Asura Sovereign 5

by Shian Jeen

  Still, having beats not having any time, thus Huwang Xiao threw the spatial ring into his Asura Ring. Looking at Wu Zhang’s corpse, with a wave of his hand, a lump of true essence fire fell on the corpse, incinerating the body before one could blink. In the end, only a pile of gray ashes remained.

  Witnessing the terror of that spark of flame, Sun Haoran swallowed nervously. Once again, his knowledge of things was challenged. He had never seen or heard of this before, what kind of flame condensed out of battle qi could contain such power?!

  The physical body of a half-Saint was undoubtedly strong, so strong that it couldn’t be burned by an average battle qi flame, not even the hairs on the skin surface of a half-Saint’s body, thus one should forget about incinerating the whole body.

  Huwang Xiao turned around and walked towards Sun Haoran.

  Only then did Sun Haoran wake up from his daze, stuttering a little, “Ma-many thanks for B-Brother’s help. This saving grace, I, Haoran, will remember in my heart.” Facing Huwang Xiao again, there was reverence in his eyes, even he failed to notice the subtle changes in his demeanor.

  Sun Haoran’s words made Huwang Xiao smile. Shaking his head, he said, “No need, I’ve already said that I’m just repaying Senior He’s favor. Now, swallow this White Ganoderma, I’ll help you heal your injuries.”

  “Yes!” Sun Haoran accepted, not daring to refuse. Thus, Sun Haoran swallowed the White Ganoderma, whereas Huwang Xiao ran his battle qi, both palms pressed against Sun Haoran’s back, aiding Sun Haoran in refining the medicinal benefits of the elixir. With Huwang Xiao’s help, three hours later, Sun Haoran had fully absorbed the medicine.

  “Many thanks, Brother!” Sun Haoran once again cupped his hands in thanks towards Huwang Xiao. After refining the White Ganoderma, he found out that not only had all his injuries healed, even the hidden injuries of old wounds disappeared, and his battle qi was more vigorous than before.

  “Don’t mention it.” Huwang Xiao asked, “Do you know where Senior He is at this time?”

  Sun Haoran shook his head, “I was separated from Master and the other apprentice brothers, I don’t know where Master or my Brothers could be, but, judging from what Wu Zhang said before, that Luo Wujun is planning something detrimental to Master. Master must be in a dangerous situation now!” Sun Haoran became anxious.

  “Let’s leave this place first.” Huwang Xiao suggested.

  Sun Haoran nodded in agreement. With that, both flew off, leaving the scene.

  “This time, when the Ghost City appeared, did both Senior He and Luo Wujun come here?” While flying, Huwang Xiao asked.

  “Yes, other than my Master and Luo Wujun, Senior Yang Yi from Imperial Saber City and Ghost Bear Senior Wang Kun are also here.” Sun Haoran added, “Because there is a rumor saying that this time, the sutra that Senior Ghost King cultivated would appear in the Ghost City!”

  Saber Emperor Yang Yi!

  Ghost Bear Wang Kun!

  Huwang Xiao was astounded, four of the ten Bedlam Lands’ top ten experts were present! It couldn’t be guaranteed that none of the remaining six did not come either, it was only that Sun Haoran didn’t know.

  “Is this Ghost King Sutra that powerful?” Huwang Xiao asked.

  The Ghost King Sutra actually attracted four of Bedlam Lands’ top experts here! Experts of He Yunxiong’s level definitely didn’t lack top grade cultivation techniques.

  Sun Haoran nodded solemnly, “The Ghost King Sutra is indeed powerful. The Sutra is divided into ten stages, and according to legends, as long as one cultivates until the ninth stage, they would be invincible and have unimaginably long lifespans, to the point of immortality.”

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  Invincible!

  To the point of immortality!

  Hearing Sun Haoran’s excessive praise of the Ghost King Sutra, Huwang Xiao couldn’t help smiling inwardly, that year when he got the Asura Tactics, his Master Ren Wokuang also wrote on the first page of the manualーAsura Tactics, Invincible Throughout!

  Through many years of cultivation, Huwang Xiao understood one thing, the cultivation technique wasn’t the most important aspect, but the person themselves.

  “Then, do you know what stage the Ghost King managed to reach in his lifetime?” Huwang Xiao asked.

  Sun Haoran explained, “It was said, that year, Senior Ghost King reached the seventh stage of the Ghost King Sutra. Although it was only the seventh stage, amongst the six kings, Senior Ghost King’s strength was ranked second, even the third-ranked Senior Herculean King was once defeated by the Ghost King. If Senior Ghost King reached the eighth stage, perhaps even Senior Saint King wouldn't have been his opponent!”

  Saint King! The number one master of the ancient era!

  Huwang Xiao was secretly shocked, he didn’t expect this so-called Ghost King Sutra to be so amazing, merely at the seventh stage, the Ghost King secured the second position amongst the six famous kings during that time.

  “Have you heard about an Eminent Holiness during that time?” Suddenly a thought struck Huwang Xiao, he asked Sun Haoran.

  “Eminent Holiness!” Sun Haoran had an astonished expression on his face looking at Huwang Xiao, “I didn’t expect that Brother would know about Eminent Holiness. In fact, this Eminent Holiness was the Saint King’s Junior Brother.”

  “Saint King’s Junior Brother?!” It was Huwang Xiao’s turn to be surprised. The leader of the six kings, Saint King’s Junior Brother! Huwang Xiao did guess the Eminent Holiness would be a famous master in his own right, but the Eminent Holiness being the Saint King’s Junior Brother seemed beyond his imagination.

  Sun Haoran nodded, “That’s right, the Eminent Holiness was indeed the Saint King’s Junior Brother. It was by coincidence that I found this information, flipping through an old ancient record, because Eminent Holiness preferred to stay hidden in the mountains, rarely showing up in public, thus during the ancient time, not many people knew about him.”

  Huwang Xiao nodded, so it was like this.

  “Still, as the Junior Brother of the Saint King, his strength should be quite strong as well.” Sun Haoran added.

  Both conversed as they flew. However, Sun Haoran knew very little about Eminent Holiness and had no other information to offer to Huwang Xiao.

  Along the way, both of them came across many scenes of sect disciples fighting for treasures, but they neither stop nor interfere in these battles. Inside the Ghost King Palace, killings and slaughters were everywhere, even if they had the heart to care, it was an endless burden.

  Huwang Xiao looked at the corpses littered on the streets along the way, shaking his head; everyone in this world knew that life was more important than anything, yet in this world, how many people could actually really see and understand?

  Birds die for food and humans die for wealth.

  Sun Haoran and Huwang Xiao flew for two hours, but despite that their speed, they didn’t even cover a tenth of the vast Ghost King Palace.

  At one point, Sun Haoran stopped, taking out a piece of map from his sleeves. Checking the aged yellow map, a finger pointed to a spot on the map, “In front should be the Ghost Temple, one of the places the Ghost King used as a cultivation place. Brother Huwang, should we go and take a look there?”

  Huwang Xiao nodded in agreement, “Good.” After all, he wasn’t familiar with this Ghost King Palace and since that Ghost Temple was one of the places where the Ghost King cultivated in the past, there was bound to be something valuable inside.

  Seeing that Huwang Xiao agreed, Sun Haoran flew up, leading the way to the Ghost God Temple. No more than ten minutes later, from afar, both of them could see the outline of the Ghost Temple.

  Above the temple, dense ghost aura condensed into pillows of ghost clouds. From afar, one could hear the shrill cries coming from these ghost clouds, penetrating the soul.

  When the two of them got closer to Ghost Temple, they heard echoes of battle and loud, angry voices. It seems there were some people who arrived at G
host Temple before them.

  “This is… Third Senior Brother’s voice!” When Sun Haoran heard one of the voices, his face tightened, “Third Senior Brother’s in danger!” He rushed towards the scene with Huwang Xiao.

  Arriving on the fighting scene seconds later, they saw a red-robed middle-aged man with a light goatee besieged by two middle-aged men clad in blue robes.

  On the chest of the red-robed man, there was a similar two-headed mythical beast pattern just like Sun Haoran’s, identifying him to be Sun Haoran’s Third Senior Brother. Other than the three people fighting, not far away, there was a pair of young man and woman watching the battle, from the looks of things, they were on the same side as the two middle-aged men in blue robes.

  “Snow Dragon City’s people!” Sun Haoran’s expression grew grim the instant he saw the two middle-aged men and the pair of young disciples.

  Snow Dragon City!

  Huwang Xiao blanked, looking carefully, he noticed the white dragon emblem on the two middle-aged men’s sleeves. Snow Dragon City was one of the top ten cities in the Bedlam Lands, ranking above Millennium City. Its City Castellan, Silver Dragon Ao Gu was quite formidable.

  ‘That pair of young people must be Silver Dragon Ao Gu’s disciples,’ Huwang Xiao thought to himself, ‘while those two middle-aged men were probably guards.’

  At this point, Sun Haoran’s Third Senior Brother, Peng Feng, received a full force punch to his shoulder, a low grunt escaped his mouth. His entire body was thrown back, blood flowing out the corner of his lips.

  “Third Senior Brother!” Sun Haoran cried out, jumping into the fray with a punch aimed at the same blue-robed middle-aged man who attacked. Although he wasn’t clear why his Third Senior Brother had a conflict with the people from Snow Dragon City, at this kind of situation, he couldn’t bother with the smaller details.

  The power of Sun Haoran’s punch forced the middle-aged man to retreat, while Peng Feng seized the opportunity to punch the other middle-aged man. Suddenly, the battle came to a standstill.

  “Fourth Junior Brother, run quickly!” However, Peng Feng felt no joy seeing Sun Haoran appear. Instead, he blurted out an anxious warning, looking extremely agitated. If it was his Senior Brother, perhaps both of them could retreat safely, but Fourth Junior Brother’s strength was slightly weaker than his. As for that black-haired young man with his Fourth Junior Brother, although Peng Feng didn't know who the young man might be, he was still only a peak late-Xiantian Tenth Order and was of no help at all.

  “Run? Since you’re here, don’t dream of leaving!” The pair of young people approached and the young woman sneered. Huwang Xiao’s guess was right on the gold, this young man and woman pair were Snow Dragon City Castellan Silver Dragon Ao Gu’s disciples, the young man was called Du Huagang and the young woman was Li Li, the two blue-robed middle-aged men were indeed their guards. Regardless, all four of them were powerful, all four were half-Saints.

  Li Li walked over, her eyes taking a quick glance over Huwang Xiao and Sun Haoran, not putting either one of them in her eyes. Sneering at Peng Feng, she said: “Peng Feng, in this time’s Ghost City’s appearance, your Millennium City should never have come.” Shaking her head sorrowfully with a heartache expression, Li Li continued, “Pity, ah, six of you master-disciples will all be buried here in Ghost City! One month later, Millennium City’s name will be erased from the Bedlam Lands, forever!”

  Sun Haoran paled at these words. The meaning of these words, was Snow Dragon City plotting against Millennium City? Or… Were the City of Myriad Gods and Snow Dragon City working together in this?

  That Du Huagang spoke, “The two of you go and deal with the both of them, leave that brat to me.”

  “Yes!” The two blue-robed middle-aged men answered respectfully, immediately launching attacks on Peng Feng and Sun Haoran, whereas Du Huagang was walking towards Huwang Xiao, the one seemingly easiest to deal with.

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  Du Huagang stopped before Huwang Xiao, giving him a once over glance from head to toe as he shook his head, “Brat, it wasn't easy for you to come this far, you being a peak late-Xiantian Tenth Order means that your talent is not bad. If you can follow a good master, you may have a bright future, but it’s a pity, you took cover under the wrong tree, therefore you can only die here today!”

  Because Huwang Xiao arrived with Sun Haoran, standing slightly behind Sun Haoran, Du Huaguang naturally presumed that Huwang Xiao was tied to Millennium City, serving as Sun Haoran’s subordinate.

  Huwang Xiao merely replied with a stoic word, “Really?”

  Du Huagang chuckled watching Huwang Xiao’s lack of expression, “Definitely, unless a miracle happens.”

  “Don’t waste time with words, swiftly take care of that brat.” Beside Du Huagang, Li Li was getting impatient. “Then the four of us can deal with Peng Feng and Sun Haoran.”

  Du Huagang nodded, wasting no more time with nonsense. His body flickered, arriving close to Huwang Xiao in an instant, his palm struck out, aiming straight at Huwang Xiao’s heart.

  “An opponent that dies with a single strike has no meaning.” Resolving Huwang Xiao so easily, Du Huagang shook his head with disdain. But then again, he wasn’t surprised. With his strength, it would need a miracle for a measly peak late-Xiantian Tenth Order to dodge his attack.

  However, in the next moment he noticed something wasn’t right, because…! It felt as if his hand struck against an ancient cold iron, a weak tingling pain came from his palm!

  Du Huagang raised his head to see Huwang Xiao facing him with the same indifferent expression, unmoving, standing on the same spot. Before he could recover, a surge of energy that made his heart quiver burst from Huwang Xiao’s body. Du Huagang hastened to jump back, but he was still a step too late. The shadow of a halberd pierced through the air and penetrated cleanly through one of his shoulders, leaving a pillar of blood in its trail.

  A pained muffled grunt escaped Du Huagang’s throat as he retreated to Li Li’s side, staring at Huwang Xiao with anger and wariness. Luckily he dodged in time just now, or else it wouldn’t be his shoulder that was pierced, it would be his heart instead.

  Hearing a pained grunt originating from Du Huagang, Li Li, who was immersed in watching the battle on the other side with Peng Feng and Sun Haoran, inevitably looked over. Seeing the large wound on Du Huagang’s shoulder, she was shocked.

  Even Peng Feng and Sun Haoran couldn’t help risking a quick glance over to Huwang Xiao’s side. Other than Sun Haoran, the rest were flabbergasted.

  “Garbage, you can’t even handle a peak late-Xiantian Tenth Order!” When the shock receded, Li Li snapped at Du Huagang.

  Du Huagang’s face flushed bright red, but he dared not lash out against Li Li, hence he could only excuse lamely, “This brat is very strong.”

  Li Li snorted coldly, turning to Huwang Xiao, “Brat, looks like we’ve underestimated you earlier, unexpectedly, you have some skill.” In her opinion, although Du Huagang was injured due to carelessness, being able to injure him was still considered quite good.

  “I’ll give you a chance, as long as you cooperate with us, kill both Peng Feng and Sun Haoran and submit to us, to Snow Dragon City, I will recommend you to my Master. If your talent is really good, who’s to say that my Master won’t receive you as a disciple as well.” Li Li said, the superiority in her voice evident.

  She conceitedly believed this bait was tempting enough.

  In the Bedlam Lands, how many talented geniuses would break their heads fighting for a chance to be received as a disciple under her Master, the Silver Dragon Ao Gu, but those people failed to catch a glimpse of him, not to mention meeting him. Some of these geniuses even knelt in front of Blood Dragon Mansion for ten days and ten nights, kowtowing continuously, but it was all in vain, for they still didn’t get a chance.

  Now that she offered to introduce him to her Master, this was like a dream come true to many people.

  “Change my allegiance to Snow Dr
agon City?” Huwang Xiao repeated, it seems the other side really took him as Sun Haoran’s subordinate.

  Li Li nodded with a smug smile, “Correct.” Then she added another sentence, “This kind of opportunity comes only once, I hope you can consider it carefully.”

  Huwang Xiao shook his head inwardly; this kind of opportunity comes only once? To recommend him to Silver Dragon Ao Gu?

  “So, have you thought about it carefully?” Seeing Huwang Xiao remained silent for some time, Li Li asked.

  “How about this, I’ll also give you an opportunity to consider carefully,” Huwang Xiao turned the tables instead, “This kind of opportunity only comes once, I hope you’ll think it over.”

  Li Li and Du Huagang were dumbfounded, for a moment, neither understood what Huwang Xiao meant.

  Huwang Xiao went on, “Renounce Snow Dragon City, submit to me and I can consider sparing your lives.”

  Everyone felt as if they’ve been struck by lightning, Peng Feng was even looking at Huwang Xiao with a weird expression on his face. Was this brat out of his mind? He turned to Sun Haoran, the look in his eyes obviously asking if there was something wrong with this brat’s brain.

  Whereas anger erupted from Li Li and Du Huagang, akin to a volcano, flaring to the sky from the bottom of their hearts, especially Li Li. A terrifying killing intent exploded from her, and around her, a storm of black-colored snowflakes suddenly started to fall.

  “What did you just said?!” Li Li’s eyes were razor-sharp, penetrating as they focused on Huwang Xiao, each syllable hissed through her lips.

  She was Silver Dragon Ao Gu’s most favored disciple, bearing a distinguished status in Snow Dragon City, with countless sect disciple geniuses wooing her, showering her with compliments, all she ever heard were beautiful words. In Snow Dragon City, she could call the wind and rain with a single word, but now, an ant-like existence of a peak late-Xiantian Tenth Order brat dared to tell her to forsake Snow Dragon City and submit to him?!!!