The Blood Dragon Sect martial practitioners were all stunned on the spot. While they knew that Yan Zhaoge was a heaven-defying genius who was really extremely powerful, having been able to directly suppress experts like Water Crystal Palace’s Zhang Haocheng and the Dragon Slayer Sect’s Li Sheng at the same cultivation level, never would they have thought that Yan Zhaoge might actually be strong to this extent!
A single palm!
Slaying a mid Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster of a higher cultivation level than him with a single palm!
While Shen Shicheng was a late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster, as he watched this, he could only feel a chill run up his entire body and straight to his head.
The intense battle between the two sides had caused the entire foreign dimension to sway unstably, looking as though it was on the brink of collapse.
The great earth below the deep valley broke completely apart, with light oddly flickering after this had happened.
Yan Zhaoge felt that jade sword shake intensely for a moment, the resonance in the midst of decreasing slightly.
He frowned, descending towards the light down below.
Nian Chen had just wanted to move when unrelenting in his momentum, while he had been momentarily obstructed by the scattered blood mist, Yan Zhaoge’s Northern Ocean Clone charged forth without rest.
He no longer punched towards the centre of the palm of the nine-fingered draconic claw with his fist, instead forming a claw with his hand once more.
With the Nine Dragon Fingers just having erupted hastily with its full strength, the Northern Ocean Clone made use of that instant in which old strength had just been exerted and new strength had yet to come to strike out with a Roc-Fist Divine Claw, grabbing one of his opponent’s fingers.
Nian Chen’s expression changed greatly.
A cold smile appeared simultaneously on the faces of Yan Zhaoge down below and the Northern Ocean Clone in front of Nian Chen.
“Haha, ‘Nine-fingered Dragon King’ Nian Chen?”
“From today onwards, you can call yourself ‘Eight-fingered’.”
The Northern Ocean Clone exerted strength with his palm, forcibly ripping one finger of the Nine Dragon Fingers straight off!
Nian Chen groaned tragically.
One of the fingers of his Blood Dragon Avatar above him was broken off by Yan Zhaoge.
Meanwhile, the index finger of his right hand also erupted mightily into a mist of blood, being permanently destroyed just like that!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 532: Just one of your finger’s not gonna cut it
532: Just one of your finger’s not gonna cut it
The Nine Dragon Fingers, a Sacred Artifact of nine fingers.
However, one of these fingers was currently grasped within the hand of Yan Zhaoge’s Northern Ocean Clone, shaking unceasingly yet unable to break free.
Nian Chen looked like his eyeballs were about to implode while Shen Shicheng and the others were greatly shocked as well.
They wanted to attack, but the foreign dimension that they were currently in began to collapse.
The Northern Ocean Clone descended, following Yan Zhaoge in leaping into the flickering radiance down below.
Nian Chen howled in rage, ignoring his injuries as he sought out with his claw once more, clawing out towards Yan Zhaoge. The Northern Ocean Clone raised his hand, blocking the attack.
They clashed in mid-air, Yan Zhaoge’s Northern Ocean Clone descending at an accelerated speed towards the radiance at the bottom of the valley while Nian Chen was sent flying back upwards by the force of the collision.
“I’ve said that I’m currently busy looking for someone,” Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “Still, you can rest assured that this matter is not over yet. I’m only temporarily leaving your remaining eight fingers deposited on your hands. When this is all over, we can slowly have fun again.”
Seeing Yan Zhaoge and the Northern Ocean Clone vanish, Nian Chen’s unresigned howl reverberated throughout the surrounding space.
While they wanted to pursue him, the surrounding space was currently shattering unceasingly. The people of the Blood Dragon Sect could only first resist these changes and protect themselves.
When all was calm once more with the radiance before their eyes already having dispersed, Yan Zhaoge and his Northern Ocean Clone were nowhere to be seen.
Nian Chen’s face was sunken as water, dark to a terrifying extent.
The surrounding Blood Dragon Sect martial practitioners all felt despondent as well.
“Master…” As Shen Shicheng came to Nian Chen’s side, the latter spit out the words as he looked at the bloodied wound on his right hand, “I can feel the coordinates of the dragon finger which has been wrested away. He and that little bastard surnamed Shi will be escaping nowhere!”
Shen Shicheng nodded, “I have contacted Chief Yan of Myriad Sword Pool. I’m just afraid that Water Crystal Palace might dispatch people over as well.”
Nian Chen said, “Water Crystal Palace hopes for both sides to suffer losses. That Yan Zhaoge having gone over to Changli Mountain’s side, do you think their two sects will still be as close as before?”
“Tell them that my grandson is dead, and I’ve definitely got to exact my vengeance. Whoever stands in my way is my sworn enemy!”
Nian Chen’s gaze was calm whilst also frenzied, “Spread the news that this Yan Zhaoge is in the Star Shifting Sea. His enemies are similarly many. Now that this old man is bearing the greatest pressure over at the forefront, there will be many who want to kick him when he is down.”
“The Sacred Evil Sect, the Evil Shifting Sect, Spirit Rhino Island…all the forces of Evil, even. Do you think they will just watch on as this kid goes over to Changli Mountain’s side?”
“Even if he is fully forged of metal, I want to see how many kilograms of nails he can take!”
A Blood Dragon Sect longtime Elder said solemnly from beside him, “However, others may also make use of this chance to attack us when we are vulnerable…”
Nian Chen said coldly, “Therefore, contact Myriad Sword Pool. We don’t need them to deal with this Yan Zhaoge. All they need to do is guard our backs. I just want to take revenge, claiming the lives of those two youngsters!”
“If that fella surnamed Yan is killed, everything he possesses can go to Myriad Sword Pool. Yan Gang could be able to earn all his possessions without even having to do anything.”
The Blood Dragon Sect martial practitioners all looked rather hesitant. Nian Chen’s gaze swept over them, causing all of them to feel a fearful chill as they could only nod silently.
Nian Chen raised his palm, Nian Wei’s corpse appearing, “I have already secured Wei’er’s body such that it was not destroyed in the foreign dimension.”
“Send it back to the sect and keep it properly. Do not bury it first. I want the head of that Shi Jun in tribute to him,” Nian Chen’s expression eased slightly as he nodded towards Shen Shicheng, “I will do my best. Ying’er will be fine.”
He swivelled his head to look at the great sea before him, his expression turning vicious once more, “We chase!”
……
Yan Zhaoge and the Northern Ocean Clone traversed the multiple layers of radiance together.
After a while, the light before their eyes gradually faded, objects returning to their field of vision once more.
What appeared before Yan Zhaoge was, shockingly, a massive palace.
Yan Zhaoge swivelled his head to look at the Northern Ocean Clone. The Northern Ocean Clone was not moving, but one of his fists was clenched tightly, his palm shuddering slightly.
Within his palm was clenched the wrested dragon finger which seemed as though it had a mind of its own as it was struggling unceasingly.
The Northern Ocean Clone had it suppressed with its great power such that it was unable to break free. However, against the Northern Ocean Clone, that portion of a glove was still unwilling to submit.
Y
an Zhaoge felt for a moment and curled his lips, “Being incomplete, it cannot be refined.”
He glanced around. There were dark reefs behind him. Through the radiance of the earth in the valley of that foreign dimension, he had travelled through space, coming elsewhere.
The reefs were damp. Feeling the spiritual qi veins here, Yan Zhaoge determined that he was currently beneath the reefs at the bottom of the sea within the earth’s crust itself.
Here, a massive cave had been additionally excavated, the power of a barrier vaguely helping to conceal it from the surrounding area.
Therefore, as one passed by the great sea overhead, it would hard for them to detect that a unique space like this actually existed beneath the reefs at the depths of the sea.
“There’s indeed a problem,” Yan Zhaoge thought.
That foreign dimension just now had been firm beyond Yan Zhaoge’s expectations.
Faced with the battle between the Northern Ocean Clone and the Nine Dragon Fingers that had been at the level of Martial Saints, the foreign dimension had been able to hold on for quite a long time before it collapsed.
The foreign dimension being connected to this place, it must not be simple at all.
Staring at the dragon finger caught within the palm of the Northern Ocean Clone, Yan Zhaoge gradually came to an understanding, “The rest of the glove with its eight fingers must be constantly communicating with it. Like this, the people of the Blood Dragon Sect should be able to find their way here based upon this connection.”
As Yan Zhaoge pondered, he prepared to suppress it with the pillar of the Divine Palace.
However, right after he had taken out the pillar of the Divine Palace, Yan Zhaoge felt it shake suddenly as it nearly broke free of his control.
Yan Zhaoge’s heart jolted slightly.
The pillar of the Divine Palace already having been in his possession for so long, followed by his constant diligent refinement of it, it was already to the extent where he had gradually become able to wield it like he would the fingers on his hands.
He had never seen it seemingly about to lose control like how it had just been before.
Yan Zhaoge’s gaze fell on the palace before him. He saw that the exterior of the palace appeared rather simple and crude, with its lines being very extremely rough as well.
While it looked to be a palace, one might just call it a massive stone hut that appeared primordial to the extreme as it was filled with an air of wilderness.
However, as Yan Zhaoge appraised it with his gaze, he felt that this stone palace felt as though it had been formed of nature, not having passed through human hands.
It was as though the palace had just come into being on its own, not having been artificially created.
Yan Zhaoge knew that nature would often miraculously create some extraordinary scenes, such as rocks that were extremely like certain objects or perhaps seemed humanlike whilst also beastlike, their shapes strange yet looking vividly and realistically similar.
They seemed as though they had been made by human hands, yet were indeed formed of nature.
It was just that this palace before him appeared too crude to have been constructed artificially yet also too fine to have been constructed by nature, possessing both these traits at the same time.
“How should I describe it?” Yan Zhaoge walked rather interestedly towards that palace, “It is as if the heavens and earth here possess a consciousness and thus constructed this kind of human palace.”
People executing arts were naturally very common. Nature imitating the creations of humans-now that would really be rather extraordinary.
Yan Zhaoge looked at the jade sword within his hand, its reaction towards its counterpart having decreased greatly.
This meant that Shi Jun was currently getting further and further away from Yan Zhaoge.
Logically speaking, the sword that Shi Jun possessed should be able to detect the one Yan Zhaoge was holding as well. Now that it was unceasingly getting further away, it did feel rather unusual.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 533: Beam of the Divine Palace
HSSB533: Beam of the Divine Palace
Yan Zhaoge pondered for a moment before swivelling his head to look at that portion of glove in the hand of the Northern Ocean Clone.
After a moment, he laughed lightly, arranging for the Northern Ocean Clone to guard it well such that it would just not escape.
Afterwards, holding the pillar of the Divine Palace in the form of a miniaturised stone rod in his left hand and that jade sword in his right, Yan Zhaoge strode towards that ordinary-looking yet mystery-concealing palace before him.
The entire palace was formed of rock. Yan Zhaoge observed carefully for a moment, noting that the rock with which this palace was formed was completely in line with the rock of the reefs outside.
The similarity was to the point where the two no longer had to be differentiated, with it even seeming as though the stone room had been completely and naturally ‘born’ within the stone cavern.
As Yan Zhaoge stepped within the great hall, the pillar of the Divine Palace in his left hand instantly shook intensely.
…As though there was something calling out to it.
Yan Zhaoge raised his head and gazed upwards. He saw a massive beam supporting the ceiling of the great hall that was exceptionally obtrusive.
This was because the material of the great beam was different from that of the rest of the entire stone palace. It had not been born of this stone cavern, instead appearing to be made of something that was neither stone nor gold not wood as it was not easy to identify at all.
The great beam shone with a seven-coloured lustre, the profound radiance dangling down below like numerous threads of silk.
Looking at this great beam, Yan Zhaoge suddenly smiled.
Numerous patterns that flickered with radiance surfaced on the exterior of the great beam, a profound concept emanating from within.
Yan Zhaoge laughed, “Indeed, it is a beam of the past Divine Palace. No wonder the pillar of the Divine Palace reacted to it.”
That great beam seemed to have been attracted by the pillar of the Divine Palace as well as it began shaking increasingly intensely, both of them being drawn to each other.
Yan Zhaoge leapt and arrived before the beam. Carefully observing this great beam, he gradually came to an understanding.
“So it was like this. The entire palace originated from this one beam of the Divine Palace,” He realised.
The great beam of the Divine Palace had landed here. Due to its spirituality, it had gradually assimilated with the surrounding environment, gathering the surrounding rock and earth around itself as such a simplistic stone palace had gradually been formed.
This palace had really not been touched by human hands before, because it creator was precisely this beam here.
Looking first at the great beam and then at the pillar of the Divine Palace in his hand, Yan Zhaoge felt rather emotional for a time.
At this moment, he felt as though he was flowing slowly in reverse along the river of time, returning to that era of before the Great Calamity.
This was a feeling of the mind, his soul seemingly in the midst of being washed by time.
Yan Zhaoge exhaled slowly, stabilising his mind and helping his will to break free of that lost, dazed state.
He carefully checked that great beam of the Divine Palace, seeing the streams of radiance on its surface gradually form an intricate spirit array.
The spirit array appeared extremely profound and hard to comprehend. However, after Yan Zhaoge had appraised it for a bit, he came to an understanding, “It is used for short distance spatial transference.”
Having understood this, Yan Zhaoge could not help but sigh.
He now understood why the reaction of the jade sword had instead weakened, with Shi Jun quickly getting further and further away from him.
Shi Jun had probably discovered this place as well. While examining t
his great beam of the Divine Palace, he had activated this spirit formation before being transferred away by the array.
Yan Zhaoge lightly tapped the beam before extending his finger and touching that spirit array.
Radiance instantly converged, sweeping Yan Zhaoge along as the boundaries of space seemed to have been wiped away at this moment.
Yan Zhaoge laughed, placing the miniaturised pillar of the Divine Palace that now resembled a stone rod against the surface of the great beam.
The pillar and the beam instantly shook together.
The Northern Ocean Clone exerted force, gripping the dragon finger-glove with one hand whilst grabbing the great beam of the Divine Palace with the other.
The great beam shook mightily, separating from that stone palace as it landed in the hand of the Northern Ocean Clone.
As that spatial transference spirit array lost the great beam as its foundation, it instantly became unstable. However, Yan Zhaoge had already made use of this chance to disappear amidst the radiance together with the Northern Ocean Clone, making use of the spirit array’s final burst of power to leave this underwater stone cavern.
It was just that amidst the spatial transference process, accompanied by the direct contact between the pillar and beam of the Divine Palace, numerous streams of spiritual qi surged out from the great beam.
Numerous scenes of light suddenly surfaced within Yan Zhaoge’s mind.
Just like when he had obtained the pillar of the Divine Palace back then, these numerous scenes seemed to record the events of ever since the calamity back then. After the Divine Palace had been destroyed, as a small, remnant portion of it, it had fallen down from above the nine heavens. All that this great beam of the Divine Palace had experienced in the many years thereafter was recorded here.
Most of these scenes were unchanging, only reflecting this great beam of the Divine Palace it was buried beneath the depths of the Star Shifting Sea of the Vast Ocean World. Accompanied by the gradual recovery of its spirituality, it had caused a change in the surrounding rock and earth around it as a stone palace was created with it as the centre, a process that was fully depicted.
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