by Shian Jeen
It was said that the person who has the Godly Xumi Art has the power to change the entire Martial Spirit World!
Asura Demon Claw, God Binding Palm, and the Absolute Soul Finger struck Qiao Liang’s chest, pushing him back like a broken kite. Crashing to the ground, like Jin Zhong before him, bright lights of claw, palm, and finger imprints shone from inside Qiao Liang’s body. He then vanished forever into thin air.
Huwang Xiao’s expression remained the same from the beginning until the end, with a small suction force from his palm, Qiao Liang’s spatial ring flew to Huwang Xiao’s hand. His spiritual sense probing inside the rings, Huwang Xiao found heaps of gold coins, spirit stones, spirit pellets, and also two secret techniques, one being the Great Demonic Yin Sound and the other Great Void Divine Fist.
Great Demonic Yin Sound? Although Huwang Xiao practiced many different types of skills, he had yet to learn one that used sound to attack, thus he was delighted to find the manual for the Great Demonic Yin Sound in Poison Saint Sect Elder Jin Zhong’s spatial ring.
In fact, this Great Demonic Yin Sound was not a weak battle skill, combining it with his extreme Yin and frigid Asura qi, executing the Great Demonic Yin Sound would have twice the power of what Jin Zhong displayed. But what kind of battle skill was this Great Void Divine Fist? Huwang Xiao took out the skill manual from spatial ring and started to scan through the pages on the spot, and the more he read the more shocked he became.
This Great Void Divine Fist was actually a battle skill from the Great Void Divine World!
Grade wise, the Great Void Divine World was perhaps lower ranked compared to the Asura Netherworld or Buddha World, but it was still one of the Divine Worlds. How did this Great Void Divine Fist manual fall into a Poison Saint Sect Elder’s hand?! The spatial ring belonged to Elder Qiao Liang.
Furthermore, why did that Qiao Liang not use this skill just now? If he did, Huwang Xiao probably wouldn’t have been able to kill him so easily. However, when he flipped to the last page of the Great Void Divine Fist manual, only then did Huwang Xiao understand, to practice this Great Void Divine Fist one must possess at least a grade twelve martial spirit.
No wonder… it seems Qiao Liang’s martial spirit grade failed to meet the prerequisite condition, thus he couldn’t practice it. Still, where did this Qiao Liang get his hands on this manual?
At this time, tragic screams rendered the air, causing Huwang Xiao to turn around. With the six giant puppets’ assistance, Qin Yang, Li Fei, and the other two dealt the remaining Poison Saint Sect disciples cleanly.
Thus, Huwang Xiao kept the Great Void Divine Fist into the Asura Ring and went over to join Qin Yang’s group.
When Qin Yang and the rest saw Huwang Xiao approaching, there were changes in the way they looked at him, there was trepidation and hot fanaticism. They witnessed clearly the scene where Huwang Xiao used the Godly Xumi Art to exterminate Elders Jin Zhong and Qiao Liang.
The Godly Xumi Art! Thinking of these three words, all four couldn’t help shaking with hard to contain excitement.
Stopping his steps not far from the four people, Huwang Xiao waved his hand, a bright light flashed as all six giant puppets returned to the Linglong Treasure Pagoda. Glancing at the Poison Saint Sect disciples’ bodies around, he said: “Clean up, we'll continue forward.”
“Yes, Young Lord!” All four answered in sonorous voices.
It didn’t take long for the four of them to deal with the corpses around, then the group of five moved on. As for the spatial rings on those Poison Saint Sect disciples’ bodies, they were all taken away by Huwang Xiao. These Poison Saint Sect disciples were all mid-levels Xiantian and above, there were quite a lot of good things inside their spatial rings.
Half a day later.
In an underground secret chamber in Knife Imperial City, Poison Saint Sect’s Young Lord, Hu Er, was looking gloomy, one of his subordinates just reported that they lost contact with Jin Zhong and Qiao Liang. Dubious lights flickered in his eyes.
Ten days passed quickly.
After ten days, Huwang Xiao’s group of five was currently standing before the giant gates of a city. From the distance, this massive city was like a godly mountain supporting the heavens! This was one of ten largest cities in the Bedlam Lands, ranked at number two, the City of Myriad Gods!
Standing in front of the gates, an ancient and mysterious atmosphere blew against their faces, that was greatly different with the Knife Imperial City. The atmosphere around Knife Imperial City surged with an overbearing dominance and vigor, whereas City of Myriad Gods was akin to a vast ocean that stretched endlessly.
“This is the City of Myriad Gods.” Huwang Xiao studied the four ancient texts on top of the city gates. Rumor has it, those four ancient texts were carved out by an ancient God Tribe King using the power of his eyes.
The ancient God Tribes had six famous Kings.
“Let’s go in.” Moments later, Huwang Xiao retrieved his gaze as he spoke to Qin Yang and the others. The four answered respectfully, following behind Huwang Xiao as the group entered the city.
The City of Myriad Gods was Bedlam Lands’ second largest city, naturally, it was bustling and lively. On top of that, with the time for the start of the auction nearing, the number of people in the city was more than usual. Fortunately, the streets in the City of Myriad Gods were wide and spacious, so it didn't feel crowded.
Huwang Xiao strolled along the streets while scanning the shops and the surroundings. Busy pedestrians moving up and down the streets wore different styles of clothes, the shops were like mushrooms after the rain, with most of them selling cultivation techniques and battle skills.
An hour later, it was close to midday, Huwang Xiao’s group found a restaurant and went inside.
The restaurant was big and business was booming, guests came in and out constantly and there were loud noises of discussions that perked Huwang Xiao’s interest.
“I heard that the final item in this time’s auction isn’t Big Thousand Temple’s Wind Breaking Finger!”
“Oh, then was is it?”
“It’s a piece of jade! A piece of jade left behind by the ancient God Tribes!”
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“A piece of jade left behind by the ancient God Tribes!?” Huwang Xiao was slightly astonished. Why were relics related to the ancient God Tribes surfacing one after another lately?!
“Moreover, I heard this piece of jade was left out by the ancient Herculean King! ” At this time, the discussion at the table nearly continued.
“Ancient Herculean Ruler! This, how can it be!” The friend exclaimed in awe.
Huwang Xiao too found it incredible and hard to believeㅡthere were six great kings during the ancient times, and the Herculean King was one of the stronger ones amongst the six kings. Thus, a piece of jade left behind by the historic Herculean Ruler was priceless, but someone actually brought it out to be auctioned?!
“Perhaps the auction house is deliberately fabricating fake news to heat up the auction? Who would take out the Herculean King’s jade to auction? Unless that person is a fool!” Another person interjected full of doubt.
“No one is clear about this, rumor says that the public sale house was bequeathed by a masked person to auction the jade. All three high-level City of Myriad Gods senior appraisers have examined the jade and agreed unanimously that the jade is the same one the Herculean King had with him at all times, called the Herculean Ruler Jade.”
“A jade that the Herculean King had with him all the time, Herculean Ruler Jade?!” Shock washed over everyone. The Herculean King Jade was noted in some ancient text manuals claiming that the Herculean Ruler Jade contained the Herculean King’s cultivation technique, whoever could comprehend it would have the power to flip mountains and overturn seas.
Qin Yang, Lifei, and the rest were just as shocked that the Herculean King Jade appeared in this time’s public sale.
“Young Lord, it is truly a pleasant and unexpected surprise that we would c
ome across the Herculean Ruler Jade in the auction!” Qin Yang said excitedly, and went on with respect, “If Young Lord could obtain that Herculean King Jade, at that time…”
At this point, Huwang Xiao waved his hand at Qin Yang, Qin Yang immediately stopped what he was saying seeing Huwang Xiao shaking his head. Though the rumor was extremely tempting, declaring that the jade recorded the cultivation technique of the Herculean Ruler, despite that, for someone like Huwang Xiao that experienced the Asura Sword Skill, Godly Xumi Art, and Body Metamorphose Scripture, the allure failed to stoke his interest.
Furthermore, being auctioned, the little bit of jade was sure to garner tough competition from many strong and powerful experts, even if Huwang Xiao successfully bid for it, he lacked the energy to protect the jade.
A short while later, the dishes were served. Finishing quickly, Huwang Xiao and his group paid and left the restaurant.
, Huwang Xiao went inside a shop and spent a hundred thousand gold coins to procure a detailed map of the Bedlam Lands. Studying the map, Huwang Xiao was surprised to find that even this detailed map did not pinpoint the location of Four Seas Mountain. Left with no option, Huwang Xiao visited a bookstore and bought several books related to the Bedlam Lands, returning to his room to study.
There were three more days until the auction, thus other than practicing, Huwang Xiao spent all his time pouring over the books. After going through more than a dozen books, as well as his own study, Huwang Xiao deduced that the mountain called Broken Tiger Rift somewhere close to the City of Myriad Gods was once the Four Seas Mountains he was searching for.
“Broken Tiger Rift.” Huwang Xiao said aloud.
Having a target location in mind, Huwang Xiao exited the town of Myriad Gods, speeding in the direction of Broken Tiger Rift. Broken Tiger Rift was not far from the city, thus Huwang Xiao could leave and return in half a day’s time. But, he went to scout alone, leaving the four others in the town.
Three hours later, Huwang Xiao stopped in front of a tall mountain that bore a close resemblance to the shape of a tiger. Taking out the map, he checked the surroundings to confirm that it was indeed the Broken Tiger Rift. In the middle of the hill, there was a large rift that made it look like a tiger that was cut into halves from afar, thus the name Broken Tiger Rift.
With a quick flicker, he landed atop of Broken Tiger Rift’s peak, spreading his spiritual sense out to survey the area. But after one hour of practically looking every inch of the mountain, there was no harvest.
“Did I make a mistake in my deduction?” Huwang Xiao doubted.
Huwang Xiao’s eyes searched around, in the end, his gaze fell on the large rift separating the mountain into two sections. Other than going down this rift, he had almost flipped the mountain over. Coming to one side of the rift’s edge, he looked down. Even relying on Huwang Xiao’s keen eyesight, he only managed to see as far as twenty meters down, further down was nothing but a stretch of darkness.
Extending one of his hands out, he sucked a several meter tall boulder nearby over, throwing it down into the rift. Despite waiting for a long time, Huwang Xiao didn't hear the echoes of the boulder crashing.
“This?!” Huwang Xiao was dumbstruck, eyes flickering.
Judging from afar, this Broken Tiger Rift was at most several hundred meters tall. Under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t take long for a stone to reach the bottom after being thrown from such a height, issuing echoes of the crash, but now, there is actually no echo!
Do the rift connect to the underground? Otherwise, it was illogical for the boulder to not reach underneath by now. Huwang Xiao stood there pondering for some time, in the end, he still decided to go down the rift.
Thus, Huwang Xiao leaped off the edge, diving into the rift, initiating battle qi and internal force to control his falling speed. Passing 100 meters down, Huwang Xiao’s range of view only extended ten meters around him. He continued to drop when a sudden chilly wind rose from the bottom of the rift, striking his skin, Huwang Xiao felt as if he was slashed by a cold sword and his flesh was somewhat stinging from the pain.
Huwang Xiao was truly shocked. Since he had broken through the Xiantian realm, especially after entering high-level Xiantian, his skin was extremely tough, even surpassing most average Xiantian Eighth Orders’ toughness, and got no fear towards the general swords and spears. Not forgetting that the Asura qi flowing inside his body was of extreme Yin and extreme cold, but he experienced pain from a cold wind that came from the bottom of a rift? What kind of cold wind was this?!
While Huwang Xiao was immersed in his thoughts, another gust of cold wind blew up and he quickly twisted his body away, barely dodging the chilly blowing wind. Controlling his velocity, his vigilance peaked. The lower he got, the presence of the chilly wind became more common, frequent, and bigger.
In the beginning, it was one or two gusts, as he fell lower, it rapidly increased to ten, then twenty, so much that Huwang Xiao had no choice but to project out his Asura battle qi to create a protective Vigor Qi barrier that wrapped around his body. Nevertheless, strands of cool wind flow eroded through the barrier, causing Huwang Xiao much discomfort.
Passing six hundred meters, Huwang Xiao acquired no choice but transform in to the Asura Physique, at the same time summoning the black dragon, fusing as one. At one thousand meters, Huwang Xiao summoned the blue dragon and soul transformed. Despite all these, Huwang Xiao sensed like the blood in his body was frozen stiff, unable to flow.
One thousand two hundred meters later, Huwang Xiao was forced to stop to catch his breath. Raising one hand, he struck a side of the rift wall and drilled into the cave mouth, using more than an hour’s time, he finally managed to get back to the rift top with great relief. Broken pieces of ice fell off his body with a small shudder.
It seems I can only check this place out after the auction. Huwang Xiao appeared downward at the bottomless rift, thinking to himself.
The sky was already dark and tomorrow was the day of the auction, he needed to rush back again to the city.
He had a feeling, at the bottom of the rift, there should be a different world.
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Three hours later, Huwang Xiao made it back to the City of Myriad Gods from Broken Tiger Mountain, it was already midnight.
“Young Lord!” Qin Yang, Lifei, and the rest waited in front of a little courtyard for quite some time, when they spotted Huwang Xiao, all of them hurried up to greet him.
Huwang Xiao nodded and entered the courtyard.
Taking into consideration the time had a need to explore the Four Seas Mountain’s dwelling, they would be spending quite a few times in the town of Myriad Gods, hence Huwang Xiao decided to purchase a courtyard. The courtyard wasn’t large, but the price reached millions in units, although gold coins were the thing that Huwang Xiao lacked the least of all.
Huwang Xiao had lost count of the amount of coins the Nine Tripod Commerce earned these years, adding the riches acquired from the spatial rings of the Xiantian world experts he killed on the way, these built up to a substantial wealth. Especially the band of exterminated Poison Saint Sect Elders and disciples.
Entering the yard, Huwang Xiao excused Qin Yang and the other three people, reappearing in the Xumi Temple in a muted flash. Once there, he took out the two manuals, Great Void Divine Fist and Great Demonic Yin Sound, and started practicing. In recent days, ever since he previously gotten these two manuals, Huwang Xiao allocated some time to practice both skills and were able to achieve favorable results.
Within the Xumi Temple, Huwang Xiao’s silhouette was seen constantly jumping and shifting positions, both hands forming firm fists as they punched out many times over, creating a series of intangible and surreal giant fist imprints that pierced through the air, striking onto the void. Intangible one moment and solid the next, mystical and strange. This was the Great Void Divine Fist.
Time elapsed, then Huwang Xiao flicked his wrists, changing the energy circulation in his body as his pupils s
uddenly glowed dark, his mouth area opened and soundwaves burst forth from Huwang Xiao’s mouth like surging tidal waves, hitting the walls of Xumi Temple and bouncing out in all directions. The echoes lasted for a long time in the Xumi Temple hall.
Compared to that Poison Saint Sect Elder Jin Zhong’s display of the skill, the power of Huwang Xiao’s attack had doubled the damage. By the time he was done with training both of these skills, the sky already started to brighten, Huwang Xiao stopped and exited the Godly Mt. Xumi.
When he came out of the Godly Mt. Xumi, Qin Yang, Lifei, Jie Dong, and Liu Chong were already looking forward to him in a humble manner. Not wasting more time, the group of five headed to the public sale house.
Due to the auction’s attraction this time around, people rushed from all over to the City of Myriad Gods, the crowd heading towards the auction house was like an endless river of people flowing in one common direction.
Although the distance wasn’t far, Huwang Xiao’s group still used no less than half an hour to pass through the crowded doors. The message related to the fantastic Thousand Technique mid-grade Heaven rank cultivation technique, Peerless Wind Breaking Finger fight skill, and also the Herculean King’s jade experienced spread far and wide in the Bedlam Lands. Experts of different forces were rushing into the city to attend the auction.
“Look, that is Sin City’s Young Noble, Zhao Chen!” A sudden ruckus swept the crowd.
Attracted by the noisy crowd, Huwang Xiao turned over to look, following the gazes of the masses. A small path opened by itself between the initially crowd packed entrance, where a handsome young man dressed in a rich brocade robe walked in, escorted with a team of bodyguards.
“I didn’t expect that even Young Noble Zhao Chen would come here! I heard the Sin City’s Castellan has thirteen children, Young Noble Zhao Chen possesses the highest talent and is most favored by the Sin City’s Castellan!”
“I wonder what Young Noble Zhao Chen’s strength is, there were rumors about him breaking through the Saint realm as early as thirty years ago!” Boisterous discussions happened all at once amongst the masses, many disciples of families and sects were looking at Zhao Chen with burning eyes filled with worship.