Asura Sovereign X

by Shian Jeen

  Huwang Xiao smiled coldly as he approached.

  “Xiao, don’t, let’s forget it.” Xie Puti who had been standing at the side hesitated slightly before speaking up. Although his strength was lacking, Xie Puti was aware that the Li Family was one of the Black Tortoise Galaxy’s super families.

  Li Zishuai suddenly screamed, “Bastard, kill me if you’ve got the guts, come kill me!”

  Huwang Xiao smiled innocently at Xie Puti, “Look, he’s the one begging me to kill him, I’m not at fault.” Huwang Xiao continued to approach Li Zishuai until he stood before him, “Don’t worry, I won’t kill you.”

  Li Zishuai laughed with a crazed light in his eyes, “Why, you’re scared now?”

  Without saying another word, Huwang Xiao lifted a foot and stomped down hard.

  Zhuo Wenting and Zhuo Wenshan gave a sudden sharp shrill scream. In between, a sound resembling eggs cracking was heard.

  Due to the pain, Li Zishuai’s body twitched and jerked, no one could hear the scream coming from his throat. He desperately wanted to clutch his lower part with his hands, but his arms were broken by Huwang Xiao just moments ago.

  Huwang Xiao mocked, “Afraid? Indeed, I’m afraid of killing you, that way, things won’t be as fun. Your words earlier were 'amuse myself until you're damaged, crippled, and dead’. That’s exactly what I plan to do with you!” Another foot landed on Li Zishuai’s lower body, punctuating Huwang Xiao’s words.

  Another sharp scream cut across the private room, his eyeballs bulging out of his eye sockets.

  Both women had lost all color from their faces. At this moment, in their eyes, Huwang Xiao was no longer a slave or a country bumpkin, he was the devil incarnate!

  All of sudden, Huwang Xiao stopped and turned around toward the two women, “You two, come here.”

  Zhuo Wenting and Zhuo Wenshan shuddered, eyes wide with fear, even so, they still did as Huwang Xiao said.

  “May, may I ask, what you…” Zhuo Wenting braced herself to speak, wanting to ask Huwang Xiao what he wanted from them, Huwang Xiao cut her words. Pointing at Li Zishuai’s lower part, he ordered: “Both of you go, each of you step on it one time! A full strength, wholehearted step!”

  Both women were ashen at the sight of Li Zishuai’s lower part, shaking their heads vehemently.

  Huwang Xiao sneered, “Of course, your other choice is to die!” Saying this, the Blades of Asura appeared in Huwang Xiao’s hands. The room’s atmosphere instantly changed, like it had fallen the deepest parts of the netherworld hell.

  Seeing this, Xie Puti wanted to speak again, but Huwang Xiao shook his head and gave him a reassuring look.

  In the end, both women inched forward, mustering their strength and stomped down as hard as they could.

  Li Zishuai glared at the two women with bloodshot eyes.

  “Let’s go.” Huwang Xiao said to Xie Puti.

  Xie Puti sighed in his heart. He nodded at Huwang Xiao and they left the private room. He understood the reason behind Huwang Xiao’s action, with those two kicks, it was impossible for Zhuo Wenshan to marry into the Li Family now. Not only that, the Zhuo Family would spend their days worrying about retaliation from the Li Family.

  However, Xie Puti had seen through the real nature of a woman like Zhuo Wenshan.

  Ch.658

  Not long after Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti left the restaurant, footsteps thundered into the premise, causing the building to shake beneath the force. The Black Warrior Institute patrolling disciples and experts belonging to the Li Family finally arrived at the scene.

  The door to the private room was pushed open as these people went inside. Coming upon Li Zishuai’s bloodied condition, each person present sucked in a breath of cold air.

  Li Donghai quickly helped Li Zishuai up, swiftly stuffing a divine grade spirit pellet into his mouth, and even infusing his own god battle qi into Li Zishuai’s body to stabilize his injuries. When Li Zishuai’s condition finally stabilized, Li Donghai looked over toward the Black Warrior Institute patrolling disciples, shouting furiously at them, “My Li Family’s Young Master Li Zishuai was injured in your Black Warrior City. If you Black Warrior Institute disciples cannot capture the criminal, our Li Family will seek an account from the Black Warrior Institute for this matter!”

  Li Zishuai was a descendant of their Li Family’s main branch, the Li Family Patriarch’s nephew. He was one of several Li Family younger generation disciples that the Li Family Ancestor valued the most, yet he was wounded to this degree within the walls of the Black Warrior City!

  The condition of his lower body was a cruel handiwork!

  Li Donghai, the Li Family’s Chief Steward, was enraged. Murderous aura surged intensely from his body.

  The Black Warrior patrolling team leader, Qi Chengguang, raised an eyebrow, but his manner was still considered polite, “Rest assured, Chief Steward Li, we will definitely capture the person responsible for this as soon as possible.” With that said, he turned around and issued an order to check the entire city.

  Li Zishuai finally regained consciousness after Li Donghai’s treatment, raving madly: “I want to kill that bastard with my own hands, I’ll kill him!!” Suddenly, he spotted Zhuo Wenting and Zhuo Wenshan huddled in a corner and hatred spewed out from his eyes: “You two bitches!” He marched over, a palm striking both women across their face.

  The Zhuo sisters were sent flying from the force, their cheeks immediately swelled into pig-heads.

  Li Donghai was stumped, wasn't Young Master Li Zishuai keen on that young woman Zhuo Wenshan? Even their wedding date was set, what just happened?

  It didn’t take long for the Black Warrior patrolling team leader Qi Chengguang to find out Huwang Xiao’s identity.

  Hearing the report from his subordinate, Qi Chengguang was stupefied. Gradually, his brows were scrunched together into a tight frown, a bitter feeling rising in his heart. Who’d have thought that it would be this young master’s handiwork. Then again, there were very few who had the guts to wound Li Zishuai to this extent.

  “Captain Qi, have you found the criminal?” Noticing Qi Chengguang’s strange expression, Li Donghai questioned solemnly.

  Qi Chengguang gave a vague answer: “This, er, not yet, I’ll first return to make a report. This kind of incident occurred in our Black Warrior City, I need to make a detailed report to the higher echelons.” Without waiting for a reply from Li Donghai, Qi Chengguang turned around and left hastily.

  Li Donghai’s face darkened, the look in his eyes was icy cold; it seems there was more to this matter.

  In the end, Li Donghai could only return to the Li Mansion with Li Zishuai and report the matter to their Li Family Patriarch, Li Guangming.

  While all of this took place, Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti had long returned to the Luo Tong Residence. At that time, the Huwang Family and the Ascending Moon Old Man had gone out, hence, Huwang Xiao accompanied Xie Puti, numbing his pain in wine.

  Both men were quiet as they drank one jug after another until dusk, when the Huwang Family and the Ascending Moon Old Man returned. Only then did they stop.

  “Brother, thank you for today.” Xie Puti spoke sincerely.

  Huwang Xiao waved his hand, saying, “What’s there to thank me for? If you really want to thank me, just forget that woman.”

  Xie Puti heaved a heavy sigh, “It's already in the past. It is better like this, I can concentrate on my cultivation.”

  Huwang Xiao nodded.

  …

  The Huwang Family stayed in the Black Warrior City for two days before returning to the Black Warrior Institute’s Golden Dragon Peak.

  As for the Li Family, as Huwang Xiao expected, there wasn't any ruckus, as if the incident with Li Zishuai never happened, cleanly erased.

  The Li Family’s side did not mention the matter, neither did the Black Warrior Institute.

  Life went on as per usual.

  Whether that Li Zishuai was gnashing his teeth in hate toward him or otherwise, it was not s
omething that concerned Huwang Xiao.

  Soon after, the Zhuo and Li Family’s wedding was called off. When Huwang Xiao heard this news, he went to inform Xie Puti, who listened calmly, showing no sorrow and no joy. In recent days, he spent most of his time cultivating in his yard.

  This stirred a chain reaction, as everyone on the Golden Dragon Peak also worked hard in their cultivation. As time passed, the more they saw and experienced, the Huwang Family realized ever more clearly that a Saint realm’s strength was bottom rung weak. Hence, each of them was striving in their cultivation with God Realm as their aim.

  Huwang Xiao fell back into his previous routine, spending the day learning alchemy with the Ascending Moon Old Man, while his nights were used to refine the godforce and God’s Law inside the godhead.

  From time to time, the Black Warrior Institute Principal Feng Yang would also come over to the Golden Dragon Peak to guide Huwang Xiao. Huwang Xiao’s knowledge and skills improved drastically, not only in terms of alchemy, but also in forging and array formations.

  In the first year, Huwang Xiao learned one new divine grade pill formula every day with the Ascending Moon Old Man. In the second year, the one divine grade pill formula a day increased to two a day. And in the third year, he learned three pill formulas on a daily basis.

  Huwang Xiao’s monstrous memory capacity, comprehension, and learning ability made the Ascending Moon Old Man and Feng Yang go mad with envy.

  Until the fourth year, the Ascending Moon Old Man only needed to recite the pill formula, refining method, things to note, and Huwang Xiao would be able to refine the divine grade pellet without a demonstration from him.

  During the first three years, there were times when Huwang Xiao’s alchemy ended up in failure, but entering his fourth year, he had never failed even once.

  Originally, the Black Warrior Institute did not allow outside Highgod Realm masters to stay long term within the institute grounds, but the Ascending Moon Old Man was an exception. As the Institute Principal, Feng Yang had no objections, thus others dared not breathe out a single word of dissatisfaction.

  According to Institute Principal Feng Yang’s words, the Ascending Moon Old Man was Huwang Xiao’s Big Master and could be considered as half belonging to the Black Warrior Institute. There was nothing wrong with him staying as long as he liked on the Golden Dragon Peak.

  In the blink of an eye, a decade had passed.

  In this decade, Huwang Xiao had learned every pill formula the Ascending Moon Old Man knew. Not only did he learn them all, the divine grade pellets he refined were of high purity, almost comparable to the Ascending Moon Old Man himself.

  After spending ten years refining the rank five godhead’s godforce and God’s Law, his cultivation strength rose to peak mid-Sixth Order God Realm, just half a step more and he’d be able to breakthrough to late-Sixth Order God Realm.

  Over the years, Feng Yang was a frequent guest at the Golden Dragon Peak. Knowing Huwang Xiao’s shocking cultivation speed, his heart bloomed with delight, grinning from ear to ear.

  On this particular day, the Ascending Moon Old Man summoned Huwang Xiao to his place, passing him a token that seemed to resemble both metal and jade, yet being neither of those. With a serious face, the old man said, “This is our Thousand Worlds Sect’s Thousand Worlds Jade Medallion. Today, I’m passing over the Chief position of the Thousand Worlds Sect to you, I hope you can bring our Thousand Worlds Sect to greater heights!”

  Huwang Xiao was stunned at first, then he solemnly received the medallion. On the surface, the medallion had the carving of an ancient painting, and on the bottom was the old talisman symbol ‘界’ representing the character ‘world’.

  The Ascending Moon Old Man continued, “This Thousand Worlds Medallion is the key to our Thousand Worlds Sect’s treasury. I know you don’t lack money, but inside our treasury, there are still quite a number of divine grade spirit pellets. If you have time in the future, go and have a look.” Subsequently, he told Huwang Xiao the location of the treasury and the secret method of opening it.

  Huwang Xiao committed every word to memory.

  In the end, the Ascending Moon Old Man took out the Thousand Worlds Furnace, giving it to Huwang Xiao as well.

  “I have nothing else to teach you, you will have to work hard on your own.” the Ascending Moon Old Man reminded, “I’ll be visiting a few of my old friend tomorrow. Fifteen years later, before the Alchemist Grandmaster Competition begins, I’ll come back and bring you there.”

  Ch.659

  “Old man, you are leaving?” This was unexpected for Huwang Xiao. He had been coming here daily for the last ten years, learning alchemy every day from the old man. Suddenly hearing that the old man was leaving, he did feel reluctant and out of sorts.

  Seeing this, the Ascending Moon Old Man’s wrinkled of face split into a wide grin, “What is it, little disciple, are you reluctant to see this old man leave?”

  Huwang Xiao decisively rolled his eyes at the old man.

  The Ascending Moon Old Man chuckled proudly, “Actually, this old man is also very reluctant to leave you brat, your parents, and everyone else, but every banquet must come to an end. I know you’re prone to troublemaking, but I’ve already had a word with that Feng Yang boy. If something happens to you while I’m gone, I’ll peel off a layer of his skin when I come back!”

  A surge of warmth filled Huwang Xiao’s heart.

  On the same day, Huwang Xiao had everyone gathered over a bonfire party as a farewell for the Ascending Moon Old Man.

  It was obvious that the Ascending Moon Old Man was extremely happy during the bonfire party. Of course, according to the old man’s childish behavior, many times throughout the night his little disciple Huwang Xiao was the target of his jokes. Taking advantage of his ‘drunkenness’ the old man announced loudly that he hoped Huwang Xiao and Shi Xiaofei would give birth to a hundred little grand-disciples.

  A hundred? Huwang Xiao’s pulled a bitter face.

  Even if he was willing, who knows if Shi Xiaofei would agree. Even then, Huwang Xiao wasn’t sure they could achieve that figure. A person wasn’t a Tyrant Boar, able to birth more than a dozen in one go…

  Furthermore, to Huwang Xiao’s knowledge, the more a powerful a person was, the more their reproduction rate was reduced. This was also the reason why some God Realm cultivators, and even Highgod Realm masters only had one child even after ten thousand years or more.

  God Realm and Highgod Realm masters' lifespans were much longer. They lived several thousand years to several tens of thousands of years, thus they couldn't be like mortals, giving birth every few years.

  The night came to an end.

  At the break of dawn, the Ascending Moon Old Man left the Golden Dragon Peak. Before leaving, the old man did not forget to take away some of the wine that Huwang Xiao brew, but he did not want Huwang Xiao to send him off. With an instant Great Space Shift, he was thousands of miles away from the Black Warrior Institute. As for where he teleported to, which world surface, Huwang Xiao was left wondering to himself.

  Huwang Xiao stood where he was for a long time even after the Ascending Moon Old Man left before walking back to his own yard.

  Days continued to pass as seasons changed. Just like that, another year went by.

  Despite knowing the several thousand pill formulas of the Thousand Worlds Sect like the back of his hand, in the past one year, Huwang Xiao religiously dedicated the morning of every day to alchemy.

  Huwang Xiao would spend the latter part of the day cultivating his battle skills. In over a decade’s time, he had started practicing the other moves of the Asura Sword Skill, and although he had yet to reach major completion, their attack power could not be underestimated.

  At night, Huwang Xiao continued to refine the godforce and God’s Law contained within the godhead.

  In this one year, Huwang Xiao, who was already a peak mid-Sixth Order God Realm finally broke into late-Sixth Order God Realm!

 
Having godforce from the godhead continuously tempering Huwang Xiao’s True Dragon Physique over the years, his originally freakish True Dragon Physique was now even more monstrous, causing his power and defense to reach a shocking level.

  To test his physique, Huwang Xiao tried to draw blood from his finger using the Mulberry Sword, but his skin withstood it. Only when he exerted full force to penetrate the layer of skin did it leave a tiny wound. Striking a punch at a palm-sized lump of Divine World ore, he could shatter it into over a hundred smaller pieces.

  From time to time, Huwang Xiao would visit his parents and others.

  In these years, Huwang Peng, Su Yan, Huwang Xiaohai, Huwang Min, and the others’ strength had increased at a shocking pace. Eleven years ago, Huwang Peng, Su Yan, and most of the others had just broken into the Saint realm, and now, eleven years later, most of them had reached Third Order Saint realm!

  Though their rapid improvement was due to consuming Hailstone Divine Pellets every day when cultivating, as well as the abundant spiritual energy gathered by the Five-colored Divine Banner, it was still an amazing progress.

  As for Xie Puti, he spent his days and nights cultivating inside his own yard, hence his strength enhancement exceeded Huwang Peng and the others, reaching late-Third Order Saint realm.

  On this day, Huwang Xiao was practicing his pill refining skills when his Eldest Senior Apprentice-brother Liu Yun and Third Apprentice-sister Qi Wen came to visit him.

  Over the years, both of them had made several visits to the Golden Dragon Peak, however, worried that they might be disturbing the Ascending Moon Old Man when he was guiding Huwang Xiao in alchemy, they would always leave after a brief stay.

  Huwang Xiao was extremely happy as he welcomed them.

  Meeting again after a long time, it was inevitable to exchange some perfunctory greetings. While they were talking, Liu Yun suddenly asked, “Fourth Junior Apprentice-brother, I heard from Master that Senior Ascending Moon wants you to participate in the Alchemist Grandmaster Competition?”