History's Strongest Senior Brother c1-1474

by 八月飞鹰, Ba Yue Fei Ying, August Eagle

  The Heaven Swallowing Sword Box’s trial seemed not just to be surviving the baptism of the rain of swords.

  “The Earth Devouring Burner has a more prominent suppressive effect on one’s mind, requiring one to suppress the fluctuations of their emotions as for one to refine it, apart from one’s cultivation base having reached a certain cultivation level, more of it depends on victory in mentality.”

  The Heaven Swallowing Sword Box was likely to share the same logic.

  At this point, Yan Zhaoge made a bold decision as he suddenly ceased to wield the Earth Devouring Burner.

  The black vortex which devoured the sword-qi was retracted as Yan Zhaoge stood right where he was and bore the tempest of swords that descended from the heavens.

  The sword-qi penetrated through him, yet he was completely unharmed!

  Yan Zhaoge soundlessly laughed. The trial of the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box required one to possess a firm will, being brave and fearless as they dared to take risks which might render them dead, thus overcoming the heart’s weakness between the boundaries of life and death.

  While the rain of swords had not ceased with the trial still ongoing, Yan Zhaoge was currently already feeling extremely relaxed as he already understood how this trial should be passed.

  Yan Zhaoge approached the Myriad Phenomena Transformation Sword Pool, looking at the various kinds of spiritual qi that roiled within. Then, he leapt right in without any reservations whatsoever.

  As the spiritual qi spun unceasingly, Yan Zhaoge was rapidly dragged to the centre of the whirlpool.

  He exhibited no fear in the least as he instead moved his arms and legs, accelerating his fall into the whirlpool’s embrace.

  There should be another existence beneath the whirlpool.

  This was a sword box, after all.

  History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 774: Not having it good even after death

  HSSB774: Not having it good even after death

  Yan Zhaoge did not evade the whirlpool that swallowed all things in the least, instead accelerating towards it.

  The world before him abruptly darkened as his mental world was again overwhelmed by darkness. The next moment, the world grew bright.

  An ancient copper sword appeared before Yan Zhaoge, hovering silently amidst space as it flickered with a faint lustre.

  While the copper sword appeared peaceful and auspicious, Yan Zhaoge was able to feel the violence and viciousness concealed within.

  That bloodied, baleful qi in the blood pool outside ceaselessly nourished this very sword even now.

  Feeling the powerful might of its aura, Yan Zhaoge raised his brows, “…A high-grade Sacred Artifact!”

  More accurately, it was a high-grade Sacred Artifact that was still in the process of being sacrificially forged, that was soon to be complete.

  Unlike the Dim Radiant Wheel which was still in its embryonic form, this copper sword was only a half-step away from its completion.

  Comparing it to mortal weapons, even the quenching and shaping had already been completed, with only the sharpening of the blade remaining.

  While it was still incomplete, the strength of its aura and its brutal, baleful characteristic was already eye-catching and shocking.

  Yan Zhaoge could virtually be certain that when this sword was completed, it would be superior in quality to high-grade Sacred Artifacts like the King Xuan Spear and the Cloud Circulating Heavenly Light Sword.

  “Hmm?” Yan Zhaoge’s heart grew solemn as a pair of eyes appeared within his consciousness.

  That pair of jet-black eyes was tranquil and silent as it met Yan Zhaoge’s gaze.

  These eyes were extremely similar to the jet-black eyes he had previously seen in the Earth Devouring Burner.

  Still, they were more acute.

  The jet-black eyes in the Earth Devouring Burner were more like the consciousness of the incense burner itself rather than the martial concept of its original owner.

  The eyes that Yan Zhaoge was currently faced with resembled the eyes of an actual person.

  A faint figure gradually manifested amidst the dark space with those eyes as their base.

  Yan Zhaoge appraised the other party, a black-haired martial practitioner in a brocade robe.

  His eyes were deep and tranquil, his gaze seemingly traversing millennia as it met Yan Zhaoge’s eyes.

  After this old man’s figure had manifested, the ancient copper sword that hovered in mid-air was placed horizontally upon his thigh.

  With just a glance at him, Yan Zhaoge knew that this old man was not an actual existence as he was already dead. His figure here, along with its will, had been left behind from his martial intent.

  If the other party were still alive, with his cultivation base that was sufficient to forge high-grade Sacred Artifacts, viewing Yan Zhaoge with his remnant martial intent here would be no different from him witnessing Yan Zhaoge’s arrival in person.

  From the looks of it now, however, the original owner of the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box and the Earth Devouring Burner was evidently likely no longer of this world.

  “Sorry for the disturbance, senior,” Yan Zhaoge cupped his hands towards the other party.

  While that black-haired old man showed no reaction, his gaze that was on Yan Zhaoge seemed to turn much softer.

  Yan Zhaoge strode forward, approaching the old man and the ancient sword. Suddenly, a chill arose within his heart.

  There seemed to be another pair of eyes staring at him, terrifying to the extreme as it sent a chill permeating throughout his entire body.

  This felt just like when he had been at the gate of the underwater palace and about to enter.

  Yan Zhaoge composed himself, his gaze falling on the sword resting on the old man’s thigh.

  This time, Yan Zhaoge could be sufficiently certain that this vicious gaze that was filled with maliciousness and coldness precisely originated from that silent and harmless-looking ancient copper sword.

  As Yan Zhaoge’s gaze again fell on this ancient copper sword at this moment, the scene before his eyes instantly changed.

  A reflection appeared on the surface of the ancient copper sword.

  A ferocious beast with the body of a goat and the face of a human, its eyes beneath its armpits as it had the teeth of a tiger and the claws of a human.

  The sound of infants wailing even seemed to resound beside Yan Zhaoge’s ears.

  Hearing these cries and viewing the appearance of this ferocious beast, Yan Zhaoge exhaled slowly, “So it was this…the legendary mystical beast, the Taotie!”

  This ferocious beast was, shockingly, an unparalleled demonic beast, the Taotie, which was on par with the Kunpeng and the phoenix.

  It possessed the power to swallow the heavens and devour the heavens, being extremely greedy.

  Connecting this with the outside world beneath the underwater palace that resembled the belly of a massive beast as well as that massive blood pool, Yan Zhaoge completely understood it now.

  That black-haired old man had created the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box and the Earth Devouring in order to forge a high-grade Sacred Artifact sword.

  A core material for his forging of the sword was extracting the demonic essence and soul of a dead Taotie which had been extremely powerful and sealing it inside the sword.

  Everything within the actual world outside was actually the dead body of that deceased Taotie.

  The blood pool that the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box was in was precisely the Taotie’s heart.

  Its original owner’s secret art unceasingly extracted the Taotie’s essence as a sacrifice for the forging of this sword.

  Yan Zhaoge smacked, “It’s really not a waste at all. The remnant soul of this Taotie should still have its spirituality. It would probably be feeling stifled and despondent to the extreme, the anger rising to its head to the point of exploding.”

  After its death, it demonic soul had been sealed within the sword as it was only able to watch
helplessly on as its former body was used to forge a sword, with its own soul being refined.

  Anyone else too would probably be going mad with fury, their heads nearly exploding.

  Sadly for it, these were precisely the emotions that that old man wanted it to feel, ceaselessly accumulating as this caused the might of the resulting sword to be even higher.

  This was truly not having it good even after death.

  While the old man looked quiet and peaceful, benevolent and friendly, his methods were truly ruthless and cruel beyond the norm.

  “Well, the one forging the sword still ended up dying somewhere else in the end,” Yan Zhaoge shook his head, “It is hard to tell who the victor is and who the loser.”

  While the old man had died, the mechanism set up by him still continued to serve its function as the ancient copper sword was already very nearly complete now.

  Predecessors had planted a tree which now shielded future descendants. Yan Zhaoge smiled as he retreated from his mental world.

  With Yan Zhaoge having acknowledged the remnant will of the old man, the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box had instantly become much more stable as Yan Zhaoge interacted with it again now.

  It was only a matter of time before he refined it now.

  The Northern Ocean Clone held the Earth Devouring Burner with one hand whilst pressing the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box with the other, communicating with and trying to refine them.

  This process did not hinder the ancient copper sword in the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box from being forged.

  Meanwhile, Yan Zhaoge himself sat atop of the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box.

  The streams of light in the blood pool began spreading onto Yan Zhaoge himself.

  The light harassed Yan Zhaoge’s body, various kinds of spiritual force all surging into it.

  Blazing hot, icy cold, sharp and piercing, slow and sluggish…there were feelings of all kinds.

  Such haphazard spiritual forces simultaneously flowing into the body of a martial practitioner would be sufficient to cause distortions with his meridians, causing them to be gradually ripped apart.

  Even many Martial Saints whose cultivation bases surpassed Yan Zhaoge would not dare to take such a risk.

  Yet, this was no problem at all for Yan Zhaoge who bore the Peerless Heavenly Scripture which formlessly contained all things.

  On the contrary, Yan Zhaoge was unceasingly refining these various haphazard, chaotic spiritual forces, his true essence being accumulated even as his projection of the variations of these forms of spiritual qi improved as a result.

  Such was advantageous as compared to the pure, powerful essence of numerous true dragons.

  Even as Yan Zhaoge circulated the Peerless Heavenly Scripture, he was also analysing the Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture.

  The power of extreme yang and minor yin within his body was unceasingly refined into the power of extreme Yin and the power of minor Yang.

  Accompanied by the ceaseless birth of the four phenomena of yin and yang, Yan Zhaoge clearly felt his spirit shaking as a result.

  His martial true-intent began manifesting into numerous runes, being inscribed on his very soul.

  History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 775: Advancement to the second level of the Martial Saint realm!

  HSSB775: Advancement to the second level of the Martial Saint realm

  Yin and yang coexisted with the birth of four phenomena, extreme yang, extreme yin, minor yang and minor yin all gradually appearing and stabilising to form an equilibrium, becoming connected.

  Making use of the principles of the Peerless Heavenly Scripture and the Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture, the many martial arts which Yan Zhaoge had learnt began to show signs of merging together as one.

  A fish of yin and a fish of yang came together to form a Taiji diagram, seemingly able to project the myriad principles of this world.

  Here, Yan Zhaoge ceased absorbing the various haphazard kinds of spiritual qi in the blood pool.

  He had already gained some minor attainments in the Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture, beginning to sort out the various elite martial arts he had cultivated in till now in preparation for further improvement and advancement.

  From the initial Eight Extreme Arts and the Coiling Dragon Sleeve to the Six Spirit Demonic Fists and the Heavenly Broad Creed Palm to his self-created techniques like Finger Flicking Shocking Thunder.

  The Clear Qi Profound Art, the Imperious Ocean Cold Dragon Art, the Dim Radiant Twelve Arts, the Sacred Heavenly Fire Scripture, the Extreme Yang Scripture, the Dark Moon Pill Scripture, the Xuanmu Fist Scripture and the various other secret arts were all manifested in Yan Zhaoge’s martial true intent as well.

  With the Peerless Heavenly Scripture as the basis, the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture, Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture and Immortal Ending Sword Manual as the foundation and his remaining martial arts as the interior contents, Yan Zhaoge’s martial true-intent gradually manifested in the form of various runes.

  These illusory runes began to be inscribed on Yan Zhaoge’s spirit beneath his vigorous true essence.

  He re-entered his mental world, his figure manifesting in a half-transparent state.

  Numerous runes were imprinted on his body, merging deep within.

  Yan Zhaoge could clearly feel his thoughts becoming more acute as he also gained a deeper understanding towards the profundities of the various martial arts.

  When advancing from the first level of the Martial Saint realm, the early Merging Avatar stage, to the second level of the Martial Saint realm, the mid Merging Avatar stage, one would have to further combine the true martial intent of their martial avatar which had previously combined with their fleshly body upon Transcending Mortality and entering Sainthood with their spirit.

  When the body and avatar combined, one would have Transcended Mortality, entering Sainthood. When the avatar and spirit combined, one would have stepped into the mid Merging Avatar stage.

  The combination method was imprinting runes manifested of one’s martial true-intent on the spirit.

  Within the actual world, Yan Zhaoge sat cross-legged atop the Heavenly Swallowing Sword Box at the centre of the blood pool.

  While his eyes were closed, spiritual light unceasingly surged above his head, fully enveloping him.

  The aura emanating from Yan Zhaoge’s body was rising ceaselessly.

  If not for how his surroundings here at the heart of this Taotie served as a natural barrier, were he in the outside world, Yan Zhaoge would currently be sufficient to invoke strange phenomena between the heavens and the earth, influencing all things existing in the surroundings to shake alongside him.

  Even so, however, the powerful force still caused the blood pool below him to shake, causing waves to surge from the bloodied water.

  Yan Zhaoge’s whose accumulation had already been abundant beyond compare thus successfully broke through to the second level of the Martial Saint realm, the mid Merging Avatar stage.

  He had done so with relative ease, not breaking a sweat. However, it would be sufficient for everyone to feel a chill run down their backs.

  It had, after all, not been long since Yan Zhaoge had Transcended Mortality and entered Sainthood.

  Yan Zhaoge opened his eyes, his gaze relaxed. He smiled, getting off the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box.

  The Northern Ocean Clone held the Earth Devouring Burner in one hand and the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box in the other, his figure floating above the blood pool as he too was in deep concentration with his eyes closed.

  He had never ceased in refining the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box.

  With the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box and the Earth Devouring Burner both submitting to him, the evil sword in the sword box that was soon to be born would likely too fall under Yan Zhaoge’s grasp.

  As this sword had still yet to be completely forged, it would be far easier for Yan Zhaoge to refine it than the likes of the King Xuan Spear.

  The key here rested with the Heaven Swallowin
g Sword Box and the Earth Devouring Burner.

  Still, Yan Zhaoge was extremely careful.

  The original owner of this sword had employed a risky, extreme method, using the fleshly body of the dead Taotie as a treasure with which to seal and sacrifice the fierce beast’s own demonic soul.

  If he did not handle this appropriately or was negatively affected by events occurring outside, the consequences would really be disastrous.

  It was very possible that such might result in this Taotie coming back from the dead!

  Just looking at the majestic spiritual qi within this blood pool alone, it could already be imagined how powerful this Taotie had been before it had died.

  According to Yan Zhaoge’s predictions, if it were to be compared to human martial practitioners, this Taotie should formerly have possessed strength equivalent to a late Immortal Bridge Martial Saint at the very least.

  It was also possible that it could have possessed strength equivalent to the tenth level of the Martial Saint realm.

  If this Taotie was really allowed to revive through its corpse, even with its deficient body and spirit as it remained heavily wounded, even the combined forces of everyone currently within the sea would still be hard pressed to stand against it.

  Therefore, Yan Zhaoge’s Northern Ocean Clone currently had his full attention on the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box and the Earth Devouring Burner, not daring to let it drift in the slightest.

  As for Yan Zhaoge himself, he too extended a hand now, pressing the exterior of the sword box.

  Yan Zhaoge’s extraordinary strength had always been remarkable. Moreover, his cultivation base had just successfully advanced further.

  With the help of Yan Zhaoge himself, the Northern Ocean Clone’s speed in refining the Heaven Swallowing Sword Box and the Earth Devouring Burner increased unceasingly.

  The martial true-intent and those other traces that the original owner had merged within the treasures were currently being unceasingly erased by Yan Zhaoge’s fist-intent.