Asura Sovereign IX

by Shian Jeen

  Ch.543

  Detecting the provocation in Huwang Xiao’s gaze, an unpleasant expression shadowed Jiang Shaoze, Xu Shaoqing, Zhu Haixiang, and other top geniuses’ faces, yet no one dared to step out in contrary, including Gudu Leng.

  Even Wang Biaoyuan, who activated the Indestructible Vajra Physique, was turned into a mere paper tiger in front of this person. If they walked out, wouldn't they be pummeled into a pig head?!

  The crowd fell into a prolonged heavy silence when an abrupt angry shout cut across the square as a figure leaped out from the Wang Family’s midst, attacking Huwang Xiao. A Wang Family master.

  A Third Order God Realm warrior.

  His action was too fast, it did not occur to anyone that a Wang Family master would try to assassinate Huwang Xiao.

  “Insolent!”

  Just when that Wang Family master was about to slap his palm down on Huwang Xiao, a fleeting sword light glinted and disappeared. The Wang Family expert howled in pain, clutching his hand as he retreated, looking fearfully at Black Warrior Institute's Elder Zhang Tianchuan.

  It was Elder Zhang Tianchuan who attacked earlier.

  Everyone could see that all five fingers of that Wang Family master were cleanly cut off.

  Zhang Tianchuan glared coldly at the Wang Family group, emphasizing each word: “ This is Cloudsea Mainland, this is Black Warrior City! This time, take severing your five fingers as punishment, but next time, it will be your life!”

  Huwang Xiao had proven his strength.

  Thus, he was the Black Warrior Institute’s first place holder for this assessment. If Huwang Xiao was killed in the Black Warrior City, wouldn't that turn the entire Black Warrior Institute into the century’s biggest joke?

  A genius like Huwang Xiao was a rare sight in a hundred thousand years that would surely rise to become the Black Warrior Institute’s precious treasure in the future, of course the Black Warrior Institute needed to safeguard him. In fact, crucial measures should be taken to safeguard him!

  Clutching his wounded hand, that Wang Family master had no choice but to swallow his anger, similarly of the other Wang Family masters.

  In this matter, they were at fault.

  Both Huwang Xiao and Wang Biaoyuan had determined that no one was allowed to interfere, but the Wang Family made a sneak attack after Wang Biaoyuan lost.

  Zhang Tianchuan’s frosty gaze scanned the crowd before turning toward Huwang Xiao with a bedazzling smile, “Junior brother Huwang, are you alright?” That tone, that manner, they completely floored the crowd.

  Zhang Tianchuan was an Elder of Black Warrior Institute ah, a person of high status in the whole Black Tortoise Galaxy, did he need to show a new disciple so much courtesy? Then again, recalling Huwang Xiao’s terrifying talent and strength, they could only accept it.

  Relying on the talent and strength that Huwang Xiao had ‘showed’, Elder Zhang Tianchuan’s courtesy and smile became a natural matter of course.

  Huwang Xiao looked at Zhang Tianchuan’s dazzling smile with a slight flattered feeling, politely answering, “Elder Zhang, I’m unharmed.”

  Zhang Tianchuan nodded with a big smile, but his sharp eyes were fixed on Huwang Xiao. That gaze sent goosebumps down Huwang Xiao’s neck.

  Subsequently, Zhang Tianchuan officially announced the top ten name list. As for the eleventh to the one hundredth place, Zhang Tianchuan merely ordered someone else to announce the rest of the list to the public.

  After the top ten places were announced, it was the prize giving ceremony.

  Only the top ten places had any rewards. The prizes for the second to the tenth place were given out by Elder Zhan Tianchuan, but when it came to Huwang Xiao’s turn, his prize was given out by Grand Elder Bao Xinrui.

  From this, the difference in treatment between the first, second, third place and the rest was obvious.

  On the stage, Huwang Xiao received a spatial ring from Grand Elder Bao Xinrui which contained ten million Xuanwu coins, one thousand Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellet, one thousand saint grade spirit stones, and one divine rank battle skill.

  When Huwang Xiao received his reward from Grand Elder Bao Xinrui, the Grand Elder observed the young man in front of him, his old wrinkly face was full of smiles, nodding with appreciation, “You, are very good.”

  Very good!

  This short statement drew envious and jealous glares from the surrounding geniuses.

  Bao Xinrui was recognized as the strongest person under the Highgod Realm in the entire Black Tortoise Galaxy, never had anyone heard him praising any juniors.

  Then, before the envious and jealous gazes subside, Bao Xinrui spoke again, “The Institute Principal wants to see you, do you have time?”

  Everyone was dazed, dumbfounded; the Institute Principal wanted to see Huwang Xiao?!

  Even Huwang Xiao did not expect the Black Warrior Institute Principal would want to meet him. Still, it was good news to him if the Black Warrior Institute Principal wanted to see him, therefore he had no reason to refuse. Moreover, he wasn’t so dumb as to refuse.

  Seeing Huwang Xiao agree, Bao Xinrui started the square’s transmission array, disappearing before everyone’s sight together with Huwang Xiao.

  After the two silhouettes disappeared vanishing from their vision, a great commotion swept through the crowd.

  “The Black Warrior Institute’s Principal wants to see Huwang Xiao, what do you think this is about?”

  “Huwang Xiao’s talent is astonishing, maybe the Institute Principal wants to give him more rewards, or, who knows, maybe he even wants to take Huwang Xiao as his personal disciple!”

  “What? Take Huwang Xiao as a personal disciple? Cannot be, right? Doesn’t that mean that Huwang Xiao reached the sky in a single bound?”

  The discussions in the square grew lively.

  Some guessed that the Institute Principal was of a mind to receive Huwang Xiao as a personal disciple due to his talent that was higher than Gudu Leng’s, but there were those who disagreed with this view, for it had been more than twenty thousand years since the Institute Principal last took in a personal disciple.

  Rumors circulated.

  On the other side, following behind Bao Xinrui, Huwang Xiao saw a colorful blur enter his vision and he had arrived in another enormous square.

  Lining the perimeter of the square were building structures that seemed to have no end, exuding an ancient aura of the vicissitudes of time, aged by the passing of years.

  “This is our Black Tortoise World surface’s North Star Square.” Bao Xinrui explained. “If you want to go to the Cloudsea Mainland in the future, you can be transported directly into the Black Warrior City with the transmission array on this North Star Square.”

  This was the Black Tortoise World!

  Huwang Xiao inhaled deeply, taking in the rich spiritual energy into his body. The spiritual energy here was very pure, twice as pure as the spiritual energy in the Martial Spirit World. Its purity level actually surprised Huwang Xiao! The purer the spiritual energy, the more importance it had to a cultivator’s practice.

  Bao Xinrui led Huwang Xiao out from North Star Square, flying toward the center region of the Black Tortoise World.

  Following behind Bao Xinrui, Huwang Xiao watched as they flew over one city after another, palaces after palaces, each one more prosperous than the one before. In some places, Black Warrior Institute disciples could be seen laying out array formations. In some mountainous areas, the earth was excavated to build new cities.

  While Bao Xinrui and Huwang Xiao were on their way to the center region of the Black Tortoise World, inside a large city within the center region, Grand Elder Chan Yu was reporting to Institute Principal Feng Yang, “Principal, we’ve investigated Huwang Xiao’s background, he’s a disciple of our Black Tortoise Galaxy’s Martial Spirit World.”

  The day before, when Huwang Xiao’s points surpassed Gudu Leng’s points, the Black Warrior Institute Principal ordered people to investigate Huwang Xiao�
��s background. Based on the institute’s forces, investigating a person's background was no difficult matter.

  When the Institute Principal heard that Huwang Xiao was indeed a native of the Black Tortoise Galaxy, he breathed out in relief. He had been worried that Huwang Xiao might be a disciple cultivated by other galaxies’ super forces, but now these worries were vanquished.

  “Martial Spirit World?” Black Warrior Institute Principal mused over the said world surface, saying, “Since that Great Fiendgod War, the Martial Spirit World’s overall strength dropped rock bottom, falling out from the galaxy’s top ten thousand world ranking. It’s unexpected that such a talented young man would come out from there now.”

  There were more than one hundred and twenty thousand world surfaces in the entire Black Tortoise Galaxy, he couldn't possibly remember all of them. However, he did have some impression on the Martial Spirit World.

  Grand Elder Chan Yu’s mouth moved as if he wanted to speak but hesitated.

  “What is it?” Institute Principal Feng Yang noticed his strange manner and asked, “Is there a problem with Huwang Xiao?”

  Grand Elder Chan Yu’s did not carry the usual confidence as he spoke, “That Huwang Xiao was born in the Martial Spirit World a little over thirty years ago.”

  A little over thirty years? For a brief moment, Institute Principal Feng Yang’s brain failed to make the connection, but when he finally realized what Grand Elder Chan Yu was trying to say, Feng Yang sucked in a sharp cold breath, “Yo-you’re saying, that Huwang Xiao, cultivating until up now only took about thirty years?!”

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  Watching the Institute Principal’s stunned and bewildered expression, Grand Elder Chan Yu nodded in all seriousness, “It is so, Principal, that Huwang Xiao is merely thirty-something years old!”

  When he found out the result of the investigation, his reaction was no less dramatic! This simply made the terms like ‘monstrous genius’ or ‘peerless talent’ insufficient to describe Huwang Xiao.

  Gudu Leng was hailed as Gudu Family’s strongest genius in history, but Gudu Leng had spent more than one hundred and fifty years in cultivation.

  Whereas that Huwang Xiao merely cultivated for approximately thirty years or so! Given the same amount of time, to what extent could Huwang Xiao’s power grow?!

  At the time Chan Yu received this information, even he, someone who never uttered an uncouth word couldn’t help spitting out, “I’ll be damned, what kind of freak is he?!”

  This freak monster’s mother also had to be a horrifying lady to actually give birth to such a super freaky unrivaled monster!

  The Black Warrior Institute Principal took a deep breath to calm himself, recovering from his shock. Even so, the glimmering light in his eyes belied the excitement in his heart.

  At first, he still had some nagging doubt, but now, he absolutely had to receive Huwang Xiao as his disciple! A personal disciple! Whatever the price!

  Afterwards, the Black Warrior Institute Principal Feng Yang asked a few more questions related to Huwang Xiao, but… the more he asked, the more stunned he became.

  Grand Elder Chan Yu conducted a detailed investigation on Huwang Xiao, ranging from the time Huwang Xiao started cultivating to how much time he took to step into Saint realm, how long Huwang Xiao spent to advance from Saint realm to high-level Saint realm, etc.

  The more Institute Principal Feng Yang heard, the more engrossed he became, it was at this time that a disciple came knocking to report that Grand Elder Bao Xinrui had brought Huwang Xiao over and were both waiting in the outer hall.

  Only then did Feng Yang curb his questions, hurrying the disciple to bring Grand Elder Bao Xinrui and Huwang Xiao in.

  Huwang Xiao respectfully walked behind Bao Xinrui into the main hall. Inside, sitting in the head seat was a middle-aged man in a golden brocade robe, with fair skin and eyes profound like the galaxy, a deep vast aura could be felt from his person. This man was likely the Black Warrior Institute’s Principal. And beside the Institute Principal stood a black-haired elder, perhaps a certain Grand Elder of the institute.

  But Huwang Xiao keenly sensed the moment he stepped into the main hall that the way the Institute Principal and the Grand Elder looked at him seemed a little… strange. Similar to how Elder Zhang Tianchuan stared at him in the Hall of Heroes square, it truly made him uncomfortable.

  “Greetings, Principal.” Entering the main hall, Bao Xinrui saluted to the middle-aged man.

  Huwang Xiao also hurried to perform a respectful salute.

  The Black Warrior Institute Principal Feng Yang excused both people’s greetings. He rose from his seat and approached Huwang Xiao with a radiant smile, “You’re Huwang Xiao?”

  The smile sent Huwang Xiao into a momentary daze before he replied, “Yes, Institute Principal.”

  “Are you willing to worship me as your Master?” came Institute Principal Feng Yang’s thunderclap question.

  The spacious main hall went strangely quiet of all a sudden.

  Grand Elder Bao Xinrui was dumbfounded on the spot, Huwang Xiao fared no better: This… this was too direct!

  Only Grand Elder Chan Yu standing at the side did not feel surprised.

  “You, are unwilling?” Failing to hear Huwang Xiao’s answer after waiting for some time, Institute Principal Feng Yang became slightly anxious, half probing for an answer.

  “No, Institute Principal, this, I…” This was so unexpected that Huwang Xiao didn't know how to answer.

  In fact, on the way here, Huwang Xiao had thought of this possibility, but when the Black Warrior Institute Principal Feng Yang broached the subject of receiving him as a disciple in such direct manner, it still felt too sudden.

  Then, Institute Principal broke out in laughter, “There are a lot of benefits being my disciple, for example; you get one hundred saint grade spirit stones as allowance, one hundred Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellets, and moreover, you can look at all the rare and precious techniques inside the Black Warrior Treasury at any time. If you have any cultivation problems, you can come ask me any time.”

  Institute Principal Feng Yang listed a number of benefits that made the Grand Elder dumbstruck at the side as he listened. Why did it feel like the Principal was afraid that Huwang Xiao might refuse him?! That he was using these benefits to bait Huwang Xiao?!

  Were his eyes deceiving him?

  Hearing the things coming out from the Institute Principal’s mouth, Huwang Xiao felt a tad speechless, but he took a deep breath, and performed a respectful bow toward Feng Yang, saying: “Disciple Huwang Xiao greets Master!”

  Huwang Xiao had given the matter a great deal of thought before arriving, there were only benefits to worshipping the Black Warrior Institute Principal as his Master.

  First of all, it was the cultivation resources. Just like what the Institute Principal said, every month he would receive one hundred saint grade spirit stones, one hundred Black Warrior Greater Strength Pellets, and the most tempting of all were the techniques inside the institute’s treasury that were open to his perusal!

  This was a resource that no other Black Warrior Institute disciple could enjoy, not even if one climbed all the way to the status of an elite disciple.

  Huwang Xiao was aware that only the Grand Elders, Vice-Principal, and the Institute Principal had the authority to enter the institute’s treasury as they wished. All these benefits were good, but the most important of all was the identity of the Black Warrior Institute Principal’s personal disciple. An identity that would conveniently make things easier for Huwang Xiao when moving around in the Black Tortoise Galaxy.

  ly in the Hall of Heroes square, he gravely wounded Wang Biaoyuan, and Wang Biaoyuan was a top talent that the Wang Family cultivated. In the coming days, the Wang Family would definitely find ways to settle this score, but with the identity of the Black Warrior Institute Principal’s personal disciple, the Wang Family could only swallow this loss.

  In this assessment, Huwang Xiao
had shown great promising talent, he believed there would definitely be big families or super forces that would like to kill him in the cradle. Thus, he had to borrow the Institute Principal’s reputation to shield him.

  Not to mention, the Star Sword Sect and the Ying Family that he was worried about in the past were no longer an issue.

  When Institute Principal Feng Yang saw that Huwang Xiao was willing to worship him as Master, he laughed heartily in happiness. He stepped forward, pulling Huwang Xiao up, “Excellent, excellent!” His laughter shook the hall.

  Both Grand Elder Chan Yu and Bao Xinrui cupped their hands, congratulating Principal Feng Yang: “Congratulations Principal for receiving an outstanding disciple!” Both elderly were sincerely happy that the Principal was able to receive Huwang Xiao as his personal disciple.

  With Huwang Xiao’s talent, it wasn’t hard to imagine that in a few thousand years’ time there would be an additional Highgod Realm master to Black Warrior Institute’s name. What made Huwang Xiao even rarer was the fact that he did not belong to any super forces in the Black Tortoise Galaxy. Such talent, such clean background was undeniably many times more ideal than Gudu Leng.

  Feng Yang couldn't stop smiling looking at Huwang Xiao, “You’re the fourth disciple Master has received. Master doesn’t have many good things, so Master will give you this Mulberry Sword[1] as an apprenticeship present.” With that said, he took out a wooden sword and gave it to Huwang Xiao.

  The wooden sword was neither long nor short, it was no different from an ordinary wooden sword appearance-wise but Huwang Xiao knew that this wooden sword was anything but.

  Watching this on the side, both Grand Elder Chan Yu and Bao Xinrui were stunned by the fact that the Principal was willing to part with the wooden sword, gifting it to Huwang Xiao. This was the Principal’s most treasured sword, he kept it by his side at all times for the last ten thousand years, maybe even longer. He was reluctant to give it to his eldest disciple, so neither of them expected the Principal to give it to his newly received fourth disciple, Huwang Xiao.