by Shian Jeen
Right when everyone was shaking their heads, that Golden Qilin Flame Fist halted right in front of Huwang Xiao. He then made a grasping motion, holding the Golden Qilin Flame Fist in this palm, swirling it around like a ball. Like sea foam, that Golden Qilin Flame Fist turned into specks of fire, scattered and disappeared with the wind.
Wangu Dongcheng, that Mu Clan disciple and all other disciples were stupefied, ‘He actually succeeded?’
Looks like it worked.
Wangu Dongcheng’s expression was more than ugly.
“Everyone, don’t be afraid! There are so many of us, and he’s only one mid-Second Order Highgod Realm, nothing but a sitting duck. Let’s work together and kill him!” One of the disciples shouted, inducing the rest.
This disciple was part of the Yelu Family, hence, the intimidated group calmed down and encircled Huwang Xiao with a ruthless glint in their eyes.
Huwang Xiao looked in the direction of that Yelu Family disciple; a suction force rushed out from his palm, pulling that disciple in front of him. To that Yelu Family disciple’s horror, he discovered that he couldn't move a finger, his entire body’s godforce controlled by an unknown power, causing him to fly toward Huwang Xiao.
After pulling over that Yelu Family disciple, Huwang Xiao’s Archdevil Supreme Godhead began to rotate and a whelming devouring power surged out. Instantly, that Yelu Family’s blood essence and godforce left his body, absorbed by Huwang Xiao.
Before the petrified faces of the surrounding disciples, the body of that Yelu Family disciple shrunk, becoming a dried corpse. All of this took no longer than two breaths’ time.
“Too weak.” Huwang Xiao muttered under his breath as he threw the dried corpse to the side, looking at the rest of the disciples.
The surrounding disciples’ faces turned ash gray. All of them turned around to flee, including Wangu Dongcheng.
Huwang Xiao’s lips curved into a sneer, too lazy to be bothered with these people, disappearing into the entrance in a flicker.
Until Huwang Xiao disappeared into the entrance, the surviving disciples dared not approach. There was a disciple who already pissed his pants.
A long time later, these disciples braved themselves to come closer, but looking at the dry corpse of that Yelu Family disciple, their faces were deathly pale.
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After passing through the entrance, Huwang Xiao chose a direction and sped ahead.
Inside the Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling, there were thick lightning elementals resembling flood dragons everywhere he looked. These lightning flood dragons already possessed a certain level of awareness and intelligence, hence, they took the initiative to attack any intruders.
Facing these attacking lightning flood dragons, Huwang Xiao did not repel or disperse them. Instead, he activated his Archdevil Supreme Godhead’s devouring power, devouring all the lightning elementals coming at him.
These lightning flood dragons had existed in this space for countless millennia and most likely absorbed some kind of precious spiritual energy, enabling them to give birth to awareness and intelligence. For cultivators, they were a great supplement.
As he flew forward, along the way, Huwang Xiao could feel his strength rising.
He then sank his divine sense into his jade token and discovered that his ranking had gone up to the 676th place after he killed that Yelu Family disciple and obtained half of his, entering the top seven hundred. This advancement speed was quite scary.
One mustn’t forget that Huwang Xiao had just advanced to the Highgod Realm when he left the valley, and his ranking had fallen down to the 969th place. Whereas now, after barely a day, he had climbed up to the top seven hundred.
Almost three hundred ranks in a day.
Huwang Xiao’s divine sense retreated from the jade token, pondering, ‘Since there’s a Yelu Family disciple in the group guarding the entrance, then Yelu Tianfeng must have entered this Lightning God space.’ However, the crucial matter at the moment was finding and taking control over this place’s central formation, finding Yelu Tianfeng was only secondary.
Huwang Xiao was still flying forward when, all of a sudden, he stopped. In a flicker, he appeared above a small valley that actually looked more like a spacious ravine.
This ravine nestled between two mountain peaks, tucked away from view. Even more so because it was narrow and small, one could easily miss it when flying in the air.
As for Huwang Xiao, he felt a strange energy fluctuation from this direction, thus found this hidden ravine.
Floating down, everything below entered his sight with a single glance, and his attention was attracted by a bamboo stalk over three meters tall growing out from the mountain wall.
This bamboo stalk was as thick as an adult’s arm, entirely purple in color. There were actually spheres of dark violet lightning energy hovering around it. These spheres of lightning energy were different than other lightning energy around, more animated and definitely purer, it was as if every lightning sphere had something residing within.
A thought flashed in Huwang Xiao’s mind and he exclaimed in surprise, “This is Purple Lightning Divine Bamboo?!”
When Huwang Xiao was searching for the four divine fires, he had read a record in a book from the Vermilion Bird Institute’s Library regarding this Purple Lighting Divine Bamboo.
This bamboo was born from a large accumulation of natural lightning, growing one meter every million years. This Purple Lightning Divine Bamboo in front of him was slightly over three meters tall, showing that it was at least three million years old.
Thinking of this, Huwang Xiao was delighted with his finding.
The Purple Lightning Divine Bamboo was an extremely sturdy material, perfect for refining divine artifacts.
Although the Mulberry Sword his Master Feng Yang had given him was passable, to the current Huwang Xiao, it had grown inadequate. He had already planned to reinforce his Mulberry Sword and other weapons when he returned to Martial Spirit World.
Now, with the addition of this Purple Lightning Divine Bamboo, the Mulberry Sword’s power would be enhanced to an astounding degree.
However, he was not in a hurry to collect the Purple Lightning Divine Bamboo. Instead, he observed the dark violet lightning spheres hovering around it.
These dark violet spheres were formed from the natural lightning force emitted by the Purple Lightning Divine Bamboo, and each sphere of lightning was comparable to a three-million-years-old herb!
And here, there were fifteen of them!
No longer hesitating, Huwang Xiao’s Archdevil Supreme Godhead rotated, releasing a devouring power that caused the fifteen dark violet lightning spheres to rush into Huwang Xiao’s body as if they were lining up, converted into godforce.
Even Huwang Xiao couldn't estimate how many times faster his current refining speed was after breaking through to the Highgod Realm and condensing three supreme rank godheads.
It could be said without exaggeration that not even those Tenth Order Highgod Realm old ancestors who no longer appeared in public could compete with Huwang Xiao’s refining speed.
This was one of the terrifying aspects of having a supreme godhead, moreover, Huwang Xiao had three of them!
After absorbing the energy from the fifteen spheres of lightning, Huwang Xiao could feel his godforce increase by a significant amount, pushing him closer to peak mid-Second Order Highgod Realm.
Somehow, this result rendered him speechless.
Even though only a day had passed, even he had lost count of how many lightning beasts’ essence force he had refined along the way, not forgetting that Yelu Family late-Second Order Highgod Realm disciple’s blood essence and godforce. And now, even after refining fifteen lightning spheres comparable to three-million-years-old medicinal herbs, he had yet to reach peak mid-Second Order Highgod Realm!
Give another person the same amount of energy he had refined in this one day’s time and they would have already broken through to Third Or
der Highgod Realm.
His three supreme godheads were akin to three bottomless pits.
Huwang Xiao faintly suspected that even if he refined ten thousand Heavenly God’s godheads and ten thousand stalks of three-million-years-old herbs right now, he might still not be able to advance to Third Order Highgod Realm.
Ten thousand Heavenly God’s godheads!
Ten thousand stalks of three-million-years-old herbs!
Just thinking of this gave Huwang Xiao a headache, where was he going to find so many godheads and three-million-years-old herbs?
He put away these messy thoughts and went to collect the Purple Lightning Divine Bamboo. He then left the ravine, flying in the same direction as he did before.
Huwang Xiao continued to absorb the lightning force inside the Lightning God space as he flew onward. Half an hour later, a mountain range that stretched further than the eye could see came into view.
This mountain range was like dragon lying in wait, astonishing spiritual energy flowing out from within. Although Huwang Xiao was still some distance away, he already felt the rich and abundant spiritual energy, not to mention the high grade Divine World spiritual energy.
For this grade of Divine World spiritual energy to appear, according to Huwang Xiao’s conjecture, deep below this mountain range was sealed a spiritual vein. A spiritual vein formed from the Divine World’s spiritual energy!
If he could refine this spiritual vein, Huwang Xiao estimated that he could, perhaps, advance to peak late-Second Order, perhaps even Third Order Highgod Realm!
Huwang Xiao inhaled deeply, accelerating toward the mountain range.
Soon, he was standing in the air above the mountains, carefully sensing the densest area of spiritual energy, then hurried over.
A while later, Huwang Xiao stopped in front of one of the many peaks around.
Clouds lingered over the mountain peak like a crown, whereas halfway down were magnificent buildings resembling palaces. The area with the densest spiritual energy was right here where these palaces were.
‘The Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling!’ The name flashed in Huwang Xiao’s mind. Excitement shone in his eyes, flying toward the cluster of palaces.
Huwang Xiao quickly descended on the square at the head of those palaces.
But, just as he was preparing to enter the main palace building, he heard the sound of whistling wind, followed by the appearance of a group of disciples. They also descended on the square.
This group of disciple consisted of ten people, and they were none other than Yelu Family disciples.
Once they descended, one of the Yelu Family disciples was ecstatic as he stared at the cluster of palaces around, ordering, “Quick, send a message to Big brother Tianfeng and the others, tell them we’ve found the Lightning God’s cultivation dwelling!”
The other disciples also had excited expressions on their faces, each of them taking out their communication talisman to inform Yelu Tianfeng and rest of the family disciples.
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After those Yelu Family disciples were done with relaying the message to Yelu Tianfeng and other family disciples, they noticed that someone was there with them.
“Huwang Xiao!” The Yelu Family group leader blurted out when he saw the person’s face. He was surprised, excited, then his face went grim, “We searched high and low for you, who would have thought we’d find you here. Huwang Xiao ah, Huwang Xiao, you ignore the path to Heaven and come running toward the Gates of Hell, let’s see how you’re going to escape this time.”
“Is that so?” Huwang Xiao retorted, direct and indifferent.
Watching Huwang Xiao’s indifference, the Yelu Family group leader sneered, “You’re probably still ignorant. Our Big brother Yelu Tianfeng and Big brother Yelu Wei will arrive here very soon, together with the others!”
A snicker sounded from Huwang Xiao’s mouth at that Yelu Family disciple’s intimidation. This suited him just fine, he could deal with them all at once, saving him the trouble of searching for them everywhere.
Thus, Huwang Xiao could afford to wait. He stood there with his hands clasped behind him, waiting for Yelu Tianfeng and the other Yelu Family disciples to arrive.
The present Yelu Family disciples secretly breathed in relief when they saw that Huwang Xiao wasn’t going to run.
The ten of them were aware of Huwang Xiao’s strength that was comparable to a peak mid-Third Order Highgod Realm master. Had he chose to run, not a single one of them would have been able to delay him. However, the group leader’s sneer became even deeper; since this Huwang Xiao was so blatantly waiting for death, they would fulfill his wish in a little bit!
About ten minutes later.
Sounds of piercing wind came from the distance as a group of Yelu Family disciples flew toward the square at high speed.
When the disciples on the square saw this group, obvious elation was displayed on their faces.
The leader of this group was none other than the person close to stepping into peak late-Third Order Highgod Realm, Yelu Wei.
Yelu Wei descended gracefully on the square. His sharp gaze made a quick sweep around the square and saw Huwang Xiao standing there, calm and indifferent, with his hands behind his back. Yelu Wei was stunned.
The first batch of Yely Family disciples that arrived hurried forward to greet Yelu Wei, and their group leader immediately protested, “Big brother Yelu Wei, this Huwang Xiao is really too arrogant, not putting our family in his eyes. Should we teach him a lesson right now?”
A frown wrinkled Yelu Wei’s forehead, answering in a solemn voice, “There’s no hurry, we’ll decide after Big brother Yelu Tianfeng arrives.”
The leader of the first group was surprised by Yelu Wei’s answer, but he did not object. Throwing a piercing look at Huwang Xiao, he said, “Then we’ll let this punk live for a few more minutes.”
Soon, another group arrived at the square, their leader none other than Yelu Tianfeng himself. However, he was joined by a number of Beitang Family disciples.
There was a stalwart Beitang Family disciple who flew beside Yelu Tianfeng, the aura coming from his body not losing out in the least to Yelu Tianfeng’s. This person was none other than the Beitang Family’s most distinguished and greatest genius of the last ten million years, who had reached peak late-Third Order Highgod Realm in a little over one thousand and seven hundred years. He was Beitang Wuji.
Currently, Beitang Wuji’s ranking was slightly below Yelu Tianfeng’s, at the 16th place.
“Big brother Tianfeng!” Yelu Wei and the rest of Yelu Family disciples were excited when they saw him arrive.
Yelu Tianfeng nodded slightly at them before turning to look at Huwang Xiao.
“Mid Second Order Highgod Realm?” Standing beside Yelu Tianfeng, Beitang Wuji saw through Huwang Xiao’s cultivation in a single glance, laughing in disdain, “Yelu Tianfeng, this kind of small shrimp needs you to take care of it personally?”
He did not pay attention to Beitang Wuji’s ridicule, walking up to Huwang Xiao. Yelu Tianfeng’s momentum was rising with every step and his long spear appeared in his hand, his gaze chilling cold, “Mid-Second Order Highgod Realm, this is your true strength, right? No wonder Yelu Xin, Yely Bi, and Yelu Xuan all died in your hand. But, there’s something else I’m curious about, you actually aren’t trying to run. Since you didn't try to run, is it because you know you won’t be able to escape, and hence, the better option is to wait for me here and hope you’ll be lucky enough to win against me?”
The tip of Yelu Tianfeng’s long spear was pointed at Huwang Xiao’s face, but just as he was about to send Huwang Xiao on his way, Yelu Wei interjected, “Big brother Yelu, maybe I should start first?”
Yelu Tianfeng pondered for a moment before agreeing, “Alright, but don’t kill him yet, I still want to break every bone in his body and skin him alive.”
Yelu Wei reassured him, “Don’t worry, Big brother Tianfeng.” He then approached Huwang Xiao with a longswor
d in his hand.
Hearing this conversation between the two, Huwang Xiao shook his head, a faint smile on his lips, “No need to make it so troublesome, both of you can attack together, or all your Yelu Family disciples can attack together, that would save me the trouble of going after you lot one by one.”
Huwang Xiao’s words enraged all present Yelu Family disciples.
“Punk, you’re seeking death!”
“I alone am enough to kill this punk!” An early Third Order Highgod Realm disciple shouted in anger.
Yelu Wei’s longsword suddenly resonated, emitting a clear vibrating hum, a whelming rush of godforce swirled around him.
“Ten Thousand Snakes Sword Formation!”
Yelu Wei thrust his sword at Huwang Xiao.
The surrounding disciples immediately saw sword lights flying out, vibrating as they whistled in the air, resembling pounding snakes. Those sword snakes actually formed a sword formation. Sword lights sliced all lightning force between the two, arriving in front of Huwang Xiao in the blink of an eye.
Huwang Xiao did not give more than a glance to Yelu Wei’s attack. He merely gave a casual flick of his hand, akin to brushing off an annoying fly. Before the spectating Yelu and Beitang Families’ disciples, that snake-sword formation that could seemingly slice everything in its path suddenly burst apart, as if it a giant hand slammed down on it.
Whereas Yelu Wei, the shockwave from the impact sent him reeling backwards all the way to the edge of the square before managing to forcefully steady himself.
Rounded shocked eyes were many watching what just happened.
Yelu Wei, who was infinitely close to advancing to peak late-Third Order Highgod Realm lost!
One move!
Even Beitang Wuji was shocked.
Huwang Xiao’s gaze swept over Yelu Tianfeng and the Yelu Family disciples, his voice indifferently cold, “I’ve already said, the lot of you should attack together, it'll save me the trouble of going through you one by one.”