Asura Sovereign VIII

by Shian Jeen

Outside, screams of killing and slaughter rendered the air, blood flowed into a river. The island ground was dyed red by the Deities Templar disciples’ blood, even the ancient trees and the green shrubs turned blood red.

  Everywhere on the island were Deities Templar’s terrified disciples. The group of high-level Xiantian realm disciples was more than hundred thousands in number, yet within an hour’s time, half of them were done in by Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the rest of Asura’s Gate experts. Whereas Saint realm experts, there were only two hundred or so remaining.

  Huwang Xiao stood high in the air above. A simple punch from him, through the distance space, directly blasted a Saint realm expert into pieces.

  Three hours later, all of Deities Templar’s disciples, including Saint realm experts were annihilated.

  The blood-curdling screams stopped, leaving an eerily silent island.

  “Clean up.” Huwang Xiao said to Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu.

  Suddenly, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi shouted a warning in his mind: “Look out!”

  Before Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi could finish his words, a hand emerged from the void above. A hand resembling white lustrous jade underneath the sun rays, reflecting an alluring glow. A single finger lightly pointed at Huwang Xiao’s chest.

  Huwang Xiao’s body shuddered, falling down into a deep pit.

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  “Sovereign!”

  “Liege Lord Beast God!”

  Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the experts under Huwang Xiao reacted, crying out as they flew to his side from many different directions.

  Deep at the bottom of the pit, Huwang Xiao gradually recovered his ability to move. With a minuscule shake, he shook the soil off his body and flew out.

  Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the others were astounded looking at the large hole on Huwang Xiao’s torso. Blood flowed rapidly, dyeing a red blossom on his robe.

  Everyone sucked in a cold breath watching his wound, for they knew how horrifying Huwang Xiao’s physique was, yet it was pierced through by a finger!

  At this time, several enraged Ten Directions Continent experts began attacking that jade-like finger.

  The jade finger merely moved slightly and it reflected a horrifying white-jade glow underneath the sunlight, the several Ten Directions Continent experts’ bodies exploded before they even got close to it.

  This scene was a blow to everyone on Huwang Xiao’s side.

  “All of you withdraw!” Huwang Xiao barked a command at Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and those who prepared to attack.

  Huwang Xiao was sure that the other party was a God Realm Master! Only a God Realm Master could have such a terrifying power in just one finger, if Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, or the others went up, they would only be dying vain.

  Receiving Huwang Xiao’s stern order, Zhao Shu and all those who prepared to dash forward in attack halted their movements and retreated to the side, complying with the order.

  Huwang Xiao initiated Instant Recovery, accelerating the healing of the wound on his torso.

  A surprised exclamation sounded from the sky above. Obviously, the other side did not expect Huwang Xiao to recover so quickly after taking a hit from his finger.

  Huwang Xiao tilted his head, looking at the void above with cold eyes, both of his hands struck with the Asura Demon Claw skyward. In a radius of several li, the cries of demons’ laments filled the land.

  The other side still used one finger, lightly tapping at the Asura Demon Claws, instantly shattering them midway. Space quivered violently as a silhouette enshrouded in rolling black fog appeared in the vision of everyone on the ground.

  Black fog surged in silence, exuding a strong death aura. From afar, Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the other Saint realm experts felt hard to breathe despite the distance from the black fog.

  “Ying Tian!” Huwang Xiao stared at the other side coldly. No doubt, this young man shrouded in an always-present black fog was the Deities Templar’s Temple Preceptor, Ying Tian.

  Ying Tian stood with his hands clasped at his back, looking at Huwang Xiao with an expressionless face, “I didn’t expect you to have already killed your way inside in the short time I’ve been away, but it’s fine like this, saves me from making a trip.”

  “Is that so?” Huwang Xiao’s nonchalant calmness matched Ying Tian’s expressionless face. Black and blue twin dragon martial spirits flew out from Huwang Xiao’s body, emitting the aura of an ancient Dragon God, the majestic might of a dragon enveloped the entire island. He soul transformed in a blink.

  Thick dragon scales surfaced on Huwang Xiao’s skin like a godly armor, his chest, his arms, and legs. Long sharp spikes lined the length of his legs, reflected the sunlight with a chilling glint. A tattoo-like image of the black and blue dragon heads appeared on Huwang Xiao’s back.

  His irises seemed to turn a dark golden color, sans of any emotion.

  At the same time, Huwang Xiao triggered the Asura bloodline in him and a dark red energy flowed just above the layer of thick dragon scales. The combined auras of an ancient Dragon God and a Hell Asura gave everyone palpitations, unable to restrain themselves from prostrating in awe. Even Temple Preceptor Ying Tian’s eyes narrowed in a dignified manner.

  A Huwang Xiao that had soul transformed with the twin dragons martial spirits and released the suppression on his Asura bloodline actually gave him a sense of danger.

  A sense of danger birthed from his heart!

  However, Ying Tian remained motionless with his hands at his back, looking at Huwang Xiao with the same expressionless face, “I admit that I have underestimated you in the past, allowing you to grow to this extent in a mere few years’ time. But, it has come to an end.” His momentum rose, his brocade robe started fluttering without wind.

  What surprised Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the watching Saint realm experts was the fact that Ying Tian transformed, looking like a suet white-jade, emitting the same lustrous glow of jade.

  “Little Huwang brat, you need to be careful, this is the Firmament Jade Emperor Heavenly Physique!” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s reminder sounded in Huwang Xiao’s mind.

  “Firmament Jade Emperor Heavenly Physique?” Huwang Xiao blanked.

  Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi nodded as he explained, “The universe is vast, filled with countless geniuses. Some of these geniuses are born with innate heavenly physiques, and the Firmament Jade Emperor Heavenly Physique is one of them, possessing formidable defense. This kid has awakened the power of the Firmament Jade Emperor Heavenly Physique.”

  Huwang Xiao frowned. In short, this Ying Tian had a very strong defense.

  It goes without saying that a God Realm master possessed the powerful physique of a half-God Body, that level of defense was already horrifying, close to immortal. Now, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was saying that the other side had a unique physique called Firmament Jade Emperor Heavenly physique? It seemed like wanting to kill the other party would pose some difficulties.

  It was at this point that Temple Preceptor Ying Tian attacked.

  “Heaven’s Tribulation Finger!” His chilling voice rang out as his made a pointing gesture at Huwang Xiao. When his fingers moved, puffs of gray clouds shrouded the slender suet white-jade finger. Clouds rolled in the sky, with dark purple lightning streaking in their midst, arriving in close proximity to Huwang Xiao’s chest in a split second.

  Huwang Xiao’s heart tightened!

  ‘So fast!’

  He keenly felt the boundless destructive power contained in this Heaven’s Tribulation Finger. If this finger attack hit him, he would end up much worse than the previous time.

  Huwang Xiao immediately retreated into a space pocket, and at the same time, he used Phantom Shadow. The Blades of Asura were already in his hands, swinging out the moves of the Asura Sword Skill.

  A myriad saber lights transformed into a fierce tempest, angry rainstorm, lightning flood dragons, a thousand blossoms, winding chains, a mountain of knives and sea of fire.

  Although Huwang Xiao had yet to practice the latter ten mo
ves of the Asura Sword Skill, he succeeded in combining and mastering the first eight moves. Every singular move he cast contained the power of the other seven moves.

  And every move respectively differed from each other.

  The tempest tore everything in its path, the rainstorm submerged everything beneath it, the lightning flood dragons destroying everything in their path, the red eyeball confused the enemy, while the chains shackled the enemy in place.

  In a mere breath’s time, the two of them had attacked and countered more than a dozen moves.

  Horrifying shockwaves blasted everywhere, scaring the experts watching below to retreat even further away. The ancient towering trees on the island exploded in splinters, disappearing as dust. Mountain peaks were sliced and crumbled by saber qi one after another, cutting deep fissures in the mountain range.

  In Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the Saint realm experts’ view, they only saw two spheres of light colliding with each other again and again in high altitude, even the half-step God realm Chi Jiuyang couldn't clearly see the moves made by the two people above.

  “Is this the strength of a God Realm master?” Chi Jiuyang stared fixedly at the black sphere of light representing Temple Preceptor Ying Tian, dumbstruck with awe. But what flabbergasted him the most was Huwang Xiao’s strength.

  If this was in the past, someone telling him that a peak mid-Tenth Order Saint realm warrior could have battle strength on par with a God Realm master, he definitely would not believe it.

  But now!

  Everyone on the ground held their breaths, their fingers digging into their palms.

  Then, Ying Tian and Huwang Xiao separated after a powerful collision, standing at opposite ends.

  Temple Preceptor Ying Tian still looked deadpan as he looked at Huwang Xiao, however, inwardly, he was extremely shocked. Despite holding the upper hand in the short exchange just now, one mustn’t forget that he was a God Realm master that possessed the Firmament Jade Emperor Heavenly Physique. He actually couldn't defeat a mere peak mid-Tenth Orde Saint realm within a hundred moves!

  After soul transformation, whether it was strength, speed, or defense, Huwang Xiao wasn't any weaker than him!

  “Very good!” Temple Preceptor Ying Tian observed Huwang Xiao, “Your body’s toughness really surprised me. Since it is so, I shall give you the honor of dying under my Soul Seize Red Dust Reversal Technique.” With that said, a mysterious force bubbled forth internally from Ying Tian’s body.

  Huwang Xiao’s pupils shrunk watching this; ‘Finally, he’s going to use the Soul Seize Red Dust Reversal Technique.’

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  The Soul Seize Red Dust Reversal Technique was considered as one of the more sinister and powerful evil techniques in the ancient times!

  Huwang Xiao had previously asked Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi, and even him only had high praises for this Soul Seize Red Dust Reversal Technique. In his explanation, when the cultivation of this Soul Seize Red Dust Reversal Technique reached perfect completion, it could even reverse time and space, causing the time and space of an area to flow in reverse, or forcefully speed up an opponent. Just from these two points, one could imagine the horror of this Soul Seize Red Dust Reversal Technique.

  Temple Preceptor Ying Tian lifted his arms up, his flat palms glimmering a lustrous glow as his palms waved down, soft and gentle. Yet, what baffled those watching was that his palms seemingly contained no energy, as if they ‘floated’ downward.

  But Huwang Xiao noticeably went a shade paler sensing the space around his spiraling in disorder, followed by an invisible palm force slamming down on him. Left with no time to think, his innate martial spirit abilities, Space Concealment and Phantom Shadow, were used simultaneously. Just as Huwang Xiao’s silhouette flickered away, the formless palm force brushed past the place he was in a split second ago.

  Huwang Xiao immediately saw the space where he stood earlier being severely distorted, like a piece of paper twisted into dust.

  “Hiding? Let’s see how many times you can hide!” Seeing that Huwang Xiao dodged his attack, Ying Tian snorted with malice. His palms opened wide to the sides, fingers bent into claws. Clouds of pale violet gaseous energy spurted from his fingers, growing bigger and spreading, causing space within a hundred li to turn upside down. Space distorted as the energy spiraled like a vortex.

  Ying Tian’s aim was to force Huwang Xiao into a corner, until he had nowhere to run and no place to hide.

  It was at this moment that golden rings spread out and expanded several li in front of Ying Tian, following by a dozen palm imprints at their trail.

  Within a hundred li radius, the unstable, reversed and chaotic spiraling space gradually slowed down to a stop as the golden circles passed through.

  Temple Preceptor Ying Tian’s narrowed his eyes to slits, “This is, the God Binding Palm!?”

  “Correct, God Binding Palm.” Huwang Xiao emerged into view, confirming with a cold voice. The God Binding Palm’s binding force was far stronger than he had hoped, to be able to stop the other side’s reversal force! Huwang Xiao was inwardly delighted.

  Temple Preceptor Ying Tian let out a cold harrumph. Turning around, a whelming pulling force dragged Huwang Xiao toward himself.

  On the other end, Huwang Xiao felt dizzy all of a sudden, and a tearing pain like his soul was about to fly out of his body.

  ‘Is this the Soul Seized Red Dust Reversal Technique?!’

  Huwang Xiao quickly forced himself to focus, protecting his mind, when from the depth of his consciousness, an intense dark purple light shone. The Soul Seize force from Ying Tian was cut off by this dark purple light. Huwang Xiao immediately returned to normal.

  It was the Absolute Soul Pearl!

  That dark purple light just now was emitted by the fourth-ranked Heavenly Treasure, the Absolute Soul Pearl.

  It did not occur to Ying Tian that his soul Seize power would be cut off suddenly. His body swayed, nearly suffering a backlash.

  “The Eleventh move, Dragon Astounding the Fiendgod!”

  In a flicker, Huwang Xiao crossed the distance, appearing in front of Temple Preceptor Ying Tian, both palms striking out. Dragon qi transformed into eleven primordial divine dragons, water dragon, fire dragon, golden dragon, Buddha dragon, and others. Their claws pierced into Ying Tian’s chest.

  Temple Preceptor Ying Tian merely snorted, his arms extended out and lightly swiped in front of him. With soft waving and throwing gestures, the eleven primordial divine dragons formed from dragon qi were flung far away.

  All eleven primordial divine dragons crashed into the far mountain range on the island, turning the peaks into flatlands. A violent quake spread across the whole island with signs of it splitting from the center.

  Huwang Xiao was inwardly taken aback.

  This Soul Seize Red Dust Reversal Technique was indeed formidable, able to dispel the eleventh move of his Dragon God attack, redirecting the energy to another place. This move resembled the Taiji Fist on Earth in his past life, using softness to overcome hardness, borrowing the power of others to deflect their attack. But this was much more powerful than the Taiji Fist many times over.

  Regaining his senses after overcoming his shock, a thousand arms fanned out from Huwang Xiao’s back.

  “The Twelfth Move, Dragon God Killing God!”

  One thousand arms attacked simultaneously, each arm forming twelve divine dragons, a total of twelve thousand divine dragons flew out. Dragon roars thundered endlessly, filled with vast and boundless dragon might.

  Huwang Xiao watched on coldly. He was waiting to see how Ying Tian would take this attack.

  In the far distance, Zhao Shu, Zhang Fu, and the rest stared dumbly at the sky filled with flying divine dragons.

  Deities Templar Temple Preceptor Ying Tian’s face tightened, leaping backward in retreat. At the same time, his body burst out with a unique magnificent light, both hands waving in a certain rhythm. Countless divine dragons were thrown out of the way, resulting in a ser
ies of loud crashes coming from the island surface.

  The island below shook nonstop and parts of its land begin to crumble.

  Whereas high above, Ying Tian was subsequently forced back again and again.

  A cold snicker sounded from Huwang Xiao as he narrowed the distance between them, once again appearing in front of Ying Tian. The Blades of Asura in his hands swung out without hesitation.

  Ying Tian raised his right arm with the palm facing forward. At the center of his right palm, a golden talisman symbol suddenly shone as he slapped the palm down.

  “Deity-Splitting Dao Canon Seal!”

  A golden giant palm imprint howled through the air, with the golden talisman symbol at the center resembling the one in Ying Tian’s palm, burning with a glaring light.

  The saber lights exploded and shattered.

  When the saber lights exploded, the minuscule golden symbol on Huwang Xiao’s forehead made by the Dragon Pearl shone brightly, and a five-clawed golden dragon flew out from the Dragon Pearl. The five-clawed golden dragon transformed into a flash of golden light, piercing a hole through Ying Tian’s body in the blink of an eye. As it came out on the other side, its sharp claws slammed against Ying Tian’s back.

  Ying Tian’s half-God Body exploded, and the five-clawed golden dragon returned to the Dragon Pearl in Huwang Xiao’s forehead.

  The sudden turn of events was out of everyone’s imagination.

  Zhao Shu and Zhang Fu were so stunned that they forgot to blink.

  Huwang Xiao was still staring at the spot where Ying Tian’s body exploded from the five-clawed golden dragon’s attack on his back.

  Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was Huwang Xiao’s real hidden trump card. This was also the main reason for Huwang Xiao’s confidence in attacking the Deities Templar headquarters, the confidence to kill Deities Templar’s Temple Preceptor that had broke through to God Realm.

  Although Temple Preceptor Ying Tian possessed the Firmament Jade Emperor Heavenly Physique and a God Realm cultivation, which gave him a half-God Body, before Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi it was no different than a slightly sturdy wood plank.