Having refined a large amount of dragon qi to cleanse and temper his body, absorbed a portion of the power of the dim moon and cultivated in the mighty Great Wilderness Fish-Roc Art, the Northern Ocean Clone’s strength had continuously risen yet further as a result.
Today, having obtained the great fortune that was the Earth Ocean Lung Crystals, he had successfully taken that final step.
With his substantial accumulation, the Northern Ocean Clone passed through what should be an incomparably difficult bottleneck for most with relative ease.
Everything had flowed naturally into completion.
While that old man was also an expert of the third level of the Martial Saint realm, also cultivating in a supreme martial art like the Aeon Light Heavenly Scripture which gave him extraordinary power, facing Yan Zhaoge’s dark green bamboo cane, his Sacred Artifact, the Glorious Rainbow Sword, was hard to be of any use.
Yan Zhaoge directly unequipped the Imperious Cold Martial Armour, giving it to the Northern Ocean Clone to wear.
The Northern Ocean Clone whose fierce momentum had already been surging to the heavens grew even more mighty and powerful. With that, the result of this battle was already destined.
Streams of dragon qi transformed into chains within the Myriad Dragon Palace, completely sealing off all routes of escape for that old man.
He could not obtain victory, yet was also unable to flee.
Yan Zhaoge attempted to capture this old man alive. Since he bore the responsibility of transporting these treasures, he most likely had some understanding regarding what was going on with the Bearing Heaven Efficate Formation.
While they were both third level Martial Saints of the late Merging Avatar stage, the things that this person knew were clearly greater than that wastrel Kang Jinyuan.
However, this old man possessed a very fierce personality, not seeming as fearful of death as Kang Jinyuan.
When it was clear at the end that he had no hope of escaping and that Yan Zhaoge intended to capture him alive, he clenched his teeth and actually rammed himself onto the Northern Ocean Clone’s spear.
The Northern Ocean Clone promptly retracted his exerted force with skilful ease.
However, that old man appeared like he wanted to perish along with his enemy no matter what as he ignored his own safety entirely, making use of this chance to launch a ferocious attack.
Yan Zhaoge shook his head slightly. The Northern Ocean Clone struck out with a spear, piercing the chest of this opponent straight through.
The glow of life swiftly faded from the eyes of this old man as he descended towards death.
Before he died, it was evident within his eyes how unresigned he was, though not at his own death, “Young brat, you wrecked our plans. Things will definitely not end just like that!”
Looking at him, Yan Zhaoge suddenly smiled, “Old thing, you instead helped us out greatly. Thanks!”
The Northern Ocean Clone obtained the Glorious Rainbow Sword from the hands of that old man.
Yan Zhaoge extended his hand and pressed it on the old man’s dantian, a chaotic qi flow encroaching within.
The old man murmured with great difficulty in his dying moments, “You are trying to spy on my sect’s supreme martial arts? It’s no use. How could it be so easily seen through by you? You…”
He suddenly stared, his eyes bulging, “This…”
Yan Zhaoge’s expression was composed as the true essence that resembled chaos gradually turned infinite and peerless after having seeped into the old man’s body from his palm.
The other party’s true essence that had yet to dissipate seemed to form an endless river of time by his will.
The next moment, however, time seemed to flow in reverse as all converged towards back when everything had first started, when the heavens and the earth had yet to split apart with the great gulf opening.
Numerous light patterns gradually appeared within Yan Zhaoge’s mind, disorderly and scattered in an incoherent manner.
Yet, it had a miraculous manner about it.
It seemed like he was standing atop the river of time once more, extricating himself and viewing the vast oceans and the boundless fields and the changing of times.
“While it is incomplete, I have still greatly benefited from it,” The corners of Yan Zhaoge’s mouth arched slightly upwards as he appeared to be an extremely good mood.
Looking at the disbelieving expression on that old man’s face, Yan Zhaoge laughed lightly, “How much do you understand about the Time Flowing Sword that you cultivate in? Do you know what its foundation is?”
“Aeon Light…Heavenly…Scripture,” The old man said with great difficulty, exhaling more than he inhaled as he looked like his life was about to end.
Yan Zhaoge nodded lightly, “The Aeon Light Heavenly Scripture of the Jade Clear lineage, one of the later six scriptures of the Primordial Heavenly Scriptures.”
“Since you know the name of the Aeon Light Heavenly Scripture, you should also know of the Peerless Heavenly Scripture that stands at the head of the ten Primordial Heavenly Scriptures as the source of all arts.”
That old man stared speechlessly, unable to go on as he depressingly perished just like that.
Yan Zhaoge retracted his palm, shaking his head. The Northern Ocean Clone moved away this old man’s corpse while Yan Zhaoge pondered as he looked at the Glorious Rainbow Sword in his hand.
“Earlier, I was still thinking that I still lacked a sword-type Sacred Artifact. Now, here it is.”
Yan Zhaoge could not help but laugh as he lightly tapped the sword in his hand.
The concept of this sword was not completely in line with the Aeon Light Heavenly Scripture and the Time Flowing Sword.
Yan Zhaoge had analysed the martial true intent of that old man whilst battling him just now. This sword should not have been personally forged by him.
Either it had been gifted to him or he had obtained it from the outside world in a stroke of luck.
Still, the quality of this Glorious Rainbow Sword was extremely high, standing at the peak of low-grade Sacred Artifacts.
“With the Myriad Dragon Palace, the Dim Sun Cold Moon Ritual and other fortuitous encounters, my accumulation far surpasses that of others as I need not painstakingly prepare myself and advance slowly like other Transcending Mortality Martial Grandmasters,” Yan Zhaoge pondered, “With the Peerless Heavenly Scripture as my base, while the bottleneck of the fleshly body merging with the true martial avatar would be incomparably hard for others, even filled with great danger, this should not be hard for me at all.”
“It is just that-would merely this be enough?”
As he muttered to himself, Yan Zhaoge suddenly laughed, “Human hearts are never satisfied as snakes devour elephants-the ancient ones accepted this true.”
“Possessing lofty aspirations and ambitiousness are generally only a step away from each other.
Yan Zhaoge tapped the blade of the Glorious Rainbow Sword, sword-qi roiling on this Sacred Artifact as it unceasingly resisted.
His gaze gradually became determined, “Before the Great Calamity, the heavens were filled with immortals and divinities. Following that tribulation, how many still remain? This was so for them, much less mortals?”
“Wanting to leap out of the well, I must try what others have never tried before, or walk a path that few have ever walked…”
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As Yan Zhaoge was clashing with that old man, a fierce battle had already begun in the northern regions of the Royal Reed Sea.
The sky of the Whole Tower Region was filled with all-encompassing fire and thunder that caused the entire Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation to change as a result.
The spiritual qi flow in the region of the North Sea having grown disorderly, the experts of the anti-Xuan forces who were in the sword world of the Grinding Hut Region were naturally alerted as well.
Amidst the instability of the Grand Xuan Dynasty, the anti-Xuan forces promptly launched a wav
e of counterattacks, causing the Grand Xuan Dynasty to be even more troubled as a battle thus ensued.
Meanwhile, both the Grand Xuan Dynasty and the anti-Xuan forces were rather puzzled by what had happened in the Whole Tower Region.
Nong Yuxuan and the other Radiant Light Sect martial practitioner avoided the final explosion of the light pillar, entering a conflict with the local Grand Xuan Dynasty martial practitioners.
After losing their pursuers, Nong Yuxuan’s group unexpectedly returned to the northern seas of the Whole Tower Region.
Gazing at that great sea that still seemed like it was being cooked, Nong Yuxuan was silent for a long time.
The Radiant Light Sect martial practitioners beside him were completely unable to get their heads around it, “How did a mere Martial Grandmaster achieve this?”
“Yuxuan, you are the person of our sect who is most familiar with the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation. The number of people in the Grand Xuan Dynasty who are stronger than you in this regard can be counted on one’s hands. Can you understand how that kid from the lower worlds managed to do it?”
Nong Yuxuan did not answer this question, his figure sinking as he directly entered the great sea, descending to its depths towards the seabed.
There, blazing underground fire was still erupting intermittently.
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HSSB662: Stealing his credit
After a ferocious, intense formation like the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation had been activated, immense destruction would ensue.
Even the formation itself would dissipate as a result. If one wanted to use it again, they would have to set it up once more.
The damage inflicted on and the resulting changes to the characteristics of the surrounding environment and the circulation of spiritual qi in the area need not even be mentioned.
Currently, the northern region of sea of the Whole Tower Region looked virtually completely different from how it had been before.
Still, for those like Nong Yuxuan who possessed a deep understanding of the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation, there were still clues that remained to be detected.
He looked silently at everything before him, falling into deep thought.
A Radiant Light Sect Elder beside him frowned, “We cannot linger here for too long. While the Grand Xuan Dynasty martial practitioners here in the Whole Tower Region have overlooked these events occurring right beneath their very eyes, when the news spreads to the Grinding Hut Region, stronger experts of theirs will surely rush over to check out the current situation.”
Nong Yuxuan waved his hands, not uttering a sound.
Everyone else could only wait in patience.
However, as time passed and Nong Yuxuan was still staring towards the bottom of the sea in a trance, everyone could only hurry him up once more.
When everyone had nearly lost all their patience, having already urged Nong Yuxuan to hurry up quite a few times, he finally said, “Alright, let’s go.”
Everyone heaved a breath of relief, their spirits simultaneously rising slightly.
The people of the Radiant Light Sect speedily retreated, leaving the northern region of sea of the Whole Tower Region once more.
As they travelled, everyone’s gazes fell on Nong Yuxuan.
Nong Yuxuan’s face was as sunken as water, “If I did not see wrongly, that Yan Zhaoge should have first penetrated through the reefs at the bottom of the Whole Tower Region’s northern region of sea, causing a change in the underground fire pith veins buried and concealed there.”
“Also, it was no simple method. He should have acted nine times, forming the momentum of nine stars acting in concert to lock the fire pith veins in place, stimulating them to resist and erupt.”
The people of the Radiant Light Sect exchanged looks, Nong Yuxuan continuing, “Due to the fact that the setting up of the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation by the Grand Xuan Dynasty had already caused the spiritual qi flow of the earth veins here to grow unstable initially, it was therefore possible for him to succeed with such relative ease.”
“The eruption of the underground fire set off the True Yin Wood Formation Talisman that the Grand Xuan Dynasty established in the Whole Tower Region.”
“Normally speaking, something on the scale of underground fire erupting would be insufficient to set off the True Yin Wood Talisman Formation. However, the momentum of nine stars acting in concert intricately stimulated the earth veins of the entire Whole Tower Region, magnifying these effects.”
Nong Yuxuan exhaled slowly, “As soon as the True Yin Wood Formation Talisman was set off, the heavenly fire and the tribulation thunder that had been congregated in the sky above the Whole Tower Region due to the grand formation was instantly guided down from up above.”
“The underground fire formed nine erupting pillars of flame, formlessly forming a small, intricate formation that caused everything to converge towards it. Thus, the thunder and fire that descended from the heavens did not descend on the entire Whole Tower Region, instead congregating together and accurately descending on the northern region of sea, resonating together with the underground fire as they finally merged together as one.”
Nong Yuxuan pressed his lips together, “It should have been like this. Other than this, I cannot think of any other method.”
At this point, he withheld the latter part of his words.
It was only after having observed things for a long time that he had managed to understand Yan Zhaoge’s methods. Much of this had been forcefully deduced with the help of clues.
If Nong Yuxuan had come before Yan Zhaoge had acted, wanting to take care of things himself, it would have been very difficult for him to break the formation even if he had known beforehand that it was the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation.
After all, the formation had already been established, just that it had still been biding its time, having yet to unleash its strength.
Witnessing everything now and understanding the principles behind all of it, Nong Yuxuan too could only sigh emotionally within his heart, thinking that so it was actually possible to do this.
The other Radiant Light Sect martial practitioners were even more taken aback.
“That fella from the lower worlds actually managed to think of this? Could he have hit upon it by accident?” Someone asked disbelievingly.
Nong Yuxuan shook his head, saying decisively, “Impossible. Nine stars acting in concert to penetrate the underground fire pith veins-while it sounds simple, the nine locations where this is implemented are all very important. With a single mistake, its effects would be greatly diminished. One would need the utmost precision in order to succeed. This could not be achieved by mere guesswork.”
For Martial Saint experts, stimulating fire pith veins would not be hard. What was hard was knowing the specific locations for such.
A Radiant Light Sect expert said slowly, “A youth from the Sacred Sun Clan of the lower worlds once mentioned that this Yan Zhaoge has rather high proficiency in formations, even possessing powerful battle formations like the Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation that was lost since the Great Calamity.”
“From the looks of it now, he indeed isn’t ordinary at all.”
Another Elder sighed regretfully, “This kid is indeed a calamity. From how it appeared earlier, he has already established contact with the Dim Darkness Sect.”
“With what has happened today, the North Sea Sword Pavilion and Copper Men Island might protect him as a result.”
A female Elder rebutted, “While he is unordinary, his cultivation base is limited at the end of the day. Also, he is from a small place like the Eight Extremities World. The Dim Darkness Sect aside, would the other sects spoil their relationship with us over such a minor figure? At most, they would just help him to hide his tracks a little and that should be the end of their debt of gratitude to him.”
“Perhaps th
ey will even have designs on the various treasures and formation diagrams possessed by him.”
A Radiant Light Sect Elder beside her shook his head, “If it is the North Sea Sword Pavilion…that is hard to say. Even if like you say, they will not offend our sect just because of him, hiding him up or covering up his tracks would already make for a great headache for us.”
Someone proposed, “How about we ignore him first and instead find a chance to attack the Eight Extremities World?”
That female Elder shook her head, “We still cannot be certain whether that treasure of Extreme Yang was brought along with him to the World beyond Worlds or remains in the Eight Extremities World. It would be fine if it is in the Eight Extremities World, but if it is in the World beyond Worlds, if he continues hiding or directly leaves this Royal Reed Sea, it would be even harder to find him.”
“Moreover, with the Grand Xuan Dynasty currently attacking furiously, our sect cannot easily split our troops.”
Nong Yuxuan now said slowly, “All we need to do is make it such that the North Sea Sword Pavilion and Copper Men Island do not owe him this debt of gratitude.”
He paused before elaborating, “Perhaps we could instead get them to owe our Radiant Light Sect.”
His surroundings quietened, everyone exchanging looks, glancing at one another.
Everyone virtually instantly understood what Nong Yuxuan meant.
Their sect already knew how the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation had been broken…
Someone asked softly, “Who was present at the time?”
Nong Yuxuan said, “Apart from us and that Yan Zhaoge, there were only members of the Shenling Nine Swords.”
The gazes of the Radiant Light Sect martial practitioners all flickered slightly.
They wouldn’t even have to silence anyone now.
To those of their allies, the North Sea Sword Pavilion, the Dim Darkness Sect and Copper Men Island, it need not be said who between them and the Grand Xuan Dynasty was the more trustworthy side.
Moreover, the figures of the Shenling Nine Swords knew that there was enmity between the Radiant Light Sect and Yan Zhaoge. Now that there was enmity between them and Yan Zhaoge as well, they would surely be happy to see the Radiant Light Sect clashing with Yan Zhaoge, best getting him good.
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