Feeling Yin Liuhua’s gaze on him from behind, Yan Zhaoge inwardly shook his head, “Her mindset isn’t right.”
While Feng Yunsheng had regretfully been defeated in the Sixth Extreme Yin Bout by just the narrowest of margins, Yan Zhaoge, whilst feeling that it was a pity, was still not all that disappointed.
The situation was generally as he had predicted. From how it looked now, the Seventh Extreme Yin Bout was really one that he could look forward to.
Bar any major unforeseen circumstances, the Sacred Sun Clan and Meng Wan would be swept off their thrones in a year’s time.
After the Extreme Yin Bout had ended, Yan Zhaoge placed most of his attention back on the Earth Domain.
While working hard on his martial cultivation, he also worked on the refining of formation-supporting artifacts for the Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation as well as busied himself on the matter of the Lofty Prestige Mirror. Yan Zhaoge passed his upcoming days in an incomparably fulfilling, substantial manner.
Amidst his busyness, time flowed by.
In the blink of an eye, yet over another half year had passed.
It had already been more than a year since Yan Di had entered seclusion, just that he had currently still yet to show any signs of emerging.
Yan Zhaoge had already almost completed all the matters that he had on hand, but he still had not the leisure to leave the Eight Extremities World and try to look for Xu Fei and the others in the Vast Ocean World.
Because as time passed, things over in the Earth Domain gradually began to stir once more!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 467: The conflicted East Rising Lord
HSSB467: The conflicted East Rising Lord
Fang Zhun sent back news from the Earth Domain that the baleful qi there was growing increasingly dense, especially having been intensifying in recent days.
After receiving this news, Yan Zhaoge and Yuan Zhengfeng began preparing to move out, heading over to the Earth Domain.
Yan Di had still not left seclusion, with it also being unknown when he might be able to do so. However, the situation would wait for no one. Yan Zhaoge and Yuan Zhengfeng could only sigh at this.
“Master, with junior apprentice-brother Yan in seclusion and you leaving as well, maybe you should dispatch second apprentice-brother back to the clan to oversee matters here.”
Leaving the Mountain as well, Fu Enshu said thus as she travelled alongside Yan Zhaoge and Yuan Zhengfeng.
Yuan Zhengfeng nodded slightly, “We will decide on this after looking at the specific situation in the Earth Domain. Fang Zhun is naturally very outstanding in handling matters.”
He swivelled his head to look at Feng Yunsheng and Yin Liuhua behind Fu Enshu, “While there have been no major movements with the Flame Devils on the East Sea, you still have to be careful.”
Fu Enshu said, “As Maidens of Extreme Yin, it is best that they clash with Flame Devils as much as possible. It will be of great help to them.”
Yuan Zhengfeng said, “It is not just the Flame Devils. You must beware of other dangers as well.”
Fu Enshu understood the meaning in Yuan Zhengfeng’s words, “I understand.”
Travelling alongside Yuan Zhengfeng, as he walked beside Fu Enshu, Yan Zhaoge sent her a sound transmission, “Senior apprentice-aunt Fu, why don’t you reconsider the matter I previously mentioned to you. I just feel that you are being a little too hasty with junior apprentice-sister Yin.”
Some darkness flashed within Fu Enshu’s gaze, “I can tolerate any faults in my disciples, just not them being lazy and not putting in effort.”
“Even Master has advised me not to ask of everyone the standards of Yunsheng, Sikong or myself. Fine, I decreased my expectations then,” Fu Enshu appeared slightly furious at this, “I do not ask for Liuhua what I ask of Yunsheng, but I am very clear where her limits lie.”
“Always slacking off and continually decreasing what she asks of herself, how can there ever be a day when she breaks through her own limits? Instead, she is continually decreasing her upper limits, wasting her talents just like that!”
Fu Enshu sent Yan Zhaoge a look, “This is not merely related to her cultivation as a Maiden of Extreme Yin. It concerns her very progress as a martial practitioner!”
Yan Zhaoge spread his palms apart, “Perhaps junior apprentice-sister Yin just wants to live a little more relaxedly? Why don’t you consider my earlier suggestion and lower your expectations of her a little. That would be good for everyone.”
Fu Enshu replied dissatisfiedly, “Now, I already hold no hopes of her being able to catch up to or surpass Yunsheng. Still, her rival should never have been Yunsheng. With how she is now, how is she to compete with the Maidens of Extreme Yin of the other Sacred Grounds?”
“Lower my expectations a little? How can they be any lower?”
She looked at Yan Zhaoge, “If you put in high effort, you get medium rewards. If you put in medium effort, you get low rewards. If you put in low effort, you get nothing at all. It can’t be that you don’t understand this principle, right?”
Hearing her words, Yan Zhaoge smacked his lips, “At the end of the day, it is you who are her Master. It is not my business to interfere in it.”
He paused for a moment before saying softly, “Still, while it is naturally good to be able to forge a piece of good steel, if it really isn’t cut out for it and is hammered too hard, it could very possibly be twisted into a useless piece of scrap metal instead.”
Fu Enshu fell silent, looking at Yin Liuhua behind her from the corner of her eye.
The two having conversed via sound transmission, Yin Liuhua naturally did not know that they had been discussing her.
Currently, she was thinking about how she would be returning to the East Sea as countless emotions filled her mind.
Fu Enshu sighed, “I will give her some more time and chances.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded, “In going to the East Sea this time, it is best to remain highly cautious. While the Flame Devils retreated in defeat last time, their vitality still remains. With the incident in the Earth Domain, it is possible that they might come to stir up trouble as well.”
Fu Enshu said, “Yes, things might also become abnormal on the East Sea. Old Man Mo and Jade Sea City’s City Lord Song are both guarding against it. Instead, you guys should be careful as you proceed to the Earth Domain.”
“As you say, the situation this time, in comparison to that with the Decimating Abyss, might be even more perilous.”
Yan Zhaoge gazed towards the distant Earth Domain, “The problem with the Decimating Abyss was that they were hard to see through, with the identity of our enemies unknown and danger concealed in unknowable places near us, resembling navigating a boat amidst a fog.”
“This time, the identity of the danger is much more clear-cut, but possibly even more fearsome and unstoppable, resembling a raging flood storming over towards us.”
Having seen off Fu Enshu and the others, Yan Zhaoge, Yuan Zhengfeng and the others arrived in the Earth Domain. Just having arrived at the outskirts, they could already feel the baleful qi within that surged to the heavens.
Proceeding further within, the deeper they went, the denser the baleful qi was.
This was already true Hell in all meaning of the word.
There had once been some strange demonic beasts having adapted to the local environment that had lived here.
However, right now, even such lifeforms had either perished to the baleful qi or, for the comparatively stronger ones, begun fleeing elsewhere.
An escaping beast tide temporarily occurred in the border areas of the Earth Domain as the beasts fled for greener pastures.
Fortunately, whether it was Broad Creed Mountain or the other Sacred Grounds, all of them had been prepared for this as they had long since set up a perimeter around the Earth Domain, obstructing the beast tide and preventing them from causing any major incident.
As Yan Zhaoge, Yuan Zhengfeng and the ot
hers walked, they suddenly saw golden radiance shining in the distance, resembling a sun having arisen amidst the boundless darkness.
“It’s the Sacred Sun Clan,” Their expressions did not change as they saw that bright golden radiance arrive before them.
From within the light that resembled the actual sun slowly emerged a white-clothed old man. It was precisely the Grand Elder of the Sacred Sun Clan, the East Coming Martial Saint Huang Guanglie.
Behind him followed a group of people, all experts of the Sacred Sun Clan as well.
The Sunset Lord and the East Rising Lord, following closely behind Huang Guanglie, looked expressionlessly at the group from Broad Creed Mountain.
Yuan Zhengfeng asked mildly, “What say you, East Coming Huang?”
Huang Guanglie said, “Let’s go down together for a look.”
Yuan Zhengfeng immediately descended, “My intentions exactly.”
The others descended as well. Feeling gazes on him, as Yan Zhaoge swivelled his head and looked, he saw that most of the remaining Sacred Sun Clan martial practitioners aside from Huang Guanglie were looking at him.
Especially the East Rising Lord, whose gaze that was on him contained some complex sentiments.
He could be considered the first of the Sacred Sun Clan’s higher echelons to have had dealings with Yan Zhaoge, even though they had not been direct dealings.
Back then, whilst in the Eastern Tang Kingdom, he had actually already been of a mind to kill Yan Zhaoge.
However, he had been unable to do so due to Broad Creed Mountain’s East Elder and the King of the Eastern Tang Kingdom, Zhao Shicheng.
However, when thinking back on this incident now, the East Rising Lord sometimes could not help but wonder-had he risked it all back then in trying to obtain Yan Zhaoge’s life even at risk of his own, if he had been successful, would everything thereafter have been different?
While this thought was gone in a flash, it could not be suppressed.
Back then, even while Yan Zhaoge was the son of Yan Di, if someone had proposed to exchange the life of the East Rising Lord of the Seven Reigning Suns, a mighty Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster, for Yan Zhaoge, merely an outer aura Martial Scholar at the time, everyone would have thought that that person was nuts.
Now, even the East Rising Lord himself would occasionally guess on the chances of success for such, even though he wished that that Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster would be someone else.
The unpredictability of the world’s events came no stronger than this.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 468: Treasure of Divine Sun!
HSSB468: Treasure of Divine Sun
As Yan Zhaoge looked at the East Rising Lord and the others, the East Rising Lord met his gaze expressionlessly. Seeing this, Yan Zhaoge smiled at him.
Now, the rumbling of thunder resounded overhead. As they gazed over, they saw a group of Heavenly Thunder Hall experts under Shen Li’s lead descend into the deep abyss as well.
Other than that, an expanse of clouds could also be seen as An Qinglin of Turbid Wave Pavilion led along their longtime Elders in descending over by the other end.
Seeing them, Yuan Zhengfeng and Huang Guanglie nodded slightly, Shen Li and An Qinglin reciprocating the greeting.
Now, intense fluctuations of aura began emanating from down below.
A suffocating, terrifying aura surged straight up.
The Essence Talisman Martial Grandmasters travelling alongside Yuan Zhengfeng and the other Martial Saints all frowned.
As the only martial practitioner below the Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster realm here, what Yan Zhaoge felt was naturally even more pronounced.
As the baleful qi entered his body, Yan Zhaoge could clearly feel his entire body’s meridians, flesh and blood seemingly showing signs of withering.
What was even more dangerous was that assaulted by the baleful qi, his body’s true essence showed signs of assimilating with it as it seemed as if it wanted to rise up in revolt against him.
“The baleful qi of the Nine Underworlds is indeed deserving of its reputation,” Yan Zhaoge shook his head slightly, a qi flow that resembled chaos appearing within his body and circulating smoothly all around, birthless and inextinguishable as it kept the baleful qi of the Nine Underworlds at bay.
Yan Zhaoge cultivated in the Peerless Heavenly Scripture, the number one technique of the pre-Great Calamity’s Clear Jade lineage. It could birth all objects, tolerate all objects, extinguish all objects. Naturally, it feared not even the baleful qi of the Nine Underworlds.
However, with regard to his current cultivation base, the Nine Underworlds baleful qi before him was really too great in amount.
Even while it could be refined and assimilated, a rather long period of time would be needed to do so. Therefore, Yan Zhaoge currently neither resisted nor absorbed it, just keeping it separated a distance away from his body.
To the Nine Underworlds baleful qi, it was currently as if where Yan Zhaoge was contained merely empty space, as if he did not exist.
The people from the other Sacred Grounds were also observing Yan Zhaoge. Seeing him unhindered by the baleful qi of the Nine Underworlds, all of them showed various differing expressions.
The people of the Sacred Sun Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Hall all had on slightly darker expressions while those of Turbid Wave Pavilion showed more admiration as well as respect.
Descending together, they suddenly saw golden radiance rise up down below.
As this golden light touched them, it was like Yan Zhaoge and the others had come to feel warm sunlight amidst winter.
The negative influences brought about by the Nine Underworlds baleful qi instantly dissipated greatly.
Even the true sun in the sky overhead had currently already been obscured behind a layer of baleful qi, the sky above pitch black.
However, another sun seemed to be present within the deep abyss down below. Due to their close proximity, the strength of the warmth and the brightness penetrated through the layers of bewildering fog, bringing light before their eyes.
The heavens and earth seemed like they had been completely flipped around at this moment.
Light flickered unceasingly within Huang Guanglie’s eyes while shocking light shot out from the eyes of the Sunset Lord, the East Rising Lord and the other Sacred Sun Clan martial practitioners as well.
As opposed to the others, they felt more deeply regarding the power fluctuations from the deep abyss down below.
While it was different from the legacies of the Sacred Sun Clan, Huang Guanglie and the others could feel that that was another concept related to the warm, bright sun within the sky.
Just being bathed under the radiance emitted from the deep abyss down below was sufficient to make all of them feel greatly comfortable.
While Huang Guanglie who possessed a higher cultivation base did not feel this so intensely, he felt more deeply regarding the concepts within as he could only feel infinite profundities for a time.
Yan Zhaoge, however, had his eyes slightly narrowed.
Having come to the Earth Domain many times before, directly viewing this golden sunlight now, he soon came to an understanding.
“No wonder it felt somewhat familiar,” Yan Zhaoge exhaled lightly, “Divine Sun Scripture.”
In Yan Zhaoge’s hands was clutched an ancient beastskin scroll.
This was an artifact that he had obtained along with the Immortal Crane Wings from entering the foreign dimension where Loose Practitioner He of pre-Great Calamity times had lived back then.
Now, while the Immortal Crane Wings had already been left to Ah Hu, this beastskin scroll still remained in Yan Zhaoge’s hands.
The surface of the beastskin scroll was completely empty, with merely a squarish pattern at its centre that seemed to have been left behind like some kind of seal.
The pattern left behind by the seal resembled a sun.
When analysing the concept within back then
, Yan Zhaoge had felt like it was from a rumoured pre-Great Calamity supreme scripture, the Divine Sun Scripture.
Before the Great Calamity had descended, the powerhouse creator of this Divine Sun Scripture had only just created it, still being in the process of refining it as it had yet to reach its final, desired form. Sadly, the Great Calamity descended, and all was then no longer the same.
This supreme martial art also became one of the few supreme martial arts not fully recorded within the book repository building of the Divine Palace.
Still, Yan Zhaoge had encountered some incomplete versions before.
The martial legacies of the Sacred Sun Clan had been developed from unearthed legacies of the pre-Great Calamity martial civilisation coupled with one’s own comprehensions. Within it was vaguely contained some traces of the Divine Sun Scripture.
However, feeling the concept within the sunlight before him, as Yan Zhaoge saw it, it was likely to be the main, orthodox direct lineage form of the Divine Sun Scripture.
While it had yet to fully reach a completed stage before, it had still been an extremely powerful martial art. As Yan Zhaoge currently carefully analysed the golden light within the deep abyss down below, he could only feel that it seemed even deeper than the deep abyss itself.
“A pity that I do not possess the complete Divine Sun Scripture from back then, or I could do a number of calculations,” Yan Zhaoge thought, “Still, if my feeling is not wrong, the Great Calamity should not have led to the Divine Sun Scripture’s extinction. Instead, it has been continually refined, till the point that it has finally reached completeness and perfection.”
He had never heard of such a figure existing in the Eight Extremities World before.
However, other than the Flame Devil World that was not occupied by humans, Yan Zhaoge was currently already able to confirm the existence of other worlds of human martial practitioners such as the Floating Life World and the Vast Ocean World. There was that legendary World beyond Worlds as well. Therefore, he did not find this expected.
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