History's Strongest Senior Brother c1-1474

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

  Hearing that, Yan Zhaoge closed his eyes slightly.

  He had already guessed why the two lovers couldn’t be together.

  Although Exalted Fire Luminary had a short fuse and always did things in his own way, he actually preferred quietness. In other words, he was a passive person.

  What had happened in his childhood still had some influences on him.

  He preferred to soak himself in his own world where he could study the martial arts alone and explore the unknown area.

  And he was capable of concentrating on the thing he was studying no matter how wildly arrogant he was.

  It might seem a bit inconsistent but was actually a very natural thing. To conclude in Yan Zhaoge’s words, Exalted Fire Luminary was more like an odd and hot-tempered scholar.

  Now wonder why Exalted Fire Luminary had always the one who remained neutral among the New Nine Luminaries of Kunlun. He never biased the party of the North Star Emperor, nor did he support the party of Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor.

  Unfortunately, although Exalted Wood Luminary was a woman, she was more like a revolutionist who had a strong sense of responsibility and mission.

  “Fellow daoist Shao hoped Mingzhang could stand by her side and help her. However, Mingzhang only wanted the both of them could focusing on seeking after the dao principles at least for most of the time. He never wanted to run hither and thither.” Mars Halberd tried his best to give an objective description about the differences of opinions between Suo Mingzhang and Shao Junhuang.

  “They have gone through thick and thin together. But eventually, they still chose to separate with each other because there was no way for them to be together.”

  Yan Zhaoge frowned and said, “But... I don’t see their intentions so contradictory with each other. Cultivating the martial arts always needs actual combat experiences. Also, even if Exalted Fire Luminary devoted himself in learning the dao principles, they could still benefit each other.

  Since people like Shao Junhuang had gone hither and thither, they actually had provided a steady environment for people like Suo Mingzhang to cultivate themselves.

  The other way around, after people like Suo Mingzhang had succeeded in their studies because people like Shao Junhuang had bought time for them, the dao universe would surely develop.

  “If things went on like that, there wouldn’t be any problems between them.” Mars Halberd turned around and looked at Yan Zhaoge with a meaningful look in his eyes, “But the problem is, Fellow daoist Shao is willing to sacrifice her life for the revitalization of dao universe.”

  “And Mingzhang didn’t mind any kinds of danger when looking for dao principles...”

  Hearing that, Yan Zhaoge sighed and asked, “But things are different the other way around?”

  Mars Halberd nodded silently.

  Suo Mingzhang and Suo Junhuang wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice their lives for each other.

  But they were not willing to sacrifice themselves for each other’s dreams.

  They were both too proud. So they didn’t want to use their own lives as bargaining chips to force the other one to fight for their own life goals.

  Perhaps after all those concessions and compromises, they had finally chosen to let each other go.

  Yan Zhaoge recalled all the things his mother had told him about Shao Junhuang before he had left the Broad Creed Mountain.

  Xue Chuqing never met Shao Junhuang in person and only learned the story of Exalted Wood Luminary from her Grand Master, Hu Yuexin.

  “Stubborn, once she had decided on something, no one would be able to persuade her...”

  “She loved good wine but was a wimpy drinker. Every time she took a sip of the wine, she would get drunk. Then she just went mad...”

  “She was fond of sleep. The afternoon nap was her favorite. Every day she would rest a short while in the afternoon. She preferred sleep more than wine. And if she was awakened, the consequence would be really scary...”

  Yan Zhaoge twitched the corner of his mouth when he recalled those words, thinking, “The Bright Connection Emperor did have no intention to respect her master. If some other one’s disciple comments his or her master like that, that disciple would be kicked out of the sect already.”

  However, Hu Yuexin also described Shao Junhuang as a person who was doughty, domineering and mean but also merciful, compassionate and had a soft heart...

  History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1226: The Third Promise I Owed You

  Yan Zhaoge was buried in his thoughts.

  Maybe it was because Shao Junhuang really was a person who never stuck to rifles that Hu Yuexin could mention about her so breezily.

  But Hu Yuexin must have been inspired by her master too. Otherwise she wouldn’t have followed Shao Junhuang’s instructions and ideals so firmly until the last moment of her life.

  Perhaps the qualities of being undaunted of setbacks as long as she had set a goal and doing things in a consistent way were the most important things Hu Yuexin had learned from Shao Junhuang.

  Being persistent in one’s faith was a common feature of lots of the superior people.

  However, due to that reason, when those outstanding people had different ideas with each other, the result would be extremely dreadful.

  Jiang Shen, also known as the Exalted Earth Luminary, had been both a mentor and a friend to Shao Junhuang. But they still had gradually stood off each other and even opposed to each other sharply at last.

  Even if Suo Mingzhang and Shao Junhuang still loved each other after they had broken up, they still chose to separate with each other.

  Yan Zhaoge looked to the short hair man under the Ancient Splendid Tree.

  Although Exalted Fire Luminary had left Shao Junhuang, he had still set him mind on looking for her after he had known that she had gone missing.

  And he had looked for her for two thousand and four hundred years.

  Until today, he finally found her. But she was long gone.

  Yan Zhaoge could judge from the circulation of the spirit qi and the rotten degree of this world that this place had existed for more than two thousand years.

  This world might now exist before Shao Junhuang arrived. In fact, Shao Junhuang might have created this world.

  According to the spirit qi and state of the Ancient Splendid Tree, Yan Zhaoge could draw a conclusion from the age of the tree.

  Shao Junhuang might have deceased at the moment she had gone missing, which was two thousand and four hundred years ago.

  “Her corpse has transformed into the Ancient Splendid Tree. But right now, I can’t sense the spiritual nature of the tree. It means that her soul must have faded away when she deceased. And the dead body was the only thing left.” Yan Zhaoge sighed deeply, “She was good at early heaven Oracle Divination of the River Diagram. So she must have exhausted all her energies in order to find the Pill Hall. And at last, even her soul was disappeared.”

  “How was it possible for such a powerful cultivator to end up like this... Right, Exalted Fire Luminary has learned the location of this Original Nebula from the people of the Immortal Court whom he has captured.”

  “So Shao Junhuang might have been besieged by the people of the Immortal Court and got seriously injured. Also, she has racked her brains to look for the Pill Hall. At last, these two things have worn her out. And that was the reason of her death.”

  However, clearly the people of the Immortal Court didn’t know that Shao Junhuang was looking for the Pill Hall of the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace before the Great Calamity.

  While Shao Junhuang had been chased by the people of the Immortal Court, she had entered into the Original Nebula. Considering that the Original Nebula might lead to all the time and spaces, the people of the Immortal Court had felt that they couldn’t find her anymore. So they had finally given up pursuing.

  They hadn’t known that the thing that Shao Junhuang had been looking for had been right in the Original Nebula.

  For
the people of the Immortal Court, this was the last place they had seen Shao Junhuang. They didn’t know if she was still alive. However, ever since then, Shao Junhuang never showed herself in the world. So they had assumed that Shao Junhuang had deceased in the Original Nebula.

  The Original Nebula was too dangerous to enter in. The people of the Immortal Court had no intention to search Shao Junhuang in this place if it was not so necessary.

  Thus, only until one of the people who had joined besieging Shao Junhuang had been captured by Suo Mingzhang was the information of Shao Junhuang exposed. Then it led to what had happened today.

  As Yan Zhaoge speculated what had happened, he also felt sad.

  Shao Junhuang, the Exalted Wood Luminary, might not rank the first in the Profound Immortals who had come forth in the dao universe after the Great Calamity , she was still in the list of the top experts.

  However, she had died before she fulfilled her ambition. Otherwise, she would be so helpful for revitalizing the Three Clear Lineage if she found the Pill Hall.

  After all, according to the previous clues, Yan Zhaoge deducted that the Pill Hall might be preserved in a whole piece, although he still found those clues a bit weird.

  “I wonder where Exalted Wood Luminary was at in finding the Pill Hall?” Yan Zhaoge had a hunch that Shao Junhuang might have been very close to get what she wanted.

  Under the Ancient Splendid Tree in the distance, Suo Mingzhang walked near the tree with no expression on his face speechlessly and then pressed his hand on the tree’s trunk.

  Then the branches and leaves of the Ancient Splendid Tree all started to shake.

  As he wrote the private seal of Shao Junhuang again, the seal suddenly lighted up. And the Ancient Splendid Tree started to shine brightly.

  A woman’s figure showed up vaguely in the light.

  Yan Zhaoge looked from a distance, finding the woman around twenty years old. She was a tall woman in green clothes with an extraordinarily gorgeous face.

  She seemed to have been born with the elegance and a bit of the indolence.

  Yan Zhaoge who had seen her picture before and already known what she looked like recognized that this woman was Shao Junhuang, the Exalted Wood Luminary.

  Her facial expression seemed quite calm in the light. It was hard to see that she was a tough and domineering woman as the rumors had told.

  “The person who is able to see the last radiant of myself must possess my private seal. So you are destined to hear my last words.” The woman in the green clothes said with a light smile, “I will die here today. I never have any regrets in my life except for three things.”

  “The third, I have failed in finding the Pill Hall of the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace before the Great Calamity. I’m not able to witness its true figure.”

  “Second, I am not able to see the revitalization of the Three Clear Lineage and the day we finally eliminate all the demons and devils.”

  “The first... the thing I regret the most...”

  With her voice gradually turning lower and lower, she closed her eyes and said, “I still haven’t given up on us...”

  “Mingzhang, I wish we could be born before the Great Calamity...”

  Suo Mingzhang stood still under the Ancient Splendid Tree like a statue and watched the figure of Shao Junhuang disappearing in the light.

  The tall and short hair man stood there in silence for a while. Then he reached out his hand.

  One of the white flowers fell in his palm from the branch.

  “Junhuang, I haven’t fulfilled my promise to you...” He muttered those words like he was sleep-talking.

  Yan Zhaoge turned around to look at Mars Halberd.

  “When they first met together, Mingzhang has promised to do three things within his power for Fellow daoist Shao due to certain reasons before they were together.”

  Mars Halberd continued in a low voice, “As far as I know, he has done two of the three things he has promised.”

  “After that, they became a couple. And they only supported each other ever since then. So there was no need for them to talk about that promise.”

  “Although they have disagreed on many things, she never asked Mingzhang to listen to her for the reason that he still had one thing to do for her according to his promise.”

  Mars Halberd sighed, “Mingzhang still owes her one thing to do and the third promise just ends up in nothing.”

  “After Fellow daoist Shao went missing, Mingzhang kept looking for her. And the past has been dug up again.” As saying this, Mars Halberd shook his head, “He said he wouldn’t feel at ease if he couldn’t get a closure of this.”

  “Now, it seems that he will never be able to complete his promise, but...”

  Hearing that, Yan Zhaoge fell into a silence while looking at the tall figure under the tree.

  Either he or Mars Halberd knew that that man who was reluctant to admit his mistake only used the third promise as an excuse to give himself an out.

  History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1227: Immortal Court? They Are Nobodies Except For the Heavenly Lord!

  “I never thought that would be the last time we met each other.”

  Suo Mingzhang gradually recovered from his dazed state with his eyes brimming with radiant vigour again.

  However, the oppressive aura in the world still existed and even became more violent.

  “Junhuang, I have been waiting for you to tell me about the third thing...” Suo Mingzhang gently stroked the trunk of the Ancient Splendid Tree.

  After a short moment, he paused his hand and said softly, “Others don’t know about you, but I do.”

  “I know you have already found the Pill Hall. But there’s not enough time for you to enter into that place.” Suo Mingzhang said in a low voice, “The Pill Hall will belong to the Three Clear Lineage. I’ll definitely bring you in.”

  Although he didn’t move his hand, the huge Ancient Splendid Tree in front of him was starting to go up with his body!

  As the towering ancient tree rose straight from the ground, even the earth was lifted up.

  After the Ancient Splendid Tree had completely deviated from the ground, there seemed to be a huge hole appearing in the world beneath.

  The earth had disappeared and there was only a huge black hole in the middle of the space.

  As Suo Mingzhang moved his hand, the huge Ancient Splendid Tree shrank to a small size and at last disappeared in his palm.

  However, there were rays of colorful lights gushing out from the earth and the huge black hole.

  Yan Zhaoge and Mars Halberd who stood beside Suo Mingzhang were both clouded in mind being exposed under the colorful light.

  Only after Yan Zhaoge had tried his best to gain his sense back was he able to stand steadily. Then he smelled a slight scent of herbal medicines.

  The smell was not very strong, but seemed to be everywhere.

  Actually, it was not precise to say that Yan Zhaoge had smelled the scent. Because the fragrance had entered into his body through every pore of him.

  What’s more, Yan Zhaoge was pretty sure that the fragrance was harmless and even very beneficial to his body.

  Therefore he didn’t close his pores. Instead, he used his true essence to guide the fragrance of the herbal medicine to enter into his body. Then he felt his body was totally refreshed.

  In no time, Yan Zhaoge felt warmness all over his body.

  While bathing in the colorful light, Yan Zhaoge also felt his energy being increased to the full extent.

  In the meantime, Mars Halberd also benefited a lot in the light even though he was just a weapon.

  Yan Zhaoge looked to the deep of the black hole beneath him. He saw the rays of colorful lights forming into a long river which extending toward the place in the distance as if they were connecting to something.

  ‘Exalted Wood Luminary was only one step away from finding the the Pill Hall of the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace.’ Seeing that, Yan Zhaoge n
odded and thought of that secretly.

  This marvellous Original Nebula was connected to countless spaces, so it was able to lead them to the missing Pill Hall.

  Yan Zhaoge could feel his Myriad Dragon Palace shaking violently when he was enveloped in the colorful light.

  Meanwhile, the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace in the Myriad Dragon Palace also kept vibrating.

  “I’ll fill the last step for you.” Suo Mingzhang who was standing above the black hold said that slowly.

  While he was pressing down his hands, the private seal of Shang Junhuang showed on his palm again.

  As the light was flickering, there were rays of jade green light showing in the chaotic space inside of the black hole.

  As all of the green lights gathered together, they gradually wound around the colorful flowing light.

  After that, the green lights began to drag the colorful light at full stretch.

  “I don’t need anything from the Pill Hall.” Suo Mingzhang said that in piece. “I just need to take Junhuang to see the place which she always wants to go.”

  “You are the descendant of Yan Xingtang and also a disciple of Junhuang’s lineage of the Three Clear Lineage. How much you will obtain from the Pill Hall all depends on your own ability. Wish you luck.”

  After Yan Zhaoge had given his obeisance to Suo Mingzhang, he closed his eyes and settled to focus his attention.

  He felt his soul being freed from himself at this moment and traveling trough the endless space along the river-like colorful lights to the other end in the distance.

  After he didn’t know how long, he sensed his speed being slowed down all of a sudden.

  Also, the colorful lights around him seemed to get dimer.

  A huge shadow was approaching him now. And as it got closer and closer to him, it gradually became clear.

  Yan Zhaoge was cheered up right away.

  The thing that appeared in his sight was the Pill Hall of the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace!

  However, the construction in front of him was not exactly like the Pill Hall in him memory.

  It ought to flicker the dim golden light as if it was constructed by the impeccable white jade. However, now the Pill Hall only looked dim and even a bit somber.