by Shian Jeen
Just now, the one who wounded his subordinate was also this human? It wasn’t Ao Kun!
Because Ao Kun brought more than a hundred people, Lei Ge neglected the presence of the young human beside Ao Kun.
But now, he had noticed him!
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The Violent Lion Temple generals were extremely shocked. The skinny young man beside Ao Kun actually forced back their revered invincible Temple Master!
Lei Ge’s expression changed again and again before bursting into laughter, “Ao Kun, this is the expert that your Nine Dragons Temple hired?”
In Lei Ge’s eyes, Huwang Xiao was merely a subordinate hired by Ao Kun.
“Young man, what did Ao Kun give you that tempted you to serve the Nine Dragons Temple?” Lei Ge then added, “How about you join my Violent Lion Temple? I can give you double the reward!”
Ao Kun and the Nine Dragons Temple experts had odd expressions on their faces. Especially Ao Kun. The corner of his lips twitched.
“All of you retreat.” Huwang Xiao interrupted everyone thoughts at this moment.
Retreat? Lei Ge was bewildered, trying to figure out the meaning of Huwang Xiao’s words. But in the next moment, he saw Ao Kun and all the experts from the Nine Dragons Temple comply respectfully: “Yes, Master!”
Ao Kun and the Nine Dragons Temple experts retreated behind Huwang Xiao, in the distance.
The eyes of Lei Gei and the present Violent Lion Temple experts were protruding from their sockets from astonishment.
Master?!
Just now, what did those Nine Dragons Temple experts call that young human? Master?!
Ao Kun, as the acknowledged Ten Directions Continent’s strongest expert, actually recognized a human youth as his Master?! Lei Ge and the rest found it hard to believe.
Huwang Xiao walked toward Lei Ge slowly, the expression on his face cold like a brewing blizzard, “Lei Ge, today you only have to two options; one, submit to me like Ao Kun, two, choose death.”
Huwang Xiao’s voice reverberated through the whole Violent Lion Temple and even the men guarding in every corner of the temple heard each word clearly, stunning them silly.
Raucous laughter sounded from Lei Ge’s mouth after hearing Huwang Xiao’s words. His deep, sonorous voice thundered high in the air as he fixed a glare at Huwang Xiao with a dangerous glint in his eyes, “Little kiddo, I don’t know why Ao Kun and his lackeys submitted to you, but even so, relying on these Nine Dragons Temple experts, do you think you can withstand my entire Violent Lion Temple's Retaliation?”
At that point, all Violent Lion Temple’s experts emerged from every corner of the temple, crowding the square in a tight encirclement. There were tens of thousands of people, including a large group of early and mid-level Saint realm experts.
Other than the one hundred and eight generals, there was another elite group named Guardian Vajra under Lei Ge’s command, consisting solely of Saint realm experts.
All these years, Lei Ge had been accumulating his forces secretly, and today, the Violent Lion Temple’s overall strength had exceeded the Nine Dragons Temple.
Watching Huwang Xiao and Ao Kun’s group cut being off from any possibilities of escape, Lei Ge smirked, “Ao Kun, what do you think? My Violent Lion Temple’s strength is not bad, right? All these years I’ve been slowly expanding my forces, all for the purpose of annihilating your Nine Dragons Temple one day and rule over the entire demonic beast race!”
Ao Kun’s gaze swept over the mass of Violent Lion Temple experts, a cold sneer rising at the corner of his mouth. No hints of panic or fear could be detected.
“Kill them for me!” Lei Ge roared suddenly, issuing the kill order.
Immediately, Violent Lion Temple’s experts rushed toward Huwang Xiao, Ao Kun, and the Nine Dragons Temple experts in crazed madness.
Huwang Xiao’s narrowed his eyes, slightly veiling the coldness in his eyes. With a wave of his hand, the Devils and Ghosts Flag flew shot up high into the sky, growing bigger as it did so. After reaching a hundred zhang tall, it secured itself directly into the fabric of space.
Intense ghost aura flooded out, turning into one evil spirit after another.
Ghost aura pierced the sky. The whole Violent Lion Temple was shaken by the flood of monstrous ghost aura.
This sudden scene made Lei Ge and the Violent Lion Temple experts’ faces tighten.
Each evil spirits formed from that ghost aura actually possessed Saint realm strength. Moreover, they didn't merely possess the strength of early-level Saint realm, but the strength of Fifth to Sixth Order Saint realm!
Before this odious evil spirits army, the tens of thousands of Violent Lion Temple experts that were rushing forward looked like rotten wood, being instantly pulverized into smithereens without any power to resist.
“Retreat, quickly retreat!” Lei Ge anxiously bellowed.
In fact, even without Lei Ge’s order, the Violent Lion Temple experts had dispersed in all directions like headless chickens, screaming in fear. Whether it be those who ran first or those who ran last, all of them were turned into nourishment for the evil spirits.
The great evil spirits army spread out several hundred li in every direction, crushing everything in its path before stopping.
Some Violent Lion Temple experts that managed to survive breathed out in relief seeing this, feeling the damp robe sticking to their backs.
When the great evil spirits army stopped, it had surrounded the whole Violent Lion Temple.
“You, you’re Huwang Xiao?!” Lei Ge blurted the question out in shock, staring at Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao’s Poison Corpse Scarabs were terrifying, however, his Devils and Ghosts Flag also caused those who heard of it to turn deathly pale. It finally struck Lei Ge who this young human in front of him was!
“Huwang Xiao!”
“He’s Huwang Xiao!”
Hearing that, all Violent Lion Temple generals and experts became ashen.
Despite their discussion full of bravado earlier, not putting Huwang Xiao in their eyes, at the crucial moment when Huwang Xiao was in front of them, the fear in their hearts was irresistible.
Huwang Xiao did not say anything. He waved his hand, sending out a huge swarm of Poison Corpse Scarabs.
Watching those Poison Corpse Scarabs flying toward them, Lei Ge’s general retinue and other experts became whiter than corpses.
Half an hour later.
Apart from Lei Ge, the entirety of the Violent Lion Temple experts and Lei Ge’s generals were bitten by Poison Corpse Scarabs. However, Huwang Xiao kept their lives. These experts merely lost the strength to resist.
Ao Kun and the group of Nine Dragons Temple expert witnessed Huwang Xiao crush the Violent Lion Temple without losing a single soldier or waste much effort in a mere half an hour, beads of sweat rolled down their foreheads like a storm.
The nine Ao brothers rejoiced inwardly, extremely glad they decided to adhere to the bet they made with Huwang Xiao, willingly submit to him. Otherwise, their ending would be too miserable to describe.
“Huwang Xiao, you’re merely relying on those Poison Corpse Scarabs and the Devils and Ghosts Flag, I refuse to accept this defeat! If you are somewhat capable, come and fight me fair and square with your own strength!” Lei Ge repelled a cluster of Poison Corpse Scarabs with a punch, roaring in fury at Huwang Xiao with red glowing eyes.
Ao Kun was the first to shake his head when he heard Lei Ge challenge Huwang Xiao. If he knew that the nine brothers still lost to Huwang Xiao in a nine against one battle, perhaps Lei Ge wouldn't be feeling so upright and confident.
With a casual wave of his hand, Huwang Xiao retrieved all the Poison Corpse Scarabs and disappeared in a flicker. He appeared in front of Lei Ge, flicking out an elixir at him, “This is a ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Clearing Thistle, swallow it, recover your battle qi.”
Ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Clearing Thistle!
Lei Ge’s arm reached out to catch the elixir while lookin
g at Huwang Xiao with obvious doubt, but he still swallowed it down in the end. Instantly, his depleted battle qi that was used to deal with the Poison Corpse Scarabs was replenished in the shortest time.
Lei Ge wasted no time to trigger his beast transform, awaking the ancient divine lion bloodline in his body, transforming into a giant flame lion and charged at Huwang Xiao.
A chain of collisions thundered in the air, but it merely lasted a few minutes before everything quieted down.
Similar to Ao Kun’s situation before, Lei Ge plummeted to the ground with a punch from Huwang Xiao, head and neck buried in the ground, no longer able to move.
One hour later, more than half of the Violent Lion Temple’s one hundred and eight generals chose to submit to Huwang Xiao, leaving a few stubborn ones. Huwang Xiao decisively moved them into the Linglong Treasure Pagoda, letting the Poison Corpse Scarabs deal with them.
Whereas Lei Ge chose to submit in the end.
After Lei Ge and the rest of the Violent Lion Temple experts chose to submit, Huwang Xiao ordered them to release their soul barriers. All of them were branded with a soul imprint. At this point, both the Nine Dragons Temple and Violent Lion Temple was fully under Huwang Xiao’s control.
Thus, only the Ape Deity Temple remained.
The same method was used to prevent news about the Violent Lion Temple battle from leaking out, the entire Violent Lion City was in lockdown.
Three days later, Lei Ge and everyone’s wounds healed and Huwang Xiao led Nine Dragons Temple and Violent Lion Temple’s experts to the Ape Deity Temple.
But, what surprised Huwang Xiao was, when they arrived in Ape Deity Temple, the Temple Master Zhou Yunpeng wasn’t around! Capturing the Ape Deity Temple’s second in command for questioning, he spilled everything in a stammering voice, “Our Temple Master received news that a Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey appeared in the Mystic Elephant Peak’s proximity. Two days ago, our Temple Master departed to the Mystic Elephant Peak to capture that Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey and refine its spirit devourer bloodline!”
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Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey!
A minuscule quiver ran through Huwang Xiao’s body.
In between heaven and earth, the Violet Spirit Devourer Monkeys were extremely scarce in number. Few could be found throughout the ages, but now, one actually appeared on the Mystic Elephant Peak! Therefore, this Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey was definitely the one that was separated from Huwang Xiao so many years ago!
Hearing this information, Huwang Xiao became anxious. He lifted the Ape Deity Temple Deputy and questioned him thoroughly, then ordered Ao Kun and Lei Ge to handle the remaining matters before he dashed out of the Ape Deity Temple at breakneck speed in the direction of the Mystic Elephant Peak.
The demonic beast clans considered the Mystic Elephant Peak as their sacred land. According to an old legend, it was where the ancient Beast Emperor cultivated, a beast Emperor that reigned over all demonic beast clans. In later years, the Beast Emperor was subjugated by the Beast God, becoming the strongest general under the Beast God.
Worried about the Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey’s safety, Huwang Xiao took out the Great Dragon Saber, channeling true essence energy into the saber, accelerating forward on the saber.
The Great Dragon Saber shuttled past the clouds at rapid speed, sceneries and cities became blurred lines behind Huwang Xiao, disappearing behind him.
Some keen Saint realm experts felt the terrifying power from afar flying above them a second later. Looking up to the sky in trepidation, they only caught the tail end of a red streak of light. It was so fast that it was gone before they could even react.
Leaving behind a trail of agape, flabbergasted experts!
Huwang Xiao eventually narrowed the distance to the Mystic Elephant Peak.
The truth is, even for a peak late-Tenth Order like Ao Kun flying at full speed, he would still need at least three days to reach the Mystic Elephant Peak. However, flying on the Great Dragon Saber with true essence as energy source, Huwang Xiao merely used one day’s time to reach the Mystic Elephant Peak.
From the distance, Huwang Xiao looked at the tall mountain that resembled a giant elephant and knew at a glance that this was the Mystic Elephant Peak. Then, he took out the treasure map he had been keeping for years.
When he was younger, before he broke through the Xiantian realm, on the journey to the Luo Tong Royal City, he and Fei Hou picked up a treasure map by chance. The place drawn on this map was the very same Mystic Elephant Peak in front of Huwang Xiao!
Contemplating for a moment, Huwang Xiao headed toward the Windless Tunnel indicated on the map. It wasn’t by coincidence that the Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey appeared in this area. When Huwang Xiao got his hands on the map and researched it, the little violet monkey knew about it. Very likely, the little guy had come for a little treasure hunt.
‘I wonder how the little guy is doing...’ He thought to himself. Doing a quick calculation, he and the little monkey had been separated for twenty years!
Back when they separated, Huwang Xiao had just broken through to Xiantian realm, and now he was close to late-Ninth Order Saint realm.
‘That little guy should also have advanced into Saint realm!’ Thoughts kept running through his mind. The Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey had the ancient spirit Devourer bloodline, it was capable of Devourer all beings and refine all things. Its cultivation talent could be considered heaven-defying, it wasn't anything strange for it to have broken through to the Saint realm.
However, as heaven-defying as the little guy’s cultivation speed might be, it wouldn’t be the current Ape Deity Temple Master’s opponent at this stage. If it was really found by the Ape Deity Temple Master, Zhou Yunpeng, it would be dead for sure!
The more Huwang Xiao thought about this possibility, the more agitated he became.
The true essence energy surged frenzily from his dantian, propelling the Great Dragon Saber under his feet a second faster. He had to find the little guy before Zhou Yunpeng!
Speeding even further, the Great Dragon Saber left a long streak of blood-red glow in the air.
On the northernmost part of the Mystic Elephant Peak, there was an obscure cave named Windless Tunnel.
Currently, inside the Windless Tunnel, powerful quakes repeatedly shook the walls as destructive energies fluctuated from within.
“Hahaha, what an unexpected windfall, not only did I manage to capture the rare ancient species Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey, there’s also Senior Ape Deity Emperor’s cultivation cave! Even the Heavens are helping me!” The Ape Deity Temple Master Zhou Yunpeng laughed wantonly.
The origin of that Beast Emperor in the ancient times was a Copper Arm Ape Deity, also the Ape Deity Temple’s first Temple Master. It was later referred to as the Ape Deity Emperor. This Windless Tunnel was the place that the Ape Deity Emperor used when he cultivated.
Zhou Yunpeng was battling a sixteen, seventeen-year-old looking young man, with distinctive good looks and overwhelming demonic qi surging from his body.
Zhou Yunpeng repelled the young man with a palm attack, and his laughter sounded again, “Little punk, even if you’re a rare Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey, your strength is still a little too weak. In short, you’re not my opponent, if I wanted to kill you it’s would be as easy as snapping my fingers. If you willingly submit to me, becoming my pet mount, I can spare your life after refining the spirit Devourer bloodline in your body!”
“You want me to submit to you? You think you’re qualified?” The young man sneered, “If I die, my Big brother will avenge me!”
“Big brother?” Zhou Yunpeng continued laughing, “Since it’s like that, I’ll kill you and refine your spirit Devourer bloodline, let’s see then what your dog-fart Big brother can do to me!”
With a quiver, the young man transformed into a giant monkey covered in lustrous purple hair and the bluest pupils. Both arms swung out to attack Zhou Yunpeng.
“Reckles
s idiot!” Zhou Yunpeng countered with a similar attack, resulting in a booming collision. The transformed giant monkey was thrown far back, slamming against the tunnel wall, reverting to its human form.
Zhou Yunpeng sneered, approaching the young man with a slow gait, “After I refine your spirit Devourer bloodline and get Ape Deity Emperor’s cultivation technique and divine pellets, within a hundred year’s time I can definitely breakthrough to the God Realm, conquering the Ten Directions Continent and becoming the hegemon of one direction. At that time, whoever is unwilling will die, whoever dares not to submit, annihilate!
Another burst of mad laughter rang in the tunnel.
Zhou Yunpeng stopped within inches of that young man, raising his right palm, striking down on the young man’s skull without mercy: “Die—!”
At this critical moment, a shower of saber energy pierced through space, flying toward Zhou Yunpeng. There was also a great blood dragon ready to tear Zhou Yunpeng apart.
Zhou Yunpeng was greatly startled, swiftly leaping back while his palm changed the direction of attack with a wrist turn, slapping onto the blood dragon.
Another great quake ran through the tunnel.
Looking over at the source of ambush, a black-haired young human came into Zhou Yunpeng’s field of view.
Huwang Xiao’s attention, on the other hand, was focused on the young man looking about fifteen to sixteen years old. Although he had never seen the little violet monkey’s human form, he could tell that it was him with a single glance.
That aura, those eyes, everything was so familiar.
The younger man slowly got up from the ground, his eyes were also fixed on Huwang Xiao with an indescribable excitement on his face. He stammered a little due to excitement, “Bi-Big brother!” His eyes immediately turned red-rimmed.
Huwang Xiao was stunned at first hearing what the young man called him, then his face bloomed into a smile, “Little guy, twenty years of separation, you’ve grown so big now!” By now, Huwang Xiao no longer had any doubt that it was the Violet Spirit Devourer Monkey that he knew.