History's Strongest Senior Brother c1-1474
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Xu Fei and Sikong Qing nodded together.
Yan Zhaoge swivelled his head and said to Ah Hu, “Ah Hu, you will assist me.”
Ah Hu nodded solemnly.
Shi Tie looked at Yan Zhaoge, “While you are proficient in the changes in formations, with the situation so chaotic at this moment, the enemy doesn’t actually lack Essence Spirit or even Essence Talisman Martial Grandmasters. If the two of you meet some, it might be dangerous.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 294: Faced with danger, not shrinking back!
HSSB294: Faced with danger, not shrinking back!
Yan Zhaoge laughed emotionally, “The entire Broad Creed Mountain is currently facing a great tribulation together, with everyone fighting for their lives and in extreme danger. It is not just me.”
“Rest easy, eldest apprentice-uncle. I will move carefully, avoiding enemies as much as possible if I am able to. After all, wresting back control of the clan’s guardian formation is currently the most pressing matter.”
“Speaking of danger, junior apprentice-sisters Feng and Sikong are the same; you and senior apprentice-brother Xu are actually also similarly faced with danger.”
“And of the entire Broad Creed Mountain, the one currently bearing the greatest pressure is my father.”
After all, Yan Di was currently engaging Yuan Tian and Xin Dongping in battle with his own power, also having to block them, preventing them from harming any others of Broad Creed Mountain.
Looking in the direction of Broad Creed Mountain, Yan Zhaoge was very calm within.
Currently, he had long since become one with Broad Creed Mountain, sharing the clan’s glory, enjoying the resources and benefits given to him by the clan, bearing the protection of the clan, helping to shield him from the winds and the rains.
When he had to stand up to bear the clan’s hopes on his shoulders, he naturally would do so.
He had to do so whether or not danger existed ahead, definitely not shrinking back.
“Eldest apprentice-uncle, senior apprentice-brother Xu, junior apprentice-sister Sikong, all of you take care as well,” Yan Zhaoge took his leave, bringing Ah Hu along on his way, hurrying towards one of the three designated points.
Time waits for no man. As Yan Zhaoge rushed over, he remained careful, avoiding others as much as possible.
Currently, the vicinity of Broad Creed Mountain was in great chaos, with it hard to distinguish friend for foe. In order to save time as much as possible, Yan Zhaoge made hurrying his greatest priority.
He rushed south from Broad Creed Mountain, a city appearing on the great plains.
While it was already rather far from Broad Creed Mountain, that terrifying Nine Underworlds aura that intimidated people’s souls could still be felt.
Getting further from the Devilish Domain Grand Formation, for martial practitioners who had gone through much tempering and possessed firm wills, the influence was not great.
However, it still had a bewitching effect on the ordinary people.
Currently, the atmosphere within the city was tense and restless, people all panicked.
Amidst their panic, people began to look hostilely at one another, the tense situation seeming such that a riot could break out at any moment.
As Yan Zhaoge sped into the city, the ordinary people were completely unable to detect it.
Broad Creed Mountain martial practitioners maintained order within the situation, trying to calm them down as much as possible.
This was an important communication hub in the vicinity of Broad Creed Mountain, many different kinds of goods distributed here. The one currently in charge here, a Martial Grandmaster of Broad Creed Mountain of around forty years of age, was named Hong Wen.
Although he was nearly twice as old as Yan Zhaoge, in terms of seniority, they were of the same generation.
“Senior apprentice-brother Hong, please help me to clear up a piece of land at the west part of the city, and do not let any ordinary citizens approach it,” Yan Zhaoge did not bother about courtesies at this moment as he immediately said, “I have urgent need of it!”
Hong Wen also did not waste time on words, immediately nodding, “Leave it to me.”
While he was a mid Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster, being much older and having entered the clan much earlier, Yan Zhaoge’s position and authority in Broad Creed Mountain was extremely special, his authority being similar to that of a First Seat Elder. Therefore, even while he remained a little uncomprehending on this, Hong Wen still speedily ordered for the place to be cleared up for Yan Zhaoge.
Hong Wen was also an able person. While the people were originally already panicked, and this only intensified with them having been made to move away, Hong Wen still stably completed what Yan Zhaoge had asked of him.
Two intersecting streets at the western part of the city, one horizontal, one vertical, were cleared up by him within the shortest possible time.
Yan Zhaoge came to the intersection of the two streets, flipping his palm, an azure light flickering within.
His sword shot out like a wind, a jade-green sword light continuously flying in the air as marks were left behind, not dissipating in a long time.
Very quickly, a massive spirit rune appeared before Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge held the sword in his right hand, extending his left hand, fingers spread apart, pressing down within the air.
The massive rune that flickered with azure light landed on the ground.
Yan Zhaoge swivelled his head to look at the surrounding buildings before sucking in a deep breath, raising the Jade Dragon Sword in his right hand, pointed straight towards the heavens.
While in his other free hand appeared another spirit artifact, the Flying Thunder Sabre.
After stepping into the Martial Grandmaster realm, the low-grade spirit artifacts that Yan Zhaoge could wield was already not just limited to one at once.
With the two spirit artifacts, one pointed to the heavens, one pointed to the earth, Yan Zhaoge let out a light roar, streams of aura-qi emanating from his entire body’s acupoints.
As the clouds and the winds surged, with Yan Zhaoge at their centre, a massive hurricane was gradually formed.
This hurricane of aura-qi did not expand, remaining with Yan Zhaoge as its centre, with the massive rune of jade light on the ground as its base.
Gradually, the hurricane actually also turned jade green.
Within the city, the restless, unstable emotions of numerous ordinary citizens seemed to take tangible form at this moment, congregating together to be sucked within that jade green hurricane.
Afterwards, the massive rune beneath Yan Zhaoge’s feet had its jade light gradually fade, turning pure white.
As the rune distorted, it grew more and more complicated, gradually expanding into a small, intricate, profound spirit formation.
At the core area where all these many spirit patterns converged, an ancient character appeared.
“”
The meaning of this ancient character was ‘human’.
With a unique technique, Yan Zhaoge was going to wrest control of the Clear Qi Grand Formation back from Xin Dongping’s hands.
At specific locations, heaven, earth and human positions had to be established. The position currently occupied by Yan Zhaoge was the human position.
Shi Tie and Xu Fei were heading to the heaven position.
As for Sikong Qing who was finding Fu Enshu and Elder Zhang, whatever the result, with no one heading to the human position here, Yan Zhaoge could only hope that they would be able to make it in time to the earth position.
This technique could not only have Yan Zhaoge see success; it had to have three people work together in unison, and even then, Yan Zhaoge was not completely confident that it would definitely be successful and reverse the entire situation.
The only thing that he could do was perform what he could to the best of his abilities.
“Ah Hu,” Yan Zhaoge called, and having alr
eady been instructed earlier, Ah Hu now came up, kneeling on the ground, both palms pressed onto the sprit formation below him.
The radiance on the ‘’ character grew increasingly bright.
But just at this time, sounds of a commotion suddenly drifted over.
Turning to look, Yan Zhaoge and Ah Hu saw a bunch of people rapidly approaching this place.
The one at their head was a late Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster. Yan Zhaoge recognised him as a fellow disciple of Broad Creed Mountain, named Zhu Qian.
It was just that at this moment, Zhu Qian and the bunch of people behind him had all clearly already fallen to the dark side!
As they progressed rampantly, they slaughtered everyone who stood in their path, their target being Hong Wen and the other Broad Creed Mountain martial practitioners.
“What’s wrong?” Yan Zhaoge knit his brows, and Ah Hu thought for a moment before answering, “He seems to have been on bad terms with Hong Wen, having some personal enmity. From the looks of it, his mind has descended to the point of being lawless, and is coming over for revenge…”
Before his voice had landed, Zhu Qian saw Yan Zhaoge. Instantly forgetting about Hong Wen, the bloodred light within his eyes surged madly!
Zhu Qian howled furiously, “People of Yuan Zhengfeng’s lineage, you also have today!”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 295: You think that I cannot beat you?
HSSB295: You think that I cannot beat you?
Seeing Zhu Qian with the look of bloodthirstily encountering a hated enemy, Yan Zhaoge could not help but be somewhat confused, “Huh?”
Zhu Qian ignored even Hong Wen, rushing towards Yan Zhaoge.
Hong Wen, however, could not ignore him as he hurriedly drew his sabre and went forward to block him.
He executed the Eight Sceneries Spirit Sabre of the Eight Extreme Arts, aura-qi surging with infinite variations, subtle and intelligent as he had already mastered its essence profoundly.
Zhu Qian’s eyes were filled with a bloodred light as he said coldly, “You’re courting death.”
He also struck out with a sabre, but of another type of martial art, tough beyond compare, rampaging domineeringly. It was the other sabre art of the Eight Extreme Arts, the Chaotic Elements Uniting Sabre!
As the two sides met, Hong Wen’s sabre-qi instantly began shattering unceasingly.
The Chaotic Elements Uniting Sabre was the toughest, sharpest art of the Eight Extreme Arts, and Zhu Qian’s cultivation base was also higher than Hong Wen’s. At this moment, his sabre expanded, sabre-lights sweeping through the air one after another, like fierce, biting winds that could cleave off the peaks of mountains.
Hong Wen knew full well the gap between the cultivation bases of the two. Also being extremely rich in combat experience, he did not fight Zhu Qian head-on, instead entangling with him unceasingly.
While he did not know if Yan Zhaoge and Ah Hu could defeat Zhu Qian, the duo was clearly focusing on setting up the formation at this moment, unable to divide their attentions.
Right now, Hong Wen could only hope to hinder Zhu Qian from approaching them.
However, after falling to the dark side, Zhu Qian’s strength had risen a step further, brandishing his sabre in great motions, unceasingly hacking at him with the Chaotic Elements Uniting Sabre.
Originally having enmity with Hong Wen, he was now even less inclined to show mercy as he was overfilling with killing intent, wanting to slay Hong Wen on the spot!
Within the formation, while Yan Zhaoge was mostly working on stimulating the ‘’ character, he also let out a portion of his mind, focusing on the battle between Zhu Qian and Hong Wen.
Ah Hu said from the side, “Young Master, what exactly was that madman saying just now?”
Yan Zhaoge raised his brows slightly, “I have some impression of it; he can be considered to be directly descended from Xin Dongping’s lineage.”
Ah Hu pulled back the corners of his lips, “Able to cultivate in the Eight Extreme Arts, able to cultivate to become a Martial Grandmaster-the clan has also not treated him badly, isn’t it?”
Seeing Hong Wen in danger, Yan Zhaoge slightly raised his voice, “The clan has indeed not ill-treated him, but this person is extremely narrow-minded. Once, with a fellow disciple offending him, he intentionally caused trouble for him on a tempering mission, almost causing that fellow disciple to be heavily injured.”
“As the First Seat of the Disciplinary Hall, eldest apprentice uncle looked into this matter. With the evidence definite, he took from him the chance to take the tests to rise from an elite disciple to a direct disciple.”
Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “Afterwards, similar situations continued as he committed the same offence time and time again, finally completely losing the chance to have a black border on his blue robe.”
Hearing his words, the Zhu Qian who was currently clashing with Hong Wen was instantly greatly enraged. Hacking Hong Wen into retreat, he then pointed his sabre towards Yan Zhaoge.
“A bunch of nonsense; you also nearly killed that guy surnamed Ye in the Sealing Dragon Abyss, but why was it that not only were you not punished for it, you were also continuously rewarded afterwards? It’s because you are Yan Di’s son, and Shi Tie and your father were both disciples of Yuan Zhengfeng!”
Yan Zhaoge rolled his eyes, “I had the Blood Soul Recollection Ceremony to prove my innocence, while there was definite evidence to show that you had definitely broken the clan’s rules.”
“If the two of us were treated the same following that, wouldn’t that then truly be taking the clan’s laws as a joke?”
Zhu Qian’s eyes were bloodshot as he clenched his teeth, “Huh, it was definitely Shi Tie who covered for you, helping you to make a false testimony!”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, shaking his head, “You can think however you like, but it won’t be as you say it is. The truth is what it is.”
Sabre-light lit up within Zhu Qian’s hands as he suddenly hacked fiercely towards Yan Zhaoge, “Brat who distorts things, I’ll see what you say after I slaughter you!”
Yan Zhaoge’s expression did not change as the jade green hurricane spinning around him instantly sent Zhu Qian’s Chaotic Elements Uniting Sabre awry, causing it to miss.
At this moment, the spinning of the hurricane was such that if one was not yet an Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster, it would be hard for them to break through it.
While Zhu Qian had a low-grade spirit artifact on him, also being at the third level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, at the late Spirit Vessel stage, he was still unable to break through the obstruction of the hurricane and hurt Yan Zhaoge.
His yellowed eyes surged with bloodred light, his entire person seemingly even more frenzied.
The power of the spirit artifact sabre within his hands increased a step further, sabre-light shining as it attempted to forcibly break through the jade green hurricane.
Yan Zhaoge looked calmly at this scene.
“Killing me-it seems like you cannot do it.”
The more composed Yan Zhaoge’s expression, the more enraged Zhu Qian felt.
However, seeing that he was truly unable to break through the obstruction of the jade green hurricane, while killing intent filled his heart, his head instead cooled a bit.
He said coldly, “If you shrink back in that tortoise shell of yours, I will get rid of all the others first.”
Zhu Qian swivelled his head, roaring severely, “Kill everyone in this city. Do not leave a single one!”
With the other people who had come with him currently engaged in battle with Hong Wen and the others, Zhu Qian prepared to first retreat, himself doing the deed.
However, now, he suddenly realised that he had actually also been sucked in place by that jade green hurricane, unable to extricate himself!
Looking at him, Yan Zhaoge suddenly smiled, “That’s why I say that many a times, it is not like however you think matters are, that is the actual truth of the situa
tion.”
The jade green hurricane expanded, already having Zhu Qian completely trapped, only able to proceed forward, not able to retreat.
Zhu Qian’s viciousness had been utterly stimulated as he howled madly, continuing to rush towards Yan Zhaoge.
However, that jade green hurricane resembled chains, also becoming tighter and tighter, obstructing Zhu Qian’s movements.
Zhu Qian was greatly angered, yet was completely helpless against it.
Until he suddenly discovered that the jade green hurricane before him had gradually turned to gold.
Meanwhile, that rune beneath Yan Zhaoge’s feet had also turned from pure white to gold.
Zhu Qian suddenly felt his entire body loosen, the hurricane that imprisoned him suddenly easing, expanding outwards. While it still cut off his path of retreat, it prevented him from rushing towards Yan Zhaoge no longer.
He roared like a tiger, his Chaotic Elements Uniting Sabre that had accumulated an unquantifiable amount of his despondence hacking viciously towards Yan Zhaoge.
This sabre gave Zhu Qian a greatly relaxed feeling, as though having been stifled for so long, he had finally been released today, never having felt so comfortable as he currently did.
Zhu Qian could be certain that this sabre surpassed all his previous limits, being the strongest sabre that he had ever unleashed!
While he had long heard of Yan Zhaoge’s shocking strength, Zhu Qian did not believe that with his current unprecedented peak, he, at the late Spirit Vessel stage, could lose to someone of the early Spirit Vessel stage.
However, now, a jade light flashed before his eyes.
The Jade Dragon Sword in his right hand, with the Big Dipper Sword, Yan Zhaoge stably locked down Zhu Qian’s sabre.
At the same time, releasing the Flying Thunder Sabre on his left hand, Yan Zhaoge raised it, flicking his wrist!
A terrifying force that seemed able to overturn the very heavens descended towards Zhu Qian!