Sovereign The
Chapter 16: Breakthrough into the Fourth Order
Standing in front of the corpse of the Flower Coals Python, the little purple monkey leaped out and landed on the head of the python, and with a sweep of its sharp little claws, it leapt out, he made a gap and took out a small yellow object that looked like beads.
When Huang Xiaolong saw the little yellow bead, his eyes widened in shock; the beast core?
In general, the chances of a mid-level demonic beast condensing a beast core was one in a thousand, only demonic beasts from Stage Seven and above could condense a beast core with a hundred percent success rate!
Surprisingly, there was a beast core in this Stage Four Python snake!
A Stage Four beast core could obtain a price of two to three hundred gold coins if sold outside.
At this moment, the little purple monkey moved closer to the belly of the python corpse; two small fingers slid across the skin making a hole, the, and once again the little fingers dug out and pulled out a disgusting looking piece the size of two thumbs.
Snake gall! Huang Xiaolong thought brightly; this Bile Python flower coal Stage Four is an excellent food source, ingesting it can not only improve one's battle qi cultivation, but also strengthen the body!
After digging up the snake bile, the Purple Spirit Monkey gave it to Huang Xiaolong with a mischievous grin, then he opened his mouth and swallowed the beast core before Huang Xiaolong could react.
"You ate it?" Huang Xiaolong was shocked.
The beast core was a consolidation of the demonic beast element power, but this concentrated element was not pure. It could only be swallowed after it was smoothed with another herb or potion into a pill. If a practitioner were to swallow the beast core directly, he would die from exploding into pieces due to the rampaging demonic beast energy within their bodies.
But the little monkey was still fine after swallowing the beast core!
Seeing the small monkey acting innocent made Huang Xiaolong speechless. A moment later, he returned to the remnants of the Python embers flower, and after a short consideration, he decided to leave the body as it was and walked away with the little purple monkey back to the Huang Clan Manor.
Returning to the Huang Clan Manor, Huang Xiaolong instructed one of the guards to buy wine, which he mixed with snake bile. Soaking the snake bile in the wine, he gulped the entire wine jug down his throat.
As soon as the wine hit his stomach, a powerful raw energy gushed out, instantly turning into strands of warm energy, spreading throughout his body.
Huang Xiaolong immediately carried out the Asura Tactics to purify the energy derived from snake bile.
One night passed.
When Huang Xiaolong woke up, there was a hint of excitement in his eyes from his overnight training, the thickness of his battle qi had increased greatly; that one snake bile was equivalent to one month of hard training.
He had a hunch that within these few days he could break through to the Fourth Order!
The barrier to the fourth order became thinner, which was a sign he could break through at any moment. Standing up from the cold jade bed, right after he returned the bed to the Asura ring, he heard his sister, Huang Min's voice calling from outside the courtyard: "Sister, Big Brother!"
Huang Xiaolong was a little confused, the sun had just risen and this little girl had already run here to look for him; unsure of what was happening, Huang Xiaolong came out of her room.
"Sister, Father and Mother want you to go to the Great Hall." Huang Min walked into the courtyard and said as soon as he saw Huang Xiaolong.
"To the Great Hall?" doubts rose in Huang Xiaolong's mind; only important matters involving the matter of the Clan were discussed in the Great Hall.
Stepping out of the small courtyard, he headed to the Great Hall as it was called and when he arrived, he realized that his parents were already there, including Uncle Huang Ming, Huang Wei, and the other Huang Clan Manor Elders.
When Huang Xiaolong stepped into the hall, a gaze that carried a different meaning was directed at him, and Huang Wei glared at him with venomous eyes.
"Mommy's father." Huang Xiaolong came beside Huang Peng and Su Yan, sitting beside them.
Huang Peng and Su Yan nodded at their son, their faces full of smiles looking at their child.
Huang Qide and Li Mu walked to the Grand Hall at this time, and beside Li Mu was his grandson, Li Lu. Seeing Li Mu and Li Lu also present, Huang Xiaolong could already guess the reason.
"Being in-laws." The Great Hall broke out in a small, shocking commotion but they were not too surprised by the news, as it had already leaked out before.
Huang Wei was very happy when he heard this. Huang Qide continued: "That's right, the engagement between Huang Wei of the Huang Clan Manor and Miss Li Lu of the Li Family."
All the Elders rushed over to convey their congratulations: "Congratulations, old master Manor!"
"No, I disagree!" Suddenly a soft voice spoke; it was so unexpected that everyone was dumbfounded. Looking for the owner of the voice, it turned out to be Li Lu who was sitting next to Li Mu.
"Lu'er, you!" Li Mu was about to reprimand him, but was interrupted by Li Lu: "No, Grandfather, I don't like this Huang Wei!" As he said this, his head turned in a different direction, and one finger pointed towards Huang Xiaolong: "I like it, if I get engaged, I want to get engaged to her!"
Deadly silence conquered the Great Hall.
There was an expression of 'expecting a good show' on everyone's faces.
While the grin on Huang Ming and Huang Wei's faces faded uglyly, stunned speechless with words coming out of Li Lu's mouthespecially Huang Wei. His face turned red then darkened into a plum-purple color. His ferocious eyes were fixed on Huang Xiaolong as if hoping he could swallow him alive.
Huang Xiaolong himself was dumbfounded, staring at the little girl who was pointing at him, trying to tie him into chaos.
"Omong empty!" Recovering his senses, Li Mu reprimanded.
Li Lu's little cherry mouth pouted with determination, “Grandfather, I didn't say nonsense, I told the truth. I like him!" Looking at Huang Xiaolong, he continued: "He looks really cool beating people up!"
Hearing that sentence, no one present knew whether to laugh or cry. Just because during the Clan Meeting yesterday Huang Xiaolong looked cool beating up Huang Wei, this Li Lu 'liked' Huang Xiaolong, and would not marry anyone other than Huang Xiaolong?
Li Mu found the situation extremely embarrassing, but no matter how he reprimanded Li Lu, he would not change his mind, insisting on Huang Xiaolong rather than Huang Wei.
"Sister Qide, this ..." In the end, Liu Mu faced Huang Qide with a helpless attitude; both of them had decided on the matter from the start, and had just gone through a motion to make it official by gathering everyone here, he said, but now...
Huang Qide was silent for a moment then said: Let's wait two years before deciding.
Li Mu nodded; it seemed like this was the only way.
Seeing such a problem arise because of Huang Xiaolong, or 'Hellion Huang', Huang Wei's eyes spouted flames as he stared fixedly at Huang Xiaolong. Of course, Huang Xiaolong could feel hatred directed towards him, however, his expression was calm as he sat there, not caring in the slightest.
A short while later, everyone dispersed from the Great Hall.
Huang Xiaolong left the Great Hall with his parents; returning to his small courtyard after separating from his parents. He continued to train hard as he hoped to find out what changes his martial spirit would undergo once he broke through to the Fourth Order, and what abilities it would produce.
Time passed and it was five days later.
On this night, Huang Xiaolong was sitting cross-legged on a cold jade bed, running the Asura Tactics with the spiritual energy of the underworld flowing towards him like an endless waterfall. The two-headed snake martial spirit devoured the spiritual energy of the underworld quickly, as the battle qi of the underworld crashed into his meridians violently repeatedly against the barrier to the Fourth Order.
Similar to his previous breakthrough to the Second Order, and the Third Order, Huang Xiaolong endured and persevered, circulating his battle qi, and finally, the fourth order barrier cracked, the small crack gradually growing bigger and bigger.
Fourth Order, breakthrough!
At the same time he crossed into the Fourth Order, the two-headed snake martial spirit behind Huang Xiaolong suddenly emitted a light-colored black and blue light. A piercing roar that was similar to a dragon yet inaudible; the two-headed snake was actually split apart from each other from head to tail. Two individual snakes appeared – one blue snake and one black snake!
Wrong, to be exact, not the blue snake and the black snake because after it split into two, four claws grew under the body of the snake and new scales thickened, more like dragon scales!