“Just leave it to me,” Xu Fei answered.
He swivelled his head to look at Feng Yunsheng, smiling, “Junior apprentice-sister Feng? This is still our first meeting; nice to meet you.”
Feng Yunsheng also smiled, “I have long heard of senior apprentice-brother Xu’s famed name.”
Xu Fei smiled, sending a sidelong glance at Yan Zhaoge, “Famed drunkard?”
Feng Yunsheng blinked, also looking towards Yan Zhaoge like she was smiling whilst also not.
Yan Zhaoge rolled his eyes, telling Feng Yunsheng, “Just sell me out already!”
Xu Fei laughed, patting his hand, “You still need to be sold? Just stop, is the truth anyways.”
As they talked and laughed, they accompanied with Xu Fei for the handover of duties.
While Xu Fei seemed like a rough person, he was actually meticulous on the inside, being someone who was willing to keep his feet firmly on the ground and put in effort.
He was outstanding in terms of talent, his strength exemplary, and in terms of the handling of everyday matters in outside lands, he was also stable and dependable, similarly being a good hand at it.
Succeeding the position as the Acting Elder of Suzhou, he very quickly got into the role, as the First Seat Elder of the Sand Region and the Principal Elder of the Howling Wind Sword Sect were both full of praises for him afterwards.
After Xu Fei had assumed his position, Yan Zhaoge focused his attention back on that complete, recovered jade coin.
One day, sitting in the meditative position, on the ground before Yan Zhaoge, a jade coin emitted light, as a complete spirit formation, circulating silently, was projected in mid-air.
Looking over carefully, Yan Zhaoge saw that the centre of that spirit formation resembled a door.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 236: Meeting Lin Zhou once more
HSSB236: Meeting Lin Zhou once more
Looking at that illusory door at the centre of the spirit formation, Yan Zhaoge nodded with satisfaction.
His deduction on the spirit formation based on the patterns of the jade coin earlier had been accurate. This spirit formation indeed led to some secret realm.
Standing by Yan Zhaoge’s side, Ah Hu asked curiously, “Young Master, such a tiny jade coin can actually contain the secrets of space, directly leading people to a foreign space?”
Yan Zhaoge sighed, “In the world before the Great Calamity, the martial dao flourished greatly, with many concepts having been analysed to a very profound stage.”
“Therefore, some profundities were also simplified, and able to be used in ordinary life. While the average person would be unable to understand the underlying concepts, they would still be able to use some tools.”
Yan Zhaoge stood up, “Actually, the Shadow Shrinking Pouch was a pretty common object before the Great Calamity.”
Saying thus, Yan Zhaoge walked to the other side. There, the massive pillar of the Divine Palace still stood, seemingly not having changed in the least.
However, as Yan Zhaoge pressed down on its surface with his palm, the tall stone pillar instantly began shrinking.
Finally, what resembled a footlong short rod landed within Yan Zhaoge’s hand.
Not having to hold it up vertically, with it horizontal, Yan Zhaoge currently also couldn’t feel any weight from it.
Following his painstaking efforts over this period of time, Yan Zhaoge had already completed his second refinement of the pillar of the Divine Palace.
Although there were still many remarkable areas that required his analysis, at the very least, Yan Zhaoge could already freely control its size.
“Senior apprentice-brother Xu, junior apprentice-sister Feng, please help me to take care of this area for a bit,” Yan Zhaoge said to Xu Fei and Feng Yunsheng by the side.
Xu Fei and Feng Yunsheng nodded, “Rest easy, we will help you to secure your path of retreat.”
“Let’s go,” Keeping the pillar of the Divine Palace in the form of a rod, Yan Zhaoge hovered upwards, walking in mid-air towards the door projected from the jade coin.
Copying him, Ah Hu followed Yan Zhaoge towards that door.
Crossing through that projected door, Yan Zhaoge felt a ripping sensation for a moment. He did not panic, instead crossing through very naturally.
As he crossed, a white light flooded his eyes, but as the ripping sensation very quickly vanished, the strong light flooding his eyes vanished as well.
Yan Zhaoge narrowed his eyes for a moment before opening them once more. Before him was a verdant area teeming with life.
Following behind him, Ah Hu clicked his tongue in praise as he looked at the scenery before him, “If you didn’t tell me that this was a foreign dimension, I would still think that I was in the Eight Extremities World.”
The two seemed to be in a primordial forest, with numerous mountain peaks visible in the distance.
Turning back, they saw that door of light hanging silently in mid-air.
His hands behind his back, Yan Zhaoge proceeded leisurely forwards as he scanned their surroundings, “The size is still limited. According to that spirit formation with which the door was opened, it should be around a few hundred kilometres.”
Ah Hu sighed in praise, “The spiritual qi really is abundant ah.”
Ah Hu nodded. This foreign dimension was indeed an existence of before the Great Calamity, having luckily escaped the fate of destruction as a corner of the world.
However, it had still been affected by the aftershocks, as Yan Zhaoge could clearly feel that the spirit qi pulse here had the feeling of deteriorating.
Having always been sealed here, it could still be maintained for a rather long period of time. Being connected with the outside world now, the rate of deterioration instantly soared rapidly.
Not long after, this foreign dimension would be destroyed for good.
Silently feeling the flow of spiritual qi here, Ah Hu also analysed, “This is a little tough. Young Master, we might not have sufficient time.”
Yan Zhaoge said, “No matter, I have already analysed the spirit formation on that jade coin, which has a connection with this foreign dimension. Our target is right at the centre of this place, and we just have to head straight over.”
“There might be something that I want there,” Yan Zhaoge gazed into the distance, “Life Illuminating Immortal Stone- a treasure of Loose Practitioner He of before the Great Calamity. This is very possibly a secret realm left behind by the past Loose Practitioner He, with some of this treasures stored here. Or rather, it’s more appropriate to call them relics.”
To others, the Life Illuminating Immortal Stone might not hold much significance. However, to Yan Zhaoge, it would help him to cross over the heavenly gulf and enter the Martial Grandmaster realm even more quickly.
This thing was already extremely rare before the time of the Great Calamity, and had become completely extinct after.
Yan Zhaoge originally hadn’t held hope of finding one, and had instead been looking for possible replacements.
Finally, after having finished analysing the spirit pattern on the jade coin, he had been stunned to discover that this jade coin was very possibly a possession of the past Loose Practitioner He of before the Great Calamity.
And as Yan Zhaoge knew, Loose Practitioner He had owned a Life Illuminating Immortal Stone that year.
This way, Yan Zhaoge instantly had some hope of retrieving it.
Even if this foreign dimension didn’t hold a Life Illuminating Immortal Stone, there were also possibly other things left behind from before the Great Calamity, all rather valuable objects now. This trip of Yan Zhaoge’s would not be in vain.
Especially when in Yan Zhaoge’s memories, Loose Practitioner He had been rather proficient in cultivating spirit medicines and plants.
Traversing the foreign dimension, as they walked, Yan Zhaoge and Ah Hu suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Ah Hu scratched his head, looking perplexedly at Yan
Zhaoge, “Young Master, is it just a hallucination of mine, or is it that this speed of deterioration of spiritual qi is a little too fast even though we opened an entrance into this world?”
Yan Zhaoge raised his brows slightly, “No, your feeling is very accurate. While the deterioration of spiritual qi should increase exponentially as time passes, it is really a little too great now.”
Ah Hu stopped smiling, some seriousness added to his face, “Young Master, do you think that there could be another jade coin, also able to open a door to this foreign dimension? Could someone have come in along with us, through another open door?”
“They may not have crossed using a key like the jade coin’s spirit formation,” Yan Zhaoge said calmly, “The great thousand worlds are filled with wonders. Under some special circumstances, it is also possible to inadvertently rip space itself apart, opening up a tunnel between the Eight Extremities World and a foreign dimension.”
Yan Zhaoge surveyed their surroundings, “Some special treasures can achieve this, although setting the coordinates would be hard.”
Suddenly, the purple light of thunder flickered slightly in Yan Zhaoge’s right eye.
He suddenly swivelled his head, his gaze like lightning as he looked in a single direction.
Ah Hu also had a similar feeling, letting out a cold snort as he looked in the same direction as Yan Zhaoge.
The purplish-green light of thunder flickered in Yan Zhaoge’s right eye as for just that one moment, the air in the distant horizon seemed to ripple like water, before it returned to normal.
Less than a hundred kilometres away from Yan Zhaoge, in another part of the primordial forest of this foreign dimension.
A youth, standing on a branch of a huge tree, gave a low, muffled groan.
A crystal-like mirror before him suddenly sparked with electricity, then shattered.
“The Eye of the Thunder Emperor…” The youth’s expression was complicated.
It was, shockingly, the Thunder Rumbling Young Master, Lin Zhou!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 237: Retainer, Martial Grandmaster!
HSSB237: Retainer, Martial Grandmaster!
Looking at the lightning that had momentarily flashed before him and that shattered crystal mirror, Lin Zhou’s expression was complicated to the extreme.
The shattered mirror reflected his features, causing him to appear even more disordered.
“The Eye of the Thunder Emperor…” Lin Zhou was currently consumed by emotions as he could not help but think back to before at the East Strangling Snow Mountains, where he had fought with Yan Zhaoge for the Eye of the Thunder Emperor.
The Eye of the Thunder Emperor which he had originally thought of as already his had landed in Yan Zhaoge’s hands, while in order to escape from Yan Zhaoge’s fists, Lin Zhou had been forced to use the forbidden Transforming Blood Streaking Light Jade, adding injury upon injury, even preventing him from participating in the Heavenly Connection Meet.
Precisely the Heavenly Connection Meet where the Incident of Clear Concealed Lake had erupted.
While he had not witnessed it personality, from the rumours as well as information reports that he gathered afterwards, it was not hard for him to conclude that the Eye of the Thunder Emperor had played a major part in Yan Zhaoge’s destruction of the Devilish Domain Grand Formation, and this caused Lin Zhou to feel even more unhappy within his heart.
Having seen Yan Zhaoge use his Eye of the Thunder Emperor fragment to destroy his scouting treasure from far away, Lin Zhou’s expression was rather dark.
He sucked in a deep breath, calming his emotions as he pondered, “Why did Yan Zhaoge appear here? Was it that when I opened the spatial door, it influenced the foreign dimension, causing other places to have spatial doors open as well, allowing him to come in by coincidence, or was it that he had a method of his own to open one?”
Lin Zhou knit his brows tightly, “Could it be that he also knows that the Immortal Crane Wings are here? Or is it like that time in the tomb of Old Man Great Sorrow, where there are treasures other than the Immortal Crane Wings here which I do not know of?”
“Indeed, this fellow is too much of a hindrance,” Meeting Yan Zhaoge once more caused Lin Zhou to feel stifled.
There was a treasure that he looked very highly upon, the Immortal Crane Wings, here. It was only that there had been some difficulty in breaking through to this dimension.
According to his own memories, Lin Zhou had first sought out another piece of fortune, obtaining a treasure that could open spatial doors, before finding a damaged relic left behind by the past Loose Practitioner He to help him determine the coordinates. Thus, he had successfully opened a tunnel between the Eight Extremities World and this foreign dimension.
“While I have also successfully broken through into the late Xiantian stage, his strength is extraordinary, with him also having a Sacred Artifact fragment on him, as well as that deplorable servant following him closely,” Lin Zhou told himself to calm down, “If I want to contest for treasures with him, it will not be easy at all.”
Lin Zhou’s gaze was distant as he raised his head to look at the world that he was in, “If this foreign dimension collapses before he can leave, even with a Sacred Artifact fragment, he would be hard pressed to escape death. However, with another door having opened here, a change has occurred in the rate of deterioration of spiritual qi, and so even I cannot accurately predict the exact time at which the spatial collapse will occur.”
After considering for a bit, Lin Zhou grit his teeth, turning and leaving from the door through which he had entered.
……
Yan Zhaoge raised his head and looked into the distance, the purplish-green light of thunder within his right eye sometimes visible, sometimes not.
Ah Hu snorted, “It is not a Martial Grandmaster, just a Martial Scholar, making use of some special treasure to spy on us.”
Yan Zhaoge said, “It doesn’t look like he was intentionally spying. Rather, the other party was checking out the situation of this region, and just happened to scan over here.”
Ah Hu said, “Young Master, others have indeed entered. While their cultivation bases are not high, we do not know exactly how many of them there are, or whether they have any other experts.”
“Right, things cannot be delayed. We should hurry over as soon as possible, lest we become plagued by this matter later on,” Yan Zhaoge strode at the forefront, with Ah Hu following closely behind.
Following the spiritual qi vein here, very quickly, they emerged from the primordial forest, the scene before their eyes opening up.
Before them appeared a small thatched hut, that looked rather crude on the outside.
However, looking over it carefully, Yan Zhaoge clearly saw a silhouette above the hut, resembling an immortal crane spreading its wings.
At first glance, that silhouette appeared only the size of a sparrow, small and exquisite.
However, looking closely once more, as it spread its long feathers, it seemed to envelop the entire foreign dimension.
After observing it for a while, Yan Zhaoge nodded slowly, “Restrictions formed of Loose Practitioner He’s fist-intent; they have remained here up till now.”
Looking at the thatched hut beneath the silhouette of the immortal crane, Yan Zhaoge snapped his fingers, “To go in, we must first break though these restrictions.”
Surveying their surroundings, as he walked towards the thatched hut, Yan Zhaoge said to Ah Hu, “Ah Hu, guard me. Pay attention to the surroundings.”
Ah Hu responded in the affirmative, standing sternly by the side as he increased his spiritual awareness to the maximum, diligently observing the surroundings.
Time passed unceasingly. While there was no sunrise or sunset in this foreign dimension, unceasingly counting the time silently within his heart, Ah Hu took note of Yan Zhaoge’s progress at breaking through the restrictions here.
This world was not big. For someone of the two’s cul
tivation bases, walking would not take too much time.
The reason they had worried that the time they had before the space collapsed was insufficient was considering situations like now, when the original owner of this space blocked the path with restrictions.
Seeing Yan Zhaoge unceasingly work near the thatched hut, Ah Hu did not relax, because he could feel the deterioration of the surrounding spiritual qi getting faster and faster, as well as more and more obvious.
The abundant spiritual qi that they could feel upon entering this foreign dimension was already no more.
“Huh?” Ah Hu’s gaze suddenly hardened, resembling the rousing of a slumbering tiger, ready to devour everybody it saw.
He stood silently where he was, not moving in the slightest. After a moment, he suddenly leapt up!
In the space of a breath, Ah Hu appeared on the boundary at the other side of the forest, the strong wind that gusted as a result directly toppling several gigantic trees that soared up to the heavens!
The dazed figures of two Martial Scholars were revealed. Only when Ah Hu was before them did they regain their wits.
But not waiting for them to react, they were already soaring through the air, thrown out by Ah Hu without any grounds for resistance at all.
Ah Hu’s figure flashed, already elsewhere in the blink of an eye. There appeared another Martial Scholar, originally having wanted to lay there in ambush, silently awaiting an opportunity. Who knew that Ah Hu would suddenly make a move.
He knew that things were not good for him, yet without even having any time to react, the Ah Hu who had flung two people away was already before him in an instant.
This Xiantian Martial Scholar wanted to resist, but how could he? He was not Ah Hu’s opponent, as he was also flung into the air by Ah Hu.
From the distant forest, a surprised voice resounded, “Martial Grandmaster?”
Hearing those words, the three Martial Scholars, struggling to rise, involuntarily glanced at Ah Hu, not even daring to utter a sound as they then crawled and clambered away with all they had.
Ah Hu looked coldly in the direction of the voice, where a middle-aged man now appeared before him, also a Martial Grandmaster.
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