by Shian Jeen
Huwang Xiao’s manner and expression were indifferent, “Correct. What’s wrong, is your gambling house declining?”
“Hehe, if brother dares to bet, we dare to accept.” The Wang Family Elder declared sonorously, “Even if you bet twenty billion, we dare accept just the same.”
“Since you said so, then I’ll bet twenty billion.” Huwang Xiao waved his hand again, creating another dazzling scene as another pile of ten billion Xuanwu coins fell neatly beside the first pile.
Twenty billion!
The various disciples watching this were gasping from shock.
“There is actually be someone who bet twenty billion on that Huwang Xiao to win. Has this kid gone mad? Which family’s super prodigal son is this?!”
“That Huwang Xiao’s bound to lose! These twenty billion are absolutely entering the Jiang Family, Wang Family, and Gudu Family’s pockets! Even if one is filthy rich, does he need to throw his wealth this way?”
The people in the hall discussed heatedly.
The Jiang, Wang, and Gudu Families’ Elders were stunned, especially that Wang Family Elder, feeling the muscles on his face twitch—good heavens, he was really betting twenty billion! He had a suspicion that if he had said thirty billion just now, this young man would really take out thirty billion!
Suddenly facing such a big amount, the three Elders hesitated.
“This esteemed brother, please wait for a moment, we need to contact our Patriarchs.” The Jiang Family Elder said cautiously. Although he too thought that Huwang Xiao was bound to lose, the three of them couldn't decide on such a huge amount alone.
Ch.609
One of the most flourishing big cities on the Cloudsea Mainland, the Major Constellation City was the place where the Jiang Family’s Patriarch Jiang WuHuwang, Wang Family’s Patriarch Wang Dingyi, and Gudu Family’s Patriarch Gudu Ye currently gathered.
“Every since our three families’ gambling house venture started until now, we have received tens of billions in betting receipts.” Jiang Family Patriarch Jiang WuHuwang was grinning broadly, “There are still two more months till the Black Warrior Institute’s inner disciple assessment. By then, the betting receipts would most likely increase to a hundred billion.”
The Wang Family Patriarch, Wang Dingyi, was beaming as well, “Dividing it equally between our three families, each of us would take more than thirty billion. Haha, I didn’t expect that Huwang Xiao to still have some use, just a little assessment earned us several pots full of gold.”
Gudu Ye joined in the laughter, “Before dying, that Huwang Xiao still helped us make such a big profit, we should really thank him for it.”
Jubilant laughter reverberated in the air.
With the prospect of each family getting more than thirty billion, even for big forces like the Jiang, Wang, and Gudu Families, it was a much-welcomed windfall.
Right at this time, a Jiang Family Elder walked in and reported to Jiang WuHuwang that there was someone wanting to place a bet worth twenty billion.
Jiang WuHuwang, Wang Dingyi, and Gudu Ye were stunned. A single person betting twenty billion! On top of that, he was betting on Huwang Xiao to win?!
“Patriarch Wang, Patriarch Gudu, what do you think?” Jiang WuHuwang looked at his partners in crime, inquiring their opinions.
Wang Dingyi recovered his senses, grinning widely, “Do you think Huwang Xiao can win? Is there a possibility? That kid is basically an idiot, he actually dared to bet on Huwang Xiao to win.”
Gudu Ye laughed, “There’s someone who wants to send us twenty billion, such good thing is hard to come by in a thousand years, how could we refuse?”
Jiang WuHuwang hadn’t stopped smiling, “Absolutely right! As a freakish genius that Huwang Xiao may be, in just a few short years he could, at most, enhance his cultivation to mid-Third Order, or late-Third Order God Realm.”
“Forget late-Third Order God Realm, even if Huwang Xiao broke through to Fourth Order God Realm by some stroke of luck, in front of Xiang Mingzhi he requires nothing more than the effort of a finger to squash him dead.” Gudu Ye confidently stated.
Shortly, the three Elders from the Jiang Family, Wang Family, and Gudu Family in the Black Warrior City each received their orders, accepting Huwang Xiao’s bet placement with open arms.
After receiving the order from their respective Patriarchs, all three Elders smiled warmly at Huwang Xiao, personally helping him process his bet.
Holding the flimsy piece of official betting receipt in his hand, he scrutinized the three Elders, “If I happen to win, I will be able to collect my winnings, won’t I?” Huwang Xiao asked with a tone filled with skepticism.
The Jiang Family’s Elder chuckled, not minding at all Huwang Xiao’s tone, “This esteemed brother surely knows how to joke, our Jiang, Wang, and Gudu Families are three prominent super forces and guarantee it with our reputation. No matter who it is or how much they bet, as long as they win, they are welcome to collect their winnings anytime.”
Huwang Xiao nodded, putting away the betting receipt into the Asura Ring, then turned around to leave. The three families’ Elders personally escorted Huwang Xiao out.
“The Patriarch said that after Xiang Mingzhi defeats Huwang Xiao, all three of us will be rewarded with an additional ten million.”The Jiang Family Elder grinned with glee.
“There’s no other ending for Huwang Xiao other than losing. I didn't expect our luck would be so good to be in charge of this gambling house in the Black Warrior City.” The Wang Family Elder chimed in, “Ten million is enough for me to live pleasurably for a while.”
Huwang Xiao’s silhouette gradually disappeared from their view, but he heard every word they had said loud and clear. A cold sneer appeared on his lips, ‘I’ll make sure you’ll feel great pleasure when the time comes.’
The odds between him and Xiang Mingzhi were over ten to one; in short, a dozen times his twenty billion bet was over three hundred billion. He looked forward to seeing the Patriarchs of the three families lose to the point they’d need to sell off the pants they were wearing.
More than three hundred billion! Jiang WuHuwang, Wang Dingyi, and Gudu Ye were bound to vomit blood. Then again, this was merely small interest. The sneer on Huwang Xiao’s face deepened.
Returning to the Luo Tong Residence from the gambling house, Huwang Xiao had everyone assembled, guiding their cultivation. Three days later, Huwang Xiao returned to the Black Warrior Institute to continue his closed-door practice.
Although he still had the True Dragon King’s beast cores and six other Highgod Realm divine dragons’ beast cores, Huwang Xiao did not pick these, instead, he chose the Three Revolutions Golden Pills.
With less than three months until the inner disciples’ assessment, there wasn’t enough time for him to refine a Highgod Realm beast core, but he need not worry about insufficient time when refining the Three Revolutions Golden Pills.
Still, Huwang Xiao acted cautiously, taking only one pellet the first time. After all the Three Revolutions Golden Pill was a sacred grade divine pellet, definitely not something that the Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellet could compare to.
The instant the Three Revolutions Golden Pill entered his mouth, it melted into liquid ambrosia, the energy contained within the little golden pellet rushed toward every corner of his body like tidal waves. In comparison, the Three Revolutions Golden Pill’s energy wasn’t that much weaker than a Highgod Realm divine dragon beast core.
The Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art diagram formation inside Huwang Xiao’s body appeared on its own, devouring the energy from the Three Revolutions Golden Pill like a bottomless abyss, integrating its medicinal benefits within Huwang Xiao’s body.
After entering Fifth Order God Realm, the diagram formation’s devouring ability had greatly increased more than tenfold compared to the time when he was Fourth Order God Realm.
Roughly two hours later, Huwang Xiao had fully refined and absorbed his first Three Revolutions Golden Pi
ll.
“What a freak!” When he saw Huwang Xiao using just little over two hours to refine that Three Revolutions Golden Pill, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi couldn’t resist exclaiming in envy.
For an average Fifth Order God Realm, it would take them at least half a year to refine that one sacred grade divine pill, but this freak Huwang Xiao did it in two hours! Even if it was Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi himself, it would still take him roughly two hours as well, meaning to say, Huwang Xiao’s refining speed rivaled a Highgod Realm master!
Huwang Xiao was but a Fifth Order God Realm now! By the time he advanced to Sixth, Seventh Order God Realm and above, what kind of scene would that be? Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi estimated that, by the time Huwang Xiao broke through to Sixth Order God Realm, his refining speed would absolutely be faster than a Highgod Realm master’s.
Time passed, in the blink of an eye two months came and went.
Huwang Xiao sat cross-legged inside the Xumi Temple, focused on increasing his strength a little bit more. In the beginning, he took a single Three Revolutions Golden Pill, then it was two pills at the same time, three pills, four pills, and by the end of two months, it was ten pills in one go.
When the two months had passed, leaving only ten days to the inner disciples’ assessment, Huwang Xiao’s cultivation reached the peak early Fifth Order God Realm, just half a step more into mid-Fifth Order God Realm.
In two months, averaging ten Three Revolutions Golden Pills on a daily basis, he had refined over six hundred of them, this amount and speed would frighten those super forces’ elite geniuses to their deaths.
By the eve of the Black Warrior Institute’s inner disciples assessment, the Cloudsea Mainland seemed livelier than ever. Family disciples could be seen in every corner of the streets, and many masters were coming over from the Azure Dragon Galaxy, White Tiger Galaxy, and Vermillion Bird Galaxy. Mainly because they wanted to spectate the Black Warrior Institute inner disciples’ assessment, they could only travel using the transmission array in the Black Warrior City.
On the other hand, the cooperative gambling business ran by the Jiang Family, Wang Family, and Gudu Family did better than expected, they were already close to one hundred and forty billion in the books.
The three families’ Patriarchs were grinning from ear to ear for a long time.
Ten days passed quickly. It was the dawn of the day that everyone had been waiting so many months for, the day of the Black Warrior Institute inner disciples’ assessment.
When Huwang Xiao had just exited the Xumi Temple, the night’s darkness was beginning to be washed away by the rising sun on the horizon.
“Many people were getting restless waiting for this day to arrive.” Huwang Xiao muttered to himself. Leaving his yard, he first headed to his Master’s manor.
Ch.610
But, just as Huwang Xiao left his Yard No.1, he ran into a group of inner disciples, and the person leading them was none other than Jiang Bi. Behind Jiang Bi were Li Dufeng and a dozen other inner disciples.
When Jiang Bi spotted Huwang Xiao, his eyes narrowed all of a sudden.
“Huwang Xiao.” Jiang Bi spoke in a slow and deliberate tone.
Huwang Xiao was more casual and relaxed, “Jiang Bi.”
A fire burned in Jiang Bi’s heart seeing Huwang Xiao’s nonchalant attitude in facing him, causing him to snap, “Huwang Xiao, later on the Rising Dragon Arena, I will make you understand that in my eyes you’re just a tethered horse prancing about. No matter how you jump, you’re but a horse. Wait till I break your legs, let’s see how you're going to jump then!”
Huwang Xiao snorted, “To me, you’re not even a horse, because in my eyes, you are nothing!”
“What?! Huwang Xiao, don’t act so arrogant!”
“Our Senior Brother Jiang Bi needs only ten moves to take your life! No, not even ten moves!”
The inner disciples standing behind Jiang Bi shouted loudly, their faces twisted in anger. Jiang Bi’s eyes were spitting fire, glowering at Huwang Xiao with unconcealed rage.
Li Dufeng spoke up at this time, “Huwang Xiao, I’m not afraid to tell you honestly, Brother Jiang Bi found the legendary ancient Supreme Heavenly Ghost’s ‘Heavenly Ghost Record’. Now he’s a dual cultivator of Buddhism and Ghost techniques, allowing his strength to soar to unimaginable heights, definitely not something you can resist! If you know what’s good for you, apologize to Big brother Jiang Bi right now. For the sake of the Institute Principal, Big brother Jiang Bi will leave you some face on the Rising Dragon Arena!”
“That’s right, Senior Brother Jiang Bi’s strength is not something you can imagine!” The others joined in the clamor.
Jiang Bi stood without saying anything, merely looking coldly at Huwang Xiao as if waiting for Huwang Xiao’s decision.
Huwang Xiao didn’t mind at all, “If that’s how you want to play, then on the Rising Dragon Arena, I’ll break your two legs before throwing you off the stage.”
“You!” Jiang Bi was stunned, anger erupted in his eyes.
In fact, he had been waiting for Huwang Xiao to come over and apologize, but who would have thought that Huwang Xiao was so outrageous, declaring that he would throw him off the Rising Dragon Arena after breaking both of his legs!
“Good! Huwang Xiao, just you wait!” Jiang Bi forcefully repressed the boiling anger in his heart, signaling the group of inner disciples with a wave of his hand: “Let’s go!”
Watching Jiang Bi, Li Dufeng, and their followers fly away, Huwang Xiao sneered. Jiang Bi truly wasn’t anything at all for the current him, moreover, he had never placed any importance on Jiang Bi. For Huwang Xiao, his only opponent this time was that Xiang Mingzhi.
A short while later, Huwang Xiao arrived at his Master’s manor.
At that time, his Eldest Senior Apprentice-brother Liu Yun, Second Apprentice-brother Chen Yang, and Third Apprentice-sister Qi Wen were already there. Other than the three of them, there were also Grand Elder Chan Yu, Bao Xinrui, Elder Zhang Tianchuan, as well as other Grand Elders and Elders.
The instant Huwang Xiao appeared in the main hall, all eyes turned to him, each of them with their own thoughts underneath their calm surface.
Feng Yan’s lips parted as if there were many things he wanted to say, but in the end, only two words were uttered: “Let’s go.” Leading everyone out of the main hall, they flew toward the Rising Dragon Arena.
“Junior Apprentice-brother, I heard that Jiang Bi is cultivating both Buddhism and Ghost techniques, and that his strength is not what it used to be.” Halfway, Eldest Apprentice-brother Liu Yun drew closer to Huwang Xiao, speaking in low whispers, “Are you confident against him?”
Everyone’s ears perked up.
“Probably.” Huwang Xiao smiled naturally.
“Probably?” Liu Yun observed Huwang Xiao with a suspicious eye, “What’s the probability of you winning?”
“About sixty percent.” Huwang Xiao pondered before answering. In fact, he merely needed one move to deal with that Jiang Bi.
“Sixty percent is good.” If Huwang Xiao was victorious over Jiang Bi, losing to Xiang Mingzhi later would not make things look too bad.
After all, everyone knew that Huwang Xiao had only cultivated for a short time. Being able to defeat Jiang Bi and snatch the title of Black Warrior Institute’s inner disciples' leader was already shocking enough.
However, Grand Elder Chan Yu, Bao Xinrui, and some of the others didn’t really take Huwang Xiao’s words at face value, doubt persisted in their hearts, thinking that Huwang Xiao said ‘sixty percent’ just to save his own face.
They had heard about Jiang Bi’s current cultivation strength—late-Fourth Order God Realm.
Five years ago, Huwang Xiao was only a Second Order God Realm. Five years later, could Huwang Xiao defeat Jiang Bi who was a late-Fourth Order God Realm possessing the Golden Buddha Arhat Physique?
Different from the rest, Feng Yang’s eyes lit up when he heard Huwang Xiao say that he had a sixty perce
nt chance of defeating Jiang Bi. This fourth disciple’s character, Feng Yang knew better than anyone here, he would not exaggerate things on purpose. Since he said there was a sixty percent chance, then it shouldn't be any less.
“Do your best.” Feng Yang encouraged.
“Yes, Master.” Huwang Xiao acknowledged respectfully.
Shortly after, their group arrived at the Rising Dragon Arena. The Rising Dragon Arena and the Hidden Dragon Arena were both located on mountain peaks. The top of this peak was also cut off, creating a flat area with the Rising Dragon Arena built at the center. The viewing stands were constructed outside the stage perimeter. At the moment, these viewing stands were already filled with masters from super forces and families, and below the high viewing stands, the seats were packed with Black Warrior Institute disciples.
The arrival of Huwang Xiao’s group instantly created a commotion in the arena, heads quickly turned in their direction.
“The black-haired kid beside the Black Warrior Institute Principal is that Huwang Xiao?”
“Ever since the Black Warrior Institute’s disciple selection until the outer disciples' assessment, Huwang Xiao has yet to be defeated even once, winning the first place every time. This time, will he be able to keep his undefeated record?”
“Undefeated? I heard some rumors circulating saying that Jiang Bu now cultivates in dual Buddhism and Ghost techniques and even broke through to late-Fourth Order God Realm. That Huwang Xiao is fated to be defeated tragically this time, not to mention the fact that there’s also Xiang Mingzhi.”
The various forces’ masters spoke in low hushed voices, and although it couldn't be considered loud, it did not escape many of the God Realm masters in the arena, causing Black Warrior Institute Grand Elder Bao Xinrui and the others’ faces to darken slightly.
Huwang Xiao, on the other hand, was calm as he followed behind his Master Feng Yang to the host viewing stand.
On the host viewing stand, Vice-Institute Principal Wang Na, and the other two Vice Institute Principals, Su Haodong and Li Zhiqun, as well as some Grand Elders and Elders who were in Wang Na’s faction had arrived earlier.