Asura Sovereign 3

by Shian Jeen

  “Young Lord, we’d better flee from here, that Huwang Xiao might come here next!” A Clear Cloud Pavilion disciple urged frantically.

  Now, even this place wasn’t safe.

  Mei Pengliang’s senses were jolted back to the present. Then, together with the remaining Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples, he ran out of the building without bothering to take anything, leaving Big Dawn County City in the deepest hour before dawn.

  When Huwang Xiao returned to the Nine Tripod Commerce, Li Bin, who was instructed to keep a lookout on Mei Pengliang, appeared and reported to Huwang Xiao, saying Mei Pengliang and a group of disciples hurriedly left the city.

  “Running away?” Huwang Xiao sneered and then turned around to signal Fei Hou with his eyes.

  Fei Hou nodded, “Yes, Young Lord, Subordinate will head out now.” Without further delay, he turned around and left.

  Of course Huwang Xiao wouldn’t allow Mei Pengliang to escape. Troubles must be eliminated from the root!

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  After Fei Hou left, Huwang Xiao and Marshal Haotian waited for him in the Nine Tripod Commerce’s main hall.

  Near daybreak, Fei Hou returned. With Mei Pengliang’s decapitated head in his hand.

  Fei Hou reported: “Sovereign, Mei Pengliang and all Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples have been dealt with.”

  Huwang Xiao nodded lightly; this result was within his expectation.

  “We’ll go back to the Royal City sometime later.” Huwang Xiao’s said solemnly. Though the issue with Clear Cloud Pavilion’s Mei Sen and his son had been resolved, there were still some loose ends to tie up, which made Huwang Xiao decide not to head back so quickly.

  “Yes, Sovereign!” Both Fei Hou and Marshal Haotian acknowledged his decision respectfully.

  Before the morning light spread through the land, the news about Mei Sen struck the Big Dawn County City like thunder, giving rise to a shocked uproar throughout the city.

  The commoners were also made aware that Clear Cloud Pavilion’s President Mei Sen was killed during the night. Mei Sen and all the Clear Cloud Pavilion’s disciples met with annihilation!

  Within the Big Dawn County Castellan’s Mansion, Castellan Wu Dong had an ugly expression on his face as he looked at Mei Sen’s corpse. His friendship with Mei Sen was good.

  “Castellan, should we send guards to surround Nine Tripod Commerce?” One of the Castellan Manor guards came beside Wu Dong and asked, “President Mei Sen and these people were surely killed by the people from the Nine Tripod Commerce!”

  “Yes, Castellan; even if that Nine Tripod Commerce have Marshal Haotian supporting them, so what? A Prince that breaks the law is as guilty as a subject. I don’t believe that Nine Tripod Commerce dares to retaliate!” Another Castellan Manor guard spoke up.

  Wu Dong’s expression was extremely sullen the entire time, “Report the matter up to Lord Prime Minister first. Lord Prime Minister will have to make his decision!” After he said that, Wu Dong sent one of his confidantes to inform Prime Minister Wu Feng of the matter.

  A few hours later, Wu Dong received Prime Minister Wu Feng’s reply and further instructions.

  Reading the reply from Prime Minister Wu Feng, Wu Dong breathed out in relief.

  Five days later.

  Five days had passed since the Clear Cloud Pavilion’s President Mei Sen and over two hundred disciples were killed, and the gossip gradually died down. What baffled the big and small forces of the Big Dawn County was the lack of response from the Castellan Manor while the Nine Tripod Commerce remained safe and sound. Not only that, the Nine Tripod Commerce’s business actually fired up during the last few days.

  It was ten days later when Huwang Xiao, Fei Hou, and Marshal Haotian finally left the Big Dawn County and returned back to Luo Tong Royal City.

  Arriving in Luo Tong Royal City, Huwang Xiao headed straight for Tianxuan Mansion.

  However, not long after he stepped in Tianxuan Mansion, the Cosmic Star Academy’s Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu came. The purpose of their visit was related to the inner courtyard admission.

  Sitting in Tianxuan Mansion’s main hall, Sun Zhang hesitated before saying to Huwang Xiao, “Xiao, the day before yesterday we had an inner courtyard round table discussion and Xiong Chu and I proposed your admittance into the inner courtyard. Most of the inner courtyard Elders agreed to it, it’s just that...” Sun Zhang’s sentence paused here.

  Xiong Chu continued, “It’s just that there were three Elders that objected your admittance into the inner courtyard.”

  There were Ten Elders in the inner courtyard. Three of them disagreeing meant Huwang Xiao wasn’t eligible to enter the inner courtyard because the rules required a vote of nine.

  “Oh, three Elders?” Huwang Xiao was nonchalant to this fact. To him, the inner courtyard didn’t matter at all. The only benefit was that there were slightly more cultivation resources allocated compared to the normal Third Years, such as Spirit Dan allocation, rewards, and other benefits. However, these Grade Three and Grade Four Spirit Dan cannot compare to the Fire Dragon Pearl from the Linglong Treasure Pagoda.

  Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu exchanged a vexed look seeing Huwang Xiao’s expression. It seemed this little guy really isn’t interested in the inner courtyard. One must know that entering the inner courtyard was every student’s dream! The goal they strived for when entering the Academy!

  “The three Elders’ excuse for objecting to your admittance was that all inner courtyard disciples had to reach Tenth Order, whereas you are still a Ninth Order.” Sun Zhang explained.

  “Oh right, the three of them have quite a deep connection with Prime Minister Wu Feng.” Xiong Chu added. Prime Minister Wu Feng and Marshal Haotian had some conflict between them; thus, in Xiong Chu’s opinion, the main reason these three Elders disagreed with Huwang Xiao entering the inner courtyard was likely due to Prime Minister Wu Feng’s handiwork in the dark. As for claiming Huwang Xiao was not a Tenth Order warrior... that being the basis for the rejection was just an excuse.

  “Prime Minister Wu Feng!” A sharp glint shone in Huwang Xiao’s eyes as he repeated the name. Again, it is Prime Minister Wu Feng.

  In recent days, this Prime Minister Wu Feng seemed to be looking for trouble with him at every corner!

  All of these incidents were just because of Marshal Haotian?

  Or perhaps, things weren’t as simple as he thought.

  A short while later, Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu left Tianxuan Mansion, but before they went off, Huwang Xiao asked the names of the three Elders.

  Xie Wei! Jiang Hengyu! Cheng Fengli!

  These were the names of the three inner courtyard Elders.

  Committing these names to memory, Huwang Xiao activated the God Binding Ring and entered the ancient battlefield to practice. Some months had passed since he had a breakthrough to peak mid-Tenth Order, so he felt the breakthrough to late-Tenth Order was near.

  And there were four more months until the Academy’s end of the year annual competition, and Huwang Xiao had decided to advance into late-Tenth Order as fast as he could in order to grasp the Academy overall championship in his hands! After acquiring the championship, the next step would be participating in the Duanren Empire’s Battle of Imperial City!

  Initially, Huwang Xiao’s plan was to break into Xiantian realm next year before taking the overall championship. This way, participating in the Duanren Empire’s Battle of Imperial City would leave him with a better foothold in the competition. Now, however, he changed his mind.

  He must enter Duanren Institute as soon as possible, and then get a hold of and refine the number four Heavenly Treasure: Absolute Soul Pearl!

  Huwang Xiao sat cross-legged in the ancient battlefield, running Asura Tactics as he devoured the netherworld spiritual energy that fell like tidal waves from the void.

  The twin black and blue dragons hovered behind Huwang Xiao, and the dozen plus meter length of their bodies sparkled as each of the dragon’s scales grew thicker and denser.
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  As Huwang Xiao’s strength approached infinitely closer to the Xiantian realm, the body of the twin dragons grew more real and solid. From afar, they looked like real life Primordial Divine Dragons.

  Half a month passed.

  During this half a month, Huwang Xiao spent a large portion of his time practicing inside the ancient battlefield. Other than concentrating on Asura Tactics, there was also the Body Metamorphose Scripture.

  What made Huwang Xiao ecstatic was that there were signs of entering Stage Ten.

  Entering Stage Ten represented the strength of a Xiantian realm expert!

  At that time, even if Huwang Xiao’s battle qi hadn’t broken through to the Xiantian realm, just having his internal force breakthrough the Stage Ten would help him greatly in the Imperial City.

  Bright light continued to shimmer from Huwang Xiao’s body as a vague layer of a fire-red glow appeared on the surface of his skin. Half a month of crazed practice caused the netherworld battle qi in his meridians and Qi Sea to surge, coursing through his veins.

  Suddenly, Huwang Xiao trembled from within, his meridians and Qi Sea enlarged again.

  Late-Tenth Order-- he finally broke through!

  Huwang Xiao continued to run Asura Tactics technique for several hours before stopping and opening his eyes. A sharp cold light shone in his eyes like the tip of a deadly blade.

  Huwang Xiao exited the ancient battlefield.

  Walking out of his room, he ran into his little sister, Huwang Min. Seeing Huwang Xiao’s silhouette, Huwang Min leaped up in joy and dashed towards Huwang Xiao, “Big brother, you’re finally out from practice.”

  Seeing the expression on his sister’s face, Huwang Xiao could already guess there must be something on her mind, and a headache started to emerge.

  Sure enough, Huwang Min’s next sentence was, “Big brother, accompany me to the Million Treasures Auction.”

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  “Million Treasures Auction?” Huwang Xiao was bewildered.

  This Million Treasures Auction House was an auction held by the Thousand Treasures Firm, and the Thousand Treasures Firm was one of three biggest firms of Duanren Empire. In the thousands of kingdoms who swore fealty under Duanren Empire, they had over two thousand branches, one in every Royal City and other important main locations.

  And in Luo Tong Royal City, there was one such Million Treasures Auction House branch.

  Although the Nine Tripod Commerce that Huwang Xiao created was one of the biggest firms in Luo Tong Kingdom, when comparing to the giant Thousand Treasures Firm, it was nothing but a sesame seed.

  Huwang Min explained, “Big brother, you may not know, but I heard that in the auction this time there will be things other than treasures like high grade Earth rank cultivation techniques. They are even auctioning the spiritual treasure, Geocentric Esne!”

  “What?! Geocentric Esne?!” Huwang Xiao was dumbfounded.

  More than a hundred thousand feet deep into the earth, and after eons of undergoing certain conditions, the planet would give birth to a miraculous spiritual treasure. And that treasure was the Geocentric Esne! This Geocentric Esne was a natural treasure formed from gathering various spiritual auras for countless years. If taken by a person that cultivates in battle qi, it would provide unimaginable benefits.

  Not only could this Geocentric Esne prolong one’s longevity, it also greatly increased one’s battle qi cultivation.

  This effect of prolonging longevity was not as simple as taking some elixirs that could extend a lifespan.

  “Yes ah, Geocentric Esne! I heard the Million Treasures Auction in our Luo Tong Kingdom even attracted people from the neighboring kingdoms and some of the bigger forces this time.” Huwang Min explained.

  Huwang Xiao’s eyes flashed with determination.

  Geocentric Esne! [1]

  Even after breaking through to late-Tenth Order, Huwang Xiao did not have much confidence in becoming the overall Academy champion in the upcoming annual competition. However, if he could bid on this Geocentric Esne, swallow it and practice, he was confident that he could advance to peak late-Tenth Order before the annual competition!

  Seeing her Big brother’s expression, Huwang Min knew he was hooked.

  “Big brother, the auction will start in another two hours, shall we?” Huwang Min said.

  “Okay, let’s head over now!” Huwang Xiao nodded in agreement. Initially, he didn’t have any interest in this so-called auction, but this Thousand Treasures Geocentric Esne... he must get it!

  Seeing Huwang Xiao agree, her face lit up as she cheered in glee before swiftly pulling Huwang Xiao out of Tianxuan Mansion by the hand.

  Just as they were leaving Tianxuan Mansion, Huwang Xiao and Huwang Min ran into Marshal Haotian and Fei Hou.

  “Young Lord wants to participate in the auction?!” Both were surprised when they heard Huwang Xiao wanted to participate in the Million Treasures Auction.

  “Young Master wants to bid for the Geocentric Esne?” Fei Hou took a guess and asked.

  For this particular auction, the Million Treasures Auction made quite an effort to publicize the matter. For the past two days, both Marshal Haotian and Fei Hou had heard about the Geocentric Esne being auctioned many times.

  Huwang Xiao nodded, “Correct.” For Huwang Xiao, there wasn’t a need to hide anything from these two people.

  “Is there something you need from me?” Noticing the changes in their expressions, Huwang Xiao asked. Both of them looked like they had something to report to him.

  “We came to report to Young Lord that Big Sword Sect’s Yu Chen came to Luo Tong Kingdom. Other than Yu Chen, Ning Wang also came.” Marshal Haotian reported respectfully.

  “Oh, Yu Chen, Ning Wang!” Huwang Xiao’s eyes sharpened.

  He didn’t expect them to appear in Luo Tong Royal City.

  These two came to Luo Tong Kingdom at the same time, so the purpose should be the Million Treasures Auction!

  “Ning Wang was lucky to escape in Big Dawn County, yet he dares to show his face here in the Royal City this time!” Huwang Xiao snickered coldly. He turned to Marshal Haotian and Fei Hou, saying: “Let’s go, both of you come with me to the Million Treasures Auction!”

  “Yes, Young Lord!” Both answered respectfully.

  Hence, Huwang Xiao’s group of four: Huwang Xiao, Huwang Min, Marshal Haotian, and Fei Hou−made their way to the Million Treasures Auction spot in a leisurely manner.

  “Big brother, this time those two old fogies, Yu Chen and Ning Wang, came here so you mustn’t let them escape!” On the way, Huwang Min shook her little fist angrily thinking of the two people, her little face flashing with hate.

  These past few years, Big Sword Sect and the Martial Ning Family kept sending assassins to kill their family. One of those times, Huwang Min was nearly injured, thus the little girl’s grudge ran deep towards these two.

  Huwang Xiao watched his little sister shaking her small fist mightily, and he couldn’t resist smiling, “When we reach the auction place, if you see these two old fogies, you go up and beat them down to the ground till they can’t get back up!”

  Hearing this, Huwang Min choked, and then pouted her little mouth and mumbled, “Big brother, you know I can’t beat those two old fogies!”

  Huwang Xiao grinned unabashedly.

  Marshal Haotian and Fei Hou followed behind them and also cracked a smile.

  On the way to the Million Treasures Auction, Huwang Xiao noticed that the streets were growing more and more crowded. They could see many different people wearing all kinds of styles and colors. Judging from the direction everyone was moving, all of these people had come for the same goal: they were most likely the different forces that came to Luo Tong Kingdom for the auction.

  An hour later, Huwang Xiao’s group of four arrived at the auction house.

  The Luo Tong Royal City Million Treasures Auction House was located on the most prosperous street. It was already crowded on normal days, but today the streets were
congested so that not even a drop of water could trickle through.

  When Huwang Xiao arrived, before him was a mass of black bobbing heads.

  The crowd was stuck, making it hard to move forward.

  Noticing this, Fei Hou walked to the front to open up a path for Huwang Xiao.

  Wherever Fei Hou passed, a strong airflow extended out that pushed everyone around, giving way to a path.

  Moments later, they came to the entrance of Million Treasures Auction House.

  The chief attendant of the Million Treasures Auction House was stunned when he spotted Marshal Haotian behind Huwang Xiao, and beaming a wide smile, he hurriedly welcomed them courteously and led them up to a private room.

  “Who is that kid? Even the Thousand Treasures Firm’s chief attendant came to welcome him personally?!”

  “You don’t even know this? He is Luo Tong Kingdom’s most talented genius, Huwang Xiao!

  The one behind him is the Luo Tong Kingdom’s hero, only below the King, Marshal Haotian!”

  “What? He is Huwang Xiao?! There were rumors a year ago about him defeating Yang An of the Yuwai Kingdom!"

  This raised an uproar through the crowd.

  However, there was an exception. A youth clad in a black embroidered robe was staring in Huwang Xiao’s direction with hatred as he stepped into the Million Treasures Auction House. It looked as if he wanted to cut Huwang Xiao into tiny pieces.

  “Young Lord, the current you is not Huwang Xiao’s opponent. You must endure this pain till the time is right!” At this time, an old man walked up behind the youth and reminded him in a whisper.

  “Don’t worry Uncle Liu, I know-- I won’t act recklessly. The day will come when I annihilate Huwang Family’s Tianxuan Mansion to avenge father!” The black robed youth swore through gritted teeth, and his voice was extremely cold.

  That Million Treasures Auction House’s chief attendant personally arranged a private room for Huwang Xiao’s group after leading them in through the passageway specially prepared for honored guests.