Sovereign The
Chapter 04: Annual Clan Meeting

Seeing Huang Wei and the few boys behind him walking towards them, Huang Min quickly hid behind Huang Xiaolong.

Huang Xiaolong stood there, his expression indifferent towards Huang Wei and the others approaching.

Huang Wei walked over and stood in front of Huang Xiaolong, looked at him with condescending eyes, then said: "Huang Xiaolong, do you think you can protect your sister for life?"

Hearing this, Huang Xiaolong revealed a sinister and evil smile. His eyes were dotted red with bloodlust as he lightly replied: "So what, do you want to fight?" His heart was already furious as he left the Eastern Courtyard.

Elder Zhou Guang's eldest son, Zhou Xuedong, stood behind Huang Wei and was unhappy with Huang Xiaolong's attitude. "Damn it, who do you think you are ...!" Before his sentence was finished, a miserable cry sounded as Huang Xiaolong kicked Zhou Guang's stomach so hard that he flew backwards, rolling his body like cooked shrimp.

As Huang Xiaolong's heart burned with anger, the strength he exerted in his kick was naturally not light. Zhou Xuedong flew backwards, falling to the ground and rolling six to seven meters before stopping. His hand gripped his stomach and his mouth was wide open but no sound came out – as if all his internal organs were burning in a sea of fire.

After panting heavily, Zhou Xuedong cried. And damn, it was a kind of earth-shattering and ugly-looking cry. Huang Xiaolong glanced at the dust-covered Zhou Xuedong, his face wet with tears flowing like a waterfall. Huang Xiaolong curled up while thinking; "Little boy is a little boy, tears flow like pee."

"You!" Huang Wei and his gang reacted at that moment. They all looked at Huang Xiaolong with shock and panic in their eyes. Huang Wei did not expect Huang Xiaolong to be so ruthless, even more than two years ago.

"What about me?" Huang Xiaolong stared directly at Huang Wei and the boy behind him, a brilliant smile appearing: "You also want me to give you a kick?"

Hearing this, Huang Wei and the others retreated a few steps reflexively, staring at Huang Xiaolong's right foot vigilantly.

Huang Xiaolong laughed as he watched this scene, his laughter caused Huang Wei's face to turn crimson with anger and embarrassment. Fire raged in Huang Wei's heart and he shouted at Huang Xiaolong to cover up his embarrassment, "Huang Xiaolong, you dare to attack an elder's son for no apparent reason, just wait for your punishment!"

“Attacks for no reason?” Huang Xiaolong's cold gaze swept across Huang Wei's body as sharp as a blade.

Huang Wei did not dare to look directly into Huang Xiaolong's eyes and instead declared weakly with false courage: "You. I'll let you look good !" Then, Huang Wei left with the boy following behind him with quick and frantic steps, not forgetting to bring along Zhou Xuedong who was still holding his stomach.

"Sister, you hit Zhou Xuedong. If Huang Wei complained about it to Eldest Uncle, at that time would he ...?" Huang Min asked with a worried expression, thinking of how their Eldest Uncle Huang Ming whipped people during the punishment, Huang Min could not help but feel fear.

"It's nothing. Don't worry about that." Huang Xiaolong said without worry as he looked back awkwardly from Huang Wei's group.

He was confident that his kick would not leave any bruises or wounds detected. Even if Huang Ming or Zhou Guang examined Zhou Xuedong's body, they would not find any evidence. Even if his Uncle Huang Ming wanted to punish him, he still needed to have some evidence - like two years ago when he beat up Huang Wei and some of the Elders children pitifully, Huang Xiaolong received no punishment.

"Final Year-end Clan Assembly ..." Huang Xiaolong muttered to himself after Huang Wei and his group disappeared from sight, his eyes flashed with a sharp light.

At the end of each year, the Huang Clan Residence held a clan meeting where young people of the Huang Clan Residence of the same age were allowed to compete against each other as a learning experience.

It seemed like Huang Wei was planning to oppose him during the Clan Meeting at the end of the year. By doing so, Huang Wei not only showed his strength and talent in front of everyone, but also settled his grudge with Huang Xiaolong in public.

There were still five months until the Clan Meeting, and with Huang Wei's talent, five months was sufficient time to reach the First Order. Moreover, Huang Wei had the support and advice of Grandpa Huang Qide in cultivation.

"During the Annual Clan Meeting, Grandfather will probably come to watch." In Huang Xiaolong's opinion, since Huang Wei was his precious grandson and under his personal supervision, he would definitely appear.

A while later, Huang Xiaolong sent his sister before heading to the back mountain.

Behind the mountain, Huang Xiaolong practiced the Body Metamorphosis Scripture before returning to his small courtyard.

The Body Metamorphosis Scripture is the secret martial art of Huaxia from his previous life. Even if Huang Xiaolong did not cultivate battle qi, he would continue to train in the Body Metamorphosis Scripture. There was a rumor that after being trained to the highest level, there was a mysterious power hidden within the Body Metamorphosis Scripture.

During the battle qi training last night, Huang Xiaolong noticed the internal strength within his body circulating along his meridians at the same time as the battle qi, complementing each other.

Huang Xiaolong reached the First Order warriors due to his training in the Body Metamorphosis Scriptures for four years. Otherwise, even if Huang Xiaolong possessed outstanding martial talent, it would be impossible to reach a First Order warrior in just one night.

Returning to his small courtyard, Huang Xiaolong began to run Xuan Qin's cultivation technique and continued his battle qi training.

Three days passed quickly.

In addition to eating and answering the call of nature for the past three days, every minute was spent practicing, trading between practicing qi battles in his yard and running to the back mountain to train the Body Metamorphosis Scriptures.

On the fourth day.

The silvery moonlight shone in the silence of the dead night.

Like the past three nights, Huang Xiaolong sat on his bed and practiced according to Xuan Qin's cultivation technique. A two-headed snake martial spirit appeared behind him, devouring the heaven and earth origin spiritual energy at a terrifying speed and channeling it into Huang Xiaolong's body, turning it into battle qi. Compared to the previous three days, the thickness of Huang Xiaolong's battle qi within his body had increased tenfold.

Running a cultivation technique, the Battle Qi quickly surged along his meridians.

After three days of relentless training, Huang Xiaolong reached the peak of the First Order; he had a premonition that he would successfully break through the Second Order tonight.

About an hour later, as battle qi surged within Huang Xiaolong's meridians, his speed grew faster and more unstable, like a storm surge, inflicting pain upon crashing into his meridians, causing him to crash, but to Huang Xiaolong this level of pain was nothing.

As the battle qi crashed fiercely throughout his meridians, Huang Xiaolong felt his breakthrough was imminent but there was a barrier blocking him. He was unable to forcefully pass through the doorway, akin to a giant wave crashing into a sturdy wall.

Huang Xiaolong was not desperate. He knew it was important to remain calm and continue to execute Xuan Qin's cultivation technique, circulating battle qi along his meridians. Suddenly, a voice pierced through his body that only he could hear: the second barrier finally broke!

The meridians of the first layer broke apart like a broken cork, fighting qi instantly and enthusiastically spurting into the meridians of the second layer.

Huang Xiaolong was very pleased. He had finally broken through to the Second Order Warrior after working hard for several days.