by Shian Jeen
Li Molin took a quick glance at Zhao Shu when she said this point and then looked back at Huwang Xiao, “I realize your identity is not common, but any identity or background is insignificant before Deities Templar. Unless of course, if you’re a God Realm master!”
When her words ended, she looked at Ao Baixue and Li Lu: “Let’s go!” then flew up, leaving by shattering the void.
Ao Baixue followed closely behind, leaping up.
Tears rolled down Huwang Xiao’s eyes. Taking a last look at his face, Li Lu’s voice sobbed: “Xiao, I will always wait for you in Deities Templar!” She too turned and flickered away.
Watching Li Molin leave, Zhao Shu wanted to stop her but Huwang Xiao shook his head, “No need.” Even if it was Zhao Shu, he might not be able to stop all three of them. Li Molin had just said any identity was nothing before Deities Templar unless you were a God Realm Master!
God Realm Master!
Huwang Xiao looked at Li Lu’s receding silhouette and Ao Baixue next to her, his fists tightly clenching. Watching as she grew further away, a pang of throbbing pain shot through his heart.
So uncomfortable!
All this while, Huwang Xiao thought he was someone that had enough strength to protect his family and the people close to him. Little did he know about how ignorant and laughable these notions were until now.
He was powerless to protect the person he loved!
In the end, he could only watch Li Lu be taken away right in front of him. A cold frigid aura of slaughter rumbled out of Huwang Xiao’s body, freezing the surrounding airflow.
Huwang Xiao’s vision turned a chilling scarlet red.
Zhao Shu stood beside him wanting to offer a few words of comfort, but not knowing what to say, he remained silent. He empathized with his Sovereign’s feelings, just like the weak, powerless him at that time. That year, the weak and powerless him could only watch as the woman he loved was killed before his very eyes. That kind of pain was many times worse than having his own heart dug out.
Not until night overtook the sky did Huwang Xiao then move. Turning around, he returned to Southern Hill Estate without uttering a single word till he came to his own little yard. He looked back at Zhao Shu, “You can go rest, I’m fine.” a hoarse voice sounded.
“Yes, Sovereign!” Zhao Shu saluted respectfully before retreating, knowing that what Huwang Xiao wanted most at this time was quiet solitude.
After Zhao Shu left, Huwang Xiao stood in the yard. He sat down, right on the yard floor. No additional words were spoken by him yet the cold, intense, slaughter qi bursting out from his body only amplified as time wore on.
One night passed.
Huwang Xiao sat in the yard the entire night like a sculpture, not moving an inch.
Morning sunlight shone down from above onto Huwang Xiao’s body. Despite that, there was no sign of movement from Huwang Xiao. The thick killing intent swirling around Huwang Xiao gave birth to a feeling of desolation overnight.
As Zhao Shu and Fei Hou entered Huwang Xiao’s yard and saw him sitting on the ground, their feet stopped advancing.
“If this continues, I am worried that Sovereign…” Fei Hou said with a worried expression. Zhao Shu had already told him about what happened.
“It’s best we let Sovereign calm down a little.” Zhao Shu shook his head, “Based on Sovereign’s character, nothing will happen.”
Fei Hou nodded.
Both of them withdrew from Huwang Xiao’s yard. The passage of time continued to move forward.
The sun moved to the highest point in the sky, heat engulfed the land, and then it moved westward, signaling the time for dusk. Once again, the sky darkened into the lonely quiet twilight.
On the third day, the sun basked the land in warm sunlight again.
Just like that, Huwang Xiao sat on the yard floor, unmoving for three days and three nights. Three times a day, Zhao Shu and Fei Hou would make a trip to Huwang Xiao’s courtyard.
Three days and nights later, the Huwang Xiao that had been lacking signs of life suddenly moved. The suffocating killing intent and desolated atmosphere around him for the last few days shattered like blocks of ice, dissipating with the wind.
Huwang Xiao stood up and walked out from his yard as if everything had returned to normal.
Zhao Shu and Fei Hou were making their way to Huwang Xiao’s yard but were startled when they saw Huwang Xiao come out. Strands of gray hair dusted Huwang Xiao’s temple.
“Sovereign, you…!” Both exclaimed aloud.
“I’m alright.” came Huwang Xiao’s calm reassurance.
Both Zhao Shu and Fei Hou wanted to say more, but seeing Huwang Xiao’s manner, they swallowed the words at the tip of their tongue.
“Zhao Shu, Fei Hou, take a walk outside with me.” Huwang Xiao said.
“Yes Sovereign!” The two of them replied in unison.
Thus, the three of them stepped out of Southern Hill Estate.
Huwang Xiao roamed aimlessly whereas Zhao Shu and Fei Hou followed loyally from behind, neither of them daring to utter a sound.
When they came to a lively street, a group of people suddenly crowded the path in front of them. Not surprisingly, it was the Guo Brothers, Guo Fei and Guo Zhi, with a group of Guo Family servants and bodyguards behind them.
Every so often, Guo Zhi and Guo Fei would wander around the Imperial City with a bunch of servants and guards in search of entertainment.
“Big brother, it’s that little brat Huwang Xiao!” Guo Fei swiftly said when he spotted Huwang Xiao walking in their direction from some distance away.
Guo Zhi lifted his head and when he saw it was really Huwang Xiao, the corner of his lips arched into a cold sneer, “Go, we’re going over,” and with that, he led the group of Guo Family servants and guards towards Huwang Xiao’s group of three.
The Guo Family group blocked Huwang Xiao’s path.
“Huwang Xiao, I didn’t expect that you would manage to survive that night!” Guo Zhi exclaimed fearlessly, laced with a tinge of complacency and arrogance.
That day, after leaving the Sapidity Wine House, they had Huwang Xiao’s identity investigated, and subsequently sent someone to assassinate him. However, the person sent to kill Huwang Xiao never returned.
Albeit surprised, they didn’t mind the failed attempt nor put Huwang Xiao in their eyes. They had thoroughly investigated Huwang Xiao’s background; he was nothing more than hick that came from a little family, the Huwang Clan Manor. Though they could not understand why a small kingdom’s marshal would call Huwang Xiao Young Lord, this point wasn’t important in Guo Zhi’s opinion.
As for that so-called Luo Tong Kingdom’s Marshal Haotian, he could make him disappear simply by opening his mouth.
“I’m in a horrid mood, it would be wise if you choose to scram now!” Huwang Xiao’s gaze pierced through Guo Zhi and Guo Fei.
Li Lu’s departure had triggered a strong killing desire in Huwang Xiao!
“What did you say?!” Listening to Huwang Xiao tell him to scram the moment he opened his mouth made Guo Zhi’s face turn ugly, “Little bastard, you think just cause your younger sister got engaged to that brat Guo Tai, I wouldn’t dare to kill you? It is merely an engagement. Even if Guo Tai married your little sister, I can make that brat divorce her just the same!”
“A backwater kingdom’s paltry Huwang Family smelly pissant wants to enter our Guo Family’s door?!”
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A paltry little Huwang Family smelly pissant!
The instant Guo Zhi’s voice fell, a silhouette flickered in front of him and the next thing he knew was that his neck was being strangled by a powerful hand!
The owner of the hand was none other than Huwang Xiao. Huwang Xiao’s right hand stretched out and clawed onto Guo Zhi’s neck, lifting him off the street. Emotionless eyes looked at Guo Zhi as a terrifying wave of killing aura whorled unrestrained from Huwang Xiao.
Guo Zhi was a peak mid-Xiantian Second Order expert, and he never exp
ected Huwang Xiao to be foolish enough to attack him. In close proximity and caught off guard, he was denied the chance of dodging.
“You!” Guo Zhi’s face turned maroon from having his neck pinched and cutting off his airway. His eyes bulged out of their sockets akin to a desiccated fish pulled out of water that could flip over and die at any second.
Guo Fei and the rest of the Guo Family guards and servants watched dazedly as Guo Zhi was lifted off the street by Huwang Xiao, failing to respond to the situation. After all, they had never encountered this kind of incident.
In the past, when Guo Zhi and Guo Fei roamed around the Imperial City with the guards and servants while looking for entertainment, the commoners and even some of the noble families’ younger generation would avoid them, moving as far away as possible. It had always been the brothers clutching others by the throat. A reverse situation had never happened, disregarding the fact that even a single hair on their body was deemed so precious that no one even dared to touch them!
“Big brother!” Moments later, Guo Fei finally reacted. Calling out to his brother, he then turned angrily towards Huwang Xiao, screaming, “Huwang bastard, how dare you! Why are you not releasing my Big brother this instant?! If you don’t, I will annihilate your nine generations!”
Annihilate your nine generations!
Big words may have been spoken but Guo Fei wasn’t lying. For a large family like the Guo Family in the Duanren Empire territories, to annihilate the nine generations of a small family was nothing more difficult than releasing a fart.
Almost in the same moment Guo Fei’s voice ended, a shadow flickered. Huwang Xiao’s left palm stretched out, clenching Guo Fei’s neck and raising him up in the air the same way he did with Guo Zhi.
Like Guo Zhi, Guo Fei’s neck and face turned a deep shade of burgundy in less than a second with protruded eyes nearly leaving their sockets. Overwhelmed and scared, Guo Fei’s arms and legs swung wildly, he wanted to speak but the words were stuck in his throat. No logical words could be made out.
The Guo Family guards and servants saw Huwang Xiao holding Guo Zhi and Guo Fei in each hand, raised to the air. All of them were first stupefied, then angered, but at the same time afraid Huwang Xiao would hurt their Young Lords, thus no one dared to make bold actions.
In the end, these guards bellowed a rain of empty threats at Huwang Xiao.
“Little brat, do you know who our Young Lords are? If you know what’s good for you, immediately release them!”
“If a single hair from our Young Lords is hurt, be prepared to die without a burial place!”
The guards clamored and threatened, they could only repeat the same few sentences.
While the Guo Family guards and servants passionately shouted threats, Huwang Xiao’s gaze sharpened like a sacred blade cutting through them. A single glance and the Guo Family side’s lackeys curled up in fright, effectively shutting them up.
Then, Huwang Xiao exerted a little more pressure in his hands. Both Guo Zhi and Guo Fei kicked even more desperately, eyeballs straining out as their hands flailed and grasped Huwang Xiao’s hand at their throat. It was apparent to those present that they were suffering.
But this time, none of the people from the Guo Family camp dared to say anything, realizing at this point that all their clamor had been a futile effort.
The pedestrians on the streets started to slow down, congregating into a small crowd that stared flabbergasted at Huwang Xiao… and the two people in his hands that were lifted up in the airㅡGuo Zhi and Guo Fei, the Guo Brothers.
Most of the commoners and noble families recognized Guo Zhi and Guo Fei, and because they recognized the two brothers they were flabbergasted.
There was actually someone daring enough to lift the Guo Zhi and Gui Fei brothers up in the air by their necks?!
“Who’s that brat? He dares hit both of the Guo Brothers?”
“He seems to be Huwang Xiao?”
“Huwang Xiao?! The champion of this year’s Imperial City Battle, that Huwang Xiao?”
Discussions broke out from the surrounding crowd on the street.
Ignoring the crowd of people, Huwang Xiao looked at Guo Zhi and Guo Fei. Their eyes were starting to roll back, mostly showing the whites. Without a doubt, they were drawing their last breath.
When he felt the timing was right, Huwang Xiao swung his arms, throwing the two outward in midair.
Miserable cries sounded as Guo Zhi and Guo Fei crashed into the street, rolling for more than a dozen meters before coming to a stop.
“Young Lord!”
The Guo Family guards and servants had their nerves stretched tautly, each swiftly running to Guo Zhi and Guo Fei’s side, helping them up from the ground.
Due to the extreme pressure Huwang Xiao exerted on their throats, after being helped up by the guards and servants, their complexions were white and green for a while. Both coughed nonstop as they stood up. On each of their necks was a clear bruise of a purple-green handprint.
“For Guo Tai’s sake, I won’t kill you today, so scram!” Huwang Xiao glared at them, his cold voice that sent a chill down the spine rang in the street.
And what Huwang Xiao said was the truth. If it wasn’t for the fact that he’d be looking at Guo Tai’s face as his future brother-in-law, he’d erase them without hesitation here and now. But, Huwang Xiao’s words in Guo Zhi and Guo Fei’s ears were an insult to them, an unforgivable insult.
They were downright being humiliated!
Rubbing the bruise on their necks, their eyes glowered venomously at Huwang Xiao.
“Kill him, kill this fucking dog bastard for me!” When his throat eased a little, Guo Zhi roared as he pointed at Huwang Xiao, akin to a rabid dog.
“I don’t care who does it, but kill Huwang Xiao and you’ll be rewarded with ten million gold!” Guo Fei followed, hollering his reward.
The moment Guo Fei’s words were spoken, the people on the streets looked astonished.
Some of the passersby were tempted. Kill Huwang Xiao, and you get ten million gold!
To the smaller forces and family, ten million gold was an astronomical wealth.
By this point, the Guo Family guards and servants had drawn their weapons on them, attacking Huwang Xiao.
Watching this group of people coming at him, Huwang Xiao snickered. When these Guo Family guards reached Huwang Xiao and wanted to attack, Zhao Shu and Fei Hou moved.
Fei Hou leaped up and in a flicker, a dazzling silver river materialized in the air above. Spiraling in the air, an enormous battle qi energy rushed out, blocking the Guo Family guards and servants.
Zhao Shu stood where he was, raised his arm and struck out a palm. The crowd watched as the Guo Family guards and servants were sent flying like they were hit by a great tidal wave, vomiting blood in large amounts.
In a split second, the entire street was dead silent.
A sharp intake of breaths ensued as the attention shifted onto Zhao Shu who was standing behind Huwang Xiao.
Most of these Guo Family guards were Xiantian experts. It was a given that most of them were only Xiantian First and Second Order experts, but they had coordinated a combined attack! Nonetheless, they were defeated by the unassuming middle-aged man standing behind Huwang Xiao; sent flying with just one palm, there were no exceptions.
The earlier experts that were tempted to take on Guo Fei's reward of ten million gold had cold sweat trickling down their foreheads, a chilly breeze brushed passed their backs.
Guo Zhi and Guo Fei were as shocked as the rest of them. An indescribable disbelief covered their faces as they surveyed the street littered with the guards and servants that came out with them.
Huwang Xiao’s countenance grew colder than ever as his gaze fell on the brothers. His feet raised, and step by step, he walked towards Guo Zhi and Guo Fei.
Only in this moment did reality hit them. Watching Huwang Xiao approach, fear filled them, causing them to retreat subconsciously.
“Xiao, Bro X
iao, it’s a misunderstanding. Just now was simply a misunderstanding.” Guo Zhi forced an ugly smile on his face, waving his hands in emphasis. The quiver in his voice was noticeable.
“Yes, yes, that’s right, a misunderstanding. We didn’t really mean that.” Guo Fei too forced himself to smile amiably, it was just that the expression on his face looked uglier than crying.
