Huwang Xiao had refined eight primordial divine dragons, his True Dragon Physique now surpassed the Dragon Clan’s five-clawed Golden Dragon Emperor during the ancient times.
Despite being a peak late-Tenth Order Saint realm expert and possessing strong physique due to his origins, Chuck still fell short compared to ancient dragons, not to mention against the five-clawed golden dragon.
One hour later, Chuck had resorted to beast transformation.
After the beast transformation, Chuck’s defense rose to another level, adding his advantage as a peak late-Tenth Order Saint realm strength with Huwang Xiao not using any battle skills, he was finally able to slightly suppress Huwang Xiao.
Every punch and palm strike from Huwang Xiao jarred his bones so badly that Chuck felt like his bones were falling apart.
Yet Huwang Xiao’s movements became more fluid and natural as time passed, even growing stronger as he battled…?!
“Liege Lord, stop, stop, I’m not fighting anymore, not fighting!” Two hours later, Chuck wailed in dismay, shaking his head and waving his hands. He frightenedly stared at Huwang Xiao.
He really dared not continue to fight further, otherwise, his set of tiger skeleton would really be disassembled by Huwang Xiao.
Hearing Chuck’s pitiful wails begging for mercy, Huwang Xiao finally stopped, laughing, “It’s gratifying!” It had been quite some time since he last enjoyed a fight this much!
His body sung with joy, feeling comfortable from head to toe.
After refining eight primordial divine dragons, there was some true dragon essence residue that wasn't fully absorbed into his body, pooling inside different parts of his body. This fight helped him absorb that essence residue completely.
Seeing Huwang Xiao agreeing to stop, Chuck heaved a great sigh of relief. He was exhausted and drained, lying like a dead corpse on the ground, wishing he could just sleep for a few hundred years like this.
Watching Chuck, Huwang Xiao took out a ten thousand year Purpleblood Human-shaped Ginseng: “Swallow this.”
Chuck looked over numbly, spotting the purple colored ginseng in Huwang Xiao’ s hand that emitted a fragrant scent. His senses were instantly stimulated, all his lethargy vanished.
“This is… Purpleblood Human-shaped Ginseng above ten thousand years old?!” Chuck asked, his larynx contracted a few times.
“More accurately, close to forty thousand years.” Huwang Xiao corrected.
Chuck quivered, “Liege Lord, this!”
“It’s fine, swallow it.” Huwang Xiao more or less guessed what Chuck was about to say.
“Yes, Liege Lord!” Chuck complied, swallowing the purple ginseng down. Warm energy immediately flowed to every part of his body, warm and comfortable.
“Come on, let’s head back.” Huwang Xiao said.
Pulling himself out from the warm comfort, Chuck quickly stood up. It didn’t take long for both of them to reach the manor’s main hall.
Sitting down, Huwang Xiao asked Chuck about the situation of the beastmen tribes over the last three years.
Chuck reported everything to Huwang Xiao, and when his report was done, Chuck asked Huwang Xiao, “I found that Lion Tribe’s Young Patriarch Jesse, he’s currently hiding in the demonic beast clans’ Nine Dragons Temple. Because the Nine Dragons Temple is not weak, this small one dared not act recklessly.”
That year, during the beastmen tribes’ congregation, the Young Patriarch Jesse at that time did not participate. Later, he received news of his father’s death and that Huwang Xiao was the same human he ran into in the Poison Dragon Valley. Terrified, he fled, taking countless priceless treasures that the Lion Tribe had collected over thousands of years to the Nine Dragons Temple, requesting for their protection.
Receiving many treasures from Jesse, the Nine Dragons Temple promised to ensure his safety.
“Hiding in the Nine Dragons Temple.” Huwang Xiao nodded, his expression calm that one couldn’t read what he was thinking.
However, this Lion Tribe Young Patriarch was a trouble that had to be uprooted.
“Have you fought with the Nine Dragons Temple Master before?” Huwang Xiao asked.
“I did, Liege Lord. This small one made a trip to the Nine Dragons Temple two years ago, requesting them to hand Jesse over, but the Temple Master said that Jesse is one of their Hall Masters, and even if Liege Lord went, they wouldn’t hand Jesse over” Chuck reported.
“Oh, is that so?” Since they said so, then he would personally make a trip to this Nine Dragons Temple.
The demonic beasts clans on the Ten Directions Continent stood at par with the beastmen tribes, and their strongest forces were the three temples.
The Nine Dragons Temple, Violent Lion Temple, and Ape Deity Temple. Amongst the three temples, the Nine Dragons Temple ranked above the other two, it was the leader of millions of demonic beasts, thus the arrogant attitude.
“Any movements from the Deities Templar’s side?” Huwang Xiao asked another question.
“There have been no actions from the Deities Templar side in the recent three years.” Chuck added respectfully, “But the Elf Queen suddenly extended an open invitation to all forces’ experts to their elf race’s holy land.”
“Oh, do you know why?” His curiosity was aroused.
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“Rumors say that it is related to the elf race’s sacred tree. A problem occurred with the Tree of Life, that it started to wither, and whoever can heal the Tree of Life, the Elf Queen has promised ten Life Crystals as reward.” Chuck elaborated respectfully.
“Ten Life Crystals!” Huwang Xiao was astounded. He knew very well how valuable Life Crystals were.
On some occasions, something called life dew would form on the surface of the Tree of Life’s vibrant leaves, and as time passed, life dew drops pooled together, forming a fountain of life. Every thousand years, the fountain of life would produce one Life Crystals
This Life Crystal contained nature’s purest water element life energy. Any average mortal that was fortunate enough to take a Life Crystal could drastically improve their body’s vitality, even if the person was a hundred years old and only had one breath remain. Swallowing one Life Crystal could extend his life for a few more years.
Whereas for cultivators, other than improving the vitality in their bodies, it could also enhance one’s cultivation. Even in the eyes of a peak late-Tenth Order Saint realm experts, it was a rare treasure.
“I’ll make a trip to the Elf Forest later.” Huwang Xiao said after contemplating the matter.
“Liege Lord wants to go?” Chuck was surprised with Huwang Xiao’s unexpected decision, saying, “From the message I received, many experts already tried, yet no one has been able to cure the Tree of Life.”
“I’m just going to take a look, curing or not is irrelevant.”
Subsequently, Huwang Xiao asked about the Cosmos God Cult and the Asura’s Gate situation. By the time Chuck was excused, several hours had passed.
After Chuck left, Huwang Xiao’s figure blurred, leaving the Sacred Tiger City like a whistling wind, heading towards the Elf Forest’s direction.
Heading to the Elf Forest, Huwang Xiao did not plan to take any beastmen experts with him, journeying alone.
One day later, Huwang Xiao reached the Hundred Tiger City. However, he did not stop, speeding past the city and arriving at the Roaming Souls Grove several hours later, deep in the night.
Gusts of freezing wind blew out nonstop from the eerie dark grove. The temperature dropped inhumanely cold, with greenish snow drifting to the ground.
In fact, Huwang Xiao was curious how this cold yin energy inside the Roaming Souls Grove came to be. When night fell, even a high-level Saint realm expert would think twice about making their way through the grove, nonetheless, Huwang Xiao’s courage was bigger than most. He flew straight into the curtain of falling green snow, entering the Roaming Souls Grove in the deep of the night.
He flew on without reducing his speed.
He quickly noticed that the green snowflakes formed from cold yin energy actually stuck to his skin! Moreover, once stuck, it was quite the trouble to shake them off, and as those green snowflakes gathered more and more, the cold yin energy seeped into his body, accumulating faster as time wore on to corrode even a Saint realm expert’s vitality!
Then again, although the green snow may threaten other Saint realm experts, it wasn’t an issue for Huwang Xiao at all. Gathering the true essence energy in his dantian, true essence fire appeared above his skin and the green snowflakes were immediately turned into mist.
On the way, all he wandering malevolent souls he came across were dealt with in one stroke. Three hours later, Huwang Xiao exited the Roaming Souls Grove.
Passing through the Roaming Souls Grove, Huwang Xiao reached the Stellar Thunder Canyon.
Unfortunately, history had a habit of repeating itself. The clear night sky turned turbulent a short while after he entered the canyon. Fierce wind started howling and ribbons of lightning illuminated the dark sky as they struck down.
Huwang Xiao was dumbfounded staring at the sky.
Was the lightning in this Stellar Thunder Canyon specifically against him?! Last time, the sky was clear for a thousand li, and this time it was the same, yet the weather acted up almost immediately after he entered the canyon.
Out of nowhere, a streak of lightning bolted down directly at him, as if he was targeted. Huwang Xiao did not dodge, neither did he counter or defend. Instead, he allowed the lightning to fall on him.
“Nice!” Huwang Xiao exclaimed as a numbing sensation spread over his body.
The last time he passed through Stellar Thunder Canyon, this lightning was capable of injuring him, but this time, being zapped felt more like a comfortable massage.
Since there was a free nature massage, Huwang Xiao wouldn’t decline it. He chose to fly straight up into the dark clouds filled with brewing lightning, shuttling through them, letting the snakes of lightning hit his body, faster, fiercer, and more brutal.
The numbing sensation grew more intense, and he actually felt like laughing out loud while being bombarded by the lightning.
Because sometimes the lightning would hit more sensitive areas, such as his nipples, or his lower part. When the lightning ‘brushed’ his lower part, the ticklish feeling made him want to laugh.
Of course, if others found out that it merely gave Huwang Xiao a tickle when such lightning struck his lower part, it would probably frighten them to their deaths. No high-level Saint realm experts dared to expose themselves to the terrifying lightning in Stellar Thunder Canyon. The stalwart prowess of his lower part was beyond imagination.
Huwang Xiao stayed about an hour in the Stellar Thunder Canyon. Seeing that the clouds and lightning showed no signs of dissipating, having enjoyed enough of nature's massage, he flew out from the canyon.
A short while later, he reached the dwarves’ Dwarven City. The hustle and bustle scenes of the city were similar to the last time he was here.
“Brother Huwang!” Not long after entering Dwarven City, as he was strolling in the streets, a voice sounded behind him.
Turning around to look, it was the young dwarf he met the last he here, Eric.
Although three years had passed, Eric recognized Huwang Xiao in a single glance.
“Brother Huwang, it’s really you!” Eric was delighted seeing Huwang Xiao, and it showed on his face akin to a reunion of old friends. He reached Huwang Xiao’s side in a few quick steps, patting Huwang Xiao on the shoulder.
But, with Eric’s stature of little more than a meter, even extending his arm, he merely reached Huwang Xiao’s upper arm.
Seeing who it was, Huwang Xiao flashed a wide smile, “I’m just passing through the Dwarven City, I didn’t expect to run into you, Eric.” Eric and he were on the same wavelength.
Hearing that Huwang Xiao still remembered his name, Eric was very happy, “Come, Brother Huwang, let me treat you our dwarf race’s specialty wine!” As Eric said so, he pulled Huwang Xiao by the hand without waiting for
an answer, to a restaurant located in the city center.
Though Huwang Xiao smiled helplessly, he did not refuse Eric’s invitation.
After all, so many experts had tried but couldn’t cure the elves’ Tree of Life, he was in no hurry to rush over.
Eric led Huwang Xiao to a big building structure while introducing, “This is the biggest restaurant in our Dwarven City, called Hero Restaurant.”
Huwang Xiao listened with a smile. The biggest restaurant in the Dwarven City, in his eyes, resembled a slightly larger earthen house. Inside the restaurant, the tables and chairs were made out of stone.
They picked a corner table and sat down. Eric took it upon himself and ordered a table full of dishes and two jugs of their best wine.
“Brother Huwang, where are you planning to go passing through our Dwarven City this time?” Eric asked as he opened a jug of wine, releasing a fragrant scent in the air while pouring Huwang Xiao and himself a full bowl.
“To the Elf Forest.” Huwang Xiao answered frankly.
Eric was stunned for a moment before laughing, “I heard there’s a problem with the elves’ Tree of Life. Is bro planning to cure the Tree of Life? Our Patriarch also went and tried half a month ago, but unfortunately he returned without success.”
Huwang Xiao merely laughed, not answering Eric’s inquiry. Lifting up the wine bowl, the two of them clinked and down everything in one gulp.
The dwarf race’s wine invoked a peculiar taste; pure like nature, fleeting but at the same time leaving a fragrant spicy trail.
“Eric, so you’re here!” All of a sudden, a dozen dwarves rushed into the restaurant, exuding a fiercely hostile air as they stomped toward Eric and Huwang Xiao’s table.
Eric frowned slightly seeing the person.
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“Franz, what are you trying to do?” Eric snapped.
The several dwarves behind Franz spread out in a semi-circle, blocking all retreat routes as Franz grinned at Eric with humor that didn’t quite reach his eyes, “What I want to do? Eric, two months ago your old man borrowed five thousand gold coins from us to buy mining materials, today’s the due date. The son bears the father’s debt, if you cannot cough up the coins today, don’t even think of walking out of this restaurant!”
