I Am Overlord c1-962

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

  I have never expected that absorbing devilish energy will actually help my bloodline transform. Perhaps a day will come when this no longer remains a secret. Only by becoming stronger will I be able to overcome all adversaries, thought Xiang Shaoyun.

  The other devil wind beast shot blades of wind from its mouth, sending a raging storm of blades toward Xiang Shaoyun. It was an attack capable of threatening even fifth-stage Skysoar Realm cultivators.

  Xiang Shaoyun glanced at the blades and casually waved his hands, directly shattering all of them. His body then flickered before a Gold Helix Fist shot forward and struck the devil wind beast.

  Bang!

  The beast exploded from that one punch. The other beast was injured but still alive. It tried to escape, but Xiang Shaoyun had no intention of sparing it. He swept his leg forward, attacking with the power of wind, and hacked the beast into two with his kick.

  "Why do people say that the power of wind is not very destructive? I don't think so at all," muttered Xiang Shaoyun, shocked by the power of his kick.

  He had only spent a day and a night absorbing wind energy, yet a casual kick of his was already so powerful. It was blatantly obvious he had grown greatly in strength. However, he was still shocked by his own kick. After all, he had never cultivated a wind elemental battle technique, and this was only a casual kick.

  He calmed down and used his inner gaze to study his star. He found that his wind star was filled with a plentiful amount of energy. It would seem like he had absorbed a considerable amount of wind energy during his meditation. With his filled star coupled with his ability to punch above his weight, it was completely unsurprising that his kick was so powerful.

  Of course, in comparison with his lightning, gold, and flame stars, the wind star was still weaker. This was the gap between unique elemental powers and regular elemental powers.

  "Great! I guess it is time for me to get going, then," said Xiang Shaoyun. With a confident smile, he strode into the devil wind beast territory.

  Chapter 462: Footwork Advancement

  The devil wind beasts occupied a large territory. After all, any place with the power of wind was a suitable habitat for the devil wind beasts. At present, the geniuses were searching for the yin devil wind all over the territory.

  Naturally, in the course of their search, they had encountered a large number of devil wind beasts. They were forced to fight without stop, all for the sake of obtaining the yin devil wind. However, the yin devil wind had always been something that never remained at a fixed spot. Locating it wouldn't be easy.

  Xiang Shaoyun was also rushing around in search of the yin devil wind. After recovering his strength, he had been moving around the devil wind beast territory like a fish back in water. While searching for the yin devil wind, he was also cultivating the power of wind, trying to increase his speed as much as possible.

  After some testing, his speed when using the power of wind had increased by about 30 percent, reaching mid-stage of moving like the wind. Perhaps a spark of inspiration was all he needed to advance one step further in his footwork intent cultivation.

  During the past three days, he had slain a considerable number of devil wind beasts and harvested a decent number of devil cores. He would directly absorb the power within these devil cores whenever he obtained one. While absorbing the power of the devil cores, he could both grow his strength and gain some comprehension on the way the devil wind beasts utilized the wind.

  "Roar!"

  Suddenly, a devil wind beast shot out from a bush. Using the power of wind, it instantly arrived behind Xiang Shaoyun and opened its mouth wide, trying to devour him. Xiang Shaoyun dodged to the side as if he had a pair of eyes on the back of his head. He reappeared at the beast's flank and threw a lightning punch powered by his domineering innate purple lightning, blasting the beast apart.

  Blood splashed everywhere while a brand new devil core appeared in Xiang Shaoyun's palm. He quickly refined the core, and as his aura grew, he thought, Others would only dare to absorb the power of a devil core after purifying the devilish energy within, only getting a third or less of the core's power. I might not be able to get all the power absorbing it directly like this, but I can still get at least half of it. If this continues, I will be able to reach the peak of the fourth stage before long. Looks like the Devil Domain is a heaven for me!

  Anyone would be utterly shocked to know what Xiang Shaoyun was thinking. The Devil Domain was akin to a hell filled with powerful devils. An ordinary person would be weakened after entering, and they could easily die. As for Xiang Shaoyun, this was a heaven where he could quickly grow in strength. It was definitely something inconceivable for many people.

  Then again, that was understandable since Xiang Shaoyun did not need to fear the devilish energy. That alone separated him from everyone else. He was about to continue moving when he threw the beast corpse one last glance. He stopped and burned the corpse.

  During the burning process, he could see the devil wind beast's blood essence seeping out of the corpse. He hesitated for a bit before gathering the blood essence in his hand. After giving it some thought, he swallowed the blood essence.

  When Xiang Shaoyun had first arrived, he had purchased a bottle of devil wind beast. The peddler had claimed that the devil blood belonged to a high-level devil. In any case, that bottle of blood had indeed formed some sort of resonance with him.

  Presently, he was consuming the devil wind beast's blood essence as he was trying to figure out if his blood would react to the blood of any devil. But after consuming the blood essence, his blood started vibrating at a certain frequency before expelling the blood essence instead of fusing with it.

  After Xiang Shaoyun witnessed that with his inner gaze, he sighed, Looks like only the blood essence of devils with similar bloodlines to mine can be assimilated into my blood.

  He stopped thinking about it and continued heading deeper into the devil wind beast territory. He was confident the yin devil wind was somewhere in there. After all, the deeper he went, the stronger the wind. Even now, his clothes were already completely disheveled due to the wind. In fact, the wind was strong enough to directly blow an ordinary cultivator away.

  Xiang Shaoyun was in no rush. Instead, he traveled at a steady pace while sensing the flow of air in his surroundings and comprehending the profundity of wind. He had been doing this daily without fail for the past few days. Only by quickly comprehending the essence of the power of wind would he be able to borrow the wind here to improve his footwork intent.

  With the gift of instincts, Xiang Shaoyun could see the flow of air clearly. Every step he took was in accordance with the movement of the wind. Eventually, without realizing it, he was already capable of crossing 100 meters with a single step even without using any astral energy.

  "Powering a footwork technique with wind energy is capable of enhancing the footwork. Similarly, moving in accordance to the wind and borrowing the might of the wind will also enhance the footwork. But this is far from enough. Only by drifting alongside the wind and becoming one with it will I be able to achieve an even faster speed." Xiang Shaoyun seemed to have comprehended something major.

  Before long, his movement speed became even faster, as if he had completely blended into the wind. The devil wind beasts in the area tried to chase after Xiang Shaoyun when they saw him, but their speed was completely not his match. That drove them mad with anger.

  In terms of speed, they were akin to specters in their own territory. They had always been the ones to easily escape or catch up to others. But now, they couldn't even match the speed of a fourth-stage King. That filled them with fury.

  Xiang Shaoyun had reached mid-stage of moving like the wind. His speed was naturally much faster than before. Since he was now fast enough to leave ordinary devil wind beast kings far behind him, he could no longer be bothered with fighting them. He was better off focusing on his search for the yin devil wind.

  When he activated his gift of inst
incts once again, his newly gained comprehension of the power of wind allowed him to vaguely sense an eye of a storm somewhere. As he approached, he started sensing others in the vicinity.

  The people in their group were all geniuses. It wasn't surprising that they could locate this place. When Xiang Shaoyun drew near, he withdrew his aura and expanded his Nether Soul Domain and gift of instincts.

  Soon, he was able to see clearly what was happening ahead of him. An intense battle was happening, and apart from the people that had arrived with Yu Caidie, Yu Ziyi's people were also on the battlefield.

  "It's Jin Shui, Ling Lin, and the others." Xiang Shaoyun was able to recognize a few of his previous companions.

  They were Jin Shui from the Golden Horn Sect, Ling Lin from the Ling Clan, and a few others whose names he couldn't remember. There were four of them in total, and they were currently battling seven people from Yu Ziyi's group. They were obviously at a disadvantage.

  The people from Yu Ziyi's group were attacking mercilessly, determined to kill the people before them. Soon, the two whose names Xiang Shaoyun couldn't remember were killed. That was unsurprising since they were among the weakest in Yu Caidie's group.

  Looks like Caidie's cousin is quite a ruthless person, thought Xiang Shaoyun as he rushed over to assist Jin Shui and Ling Lin.

  Chapter 463: Clowns

  Yu Caidie held an important place in Xiang Shaoyun's heart. Since Jin Shui and Ling Lin were both here to get the yin devil wind for Yu Caidie, they could be considered his competitors. But between them and Yu Ziyi's followers, he would rather side with the former.

  Yu Ziyi's followers were using the numerical advantage they had and were attacking to kill, something Xiang Shaoyun found repulsive. Jin Shui and Ling Lin were struggling bitterly against their opponents, and it looked like they could die at any moment. They wanted to flee, but all their escape paths had been sealed. Their only option was to fight their way out.

  "Damn it! I am the young master of the Golden Horn Sect. If you dare to kill me, you will be hunted endlessly by the Golden Horn Sect," roared Jin Shui.

  Jin Shui did not look like anything special, but when he fully unleashed his combat prowess, he displayed a remarkable strength with the golden and blue radiance rippling all over his body and the similarly golden and blue wheel-shaped weapon he was wielding.

  "Hehe, nobody will know how you die if you're killed in the Devil Domain. The Golden Horn Sect won't know shit," said the leader of the opposing group.

  This person was called Bai Yuji, someone whose draconic aura was 30 percent complete, even stronger than Jin Shui whose draconic aura was only 20 percent complete. He came from a different tier-7 organization and was one of the top 10 in terms of strength in Yu Ziyi's group.

  "Brother Jin, I will slow them down. Take the chance to break out," said Ling Lin. He roared and released all his power. A sea of flame surged out of him as he swung his Firescale Saber at the opposing group.

  Unfortunately for him, not one of the people here was weaker than him. His attack was powerful, but the opposing group only needed to send two people to deal with him. His attack was swiftly broken, and he even got himself seriously injured.

  "Hmph, how naive. None of you can hope to escape today. Kill them!" Bai Yuji said. He charged Jin Shui, with three other people backing him up. They did not seem like they were going to give Jin Shui any chances. The other three moved toward Ling Lin, showing no mercy whatsoever.

  "Brother Ling, looks like we won't be surviving this. Just go all out and take as many of them with us as possible," said Jin Shui with a determined look.

  "Very well. It is my honor to be able to fight alongside you, Brother Jin," said Ling Lin in a heroic manner. In this moment of crisis, the relationship between them had actually deepened.

  Just as the two were preparing to fight to the death, a different voice rang out, "Brothers, there is no need to be so pessimistic. I, Xiang Shaoyun, am here. We will kill these dogs together."

  Xiang Shaoyun then appeared before them. When Bai Yuji and the others saw Xiang Shaoyun, a sinister glint shone in their eyes. They could remember this person clearly. This was a fourth-stage Skysoar Realm cultivator capable of defeating a ninth-stage Skysoar Realm cultivator, a feat that had left a deep impression on all of them.

  "Xiang Shaoyun, leave. They have more people on their side. We won't be a match," Jin Shui quickly warned.

  Ling Lin also spoke, "That's right. Xiang Shaoyun, you should leave and notify the Holy Maiden to watch out for her cousin. She is trying to kill every last one of us."

  This kind gesture warmed Xiang Shaoyun’s heart, but after what happened with Huo Xudong, he had built another wall around his heart. It would be much harder for him to befriend anyone now. In any case, he did not even know Jin Shui and Ling Lin well. He was only helping them for Yu Caidie’s sake.

  "Don't worry. If we work together, we can easily kill these clowns," declared Xiang Shaoyun confidently.

  Not only had he fully recovered, he had even grown stronger. With his current strength, he wouldn't have much trouble dealing with peak Kings. Furthermore, he was currently comparable to regular Emperors in terms of speed. He was confident he could at least help Jin Shui and Ling Lin escape. But of course, he was aiming for more than that. He wanted to kill all these people to remove some of Yu Caidie's obstacles.

  Bai Yuji looked at Xiang Shaoyun calmly and said, "Don't get overconfident just because you are somewhat capable. Don't forget, a genius that has yet to mature can die very easily."

  After saying that, he waved his hand and the people around him resumed their attack on Jin Shui and Ling Lin. As for Bai Yuji, he focused on Xiang Shaoyun, intending to personally finish off this opponent.

  "I shall personally carry out this task of erasing a top genius myself," said Bai Yuji as he slowly raised his sword before swinging it, sending a sword energy shooting forward.

  Splashing Pandemic Rain!

  As the sword energy shot forward, one transformed into ten, ten transformed into a hundred, and they kept multiplying to create a rain of swords that sealed all of Xiang Shaoyun's escape paths.

  With his extraordinary vision, Xiang Shaoyun was able to see each sword energy clearly, including the attack's openings. He did not move rashly. Channeling the power of wind to his feet, he deftly dodged. In the kind of environment they were in, nobody below the second-stage Emperor Realm could match his speed. A regular War Emperor like Bai Yuji would not be able to pose him any sort of threat.

  In short, Xiang Shaoyun could escape at any time he wanted. Bai Yuji and the others would not be able to keep him here. The attack missed, but Bai Yuji remained calm and sent another attack.

  Five Layered Waves!

  His sword energy transformed into waves, crashing forward again and again. The layers of waves compounded on each other, unleashing a might beyond what a peak King was capable of. Nobody capable of becoming a War Emperor before 30 years old was weak. Any attack released by someone like this could not be underestimated.

  This battle technique was a true emperor technique. It was obvious how powerful it was. This was also one of the battle techniques Bai Yuji was most proud of. After all, not everyone cultivating this battle technique could grasp the technique's essence, yet he was proficient enough to release 70 percent of the technique's power. He was confident this technique was enough to kill Xiang Shaoyun.

  Xiang Shaoyun could feel an extreme threat from this technique. Starting to get serious, he used both the Overlord's Nine Nether Steps and his footwork intent to once again get away. The moment he dodged the attack, he started his counterattack.

  Lightning Bolt Fist!

  This was a technique Xiang Shaoyun had fully mastered. Instantly, 12 silver lightning bolts rained down from the sky, and the attack's might caused Bai Yuji's heart to thump violently.

  Money also made his move, and together with Xiang Shaoyun, they both summoned a total of 36 silver lightning bolts. At the same time,
the power of the innate purple lightning was also fully released.

  At present, not only Xiang Shaoyun's spine was the color of purple and silver. The color was also spreading to his other bones. Therefore, he could summon lightning bolts much easier now, and he could release lightning attacks that were much more powerful than before.

  Chapter 464: Like the Son of Wind

  To summon lightning bolts, one had to first possess a body strong enough to withstand the power of lightning. Generally, a lightning cultivator had to first go through the tempering of natural lightning bolts and obtain the ability to connect one's stars to the natural world before one could start summoning them.

  Thus, reaching the King Realm and forming a certain degree of resonance with lightning were the minimum requirements. More often than not, many lightning cultivators would only be capable of this feat upon reaching late-stage King Realm.

  Just summoning and borrowing the power of one or two lightning bolts would be enough to greatly increase one's combat prowess. As for Xiang Shaoyun's feat of easily summoning 12 mutated lightning bolts at once, this was something even those with the Innate Lightning Celestial Physique might not be able to do.

  The sight of the 12 silver lightning bolts shocked Bai Yuji. But with his outstanding combat prowess, he swung his sword 12 times and destroyed all 12 of the lighting bolts before they could arrive. However, the only thing he accomplished was stopping the lightning bolts. Xiang Shaoyun's fist still arrived, striking him.

  Bang!

  Bai Yuji's defensive shield instantly collapsed, and the punch landed a clean hit on his nose. Blood sprayed out. Bai Yuji felt terrible. The punch had caused him to feel lightheaded and his vision to blur. Furthermore, the punch was powered by innate purple lightning, which also burned and numbed Bai Yuji. It was an extremely rough attack.