by Shian Jeen
Even the dragon qi from Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s golden dragon body was faint and intermittent.
When Huwang Xiao and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi were close to the point of collapse, both the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires’ spirit roared toward the sky.
Snow-white and crimson lights exploded from the two divine fire spirits, merging into a golden-purple light that slammed into the center of the sealing formation.
A faint yet clear crack sounded.
The dragon diagram at the center of the sealing formation cracked and crumbled. In the next second, the grand sealing formation disintegrated.
This abrupt change bewildered Huwang Xiao and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi.
Half a beat later, the old dragon regained his senses. He laughed loudly with euphoria.
“The seal’s broken at last!”
“This Old Dragon is finally free!!”
Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi raised his head upwards, issuing a resounding roar to express the elation in his heart.
Huwang Xiao let out a long breath in relief, a wide smile on his face.
He was happy for the Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi, he was free from the Dragon Pearl’s restrictions.
After so many years together, the old dragon was his teacher and also a friend.
Without his help, Huwang Xiao couldn’t be as strong as he was in less than a hundred years’ time.
“Come on, let’s return to the surface first!” Huwang Xiao said. His figure disappeared in a blur as he flew toward the Phoenix Volcano’s crater mouth. It didn’t take him long to return to the outside world.
Once outside, a golden light flashed on Huwang Xiao’s forehead and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s golden dragon body flew out, rising toward the sky. He soared, piercing through the clouds.
Huwang Xiao smiled faintly watching his antics.
It was quite some time later before the old dragon was willing to fly downward, hovering in front of Huwang Xiao. With a twist of his golden body, he changed into human form, coming to a kneel before Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao hastened forward to help Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi up, slightly chiding, “Old Dragon, what’re you doing?”
Gratitude shone from the dragon's eyes, “Little Huwang brat, without your help, I would be trapped inside the Dragon Pearl for eternity.”
Hung Xiao waved his hand, smiling at him, “Without your help, there’s no way I could have killed the Deities Templar’s Preceptor, I wouldn't have been able to get the Hailstone Treasure, and it would’ve been impossible to have any of my current achievements. There’s no need to mention these things between us!”
Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi laughed heartily and was finally willing to stand up.
“Come, we’re going to the Phoenix Clan’s headquarters!” Huwang Xiao’s tone abruptly changed. Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi nodded. The two of them leaped into the air, disappearing from the Phoenix Volcano in an instant.
Both of them had their divine sense spread out, and very soon, they found the Phoenix Clan’s headquarters.
Shortly, two figures were standing in the air above the Phoenix Clan’s headquarters.
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When Huwang Xiao and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi reached the Phoenix Clan’s headquarters, their Patriarch, Grand Elders, and Elders were gathered inside the main hall for a discussion.
“Father, it has been four years, that human brat is surely already long dead. Still, we cannot let that group of demonic beasts roam so close to our territory.” Huwang Renlong protested to Huwang Hongtian.
Huwang Hongtian had three sons and two daughters. This Huwang Renlong was his eldest son, and was quite talented, already a Ninth Order God Realm. He was also an Elder of the clan.
“Exactly so, with the group of demonic beasts guarding there, our own people need to enter and leave with caution, avoiding them.” A Grand Elder fumed with anger.
This was the Phoenix Volcano!
Their Phoenix Clan’s territory! Yet, they were forced to act cautiously in their own territory.
So vexing! The more that Grand Elder thought about it, the more irked he was.
The other Grand Elders also spoke up, echoing the same dissatisfaction. They were all worked up with anger.
“Father, maybe we can ask the Ancestor? As long as the Ancestor is willing to come out, adding Father’s strength, that group of demonic beasts can be easily killed!” Huwang Renlong persuaded.
Huwang Hongtian looked at everyone present in the main hall, his voice heavy, “I shall go request the Ancestor to exit his seclusion now.”
Letting this group of demonic beasts stay indefinitely at the border of their Phoenix Clan’s territory was not a solution, which left Huwang Hongtian no other choice but to disturb their Ancestor, who was in seclusion to break through to Second Order Highgod Realm.
Huwang Hongtian stood up from his seat.
“There’s no need.” An indifferent voice rang in the main hall at the same time.
Everyone present was taken aback.
“Which scoundrel dares to trespass into our Phoenix Clan’s territory?!” One of the Phoenix Clan Grand Elders shouted in anger: “Roll out here this instant!”
However, just as that Grand Elder finished speaking, he and the seat behind him were sent flying. When he crashed onto the floor, blood spurted out from his mouth.
The others were stunned.
A dazzling light rippled in the main hall, revealing Huwang Xiao and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi when the light dispersed.
“It’s you! You didn’t die?!” Huwang Hongtian was shocked when he saw Huwang Xiao.
The other Phoenix Clan members were also stared at Huwang Xiao with shocked faces.
This human was still alive!
“You, these four years you were inside the Phoenix Volcano?!” Huwang Hongtian stared at Huwang Xiao with astonishment, he even suspected that Elder Huwang Haiyuan erred in his report four years ago.
Perhaps this human did not enter the Phoenix Volcano at all!
Clearly, someone who spent four years inside the Phoenix Volcano couldn't possibly be alive!
All the Phoenix Clan Grand Elders and Elders’ eyes were on Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao lazily glanced in Huwang Hongtian’s direction, saying, “Correct, these four years I was inside the Phoenix Volcano. Moreover, I was at the deepest magma chamber and found what I was searching for.”
The Phoenix Clan members dazedly listened.
At the deepest part of Phoenix Volcano’s magma chamber!
This…!
Huwang Hongtian and the others couldn’t stop staring at Huwang Xiao. Not one of them believed that Huwang Xiao was capable of reaching the Phoenix Volcano’s magma chamber.
“You first.” Huwang Xiao said to Huwang Hongtian.
Whether Huwang Hongtian and the rest of the Phoenix Clan believed his words or not was of no interest to Huwang Xiao, he had even less patience to understand where they were coming from. His purpose in coming here was to subjugate the Phoenix Clan.
“Me first?” Huwang Hongtian was confused, then anger erupted in his eyes when he understood what Huwang Xiao meant.
A mid-Tenth Order God Realm small fry first wanted to enter their Phoenix Clan’s land, then injured their Grand Elder, and now he dared to challenge him!
This was blatantly not putting him, not putting the whole Phoenix Clan in his eyes!
The Phoenix Clan’s Grand Elders and Elders were trembling with rage.
Huwang Renlong’s temper flared as he glared at Huwang Xiao with murder in his eyes, “Punk, you think you’re qualified to be my Father’s opponent? Last time, my Father did not transform into his true phoenix form and only used one-tenth of his strength, that’s why you were fortunate enough to have withstood that attack! Otherwise, you’d be long dead!”
Huwang Xiao turned slightly, looking at Huwang Renlong. His palm struck out across space.
The Ninth Order God Realm Huwang Renlong’s body slammed through the mai
n hall’s wall, leaving a large hole in it. No one knew where he landed.
Those on Huwang Hongtian’ side were dumbfounded.
Staring at the gaping hole in the wall, not knowing where his son had landed and whether he was still alive or dead, Huwang Hongtian let out an ear-splitting roar. Scarlet fire surged out from his body.
“You go to hell!” Hollering with fury, his palm aimed mercilessly at Huwang Xiao.
This human dared to injure his son in front of him?! The son he placed his highest hopes on!
Phoenix flames rushed forward like they wanted to raze the earth, causing the temperature in the main hall to rapidly rise. Even the Phoenix Clan Grand Elders and Elders retreated in haste.
Seconds before Huwang Hongtian’s palm strike was about to land on him, Huwang Xiao right palm struck out in counter.
Rumble~~!
A resounding blast followed the impact, shaking the main hall as if it was going to collapse at any second.
Those Phoenix Clan Grand Elders and Elders who retreated earlier watched the exchange between Huwang Xiao and Huwang Hongtian with bewildered expressions.
‘He, h-he withstood attack!’
That human once again withstood their Patriarch’s attack! Yet he still stood there like an immovable mountain, not budging an inch.
In their last exchange, many among the Grand Elders thought the same as Huwang Renlong, that Huwang Hongtian merely used one-tenth of his strength, resulting in Huwang Xiao getting lucky and managing to withstand their Patriarch’s Nine Phoenix Sky Scorching Palm.
But this time around, what exactly happened? Their Patriarch held back and again only used one-tenth of his strength? That human again withstood their Patriarch’s palm strike by being lucky?
Huwang Hongtian, who was blinded by fury moments ago, was also looking dazedly at Huwang Xiao’s right hand.
His mother, he really couldn’t figure out why his sudden full force attack would fail when the other side was just a small fry. His attack was rendered useless! Why? Why?!
At this point, a horrifying energy suddenly surged out from Huwang Xiao’s right palm.
Alarmed, Huwang Hongtian leaped far away to the back.
“You already broke through to late-Tenth Order God Realm?!” Huwang Hongtian exclaimed with doubt.
Only now did he notice that Huwang Xiao had advanced to late-Tenth Order God Realm.
At Huwang Hongtian’s exclamation, the other Phoenix Clan members looked incredulously at Huwang Xiao.
Four years ago when this human entered the Phoenix Volcano, he was just a mid-Tenth Order God Realm! In four short years, he was already a late-Tenth Order God Realm?!
How was this possible? Breaking through two small orders in four years?! Those Phoenix Clan Grand Elders that took more than a thousand years to advance from mid-Tenth Order to late-Tenth Order God Realm were stupefied.
“You’re not my opponent in your human form, you'd better revert to your true phoenix body.” Huwang Xiao completely ignored Huwang Hongtian and those Grand Elders.
Huwang Xiao’s words made Huwang Hongtian turn green from extreme fury, showing signs of running amok.
He roared, “Even in my human form, killing a measly God Realm like you is no different than squashing an ant!” Huwang Hongtian lunged forward, attacking Huwang Xiao again.
“Nine Phoenix Scorching Sky Palm!”
Two huge flaming palms with shadows of nine fire phoenixes reached Huwang Xiao in an instant.
This time, however, Huwang Xiao did not make any movements. As he stood there, spheres of crimson light floated out from his body. An irresistible devouring force emerged. Then, the flames from the Nine Phoenix Sky Scorching Palm were all lapped up by the bright crimson spheres.
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Huwang Hongtian looked on foolishly as the force of his Nine Phoenix Scorching Sky Palm was devoured until there was nothing left, dully mumbling, “Gone?”
Huwang Xiao responded with a faint smile, shrugging his shoulders at Huwang Hongtian: “Gone.”
Huwang Hongtian’s gaze fell on Huwang Xiao’s faint smile. His face became sickly green, worse than a man finding out his that wife had cheated on him.
“I’ll carve into your soul the tragedy of provoking a Highgod Realm master!!” Huwang Hongtian spat out every word through gritted teeth, his cold voice penetrating to the bones.
The Phoenix Clan Grand Elders felt the chills down to their butt cheeks.
Then, in a flicker, Huwang Hongtian was outside the Phoenix Clan headquarters’ main hall. Huwang Xiao followed, disappearing from the hall just as quick and appearing in the high air.
Whichever place they fought in was the same to Huwang Xiao. However, it seems like this Huwang Hongtian was about to revert to his phoenix form.
As expected, bright flames spread, enveloping Huwang Hongtian entirely. His body quivered lightly and in the next moment, his body transformed into a thousand zhang tall phoenix covered in glorious seven-colored flames, like a coat.
The seven-colored flames caused space to ripple in all directions!
An overwhelming divine phoenix might rush out from Huwang Hongtian’s body.
Watching Huwang Hongtian revert to his phoenix form, Huwang Xiao summoned his black and blue twin dragon martial spirits and soul transformed. At the same time, frigid cold Asura qi swirled around him.
Just like before, the Asura frigid qi was the darkest of black interwoven with strands of eerie red energy.
Black and red, hot and cold.
Huwang Hongtian’s Flame Barrier and Huwang Xiao’s Hell Asura Barrier formed a vivid contrast. However, the friction between the two opposing forces was more violent than the last.
Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi stood in the distance as if he had no intention of intervening. He believed in Huwang Xiao’s current strength, defeating the Phoenix Clan’s Patriarch was no problem.
“Phoenix Takes Flight!” Huwang Hongtian’s piercing voice reverberated for miles in the sky.
Huwang Hongtian’s phoenix form spread its magnificent wings, coming together again to the front. His wings shot out giant wind blades that bore seven-colored flames, piercing towards Huwang Xiao.
Each giant wind blade reached a thousand zhang in length, one longer than the other, bearing even more terrifying phoenix flames.
Phoenix Takes Flight was a unique innate skill of the phoenixes, just like the dragons’ Dragon’s Roar soundwave attack, and it was one of the most powerful attacks of Phoenix Clan.
There was a time when Huwang Hongtian used this skill to cut an indomitable looking mountain in the deepest parts of the Fire World into more than a hundred pieces.
Watching the giant wind blades flying toward himself, Huwang Xiao’s eyes narrowed, but he did not dodge nor retreat. Instead, he flew forward head-on. A golden light flashed as his fists punched at the giant phoenix blades.
In the far distance, the Phoenix Clan Grand Elders were dumbfounded when they saw this. There was actually someone who was wanted to use fists of flesh to counter their Patriarch’s Phoenix Takes Flight?!
In that instant, everything seemed ridiculous all of a sudden.
Right at the same time, a layer of true immortal essence fire appeared over Huwang Xiao’s fists as they collided with the first giant wind blade.
A deafening boom reverberated as Huwang Hongtian’s giant wind blade shattered before Huwang Xiao’s fists.
The word ‘aghast’ doesn't even begin to describe the expressions of the Phoenix Clan Grand Elders as they watched this result.
In that split second, the second giant wind blade approached Huwang Xiao with alarming speed. Huwang Xiao raised one of his fists and struck another punch out.
Then the third, the fourth…
As the booming blasts rang in the air above, giant wind blades were destroyed by Huwang Xiao one after another.
At the end, more than a hundred of Phoenix Takes Flight’s giant wind blades dissipated.
Huwang Hongtian’s eyes w
idened with shock staring at Huwang Xiao. This human’s body was powerful to this extent?! He was rivaling an ancient fierce beast’s body!
No, it was even more frightening than an ancient fierce beast!
Not even an ancient of First Order Highgod Realm with strength similar to his could counter his Phoenix Takes Flight with only their physical force!
Huwang Hongtian quickly got over his shock and the killing intent in his eyes rapidly rose.
“Phoenix Flame Tempest!”
His spread out wings folded behind him, then his entire phoenix body rotated at high speed, spattering flames all around as the tempest expanded, blowing in Huwang Xiao’s direction.
The force from the tempest blew away the nine layers of cloud in the sky.
Seeing this, Huwang Xiao also leaped forward in a spin. Strong winds gathered around him, turning into numerous wind dragons.
This was the same skill Huwang Xiao used in Peace Emperor World when he destroyed the Zhao Family’s headquarters and killed its disciples, Dragon Twirling Clouds. At that time, Huwang Xiao was still an Eighth Order God Realm, but now, he was a late-Tenth Order God Realm.
The same skill was a hundred times more powerful displayed at his current strength.
A flight of dragons soared to the heavens as if they wanted to pierce a hole through it.
Dragons’ roars and cries of phoenixes.
The flames spattered and the wind blades whistled.
The sky darkened as if the end of the world was coming, the horrifying shockwaves reaching ten thousand li away.
The Phoenix Clan’s masters retreated even further in fear, those who were too slow were sliced into uncountable pieces of flesh by the horrifying shockwaves.
As Dragon Twirling Clouds and Phoenix Flame Tempest collided, after some time, the Phoenix Flame Tempest exploded all of a sudden. Huwang Hongtian was knocked back by the flight of wind dragons, crashing into a mountain peak below. The mountain split open, rocks and boulders rolled down, and sand was flying in the sky.
The glorious flames on the surface of Huwang Hongtian’s phoenix form dimmed as he was once again back in human form.
