History's Strongest Senior Brother c1-1474
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Trapped amidst illusory space, Tan Jin could only wait helplessly and do nothing.
As for Madame Kang, light circulated within her eyes, resembling time and water.
This radiance even caused changes to the space around her, seemingly about to revert to real from illusory.
Time seemed to flow in reverse for she herself and the space near her, moving to revert to before Yan Zhaoge had executed the sacrificial ceremony.
Currently, she was mainly just trying to grasp the technique. She could only see a vague hint as to how to do so, this still being unclear.
As more time passed, Madame Kang seemed to have gradually made some gains as her illusory figure advanced onto the path of becoming tangible once more.
While this was extremely slow to the extent that it could almost be ignored with it being indiscernible to the naked eye, this whole process was indeed occurring here in actuality.
Yan Zhaoge knew that as she gradually turned from illusory to real, as her cultivation base was exerted more and more completely, her speed of recovery would gradually end up increasing.
The more time that passed, the faster she would recover.
“The Aeon Light Heavenly Scripture indeed possesses numerous subtle uses,” Yan Zhaoge clicked his tongue in praise as he watched on, “Sadly, your cultivation base is still insufficient. Were you at the Immortal Bridge stage, you should have been able to return this wound of the sky to its original state within a short period of time.”
Here, he could not help but laugh, “It is the same for me as well.”
He cultivated in both the Peerless Heavenly Scripture and the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture. Were his cultivation base high enough, it would be even easier for him to restore this place than Madame Kang who cultivated in the Aeon Light Heavenly Scripture.
Still, Yan Zhaoge was not in a rush to leave. On one hand, he had already made preparations in the Floating Gate World such that he did possess some confidence regarding it.
Kang Maosheng thought that Yan Zhaoge being trapped here, he would be unable to finish what he had set out to do. This was an erroneous belief.
On the other hand, Yan Zhaoge instead wanted to make use of this illusory dimension to cultivate.
“This space with such complex variations is actually most suited for me to analyse the profundities of the Spatial Heavenly Scripture,” Yan Zhaoge smacked his lips, “A pity that it is not in my possession.”
The Spatial Heavenly Scripture, one of the ten Primordial Heavenly Scriptures, depicted the variations between real and illusory space. It was a peak existence amongst similar scriptures.
Whether it was Yan Zhaoge or Madame Kang, Tan Jin and the rest, if their martial foundation with which they comprehended the dao was this Spatial Heavenly Scripture, they would be able to move amidst this environment with complete and utter ease as they freely navigated this illusory domain.
Yan Zhaoge even suspected that for martial practitioners who had attained a certain grasp of the Spatial Heavenly Scripture, their cultivation base having reached a certain point, they should have the ability to freely traverse the wounds of the sky without being disturbed by the power of dimensions even before having surpassed the third level of the Martial Saint realm.
In pre-Great Calamity times, there had been experts of the Jade Clear lineage who cultivated in the Spatial Heavenly Scripture. They had solitarily traversed the myriad heavens, touring the universe.
Sadly, who knew what was left of them now following the Great Calamity.
Still, the supreme martial art executed by the Western Exalt before Yan Zhaoge had entered the Dim Radiant Mausoleum, having made a brief yet shocking appearance back then, had been judged by him to precisely be the Spatial Heavenly Scripture, and also of the orthodox, direct lineage. This proved that this supreme martial art had not been discontinued.
Of the ten Primordial Heavenly Scriptures, four of them had been stored in the martial repository of the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace.
The first of the ten, the Peerless Heavenly Scripture which served as the foundation of Yan Zhaoge’s cultivation, naturally need not be explained.
Apart from that, there were also the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture, one of the earlier three scriptures, as well as the Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture and the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Scripture of the later six scriptures.
While Yan Zhaoge currently did not possess the Spatial Heavenly Scripture, the environment before him was similarly ideal for him to cultivate in another supreme martial art.
The Cyclic Heavenly Scripture depicted the boundless majesty of the reversal of two diametrically opposed extremities. Real and illusory were similarly two diametrically opposed extremities.
Also, other than that, Yan Zhaoge was about to start cultivating in a third Heavenly Scripture as well.
His choice this time was the Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture.
The Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture depicted the profundities of the variations between the four phenomena of yin and yang. Numerous principles were unceasingly born with infinite, endless variations. Yet, all of these concerned the changes between illusory yin and real, tangible yang.
Of the myriad arts of the heavens and the earth, none of their great daos ever stood on their own.
As for the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Scripture, it depicted the myriad entities that possessed form as well as the phenomena of the heavens and the earth, being all-encompassing in its scope.
Still, Yan Zhaoge had already cultivated in the Immortal Ending Sword Manual of the Prime Clear lineage previously.
The Immortal Ending Sword decimated all things with and without form, both real and illusory. All variations were extinguished with a single sword regardless.
From a certain standpoint, this sword seemed to perfectly restrict the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Scripture. These two martial arts jointly restricted one another, both sharing commonalities amidst their principles of the beginning and the end.
Therefore, he would definitely have to cultivate in the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Scripture sooner or later. Still, there was no rush here. Yan Zhaoge could carefully analyse the Immortal Ending Sword first.
Therefore, the Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture became the first choice for Yan Zhaoge’s cultivation of his third Primordial Heavenly Scripture.
As he sat calmly amidst the illusory space, a great amount of characters that flickered with light emerged within his pupils.
Gradually, a change happened with Yan Zhaoge’s pupils as one turned completely black while the other turned completely white.
He closed his eyes, an expression of deep thought on his face.
Madame Kang vaguely sensed something. As she looked over, she saw Yan Zhaoge seated with his eyes closed and his figure merged with the illusory dimension, not appearing any abnormal at all.
Yan Zhaoge surveyed the interior of his body. The mass of chaotic qi within his body gradually separated into two distinct flows of qi, one black and one white, one yin and one yang as they circulated unceasingly.
After that, the two qis of yin and yang varied unceasingly, forming innumerable streams of yin qi and yang qi which continuously flowed into and stimulated one another.
When yin qi entered the manifestation of yang qi, it was yin amidst yang, phenomenon of minor yin.
When yang qi entered the manifestation of yin qi, it was yang amidst yin, phenomenon of minor yang.
When yin qi entered the manifestation of yin qi, it was yin amidst yin, phenomenon of extreme yin.
When yang qi entered the manifestation of yang qi, it was yang amidst yang, the phenomenon of extreme yang.
These four distinct phenomena seemed to exist as a single entity as they eventually merged, gradually turning into a two-tailed fish of yin and yang, coiled together as nature flourished.
Yan Zhaoge opened his eyes, his left pupil pure white with the eyeball jet-black and this being exactly opposite for his right eye, its pupil jet-black with the eyeball pure white.
This time, he nodded slightly, “Right. With this, I have attained the right trajectory, successfully taking that first step.”
His thoughts circulated as the power of dim moon that he had previously absorbed from the Dim Sun Cold Moon Ceremony was restored from chaos.
The twin qis of yin and yang within Yan Zhaoge’s dantian guided the power of dim moon to merge with them as the phenomenon of minor yin with yin amidst yang was displayed.
With this non-stop refinement, the power of dim moon quickly turned into the power of minor yin.
Yan Zhaoge laughed, “The second step.”
After cultivating for who knew how long, Yan Zhaoge finally recovered. He saw that Madame Kang’s figure was already half real and half illusory now.
Beneath her influence, this illusory domain was even shaking somewhat.
The space that resembled ‘a clump of clouds’ looked like it might disperse at any moment.
Yan Zhaoge looked over again. He saw Luo Zhiyuan with his face livid yet expressionless as he borrowed the power of the sun wheel of the Sun Moon Wheels to stick soundly to the clump of clouds, staring intently at him like he was waiting to gobble him up.
“I wonder how things are going for Grand Master?” Yan Zhaoge wondered as he took out Bai Ziming’s Descending Spirit Jade Pendant once more.
The jade pendant had currently turned into an illusory shadow of its original self as well.
Still, as Yan Zhaoge secretly circulated the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture, it instantly reverted from illusory to real.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 741: Reigning the world with a single arm
HSSB741: Reigning the world with a single arm
After Bai Ziming’s Descending Spirit Jade Pendant had been used once, at least a month would be needed before it could be used again.
Still, with Yan Zhaoge and the others having been trapped amidst this illusory domain, the concepts of space and time had therefore turned blurry and indistinct.
As Yan Zhaoge felt the jade pendant, he could sense the spiritual force within gradually recovering.
He infused his true essence within, jade green smoke appearing once more.
The smoke had been illusory in the first place, thus being able to move smoothly and unimpeded even amidst this unique region of space as it had drifted far away in an instant.
Yan Zhaoge sent out a wisp of divine will which accompanied the smoke in traversing endless space, descending towards the Floating Gate World once more.
As Yan Zhaoge’s divine will descended to Great Snowy Mountain again, yet another commotion arose throughout the entire mountain.
Still, this was still much milder as compared to the first time as Great Snowy Mountain’s higher echelons had probably made preparations to this effect.
Also, they too could not know if it was Yan Zhaoge or Bai Ziming who was descending this time.
Seeing that it was Yan Zhaoge again, the Chief of Great Snowy Mountain somewhat knew not whether to laugh or to cry.
The treasure which their ascended expert was supposed to employ in order to descend and communicate with them had ended up only being used by someone else.
Despite this, he still maintained proper decorum, “Our Great Snowy Mountain has successfully accomplished what Young Master Yan requested of us that day. Your Grand Master, Yuan Zhengfeng, has already long since escaped from the geyser mouth at the West Sea.”
The Chief of Great Snowy Mountain sighed inwardly as he thought back on what had occurred.
After the four Unleaking Sea Bones had been embedded inside the fire pith veins 350km north of the mouth of the geyser, tumultuous changes that shocked the heavens had occurred with the spiritual qi flow of the surrounding earth veins.
The vortex there had actually begun flowing in reverse, undercurrents surging in the deep sea as they were no longer trapped below, instead spurting upwards.
The entire West Sea had been engulfed by great waves that surged to the heavens for a time, the seawater shooting into the clouds and hanging amidst the horizon.
The grand sky and the great ocean seemed to have reversed at that moment.
The Heavy Sun Sect martial practitioners present had all been taken helpless as they were repelled by the wild tides.
Yuan Zhengfeng who had originally been jointly suppressed by them with all their might within the vortex at the mouth of the geyser had been directly catapulted straight up from the oceanic depths.
The Great Snowy Mountain experts who had been in the West Sea at the time, having nearly been engulfed by the heaven-defying tides, had hurriedly retreated, feeling shocked whilst confounded.
They had merely thought to try it out initially upon seeing how confident Yan Zhaoge had seemed.
When these events truly occurred, they of Great Snowy Mountain had been as astonished as those of the Heavy Sun Sect.
Amidst their shock, there was also great puzzlement. While they knew the reason for which the Unleaking Sea Bones had been buried, they still could not understand the principles behind this.
This caused Yan Zhaoge’s image in the hearts of those of Great Snowy Mountain to be even more profound and indiscernible than it had been before.
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “What about the Heavy Sun Sect?”
That Great Snowy Mountain expert smiled as well, “After your Grand Master exited the geyser mouth at the West Sea, he immediately went on a rampage, slaying the Chief of the Heavy Sun Sect on the spot. Of their sect’s remaining higher echelons, a great many perished or were injured.”
Here, he could not help but feel a bit overwhelmed. The powerful might that Yuan Zhengfeng had displayed upon exiting the sea that day had once again shocked their entire Floating Gate World.
Before Bai Ziming had ascended, while the Heavy Sun Sect had been the number one power of the Floating Gate World, Bai Ziming had been the world’s undisputed number expert.
After Bai Ziming had ascended, his position had been replaced by the Chief of the Heavy Sun Sect.
Yet, this hegemon of the Floating Gate World who presided arrogantly over the heavens had been beaten straight to death by Yan Zhaoge on the spot without even ever possessing a chance to flee.
Aside from that, there had been other Heavy Sun Sect experts present as well who had also been slaughtered randomly into a messed up state by Yuan Zhengfeng.
The entire Floating Gate World had shuddered in fear in the aftermath of this battle.
If not for the Heavy Sun Sect waging war with Towering Wave Pavilion, there was probably no one who would have known that this one-armed man who usually kept a lone profile was actually this supremely vicious person who could virtually decimate the number one sect of the Floating Gate World all on his own.
Yuan Zhengfeng had not entered the Floating Gate World with a Sacred Artifact as he presided arrogantly atop the heavens bare-handed.
Still, despite feeling overwhelmed, it was more of joy that those of Great Snowy Mountain felt.
In this battle, the Heavy Sun Sect had truly suffered a huge blow to its vitality.
Also, in the battle of the West Sea afterwards, Yuan Zhengfeng had directly stomped on the Heavy Sun Sect’ headquarters with their grand formation having very nearly been broken in the process.
If not for experts of the Heavy Sun Sect from the World beyond Worlds having descended at a crucial juncture, the Heavy Sun Sect of the Floating Gate World would probably been directly exterminated.
What was noteworthy was that the Heavy Sun Sect experts whose cultivation bases had been restricted to the third level of the Martial Saint realm as they descended from the World beyond Worlds had been beaten tragically by Yuan Zhengfeng as well, only having barely managed to secure the situation after sending reinforcements.
Even so, the martial practitioners of the Heavy Sun Sect were still trapped in their headquarters and unable to leave, their past esteemed reputation of t
he number one sect of the Floating Gate World being completely lost.
Yan Zhaoge was not surprised by this. While Yuan Zhengfeng might appear benevolent before his juniors, if one were to think that his Grand Master was simply a benevolent old man, they would really be completely wrong.
Yuan Zhengfeng who had risen to prominence alongside Broad Creed Mountain following their darkest times had often had his hands stained with the blood of his enemies.
Still, Yuan Zhengfeng’s current strength still caused Yan Zhaoge to look at him in a different light.
While he did not mean to be disrespectful, Yan Zhaoge could claim to have a general understanding of his Grand Master’s strength at the same cultivation level.
Yan Zhaoge had also seen Bai Ziming in battle before. He was indeed rather powerful. While his strength might be inferior to that of the Northern Ocean Clone as well as the Southeastern Exalt’s disciple ‘Flying Feather Assailant’ Chen Zhiliang who were similarly at the fourth level of the Martial Saint realm, he could definitely be acclaimed as an outstanding expert wherever he was.
The level of the Floating Gate World’s martial arts was really not ordinary in the least.
In terms of overall ability, they even surpassed that in the Eight Extremities World.
“It looks like it is not just his cultivation speed. Grand Master’s individual strength too has reached a whole new level,” Yan Zhaoge pondered.
Before him, the Chief of Great Snowy Mountain now said, “Your Grand Master is currently residing at our Great Snowy Mountain as a guest. This old man has already sent someone to notify him; he will be arriving right away.”
Yan Zhaoge found his words to be rather unexpected.
Still, looking at the other party and just thinking slightly, he had already understood. Great Snowy Mountain had likely acted as a mediator, helping to resolve the conflict between Yuan Zhengfeng and the Heavy Sun Sect.
The Heavy Sun Sect had experts in the World beyond Worlds. If the Floating Gate World’s Heavy Sun Sect was decimated completely, while Yuan Zhengfeng would simply be able to ascend or return to the Eight Extremities World, leaving without a care in the world, Great Snowy Mountain would still have to remain in the Floating Gate World.