Asura Sovereign 3
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Mei Sen nodded. He punched at Fei Hou and used that as momentum to extract himself from the battle, pouncing onto Huwang Xiao in the next moment. It was obvious to him that he couldn’t rely on those wastrel subordinates since they couldn’t kill Huwang Xiao.
Mei Sen aimed a killing fist at Huwang Xiao and used his green vines as he whipped them out to entangle Huwang Xiao’s movements.
Huwang Xiao chose not to clash with Mei Sen directly. With a flash, he dodged Mei Sen’s attacks.
Seeing Huwang Xiao avoid his two-pronged attack smoothly, Mei Sen’s eyes darkened as he approached Huwang Xiao slowly, step by step: “Huwang Xiao, it seems I underestimated you. The speed of your growth has exceeded my assumption. Not only have you broken through to the Tenth Order, you were actually able to advance to peak mid-Tenth Order!”
“But, I refuse to believe that a Xiantian like me cannot squash you today!”
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Mei Sen instantly lunged at Huwang Xiao with the ten fingers on his palms spread out, shooting black vines out en masse, covering the sky like a thunderstorm and enveloping Huwang Xiao.
However, watching the overwhelming stretch of black vines rapidly approaching him, Huwang Xiao gave no indication of dodging. He remained still in the same spot and what further baffled Mei Sen was that Huwang Xiao actually folded his arms as if... he was admiring his attack?!
Insulted, the killing intent in Mei Sen’s eyes soared higher, and the energy fluctuations coming from the black light around his body heightened.
“Little punk, I don’t believe whatever hidden trick you use could escape my attack!”
Just as the black vines were about to reach Huwang Xiao’s chest, suddenly, a silhouette flashed while raining down rays of a halberd.
“Heaven’s Wrath!”
The many dazzling rays from a halberd repelled Mei Sen’s black vines, rebounded from a stronger power. Mei Sen’s body couldn’t handle the attack, staggering back as his eyes filled with disbelief staring at the person who had just deflected his attack.
“Marshal Haotian!” Mei Sen stared in shock.
The person who deflected his attack was none other than Luo Tong Kingdom’s sole Marshal − Haotian!
“You... weren’t you supposed to be in Luo Tong Royal City?!” Mei Sen questioned in the next instant.
He had investigated very clearly before making his move, and this time, only Fei Hou accompanied Huwang Xiao. Moreover, the news that came from the Luo Tong Royal City side also confirmed that Marshal Haotian was in the Marshal Mansion.
Marshal Haotian moved beside Huwang Xiao and greeted him with a ‘Young Lord’ before turning towards Mei Sen with a cold sneer, “Who told you I’m in Luo Tong Royal City?” Contempt was obvious in Marshal Haotian’s eyes.
Mei Sen’s face distorted at the remark.
Marshal Haotian actually accompanied Huwang Xiao on this trip as well, hidden in the dark!
And they did not get wind of it!
At this moment, Mei Sen finally realized Huwang Xiao’s trump card was never Fei Hou in the first place, but it was Marshal Haotian!
Some distance away, Ning Wang also noticed Marshal Haotian’s sudden appearance, his expression also turned extremely ugly. This entire situation was all calculated by Huwang Xiao!
Huwang Xiao!!
What depressed him even more was that Fei Hou’s strength seemed to have risen since the time at the Enlightenment Lake. As a Xiantian Second Order, he actually couldn’t swiftly kill a Xiantian First Order-- this was a great humiliation.
Ning Wang struck a punch out to push Fei Hou back as he himself retreated to a spot in a flash, shouting: “Release the arrows! Aim everything at Huwang Xiao, I want him dead!” When he finished saying that, a bright light shrouded his entire body like a turbulent gale, and he flew up in an attempt to escape.
If these poisonous arrows could take Huwang Xiao’s life, then that’s peachy. If not, there would not be many future opportunities.
With Marshal Haotian’s arrival, wanting to kill Huwang Xiao with a hundred percent surety was already impossible.
Watching Ning Wang abandon him to run away first, Mei Sen was morose and angered at the same time. With his body flashing like a green rainbow, Mei Sen also made a move to run for his life while all the Clear Cloud Pavilion’s disciples rained poison arrows down, all targeting Huwang Xiao.
Marshal Haotian and Fei Hou were startled and quickly returned to Huwang Xiao’s side, rebuffing all the incoming arrows.
“No need to worry about me, chase and kill Ning Wang and Mei Sen-- both of them absolutely cannot escape!” Huwang Xiao said, waving his Blades of Asura. Two turbulent cyclones spun out, sucking in all the poisonous arrows.
Seeing this, both Marshal Haotian and Fei Hou acknowledged his order respectfully. With a flash, both separated in pursuit of their prey.
Marshal Haotian went after Ning Wang.
Fei Hou went after Mei Sen.
Marshal Haotian had diligently practiced the Five Yang Tactic that Huwang Xiao taught him these past few years, and thus the growth of his strength wasn’t slower than Fei Hou, and he had reached the peak of Xiantian Second Order. Furthermore, like Fei Hou, Marshal Haotian swallowed Fire Dragon Pearls and cycad fruits provided by Huwang Xiao for his cultivation so he was comparable to a Xiantian Third Order.
Not long after, Marshal Haotian had caught up to Ning Wang. On the other side, and almost at the same time, Fei Hou blocked Mei Sen’s path.
After Marshal Haotian and Fei Hou left, Huwang Xiao’s silhouette flashed as he leaped into the air, and with a swing of his blades, countless blade rays flew out and turned into an angry thunderstorm.
The Tempest of Hell and Tears of Asura lashed out consistently, attacking the Clear Cloud Pavilion’s disciples.
The crying sounds from the Tempest of Hell and Tears of Asura were in sync.
Recently, when he was practicing Asura Sword Skill, Huwang Xiao tried to combine the Tempest of Hell with Tears of Asura by using both moves at the same time, yet did not expect it would succeed. Although the combination wasn't perfect yet, the power more than doubled compared to using each move individually.
It could be seen that under the two spinning cyclones, there was an endless stream of tragic screams resounding from the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples. The disciples that managed to avoid being sucked into the cyclones were pierced through by Tears of Asura, and different sizes of bloody holes covered these disciples’ bodies.
Very soon, the original number of over two hundred disciples from the Clear Cloud Pavilion were reduced by half.
Most of these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples were Seventh and Eighth Order warriors. By no means were they Huwang Xiao’s opponent, but it also proved how strong Clear Cloud Pavilion was.
The Clear Cloud Pavilion in Big Dawn County was just a branch.
Then again, Clear Cloud Pavilion had used more than a hundred years to develop. Its forces and the experts under its command were not something a normal family could compare to.
The few lucky disciples that managed to avoid both Tempest of Hell and Tears of Asura were watching in horror as their brother disciples fell to the ground, filling the alley. All of those ‘lucky disciples’ turned around to flee.
Watching these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples fleeing, Huwang Xiao’s silhouette flashed, and swinging the blades in his hand out, he blocked the two remaining peak late-Tenth Order disciples.
Others could leave, but these two absolutely could not.
Both of them already had half a foot into Xiantian realm and would breakthrough Xiantian realm soon, and to kill these two people at that time would be much more troublesome than now.
Staring at Huwang Xiao blocking their path, fear crept up their faces. Despite that, they chose not to fight and instead separated, choosing opposite directions to run.
Seeing their reaction, Huwang Xiao once again leaped up, and his body rotated at high speed in mid-air while the Blades of Asura swung ou
t repeatedly. Streaks of lightning split the air with the roar of lightning flood dragons resounding. In the blink of an eye, both peak late-Tenth Order disciples were hit by lightning, sending them flying.
Huwang Xiao returned to the ground, and the blades in his hands slashed out, forming twin cyclones spinning towards both disciples.
Being wrapped by the cyclone, both of them were slashed by the many blade rays, and miserable screams resounded in the air. When the Tempest of Hell dissipated, two bloodied bodies plummeted to the ground.
After settling the matter with the two peak late-Tenth Order warriors, Huwang Xiao swept a glance around at the many different directions the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples were running away in. With a flash, the Blades of Asura in Huwang Xiao’s hands were like a grim reaper’s sickle, stealing away these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples’ lives.
One by one, these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples tumbled down onto the street.
Crimson blood dyed several streets.
Fortunately, this was a more secluded area of the city, otherwise, the surrounding area’s commoners would have been awakened by these people’s dismal screams and cries that originated from the Tempest of Hell and Tears of Asura. This was hell on earth.
In the end, from the original two hundred plus Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples, only a little more than twenty of them successfully escaped−a tenth of them!
As for the rest, they laid in puddles of blood, all killed by Huwang Xiao.
Watching the bodies pile up around him, Huwang Xiao finally stopped; he noticed that his breath was slightly uneven. After transforming into Asura Body, holding the Blades of Asura, and using Asura Sword Skill to fight and kill, the terrifying aura of slaughter in him became stronger. The desire to kill also grew more frenzied.
When killing, he had a feeling that he truly was an Asura incarnate.
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The night wind blew, carrying the thick scent of blood with it.
Within the bodies of these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples, the roaring cries of an Asura from hell continue to resound.
Huwang Xiao stood in the midst of these corpses and a soft blue light glittered around him from head to toe.
In less than a minute, these glittering blue lights vanished and Huwang Xiao breathed out some turbid qi through his mouth. More than an eighth of the battle qi he had exhausted recovered after initiating the natal martial spirit ability, Instant Recovery.
Huwang Xiao’s eyes swept over the bodies of these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples. He then walked towards the four peak late-Tenth Order warriors. From their bodies, Huwang Xiao found two cultivation techniques and three battle skills’ manuals.
Both cultivation techniques were low-grade Earth rank cultivation techniques whereas within the three battle skills, two were at low-grade Earth rank while the last one was a high-grade Mysterious rank battle skill.
These cultivation techniques were useless for him, but his parents and little siblings could use them.
Huwang Xiao threw everything into the Asura Ring.
From these dead bodies, Huwang Xiao had quite a harvest of gold coins and Spirit Dans.
Gold coins were something Huwang Xiao didn’t need, yet the Spirit Dans he found were also nothing good as most of them were Grade Two and Grade Three Spirit Dans. Not even one high Grade Three Spirit Dan could be found from the loot.
At this point, Marshal Haotian and Fei Hou returned.
Fei Hou was injured, yet he carried Mei Sen’s corpse back with him. Instead, it was Marshal Haotian that returned empty-handed; obviously, Ning Wang managed to escape.
When both of them returned, the blood-filled scene full of Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples dead bodies startled them.
All these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples were killed by Sovereign alone?!
“Sovereign!” Both of them came before Huwang Xiao and greeted him.
“How was it?” Huwang Xiao asked.
Marshal Haotian took a step forward, saying “This Subordinate caught up to Ning Wang, and although I managed to injure him severely, he managed to flee. However, he took my Dark Nether Palm. Without half a year’s time, he won’t be able to fully heal.”
Then, Fei Hou also stepped forward, “This Subordinate pursued Mei Sen, and finally was able to kill him.” Saying this, Fei Hou pulled out a ring,
“Sovereign, this Subordinate found this spatial ring when searching his body after this Subordinate killed him.”
Spatial ring?
Huwang Xiao took the ring, feeling somewhat astounded for he did not expect Mei Sen would be in possession of a spatial ring. One must know how precious each spatial ring was, for even Marshal Haotian didn’t have one.
Huwang Xiao used some of his battle qi to open the spatial ring, and much to his delight, there was quite a number of Spirit Dans inside! Most of them were Grade Three and Grade Four. Not only that, there were several stalks of precious herbs, some cultivation technique manuals, and records of battle qi.
Fei Hou spoke again at this point, “Sovereign, how do we deal with Mei Sen’s and these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples’ bodies?”
“Just leave them here, no need to do anything,” Huwang Xiao looked at the horizon. By this time the moon had waned but the wind remained strong.
“Let’s go.”
Three silhouettes flashed, vanishing from the spot as they left.
Not long after Huwang Xiao and the two left, the patrolling city guards of Big Dawn County arrived. When these city guards arrived at the scene and saw the piles of the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples’ corpses, the bloody, gory scene in front of them seemed to have emerged from hell itself. Their faces were instantly drained of color and showed a horrified expression.
Some were unable to control themselves as they vomited on the sides of the streets, last night’s dinner and whatever good tonic they consumed were all coming back out.
Suddenly, from some of these Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples bodies, an audible sound could be heard that was akin to the eerie cries of Asura. The sounds frightened these city guards so much that they nearly shit in their pants.
A long time later, these city guards finally summoned the courage to approach the scene and take a closer look.
“That one is, Clear Cloud Pavilion’s President Meisen?!” Out of nowhere, one of the city guards' voice sounded abruptly, exclaiming in fright as he pointed towards a certain corpse some distance away.
All the surprised guards walked up, surrounding Mei Sen’s body for a better look.
“It really is Mei Sen’s corpse!”
After taking a clear look at the face, the leader of the city guards, Captain Wu blurted out. His body couldn’t help but shiver from the chill running up his spine.
Mei Sen was a Xiantian realm expert ah, still, he was killed!
Moreover, the way Mei Sen died was truly miserable. Other than the face looking slightly better, there was no other complete part of him.
Moments later, Captain Wu’s reason returned and he issued out an order in a shaky voice: “Quick- quickly go report to the Castellan!”
This time, it was truly a big mess!
Mei Sen and so many Clear Cloud Pavilion Big Dawn County branch disciples were massacred. That was in Big Dawn County City itself!
Apart from Mei Sen, there were more than two hundred of the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples!
More than two hundred!
That meant nearly all of the Clear Cloud Pavilion Big Dawn branch disciples died here!
It has been a very long time since a murder or fight happened within the boundary of Big Dawn County City!
“Captain Wu, do you think it might be the Nine Tripod Commerce who did this?” One of the city guards couldn’t help asking this question aloud.
The Nine Tripod Commerce!
All the forces in Big Dawn County knew about the conflict between the Nine Tripod Commerce and the Clear Cloud Pavilion.
Astutely, Captain Wu neither denied nor confirmed.
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At this time, in the Clear Cloud Pavilion’s building, Mei Pengliang was sitting, waiting in the main hall. His head kept turning towards the entrance.
“Young Lord, don't worry, this time President is cooperating with Patriarch Ning Wang and there are so many of our Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples going out in droves. That Huwang Xiao and Fei Hou won’t be able to escape!”
One of the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples noticed this and also spoke out to reassure him.
“That’s right Young Lord, after killing Huwang Xiao, the headquarters will surely reward the President heavily for this merit. At that time, the President might even be promoted to Deputy Pavilion!” Another disciple smiled flatteringly as he joined in.
Mei Pengliang nodded.
However, exactly at this time, twenty or so Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples ran into the main hall in panic, blood stained their robes. These were the fortunate ones that managed to run away from Huwang Xiao’s gruesome macabre.
Seeing these disciples returning, Mei Pengliang jumped out from his seat, urging them, “Where’s father?”
“Young Lord, we were tricked by Huwang Xiao! No one knew Marshal Haotian accompanied him here to Big Dawn County. We were lucky enough to escape, but the other disciples have all fallen!” One of the survivors forced out in a brittle voice.
“What?! All Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples are dead?!” Mei Pengliang and the other disciples that were waiting in the main hall turned ashen.
“Then, my father?!” Mei Pengliang repeated his question again.
“Don’t know, when we ran away, the President and Patriarch Ning Wang had already left before us.” A different disciple replied.
In this situation, even staying inside the Clear Cloud Pavilion wasn’t safe.
Mei Pengliang’s heart breathed in relief hearing this, but at this time, a disciple ran into the main hall, shouting: “Young Lord, the President was killed!”
“What?!” Mei Pengliang’s mind buzzed as if lightning struck his brain.
The other Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples had despondency hanging on their faces, turning gray in color.