Asura Sovereign IX

by Shian Jeen

  Wasn’t this Asura Techniques breaking the natural order of things, to be able to connect Hell with an inferior world surface?!

  Was there such a perverse cultivation technique in this universe? Probably, even the Divine World had never heard of a technique of this nature.

  One had to be aware, crossing over between a substandard and higher world surface was equivalent to breaking the law of the universe.

  It took quite some time before Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi recovered from his shock, his spiritual sense probed the Gate of Hell that Huwang Xiao summoned. As an afterthought, he said, “Hell is a higher plane, its natural laws are way more profound and vast compared to our inferior world, and it's bound by much stronger gravity. Entering at your current cultivation, it might be hard for you to adapt. You need to pay attention to it.”

  Huwang Xiao was dazed for a second, he had not given any thoughts to all these things.

  Subsequently, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi brought up many other possible issues that Huwang Xiao may encounter upon venturing into Hell. Although Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi experienced never been to Hell, he used to be a Highgod Realm master more than a hundred thousand years ago, his scope of knowledge far exceeded Huwang Xiao’s.

  Huwang Xiao listened attentively, committing everything to memory.

  One hour later, his silhouette flickered through the gateway.

  The moment he passed through the gateway, an extreme frigid Yin energy enveloped him, the piercing cold could be felt deep into the bones.

  Alarmed, Huwang Xiao swiftly circulated his battle qi, shrouding his body. Only then did he feel better.

  Huwang Xiao felt like he previously crossed fifty to sixty thousand li through the dark space tunnel before he suddenly felt lighter. The scene in front of him changed as he stepped into an endless bleak world.

  This world was barren, desolate, gloomy, and cold like all life was sucked out of it.

  Before Huwang Xiao could register his surroundings, an overwhelming pressure rushed toward him from all directions. To Huwang Xiao, it was like having an insurmountable great mountain fall down on his back, so heavy that he couldn’t even stand up straight. Both of his feet were weighted down like they were shackled with a million catties of weight, even lifting a foot was difficult. On top of that, Huwang Xiao discovered that he could hardly breathe properly.

  These feelings resembled a mortal being thrown in to the deep seabed.

  ‘This!’ Huwang Xiao was astounded. Despite the fact that Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi got reminded him earlier that the gravity force was greater than the substandard world surface these were on, this pressure much exceeded Huwang Xiao’s estimation. It was more than ten thousand times more powerful than the Black Tortoise Galaxy.

  For if it was only ten thousand times, based on Huwang Xiao’s current strength at peak late-First Order God Realm, he wouldn’t be rendered to this state, failing to stand up straight. Hence, he had no other option but to exert full effort to circulate his fight qi to form a protective vigor barrier to resist the pressure.

  Once he was enshrouded within the protective vigor better, Huwang Xiao thought better and relaxed slightly, finally being able to operate right. His eyes surveyed the surroundings, but only sand and boulders entered his sight, gusts of black wind emitting chilling air howled endlessly in the air.

  These dark gales were a hundred times colder than the Dark Tortoise Galaxy’s frost tempest. If Huwang Xiao hadn’t broken through to God World, if he did not have the True Dragon Physique, one brush of the black gale would instantly turn him into an ice statue.

  Although Huwang Xiao had stepped into the God Realm and possessed the real Dragon Physique, looking at this dark wind blowing past, he still felt chilly air drilling into his flesh.

  “So, this is Hell?” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s curious voice sounded before it turned into a lament, “A higher world surface is truly different, the religious energy is so dense, and such high quality!”

  Huwang Xiao nodded. He felt it too, the spiritual energy in Hell was much purer and denser than he could describe in comparison to the Black Tortoise Galaxy. Even the religious energy in his Master’s manor seemed lacking in comparison, in both density and quality. If the spiritual energy in the Dark Tortoise Galaxy was of second grade, then Hell’s religious energy was definitely divine quality.

  In short, the Black Tortoise Galaxy was second-rate.

  “This is probably one of the smaller surfaces in Hell.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi mentioned his opinion.

  Hell’s most powerful forces were the Asura Plane, Ghost Aircraft, and Souls Airplane. Other than these three planes, there were other planes. Just like the Vientiane Divine Surface that governed the Dark Tortoise Galaxy, it was just another surface in the higher Divine World.

  Hell and the Divine World were similar in terms of their boundless horizons.

  Huwang Xiao spread out his spiritual sense only to discover that his religious sense was met with strong resistance, limiting him to a radius of thirty li. In the Black Tortoise Galaxy, his spiritual sense could extend greater than a hundred thousand li in radius.

  Then Huwang Xiao tried to fly up and take a lot around. To his dismay, however, he was unable to fly, his ability to move in the air was lost.

  ‘This..?’ His eye widened in disbelief.

  “Hehe, dumbfounded right?” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi laughed wickedly, “Didn’t I tell you? Hell is an increased world surface, its laws and regulations are more profound than the world surfaces below. Restrained by the natural laws here, my guess is that you need to be at least a Highgod World to have the ability to reluctantly fly.”

  “Highgod Realm masters can only reluctantly travel?!” Huwang Xiao was stunned.

  “That’s right. You’re a peak late-First Order God World comparable to an average Third Order God Realm. In the galaxies below, you can be considered an elite existence, but here, in a higher world surface, you’re no different than a Houtian warrior from the galaxies below.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi drew a clear picture for Huwang Xiao.

  A Houtian warrior! Not even a Xiantian realm expert’s level!

  This damage was a little too big.

  Then again, so what if he was a mere Houtian? Determination shone in Huwang Xiao’s eyes. When he was reborn in the Martial Spirit World, didn’t he also start from the Houtian level? Cultivating step by step to the top?

  Even if he were to reach an increased world surface like Hell in the future, Huwang Xiao strongly believed he’d be able to climb up to the very best, becoming a powerful existence.

  He inhaled deeply. Now, however, since he couldn’t take flight, there was only the most primitive method-walking. Huwang Xiao lifted his foot and took a step forward.

  Displaying a movement skill, Huwang Xiao’s speed wasn’t terribly slow, crossing almost 100 li one hour later.

  Still, one hundred li away from the starting point, the scenery didn't change. Huwang Xiao was still surrounded by fine sand and dust, and nothing else. The whole way, he didn’t even come across a plant, not to mention another person.

  “We’re probably in a desert area. At your speed, we may not even get out of this desert in half a year’s time.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi said, “Forget about others, the purpose you come here for is to borrow the religious energy in Hell to cultivate. Cultivating here for a day is more beneficial than cultivating a year in the Dark Tortoise Galaxy!”

  Huwang Xiao reluctantly nodded.

  At the moment, he needed to put up a protective vigor barrier to protect himself from the pressure coming at him from all around, rapidly depleting his battle qi. Base on his current power, he could stay here for three hours at most and would need to return to the Black Tortoise Galaxy when the time was up. Thus, every minute and every second was extremely precious to Huwang Xiao.

  Having decided what to do, Huwang Xiao laid out a simple protection array around him, sitting down at the center, and began running the Asura Tactics, absorbing Hell’s s
piritual energy.

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  As Huwang Xiao began to circulate the Asura Strategies, spiritual energy in the proximity rushed toward him at rapid velocity. His body quivered from head to toe as the first strand of religious energy drilled into his body, but quickly calmed down.

  After the first cycle of absorbing and refining, excitement spread through Huwang Xiao. This spiritual energy in Hell was even purer than he previously imagined, it could be said that the religious energy he was absorbing now brought even better result than the Grandmist Desire Golden Pills. Moreover, he noticed that the spiritual energy here was actually beneficial in tempering his True Dragon Entire body.

  The Treasure Dragon Protective Shield Art diagram formation greedily absorbed this higher world surface spiritual energy, then transferred it to Huwang Xiao. At the same time, his internal organs became increasingly stronger.

  Two hours passed.

  Huwang Xiao stopped operating his cultivation technique and stood up. The result of cultivating here for two hours surpassed his usual one month work back in the Dark Tortoise Galaxy.

  When his consciousness submerged into his body, he ‘saw’ that after absorbing the high grade spiritual energy there have been some changes to his dantian and the Asura Godforce in his Qi Sea. Despite being minuscule, Huwang Xiao still noticed it. If he could cultivate in such environment for an extensive period of time, his Asura Godforce could definitely evolve.

  Huwang Xiao took a deep breath as he was feeling an increase in the whelming pressure coming from all directions. Summoning the gateway quickly, he flew through the passage, returning to the Black Tortoise Galaxy.

  Back in the Dark Tortoise Galaxy, Huwang Xiao was overcome with exhaustion, like he was about to collapse in an instant. He quickly sat down in a meditative pose, swallowed a healing pellet and initiated his Instant Recovery capability to replenish his depleted battle qi.

  This mediation took him a full day and night before he felt his Godforce go back to peak condition. Huwang Xiao was surprised. In the past, even after a desperate battle with others where he overdrew all his fight qi, once he employed the Instant Recovery martial spirit ability, it required less than one hour to return to his maximum form. But this time, it actually required him a complete night and day!

  However, that did not prevent Huwang Xiao from summoning the Gate of Hell again the moment he recovered, running over to the other side. Once again he fell onto an limitless stretch of sand. Looking around, Huwang Xiao determined it was the same location where he cultivated previously.

  Arriving, Huwang Xiao didn't start cultivating immediately, but traveled forward for one hour before stopping to cultivate.

  Two hours later, he returned to the Black Tortoise Galaxy.

  The process repeated, turning into a routine.

  One month later.

  In the entire month, every time Huwang Xiao crossed to cultivate in Hell, he would only return to the Black Tortoise Galaxy when his battle qi was exhausted to recuperate, and then went back again to cultivate.

  In the course of repeated crossings in that one month period, Huwang Xiao realized one phenomenon: the place where he appeared next would always be the last location he was in before he left. What frustrated Huwang Xiao was the fact that he was still stuck in the desert even after a month. Perhaps, like what Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi said, relying on his current rate, even if he traveled nonstop for half a year, he still wouldn't have the ability to leave this barren desert.

  Thus, other than dry fine sand dunes, Huwang Xiao did not come across any other living things in Hell. Not even a plant.

  He was vexed.

  “In fact, this might not be a bad thing.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi spoke, “At your present strength, it would be extremely dangerous if you ran into any of Hell’s living beings.”

  Huwang Xiao nodded silently, he was well aware of this fact. Although he had never seen another living being in Hell, it was not hard to guess that Saint world and God Realm were the weakest existences.

  After that time, Huwang Xiao no longer tried to leave the desert, focusing on absorbing the high quality spiritual energy and cultivating.

  In the blink of an eye, five months were gone.

  And these five months of cultivation, the result was better than what Huwang Xiao had estimated. These five weeks of cultivation in Hell were even more beneficial than him cultivating in the Dark Tortoise Galaxy for a decade or more, consuming an infinite supply of Grandmist Desire Golden Pills! After five a few months, just a day before the outer disciples’ assessment, Huwang Xiao finally advanced to Second Order God World!

  That’s right, Second Order God Realm!

  Honestly, Huwang Xiao acquired little to no chance of advancing to Second Order God Realm prior to the outer disciple assessment, but the benefits of cultivating in Hell’s high quality spiritual energy environment were higher than he thought.

  Watching Huwang Xiao advancing to Second Order God Realm, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi couldn’t withstand sighing dramatically, emphasizing the actual fact that Huwang Xiao was a freak more than 10 times. Then his tone grew serious, “Tomorrow’s the external disciples assessment. If Gudu Leng, Wang Biaoyuan, and those brats knew that you’re already a Second Order God Realm, they’d probably be scared to silly on the spot.”

  Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s words weren’t exactly an exaggeration. Although the assessment had yet to begin, he could already imagine the picture and the expressions on Gudu Leng, Wang Biaoyuan, the other disciples, and especially the Black Warrior Institute Principal Feng Yang when they realized that Huwang Xiao experienced reached Second Order God World.

  One must remember, three years ago when Huwang Xiao passed the new disciple evaluation, he was merely a half-step God Realm, not even a maximum half-step God World. Yet, 3 years later, he soared to Second Order God Realm!

  Half-step God World, top half-step God Realm, early First Order God World, peak early First Order God Realm, mid-First Order, maximum mid-First Order, late-First Order, top late-First Order, and then one reached Second Order God World!

  Even genius disciples belonging to other super forces could hardly bulldoze from half-step God Realm to Second Order God Realm given three hundred years’ time!

  Huwang Xiao chuckled listening to Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s act of woeful sighs. Following his current cultivation acceleration, in another three years he could advance to Third Order God Realm!

  Within ten years, he could definitely break to Fourth Order God World!

  Upon breaking through to Fourth Order God Realm, one was considered a mid-level God World that had crossed over an important dividing line. There were cultivators that were trapped at this point their whole life, struggling to break through the hurdle to mid-level God Realm. At that time, Huwang Xiao’s status and identity in the whole Black Tortoise Galaxy would be elevated to another prestige. A mid-level God World master, anywhere they went, super forces and families included, would easily receive treatment equal to an Elder.

  …

  Huwang Xiao exited from the Xumi Temple.

  Just as Huwang Xiao walked out from his yard, he ran into eldest Senior Apprentice-brother Liu Yun, who came specifically to look for him.

  “Fourth Junior-Apprentice brother, you finally came out.” Seeing Huwang Xiao exited his closed-door practice, Liu Yun’s face showed a hint of joy when he smiled, “ Tomorrow’s the outer disciple assessment, if you still didn't come out today, I’m afraid our venerable Master was going to drag you out himself.”

  Huwang Xiao scratched his head sheepishly, chuckling a little to hide his embarrassment.

  “I know you like wine, so today I brought some good wine over. Come, let us brothers have a good drink.” Senior Apprentice -sibling Liu Yun got a step and pulled Huwang Xiao to the garden at the back, opening a jug of wines and drinking with Huwang Xiao.

  “I got news that both Gudu Leng and Wang Biaoyuan broke to Second Order God Realm. Most importantly, it seems like Wan
g Biaoyuan has reached mid-Second Order God World.” Senior Apprentice-brother Liu Yun added as he observed Huwang Xiao carefully, “He has let the word out that he will defeat you on the evaluation stage tomorrow. Junior Apprentice-brother, you must be careful.”

  Huwang Xiao was moved by the concern in his Senior Apprentice-brother Liu Yun’s eye. He smiled reassuringly at Liu Yun saying, “Senior Apprentice-brother can rest assured, it won’t be easy for Gudu Leng, Wang Biaoyuan, or anyone else who wants to beat me tomorrow.”

  Mid-Second Order God Realm? Even if they were a mid-Third Order God World, he previously the confidence to leave the opponent with half a life in just one punch.

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  Looking at Huwang Xiao’s confident expression, Liu Yun added an afterthought, “After improving to mid-Second Order God Realm, Wang Biaoyuan’s Indestructible Vajra Physique is at least ten times stronger than it was 3 years ago.”

  Due to Huwang Xiao converging his aura, not Liu Yun was able to see through his real cultivation. Therefore, despite knowing that Huwang Xiao got amazing talent, he didn't hold much self-confidence in Huwang Xiao defeating Wang Biaoyuan tomorrow.

  In fact, not only Liu Yun, the whole of Dark Warrior Institute’s disciples, not a single person believed that Huwang Xiao would be able to snatch the top spot this time. Nine-tenths of Black Warrior Institute’s disciples were trading words back and forth, and most agreed that the external disciple assessment’s first place holder this time around would be either Gudu Leng or Wang Biaoyuan.

  To this point, Liu Yun continued, “Furthermore, not only has Gudu Leng advanced to Second Order God Realm, I heard he has cultivated the Gudu Family’s supreme key technique to the hundredth layer-reborn state, possessing regeneration power! His strength is probably more frightening than that Wang Biaoyuan’s!”

  Huwang Xiao nodded. During the time of his closed-door practice, he had asked Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi about the Gudu Family’s Solitary God's Infinitude, thus he was alert to this technique formidable powers. Despite realizing that Gudu Leng acquired successfully practiced the Solitary God's Infinitude to the hundredth layer, Huwang Xiao didn't place the matter in his heart.