Yan Zhaoge said, “So long as we can block off those Flame Devils at the dimensional entrance over at the Inner East Sea, the situation wouldn’t be too chaotic.”
……
South of Yizhou City, Jiangbei County, Xingling City.
There was a vast country estate here, belonging to the richest family of this land, the Yizhou Li Family.
The Li Family had always been the number one family of Yizhou, possessing great financial power as well as a firm, deep foundation.
More important was that the Li Family had produced Li Jingwan, a core, direct disciple of one of the current six great Sacred Grounds, Jade Sea City.
This way, the Li Family could completely preside over this land, no one able to shake its mighty rule.
Even if they were martial practitioner organisations who themselves surpassed the Li Family in strength, against the Li Family, they would also have to be polite, not getting into a conflict with them lightly.
However, in the current Li Family Ancestral Ground, nervousness hung within the air.
There were no signs of external enemies having invaded, but still, something had just cropped up.
After receiving the news, Li Jingwan rushed over without rest, finally arriving back at her old home in Yizhou.
“Mother, what’s happened to father?” Li Jingwan pulled a woman’s hand as she asked anxiously.
Her mother’s face was filled with worry, “He suddenly fell unconscious. While he looks fine from the outside, we were unable to find the reason for this, only able to send you a letter. Jade Sea City is a Sacred Ground, possessing great strength and carrying great knowledge. There should be a solution?”
Li Jingwan greeted the family’s Elders as she headed over to see her father.
She did not know that when she had entered the Li Family Ancestral Ground, someone had been watching her from outside, his figure that had been secretly watching over her finally vanishing.
Looking at Li Jingwan’s back, Lin Zhou turned to leave.
“As long as Uncle is not shifted, there will not be much of a problem. Jingwan, you have the wondrous medicine of Jade Sea City; Uncle will awaken some days later. In these days, you just remain in Jingling and accompany your family in peace,” Lin Zhou’s gaze was calm, “With you not here, my final worries are no more. Whether the rivers of Jade Sea City flow with blood and turn into burnt soil, all this is no longer important.”
Lin Zhou gazed towards the east, his gaze gradually turning cold, “Yan Zhaoge, it is really great that you’re here in Jade Sea City right now.”
“All along, I wanted to defy the heavens and change my fate, changing my own fate, changing the fate of my family, changing the fate of my lover, but this time, I will not do anything at all, waiting silently for what should happen to happen before only then making a move.”
Lin Zhou headed east, in the direction of the great sea, “Father did not perish to the Nine Underworlds Evil Devils, but was instead killed by you Broad Creed Mountain. So, all of you accompany my father in death for me.”
“Yan Zhaoge, it will begin with you!”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 367: What is hard for others, is like strolling over flat land for him
HSSB367: What is hard for others, is like strolling over flat land for him
Time passed, but Jade Sea City’s Song Wuliang had still yet to emerge from seclusion.
Broad Creed Mountain’s Elder Feng Chi left seclusion after his pill concoction, meeting with Yan Zhaoge and talking about some experiences that they had had these past few years.
Afterwards, Feng Chi and Feng Moyang began on their return journey back to Broad Creed Mountain.
Along with them went the Shadow Shrinking Pouch Yan Zhaoge had handed over to them, containing Ouyang Qi whose cultivation base had been sealed.
Sikong Qing remained behind in Jade Sea City to recuperate. Under the assistance of Yan Zhaoge’s pills, she would be able to make a full recovery very soon, no aftereffects left behind.
Yan Zhaoge remained in Jade Sea City, cultivating peacefully.
He had currently reached a bottleneck in his martial cultivation. As long as he broke through it, it would be a completely new heaven and earth before his eyes.
When stepping into the Extreme Northern Snowy Plains, Yan Zhaoge had just successfully nurtured out his own spirit seed, stepping into the second level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, the mid Spirit Vessel stage.
Now, Yan Zhaoge felt that he spirit seed was soon to sprout, breaking out from beneath the soil.
If he could successfully nurture out spirit sprouts, that meant that he would officially have his true martial soul in its embryonic form.
As martial practitioners broke through from the mid to the late Spirit Vessel stage, having arrived at this step, they would be able to begin accomplishing their own true martial soul, also making preparations for refining their aura-qi into true essence.
Yan Zhaoge’s speed in breaking through from the early to mid Spirit Vessel stage earlier had already left Ah Hu secretly shocked.
And now, in stepping from the mid to the late Spirit Vessel stage, his speed was much more shocking.
This had to do with his body having been refined by the dragon’s blood, having absorbed the essence and vitality within, allowing him to quickly move past the accumulation stage, directly arriving at the peak of the mid Spirit Vessel stage.
However, wanting to succeed in that breakthrough and truly step into the late Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster realm was also not an easy thing.
A considerable reason herein was that Yan Zhaoge had previously been focusing on his foundations, with it now finally being the time for him to reap the benefits of his long, unceasing accumulation.
In the past, Yan Zhaoge’s cultivation speed had also been rapid.
However, actually, he had been restricting it somewhat due to not wanting it to catch the eyes of others too much.
Accompanied by his gradual growth, with others also having already gradually gotten used to his shocking exploits, he could already begin letting go of these restrictions.
Yan Zhaoge sat within a room in the meditative position, his entire body surrounded by an indistinct layer of clear qi.
Beneath the clear qi, what surrounded Yan Zhaoge’s body was actually a qi mass which was hard to describe, not bright but not dark, not black but not white, not cold but not hot.
Yan Zhaoge’s eyes were open, his breathing steady.
As he inhaled and exhaled, the chaotic qi mass surrounding his body would change.
Extreme coldness, blazing heat, thunderbolts, heavy soil, storms…various phenomena, neverending in their number, were unceasingly shown.
Within Yan Zhaoge’s dantian, a seed of chaos rose up and down.
He blew lightly, the chaotic qi mass surrounding his body beginning to disperse.
Within his body, a breath also seemed to have been blown, landing on that seed of chaos before this seed mightily split apart.
It seemed hard to explain, hard to talk about, hard to describe, one of the things that was hard to describe being its birth of infinite things.
It was as though everything had been suppressed and compressed to the maximum possible level, losing their form, instead condensing at a single point, now finally being revealed once more.
When others cultivated, a spirit seed birthing a sprout, nurturing the embryonic form of their true martial soul, a specific phenomenon would most of the time be shown.
Broad Creed Mountain’s Clear Qi Profound Art would show vast heavens.
The Sacred Sun Clan’s Great Sun True Qi would show a massive golden sun.
These phenomena would generally be the same when a martial practitioner was truly cultivating out their true martial soul.
It was just that at that time, turning false into real, one would be stepping into a completely new heavens and earth.
Yan Zhaoge’s spirit sprouts, however, were different. They
did not show any specific phenomenon, instead seemingly replaying scenes of the initial birth of chaos, the different forms of creation.
Yan Zhaoge exhaled, before abruptly inhaling once more.
Those scenes that resembled chaos vanished as the image of clear skies were resumed, like having stepped into the late Spirit Vessel stage as cultivated through the traditional Clear Qi Profound Art of Broad Creed Mountain.
Like this, his cultivation having come to fruition, without much trouble at all, Yan Zhaoge had already stepped into the third level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, the late Spirit Vessel stage, only a step away from accomplishing his true martial soul.
What is hard for others, is like strolling on flat land for me.
Yan Zhaoge smiled, getting up and walking to the side.
There, his Internal Crystal Furnace was in the midst of circulation. Yan Zhaoge patted the furnace lightly, and it stopped, its lid opening and streaks of golden radiance spurting out from within, resembling a rain of light.
Under Yan Zhaoge’s aura-qi, the bright golden rain of light was bunched up and captured together in Yan Zhaoge’s palm.
As Yan Zhaoge unfurled his hand, many golden crystals of ice appeared within his palm.
These ice crystals had originally been red in colour, now having turned golden having been refined by Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge extended his other palm, the chaotic qi mass dispersing within his dantian’s qi ocean as a crimson fire seed appeared.
That originated from the Sacred Heavenly Fire Scripture, a manifestation of the essence of its power following some attainments in cultivating it.
Yan Zhaoge’s empty left hand now suddenly changed. Numerous flamelike patterns appeared on his skin, instantly spreading throughout his entire left palm.
The patterns resembled true, blazing flames as they surged about Yan Zhaoge’s skin, roiling hot waves of qi shooting over.
Even without Yan Zhaoge specifically stimulating its power, it also emitted the momentum of incinerating the heavens, being rampant as well as tyrannical.
With his left hand having become this way, Yan Zhaoge’s right hand shook slightly, a golden ice crystal from which cold qi emanated flying out, transforming into a streak of golden light and falling onto his left hand.
Instantly, infinite golden light filled the entire room.
Dense cold qi emanated, virtually wanting to transform the entire room into an ice cave.
Yan Zhaoge could clearly feel that for just that one moment, it was as though he had completely lost all sensation in his left hand.
The cold qi was sharp as a blade as it extended along the meridians of his left hand, extending towards his dantian, its target being that crimson seed of fire, as though it would only rest having completely extinguished it.
Yan Zhaoge nodded satisfiedly, the aura-qi within his body changing, the crimson fire seed vanishing as his aura-qi turned icy cold.
That coldness extending through his meridians immediately calmed, instead been drawn over, assimilated and absorbed by the cold qi within his body, being beneficial rather than causing any harm, just like a nourishing tonic.
“The effect of this Devil Shattering Ice Talisman is really not bad,” Yan Zhaoge smiled, keeping the many golden ice crystals within his right palm.
After doing so, he came above the Internal Crystal Furnace, lowering his head and looking within.
Within the Internal Crystal stood nine shards of ice that resembled the blades of halberds.
Yan Zhaoge reached out and tapped lightly on one of them, checking it over as he muttered to himself, “It’s still lacking a bit ah.”
As he was pondering on this, Ah Hu came knocking.
Yan Zhaoge let Ah Hu in, the latter’s expression being somewhat grave, “Young Master, as you predicted earlier, the Flame Devils have moved, and it is a major one. Not just a single one of their experts on the level of a Flame Devil King have entered through the passageway to the Eight Extremities World.”
Hearing his words, Yan Zhaoge asked, “Turbid Wave Pavilion’s Pavilion Lord An and the Sacred Sun Clan’s Meng Wan should already have arrived at the Outer East Sea?”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 368: Unexpected assault
HSSB368: Unexpected assault
With the Flame Devils very possibly engaging in a large scale assault, the human martial practitioners guarding the Outer East Sea, having mostly noticed that something was wrong, stayed warily vigilant against this.
Broad Creed Mountain’s East Sea’s First Seat Elder Fu Enshu, stationed at the East Sea while standing together with the others against the threat of the Flame Devils, specifically reported back on this to the clan.
The other powers also mostly received this news, sent back to them by those they had dispatched to take charge over at the East Sea.
Affected by these, the internal conflicts between the Sacred Grounds eased somewhat.
However, everyone knew full well that following the battle of Broad Creed Mountain, they and the Sacred Sun Clan were already fated enemies, a victor inevitably having to be decided between them.
The Sacred Sun Clan’s current relationship with Broad Creed Mountain was even worse that its relationship with Jade Sea City.
The relationship between Broad Creed Mountain and the Heavenly Thunder Hall was similarly tense.
The atmosphere having eased now was only due to the entire Eight Extremities World being faced with a common enemy.
The Sacred Sun Clan’s Meng Wan who held the Sacred Artifact, the Extreme Yin Crown, had already brought the Extreme Yin Crown over to the East Sea.
There, the Pavilion Lord of Turbid Wave Pavilion, the Roiling Cloud Martial Saint An Qinglin, was also present.
“Other than them, the Lord of the Heavenly Thunder Hall, the Green Thunder Martial Saint Shen Li, as well as the Painting Saint Old Man Mo have also been contacted,” Ah Hu said to Yan Zhaoge, “Old Man Mo aside, it is hard to tell whether Shen Li will really leave the Thunder Domain for the East Sea.”
Yan Zhaoge said, “That will have to look at the specific changes in the situation.”
Ah Hu swallowed his saliva, “Young Master, it’s been said that the Flame Devils have been gradually regaining their vitality these past few years. Do you think that there might possibly emerge an existence on the level of a Great Flame Devil King?”
Yan Zhaoge raised his head and pondered for a moment before replying, “This is very hard to say. The internal conflict amongst the Flame Devils is also very intense. Under such circumstances, even while there might only have been some slight warring within, there is also the possibility that a mighty tyrant that far surpasses the norm might have been born.”
He looked at Ah Hu, “Anyway, keep a close eye on the movements over at the Outer East Sea. Whatever news there is, report it back quickly.”
Ah Hu nodded, “Yes, Young Master.”
Very quickly, news came over that under the lead of two Flame Devil Kings, a great many experts of the Flame Devil race had stepped into the East Sea.
Their enemies had been assaulted by An Qinglin and the Extreme Yin Crown, a bloodied battle erupting between the experts of the humans and the Flame Devils on the Outer East Sea, killing till the waters surged and the sea bubbled.
However, the overall situation of the Eight Extremities World could still be considered stable.
In recent years, their battles with the Flame Devils had been growing more and more intense, continuous major battles having erupted on the East Sea.
During the incident of Clear Concealed Lake and the battle of Broad Creed Mountain, due to the Decimating Abyss, the Flame Devils had launched fierce assaults, with more than just a single Flame Devil King entering the Eight Extremities World each time, working together from the outside with the Decimating Abyss attempting the cause the descent of the Nine Underworlds, forcing human experts of a similar cultivation level to come to resist them, drawing away the attention of many experts of the
human race.
Therefore, with two Flame Devil Kings having entered the East Sea together this time, it didn’t really startle the human martial practitioners much.
What they were more concerned about now was whether the Flame Devils still had any other experts who would arrive to reinforce them later, entering the Eight Extremities World.
Yan Zhaoge controlled the Internal Crystal Furnace, continuing to carefully temper and forge those nine ice shards.
However, very quickly, Ah Hu brought over a piece of bad news.
“Lost all traces of them?” Yan Zhaoge looked somewhat surprisedly at Ah Hu who had virtually barged into the room, “A whole bunch of Flame Devils, all disappeared?”
Ah Hu’s expression was solemn to the extreme, “The situation is not clear; Elder Fu and the others are going crazy searching for them over there.”
“A large amount of Flame Devil experts with two Flame Devil Kings at their head disappeared, throwing off Pavilion Lord An, Elder Fu and the others, their current whereabouts unknown.”
Yan Zhaoge knit his brows, “Now this is rather unexpected; how did that happen?”
So long as the tyrannical Flame Devils were standing within the Eight Extremities World, even if they did absolutely nothing and just stood there, they would also incinerate and destroy the spiritual qi of the heavens and the earth, causing great damage to the Eight Extremities World.
The higher the Flame Devil’s cultivation base, the worse the effects of this would be. At the same time, it also became increasingly harder to conceal traces of themselves.
It was fine for the Flame Devils whose strength were equivalent to human Martial Scholars, but having risen to the level of Martial Grandmasters, it would be such that it was virtually impossible for them to conceal themselves.
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