Asura Sovereign 3

by Shian Jeen

  In a short time, other than Mei Pengliang, over twenty Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples ended up on the floor. However, Huwang Xiao did not kill these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples because his purpose was only to injure them, and seriously injure them at that.

  Cold sweat broke out on Mei Pengliang’s pale white face after watching all the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples groaning in pain on the hall floor.

  “Huwang Xiao, you... what do you want to do?” Mei Pengliang stumbled backwards in fear again and again until his back hit the wall. With no path of retreat, Mei Pengliang looked at Huwang Xiao as he stammered out the question the best he could.

  “What do I want to do?” Huwang Xiao’s cold voice caressed the question, as his right hand formed claws and a great suction force pulled Mei Pengliang away from the wall. Then the claw extended into a palm, heavily striking Mei Pengliang’s chest.

  A frigid cold qi spread throughout Mei Pengliang’s body starting from his torso. This frigid cold qi was like a horrifying, poisonous worm, biting and swallowing every corner of Mei Pengliang’s body from within. A miserable scream escaped Mei Pengliang’s throat as he fell to the floor, jerking in spasms due to the piercing pain.

  This frigid cold qi came for the Asura Demon Claw battle skill, but the move just now wasn’t a move of the Asura Demon Claw. Otherwise, Mei Pengliang could have died more comfortably.

  Seven years of practicing the Asura Demon Claw skill meant that Huwang Xiao could already effortlessly apply the Asura frigid cold qi into any form of attack that he wished. Although the power wasn’t on the same level as the real Asura Demon Claws, it was enough to torment someone, making them feel that death was a better option.

  Li Bin and the Nine Tripod disciples broke out in cheers watching the miserable endings of the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples. The stuffiness and hatred pooled in their hearts lightened, and for most of them, the awe and worship they held towards Huwang Xiao increased monumentally.

  While Mei Pengliang was rolling around and jerking in pain across the floor, another group of people suddenly rushed into the hall through the Nine Tripod Commerce’s entrance.

  The several people in front were all dressed in Clear Cloud Pavilion’s robes and there was a large group following behind them consisting of more than sixty people. All of the people following behind had Big Dawn County City Guards uniforms on.

  The several Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples that broke into the hall noticed Mei Pengliang at the same time. Their expressions turned ugly seeing their Young Lord twitching on the floor.

  “Young Lord, Young Lord!”

  “Young Lord, what is wrong?”

  Several of them hurried to Mei Pengliang’s side, and one of them, a middle-aged man, quickly initiated his battle qi. A fire-red palm fell on Mei Pengliang’s back. Clearly, this person had seen through the frigid cold qi wreaking havoc inside Mei Pengliang, and he wanted to use some fire type cultivation technique to disperse the frigid cold qi in Mei Pengliang’s body.

  However, the moment his palm touched Mei Pengliang’s skin, he noticed a trace of dark blue qi actually wanting to invade his body from his palm.

  Terrified, he swiftly removed his palm from Mei Pengliang’s back without hesitation. He tried to circulate his battle qi to force the little amount of dark blue qi out of his body. Succeeding, the middle-aged man let out a big breath of relief.

  He turned around, focusing a deadly glare at Huwang Xiao, Fei Hou, and the Nine Tripod Commerce’s disciples. When he spoke, it was directed at one of the City Guards, “Captain Wu, the Big Dawn County forbids fighting and killing within the County City. Now you have witnessed it for yourself; the disciples of Nine Tripod Commerce attacked my disciples of Clear Cloud Pavilion. They’re suffering from severe injuries, and by breaking Big Dawn County’s regulations, aren’t they acting in contempt with regards to the Luo Ting Kingdom’s law? Why aren’t you locking these people up?!”

  Hearing this, the City Guards Captain had a difficult expression on his face. True, he had accepted many benefits from the Clear Cloud Pavilion, but was Nine Tripod Commerce a force he could provoke?

  “What? Why aren’t you moving?” The Clear Cloud Pavilion’s middle-aged man hollered at the top of his lungs while looking at the stationary city guards.

  However, just as he finished his question, a palm flew towards him like a gale. Sensing danger, he quickly raised his arms in panic to defend himself.

  Despite his fast response, it was a step too late. The palm struck and he was sent flying out.

  The other Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples that arrived with the middle-aged man were greatly startled. Without exception, all of them were also slapped away by Huwang Xiao with one palm strike.

  The expression on that Captain Wu’s face became slightly warped.

  In his opinion, Huwang Xiao’s actions were arrogantly insolent. He, the City Guards’ Captain, was standing right in front of him and yet he still dared to strike the Clear Cloud Pavilion’s disciples. His anger overshadowed the fact that Huwang Xiao’s strength surprised him. Instantly, Captain Wu’s face sank and he bellowed at Huwang Xiao: “Little punk, you’re too impudent, does the law still exists in your eyes?”

  “Law?” Huwang Xiao slowly turned around, facing that Captain Wu, a sharp light gleamed in Huwang Xiao’s eyes. Without warning, a palm shot out, landing a resounding slap right across Captain Wu’s face, causing him to spin from the force. A few circles later Captain Wu finally managed to control himself, albeit a little dizzy.

  Although he was a City Guards Captain, he was merely a Seventh Order warrior. In front of Huwang Xiao it bore no difference to that of a little kid.

  “Captain Wu!”

  “Captain Wu, are you okay?!”

  The surrounding guards were stunned, bursts of shouts sounded from different corners.

  Finally stopping himself, the Guards Captain Wu clutched the burning right side of his face with a look of disbelief as he stared dumbly at Huwang Xiao, “Little punk, you, you dared to hit me?”

  “So what if I hit you?” Huwang Xiao’s cold voice rebuffed.

  Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples came to make a mess here in the Nine Tripod Commerce every day, and the Nine Tripod Commerce disciples were beaten every day by Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples. How was it that these City Guards disappeared without so much as a shadow at those times? Now that Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples were injured, they appeared so efficiently?

  Moreover, before Huwang Xiao arrived, he did some checking and found this Big Dawn County’s Castellan was Prime Minister Wu Feng’s student. This point further explained why the Clear Cloud Pavilion could harass and beat up the Nine Tripod Commerce disciples without facing repercussions for the past month. And on top of that, none of the Big Dawn City guards made an appearance.

  That Captain Wu was so angered by Huwang Xiao’s rebuff, especially that sentence, ‘so what if I hit you?’, that it made the green veins on his forehead twitch uncontrollably. His heart was aflame. Any hesitation he had towards offending the Nine Tripod Commerce was burned to cinders.

  “You! Go catch this little punk and lock him up!” Captain Wu pointed a finger at Huwang Xiao, shouting angrily at the guards hovering behind him while the other hand indicated with a wave.

  “Yes, Captain Wu!”

  The City Guards received their orders and swiftly surrounded Huwang Xiao in a circle.

  At this time, Huwang Xiao’s silhouette retreated, and Fei Hou who had been watching closely at the side swept his palms out vertically. The force blew away all of the guards within the blink of an eye.

  Looking at all the city guards groaning in pain on the floor, Captain Wu stared aghast at Huwang Xiao and Fei Hou: “You two, dare to resist arrest?”

  With a flick of his wrist, a shiny golden token appeared in Huwang Xiao’s hand. From the golden token, a spirited image of a dragon and a phoenix winding around the character ‘Marshal*’ broke into Captain Wu’s line of sight.

  Seeing th
at golden token, Captain Wu’s legs lost their strength and they trembled as he knelt down in salute. His shaky voice sounded: “Big Dawn County’s Third Squad City Guards Captain Wu Xiaodong greets Lord!”

  The golden token in Huwang Xiao’s hand was Marshal Haotian’s Marshal token. Seeing it was equivalent to seeing Marshal Haotian in person. At the start of the journey, thinking of the possibility of such circumstances arising, Huwang Xiao brought the matter up and borrowed the Marshal token from Marshal Haotian.

  Watching the trembling Captain Wu kneeling on the floor, Huwang Xiao gaze was extremely cold, he only spat out one word: “Roll!”

  Captain Wu looked up dumbly as if he did not expect Huwang Xiao would let him off so easily.

  “What? You don’t want to roll?” Huwang Xiao asked.

  “Yes, yes Lord, I’ll roll, rolling now, I’m rolling away this instant!” That Captain Wu nodded his head with vigor, getting up from the floor as he escaped towards the exit with all the city guards trailing behind him.

  After Captain Wu and the city guards fled, Li Bin came beside Huwang Xiao, asking cautiously, “Young Lord, what do we do with Mei Pengliang and these Clear Cloud Pavilion’s people?”

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  Huwang Xiao looked at Mei Pengliang and the number of Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples and sneered, “Strip off all their clothes and then hang them up one by one on the stone pillars across the street. I think many people will be interested in watching such a spectacle.”

  “Strip off all their clothes? Hang them up on the stone pillars across the street?!” The marvelous expression on Li Bin’s and the Nine Tripod Commerce disciples’ faces were a sight to behold.

  This trick –brilliant!

  Absolutely brilliant!

  Even though Mei Pengliang was on the floor and completely subdued by the frigid cold qi caused by the Asura Demon Claw, he still suffered from inverse blood flow in his heart when he heard Huwang Xiao and immediately lost consciousness.

  If one were to think about it, this truly was a great shock to Mei Pengliang considering his identity as the Clear Cloud Pavilion Big Dawn County branch President’s son. Relying on his status, even those noble children that resided in Big Dawn County needed to treat him with the utmost courtesy. How would he have any face to see people if he was really stripped naked and hung in the streets in broad daylight?

  Not only Mei Pengliang, all the disciples from Clear Cloud Pavilion were choked with anger hearing Huwang Xiao’s plan.

  “You, you dare?!” The middle-aged man that arrived later raged violently at Huwang Xiao.

  “I, don’t dare?” A mischievous grin crept up Huwang Xiao’s face. He turned around towards Li Bin and the disciples standing behind him, signaling them with his eyes.

  Li Bin and the rest acknowledged loudly: “Yes, Young Lord!” And immediately, they pounced at the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples akin to a group of hungry wolves jumping into a herd of lambs!

  These Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples were injured earlier by Huwang Xiao and Fei Hou, and thus, not one of them had the power to resist. They could only watch wide-eyed as pieces of their clothing was torn apart by Li Bin and the Nine Tripod Commerce disciples down to their birthday suits.

  In the end, a total of thirty naked bodies laid on the floor. There was a variety of skin tones: snowy white, baby pink, and even tan.

  Glowering at Li Bin who removed his clothes, Mei Pengliang’s heart was raging with anger and embarrassment. Gritting his teeth with hatred, he wished that he could chop Huwang Xiao and every person of the Nine Tripod Commerce into thousands of pieces.

  “Old dog Li Bin, there will be a day where you’ll die miserably in my hands. Miserably, you won’t even have a corpse to be buried!”

  “I will ensure you can’t wish for your death to come quicker!”

  Mei Pengliang vowed through gritted teeth at Li Bin after enduring the devouring pain from the Asura Demon Claw’s frigid cold qi.

  Li Bin gave a glance at the single dangling meat on Mei Pengliang’s lower body, raising an eyebrow, he asked, “Is that so?” Without waiting for a reply, he lifted his foot and stamped onto Mei Pengliang’s body. Mei Pengliang let out a tragic, woeful scream. The originally generous-sized ‘tool’ instantly shrunk after taking a hit from Li Bin’s foot, like a fruit that lost all its juices, wrinkled and dried up.

  The other Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples that were throwing harsh, threatening words to the Nine Tripod Commerce disciples’ faces astutely shut their mouths after witnessing their Young Lord’s cruel fate. The noisy racket died immediately as all of them were busy protecting their ‘family jewel’ by clamping their thighs together.

  Watching this, the Nine Tripod Commerce disciples broke out in laughter.

  This past month, these Nine Tripod Commerce disciples suffered insults and beatings from these people, and now they could finally vent.

  Following that, some of the Nine Tripod Commerce disciples brought out coarse ropes, tying the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples individually. Some of the Nine Tripod Commerce disciples even went as far as tying the ‘middle leg’ together. Therefore, when the rope was pulled, painful screams reverberated in the hall.

  After tying up Mei Pengliang and the rest of the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples, and following Huwang Xiao’s order, the Nine Tripod disciples hoisted them and hung them up the stone pillars on the opposite side of the street.

  Not long after Mei Pengliang and the twenty-nine Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples were hung up for view, the passing commoners and nobles stopped to ‘admire’.

  “This looks like Clear Cloud Pavilion President Mei Sen’s son’ Mei Pengliang?”

  “You’re right!”

  “I didn’t expect his ‘below’ would be so black when his face looks so much like a little white lamb[1]? What a thick bush!!”

  “It’s just... a little small~!”

  Some of the nobles’ children that were associated with Mei Pengliang provided their feedback. Their fingers pointed up and down, deliberately poking fun and laughing out loud at the same time. Mei Pengliang’s head was cast down, nearly disappearing into his chest, while his heart raged with embarrassed anger. If there was a mouse hole in front of him at this moment, he would rather crawl inside, even if only by half his head.

  This was the way Mei Pengliang felt, and the rest of the disciples’ feelings resonated with his.

  While Mei Pengliang and the disciples were hung in public, in the Clear Cloud Pavilion Big Dawn branch’s building main hall, Mei Sen was talking happily with a middle-aged man in an embroidered light red robe. It was apparent from Mei Sen’s manner and demeanor that he was respectful and trying to please the middle-aged man in the light red robe at the same time.

  This middle-aged man in the light red embroidered robe was none other than Baolong Kingdom’s Martial Ning Family Patriarch, Ning Wang!

  At this time, a Clear Cloud Pavilion disciple ran in, alarmed, “President, something bad happened!”

  Mei Sen’s brows creased into furrows when being interrupted, “What is it?”

  “Young Lord’s in trouble!” That Clear Cloud Pavilion disciple blurted out in anxiousness.

  “Something happened to Liang’er?” Watching the expression on that Clear Cloud Pavilion disciple’s face, Mei Sen had a bad premonition in his heart, “What happened?”

  “Young Lord and those disciples with him are all tied up and hung across the street from the Nine Tripod Commerce!” That disciple hastened to reply.

  Tied up and hung on the street? Mei Sen secretly breathed out in relief-- he had thought his son met with some severe mishaps.

  Then, in the next moment, the disciple added: “All of them, including the Young Lord, were stripped of their clothes!”

  All stripped off their clothes? Mei Sen was nonplussed, and then, he practically jumped up as his hand slammed onto the side table. With a face ready to kill, he questioned the disciple, “What did you say?!” Before that di
sciple could repeat a word, his robe collar was twisted by a fist and lifted up in the air.

  That Clear Cloud Pavilion disciple’s face was ashen with fear. Tongue-tied and stammering, he tried to reply, “Young, Young Lord and the others were stripped bare-naked by the Nine Tripod Commerce’s people, and then hung high in the street across their branch!”

  Hearing this, Mei Sen roared in anger, and with a fling the disciple was thrown out of the main hall.

  “Nine Tripod Commerce, I will kill all of you!” Killing intent soared in Mei Sen’s eyes and he prepared to assemble the Clear Cloud Pavilion’s disciples to head towards the Nine Tripod Commerce branch.

  “Wait!” It was at this time that Martial Ning Family’s Patriarch, Ning Wang spoke.

  Mei Sen was startled, “Patriarch Ning, what is the meaning…?”

  A light flickered in Ning Wang’s eyes, and he spoke with a solemn tone, “Maybe, Huwang Xiao is here.”

  “Huwang Xiao!” This name thickened the killing intent in Mei Sen’s eyes, “You’re saying?”

  Mei Sen probed.

  Ning Wang nodded in affirmation, “If it wasn’t for Huwang Xiao’s presence, would those people in the Nine Tripod Commerce dare to behave this way? However, we just need to send someone to check and see if Huwang Xiao is really here. Send someone to rescue your son. We’ll know the truth after asking him.”

  “If it is really Huwang Xiao... heihei, then, this Big Dawn County would be his burial land!”

  Mei Sen nodded.

  Thus, Mei Sen repressed the rage in his heart, retracted his murderous aura, and sent several Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples out to the pick up his son and the rest of the disciples hanging in the street.

  However, not long after that, a Clear Cloud Pavilion disciple ran into the main hall, flustered as he reported to Mei Sen who was waiting for news. He reported that the batch of disciples that went to rescue the Young Lord were captured by the Nine Tripod Commerce’s people, stripped bare-naked, and ended up being tied up like the rest of them, hung on the street for display.