Such a person’s performance in the Heavenly Connection Meet earlier then seemed like it was only totally natural.
It was even to the point that the sparring between members of the same generation in the Heavenly Connection Meet might actually have been insufficient in displaying Yan Zhaoge’s brilliance.
The young geniuses who thought thus were all silent for a time, innumerable thoughts springing up their minds as they wrestled with a feeling that was hard to explain.
Many people placed their attention on the Nine Underworlds and the Decimating Abyss, on Yan Zhaoge, to the point that very few noticed that a person who shouldn’t even have appeared on Clear Concealed Lake had also come here.
A handsome youth, his expression quiet, his gaze piercing, in the garb of a core, direct disciple of the Heavenly Thunder Hall.
The son of the Heavenly Thunder Hall’s First Seat Elder Lin Tianfeng, a Heaven’s favoured son of the Heavenly Thunder Hall’s younger generation, hailed as one of the Four Young Masters alongside Yan Zhaoge, Huang Jie, and Song Chao, the Thunder Rumbling Young Master, Lin Zhou!
His face was rather pale as he appeared weak.
Having been injured by Yan Zhaoge earlier, then forced to use the Blood Transforming Streaking Light Jade to activate a forbidden art to escape, Lin Zhou had suffered a huge blow to his vitality which had not completely recovered even now.
Therefore, in this time’s Heavenly Connection Meet, like Yan Shan, Lin Zhou had also not participated in it.
That’s not to mention the matter of Jade Sea City’s direct lineage martial art, One Line Edge, for which they had always been wanting to find trouble for Lin Zhou.
Although the Heavenly Thunder Hall had supplied the vital information on the Nine Underworlds this time, letting Jade Sea City at least to be indebted to them a little, not pressing him so tightly, Lin Zhou himself still avoided appearing before the eyes of Jade Sea City’s bigwigs as much as possible.
However, for this time’s surrounding and capturing of Decimating Abyss experts, Lin Zhou had still secretly travelled alongside the Heavenly Thunder Hall experts in secret, coming to Clear Concealed Lake.
Him coming here was not for the Heavenly Connection Meet, not for the Nine Underworlds nor the Decimating Abyss, and also not to seek revenge on Yan Zhaoge.
Lin Zhou was here for another person.
From far, far away, concealing himself, Lin Zhou gazed far into the distance, at the figure of a girl who had already returned to the side of Jade Sea City’s experts.
Seeing the other full of injuries, a pained look appeared in Lin Zhou’s eyes, but seeing that she was still basically fine, he let out a breath of relief, “Jingwan, it’s good that you are alright…”
Lin Zhou gazed at Li Jingwan sentimentally, only recovering after a long time as he sighed, “A pity, you don’t recognise me now. Originally, we were supposed to have met during this Heavenly Connection Meet.”
Thinking about the Heavenly Connection Meet, Lin Zhou’s face darkened as his gaze swept past Yan Zhaoge’s figure.
In order to avoid arousing attention, his gaze swept past him immediately, not lingering, but Yan Zhaoge’s figure was still firmly etched within his mind.
“While you, Yan Zhaoge-your life should originally have come to an end here at Clear Concealed Lake…”
Lin Zhou closed his eyes, sucking in a deep breath, “The encroachment of the Decimating Abyss is indeed great, with them also being proficient at concealing themselves. I exposed the identities of some of them in order to force them to change their plans, making it so those more deeply concealed had to reveal themselves. Otherwise, if the matter of Clear Concealed Lake had gone smoothly, they would still have continued hiding amongst the Sacred Grounds.”
“This means that this time’s Clear Concealed Lake incident was only a beginning, and they still have a larger plan.”
Thinking till here, Lin Zhou frowned.
In seizing the initiative this time, he and the Heavenly Thunder Hall could originally not only quell the chaos of the Decimating Abyss, but also receive benefits and remuneration from the other five Sacred Grounds.
However, because of the counterplan of the Decimating Abyss, things had swung greatly and they had very nearly failed.
Finally, it had been Yan Zhaoge who rose up against the raging waves, deciding the matter with a single stroke.
This way, while the others still had to thank the Heavenly Thunder Hall, many would believe that Yan Zhaoge had played a greater role.
The debts of gratitude of the other Sacred Grounds to the Heavenly Thunder Hall would immediately decrease by a lot.
Lin Zhou slowly opened his eyes, his eyelids lowered as his gaze was calm and without fluctuations, “This time, was only a beginning!”
The people of the Sacred Sun Clan were similarly also focused on Yan Zhaoge.
Broad Creed Mountain’s younger generation having produced such a figure, the Sacred Sun Clan couldn’t help but attach more importance to it.
Moreover, pursuing the root of the matter, the previous War of the Eastern Tang, as well as Infinite Boundless Mountain falling out with the Heavenly Thunder Hall over the Thunder Element Revival Art and the Giant Spirit Magnetite vein and finally allying itself with Broad Creed Mountain and Jade Sea City, thereby becoming their enemy, none of this could be separated from Yan Zhaoge.
The Sacred Sun Clan’s higher-up who had been in charge of ambushing the Decimating Abyss experts this time was precisely the Twilight Lord of the Seven Reigning Suns.
Earlier, the Sacred Sun Clan’s Elder who had accompanied Tang Yonghao, Huang Jie and the others over to Clear Concealed Lake to participate in the Heavenly Connection Meet had been the Dawn Lord, also of the Seven Reigning Suns.
At the same time, the Dawn Lord had also been the Decimating Abyss Organisation’s spy in the Sacred Sun Clan.
In the end, in the great battle earlier, the Dawn Lord had been personally slain by the Twilight Lord.
The Twilight Lord’s expression was completely calm and still as he only silently looked at Yan Zhaoge in the distance.
In the Eastern Tang, he had previously tried to kill Yan Zhoage, but eventually was instead countered by Broad Creed Mountain. Not only having failed to kill, he even suffered consecutive heavy injuries at the hands of Shi Tie and Yan Di.
After looking for a while, without even turning back his head, the Twilight Lord sent a sound transmission with his aura-qi to Huang Jie behind him, “You specifically made a trip to Clear Concealed Lake, and have seen what you wanted to see. What are your thoughts?”
Behind him, the serene and quiet youth did not answer his question, only saying, “My second recurring year is soon arriving.”
While the words had no head or tail, the Twilight Lord understood the meaning within.
Because he was one of the very few who understood the youth behind him.
“Usually being low-key is fine, but recurring years should be a little special, performing something major to commemorate the occasion.”
These were words that Huang Jie had said.
What few people knew was that in his first recurring year, at the mere age of twelve, Huang Jie had been confirmed as the Sacred Sun Clan’s next Chief.
This made it such that the position of the Sacred Sun Clan’s Chief would have been consecutively held for three generations by the Huang Family, virtually as though it had been inherited.
However, the core experts of the Sacred Sun Clan at its highest echelons had unanimously supported this decision.
[1] There are twelve animals in the Chinese Zodiac, and every twelve years, you get back to the year of the animal that you were born in. Hence recurring year.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 199: Still underestimated you originally
HSSB199: Still underestimated you originally
As the Twilight Lord and Huang Jie were appraising Yan Zhaoge, Yan Zhaoge’s gaze had actually also swept past where those of the
Sacred Sun Clan were.
Yan Zhaoge glanced at Huang Jie, then looked at the other Sacred Sun Clan disciples by his side.
Those who had participated in the Heavenly Connection Meet, were all there.
While he still couldn’t confirm whether the other party had left, no matter how much Tang Yonghao, who had also clashed with that masked Martial Grandmaster, trusted Huang Jie he would definitely also have performed the most basic verification.
With Huang Jie being so undisturbed, and some people having tied him down, his suspicion could already be greatly reduced.
Scanning the surroundings, while Yan Zhaoge did so in a casual fashion, he was actually appraising the Martial Grandmasters whose cultivation level were similar to that masked man’s.
Actually, amongst those currently present, it was still very hard to say that there were no spies of the Decimating Abyss Organisation here.
After all, not all Decimating Abyss martial practitioners chose to fall to the dark side.
Within the heavens and earth of the devilish domain, it was indeed easy to stir one’s devilish thoughts, resulting in that person, out of greed for a moment’s pleasure, completely falling.
However, this was not a definite thing.
‘You can know one’s face but you can never know one’s mind’-this phrase could be perfectly put to play here. Not falling to the dark side, even if a person’s heart was filled with devilish intent, as long as it was concealed well enough, bystanders would not be able to see through him easily.
As long as there were no witnesses, even if this person had secretly killed another and then disposed of the corpse, he would still be able to openly walk out to meet the others following the incident.
It was instead fallen practitioners who, after having completely fallen, were greatly different from how they were usually; with their having fallen being hard to conceal, the fallen practitioners had basically extinguished all hope of being able to continue concealing themselves.
Yan Zhaoge didn’t dare to confirm that there was definitely no way for someone to turn back into a human after having fallen to the dark side in this world, but the possibility of this was much too low.
In comparison, suppressing themselves to keep from completely falling was a more possible choice for those who concealed themselves.
Just like Elder Mo and the others in the incident of Clear Concealed Lake earlier.
“Am I worrying too much over nothing?” Yan Zhaoge pondered within his heart, “That Martial Grandmaster who ambushed me, was he not a concealed spy? After all, from the looks of it, he had already fallen for quite some time, rather than recently.”
“Thinking about it, he should be one of the Decimating Abyss operatives usually concealed in the Earth Domain.”
Yan Zhaoge stroked his lower chin, “Covering himself up so tightly, also not executing the martial arts he was most proficient in, without catching him on the spot, it would be completely impossible to see through his identity. Who would know who he was? Having fallen, he would instead be a more obvious target.”
“If it was not to conceal his identity, why then did he not display the martial arts that he was most proficient in?”
Yan Zhaoge replayed the scene of that time in his mind, “When he was clashing with the three of us, the sword arts and the palm arts that he employed were actually already quite profound. However, when comparing it to his cultivation base, although he may have spent much time on those arts, it is certain that he was not the most proficient in them.”
Thinking for a time, Yan Zhaoge’s eyes then narrowed slightly into slits, “I feel like there’s more to this than I can see…”
“Zhaoge has achieved a remarkable feat once again; completely extraordinary,” As Fang Zhun’s elegant voice resounded by his ear, Yan Zhaoge kept his thoughts, smiling as he answered, “It was by the luck of the heavens; second apprentice-uncle overpraises me.”
Fang Zhun shook his head, “No, you did very well. If not for you suddenly coming out of nowhere as an unknown factor, the Decimating Abyss would very possibly have succeeded this time.”
“If the Great Nine Underworlds Door opened, wanting to close it would then be extremely difficult.”
Yan Zhaoge asked, “Why didn’t Pavilion Lord An of Turbid Wave Pavilion rush over in time? Did the Fire Devils cause trouble in the East Sea?”
Fang Zhun replied, “That’s right. It should have been people of the Decimating Abyss consorting with the Flame Devil World to act in concert, causing us to face attacks from both the front and the back.”
“Not just Turbid Wave Pavilion’s Pavilion Lord An, Jade Sea City’s City Lord Song and the Chief of the Heavenly Thunder Hall hurried over to the East Sea as well.”
“Also, things were also stirred up in the Earth Domain, with our clan and Infinite Boundless Mountain jointly suppressing it.”
Fang Zhun described the events that had transpired, as this time’s incident at Clear Concealed Lake seemed like a sudden, standalone incident, but actually involved many things, “Here at Clear Concealed Lake, after some urgent communication, it was finally decided that the Sacred Sun Clan’s Huang Xu would come over with the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler.”
Yan Zhaoge raised his brows slightly, “Then, where is he?”
Fang Zhun’s expression turned solemn, “The Devil Saint appeared, attacking and obstructing Huang Xu and the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler.”
Yan Zhaoge raised his head slightly, “The Devil Saint ah…”
In the current Eight Extremities World, the known, confirmed Martial Saints numbered six.
The Sacred Sun Clan’s Grand Elder, the East Coming Martial Saint, ‘The Sun Comes East’ Huang Guanglie.
Jade Sea City’s City Lord, the Jade Sea Martial Saint, ‘Surging Hundred Thousand Feet’ Song Wuliang.
Turbid Wave Pavilion’s Pavilion Lord, the Roiling Cloud Martial Saint, ‘Turbid Wave Roiling Cloud’ An Qinglin.
The Chief of the Heavenly Thunder Hall, the Green Thunder Martial Saint, ‘Shocking Thunder All Round’ Chen Li.
As well as the clanless, sectless Painting Saint and Demonic Saint.
Of the two, the Painting Saint, Old Man Mo, was currently the oldest longtime expert confirmed as still being in this world.
When Broad Creed Mountain’s exalted Hantian Zhan Dongge and Heaven Diviner Zhan Xilou had still been alive in the past, Old Man Mo’s fame had already shook the world, all the way up till now.
This old man usually resided beyond the seas, not asking about worldly matters, not getting involved in conflicts. Most of the time, his existence completely could not be felt.
It was only when the Flame Devil World was pressing them rather closely that this old man would appear, helping the other experts of the human race to defeat the invading Fire Devils.
Comparatively speaking, Elder Mo was above worldly comparisons, and Broad Creed Mountain, the Sacred Sun Clan and the other major powers would also not provoke him lightly.
Meanwhile, the Devil Saint Yuan Tian was eccentric and unreasonable, acting arbitrarily as he liked, yet his cultivation was high, and his destructive power extremely strong.
His relationship with the six great Sacred Grounds was extremely terrible, as he usually just did as he liked, his joy and anger unpredictable. Since he was extremely hard to catch as he well he was a great headache for all.
Yan Zhaoge had previously privately and secretly analysed a battle between the Devil Saint and another. Through the description of spectators and the person himself, he had discovered that the Devil Saint Yuan Tian had most likely obtained some legacies left behind after the Great Calamity, gradually forming his current martial path.
Pursuing it to its root, it seemed to have the shadow of the devilish dao heavyweight of before the Great Calamity, the Capricious Devil Clan behind it.
“Devil Saint Yuan Tian-is he related to the Decimating Abyss? Or is it that the Decimating Abyss was single-handedly founded by Yuan Tian fr
om the start?” Yan Zhaoge smacked his lips a little, “In my impression…Yuan Tian likes to move on his own, going about doing things himself.”
Fang Zhun said, “Whatever the reason Yuan Tian helped the Decimating Abyss to attack and obstruct Huang Xu and the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler, we are still unable to properly make a judgment on it now. However, to be on the safe side, it is still better not to treat it as a one-off incident, and take measures against Yuan Tian making a move once more in the future.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded, “Second apprentice-uncle’s words make sense.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded, “This time, things have temporarily reached a close. The aftercare of Clear Concealed Lake should be left to Turbid Wave Pavilion to deal with themselves. Speaking of it, their losses were the most tragic, one of their two great Elders being a spy, finally having been decimated, the other having died in battle.”
Shaking his head, Fang Zhun continued, “Regarding the Decimating Abyss and the Nine Underworlds, there will still be much continuation, which will have to be slowly discussed. Now, let us first return to the mountain.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded in affirmation, “I understand.”
Fang Zhun suddenly smiled, “This time, the clan will definitely reward you heavily once more.”
“Originally, I still said that it would only require a few years for the people of this world to no longer see you, Zhaoge, only as the son of junior apprentice-brother Yan, instead seeing you for your own worth.”
“I had never thought that I had still underestimated you. From this day forth, your fame shall be known across the entire world, with no one lacking knowledge of it.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 200: An unprecedented reward
HSSB200: An unprecedented reward
Towards Fang Zhun’s praise, Yan Zhaoge smiled, “Second apprentice-uncle truly overpraises me, to the point that I almost feel embarrassed.”
Fang Zhun shook his head, “You are worthy of it.”
Gathering the other Broad Creed Mountain martial practitioners, they left the Lake Domain, returning to the Heaven Domain.
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