History's Strongest Senior Brother c1-1474
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“Still…” Yan Zhaoge instead shook his head, “I am different from you, and different from him too.”
The other party shot Yan Zhaoge a deep look.
Having been able to come adventuring in the World beyond Worlds, how would he be someone who could not keep secrets?
While he had seemed to blurt that out earlier, leaking some information, it had actually been to test out as well as misdirect Yan Zhaoge.
That senior apprentice-granduncle’s lineage consisted only of a single person. There was always just this one person in the World beyond Worlds.
Also, it was not a legacy of tutelage but of inherited bloodline. With a descendant staying behind in the World beyond Worlds, the senior would leave and not remain there.
While he did not know who this person currently residing in the World beyond Worlds was and what his identity was to the general public, he was aware that this person was definitely not Yan Zhaoge.
While his understanding of Yan Zhaoge was limited, he knew that Yan Zhaoge’s father had also appeared in the Royal Reed Sea, his identity being definite.
If Yan Zhaoge had admitted it earlier, attempting to mislead him, he would instead have known that Yan Zhaoge was unclear on the situation.
Yet, he was unable to properly make a judgment from Yan Zhaoge’s actual response.
Looking at him, Yan Zhaoge smiled, “Don’t you try to get anything out of me. You’d better obediently answer my questions instead. I have never minded torturing information out of people.”
“While you are older than me, you can still be considered extremely young amongst those of the same cultivation level. Your talent and will should both be great. You might also possess quite the confidence in your willpower.”
Yan Zhaoge smilingly retrieved a golden needle, waving it before him, “Still, I wonder if you can bear the Cold Marrow Needle of the Seven Great Tortures? With your birth, you should have heard of it?”
“You are of the Prime Clear lineage, possessing a substantial background, that is true. Still, since you have masqueraded as me, also falling into my hands, I will have no reservations in dealing with you.”
“To speak shamelessly, even if I carve away your skin and pull out your tendons, smash your bones and scatter your ash, if your seniors were to want vengeance, ask them to first pass the trial of the Earthly Sovereign before coming to the World beyond Worlds to look for me.”
That youth smiled bitterly, “I was wrong in masquerading as you to enter the World beyond Worlds. Still, it can be said that there is some relation between us at the end of the day. There is no need for you to use a great torture like the Cold Marrow Needles, right?”
Yan Zhaoge waved his hands, interrupting him, “Whether it is so will depend on your performance.”
The youth instantly shut up, never having thought that Yan Zhaoge would be this shameless.
Yan Zhaoge asked leisurely, “Right, it’s been long, but I still don’t know your name?”
The other party had the urge to burst into tears as he heard these words.
It had been so long, and now he knew to ask for his name?
He answered solemnly, “Disciple of the Prime Clear lineage, Sun Zhongda.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded, “Very good. I don’t need you to say anything regarding the internal matters of your lineage. Still, you must clearly inform me why it is that you came to the World beyond Worlds.”
Sun Zhongda sighed.
He would rather brave that major torture than reveal matters regarding his lineage.
Still, since Yan Zhaoge had not asked him about this, just asking about his reason for coming to the World beyond Worlds, he had no need to stubbornly resist.
After all, both of them had their own things that they needed. If he adamantly refused, it would just spell needless suffering for him at the end of the day.
While Sun Zhongda cultivated in the dao of the sword, he was a very flexible person, knowing how to give in as the situation demanded long as it did not encroach on his bottom line.
He was silent for a bit before he answered, “That jade necklace is related to a hidden treasure. While I only set my eyes on it after having heard about it, it was for this hidden treasure that I came to the World beyond Worlds this time. It was because I heard that the jade necklace is related to it that I made this trip to Whale Fishing City.”
Yan Zhaoge glanced at him through the corner of his eye, “What kind of hidden treasure is it that you were willing to undertake a task with such a great risk?”
Sun Zhongda answered, “It is related to the legendary Divine Palace of the Heavenly Court. If the clues speak true, it should be the Pill Hall in which countless efficacious pills and miraculous spirit medicines were stored in the past.”
While Yan Zhaoge’s expression did not change, he took great notice of it inwardly, “You bluffing me? First not speaking of whether the Pill Hall of the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace still exists following the Great Calamity, assuming that it does and is really like that, all the great experts of your Prime Clear lineage springing into action would not be surprising. Instead, you have come alone to the World beyond Worlds now?”
“Forgive my bluntness, but you are not even qualified to scout and clear the way.”
Sun Zhongda was unperturbed by this, “The Solar Luminary Young Master speaks truly. I came here just to try my luck, rather than being certain of surely being able to find the Divine Palace’s Pill Hall.”
He said candidly, “The clues are extremely limited, and also do not point to the Pill Hall itself. They instead simply point towards a pill furnace that was within the hall that year.”
“My thoughts are of attempting to find this pill furnace, perhaps having a chance of locating the Pill Hall through this.”
“Still, will I really be able to find the pill furnace? If I do, will I be able to find the Pill Hall? Just as you said just now, does the Pill Hall still exist? How many of the divine pills within still remain? These all being unknown factors, our lineage would naturally not devote so much on looking into this area.”
Sun Zhongda said, “Examining the clues, I felt that there might be a path here in the World beyond Worlds. Thus, after some preparations, I came here and masqueraded as you in order to better and more conveniently traverse the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory.”
Yan Zhaoge asked him, “Where is your destination in the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory?”
Sun Zhongda answered, “Jade Sun Mountain Range, Solitary Heart Peak.”
Beside them, Feng Yunsheng, Ah Hu and Xiao Ai discreetly exchanged glances at this.
The Heavenly Flame Trees that Yan Zhaoge had found based on the Encompassing Abundance Golden Pill flourished precisely in the region of Solitary Heart Peak of the Jade Sun Mountain Range.
Yan Zhaoge asked, “What does this jade necklace have to do with that place?”
Sun Zhongda explained, “It is said that this treasure was not always owned by the Xie Family. Instead, their Family Head Xie Liang purchased it from the hands of another.”
The original owner of the item had once been to the Jade Sun Mountain Range’s Solitary Heart Peak, having obtained two pills there which were considered extremely valuable even in the World beyond Worlds.
After the news had spread, others had ventured there as well in order to try their luck. Still, they had all returned empty-handed in the end.
With the original owner of the jade necklace now being dead, not having left anything behind, some people had thus set their eyes on it.
This news was only known to a select few even in the region of the Jade Sun Mountain Range, still having yet to spread to the Setting Sun Archipelago.
While Xie Liang had bought the jade necklace, he was oblivious as to the secrets that lay therein.
Yan Zhaoge pondered for a bit before asking, “Can you let me have a look at the most initial clue that you had?”
Sun Zhongda smiled bitterly, “It is not that I am unwilling, b
ut that I am unable. It was information that was stored inside a jade talisman. After I had looked at it, the jade talisman was wiped empty.”
Yan Zhaoge stared at him for a while before suddenly smiling, “I just love dishonest people like you.”
As he said so, a golden needle pierced into one of Sun Zhongda’s acupoints. His expression instantly changed greatly.
Looking at Sun Zhongda who was shivering all over, Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “It still exists, just that it is no longer with you. You have fellow disciples who also came here to look for that hidden treasure, just that possibly not all of them did enter the World beyond Worlds, am I right?”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 811: Immortal Ending Sword and Immortal Trapping Sword
HSSB811: Immortal Ending Sword and Immortal Trapping Sword
Sun Zhongda’s cultivation base was being completely suppressed by the Northern Ocean Clone.
The Cold Marrow Needles turned all the true essence in his body into the force of yin, spreading throughout his entire body into all his pores as it was all-pervasive and truly difficult to withstand.
The sigil of sunlight on his forehead was about to light up once more. Still, it was suppressed by Yan Zhaoge’s Extreme Yang Seal, next instantly falling completely silent.
Sun Zhongda felt as if an unquantifiable amount of sharp needles were simultaneously pricking into every single part of his entire body.
If one were to say that every single one of his pores felt like they had needles pierced within, such was really far from sufficient to describe the density of the needles that felt pierced into his body.
Sun Zhongda felt as though there was no place on his entire body the size of a pinprick that was not suffering from that intense pain which penetrated right into the bone.
Such intense pain was not diminished for those exceptionally fragile parts of his body.
On the contrary, the more fragile parts of his body felt even more intense pain.
Such as his eyes, such as his throat, such as his Huiyin acupoint…
Fortunately, Yan Zhaoge did not apply this needle for too long a time.
Sun Zhongda shivered all over, only recovering after a long while as Yan Zhaoge looked at him with a regretful expression on his face, “Oh hey, it looks like you aren’t willing to have any karmic ties with me. I really can’t do anything about that. This sort of thing really shouldn’t be forced.”
If he could obtain victory over Yan Zhaoge, Sun Zhongda swore that he would properly teach this shameless guy who had benefited off him and was still acting all proper a lesson.
Yet, the Northern Ocean Clone’s palm pressed downwards, suppressing him as he could not move.
Sun Zhongda smiled bitterly, “There are indeed fellow disciples of mine who are searching for the same hidden treasure. Still, we are not working together. They are searching for it in dimensional space outside while I am doing the same in the World beyond Worlds. The item in question is with them; I really cannot produce it.”
Looking at Yan Zhaoge, he said, “I do have a method for communicating with them. Still, I really cannot tell you this. I would rather die beneath your Cold Marrow Needles than reveal this.”
With the secret communication method used by those of the Prime Clear lineage, there would be the possibility of him misleading the rest with false information, even laying traps to ambush them.
Moreover, the consequences if Yan Zhaoge were to transmit this news to some major figures of the World beyond Worlds were really something that Sun Zhongda could not predict.
He could provide a false communication method and make use of this to inform his fellow disciples of what had befallen him, letting them know to stay on their guard.
Still, from what had just happened, Sun Zhongda felt that Yan Zhaoge would not easily fall for the bait.
Since that was so, he might as well resist to the bitter end.
Still, speaking of this, while he was not afraid of death, he was not confident of bearing the power of the Cold Marrow Needles throughout.
How long he could hold out for was already something that was very hard to say for sure.
The greater the amount of time that passed, the more intense the pain brought about by the Cold Marrow Needles.
Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “I have said that I am not concerned with matters of your lineage. Still, you need to clearly tell me what I am concerned about.”
He suddenly chuckled, “Searching amidst outer dimensional space is not something which anyone would be able to do. Thus, from the looks of it, it must be someone who cultivates in the Immortal Trapping Sword Manual.”
Exterminating Immortal sharp, Slaughtering Immortal death, Trapping Immortal doth red light arise. Ending Immortal variations are infinitely subtle, stained in the blood of highest Divinities all round.
This verse briefly described the characteristics of the Immortal Exterminating Four Swords.
As compared to the Immortal Ending Sword which broke variations in space, its own myriad variations sending all other variations into extermination, the Immortal Trapping Sword was the sword of the end which could break space and time.
If one were to say that the Immortal Ending Sword destroyed myriad objects, the Immortal Trapping Sword sliced and broke through space.
When cultivated to the peak, a single sword could exterminate time and space, forcibly disrupting the river of time with innumerable spatial domains shattered as a result.
This was why even though Yan Zhaoge had easily defeated Kang Maosheng and Kang Jinyuan in the battle of the underwater palace back then, he had felt emotional that he did not cultivate in the Immortal Ending Sword. Things would really have been much easier for him otherwise.
It could be said that the Immortal Trapping Sword’s concept precisely countered and suppressed the Spatial Heavenly Scripture and the Aeon Light Heavenly Scripture, both resisting each other as they were interdependent as both the beginning and the end, sharing some commonalities in principle.
After the Immortal Trapping Sword had attained certain heights, just like the Spatial Heavenly Scripture, it would allow martial practitioners move about endless space with relative ease.
Possessing both the Immortal Trapping Sword and the Immortal Ending Sword, Sun Zhongdao’s lineage really seemed like the most orthodox branch of the Prime Clear lineage there could be.
Sun Zhongdao’s expression was exceptionally entertaining now.
He stared at Yan Zhaoge for a long time before a smile appeared on his face that looked even worse than crying.
The Prime Clear lineage had disappeared from the World beyond Worlds for a long time, long since having become a legend buried in the depths of history in the minds of most.
In the current World beyond Worlds, who else apart from the top bigwigs would possess sufficient understanding regarding the Prime Clear lineage?
Although Yan Zhaoge might be related to the Exalted Solar Luminary, he was so clear on the special characteristics of the Immortal Exterminating Four Swords. And he dared to claim not to be related to the Prime Clear lineage at all?
Sun Zhongda had a very bad feeling about this.
With Yan Zhaoge not concealing anything at all in front of him, did that mean that he had already made up his mind to kill him?
“Relax. Although I’m a little unhappy about you impersonating me, seeing how you were so much more professional than those two fakes, I still rather admire you. If you obediently cooperate with me, I will not claim your life,” Seeing Sun Zhongda’s expression, Yan Zhaoge basically knew what he was thinking.
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “Tell me about how the hidden treasure you are looking for is related to the Jade Sun Mountain Range’s Solitary Heart Peak.”
“While I will not let you go, as long as you do not try to pull a fast one on me, I will not kill you. After this matter is over, you might still have the chance to regain your freedom.”
“As for if you try to pull a fast one on me, I natura
lly have numerous methods that I can use to deal with you. The Cold Marrow Needles were really just the first stage. There are still many more novel gimmicks where that came from.”
Yan Zhaoge looked smilingly at Sun Zhongda, “I wonder if you would like to give me a hand, sampling all of them for me?”
Sun Zhongda completely lost any and all desire to go against him, “I have no other choice apart from believing your words. So long as you do not ask me anything related to my lineage, everything else, I can speak of.”
“I have yet to go to the Jade Sun Mountain Range. Still, according to the clue that I obtained, there should be a secret cave estate there. There is a spatial passageway within that leads to an external dimension. A supreme pill treasure of the Pill Hall of the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace in the past, the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace, or something that is related to it, may possibly exist there.”
“Aside from that, there may be some random divine pills and efficacious medicines as well.”
“The pill which the previous owner of the jade necklace found in the Jade Sun Mountain Range should have been concocted of the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace in pre-Great Calamity times.”
Sun Zhongda said, “A pill from before the Great Calamity having been preserved even up till now, not having lost its efficacy, it definitely must be no ordinary thing.”
Hearing his words, Yan Zhaoge slowly nodded, pondering for a moment before he smiled, “Since that is so, I will have to trouble you to travel alongside this Yan for a period of time.”
The Northern Ocean Clone exerted force with his palm, Sun Zhongda’s figure next vanishing.
That Maoliang was again imprisoned within the Myriad Dragon Palace alongside this.
Now, Xiao Ai said from the side, “Young Master, you already returned that jade necklace to the Xie Family. Is that thing related to the hidden treasure or not?”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “It has been returned, yes, but we do already have what we need.”
A smile appeared on the Northern Ocean Clone’s face as well as light shot out from one of his eyes, projecting numerous images in mid-air.