by Shian Jeen
“Hehe, our Young Lord has lady luck smiling on him tonight, one young and one old, a pair of beauties, and I can tell the young one is still a virgin, it’s going to be a lot of fun playing with her!” The voice added with a tinge of excitement.
Two muffled voices ringing with filthy laughter sounded in the night, gradually drifting far away.
A light gleamed in Huwang Xiao’s eyes.
The two Cui Family women, without a doubt, referred to Cui Li and her young aunt. The world was so vast, with many people having the same surname, but Huwang Xiao believed this was too much of a coincidence.
Listening to the two men’s conversation for a while, Huwang Xiao disappeared from his room in a flicker. Though it was not his principle to be nosy, it also wasn’t in his character to ignore something happening right in front of him either.
Trailing behind the two people, Huwang Xiao reached an abandoned little courtyard located in one of the more secluded corners of Imperial Saber City. Both men were seen entering the small courtyard.
Hesitating briefly, Huwang Xiao followed in quietly, attaching himself to the roof when angry noises and sounds of battle rang out up ahead. Huwang Xiao looked down.
In the yard below, four people were fighting, two of them were the people he followed over, whereas the other two were Cui Li and her young aunt. However, the three other people with Cui Li and her young aunt during the day were nowhere to be seen.
Huwang Xiao watched the two men waving their hands and two black shadows flew out, in the next instant, Cui Li and the other woman fainted and fell to the floor. It happened too suddenly and Huwang Xiao was too late to stop it. After that small surprise, Huwang Xiao focused on the black shadows, watching them fly back to the men’s hands. Underneath the moonlight, two small black worm-like insects were revealed, with ink-black carapaces that reflected the moonlight and small beady green eyes.
Black Poison Beetles! Huwang Xiao was astonished.
The Black Poison Beetles were a variant of toxic beetles. If bitten, the entire body would succumb to a numbing paralysis, dizziness, and even fainting, lasting an hour. Without the antidote, the victim’s flesh would decay and rot, with pain so excruciating assaulting the body that death felt like mercy. He didn’t expect that these two men actually bred this kind of Black Poison Beetles.
On the other side, the two men kept the poisonous beetles and approached the two women on the floor, snickering wickedly, with eyes roaming all over their bodies.
Beneath the soft moonlight, the two women appeared more alluring and beautiful. The high rise of their fair-skin curves exuded an inexplicable temptation, rousing a yearning in the hearts of the seer.
“No wonder Young Lord ordered us not to kill these two women.” One of the men spoke lecherously, “Even I do not have the heart to hurt these two dainty little beauties.”
The other man squatted down beside Cui Li’s young aunt, his hands crudely brushed against her breast before kneading them with a vengeance, commenting: “Quite big, nice texture too, very comfortable.” his hands slid down as he said that, planning to explore the lower region.
“That’s enough, the Young Lord wants these two women, we need to bring them to him as soon as possible. Otherwise, if Young Lord finds out about this, you know his methods.”
Only then did the man stop his actions.
“Rest assured, once Young Lord grows tired of them, he will reward them to us, you can play to your heart’s content at that time.” Both of them moved to carry both women, wanting to leave the courtyard.
Just as they prepared to carry them away, a shadow shifted and there was an additional person standing in front of them.
“Who?!” Seeing an unexpected person suddenly appearing right in front of them, both men were alarmed, both barked threateningly at the same time.
Huwang Xiao stared at both men coldly: “Take out the antidote.”
The men exchanged a glance in silence. One of them broke out in mocking snicker, “Kid, you’re being too nosy in others’ affairs. You must know, nosy people come to no good ending.”
“Really?” Huwang Xiao’s eyes turned icy.
Both men moved suddenly, waving their hands out, and two tiny black shadows shot out in Huwang Xiao’s direction.
Seeing this, Huwang Xiao sneered, the Blades of Asura appeared in his hand and slashed out cleanly. Both blades cut across the air and metal-like sounds were heard as two tiny sparks burned, issuing high-pitched shrieks. Two Black Poison Beetles fell, landing inches from Huwang Xiao’s feet, both black beetles were halved by his blades.
“You!!” Watching their Black Poison Beetle split into two, both men were enraged and startled.
“Kid, you actually dared to kill our Poison Saint Sect’s Black Poison Beetles!” One man bellowed, whereas his comrade’s silhouette flickered into a blur, his hand holding a long sword aimed at Huwang Xiao’s eyes. Underneath the pale moonlight, the edge of the sword shone with an opaque green, it was evident that it was smeared with toxic poison.
Huwang Xiao stood unmoving as he watched the sword tip coming at him. When the attacker was inches from him, Huwang Xiao’s figure swayed to the side, leaving the sword barely grazing his skin while the Blades of Asura in his hands turned, slitting the man’s throat.
All actions stopped. The long sword fell to the ground as the man’s hands clutched at his own neck, filled with horror and despair feeling warm blood spurting out, seeping through his fingers. Moments later, he tumbled to the ground.
These two men were no weaklings, both were Xiantian Fourth Orders, one of them was even a late-Xiantian Fourth Order. Still, before Huwang Xiao, all were but smoke.
“You, you…!” Watching Huwang Xiao killed his comrade in the blink of an eye, he looked at Huwang Xiao in horror, his feet moving back, voice stammering: “I beg you, don’t kill me, I’m…” his voice was cut off here as a cold blade light gleamed across his neck, leaving behind a bloody hole in his throat.
Huwang Xiao coldly watched the man fall to the ground. Releasing the Blades of Asura, he searched both bodies and found two jade bottles. Opening them. Huwang Xiao took a sniff and determined they contained the antidote required.
Other than the antidotes, Huwang Xiao found two secret technique manuals. A quick flip through them told Huwang Xiao that one was the method of breeding the Black Poison Beetles and the other was a poison attack battle skill.
Everything was placed into the Asura Ring by Huwang Xiao. Only when these were done did he approach the two women, prying open their mouths and pouring the antidote inside. The antidote worked almost immediately, it didn’t take long for both women to regain consciousness.
“Huwang, Xiao!” When Cui Li opened her eyes, Huwang Xiao’s face entered her vision, apart from surprise, there was a hint of happiness in her voice.
“Li Li!” Exactly at this time, an angry shout rang out. In the next moment, a figure launched an attack on Huwang Xiao, a sharp double-edged sword swinging down on Huwang Xiao’s back: “Let go of Li Li!”
Huwang Xiao frowned, a displeased expression on his face but he did not dodge, releasing a sphere of vigor qi around himself, bouncing off the attack and the attacker who was none other than one of three men in Cui Li’s group during the day. It was clear he misunderstood that Huwang Xiao wanted to do something unseemly towards both women, judging upon the scene he arrived on.
The other two men also entered the courtyard moments later.
“Wait, Big bro Duojie, he rescued us!” Cui Li shouted when that young man wanted to launch a second attack on Huwang Xiao. The young man was stunned and sought Cui Li’s young aunt for confirmation. She nodded her head.
“Hmph!” Cui Duojie snorted disdainfully, “Although this kid saved both of you, who knows for sure if he wasn't in cahoots with those Poison Saint Sect people from the beginning!”
Cui Li stood up facing Huwang Xiao, “Xiao, I’m sorry, Brother Duojie he…”
Before Cui Li could finish her word
s, Huwang Xiao merely glanced at the young man, turned around and left.
Watching Huwang Xiao’s leaving silhouette, her eyes became red. A teardrop fell…
Ch.285
Cui Duojie sneered coldly watching Huwang Xiao’s leaving figure.
“Huwang Xiao, is it?” A cold gleamed flashed quickly across his eyes.
Cui Li and the others were watching Huwang Xiao as he left, no one noticed Cui Duojie’s odd behavior.
At this point, Cui Duojie moved closer to Cui Li, “Li Li, this person has devious eyes, he must be one with a cunning and sly character, it’s best you don’t come in contact with him often.”
Cui Li looked over at Cui Duojie. Hearing her words, she staring fixedly at him with undisguised anger. Sensing the anger beneath, Cui Duojie clamped his mouth shut.
On the other side, Huwang Xiao returned to the inn. Back in his room, Huwang Xiao swallowed a drop of Geocentric Buddha Elixir and started practicing the Godly Xumi Art.
While Huwang Xiao concentrated on the Godly Xumi Art, in a secret underground chamber beneath a city, not far away from the Saber Imperial City, a young man clad in the darkest black robe, with eyebrows tinged with faint green, was observing the middle-aged man kneeling before him with an icy gaze.
On the young man’s black robe was sewn a conspicuous ‘poison [1]’ character.
“You’re saying, not only did Ma Lai fail to bring back the two Cui Family’s girls, they were all killed?!” The young man questioned in an icy tone.
Catching the killing intent laced within the young man’s voice, the middle-aged man trembled with fear as he hastened to reply, “Young Lord, it was an accident. We didn’t expect someone would appear out of nowhere to save that two Cui Family girls.”
“Who is that person?” The young man revealed a cold sneer.
“A little rascal called Huwang Xiao.” The middle-aged man’s voice held respect as he answered, “This person knows Cui Li, he should be someone that came from the Snow Wind Continent.”
“From the Snow Wind Continent…” The young man had a disdainful sneer on hanging on his lips, “No wonder he’s so zealous, he even dared to kill my Poison Saint Sect’s disciples.” An aggressive aura suddenly rose in the chamber, ice formed on the floor’s surface, exuding a frigid coldness, ice that was black in color.
This young man was Poison Saint Sect’s Young Lord, Hu Er, whereas the middle-aged man kneeling on the floor was Poison Saint Sect’s Elder, Qiao Liang.
Hu Er looked at Qiao Liang, “You know what to do next, without me saying so.”
“Yes, this subordinate understands,” Qiao Liang answered. “This subordinate will definitely capture that Huwang Xiao and the two Cui Sisters and bring them in front of Young Lord!”
“Go now.”
“Yes, Young Lord!”
The night passed quickly.
Huwang Xiao spent some thing practicing in the Godly Mt. Xumi, and by the time he came out, the sky was already bright. In recent days, Huwang Xiao persisted in practicing the Ancient Puppetry Art and Absolute Soul Pearl’s Soul Mandate every day and he could feel an improvement at the end of each practice.
Huwang Xiao believed that at this rate, it wouldn’t take long before he advanced into the third level of the Ancient Puppetry Art.
Coming out from the Xumi Temple, four people were already waiting for Huwang XiaoーQin Yang, Li Fei, Jie Dong, and Fan Encheng. Settling the payment for the inn, they continued to journey on towards the City of Myriad Gods. No doubt, before leaving Huwang Xiao’s Asura Ring was well stocked with good wines.
Exiting the Saber Imperial City, the five of them chose to travel through mountain passes. As they rushed to make good time, Huwang Xiao did not summon his martial spirits, but even so, his speed was faster than most, so much that Qin Yang and the rest could barely keep up with Huwang Xiao.
“Looks like I should take some time out to refine a flying sword.” A thought came to Huwang Xiao’s mind.
Huwang Xiao’s Body Metamorphose Scripture had advanced into Stage Twelve: Hanging Tail Form and his internal force became ten times richer and more abundant, being able to sustain his sword flight within a certain time limit. When Huwang Xiao reached the small perfection stage, a trace of true core energy would form in his dantian. At that time, using sword flight, he could cover several li in one breath’s time.
In the next moment, Huwang Xiao stopped abruptly. Seeing Huwang Xiao suddenly stop, although feeling it was strange, Qin Yang and the other three also reduced their speed and came to a stop.
Just when Qin Yang was about to step up and ask, Huwang Xiao suddenly turned around, fixing a deadly stare on a fallow slope: “How long is Sir planning to follow us, aren’t you going to show yourself?”
The four people with Huwang Xiao were stunned.
Moments later, a loud noise sounded as a figure emerged from the fallow slope, wearing a black robe that had a conspicuous ‘poison’ character sewn on it.
“Poison Saint Sect!” Qin Yang exclaimed the moment he saw the other side’s robe style, tensing up. It seems, he had knowledge about Poison Saint Sect.
That person seemed very satisfied with Qin Yang’s reaction, issuing another burst of strange chuckles, low, yet sharp to the ears. Qin Yang and the rest felt as if their eardrums were pierced with many sharp needles.
“This is the Great Demonic Yin Sound!” Huwang Xiao’s voice sounded. At the same time, an invisible Buddha energy burst out from his body, enveloping Qin Yang and the rest. The piercing pain in their ears instantly vanished.
“Great Demonic Yin Sound!” Qin Yang, Lifei, and the rest turned whiter than sheet at the name.
In the Martial Spirit World, there existed some horrendous battle skills that made one’s heart palpitate just by listening to their names and the Great Demonic Yin Sound was one of them.
The Great Demonic Yin Sound was a sound type battle skill. In the beginning, the victim’s eardrums would feel pain as if they were pierced with sharp needles. , the victim’s brain became enlarged, swollen, and bloated, and in the end, the victim would bleed to death from the seven orifices. At the point of death, the victim would suffer a torturous end, feeling like their brain was being pierced with thousands of needles continuously.
The other side was stunned seeing Huwang Xiao countering his Great Demonic Yin Sound. He looked at Huwang Xiao with obvious surprise, “This is Buddhism energy?”
In general, only people who practicing Buddhism related battle skills until a very high level would be acknowledged by the Buddha World, and only by receiving acknowledgment could one possess Buddhism energy within their bodies. In the whole of Martial Spirit World, those kind of people were scarce.
“Hehe, how was it Elder Jin? Didn’t I tell you this kid is not so easy to deal with.” At this time, another voice sounded and the owner gradually emerged from his hiding place. This person was none other than the person who was instructed by Poison Saint Sect’s Young Lord to come capture Huwang Xiao, Poison Saint Sect’s Elder Qiao Liang.
The other Poison Saint Sect Elder, Elder Jin, looked ugly.
Qiao Liang’s attention shifted onto Huwang Xiao, in truth, he was shocked that Huwang Xiao could counter Elder Jin’s Great Demonic Yin Sound attack.
“No wonder this young man dared to kill my Poison Saint Sect disciples, you’ve got some skills.” Qiao Liang’s eyes turned sharp, “However, for hundreds of years, those who killed my Poison Saint Sect disciples died without any exception under thousands poisons piercing their intestines, gnawed on by thousands of poisonous insects!”
Huwang Xiao approached them with an air of nonchalance, “People who want to kill me are no less than thousands in number, but in the end, all of them died in my hand.”
What Huwang Xiao said was the truth. All these years, there had been too many people who wanted to take his life, instead, their lives ended under Huwang Xiao’s Blades of Asura.
“Arrogant!” Elder Jin screeched. A frosty blue gleam flick
ered in his eyes.
Qiao Liang clapped his hands once and several shadows nearby moved, as a group of Poison Saint Sect disciples clad in black emerged, surrounding Huwang Xiao’s group of five in the middle. At a quick glance, there were fifty to sixty people.
Watching the mob closing in on them, Qin Yang and the other three turned a ghastly shade of white. It was obvious to them that each of these Poison Saint Sect disciples was no weakling. Although in a one on one fight, none of these disciples was qualified to be their opponent, but en masse, enemies ten times their number made them feel somewhat helpless. Moreover, Poison Saint Sect disciples’ bodies were known to be smeared with poison, a little negligence and they would be poisoned. The result could be imagined.
Huwang Xiao surveyed the large group of Poison Saint Sect disciples surrounding them with no changes to his expression. When Jin Zhong and Qiao Liang saw Huwang Xiao remain unperturbed, both of them exchanged a look, for they could clearly tell that Huwang Xiao wasn’t putting on an act… could Huwang Xiao have a trump card up his sleeve?
Ch.286
Jin Zhong and Qiao Liang were doubtful watching Huwang Xiao’s calm demeanor, neither gave the Poison Saint Sect disciples the order to attack.
But seconds later, Jin Zhong suddenly jeered, saying “Little brat, you can really put on an act, I’ll see how long you can maintain that calm facade!” Jin Zhong waved his hand, signaling the disciples: “Get him!”
Hearing Jin Zhong’s command, the surrounding Poison Saint Sect disciples swarmed towards Huwang Xiao’s group of five.
Overwhelmed by the numbers, Qin Yang, Lifei, and the rest couldn’t help but panic a little.
Just when the horde attacks were about to strike them, a blinding golden flash appeared above Huwang Xiao. When it disappeared, it revealed six giant ‘humans’ floating in midair.
After the six giant ‘humans’ appeared, stalwart fists punched down onto the swarm of Poison Saint Sect disciples. A dozen booming blasts rang out in their midst almost simultaneously.