History's Strongest Senior Brother c1-1474
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Yan Zhaoge smiled nonchalantly, “I will take that as a compliment. Thank you then.”
Facing Yan Zhaoge’s shamelessness, Chen Qianhua instead smiled too, “Very interesting indeed.”
“Is your main benchmark for evaluating people ‘interesting’ and ‘boring’?” Yan Zhaoge retorted.
Chen Qianhua asked lazily, “Or else? ‘Clever’ and ‘stupid’? ‘Immature’ and ‘mature? ‘Benevolent’ and ‘cruel’?”
“There can be countless examples of these. Still, so what? Clever people can do stupid things as benevolent people are sometimes the cruellest too.”
“As I see it, the distinction between people is that a small minority can bring me some pleasant surprises while most would be unable to do so throughout their entire lives.”
“The former are the interesting ones, while all those who remain are the uninteresting ones.”
Chen Qianhua yawned, “There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Yan Zhaoge wondered, “Has no one ever told you that the way you operate is very boring too?”
“Haha…” Chen Qianhua smiled on hearing his words as he asked rather than answered, “What do you think should be done with the Brocade Emperor now?”
“There is no need to feign ignorance on this, right? Everyone can tell that cultivation deviation has befallen him.”
Chen Qianhua said lazily, “Or rather, he has gone crazy.”
“Perhaps the Brocade Emperor has indeed suffered the fate of cultivation deviation. Still, from my interactions with him, I know he has not lost his sanity,” Yan Zhaoge spoke in a neutral tone devoid of feeling, “The Heaven Emperor knows his situation best. What will be done can only be decided by he himself, mainly.”
“Otherwise, amongst the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Concealed Sovereign, the Female Emperor and the Heaven Emperor are all still in the World beyond Worlds.”
Chen Qianhua laughed, “Yes, he has not gone crazy. It should be something like a split personality?”
He smiled as he extended his two hands, parting them towards the sides.
He first lifted his left hand, “One should be feeling or rather emotionally-driven.”
He then raised his right hand, “The other should be unfeeling or rather forgetful of emotion.”
Chen Qianhua brought his hands together before his chest, “The two should be fighting right now.”
While Yan Zhaoge’s expression did not change, he felt slightly wary within.
As he possessed a deep understanding of supreme martial arts of the Grand Clear direct lineage, he was able to basically deduce the Brocade Emperor’s current state.
Chen Qianhua had already guessed many things just from the incident at Star Reflecting Lake alone.
Or could it be that it was not merely a guess as he possessed a unique information channel too?
“If the Brocade Emperor makes the decision himself, he will most likely go by what can allow him to return to normal, allowing his cultivation base to continue advancing.”
Looking at Yan Zhaoge, Chen Qianhua smiled, “As for the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, they probably think the same way as well. As for whether the Brocade Emperor walks the feeling or unfeeling path in the end, it is not so important. Most important is that the mental illness is diminished and cured for good.”
“This is because they are hard pressed to predict the actions of the Brocade Emperor who is acting unpredictably now that he is afflicted with it.”
“This lot of people like having everything under their control. They hate things going beyond their predictions, hence becoming uncontrollable.”
Chen Qianhua glanced down at Yan Zhaoge through the corner of his eye, “In this aspect, you are the same kind of person as them.”
Yan Zhaoge gazed deeply at him, “So, what you mean to say is that you would rather the Brocade Emperor remain like this forever?”
“That’s right!” Chen Qianhua clapped, bursting out into laughter, “Always with the pleasant, unexpected surprises. Now that’s called interesting.”
Yan Zhaoge simply asked, “Since that is so, what are you doing coming here rather than just following the Brocade Emperor throughout?”
Chen Qianhua pointed at Yan Zhaoge, “Now that Brocade Fu has become much less boring, I certainly would not want him to disappear so quickly. So, I’m finding something for you lot to handle first so that you won’t be in such a rush to come making trouble.”
Yan Zhaoge asked calmly, “Aren’t you making plans too? According to what you said earlier, if your plans come to fruition and your goal is attained, wouldn’t it instead be uninteresting, without any surprises whatsoever?”
“Oh, that. I am not making plans. I have planned for nothing, nor am I planning anything,” Chen Qianhua waved a hand dismissively, “I am just adding an extra little thing to all your plans and seeing what will become of it.”
“If things happen within my predictions, it seems like your plans would have become my plans as I would have overridden then. This is indeed a pretty uninteresting thing, but it can help me to pass time by at the very least.”
“If things happen out of my predictions, it would naturally be a pleasant surprise, whatever the eventual outcome.”
Chen Qianhua smiled, “Now that I am giving you a bit of a surprise, can you repay me with anything?”
As they spoke, the deep valley of the Earth Domain down below now quaked intensely.
The earthquake spread throughout the entirety of the Earth Domain.
Streaks of bloodred light transformed into terrifying spirit patterns that seemed about to rip the great earth apart as they expanded into the surroundings.
Where the roiling black fog passed, it actually began to devour the world outside of the Earth Domain.
Such a scene was undoubtedly the descent of an old nightmare for the martial practitioners of Broad Creed Mountain and the Eight Extremities World.
The terrifying Nine Underworlds was about to descend into the Eight Extremities World once more!
In having entered the depths of the deep abyss of the Earth Domain earlier, Chen Qianhua had done so to destroy the seal down below.
Besides that, the disturbance caused by him had ripped apart the Great Nine Underworlds Door below the Earth Domain to become even more immense.
The Nine Underworlds’ descent this time far, far surpassed that of the previous times in its momentum.
The terrifying devilish qi suffused not only the Earth Domain as it sought to devour the surrounding world as well.
The Eight Extremities World seemed about to be assimilated completely by the Nine Underworlds at this moment.
Yan Zhaoge, however, did not glance towards the deep abyss down below.
He suddenly strode forward, instantly arriving before Chen Qianhua!
“Is this a pleasant surprise?”
Amidst his words, his palm mightily slammed downwards!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1076: Do whatever you want. If I change my technique, I lose
HSSB1076: Do whatever you want. If I change my technique, I lose
Yan Zhaoge obscured the heavens with a palm, his palm filling the sky.
He raised his palm before bringing it heavily downwards, his Cyclic Heavenly Seal truly possessing the momentum of collapsing the heavens.
Although his cultivation base was suppressed to the third level of the Martial Saint realm, this far surpassed the time when he had really been a third level Martial Saint in the past.
A lower world like the Eight Extremities World was already unable to bear the force of this palm of Yan Zhaoge’s.
As he executed the Cyclic Heavenly Seal, apart from the lands that had been encroached on by the Nine Underworlds and the Lake Domain that the Brocade Emperor was currently in, the entire Eight Extremities World virtually seemed about to be overturned.
Yet, as the Earth Domain and Lake Domain were fixed in place and could not move, a distorted scene was distinctly formed everywh
ere else that was terrifying indeed.
“Woah! This is really quite the pleasant surprise!” Chen Qianhua’s eyes lit up, “I still thought that you would hold back for fear of destroying this world.”
He no longer appeared listless and lackadaisical as he instead laughed loudly, “Yes, you are an interesting person indeed.”
Amidst his laughter, Chen Qianhua abruptly flipped his palm upwards, launching it in an upward motion.
“Still, if it is only the Cyclic Heavenly Seal, I would not consider it so much of a pleasant surprise.”
In the air above the Earth Domain, Yan Zhaoge’s and Chen Qianhua’s actions were virtually the same, just that one was striking downwards, the other striking upwards!
Cyclic Heavenly Seal versus Cyclic Heavenly Seal!
As the palms of the two met, the terrifying distortion of the World beyond Worlds’ heavens and earth instead vanished.
Still, the force from the collision of their palms caused the surrounding space to collapse instantly.
“This place is not the World beyond Worlds,” Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “I am not an early Immortal Bridge Martial Saint, and you are also not a Human Exalt.”
Amidst their words, his palm continued pressuring downwards!
Chen Qianhua instantly felt as though the scenes in the surrounding world had changed.
Everything first became extremely huge before the distance between them and him increased unceasingly, with those things coming to appear tiny as a result.
However, the surrounding space was completely empty as only he himself remained.
It was not that the objects in the external world had turned big before moving far away from him.
Instead, he himself had seemingly shrunk at this moment!
He had been suppressed to the size of a mere speck of dust!
The spiritual qi of the surrounding heavens and earth all erupted at this moment, resembling the collapse of a mountain and the surging of a tsunami as they all crushed towards him together.
The terrifying momentum that enveloped the heavens and covered the earth caused him to feel like a grain of sand against the tides of the great sea as no matter how he tried to evade, he would still be devoured and shattered nevertheless.
Even though they both cultivated the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture, Yan Zhaoge was more proficient in this scripture than he was!
In the clash of Cyclic Heavenly Seal against Cyclic Heavenly Seal, Chen Qianhua suffered a complete defeat!
“After cultivating in the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture for a few years, you already have such attainments in it?” Chen Qianhua’s eyes shone, “Amazing!”
He moved his other hand forward as well, forming a seal with his fist.
As soon as this was formed, an incomparably heavy force manifested.
It was like the great earth that bore the weight of all things in this world as it was silent, sturdy, dense, vigorous, indestructible!
Yan Zhaoge raised his brows, “Earth Overturning Seal?”
The Earth Overturning Seal was a supreme martial art of the lineage of the Earth Queen of the Four Imperials of orthodox Daoism!
It had been lost for many years following the Great Calamity.
When contending under the same circumstances, the Earth Overturning Seal was naturally inferior to the Cyclic Heavenly Seal.
Still, this supreme martial art was precisely a peerless supreme martial art that the Earth Queen had previously created from combining her martial concepts with her insights from analysing the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture and Cyclic Heavenly Seal.
Chen Qianhua had combined the two seals into one at this moment, with his glorious fist-intent magnificent as the heavens and heavy as later earth as he forcibly blocked Yan Zhaoge’s Cyclic Heavenly Seal.
All things before him regained their original state, no longer suppressed by Yan Zhaoge’s fist-intent.
“I was originally going to tie you down with the Great Nine Underworlds Door below us so that I can better continue playing with the Brocade Emperor,” Chen Qianhua smiled noncommittally, “Now that you are the one tying me down instead, it is also fine. I just wonder if you can still pay any attention to the Great Nine Underworlds Door down below?”
While they dared not be sure of it, both he and Yan Zhaoge had a premonition regarding this.
If it was the Brocade Emperor who had been in his right mind, he would definitely not sit back and do nothing as the Nine Underworlds encroached on the human realm.
With how unpredictable his thoughts currently were, it was very hard to ascertain what he might do.
It was not impossible that he might just leave directly with Meng Wan and perhaps Chen Mingying too.
“Just worry about yourself first,” Yan Zhaoge said.
His palm that was looming over Chen Qianhua’s hands mightily descended once more!
It was still a Cyclic Heavenly Seal, yet had already reached a whole new level.
As Yan Zhaoge exerted greater force with his palm, all existences amidst space in the surroundings began distorting as they were overturned.
Chen Qianhua felt as though his figure had become miniscule once more as a terrifying force which was infinite and endless simultaneously pressured down upon him from all directions amidst space.
Beneath this palm of Yan Zhaoge’s, all things within the world actually vanished.
Time seemed to have flowed in reverse as the vast oceans and the wide fields circulated backwards.
Everything returned to its original state, all creation no longer existing as the boundaries between the heavens and earth had turned blurry.
Clear qi sunk, turbid qi rising!
The heavens and earth that had been split apart were about to recombine for good!
All things in the world seemed to have reversed to before the heavens and earth had been split apart.
The world of later heaven was forcibly reversed to the primordial world of earlier heaven!
Amidst the darkness of space, nothing could be seen at all as only the primordial twin qis of yin and yang intermingled.
Amidst the variations of the twin qis of yin and yang, they gradually vanished as only chaos was indistinctly visible.
Everything seemed to have returned to earlier heaven times as all was shapeless and without quality, without light and without darkness, silent and formless.
Even the magnificent earth of later heaven no longer existed!
“Returning to earlier heaven? Even a True Immortal might not be able to cause such a variation when executing the Cyclic Heavenly Seal,” A strange light was emitted from Chen Qianhua’s eyes,” You integrated the concepts of the Taiyi Fist and the Taiji Yin Yang Palm within the Cyclic Heavenly Seal?”
His figure suddenly shook, seemingly becoming transparent as it was formless and without quality.
In Yan Zhaoge’s senses, for just that one instant, Chen Qianhua seemed to have completely vanished, no longer existing within this world.
Of the earlier heaven Grand Cosmos Five Manifestations of the Grand Clear direct lineage, the Grand Beginning Bright Emptiness Form!
It had long since been rumoured in the World beyond Worlds that the Upper Exalt Chen Qianhua was proficient in countless supreme martial arts from both past and present times.
Otherwise, there would also not have been that incident of him enlightening eight sects in his youth.
Many in the World beyond Worlds knew that he cultivated in the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture of the Jade Clear direct lineage.
However, besides the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture, he also cultivated in the Earth Overturning Seal of the direct lineage of the Earth Queen.
More unexpected with that he was, shockingly, also proficient in a supreme martial art of the Grand Clear direct lineage!
Still, while the Grand Beginning Bright Emptiness Form had both offensive and defensive capabilities and possessed remarkable profundities, faced with Yan Zhaoge’s Cyclic Heavenly Seal which had the fist-intent of Grand Simpli
city from the Taiyi Fist integrated within, Chen Qianhua was still unable to bear it as it caused a return to earlier heaven times.
The majestic strength did not even require a forceful attack as it had already caused Chen Qianhua’s concept of Grand Beginning to dissipate into formlessness!
Beneath that palm, whether it was Grand Beginning or Grand Commencement, all would return to Grand Simplicity, becoming nothingness once more!
Still, Chen Qianhua had not naively thought that he would be able to receive this technique of Yan Zhaoge’s with just the Grand Beginning Bright Emptiness Form alone.
As his figure existed amidst illusory space, he punched towards Yan Zhaoge’s Cyclic Heavenly Seal.
Although he was unarmed, as Chen Qianhua punched outwards, a silhouette condensed, actually manifesting in the form of a sceptre.
On seeing the sceptre, the first thought that appeared within Yan Zhaoge’s mind was that this was the very sceptre which the founder of the Grand Clear lineage, the Lord of the Dao and Virtue, had once used in reigning over the various heavens!
Of the martial arts of the Grand Clear direct lineage, both the earlier heaven and later heaven ones possessed boundless profundities.
Besides the earlier heaven Grand Cosmos Five Manifestations, there were also the Later Heaven Five Ultimates.
This sceptre art was precisely one of the Later Heaven Five Ultimates!
Chen Qianhua combined martial arts of earlier heaven and later heaven at this moment as he finally managed to block Yan Zhaoge’s Cyclic Heavenly Seal which caused the very heavens and earth to be reversed.
“Haha…” Yan Zhaoge smiled, “Do whatever you want. If I change my technique, I lose.”
He exerted force with his palm, continuing to strike downwards with a Cyclic Heavenly Seal!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1077: Like swatting a fly
HSSB1077: Like swatting a fly
Yan Zhaoge flipped his palm, similarly executing the Cyclic Heavenly Seal as his concept manifested in yet another different manner.
The long river of time seemingly manifested amidst space.
The beginning was the start of earlier heaven with formless Grand Simplicity as all was chaotic and dark.