by Shian Jeen
How was this possible! Disbelief was written all over the faces of these Zhu Family disciples.
Not wanting to reveal his strength and identity, Huwang Xiao took the precaution of changing his appearance slightly, and thus not having to worry about being recognized by the Zhu Family disciples.
In fact, one of the reasons he was able to stake the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger into the ground was because the Zhu Family disciples had depleted most of its essence energy in the drawn-out battle earlier, otherwise, Huwang Xiao wouldn’t have had it so easy.
Of course, Huwang Xiao had a good measure of his attacks, he definitely wouldn’t kill the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger by accident.
After sending the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger down, Huwang Xiao flew after it, striking more than a dozen punches at its body. The ground cracked and shook as the punches continued to rain down until it lost all will to resist before Huwang Xiao stopped.
Accompanying each of Huwang Xiaolog’s punches, the Zhu Family disciples felt their hearts tighten. Looking at the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger’s tragic dead dog end, the faces of these disciples were whiter than a sheet.
Was he still a human?
That was basically a primordial divine beast, even more terrifying than an ancient fierce beast! The Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger was practically a fluffy little lamb!
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The Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger was pummeled to the point where it could hardly summon the will to resist, allowing Huwang Xiao’s spiritual force to break into its soul sea barrier and leave a soul imprint within. Then, the Zhu Family disciples watched dumbly as the dead dog Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger swallowed some unknown pellets given by Huwang Xiao, and in the next second, its vitality returned, becoming lively and energetic as if it was never injured in the first place.
However, just as Huwang Xiao was about to leave with the four demonic beasts, the Zhu Family’s Zhu Feirong couldn’t help blurting out: “Stop!”
Huwang Xiao halted his step and turned his head over his shoulder.
There was only the barest of hesitation as Zhu Feiroinf pointed at the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger, claiming, “This Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger is ours, you cannot take it away.”
Their main purpose in making this trip to the Great Wasteland was to search for a Fourth or Fifth Order God Realm Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger. They had been looking high and low for over a month’s time, coming across their target with much difficulty. Naturally, they couldn't allow this young man to take it away just like that.
“I cannot take it away? Then?” Huwang Xiao’s mocking tone was obvious despite his cold voice.
Noting Huwang Xiao’s expression, Zhu Feirong frowned slightly with dissatisfaction: “Which family are you from? We’re disciples of the Zhu Family from the Last Gods World. Leave the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger behind, I can give you ten million Xuanwu coins.”
Huwang Xiao nearly—no, he laughed out loud hearing these words. Ten million Xuanwu coins?
When Huwang Xiao finally stopped laughing, he scoffed in retort, “If we’re going by market price, ten million Xuanwu coins will only get you a Third Order God Realm demonic beast. A late-Fifth Order God Realm ancient fierce demonic beast like this Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger is worth a few hundred million, are you taking me for a fool?”
Zhu Feirong reddened, however, another Zhu Family disciple stepped forward, interjecting rudely, “We spotted this Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger first, if you want to take it away, I hope you will first consider the consequences. Things that belong to our Zhu Family are not so easy to steal.”
Huwang Xiao was flabbergasted. These Zhu Family disciples truly had skin thicker than average people.
If it weren’t due to his aura, as well as his three demonic beasts that alerted the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger, these bunch of Zhu Family disciples would most likely be dead by its claws by now. He, subjugating this Nine-tail Bright Radiance Tiger, could be considered as half their savior, yet the other side actually claimed that he was stealing their things?
Huwang Xiao laughed in spite of his rising anger, “Zhu Family? Pardon me, what little thing is this Zhu Family, I have no idea.”
These words instantly enraged the group of ZhuFamily disciples. Coincidentally, at this moment, noises of rustling wind sounded in the air as more than a dozen people flew toward their location at high speed.
When the Zhu Family disciples saw the faces of these newcomers, their faces brightened with delight.
“Big brother Zhu Yu, you’re all here!” Zhu Feiring stepped forward, crying out happily.
A young man with golden-irises and vermillion red hair nodded at Zhu Feirong before asking, “What is it?”
Zhu Feirong pointed at Huwang Xiao, explaining, “We encountered this Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger, but who knew that this brat would suddenly jump out of nowhere, stealing it from us. Not only did he injure several of our Zhu Family disciples, he even killed a few others.”
Those people were killed by the Nine-tail Bright Radiance Tiger, but now, all the blame fell on Huwang Xiao’s head.
Even Huwang Xiao didn’t expect this level of shamelessness from Zhu Feirong, spouting lies with his eyes open. Then, he smiled simply. He didn’t want to kill these Zhu Family disciples, but since this was the way things were, then…!
His gaze swept over the newcomers. Amongst the twelve people, there were two early Sixth Order God Realm, while that vermillion haired young man called Zhu Yu was the strongest, close to peak early Sixth Order God Realm. Of the other remaining ten, three were peak late-Fifth Order God Realm, and the other seven people were a mix of late, mid, and peak mid-Fifth Order God Realm.
It seems like, with this many strong characters, these Zhu Family disciples were probably thinking that he was a fish on a chopping board?
Zhu Yu looked at Huwang Xiao, then his eyes roamed over the four demonic beasts behind him. A tiny frown wrinkled his forehead as he thought for a moment before saying to Huwang Xiao, “Snatching our Zhu Family’s things and killing our Zhu Family’s disciples, even so, I will not make things hard for you. As long as you leave the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger, that Blazing Stonedragon Beast, and also one of your arms, we can let you go.”
Not make things difficult for you!
Leave the Nine-tail Bright Radiance Tiger and that Blazing Stonedragon Beast!
And an arm!
Huwang Xiao shook his head, laughing. His laugh was a bit sinister.
Without any warning, he made his move. The Mulberry Sword in his hand shot out a curtain of sword energy that enveloped an area of hundred li. The bone-deep penetrating killing intent greatly alarmed the Zhu Family disciples.
Sharp sword lights glinted and ten or so Zhu Family disciples were clutching their necks, staring at Huwang Xiao in fear before tumbling to the ground.
“You, courting death!” Zhu Yu did not expect Huwang Xiao to suddenly attack, moreover, killing close to a dozen Zhu Family disciples in front of him. Angered, he let out a furious bellow at Huwang Xiao.
However, just as he was about to retaliate, an overwhelming energy slammed down on him. Startled, Zhu Yu swiftly changed his move to defensive one.
A resounding boom echoed in the air.
Zhu Yu’s body shook, then he staggered a few steps back.
The two Strongarm Water-Fire Apes continued to attack.
Zhu Yu was both anxious and angry: “Beasts!”
The Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger targeted the other early Sixth Order God Realm disciples, while the Blazing Stonedragon and Huwang Xiao picked off the rest of them. The tiger aimed at disciples of Fourth Order and below, while early, mid, late, and peak late-Fifth Order disciples were all taken care of by Huwang Xiao.
At this point, Huwang Xiao no longer bothered to keep his identity a secret, displaying his Asura Physique and summoning the twin dragon martial spirits to soul transform. The sword b
elow his feet and the thousand arms behind him acted at the same time.
The Godly Xumi Art executed the Fifteenth Move of the Dragon God at full force, sending more than ten of Zhu Family’s early Fifth Order God Realm disciples flying into the air. Falling to the ground, the air they exhaled was more than the air going in.
Seeing this, Zhu Yu, Zhu Feirong, and the rest roared ceaselessly with fury.
Despite Zhu Yu’s strength being close to a peak early Sixth Order God Realm, it wasn’t an easy matter for him to defeat the two Strongarm Water-Fire Apes in a short time. In fact, he couldn't even disentangle himself from them.
On the other side, the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger was doing a great job of delaying the other early Sixth Order God Realm master, rendering him unable to help the rest or battle Huwang Xiao.
As for disciples below Fourth Order God Realm, the Blazing Stonedragon Beast had them jumping and running all over clutching their backside whilst howling in misery.
Practically at every ten breaths interval, there’d be a disciple sent flying by Huwang Xiao.
In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, there were only four peak late-Fifth Order God Realm disciples struggling to maintain the situation. However, under Huwang Xiao’s fierce attack, these four people’s defeat was a given.
Zhu Yu watched as the Zhu Family’s Fifth Order God Realm disciples were killed by Huwang Xiao one after another. Whilst greatly angered, fear had started to wind around his heart. A mere Fourth Order God Realm disciple had such a terrifying attack power? Even with his knowledgeable eyes, this was unprecedented.
Also, Huwang Xiao’s speed was actually not slower than theirs.
‘How can this be!’
He himself was an early Sixth Order God Realm, close to peak early Sixth Order God Realm, whereas Huwang Xiao was just a Fourth Order God Realm!
Half an hour later.
Huwang Xiao’s icy stare swept over Zhu Yu and another disciple named Li Mingzhu, a disciple of the Zhu Family. The Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger and the four beasts encircled Zhu Yu and the other. Corpses lay all around them, increasing the thick scent of blood.
“Who are you exactly?” Zhu Yu’s voice was low and grim, suppressing the overflowing anger on his chest. “You won’t be able to run even if you kill us as our family’s Grand Elder is watching over the transmission array. You too will die here in this Great Wasteland World!”
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“I’ll be waiting.” Huwang Xiao flashed a brilliant smile at Zhu Yu after hearing his threat.
“You!” Both Zhu Yu and Li Mingzhu were enraged.
Huwang Xiao’s silhouette flickered as he rained consecutive attacks on them.
Two early Sixth Order God Realm prominent family disciples were ideal training partners for Huwang Xiao. Initially, Zhu Yu and the other disciple were barely warding off the four demonic beasts’ attacks, and now with Huwang Xiao joining the fray, they were in a perilous disadvantage.
To their dismay, both Zhu Family disciples noticed that Huwang Xiao’s recovery rate was scarier than the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger’s.
Huwang Xiao displayed the Godly Xumi Art, which greatly consumed his god battle qi. Every time they estimated that his god battle qi should be bottoming out, within a few breaths’ time, he somehow replenished his god battle qi to the optimum point.
As the number of slashes and cuts on their bodies increased, the resounding angry curses also increased. Close to the end, the curses diminished and were replaced by incessant pleading. But whether it was threats or pleas, Huwang Xiao ignored them all, attacking ceaselessly.
One hour later, the Mulberry Sword in Huwang Xiao’s hand made a horizontal slash and an ethereal dragon flew out, slitting both Zhu Yu and Li Mingzhu’s necks.
Zhu Yu’s hand clutched his throat, his voice hardly audible: “You… why?” Until this moment, he still didn't understand why Huwang Xiao wasn’t afraid of theZhu Family’s revenge.
For every family, each God Realm disciple was looked upon as treasures, especially those who had reached mid-level God Realm and above, whereas now, Huwang Xiao had murdered more than thirty of the Zhu Family’s God Realm disciples.
This matter would definitely incur the Zhu Family’s wrath, causing them to run amok in their search for the murderer even if they had to dig three feet underground.
From Zhu Yu’s perspective, Huwang Xiao would definitely end up more tragically than them.
“Because you’ve provoked my anger.” Huwang Xiao replied coldly as a finger pointed, shooting a strand of immortal essence fire that penetrated Zhu Yu’s soul between his brows.
Zhu Yu’s body fell limply, his eyes rounded wide; it was that simple?
Killing the last two Zhu Family disciples, Huwang Xiao threw all the corpses into the Linglong Treasure Pagoda for his Poison Corpse Scarabs. Then he changed his features back to his original look. Once again riding on the Blazing Stonedragon Beast, he led the four demonic beasts away, leaving the scene as they went in search for the next Fifth Order God Realm demonic beast comrade.
Time flows and days passed.
The number of Fifth Order God Realm demonic beasts following behind Huwang Xiao increased in number. half a month has gone by and Huwang Xiao’s pack of Fifth Order God Realm demonic beasts had grown to twelve. However, demonic beasts similar to the ancient fierce beasts like the Blazing Stonedragon Beast and Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger were rare, there were only four in his pack.
As the number of subjugated demonic beasts grew bigger and bigger, in the end, he needn’t even fight personally. Bumping into some stray Fifth Order God Realm demonic beasts, the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger and the rest would pounce onto the demonic beast until it was left with half a life, only then would Huwang Xiao make an appearance, marking its soul with a soul imprint.
As days passed, it had already been a month.
Huwang Xiao’s personal demonic beast pack reached twenty-five. Among them, the weakest was an early Fifth Order God Realm, with the strongest being peak late-Fifth Order God Realm. Averagely speaking, most of the demonic beasts that he subjugated were mid-Fifth Order God Realm and above.
‘Twenty-five of them, it should be enough.’ Huwang Xiao thought to himself. Having twenty-five Fifth Order God Realm demonic beasts inside the Black Warrior City, he could feel at ease about his parents and the others’ safety. Thus he made his way back toward the transmission array.
When he came close to the transmission array, as expected, a team of Zhu Family’s masters was staking out the transmission array.
The news of more than thirty Zhu Family God Realm disciples being killed had spread out by now, causing quite an uproar in the Black Tortoise Galaxy. For a super force like the Zhu Family, having more than thirty of their God Realm disciples killed was definitely a shocking news to the entire galaxy.
Although there were many Zhu Family masters waiting at the transmission array, Huwang Xiao managed to pass through their inspection smoothly after altering his facial features, returning to the Cloudsea Mainland.
No doubt, the reason Huwang Xiao was able to pass through the Zhu Family masters’ inspection was mainly because they believed that the murderer capable of killing Zhu Yu and the rest would at least be a Sixth Order God Realm and above.
Upon arriving in the Cloudsea Mainland, Huwang Xiao did not immediately let out the Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger and the rest, only doing so after he had stepped inside the Luo Tong Residence.
Staring at the Blazing Stonedragon Beast, Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger, and the other twenty-three demonic beasts, the Huwang Family members were stunned before erupting in cheers.
“Big brother, I want this Blazing Stonedragon Beast!” His younger brother Huwang Xiaohai was dead set on the Blazing Stonedragon Beast at first glance.
“Big Uncle, I want this, this Nine-tailed Bright Radiance Tiger!” His nephew Guo Xiaofan clamored in excitement.
His sister picked a fire ph
oenix, while his parents chose a pair of winged-dragons. Watching as his parents, brother, sister, and the rest wearing beaming smiles on their faces, behaving like small children who were competing for candies, Huwang Xiao shook his head, smiling wryly, but inwardly he was quite happy as well.
Subsequently, he stayed a day in the Luo Tong Residence before returning to Black Warrior Institute’s Yard No.1 the next morning to begin another period of closed-door cultivation.
Now, time was pressing, with no more than two years and five months left until the Black Warrior Institute’s inner disciple assessment. Huwang Xiao needed to make the most of out of the remaining time to increase his strength.
When he broke through to Fourth Order God Realm, there were a few late-Tenth Order God Realm beast cores that he had yet to refine, hence he used a month’s time to finish refining these remaining beast cores before starting on the Highgod Realm divine dragon beast cores.
Within the Hailstone Treasure vault was eleven Highgod Realm divine dragon beast cores. Adding the two True Dragon King’s beast cores that he bought during the auction, he had a total of thirteen Highgod Realm divine dragon beast cores.
Huwang Xiao started with one of the early Highgod Realm beast cores from the Hailstone Treasure vault. As for the two True Dragon King’s beast cores, he decided to save them for last.
Despite knowing early on and bracing himself, when he began refining the first early Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core, he was genuinely frightened by the abundant demonic essence energy contained inside the beast core.
If the demonic essence energy inside a Tenth Order God Realm beast core were akin to a large urn of water, then the demonic essence energy inside a Highgod Realm beast core resembled a large lake.
The vast difference between an urn of water and a large lake was obvious.
Fortunately, Huwang Xiao had broken through to Fourth Order God Realm, once again enhancing his True Dragon Physique, otherwise, it would have been a quite a lot of trouble for him to refine an early Highgod Realm beast core.