Asura Sovereign VIII

by Shian Jeen

  “Huwang Xiao went to the Nine Dragons City?!” Jesse was stunned for a second, then he pursued, “How many people did the beastmen tribe send?”

  “Only Huwang Xiao alone.” The Deputy replied.

  Jesse burst out laughing hearing that answer: “Only him alone? I didn’t expect, ah, that Huwang Xiao is so mad, showing up like a lone soldier in the Nine Dragons City! This time, he’s absolutely dead!”

  “Right, even if he has those Poison Corpse Scarabs, he’s dead! Our nine hall masters have the ancient sea dragon bloodline, Poison Corpse Scarabs can’t harm them!” A demonic beast expert standing behind Jesse mocked, obvious disdain in his voice.

  “Go, we’re rushing back to the Nine Dragons Temple right now, let's watch how that Huwang Xiao’s going to die!” Jesse laughed out loud as he sped out from the hall.

  The Great Thousand Hall’s experts trailed behind Jesse, heading to the Nine Dragons City.

  Although that Deputy knew that Huwang Xiao was in the Nine Dragons City at the moment, he did not know that Huwang Xiao was fighting one against the nine Ao brothers.

  Jesse’s large group flew at rapid speed, getting closer to the Nine Dragons City as time passed.

  “Imagining Huwang Xiao kneeling on the ground, screaming tragically, really makes me look forward to seeing the real scene!” On the way over to Nine Dragons City, Jesse laughed as he said.

  A short while later, Jesse and the Great Thousand Hall’s group reached the city. However, the instant Jesse entered the city, he picked up on the strange atmosphere within the Nine Dragons City but didn’t pay too much attention to it. The group flew in a conspicuous manner all the way to the Nine Dragons Temple.

  Not long after Jesse flew in the Nine Dragons Temple’s direction, he saw the destroyed buildings spanning into a large area of ruins. The experts behind him were stunned.

  “These buildings all were destroyed by Huwang Xiao?” One of them blurted the question everyone was thinking in their minds.

  “There are no energy fluctuations anymore, looks like the fight has ended. That Huwang Xiao was probably beheaded by our Temple Master!” Another expert spoke.

  Jesse nodded in agreement, “What a pity, I wasn't able to watch the Temple Master kill Huwang Xiao. Let’s go, if we hurry we might be able to see Huwang Xiao’s corpse.”

  “The Beast God Scepter must be on his body, once he’s dead, the Beast God Scepter would definitely fall in our Temple Master’s hands. With the Beast God Scepter in our Temple Master’s possession, he'll become the new Beast God, conquering the entire beastmen race!”

  “Correct, once we conquer the beastmen tribes, conquering the Ten Directions Continent will only be a matter of time!”

  Enthusiastic words flew back and forth within Jesse’s group as they flew, and the Nine Dragons Temple came into sight moments later.

  The first thing they saw was the mass of experts surrounding the Nine Dragons Temple’s perimeter. Because there were so many demonic beast experts crowding the area, Jesse and his group were unable to get a clear view of what was happening inside.

  Jesse snickered at the situation, “Even in death, that Huwang Xiao is still able to attract so many experts’ attention, it can be considered his blessing!”

  Jesse did not bother to lower his voice at all, thus many experts close by heard his words clearly. All of them turned to look at Jesse with a weird expression on their faces.

  Despite detecting the oddness in the people’s gaze, Jesse was too big-hearted to mind these miscellaneous things. Working with his subordinates to separate the crowd, they moved further in, all the way to the front, their eyes actively searching for Huwang Xiao’s corpse.

  In the next second, Jesse stiffened on the spot. His eyes were fixed on the figure standing at the center of the Nine Dragons Temple square. That figure stood tall like an everlasting divine mountain, regardless of the fierce howling winds or the grinding of blasting sand.

  That figure was so familiar!

  Moreover, littered around that standing figure were nine other sorry figures—the Nine Dragons Temple’s Nine Hall Masters!

  Their Nine Dragons Temple’s Nine Hall Masters actually laid undone! Furthermore, their Ten Directions Continent’s number one expert, the strongest person, the Temple Master of the Nine Dragons Temple lay crumpled at Huwang Xiao’s feet.

  Jesse’s mind blanked from the shock. The wide smiles on the experts behind him froze on their faces, changing to disbelief in the next second, then despair gradually set in.

  Only now did they realized why the city’s atmosphere felt strange when they entered earlier. Why wasn’t there any laughter, or any other noises?

  While Jesse and the newly arrived group were still in a daze, Huwang Xiao suddenly looked over in their direction. Jesse shook, feeling as if he was pinned in place. His face became deathly pale.

  Huwang Xiao raised a hand, fingers slightly bend and a terrifying suction force emerged from his palm. Caught unprepared, Jesse stumbled forward, rolling all the way to Huwang Xiao’s feet.

  “Beast, Liege Lord Beast God!” Jessi lifted his head, looking at Huwang Xiao with eyes brimming with fear.

  “You think that by hiding in the Nine Dragons Temple and having their protection, I won’t be able to kill you?” The look in Huwang Xiao’s eyes was chilling.

  “Liege Lord Beast God, please have mercy, ah!” Jesse repeatedly knocked his forehead against the ground, causing a dent on the square floor.

  Huwang Xiao pointed a finger at Jesse’s head, the force of it pierced a hole through his skull. Jesse slanted to the side stiffly, crumpling to the floor without another word.

  “The ones that I, Huwang Xiao, want to kill, even the Nine Dragons Temple won’t be able to protect you.” He snorted, throwing a last glance at Jesse’s lifeless corpse.

  If Huwang Xiao said this before his battle with the Nine Dragons Temple masters, the surrounding demonic beast experts would have laughed as if they heard the biggest joke, but now, no one dared to laugh.

  With a wave, Huwang Xiao collected Jesse’s corpse into the Linglong Treasure Pagoda as nourishment for the Poison Corpse Scarabs.

  A long time later, Ao Shen and the others struggled to their feet, led by Ao Kun. The nine brothers respectfully knelt before Huwang Xiao, greeting him as Liege Lord Beast God.

  The nine Ao brothers showed with their action their submission to Huwang Xiao!

  The Nine Dragons Temple guards and Elders followed suit, kneeling to Huwang Xiao.

  “Greetings, Liege Lord Beast God!” Voices resounded in the sky.

  But, watching this magnificent scene, the expressions of those of the sea tribe, Violent Lion Tribe, and Ape Deity Tribe members that stayed in the Nine Dragons City didn’t look so good.

  The Nine Dragons Temple submitting to Huwang Xiao meant that more than half of the Ten Directions Continent forces submitted under Huwang Xiao; then Huwang Xiao’s next move would be…! Thinking of what Huwang Xiao’s next move would probably be, unease gnawed at their hearts.

  “Pass down my order! Lock down the Nine Dragons City, within one month, only entry is allowed, leaving is forbidden!” Huwang Xiao scanned the crowd and issued an order.

  At the moment, he preferred to keep the matter about the Nine Dragons Temple submitting to him hidden, otherwise it would be troublesome if the Violent Lion Temple and Ape Deity Temple cooperated.

  One month later, after he took over both the Violent Lion Temple and Ape Deity Temple, the result would already be set. Even if news leaked after that, it was of no significant by that point of time.

  “As per Liege Lord Beast God’s order!” The nine Ao brothers led by Ao Kun answered respectfully. Orders were quickly relayed down to all city gates.

  Huwang Xiao looked at the ruined buildings and unrecognizable streets around him. Earth element essence energy rumbled beneath his feet like racing waves, spreading out in all four directions. The places where the earth element essence energy passed by were resto
red to their previous appearance.

  The nine Ao brothers and the spectating experts watched the inexplicable scene before their eyes with agape expressions. Huwang Xiao was once again shattering their knowledge.

  In a few breaths’ time, the buildings and streets destroyed by Huwang Xiao and the nine Ao brothers stood tall, just like before.

  “This is a Human-shaped Purpleblood Ginseng older than thousand years, swallow it.” Then, Huwang Xiao took out the Human-shaped Purpleblood Ginseng from the Asura Ring, giving it to the nine Ao brothers.

  Staring dumbly at the Human-shaped Purpleblood Ginseng that was close to forty thousand years in Huwang Xiao’s hand, Ao Kun and his brothers felt shivers down their bodies.

  With the aid of the Human-shaped Purpleblood Ginseng, Ao Kun’s injuries were fully healed within three days’ time.

  On the fourth day…

  “Go, to the Violent Lion Temple!” Huwang Xiao gathered Ao Kun, Ao Sen, and others as well as the Nine Dragons Temple’s Saint realm experts in one place, and instructed.

  This time, on his journey to the Violent Lion Temple, he decided to bring along the Nine Dragons Temple’s experts.

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  Huwang Xiao led Ao Kun and the group of Nine Dragons Temple experts flying out of Nine Dragons City in a grand manner. Their destination: Violent Lion Temple.

  The Violent Lion Temple was located not far away from the Nine Dragons City. With their group’s speed, they could reach the Violent Lion Temple in three days’ time.

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  Three days later.

  Violent Lion City.

  The Violent Lion Temple stood proudly at the centermost location of the Violent Lion City. Looking down from an altitude, the Violent Lion Temple resembled a ferocious giant lion, spanning over several hundred li of land.

  The ferocious lion’s mouth was the Violent Lion Temple’s entrance.

  At this time, over a hundred people assembled at the square behind the temple, the majority of them clad in black robes with an overbearing momentum surrounding them. Each one was a Saint realm expert, and the weakest amongst them was a late-Sixth Order Saint realm expert.

  On each person’s black robe was embroidered the pattern of a majestic flame lion.

  Standing in front of the group was a tall and brawny middle-aged man, his bare arms exposed under the sunlight were twice the size of an average man’s. A crimson cape hung from his shoulders, exuding a potent aura that surpassed anyone present.

  The middle-aged man suddenly raised an arm and his palm struck down on an empty area some distance ahead. A fiery crimson palm imprint rumbled forth, piercing a hole in the fabric of space, forming a space tunnel.

  “Congratulations to Temple Master for achieving major completion in Crimson Sky Lion Emperor’s Palm!” A demonic beast expert standing behind the brawny middle-aged man took a step forward, lauding words of praise and congratulations.

  The middle-aged man was Violent Lion Temple’s Master, Lei Ge.

  The other demonic beast experts seized the chance, each of them rushing forward to speak good words, while Lei Ge observed the damage made by the attack and nodded in satisfaction.

  This Crimson Sky Lion Emperor’s Palm was left behind by a lion Beast Saint ten thousand years ago, and it was hailed as one of the demonic beast clans’ highest techniques. He had stumbled upon it by chance around a hundred years ago.

  After a hundred years of bitter practice, he finally achieved major completion of the technique.

  The Nine Dragons Temple had nine hall masters, but the Violent Lion Temple only had one, and it was precisely this Lei Ge. Standing behind Lei Ge were his subordinates, his one hundred and eight generals retinue, with the weakest having the strength of a late-Sixth Order Saint realm, and the strongest demonic beast general within this retinue being a peak late-Tenth Order Saint realm.

  Whereas Lei Ge himself was widely recognized as the second person on the Ten Directions Continent, just below Ao Kun.

  “I dare say, our Temple Master’s strength has far surpassed Ao Kun’s!”

  “Rightly so, our Temple Master is the real number one expert of all demonic beast clans. If that Ao Kun had the guts to do battle with our Temple Master now, he would lose for sure!”

  Lei Ge’s retinue broke out in fervent discussions.

  Lei Ge laughed, “Then I shall send out a letter of challenge next month, a battle with Ao Kun!” A burning desire for battle shone in his eyes.

  That time when he stumbled into the abode left behind by that Senior, not only did he find the Crimson Sky Lion Emperor’s Palm, there was even a number of divine grade spirit pellets. In the last hundred years, he had been cultivating while swallowing those divine grade spirit pellets. Believing that his current strength had surpassed Ao Kun, a trace of unwillingness emerged in his heart toward the current expert ranking.

  “At that time, Temple Master will surely be victorious!” The group of general retinue cheered.

  “Temple Master, these are ten human race beauties that I specifically selected, you see…” At this time, an old man with steward appearance came over, leading ten young women.

  Lei Ge’s eyes did a quick sweep over the ten young women, nodding his head: “Fairly good.”

  He spent his last hundred years in dullness in order to achieve major completion in the Crimson Sky Lion Emperor’s Palm, of course he would find some pleasure in women to relieve some dullness. However, Lei Ge felt that demonic beast clan females lacked flavor, and he personally favored beautiful human women more.

  “Rumors say that the first beauty on the Snow Wind Continent, Shi Xiaofei, is three points more beautiful than the Elf Queen, how about… we make a trip to the Snow Wind Continent to capture that Shi Xiaofei for Temple Master’s pleasure?” One of the higher ranked generals stepped forward and suggested.

  “This doesn’t sound very good. I heard that Shi Xiaofei is Huwang Xiao’s woman. Several years ago, the Cosmos God Cult’s Young Lord Xie Hui captured that Shi Xiaofei, then Huwang Xiao killed his way to the Cosmos God City, slaughtering numerous Cosmos God Cult’s genius disciples!” Another high rank generals stated.

  “Only our Temple Master is qualified to enjoy a beautiful woman like Shi Xiaofei. How can that Huwang Xiao compare to our Temple Master! He’s just a brat acting arrogant by relying on a few Poison Corpse Scarabs! Based on real individual strength, he doesn’t even compare to one-millionth of Temple Master’s power!” Another person exclaimed.

  “The Cosmos God Cult is afraid of Huwang Xiao, but we, Violent Lion Temple are not afraid! There’s a rumor circulating outside that the beastmen’s Lion Tribe Young Patriarch ran away and betrayed the beastmen, seeking allegiance under the Nine Dragons Temple. Such a long time has passed, but that so-called Beast God Huwang Xiao didn’t even dare to let out a fart about this matter!”

  The group of generals clamored to upstage each other.

  Lei Ge raised his hand, signaling everyone to quiet down.

  “Wait until I sent out the letter of challenge. After I defeat Ao Kun, I will personally make a trip to Snow Wind Continent, I also want to see if that Shi Xiaofei is really as beautiful as the rumors claim she is.” Lei Ge said.

  If that Shi Xiaofei was truly as alluring as the rumors claimed, he would bring her back here. Coincidentally, the Violent Lion Temple Mistress’ position was unoccupied.

  “ month? There's no need.” A heartbeat after Lei Ge spoke, an icy-cold voice sounded. The appearance of this voice was too abrupt, startling everyone on the square.

  “Who?!” A demonic beast general under Lei Gei shouted, leaping up into the sky, his hand made a grasping motion as if trying to capture something.

  His feet barely left the ground when an overpowering giant hand emerged from the void, casting a shadow over the sky, descending down on the general. With no way to dodge, fear took over the general as he countered with his palm in panic. But the power of his palm waa shattered in an instant.

  A resoundi
ng boom rang in the square.

  The ground shook violently. When things calmed down, there was a human-shaped hole in the square, with the demonic beast expert at the bottom of it, unmoving.

  The others sucked in a cold breath, alarmed and shocked. This demonic beast general under Lei Ge ranked third amongst the one hundred and eight, an early Ninth Order Saint realm.Yet, he was defeated in the blink of an eye.

  Lei Gei’s eyes narrowed watching this.

  Space above the square rippled as more than a hundred people appeared in the air, exuding monstrous demonic qi that wholly overpowered Lei Ge and his generals.

  “It’s the Nine Dragons Temple!” One of the Violent Lion Temple’s demonic beast generals shouted.

  Weapons were quickly drawn in the face of a great enemy.

  “Ao Kun!” Lei Ge fixed his eyes on Ao Kun’s silhouette up in the air. An intense desire for battle skyrocketed from Lei Ge’s body as he yelled, “Ao Kun, what is your Nine Dragons Temple trying to do breaking into my Violent Lion Temple? Also, you gravely wounded my general the moment you arrived, what is the meaning of this?!”

  Actually, it was Huwang Xiao who wounded the demonic beast general earlier, but Lei Ge believed that only Ao Kun was capable of wounding his general in one hit.

  “No special meaning to it.” Came Ao Kun’s nonchalant replied.

  Lei Ge flew up from the square, “I’ve just decided to issue a letter of challenge to you, but since you’re already here today, the timing is perfect. There's no need to wait till next month.” Finished saying that, demonic qi gushed out from Lei Ge’s body as he wasted no time to strike a punch at Ao Kun.

  Cutting wind chased Lei Ge’s fist, shining like a dazzling golden sun, its great force roaring toward Ao Kun like layers of angry waves.

  Right at this moment, the same giant hand from before appeared again, slamming into Lei Ge’s hurricane fist. Space split and heavens shook as two opposing energies collided, causing all others to retreat swiftly in fright.

  Lei Ge only felt a terrifying aura envelop him. To his surprise, he was unable to resist, staggering back a hundred meters. His shocked eyes searched in the direction where the giant hand appeared, and it actually led him to a young human standing beside Ao Kun!