The Domineering King of the Netherworld and His Sweetheart

84. Asset

Translator: Ning LL

The gorgeous petals floated from the sky like the raindrops.

In the middle of the Desire Sea, on the huge flower, a golden figure was sitting with his legs crossed.

As the golden spiritual energy kept flowing into the boy’s body, there was green light gushing out from him like the tidewater. The two rays of color intertwined with other, giving off dazzling light while wrapping the boy’s body gently. The spiritual energy, having been compressed over and over again, became the same size as the thumb and entered the boy’s body at last.

Each time a drop of the concentrated spiritual energy entered his body, his flexible bones would get tougher. The rich spiritual energy which flowed into the boy’s wide veins back and forth continuously stabilized the boy’s cultivation base. In the meantime, the number of the stars in the glaring galaxy vortex in his heart increased rapidly as the highly concentrated spiritual energy had melted. As the number reached a certain level, the property of the galaxy vortex would entirely change.

Beside the boy who was sitting quietly with his legs crossed, a delicate and graceful figure was standing upright.

The man’s long ivory-white robe fluttered in the air without being blown by the wind, drawing a beautiful arc behind him. Ordinary people could only look up at him with reverence as if he was standing on the top of a mountain. The flying petals in the air didn’t dare to touch any place of the man’s body. Every time there was a wind blowing over, the petals would draw an arc to float by the man when they were about to touch him.

The man was King of the Netherworld whom everyone could only pay respect to, while the person who was sitting behind him was the naughty boy, Feng Xi.

There was a fresh earthy scent from Feng Xi’s body all over, which was the contribution of Fruit of the World.

After Feng Xi got lots of Fruits of the World, he gave some of them to his buddies but only took in one fruit himself. The energy contained in the Fruit was gentle, so ordinary people could keep taking in the fruits according to his or her own cultivation level. Nonetheless, the maximum number for one to take was two to three, and the cultivator who took more than that would be badly injured by the enormous energy and even lose his or her own life.

However, Feng Xi was not an ordinary cultivator. His veins which had been widened by the King were able to contain five times Spiritual Energy than ordinary people.

As a result, he didn’t need to be afraid that his veins would explode after he had taken in three Fruits of the World continuously.

Although he was already a powerful cultivator in the first grade of the God King realm, he was still not strong enough to defeat all the others attenders in the final match. Even though Hairless Chicken could help him win, it was still necessary for him to raise his own cultivation base. That was why the King brought Feng Xi to the Desire Sea again.

This time Feng Xi was cultivating only by himself and the King almost did nothing.

After the golden and green light around Feng Xi’s body had intertwined each other for three days, the green light gradually died down and at last completely vanished, which meant the Fruit of the World had been entirely digested. As the golden light enveloped the boy’s body again, his veins were full of the light golden spiritual energy.

Suddenly, Feng Xi opened his eyes, with two tongues of fire flashing across his eyes. At the moment, the domineering aura which was sent out from the boy even took the King aback.

Although it only happened for a second, the King still felt a great pressure.

Feng Xi didn’t know what had just happened because he was checking the galaxy vortex inside his body now. Then he found that the stars in the vortex now gave off light blue light instead of the white light like before, and were even brighter than the real stars in the night sky.

“My leader, my leader, I have raised my cultivation level!” Feng Xi jumped right away and then walked to the King excitedly with his head raised. Even his two canine teeth looked much whiter than before.

“Well done.” The King was always generous with the compliments toward Feng Xi.

Although Feng Xi had reached the sixth grade of the God King realm straightly from the first grade mostly because he had taken in the Fruit of the World, the King was still impressed that the boy had been able to make that achievement all by himself. After all, the King knew that what the boy lacked most was patience. So the boy deserved that compliment for his patience.

After the boy heard the King’s compliments, the smile on his face turned broader.

His hard work finally paid off. He had been sitting for three days patiently in order to make his leader less angry. On normal occasions, Feng Xi would have jumped up on the first day of his cultivation since he didn’t have any interest in a boring thing like cultivating himself at all. However, three days ago, he irritated his leader outside the Desire Sea. At that time, the King hadn’t even cured the wound on Feng Xi’s foot, which meant the King was angry indeed.

Feng Xi who was afraid that all the benefits he was going to get would disappear could only show extreme patience by cultivating in the Desire Sea for three days.

The result satisfied Feng Xi a lot. Not only his leader was not angry with him, but his cultivation level was raised. The two happy events just came at the same time. Feng Xi was wondering if he could celebrate outside right now.

However, if the King knew about what the boy was thinking, he might pull a long face for the next few years.

Because Feng Xi’s cultivation level had just been raised, he looked not like a person who hadn’t slept for three days at all with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes. Now he seemed to be in high spirits, but if it was at ordinary times, he would definitely feel numb in the legs after the seclusion.

After Feng Xi left the Desire Sea with King of the Netherworld, it was already the next day in the morning. The final match would start in less than an hour.

This time, before the King said anything, Feng Xi had already run outside vigorously.

Since it was the final match, the square was full of audience. Lots of people wanted to see the Dark Horse this year. Someone had even started to gamble on who would gain the top three places this year. Different odds corresponded to different results. As a result, there were a lot of people participating in gambling. Even Feng Xi wanted to make a bet.

God of Books looked at the boy’s spread palm in front of him, with his mouth twitched, “Master, what are you doing now?”

“Asking crystals from you, of course. Doesn’t it require the crystals to bet? I don’t have one on me, so I can only ask from you.” Feng Xi gave a glare, thinking, ‘Don’t tell me you don’t have one, how can I make a bet without crystals?’

Although these days he always had the impulse to sell the Demon Beast Eggs, he never had the best chance to do that since Uncle White had been watching him closely all the time. On most occasions, the Demon Beast Eggs which Feng Xi had made great efforts to steal would be taken back by Uncle White again. As a result, Feng Xi didn’t have any crystals on him at all.

God of Books shrugged and said, “Master, to tell the truth, I really don’t have any crystals. I don’t even have the blue crystals the value of which is the lowest, not to mention the red crystals. Sorry that I won’t be able to help you.”

Feng Xi turned to God of Bad Luck with bitterness in his eyes, and the latter shook his green round body ceaselessly on which there was no head or hands. Feng Xi could tell that this dude was even poorer than God of Books. Therefore, Feng Xi could only pin his hope on Hairless Chicken.

After Hairless Chicken got dazed for a while, it finally realized what Feng Xi wanted and started to rummage in its colorful feathers slowly.

At last, he took out a small piece of blue crystal. However, the surface color of that blue crystal was a bit darker than the usual one as if its energy had already run off.

Hairless Chicken noticed the dazed look in Feng Xi’s eyes, and then scratched its head, “Sorry, Master, this small blue crystal that I picked up the day before yesterday is the only crystal I have. But I have absorbed some of its energy, so… It has turned like this. I don’t know if you can use it or not?”

“Nonsense, of course I can’t. Who would want a normal blue crystal which has not energy inside?!” God of Books rolled his eyes to Hairless Chicken while thinking, ‘Why are all of you so ignorant? Luckily you guys have me, otherwise what kind of lives would you live?”

The currencies in circulation in the Three Worlds were blue crystal, red crystal and purple crystal. The exchange ratio between each kind was the same. The purple crystal was the most valuable one among the three kinds, and one piece of purple crystal could be exchanged for a thousand pieces of red crystal. One piece of red crystal could be exchanged for a thousand pieces of blue crystal. As for the blue crystal, it was most commonly used by the public because it didn’t contain lots of energy.

Because the energy inside the blue crystal in the hand of Hairless Chicken had been absorbed by the beast, it was just a normal crystal which no one would want.

As Hairless Chicken saw its master glaring at it, it showed an awkward look, “Master, why don’t you go back to the Palace and ask for crystals from His Majesty King of the Netherworld?”

Hearing that, Feng Xi kicked Hairless Chicken right away because of the lousy idea the latter had just given. If he really went back to the Palace and asked the King for crystals, he might be accused of ignoring his proper task. By then, Feng Xi might not even be able to attend the final match because he would be locked in the Heaven Peak Palace again.

“Ahem, actually…”

As God of Books stared at his helpless companions, he gave a dry cough, which attracted the others’ attention again. God of Books looked at the face which was full of expectation, he couldn’t help but get a bit complacent, thinking ‘Well, you guys can do nothing without me.’

“Actually, we don’t have to use crystals to make a bet. Other objects might work too. Normally, valuable things all have their price. The experts would evaluate the objects’ value by then.”

“That’s right.” Feng Xi was suddenly enlightened. Then he took out a Fruit of the World, saying excitedly, “Then I’ll use this fruit as a stake. That should… Ouch!!!”

The next second, he was squashed by his three buddies that had pounced on him while uttering a heartrending cry.