by Shian Jeen
‘Run!!’
Only one thought filled the remaining two disciples’ minds, yet just as this thought emerged, two soul force swords were already whistling toward them
Despite the two of them being on guard, they were still pierced by Huwang Xiao’s soul force swords.
Those swords made of soul force were not only capable of causing physical damage, they also contained a soul attack.
However, the ancient Water Clan descendants possessed a unique soul. Despite the damage from Huwang Xiao’s soul attack, their souls managed to survive. Two godheads fell into Huwang Xiao’s hands and a sliver of true immortal fire emerged from his finger, cleanly burning away the two Water Clan disciples’ souls.
“So many spatial rings!” With a sweep of his divine sense over the three disciples’ spatial rings, Huwang Xiao was astonished to discover that each one of the three spatial rings contained several dozens of other spatial rings. This was a delightful surprise.
He put all of them into his Asura Ring. Then, with a casual point of his finger, a cyan-colored bead fell into his palm.
This was the ancient divine artifact that the three Water Clan disciples used to lock the surrounding space. Huwang Xiao did not give it more than a single glance before throwing it into his Asura Ring as well.
After killing the three disciples, Huwang Xiao bathed in glimmering light as his points shot up rapidly, causing his ranking to soar up on the list.
At the end, his name stopped right at the 3,000th spot.
“3,000.” This result wasn’t unexpected to Huwang Xiao. Based on the three people’s strength, half of their accumulated points pushed his rank to the top three thousand.
Huwang Xiao’s divine sense left the jade token and he flew toward the city gates.
At the same time, at the Aeon Square.
At the bottom of the ranking list, on the last 3,000th position, Huwang Xiao’s name appeared after a soft glimmer of light.
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Although Huwang Xiao’s ranking reached the top three thousand and his name appeared at the bottom of the ranking list, due to his name being on the very bottom, no one noticed the appearance of a new name.
A second later, an Azure Dragon Institute Grand Elder coincidentally looked at the ranking list. But, before looking away, the corner of his eye caught sight of the bottom part of the list and his expression stiffened.
‘Huwang Xiao?!’
He widened his eyes, then rubbed them with his fingers. He wasn’t wrong, it was indeed Huwang Xiao’s name!
His expression changed, his mouth opened and closed, stammering.
An Azure Dragon Institute Grand Elder beside him noticed his strange behavior and asked curiously, “What is it?”
The first Azure Dragon Institute Grand Elder pointed at the ranking list, squeezing out: “At the bottom, Huwang Xiao, it’s Huwang Xiao!”
“Huwang Xiao?!” When Qin Yi, Ceng Chu, and the others heard this, they abruptly turned to look at the ranking list following that Grand Elder’s finger.
But, a moment before their gazes fell on the bottom of the ranking list, a light glimmered and Huwang Xiao’s name was replaced by another disciple named Yuan Zhi, taking over the 3,000th spot.
Which was why, when Qin Yi and the rest of the Azure Dragon Institute members looked at the bottom of the ranking list, it read ‘Yuan Zhi’.
“What Huwang Xiao!” Ceng Chu snapped. “The name Yuan Zhi is clearly written there, making a fuss out of nothing. I think you’ve been staring at the ranking list for too long, your eyes got all blurry and saw wrongly!”
That Azure Dragon Institute Grand Elder once again rubbed his eyes. Seeing that it was indeed the name ‘Yuan Zhi’ stated on the ranking list, he was speechless; more like he didn’t know what to say to salvage himself.
“I agree, Grand Elder Chen, you’ve seen wrongly. Even if that Huwang Xiao is still alive, how could he even climb up into the top three thousand with his measly strength?” Another Azure Dragon Institute Grand Elder chimed in.
The first Grand Elder’s mouth opened and closed, but no words came out. He took another look at the bottom of the ranking list, but it was still the name Yuan Zhi.
Could it be, he really saw wrongly? Was it a hallucination?
The rest already turned away, ignoring him as their attention returned to Xiang Mingzhi’s movement in the top one hundred.
Although Xiang Mingzhi who possessed the Azure Dragon Divine Fire and Extreme Lightning Destruction Physique was very strong, his rise had become much harder after he reached his current position despite the continuous increase in his points. The disciples in front of him were all Third Order Highgod Realm and above, their accumulation of points wasn’t any slower than Xiang Mingzhi’s.
At this rate, Xiang Mingzhi could, at most, reach around the 80th place.
80th!
With his disciple being able to reach this level, Qin Yi was already extremely satisfied.
In the Overflowing Lightning World, Huwang Xiao flew into the megapolis. At first glance, the inside the city was a stretch of desolation all around, its wide spacious streets held nothing but ruins. Even though it was daylight, the dark clouds and lightning hovering above it cast a shadow of darkness over the city, forever trapping this place in the last light of dusk.
Huwang Xiao walked on an empty street, noticing that everywhere he looked within the city, there were fine streaks of lightning running down. Although the destructive power of these fine lightning streaks was small, his god battle qi depleted six times faster inside the city.
Though those fine strands of lightning could hardly harm Huwang Xiao’s True Dragon Physique, he still took precautions by putting on his Glory of the Water God Armor as well as taking out the Water God Halberd, in case of unforeseen situations.
‘It’s a pity that I haven’t condensed my godhead, otherwise I could absorb the lightning force here to temper my physique.’ Huwang Xiao sighed.
The Overflowing Lightning World was a higher realm world and the lightning force here was extremely pure. If he could absorb it to temper his body, even just for a year’s time, it would be much better than his cultivation efforts in the lower realm.
As he walked up the street, his instincts shouted danger and he swiftly dodged to the side. Just as Huwang Xiao dodged, a large lightning bead landed where he stood earlier.
A giant hole of appeared in the middle of the street, its depth like a bottomless abyss.
Even Huwang Xiao was alarmed by this, quickly looking at a certain dark cloud above.
There was actually a lightning beast hiding inside this dark cloud!
An early Third Order Highgod Realm lightning beast!
These dark clouds could block the probing of divine sense, if this lightning beast did not attack Huwang Xiao just now, he wouldn’t know there was actually a lightning beast hiding inside.
A sharp light gleamed in Huwang Xiao’s eyes and his momentum rose like a violent flood. With a low bellow, he shot up into the sky, the Water God Halberd in his hand thrusting into the center of that dark cloud.
At the same time, four swords made of soul force stabbed into the lightning beast.
A painful wail resounded in the air as several spurts of blood rushed in the air. A thirty zhang long lightning beast resembling a green wolf plummeted to the ground.
It was a Green Wolf Lightning Beast with a pair of wings on its back that flickered with lightning.
The Green Wolf Lightning Beast did not expect a God Realm runt to actually avoid its attack, moreover suddenly retaliating and injuring it. The wolf let out a furious roar, one that could paralyze the enemy’s soul.
However, this soul attack had no effect on that human.
Huwang Xiao lunged down, Asura qi imbued into the black halberd as he stabbed out.
The Asura Sword Skill’s first move: Tempest of Hell!
A violent wind vortex spun, its howling akin to the wretched cries of evil spirits from the depths of hell
.
Huwang Xiao had mastered all of the Asura Sword Skill’s eighteen moves and could display them with any kind of weapon.
The Green Wolf Lightning Beast jumped back to dodge and its wings spread out, flapping vigorously. As if it was summoned, the lightning high up in the dark clouds struck down.
Clearly, this Green Wolf Lightning Beast’s wings could manipulate the lightning force in this world to attack, and even though these lightning strikes weren't lethal, the average Third Order Highgod Realm masters would be hard-pressed to withstand them.
As the lightning landed on the Tempest of Hell’s wind vortex, sparks flew out and the vortex shook, causing the street to be further destroyed.
Huwang Xiao fully circulated his Asura qi, forming a Hell Asura Barrier around himself, and dispersed the shockwaves from the lightning strikes with a shake. The long halberd in his hand once again attacked the green Wolf Lightning Beast.
The Asura Sword Skill’s second move: Tears of Asura. A large amount of Asura qi turned into raindrops covering thousands of li, pelting down.
The third move: Wrath of the Nether King.
The fourth move: State of Abundant Lightning.
Huwang Xiao’s attacks came consecutively.
Even though the Green Wolf Lightning Beast was a Third Order Highgod Realm, it was still weaker compared to Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi. On top of that, it was heavily injured by Huwang Xiao due to its carelessness and suffered the consecutive attacks after that. Soon, Huwang Xiao’s halberd pierced through the Green Wolf Lightning Beast’s head, erasing its soul once and for all.
A bright stream of light flew out from the Green Wolf Lightning Beast’s corpse into the jade token inside Huwang Xiao’s body.
In an instant, more than three thousand points were added to his jade token, but he then discovered that he fell two places to the 3,002nd position even though his points had increased.
Huwang Xiao shook his head with a wry smile, looks like his speed in gaining points was indeed slow. He continued to walk forward.
While Huwang Xiao ventured further into the city, in another part of the city not far from him there were a dozen disciples besieging a lightning beast. These disciples were all from the same force, disciples of the Yelu Family!
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The strength of this group of Yelu Family disciples wasn't low. The weakest ones were at least early Second Order Highgod Realm, whereas the stronger ones’ cultivation was at early Third Order Highgod Realm.
Under the brutal attacks of the Yelu Family disciples, the six lightning beasts were killed a short while later and bright streams of light rushed out from their bodies into the disciples’ tokens.
“Congratulations, Big brother Yelu Xin, you have once again risen up the ranks, already reaching the 921th place.” One of the Yelu Family disciples congratulated a young man holding a great knife in his hand.
The rest of Yelu Family disciples quickly followed: “Congratulations, Big brother Yelu Xin!”
This young man holding a great knife, Yelu Xin, was the strongest person among this group of disciples, an early Third Order Highgod Realm master!
Hearing the waves of congratulations, Yelu Xin was full of smiles as he nodded. He then turned toward two disciples holding swords, “Yelu Bi, Yelu Xuan, both of your rankings are quite good, at 1,063rd and 1,087th places. You have high hopes of breaking into the top one thousand.”
Other than Yelu Xin, the strongest of the group would be Yelu Bi and Yelu Xuan, the former being a peak late-Second Order Highgod Realm and the latter was a late-Second Order Highgod Realm.
The remaining disciples were between early to mid-Second Order Highgod Realm.
Hearing Yelu Xin’s words, the remaining disciples also hurried to wish Yelu Bi and Yelu Xuan well.
“I wonder where Big brother Yelu Tianfeng is at the moment. Who would’ve thought there would be thirteen Fourth Order Highgod Realm disciples in the tournament, it seems there will be some difficulties for Big brother Yelu Tianfeng to enter the top ten.” Yelu Bi said all of a sudden.
This tournament’s Fourth Order Highgod Realm disciples reached an astounding number of thirteen people, exceeding everyone’s estimations.
Currently, those in the top ten were all Fourth Order Highgod Realm masters. Initially, the Yelu Family had assumed that their greatest talent of all times, Yelu Tianfeng, could sit comfortably in the top three, even snatching the first place without much of a problem. But now, not only was Yelu Tianfeng struggling to climb up to the top ten, he was currently ranked 15th!
Yelu Xin refuted, “It has only been three months, the current ranking is not an indication of the final result. Other than that Wangu Yanhui, our Big brother Yelu Tianfeng isn't any worse than Fang Chu, Mu Qi, Zhou Yao, or the rest, Big brother Yelu Tianfeng can definitely enter the top ten!”
“That Huwang Xiao, did he already die? This Overflowing Lightning World is bigger than we imagined, if he happens to hide in a remote corner it would be really hard for us to find him.” Yelu Xuan frowned, his voice solemn.
“That punk would better pray to die earlier, otherwise, if he falls into my hand, I have a thousand ways to torture him!” Yelu Xin snorted with disdain. Every time he recalled Huwang Xiao using forty thousand top divine grade spirit stones to purchase the Surging Waves Mansion, his heart would burn with anger.
When had their Yelu Family ever been slapped in the face when it comes to money?
A while later, Yelu Xin continued to lead the Yelu Family disciples further into the city.
The lightning beasts inside the abandoned city were quite powerful, at least a First Order Highgod Realm and above, but with all of them working together, these lightning beasts were easily killed.
The Yelu Family had a heritage battle formation passed down from their ancestors, called Twin Frost-Flame Formation. When the formation was in place, their strength increased by a large margin, so much that they could even fight against a late-Third Order Highgod Realm lightning beast.
As their group continued to venture deeper into the city, their points rapidly rose.
“Big brother Yelu Xin, good news! Just now, a Beitang Family disciple sent me a message, saying he spotted Huwang Xiao.” A few hours later, a Yelu Family disciple came running to report to Yelu Xin.
The other Yelu Family disciples that heard it all showed excited faces.
Yelu Xin was laughing out loud, “Really? That’s truly good news! When we return, we must heavily reward the Beitang Family disciple. Where did he see Huwang Xiao?”
“He said that Huwang Xiao is also in the same city as us, moreover, he’s not far from our location.” That Yelu Family disciple quickly answered.
“Good! I didn’t expect that punk to be in such close proximity to us, it saves us the trouble to go looking for him!” Yelu Xi’s eyes lit up.
“But, since that punk can reach this part of the city, it looks like his strength is as rumored, not weaker than a peak late-First Order Highgod Realm.” Yelu Bi analyzed.
“I love killing this kind of freak geniuses that have yet to grow!” Yelu Xuan’s eyes flashed with deep anticipation and excitement.
“Let us head there now, lest that punk escapes.” Yelu Xin gave an evil chuckle, “I’m really looking forward to seeing that punk’s face when he sees us, the fear and panic in his eyes, hehe.”
With a unanimous decision, all of them rushed toward Huwang Xiao’s location.
While the Yelu Family disciples hurried to capture him, Huwang Xiao was standing in front of an enormous palace. The dark clouds hovering above this enormous palace were several times denser than other places he had seen so far, lightning as thick as an adult arm crackled and fizzed.
However, what attracted Huwang Xiao’s attention wasn’t the dark clouds and lightning above, but the glimmer of rainbow-colored light that the enormous palace emitted from time to time, accompanied by a tantalizing fruity fragrance.
There was definitely some kind of rare and precious s
piritual fruit inside!
And its age was definitely above two-million-years-old, maybe even three-million-years-old!
Just as Huwang Xiao was about to enter the enormous palace to find out, several sharp whistling wind sounds came from the distance.
Huwang Xiao unhappily stopped and turned around to look.
‘Yelu Family’s disciples!’
Noticing these people’s robes, after a brief second of surprise, Huwang Xiao revealed a smile. These days, while he had been searching for Xiang Mingzhi, he was also hoping to come across the Yelu Family’s disciples. He didn’t expect to run into them at this time, moreover, sixteen disciples all at once!
Sixteen!
If these sixteen disciples all died, the Yelu Family’s Patriarch would probably go mad with fury, right?
The sixteen Yelu Family disciples reached Huwang Xiao in a short few breaths’ time.
“Huwang Xiao, you never expected this, right? That your luck is so rotten to be found by us.” Yelu Xin complacently chuckled.
Yelu Xuan chortled, “You’ve been hiding for three long months, let's see how are you going to hide anymore.”
Huwang Xiao faced them with his hands softly clasped at his back, muttering to himself, “After I kill all of you, my points will be enough to enter the top one thousand.”
Hearing Huwang Xiao muttering, Yelu Xin and all present Yelu Family disciples nearly keeled over with laughter.
“Did I hear right? This punk plans to kill all of us?” A mid-Second Order Highgod Realm Yelu Family disciple was laughing madly, “Does he thinks he’s a peak late-Third Order Highgod Realm master?”
“Eh, what fragrance is this?” Yelu Xin suddenly glanced at the enormous palace, his face revealing joy, “It's definitely the scent of an extremely rare spiritual fruit more than two-million-years-old!”
As the other fifteen Yelu Family disciples smelled the waves of refreshing fruity fragrance, each of them was elated.
“Huwang Xiao, you’re really our lucky star ah, if it weren’t for you, we wouldn't have found a spiritual fruit of this level!” Yelu Bi was already celebrating.