I Am Overlord c1-962

by Translator: Pokka; Author: 我本纯洁 (I Am Pure); Licensed From: Migu

  It created a stampede of gold serpentine crocodiles with many of them stomped to death by their own companions in the chaos. Even the young disciples at the outer fringe of the Golden River Valley heard the sound, their hearts trembling in fear.

  "What sound is that? It's so scary..."

  "It's a tiger's roar. Oh come on, don't tell me there's a tiger king here as well? The roar was so fearsome."

  "A new Demon King tiger must have appeared here. But I thought this was the territory of the gold serpentine crocodiles?"

  "I don't think it's as simple as a Demon King. It felt like something even more powerful."

  "Damn it! A lot of gold serpentine crocodiles are rushing out. Shit! Run!"

  ...

  The sound wave threw the entire Golden River Valley into chaos. Many young disciples hunting gold serpentine crocodiles suffered as a result, with many of them either killed or injured by the stampede.

  Fortunately, the King Realm cultivators had been paying attention to the valley. They immediately rushed over on their chariot when they sensed what was happening. The leader of the group was Mo Chage, a commander from Cloud Margin City. He was currently a fifth-stage Skysoar Realm cultivator possessing extraordinary strength. The people around him were all Skysoar Realm experts as well.

  "Commander, something has changed within the Golden River Valley," said one of them.

  "Yeah, is the puzzle of the Golden River Valley about to be solved?" Mo Chage said with a frown.

  "Do we save the children?" someone asked.

  "Crisis is required to unearth the true talents. Only by surviving this will they become elites. Let's go take a look over instead," Mo Chage said indifferently.

  "Commander, even gold serpentine crocodile kings are flying out of that place. If we go in that direction, things will get troublesome," said someone.

  "We don't have any other choice right now," Mo Chage said.

  Then, their chariot sped toward the depths of the Golden River Valley. But before they could even get near, they stumbled upon a large number of gold serpentine crocodile kings who then attacked them. It forced them to stop and deal with the gold serpentine crocodile kings.

  But before long, they found themselves unable to hold on any longer. There were too many gold serpentine crocodile kings. Right this instant, a few figures could be seen darting over at an astonishing speed. The newcomers joined in on the battle and instantly killed a large number of gold serpentine crocodile kings.

  "Thank you for the assistance, senior brothers," Mo Chage said gratefully after they finally managed to beat the gold serpentine crocodiles off.

  "Alright, enough of the pleasantries. Let's go see what's going on," said the leader of the newcomers.

  Chapter 127: Play the Fool

  Xiang Shaoyun was in a miserable state. He had fallen from Little White's back. With nothing protecting him, he crashed heavily onto the ground below. He nearly fainted from the crash, his entire body filled with pain.

  If he had not reacted quickly enough and sent an attack downward to slow his descent, he might have fallen to his death. On top of that, his tough physical flesh and energy barrier had also contributed greatly to his survival.

  By the time he got back on his feet, the only thing he saw was an expanse of gold serpentine crocodile corpses. Even Demon King gold serpentine crocodiles were among them. All of them had been killed by the sound wave, forming a spectacular field of death.

  The sight of this stunned Xiang Shaoyun. A single sound wave to kill so many Demon Kings. How fearsome was that sound wave? Being a well-read person, he immediately understood that the so-called secret here was in fact a terrifying one.

  Demon Emperor? Or something stronger? Xiang Shaoyun pondered.

  Since the owner of that sound wave had dragged Little White away, it could only mean that the owner was somehow related to Little White. This was Little White's own fortuitous encounter.

  Xiang Shaoyun started studying his surroundings and found a large hole emanating a vicious gold aura not far from him. Little White must have been dragged in there. He wanted to approach the hole, but the vicious gold aura immediately left numerous cuts on his skin.

  "This vicious gold aura is so violent. Perhaps there's a unique type of metal energy gathering in there?" Xiang Shaoyun muttered to himself as he studied the gold aura with his sharp eyes.

  Each type of power existed in a different form, with each form possessing an extraordinary ability. If one was to absorb this vicious gold aura and cultivate with it, one would grow stronger while one's attack grew even more destructive.

  Although Xiang Shaoyun already had innate purple lightning within him, he did not mind absorbing a different energy to increase his combat prowess. Unfortunately, he was having a hard time approaching the hole. The vicious gold aura was able to kill even King Realm cultivators, much less him.

  Soon, Xiang Shaoyun readjusted his mood and shifted his gaze to the dead gold serpentine crocodiles instead. He drew his Overlord Skyslaying Saber, preparing to harvest all the demonic cores of these corpses.

  This was in fact a large harvest, one that many people would dream of. Even the corpses were all valuable. But Xiang Shaoyun had no way of gathering all of them. After all, his astral cosmos sea only had a storage space of 10 square meters.

  Gold serpentine crocodiles had hard skulls. Xiang Shaoyun was unable to slice one open just by slashing his saber. Instead, he had to channel his innate purple lightning to the saber before he could actually open the skull.

  Soon, a demonic core appeared before him. The demonic core looked like a round bead emanating a gold radiance and was shrouded in a thick demonic aura. A demonic core could not be consumed directly. One had to first refine it with some herbs before it could be consumed to increase one's strength.

  In truth, demonic cores were excellent materials that many pill refiners would love to get their hands on. Xiang Shaoyun had personally witnessed many such refining processes. Thus, he kept the demonic core into his astral cosmos sea. After finding suitable king medicines, he would then refine the demonic core before consuming it. After opening the skulls of about a dozen gold serpentine crocodiles, he obtained seven demonic cores. It was obvious these were among the strongest demonic beasts in the valley.

  By the time Xiang Shaoyun harvested his ninth demonic core, he noticed something. He found that these demonic cores were also emanating faint traces of vicious gold energy that was much purer than what he gained when consuming gold serpentine crocodile meat.

  "Looks like this is the reason for the gold serpentine crocodiles to be so strong here," Xiang Shaoyun muttered. While he was busy harvesting demonic cores, he suddenly sensed an intense battle happening not far from him. It was obvious human experts had arrived as well.

  "Looks like the incident has been so flashy even human experts were attracted. What should I do now?" Xiang Shaoyun was troubled. He wished badly that Little White could come out here and bring him into the hole as well. But he was also clear of how unlikely that was to happen. He had to rely on himself.

  While Xiang Shaoyun was anxiously thinking of a solution, his gaze landed on a gold tree. On the tree were five gold fruits. The fruits were shaped like snakes, looking incredibly dazzling and lively.

  "Gold serpent fruit!" Xiang Shaoyun's eyes lit up.

  This was a high-grade spirit medicine, containing boundless energy within. High-grade spirit medicine was the best quality a medicinal herb could be below king medicine. Xiang Shaoyun darted forward and plucked all the gold serpent fruits he saw. He could immediately reach the Transformation Realm just by swallowing one of them if he wanted. But this was not the best time for that. He had to prioritize hiding himself.

  Just as Xiang Shaoyun was trying to decide where to hide, he discovered that the vicious gold aura near the hole was withdrawing. By the time all the vicious gold aura had withdrawn into the hole, the gold radiance in the area had dimmed considerably. Angry roars were also ringing out
from within the hole.

  "Roar! Roar!"

  The roars were filled with a majestic aura as they echoed repeatedly in the hole. Different than the first roar, these roars no longer seemed as murderous as earlier. At this time, the human experts had arrived above the hole as well. Here, they were undisturbed by the gold serpentine crocodile kings who dared not approach out of fear for whatever was inside.

  As for the group of King Realm cultivators, they were all hesitating on whether they should enter the hole. Suddenly, one of them noticed Xiang Shaoyun and said, "There's a young man down there."

  "Let’s conceal our aura and take a look down there," said someone else.

  Thus, the King Realm cultivators descended toward Xiang Shaoyun's position. Xiang Shaoyun had long sensed that he had been noticed. His brain worked rapidly, trying to think of something to save his skin.

  Thus, when the group of King Realm cultivators landed, Xiang Shaoyun merely hugged his head as he shouted repeatedly, "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

  "Kid, which academy are you from? What are you doing here?" Mo Chage asked.

  "Are you gold serpentine crocodile kings in human shape? You're not thinking of making me your human pet, right? No, no, no, please spare my chrysanthemum!" Xiang Shaoyun screamed with a frightened expression.

  Play the fool!

  This might be the best way to dispel any suspicion they had toward him. He really couldn't think of a good excuse explaining how he managed to get here otherwise. After all, this was the deepest part of the Golden River Valley guarded by countless gold serpentine crocodiles with Demon Kings among their ranks. It would make no sense for an Astral Realm cultivator to be able to reach this place safely.

  "Demon King? Human pet? Are you a disciple kidnapped by a gold serpentine crocodile king?" asked a different person.

  This person's cultivation level was even higher than Mo Chage’s. He was a seventh-stage Skysoar Realm cultivator, a late-stage in the Skysoar Realm. He was an elder from Cloud Margin Pavilion and his name was He Luo. As for the people behind him, they were all his junior brothers from the Cloud Margin Pavilion. One of them looked particularly familiar to Xiang Shaoyun.

  That person was about 30 years old, the youngest of the bunch. Despite his age, he emanated a thick purple aura. Standing there with his back perfectly straight, he was akin to a bolt of lightning that one couldn't look straight at.

  Chapter 128: You Are Treating Human Life Like Grass

  Young Lightning King! A familiar name surfaced in Xiang Shaoyun's head. He still remembered that when he was gathering lightning at the Hundred Beast Mountain Range, a King Realm cultivator had appeared to try to tame the lightning condor king. That person was precisely this Young Lightning King.

  At the time, Xiang Shaoyun was only able to look at this Young Lightning King from afar. Thus, he never got a good look at this person. In any case, this fellow was busy fighting at that time. Thus, Xiang Shaoyun had not paid him much attention.

  After sensing the familiarity of this person's aura with the Young Lightning King's aura, Xiang Shaoyun concluded that this person was definitely the same Young Lightning King. The Young Lightning King was a tall and handsome young man. His purple hair whipped about in the wind, a lightning armor covered his body, and his hand wielded a lightning spear. A thick and fierce lightning energy swirled about him, making it clear he was a rarely seen genius in cultivation.

  Young Lightning King was also the personal disciple of Cloud Margin Pavilion's vice pavilion master, the Lightning King. In both the Cloud Margin City and Cloud Margin Pavilion, the Young Lightning King was among the top 10 disciples of his generation, and his real name was Zi Poli.

  Sensing Xiang Shaoyun's gaze, the Young Lightning King shot him an indifferent glance.

  Eighth-stage Astral Realm cultivator? He seems familiar... Young Lightning King pondered doubtfully.

  During the Hundred Beast Mountain Range incident, all his focus had been on the lightning condors and the lightning tribulation. Thus, he had not noticed Xiang Shaoyun. Even if he did manage to catch a glimpse of Xiang Shaoyun, he wouldn't put such an insignificant cultivator in his mind.

  "Are you the seniors of the human race? Please, take me away from here! The Demon Kings are all perverse freaks! They all claimed that they are going to tear my chrysanthemum apart!" Xiang Shaoyun said anxiously, looking like he was on the verge of tears. They were all convinced that Xiang Shaoyun was telling the truth. That was the only explanation as to how an Astral Realm cultivator could reach this place safely.

  "No, wait a minute. Even the Demon Kings here have been jolted to death by the sound wave. Why are you still alive?" the Young Lightning King suddenly questioned.

  One ought to admit that Young Lightning King was quite an observant person. With that question, everyone focused on Xiang Shaoyun once again.

  "I-I don't know. I really am a disciple of Martial Hall Palace. Look, this is my jade plate!" Xiang Shaoyun clenched his teeth and decided to continue playing the fool. As he spoke, he showed them his jade plate.

  When Mo Chage took the jade plate in his hand, astonishment crept into his eyes, and he said, "You actually have 4,350 points?"

  He was the one who had announced the rules for this year's Battle of Towns. He was thus naturally aware of what 4,350 points signified. One first-stage Great Demon gold serpentine crocodile was worth 200 points. Since Xiang Shaoyun had over 4,000 points in his jade plate, that was equivalent to killing over 200 first-stage Great Demon gold serpentine crocodiles.

  But this kid was merely an eighth-stage Astral Realm cultivator. So how had he accomplished that? Not even an early-stage Transformation Realm cultivator could gather so many points in only 10 days.

  "Alright, since he is one of the disciples participating in the competition, forget about him. Our top priority is to figure out what's going on here," said He Luo. He could no longer be bothered with Xiang Shaoyun and was now focusing on the hole not far away.

  "Look at how many dead Demon Kings there are here. Should we really go? Why don't we return to the pavilion and report this to the higher ups?" someone suggested.

  "No, things might change further if we take the time to return. We must first try to enter. We will think of something if we really can't do anything," said He Luo.

  Thus, the group started cautiously approaching the hole. All was peaceful with nothing happening at all as they approached the hole. At the hole entrance, they looked inside with thoughtful gazes.

  "Do we enter?" They hesitated.

  "I-I saw some goldsteel stones! There are so many goldsteel stones in there!" Mo Chage suddenly cried out.

  The goldsteel stone was a rare material capable of forging king equipment and was an extremely valuable material.

  "There really are goldsteel stones there! A thick vicious gold aura is also leaking from within the hole. Is there really some treasure hidden in there?" He Luo muttered as his eyes lit up.

  "So do we enter or not?" someone asked.

  "If we enter like this, we will most certainly die. That aura within is a pure vicious gold aura. We can only stand guard and wait for reinforcements from the pavilion," said someone else.

  The others also nodded in agreement. They all understood that whatever treasure was down there, it was not something they would be able to leave alive with. They could not act rashly.

  "Eh, why not we send a scout to explore the hole and see if anything will come out of it," Young Lightning King suggested with a sneer. Right after he said that, his figure flickered and vanished. He then appeared right before Xiang Shaoyun who was trying to sneak away.

  "Big brother, how may I help you?" Xiang Shaoyun asked. The Young Lightning King couldn't be bothered to say anything. He directly grabbed Xiang Shaoyun before dragging him over to the hole.

  "Poli, what are you doing? He is a disciple participating in the competition," Mo Chage said.

  "It's normal for disciples to die during the competition. We might as wel
l use him to scout the hole for us," said the Young Lightning King with a sinister smile. Right after saying that, he tossed Xiang Shaoyun into the hole.

  Xiang Shaoyun finally understood what was going on as he quickly grabbed the edge of the hole entrance and glared at Young Lightning King. "You are treating human life like grass!"

  "Oh? You have quite the reaction time, huh? Too bad, your life is worth less than a dog in my eyes," said the Young Lightning King before sending a kick toward Xiang Shaoyun.

  Xiang Shaoyun had no intention to be sent into the depths of the hole. He would be turned into a clump of blood if that happened.

  "Screw you!" Xiang Shaoyun shouted furiously. But before he could even fully muster his strength, Young Lightning King's foot had already landed on his face, causing him to feel dizzy. Blood blood spurted out of his nose.

  The gap between him and a King Realm cultivator was too wide. He was completely helpless before this opponent. The kick caused Xiang Shaoyun to lose his balance and fall into the large hole.

  "Poli...you..." Mo Chage was infuriated by this action. But when he recalled the mighty master the Young Lightning King had, he swallowed the remaining words he had to say.

  "Don't worry, Commander Mo. It is better we focus to see if this will cause any changes," said the Young Lightning King. He did not care about Mo Chage's anger at all. His gaze was focused on the hole. He Luo and the others had the same reaction. In their eyes, Xiang Shaoyun was nothing but a bug. The death of a bug was not worth mentioning.

  Thus, everyone looked down into the hole and watched on as the raging vicious gold aura instantly swallowed Xiang Shaoyun. Blood could be seen splashing everywhere as well. Just like that, a life was erased before them.

  "Looks like this vicious gold aura is extremely thick. Is this the domain of a Demon Emperor?" He Luo said as a solemn look crept onto his face.