Asura Sovereign IX
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These disciples descended on the peak where Huwang Xiao was, approaching him.
“Half-step God Realm?” Upon closer observation, one of the disciples let out a laugh sensing Huwang Xiao’s cultivation realm, “A mere half-step God Realm dares to build a bonfire here, alone, roasting meat? Perhaps he’s a fool?”
His words brought a bout of loud laughter from his companions.
A half-step God Realm roasting meat over a bonfire would attract numerous demonic beasts prowling in the area. This was literally a suicidal action.
Huwang Xiao took a sip of his wine, shooting a glance at the person who spoke just now, his expression stoic, “Seeing that I’m still in a good mood, you can still make it if you scram right now.”
“Scram?!” After a moment of daze, the disciple laughed in contrary to his fury, “Punk, have you thought of the consequence of the words you just uttered?”
“What consequences?” Huwang Xiao pulled off a piece of the tiger leg and bit a large chunk off, sending meat juices splattering to the ground.
“Courting death!” That disciple’s anger boiled over seeing that Huwang Xiao dared not to put him in his eyes. Letting out an angry roar, he struck a punch at Huwang Xiao.
“Heaven’s Violent Slaughtering Tempest Fist!” Fist force whistled through the wind, raising violent currents. A faint majestic power could be felt from the attack.
Huwang Xiao slightly tilted his head up, blowing out a gust of wind from his mouth.
The uprising of a violent tempest dissipated, the powerful force from the fist dispersed, and that family disciple was howling tragically as he was sent flying back, exploding into pieces in a high arc.
Everything went deathly quiet. The rest of the family disciples froze, blanking for a moment before looking like all the blood was drained out of them.
That family disciple that blew up was a peak half-step God Realm, someone infinitely close to breaking into the God Realm. He was the strongest one amongst them, but he died from a simple blow!
When the remaining disciples regained their senses, all of them subconsciously retreated a step.
“You, who are you?!” One of family disciple stammered.
Huwang Xiao took another sip of wine, answering nonchalantly, “Huwang Xiao.”
“Huwang Xiao!”
“You’re that seventh place Huwang Xiao!”
All two hundred faces grew a shade paler if that was possible.
If this was three days ago, maybe most of them wouldn't have heard of Huwang Xiao’s name, but now, among the eighty million disciples going through the same assessment, who didn't know of Huwang Xiao?
“So, it’s Brother Huwang.” A family disciple stepped out with some false bravado, offering an amiable smile with cautiously as he said, “It was us who have offended earlier, hope Brother Huwang can be forgiving, we’ll take our leave immediately!” Despite having over two hundred people in numbers, if Huwang Xiao wanted to kill them, it’d be like a predator toying with its prey.
Killing a peak half-step God Realm merely took a breath from his mouth, killing them all wouldn't need more than two hundred blows of breath, this was what was going through that disciple’s mind.
What this disciple didn’t know was that if Huwang Xiao wanted to annihilate all of them, he could do it in one breath. Killing one or killing two hundred bore no difference to him.
“Roll away!” Huwang Xiao no longer paid them any attention.
When the Saint realm experts within the group heard the phrase, it was akin to heavens’ amnesty. Everyone secretly breathed out in relief as they turned around, about to leave, when…
“Wait!” Huwang Xiao’s voice sounded.
Hearts tightened nervously, all their actions frozen and faces turned a deathly shade of gray. Did this Huwang Xiao change his mind?
“Remove all the spatial rings on your bodies before leaving.” Huwang Xiao’s voice sounded once again.
Did they dare to utter any objections? All they could do was remove all the spatial rings on them with the fastest speed, handing them over to Huwang Xiao before fleeing for their lives.
Just as these disciples were fleeing for their lives, a loud bang resounded. Looking at the source, one of the disciples ran into a high mountain wall in front of him in haste and did not pay attention to his front, resulting in a full-frontal collision.
“My head’s spinning!” Crashing into the mountain wall, the disciple became dizzy and plummeted to the ground. One had to admit, this family disciple’s head was quite sturdy. These mountain walls on the Deepwood Star were extremely hard, average swords or knives could hardly leave any scratch marks on their surface.
Huwang Xiao blanked momentarily watching that disciple, then was speechless, before shaking his head with a faint smile.
At this time on the Hall of Heroes square, the different forces’ experts stirred, many of them had noticed that Huwang Xiao’s score hadn’t moved for the last two hours.
The two people in the void above also noticed this matter and exchanged a look between them.
“Could this Huwang Xiao have run into a late-First Order God Realm demonic beast?” Su Haodong made a conjecture.
In general, and all the past assessments, late-First Order God Realm demonic beasts were not included. However, this time, because of Gudu Leng, the Black Warrior Institute deliberately ‘released’ two late-First Order God Realms on the Deepwood Star.
Li Zhiqun’s brows creased into deep furrows. If, by chance, Huwang Xiao really did run into a late-First Order God Realm demonic beast, it would be troublesome. There had been no changes in his points for some time, he was most likely gravely injured by the late-First Order God Realm demonic beast, rendering him into a coma. If this was truly the case, forget fourth place, he wouldn't be able to hold on to the tenth place.
Huwang Xiao’s ‘quietness’ was also noticed by the He Family disciples. As Huwang Xiao remained still while He Xiu’s points, who was kicked down to the eighth position, kept climbing up, seemingly about to overtake Huwang Xiao very soon, the He Family disciples burst out in cheers.
“That Huwang Xiao was so fierce in the beginning, but do you see now, he can’t do it anymore.” One of the He Family disciple mocked.
“I’ll say, he can’t do it anymore, he most likely went soft.” In the distance, the Zhu Family disciples who held a grudge toward Huwang Xiao chimed in.
The other families’ disciples snickered at the side, shaking their heads.
But then again, if they were to know that Huwang Xiao was leisurely treating himself with meat and wine on the Deepwood Star, these people would be angered into fainting.
On Deepwood Star, Huwang Xiao finally stood up two hours later, stretching his waist and arms lazily. Well fed and watered, it was time to get back to work.
Huwang Xiao appeared in the sky in a flicker. Taking out roughly two hundred beast cores from the Asura Ring, he repeated what he did during the day. He used his consciousness to control these beast cores to rotate around him at high speed, creating a fierce wind cyclone, and marched onward. Everywhere the wind cyclone passed through, no demonic beast was left behind.
During the day, Huwang Xiao had noticed that using his consciousness to control these beast cores actually enhanced his soul force by a great margin.
On the Hall of Heroes square, before the eyes of the He Family disciples, just as He Xiu was about to catch up to Huwang Xiao’s score, with merely several hundred points difference, Huwang Xiao’s points shot up and continued to increase at a frightening speed.
The crowd was left reeling at the sudden turn, especially when the sixth place Li Mingxuan was overtaken by Huwang Xiao, and soon after, his points surpassed the fifth place Jiang Wei.
Huwang Xiao’s points continued to shoot up like a nightmare, dogging on Xu Shaoqing’s heels.
Gasps of shock and astonishment grew increasingly loud on the square as time passed by. And those He Family disciples that were laughing at Huwang X
iao being fierce in the beginning and going soft at the end felt like their heads were hammered, there was nothing but a white blank space in their minds.
Didn't this look like he got even fiercer? But, wasn't this a bit too savage?
On the Deepwood Star, the eighty million disciples felt their minds humming as they watched Huwang Xiao climbing up the top ten ranks like a devil.
At this time, the positions in the top ten ranks shifted again.
“Fourth place, Huwang Xiao’s in the fourth place now!” A disciple’s shrill shriek cut across the square.
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Looking at the floating crystal scoreboard in the air above the square, both present experts and family disciples were flabbergasted.
Not too long ago, they had just claimed with surety that this Huwang Xiao could reach the seventh place, or sixth at most, highest at the fifth place. Yet, before the day ended, Huwang Xiao shot up the scoreboard using a terrifying speed all the way until the fourth place.
On the Deepwood Star, a black-robed Gudu Leng was standing in the air above a vast icefield.
“En?!” The moment his consciousness submerged into the assessment token, he was a little surprised to find the permanent figure in the fourth place, Xu Shaoqing, relegated to fifth place, whereas the current fourth place was Huwang Xiao!
Huwang Xiao?!
He repeated the name and a glimmer of recognition flashed in his mind. The fella that kicked Zhu Haixiang out from the top ten rankings.
At that time, he didn’t pay much attention to the matter. Later on, as he focused on killing demonic beasts, monsters, and demons, Gudu Leng did not have spare the time to check the scoreboard. Never had he imagined that in a short two days, this Huwang Xiao actually climbed all the way up to the fourth place!
“Things are getting interesting.” Gudu Leng said softly to himself, mildly intrigued. Then again, it was merely a mild interest, worth less than the briefest second of his attention.
In another location on the Deepwood Star, clad in a blue two-piece blue tunic, Wang Biaoyuan didn’t look too happy as he watched the changes in the rankings. His fiancée, Xu Shaoqing, was actually kicked down to the fifth place by an unknown background character named Huwang Xiao! On top of that, this Huwang Xiao gave him a sense of crisis.
His current points were slightly over 963 million, and Huwang Xiao had over 892 million points.
Although 70 million was seemingly a big gap, with Huwang Xiao’s speed in picking up points, overtaking him was only a matter of time.
In another location, Jiang Shaoze too was looking at the scoreboard’s changes with a sullen face. A part of him strongly refused to believe that Huwang Xiao actually managed to reach the fourth place. During Huwang Xiao’s aptitude test, he was present, and ‘saw’ everything clear more than anyone.
The third day ended, blanketing many people’s indignant disbelief with darkness.
On the fourth day, Huwang Xiao’s points continued to soar, akin to sails under the full blast wind, securing his hold on the fourth place. On the fifth day, however, his points did not move up like everyone expected. Instead, it rose steadily, maintaining an approximate gap of 70 million from Wang Biaoyun at all times.
This situation was deemed favorable to Wang Biaoyuan and Jiang Shaoze as both unknowingly breathed out in relief. Huwang Xiao’s score maintained the steady speed of increment on the sixth day as well.
Seeing this, Wang Biaoyuan and Jiang Shaoze both finally relaxed. To them, the previous spurt was Huwang Xiao’s limit.
At the end of the sixth day, Gudu Leng checked the scoreboard again. When he saw the result, he shook his head, “Still at number four? I thought that the competition this time wouldn't be as dull, but in the end I’m still disappointed.”
In the Hall of Heroes’ square, the Jiang and Wang Families felt as if a great burden was taken off their chests, allowing them to finally breathe with ease.
But just when everyone thought that Huwang Xiao was at his limit and wouldn't be able to rise further up the ranks, a certain family disciple’s eyes bulged out with shock, filled to the brim with disbelief as he stared at the scoreboard: “Huwang Xiao, he, he, he…!”
His reaction baffled everyone and drew everyone’s attention toward the fourth place on the scoreboard at the same time. What they saw was Huwang Xiao’s points that had been rising steadily in the last two days suddenly shoot up with unprecedented speed, narrowing a large gap toward Wang Biaoyuan with every breath’s time.
“This...?!” No one knew how to react.
Even the two middle-aged men concealed in the deep void, Su Haodong and Li Zhiqun, looked tense with surprise.
On the Deepwood Star, deep ripples of shock ran through Wang Biaoyuan even as his hand swung frenzily in slaughter, yet he still failed to widen the gap between their points.
50 million!
40 million!
“10 million, it’s only 10 million now!” A spectating disciple on the Hall of Heroes square exclaimed in a high-pitched voice.
From 10 million, the gap grew smaller and smaller, 9 million, 8 million... 1 million!
Wengg! Suddenly, the scoreboard beamed brightly, the whole crystal stone visibly quivered. Only when the names in the top three rankings changed would the crystal stone behave in this manner, releasing a resplendent light.
When the light gradually dimmed, becoming less glaring to the eyes, everyone saw that Wang Biaoyuan’s name had dropped from third place to the fourth.
On the third place, Huwang Xiao!
These two words, Huwang Xiao, were so piercing in the eyes of the Wang Family!
The 70 million gap at the beginning between Huwang Xiao and Wang Biaoyuan, was overtaken in a short two hours’ time.
While everyone was still immersed in the astonishment of Huwang Xiao entering top three ranks, the person himself continued to slaughter, accumulating more and more points, slowly but surely closing in on Jiang Shaoze.
Regaining their senses, the crowd in the square stared without blinking as Huwang Xiao’s points inched closer to Jiang Shaoze, growing more nervous by the second as if their hearts were displaced, stuck in their throats.
Some time later, without any suspense, the crystal stone once again breaking out in a resplendent glow, shaking stronger than the first time. When the scoreboard returned to normal, the second-ranked Jiang Shaoze had fallen to the third place.
Second place, Huwang Xiao!
The entire square was abnormally quiet to the point where a pin drop sounded like thunder.
Not one person was able to foresee this result.
A disciple of unknown background named Huwang Xiao actually killed his way up to second place! Seven days ago, how many people had heard of Huwang Xiao?
As time passed, more and more experts appeared in the square. The news about Huwang Xiao snatching the second place had spread out, alerting the experts in every corner of the Black Warrior City.
Even after Huwang Xiao overtook the second place, his points did not stop rising. In fact, they seemed to climb even faster, as if they were targeting Gudu Leng, slowly approaching.
“This, this Huwang Xiao, is he planning to fight for the first place?!” Almost everyone in the square noticed this situation, and a family disciple couldn’t restrain himself, shouting out loud.
First place?!
Watching this, they felt as if something pricked their hearts.
Gudu Leng, when he took the aptitude test, his strength passed the 3000 points mark. In the last ten million years, he was the only person who achieved this result, to the point of alerting even the Black Warrior Institute’s Principal.
If Huwang Xiao won the first place...?! Imagining this possibility, the myriad expressions in the crowd were a rich variation. Did that mean Huwang Xiao’s talent was higher than Gudu Leng’s?
Huwang Xiao’s sudden jump to the second place did not go unnoticed by Gudu Leng. He watched the speed of Huwang Xiao’s rising points with anticipation.
Back in the square, the crowd watched as Gudu Leng’s points also soared with horrifying speed.
At times, Gudu Leng’s points would increase by fifty to sixty thousand, while Huwang Xiao collected half of that, other times, Huwang Xiao’s score would jump ten, twenty thousand whereas Gudu Leng only managed six to seven thousand.
Staring tightly at these two people’s points fighting tit-for-tat, their eyes were bedazzled by the constant glimmer of points change.
One hour, two hours, three hours. One day passed, these two people’s points continued to increase at shocking speed; you chase, I rush, fighting neck to neck. The flickering lights of points became a norm.
The crowd watched with their breaths held in as the eighth day ended.
And the sun rose on the ninth day.
Although Gudu Leng’s mad rush of points seemed scary, the crowd gradually realized that Huwang Xiao was actually pulling closer. Initially, when Huwang Xiao first snatched the second place, his points were a huge 300 million behind Gudu Leng. At the beginning of the ninth day, however, the difference was only 30 million.
On the Deepwood Star, Huwang Xiao’s silhouette was shifting rapidly, his palms straight like knives, instantly slitting the neck of a mid-First Order God Realm demonic beast.
This was his five hundred and sixty-third God Realm demonic beast.
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Five hundred and sixty-three God Realm demonic beasts!
If the family disciples watching outside knew about this, they would probably be scared stiff on the spot.
How many God Realm demonic beast existed on the Deepwood Star? Probably half of them were killed by Huwang Xiao.