Two Sovereigns
Bab148s. The Eight Forces
"Whatchu mean? It's obvious I'm Han Xiao." Han Xiao laughed as he looked at the vigilance of the Mad Hermit.
The Mad Hermit had a very good relationship with Emperor Yang Qian, if this one before him was not Han Xiao then he would immediately take it to Emperor Yang Qian and interrogate where the real Han Xiao was.
"As the closest person to my father, you should have known not my identity that only he and a few of his confidants knew?" han Xiao said as he looked at Mad Hermit, now his gaze turned serious. It was only on a few occasions that Han Xiao would act seriously. Like at the moment.
The Mad Hermit relaxed his guard, yet still he did not re-enter the fan that had a terrifying aura in his hands. Without him realizing the fan aura it made the entire restaurant shudder in horror, even some customers ran away from the restaurant because of the aura.
"Easily Qian made you a golden boy even to the point of hiding your real power. You're too horrible" said the Mad Sage and then took a deep breath, now he doesn't want to ask anything else.
Of course as the closest and most trusted person by Emperor Yang Qian he knew that Han Xiao's identity was monstrous, still in his shadow when the figure who brought Han Xiao to the Southern Wind Continent. In front of that figure he felt only an ant was helpless.
"Do you believe it?" Han Xiao smiled widely.
The Mad Hermit nodded his head, the monstrous fan in his hand he put back into his Spatial Ring.
"So do you want to be part of my army? Ah no, you can't resist because you've obtained a part of the power of Destruction's relics," Han Xiao said as he scrunched up the food on the table.
"Can't resist?" The Mad Hermit repeated Han Xiao's sentence.
"Yes, you can't resist, your power comes from me. If you refuse then I take back your power." Han Xiao smiled widely.
"You can't!" the Mad Sage said in disbelief.
Han Xiao did not reply, his hands outstretched to form an extremely complicated and fast hand mudra. Crazy ascetic was astonished at Han XIao's hand speed in forming a hand mudra.
"Devour!" Han Xiao's hand was directed at the Mad Hermit.
The face of the Mad Hermit immediately paled when he sensed that most of his strength had disappeared, immediately he looked at Han Xiao who was now smiling widely after saying the phrase 'Devour' to him.
"Still not believing? you now only have half your strength, if I wanted to I could take it all away" Han Xiao said cheerfully.
"And believe me when you receive all your complete strength from me if you count your strength at peak times against those damn cultivators as only a third or even less than a third" Han Xiao continued.
The Mad Hermit was now looking at Han Xiao with astonishment and understanding, this young man was acting very arrogant and defiant when fighting against cultivators. Clearly he remembered when Han Xiao said if he did not show up and the young man survived then he would not have a head anymore when it was discovered by Han Xiao. It turns out because of this!
The power of Destruction that had always been the pride of the Mad Hermit turned out to be useless before this carefree young man!
"Do I have any other choice but to join?" After a long sigh now the Mad Sage decided to join, because not only will he grow stronger. But becoming Han Xiao's army of eight terrifying powers would be amazing.
"Well I will give you the power of your destruction again, for now I cannot give you all the power of destruction. It's not that I can't, but I don't want to do that yet" Han Xiao said, forming a hand mudra just as quickly.
Immediately within seconds the Mad Sage could feel the power of destruction his possession had returned, even having a significant increase.
After restoring the power of the Mad Sage, Han Xiao immediately explained that in his army there will be eight forces namely, Destruction, Chaos, Undead, Soul Controller, Corrosion, Darkness, Despair and lastly Death.
This entire power was an Evil power, it was obvious. But Han Xiao said that there is no evil power only its evil users. The Mad Hermit nodded in approval to Han Xiao's opinion, all this time the Mad Sage had indeed sensed that the power of destruction was an evil force, but returned to the user. The Mad Hermit never used his power for evil so no one ever mistook him for part of the black stream.
"To form my army I want to gather all the people who have the Eight powers, remaining six more people. I'll probably make a long trip later." Han Xiao closed the brief explanation, also Han Xiao told the Mad Hermit that he would give the power of complete destruction to him upon entering the Academy.
"As your troops then I want to give you a task," Han Xiao said with a carefree smile.
"What?" Crazy ascetic was curious, after all he had no purpose and was just wandering around the vast Southern Wind Continent.
"Eastern, wait in a city and see my friend, he has a very distinctive expression, cold and aloof. You must know Ne Zha, right?" reply Han Xiao.
Crazy ascetic snorted lightly, initially expecting to get a very interesting task, it turned out that he only got the task to pick up Han Xiao's best friend.
"I'll wait in this town, you can find me at the inn." Han Xiao then left with the Mad Hermit.
"Dad... Qian your son is too horrible, I don't know what you're doing until that man gives this child to you," the Mad Sage's inner self was taught to disappear in an instant.
The atmosphere in the restaurant became very light when the two monstrous creatures left, although Han Xiao and the Mad Hermit had already restrained their aura, but Han Xiao's Absolute Power and Mad Hermit's Power of Destruction were still emitted by accident.
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It took a few days for the Mad Hermit and Ne Zha to come to the city where Han Xiao was staying, also the Mad Hermit had been waiting for Ne Zha for four days before the young man came using a flying vehicle that had a strange shape. Ne Zha and Han Xiao called the name of the object a car. But the Mad Sage preferred to call it Kuai You Shengqi because it was easier on his tongue.
"Not enough for me to have fun, Zha we will have a short adventure in this Ming Empire. Meanwhile Mad Peatapa, I have an important task for you. It's tied to the troops" Han Xiao said.
After assigning tasks to the Mad Hermit, Han Xiao, Ne Zha, Nuren Yexing and Po Houzi left the city using Kuai You Shengqi.