Invincible Over the World
Chapter 528 - 528 528 Xuanwu City

528: Chapter 528 Xuanwu City 528: Chapter 528 Xuanwu City After purchasing a hundred Half-step Divine Realm Peak Demon Pills, books, and other items, Huang Xiaolong found an inn in the city outskirts and rented a courtyard to start his closed-door cultivation.

There was more than a year left until the registration and assessment, and Huang Xiaolong was not in a hurry.

He first aimed to break through to the Holy Domain Tenth Rank Late Stage Peak.

Huang Xiaolong sat cross-legged inside the Sumeru Divine Hall, starting with refining the common Half-step Divine Realm Demon Pills.

One, two, three, four.

Huang Xiaolong refined five pills at a time.

Pure Devil Essence continuously emerged from the Dragon Balls and was absorbed, refined, and converted into Fighting Energy by Huang Xiaolong.

After refining five Demon Pills, Huang Xiaolong did not continue refining them, instead, he practiced Ancient Puppet Technique and Soul Skill.

According to what Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi had said, the higher the realm, the more important the Divine Sense became.

Although Huang Xiaolong’s Power of Soul had greatly increased recently, it couldn’t keep up with the advancements in his Combat Energy Cultivation, which is why Huang Xiaolong had to diligently cultivate his Power of Soul.

A day passed.

Huang Xiaolong continued refining five Demon Pills.

After refining, he continued practicing Ancient Puppet Technique and Soul Skill.

This routine continued, and sixteen days later, when Huang Xiaolong had refined eighty Demon Pills, he finally broke through to the Holy Domain Tenth Rank Late Stage Peak.

Twenty days later, Huang Xiaolong refined the remaining twenty Demon Pills.

However, after breaking through to the Holy Domain Tenth Rank Late Stage Peak, he found that the Half-step Divine Realm Demon Pills were not as effective anymore.

He refined twenty more, just enough to solidify his strength at the Holy Domain Tenth Rank Late Stage Peak.

Afterward, Huang Xiaolong visited the Storm Shop again and bought eighty Half-step Divine Realm Peak Demon Pills.

When Huang Xiaolong emerged from the Storm Shop, holding those eighty Half-step Divine Realm Peak Demon Pills, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

The two million and fifty thousand from the Holy Domain Spiritual Stones he had sold earlier had almost been squandered, and only over thirty thousand Xuanwu Coins remained in his Asura Ring.

The thirty thousand was only enough to extend his inn rental for one more month.

After leaving the Martial Soul World, this was the first time Huang Xiaolong felt that money was insufficient.

It had been many years since he last felt this way.

“It seems that I need to revert to my old ways,” Huang Xiaolong said with a self-deprecating laugh.

His old ways, naturally, involved killing and plundering.

In the past, when Huang Xiaolong killed Divine Hall Elders, their Space Rings had plenty of Gold Coins.

After buying eighty Half-step Divine Realm Peak Demon Pills, Huang Xiaolong continued refining them.

This time, it took him ten days to refine all eighty Demon Pills.

However, after refining all eighty Demon Pills, it didn’t boost his power as much as Huang Xiaolong had expected.

Initially, he thought that after refining two hundred Half-step Divine Realm Peak Demon Pills, he would break through to the Half-step Divine Realm, but after ten days, Huang Xiaolong was disheartened, fearing that even five hundred pills might not be enough for a breakthrough into the Half-step Divine Realm.

“Your Primordial Dragon Body is stronger, so your meridians and Qi Sea are also stronger, allowing you to hold more Fighting Energy, which means you need more energy,” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi said.

“By my estimate, to break through to the Half-step Divine Realm, refining another six hundred Half-step Divine Realm Peak Demon Pills should just about do it.”

Six hundred!

Huang Xiaolong smiled wryly.

To break through to the Half-step Divine Realm requires six hundred, but what about reaching the peak of the Half-step Divine Realm?

Two thousand Demon Pills?

Or three thousand?

The critical issue was, Divine Domain Demon Pills were not for sale in many major shops across the Cloud Sea Continent, available only at certain auctions.

“Now you finally understand why I told you to save the Innate Spiritual Embryo until you were about to break through to the Half-step Divine Realm Peak.

With the terrifying rate at which your Primordial Dragon Body absorbs energy, you wouldn’t stand a chance of breaking through to the Divine Realm without something like the Innate Spiritual Embryo!” Ao Taiyi said.

“If the first attempt to reach the Divine Realm fails, the second attempt will be even harder!”

Huang Xiaolong nodded.

Attacking the Divine Realm is extremely difficult.

If there was a ten percent chance the first time, then the second time, there would be less than five percent.

So, many Half-step Divine Realm Peak experts had continuously accumulated strength, and some had accumulated for a thousand years yet dared not attempt to break into the Divine Realm.

After that, Huang Xiaolong stayed in the city for another two days.

During these two days, Huang Xiaolong spent his days training Combat Skills in the courtyard and occasionally went out for a stroll; at night, he read some books he had bought.

Two days later, after finishing the books, Huang Xiaolong had a clear understanding of the current super forces and various realms in the Xuanwu Star River.

There are currently twenty-three super forces in the Xuanwu Star River!

There are more than two thousand First-class forces!

In the Star River, a force with a Divine-level expert can be listed as a Super Force, which means there are currently twenty-three forces in the Xuanwu Star River with Divine-level experts.

And those with experts above the Tenth Rank of the Divine Domain can be called First-class forces.

Also, Huang Xiaolong learned from the books about the current rankings of the top ten thousand realms in the Xuanwu Star River.

Rankings are based on the comprehensive strength of the realm.

Among the top ten thousand realms in the Xuanwu Star River, there is no Martial Soul World.

This means that the combined strength of the Martial Soul World does not even qualify it within the top ten thousand in the Xuanwu Star River!

Huang Xiaolong felt somewhat dejected.

Was the Martial Soul World really that weak?

However, Huang Xiaolong did find the Taihuang Realm within the ten thousand ranks, and it was surprisingly ranked just over eleven hundred.

Among the 123,000 realms, being ranked around eleven hundred speaks to the strength of the Taihuang Realm!

“Actually, our Martial Soul World was ranked in the thirties in the entire Xuanwu Star River a hundred thousand years ago, but it fell from within the top ten thousand ranking due to the great war with the Demon Gods, where all the Divine-level and Divine-domain experts fell,” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi reflected sadly.

“Youngster Huang, I hope next time the Xuanwu Star River is ranked, you can push the Martial Soul World back into the top hundred!”

Every ten thousand years, the Xuanwu Star River is reranked.

“Don’t worry.” Huang Xiaolong nodded firmly.

With just over two hundred years until the next ranking in the Xuanwu Star River, Huang Xiaolong was confident that he could push the Martial Soul World back into the top hundred within two hundred years!

After spending another two days in the city, Huang Xiaolong then left and headed towards Xuanwu City.

Xuanwu City is the only city established by Xuanwu Academy on the Cloud Sea Continent, which is also the registration site for new student assessments of Xuanwu Academy.

Although there is still one year left for the registration of new students at Xuanwu Academy, registration can be done a year in advance.

A month later, Huang Xiaolong arrived at Xuanwu City.

Although he could imagine the immensity of Xuan City before coming, he was still shocked when he actually saw Xuanwu City.

That city wall, whose height was beyond measure, actually reached into the clouds!

And the city wall, endless in sight.

“Scary, isn’t it?

I was pretty much the same when I saw Xuanwu Cloud City for the first time.

Xuanwu City is even larger than the Martial Soul World,” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi said.

Larger than the Martial Soul World?!

Huang Xiaolong was astonished.

A city larger than a realm!

“Let’s go, we’ll register first.

After registration, we’ll go to the auction to sell a Divine-grade Spiritual Stone and buy Demon Pills,” Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi suggested.

“Before the assessment, you might even break through to the Half-step Divine Realm.”