by Shian Jeen
Fish!
But these weren’t normal fish, they were something transformed from the natural religious energy in the air. Fish born from natural spiritual energy!
Huwang Xiao was overjoyed, this was a treasure a good Saint world expert would go crazy for, ah. Taking one could not only enhance one’s power, it also tempered one’s flesh, muscles, and bones, akin to being reborn from the spirit to every in . of the physical body, including internal organs, even to the ends of the locks. Removing the body's impurities, when one cultivates later on, it brings unimaginable benefits, especially in conditions of absorbing spiritual energy.
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He would never have expected that in the bottom of the rift would exist such a treasure! Even with Huwang Xiao’s relaxed demeanor, he couldn’t help getting thrilled, furthermore, in this small chilly spring pond, he detected two natural religious energy fish, not one!
Two natural spiritual energy fish! It got Huwang Xiao a while before he could calm down…
It had been fortunate that he previously Heavenly Treasures like Godly Mt. Xumi, otherwise, not even Saint realm experts could reach this much in the rift. ‘Even the very best of the Heavenly Treasures List, Godly Mt. Xumi, was covered with a level of crystallized ice due to the cool azure blowing wind, as strong as a Saint world expert’s flesh is, it cannot compare to the Godly Mt. Xumi.’ Huwang Xiao considered to himself.
Then, the next step he needed to think of was how to refine those two fish.
The truth is, although Huwang Xiao had broken through to Xiantian Eighth Order, his strength was still without order to refine these natural spiritual energy fish, even taking into consideration the existence of the Thousand Beast Cauldron in the Linglong Treasure Pagoda, it was a trying task.
In the end, Huwang Xiao observed the spiritual energy gathering across the cold spring like fog and decided to first refine it, increasing his strength. If he could advance to Xiantian Ninth Order after refining the spiritual energy around, he'd have a chance to absorb and refine both religious energy fish.
Even though spiritual energy throughout the cold spring could not compare to the two fish, it was sufficiently dense, the spiritual energy contained here was ten times more powerful than the azure cold wind Huwang Xiao had enhanced earlier.
Immediately, Huwang Xiao presented the Linglong Treasure Pagoda and started the Thousand Beast Cauldron array. Slowly but steadily, he absorbed and refined the spiritual energy with the 1000 Demon Engulfing Destruction Array, only stopping when he sensed that it was nearing the limit. Then, he initiated the Heaven and Earth Origin Reverting Array to dispel the cold element within, before swallowing and refining the pure religious energy in his body.
One day after another passed.
As Huwang Xiao refined the spiritual energy around day in and day out, his battle qi cultivation improved rapidly, advancing into late-Xiantian Eighth Order before long.
One month later, he stepped into late-Xiantian Eighth Order.
The spiritual energy here was ten times or more abundant and rich than the azure cold wind he first came across. As Huwang Xiao’s strength continued to climb higher, enough time required to refine the religious energy shortened as his swiftness increased. Two months later, he completely processed every shred of spiritual energy around, successfully advancing into top late-Xiantian 8th Order.
Peak late-Xiantian Eighth Order!
Half a step more to breakthrough to Xiantian Ninth Order.
Huwang Xiao’s enthusiasm dampened slightly. Relating to his original plan, if he could progress to Xiantian Ninth Order, there is a bigger chance he could refine and absorb both spiritual energy seafood, but now...
Huwang Xiao hesitated a little as he stared at the two spiritual energy fish inside the fish pond. If he forcefully sophisticated them, there was a possibility for the frigid frosty component to enter his body. At that time, not only would his cultivation not increase, he would bring upon damaging consequences upon himself, the gains wouldn't make up for the loss.
He pondered for an instant and made a decision to first explore the place. After all, both fish were in the fish-pond, they couldn't take flight away. With that in mind, Huwang Xiao led the Godly Mt. Xumi deeper in.
Flying using the Godly Mt. Xumi for a short while, abruptly the scenery up ahead changed, the barren and dry environment was replaced by lush greenery filled with vitality, the soil was protected with a luxurious green coat. Furthermore, the rock and roll walls on both sides, which were supposed to be hidden underneath a layer of ice, experienced plants and foliage within the rocky surface.
They were like two different worlds.
What is happening?! Huwang Xiao was stunned. Quickly guiding Godly Mt. Xumi to the edge of the greenery, Huwang Xiao exited the Xumi Temple and made an appearance outside. As soon as he was out, he experienced a gentle warm breeze blowing, similar to the summer blowing wind, extremely comfortable, whereas taking a step back, biting cold wind flow seemed to penetrate bone-deep, as if his organs would freeze solid any moment.
This was just like a two-layer world of ice and fire. Merely the length of 1 step, yet two very distinct sensations.
Afterwards, Huwang Xiao returned to his senses. Looking in front, he was sure there is something strange, hence, he flew forwards.
Half an hour later, Huwang Xiao was standing in front of a tree!
A tree ten zhang tall, with flowing red energy at its trunk that looked like flames! In fact, this tree, from the trunk, branches, leaves, was entirely flaming red in color! Growing among the branches were a dozen or so fist-sized fiery red fruits. These pieces of fiery-red fruit exuded vast religious energy no weaker than the spiritual energy around the cold spring.
The only difference was that the spiritual energy from the cold planting season contained extreme frigid energy within, tyrannical at the same time, while these bits of fiery red fruit contained a gentle fire element. Standing beneath the tree was like standing up in the sunlight, warm and cozy, serene and content.
“A tree such as this could actually grow in this deep rift.” Huwang Xiao muttered as he studied the red tree.
Back when he was still in the Duanren Institute, he had gone through many books that introduced Martial Spirit World’s odd wonders, but none of them mentioned concerning this particular tree or that cold spring.
Huwang Xiao circled the tree as he pondered; could it be that this tree did not belong to the Martial Nature World? A thought instantly struck Huwang Xiao’s mind.
Godly Mt. Xumi was a treasure hailed from the divine Buddhist World, the Asura Tactics was the Netherworld’s top cultivation technique… if things from Buddhist World and Netherworld could exist within the Martial Heart World, then there was a chance that tree originated from the Divine World!
“No matter, eat first, chat later.” Mere seconds later, Huwang Xiao shook his mind for considering too much. Converging these nonsensical thoughts, he sat down cross-legged on the ground and opened his mouth area. A suction drive drawn one of the fiery red fruits straight into his mouth as he began to run the Asura Tactics to soak up the religious energy within.
The instant the fiery-red fruit melt into his body, a warm energy traveled to his four limbs and every part of his body. The same situation when he enhanced the cold springtime spiritual energy, the battle qi in his Qi Sea rolled and rumbled.
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Again and again, fight qi crashed against the Ninth Order hurdle. Two days later, Huwang Xiao finally refined a bit of the fire-red fruits. Though he had yet to break through, he was closer than before. Huwang Xiao continuing without preventing, sucking in a second fruit into his body and began refining.
By the time he completed refining the second fruit, he finally broke into Xiantian Ninth Order. Even though, Huwang Xiao didn't stop. He continued to refine the fiery-red fruits one by one.
Sitting cross-legged underneath the big tree, the twin dragon martial spirits hovered above Huwang Xiao’s head, the atmosphere
of dragon might flooded the entire rift as glows of midnight black, gold, dark ember, and fiery-red swirled around Huwang Xiao.
Breaking through Xiantian Ninth Order, the black color and blue dragons reached the size of a hundred zhang long, seemingly covering heaven and globe. Ancient True Dragon qi poured from the void above.
A month later, Huwang Xiao, who was sitting within the tree, stopped at last. Getting up slowly, the bottom shook beneath his feet. After refining all the fiery-red fruits, his cultivation reached peak mid-Xiantian Ninth Order!
Peak mid-Xiantian Ninth Order!
Sense the abundant power inside his body, Huwang Xiao couldn’t help roaring for the sky such as a dragon. His roar reverberated through the rift, piercing the sky, reaching as far as a hundred kilometers round the Broken Tiger Rift area.
Running his battle qi, Huwang Xiao stomped his feet on the floor, increasing a cloud of fine sand. With Huwang Xiao as the guts, deep fissures lined the ground surface. Stones and rocks rolled down from both edges of the rift wall space and the whole rift area appeared to be shaking.
This is Huwang Xiao’s current strengthㅡearth shattering might, enough to collapse a mountain.
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Huwang Xiao recalled the blue and dark dragons back to his body, the powerful atmosphere surging around him slowly converged.
A short while later, stones and stones ceased rolling down from the rift walls.
Huwang Xiao looked at the tree before him. A thought arrived to him and he suddenly struck a palm out at the trunk, but the tree didn’t even tremble! With Huwang Xiao’s current power at peak mid-Xiantian Ninth Order, striking the flame tree actually didn’t even make an individual little bit of tree bark fall. Not to mention, the branches and leaves remained still, unaffected.
Huwang Xiao was amazed. Operating his fight qi, increasing his power, he used both palms this time around to strike on the tree trunk, ‘Bang!’ A noisy blast rendered the air, yet the flaming tree didn’t even shake.
In the long run, Huwang Xiao soul transformed with both black and blue dragon martial spirits, stunning out at full force at the tree trunk. However, the three simply shook for a moment, just for a moment. Neither leaves of branches fell. Furthermore, at full force, Huwang Xiao’s hand didn’t even manage to leave a print in the trunk. Forget palm print, there wasn’t even a scratch at all.
Huwang Xiao was greatly astonished. The sturdiness of this tree was a tad too terrifying. At his current level, the pressure from one of his palm was enough to blast an average Xiantian Seventh Order, a good Xiantian Eight Order into pieces without even soul transforming along with his twin dragon martial spirits.
Yet, landing a complete force assault on the tree trunk after spirit transformation didn't harm this nameless fire tree in the slightest.
With an instant leap, Huwang Xiao landed on one of the branches on top of the open fire tree. Sitting down in a meditative present, he ran the Asura Techniques and found that cultivating on the fireplace tree was considerably faster than sitting underneath it.
While Huwang Xiao absorbed spiritual energy, the fire tree branches, leaves, and trunk would absorb the fire element energy from the air. As the open fire component energy enveloped the tree, it also enveloped Huwang Xiao wholly, giving him inexplicable comfort.
1 day passed and Huwang Xiao felt as though he was reborn from his soul to his flesh.
‘This fire spiritual energy shouldn’t be some average kind of spiritual energy.’ Huwang Xiao was delighted with the finding as the thought crossed his brain. Could the religious fireplace energy assimilated by this tree come from the Divine World?! Huwang Xiao viewed the nameless fire tree, eyes twinkling.
Undoubtedly, this nameless open fire tree was a great treasure, he previously to think of a way to take it away with him. However, divine trees and shrubs such as this one couldn’t be placed into a spatial ring. Including the Asura Ring.
Still, Huwang Xiao wanted to try. With a thought, the Asura Ring emerged on his finger and he infused it with battle qi as he attempted to go the fireplace tree into the ring. The fiery red of the tree apparently emerged alive, exuding a force that repelled Huwang Xiao. Huwang Xiao was delivered staggering backward, his bloodstream roared violently in his blood vessels before it calmed down time later.
Seeing this result, Huwang Xiao shook his mind and let the Asura Band submerge again.
Huwang Xiao’s brows furrowed deeply looking at the fire tree. Then, an idea struck him! Swiftly calling out Godly Mt. Xumi. The Asura Ring may have failed, but how about Godly Mt. Xumi?
Under Huwang Xiao’s control, Godly Mt. Xumi flew up, hovering right above the open fire tree. Huwang Xiao waved his hands, sending multiple streams of fight qi in to the Ten Buddha Formation at the center, initiating the array formation. Instantly, a blinding light burst forth from the Godly Mt. Xumi, achieving the sky, Buddhism energy spread out comparable to the morning sunshine. Golden light sprinkled within the fireplace tree, enveloping the entire tree.
When the Buddhism energy enveloped the fire tree, Huwang Xiao was delighted to find out that the fire tree didn’t put up a resistance like it did before, it only emitted a gentle fiery glow.
The fiery flow blended in with Buddhism energy, glowing brighter, lighting up the whole rift like it was a surreal fantasy.
A moment later, the fire tree shook as its roots gradually left the ground, flying into the Godly Mt. Xumi, disappearing immediately in to the Godly Mt. Xumi’s space.
Huwang Xiao jumped with joy. He expected to exert some effort to move the tree into Godly Mt. Xumi, however the tree actually proceeded to go in so easily.
He finally got the fire tree!
In a flicker, Huwang Xiao appeared inside the Xumi Temple and noticed that the open fire tree was rooted next to the Ten Buddha Formation and the entire Xumi Temple sensed warm and comfortable as a fire element spiritual energy flowed to every corner of the Xumi Temple.
Looking at the fireplace tree, Huwang Xiao was in an extremely good mood. With the fire tree within the Ten Buddha Development, he had the confidence to discovery to Saint realm and higherㅡGod Realm!
A while later Huwang Xiao steadily calmed down and exited the Xumi Temple. Since he previously broken to Xiantian Ninth Order, achieving maximum mid-Xiantian Ninth Order, it was time to refine the two spiritual energy seafood.
Even though the fire tree was taken away by Huwang Xiao, that area of the rift was just like warm as spring, and the cold energy from the other side did not encroach over, despite the absence of the tree.
Huwang Xiao traced his path back again to the chilly spring, and in a short time, he was position at the advantage of the small cool spring lake.
Observing both spiritual energy fish going swimming merrily in the water, Huwang Xiao called out the Linglong Cherish Pagoda and initiated the Thousands of Demon Engulfing Destruction Array. A powerful suction push swallowed the two fish into the cauldron.
The instant both fish entered the Thousand Beast Cauldron, a layer of ice formed on the surface of the Linglong Treasure Pagoda. Huwang Xiao quickly infused his battle qi in to the Heaven and Globe Origin Reverting Array within the Thousand Beast Cauldron to refine the two fish, expelling the cold element within. At the same time, a small part of his fight qi was sent into the Ten Buddha Formation, using the Buddhism energy to melt away the level of azure snow on the Linglong Treasure Pagoda’s surface.
But Huwang Xiao was shocked when the layer of azure glaciers melted by the Buddhism energy formed again over the Linglong Treasure Pagoda. As if the two seafood contained endless amounts of chilly element, the coating of azure ice recurred over and over.
Despite having Huwang Xiao’s top mid-Xiantian Ninth Order strength, maintaining both sides’ requirements of battle qi was onerous. Later, Huwang Xiao had a need to use the internal power in his dantian as support.
Now that Huwang Xiao’s internal drive had almost fully transformed into true essence energy, he noticed that the Buddhism
energy from the 10 Buddha Formation was denser and purer when internal force was used in comparison to his fight qi.
One hour passed.
Finally, the layer of azure ice covering the Linglong Treasure Pagoda’s surface slowly melted and thinned, and three hours later, the layer of azure ice didn't form again.
Viewing this, Huwang Xiao was able to breathe out in relief finally, still, he dared not proceed carelessly, persevering in pushing the array inside the 1000 Beast Cauldron to refine both fish, expelling the remaining cold elements.
Five times and five nights later, the Thousand Beast Cauldron trembled, shining brightly, the last shreds of the cool element were expelled from the two spiritual energy fish. When the lid was opened up, both religious energy seafood flew right out of the cauldron in sparkling splendor.
Huwang Xiao opened his mouth area and a suction force drew both fish into his body. In that instant, spiritual energy akin to a boundless ancient sea roared to every inches of Huwang Xiao’s body. Terrified, Huwang Xiao hurried to perform the Asura Strategies, fervently absorbing and suppressing the religious energy, not letting it run amok.
While Huwang Xiao was refining the spiritual energy seafood, two figures were rushing on the Broken Tiger Rift, stopping at the same rift edge above.
The new arrivals consisted of an elderly and a young man. Both men were clad in dark violet brocade robes, on the upper body of their robes was embroidered the pattern of a six-horned devil scorpion.
“Are you sure that dragon’s roar came from the bottom of the rift?” The old man Fenggong questioned.
Dai Li hurried to answer, “Yes, Professional. At that time I was close by this area, I heard it clearly.”
Fenggong nodded as he stared down at the bottomless rift.
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“Stand guard here, I’m heading down to have a look.” Fenggong solemnly said.
“Yes, Master.” Dai Li clarified respectfully.
