by Shian Jeen
Could it be…?!
It must be! The person who fought with Zhao Chen in the City of Myriad Gods must be this black-haired young man, not some reckless Saint realm expert, but a peak late-Xiantian Tenth Order.
But then again, Li Qiuping, Wang Lin, and Guo Dehui had no idea that at that time Huwang Xiao was still a mid-Xiantian Tenth Order.
Zhao Chen detected the ridicule in Huwang Xiao’s words, a red flush crept up from his neck to his face. Zhao Chen hollered in anger, his silhouette flickered into a blur, punching out at Huwang Xiao.
“Star Burst Fist!”
Blue flames burst like a burning meteor, exploding in front of Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao snickered as he watched this, his palms smoothly struck forward, sending circles of golden rings expanding out.
God Binding Palm!
Before the astounded gazes of Li Qiuping and the rest of the people around, the exploding blue flames’ trajectory froze midair several zhang away from Huwang Xiao.
Huwang Xiao seized the time gap, he leaped up and two majestic dragon roars rendered heaven and earth, as one black and one blue primordial divine dragons emerged, winding around Huwang Xiao’s body.
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Huwang Xiao bore the atmosphere of an ancient primordial divine dragon with dragon’s might surging from his body, piercing the Nine Heavens.
Li Qiuping and the rest watched with jaws agape the scene before them, especially the dazzling black and blue dragons winding around Huwang Xiao.
“Twin, twin dragons martial spirit?!”
“There is a something like a blue dragon martial spirit in this heaven and earth?!”
Everyone was stunned out of their spirit stones.
While everyone was still in shock, coruscating lights of black and blue flickered, Huwang Xiao soul transformed in an instant with the twin dragons martial spirit. Gleaming black and blue dragon scales covered Huwang Xiao’s body, sharp nasty bone spikes lined the length of his arms.
Huwang Xiao disappeared in a blur, both hands formed into fists, pummeling in Zhao Chen’s direction. Intangible fist imprints filled the air, blocking the sky, mysterious and profound.
“Great Void Divine Fist!” Zhao Chen’s face tightened, countering with his two fists in a frontal collision. When Zhao Chen’s fists struck out, multiple large fist imprints of blue fire rotated forward at rapid speed, like a ball, piercing through space.
A few keen ears caught Zhao Chen’s exclamation, Li Qiuping, Wang Lin, and the others stared unblinkingly at Huwang Xiao’s attack.
Great Void Divine Fist?! The legendary Great Void Divine Fist?!
In that split second, Huwang Xiao’s Great Void Divine Fist and Zhao Chen’s rotating blue flame fist slammed into each other in midair, causing a thunderous chain of explosions, raining fire sparks over the square.
A stalwart rebound force drove Zhao Chen to stagger back more than once. Huwang Xiao sidestepped, reappearing with the Eminent Holiness Halberd in his hands. A single swing brought forth fierce twisters that expanded like waves, layers upon layers.
“Tossing Mountains, Flipping Seas!”
Zhao Chen was perturbed, striking out a Star Burst Fist, and at the same time, he utilized the Saint realm space to block the attack.
The earth quaked as if it was about to shift places with heaven.
Huwang Xiao somersaulted in midair, the long halberd in his hands continued to spin akin to a dragon leaping out from the sea, thrusting straight at Zhao Chen.
The Eminent Holiness Halberd executed attack after attack at rapid speed, it was so fast that even Li Qiuping and the rest could barely follow his speed. Zhao Chen was constantly knocked down and pushed back in the battle.
Huwang Xiao’s attacks continued to rain down like a torrent, and Li Qiuping saw that Zhao Chen could only defend, barely having a chance to counterattack.
Zhao Chen too realized how awkward and disadvantaged he looked and an ugly expression hung on his face.
A Saint realm expert actually took a beating from a Xiantian without even having the power to resist in the slightest?! Moreover, if it wasn’t for his Saint realm space’s existence blocking Huwang Xiao’s attacks, he would have already been defeated.
Enduring more than a dozen rapid attacks from Huwang Xiao, Zhao Chen was exasperated, being forced into a corner.
“Absolute Control!” Zhao Chen hollered as he was retreating, surging battle qi wrapped around his palms, aimed at Huwang Xiao. Huwang Xiao felt as if every trace of energy in the surroundings disappeared, as if everything was enveloped by a vacuum. The mountains around the perimeter emanated heavy pressure that locked him in the air, making him unable to move.
This was a Saint realm expert’s absolute control over space!
Stepping into Saint realm territory meant having a certain understanding towards the law of space, allowing them to manipulate and control space within a limited area. The only downside was that it consumed a large amount of spiritual force and battle qi to perform, so unless it was absolutely necessary, most Saint realm experts would not use this method.
Zhao Chen looked fiercely grim seeing Huwang Xiao shackled in the air. A long sword materialized in his grip. A long sword with the length of an average adult, its body was a crimson red, inscribed on its blade was the diagram of a fire dragon.
“Go die!” Zhao Chen roared with fury. The Fire Dragon Longsword cut through space straight at Huwang Xiao. Just as the longsword’s tip was about to pierce into Huwang Xiao’s heart, a glaring light burst out from Huwang Xiao’s body, accompanied by a terrifying energy. With a minuscule shake, the space law that shackled Huwang Xiao in place loosened.
Huwang Xiao disappeared from the spot, but Zhao Chen’s Fire Dragon longsword managed to leave a line of red blood across his ribs.
Zhao Chen was dumbstruck, shocked to the core. Huwang Xiao broke free from his space law Absolute Control manipulation?!
While he was still caught in shock, two sharp blade lights flew toward Zhao Chen and he dodged at the last moment in a panic. Zi! Sharp noises sounded as the blade lights grazed the edges of his robe, pain spread from Zhao Chen’s waist to every part of his body.
Zhao Chen jumped back a great distance before standing still. His left hand touched the wound on his waist, fresh blood painted his palm red, two bone-deep cuts ran across his back. Feeling the extent of his injuries, Zhao Chen was startled, he even forgot the pain for a moment.
How many years has it been, he had forgotten what pain felt like.
In the distance, Li Qiuping, Wang Lin, Guo Dehui, and the crowd could hardly believe staring at the two gruesome, bone-deep slash wounds on Zhao Chen.
“Young Lord!” Steward Feng and the rest of the guards finally reacted, they all rushed to Zhao Chen’s side at the fastest speed, rattled and ashen-faced.
After a small scene of chaos, Steward Feng and some of the guards took out several golden, thumb-sized pellets from their spatial rings, giving them to Zhao Chen to swallow, and from another jade bottle, Steward Feng poured out a crystalline emerald liquid, smearing it over Zhao Chen’s wounds.
Zhao Chen waved his hand at them, stating: “I’m fine.” The throbbing pain on his waist actually helped him become clear-headed.
Huwang Xiao stood some paces away and did not attack when Zhao Chen’s subordinates healed him. Yet his eyes were like glacial ice; Fine? Perhaps in Zhao Chen’s eyes, these were nothing but flesh wounds, but very soon he would taste the enigmatic torturous pain of having the Asura qi corrode his flesh.
And indeed, as Huwang Xiao thought, moments later Zhao Chen lost all the color from his face all of a sudden. Black fumes weaved around the wound on his waist, issuing hair-raising shrieks.
Steward Feng and others who noticed the abrupt change were alarmed.
“Young Lord, are you alright?!” Steward Feng approached, inquiring with a face full of ‘concern.’
Zhao Chen raised his head, his vicious eyes glowering at Huwang Xiao in the distan
ce, killing intent surged in his eyes as he spat the words: “Kill them!”
Kill!
Steward Feng and the guards immediately called out their martial spirits and soul transformed, pouncing on Huwang Xiao and giant ghost Feng Yang like hungry wolves.
On Zhao Chen’s side, other than Steward Feng, there was one other Saint realm expert. These two Saint realm experts cooperated, targeting their attacks at Huwang Xiao, whereas the five half-Saints focused on giant ghost Feng Yang.
In the eyes of Steward Feng and the guards, the biggest threat was Huwang Xiao. As long they removed the variable Huwang Xiao, everything would be within their control. As for the giant of man behind Huwang Xiao, they were never concerned about him.
Zhao Chen watched gloomily as the five half-Saints sieged the giant man, ordering coldly: “Get it done quickly!”
“Yes, Young Lord!” The five half-Saints answered in unison and went all out, each one executing their most powerful attack on Feng Yang. In a split second, fists and palm imprints covered the area, and blinding lights lit up the space.
Facing attacks from five different directions, giant ghost Feng Yang threw his head back, issuing a strange ear-splitting roar at the sky. The people present were astounded to see the giant ‘man’ neither dodging nor avoiding, letting the five half-Saints’ attack fall on his body.
Zheng! Bang! Blasts and explosions rang out one after another, yet Feng Yang remained standing on the same spot.
Everyone’s eyes popped out in shock.
When the glaring lights dimmed, giant ghost Feng Yang raised his fist, sending a punch towards one of the opponents and that half-Saint lifted one hand, attempting to block giant ghost Feng Yang’s fist, but ended up being thrown back, screaming. His body exploded into pieces in the air, turning into blood mist.
One punch shattered a half-Saint, a peak half-Saint at that.
Then, Feng Yang used both fists, landing punches on two half-Saints’ torsos, the heavy force penetrated through their flesh, coming out from their backs.
The last two remaining half-Saint lost all color from their faces. Just when they turned around wanting to run, gigantic hands clutched at their heads from above, five fingers pierced holes into their skulls. The screams from the two half-Saints were abruptly cut short.
Giant ghost Feng Yang opened his mouth, swallowing the half-Saints’ souls into his body.
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Initially, Zhao Chen’s focus was glued solely on Huwang Xiao alone, but when he noticed his several half-Saint subordinates being easily killed in barely a breath’s time, and sensing the unreserved ghost aura flowing from the giant’s body, the expression on his face became tensed: “Ghost!”
Li Qiuping, Wang Lin, and the others who heard Zhao Chen, inhaled sharply, staring fixedly at giant ghost Feng Yang.
Such a scary level of ghost aura, it was only possible for…?
Saint realm!
This ‘man’ in front of them was a Saint realm ghost cultivator! A Saint realm ghost!
Steward Feng and the other Saint realm expert were working hand in hand against Huwang Xiao when they heard continuous screams, risking a glance over the other battle, both became ashen at the sight of the five half-Saints’ appalling ending.
Feng Yang let out a satisfied burp after swallowing the last two half-Saints’ souls, casually flinging the lifeless bodies to one side as the three-pronged blood spear appeared in his hand. He then lunged forward, brandishing his three-pronged blood spear at Zhao Chen, glowing an eerie blood-red.
Before the three-pronged blood spear arrived, the death aura and rotten stench it emitted had enveloped Zhao Chen. Taken by surprise, Zhao Chen waved his arms hastily, summoning his Saint realm space to counter the attack in front of him.
An explosion thundered in the square and Zhao Chen’s body flew back, straining his waist injury, he had to grit his teeth to keep himself from grunting out. In that short exchange, the Asura Qi that was previously being contained by his Saint realm energy broke out, wreaking havoc internally. Suffering double injuries made Zhao Chen pale.
Giant ghost Feng Yang hollered at the sky, the three-pronged blood spear thrust out another attack.
“Young Lord!” Seeing Zhao Chen’s dire situation, Steward Feng and the other Saint realm couldn’t be bothered with Huwang Xiao anymore, they changed their target to giant ghost Feng Yang. However, just as the two of them prepared to aid Zhao Chen, a shadow flickered and a cloudburst of thousands of millions of blade lights hindered their path. That shadow was none other than Huwang Xiao.
“Tempest of Hell!”
“Tears of Asura!”
The Blades of Asura in Huwang Xiao’s hands served attack after attack, not giving Steward Feng and the Saint realm expert any breathing space, forcing them back, further away from Zhao Chen.
On the other hand, Zhao Chen fared no better, he was pushed into a corner by giant ghost’s Feng Yang’s three-pronged blood spear.
At the edge of the battle, Snow Dragon City’s, Saber Imperial City’s, and Green Ghost City’s disciples were watching, exchanging expressions of muted shock amongst themselves, none of them ever imagined this result.
“Second Senior Brother, should we lend a hand or…?” Wang Lin regained a shred of reason, looked over at Li Qiuping and asked.
Regardless, Zhao Chen was Sin City Castellan’s, Zhao Yi’s son. Moreover, Zhao Chen was highly favored by Zhao Yi, if he ever came to know that while Zhao Chen was in trouble, their Snow Dragon City disciples and others stood by, spectating as Zhao Chen was killed on the side, Zhao Yi’s wrath would burn over to Snow Dragon City, as well as the others.
“Lend him a hand.” Li Qiuping decided, his voice somber.
Whether it was for the sake of Sin City’s Castellan or the ally cooperation between Snow Dragon City and Sin City, he couldn’t stand idle and watch Zhao Chen get killed.
Wang Lin nodded at his decision. With a low bark, a long whip appeared in her hand. It was hard to tell what materials were used to make this long whip, the thong sections were actually segmented, with a total of thirteen parts. With a flick, the long whip instantly bound giant ghost Feng Yang’s body.
Seeing Snow Dragon City’s disciples make their moves, disciples from Saber Imperial City and Green Ghost City had no choice but join in as well.
In a moment of confusion, giant ghost Feng Yang suffered a palm on his chest from Green Ghost City’s Guo Dehui and was knocked back. Thick green smoke rose into the air.
“Go!” Watching the sudden change, Huwang Xiao shouted towards Feng Yang, launching a State of Abundant Lighting attack with the blades in his hands. A sky of rumbling lightning streaks drew a line between the attackers while Huwang Xiao used Space Concealment to appear beside giant ghost Feng Yang. Huwang Xiao placed his hand on his shoulder and both of them vanished from sight in the next instant.
Zhao Chen was laboriously suppressing the Asura Qi in his body when he saw Huwang Xiao and the giant ‘man’ vanish right in front of his eyes. Roaring in anger, he hollered: “Search! Absolutely dig that little ghost out for me!”
But when he saw Li Qiuping and the others’ inaction, his anger spread to them: “What are you all still standing here for, go fㅡking search!!”
Li Qiuping’s brows furrowed with discontent with Zhao Chen’s attitude, shouting at them as if they were his subordinates. He sneered in retort. “Zhao Chen, we’re not your slaves.”
Zhao Chen was indignant.
“Come on, come on, all of us here are brothers, don’t fight because of a small Xiantian. He can run away from the monk, but can’t flee the temple.[1] He definitely won’t be able to run out of the Bedlam Lands, when we manage to corner him later, Brother Zhao Chen can deal with him however you like.” Guo Dehui played the mediator, smiling amiably.
Only then did Zhao Chen’s face looked slightly better.
“That kid probably ran into the Ghost King’s cultivation cave.” A disciple from Saber Imperial City spoke, “Let us h
urry in too, in case that kid gets the first dip, looting the Ghost King Sutra and Ghost King Dan.”
“Ghost King Sutra and Ghost King Dan?” Zhao Chen snickered with contempt, “Are these treasure items things that he could lay his hands in just because he wants to?” Not saying more, Zhao Chen took out a talisman and initiated the array formation inscribed within, summoning Sin City’s experts.
After advancing into the Saint realm, one would posses the ability to manipulate space. Certain array formations or talisman, such as these, could be used to summon comrades and relay messages.
Moments later, Zhao Chen and the rest too made their move into the Ghost King’s cultivation cave.
Huwang Xiao, on the other hand, quickly passed through the first floor of the Ghost King’s cultivation cave to the second floor with giant ghost Feng Yang guiding the way. The first floor was a vast field of snow, whereas the second floor was an endless range of mountains.
A bright sun that never seemed to set hung high up above the mountain peaks, a picture of calm and peace. But giant ghost Feng Yang faced Huwang Xiao with a dignified expression: “Owner, the mountains on this second floor are rigged with powerful array formations, to the extent that bumping carelessly into a single leaf or a branch could trigger their activation. We must fly across this long mountain range in one go, cautiously.”
Fly over this mountain range without stopping at all? Huwang Xiao was stunned. Then he breathed out in relief, this matter may be difficult to others, but not to him.
Because he had the Godly Mt. Xumi. Borrowing the power of the Ten Buddha Formation, he could fly using the Godly Mt. Xumi all the way until they reached the third floor entrance.
“Other than this, what else do I need to pay attention to?” Huwang Xiao asked.
Seeing that Huwang Xiao didn’t seem to place importance on his previous reminder, he couldn’t resist emphasizing the matter once more: “Owner, the arrays around this mountains are very strong, accidentally triggering any of them, even a Saint realm expert could fall on the spot.”