by Shian Jeen
“This—!” Feng Yang, Liu Yun, and the rest were wide-eyed with astonishment.
Joy quickly took over their shock. Feng Yang felt as if he was falling down a bottomless abyss one second, and thrown into heaven the next moment. Liu Yun and Qi Wen were so excited that they were hugging each other as they jumped up and down.
Whereas Chen Yang was slightly frowning.
Not far from Feng Yang’s group, the Azure Dragon Institute members who were still at the square were also watching Huwang Xiao’s sudden leap up the ranking list, looking at his rising points. Their expressions were as ugly as they could be.
“No, no, impossible!” Qin Yi stared fixedly at Huwang Xiao’s rising name, bellowing in his heart, ‘How is this possible? How is this possible!’ Wasn’t Huwang Xiao, that bastard, heavily injured? How could he heal so fast? Also, how could his points increase at such a speed?!
Although the change in Huwang Xiao’s ranking was noticed by Feng Yang’s group and the Azure Dragon Institute’s side, no one else paid attention to it.
The Wangu Clan Elders were only concerned with disciples within the top one hundred.
At this time, the top of the ranking list was till Wangu Yanhui, with an accumulation of more than 63 million points.
At second place was the Fortune Gate’s Fang Chu with over 61 million points.
Ranked third was the Zhou Clan’s Zhou Yao, however, when compared to the two names above him, Zhou Yao’s points were far behind, slightly over 53 million.
In the fourth place was the Mu Clan’s Mu Qi, his accumulated points were a little over 52 million.
At the fifth place was the Giant Tribe’s Taibang, sixth was Luo Shaochen of the Ancient Sorcerer School; at the seventh place was ths Dark Elf Tribe’s You Wuye. Further down at the eighth place was Jiang Xiaosu of the Tempest Academy, the ninth place was the Swordless Sect’s Jian Shiyi. From the tenth place to the thirteenth respectively were Lu Dongwei from the Orthodox Yang Sect, the Ouyang Clan’s Ouyang Wanxiong, Jueshi Sanlang of Vanishing Life Island, and last but not least at the thirteenth place was Flying Roc Chamber’s Peng Xuejiao.
More than a year into the tournament, there were still the thirteen people with a cultivation of Fourth Order Highgod Realm who dominated the top thirteen places on the ranking list.
On the other hand, the Yelu Family’s Yelu Tianfeng inched one spot up to the fourteenth place.
“There are less than two months remaining, it looks like the first place is our Wangu Clan’s.” Wangu Shuo commented happily, “Wangu Yanhui, that kid, the first place is absolutely his.”
Wangu Changqing nodded, echoing with a smile, “Other than that Fortune Gate’s Fang Chu who poses a little threat to Wangu Yanhui, the rest are negligible at this point.”
“When the tournament ends with Wangu Yanhui in the first place and he receives a Heavenly God’s godhead as a reward, the Patriarch and the elders will be able study it and comprehend its mysteries. At that time, everyone’s strength will greatly improve!” Wangu Zhi laughed merrily, “After the tournament ends, the clan should heavily reward that little guy Wangu Yanhui.”
The other Wangu Clan Elders nodded in agreement, smiling from ear to ear.
…
Right at this time, Huwang Xiao reached the megapolis.
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Upon reaching the megapolis, Huwang Xiao did not enter through the city gates. Instead, he flew over, stopping above the city.
The clouds above the giant city were immediately sucked into the mammoth-sized lightning cloud above Huwang Xiao’s head, merging into it, enlarging the giant cloud even more.
Fourteen thousand li, fifteen thousand li…
Twenty thousand li, thirty thousand li…
The giant lightning cloud expanded until it reached thirty thousand li! Only after reaching such a monstrous size did it stop expanding.
With Huwang Xiao’s current cultivation at mid-Second Order Highgod Realm, gathering the lightning force within thirty thousand li was his limit.
At the same time, the lightning beasts that were hiding in the lightning clouds above were all swept toward Huwang Xiao, struck to death, then had their essence force absorbed by him.
Hovering below the mammoth-sized lightning cloud, with a sea of lightning flood dragons close to one thousand zhang in length sizzling around him, Huwang Xiao looked like the epitome of a god of destruction from afar.
The disciples inside the city and the surrounding ten thousand li shuddered as they looked at the catastrophic storm cloud. Apprehension and fear filled their faces watching the black-haired young man right in the midst of that chaos.
“This, which family’s freak talent is this?! He’s actually capable of controlling such a large volume of destructive lightning force?!” A peak late-Third Order Highgod Realm disciple’s voice quivered as he spoke. Before this horrifying lightning cloud, he didn't even have the will to muster up thoughts of resistance.
“Could he be from the Tempest Academy, the tenth ranked Jiang Xiaosu? I heard that Jiang Xiaosu can also control lightning and wind at the same time!” A peak late-Third Order Highgod Realm disciple dumbly made a guess.
These two disciples were within the current top one hundred.
“Jiang Xiaosu? Forget Jiang Xiaosu, not even the first ranked Wangu Yanhui is this terrifying!”
“There’s actually such a frightening character in this term’s tournament?!”
“Who is this person? He most likely isn't in the current top ten, those great geniuses within the top ten, I recognize all of them.”
The participating disciples below curiously discussed about Huwang Xiao. No one dared to run, afraid of provoking Huwang Xiao’s wrath with their actions and be destroyed by a lightning strike. Not even the several peak late-Third Order Highgod Realm disciples dared to make any reckless moves.
Huwang Xiao looked below, randomly pointing at a disciple: “You, come here.”
To that late-Third Order Highgod Realm disciple’s horror, his body moved forward out of his control, flying toward Huwang Xiao. Not a wisp of his godforce could be manipulated.
This did not escape the others’ notice, and they were even more afraid to make any reckless moves.
“Sen-Senior, have me-mercy!” That late-Third Order Highgod Realm disciple started crying for mercy immediately upon reaching Huwang Xiao, his words beginning to sound nonsensical.
Watching the terror on the disciple’s face and hearing his cries for mercy, Huwang Xiao inwardly felt a little bit bitter, ‘Am I that scary? I don't remember saying I wanted to kill him.’
“Let me ask you, how long has the tournament went on?” Huwang Xiao asked.
The disciple that was busy crying for mercy shut up in a daze and stopped flailing all over the place.
This black-haired man pulled him over just to ask this question?
Seeing that disciple simply look back at him dazedly, Huwang Xiao frowned, and after noticing it, that disciple quickly answered.
“There are still forty-something days until the tournament ends.” Huwang Xiao breathed in relief at this answer. If there were only a few days remaining until the tournament ended, it would be very hard for him to chase up to the first place no matter how powerful he was; forget the first place, even entering the top ten would have been pressing his luck.
Knowing that there were more than forty days left, there was still hope for him to break into the top ten, top three, or even the first place!
Huwang Xiao asked that disciple a few more questions, and he immediately told Huwang Xiao everything he knew.
“Do you know where Yelu Tianfeng is right now?” Huwang Xiao tried.
Still, forty over days did not leave Huwang Xiao with much time, especially when his ranking had fallen too far behind. There was quite an enormous gap to close, so the fastest solution was to kill other disciples of higher ranking to reap a large amount of points.
Confident as he was of his own strength, Huwang Xiao couldn't go on a
killing rampage, otherwise, once he left this place, he would become the kill target of many forces. The losses would exceed the gains.
Whereas grudges already existed between the Yelu Family and him, not to mention the fact that he had killed Yelu Xin, Yelu Bi, Yelu Xuan, and thirteen other Yelu Family disciples. The feud between them was irreconcilable, therefore, killing a few more Yelu Family disciples made no difference. And Huwang Xiao’s biggest target was Yelu Tianfeng.
“Senior is looking for Yelu Tianfeng?” That disciple was stunned for a second, something flashed in his mind and he hurriedly reply, “The rumors floating around say that some disciples found an ancient Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling, many disciples heard of this message and are rushing over. Wangu Yanhui, Fang Chu, Zhou Yao, Mu Qi, Yelu Tianfeng, and the others will probably go there as well.”
Originally, most of the disciples in the city were planning to hurry over as well, but who would have thought this black-haired young man would appear here. No one dared to leave.
“Oh,” Huwang Xiao’s eyes lit up.
Ancient Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling!
Since the Overflowing Lightning World was a higher realm world surface, then an ancient Lightning God could very well be a Heavenly God master and above.
The cultivation dwelling left behind by a Heavenly God master was probably richer than the tournament’s rewards.
Huwang Xiao asked about the location of the ancient Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling. The disciple spilled out all he knew in detail to Huwang Xiao.
After he finished asking what he wanted to know, Huwang Xiao quickly made an estimation; according to his current speed, he could reach that ancient Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling in half a day’s time. Then, no longer caring about the disciples below, he disappeared in a flicker, hurrying straight to the said location.
That late-Third Order Highgod Realm watched the giant lightning cloud above Huwang Xiao’s head float away and a sudden fatigue took over him. His robe was wet from the cold sweat running down his back.
The disciples below had a feeling as if they had just survived a catastrophe. As the disciple said, the cultivators in the city had planned to hurry over to the ancient Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling, but now, more than half of them had changed their minds.
At an unknown distance from the megapolis was a towering mountain peak that pierced into the clouds, occasionally flashing with bright lightning. This mountain peak was actually built from a Divine World’s rare material called Magnetic Lightning Stones that had been piled up high to form this mountain.
Above the peak of this towering mountain was a black spatial hole several li in diameter.like, which was the entrance to the ancient Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling. In truth, the entrance was supposedly concealed, but a disciple went up to the Magnetic Lightning Mountain and accidentally activated the cultivation dwelling’s formations, revealing the entrance in the open.
Although it hadn’t been long, almost all participating disciples heard the news and hurried over. Naturally, this included disciples in the top thirty, and Yelu Tianfeng was one of them.
Yelu Tianfeng led a group of Yelu Family disciples, passing through the entrance. The ancient Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling was an independent world, and quite a spacious one.
“There’s a good chance this cultivation dwelling belongs to a super high realm Heavenly God master, this kind of cultivation dwelling always has a central formation. We must find that formation first!” Yelu Tianfing commanded.
All the present Yelu Family disciples respectfully acknowledged his command.
“Big brother Tianfeng, would the appearance of this Lightning God cultivation dwelling lure out that Huwang Xiao?” Yelu Wei asked.
By now, Yelu Tianfeng already found out that the sixteen Yelu Family disciples were killed by Huwang Xiao, so in the past year, Yelu Tianfeng had been searching for him.
At the mention of Huwang Xiao, Yelu Tianfeng’s eyes were bloodshot with killing intent, “I really hope that Huwang Xiao will come! Killing sixteen of my Yely Family’s disciples, this Huwang Xiao, I’ll skin him alive and rip out his tendons, scrap his flesh off the bone! I want him to feel pain one million times worse than death, only that can wash away the hate in my heart!!”
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“I really didn’t expect that Huwang Xiao to actually be so strong.” Yelu Wei said with a solemn voice, “He could kill Yelu Xin, Yelu Bi, and the others, he has strength comparable to a peak mid-Third Order Highgod Realm at the very least.”
But Yelu Tianfeng sneered in disdain, “Merely peak mid-Third Order Highgod Realm. If I want to kill him, it takes nothing more than the wave of a hand.”
“That’s right, in front of Big brother Yelu Tianfeng, that Huwang Xiao is akin to a chicken waiting to be slaughtered.” A Yelu Family disciple fawned, “If that Huwang Xiao dares to come, Big brother Yelu Tianfeng doesn't even need to move a finger, Big brother Yelu Wei alone is more than enough to kill that dog.”
Yelu Wei was the only one among Yelu Family’s hundred participating disciples that managed to enter the top one hundred other than Yelu Tianfeng, currently ranked 85th. His cultivation was at late-Third Order Highgod Realm, infinitely close to advancing to peak late-Third Order.
“Break into groups of ten, separate and search for the central formation. If anything happens, use the communication talisman.” Yelu Tianfeng began issuing orders to the present Yelu Family disciples.
Although the communication talisman’s efficiency was limited in the Overflowing Lightning World, as long as they were not too far apart from each other, communication was still possible. This was also the reason why some disciples belonging to the same families or sects could still find each other and assemble.
In a short time, all Yelu Family disciples formed groups of ten and headed out, disappearing in different directions.
At this point in time, Huwang Xiao was getting closer to the entrance of the Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling.
Wherever he passed, all the lightning beasts were struck dead by lighting strikes coming from the cloud gathered above his head. His points continued to rise at an alarming rate.
Almost every half an hour, Huwang Xiao’s ranking would jump more than a dozen places up the list.
By the time five hours passed, he entered the top eight hundred, at the 793rd place. After entering the top eight hundred, Huwang Xiao’s rising speed seemed to have slowed, but even so, he still rose ten places in half an hour’s time.
Half a day later, he reached the 758th spot.
When Huwang Xiao could see the Magnetic Lightning Mountain’s peak, his rank had risen again to the 752nd place.
Even at this time, Huwang Xiao’s Archdevil Supreme Godhead was still devouring frantically, and the thirty thousand li giant lightning cloud above his head shrunk rapidly, drilling into his body.
All three supreme godheads spun madly as they greedily absorbed the pure lightning force coming from the giant lightning cloud, converting it into godforce.
In a dozen of breaths’ time, the intimidating thirty thousand li lightning cloud was completely refined by Huwang Xiao, nowhere to be seen.
At the same time, Huwang Xiao dispersed the tornadoes around him, only then did he fly toward the Magnetic Lightning Mountain’s peak, to the spatial hole.
However, just as he was about to fly into the entrance, more than twenty figures flew out, blocking his path.
These two dozen people were between late and peak late-Second Order Highgod Realm, clad in robes of different colors and styles, clearly showing that all of them came from different forces and galaxies.
“Punk, you want to enter the Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling?” A disciple clad in a scarlet robe with the family crest of fire cloud on his chest sneered at Huwang Xiao, “Hehe, I advise you to leave immediately. That way, you can still keep your life.”
This disciple, judging from his scarlet robe and the cres
t on his chest, should be one of the Wangu Clan’s core disciples.
Huwang Xiao’s gaze swept over the twenty-some people around, noting that most of them were from the Wangu Clan, Zhou Clan, Mu Clan, Fortune Gate, and the Ancient Sorcerer School, guarding here to prevent other disciples from entering the Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling.
It seems like the Wangu Clan, Fortune Gate, and the other forces had quite a big appetite. Or better said, Wangu Yanhui, Fang Chu, Zhou Yao, and Mu Qi had quite the big appetite.
No doubt these disciples guarding here were following Wangu Yanhui and the others’ command. In fact, Huwang Xiao even spotted a Yelu Family disciple. But Huwang Xiao had already discovered these people’s presence before he reached the spatial entrance.
“And if I don’t leave?” Huwang Xiao asked with a hint of derisive humor in his voice.
“Not leaving?” The Wangu Clan disciple issued an evil chuckle, “Then go die!” His fist punched out, aiming at Huwang Xiao’s chest, filled with merciless killing intent. Blazing scarlet flames streaked in space, forming a giant fist imprint.
Before this scarlet giant fist imprint, the surrounding lightning turned into bluish mist. This was the Golden Qilin Flame the Wangu Clan’s core disciples possessed in their bloodline.
Watching this, the other disciples retreated far away.
Only after the qilin fire fist arrived in front of him did Huwang Xiao raise his hand before the wide-shocked eyes of the disciples; this person planned to receive that qilin flame fist with his bare hand?!
“A mid-Second Order Highgod Realm actually wants to take on Brother Dongcheng’s Golden Qilin Flame Fist? Is this punk retarded?” A Mu Clan disciple couldn't help sneering as he watched.
The other disciples were also shaking their heads.
The Golden Qilin Flame Fist was one of the Wangu Clan’s most powerful fist skills. The disciple displaying the attack was called Wangu Dongcheng, with a cultivation at peak late-Second Order Highgod Realm. Even the majority of early Third Order Highgod Realm masters wouldn't have the guts take on the attack barehanded like Huwang Xiao.