by Shian Jeen
Astonishment and shock struck Xiang Mingzhi’s heart; Huwang Xiao, a God Realm cultivator, actually had strength comparable to himself?! Although his cultivation was at late-Second Order Highgod Realm, his battle strength actually rivaled a late-Third Order Highgod Realm master.
Didn't this mean that Huwang Xiao also had battle strength equivalent to a late-Third Order Highgod Realm master?!
“Huwang Xiao, no wonder you dared to come looking for me.” Xiang Mingzhi took a deep breath before saying, “I didn’t expect you to come so far. I admit that you’re indeed a rare genius, and I did underestimate you before, but today, you won’t be able to leave here alive! I will kill you, with all of my strength, I will kill you!” Xiang Mingzhi roared. If he let Huwang Xiao go again today, then he would never be able to kill him! Especially after Huwang Xiao broke through to the Highgod Realm, the one dying would be himself!
Huwang Xiao had become too terrifying!
If he already had strength equivalent to a late-Third Order Highgod Realm at perfection stage late-Tenth Order God Realm, then what would happen when Huwang Xiao stepped into the Highgod Realm? How overwhelming would his strength be?
Maybe, at that time, all the disciples in this Overflowing Lightning World would be no match for him!
Huwang Xiao detected the sharp killing intent from Xiang Mingzhi, but he remained calm, “Is that so? Just as well, I also decided not to let you leave here alive, I will kill you and take away your Azure Dragon Divine Fire.”
Xiang Mingzhi snickered, “Since it’s like that, I’ll let you die under my Azure Dragon Divine Fire, you should be honored.”
An azure fire dragon flew out from Xiang Mingzhi’s body, and the roar of a dragon resounded in the heavens. When the Azure Dragon Divine Fire appeared, the surrounding lightning was reduced into a fog, scattering in the wind.
Even the lightning in this Overflowing Lightning World could not contend with the power of the Azure Dragon Divine Fire.
The temperature within ten thousand li soared to a burning heat. Especially the temperature in the valley, it was as if it had fallen into a magma chamber in the middle of the earth.
Watching this, Huwang Xiao summoned his Black Tortoise Divine Fire. An icy-blue pillar of light rose to the sky from his body as an icy-blue fire rushed out from the Black Tortoise Divine Fire spirit.
Hindered by this icy-blue fire, the Azure Dragon Divine Fire wasn’t able to reach within a hundred zhang of Huwang Xiao, not to mention injuring him.
The Black Tortoise and Azure Dragon Divine Fires collided again and again, forming two opposing and attacking sides, one blue and one azure.
Xiang Mingzhi watched in shock as the icy-blue fire Huwang Xiao summoned could actually fight toe to toe against his Azure Dragon Divine Fire. Staring at the Black Tortoise Divine Fire spirit, a thought flashed in his mind, blurting out: “The Black Tortoise Divine Fire?! I must be right, that’s the Black Tortoise Divine Fire!” Feverish greed shone from Xiang Mingzhi’s eyes, “It’s the Black Tortoise Divine Fire, hahahaha! Huwang Xiao, you really gave me a great surprise, as long as I kill you and integrate with the Black Tortoise Divine Fire, I can flatten all the disciples in this Overflowing Lightning World, not even that Wangu Yanhui would be my opponent!”
“This tournament’s first place is mine!” Xiang Mingzhi was ecstatic.
Huwang Xiao did not respond to Xiang Mingzhi’s self-righteous babbling. A crisp cry of a phoenix originating from the ancient world rang in the air as a brilliant crimson red light entered the fray, lighting up the sky. The Vermilion Bird Divine Fire spirit flew around Huwang Xiao, flapping out waves of crimson fire.
When the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire merged with the Black Tortoise Divine Fire, their forces multiplied. The Black Tortoise Divine Fire that was previously in equilibrium against the Azure Dragon Divine Fire gained the upper hand, pushing back the Azure Dragon Divine Fire. Although it wasn’t very obvious, it was detectable with the naked eye.
The ecstatic expression on Xiang Mingzhi’s face cracked, “T-this, this is the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire?!”
“You even obtained the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire!”
Huwang Xiao actually had two of the four great divine fires! Moreover, both divine fires had merged, resulting in his Azure Dragon Divine Fire being suppressed!
While Xiang Mingzhi was still in shock, a powerful tiger roar reverberated in the valley and a white tiger formed from metallic white fire appeared at Huwang Xiao’s side. With three divine fires present, Xiang Mingzhi’s Azure Dragon Divine Fire was ebbing like a low tide, shrinking smaller, totally and completely suppressed!
“The White Tiger Divine Fire?! It really is the White Tiger Divine Fire!!” Xiang Mingzhi’s voice was shaking, his face horribly pale. The elation he felt earlier had completely disappeared.
Huwang Xiao actually obtained three divine fires!
As long as Huwang Xiao got his Azure Dragon Divine Fire, he would have the complete four great divine fires! The four divine fires together possessed heaven-defying power!
Then, a possibility flashed in Xiang Mingzhi’s mind. Until now, Huwang Xiao’s cultivation had stagnated at perfection stage late-Tenth Order God Realm instead of advancing further. Could Huwang Xiao have planned to obtain all four divine fires before making his attempt to break through to Highgod Realm?!
He himself was able to condense a top rank godhead just by having the Azure Dragon Divine Fire. If Huwang Xiao obtained all four divine fires, the godhead he condensed would be...?!
Thinking of this, Xiang Mingzhi’s face was bloodlessly pale. At this moment, he felt death breathing down on him, closing in on him!
After the three divine fires emerged, Huwang Xiao summoned his black and blue twin dragon martial spirits and soul transformed. A thousand arms fanned out from his back, ready to attack!
The Fifteenth Move of the Dragon God, Unrivaled Myriad Dragons!
Undulating roars of countless dragons resounded in the valley.
In order to avoid an unnecessary nightmare, Huwang Xiao decided to finish Xiang Mingzhi in the shortest time possible.
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Looking at the countless divine dragons blocking the sky, Xiang Mingzhi panicked for a moment, letting out a mad, angry roar, “Thousand Lightning Divine Palm!” Glaring lightning burst out from Xiang Mingzhi’s body as he pushed the power of his Extreme Lightning Destruction Physique to the extreme. His palms struck out continuously at Huwang Xiao.
In a short moment, numerous palm imprints formed from divine lightning force collided with countless divine dragons attacking him.
However, the seemingly powerful large number of lightning palms could only be described as feeble against the horde of divine dragons.
Hundreds and thousands of divine dragons shattered Xiang Mingzhi’s lightning palms in the blink of an eye.
Although the Dragon qi contained in those divine dragons weakened after passing through Xiang Mingzhi’s attack, they continued onward, rushing toward Xiang Mingzhi.
Xiang Mingzhi’s face was deathly pale, his hands waved in the air and the Azure Dragon Divine Fire flew out again, roaring in anger as it rushed into the horde of divine dragons. However, just as the Azure Dragon moved, it was blocked by the Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger Divine Fires.
The hundred thousand divine dragons arrived before Xiang Mingzhi.
By this point, it was already too late for him to dodge and he was knocked into the air, crashing against the hard rock cliff in the distance, shaking the whole cliff wall. Rocks and pebbles rolled down, as did Xiang Mingzhi, vomiting several mouthfuls of blood.
Earlier, he was already gravely injured after battling the four disciples, and now, after suffering a full force attack from Huwang Xiao, Xiang Mingzhi’s injuries greatly worsened. If it weren’t for his attack managing to weaken the power of the hundred thousand divine dragons, adding on top of that his achievement in the Body of the Azure Dragon technique, he would be left with half a lif
e by now.
Xiang Mingzhi struggled to his feet, fear and fury could be seen in his eyes as he glared at Huwang Xiao with ferocity. A second later, however, Xiang Mingzhi let out a frenzied laughter, “Huwang Xiao, you want to kill me? It won't be so easy! I have condensed a top rank ten godhead, invincible in this world, even if you have the three divine fires, you still won’t be able to erase the trace of my soul inside the godhead, no one can kill me!” Xiang Mingzhi’s godforce suddenly became volatile, surging madly.
Above his soul sea, a purple crystal-like godhead about ten meters in diameter that was emitting a golden-purple light was rotating at high speed, water and fire godforce flying out in all directions.
In general, rank five godheads or even rank seven godheads condensed by cultivators were only as big as an adult’s fist, but Xiang Mingzhi’s godhead actually reached ten meters in diameter!
Not only that, his godhead contained two different types of elemental force!
Watching the water and fire element godforce rushing out from Xiang Mingzhi’s body, Huwang Xiao’s brows were scrunched into a frown. He didn’t expect Xiang Mingzhi’s godhead to contain two kinds of elements forces.
“Huwang Xiao, you can go to hell!” Xiang Mingzhi bellowed with fury as he lunged at Huwang Xiao while both of his hands moved, directing his water and fire element forces to attack Huwang Xiao.
“Azure Dragon Sword Qi!”
“Hell’s Nether Flaming Palm!”
The water element force on his right hand gathered a vast quantity of sword qi, vibrating akin to azure dragons swimming in water. Meanwhile, his left hand struck out a giant hand imprint condensed by the Hell’s Nether Flaming Palm move, left in its path was only darkness and soot.
The Azure Dragon Sword Qi and Hell’s Nether Flaming Palm were two ultimate skills that Xiang Mingzhi had been cultivating these past few years in the Azure Dragon Institute’s forbidden land.
Xiang Mingzhi had great confidence striking out these two ultimate techniques that simultaneously combined with his water and fire element godforce, for even a late-Third Order Highgod Realm would be greatly injured!
He didn't believe that Huwang Xiao could withstand this attack!
‘Die, die, die, die for me!’
Xiang Mingzhi’s eyes were scarlet with bloodlust. He only had one thought on his mind: kill Huwang Xiao!
Xiang Mingzhi watched as his Azure Dragon Sword Qi and Hell’s Nether Flaming Palm were about to land on his opponent. Huwang Xiao stood leisurely, lifting a finger in an unhurried pace, and tapped his finger forward.
A mini-sized mountain flew out.
Seeing that Huwang Xiao actually retrieved his three divine fires, calling out a tiny mountain instead to block his attack, Xiang Mingzhi laughed shrilly after the briefest moment of shock, “Huwang Xiao, you’re asking for death!”
Xiang Mingzhi barely finished his words when the mini-sized mountain expanded as if it was inflated by the wind, turning into a great mountain that blocked the entire sky above the valley. Thick fog roiled around the mountain. Xiang Mingzhi’s Azure Dragon Sword Qi and Hell’s Nether Flaming Palm landed on the great mountain like sand into the sea, not shaking it in the slightest.
After the mountain blocked Xiang Mingzhi’s attack, it flew forward, slamming into Xiang Mingzhi.
Colliding with the great mountain, Xiang Mingzhi’s Body of the Azure Dragon became distorted, his chest sinking in. His lower body exploded from the impact, splattering blood and flesh everywhere.
Xiang Mingzhi was born with the unique Extreme Lightning Destruction Physique. Adding his major completion of the Body of the Azure Dragon technique and his close to a hundred years of being tempered by the Azure Dragon Divine Fire, as well as his water and fire element godforce, Xiang Mingahi’s physical defenses had reached a horrifying level, yet part of his body exploded in the collision!
Xiang Mingzhi crashed into the cliff wall far away, buried beneath the rocks, unable to move for a long time.
Huwang Xiao smirked; a powerful suction force from his hand pulled him out from the cliff wall. Xiang Mingzhi tried raising his head with extreme difficulty, looking fearfully at the great mountain in front of him. ‘What is this thing?!’ His Body of the Azure Dragon and Extreme Lightning Destruction Physique were so fragile before this mountain.
At that moment, it did not occur to Xiang Mingzhi that this was the Heavenly Mountain that was taken away by someone, or more accurately, it never occurred to him that the person who took away the Heavenly Mountain was Huwang Xiao.
“Time to end this.” Huwang Xiao said as he walked toward Xiang Mingzhi.
At this time on the Aeon Square, the Azure Dragon Institute Principal Qin Yi and the Azure Dragon Institute members were looking intently at Xiang Mingzhi’s name sitting in the 67th place with beaming smiles.
After killing the four disciples and obtaining their points, Xiang Mingzhi made a great jump from 80-something to the 67th place.”
67th!
This was a ranking position that Qin Yi had never dreamed of!
The masters of other families and sects nearby were quick to congratulate Qin Yi with a hint of flattery when they noticed Xiang Mingzhi’s ranking.
Ceng Chu said to Qin Yi in high spirits, “Master, looking at Junior Brother’s rising ranking, I think that by the end of the competition Junior Brother can easily enter the top ten!”
Qin Yi chuckled, unable to hide the pride on his face, “The top ten might be difficult, there’s a lot of Fourth Order Highgod Realm disciples taking part in the tournament, but your Junior Brother can probably enter the top fifty.’
This master-disciple duo did not lower their voices at all. Clearly, their conversation was directed at Feng Yang, Liu Yun, and the others.
Feng Yang was genuinely shocked looking at the ranking list, at Xiang Mingzhi’s position. There was no such thing as coincidence or luck on this ranking list, every point accumulated was based on the disciples’ strength. Xiang Mingzhi’s strength had already reached such a degree!
Feng Yang’s eyes then fell to his own disciple’s name, which remained in the nine-hundreds. Although it was eye-catching, the difference was too big when compared to Xiang Mingzhi.
Feng Yang inwardly shook his head and sighed, it looks like his disciple’s strength couldn't be compared to the current Xiang Mingzhi. Xiang Mingzhi had already condensed a top rank ten godhead and his strength improved by leaps and bounds, pulling a great distance away from his disciple.
Suddenly, Qi Wen beside him shrieked, pointing at the ranking list, “Mas-Master, loo-look, Xiang Mingzhi!!”
Xiang Mingzhi? Did Xiang Mingzhi’s ranking go up again? Feng Yang was baffled, moving his eyes away from Huwang Xiao’s name to look at Xiang Mingzhi’s name.
But what he saw was Xiang Mingzhi’s name slowly dimming.
‘This? Could it be…’ Feng Yang was dumbfounded.
Not far from them, Qin Yi, Ceng Chu, and the others also saw Xiang Mingzhi’s initially shining name slowly dimming down.
At this point, all the joy and pride were wiped off of Qin Yi’s face, looking a little pale.
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Watching his disciple’s name slowly grow dimmer on the ranking list, Qin Yi yelled in fury, denial, and apprehension, “N-no, no, impossible, don’t—!!!”
But, even as he screamed, Xiang Minghi’s name continued to dim, and finally exploded like fireworks in the air, completely erased from the ranking list.
The higher a disciple’s ranking was, the louder and more dazzling the fireworks were when they died. Thus, when Xiang Mingzhi’s name disappeared from the ranking list, bright fireworks exploded loudly in high air, sounding like a thunderclap. Bright lights spread out wave after wave like rippling water. Not only those on the Aeon Square, but even the people in the streets and shops saw the bright lights clearly.
“67th place, Xiang Mingzhi! I wonder where this disciple comes from. To die in the tournament, what a pity!”
“A
ll these disciples ranked in the top one thousand are great geniuses, and disciples within the top hundred are all geniuses amongst geniuses. This kind of disciple will definitely become a super hegemon in the galaxy once they grow up!”
Exclamations of pity and shock could be heard all over the place.
The Wangu Clan Elders were also astonished watching Xiang Mingzhi’s name disappear from the ranking list.
Although there were quite a number of changes in the top three thousand after four months into the tournament, most of them occurred outside the top one thousand. There had yet to be any disciple within the top one hundred who lost their life until now.
“67th place.” A low sigh sounded from Wangu Shuo in pity, “This kind of talent, even among our Wangu Clan disciples, is more than enough to enter our clan’s top ten disciples.”
“How did this Xiang Mingzhi die? Was it a lightning beast, or was he killed by another participating disciple?” Wangu Changqing asked in a solemn voice.
“Only those in the top twenty should be capable of killing this Xiang Mingzhi, however, there are no changes in the points and ranking of those top twenty disciples. Therefore, it can only be a lightning beast!” Another Wangu Clan Elder, Wangu Zhi, concluded as he looked at the top twenty names on the ranking list.
Other present Wangu Clan Elders nodded in agreement toward this conclusion.
However, right at this moment, a brilliant light shone at the 93rd place where Huwang Xiao’s name appeared.
More than four months into the tournament, the top one hundred places were more or less stable, without many drastic shifts up or down. Hence, Huwang Xiao’s sudden emergence at the 93rd place immediately attracted many eyes.
“Huwang Xiao?! Which galaxy and family does he come from? His name wasn't in the top two hundred before, right? What rank did he jump up from into the top one hundred?”
“I don’t think I’ve seen this Huwang Xiao’s name before this!”
More and more families’ and sect’s masters noticed Huwang Xiao’s name appearing in the top one hundred. All of a sudden, the square was abuzz with sounds of people talking.