Asura Sovereign 3

by Shian Jeen

  Therefore, seven months until the Imperial City Battle may seem far away, but Huwang Xiao and the others were making the best time possible just in case they ran into any delays. According to Huwang Xiao’s estimation, at their speed, they would need at least six months or so before arriving at their destination.

  After Baolong Kingdom, all of those other journey continued smoothly.

  Five months passed.

  During the rushed travel, Huwang Xiao still made time to practice Asura Tactics.

  Within these five a few months, the battle qi in Huwang Xiao’s Qi Sea and meridians condensed, becoming more concentrated. The majority of his battle qi flowing along his meridians and Qi Sea acquired already converted to liquid form.

  When all the battle qi in his body was changed into a liquid condition, it could signify Huwang Xiao’s ascension to the Xiantian Realm. Once he stepped into the Xiantian world, a new door would open to an entirely different perspective.

  As they continued on their journey, another 10 times passed quickly.

  On one quiet night time, the moon was particularly bright.

  The four of them made a decision to stop and rest for the night at a barren hill before continuing their journey onward.

  The bonfire crackled, and strong flames cast light on the encompassing.

  Occasionally, the howling of wolves could be heard through the night.

  Huwang Xiao, Zhao Shu, Yu Ming, and Fei Hou were sitting in a circle round the bonfire, an aromatic fragrance wafted over from the meat roasting on the open fire.

  Such a scene and atmosphere reminded Huwang Xiao of years past when he whisked his parents and little siblings away from the Huwang Clan Manor and took them to Luo Tong's Royal City. It was just like the nights they spent sleeping outside and eating roast meats from the bonfires.

  That year, his little sister promised she would cultivate diligently, grow strong, and defeat Huwang Wei.

  In those days, they did not know Huwang Wei and the others of Huwang Clan Manor had all been murdered by the best Sword Sect. However, eight years later he successfully came back the favor, destroying Big Sword Sect completely.

  “Sovereign, we ought to reach Duanren Empire in roughly two weeks.” At this time, Yu Ming suddenly spoke.

  Huwang Xiao stopped thinking of the past, nodding at Yu Ming. That’s right, in two weeks’ time he'd be stepping into Duanren Empire.

  Duanren Empire!

  This is Huwang Xiao’s next step!

  It was imperative that he get first place in the Imperial City Fight!

  The delicious smell from the roasted meat thickened, indicating it was ready. The four of these each cut a piece off and began to eat.

  “I question how that little guy is doing?” Huwang Xiao all of a sudden remembered the Spirit Devourer Violet Monkey.

  Initially, Huwang Xiao planned to bring the tiny monkey with him to Duanren Empire, but it went in to the Silvermoon Forest. Thus, Huwang Xiao could only give up and decided to bring it along next time upon his go back to Luo Tong Kingdom.

  During the past 2 yrs, the little violet monkey not only advanced to Stage Ten just as he do, it also reached peak late-Tenth Order.

  By the next time Huwang Xiao encounters it, the tiny monkey would very likely have already broken through to the Xiantian realm as well.

  Huwang Xiao took out the jugs of Fiery Wine and Snow Moon Wines he had stored inside the Asura Ring, enjoying them with Zhao Shu, Yu Ming, and Fei Hou.

  Although rushed traveling was just a little dull, the wine and roast meat managed to get bearable.

  Sated from the meal, Zhao Shu, Yu Ming, and Fei Hou held watch whereas Huwang Xiao initiated the God Binding Band and came into the ancient battlefield.

  Huwang Xiao had a feeling his Xiantian world breakthrough would happen next two days.

  Running the Asura Tactics cultivation technique, the black and blue dragon surfaced behind Huwang Xiao, hovering above his mind as they greedily devoured the netherworld spiritual energy gushing down from the void.

  His breakthrough in the last year had greatly enhanced and solidified his martial spirit’s corporeal bodies. Each of the dragon scales on the bodies were distinctive, reflecting light on their smooth surface as if they could turn into real life dragons at any time.

  The netherworld fight qi in Huwang Xiao’s Qi Sea and meridians were surging vigorously, and they had completely turned an inky blackish purple.

  The deepest and darkest purple colored battle qi appeared was daunting and intimidating at first glance, and when Huwang Xiao circulated his battle qi, it appeared as if the Cocytus River that flowed up from the underworld.

  When Huwang Xiao was absorbing the overflowing netherworld religious energy, the netherworld battle qi within his body started vibrating violently.

  This is…? Huwang Xiao was startled, was he breaking into the Xiantian realm right…now?

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  The battle qi within Huwang Xiao’s body was comparable to a wild stallion that escaped its reins, galloping wildly away. All signs directed to an impending breakthrough.

  Ever since he started cultivating, Huwang Xiao had experienced breakthroughs many times; thus he was quite familiar with the signs of an impending discovery.

  Concentrating his focus, Huwang Xiao ran Asura Tactics, forcefully reigning in the netherworld fight qi that was charging throughout his body.

  Netherworld battle qi coursed and crashed through Huwang Xiao’s Qi Sea and meridians time and again.

  At the same time, beyond Huwang Xiao’s body, a black mist swirled around and upward, condensing and becoming more and more thick. In the end, the dark mist converted into thick fog that totally enshrouded Huwang Xiao within.

  Huwang Xiao’s figure seemed to blend in and from the thick black fog.

  The twin black and blue dragons floated in mid-air behind Huwang Xiao, roaring endlessly as their bodies grew bigger and more solid and real among a pulsating glow. The shiny light enveloping their bodies burst out, and the twin dragons’ body seemed to then double in proportions. As the twin dragons experienced physical changes, dragon scales dropped from their body, and then they continuing to grow and fall off again in a seemingly endless cycle. When these dragon scales fell, fresh blood dripped.

  Dragon blood!

  Real, tangible dragon bloodstream!

  As the blood fell to the bottom of the ancient battlefield, it seemed as though the slumbering gods of the ancient battlefield were aroused by the smell of the dragon blood.

  A loud rumble echoed throughout the ancient battlefield.

  Subsequently, beating war drums filled the air. The ground shook as a large number of horses started charging to the frontline, and swords and spears were clashing. It had been the sound of the massacre!

  Multiple scenes flashed passed Huwang Xiao’s consciousness.

  He saw the moments where the four-winged, six-winged, and eight-winged ancient God Tribe fell.

  All the while, the bright light exuding from Huwang Xiao’s body grew ever more dazzling. The fight qi inside his body vigorously crashed against the Xiantian barrier, and the severe, splitting pain that tore at the primary of his spirit appeared to follow this tempo.

  Pain!

  It was as if someone was ripping his soul apart!

  Huwang Xiao had a sense that his head was going to explode and was near to being unbearable. Just like Huwang Xiao was on the brink to be completely overwhelmed, the Linglong Treasure Pagoda and God Binding Ring inside his body broke out within an aureate light. The second both of these mystical lamps made an appearance, Huwang Xiao’s awareness felt a comfortable cooling sensation, and the pain via his spirit vanished almost instantly.

  Every time Huwang Xiao was about to reach his breaking point and faint from the pain, the Linglong Treasure Pagoda and God Binding Ring would release that mysterious glow of energy to nourish Huwang Xiao’s soul.

  The process repeated over and over again.

  Huwang Xiao seem
ed to fall into an environment of fireplace and ice.

  Not knowing how much time had passed, Huwang Xiao’s body abruptly trembled as though a giant fissure had split the world in two. The tough Xiantian hurdle finally gave way to Huwang Xiao’s netherworld battle qi’s persistent smashing.

  It was as if the Earth was devastated by widespread disaster, yet life tenaciously struggled to emerge from the deepest recesses of the earth.

  His netherworld fight qi cheered as it rushed in to the meridian route that displayed stepping into the Xiantian realm, flooding forward.

  A strong vitality aura broke out from Huwang Xiao’s body, and the ground around where Huwang Xiao sat cross-legged in the ancient battlefield started to sprout discernable green vegetation!

  The green of life!

  Simultaneously, the moment when Huwang Xiao broke the barrier to the Xiantian realm, the bright light around his twin dragon martial spirits expanded greatly, covering 100 li outward with Huwang Xiao as its fulcrum. A mighty dragon’s oppressive aura surged out like a tsunami. Waves upon waves of pressure spread out in all directions within the ancient battlefield.

  Gradually, the blazing light across the black and the blue dragons dimmed and stopped flickering. Over the dragons’ physiques, pieces of dark and blue scales as solid as armor were growing on the top, layer after coating. They had four powerful, stout legs, and atop each dragon’s head were two dragon horns.

  Both the black and blue dragon had condensed into a solid entity, emanating the potent aura of the Primordial Divine Dragon race!

  Not until quite a while had passed did the thick, black fog enshrouding Huwang Xiao’s physique recede, revealing the person inside.

  Exactly like his twin dragon martial spirits shedding their scales, Huwang Xiao also shed a layer of old pores and skin. His at first brownish grain colored skin was replaced with a much fairer skin color.

  Huwang Xiao opened his eye and a robust energy fluctuation swept out, sending the dust and sand in the ancient battlefield soaring.

  Expressing the joy in his heart, Huwang Xiao hollered on the sky.

  The battle qi finally broke to the Xiantian realm!

  Xiantian!

  Internal force, battle qi, both had reached the Xiantian stage!

  With his current strength, killing the average Xiantian Second Order expert was achievable without exerting much effort!

  Getting up, Huwang Xiao’s eyes focused on the black color and blue dragon that was hovering above him, and undisguised excitement demonstrated on his face.

  Finally, his twin dragons had transformed into solid entities, transforming into real Primordial Divine Dragons!

  Stepping into Xiantian realm, the black colored and blue twin dragons both had grown, surpassing twenty meters in length.

  Passing his thoughts through his spiritual connection with them, both dragons hovering mid-air suddenly growled and flew down, coming to a stop in front of Huwang Xiao. Although his martial spirits experienced changed into solid entities, they were connected to Huwang Xiao’s consciousness, just like a part of his body. With a mere thought, he could call upon them anytime.

  Looking at the dark and blue dragons floating before him, Huwang Xiao leaped up and his feet landed together with the black dragon’s head, whereas the blue dragon wrapped around Huwang Xiao’s body. The wind blew against Huwang Xiao’s face.

  “Black dragon, travel!” Huwang Xiao tapped the dark dragon underneath him.

  Roaring softly, the black dragon flew up, bringing Huwang Xiao with it.

  Once they reached a higher altitude, Huwang Xiao gazed down at the thousand zhang ancient battlefield. Huwang Xiao sighed in his heart: so, this is the feeling of traveling!

  In Martial Spirit World, only Saint realm experts that comprehended regulations of space could fly in the sky. Even if it was a top late-Xiantian Ninth Order expert, they could stand on air at most, but not move.

  But Huwang Xiao could take flight! Along with his twin dragon martial spirits, he could be like Saint world experts and soar in the sky.

  Sitting on the black dragon as it flew as the blue dragon covered around his body, Huwang Xiao suddenly got a feeling that he was grand! A feeling that he was extremely cool!

  Viewing the horizon before him, Huwang Xiao suddenly acquired a flash of enlightenment on the path of his future cultivation.

  He wished to be considered a real Primordial Divine Dragon, soaring above the Nine Heavens!

  Exhaling deeply, Huwang Xiao was observing the historic battlefield as he stood on the flying black dragon when a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. All this time, he previously been entering the ancient battlefield to apply, but he never knew exactly how big this place was. Since his twin dragon martial spirits had transformed into solid systems, why couldn’t he check it out now?

  Riding on the dark dragon martial spirit, they flew onward, but what surprised Huwang Xiao was that after more than an hour of soaring, there was no end in sight.

  It was as though the ancient battlefield’s dimensional space went on infinitely with no end!

  But Huwang Xiao obviously felt something was calling him from far, far away.

  This feeling was similar to the time at the Enlightenment Lake, just like when the God Binding Ring was calling.

  “It seems I can only wait for now. Whatever is there at the advantage of this historic battlefield has to wait around.” Huwang Xiao thought to himself. Although his twin dragon martial spirits experienced changed into real entities and could fly, the speed was a little slow in his opinion.

  However, as he grew stronger and his power increased, so too would his martial spirit’s strength. At that time, the traveling velocity would increase exponentially.

  Telling the black color dragon to avoid, Huwang Xiao changed mounts. After hopping onto the blue dragon, he uncovered the blue dragon’s flying speed was much faster than the black dragon’s.

  “Now that I’ve broken in to the Xiantian realm, doesn’t which means that I can open up the second level of the Linglong Treasure Pagoda? I wonder what's stored in the second layer?” Huwang Xiao mused.

  Huwang Xiao called out the Linglong Treasure Pagoda. An aureate light instantly flashed in midair.

  After entering the Xiantian realm, the lustrous shine on the Linglong Treasure Pagoda’s surface vaguely seemed brighter than before.

 

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  Huwang Xiao infused battle qi into the Linglong Treasure Pagoda and it broke out in a sphere of aureate light. With a quick flash, Huwang Xiao’s eye blurred and he appeared in a different space.

  There were some similarities between this new space and the first layer of Linglong Treasure Pagoda. Floating above the first coating of Linglong Treasure Pagoda were Open fire Dragon Pearls. Red clouds typically formed heavy fire dragon qi, but there is no such thing here.

  The upper part of Linglong Treasure Pagoda was empty other than the item placed on the ground in the center, a cauldron!

  A hexagonal-shaped cauldron that looked like it was made from crystal. Other than that, there was nothing at all else in that space.

  Huwang Xiao stared dumbly at the crystal cauldron. This was a cauldron used for refining pellets?

  He had imagined there would be a high-grade treasure like the Fireplace Dragon Pearls on the next floor-Huwang Xiao thought the second floor would contain spiritual treasures that could enhance a Xiantian world expert’s power. But amongst the countless possibilities that went through his brain, never did he think the next level of the Linglong Treasure Pagoda would contain nothing more than this cauldron!

  Huwang Xiao walked one full circle throughout the cauldron. The crystal cauldron was somewhat over a meter high, and on the cauldron’s body were carvings of some ancient runes and some bizarre looking demonic beasts.

  After studying the cauldron for an instant, Huwang Xiao approached and tried to lift it up. However, he found he cannot actually move the cauldron even an
inch with his current strength. No matter how much fight qi or inner power Huwang Xiao used, the crystal cauldron remained immovable.

  It seemed this cauldron was ‘one’ with the Linglong Treasure Pagoda!

  Frowning, Huwang Xiao pondered for a moment before contacting out one of the blades and sliced his finger, dripping a drop of blood on the cauldron. The instant the drop of scarlet red bloodstream dropped onto the cauldron, it vibrated highly and a hum echoed in the area.

  At the same time, pieces of memories appeared in Huwang Xiao’s mind…

  Memories related to the cauldron.

  The cauldron was named the Thousand Beast Cauldron. There have been two big array formations carved inside it: one was called the Thousand Demon Engulfing Destruction Array, and the other was called Heaven and Earth Origin Reverting Array.

  The Thousand Demon Engulfing Destruction Array could swallow living beings in to the cauldron. As for the Heaven and Globe Source Reverting Array inside the cauldron... it could refine everything within, reverting it back again to its source of origin, closing in pellet form!

  Both of these arrays complemented each other, and their miraculous combination could swallow thousands of living beings, turning their essence into pure energy!

  Huwang Xiao was flabbergasted.

  Isn’t this too terrifying?!

  Based on the remembrances he just received, as long as the owner of the 1000 Beast Cauldron grew stronger, the better the cauldron would be too-the implication would be that even swallowing a sacred mountain or a huge sea was not a problem! As he got over his shock, Huwang Xiao became wildly ecstatic.

  Swallowing any and all living beings, refining them into a pellet… didn’t that mean the higher the quality was of the object being swallowed in conjunction with the bigger amount of energy it consumed, then the pellet grade it sophisticated would also be higher?!

  He could refine as much Quality Four or Grade Five Dans as he liked?! Huwang Xiao’s eyes twinkled brightly.

  It was sometime later that Huwang Xiao were able to calm the surging waves in his center as he took out a Stage Ten beast core from the Asura Band.