Asura Sovereign VIII

by Shian Jeen

  The person who seemed to be the leader of the five was baffled watching the other four others fly back for no apparent reason.

  The passing Duanren Institute students heard the commotion on this side and a crowd began to gather.

  “It’s those people from Demon Sword Hall!”

  “Am I seeing things? There are people who dare to beat up the Demon Sword Hall’s people!”

  Not so low whispers from the surrounding Duanren Institute students could be heard.

  Heartless Young Noble Yao Fei was killed by Huwang Xiao, while Young Noble Wuhen had been cultivating inside the Duanrean Palace. In the current Duanren Institute, Young Noble Demon Sword’s Demon Sword Hall inevitably became the hegemony power.

  In the eyes of all Duanren Institute students, Demon Sword Hall was an existence that couldn't be offended. It was bad luck to whoever offended them, it may even implicate their family.

  The man turned over, glaring venomously at Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti, “Good, just you wait!” With that, that man wanted to leave to call for reinforcement.

  Huwang Xiao was indifferent: “Come here.”

  To the man’s horror, he actually discovered that his body was moving backwards out of his control, all the way until he was right in front of Huwang Xiao.

  “Go back and tell Young Noble Demon Sword to come see me.” Huwang Xiao said.

  All the gathered students were stunned when they heard Huwang Xiao ordering Young Noble Demon Sword to come see him.

  “Has this kid gone crazy? He actually ordered Young Noble Demon Sword to come see him? Who does he think he is!”

  “It has been many years since Young Noble Demon Sword battled, do you think we have the chance to see him fight? I heard someone say that Young Noble Demon Sword is already a half-Saint!”

  Huwang Xiao’s words raised another round of buzzing whispers from the students all around. The last man from Demon Sword Hall was furious, but before he could curse out he caught the look in Huwang Xiao’ eyes. The sharp piercing gaze akin to staring at the tip of a blade sent a bone biting chill in his heart. All the words he was about to say were swallowed back down.

  With a light tap on the Demon Sword Hall disciple’s body, Huwang Xiao sent him out in a beautiful arc across the sky, vanishing from everyone’s sight.

  Although Xie Puti’s reputation in Duanren Institute was not small, he rarely appeared on the institute grounds, which was why only a small number of students could recognize him. As for Huwang Xiao, it had been more than a decade since he last stepped into the Duanren Institute, people who knew him were even less. Even in the past, not many of the students had seen Huwang Xiao.

  That Demon Sword Hall disciple fell hard on the ground. Repressing the fury in his heart, he scrambled away in panic back to the Demon Sword Hall. The instant he got back to Demon Sword Hall, he headed straight toward the yard where Young Noble Demon Sword was cultivating.

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  When the Demon Sword Hall disciple reached the courtyard where Young Noble Demon Sword usually cultivated, he finally saw Young Noble Demon Sword appearing after the guard reported the disciple’s arrival.

  “What is it?” Young Noble Demon Sword noted the flustered expression on the disciple’s face and a frown wrinkled his forehead as he questioned.

  The Demon Sword Hall disciple immediately knelt down and briefly recounted the events.

  “He wants me to go over to him?” Young Noble Demon Sword was dazed.

  The Demon Sword Hall disciple confirmed, “Yes, that person even said that there would be consequences if you don’t go!” Clearly, the last part was deliberately added by the disciple himself.

  Frost glazed over Young Noble Demon Sword’s eyes, “Very good, it seems like I’ve been quiescent for too long that people have started to forget this Young Noble Demon Sword’s demonic sword!” As he was saying this, he felt the sword in his left hand, adding, “It’s been many years since you drank blood. Today, I’ll let you drink your fill!” His figure disappeared from the hall in a flicker, bringing the Demon Sword Hall disciple with him.

  “Lead the way!”

  Under the Demon Sword Hall disciple’s guide, Young Noble Demon Sword and a group of Demon Sword Hall’s elites made their way to the place where Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti were in a grand manner.

  “It’s Young Noble Demon Sword! Young Noble Demon Sword has arrived!”

  “That’s Young Noble Demon Sword’s demonic sword, they say that Young Noble Demon Sword’s demonic sword must taste blood once unsheathed before returning to its sheath!”

  The Duanren Institute’s students were clamoring in anticipation.

  Even though Young Noble Demon Sword had yet to arrive, the students could see from afar a black sword formed from black demonic qi pointing toward the sky, releasing prickling sharp sword qi in all directions.

  Huwang Xiao was nonchalant.

  As the crowd of students worked up a racket at among themselves, the team of people from Demon Sword Hall entered their line of sight.

  Young Noble Demon Sword was clad in a fine black brocade robe with a blood-red cape hanging down his shoulders. At the corners of his eyes, there was a line of black demonic symbols that added a sternness to his face.

  Well, one had to admit that this Young Noble Demon Sword was good-looking. The moment he appeared, it drew fanatic screams and shrieks from the female students in the crowd.

  Hearing the screams and shrieks from the female students below, and feeling the awe and feverish reverence from the male students’ eyes, Young Noble Demon Sword slightly puffed up his chest. The sword qi around him vibrated with even more vigor.

  “Young Noble, it’s those two reckless death-seeking students!” The same Demon Sword Hall disciple pointed at Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti.

  Young Noble Demon Sword looked over in the direction pointed. He, of course, recognized Xie Puti and he was stunned seeing him here. But when he saw the black-haired young man standing beside Xie Puti, his heart quivered involuntarily. His pupils shrank, reflecting the fear in his heart, as if he just laid eyes on the world’s most horrifying existence.

  That disciple and the Demon Sword Hall elites were confused noticing Young Noble Demon Sword’s odd behavior.

  Before a crowd of Duanren Institute students, a visibly trembling Young Noble Demon Sword walked toward Huwang Xiao with laden footsteps, kneeling down in front of him: “Mo Jian salutes Lord Beast God!”

  Mo Jian was Young Noble Demon Sword’s real name.

  In an instant, it was as if all sound was sucked out from the atmosphere. Quiet, so quiet that one could probably hear the gentle sound of a withered leaf floating to the ground.

  All around were dumbstruck faces staring stupidly at Young Noble Demon Sword on his knees in front of the black-haired young man.

  What did Young Noble Demon Sword say just now? Beast, Lord, Lord Beast God?!

  Lord Beast God!

  All eyes zoomed onto Huwang Xiao. They were filled with shock mixed with surprise, disbelief, excitement, and awe. Whereas that Demon Sword Hall disciple fell on his butt, his mind blanked instantly, unable to determine the directions of north, south, east or west.

  Fifteen minutes later, under the respectful escort of Young Noble Demon Sword and the fervent gazes from the Duanren Institute students, Huwang Xiao left the institute with Xie Puit and Chen Cheng.

  After recognizing Huwang Xiao, Young Noble Demon Sword dared not even let out a fart in Huwang Xiao’s presence, and after knowing that Chen Cheng was an old acquaintance of Huwang Xiao from the Luo Tong Kingdom, he personally apologized to Chen Cheng several times.

  Stepping out from the Duanren Institute, Huwang Xiao asked Chen Cheng how he had been all these years snd his circumstances. Chen Cheng answered each question respectfully.

  In the end, Huwang Xiao gave Chen Cheng a hundred pieces of saint grade spirit pellets, and as an afterthought, he sent Chen Cheng into an apprenticeship under one of his Saint realm subordinates. Th
at could be considered as a form of care for Chen Cheng.

  Chen Cheng was thrilled and extremely grateful.

  Later, Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti did not return to the Xie Manor after bidding farewell to Chen Cheng, both of them detoured to the Southern Hill Manor instead.

  The Southern Hill Manor was the place Huwang Xiao purchased to settle down in the Duanren Imperial City in earlier years. It had been empty ever since he took the Huwang Family away.

  Pushing the front doors open, Xie Puti smiled, “Although you haven’t been back all these years, this Southern Hill Manor is still very well kept, every ten days or so I had some Xie Manor servants come over to tidy up the place.”

  Huwang Xiao replied, “Many thanks.”

  Xie Puti smiled in reply, “Is there a need to be so courteous between us?”

  Huwang Xiao too smiled.

  Entering the Southern Hill Manor, looking at the once familiar sceneries, Huwang Xiao’s heart was once again filled with melancholy.

  A while later, when Xie Puti was about to take his leave back to the Xie Manor, Huwang Xiao gave him a spatial ring. A spatial ring he got after killing one of the Deities Templar’s Grand Elders.

  Inside the spatial ring, other than the numerous gold coins that were piled mountain high, there were just as many saint grade spirit pellets, thousand-year-old herbs, and even quite a large amount of divine grade spirit pellets.

  When Xie Puti looked inside the spatial ring, he was scared stiff on the spot for a very long time.

  “This…” Xie Puti looked at Huwang Xiao, about to decline for it was too valuable.

  Huwang Xiao merely waved his hand casually, returning Xie Puti’s words to him, “Is there a need to be so courteous between us?”

  Thus Xie Puti could only put the things away a little helplessly.

  Huwang Xiao sent Xie Puti out and then summoned Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the other Saint realm experts over to organize the various families and sects from different kingdoms that submitted in this time’s battle. The entire process took a day.

  When the reorganization was done, Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the Saint realm experts each led a number of disciples out in different directions to continue cleaning up the remnants of Deities Templar’s forces in Snow Wind Continent. He himself headed alone to the Bedlam Lands to subjugate the forces over there.

  One month passed by quickly. The Sin City, City of Myriad Gods, Snow Dragon City, and the rest of the major cities in Bedlam Lands had surrendered to Huwang Xiao. With the ten major cities falling into Huwang Xiao’s hands, the rest had no option but to follow in surrendering.

  In a mere one month’s time, the Bedlam Lands was united under one person.

  In fact, the process of unifying the Bedlam Lands went smoother than Huwang Xiao imagined, barely coming across any significant level of resistance. After all, even Deities Templar’s headquarters and its Temple Preceptor were annihilated by Huwang Xiao, everyone knew without having to say it out loud: those who refuse to surrender, there was only death awaiting.

  By the time Huwang Xiao finished unifying the Bedlam Lands, Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the rest had rounded up the remnant Deities Templar forces, clearing them off from the Snow Wind Continent, while the many kingdoms and empires announced their submission.

  With this, the whole Martial Spirit World was unified under Huwang Xiao!

  Ever since the Martial Spirit World come into existence until now, no one could say for sure the number of years, there had never been any single person succeeding in uniting the whole Martial Spirit World. But Huwang Xiao succeeded.

  Three months later, Huwang Xiao and all the Huwang Family members moved back into the Duanren Imperial City’s Southern Hill Manor in a joyous and harmonious atmosphere.

  At one point, Huwang Xiao went to see his parents, Huwang Peng and Su Yan, to know their wishes and both elders said that they would like to return to the Luo Tong Kingdom, to live out their old days where the Huwang Clan Manor used to be.

  Knowing that, Huwang Xiao summoned Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu, giving each of them one million gold coins each and one year’s time to rebuild the Huwang Clan Manor. He decided to make a trip back with his family once the construction was done.

  At the same time, Huwang Xiao also had Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu inquire about any news of Li Lu.

  After integrating and reorganizing the various forces in the Martial Spirit World, as well as giving out a long list of tasks, Huwang Xiao entered closed-door practice to refine the sixteen beast cores of the half-God Realm ancient species demonic beasts that he killed on the Deities Templar island as preparation to break through into the God Realm.

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  This time, Huwang Xiao’s closed-door practice merely lasted three short days. Three days’ time with the Dragon Pearl assisting him to fully refine and absorb the sixteen beast cores of the half-step God Realm ancient species demonic beasts, propelling Huwang Xiao to late-Tenth Order Saint realm!

  Despite the seemingly thin dividing line between peak mid-Tenth Order Saint realm and late-Tenth Order Saint realm, after crossing that line, Huwang Xiao’s strength definitely increased more than two-fold.

  Moreover, the true essence whirling inside his dantian was more concentrated within the ten energy balls, looking like they were each nurturing a divine dragon within them, overturning sky and breathing out mist inside the little sphere space.

  Of course, Huwang Xiao’s True Dragon Physique had become even stronger, and even more heaven-defying. Yet Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi shook his head, “Although your body was rebuilt by the Dragon Pearl, you do not have a suitable body tempering technique, which is preventing you from bringing out this physique’s potential and power!”

  A suitable body tempering technique?! Huwang Xiao dazed.

  “I know you have the Linglong Treasure Pagoda, but the Golden Linglong Body is not suited to your True Dragon Physique.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi continued, “There’s not much use even if you cultivated the Golden Linglong Body.”

  “I’ll teach you one of our Dragon Clan’s body tempering techniques called Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi said. Almost instantly, new information of a body tempering technique appeared in Huwang Xiao’s mind, the Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art.

  In the next half month, other than practicing his norm of Godly Xumi Art, Asura Tactics, the Body Metamorphose Scripture, this Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art was the one he spent time on the most.

  In the early days of practicing this Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art, he had yet to feel anything special, however, half a month later, the results were obvious. After half a month, every time Huwang Xiao began circulating the Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art, the meridians inside his body resembled primordial divine dragons coming to life. These meridians, his five viscera and six bowels actually formed an indistinct formation diagram inside his body.

  Within the formation diagram, dragon essence qi surged in abundance like a neverending energy vortex.

  In the short span of half a month, Huwang Xiao’s True Dragon Physique had doubled in power and strength.

  Huwang Xiao was ecstatic, if the current him were to fight Deities Templar Preceptor Ying Tian, he had full confidence in defeating Ying Tian even without resorting to the Godly Xumi Art. And if he did, he could easily take Ying Tian’s life without any help from Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi.

  He then asked Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi about that indistinct formation diagram inside him, but who knew that the answer he received would be, “I’m not very clear about this. In fact, I have never practiced this Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art.”

  Huwang Xiao’s eyeballs nearly fell out of their sockets, “You did not practice this technique?”

  Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi retorted, “What’s so strange about that? I’ve already practiced another Dragon Clan’s top-ranked body tempering technique, therefore there was no need for me to practice another one. Still, I have to say, this Treasu
re Dragon Protective Shield Art is very difficult to practice, I didn’t expect you to actually succeed!”

  Huwang Xiao was rendered speechless.

  He felt like the Dragon Emperor deliberately gave him this difficult to practice Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art and giving it to him also indirectly exposed the fact that Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi did not harbor any big expectations of success.

  However, according to the information in his mind, reaching the minor completion stage required the cultivator to integrate as one with the formation diagram. Although the formation diagram did appear inside his body, it was indistinct and unstable. At the longest it could only last a few minutes, after that it'd vanish.

  Another month passed.

  In this month, Huwang Xiao had begun to practice the ninth and tenth moves of the Asura Sword Skill.

  Asura Sword Skill Ninth Move: Wind Blades Volutions!

  When displayed, this Asura Sword Skill ninth move would send out spiraling wind blades in waves and tides, with the wind blades growing more powerful at the later stages of the attack. Reaching the major completion stage, one display of the attack could create ten thousand wind blades, without beginning or end, stripping the enemy off every last shred of their courage.

  Whereas the tenth move of the Asura Sword Skill was called Asura Breaking Imprisonment. This attack created countless rays of Asura blade qi bursting upward from the earth, making it difficult to defend against. Moreover, it borrowed the vast potent energy of the earth, allowing one to kill enemies of greater strength.

  One month later, Huwang Xiao left the Southern Hill Estate alone, once again returning to the Ghost Domain in the Bedlam Lands. Reaching the Ghost Domain, Huwang Xiao traveled to the deepest area, slaughtering half-step God Realm ghost creatures one after another.

  Those that could be tamed were tamed, and those that couldn’t be tamed, Huwang Xiao resorted to the Blood Deed Pact to refine the half-step God Realm ghost creatures’ souls.