by Shian Jeen
This Phoenix Volcano that Huwang Xiao was going to was located in the deepest region of the Fire World!
Moreover, according to legend, in the ancient times, there was a group of divine phoenixes that died inside the Phoenix Volcano for an unknown reason. The phoenix qi around the Phoenix Volcano was extremely rich, which attracted phoenixes to nest around it.
The strength of those phoenixes was no joking matter. At a rough estimation, the weakest would probably be a Seventh Order God Realm, and the strongest of them were definitely in the Highgod Realm.
Huwang Xiao’s presence around the Phoenix Volcano would surely be perceived by those phoenixes.
Huwang Xiao’s head ached.
This was much more troublesome compared to the time he was searched for the Black Tortoise Divine Fire.
“You have the Black Tortoise Divine Fire, so you won’t have to worry about those other fires like the Godly Purple Lightning Fire or Great Golden Flames.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi solemnly said, “But your biggest problem is the phoenixes nesting around the Phoenix Volcano.”
Huwang Xiao nodded in agreement.
Then again, no matter what, since he already determined that the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire was in the Fire World, this trip was inevitable.
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Before leaving the Vermilion Bird Institute, Huwang Xiao removed the Spirit Amplifying Array and the defensive formations he arranged around the Lightning Fire Peak, returning it to how it was before.
By the time Huwang Xiao was done, two days were gone.
Standing in the air above the Lightning Fire Peak, he looked at every building and corner. His life at the Vermilion Bird Institute wouldend from now on.
It was time to go.
‘But I will return.’ Huwang Xiao spoke to himself, and when he did return, it would be when he unified the four galaxies.
From the beginning of time, never before had anyone managed to unify the four galaxies. Forget unifying the four galaxies, no one had succeeded in unifying even a single galaxy, not in the Black Tortoise Galaxy, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, or the White Tiger Galaxy.
But Huwang Xiao wanted to unify all four galaxies! And he was confident that he could do it!
However, unifying the four galaxies wasn’t his ultimate ambition.
Huwang Xiao turned around and flew away, no longer lingering. The Lightning Fire Peak grew smaller and smaller behind him, disappearing from view.
Arriving at the Vermilion Bird Institute’s only transmission array, he paid the fees and was transported out from the institute grounds.
Inside a palace building somewhere within the Vermilion Bird Institute, Wang Qingjiang was chuckling as he listened to one his subordinates’ report, “Cheng Huai’an, you finally cannot endure staying inside the institute.” Before the last of his words sounded, Wang Qingjiang had already stood up, disappearing in a flicker toward the transmission array.
After leaving the Vermilion Bird Institute, Huwang Xiao decided to fly straight to the Fire World. There was no transmission array in the Fire World, but it wasn’t too far away from the institute.
In ten days or less, Huwang Xiao would reach his destination.
He flew at in the vast space, and soon, the Vermilion Bird Institute was no longer in sight. When he was passing by an uninhabited planet, a snicker sounded, “Cheng Huai’an, where are you going ah, flying so fast.”
The space in front of Huwang Xiao slightly rippled and Wang Qingjiang’s figure emerged.
Other than Wang Qiingjiang, there were six odd-shaped old and middle-aged men. These six old and middle-aged men either had arms that were too long, legs that were too short or had gargantuan-sized heads on a small stature. In short, their features were too comical.
Looking at them, Huwang Xiao felt like laughing.
Watching Huwang Xiao’s expression, Wang Qingjiang shook his head with a faint smile, “Cheng Huai’an, death is upon you, yet you’re still in the mood to laugh.” Showing Huwang Xiao a pitying expression.
Huwang Xiao spoke in a taunting drawled, “Wang Qingjiang, aren’t you afraid that the institute will convict you as a traitor?”
These six ‘people’ exuded strong demonic qi, a clear evidence that they were part of the demonic beast clans. Highly likely they were the Piercing Sky Beast King’s subordinates.
Wang Qingjiang laughed as if he had just heard a joke, “Traitor? You better worry about how miserable you’re going to die in a while.” He looked at the demonic beast clan master beside him, “Senior Bixin, this is Cheng Huai’an, Junior Brother Liang Guang died because of him.”
The old man nodded, dismissing Wang Qingjiang in a haughty tone, “You can go now, your business is finished. These are your five billion Zhuque coins.” He said, throwing a spatial ring to Wang Qingjiang.
Inside the spatial ring were five billion Zhuque coins.
Following the Piercing Sky Absolute Kill Order, the person who killed Huwang Xiao would receive ten billion Zhuqie coins reward, as for the person who provided information that led to a kill would receive half, five billion.
Wang Qingjiang’s divine sense swept over the space inside the spatial ring and a wide smile bloomed on his face. With these five billion, he would be able to purchase the best land on the Dounan Mainland and build the largest residence.
He carefully put away the spatial ring, but he did not immediately leave. Wang Qingjiang wanted to see how Cheng Huai’an died.
Seeing that Wang Qingjiang did not leave as told, the six demonic beast clan masters weren’t bothered.
“Rotten brat, speak, who was it that killed our Young Master?” The demonic beast clan’s Senior Bixin stared coldly at Huwang Xiao, the greenish hue of his eyes seemed to pierce into one’s soul.
According to Huwang Xiao’s statement that year, Liang Guang and his subordinates were killed by a master who was passing by. He saved Huwang Xiao and left.
Hence, Huwang Xiao was the only person who saw that passing master.
Huwang Xiao calmly answered, “Actually, that was a fabrication on my part.”
“Fabrication?” All six demonic beast clan masters and Wang Qingjiang were all stunned.
“Liang Guang and the rest were killed by me.” Huwang Xiao added.
Wang Qingjiang and the six demonic beast clan masters were dumbfounded.
A second later, Wang Qingjiang was the first one to burst out laughing, “I say, Cheng Huai’an, are you a fool or do you think we’re idiots? You’re capable of killing Eighth Order God Realm masters?”
At that time, the several of Liang Guang’s subordinates were all Eighth Order God Realm masters.
The six demonic beast clan masters also shook their heads in ridicule.
Huwang Xiao nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders. Fine, nowadays, no one would believe you when you speak the truth. All of a sudden, Huwang Xiao lifted his hand and a force sucked that demonic beast clan master named Bixin right into his palm. Exerting force in his single palm, fear rose in that Bixin old man’s eyes. Just as he was about to say something, he had turned into a rain of blood.
Huwang Xiao flicked out a spark of true immortal essence fire from his finger, burning Bixin’s soul to nothing.
This Bixin was merely a peak late-Ninth Order God Realm, not even a Tenth Order God Realm. Killing him, Huwang Xiao didn't need more than a finger.
Wang Qingjiang and the other demonic beast clan masters’ laughter choked in their throats, looking dazedly at old man Bixin that had turned into splatters of blood rain, unable to react for a long time.
Watching them, Huwang Xiao was too lazy to say anything. With a flick of his hand, the remaining five demonic beast clan masters directly exploded.
“You, you, how can this be?! No, you’re not Cheng Huai’an!” At this time, Wang Qingjiang finally realized the most important point, his face distorted with fear as he stared fixedly at Huwang Xiao, trembling from head to toe.
“I’ve never claimed to be Cheng Huai’an.” Huwa
ng Xiao emphasized.
“Who exactly are you?!” Wang Qingjiang stammered, his throat feeling parched.
“Cheng Huai’an and Liang Guang, both of them asked the same question before they died.” Huwang Xiao shook his head, “This question, you can ask them.” His palm made a grasping gesture in the air.
An invisible giant hand appeared. Wang Qingjiang felt something tighten around his body, and in the next second, the scene before him turned black as his consciousness dissipated.
Huwang Xiao looked at the spatial ring containing five billion Zhuque coins floating in space. His finger flicked out a spark of true immortal essence fire, incinerating the spatial ring and everything in it. Huwang Xiao then turned around and left, continuing on toward the Fire World.
Nine days later, Huwang Xiao stopped some distance away from something that looked like an enormous fireball.
“So, this is the Fire World.” Huwang Xiao watched, a light flitted across his eyes.
On the surface of the Fire World were swaying flames of various colors. Even before entering it, Huwang Xiao felt the abundant fire element spiritual energy contained inside.
After a slight thought, Huwang Xiao’s facial features and stature gradually changed, reverting back to his original physique and face before diving into the Fire World.
Once he entered the Fire World, everything that he saw was fiery red in color.
The mountains were a burning red, the trees were red, even the running rivers below were scarlet in color.
Inside the Fire World, from water to rocks, everything contained the element of fire.
Hot!
This was Huwang Xiao’s first sensation.
This kind of heat not only affected his physical body, it even exuded pressure on his soul.
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Once he entered the Fire World, Huwang Xiao looked around, determined his direction, and flew toward the center region.
Due to the many array formation remnants in the Fire World, Huwang Xiao dared not fly too fast, placing safety above speed.
At the speed he was flying at, Huwang Xiao estimated it would take him around twenty days to reach the deep central region.
On the way, he spotted quite a few Vermilion Bird Galaxy families’ disciples. Although the Fire World was a dangerous place, it was also a place of many treasures, and these family disciples were there for ‘treasure hunting.’
Those several fire fruit trees planted on the Lightning Fire Peak were Cheng Huai’an’s harvest after he came here in the past.
Occasionally, Huwang Xiao would run into these family disciples battling and killing each other for a treasure. Naturally, he wasn’t so idle to interfere with these people’s troubles.
Who could say for sure who was right and who was wrong?
Nevertheless, the most important thing to him right now was finding the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire.
Huwang Xiao progressed smoothly into the center region.
Ten days passed.
From the outer region, Huwang Xiao entered the middle region of the Fire World. As he grew closer to the central region, the remnants of ancient array formations in the surroundings also increased in power, and so did the flow of fire in the air. Huwang Xiao had no choice but to slow his speed and be ever more careful.
He noticed a strange phenomenon in these ten days.
It seemed to him that the fire element demonic beasts in the Fire World weren’t restricted by these ancient formations. They were moving freely around as they liked and the formations didn't react to them in any way.
Curious, Huwang Xiao captured a few fire element demonic beasts and studied them for an entire day to no avail.
The number of cultivators hunting for treasures in the middle region had considerably lessened. Those who dared to venture into the middle region were at least high-level God Realm cultivators.
Another four days passed.
When Huwang Xiao was flying over a forest, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi spoke, “Little Huwang brat, a little further is Fire World’s God Burial River, which is one of the most dangerous places in this Fire World. The sky is getting dark now, it’s better to find a place to rest for the night and continue tomorrow.”
Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi had also been to the Fire World during his lifetime, thus he was familiar with some of the terrains.
Huwang Xiao nodded, “Might as well.”
It was said that long ago in the ancient times, a Fire God died in this God Burial River. The fire poison from that Fire God’s blood reached its peak at night, any ordinary Highgod Realm master would be writhing in pain if poisoned.
On top of that, inside the God Burial River was a kind of fire maggot that was most active at night. It attached itself to people’s bodies without anyone noticing and entered their bloodstream, absorbing their blood essence, marrow, and even one’s soul!
There was a time when a few perfection stage God Realm masters, confident in their strength, flew across the God Burial River at night. However, halfway over, they had all turned into dried corpses.
Their miserable deaths were due to their blood essence, marrow and soul being sucked dry by these fire maggots!
Huwang Xiao descended on an open spot in the forest. He didn’t light any fire, he merely sat down and took out a jug of Heavenly Pill Wine, slugging a big gulp down.
Moments later, he exhaled deeply, wiping his mouth with the corner of his sleeve.
This Heavenly Pill Wine was the wine that Huwang Xiao created himself imitating the Royal Pill Wine, using one thousand kinds of saint grade spirit pellets and above. Other than, Huwang Xiao added ten kinds of sacred grade divine pellets into it.
Compared to the Royal Pill Wine, his Heavenly Pill Wine was way superior in both taste and benefits. Because most of his time was used to cultivate and search for information about the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, he didn’t have much spare time to brew more of this Heavenly Pill Wine.
These years, he only managed to produce ten jugs.
Huwang Xiao was savoring his wine when several sounds of whistling wind sounded from the distance. A group of people was flying in his direction. Huwang Xiao’s ears moved slightly; there were five in a group, quite a strong group too. The person with the lowest strength was still an early Ninth Order God Realm.
And the strongest in the group was a perfection stage Tenth Order God Realm! Moreover, this person was slightly stronger than that Black Dungeon Tarragon he ran into on the Heavenly Mountain! Someone that could breakthrough to Highgod Realm at any time!
Huwang Xiao was just a little surprised. He didn’t expect to run into this level of person here.
“This time, with Senior Brother Wan’s help, that Fire Scaled Beast won’t be able to escape!”
“That’s absolutely right, that Fire Scaled Beast’s core is a treasure ah! Consuming it not only strengthens one’s physique, it can even increase the soul’s clarity. With that Fire Scaled Beast’s core, Senior Brother Wan can definitely condense a godhead above the early-ranks!”
“Of course, our Senior Brother Wan holds the first place on the Highgod Advancement List. However, who knew that number three He Feifan would break through to the Highgod Realm out of the blue. I wonder what rank the godhead he condensed is.”
“Our Senior Brother Wan isn’t in a hurry to breakthrough and has been accumulating his strength, so that he could condense a rank seven godhead or above. If Senior Brother Wan wanted to advance, it wouldn't be that He Feifan’s turn to hog the limelight in a hundred years like he’s doing now. In my opinion. That He Feifan’s godhead is probably a rank six, a mid-rank six godhead at most.”
“When our Senior Brother Wan breaks through to Highgod Realm, condensing a rank seven godhead, the news will shock all four galaxies!”
Listening to these people’s discussion, Huwang Xiao’s interest was piqued.
The four galaxies shared the same God Ranking List. Individuals eligible to have their name on the God Ranking List were the strongest
amongst Highgod Realm cultivators.
Below the God Ranking List was another list, the Highgod Advancement List!
Every person on the Highgod Advancement List was generally a talented genius of Tenth Order God Realm and above, acknowledged by the four galaxies as having the highest possibility of advancing to the Highgod Realm.
For example; He Feifan, who was placed at the third spot.
Whereas on the top of the list was a person named Wan Long.
This Wan Long came from one of the Vermilion Bird Galaxy’s super forces, the Wan Family, and was said to be the most talented genius disciple in Wang Family’s history. Similar to Huwang Xiao in the Black Tortoise Galaxy, this Wan Long was a famed monstrous genius.
Some even said that this Wan Long was a reincarnation of a powerful God from the Divine World.
‘Looks like this Senior Brother Wan is Wan Long.’ Huwang Xiao inwardly thought.
At this time, Wan Long’s group of five descended at the edge of the same forest as Huwang Xiao.
“Up ahead is the God Burial River, we’ll rest here tonight and continue tomorrow.” A deep calm voice sounded.
“Yes, Senior Brother Wan!”
The group entered the forest.
“Who?!” Just as they stepped into the forest, Wan Long suddenly barked, his sharp eyes glared in Huwang Xiao’s direction. The other four were stunned, only then did they notice Huwang Xiao.
“Punk, you’ve got quite big dog-guts to eavesdrop on our conversation!” One of the four men shouted in anger, his fingers bent into claws, striking down on Huwang Xiao from above.
The Fire Scaled Beast was a descendant of the divine Fire Qilin, almost priceless. It was obvious that this black-haired young man heard their earlier conversation.
Word about the Fire Scaled Beast must not be leaked, and thus, this person did not hold back in this attack, wanting to smite Huwang Xiao dead in one blow.
Despite the incoming claw attack, Huwang Xiao looked unperturbed. He remained sitting, holding his wine cup. Only when the attack arrived in front of him did he lightly wave his hand.
