by Shian Jeen
Watching the three leaving in a panic, the others remaining in the shop viewed Huwang Xiao differently. Most of them recognized the two Zhuo Family women, yet this black-haired young man in front of them actually caused the two of them to run in fear!
Unconsciously, many family disciples retreated several steps away from him, creating a safe distance between themselves and Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti were nonchalant, waiting for the Boundlessly Auspicious to bring out all their ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years old elixirs.
Motivated by the tens of billions of Xuanwu coins, the Boundlessly Auspicious shop’s employees showed high efficiency. It didn’t take them long to take out the entire shop’s stock of ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years old elixirs.
In the end, Supervisor Wan Baoding personally categorized and tallied the bill for Huwang Xiao, ringing up to more than a hundred and thirty-two billion. Discounting the odd numbers at the back, the bill was rounded to a hundred and thirty-two billion Xuanwu coins.
Without a word, Huwang Xiao casually waved one hundred and thirty-two billion Xuanwu coins from the large pile to Wan Baoding.
In fact, the enormous amount of Xuanwu coins that Huwang Xiao took out amounted to three hundred and forty billion Xuanwu coins, the very same Xuanwu coins that Huwang Xiao won from the Jiang, Gudu, and Wang Families’ gambling house in the past.
After spending a hundred and thirty-two billion, Huwang Xiao kept the remaining Xuanwu coins into his Hailstone Treasure vault and left the Boundlessly Auspicious shop with Xie Puti, going onto the next shop.
Before coming out today, Huwang Xiao had planned to spend all of the three hundred and forty billion down to the last coin before returning to the Golden Dragon Peak.
When Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti turned to leave, they were personally escorted by Wan Baoding and all the shop assistants, showing their most respectful front.
“You really don’t plan to look for another one?” Huwang Xiao asked casually as he and Xie Puti strolled down the street.
Xie Puti shook his head, “For now, I only want to focus on my cultivation.”
Huwang Xiao did not speak of the matter further. In matters of the heart, there was very little he could do to help Xie Puti.
At the same time, after successfully dragging Zhuo Buzhi out from the shop, the three siblings were seated in a pavilion within the Zhuo Family Manor. The two women still had an apprehensive expression on their faces.
“Big Sister, Second Sister, who exactly was that punk? Why are both of you so afraid of him?” Zhuo Buzhi asked curiously. In truth, he felt that his sisters' reactions were too exaggerated.
“He, he’s the young man who wounded Li Zishuai!” Zhuo Wenting was trying her best to maintain a calm disposition, yet she still couldn’t prevent the slight tremble in her voice.
“What? Him?!” Zhuo Buzhi’s face paled considerably, sucking in a large dose of cold air.
A little over a decade ago, although word of the incident where Li Zishuai was beaten by someone to the point that every bone in his body was shattered and his ‘birdie’ below was burst did not spread out, as Zhuo Wenting and Zhuo Wenshan’s younger brother, he was aware of this matter.
Because of this matter, the Li Family subsequently rescinded the marriage agreement with their Zhuo Family. Strangely, toward the young man who pummeled Li Zishuai so hard, the Li Family actually opted to remain silent. Moreover, through some grapevine rumors, it was the Li Family’s Ancestor who gave the order, no one was allowed to pursue this matter further!
Despite not knowing that young man’s identity, Zhuo Buzhi was still very clear that he was a terrifying existence that he could not afford to provoke.
Recalling how he had ridiculed Huwang Xiao in public in the Boundlessly Auspicious shop’s hall, Zhuo Buzhi felt a cold shiver running down his back, as if the sky was about to fall on him.
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Zhuo Buzhi’s body was paralyzed with cold fear. While he felt the world was about to collapse, Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti walked into another shop selling alchemy ingredients. Just like what happened earlier, before an astounded crowd, Huwang Xiao bought the shop’s entire stock of ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years old elixirs.
After three shops, Huwang Xiao finally spent all three hundred and forty billion Xuanwu coins, the result being a Hailstone Treasure vault filled with several small hill-sized herbs and elixirs with ages ranging from ten thousand years to a hundred thousand years.
“This amount of ingredients is sufficient to last for a while.” Huwang Xiao stated, satisfied with the day’s harvest.
Regardless of how intensely he practiced alchemy, he definitely wouldn’t lack ingredients before the Alchemist Grandmaster Competition began. As for later, after that, he would think about it when the time comes.
By this point, the sky had already darkened.
But, Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti did not head back to the Golden Dragon Peak. Instead, they chose to rest in the Luo Tong Residence. With just the two of them, another drinking session was inevitable.
When the next morning arrived, Huwang Xiao and Xie Puti made their way back to the Golden Dragon Peak through the Black Warrior City transmission array.
Back on the Golden Dragon Peak, Huwang Xiao fell back into his routine; practicing alchemy in the morning, his battle skills in the afternoon, and absorbing godforce and God’s Law from the rank five godhead at night.
Xie Puti continued to seclude himself within his own yard, cultivating like a madman.
At times, it crossed Huwang Xiao’s mind that the incident with Zhuo Wenshan might actually be a good turning point for Xie Puti.
Life went on for the Huwang Family, other than cultivating in the Golden Dragon Peak, a few of them would occasionally group together for an outing to the nearby peaks.
In these years, with Black Warrior Institute Principal Feng Yang’s guidance, Huwang Xiao’s knowledge of array formations had improved by leaps and bounds, enabling him to lay out a grand formation, the Ten Thousand Mountains Begird the Sea that covered the Golden Dragon Peak and the twenty plus peaks around it.
Within the area enveloped by this grand formation, the Huwang Family need not worry about their safety.
Although there probably won’t be anyone else daring to harm the Huwang Family after the incident where Jiang Yu and Wang Na attacked the Golden Dragon peak, Huwang Xiao still wasn’t willing to gamble their safety to probability. Hence, he cautiously laid down preemptive measures.
Time seemed to move at an accelerated speed.
As the days fell into a routine, day after day concocting pills, practicing his battle skills, and refining the rank five godhead, eight years passed by in a flash.
After eight years, Huwang Xiao’s alchemy skills had greatly improved compared to the time when the Ascending Moon Old Man left. In these eight years, although Huwang Xiao mainly focused on improving his alchemy refining skills, he had never failed even once.
In general, the refinement of sacred grade divine pellets required elixirs a hundred thousand years old for it to be successful, however, Huwang Xiao could already refine sacred grade divine pellets by using ten thousand years old ingredients.
Also, in these past eight years, Huwang Xiao had learned all of the Asura Sword Skill’s eighteen moves. He was even able to integrate all eighteen moves into one at will, greatly multiplying its attack power.
Huwang Xiao sat cross-legged inside the Xumi Temple, circulating the Asura Tactics. The rank five godhead was floating in the air right in front of him, emitting a faint glow.
Strands of godforce and God’s Law flowed out from the godhead, entering Huwang Xiao’s body.
Both the black and blue twin dragon martial spirits hovered above his head. At the same time, three different types of qi could be seen weaving in and out from Huwang Xiao’s body: Buddha qi, Asura qi, and dragon qi.
The three different qi: Buddha qi, Asura qi, and dragon qi for
med a myriad of golden Buddha images, great Asuras, and countless divine dragons around him.
The Buddhas were chanting, the great Asuras were howling, and the divine dragons were roaring.
A long time later, Huwang Xiao gradually stopped circulating the Asura Tactics, and those shadows of golden Buddhas, ferocious Asuras, and mighty divine dragons flew back into Huwang Xiao’s body. The rank five godhead fell from the air into Huwang Xiao’s palm.
Huwang Xiao looked at the rank five godhead and noticed some fine hairline cracks on its surface. Within the rank five godhead’s space, the originally vast ocean of godforce had become a small river that was about to dry out. At this rate, the godforce and God’s Law inside this rank five godhead would be completely absorbed by Huwang Xiao in less than two months’ time. The drained godhead would shatter and dissipate, disappearing from the world.
But Huwang Xiao had a feeling that he would be able to breakthrough in the next ten days. After years of hard work, he had entered late-Sixth Order God Realm five years ago.
Coming out from the Xumi Temple, Huwang Xiao’s feet brought him to the main hall. Hearing the loud cheering outside, he walked out toward the square located next to the main hall. In the square, his brother Huwang Xiaohai happened to be sparring with their nephew, Guo Xiaofan, while the rest looked on, cheering them on.
Watching this scene, a smile appeared on Huwang Xiao’s face.
These years, with the aid of divine grade spirit pellets and the Golden Dragon Peak’s rich spiritual energy, most of the Huwang Family members had advanced to Fourth Order Saint realm. Especially his brother and nephew, both of them had reached late-Fourth Order Saint realm. While his parents, Huwang Peng and Su Yan, were peak early-Fourth Order Saint Realm.
Xie Puti was present among the crowd as well, and at a glance, Huwang Xiao discovered that Xie Puti was already an early Fifth Order Saint realm. Blessed Buddha Emperor Shi Fantian, Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey Huwang Xiaoyong even reached peak half-step God Realm.
The most surprising of all was the Heaven Devouring Beast Lil Tian, who also reached peak half-step God Realm.
‘It seems like it’s time to refine several batches of Swallowing Sky Starquake Divine Pills.’ Huwang Xiao mused. With the Swallowing Sky Starquake Divine Pill, those already at peak half-step God Realm would have their chances of successfully breaking into God Realm increase by half.
Breaking through to God Realm was a thousand times harder than breaking into the Saint realm.
Thus, without the Swallowing Sky Starquake Divine Pill, who knows when Blessed Buddha Emperor and the rest would be able to advance to the God Realm.
As for the materials needed to refine the Swallowing Sky Starquake Divine Pill, Huwang Xiao wasn’t worried, there were more than enough materials inside the Hailstone Treasure vault.
Early next morning, Huwang Xiao took out the Thousand Worlds Furnace to begin refining the Swallowing Sky Starquake Divine Pills. From morning until late into the night, Huwang Xiao prepared ten batches, all successful.
If the Ascending Moon Old Man were here to watch Huwang Xiao refining ten successful batches of Swallowing Sky Starquake Divine Pills in a single day, his messy hair would float up and his beard would flutter without wind from joy.
Even one such as the Ascending Moon Old Man needed to be attentive when refining top grade divine spirit pellets like the Swallowing Sky Starquake Divine Pill, for every step consumed a great amount of spiritual force. Two successful batches in a day were already considered excellent. Of course, if the Ascending Moon Old Man decided to go all out, he’d be able to produce a third batch, maybe even a fourth.
As for five batches, that was nothing but an empty bluff, zero possibility. Therefore, there was no need to consider ten batches in a day.
On the same night the Swallowing Sky Starquake Divine Pills were ready, Huwang Xiao immediately distributed them to Blessed Buddha Emperor and the others. Each of them was given five pellets.
Five days later, they did not disappoint Huwang Xiao, all of them breaking into the God Realm one after another. In a short period, the Golden Dragon Peak’s God Realm masters increased by twenty-six.
At the moment they broke through to God Realm, even for one matured and calm as the Blessed Buddha Emperor Shi Fantian couldn’t help crying from excitement. Even Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu were sniveling through tears and snot.
There was only one exception—the Heaven Devouring Beast Lil Tian. The little guy was so happy that he jumped around, insisting that Huwang Xiao should roast meat that night to celebrate.
Huwang Xiao smiled wryly. Still, in order to celebrate Blessed Buddha Emperor, Zhao Zhu, Zhang Fu, and the others’ breakthrough, Huwang Xiao did personally barbecue meat for that night.
Lil Tian wolfed down the meat with joy, smiling from ear to ear the entire night with his oil-stained mouth.
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Another three days passed peacefully.
On this night, Huwang Xiao was sitting cross-legged inside the Xumi Temple. Just like every night, godforce and God’s Law from the rank five godhead flowed endlessly into Huwang Xiao’s body.
In his Qi Sea, god battle qi was swirling intensely. Huwang Xiao had a feeling that, tonight, he’d be able to breakthrough to Seventh Order God Realm.
All of a sudden, a powerful suction force came from his Qi Sea. The Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art diagram inside his body emitted a dazzling light, devouring the godforce and God’s Law from the godhead at a crazy speed.
‘This..?’ Huwang Xiao was surprised by the sudden change.
While he was still in a surprised state, inside his Qi Sea, god battle qi continued to rumble with vigor akin to a primordial beast ready to pounce, rushing into every part of his meridians, expanding them.
As his god battle qi coursed violently through his meridians, Huwang Xiao clearly sensed the Seventh Order God Realm barrier.
Like his previous breakthrough, he tried to control the god battle qi rampaging in his meridians to crash against the barrier, repeating this action many times over.
Unaware of the passage of time, Huwang Xiao’s body suddenly quivered. Like a dam breaking from the forces of turbulent waters, the barrier to Seventh Order God Realm crumbled!
Huwang Xiao’s Qi Sea began to expand like crazy, as did his soul sea, while the time and space law above his soul sea matured further, multiplying in the process.
At the very same moment Huwang Xiao succeeded, the Xumi Temple itself shook as golden Buddha images, numerous great Asuras, and a horde of divine dragons soared into the sky.
The clear sky above the Golden Dragon Peak was transformed, filled with golden Buddhas, Asuras, and divine dragons rushed upward.
The Huwang Family and others on the Golden Dragon Peak were alarmed, all of them hurried out of their yards to witness the wondrous sight above the peak.
It was a long time later that the images of golden Buddhas, Asuras, and divine dragons in the sky gradually dissipated.
Due to the grand formation acting as a veil, the incident went unnoticed by other Red Flood Mountain Range elite disciples, otherwise, with such a large momentum, it would have attracted other elite disciples for miles away to the Golden Dragon Peak.
After the images in the sky disappeared, Huwang Xiao slowly opened his eyes. Getting up to his feet, the entire Xumi Temple quivered from his mere movements. A light step carried the strength of a hundred million horses, he could easily crumble a big mountain in a single step.
Huwang Xiao’s eyes shone with elation—he finally broke through to Seventh Order God Realm!
As his spiritual force spread over his body, Huwang Xiao discovered that the immortal essence energy in his dantian had become more robust, more potent, and even purer. Flipping his palm over, a spark of immortal essence fire appeared, swaying gently on his palm, glowing in an amber diamond light that could make one wary from staring straight at it.
With this enhanced immortal essenc
e fire, the medicinal pellets that he refine would achieve a higher grade, quality, and efficiency.
Huwang Xiao exited the Xumi Temple, appearing high in the air above the Golden Dragon Peak in a flicker. Raising an arm, he pointed a finger at a mountain peak in the distance. In the blink of an eye, an invisible force bore a hole through the peak and went on to the mountain behind it.
The force of a single finger pierced through several mountain peaks.
Huwang Xiao nodded with satisfaction at this result, then floated down to the ground.
Being aware that everyone on the Golden Dragon Peak was staring at him, Huwang Xiao smiled sheepishly, explaining, “It just so happened that I broke through to Seventh Order God Realm by luck.”
Hearing Huwang Xiao confirming their thoughts, everyone blanked for a second before whooping in delight.
They knew very well what a Seventh Order God Realm represented.
While the Huwang Family was immersed in their joy, a Saint realm subordinate entered, reporting respectfully to Huwang Xiao that there were two Black Warrior Institute Elders waiting outside, wanting to see Huwang Xiao. One of them was Hu Yue, and the other was Li Jiarong.
Huwang Xiao’s eyebrow rose to his forehead. These two Elders were subordinates of that old witch Wang Na, what purpose did they have in coming here to see him? Pondering briefly, Huwang Xiao said to his subordinate, “Bring them to the front hall.”
The Saint realm subordinate acknowledged respectfully and retreated. Seeing that Huwang Xiao had matters to attend to, the Huwang Family also dispersed.
Huwang Xiao walked neither hurriedly nor slow to the front hall. Moments later, the same Saint realm subordinate was seen leading two elderly looking men inside. One of them was fair and round, and the other was tall and skinny.
Despite the limited interaction with these two Elders, Huwang Xiao had seen both of them during the inner disciple assessment many years ago, thus he knew that the fair round man was Hu Yue, while the tall skinny one was Li Jiarong.