Shan Shiweng looked at Elder Zuo, “I have to admit that with the strength of the Sacred Sun Clan now, joining hands with Broad Creed Mountain in containing them would be the best course of action for us. After all, without the lips, the teeth will also perish in winter; neither of them can do without the other.”
“If we assist the Sacred Sun Clan, it would most likely create a situation where they end up sweeping through and taking over the entire world.”
“Everything is to be done with our clan in mind; now isn’t the time to be holding grudges like a child.”
Elder Zuo and the Magnetite Elder both fell into a deep silence.
They also understood this reasoning, but having been played with in this way by that junior Yan Zhaoge, it had really caused them much frustration.
Shan Shiweng shook his head, “Moreover, joining hands with Broad Creed Mountain in resisting the Sacred Sun Clan has long since been decided upon by our clan; the only difference is to what extent we join hands and to what extent we resist.”
“As I see it now, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight whilst waiting for an opportunity to move is no longer a viable option; we have no choice but to really make a move now.”
After a few moments, the Magnetite Elder let out a bitter smile, “The Thunderbolt Mountain of the Heavenly Thunder Hall that produces Thunderbolt Soul Jade is actually rather close to us.”
Thunderbolt Soul Jade being of utmost importance to the Heavenly Thunder Hall, they defended it well from enemy invasions lest the vein there be damaged.
Still, if someone did so, a huge enmity would inevitably result.
Therefore, the other Sacred Grounds wouldn’t do such a thing lightly.
The Heavenly Thunder Hall’s defensive preparations were mostly targeted at Broad Creed Mountain and Jade Sea City, its guard against Infinite Boundless Mountain’s side being comparatively lower.
Shan Shiweng spoke, “Report back to the clan, and invite the Chief to make the final decision.”
Although Infinite Boundless Mountain had previously predicted for various possible scenarios that they might face, directly starting a war with the Heavenly Thunder Hall had not been amongst them.
If no other outside powers interfered as they made a move on the Thunderbolt Soul Jade, the intensity of this war would definitely not be any lower than that which had just transpired between Broad Creed Mountain and the Sacred Sun Clan.
Even a full-out war erupting from this conflict was something that was not impossible.
Such a major matter was naturally no longer something that the trio led by Shan Shiweng could decide on.
At the same time, this also concerned Infinite Boundless Mountain joining in a tripartite alliance with Broad Creed Mountain and Jade Sea City for good, the three powers joining hands in resisting the Sacred Sun Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Hall.
If they really decided to make a move on the Thunderbolt Soul Jade vein, with Jade Sea City sending its troops to weigh down on the Thunder Domain from the other side, the Heavenly Thunder Hall would also not dare to move recklessly, thereby aiding in their advance and retreat.
This was also in line with the general policy Infinite Boundless Mountain had originally thought up, just that they would now have to enter the battlefield without armour.
“Kid, nice one,” Fu Enshu’s expression had turned from cloudy to sunny, as she now smiled at Yan Zhaoge, “Whether it was by accident and chance or you had planned for all of this beforehand, this hand, was played beautifully.”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “It would also not have been possible without your presence here.”
It’s also fortunate that you are not of Infinite Boundless Mountain; otherwise, with your stubborn temper, if you came up in a fit of anger, it would so totally not have worked.
This latter part of his sentence, Yan Zhaoge naturally didn’t say out loud.
“Other than that, I also have to thank you,” Yan Zhaoge looked at Zhao Hao through the corner of his eye, “You are indeed a good person ah.”
If not for Zhao Hao having stuck a hand in, Infinite Boundless Mountain probably wouldn’t have accepted it so easy.
On the surface, after all, what had happened was that Zhao Hao had rendered all other paths for restoring the Giant Spirit Magnetite vein other than that of the Thunder Element Revival Art unusable, forcing Infinite Boundless Mountain to only have this sole path to choose from.
And this caused Shan Shiweng and the others to feel even more depressed and helpless.
After Yan Zhaoge performed an initial demonstration of the Thunder Element Revival Art, its extraordinary effects were proven.
However, this also presented them with that expected problem. In the process of restoring the Giant Spirit Magnetite vein through the Thunder Element Revival Art, a ceaseless supply of Thunderbolt Soul Jade would be required.
Although this still awaited their clan’s final decision, whatever that decision was, the situation now was that if they wanted to restore the vein, they just had to depend on Yan Zhaoge.
Thus, Shan Shiweng and the others could only pinch their noses and thank Fu Enshu and Yan Zhaoge for their help.
Due to their positions, Shan Shiweng’s trio could not just lower their heads towards Yan Zhaoge, as they all gave their thanks to Fu Enshu instead.
Whereas the other Infinite Boundless Mountain martial practitioners all had to go thank Yan Zhaoge instead.
The faces of Ji Hanru and the others were either deathly ashen or swelled red to the point that it seemed like they had received some crazy infusion of blood.
At this point, the beatings they had received earlier on the mountainside could only be considered as having all been for naught. They could only clench their teeth until it shattered and force all that blood down.
In comparison to Ji Hanru, Hou Xiang nearly forgot how he was supposed to breath, directly fainting.
To him, fainting was perhaps for the best.
Zhao Hao stood where he was, not moving an inch, his entire person resembling a statue.
Glancing at him, Yan Zhaoge shrugged, “You are so innocent, while I am so full of schemes; I’m so sorry for that.”
Not long after, without any prior warning, experts of Infinite Boundless Mountain suddenly launched an assault on the Thunder Domain’s Thunderbolt Mountain, stealing a large amount of Thunderbolt Soul Jade.
At the same time, many peak experts of the Water Domain’s Jade Sea City weighed down on the border of the Thunder and Water Domains, pressuring the Heavenly Thunder Hall into relative inaction.
Broad Creed Mountain stood between Infinite Boundless Mountain and the Sacred Sun Clan, preventing the Sacred Sun Clan from making a move.
The Eight Extremities World which had only just quietened down not long ago once again rose with howling gales and surging clouds.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 134: Big Dipper Body Ying Longtu
HSSB134: Big Dipper Body Ying Longtu
In robbing the Thunderbolt Soul Jade, Infinite Boundless Mountain didn’t push things too far, later still recompensing the Heavenly Thunder Hall with some treasures for it to be taken as a trade.
Wedged in between Jade Sea City and Infinite Boundless Mountain, the Heavenly Thunder Hall could only grit their teeth and suffer this humiliation.
However, such a forceful trade being brokered caused the originally ordinary relationship between the two sides to deteriorate, their mid and low-tier martial practitioners clashing repeatedly time and time again on their own accord.
This time, the Sacred Sun Clan didn’t take up its usual domineering stance.
However, the tripartite alliance of Broad Creed Mountain, Infinite Boundless Mountain and Jade Sea City did not relax, because they knew that the Sacred Sun Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Hall were only tolerating them now as they prepared in secret to erupt out in force even more strongly in the future.
In order to wait for the East Coming Martial Saint, Huang G
uanglie, to emerge from seclusion successful in his efforts.
Despite finally having chosen the side of Broad Creed Mountain and Jade Sea City, Infinite Boundless Mountain still wasn’t that easy to deal with.
They tightly sealed away the news on the restoration of the Giant Spirit Magnetite vein, with the Sacred Sun Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Hall only receiving a vague, simple report on it.
But as intended by them, the news that Yan Zhaoge had been related to this, was leaked.
Very quickly, many rumours regarding the Broad Creed Young Master Yan Zhaoge circulated around the Eight Extremities World.
The name of Yan Zhaoge which had already been coming up quite a lot recently now resounded even more resplendently within the Eight Extremities World.
And it was not a notorious name; the image of Yan Zhaoge that Infinite Boundless Mountain had spread of him in secret truly praised him to the point of being rare even within the heavens, the sole remaining on this earth.
On listening to it, one would literally feel that Yan Zhaoge was the first person of the Eight Extremities World’s younger generation, the shocking depth of his potential even more exaggerated than that of his father Yan Di in the past.
Without a doubt, this was them trying to overpraise him to death.
Now, Yan Zhaoge understood for the first time what it felt like to have a thousand gazes on him.
Previously in the Eastern Tang, Yan Zhaoge had successively defeated the Sacred Sun Clan’s Chao Yuanlong and Xiao Shen. With this, he was already eye-catching enough. Now, with his exploits at the Infinite Boundless Mountain, he had become even more visible.
However, in areas other than the Broad Creed Mountain’s Heavenly Domain, including the Jade Sea City’s territory, the validity of these rumors was often called into question.
After all, it was the nature of young martial practitioners to be arrogant and unwilling to be behind someone else.
Without having personally fought against him or seen his prowess in person, many people were unconvinced.
As compared to those of the same generation as him, the higher echelons of many great powers, especially the Sacred Sun Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Hall, were also forced to reevaluate Yan Zhaoge.
The lines of thinking of these higher echelon experts would naturally be different.
If one considered the matters of the past years’ Zhan Dongge to be somewhat distant temporally, then the Yan father and duo could be considered to be the focus of everyone’s attention.
However, these surface struggles temporarily had nothing to do with Yan Zhaoge. Right now, he was worried about a different matter.
The child that was being protected by Zhao Ming and Jing Yunzhi had seemingly realized that his parents would never be able to wake up.
To a child, this revelation was perhaps even more significant than the heavens collapsing.
Within Han Long’er’s somewhat sluggish gaze, there was only sorrow and tears.
Perhaps he still did not fully understand the meaning of death, but he still understood that his parents were never coming back to him.
Feng Yunsheng let out a sigh at she lightly grasped his hand to lead him. Unexpectedly, she was actually unable to move him in the slightest.
“Mm?” Feng Yunsheng was visibly astonished. Using a little more strength, she tried to lead him again. To everyone’s surprise, Han Long’er actually forcefully threw off her hand.
Feng Yunsheng wasn’t some sort of weak maiden. Of course, she had used an appropriate amount of force to handle a child, but even so—it wasn’t something that a ten year old child should be able to escape from.
In particular, Feng Yunsheng was able to acutely sense that when Han Long’er had burst out with explosive force to escape her grip, her palm was left feeling slightly numb.
“This child having injured one of the Iron Yuan Sect disciples, when the Iron Yuan sect came knocking along with that Hou Xiang, beyond just aiming at his parents, they were aiming for him as well,” Yan Zhaoge said as he walked over.
Now, there were no more Infinite Boundless Mountain people in the vicinity, so Yan Zhaoge spoke without any misgivings.
Hearing what he had said, even Fu Enshu’s attention was piqued as she examined Han Long’er.
Zhao Ming and Jin Yunzhi also realized the truth of this matter, “That’s right – at the time, we thought that the Iron Yuan Sect was simply making up excuses, but it’s clear that there actually is something bizarre about this child!”’
Fu Enshu’s gaze was almost tangible as it seemed to envelop Han Long’er.
Han Long’er frowned, and turned his pair of big eyes towards Fu Enshu.
Fu Enshu let out a small exclamation of surprise, “His response is extremely sensitive.”
With her cultivation, even though it was just a penetrating gaze, most low-tier martial practitioners would be hard pressed to stop it—even detecting it would already be hard.
That Han Long’er was able to feel it was sufficient proof that besides having innate freakish strength, he was also gifted with perception that far surpassed the norm.
“A body like Vajra, a heart clear like a mirror—this child’s innate talent is truly too extraordinary!” Fu Enshu clicked her tongue in admiration, “What’s more, like a divine object concealing itself, it is usually undetectable from the outside. If not for him having exposed himself, even I would have overlooked and misjudged him.”
Yan Zhaoge said, “His physique at birth resembles that of dragons; his tranquil thoughts connect with divinities-I’ve previously seen on ancient records that this is known as the Big Dipper Body, a prime physique for martial cultivation. This is still the first appearance of such a thing ever since the time of the Great Calamity.”
Feng Yunsheng, Sikong Qing, and the others listened with slightly stunned looks, as Zhao Ming asked somewhat hesitantly, “But this child looks to be…er, a little slow-witted. Would he be able to practice martial arts?”
Yan Zhaoge laughed, “Rest assured, even though he may be slow-witted with respect to other matters, in terms of martial cultivation, his acuity of mind will definitely surpass almost everyone of this world.”
Having said thus, he walked behind Han Long’er, lightly swiping downwards with his fingers. Han Long’er’s clothes split open, revealing his back.
Yan Zhaoge’s sword-qi was already finely controlled to the point where regardless of whether he used it to cut someone’s clothes or write characters on their surface, the other party would also not sense it at all.
However, Han Long’er clearly flinched forward, as Fu Enshu and the others continuously nodded at this.
Han Long’er’s reaction was still within Yan Zhaoge’s predictions when he made his move. As a result, Han Long’er’s shirt was still split cleanly down the middle.
On his back, there were thirty six small points, resembling bruises on his skin.
However, from these bruises emanated a faint golden color.
Thirty six small dots precisely corresponded with the number of stars of the Big Dipper. Within those points, the outline of a dragon could vaguely be seen, vivid and lifelike, mighty beyond compare.
Upon seeing this, Fu Enshu looked up towards the sky and laughed, “His inborn conditions for cultivation -even if they’re not the strongest in the world, it’s definitely countable on the fingers!”
“This blind Infinite Boundless Mountain—just wait to regret it.”
Yan Zhaoge looked towards Zhao Ming and Jing Yunzhi, “Do you know what his actual name is? Han Long’er is only his child name; what about his real, given name?”
Jing Yunzhi spoke:” From what I heard from his mother, his parents had him very late, but he seemed a little simple-minded, so they treasured him even more dearly. However, for fear that he wouldn’t survive to adulthood, they only gave him the child name Han Long’er. As for his family name, he is surnamed Ying.”
“Senior apprentice-aunt Fu, I have overstepped my bounds,” Y
an Zhaoge said.
Fu Enshu nodded, “Originally, his master should bestow a name upon him, but if not for you, our clan might have missed out on him. You just do as you see fit then.”
Yan Zhaoge looked at the dragon pattern on Han Long’er’s back, “Let us call him Ying Longtu[1] then.”
Han Long’er looked somewhat vacantly back at Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge smiled lightly, letting Han Long’er relax somewhat. Seemingly sensing Yan Zhaoge’s good intentions, Han Long’er also drew back the corners of his mouth and grinned.
[1] TN: Literally means dragon picture… lol
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 135: Stepping into the Xiantian Martial Scholar realm
HSSB135: Stepping into the Xiantian Martial Scholar realm
The Han Long’er of before, the present Ying Longtu, was already on his own.
Brought along covertly by Zhao Ming and Jing Yunzhi, he left the Mountain Domain’s Cloud Portent Territory, returning to the North Heaven Region of the Heaven Domain, before being secretly escorted to Broad Creed Mountain.
The earlier matter with the Iron Yuan Sect, due to Yan Zhaoge, was naturally quelled by Infinite Boundless Mountain.
Infinite Boundless Mountain had also vaguely realised that Ying Longtu was unordinary, but now gave up on pursuing the matter.
Perhaps they were also curious about how abnormal it was for him to have injured someone earlier, yet, unable to get a grasp on any other information, could not make an accurate judgement on the matter, thus not wanting to create any unnecessary problems.
And along with having sent Ying Longtu back to Broad Creed Mountain uneventfully, Yan Zhaoge’s expression now came to refocus on that Yin Yang Cloud Spring, a spirit spring located partway up Cloud Portent Mountain.
Regarding Feng Yunsheng recovering her Extreme Yin Physique, Broad Creed Mountain was currently still keeping it tightly under wraps.
Infinite Boundless Mountain also had a Maiden of Extreme Yin; if they were to find out the specifics of this matter, who knew what thoughts might rise up within their minds.
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