Asura Sovereign VIII

by Shian Jeen

  Shi Xiaofei’s body stiffened, then gradually loosened, embracing Huwang Xiao in return with tears rolling down her cheeks. These were tears of happiness.

  Forever and always!

  This was Huwang Xiao’s commitment to her, her beloved man’s commitment to her!

  A while later, Shi Xiaofei’s soft voice sounded, “Big brother Long, I know about Sister Li Lu, you definitely must rescue Sister Li Lu out from there.”

  “We’ll talk about this later.”

  Li Lu!

  A glint flickered across Huwang Xiao’s eyes. It was time to totally annihilate Deities Templar! Huwang Xiao was confident that his current strength was enough to fight Temple Preceptor Ying Tian.

  The next day, Huwang Xiao had Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu gather all the experts and departed to the Dead Sea Gorge.

  While Huwang Xiao was in closed-door practice, Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu located the Deities Templar’s headquarters inside the Dead Sea Gorge.

  Ch.509

  Two days later, Huwang Xiao and his group arrived at the edge of the Dead Sea Gorge.

  A large group of people stood in the air, with Huwang Xiao at the front and Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the other experts behind Huwang Xiao. For this trip, Huwang Xiao only bought one thousand Saint realm experts with him.

  One thousand Saint realm experts, moreover, all of them were high-level Saint realm, it was a sufficient force to uproot Deities Templar once and for all.

  Everyone observed the surrounding deathly silence, coupled with the strange atmosphere, the lifeless Dead Sea Gorge. They looked solemn, increasing their vigilance. Space fluctuated erratically here, and even a high-level Saint realm expert needed to focus when crossing it. A small, careless mistake would result in one getting caught in an unpredictable space crack or swallowed by a space vortex.

  Stopping briefly, Huwang Xiao decided to transfer all the experts into the Godly Mt. Xumi in order to carry them forward with ease.

  After he settled all the experts into the Godly Mt. Xumi, Huwang Xiao swept away the black-colored energy hovering above the sea surface in front of him. With lightning speed, he dove into the thick layers of black fog.

  Huwang Xiao’s figure flew at breakneck speed inside the thick black fog. With his current strength surpassing a half-step God Realm, he had nothing to fear when facing a space crack or space vortex.

  As Huwang Xiao was shuttling through the black fog, space around him shook and actually collapsed. It crumbled down like a wall of bricks, revealing a space vortex several hundred square meters wide. A terrifying pulling force instantly enveloped Huwang Xiao.

  Just as the force was about to drag Huwang Xiao into the vortex, a minuscule quiver ran through his body. Fifteen primordial divine dragons flew out, shattering the pulling force from the vortex in less than a second.

  Feeling the weakening of the pulling force, Huwang Xiao swiftly leaped away, leaving the area affected by the vortex’s pulling force.

  Even though Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu managed to find out that Deities Templar’s headquarters was located in the Dead Sea Gorge, they did not have the exact position nor information of the situation there. Hence, Huwang Xiao needed to search for it.

  Half a day later, Huwang Xiao stopped on an island located on the north side of the Dead Sea Gorge. After half a day of searching, Huwang Xiao narrowed the location down to an area of several hundred thousand li in the northern part of the Dead Sea Gorge.

  A vertical slit opened on Huwang Xiao’s forehead. Using the Eye of Hell, he surveyed the surroundings; he had a feeling that Deities Templar’s headquarters was close by in this sea region.

  Huwang Xiao’s figure disappeared in a flicker moments later as he continued flying northbound.

  Half an hour later, he suddenly stopped midair. His eyes narrowed dangerously as he looked up ahead, flying at reduced speed. It didn’t take long before he came across an enormous island.

  On the island, ancient towering trees touched the sky and long mountain range peaks undulated like a wave. On top of that, a group of odd looking flying demonic beasts was frolicking above the island.

  The auras coming from these odd looking demonic beasts were extremely strong, alarming Huwang Xiao. He could see that each one of these odd looking demonic beasts possessed the strength of half-step God Realm!

  Sixteen creatures in total! Sixteen half-step God Realm demonic beasts!

  “Sword Tiger Blackdragon, Two-faced Ghostape, Purplewing Fire Phoenix, all these demonic beasts are ancient species!” At this point, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s exclamation sounded from the Dragon Pearl.

  A light flickered in Huwang Xiao’s eyes. No doubt, this was Deities Templar’s headquarters.

  However, it never occurred to Huwang Xiao that Ying Tian would have such a generous hand as to use sixteen half-step God Realm ancient species demonic beasts patrolling the island’s airspace.

  With these sixteen half-step God Realm ancient species demonic beasts guarding the island, it was practically an impregnable fort. Not other super force would be able to take half a step onto the island.

  However, it was truly unfortunate, because today they were facing Huwang Xiao.

  “Sixteen half-step God Realm beast cores would be enough for you to break into late-Tenth Order Saint realm!” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was exhilarated at the unexpected windfall, urging, “Little guy, quickly attack, we mustn’t let any of them escape!”

  The amount of demonic essence energy in the ancient demonic beast species’ beast cores was twice as much as the average demonic beasts of the same level. These sixteen ancient species demonic beasts in front of Huwang Xiao, if he could capture all of them and refine their cores, it would definitely help Huwang Xiao’s strength rise another level.

  Huwang Xiao initiated Phantom Shadow, his figure reached one of the demonic beasts, the Sword Tiger Blackdragon, in a flicker. Before the Sword Tiger Blackdragon could react, Huwang Xiao’s fist landed on its body, sending it to the ground below.

  A loud rumbling sound came from the ground and even the enormous island quaked from the impact.

  A powerful suction force came from Huwang Xiao, sucking the Sword Tiger Blackdragon into the Dragon Pearl, leaving it to Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi.

  ROAR!

  The other ancient species demonic beasts reacted, letting out thunderous roars and attacking Huwang Xiao.

  Monstrous demonic energy enveloped heaven and earth as if it wanted to perforate the space around Huwang Xiao.

  Huwang Xiao easily dodged the attack, blurring away in a flash to reappear above the Two-faced Ghostape. His palm slapped on its back and another tragic scream rang out as it too was sent crashing to the ground by Huwang Xiao.

  With a casual turn of a wrist, the Two-faced Ghostape was thrown to Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi inside the Dragon Pearl.

  More than sixty thousand years ago, before Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s body was destroyed, his strength far exceeded the God Realm. But despite his current weakened state compared to his peak, handling these half-step God Realm beasts was an easy matter.

  After only about a dozen breaths’ time, half of the demonic beast was thrown into the Dragon Pearl by Huwang Xiao, suppressed by Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi. Huwang Xiao practically dealt with one of them with each passing breath’s time.

  After advancing into peak mid-Tenth Order Saint realm, his strength, battle qi, and True Dragon Physique were enhanced at least ten-fold. The current him could easily defeat a half-step God Realm without resorting to the Godly Xumi Art.

  All of a sudden, an angry bellow rang in the high air. In the blink of an eye, several human figures flew to the air from different locations on the island, surrounding Huwang Xiao.

  The unusual quakes finally alerted the Deities Templar’s experts.

  Watching these people’s arrival, Huwang Xiao snorted coldly. In the blink of an eye, he brought Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the experts out from the Godly Mt. Xumi, having them deal with the Deities Templar’s experts while he
continued dealing with the remaining demonic beasts.

  The Deities Templar’s experts rushed toward Huwang Xiao, preparing to attack the intruder, but the sudden appearance Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the many experts caused panic and confusion. The situation quickly flipped on the Deities Templar experts, causing them to run for their lives like headless chickens.

  Before Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and one thousand Saint realm experts, the Deities Templar’s side retreated time and again, receiving a one-sided beating.

  Before long, blood dyed the island’s soil red. The bloody odor overlapped with the salty scent of the sea.

  Huwang Xiao acted swiftly and fast, it didn’t take him long to capture the remaining ancient species demonic beasts and throw them to Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi, bound and suppressed within the Dragon Pearl. Whereas the Deities Templar’s experts became ashen as they watched Huwang Xiao easily capture the ancient species demonic beasts one by one.

  Those were all half-step God Realm ancient species demonic beasts ah! If Huwang Xiao was capable of dealing with those ancient species demonic beasts so easily, then his current level of strength…?!

  When all was done, Huwang Xiao’s figure flew down to the island, heading towards the biggest building. But just as he arrived above the main hall building, a dozen human silhouettes shot out from the building below at rapid speed, blocking Huwang Xiao’s path.

  These people were all Deities Templar’s Grand Elders. All of them were peak late-Tenth Order Saint realm experts, on par with Li Molin.

  “Huwang Xiao, it’s you!” The dozen people immediately recognized Huwang Xiao.

  “You really have guts, actually daring to come to our Deities Templar’s headquarters!” One of the Grand Elders snarled.

  Just as that Grand Elder’s voice fell, he was greeted by a Great Void Divine Fist from Huwang Xiao. His body exploded right then and there. Before the rest of the dozen Grand Elders could let out a word, forget reacting, the dozen of them died with a single punch from Huwang Xiao’s fist.

  Huwang Xiao took out the Devils and Ghost Flag and the Poison Corpses Scarabs, allowing them to feast on the flesh and souls of the dead Deities Templar Grand Elders. All of these were top grade nourishment; waste not, want not.

  Huwang Xiao floated down lightly, landing in front of the main hall entrance.

  Ch.510

  The main entrance to that building was a hundred zhang tall and had a width of thirty zhang. It was built from an unknown material that was black as ink, reflecting a black glow beneath the sun’s rays. Huwang Xiao could feel a frigid coldness coming from it even though he was standing more than ten meters away.

  This frigid coldness stemmed from the soul.

  An aureate burst of light enveloped Huwang Xiao and vast Buddhism energy spread throughout his body, dispersing the coldness. He raised an arm, slamming a powerful punch at the black gates, banging them opened. What surprised Huwang Xiao was that the doors were not damaged in the slightest after a blow from his fist. In fact, not even a mark could be seen on their surface.

  “Little Huwang kid, no need to stare at it, this Deities Templar’s doors are made of materials from the Divine World. Only high-level God Realm and above can damage it.” While Huwang Xiao was immersed in his surprise, he heard Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s voice.

  “High-level God Realm!” Huwang Xiao was stunned, his breathing quickened slightly. He didn’t expect this Deities Templar’s Preceptor would possess this kind of high-grade material. If such a material was used to make a divine armor instead, wouldn't that mean…?!

  As if knowing Huwang Xiao’s thoughts, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi assured him, “Little Huwang kid, don’t worry, it’s not that easy to forge a divine armor. In order to forge a divine armor, the prerequisite condition is possessing a divine flame. Secondly, to forge a divine armor, one must have knowledge of the Divine World’s array formation talisman symbols for it to be possible. Not all of our clan’s Star Realm ancestors were lucky enough to possess a divine armor.”

  Divine flame!

  Divine World’s array formation talisman symbols!

  Huwang Xiao received another shock, however, knowing that Temple Preceptor Ying Tian couldn't possibly have forged a divine armor from this material, he felt immensely better.

  After barely taking a few steps into the Deities Templar center hall, two piercing sword rays shot out from the depth of its hall, targeting Huwang Xiao. Both swords were aimed at his eyes.

  Huwang Xiao’s reflexes reacted before him, raising an arm up in defense.

  When both swords stabbed at his palm, a long vibrating ‘zheng!’ of metal crashing resounded, followed by an exclamation of surprise from the inner part of the hall.

  Obviously, the attacker was surprised that Huwang Xiao was able to block the swords so easily.

  Deep in the center all, space distorted as two silhouettes emerged from the void.

  One of them was a middle-aged man clad in Deities Templar’s brocade robes, with mile-long eyebrows falling down the sides of his face. However, the style of his brocade robe differed from the Elders and Grand Elders. There was a small diagram on the chest of his robe, formed from a mysterious talisman!

  Whereas the other one was a handsome looking young man wearing a blue star-robe. On the blue star-robe, clusters of stars gathered, depicting the vast galaxy and its esoteric profundity. The young man’s gaze was strangely soft and feminine. He was carrying a sword at his back, an ancient sword!

  As the young man walked toward him, Huwang Xiao felt an invisible coercive sword energy locking onto him, stabbing at his soul like it wanted to perforate it.

  This was sword intent! Only when one’s cultivation of the sword reached a certain threshold could sword intent be formed! There was no doubt that this young man was a genuine sword master!

  Both men came to a stop about thirty meters from Huwang Xiao. Inwardly, the young man was secretly astonished watching Huwang Xiao’s calm demeanor, no signs of being affected by his sword intent at all.

  “Brother Mo Jie, I didn’t expect such a young expert to appear in your Martial Spirit World!” The young man laughingly said to the Deities Templar middle-aged man, “It seems like I didn’t make this trip in vain!” His words were spoken in a relaxed tone, perfunctory, not really putting Huwang Xiao in his eyes.

  The middle-aged man smiled in reply, “Who doesn’t know that you, Young Noble Absolute Kill, are our Black Tortoise Galaxy’s genius that deterred ten thousand worlds. Everyone has lost count of the number of geniuses that died under your Absolute Kill Sword, this is merely a peak mid-Tenth Order Saint realm, who knows if he can even last until your third move!” He pointed a finger at Huwang Xiao, “This punk here is called Huwang Xiao, you probably know his Master, Ren Wokuang.”

  “Oh, so it’s Ren Wokuang’s disciple.” At the mentioned of Ren Wokuang, Young Noble Absolute Kill’s interest toward Huwang Xiao increased a little.

  Huwang Xiao merely watched the two men with a stoic expression.

  Black Tortoise Galaxy?

  Young Noble Absolute Kill?

  That middle-aged man should be Deities Templar’s only Great Grand Elder.

  This Deities Templar’s Great Grand Elder was just as mysterious as Temple Preceptor Ying Tian. From what Huwang Xiao heard before this, no one had seen his true face, yet his strength was said to be terrifying and unfathomable.

  Huwang Xiao could see that this Deities Templar Great Grand Elder Mo Jie’s strength was infinitely close to breaking into God Realm, a peak half-step God Realm.

  Even amongst half-step God Realm experts, there was a distinction between strong and weak. This Mo Jie, compared to Nine Yang Valley Branch Master Chi Jiuyang, was many times stronger. And definitely much stronger than those ancient species demonic beasts that Huwang Xiao dealt with outside.

  As for that Young Noble Absolute Kill, his strength was certainly no weaker than Mo Jie.

  “Since you’re Ren Wokuang’s disciple, tell me how many m
oves of the Asura Sword Skill have you mastered.” Young Noble Absolute Kill, Su Tang, went on, “My Absolute Kill Sword does not unsheath easily, as long as you can take three hits from me, I will allow you to leave this place.”

  Huwang Xiao sniggered coldly in retort, “If you can take three moves from me, then I won’t take your life.”

  Young Noble Absolute Kill Su Tang was dazed for a moment staring Huwang Xiao before bursting into laughter, “Wonderful, so brazen! Just like me! You’re called Huwang Xiao, right? I’ll leave your corpse intact!” At the drop of the last word, the ancient sword at his back flew out from its sheath.

  Like the call of all phoenixes, a crisp, clear hum rang out. Sharp sword light appeared, carrying world-splitting momentum accompanied by frightening sword intent that pierced the nine heavens, dispersing the sea of clouds.

  Several thousand li in the far distance, Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the other experts were all shaken by the sight of the sky-piercing sword intent. Including Chi Jiuyang, who felt it even more, causing his heart to palpitate.

  “What a terrifying sword intent!” A film of sweat appeared on Chi Jiuyang’s forehead. He most likely wouldn't be able to take even one hit. One swing of that sword and he’d be split into halves.

  Inside the Deities Templar’s center hall, a rain of sword light flew toward Huwang Xiao like it was deadly set on destroying everything in its path. Not even a God Realm master’s tough physique was a match for it.

  Myriad sword light pierced through Huwang Xiao’s body in an instant, however, it was merely his afterimage.

  When the Absolute Kill sword chopped down where Huwang Xiao stood, its terrifying sword qi pierced deep into the ground, cutting the hard floor like it was tofu.

  Young Noble Absolute Kill was secretly stunned that Huwang Xiao was able to dodge his spontaneous attack, but he harrumphed coldly. A silver glow shone from his eyes as the Absolute Kill Sword rotated upward, raining down sword qi to every corner of the spacious hall.