by Shian Jeen
Summoning the Linglong Cherish Pagoda, Huwang Xiao infused fight qi in to the Thousand Beast Cauldron and triggered the Thousand Demon Engulfing Destruction Array to suck the dragon egg inside. He then turned on the Heaven and Globe Origin Reverting Array, the light around the Earth Dragon egg pulsated ever more brightly.
Ten minutes passed, the bright yellow glow of the earth element seeped right out of the space of the Thousands of Beast Cauldron’s lid and tiny strands of energy streamed out. Although these strands of energy were small, the energy contained in them was shocking.
Huwang Xiao was delighted seeing this, his palm slapped the cauldron lid and sucked in the substance of the planet earth Dragon egg into his body. Quickly operating the Asura Methods to refine the abundant energy from the Earth Dragon egg.
The instant the dragon essence entered his body, Huwang Xiao felt all of his meridians, Qi Sea, and dantian being filled up with vigorous surging energy, prompting Huwang Xiao to increase his refining speed even more. His Qi Sea, meridians, and dantian were filled over and over again, expanding in size each time they filled.
To Huwang Xiao, his Qi Sea, meridians, and dantian were comparable to a dry desert, whereas the dragon essence was the vitality injected within. There experienced never been an instant where his Qi Sea, meridians, and dantian were filled with spry vitality.
1 hour passed, two hours passed…
The black and blue dragons hovered above Huwang Xiao’s head, roaring with excitement. The more Huwang Xiao processed the dragon fact, the more powerful the twin dragons martial spirits became, these were even more solid and bigger.
For the black and blue twin dragon martial spirits, the dragon essence from the egg was, without a doubt, the best nourishment. As Huwang Xiao continued to refine the dragon substance, the dark and blue dragon martial spirits reaped great benefits, growing stronger and more powerful.
One day passed.
A resplendent halo shrouded Huwang Xiao’s body, the atmosphere of dragon essence permeated the Xumi Temple hall. Even the nameless fire tree brought into the Xumi Temple by Huwang Xiao was emitting a soft shine. If one took a closer look, they might notice that the faint dragon fact that lingered in the air was being slowly absorbed in to the nameless open fire tree.
This nameless fire tree was also absorbing the dragon essence!
Even so, it only absorbed the power floating in the air, what was expelled by Huwang Xiao, thus it didn’t affect the refinement of dragon essence inside Huwang Xiao’s body.
When three times had passed, the nameless fire tree actually bore fruit, fiery-red fruits were hanging from the branches, glistening with a tantalizing luster.
Time flowed and very soon 10 days passed.
The resplendent halo around Huwang Xiao grew stronger, lighting the Xumi Temple in a prism of rainbow colors.
As the nameless fire tree absorbed the dragon essence, it actually grew a circle bigger, its lush foliage was like puffing fire clouds, glowing a reddish gold. Huwang Xiao sat in the center of the Ten Buddha Formation, and coincidentally, in the area shrouded by the puffs of fireplace clouds.
From afar, he looked like a sleeping fire dragon. In comparison to ten days ago, the atmosphere around Huwang Xiao’s body got more than doubled.
Half of a month passed.
On this particular day, the dazzling lamps that filled the hall vanished all of a sudden, enough time in the spacious hall appeared to have stopped when an awe-inspiring energy of light burst forth from Huwang Xiao’s silhouette, shaking heaven and earth.
Majestic dragon might flood into the hall, originating from Huwang Xiao.
When Huwang Xiao opened his eyes, the sky in the outside world above the large tree was rapidly changing.
Half a month, it took Huwang Xiao half a month to finish refining the energy from the dragon egg. The amount of dragon essence inside the egg was designed for the hatching of a real dragon, so in short, Huwang Xiao sophisticated a dragon.
Now, every inches of Huwang Xiao’s body, Qi Sea, meridians, bloodstream, and flesh contained the pure energy and essence of a dragon. The surging dragon might that packed the hall belonged to Huwang Xiao himself, rather than the black and blue twin dragon martial spirits.
Submerging his spiritual senses within to check his physical condition, Huwang Xiao found out that his meridians and veins extended five to six times and we're much tougher as well. Furthermore, each vein was such as a real dragon, devouring and absorbing spiritual energy at all time.
In the space above Huwang Xiao’s dantian, true essence gathered like pieces of liquid crystal.
“This!” Huwang Xiao was surprised and ecstatic. His dantian’s inner force acquired fully, completely, entirely, turned into true substance! This liquid crystal form of true fact seemed to keep a stronger power than he had expected. With every complete routine, he could feel his physical power enhancing.
Huwang Xiao’s battle qi cultivation reached top late-Xiantian Tenth Order. Although he was somewhat disappointed that he did not advance in to the Saint world, he was contented, because moving into Saint realm was never so easy. As heaven-defying as an Earth Dragon egg was, it was nearly impossible to enable a Xiantian to break through into the Saint realm within the span of a month.
“It’s time to make a visit to the Ghost City.” Huwang Xiao stood up, muttering to himself. A sharpened light glinted in his eye and his momentum came rollingㅡif he come across Zhao Chen again, he was confident that he could fight on a single level without exposing the existence of the Godly Xumi Artwork!
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For Yao Fei, if they met again, Huwang Xiao had the self-confidence to squash him easily! It would be no different than squashing an ant, crushing him into meat paste little by little between his fingertips!
Just like Huwang Xiao was going to exit the Xumi temple and go to the outside world, he caught sight of the nameless fire tree and the numerous fiery fruits hanging on its branches. He also noticed that its trunk was wider, it's branches thicker, and it’s leaves were denser and more lively.
Huwang Xiao stared slightly wide-eyed, dumbfounded.
In the past few months, he previously tried different methods, yet didn't make the nameless fire tree grow even a centimeter, forget about making it bear fruit. However now, not only was it taller and bigger, it was even bearing fruits!
One, two, 3…!
With an individual glance, Huwang Xiao counted twenty-six fiery fruits, exceeding the number of fruits which were in the tree when Huwang Xiao first found it in the bottom of the rift. Pondering on the changes of the nameless open fire tree, Huwang Xiao guessed that its growth was related to the dragon essence. His fingers made a twirling movement and a red fruit flew to his hands, then he opened his mouth and swallowed the entire fruit.
Getting into his body, the open fire fruits melted into pure flames element energy, growing away to his Qi Sea and meridians. Barely the time it required for an incense to burn, Huwang Xiao had completely enhanced the fireplace fruit. His Qi Sea, meridians, blood vessels, and flesh experienced reached a terrifying new elevation after refining the planet earth Dragon egg, so much that Huwang Xiao no more needed to sit down and meditate to refine uncommon elixirs like the fire fruit.
However, Huwang Xiao shook his head from then on. If he was still a Xiantian Ninth Order warrior, this new progressed version of the open fire fruit might have been able to enhance his cultivation, however now its benefits were negligible. Hence, Huwang Xiao remaining all of those other red fruits where they were, keeping them for his family for when he would see them later.
With a flicker, Huwang Xiao exited the Xumi Temple, went out of the tree hole and, determining his position, he made his way on the Ghost City.
Refining the Earth Dragon egg delayed him for half of a month, and by now, the Ghost City got already made an appearance for eight days.
Huwang Xiao’s silhouette was like a phantom under the moonlight as he sped up to the destination unobstructed, taking an one day and n
ight’s journey before he reached the Bad Spirits Hill.
Evil Spirits Mountain was, in fact, an extended hill range covering an unknown land area, further than the attention could see. The Ghost City was one of Bedlams forbidden lands, but Evil Spirits Hill was one the biggest nefarious locations. Although Bad Spirits Mountain wasn’t considered a deep region of the Ghost Website, it gathered a large number of wicked spirits, demons, and devils that continued a rampage, it was a place where ghost and demonic aura pierced sky high.
However, when Huwang Xiao reached the Evil Spirits Mountain, what awed him wasn’t the heavy ghost and demonic aura, but the unparalleled giant of the city hovering above the Evil Spirits Hill!
A real, crimson red city that stretched for tens of thousands of miles and appeared to be just as tall!
The city walls were above 100 zhang, made from an unfamiliar ore. The complete time, blood flowed endlessly from the top of the city walls! This blood was a blackish red, emanating a sense of horror, even position a few kilometers in the length, Huwang Xiao discovered an unpleasant pungent stench, akin to the foul smell of thousands of millennium old corpses, whose stench was never eliminated.
The airspace above the town loomed in total darkness, obscuring the moonlight in this part of the Ghost Site. Looking closer, Huwang Xiao noticed that the cloud of darkness that floated over the city consisted of evil spirits, devils, and half-ghost half-devil entities!
An orchestra of high-pitched shrieks and howls echoed from above the town, agonizing one’s eardrums.
Looking at the grand floating city, the amazement Huwang Xiao felt was hard to describe. While he was still observing the city, a piercing shriek rang abruptly and a big ghost-like creature separated from the dark cloud above, flying straight at Huwang Xiao.
Jolted back again to the present, Huwang Xiao didn’t spare a glance at the creature, his hand flipped and slammed at the it, causing its mass to explode in the air. Then, he leaped up, flying to the gigantic floating Ghost City.
However the gates leading into Ghost City were blocked by the swarm of countless evil spirits, devils, and half-ghost half-devil creatures that wouldn't even let water trickle through. For Huwang Xiao to enter the Ghost City, he had to wipe out his way in.
Not definately not the Ghost City gates, Huwang Xiao saw three middle-aged men clad in certain sect’s blue robes amid slaughtering their way in to the city, but before they could succeed, these were drowned by a swarm of evil spirits and devils, bitten off, torn apart and eaten alive!
Huwang Xiao watched as the three people had their flesh torn off by several hundreds of bad spirits and little devils, from the hands, thighs, to other parts. The brutal bloodiness triggered Huwang Xiao’s brows to scrunch together.
This horrifying scene was also witnessed by other warriors and sect disciples who had the same considered slaughtering their way into the city and caused these to retreat in panic, their faces turned a deadly white and a chill that wouldn't go away crept into their hearts.
They could see that the group of three were all late-Xiantian Tenth Orders.
“Look, someone’s trying to break right into the Ghost City again!” At this point, one of the onlookers exclaimed, pointing at Huwang Xiao.
“A peak late-Xiantian Tenth Order? Another one is going to die, probably eaten by these evil spirits before he can even touch the town gates!” An onlooker sneered.
“That’s right, this is actually the ninth day of Ghost City’s appearance, the number of evils spirits and devils plugging the entrance keeps increasing. There’s no way to go into Ghost City without a Saint world expert leading!”
In the short lapse of time when the people around were talking, Huwang Xiao leaped through the environment, landing about three hundred meters from the city gates.
The evil spirits and devils crowding the entry saw a fresh prey approaching and most of them bared their sharp fang and claw in excitement, pouncing towards Huwang Xiao.
Watching this, Huwang Xiao snorted, his hand raised up and struck an Earthen Buddha Hand frontward. In that brief moment, the world was filled with a myriad of Buddha statues, holy Buddha luminescence lighted in the land.
Harrowing cries came from the evil spirits and devils as they exploded, erased from the world.
Buddhism energy flooded out from Huwang Xiao’s body like angry waves, spreading to his surrounding.
The second swarm of black creatures that was about to join in pulled back hastily, as though they were facing the most appalling thing in the world. Some didn’t stop in time, coming into contact with the Buddhism energy emanating from Huwang Xiao’s body and tragic shrieks rendered the air due to excruciating pain as dark green mist sizzled from these dark creatures’ bodies.
These evil spirits and devils retreated in haste out of Huwang Xiao’s path.
The other sect disciples and warriors’ jaws dropped to the ground watching this result, only managing to recover their senses when Huwang Xiao’s silhouette disappeared from sight behind the town gates.
“This, who was that kid? How could he have such 100 % pure Buddhism energy?!”
“Is that a Blessed Buddha Emperor’s secret genius disciple?!”
“That palm attack at the moment, what kind of battle skill was that? Will the Blessed Buddha Empire have such battle skill?!”
Intertwined with everyone’s shock was extreme regret, if they understood earlier, they would have followed right behind Huwang Xiao, getting into the Ghost City.
Huwang Xiao looked back again behind him after entering the city. Those evil spirits and devils were kept outside the town gates, three zhang from them, struggling to come even half an inch better. There had to be some unique arrays around the city gates that kept those creatures out from the city, for the massive quantity of animals in the sky above the town, the same theory should apply.
Huwang Xiao strode in, sitting on one of the streets, a biting chilly blowing wind blew over. The howling sounds issued were enough to scare away most people. Huwang Xiao appeared around and all he could see was absolute desolateness and heavy solitude. On his still left and right were collapsed constructions, dilapidated ruins, and headless systems that were strewn everywhere. Pieces of imperfect body parts and blood stains decorated the landscapes.
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Inside the Ghost City, a very thick scent of blood lingered in the air. Signs of death and massacre appeared around every corner…
Ghostly and evil aura rumbled outside the Ghost City’s perimeter, whereas inside the city itself, not a shred of these two could be detected. But Huwang Xiao knew that this didn’t mean that there were no evil spirits or devils here, more like they were detained, sealed in a certain place.
Once this seal was broken, those evil auras would certainly be overwhelming.
Huwang Xiao’s battle qi ran gently in his veins as he walked down the streets, he was cautious and ready for any sudden movement. Despite his strength having been greatly enhanced after refining the Earth Dragon egg, advancing to the peak of late-Xiantian Tenth Order, this was the Ghost City, a place where even Saint realm experts could fall at any moment.
Huwang Xiao continued in the same manner for more half an hour, the streets remained empty of other people. Other than the death aura in the air, the only thing that accompanied Huwang Xiao was the howling wind.
The severed limbs, headless corpses, and mutilated bodies were most likely the result of battles amongst disciples of different sects that had entered the Ghost City seven to eight days ago, their bodies had yet to rot.
Huwang Xiao spread out his spiritual sense around him and continued moving forward with care and caution. It was at this time that a faint scream was heard from the front, as soft it may be, Huwang Xiao could still hear it.
It was a human voice!
Huwang Xiao made a split second decision and flew in the direction of the voice. He didn’t see even one living person ever since he stepped into the city, this was an excellent opportunity to ask so
meone where the sect disciples that entered Ghost City days earlier had gone.
Soon, following the sound of the voice, Huwang Xiao reached the deserted ruins of a courtyard. In the middle of the yard, he came to the scene of a young woman that could be considered pretty, pleading fearfully at two brawny men holding sharp blades in their hands.
“I beg you, let me go, as long as you let me go, I promise to do anything.” The woman endlessly pleaded.
“You would do anything for us to let you go?” The man in green robe gave a nasty chuckle, “It’s not impossible to let you go, this master’s lower part hasn’t enjoyed some pleasure for a long time, make this master’s lower part happy and I can consider letting you go.” He pointed to the crotch of his pants where a tent rose.
His comrade broke out in boisterous laughter.
The woman stubbornly shook her head, trying to restrain her sobs to a minimum.
The green robed man strode towards the woman, his hand brutally grabbing the clothing on her chest and tearing it off, exposing her jade-white breasts. Shivering in the wind, it was a scene that would arouse desire and lust.
Watching the scene in front of him, the brawny green robed man swallowed loudly with lust. He took another large stride forward, wanting to grab the woman’s thigh, but a sharp light glinted in front of his eyes. Both of his hands paused in midair, his eyes were wide with shock even as he tumbled to the ground in the next second.
Huwang Xiao appeared in the ruined yard, in front of the three people. The other man was jarred seeing his comrade’s corpse, his fearful eyes darted towards Huwang Xiao’s face.
The woman awakened, quickly tidying her clothing before approaching Huwang Xiao’s side with an embarrassed expression: “Many thanks for Young Noble’s helping hand.”
However, just as her sentence ended, a sharp blade appeared in her hand stabbing down on Huwang Xiao’s back. If Huwang Xiao spine was severed, as powerful as Huwang Xiao was, he would be gravely injured, even paralyzed on the spot.
