Asura Sovereign VII

by Shian Jeen

  Anton’s mouth was agape, his fist froze in the air while the rest of his body stiffened on the spot, staring dumbly at the unlimited line of tumbled trees and shrubs.

  His several hundred comrades’ laughter halted abruptly, stuck in their throats. The only noise around came from the crackle and sizzle of open fire as oil dripped down from the fragrant roast meats.

  Huwang Xiao opened his mouth area, tearing a generous bite of meat, “It does taste good.”

  His voice was just like a string that pulled all the beastmen’s attention back. Gawking at Huwang Xiao, their eyes now held trepidation, reverence, and a hint of worship.

  In comparison to other races, beastmen experienced a fervid reverence toward strength and worshipped the strong.

  Huwang Xiao took another ravenous bite, he wasn’t sure why the practice in the Stellar Thunder Canyon made him crave roast meats as though he hadn’t eaten it for many years.

  “Is your mind harder than these trees?” Huwang Xiao asked.

  Anton’s face turned pasty, dropping to his knees without a second thought, his forehead kissing the forest floor as he kowtowed repeatedly before Huwang Xiao, “Honorable Lord, Anton was rude and has offended you just now, please have mercy on Anton this one time!”

  Anton’s comrades also knelt down, showing proper respect.

  Huwang Xiao took a quick go through the encircling beastmen, “Stand up.” If he really was angered previously, none of these beastmen could have the chance to stand anymore.

  Anton beamed with pleasure, respectfully complying to Huwang Xiao’s words, as did the other beastmen, retreating to stand at the side.

  “Who’s the head?” Huwang Xiao asked.

  At Huwang Xiao’s question, beastmen Amier walked out from the large herd of individuals, stopping not far from Huwang Xiao and introducing himself, “Lord, my name is Amier, the tribe’s small captain.”

  “Sit.” Huwang Xiao pointed to a nearby spot.

  Amier was slightly overwhelmed by Huwang Xiao’s attention. Flustered, he waved and shook his head, “No no, Lord, standing is fine for me.”

  “EASILY say sit, then sit.” Huwang Xiao stated.

  At Huwang Xiao’s domineering attitude, Amier said his thanks and sat down as if there were needles pricking his butt.

  “No need to be so nervous, I just involve some questions.” Huwang Xiao said.

  “Yes, Lord.” Even so, Amier couldn’t stop his body's minute trembling.

  Beastmen were innately born with burly physiques, the shorter beastmen still exceed two meters tall, whereas the taller ones reached two and a half meters.

  Solely based on physical advantage, humans indeed looks weak and puny next to beastmen. Moreover, the overall human race’s strength on the Ten Directions Continent was negligible, thus one could hardly blame the beastmen for looking down on the people.

  However, Huwang Xiao could tell, this herd of beastmen was among the lower rung in beastmen hierarchy.

  Beastmen were made up of many tribes, and the better among them were the Lion Tribe, Tiger Tribe, Wolf Tribe, Snake Tribe, Fox Tribe, Behemoth Tribe, then it was the Cattle Tribe, Violent Horse Tribe, Goat Tribe, and the Hundred Bird Tribe.

  These were the ten most effective beast tribes.

  This group of beastmen in front of him had not been from any of those ten beastmen tribes.

  “The 100 Tiger City is just a little further up?” Huwang Xiao spoke.

  right “That’s, Lord, less than 100 li after crossing the Roaming Souls Grove is the Hundred Tiger City.” Amier respectfully replied.

  Huwang Xiao asked the next question, “Does the 100 Tiger City belong to the Tiger Tribe?”

  Amier answered ‘yes’, the Hundred Tiger City belonged to the Tiger Tribe. The Tiger Tribe got twenty-five cities under their control and this 100 Tiger City was only one of these. However, the Hundred Tiger City was a strategically important city.

  Huwang Xiao nodded.

  The Tiger Tribe was amongst the ten strongest beastmen tribes, their forces couldn’t be underestimated, this point was clear from the twenty-five cities under their control.

  Then, Huwang Xiao asked about the 100 Tiger City’s Castellan and general questions about the Tiger Tribe. In the end, Amier was merely a captain of a lower rank in a small tribe, the things he knew were very limited.

  Talking about the Hundred Tiger City’s Castellan, Amier’s face shone with idolization, “Our Hundred Tiger City Castellan is Lord Goodman, one of the very best ten experts of the Tiger Tribe! I noticed from our Family Head that Lord Goodman can flatten a mountain with a single punch!”

  Flatten a hill with an individual punch.

  Huwang Xiao chuckled in secret, anyone could do this effortlessly once they stepped in to the Saint realm. Additionally, beastmen were known for his or her herculean strength, thus such a feat was not unusual whatsoever.

  After asking everything he wished to know, Huwang Xiao fell into deep contemplation.

  From Amier’s answers, although the beastmen tribes were powerful on the Ten Directions Continent, there were numerous internal struggles. For example, the Lion Tribe and Tiger Tribe were always at war.

  At the same time, from Amier’s words, he once again confirmed that the Beast God was all the beastmen tribes’ sacred faith. Within the beastmen race, whoever dared to desecrate the Beast God, disrespect the Beast God, would be treated as the entire beastmen race’s sinner!

  The legendary Beast God Scepter represented the Beast God.

  For the last ten thousand years, the beastmen tribes believed that whoever got the Beast God Scepter would be the Beast God’s reincarnation, see your face would once more lead the beastmen to conquer the Ten Direction Continent, capturing the glory of the past.

  In that short time, Huwang Xiao reached a decision.

  Because the Beast God Scepter was said to hold such power, passing by the Hundred Tiger City, he wanted to see if the Beast God Scepter really was as honored by the beastmen as they claimed.

  “Lord,” Seeing Huwang Xiao become silent in contemplation, Amier called cautiously, “Are you going to the Hundred Tiger City? Coincidentally, all of us here are from the 100 Tiger City, could we travel with Lord?”

  Inside the Roaming Souls Grove, there was a kind of strange soul beings that had a tendency to devour their prey’s bloodstream and flesh while alive. If they could travel along with an expert like Huwang Xiao, their chances of getting out of the Roaming Souls Grove would increase greatly.

  Huwang Xiao knew what Amier was thinking about in a glimpse, but he still nodded in contract.

  Viewing Huwang Xiao agree to have the band travel with him nearly made him jump with delight. He, Anton, and the others quickly saluted in thanks.

  The night passed peacefully. At daybreak, glorious sunlight started to light up the land.

  However, the Roaming Souls Grove remained frosty and dark.

  The radiant sun couldn’t penetrate into this gloomy and dark piece of land.

  Huwang Xiao stood up, saying: “Let’s move!”

  “Yes, Lord!”

  Huwang Xiao walked at the front of the group as they entered deeper into the Roaming Souls Grove. In truth, the grove had not been big, at most half of a day was enough for the group to cut through.

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  Huwang Xiao and the beastmen had traveled for half an hour in to the unearthly atmosphere of the grove.

  As they reached deeper into the forest grove, the environment grew increasingly colder, with faint echoes of undulating shrill cries of unknown creatures playing with their hearing.

  Although Amier and the large band of beastmen kept close to Huwang Xiao, those eerie cries brought goosebumps to the burly beastmen.

  “Malignant spirits!”

  “Those are malignant spirits!”

  Abruptly, one of the beastmen screamed in fear.

  Everyone quickly looked around and saw several strange animals that were part transparent part opaque shaped
like human being spirit and glowing green eye pounced on their group with bared fangs.

  Just when Amier and the beastmen were going to assault in stress, Huwang Xiao was a step ahead of them; with a simple wave of his wrist, shiny flames flickered past, and in an instant, those ghastly spirits were incinerated into plumes of mist,

  The beastmen were dumbstruck watching this scene.

  Those wandering spirits were hard to kill, having no real body manufactured from flesh and blood, the spirits weren’t afraid of any swords or knives. The Patriarch of their tribe was once besieged by two wandering spirits and a few hours of back-breaking battle ensued before their Patriarch could eliminate those wandering spirits and leave the grove, whereas this young individual expert merely struck out a light hand and several wandering spirits were vanquished!

  “Let’s move on.” Huwang Xiao said and continued moving.

  Amier and the rest hurried after Huwang Xiao.

  A short while later, they ran into another group of wandering spirits, which time Huwang Xiao’s action was even more exaggerated, or lack of action. He didn’t even raise his hand, simply with a single glimpse, those lunging wandering spirits burned in midair, departing a little cluster of mist.

  Half of a day later, when they managed to get from the Roaming Souls Grove, the way Amier and all of those other beastmen viewed Huwang Xiao changed within an earth-shattering manner. If it was awe before, now it was feverish reverence, showing utmost respect toward Huwang Xiao.

  One hour later, the group reached Hundred Tiger City.

  At first glance, the Hundred Tiger City could be described with one term, huge, even rivaling a few of Snow Blowing wind Continent’s imperial towns.

  People, or beastmen to be exact, were seen coming and moving in every direction, a sign of the city’s prosperity.

  But Huwang Xiao’s large group drew odd stares from throughout, it wasn’t every day that the beastmen found a puny human walking before a group of several hundred beastmen which were teaching deference. The encompassing beastmen were unable to shift their gaze away from this strange scene.

  “Hehe, isn’t this Amier?” At this time, a team of a dozen beastmen walked up to Amier’s group from leading. The one who spoke was a young cat-like beastmen achieving two . 5 meters tall.

  “Amier, I see your life has really gone to the dogs!” The young beastman snickered, “As a powerful beastmen, how can you follow behind a puny human being, not to mention that loathful fawning appearance on your face, worse than the worst dog slave!”

  The several beastmen behind the young beastman laughed brashly.

  “Insolent!” Amier strode out in anger, and struck a punch at the young beastman: “Collins, how dare you disrespect the Lord!”

  Collins didn’t expect that Amier would strike him suddenly. Though startled, he still were able to increase an arm up in defense, but he didn't muster enough power to stop the attack. Staggering back again, Collins felt a throbbing pain in his arm.

  “How dare you!” Collins yelled, “Amier, have you gone nuts!”

  Both Collins and Amier had exchanged tit-for-tat many times before, but Amier had never been brave enough to get physical with him, in the end, his big brother was the tribe’s chief captain.

  Today, for an insignificant individual, Amier actually attacked him!

  Amier glared coldly at him, “Collins, get on your legs now and beg god, the father for forgiveness!”

  Collins was dumbfounded as he stared at Amier in disbelief.

  Amier desired him to kneel down and beg for forgiveness… from an individual?!

  “You’re crazy, you’ve gone f*cking nuts!” Collins yelled at the top of his lungs. He waved his arm at the beastmen that came with him: “We’re leaving!” Amier’s crazed look frightened Collins, and he didn’t want to stay there any longer.

  Seeing that Collins wished to leave as though nothing happened, Amier moved forward, wanting to block Collins’ path but Huwang Xiao’s voice sounded in his ears.

  “Neglect it.”

  Only then did Amier relented, bowing respectfully to Huwang Xiao: “Yes, Lord!”

  Just like things appeared to calm down, a beastman ran through the masses straight at Amier, “Sibling Amier, it’s bad, Sis Rihanna was taken away by folks from the Tiger Tribe!”

  “Taken away by the Tiger Tribe!” Amier’s face became ashen.

  Rihanna was his fiancee, both her and Amier were childhood sweethearts. Losing their families at an early age, Amier and Rihanna relied on one another.

  Even Anton and the others paled somewhat.

  “Kerner, this, explain what exactly happened!” Amier urged with a hint of desperation in his tone of voice.

  Beastman Kerner was piqued, “Just now, the Tiger Tribe’s Julio came over claiming that Sis Rihanna was chosen because of this year’s Beast God Sacrificial Rite, that’s why he brought an organization of people over and took Sis Rihanna away!”

  “Beast God Sacrificial Rite!” Amier was enraged: “Fu** his mother’s fart! It isn’t our 100 Tiger City’s turn to offer a sacrifice this year for the Beast God rite. This Julio is snatching powerless woman off the roads in broad daylight.”

  Beast God Sacrificial Rite? Huwang Xiao’s interest was stoked and asked out, “Explain to me, what is going on?”

  At Huwang Xiao’s question, Amier briefly explained the situation to Huwang Xiao with respect despite the anxiety in his heart.

  From thousands of years ago, the Beast God’s tribes would perform a Beast God Sacrificial Rite every year, and the sacrifice would be a young virgin from those tribes.

  The Lion Tribe, Tiger Tribe, Wolf Tribe, and the remaining top tribes would pick a young virgin from the cities under their governance. Those young virgins were sent to the Beast God Shrine to be offered as a sacrifice during the rite.

  And the young virgin sacrifice for this 12 months had been decided half a month ago, Rihanna’s name wasn’t on the list.

  Furthermore, it wasn’t Hundred Tiger City’s change this year to offer the sacrifice.

  Now, this Tiger Tribe’s Julio taking Rihanna was obviously because he coveted Rihanna for her beauty, the matter of being a sacrifice was nothing but an excuse. Julio was no stranger to this kind of despicable acts, countless good young women were sullied in Julio’s hands each year.

  The problem was, this Julio was a pure-blood descendant of the Tiger Tribe, his father was 100 Tiger City Guard’s chief captain. Powerless commoners like them could only withstand.

  “Lord, please save Rihanna!” Suddenly, Amier considered Huwang Xiao, falling on his knees begging, “As long as Lord can save Rihanna, Amier is willing to do anything the Lord orders! Lord, please, please save Rihanna!”

  Amier had no alternative way and positioned his hopes on Huwang Xiao. He realized all too well, relying on his own power, he previously no chance in hell to rescue his fiancee.

  Viewing Amier, Anton and the beastmen from the same team all got down on the knees, their plead was evident even though no words were spoken.

  “All of you get up and talk. ” Huwang Xiao already made the decision in his center. “Lead the way.” Obviously, Amier wasn’t the main reason he made a decision to interfere in this matter.

  Obtaining Huwang Xiao’s guarantee to help, Amier kowtowed often in gratitude before jumping to his feet and leading Huwang Xiao to Julio’s residence.

  In a large residence compound on the north side of Hundred Tiger City, clad in a cotton jacket, a virile Julio was staring at the tied-up Rihanna with undisguised lust.

  The tight coarse rope that bound Rihanna also accentuated her curves, the proud peaks on her behalf chest looked as if they were about to burst right out of the seams, inciting a reaction from Julio’s manhood.

  Julio slowly approached Rihanna until he was mere inches from her face. His hand reached up, pinching her face in place as an evil smile crept up his face, “Your face is not bad.” Taking a sniff of her fragrance, “Ahh, the scent of a
virgin is actually fascinating!”

  Rihanna’s delicate face flushed with anger, “Julio, how dare you take advantage of the Beast God Sacrificial Rite to snatch women from the streets! There’ll be considered a day the Great Lord Beast God will punish you!”

  Julio laughed at Rihanna’s words, “In this Hundred Tiger City, I, Julio, am Lord Beast God! Since you like punishments a lot, then I shall take care punishing you on the bed right now!” With this, he carried Rihanna and going to the best bed inside the inner chamber.

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  “Release me! Let go of me!” Rihanna fought like an upset wildcat, struggling to break free with all her might.

  Rihanna’s fierce episodes stirred the aggressiveness hidden deep within Julio’s bloodline, his wanton laughter rang even louder as he hit Rihanna’s perky butt, “Not bad, really pert and firm, I like it! Worry not, in a time I’ll make you feel as if you’ve attended heaven. At that time, you’ll be begging me to punish you more!” Lascivious laughter rang again in the air.

  Stepping in to the inner chamber, Julio threw Rihanna onto the big bed, but he just took off his pants when loud ruckus originated from outside, followed by a chain of blood-curdling screams.

  Julio’s actions froze; ‘What is going on? Is there actually someone that dares to make a ruckus in my own residence?!’

  A fire burnt in Julio’s heart for having his good time interrupted. Pulling his pants up again, he stormed out of the room to see what was going on outside. Another abrupt wail sounded and a black silhouette flew at him.

  Alarmed at the ambush, Julio’s hands struck the person, sending him flying in another direction. When the black silhouette crashed on the floor, Julio noticed that it was actually his internal chamber's personal guard.

  Seconds later, two different people walked in from outdoors.

  This shocked Julio, for just one of them was a black-haired young human with a beastman following respectfully behind.

  Julio vaguely remembers this beastman, a minuscule tribe’s small-time captain, as for his name, Julio couldn’t recall that much. But he knew that this beastman was Rihanna’s fiance.