Asura Sovereign XII

by Shian Jeen

  After flying close to half an hour, Huwang Xiao finally reached the source of the demonic qi.

  Stopping in midair, Huwang Xiao observed the grand altar in the distance. It was ten li wide, ten li in length, and two li tall.

  At the center of the altar was an array formed of mysterious symbols. In the middle of the array, two enormous beast arms were sealed.

  Huwang Xiao was unable to describe in words how enormous those two beast arms covered in furry hair were. On one end of the arms were golden veins that looked like hovering golden dragons, whereas the other end has ten sharp claws extended out, resembling ten forgotten giant blades covered in dust for centuries.

  These were the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s arms?!

  While Huwang Xiao was staring at the enormous arms in shock, the two arms shook violently all of a sudden. The thick demonic qi in the air rushed toward them, forming a hundred zhang tall demonic beast’s body.

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  The instant that hundred zhang demonic beast’s body condensed into a real body, a giant palm was already slamming down on Huwang Xiao.

  Demonic qi surged like there was no end to it.

  Before this overwhelming giant palm formed from condensed demonic qi, everything lost its color, nothing but despairing gray remained.

  However, Huwang Xiao was prepared, his figure jumped several times backward.

  In less than a breath’s time, the horrifying gray giant palm struck the place where Huwang Xiao was standing earlier. Space shattered and the ground quaked as if a piece of sky was falling.

  As if it didn’t expect Huwang Xiao to be able to dodge its attack, its action paused slightly in surprise before its palm swept to the side in Huwang Xiao’s direction.

  Everything was sent flying. This mere sweep seemed to push everything out of this gray space, leaving a vacuum behind it.

  Huwang Xiao’s expression turned grim as he watched the giant beast palm coming at him. But this time, he did not dodge. Black and blue twin dragons flew out from his body and the soul transformation happened in an instant. The force in his dantian churned, true immortal essence fire burst out from his palms as Huwang Xiao countered the giant beast palm.

  Rumble—!

  An ear-splitting boom resounded.

  Destructive shockwaves swept out in all directions, the whole gray space shook like it was on the verge of collapsing.

  The terrifying shockwaves were rushing out in Huwang Xiao’s direction, so Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi swiftly wound its golden body around Huwang Xiao in protection. With a turn, true dragon qi erupted from Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s body, dispersing the shockwaves.

  Huwang Xiao quickly retreated even further.

  The hundred zhang demonic beast was surprised once again.

  Based on the force of its sweeping palm, it was more than sufficient to kill the average perfection stage Tenth Order God Realm masters, yet it failed to kill a little guy that had just recently broken through to Tenth Order God Realm?

  “Little guy, I, Hundred Spirits Beast King, have swept over the galaxy unhindered for thousands of years, and have seen countless talents and geniuses, but this is the first time a human managed to surprise me.” That hundred zhang demonic beast no longer attacked, standing loftily with its arms across its chest, laughing at Huwang Xiao.

  Hundred Spirits Beast King!

  This hundred zhang demonic beast resembled the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s actual physique before it was dismembered and sealed.

  Of course, this ‘body’ was formed by a remnant of its will using the demonic qi coming from its arms.

  Even so, its strength was formidable.

  Huwang Xiao maintained an aloof expression facing the other side, waiting to hear what this remnant of the Hundred Spirits Beast King wanted to say.

  The Hundred Spirits Beast King went on, “Little guy, since you’re capable of reaching this space, it is fated. Are you interested in being my disciple? I, Hundred Spirits Beast King have never taken in any disciples while I was alive, if you’re willing to be my disciple, I will pass to you everything I know. Including the Hundred Spirits Demonic Art.” Its voice carried a hint of temptation.

  Any average person would be jumping in ecstasy right now… Becoming the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s disciple, how many cultivators could only dream of something like this, especially the demonic beast clan masters. Amongst the demonic beast clans, the Hundred Spirits Beast King was hailed as the Holy Ancestor.

  Unfortunately, the person it was trying to tempt was Huwang Xiao.

  “This is the demonic beast clan’s Disorienting Mind Art.” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi spoke, his voice echoing in the air.

  Huwang Xiao nodded.

  This Disorienting Mind Art was ineffective on him. His soul’s clarity had reached a shocking state, not easily influenced or affected.

  Huwang Xiao slightly tilted his head, looking directly at the hundred zhang demonic beast. His mouth curved into a cold sneer, “I know very well that your sole purpose is to have me help you undo the seal, releasing your arms, right? You’d better quit this subpar pretense, Hundred Spirits Beast King. If this was your actual body, I’d think twice before doing anything, however, this is merely a body condensed through your will, therefore…!”

  A sharp light flickered in Huwang Xiao’s eyes, “Today, you’re fated to be subjugated and absorbed by me!”

  Huwang Xiao’s words were not bravado, if he was facing the true Hundred Spirits Beast King, he’d be thinking twice, even thrice, before fighting with it, but the other side was only a temporary body formed through its will. Not to mention the fact that he had the Black Tortoise Divine Fire and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi helping him, Huwang Xiao was confident they could defeat this monster and refine it!

  The hundred zhang demonic beast was greatly angered by this puny human that dared to ridicule him, its palm came slamming down once again at alarming speed. Gray demonic qi roiled and rumbled in the space.

  “You little runt, even if I’m merely a body condensed out of will, killing you is as easy as snapping my fingers. Don’t think I can’t kill you just because you have that little dragon protecting you!”

  “Hundred Spirits Demonic Art!”

  The hundred zhang tall demonic beast attacked Huwang Xiao again, and the attack this time was several times more powerful than its earlier attacks. Overwhelming force fell down, cutting off all of Huwang Xiao’s paths of retreat.

  Huwang Xiao was calm, unperturbed as the Black Tortoise Divine Armor on his body released a blinding snowy-blue light, shrouding his immediate surroundings. At the same time, a bright light flashed in Huwang Xiao’s hands as two snowy-blue longswords appeared, flying straight at the hundred zhang tall demonic beast.

  In an instant, the rolling demonic qi that neared Huwang Xiao was instantly burned by the bright snowy-blue light. Meanwhile, the two longswords shot through the thick layer of demonic qi, piercing through the hundred zhang tall demonic beast’s chest.

  A thunderous scream rang in the gray space.

  “This, what kind of fire is this?!”

  “Impossible, how can there be a fire that could break past my Hundred Spirits demonic qi!”

  The hundred zhang tall demonic beast roared endlessly in fury, dissatisfaction, and disbelief.

  Although the Black Tortoise Divine Fire was one of the four galaxies’ four great divine fires, only a handful of people had seen it. Therefore, even the Hundred Spirits Beast King who terrorized the galaxies for thousands of centuries in the past was experiencing one of the four great divine fires for the first time. This was also the reason why the it had ignored the bright fluttering fire on Huwang Xiao’s armor.

  Moreover, the Hundred Spirits Beast King had absolute confidence in its qi being the world’s strongest demonic qi, not even a divine artifact could break past it, which was why it did not dodge the two fiery longswords.

  Huwang Xiao’s confidence increased watching the divine fire longswords successfully
pierce through the demonic beast’s chest. Without a second delay, Huwang Xiao manipulated the longswords for a second attack.

  “You, this, this is one of the four great divine fires?!” The hundred zhang tall demonic beast dodged in panic, suddenly shouting.

  Between heaven and earth, only the mythical four divine fires were able to burn through his Hundred Spirits demonic qi!

  Huwang Xiao didn’t bother to answer, continuing with his attacks.

  As long as this demonic body was destroyed, the subsequent refinement of the arms would be less troublesome.

  Although Huwang Xiao ignored the question, the Hundred Spirits Beast King felt that it had guessed correctly, that snow-white fire, with a hint of the icy-blue, was one of the four divine fires. Its fury rose, interlaced with fear.

  It had assumed that no one would be able to hurt this body formed from its Hundred Spirits demonic qi, yet...!

  Under Huwang Xiao’s fiery longswords’ attacks, it could only dodge and retreat in a sorry state.

  “Attack its head!” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi said to Huwang Xiao using voice transmission. Huwang Xiao immediately understood his intention.

  Since this hundred zhang tall demonic body was formed out of will, then, as long as they destroyed its will, this demonic body would naturally dissipate. Its will was located in the head.

  But, even though Huwang Xiao’s Black Tortoise Divine Fire longswords were able to deal severe damage to the Hundred Spirits demonic body, destroying its will was a little more difficult.

  This battle went on for several hours.

  Destructive forces colliding inside the gray space. This destructive force was powerful enough to turn an average early Tenth Order God Realm into ash.

  Fortunately, those colliding destructive forces did not leak out from the grey space, otherwise, the ruckus in the mountain range above would have attracted the Golden World Mountain Alliance’s masters.

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  Several days later, after an intense bitter battle with help from the Black Tortoise Divine Fire and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi, Huwang Xiao finally succeeded in breaking that Hundred Spirits Beast King’s body by destroying the remnant will contained in its head.

  The moment Huwang Xiao relaxed after destroying the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s remnant will, a strong fatigue washed over him, panting heavily out of breath.

  This was the hardest battle he fought ever since he was reborn into this world.

  If it weren’t for the Black Tortoise Divine Fire and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s help, regardless of Huwang Xiao’s own strength and his True Dragon Physique or even his true immortal essence fire, he would have most likely ended up being devoured by the enemy.

  Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi still felt apprehensive despite the battle having ended, never had he imagined that a mere body condensed out of demonic qi by the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s remnant will would be so horrendously powerful. One could imagine how terrifying the Hundred Spirits Beast King actually was in the past.

  No wonder the first Black Warrior Institute Principal and those great masters couldn’t truly kill it.

  Huwang Xiao dragged his heavy body into a meditative position, swallowed a Spring Autumn Hundred Life Divine Pellet and employed his martial spirits’ Instant Recovery ability to replenish his true immortal essence and god battle qi.

  One hour later, Huwang Xiao was back in peak form.

  Standing up, Huwang Xiao leaped onto the grand altar.

  After the bitter battle, it was now time to reap the harvest—refining the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s giant arms.

  Then again, Huwang Xiao dared not proceed carelessly. He carefully studied the mysterious sealing symbols on the altar

  Since these symbols were able to suppress the Hundred Spirits Beast King, then they were also a treasure hard to come by.

  Studying the sealing symbols greatly benefited Huwang Xiao. To his embarrassment, Huwang Xiao spent four months to understand the profound symbols despite his strong comprehension ability and his Etheric Physique.

  After he was done studying the sealing symbols, Huwang Xiao approached the center of the altar, stepping closer to the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s giant arms.

  Just as Huwang Xiao took a step toward the center, the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s arms suddenly twitched, the sealing symbols around them glimmered brightly. The giant arms were trying to forcefully break free from the seal.

  Seeing this, Huwang Xiao’s hands moved and the seal shone even brighter, completely suppressing the arms, so that they couldn’t even move an inch.

  Following that, a light flashed from Huwang Xiao’s hands, revealing two fiery longswords. With a wave, the two longswords pierced through the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s arms.

  Consecutive muffled bangs rang as grey demonic qi surged out from the arms in retaliation.

  But this grey demonic qi was quickly burned into nothing by the Black Tortoise Divine Fire.

  The sealing symbols once again shook as Huwang Xiao manipulated the formation to tighten the suppression on the demonic beast arms.

  This repeated for an entire month before the strength of the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s arms gradually reduced and weakened.

  Huwang Xiao was happy watching this, just a little bit more time and he’d be able to expel all the demonic qi. As Huwang Xiao expected, ten days later, there was no more resistance from the giant arms, lying quietly at the center of the sealing symbols.

  ‘At last!’ Huwang Xiao breathed in relief.

  Finally, it was time to harvest the fruit of his hard work from these months.

  Standing in the air right above the giant arms, Huwang Xiao took a deep breath and sat in a cross-legged position. Then he began running the Asura Tactics, refining and absorbing the energy from the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s arms.

  From the upper side of the two giant arms, gaseous strands that shimmered like red agate flew out, entering Huwang Xiao’s body, refined and absorbed.

  This was the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s blood essence.

  There was a shocking degree of energy contained in its blood essence, moreover, this energy was extremely violent in nature.

  Inside Huwang Xiao’s body, the Treasure Dragon diagram was devouring this energy at an increasingly frantic speed, yet it still wasn’t fast enough. Some of this violent blood essence energy escaped out from his body, forming into blood-colored demonic beast figures.

  From afar, Huwang Xiao appeared to be a majestic Beast King that sat crossed-legged in the middle of a sea of demonic beasts.

  As his physique was continuously tempered by the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s blood essence, Huwang Xiao could clearly feel the changes happening to his body.

  His internal organs that shimmered like a galaxy were strengthened once more, becoming studier, with a sheen surface.

  At the same time, the Black Tortoise Divine Fire in the shape of a tortoise inside Huwang Xiao opened its mouth, absorbing all the blood essence that floated out of Huwang Xiao’s body.

  After a while, the Black Tortoise Divine Fire appeared to have grown bigger. Although it wasn’t obvious, Huwang Xiao sensed the changes happening to the Black Tortoise Divine Fire.

  Day after day passed, year after year.

  Five years had gone by, spent in refining and absorbing the blood essence inside those giant arms. At the end of the five years, the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s blood essence gradually grew paler in color.

  Huwang Xiao, who was an early Tenth Order God Realm cultivator, advanced into mid-Tenth Order God Realm.

  Another year later, the Hundred Spirits Beast King’s blood essence was fully refined and the two giant arms on the altar turned into gray ash, disappearing from the altar.

  Huwang Xiao slowly opened his eyes, a dignified aura shone from within.

  The whole gray space shook, wind cyclones blew out with Huwang Xiao as the center, swallowing everything in their path.

  Only when Huwang Xiao stood up
did the wind cyclones stop.

  “Mid-Tenth Order God Realm.” Huwang Xiao muttered to himself.

  After this breakthrough to mid-Tenth Order, Huwang Xiao was different from how he used to be, happy with every breakthrough. He didn’t feel anything in the slightest, neither joy nor sadness.

  He made a grasping motion in the air, and in the space above, spiritual energy rushed toward his hand, condensing into a piece of mid-divine grade spirit stone.

  A divine grade spirit stone in certain first rank forces was something placed in the deeper section of the treasury. Unless it was absolutely necessary, that spirit stone would not be taken out.

  However, Huwang Xiao was able to condense the same grade of spirit stones from the air.

  “Mid-divine grade!” A small ripple flickered past his eyes. “According to this, once I break through to the Highgod Realm, I’d be able to condense sacred grade immortal spirit stones.”

  Sacred grade immortal spirit stones, that was something even super forces and Highgod Realm masters went crazy over.

  “It’s been over six years, I wonder how the situation is outside.” Thinking of this, Huwang Xiao’s figure vanished from the spot. In a short time, he returned to the ground surface.

  Even so, he did not head to the Alliance headquarters. Standing there, his divine sense spread out, searching for the demonic beast clans.

  Of course, he had not forgotten his other purpose in coming to the Golden Mountain World—kill ten Seventh Order God Realm demonic beasts for his Elder promotion.

  If those demonic beast clans’ masters hadn’t left the Golden Mountain World, Huwang Xiao’s divine sense would be able to locate them easily.

  After some searching, he soon found a group of demonic beast clans’ masters inside a small cave in a poison valley.

  There were more than thirty of them, and as luck would have it, the majority were of Seventh Order God Realm cultivation.

  A smile spread over Huwang Xiao’s face. Without a warning, he ‘served’ each of these demonic beast clans’ masters a fist, obliterating the entire group. He then collected more than twenty corpses of Seventh Order God Realms into his spatial ring and left the Golden Mountain World for the Vermilion Bird Institute.