by Shian Jeen
The Asuras in Hell were born for war and battle. The thirst for bloodstream was a natural part of their primary, hence, the fierce murderous energy encircling it was part of its being, not solely directed at Huwang Xiao.
Despite the fact that the Asura was chained and sealed to the altar using mysterious talisman icons by his Master Ren Wokuang, the brutal and murderous aura it exuded still awed Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao scanned around the altar. His view finally fell on the altar’s still left part where a line of minuscule ancient characters was inscribed. Using the first glance, Huwang Xiao acquired already determined that line of text was left out by his Expert, Ren Wokuang. The text mentioned that if he could refine the Hell Asura, thereby possessing the Hell Asura’s bloodline, his practice of the Asura Strategies would enhance by leaps and bounds with only half your time and effort, progressing at unimaginable velocity.
The message also explained the technique of refining the Asura Bloodline, as well as the way to seal an Asura.
Reading carefully from beginning to end, Huwang Xiao’s gaze once more considered the chained Asura; with a soft tap of his foot, he leaped up onto the altar.
Watching as Huwang Xiao approached, deep growls sounded continuously from its throat, its legs and arms struggled under the sealing chains noisily. However, Huwang Xiao noticed that the more the Asura struggled, the greater the chains tightened around it.
Huwang Xiao relaxed a bit more after seeing this. He then ran the Asura Methods based on the method stated by Ren Wokuang on the altar. Ten fingertips bent into claws that pierced in to the Asura’s chest, driving straight to the heart. A robust suction force came from Huwang Xiao’s hand and he watched as strands of dark red mist-like energy molded into a pillar and flew towards him.
Huwang Xiao quickly sat down in a meditative pose, absorbing all the deep red energy into his body, slowly refining it, guiding it into his bloodstream.
The Asura’s struggles grew ever more zealous, furious growls echoed in the hall as the brutal aura it emitted intensified.
Time trickled by and half of a day passed.
Gradually, the Asura’s struggles weakened and stopped, its body gradually drying up. At that moment, Huwang Xiao’s body was enshrouded in a dark red mist while meditating on the altar. His body started to exude the same brutal, murderous aura, similar to the Asura. The vague ethereal aura began to condense, becoming denser around Huwang Xiao.
Daylight slowly receded.
Every once in awhile, scales like the Asura would appear on Huwang Xiao’s body, and even two short horns vaguely manifested on his forehead.
Three had times passed in the same manner when Huwang Xiao abruptly opened his eye. In the depths of his eyes, vigorous Asura qi surged and rumbled, comparable to an furious sea; the dark red energy mist shrouding his body was sucked into his body all at one time until nothing was left.
Huwang Xiao got to his feet moments later.
To his delight, refining the Asura bloodline not only made the Asura qi inside his body become more pure, it even allowed him to advance to mid-Fourth Order Saint realm.
“This is...?!” While Huwang Xiao was caught in his pleasure, he suddenly noticed something else and was stunned when he captured sight of the Asura scale shield on his body. His hands quickly reached up to touch his forehead and was shocked to discover that two brief horns were protruding out!
His Master didn't mention that his outer appearance would resemble an Asura after he refined the Asura bloodline according to the methods left on the altar.
‘What do I do now?! Please don’t tell me that I will have to keep this hellish Asura appearance permanently!’
Judging from a human’s aesthetic point of view, the features of an Asura were too hideous to describe, a monster that was neither mammal nor reptile!
What to do?! Huwang Xiao attempted everything he could think of, looking to revert his looks back again to his original form. After several hours that felt like an eternity, he finally found ways to manipulate his Asura-like appearance.
His outward physical appearance of an Asura was due to the Asura bloodline inside Huwang Xiao’s blood, thus he merely needed to suppress the Asura bloodline in his bloodstream. Moreover, suppressing the Asura bloodline didn't affect his Asura Tactics cultivation, allowing him to continue enjoying the benefits of the bloodline at exactly the same time.
Equivalently, if he wished to change to the Asura appearance, all he had a need to do was release the suppression on his bloodline.
Finding the solution to his unexpected ‘new look’, Huwang Xiao heaved in great relief. The chained Asura that was processed by him had lost all vitality and fact, leaving a dried corpse on the altar.
“Refining one Asura could improve my Asura Tactics cultivation speed. I wonder, if I refined more of them, could it further expedite my progress? ” Huwang Xiao toyed with the idea.
If that was the case, he had to find an opportunity later to go to Hell’s Asura Plane.
An Asura’s bloodline contained an innate Asura qi, so refining the Asura bloodline would help Huwang Xiao’s future breakthroughs in the Asura Techniques, this was more effective than swallowing a hundred Divine Dragon Pellets.
Hell consisted of 3 planes-the Asura Airplane, the Ghost Plane, and Souls Aircraft.
However, all three of them were higher planes. If Huwang Xiao wanted to head to the Asura Airplane, he previously to at least break through to God World, because only after breaking into God Realm would one have the ability to pass through space and time.
Nevertheless, if Huwang Xiao were able to practice the Asura Strategies before tenth stage, he could open up a door to Hell that could connect him right to the Asura Plane. The tenth stage seemed far and unattainable, otherwise his Get better at wouldn’t have been stuck at the ninth stage.
Huwang Xiao drawn himself out from his musings and appeared round the treasure trove. Actually, the treasure trove was only so big, just the altar experienced taken close to fifty percent of the entire space, with the rest of the hall being separated into a few rooms.
Huwang Xiao leaped off the altar, landing right in front of the first room. Bloodstream red crystal ores were piled to the ceiling in the first room. Appearance wise, they resembled the Dragon Blood Crystals that Huwang Xiao got, but these crystal ores glowed a deeper and more sinister blood red.
The type of crystal ores were these? Huwang Xiao wastonished, for he felt that those red crystals included an energy that exceeded the Dragon Bloodstream Crystals! It was even purer! The energy inside emitted a faint Hellish aura, that was greatly good for Huwang Xiao’s Asura Methods cultivation.
“Hell Royal Blood Stone!” Huwang Xiao noticed several small characters on the wall structure. Again, it was his Get good at Ren Wokuang’s inscription.
Huwang Xiao’s eye widened further; these were high grade energy stones used in Hell?
Hell was a higher plane. Even the cheapest quality of energy stones condensed from that kind of rich environment, in a lower bound world like Martial Soul World, were treasures that could toss the world into a storm.
A feverish look emerged in Huwang Xiao’s eyes. With these Hell Royal Bloodstream Stones together with his Asura bloodline, he believed that his Asura Tactics can break through without bottlenecks.
Huwang Xiao transferred all the Hell Royal Blood Stones into the Asura Band and then shifted to all of those other rooms. In these rooms were some spirit pellets, rare elixirs, plus some fight skills and cultivation techniques from other sects that his Professional Ren Wokuang acquired collected over time. From the lowest grade to Heaven quality, there have been at least a thousand of them!
Still, both things weighing greatly on Huwang Xiao now were the Dragon God Grass and Shi Xiaofei’s protection. These various battle skills and cultivation techniques from different sources had to wait until he came back.
Huwang Xiao flew out from the Asura’s Gate treasure trove and closed the heavy doors again. He dallied n
o further, departing the Heavenly Sky Phoenix Hill and heading in the direction of the Treasure Oblast.
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Huwang Xiao flew at breakneck rate the whole way without stopping for rest.
On the way to the Treasure Oblast, Huwang Xiao’s brain wandered. No doubt, those Hell Royal Bloodstream Stones were items his Master collected from Hell, which further reinforced his strong hunch that his Grasp have been to Hell more than once!
This took place while his Master’s Asura Tactics had yet to attain the tenth stage. What did that mean? His Expert Ren Wokuang experienced stepped in to the legendary God World!
A God Realm expert! Then his Get better at must be alive!
It was only that he might not be in the Martial Spirit World anymore, perhaps he had crossed to Hell or other worlds near to the Martial Nature World, such as the Peace Emperor World, Jade Sword World, or Infinite God World!
It also occurred to Huwang Xiao that if his Get good at could break into God Realm, then, as the number one strongest person on Starcloud Continent, the Cosmos God Cult’s Leader was most likely a God World get better at too.
Although Huwang Xiao was a mid-Fourth Order Saint realm, a God Realm get good at still remained an increased existence that he could only look up to.
In the Grand Martial Exchange thirteen years later, even if they changed the rules permitting outside support, like the Poison Corpse Scarabs, Huwang Xiao would most assuredly finish up dead in the hands of the Cosmos God Cult Leader’s hands!
Even if he managed to break to Tenth Order Saint realm by then, the Cosmos God Cult Leader could squash him as an insignificant insect! Unless he somehow reached late-Tenth Order Saint world, or peak late-Tenth Order Saint realm.
God World! An existence that rivaled God! A light gleamed in Huwang Xiao’s eye.
He had to practice harder and make an effort to improve his strength! Regardless, he must first break through to Tenth Order Saint world to have any chance.
When night descended, Huwang Xiao made a decision to rest in a rocky mountain area. He found a hidden cave and came into it, then he had taken out a Hell Royal Blood Rock. Running the Asura Techniques, he started to refine the underworld energy contained inside the red glowing stone.
Its effect hit Huwang Xiao almost instantly, akin to a beast in slumber being awakened. Boiling bloodstream scorched his veins, rumbling incessantly!
Huwang Xiao’s body shook as though he was burning up in a sea of heavenly flames, unbearable pain invaded all of his body.
For another, Huwang Xiao thought that he previously converted into gray ash. The incredible energy from the Hell Royal Bloodstream Stone ran rampant like unbridled waves, comparable to the vast power of the celebrities in space, hurrying into his body, crashing everything in its the path.
Huwang Xiao quickly willed himself to remain conscious, enduring the excruciating pain over and over as he did his best to refine this underworld energy.
Blood-colored fog began to fill the cave, weaving in the air.
The night passed.
In the midst of it, a blood-colored beam shot out from Huwang Xiao’s body, piercing sky high. A noisy blast ensued as the cave collapsed because of the sudden outburst of blood-colored shine from Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao’s figure emerged in midair, a deep red glow spiraled around his body as he stood in the air, resembling an Asura Ruler from Hell, peering at the crumbling hill peak below.
‘With the Asura bloodline, practicing the Asura Tactics is indeed much faster! ’ Huwang Xiao was pleasantly surprised. The result of one evening’s practice was much like a complete month’s practice before. According to the acceleration, his Asura Strategies could advance to the sixth stage soon.
Huwang Xiao pointed out that after refining a piece of Hell Royal Blood Rock, the Asura qi inside him became purer; the purer his Asura qi was, the more potent his capabilities would be.
A short while later, Huwang Xiao’s silhouette disappeared from the rocky mountains, speedily making his way to the Treasure Oblast. Huwang Xiao’s days continued in this matter, traveling during daytime and training during the night.
As Huwang Xiao’s Asura Methods continued to progress, it was the same with his Body Metamorphose Scripture. Although his Body Metamorphose Scripture got reached the perfection state, the true essence energy in his dantian could progress endlessly.
As days went by, Huwang Xiao’s Godly Xumi Art was improving every day.The current Huwang Xiao could form over eight hundred arms when displaying the Godly Xumi Art. Taking into consideration the most average fight skills, once carried out simultaneously using over eight hundred hands, the harmful power could probably flip the heavens over.
However, these eight hundred hands still hovered in their intangible form, and acquired yet to condensed into real entities. Once they did, nobody in Martial Heart World would be able to withstand a single attack from Huwang Xiao.
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Six times later, Huwang Xiao stood on the mountain maximum, peering down on a magnificent city built on wide plains that spanned thousands of miles in all directions.
‘Up ahead is the Enigma Oblast, and somewhat further up would be the Treasure Oblast.’ Huwang Xiao muttered to himself, leaping down from the top to the Enigma Oblast’s direction.
The Enigma City was the biggest city inside the Enigma Oblast, and also one of the most important cities marking the territorial influence between Asura’s Gate and Cosmos God Cult.
Huwang Xiao decided to stay two nights in Enigma City, since Treasure Oblast was only a stone’s throw away, there is no hurry.
Having no deep understanding of the current situation inside the Cherish Oblast, Huwang Xiao wished to inquire some information about it from the Enigma Oblast’s Domain Leader. Other than that, this is Huwang Xiao’s first-time visiting a city under Asura’s Gate governance, so he wanted to use this chance to understand the general situation of these cities.
Huwang Xiao strode up to the city gates leading to Enigma City, blending in with the crowd of various pedestrians which were heading into the city.
The Enigma City was just as bustling and prosperous as South Oblast City, the first city that Huwang Xiao experienced when he first arrived on Starcloud Continent. It was filled up with horses and carriages that stretched such as a dragon’s body and a lively atmosphere, with occupied stores lining both edges of the streets.
Watching the booming condition and the flurry of activity around him, a sense of pride surfaced in Huwang Xiao’s heart; this was a city in his territory. As the Asura’s Gate Sovereign, he was essentially an Emperor here in the Enigma City.
Back on Earth, Huwang Xiao never imagined that one day he'd be controlling a few thousand towns like an Emperor of ancient times.
Huwang Xiao was in no rush to reach the Enigma City’s Castellan Manor, his ft implemented where his center felt like heading. However, as Huwang Xiao strolled along the roads, he noted that there were quite a lot of individuals donning the Cosmos God Cult’s disciple robe, all bearing arrogance in their expressions and acting uppity almost everywhere they proceeded to go, as if these Cosmos God Cult disciples were the true owners of the Enigma City.
Another thing that Huwang Xiao observed was, whenever there were both Cosmos God Cult disciples and Asura’s Gate disciples passing on a single street, the Asura’s Gate disciples would try to avoid the former from far away, some even with apprehension in their eyes when they saw any Cosmos God Cult disciples.
This made Huwang Xiao frown. All of a sudden, a commotion up ahead caught Huwang Xiao’s attention.
“Let’s go watch, there’s a good show! I heard that some Cosmos God Cult disciples fancy the Auspicious Scepter Restaurant owner’s daughter, Yang Le’er, forcing her to accompany them drinking and even fondling Yang Le’er chest. I don’t know from where, but an Asura’s Gate disciple that isn’t afraid of death jumped out, wanting to enact a ‘hero saving the beauty’ heroic deed! Now, he’s beaten to a pulp, looking like
a pig!”
“Those breasts of Yang Le’er definitely feel very good, did that Cosmos God Cult disciple have the ability to succeed?”
“Come, let us go look!”
Several people in front talked excitedly, nearly bursting with glee.
A cold light glinted in Huwang Xiao’s eyes listening in on their conversation, and he followed the band of several men toward the Auspicious Scepter Restaurant.
They arrived quickly, for it wasn’t far.
Upon arrival, he found that quite a big masses had gathered across the restaurant, all bearing a look of anticipation on the faces, fingers pointing up and down.
Huwang Xiao made his way in, the group only felt an invisible power pushing them away to create a path.
Inside the restaurant, six Cosmos God Cult disciples were sitting down around a table with smug faces. Before them, lying face down on the floor, was an Asura’s Gate disciple that was swollen and bruised around. Bloodstream caked on his face and mouth. Obviously, he suffered a cruel beating.
A Cosmos God Cult disciple named Liu Guowei gloated viewing the Asura’s Gate disciple on to the floor, a chilly snicker sounded, “Want to be the hero saving the beauty? You have no self-knowledge whatsoever! Obediently crawl over here and lick clean your several daddys’ toes, then bark like the mongrel that you will be. When we’re satisfied with your performance, we’ll consider permitting you to go, normally, I’ll cripple your dog legs!”
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The Asura’s Gate disciple, Deng Cong, was glaring at the band of Cosmos God Cult disciples with hatred burning in his eyes, his voice sounded just like a snarl, “Get rid of me if you have the guts, you want me to lick your pet hip and legs clean, I spit on you!” Spit and blood splattered on the several Cosmos God Cult disciples.
Caught off guard for a second, several Cosmos God Cult disciples were stained with bloodstream spit, courtesy of Deng Cong.
The Cosmos God Cult disciple named Liu Guowei jumped to his feet in a fit if anger, “Your mother, you really believe that I dare not take your daily life?! Let me tell you, even easily destroy you right here in this Enigma Oblast, your Enigma Oblast’s Domains Head received’t even have the guts to fart before us!” Liu Guowei’s hand moved, ready to eliminate the Asura’s Gate disciple called Deng Cong with a lethal strike.