by Shian Jeen
After the incident at Rising Sun City, Huwang Xiao felt that he still wasn’t strong enough, he could handle First and Second Order Saint realm experts, but not a Third Order Saint realm. That was why he wanted to find the Ancient Dragon Clan ruins as soon as possible, it would allow him to enhance his strength even more.
He killed Ao Baixue first and later Yao Fei, Deities Templar would definitely not spare him.
As for revealing the existence of the God Binding Ring and Absolute Soul Pearl, Huwang Xiao wasn’t concerned. Relying on the level of strength he had shown, he believed that there were only so many people who would dare to take advantage of him.
As Huwang Xiao’s group flew across the Origin Forest in search of the Ancient Dragon Clan ruins, from some distance away came woeful screams, similar to the last struggle before impending death.
The group’s actions stopped, exchanging glances among them.
“Head over and have a look.” Huwang Xiao said in a grave tone. Humans couldn’t help but be curious about things unknown.
Zhao Shu, Duan Ren, and everyone else nodded in agreement. Thus the group headed in the direction of the screams.
Very soon, Huwang Xiao’s group arrived at the scene. Seeing the scene before them, they, including Huwang Xiao, drew a sharp intake of breath.
Several hundred meters up ahead, more than a dozen people were entirely submerged in a giant swarm of black beetles, being eaten alive! Parts of their arms and legs were bitten off cleanly, leaving only white bones., others were already showing the empty eye sockets in their skulls. The scene was eerie and devastating.
“What exactly are these things?!” One of the Duanren Institute’s Saint realms blurted the question, the slight tremor in his voice unmistakable, pointing toward those carnivorous black beetles feasting on the dozen people.
From afar, the place where the dozen people stood was like an island with the black beetles swarming in from every direction, covering the ground in a black mass of shiny critters, tens of thousands, millions, a terrifying and appalling sight.
Duan Ren shook his head, he had never come across this black scarabs before.
“These are probably Poison Corpse Scarabs from the ancient times.” It was Zhao Shu who spoke.
Ancient times, Poison Corpse Scarabs!
The rest of Huwang Xiao’s group was stunned.
Zhao Shu went on, “These Poison Corpse Scarabs carry corpse poison all over their bodies, it only needs to bite you once and you will feel your entire body going numb. Furthermore, this kind of corpse poison could permeate into one’s Qi Sea, denying the victim the use of battle qi. These Poison Corpse Scarabs’ armor is extremely hard and difficult to break, the terrifying thing is, they do not fear even high-level Saint warriors’ battle flame.”
“Doesn’t that mean that these Poison Corpse Scarabs are nearly invincible?” The other Duanren Institute Saint realm warrior exclaimed.
Zhao Shu shook his head, “It’s very difficult, unless you have some godly weapon that could hack them into halves. There was once a high-level Saint realm expert who was delusional enough to think of exterminating these Poison Corpse Scarabs relying on his strength, but in the end, he turned into food for these Poison Corpse Scarabs.”
“High-level Saint realm expert turned into food for the Poison Corpse Scarabs!” Duan Ren was flabbergasted. The rest didn’t look so good either.
In the short time that Zhao Shu spoke, several people in front stopped struggling and fell to the ground, leaving only the ‘zhi zhi’ noises coming from their flesh being eaten by the scarabs.
Suddenly, the swarm of Poison Corpse Beetles was stirred, turning around and moving in Huwang Xiao’s direction.
Zhao Shu ashen, “Damn, they detected us, quickly run!”
But just when everyone turned around, preparing to flee, Huwang Xiao’s hands clenched into a fist, and the surrounding space was locked, barricading the Poison Corpse Scarabs. This was space manipulation.
In the process of breaking into the Saint realm, Huwang Xiao had his own comprehension of the space law.
Yet Zhao Shu urged anxiously, “Young Lord, we must leave at once, space manipulation cannot stop these scarabs!”
Sure enough, just as Zhao Shu’s last word fell, from the scarabs’ bodies, thick fumes of corpse poison were released and they broke free from Huwang Xiao’s space confinement.
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Watching the Poison Corpse Scarabs break free so easily from his space imprisonment, Huwang Xiao was genuinely shocked.
Even if it hadn't been long since he broke into the Saint realm, in terms of space manipulation power, Huwang Xiao could rival a Second Order Saint realm. But now, he actually failed to restrain those little critters in front of him.
While Huwang Xiao was in shock, one of the Poison Corpse Scarabs managed to reach within ten meters from him, wings spread out underneath its shell, leaping straight at Huwang Xiao’s face.
With the Poison Corpse Scarab in the air, Huwang Xiao could clearly see its blood-stained mouth along with rows of tiny razor sharp teeth, emanating a strong stench of rotting corpse.
Huwang Xiao’s eyes narrowed, in a flash, the Blades of Asura already appeared in his hands. Without any hesitation, the blades slashed out with a ‘dang!’ Plummeting to the ground, the Poison Corpse Scarab let out shrill hissing noises.
Its head was severed from its body, falling to the bottom. Even its body was split into two by Huwang Xiao’s cutting blades, both body parts were still rolling around on the ground, giving everyone present the impression of dying but not vanquished.
“Young Lord, careful!” Zhao Shu acted swiftly, blocking before Huwang Xiao while striking a palm at another Poison Corpse Scarab that was flying toward Huwang Xiao.
Struck by Zhao Shu, that Poison Corpse Scarab tumbled back several hundred meters, inserted in to the ground, but moments later, it climbed back again out in one piece, unharmed. Zhao Shu was a Tenth Order Saint realm, the power contained in his attack could shatter a small hill, yet it didn't blast a single Poison Corpse Scarab to its death!
Viewing this scene, Duan Ren and the rest felt their scalp tingling.
Giant ghost Feng Yang also stepped around, slapping away several Poison Corpse Scarabs that were closing in on the group. But one of the Poison Corpse Scarabs succeeded in sinking its teeth in Feng Yang’s arm.
To Zhao Shu and the others’ surprise, Feng Yang showed no signs of paralysis or full body numbness after being bitten. Zhao Shu was stunned for a moment and then understood, giant ghost Feng Yang was a dark creature, a ghost, the Poison Corpse Scarab poison had no effect on him.
“Young Lord, quickly leave!” Zhao Shu became anxious watching more and more scarabs moving in their direction. Feng Yang experienced nothing to be afraid of, but that didn’t mean they were just as brave.
In that brief moment, another dozen Poison Corpse Scarabs leaped toward Huwang Xiao.
But this time, Huwang Xiao did not use the blades in his hands. True essence energy rumbled in his dantian and two bright sparks of true substance fire hovered above his palms. With a wave, the true essence fire coated the several Poison Corpse Scarabs coming at him. Almost instantly, shrill hissing sounds rang out as they fell to the ground, wriggling in excruciating pain.
Another burst of hissing noises and everything went silent in the next second. The dozen Poison Corpse Scarab went deathly still.
Zhao Shu’s eye widened to the size of a fist, dumbfounded. Duan Ren and the two Duanren Institute Saint Masters wore similar expression on their faces.
‘Didn’t Mister Zhao say just now that these Poison Corpse Scarabs aren’t afraid of high-level Saint warrior’s battle flame?’ This was the first thought running through Duan Ren’s mind. At this moment, he was targeted by a Poison Corpse Scarab, panicked, Duan Ren ignited his battle flame and threw it at the beetles, however, he saw that the Poison Corpse Scarab flew through his fight flame as if it was nothing, still arriving straight at him.
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Watching that Poison Corpse Scarab bare its teeth, Duan Ren jumped away hastily to dodge. Even so, cold sweat drenched his back. At this point, Duan Ren realized that Huwang Xiao’s common looking true fact fire was not as simple as he had imagined.
Huwang Xiao was ecstatic seeing that his true essence fire was effective against the Poison Corpse Scarabs. He threw out more true substance fire into the swarm of scarabs, endless shrieks and shrills filled the air as they turned into a sea of open fire.
In mere moments, the large swarm of scarabs actually retreated in fear, fleeing like the sea at low tide.
Zhao Shu, Duan Ren, and the others sighed in relief noticing that the Poison Corpse Scarabs were actually running away, but a light glinted in Huwang Xiao’s eyes. In a leap, he blocked their path of retreat.
Zhao Shu was stumped watching Huwang Xiao’s action, ‘Does Sovereign want to incinerate all these Poison Corpse Scarabs?’
Although Huwang Xiao’s true essence fire was effective against them, he would still need one or two hours if he really wanted to exterminate the entire colony. Moreover, a moment of carelessness would result in being bitten and the consequences were unimaginable.
Just when Zhao Shu and others thought that Huwang Xiao wanted to completely exterminate the scarabs, a light glimmered in Huwang Xiao’s hand as a golden pagoda appeared.
This golden pagoda was the Linglong Treasure Pagoda.
Before the dumbfounded faces of Zhao Shu, Duan Ren, and both Honorable Saint Masters, Huwang Xiao made the Linglong Treasure Pagoda hover in midair and infused his battle qi into it to activate the Thousand Demon Engulfing Destruction Array. Immediately, one after another, the Poison Corpse Scarabs were sucked in to the Linglong Treasure Pagoda.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Shu wasn’t as surprised as Duan Ren and the two Saint realm experts.
Soon, all the remaining Poison Corpse Scarabs were all sucked into the Linglong Treasure Pagoda and the pagoda returned once more to Huwang Xiao’s hands.
When all was done, Duan Ren recovered from his shock, “This is the, the Linglong Treasure Pagoda?!” Duan Ren inquired, hoping for confirmation.
Huwang Xiao nodded, “That’s right, it’s the Linglong Treasure Pagoda.”
It was really the Linglong Treasure Pagoda! Getting Huwang Xiao’s affirmation, Duan Ren inhaled sharply-Linglong Treasure Pagoda, ranked ninth on the Heavenly Treasure List.
Two days ago, Huwang Xiao displayed the God Binding Palm and Absolute Soul Finger, confirming that he possessed the God Binding Ring and Absolute Soul Pearl, and now, there was another Heavenly Treasure, the Linglong Treasure Pagoda!
Duan Ren gulped down heavily viewing Huwang Xiao. Reaching this point, they already didn’t know how to describe their feelings, whether it was astonishment, envy, or truthfully, a little bit of jealousy?
Duan Ren approached Huwang Xiao with a bitter smile on his face, “Young Noble Huwang, how many Heavenly Treasures do you really have on you? Please don’t tell me you have all thirty-two of them!”
In that case, he would truly be invincible!
Huwang Xiao absorbed the Linglong Treasure Pagoda back into his body and laughed lightly at Duan Ren’s words, “Not many, just a few.”
Just a few! Duan Ren and the rest were rendered speechless. If they knew that one of those ‘few’ that Huwang Xiao possessed was actually the Godly Mt. Xumi, how would they react…
“Let’s go.” Huwang Xiao spoke, changing the topic.
Everyone nodded in agreement and flew away from the scene.
Huwang Xiao definitely had his own plan for confining those Poison Corpse Scarabs inside the Linglong Treasure Pagoda instead of destroying them. Those little scarabs weren’t scared of a high-level Saint world expert’s battle fire and they were hard to kill, if one was careless, even high-level Saint realm warriors could end up losing their lives to those little ones. If Huwang Xiao could find a way to control them, those Poison Corpse Scarabs could prove to be a great assistance.
Others might not have a method to subdue the Poison Corpse Scarabs, but Huwang Xiao was different. He practiced the Ancient Puppetry Art, therefore he was confident that he could control those little scarabs.
Thus, in the coming times, Huwang Xiao continued searching for the Old Dragon Clan ruins while testing how to control the swarm of Poison Corpse Scarabs. With his current spiritual force, Huwang Xiao was able to control fifty to sixty of the scarabs on a daily basis.
Five days passed and Huwang Xiao already had close to four hundred Poison Corpse Scarabs under his control. Releasing three to four hundred Poison Corpse Scarabs against his enemies was already a terrifying scene.
On this day, Huwang Xiao’s group stopped to rest on a mountain peak, when suddenly the black and blue dragon martial spirits in Huwang Xiao’s body shook.
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Sensing the black and blue dragon martial spirits’ reaction inside his body, Huwang Xiao’s heart leaped with joy!
The Ancient Dragon Clan ruins were nearby!
Zhao Shu noticed Huwang Xiao’s reaction and inquired, “Young Lord, you’re…?”
Huwang Xiao laughed, “The Ancient Dragon Clan ruins should be somewhere in the vicinity!”
In the vicinity! When Duan Ren and the others heard that, their actions lagged momentarily before being taken over by delight. They knew that unless Huwang Xiao was sure, he wouldn’t have spoken it out loud.
“Let’s go!” Huwang Xiao quickly leaped to the environment, soaring in the path sensed by the twin dragon martial spirits’ perception. Zhao Shu, Duan Ren, and the other two Saint world experts hurried to follow Huwang Xiao.
A short while later, Huwang Xiao’s group arrived at a ravine.
Standing at the top of the ravine, looking down, one could see a sea of thick fog. From beneath the fog, here and there, strange looking plants could be seen growing up the ravine wall.
“Young Noble Huwang, the Old Dragon Clan ruins are at the bottom of this ravine?” Duan Ren peeked below, asking out of curiosity. This ravine didn’t look very tall, at most two to three hundred meters deep, the surroundings were serene and quiet.
“It’s very likely that the ruins are below.” Huwang Xiao nodded. Without another word, he leaped off the edge, letting his body fall to the ravine bottom. Zhao Shu and others followed, leaping from the ravine.
The ravine indeed wasn’t tall. About three hundred meters down, their feet touched the bottom.
The ravine bottom was a vibrant green grassland, a little river about ten zhang long weaved through the green grassland, flowing down to another part of the ravine. The water was clean and clear and the shallow riverbed was visible. The river was surrounded by clusters of small wildflowers, vegetation, and trees, everything entered their eye with an individual glance.
Doubt surfaced in everyone’s eyes. ‘The Ancient Dragon Clan ruins are here?’ Each person extended their religious sense to the surrounding, detecting nothing relevant to the Old Dragon Clan ruins.
While the others were baffled looking around, Huwang Xiao walked to the small riverside.
Viewing Huwang Xiao’s actions, Duan Ren also came to the tiny riverside. In fact, they used their spiritual sense to check the river earlier was well and didn't find anything out of the ordinary. The river was shallow and the clear waters revealed everything below at a simple glance, fish and small shrimps swimming inside and water plants flowing with the current.
In an abrupt action, Huwang Xiao’s palm struck the water surface, a tall dazzling beam of light shone from water surface. At the same time, a majestic dragon might soared, as though it descended from the ancient times, enveloping everyone present.
Shock was an understatement. When the shiny light disappeared, everyone noticed a black hole how big is two adults materializing above the small river. The sudden appearance of the black opening once again took everyone by surprise, but while everyone was immersed in their surprise, the dark gap slowly grew smaller.
“We’re goin
g in!” Huwang Xiao barked, waking everyone, at the same time, he was the first one to jump in to the black hole’s space. Zhao Shu and Feng Yang adopted a step behind without hesitation. Duan Ren and both other Saint realm experts exchanged a look before jumping in as well.
Moments after all six of these jumped into the dark hole, it grew smaller and then vanished. The surroundings returned to their previous tranquility.
However, not long after Huwang Xiao’s group vanished into the black hole, a group of people appeared on top of the ravine. If Zhao Shu was here, he'd definitely be surprised, because this group of people was none other than Asura’s Gate Domain Chief Chen Tianqi and a group of subordinates.
Clad in an ink-black brocade robe, Chen Tianqi, who had faint dark patterns at the tail-end on his eye, spoke, “You said that the dragon might came from below the ravine?”
One of the men behind Chen Tianqi, Domain name Leader Gu Wen, stepped up saying, “That’s right, Sovereign. This subordinate is at the vicinity at that time, thus felt it clearly, that dragon might indeed come from below the ravine!”
Chen Tianqi nodded, “I hope it’s not a mistake this time.”
It had been half a year since they entered this Origin Forest, it could be said they had searched every inch of soil, there were a few times when they thought they found the Ancient Dragon Clan ruins, only to discover that it had not been real in the end.
“We’re going down.” Chen Tianqi said, diving off the ravine advantage. The group of Asura Website Leaders implemented suit at once. Chen Tianqi’s group landed at the ravine bottom level, unable to hide the disappointment from their encounters after searching. Judging from appearances, it seemed that this place couldn’t be the entrance to Old Dragon Clan ruins either.
When all the Site Leaders looked disappointed, Chen Tianqi was staring at the space above the tiny river, sensitive to the weak ripples of spatial distortions which were different from the surroundings. Obviously, a Saint world expert got just manipulated space around here. Chen Tianqi focused his religious sense around the area of the area ripples. As an afterthought, he all of a sudden released a punch to the same spot above the small river.