The risks within did not have to be said. If he had been exposed, he would have immediately been surrounded and attacked.
However, along with high risks came high returns.
In that final critical moment, when everyone’s attention had been highly focused on Yan Zhaoge and that terrifying vortex, Ah Hu had made use of the chance to suddenly erupt.
As the Divine Sky Green Thunder Barrier was broken, Yan Zhaoge immediately passed through like a ferocious tiger descending the mountain.
Some Heavenly Thunder Hall martial practitioners were greatly enraged, rushing towards Ah Hu as he was instantly surrounded by many.
However, after passing through the Divine Sky Green Thunder Barrier, jumping down from Pan-Pan, a transparent glazed plate appeared within Yan Zhaoge’s hand.
The glazed plate shone with a bloodred light. As Yan Zhaoge opened it, countless streaks of bloodred light instantly flew out.
It was precisely a precious treasure specifically used to break through barriers, a Blood Devil Plate.
Located within the barrier this time, as the Blood Devil Plate was activated, amidst the countless flying streaks of bloodred light, cracks immediately extended within the barrier.
Yan Zhaoge punched out with one hand and slammed out with a palm with the other, both striking forward simultaneously, aura-qi shaking as the bloodred light abruptly surged.
Countless lines of blood intersected amidst the broken down barrier of the green light of thunder, resembling veins.
The two remaining green flags of the barrier were instantly covered by a bloodred layer, their surface riddled densely with thin bloodred lines.
Behind them, that terrifying vortex was still expanding unceasingly.
The boundary of the vortex came into contact with the Divine Sky Green Thunder Barrier, the broken barrier instantly nearing the brink of collapse.
The shining silver light of the Eternal Night Thunder Sword above Lin Zhou’s head vanished at this moment, turning dark, resembling the boundless night sky.
He glared at Yan Zhaoge, letting out a great roar of hatred and rage. Then, enveloped by the night sky, he turned and left.
Yan Zhaoge looked coldly at Lin Zhou. Elsewhere, having received Ah Hu, Pan-Pan now returned to his side.
Yan Zhaoge sat down on Pan-Pan, and with but a thought on his part, Pan-Pan spread out his four paws, racing madly forward.
Behind them, seeing the vortex drawing close, the people of the Heavenly Thunder Hall struggled to flee.
Not looking back, Yan Zhaoge just punched back in the direction from which he had come, towards the Divine Sky Green Thunder Barrier.
The all-encompassing bloodred lines on the barrier shuddered in unison, the two green flags exploding!
Roiling green thunder exploded in chains, the entire barrier completely collapsing!
The violent thunderbolts instantly consumed the group of Heavenly Thunder Hall martial practitioners, the wild explosion it caused also seemingly obstructing that vortex for a moment.
The next moment, the vortex continued expanding.
As those Heavenly Thunder Hall martial practitioners who had not died to the explosion of the barrier were obstructed by the thunder light, slowing them down, they were now also swept into the vortex’s area of influence, being dragged within.
Sitting on Pan-Pan’s back, Yan Zhaoge and Ah Hu were far away in an instant.
The underwater mountain chain before them was still shaking intensely, underground fire spurting outwards every once in a while, resembling hell on earth.
Yan Zhaoge focused on that dark shadow in the distance. That dark shadow flickered amidst the light of fire, zigzagging left and right, continually fleeing far away as darkness constantly overlapped with light.
Heaven Shocker that emitted purple thunderbolts soon fell into Yan Zhaoge’s hands once more. Drawing back the bowstring, a streak of golden light shot out.
Devil Shattering Ice Talismans had suppressive effects on Flame Devils, but still possessed rather great power against humans.
Where the golden light passed, the sea was instantly sealed in ice.
That dark shadow erupted with vicious silvery-white thunder, shattering the surrounding glaciers.
However, with just that moment’s delay, Yan Zhaoge had already speedily caught up.
Blazing hot, violent auras emanated from the nearby sea, with yet more Flame Devils appearing as they made to surround Yan Zhaoge and the others.
“I’ll leave it to you,” Yan Zhaoge ignored the Flame Devils this time as he leapt off Pan-Pan, his sword-light resembling a dragon as it split the seawater, chopping straight towards Lin Zhou!
Amidst the darkness, Lin Zhou let out a long, enraged howl, silvery-white thunderbolts being emitted from the darkness, seemingly able to pierce through the heavens and split the earth apart as they shot towards Yan Zhaoge.
Becoming one with his sword, Yan Zhaoge seemed to have transformed into a green dragon as he descended from the skies.
His figure spun in mid-air, countless streaks of green sword-lights enveloping the heavens and covering the earth as they descended amidst their surroundings, resembling a green dragon shaking its scales.
The green sword-lights clashed unceasingly with the light of thunder in mid-air, continually being destroyed.
However, the vast dragon’s majesty, that brilliant sword-intent, remained enveloping Lin Zhou!
It was fine if Lin Zhou met battle, but with him daring to turn and run, drawn by his momentum, Yan Zhaoge’s sword would pin him directly dead within the depths of the sea.
“Kill!” Lin Zhou’s expression was pale as paper, but a fiery glow could still be seen in his lone right eye.
Reaching out with a grabbing motion, the white sword-light above his head landed within his hands, transforming into a true sword, the sword’s blade being jet-black, white light circulating about it.
Within Lin Zhou’s other hand appeared a sabre.
Aura-qi surged madly throughout his entire body, converging on that sabre which hacked consecutively outwards.
Amidst the terrifying qi of thunder, Lin Zhou seemed to suddenly have grown much taller as he resembled a descended thunder king!
Of the Heavenly Thunder Hall’s Sword-Sabre Combination, one of its two supreme martial arts, Nine Rotating Thunder King’s Sabre!
On the other side, Lin Zhou did not exert his aura-qi, but the power of the Eternal Night Thunder Sword was still much more powerful than with him executing the Nine Rotating Thunder King’s Sabre.
While it was not the combination of Divine Sky Chain Sword and Nine Rotating Thunder King’s Sabre, this joint sabre and sword attack of Lin Zhou’s still domineeringly activated the Heavenly Thunder Hall’s supreme secret art, Thunder-Lightning Union!
Amidst the intermingling of purplish-green thunderbolts and silvery-white lightning, countless snakes of electricity traversed the seawater, terrifying beyond compare.
“The sword that contains Thunder of Eternal Night has not a bad quality,” Yan Zhaoge said calmly, a dark green bamboo branch that flickered with purple light appearing within his left hand.
He brandished the bamboo branch, parrying Lin Zhou’s Eternal Night Thunder Sword.
Meanwhile, the sword-light of Yan Zhaoge’s Jade Dragon Sword flickered within his right hand, directly shattering Lin Zhou’s sabre-light, “As for you yourself, you are sorely lacking.”
Lin Zhou roared furiously, his shattered sabre-light abruptly turning, chopping towards Yan Zhaoge with an even fiercer momentum than before!
It was precisely the sublime essence of the Nine Rotating Thunder King’s Sabre, Lin Zhou having already comprehended it to some extent.
However, Yan Zhaoge’s sword resembled a flash flood that surged to the heavens, being unstoppable as it advanced forward, easily shattering the second sabre-light, “You seem to have forgotten that the last time we fought face-to-face for real, the first time we met, you were in the mid Xiantian stag
e, and I was in the early Xiantian stage.”
Not waiting for Lin Zhou to unleash his third sabre-light, Yan Zhaoge’s sword had already arrived before him, directly hacking his mid-grade spirit artifact sabre into destruction!
Following this sword, the momentum of Yan Zhaoge’s assault did not drop as it continued pressuring forward, resembling Mount Tai weighing down on an egg.
Lin Zhou’s sole eyeball appeared on the brink of popping out and imploding as he watched Yan Zhaoge’s sword shatter half his body!
“Currently, you are an early Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster, while I am a late Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster. If we consider only our cultivation bases…”
Yan Zhaoge brandished his dark green bamboo branch once more, sending Lin Zhou’s Eternal Night Thunder Sword flying, before he retracted the Jade Dragon Sword with his right hand, directly pushing forward with his palm!
Before Lin Zhou’s eyes, the heavens spun and the earth rotated, the very sky seemingly collapsing!
“Now, considering only our cultivation bases, I alone am more than sufficient to defeat a hundred of you.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 394: The end of Lin Zhou
HSSB394: The end of Lin Zhou
Within the depths of the sea, the underwater mountain range shook, rocks breaking apart, underground fire spurting out of the ground, with scenes resembling the end of the world.
Within the sea water, Yan Zhaoge’s palm descended, resembling the collapse of the heavens.
The vortex in his surroundings completely stopped, completely locked in place and unable to move.
The water had not completely frozen into ice, but seemed to have turned into a solid as not even the slightest ripples could be seen on it whatsoever.
Beneath Yan Zhaoge’s palm, Lin Zhou’s body which originally had already been injured and covered in blood instantly erupted with yet more sprays of blood mist, completely moving towards collapse.
Fresh blood spurted out of Lin Zhou’s left eye socket which had long since lost its vision.
He struggled, still glaring unrelentingly at Yan Zhaoge with his right eye, filled with rage, hatred and unwillingness.
Yan Zhaoge looked calmly at Lin Zhou, saying mildly, “What, are you thinking about what you would definitely do if you could relive everything once more?”
Lin Zhou’s right eye abruptly dilated as he glared at Yan Zhaoge!
Seeing this expression of his, Yan Zhaoge nodded, “Before, I had still been unable to say for sure, only feeling that it felt like you had been reborn. Seeing your expression now, it must really have been like this.”
Lin Zhou’s vision had already gradually turned blurry, but his mind was instead exceptionally clear in these final moments, “You are indeed not the same as me, but you are also not the same as the others!”
Yan Zhaoge looked at Lin Zhou, shaking his head, “I wonder what time period you lived till in your previous lifetime? Did you experience this invasion of the Flame Devils?”
“If you had, regarding the attack of the Flame Devils on Jade Sea City and your knowledge of the Flame Devils stimulating the Fire Pith Veins here in the Outer East Sea, if you had found a way and conveyed this information to the others of our Eight Extremities World, it would have been much easier for everyone, faced with this invasion of the Flame Devils.”
“You yourself would have achieved great fame and merits. Not only would you have been rewarded by your own Heavenly Thunder Hall, everyone else would also be grateful for your contributions.”
Yan Zhaoge said calmly, “That time at Clear Concealed Lake-didn’t you do very well back then?”
While as the outside world knew, the unearthing of the hidden operatives of the Decimating Abyss by the Heavenly Thunder Hall before the incident at Clear Concealed Lake had been the contribution of Lin Zhou’s father, Lin Tianfeng, Yan Zhaoge guessed that it must have stemmed from Lin Zhou.
“While because the encroachment of the Decimating Abyss had been too great, the information was leaked, in the end having been countered greatly, your line of thinking was not wrong. You truly presided over Yan Shan, being affirmed by your Heavenly Thunder Hall as the first person of its younger generation. It must have been because of that, rather than because of your cultivation base having surpassed Yan Shan.”
As one could partake in the global situation of the Eight Extremities World, one would no longer be considered an ordinary younger generation disciple or young genius.
Lin Zhou snorted coldly, “Don’t mention Clear Concealed Lake; if you really want to mention it, you should have died at Clear Concealed Lake!”
In the incident of Clear Concealed Lake, because the information had been leaked, the Decimating Abyss had successfully countered the measures set up against them, but had eventually had the core of their Devilish Domain Grand Formation destroyed by Yan Zhaoge, still a Martial Scholar at that time.
That battle had been the stage for Yan Zhaoge’s elevation of position in the Eight Extremities World. After that, there was no longer anyone under the heavens who didn’t know this Lord.
At Lin Zhou’s words that he should originally have died at Clear Concealed Lake, Yan Zhaoge nonchalantly smiled.
Lin Zhou became even more furious, “What was the point of my painstaking plans; my father didn’t die to the Nine Underworlds Evil Devils, yet still perished at your Broad Creed Mountain!”
Yan Zhaoge understood, “So, following that, your mentality had completely changed?”
He said calmly, “While your cultivation base still continually improved, while you obtained much good fortune and treasures, even obtaining Thunder of Eternal Night, you lost your confidence.”
Yan Zhaoge shook his head, rather lost for words.
With the consecutive reversals in the great battle of Broad Creed Mountain, the death of Lin Zhou’s father, Lin Tianfeng, at Broad Creed Mountain had let to the birth of darkness within Lin Zhou’s heart, seeds of madness taking root.
On the Extreme Northern Snowy Plains, having been defeated by Yan Zhaoge as he sought the legacy of the late Glacial Dragon Martial Saint, also having lost Heaven Shocker that his father had left him along with one of his own eyes being blinded, the bottom line within Lin Zhou’s heart had finally been pierced through completely.
Originally having firmly believed that he was the main character of this era, after having suffered multiple setbacks, doubt had arisen within his heart.
While it appeared like he had still been using the advantage of his past lifetime, having given him foreknowledge on many things, he had actually gone from striving for things on his own initiative to having been forced into a passive, waiting state.
As Lin Zhou glared at Yan Zhaoge, he felt his spirit gradually dispersing, his life finally about to leave him.
He said in a low, heavy tone, “At this point in time, words are no longer important.”
“If I have the chance to relive things once more, I will definitely fight it out with you again!”
“Two lifetimes, both filled completely with regrets. I am unresigned!”
Lin Zhou glared furiously at Yan Zhaoge with all his remaining energy, “Yan Zhaoge, don’t be too happy. You will only be able to live for one or two years longer than me!”
Yan Zhaoge raised his brows, looking at Lin Zhou.
Lin Zhou broke out into laughter, “Right, you don’t know, they don’t know, everybody doesn’t know. Only I know!”
“Ignorance is bliss; it will allow you to pass a few more days in stability!”
“Yan Zhaoge! I will be waiting for you down below!”
Looking at Lin Zhou, Yan Zhaoge suddenly smiled, “Right, I don’t know, but I am standing right here. You know, but you will be lying here forever.”
“You say that you know, but what is the difference from not knowing?”
Lin Zhou’s laughter ceased, seemingly having been caught by the throat as some trembling could be detected right at the end of that laughter
.
“I am not clear whether you can relive things once more. Still, now, just go in peace,” Yan Zhaoge said indifferently, “Haven’t you yet noticed that after Clear Concealed Lake, the changes in the global situation would not really have changed whether or not you were present?”
“Perhaps this world has left you with regrets, but with you gone, there is nothing for this world to regret.”
Yan Zhaoge’s palm descended, “From a certain perspective, if the you back at Clear Concealed Lake had died then, there really is some possibility that it would have been a loss to the Eight Extremities World of that time. However, you yourself looked from important, weighty matters to inconsequential itches and pains.”
Lin Zhou died unresigned, his body completely exploded into a haze of blood mist!
His faint, silhouetted soul also dispersed with the wind.
The soul flying and the spirit scattering, to complete, and utter, damnation!
Yan Zhaoge shrugged, “The third one; it feels really no different from clapping anyone else dead.”
He extended his hand, that black Eternal Night Thunder Sword drifting within the sea, flickering with the white light of thunder, drifting over towards him.
The Eternal Night Thunder Sword shook, wanting to transform into layers of darkness as it resisted Yan Zhaoge’s summons.
Yan Zhaoge touched his dark green bamboo branch on it. The Eternal Night Thunder Sword shuddered slightly, calming down a little.
However, that suffused darkness still came enveloping towards Yan Zhaoge, wanting to devour him.
Yan Zhaoge’s expression was calm as within all the acupoints of his body seemed to appear a chaotic qi mass, absorbing this darkness in great amounts, yet not seeing the appearance of silvery-white light of thunder.
Within Yan Zhaoge’s mind, however, lightning flashed and thunderbolts howled.
Having had the experience of refining the Eye of the Thunder Emperor fragment, Yan Zhaoge’s current process of refining this treasured Eternal Night Thunder Sword was much smoother.
“This thing is more like a crystallisation of Thunder of Eternal Night, having condensed after some sword-intent was merged within,” Yan Zhaoge’s eyes lit up slightly, “This thing is not bad ah; perhaps it can be used to refine Thunder of Eternal Night of the Nine Heavenly Immortal Thunders.”
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