History's Strongest Senior Brother c1-1474

by 八月飞鹰, Ba Yue Fei Ying, August Eagle

  “I’m afraid that if we raised the degree of such training, you would be unable to bear it.”

  Yan Zhaoge continued. “As such, we will treat you just like senior apprentice-sister Feng when she was first starting out. After experiencing it firsthand, we can then discuss the possibility of increasing the degree of the training.”

  Yin Liuhua licked her lips. Suddenly, she had the premonition that her entry into Broad Creed Mountain may not have been as fortuitous as she had originally thought.

  However, she still had some of the arrogance and pride of a youth as she responded, “Senior apprentice-brother Yan can rest easy. I will definitely bitterly cultivate to the best of my ability.”

  Yan Zhaoge nodded. “In addition, you should be careful of your own safety. In the clan, this would be unnecessary, but when you traveling around in the world, you must be wary of others plotting against you. I trust that senior apprentice-aunt Fu has already reminded you of this.”

  Fu Enshu spoke. “Of course.”

  Yin Liuhua quickly spoke. “Yes, Master mentioned this many times.”

  Hearing her address Fu Enshu as Master while she was still wearing the white robes of a regular disciple would definitely cause the longtime Elders of the Disciplinary Hall to frown if they knew.

  Yan Zhaoge paid no mind to this matter. From the moment that the clan had accepted her as a disciple, it had never seen her as a regular disciple. Again, the fact that she and Feng Yunsheng both had the same Master was something that could be predicted.

  Though she the wore the white robes of a regular disciple, the cultivation resources of the clan she had access to as well as Fu Enshu’s personal treasures meant that her status was obviously special.

  This had nothing to do with fairness. Fairness existed at the same levels of opportunity, but people’s opportunities were naturally unequal. If a clan wanted to produce a peak talent, they would naturally develop their stronger experts to become stronger, rather than forcibly trying to promote something like equality.

  Of course, one enjoying greater power and privileges correspondingly entailed higher responsibilities.

  Still, Yin Liuhua probably would not have had the guts to publicly address Fu Enshu as Master on her own accord. This matter must have come to pass due to Fu Enshu’s influence.

  Dealing with this reckless and headstrong Fu Enshu, Yan Zhaoge was also left scratching his head.

  As if nothing had happened, Fu Enshu asked, “The matter with Jun’er and his mother-is it settled?”

  Yan Zhaoge responded, “In the next couple of days, all the supplies that I need should arrive and I can set out. However, for the actual plan, I’ll need to ponder it and examine the actual site itself before I can know more.”

  Fu Enshu let out a soft sigh. “You should treat this matter to be of the utmost significance. If you have need of anything, just say it directly.”

  At this moment, Fu Enshu’s face was solemn.

  Yan Zhaoge nodded. “Senior apprentice-aunt can rest easy. I’ll do my utmost.”

  In the next few days, Yan Zhaoge temporarily stayed by Fu Enshu’s side. Based on his observations of Yin Liuhua’s physical condition, he determined her upcoming training program for her.

  Other than this, Yan Zhaoge also patrolled the East Sea and fought with the Flame Devils that emerged.

  “Indeed, their origin dates back to before the Great Calamity all the way to the Flame Devil Emperor,” Counless thoughts passed through Yan Zhaoge’s mind as he gradually gained understanding on the situation.

  After a couple of days, Yan Zhaoge had obtained all the materials he was waiting for. After bidding goodbye to Fu Enshu, he set off once more.

  Broad Creed Mountain had its East Sea First Seat Elder here watching over the area. Though the information they possessed could naturally not compare to the local snakehead, Jade Sea City, they still had a general grasp of the state of the sea.

  Using this information, Yan Zhaoge was able to better plan his nautical voyage to the north.

  Though the great sea was quite rough and dangerous, Yan Zhaoge chose a path that was somewhat special.

  The Underground Splitting Shuttle was not just able to burrow through the ground; it could easily traverse through the deep sea as well.

  Yan Zhaoge planned to use this method to brave the waves and the winds and travel from the East Sea to the North Sea.

  History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 336: Second level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, mid Spirit Vessel stage!

  HSSB336: Second level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, mid Spirit Vessel stage

  Within the Underground Splitting Shuttle, traversing through the depths of the sea, Yan Zhaoge formed a seal with his hands, placed at his abdomen above where his dantian was.

  His entire body’s aura-qi circulated, becoming heavier and more vigorous as it unceasingly spiralled within his body.

  The qi flow that resembled chaos gradually grew heavier and heavier, more and more turbid.

  The weight resembled that of the great earth, able to bear all objects, nurture all objects.

  The trademark of the first level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, the early Spirit Vessel stage, was one’s richness in spiritual qi, aura-qi having resumed simplicity, transforming into an existence like soil.

  Soil that nurtured one’s true martial soul, therefore being known as spirit soil.

  Currently drawing on all of his martial arts, Yan Zhaoge’s aura-qi was agglomerated and manifested, resembling a thousand li of fertile soil, only awaiting a seed to be planted.

  If it was the Clear Qi Profound Art of Broad Creed Mountain, Yan Zhaoge could currently actually already condense a spirit seed, stepping into the mid Spirit Vessel stage.

  However, the spirit seed that Yan Zhaoge wanted to condense was not one with the Clear Qi Profound Art as its foundation, but one with the Peerless Heavenly Scripture as its foundation.

  Therefore, the difficulty had inevitably increased greatly, Yan Zhaoge requiring some careful analysis and adjustments, making sure that all was perfect before he made his breakthrough.

  As the vessel undertook the long journey to the North Sea, other than controlling the Underground Splitting Shuttle, Yan Zhaoge also made use of the time to work on his cultivation.

  Accompanying him, having been taught by Yan Zhaoge, Ah Hu could also already basically control this rare treasure.

  When Ah Hu was at the helm, it was Yan Zhaoge who sat in cultivation.

  After Yan Zhaoge’s cultivation session had temporarily ended, he would take over, Ah Hu temporarily resting.

  While it was called resting, Ah Hu also acted like Yan Zhaoge, getting into the meditative position and cultivating earnestly.

  As he exhaled, streams of black qi were emitted from his nostrils. They were not smoke, instead being existences that resembled flowing wind.

  Accompanied by Ah Hu’s repeated exhalations, a tiny black storm seemed to arise amidst his body’s surroundings, gradually spiralling about his entire person.

  The two took turns just like this, acting in shifts, one cultivating, the other guiding them through the East and North Seas, heading for the Extreme Northern Lands.

  One day, Yan Zhaoge was at the helm, controlling the Underground Splitting Shuttle to rise to the sea’s surface.

  Currently, they were located within the North Sea, floating chunks of ice on the sea’s surface, numerous icy winds gusting between the heavens and the earth. Even a Martial Grandmaster like Yan Zhaoge could feel a chill penetrating down to his very bones.

  Let alone normal people or Martial Artists, even Martial Scholars, possessing a lower cultivation base, had the possibility of being literally frozen to death in this kind of environment.

  And this place was still just only at the boundary of the Extreme Northern Lands.

  The Extreme North, like other great danger grounds such as the Great Western Desert and the Southern Underground Palace, did not have their reputations for noth
ing.

  Swivelling his head to look at Ah Hu, Yan Zhaoge saw numerous strong black winds surging from Ah Hu’s body amidst his circulation of aura-qi.

  All the acupoints of Ah Hu’s body pulsed simultaneously, resembling doors, the winds and the waves peaceful when they were shut, terrifying gusts of black nightmarish winds emanating from within whenever they opened.

  Like Yan Zhaoge, Ah Hu had currently already reached the final stage.

  His spirit soil had already been incomparably refined, only requiring his spirit seed to be borne before he would have successfully stepped into the second level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, the mid Spirit Vessel stage.

  However, Ah Hu too was not in a rush to take that step, instead still carefully tempering his body.

  Glancing at him, Yan Zhaoge said, “Stabilise your mind a bit. Great Western Purple Qi requires your mind to be quiet as you control the temperamental winds, transforming the qi of the heavens and earth into a silent, peaceful object, yet finally able to erupt with a shocking, brutal force, a force that resembles the raging of waves.”

  “Passive and active-these are the underlying essence.”

  Sitting in the meditative position within the Underground Splitting Shuttle, Ah Hu’s eyes remained shut, but he still nodded slightly.

  In the great tribulation of Broad Creed Mountain earlier, most remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain, be they from the Decimating Abyss or not, had participated in the attack on Broad Creed Mountain.

  The final result had naturally been total destruction, the two remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain with the highest cultivation bases, its late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmasters, both dying at Broad Creed Mountain.

  Following this battle, if the members of the former Sacred Ground, Black Nightmare Mountain, having been struggling painfully to survive before this, could not be said to have been completely destroyed, it would more or less also be true.

  And having obtained victory in this battle, slaying or capturing the remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain who had attacked, Broad Creed Mountain had also had some gains.

  One of their comparatively greater gains was having successfully obtained a peak martial legacy of Black Nightmare Mountain.

  The Great Western Purple Qi, to Black Nightmare Mountain, was like the latter half of the Clear Qi Profound Art to Broad Creed Mountain and the Great Sun True Qi to the Sacred Sun Clan.

  The essence of the martial art Ah Hu had previously cultivated in, the Black Nightmare Godly Wind, also moved along the path of the Great Western Purple Qi as one arrived at its essence.

  Yan Zhaoge had passed the Great Western Purple Qi down to Ah Hu, intending for Ah Hu to use it as his foundation in the step of condensing his spirit seed, this being more beneficial to the Black Nightmare Godly Wind.

  Having been cultivating non-stop following the great battle of Broad Creed Mountain till now, Ah Hu had currently already gained some attainments in the Great Western Purple Qi, just that some additional work still had to be done.

  Carefully observing, Yan Zhaoge saw that as Ah Hu cultivated, within the black storms that emanated from his body, faint slivers of purple qi now already circulated alongside those black winds.

  Looking at it, it was as though numerous slivers of purple light were caught within the black storm, traversing it unceasingly.

  When Yan Zhaoge himself cultivated, his aura-qi that resembled chaos would gradually sink and descend, as though transforming into a great amount of turbid qi, forming the great earth, resembling a thousand li of fertile soil.

  Yet, having sunk to the maximum possible level, Yan Zhaoge’s aura-qi would instantly become vast and ethereal, resembling streams of clear qi as it rose to form the heavens.

  The transformation between the two seemed full of conflict as well as sudden and abrupt. Seen by bystanders, they would only find it hard to comprehend.

  However, at this moment, all of this truly happened with Yan Zhaoge.

  The clear qi rose to form the heavens, the turbid qi sinking to form the earth. As the two occurred simultaneously, coming together as one, it was as though a complete heaven and earth transformation had been achieved by the same stream of Yan Zhaoge’s aura-qi.

  Clear qi agglomerated within the sky, gradually forming a dot like a seed, while below was vast, heavy spirit soil.

  The two were divided and united, finally coming together as one!

  Yan Zhaoge opened his eyes, abruptly inhaling.

  Controlling the Underground Splitting Shuttle by the side, Ah Hu was taken aback as outside of the vessel, from the icy seas of the Extreme North, the surrounding spiritual qi of the vast heavens and the earth suddenly swiftly agglomerated with Yan Zhaoge as their centre.

  “Young Master, you’ve stepped into the second level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, the mid Spirit Vessel stage!” Looking at Yan Zhaoge, while Ah Hu had always lived as Yan Zhaoge’s number one subordinate, one of his goals being to comfortably flatter Yan Zhaoge till he was satisfied, now, he was really also rendered speechless for a time.

  A long time ago, because of his age and time spent cultivating being shorter, the gap between the cultivation bases of him and Yan Zhaoge had been great. Now, however, Yan Zhaoge had actually already surpassed him.

  While he wanted to praise a little that the Young Master was truly the Young Master, Ah Hu could not help but be somewhat stunned, unable to regain his senses for a time.

  Yan Zhaoge smiled, “By the looks of it, yours will also be soon.”

  Ah Hu smacked his lips, clicking his tongue in praise.

  They continued on their way, passing through the icy sea, finally returning to the mainland, following which they kept the Underground Splitting Shuttle and ascended the shore.

  The Extreme Northern Lands, where signs of human activity were rare to the extreme.

  That was how it originally should have been…

  However, Yan Zhaoge and Ah Hu discovered the presence of others, and many at that.

  Martial practitioners of the Heavenly Thunder Hall.

  History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 337: Hope!

  HSSB337: Hope

  On the snowy plains of the Extreme North was a massive lake, the surface of the lake completely frozen over, but light vaguely flickering beneath the ice layer.

  All of this just looked so calm, just that at the centre of the lake, quite a few people were standing on its layer of ice.

  One of them was a youth, garbed in the attire of a core, direct disciple of the Heavenly Thunder Hall, despondence vaguely visible amidst his calm expression. It was precisely the ‘Thunder Rumbling Young Master Lin Zhou.

  While his father Lin Tianfeng had died, the potential and strength that he himself showed was already sufficient for the Heavenly Thunder Hall to think highly of him. Because of this, his position within the Heavenly Thunder Hall had not really been affected.

  Lin Zhou looked at the ground before him, a small hole already having been opened on the ice layer, the icy cold waters of the lake filled with a green light.

  Not long after, a figure exited the water, jumping onto the ice layer of the lake’s surface.

  This person’s entire body steamed, expulsing the harsh coldness.

  This tall middle-aged man said to Lin Zhou, “This place is indeed strange, but the rumoured legacy of the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint is nowhere to be found.”

  “Wanting to open up this place, some specific treasures might still be needed, or some special technique.”

  The middle-aged man asked in a deep tone, “Lin Zhou, since you obtained this information, do you know any specifics?”

  Lin Zhou looked silently at the lake of ice beneath his feet.

  From his memories, the legacy of the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint should originally have been unearthed by that disciple of Broad Creed Mountain known as Ye Jing.

  However, according to his knowledge, that Ye Jing was long dead. With it being an internal matter of Broad Creed Mountain,
as a disciple of the Heavenly Thunder Hall, it would be very hard for him to learn the details.

  However, various signs showed that this matter was most likely related to Yan Zhaoge.

  Thinking of this name, Lin Zhou’s gaze flickered slightly, but very quickly regained its calmness, just having grown even colder.

  Unlike back then with the burial grounds of Old Man Great Sorrow, where Lin Zhou had later come to learn of the specific proceedings and the various traps laid out within, Lin Zhou had only heard limited information on the legacy of the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint, just knowing its coordinates and position, only able to adapt to the situation on the spot having arrived where it was located.

  His voice sounded slightly hoarse as he spoke, “Signs reveal that Broad Creed Mountain’s former Elder, Shi Tie, currently deceased, once made a trip here to the region of the Extreme Northern Snowy Plains and the East Sea close to two years ago. Broad Creed Mountain was also focused on the legacy of the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint.”

  “Some clues perhaps lie within their hands.”

  Lin Zhou stepped on the ice layer, “As the environment of the Extreme Northern Snowy Plains is special, the flow of the underground qi strange, the legacy of the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint left here resembles the swimming fish in the underground rivers, moving alongside the flow of spiritual qi in the area.”

  “It is only for a limited time that it will temporary stay at rest, allowing us to lock down its position and search for it. The place it has stopped this time is right beneath our feet.”

  Lin Zhou said, “Having waited for nearly two years, the people of Broad Creed Mountain have also been waiting for this moment. They will definitely come here looking for it.”

  That middle-aged man frowned, “With the Sacred Sun Clan having obtained the Extreme Yin Crown, just having gotten their breath back, other than Turbid Wave Pavilion, the other five Sacred Grounds have fallen into an antagonistic standstill once more, no one daring to relax lightly. Whether it is our clan or Broad Creed Mountain, it would only be possible for a small amount of people to come here.”