by Shian Jeen
The energy inside this gray space was none other than the demonic qi that Huwang Xiao was familiar with.
The hundred spirits demonic qi from the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body!
But, this gray space’s hundred spirits demonic qi was twice as dense compared to the gray space where he previously found the arms! It was extremely alarming!
Just this terrifying hundred spirits demonic qi could demonize the average Tenth Order God Realm.
Huwang Xiao dared not be careless, carefully flying toward the source of the hundred spirits demonic qi.
Around half an hour later, Huwang Xiao arrived before an enormous altar.
On the altar laid a giant beast torso. Despite it being laid down horizontally, its height still reached a hundred zhang! The torso was at least a thousand zhang long, all covered in golden fur.
This sealed location was actually the sealing place of the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s torso!
No wonder this gray space’s demonic qi was denser than the one in the Golden Mountain World’s.
The Hundred Spirits Beast King’s torso, other than the head portion, was one of the most powerful parts of its body.
Even though Huwang Xiao was shocked, he was more excited. How much could his strength improve after refining this Hundred Spirits Beast King’s torso?!
While Huwang Xiao was getting excited, the gray space’s hundred spirits demonic qi suddenly rumbled, swirling and condensing to form a complete Hundred Spirits Beast King body. This Hundred Spirits Beast King was many times more powerful than the previous one, actually surpassing a mid-First Order Highgod Realm master’s momentum!
Huwang Xiao was startled.
The instant the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body completely condensed, it swung its powerful arm at Huwang Xiao.
Watching this, Huwang Xiao swiftly tapped his foot on the floor and leaped backwards. At the same time, both of his hands slapped upwards.
The Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires shot out together with Huwang Xiao’s palm force.
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The immense force from the large palm was incinerated in an instant upon meeting the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires.
Both divine fires pierced forth towards the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body, causing it to quiver in shock and retreat in fear.
Watching this, Huwang Xiao was relieved.
Although the Hundred Spirits Beast King in front of him was more powerful than the first one he found, it was still far from a genuine Highgod Realm master, for it lacked a godhead. In that exchange earlier, Huwang Xiao was able to determine that this Hundred Spirits Beast King’s real strength was slightly weaker than mid-First Order Highgod Realm master.
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Several hours later.
Entangled and hounded by the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires’ spirits, the Hundred Spirits Beast King let out an unresigned howl and dissipated in the gray space. The Hundred Spirits Beast King’s remnant will within the torso was burned to nothingness by the two divine fires.
Huwang Xiao breathed out in relief at this result.
In the last battle, he worked together with Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi. At that time, it took them a few days to destroy the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s remnant will within the sealed arms. If it weren’t for the new addition of the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire as well as the Black Tortoise Divine Fire, he would've been hard-pressed to destroy the Hundred Spirits Beast King in this gray space.
But now it was destroyed!
Huwang Xiao flew up, hovering above the giant altar, peering down on the enormous Hundred Spirits Beast King’s giant torso with elation glimmering in his eyes. The next step would be refining this huge torso!
All of a sudden, a whelming demonic qi soared out from the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s torso, engulfing him within. But there was no trace of alarm on Huwang Xiao’s face, the Black Tortoise Divine Fire wrapped around his left hand, and on his right was the Vermilion Bird Divine. Waving his hands around, the two divine fires immediately vaporized every last strand of the whelming demonic qi. At the same time, Huwang Xiao activated the altar’s sealing power to synchronize with his actions and expel all the demonic qi from the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s torso.
Even though Huwang Xiao’s cultivation had improved by a large degree, it took more than a month’s time for him to expel all the demonic qi from the torso.
Luckily, Huwang Xiao had the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires to aid him, else, even if other human Highgod Realm masters found this part of the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body they wouldn't have been able to refine it. There was even a chance for the cultivator to suffer a backlash from the demonic qi, turning into a strange half beast-half human monster.
After confirming that all the demonic qi within the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s torso was gone, Huwang Xiao sat cross-legged in midair and began refining and absorbing the energy inside it.
Immediately, strands of red crystal-like energy flowed up from the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s torso below, drilling into Huwang Xiao’s body.
The Treasure Dragon diagram inside his body resurfaced, greedily devouring the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s blood essence.
As he continued to refine the blood essence, Huwang Xiao distinctively felt his True Dragon Physique becoming firmer every second.
The Black Tortoise Divine Fire and Vermilion Bird Divine Fire’s spirits also swallowed the blood essence flowing out from below.
However, the energy contained inside the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s blood essence was far more than one could imagine, each drop was brimming with an alarming amount of energy. Even for Huwang Xiao, with the two divine fires’ spirits taking a portion of the blood essence energy, small strands of the blood essence that had already entered Huwang Xiao’s body still leaked out.
As time passed, a bloody mist gathered around Huwang Xiao in midair. Above that pool of blood mist floated vague shadows of various peerless demonic beast kings.
Time flowed by. Soon, a year passed.
The blood mist around Huwang Xiao turned into a sea of blood, with waves rolling endlessly. A long time ago, Huwang Xiao had been completely submerged inside that sea of blood, whereas above it, the blood-colored shadows of peerless demonic beast kings became more condensed.
Each of those peerless demonic beast kings was an existence rivaling a perfection stage late-Tenth Order God Realm master.
Three years passed.
The blood-colored figures of demonic beast kings had increased from the initial one hundred to more than three hundred.
In the meantime, both the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires’ spirits hovered above the sea of blood, emitting brilliant icy-blue and crimson red light that lit up the entire gray space. Compared to three years ago, these two spirits had doubled in size.
Another half a year passed when the calm blood sea suddenly rolled violently and a great whirlpool appeared at the center of it. When the whirlpool reached the surface, one by one, the blood-colored demonic beast kings were sucked into the whirlpool.
Shortly, all three hundred plus blood-colored demonic beast kings were sucked into the whirlpool and the sea of blood began to shrink in size until Huwang Xiao’s figure appeared.
When the last strand of blood mist was absorbed by Huwang Xiao, a reddish black light burst out from his body, soaring upward. It exuded a powerful, suffocating aura.
Resounding blasts echoed in the gray space.
Earth-shaking majestic dragon might emanated from his back, where the blue and black dragon heads were.
Huwang Xiao, who had been sitting there for the past three and a half years, suddenly opened his eyes. A blue and crimson light shot out from his eyes, piercing through space and opening two large black holes, causing chaotic unknown forces to surge in through them.
As Huwang Xiao descended, when his feet touched the altar, the entire altar trembled and swayed. This giant
altar that used to seal the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s torso was on the verge of splitting in half just by Huwang Xiao landing on it!
“Finally, I’ve reached the perfection stage late-Tenth Order God Realm!” Unable to contain his ecstasy, Huwang Xiao shouted out loud. His breath turned into a small tornado, spinning forth.
Perfection stage late-Tenth Order God Realm!
The highest realm below Highgod Realm!
The next step was breaking through to Highgod Realm!
Huwang Xiao raised his arm, pointing a finger to the front. The space in front of him was instantly pierced through, akin to a wet paper tiger. A black hole stretched to an unknown length due to the force from his finger.
If the Phoenix Clan Ancestor Huwang Yixiao was here, his eyes would have fallen to the altar floor watching this, for even if it was him punching out with full force, it would still be incomparable to the force from Huwang Xiao’s finger. Moreover, the Phoenix Clan Ancestor was a late-First Order Highgod Realm master, close to breaking through to peak late-First Order Highgod Realm.
Huwang Xiao observed the result from his finger’s force and nodded with a satisfied smile. The force from his finger was almost equal to a peak late-First Order Highgod Realm master.
If he added the power from the Black Tortoise and Vermilion bird Divine Fires, Huwang Xiao was confident he could defeat a true peak late-First Order Highgod Realm master.
He then breathed in and out, causing the surroundings to rumble like thunder.
Now, even a simple puff from him could probably blow those names on the Highgod Advancement List to their deaths! Not even Wan Long, the first on the list, could withstand it!
Huwang Xiao stopped and looked around the altar for a while. But soon, he flickered into a blur, disappearing from the gray space. A second later, he stood in the air above the marshland.
This time around, Huwang Xiao no longer concealed his presence, flying full speed out from the marshland.
Numerous poisonous insects were just about to attack Huwang Xiao when he lightly slapped his palm downward and all the poisonous creatures within several thousand li radius in the marsh exploded into a mist of blood.
A short while later, Huwang Xiao flew out from the primeval forest. From there, he headed back to the Yaochi Mountain in the Great Lake World.
A day’s journey later, Huwang Xiao was back at the Yaochi Mountain. Everything was as per usual. After staying there for two days, he decided to make a trip back to the Martial Spirit World and see his family and Shi Xiaofei.
From there, he would continue searching for the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s head and legs.
Huwang Xiao once again departed from the Yaochi Mountain, this time toward Martial Spirit World.
Seven days later, his figure emerged from the Cloudsea Mainland’s transmission array.
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As Huwang Xiao stepped out from the Cloudsea Mainland’s transmission array, in the air above, he saw many disciples of the Black Tortoise Galaxy’s various families flying in and out from the city, giving birth to nostalgic feelings.
He still remembered the scene when he first arrived in the Cloudsea Mainland.
At that time, his cultivation was only at peak late-Tenth Order Saint realm, whereas now he was already a perfection stage late-Tenth Order God Realm!
It was a huge difference!
He had come here to participate in the Black Warrior Institute’s disciples assessment, and now, his name rang loud in the four galaxies.
Huwang Xiao pondered for a moment, then his feet took him toward the Black Warrior City. Since he was passing by the Cloudsea Mainland, he wanted to pay a short visit to his Master Feng Yang, as well as his Senior Apprentice-brother and Third Apprentice-sister, Liu Yun and Qi Wen.
‘I wonder if they settled that matter.’ Huwang Xiao wondered.
A while later, Huwang Xiao reached the Black Warrior City. In no hurry, he leisurely walked through the streets, taking in the bustling sights of the city.
Suddenly, up head ahead on the street came fighting noises with many people gathering around. Huwang Xiao was a little surprised, there were actually people who dared to fight inside the Black Warrior City?
Having his interest piqued, Huwang Xiao walked toward the commotion.
“Zhu Wuhou, you dare violate the Black Warrior City’s regulations? Attacking me inside the Black Warrior City?!” Before Huwang Xiao could see what was happening, a furious roar came from the center of the commotion.
“Haha, Nie Guocheng, Black Warrior City’s regulations? So what? I’m now a Black Warrior Institute inner disciple, moreover, my Grand Master is the Black Warrior Institute’s Punishment Hall Grand Elder!” A haughty and conceited voice rang in the air.
It was at this point that Huwang Xiao walked into the crowd. He saw a slightly round man clad in the Black Warrior Institute’s inner disciple robe, standing in the middle, laughing rampantly. There was no need to ask, this must be that Zhu Wuhou.
Around Zhu Wuhou were several other inner disciples of the Black Warrior Institute.
Across from Zhu Wuhou was an angry middle-aged man in blue robes gripping a longsword in his hand. Clinging fearfully on the middle-aged man’s other arm was a beautiful young madam, but she too was glaring at Zhu Wuhou with fury. It seems like this middle-aged man and that beautiful young madame were companions.
Zhu Wuhou snickered, looking at the middle-aged man with condescending eyes, “Nie Guocheng, a decade ago, you ruined my plans when you won the first place. It never crossed your mind, right, that you’d fall into my hands!” Finished saying that, his gaze shifted onto the beautiful young madam, grinning lecherously, “This is your wife? Quite the beauty, ain’t she? I’ll punish her personally later!”
Punish her personally!
As for what kind of punishment, what tool would be used, how could the watching crowd not understand?
The several Black Warrior Institute inner disciples snickered obnoxiously hearing Zhu Wuhou’s words.
“I’ll have to trouble the several Junior Brothers to help me capture these two and send them to the Black Warrior Institute’s dungeon!” Zhu Wuhou said to the several Black Warrior Institute inner disciples around him.
“Haha, Brother Zhu is too courteous. We’re brethren of the same institute, we will naturally help Brother Zhu, moreover, this is merely the effort of lifting a finger.” One of them reassured, showing a fawning smile.
Zhu Wuhou nodded his head, pleased with the answer he heard.
“Zhu Wuhou, we didn’t commit any crime! Based on what are you capturing us, throwing us into the Black Warrior Institute dungeon?!” The beautiful young madam rebuked Zhu Wuhou, and because of her anger her chest moved up and down due to her ragged breathing.
But Zhu Wuhou’s eyes lit up watching her.
Standing amongst the crowd, listening to their exchange, Huwang Xiao already had a rough idea of what was happening.
Similar things were common on multiple world surfaces in the many galaxies. On any other day, Huwang Xiao wouldn’t have bothered interfering with these problems, however, this Zhu Wuhou was taking extreme advantage of his Black Warrior Institute inner disciple status and the fact that he had the Punishment Hall Grand Elder backing him, disregarding the Black Warrior City’s regulations by attacking within the city area. Since he came across this matter, then he should have a little look.
In truth, Huwang Xiao just couldn't stand that Zhu Wuhou’s conceited face.
Just as those Black Warrior Institute inner disciples stepped forward, wanting to detain that blue-robed middle-aged man and his companion, Huwang Xiao casually pointed in the air. Those inner disciples cried out in pain, clutching their right hand as they retreated in alarm.
The abrupt change startled Zhu Wuhou, Nie Guocheng, and the surrounding crowd.
“Who is it? Who dares to interfere in my affairs, roll out here!” After a momentary daze, Zhu Wuhou scanned the crowd in menacing eyes, bellowing loudly.
Huwang Xiao slowly walked out from the crowd, speaking calmly, “This matter, let it end here.” He then turned toward the blue-robed middle-aged man saying, “Both of you can leave.”
Nie Guocheng and his wife were baffled and doubtful.
Zhu Wuhou was enraged seeing that a stranger not only tried to mess up his plans, but also said that the matter should end there while ignoring him, letting Nie Guocheng and his wife leave. He pointed a finger at Huwang Xiao’s nose, “You busybody, what did you say? Do you know who I am? Are you aware of the grave consequences of interfering with my matters? Now, you’d better scram to the side obediently, if not, I’ll make sure you’ll die miserably soon!”
Because Huwang Xiao was not wearing the Black Warrior Institute’s Elder robe, neither Zhu Wuhou nor anyone present was aware of his identity.
Then again, not being able to recognize Huwang Xiao, they were most likely outer disciples who had been newly promoted to inner disciple status. Also, Huwang Xiao had rarely appeared in the Black Warrior Institute in recent years.
When Huwang Xiao heard Zhu Wuhou say that he would make sure he dies miserably, he chuckled instead of getting angry, though his voice seemed to be weaved with bloodlust, “Well, then I’ll stand here and have you make me die miserably.” Huwang Xiao casually flicked his finger, but Zhu Wuhou was already wailing as his body made an arch in the air.
When Zhu Wuhou crashed into the street, the crowd could see a through and through finger-sized hole going from his chest to his back.
The crowd felt their hearts pounding in their ears at the sight!
Most people in the crowd were aghast, no one thought this black-haired young man would have the guts to defy Zhu Wuhou. Moreover, wounding him to this extent merely using one finger.
The several Black Warrior Institute inner disciples together with Zhu Wuhou were frightened.
