Sovereign The
Chapter 07: The Strange Valley

Returning to his small courtyard in the Eastern Courtyard, Huang Xiaolong sat on the wooden bed while rethinking the scene in the Northern Courtyard. The haughty, cold, and hypocritical attitude of Huang Wei and his father caused a trace of hatred to appear in his heart.

Originally, he had some reservations when he planned to pitifully defeat Huang Wei during the end of the Clan Assembly year. But now, it's completely evaporated.

"She thought, Huang Ming thought the position of the Master Manor Lord would not be separated from his finger!" Huang Xiaolong sneered.

Ever since Huang Wei's martial spirit awakened, the majority of the elders attempted to get closer to Huang Ming which led to the previous incident regarding the Battle of Qi and, along with today's Northern Courtyard scene.

A while later, suppressing his hostility, Huang Xiaolong began to run Xuan Qin cultivation techniques to train his battle qi.

A two-headed snake martial spirit appeared, floated behind Huang Xiaolong, and began devouring the spiritual energy of the surrounding world. Huang Xiaolong noticed that after his advancement into a Second Order warrior, his martial spirit speed in absorbing spiritual energy had increased substantially.

Moreover, those two palm-sized snake martial spirits had grown twice as much, black radiance and blue light becoming thicker and brighter. As the two-headed snake martial spirit devoured spiritual energy from the surroundings, black and blue lights continued to sparkle within the room.

Several strands of spiritual energy were absorbed into Huang Xiaolong's meridians, converted into continuous qi battles, flowing along the meridians of the second layer repeatedly.

A few days passed in an instant.

These past few days, Huang Xiaolong had once again practiced like a madman whenever his time.

The result of today's training was that Huang Xiaolong had managed to reach the peak of the Second Order early on.

During this period, Huang Peng and Su Yan stopped by every day to Huang Xiaolong's small courtyard to inspect it. Seeing their son training in such a crazy way, both Huang Peng and Su Yan felt depressed. Su Yan even quietly started crying because although Huang Peng and Huang Xiaolong never mentioned in detail about what happened in the North Courtyard, they were not, he still managed to find out what happened a few days ago from the gossip of the palace servants.

Half a month has passed.

In this half a month, Huang Xiaolong trained his battle qi in his small courtyard or trained the Body Metamorphosis Scripture in the back mountain. Since the Body Metamorphosis Scripture was a secret, he could only sneak out to train in the back mountain at night.

Under the cover of the darkness of the night within the dense forest stood a small figure in a strange position.

A dark night, dense forest trees, and a small figure stood there in a strange position. This scene is complete with moonlight shining through the cracks of the foliage, marking the ground with soft, silvery spots.

With his hands on his head, Huang Xiaolong carried out the Laws of the Body Metamorphosis Scripture, drawing in the world's spiritual energy, making him visible to the naked eye. Energy was seen radiating into Huang Xiaolong's meridians, being transformed into internal strength before fusing in his dantian below his navel.

The night gradually faded as the light took over the darkness and the dew droplets formed in the grass reflected the sunlight. Huang Xiaolong stopped following the Laws of the Body Metamorphosis Scripture before opening his eyes.

Suddenly, Huang Xiaolong shouted softly. Waving both of his palms, his silhouette leaped high above the ground as the shadow of the palm strike fell fiercely onto the grass below.

The energy rapidly revolved in the surrounding space, whistling through the wind.

This superior martial skill was something that Huang Xiaolong's family had inherited in his previous life, Hidden palm.

As Huang Xiaolong's palm struck out, his arm appeared untouchable and intangible, a vapor-condensed palm print printed in the air, which was imprinted, each palm strike did not disappear even after a long period of time.

The highest level of mastery of the Palm of the Hand was hidden, condensing without eliminating, endless internal strength.

In his previous life, Huang Xiaolong was known as a martial arts expert not only because of his physique, but also because of his outstanding comprehension ability.

After a while of breathing, the surrounding trees were uprooted, palm trails visible on each tree trunk.

Looking at the palm print on the tree trunk, Huang Xiaolong's brows furrowed. If this was his previous life, his Hidden Palm would not have left a visible mark. In the end, it was all because his internal strength was still too weak.

"I wonder, what is the strength of this Martial Spirit World fighting skill?" Huang Xiaolong thought to himself.

General clan rules only allowed children who had reached at least the middle Fourth Order warriors to practice in clan battle techniques because only by reaching this basic level could they display the power of battle techniques. In the early warrior stage, they were of little use.

At that moment, Huang Xiaolong suddenly heard a strange voice behind him. Turning around to look, he saw hanging on a large tree not far from there, a half-meter sized creature whose body was purple and had light blue eyes.

"The Purple Spirit Monkey Eater!" Huang Xiaolong was stunned.

Huang Xiaolong had seen his image in his old family records in his previous life - the Purple Eater Spirit Monkey was a rare spirit beast.

Seeing Huang Xiaolong look at him, the little purple spirit monkey grinned and squeaked 'Zhi zhi', his hands pointing towards Huang Xiaolong. Then he turned around and ran towards the deeper part of the mountain range.

Huang Xiaolong hesitated for a moment before following the little purple monkey into the depths of the mountain range.

What surprised Huang Xiaolong was the speed of the Purple Eater Spirit Monkey as he meandered through the dense foliage. If not for Huang Xiaolong's training in the Body Metamorphosis Scriptures and using the Heaven's Path Gyration Steps, it would be very difficult to keep up with the little purple monkey's speed.

Half an hour later, after crossing many small rivers and forest areas, Huang Xiaolong finally arrived at a strange-looking valley while following the little purple monkey. The silence within the valley with heavy yin qi spreading from the inner valley, made Huang Xiaolong furrow his brows.

"Zhi zhi zhi!" As Huang Xiaolong was seriously contemplating whether he wanted to enter the valley, the little purple monkey dashed out from within, squeaking towards Huang Xiaolong. Apparently he wanted Huang Xiaolong to follow him into the valley.

After a moment's consideration, Huang Xiaolong raised his foot and stepped into the valley, following behind the little guy. Entering the valley, a thick wave of yin qi smashed into Huang Xiaolong's face, carrying an unpleasant smell. Not far into the valley, there were huge piles and even piles of dead bones scattered everywhere, belonging to a long-ago era.

As they moved further into the valley, more and more mountains of bones graced the scene. Even with Huang Xiaolong's experiences in two lifetimes that made his mind and willpower stronger than most children his age, he was unable to remain calm in this situation.

However, just as Huang Xiaolong was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly came to the vast plains of green grass with the scent of exotic flowers permeating the air. It was like a painting of Eden that materialized into reality. In the middle of the plain, there was a greenish-blue lake. Huang Xiaolong was stunned as he looked at the valley. He would never have imagined the possibility of the front of this valley being littered with dead bones, like a scene from hell, while the other half was a utopia.

At this moment, the little purple monkey climbed onto the mountain cliff, squeaked and pointed towards Huang Xiaolong while pointing up at the cliff. Huang Xiaolong walked over and his eyes followed in the direction pointed by those tiny fingers. Growing almost all the way up the cliff top on a short, thick, green vine are some red fruits.

This red-colored fruit made the person who saw it confused. The fragrance from the fruits floated in the air, mesmerizing the audience.

"This ... could this be a Yang fruit?" Huang Xiaolong was stunned, extremely shocked.

Yang fruit grows in the land of extreme yin, absorbing the nine types of qi that are between heaven and earth. If taken by a person who is cultivating in battle qi, it can not only increase the cultivation of battle qi, but also purify the marrow and give the effect of washing the porridge, that would bring unimaginable benefits to one's cultivation in the future.

Note:

hidden palm - a skill based on the ability to manipulate 'soft/hidden' internal forces instead of more direct destructive forces.

Early stage warrior; First to Third Order Warrior (Chapter 3)