Huang Xu shook his head slightly, “There is not much certainty.”
Huang Jie fell deeply silent for a rare moment before he sighed, “Perhaps there is only that final method left.”
Huang Xu shook his head, instead saying, “It is good so long as everything goes according to plan. It is just-will Hong Jiaqi and Yin Liuhua reveal any flaws? If the flaws are too obvious, Chang Zheng wouldn’t be able to help them hide it even if he wanted to.”
Huang Jie answered, “No one can guarantee for sure that nothing will go wrong at all. Still, there shouldn’t be a problem with this.”
“Hong Jiaqi and Yin Liuhua were complete strangers before this. They just need to firmly insist on the scene of before the Blood Soul Recollection Ceremony. They did not interact at all other than that. As for that person who saved Yin Liuhua and sent her to Fu Enshu before sending the news to us previously, we will not let him appear before the eyes of Broad Creed Mountain.”
Huang Xu shook his head, “We had originally intended to simply kill Feng Yunsheng in the East Sea. Who knew that senior apprentice-uncle Meng would fail. Luckily, there is still room for remedy.”
Huang Jie said mildly, “If there had really not been anyone else, I would also not have originally wanted senior apprentice-granduncle Meng to act. He had not been out of our clan for too long.”
Huang Xu pointed at him, “Speak with care. Senior apprentice-uncle Meng has already died.”
“I was too hasty,” Huang Jie did not rebut as he nodded.
He left after bowing to Huang Xu. Just a few moments later, a figure appeared by the side of the path, seemingly having been waiting specifically for him.
“Junior apprentice-sister Meng, you should be diligently preparing for the Extreme Yin Bout now,” Huang Jie said mildly.
There was not a smile on Meng Wan’s face as she was looking expressionlessly at Huang Jie, “While the news over from Broad Creed Mountain is unclear, it seems that something has happened to senior apprentice-sister Feng?”
Huang Jie seemed not to mind Meng Wan’s form of address as he nodded very calmly towards her, “That’s right. It’s likely that she won’t be able to participate in this time’s Extreme Yin Bout.”
Meng Wan looked straight at Huang Jie, “It is related to our Sacred Sun Clan?”
“That’s right,” Huang Jie replied.
Meng Wan fell silent, while Huang Jie brushed past her, halting again a few steps later as he said mildly, “If you could have maintained an assured victory over her all along, I naturally wouldn’t have had to make a move.”
“What do you want to do? Go to Broad Creed Mountain and speak for her? That will only further prove that she is secretly in league with our clan.”
Meng Wan swivelled her head to look at Huang Jie who did not look back at her, “If I were you, I would continue cultivating diligently. The stronger you are, the more people there are who will listen to you. For example, I only need to explain just a few additional sentences to you now.”
“If you become the number one expert of our Sacred Sun Clan, when we trample Broad Creed Mountain in the future, it will only be the matter of a single word if you want to protect Feng Yunsheng.”
“If you want to take care of me and exact vengeance for Feng Yunsheng, that would also only be the matter of a single word.”
Meng Wan said slowly, “I will remember that.”
Huang Jie turned slightly back, looking at Meng Wan from the corner of his eye, “Let me give you a piece of advice. The more concerned you appear for Feng Yunsheng now, the more clearly you are revealing a weakness in yourself. This is so for me and true for any others who are looking as well.”
Meng Wan’s expression did not change in the least as she gazed at Huang Jie, “Senior apprentice-brother Huang, you are an intelligent person, and I have always known that. Still, you are currently doing a very foolish thing. The more you flaunt your wits in front of me, the more guarded I will stay of you and the more I will hate you as well. This is disadvantageous to your usual style of prioritising practical effectiveness.”
Huang Jie swivelled his head and glanced back at Meng Wan before nodding slightly, “That is true. I have been a little overwhelmed by pride. Thank you for the reminder, junior apprentice-sister Meng.”
After saying thus, Huang Jie turned and left.
Meng Wan watched his figure vanish before turning to gaze into the distance beyond the mountains, “Senior apprentice-sister Feng…”
She still didn’t understand what Feng Yunsheng was currently experiencing, but she could vaguely experience that chill which seemed piercing to the bone like the harshest winter.
Having once experienced all those ups and downs, having just been standing where her hand could already just but touch the peak, she had fallen to the depths of the deepest ravine once more.
Having regained what she had lost and then having lost it again, such tribulations would be sufficient to cause anyone who had experienced them to go crazy.
Feng Yunsheng did not go crazy.
Looking at Sikong Qing who had come to visit her, she smiled, “I would very much like to go and see the scenery on top of that mountain. Sadly, it just seems like it is not destined for me. Every time, when I am just a step away from it, I just tumble down to the foot of the mountain again.”
Having always been rather aloof, Sikong Qing’s heart twinged in pain upon hearing those words as she reached out and grabbed Feng Yunsheng’s hand.
Feng Yunsheng raised her brows, smiling, “Relax, I won’t give up. Even if the clan has no intentions of letting me participate in this time’s Extreme Yin Bout, I will still persist in cultivating and raising my strength.”
“Making preparations and waiting for a chance, however long the wait, would always be better than the chance having come yet not being able to grasp it due to not being sufficiently prepared.”
Hearing her words, Sikong Qing nodded gently.
Feng Yunsheng raised her head and gazed at the moonlight up above, murmuring softly to herself, “I wonder if the moonlight he is seeing is the same as mine?”
……
Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but despite the different timeflow, a bright moon was currently hanging high in the sky of the Vast Ocean World as well. It was also a full moon.
Yan Zhaoge gazed at the bright moon over the vast ocean, not speaking for a long time.
Standing behind him, Xu Fei asked, “What is it, Zhaoge?”
Yan Zhaoge shrugged, “Nothing. It’s just that I remembered a line of a poem that I heard a very long time ago.”
“Bright moon above the sea, distant horizons sharing the moment.”
Xu Fei thought about it, “I’ve never heard it before…”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “I also can’t remember where I heard it.”
Xu Fei mused on the intent of the poem, his mind involuntarily drifting away for a time.
The two apprentice-brothers stood by the ocean together, gazing far into the distant horizon.
After who knows how long, someone approached. Turning, Yan Zhaoge and Xu Fei saw that it was Bai Jingkang of Changli Mountain who had come.
Seeing Bai Jingkang, Yan Zhaoge’s eyes lit up slightly, “Elder Bai comes with good news?”
Bai Jingkang nodded solemnly, “That’s right. In the area which once contained the Jiamao Mountain Range, currently the Jiamao Basin, the dragon gate at its depths has seen the dragon qi existing within gradually stabilise. We can enter it now.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 562: Burial ground of numerous dragons
HSSB562: Burial ground of numerous dragons
Hearing that the dragon gate had officially opened and that they could now enter, Yan Zhaoge nodded, “Please convey to your sect’s Chief Gao that I will be there very soon.”
After Bai Jingkang had left, Yan Zhaoge looked at Xu Fei, “Senior apprentice-brother Xu, senior apprentice-aunt Fu and I will be leaving now. Remember to take the utmost care of yourselves
in the Vast Ocean World.”
Xu Fei nodded, “Take good care of yourselves as well.”
With the Lofty Prestige Mirror already having recovered, Yan Zhaoge attempted to open a dimensional tunnel with the Mirror Dimension Traversing Technique, returning to the Eight Extremities World.
As he had expected, the entrance to the dimensional passageway was indeed within the dragon gate.
Yan Zhaoge estimated that due to the shifting and distortion of spacetime over this period of time, so long as a dimensional passageway were to open in the Vast Ocean World, it was mostly likely to be within the dragon tomb.
Now that they could enter the dragon tomb, Yan Zhaoge immediately prepared to move out.
Leaving Directionless Island along with Fu Enshu and the people of Changli Mountain, they all headed northeast together towards the distant mainland.
There, where the Brilliant Thunder Sect had once been, only a deep gully remained with the dragon gate lying just within.
On the way there, as news spread from all around that the dragon gate could now be entered, the attention of the entire Vast Ocean World was drawn as winds gusted and clouds surged for a time.
Yan Zhaoge was concerned about that legendary burial ground of numerous dragons as well. Still, he discovered that he was more concerned about being able to return to the Eight Extremities World from there.
His mind drifted away slightly as Feng Yunsheng’s bright smiling face appeared before his eyes once more.
The smile in his memories grew brighter and brighter, the dark clouds currently hanging over his heart correspondingly growing gloomier and gloomier.
Even if they had been apart beforehand, perhaps because he knew that she was most likely safe, or perhaps because he knew that he would be able to extricate himself and rush back at any given time, he had never felt before what he was currently feeling now.
This time, however, Feng Yunsheng’s fate was unknown, while he himself had been stuck in the Vast Ocean World for so long. Due to this, Yan Zhaoge felt an unprecedented uneasiness overwhelm him.
Under such unique circumstances, some things which had only been sprouts previously would grow rapidly.
Perhaps it had always existed, just that he had only truly realised it these days here in the Vast Ocean World.
Yan Zhaoge closed his eyes.
After knowing that danger might have befallen Feng Yunsheng, Yan Zhaoge discovered that foremost in his mind was not the Extreme Yin Bout or the Extreme Yin Crown.
He also did not consider what this might cause with regard to the contention between his clan and the Sacred Sun Clan.
Foremost in his mind was that something had better not have happened to her.
What came next was-the Sacred Sun Clan is courting death!
Yan Zhaoge narrowed his eyes into slits, a cold light flashing within which only vanished a moment later.
He checked his Shadow Shrinking Pouch, his attention falling on the things within.
The pillar and beam of the Divine Palace were currently connected together. Other than that, there were also nine coiling dragons that resembled pillars.
These nine pillars supported the great beam along with the pillar of the Divine Palace. A silhouette flickered on the great beam as well, resembling a roof.
While it still appeared illusory in its entirety, an intricate, majestic palace seemed already to have gradually taken structural form.
Yan Zhaoge calmed his heart, gazing back in the direction of the mainland and the dragon gate.
“I seldom see your emotions fluctuating as greatly as that,” Fu Enshu’s voice resounded by his ear as Yan Zhaoge now turned to look at her.
Fu Enshu was looking at him as well, “You are worrying about Yunsheng?”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, answering candidly, “That’s right.”
Looking at Fu Enshu, he smiled, “You won’t be wanting to break us up, right, senior apprentice-aunt Fu?”
Fu Enshu did not seem taken aback by his candidness as she said without much of a change in her emotions, “While I am not a very reasonable person, such matters will have to depend on Yunsheng herself.”
Thinking about her usual observation of Feng Yunsheng, Fu Enshu sighed softly, “As long as you do not half-heartedly bully my disciple, I will naturally not interfere with it.”
Yan Zhaoge grinned, “It’s still not certain who’d bully who.”
Fu Enshu did not reply as she gazed into the distance, slightly out of sorts.
Yan Zhaoge shrugged, intelligently not continuing with this. This senior apprentice-aunt was clearly thinking about the matter of back then. It was best that he did not try his luck. Fu Enshu’s relationship with his father had eased greatly these past years, and he had better not stir up the hornet’s nest again.
Fortunately, Fu Enshu’s mind did not wander for too long as she soon recovered, saying, “With a place like the burial ground of numerous dragons, even if we are merely passing by, there will also be unimaginable immense benefits for us.”
Yan Zhaoge said, “Whether or not there are any benefits, having returned to the Eight Extremities World this time, it would be time to properly settle things with the Sacred Sun Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Hall.”
He swivelled his head to look at his Northern Ocean Clone beside him.
Yan Zhaoge’s mind jolted as it came into contact with another Shadow Shrinking Pouch.
Within this Shadow Shrinking Pouch lay a great golden seal, soundless and without aura as no spiritual qi was emanated from it at all.
However, Yan Zhaoge remained composed as he silently thought on the secret arts of the Extreme Yang Scripture that remained in his memories, analysing and studying it.
As they arrived at the entrance of the dragon gate, martial practitioners of the other sects had already congregated there. Seeing Yan Zhaoge and the others appear, their hearts all involuntarily drew to attention.
The Chief of Changli Mountain, Gao Tianzhong, frowned, “Myriad Sword Pool, Soul Shocking Island, Green Snake Island and the Blazing Wind Sect who are located closer to this place seem to already have sent people in.”
Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “It’s fine. This is not a place where entering earlier might be of use.”
Saying thus, not looking at the people of the various sects who were congregated there, he directly descended towards the dragon gate.
The people standing guard outside didn’t dare to obstruct Yan Zhaoge as they just stood by the side and watched him, Fu Enshu as well as those of Changli Mountain enter the dragon gate.
Changli Mountain left people to stand guard outside as well. These martial practitioners were all not here to obstruct similarly-ranked powers. Instead, they were guarding against others coming here to try to fish in turbid waters.
As soon as Yan Zhaoge entered, he saw the space before him distorting unceasingly as though he had entered a dimensional passageway.
The dragon qi at the entrance was no longer so shocking, having become more orderly and stabilised. However, it still brought pressure upon all their hearts, causing them to involuntarily feel like bowing down in submission like ministers to their monarch.
Yan Zhaoge’s expression flickered slightly, the light of thunder indistinctly appearing within his right eye.
“Ha! While the Brilliant Thunder Sect has been extinguished, not all of its people have died. Geng Hui has indeed entered.”
A great disaster had befallen the Brilliant Thunder Sect that had virtually wiped them all out, with only Geng Hui and a few other higher echelon experts having fortunately survived.
Either they ceased their battle and gradually renewed their strength or they went all out and risked it all.
The value of the dragon tomb was too high. If the Brilliant Thunder Sect gave up on this, the gap between them and the other powers would likely only grow further.
While they had not truly interacted much before, according to the descriptions of other Vast Ocean World martial practitioners, th
e ‘Crimson Thunder King’ Geng Hui would not have been resigned to falling into hibernation so easily.
With the dragon gate having opened, he was likely to risk entering it.
His finger brushing past his right eye, Yan Zhaoge smiled slightly coldly, “The Eye of the Thunder Emperor fragment has reacted. That guy indeed has one on him as well. He must have left it at his sect back then, not having brought it along with him?”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 563: Riding on a dragon!
HSSB563: Riding on a dragon
Yan Zhaoge had always had the fragments of the Eye of the Thunder Emperor on his mind. He couldn’t be happier about being able to obtain more of them.
After all, the Eye of the Thunder Emperor in its peak state had been a high-grade Sacred Artifact, far surpassing low-grade Sacred Artifacts like the Clear Qi Robe, the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler, the Nine Dragon Fingers and the Floating Sinking Sword.
Of course, Yan Zhaoge already knew as well that if it were the complete Eye of the Thunder Emperor, environments like the Eight Extremities World, the Vast Ocean World and the Floating Life World would not be able to contain it.
Unless the Eye of the Thunder Emperor remained like the Extreme Yang Seal or the Extreme Yin Crown, remaining in a self-induced slumber as its full potential was not drawn out.
In recent years, accompanied by the increase in Yan Zhaoge’s cultivation base, he had been growing increasingly stronger as he had already long since gained the ability to wield the full power of the Eye of the Thunder Emperor fragment that he possessed.
As a result, the Eye of the Thunder Emperor fragment had instead become of less use to him.
However, after having acquired a new Sacred Artifact fragment in the Floating Life World, the Eye of the Thunder Emperor that he possessed had increased in strength once more.
Currently able to gain yet another in this Vast Ocean World, it should be getting even more powerful.
Yan Zhaoge momentarily narrowed his right eye, the light of thunder unceasingly flickering within as the Eye of the Thunder Emperor fragment seemed like it might leap out at any moment.
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