Asura Sovereign XII

by Shian Jeen

  In the following half a year, Huwang Xiao would come to practice at the pond every morning. In the afternoon, Saint Mother Yao Chi would continue to pass the Yaochi Sect’s alchemy techniques and other things to him.

  What astounded her was that Huwang Xiao’s alchemy talent far exceeded her imagination. In merely half a year’s time, Huwang Xiao had mastered the Yaochi Three Hands Blooming technique.

  Although Huwang Xiao had yet to be able to use the Yaochi Three Hands Blooming technique to the point of creating ‘thousands of flowers dancing with just a thought’, his achievement was sufficiently shocking in a short six months.

  According to her knowledge, even the founder of the Yaochi Sect spent more than a year before mastering the same technique.

  Time flowed. Very soon, a year had passed.

  Initially, Saint Mother Yao Chi had thought that Huwang Xiao would need at least ten years of her guidance before he could succeed in everything she taught him, but she discovered at the end of one year that she no longer had anything to teach Huwang Xiao.

  Only now did she understand how overwhelmingly talented Huwang Xiao was. Most of all, Saint Mother Yao Chi was amazed by Huwang Xiao’s memorising ability. Regardless of what it was, Huwang Xiao could remember it in its entirety after reading or hearing it just once.

  Now, standing at the edge of the pond and watching the figure at the bottom, Saint Mother Yao Chi found that she felt heavy reluctance as the day of her ascent to the Divine World drew closer.

  There was affection in her eyes looking at Huwang Xiao’s handsome masculine face.

  Another half a year passed.

  On this day, when Huwang Xiao arrived at Saint Mother Yao Chi’s yard, she held his hand as usual as they walked into the hall. With a serious and somber expression, she placed the Yaochi Sect successor token into his hands.

  Watching Huwang Xiao lower his head as he received the token respectfully, Saint Mother Yao Chi hesitated. Her lips moved slowly, “Xiao, from now on, you’re the Yaochi Sect’s new Leader, I hope you will bring glory to our sect.” She paused for a second then added, “I have nothing more to teach you, so I decided to ascend to the Divine World tomorrow.”

  Hearing that Saint Mother Yao Chi had decided to ascend the next day, Huwang Xiao shook noticeably, the sadness of parting rippled across his heart.

  In the last year and a half, even though they were master and disciple, there were feelings that surpassed a master-disciple relationship.

  Huwang Xiao wasn’t blind to the affection that Saint Mother Yao Chi had for him. It had long crossed the line of master-disciple. As for Huwang Xiao, it would be a lie to say he didn't feel anything for her…

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  The hall fell into a heavy silence.

  After a moment of silence, Saint Mother Yao Chi took out a piece of armor and a black halberd, saying, “This is an ancient divine armor I found in the past, called Glory of the Water God. I am passing it to you as well.”

  Huwang Xiao’s mouth moved, but no words were spoken, quietly receiving both the armor and black halberd.

  Subsequently, Saint Mother Yao Chi also reminded Huwang Xiao many other things, including where the Yaochi Sect’s treasury was and the secret method to open it.

  A little over an hour later, feeling that she had nothing left to say to Huwang Xiao, Saint Mother Yao Chi sounded jaded as she said, “You go back first. Tomorrow, when it’s time for me to ascend, come see Master off.”

  Huwang Xiao stiffened, but he saluted then turned to leave.

  Watching Huwang Xiao’s back as he left, a hint of sadness flickered in Saint Mother Yao Chi’s eyes.

  All of a sudden, Huwang Xiao, who already reached the door threshold, stopped and turned around facing Saint Mother Yao Chi. Looking at her, Huwang Xiao wavered. “You’re really leaving?” He paused, “What I mean is, you can stay a while longer.” Although Huwang Xiao wasn’t candid, nevertheless, his intention was clear.

  Saint Mother was stunned, a bubble of delight rose in her heart. However, she did not immediately answer Huwang Xiao, hesitation and the desire to stay played tug-of-war in her heart. It was obvious that Saint Mother Yao Chi dearly wanted to stay, but she had other concerns on her mind.

  Huwang Xiao did not say anything as he waited for Saint Mother Yao Chi’s decision.

  A passing second felt like a day. A while later, Saint Mother Yao sighed heavily inside as she shook her head, “If fate has it, us master and disciple will meet again in the Divine World.”

  Huwang Xiao stood at the door for a very long time before nodding slowly, indicating that he had heard Saint Mother Yao Chi, then he turned and left the hall.

  If it’s fated? What if there was no fate?

  The Divine World was vast and boundless. If they were fated to meet again, when would that be?

  The hall was silent again.

  Back in his courtyard, Huwang Xiao leaped up and sat on the roof. Somehow, he spent the night on the same spot until morning arrived and he headed toward Saint Mother Yao Chi’s yard. When he arrived, Saint Mother Yao Chi’s thirty plus maids were already there.

  Seeing Huwang Xiao arrive, just like she had done so many times in the past year and a half, Saint Mother Yao Chi went and held Huwang Xiao’s hand with a gentle smile on her face. After exhorting Huwang Xiao about some of the things she already said yesterday, she summoned all her maids to her front, telling them to treat Huwang Xiao as they had treated her after she ascends to the Divine World.

  These maids were all orphans that Saint Mother Yao Chi had taken under her wing, and thus, her instructions were obeyed with the utmost respect.

  Knowing that Saint Mother Yao Chi was going to ascend to the Divine World, each and every one of them had tears running down their cheeks, intermittent sobs and cries filled the yard.

  After she finished what she wanted to say, Saint Mother Yao Chi turned and flew to the air, tore through space and disappeared. A teardrop fell to the floor from above.

  The maids cried even louder.

  Huwang Xiao remained standing where he was for a long time. Gradually, the maids stopped crying and Huwang Xiao ordered them, “Everyone, disperse.”

  The maids wiped the tears off their faces and respectfully acknowledged his order, dispersing in different directions.

  Several days later.

  The Yaochi Mountain returned to its everyday quiet.

  Huwang Xiao readjusted his emotional state, then began attempting to find that legendary God of Life’s godhead in the Great Lake World using the Blood Sacrifice Law.

  However, the result was disappointing. After covering the entire Great Lake World, there wasn't the slightest indication of the God of Life’s godhead. But he did find many other treasures hidden deep within the earth and unique spaces.

  These treasures might be priceless in others’ eyes, they weren’t that useful to Huwang Xiao.

  Another month passed.

  On this day, Huwang Xiao decided to depart from Yaochi Mountain to search for the other sealed body parts of the Hundred Spirits Beast King. Right now, there were less than a hundred years left to the Highgod Advancement Tournament. Before that, he had to find all the remaining parts of the Hundred Spirits Beast King and refine them, then proceed to look for the White Tiger Divine Fire.

  Other matters could be put away for the time being, and would have to wait until the Highgod Advancement Tournament ends.

  In order to win the first place in the tournament, increasing his strength was in the top of the list for Huwang Xiao!

  As for Wang Na, the Jiang Family, Gudu Family, and the others, he would take care of them in one fell swoop after the Highgod Advancement Tournament. By that time, he would have broken through to the Highgod Realm, and with the four divine fires in his hand, he need not be wary of that mysterious Great Lord.

  Huwang Xiao had all the maids of Yaochi Mountain gather before him, informing them that he would be away for some time. They were to focus on their cultivation in th
e meantime.

  As for the safety of Yaochi Mountain, it was an aspect he wasn’t worried about.

  When the ancient Seven Prism Illusion Array was activated at its full power, even First and Second Order Highgod Realm masters wouldn't be able to enter. On top of that, these maids weren’t some weak and helpless damsels either. All of their cultivations were at Tenth Order God Realm and above, a few of them could even be compared to the top ten on the Highgod Advancement List.

  After exhorting them about a few things, Huwang Xiao left Yaochi Mountain, exiting the Great Lake World. Then, he flew toward the northern parts of the Azure Dragon Galaxy.

  According to the Piercing Sky Beast King’s son, Liang Guang, the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body was sealed in four different world surfaces of the four galaxies. One of them being the Dongtu World, located in the north of the Azure Dragon Galaxy.

  With Huwang Xiao flying his at top speed on the Mulberry Sword and transferring through different transmission arrays, three days later, he arrived at his destination: the Dongtu World at the far north of the Azure Dragon Galaxy.

  Tearing the outer barrier of the Dongtu World, he entered its atmosphere. High in the air, Huwang Xiao determined his direction and flew toward the south.

  According to his knowledge, the southern terrain consisted mostly of marshes, barren hills, and primeval forests where demonic beasts ran rampant. In his opinion, a part of the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body was most likely sealed in the south side of the Dongtu World.

  The potential problem were the powerful demonic beasts that resided inside the primeval forests. More likely than not, there would be Highgod Realm demonic beasts present. On top of that, in the barren hills close to these primeval forests was a cambion tribe, whose members were extremely hard to kill, and they could spew highly toxic poison.

  Hence, despite having both the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires as his trump cards, Huwang Xiao daren’t attract any attention upon arriving at the south side of Dongtu World. He carefully concealed his presence, flying low and careful.

  Flying forward, Huwang Xiao cautiously spread out his divine sense, everything within a ten thousand li radius showed clearly in his mind.

  Suddenly, Huwang Xiao noticed that several thousand li farther ahead was a group of demonic beast clan masters flying in panic in his direction. Pursuing behind them was a strange human-shaped creature covered in black fur, with dark green pupils.

  But that strange human-shaped beast’s movements were slow, therefore the group of demonic beast clan masters easily outran the strange creature after some time.

  “His mother, what shitty luck! Why did we run into these cambions?” After shaking off the strange creature’s pursuit, one of the demonic beast clan masters fumed.

  “That Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body part couldn’t have been sealed here! We’ve been searching for over a dozen years, if it was really here in the south, how come we didn’t find any clues after so long?!”

  “Whether it was sealed in the primeval forests or barren hills, this is the Piercing Sky Beast King’s order. If we fail to find the whereabouts of the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s sealed body part, we need not return to see him.” Another one snapped, “Move your asses, find it!”

  “Yes, Lord Commander!”

  The group of dozen demonic beast clan masters flew again, continuing their search, when a blinding sword light flashed past. These demonic beast clan masters froze in the air for an instant before plummeting to the ground from high air, their heads separating from their bodies. Only the Commander remained.

  In a split second, the Commander recovered from his shock, immediately turning around to flee.

  Huwang Xiao’s figure appeared. Seeing that the demonic beast clan Commander wanted to flee, a powerful suction force came from his hand, pulling the Commander to Huwang Xiao’s front.

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  In front of Huwang Xiao, the demonic beast clan Commander did not struggle, instead, he knelt in the air in fear, pleading: “Lord, have mercy ah!”

  This young man killed more than a dozen of his subordinates with a single sword slash, this level of strength wasn’t something he could resist.

  However, watching this demonic beast clan master kneeling in front of him, Huwang Xiao was too lazy to waste his time, his divine sense forcefully entered the demonic beast clan master’s mind and began soul-scouring.

  A moment later, the soul-scouring was completed and Huwang Xiao casually pointed at the man's forehead, ending his life. Then, he continued to fly forward to the primeval forest.

  From that demonic beast clan master’s memories, his group had basically searched every inch of the southern Dongtu World in the past dozen of years, except for one place!

  And that was the marshland within the primeval forest!

  This marshland located on the north side of the primeval forest was overabundant with poisonous bugs and insects, and was home to a race of Crocodile People that was even more terrifying than the cambion tribe, toxic from head to toe. The hard scales covering their bodies provided a tough defense that even an average divine artifact couldn’t damage.

  Other than that, the marshland was shrouded in a poisonous miasma, and there was also a very high chance that remnants of ancient restrictions and array formations were present.

  According to Huwang Xiao’s estimations, since the Piercing Sky Beast King’s subordinates had been combing through the southern area of the Dongtu World for the sealed body part for so long with no success, this remaining location was very likely the place where the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body was sealed.

  Of course, this was only Huwang Xiao’s initial assumption. Whether it was accurate or otherwise needed to be confirmed through the Blood Sacrifice Law.

  Roughly an hour later, Huwang Xiao stood in the air above the primeval forest marshland.

  Looking ahead, there was nothing but green smog.

  This green smog was constantly drifting and merging with even more green smog. From a distance, the marsh actually had a beautiful scenery, but Huwang Xiao already guessed that this green smog was the marsh’s poisonous miasma. Moreover, it was the most noxious kind of poison, even high-level Tenth Order God Realm masters would fall to their deaths in just a whiff.

  Although, with his True Dragon Physique, Huwang Xiao wasn’t afraid, in the name of safety he still summoned both the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires.

  Two brilliant fires, giving off an icy blue and crimson light, hovered around Huwang Xiao, causing all the green smog within a hundred zhang around him to vaporize. Huwang Xiao flew down into the green smog.

  He cautiously flew deeper into the marsh, maintaining a thirty meters height from the water surface.

  Light ripples ran through the water surface, but the surroundings were quiet.

  Occasionally, random roars like those of demonic beasts or a human’s heart-wrenching howl could be heard.

  The human-like howls come from the Crocodile People.

  Clearly, these Crocodile People had already discovered Huwang Xiao. However, Huwang Xiao wasn’t concerned about them, he was more vigilant of accidentally straying into any remnant ancient array formations. After all, he had first-hand experience of how terrifying these ancient array formations were. If he was trapped inside one, it would take a mountain of effort to forcefully break an opening for him to escape with his current strength.

  Just as Huwang Xiao was flying over a water area, the calm water surface below suddenly shot up. A pair of huge pinchers from a multi-legged insect resembling a centipede reached toward him, its venomous jaw wide open.

  Before its wide opened venomous jaw could bite into Huwang Xiao, a horrible nauseating smell blew over his face.

  Huwang Xiao’s right index finger tapped forward and an icy-blue fire sword pierced the venomous insect through its mouth in a split second, coming out from its back.

  That insect let out a sharp screech, bursting into fla
mes. It was burned until there was nothing left.

  Huwang Xiao didn’t dally, continuing to fly forward.

  From then on, on and off, Huwang Xiao would be attacked by the marsh’s hidden venomous bugs and insects. There were quite a few of them, some even reaching the strength of a perfection stage Tenth Order God Realm.

  However, these venomous bugs and insects were easily dealt with by a casual move of Huwang Xiao’s.

  Fortunately, the strength he exposed along the way while dealing with his venomous attackers kept the Crocodile People at bay, hence, Huwang Xiao arrived at the marshland center without much trouble.

  Standing in the air, Huwang Xiao pricked his finger, taking out a drop of blood essence to perform the blood sacrifice. He then sent this drop of blood essence deep into the earth.

  The astonishing energy contained inside Huwang Xiao’s drop of blood essence spread out underground, allowing him to clearly feel the situation below the marsh.

  Not long after Huwang Xiao performed the blood sacrifice, suddenly, a peculiar energy fluctuation came from the east side of the marshland.

  Huwang Xiao was stunned for a moment, then delight filled him. This peculiar energy fluctuation was exactly the same as when he first found the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s arms in the Golden Mountain World.

  It seems like that a part of the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body was indeed sealed here in this primeval forest’s marshland.

  Without delay, Huwang Xiao flew toward the source of the peculiar energy fluctuation.

  Moments later, he stopped in the air right above the origin of those fluctuations. Employing the true immortal essence force from his dantian, he split the water apart and entered its depth.

  Inside the water, the most noticeable was the thick greenish swamp water and mud.

  However, having the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires creating a barrier around him, that muddy marshland water and its poison were unable to come within a hundred zhang from Huwang Xiao.

  A thousand zhang down, Huwang Xiao reached the bottom of the marshland. Opening a hole through the soft earth, he continued deeper through the earth for another two thousand zhang before reaching an independent gray space.