The profound sutras engraved on the furnace seemed to become alive as radiance started flickering. Following Yan Zhaoge’s palm, it reached the middle of his brows like flowing water and disappeared.
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Hah!
” Yan Zhaoge shouted lightly. Lights flickered within the formation they were at.
However, after the sight, before they had calmed down, they realized that they were in the Pill Hall’s core hub, the Purple Divine Pavilion.
Yan Di and the others looked at each other, and let out a sigh of relief. They all knew what this meant.
Yan Zhaoge had successfully taken control over this hall!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1273 - Get Rich Overnight
Within the Purple Divine Pavilion, Yan Zhaoge pressed one of his hands on the Profound Sky Purple Golden Furnace, and the finger of his other hand was placed between his brows.
Within the Purple Divine Pavilion, nine streams of radiance lit up based on the position of the Nine Halls Diagram, and the radiances all focused on Yan Zhaoge’s body.
Yan Zhaoge started to feel that his mind was slowly being connected together with the Pill Hall.
Following this process, the chaotic cosmos within the Pill Hall gradually returned back to normal.
The huge Pill Hall’s door was closed. Layers of golden radiance and purple steam engulfed the Pill Hall, which made the hall made by white jade look even more like a divine realm within the heavens.
If there wasn’t only this lonely hall, and the surrounding buildings were still present, everything would resemble the Heaven Court’s Divine Palace by the Nine Heavens before the Great Calamity.
Yan Zhaoge’s expression turned serious. He hadn’t gotten too prideful of his accomplishment yet.
After he had gained control over the Pill Hall, the first thing he did was to retract the aura and radiance released by the Pill Hall.
He didn’t want his Pill Hall which he worked so hard to benefit others.
Especially the bigwig experts like the Immeasurable Heavenly Lord or Future Buddha. They shouldn’t be underestimated at any cost.
Especially the Immeasurable Heavenly Lord.
More clues had been collected regarding what happened that year. Although everything was still pretty vague, a general idea had been formed within Yan Zhaoge’s mind.
Immeasurable Heavenly Lord might not have appeared only after the Great Calamity!
At the very least, he had already started looking into the treasured light imbued with faith power very early on.
He might have been some kind of Heavenly Lord of Daoism before this. From the looks of it now, this Heavenly Lord of Daoism was a certain huge figure from the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace.
Chaos was stirred up from the insides of the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace.
After that, with the interference of Buddhism, everything became worse till the point of no return.
Yan Zhaoge wasn’t sure about the specific details.
After he had thoroughly taken over the Pill Hall, he would slowly investigate the phenomena that happened in the past. That way, he might have a much more rewarding acquisition.
The hall spirit – Awakened Sky wanted to perish together with everyone but was constricted by Yan Zhaoge. In the end, before he could harm Yan Zhaoge and the others, he had already perished on his own and disappeared from the world.
Although Yan Zhaoge couldn’t ask for more information, he didn’t mind. He could slowly analyze the things he wanted to from the Pill Hall.
Only with the perishment of the hall spirit would an outsider be able to control the Pill Hall. Even if the hall spirit did not perish, Yan Zhaoge would still dispose of him after all the information had been interrogated.
Otherwise, he might as well just slack off. There wouldn’t be a point for him to work so hard.
As for the hall spirit being a building’s spirit as well, and regard him as an acquaintance, that was just a complete joke.
Not only did they not have any relations with each other, the hall spirit – Awakened Sky would definitely squeeze out every information from Yan Zhaoge’s mind if he knew that Yan Zhaoge was the Martial Repository’s spirit. After all, with such a huge difference in their cultivation, the hall spirit – Awakened Sky would definitely pry upon this matter first.
“
En
, this Pill Hall had received some damage from the Great Calamity.” Yan Zhaoge thoroughly checked the Pill Hall. He now had a clearer understanding of the whole situation of the Pill Hall.
Although the catalyst for the phenomena of that year was this Pill Hall, the battles quickly spread towards other places. As for the place where all started, everything was kept in good condition.
That destructive palm which descended from heavens did not hit the Pill Hall directly.
“… The area where the Martial Repository I was in seems to be where the palm landed.” Yan Zhaoge thought and rolled his eyes.
The nine streams of radiance slowly faded within the Purple Divine Pavilion.
Yan Zhaoge and the others had also retracted their formation.
The body forged by the Pill Hall’s hall spirit using all the divine pills and treasures had already collapsed and had reverted back into the spirit pills and medicines. After that, they transformed into layers of brilliance.
As the formation changes, the brilliance was circulating around the sutras engraved on the Profound Sky Purple Golden Furnace.
After Yan Zhaoge and the others retracted the formation, the brilliance transformed into mist. The mist scattered around and went towards the five of them.
Other than the Mars Halberd who was an Immortal Artifact, Yan Zhaoge and the others inhaled the mist with their nose.
The medicinal power was so great that even with their cultivation, they weren’t able to refine it within a short amount of time.
“I can’t use it, and Mingzhang won’t need it. Just take it,” said Mars Halberd.
Mars Halberd was a Leakless Immortal Artifact. He wasn’t a normal True Immortal Emperor.
The divine pills and medicines which were very beneficial for humans had no use for him.
As for the Exalted Fire – Suo Mingzhang, he didn’t care much about these. The Pill Hall and the treasures within weren’t what he cared about.
“Luckily, Exalted Fire – Suo Mingzhang managed to reach in time. Thanks for your help as well.” Yan Zhaoge and the others nodded towards Mars Halberd as a form of courtesy and absorbed the medicinal qi within the Purple Divine Pavilion.
Such a majestic pill essence was undoubtedly a huge opportunity for them.
Other than Yan Zhaoge who was busy refining the Pill Hall, the other three of them sat in a lotus position and started absorbing the medicinal effects.
“I’ll let you handle the rest,” said Yan Di.
Yan Zhaoge nodded, “Don’t worry.”
As he commanded within his heart, within the boundless outskirts of the void, the gigantic Divine Palace’s hall slowly became illusory, and gradually disappeared within the cosmos.
After it entered such a drifting state, Yan Zhaoge did not stop. He stood in the middle of the Purple Divine Pavilion and wrote numerous runes in the air.
After the seals condensed, they turned into three flashing talismans and flew out of the hall.
After finishing everything, Yan Zhaoge started to refine the Pill Hall without any worries.
As he managed to take over the Purple Divine Pavilion and managed to gain control over the hall, more and more important pieces of information were flooding towards him.
For example, other than the control authority towards the Pill Hall, the most important item within the Pill Hall was the number of pill formulas it possessed!
In the past, the Heavenly Court’s Divine Palace had been continuously amassing, fathoming, and perfecting the pill formulas for divine pills and spirit pills.
However, because of the lack of resources,
not every pill formula would be able to manifest actual pills and medicines.
Despite that, even the parts which could be materialized were an abundance of treasure.
There were some precious pill formulas that Yan Zhaoge had never seen before even in the Martial Repository. They were only present within the Pill Hall.
While looking through these pill formulas and medicinal formulas, Yan Zhaoge felt as if he was reading through the sea of books, just like what he did in the past.
With the addition of the abundance of spirit pills and medicines within the pill storage and the precious medicinal resources which had been extinct since the Great Calamity stored within the medicine storage, Yan Zhaoge only felt one thing.
I become rich overnight.
I’m in the money
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After a short while, two pieces of talismans flew back.
After seeing them, Yan Zhaoge lightly patted the Profound Sky Purple Golden Furnace.
As the furnace was vibrating, the Pill Hall’s door opened, and streams of air shot out from within.
The streams of air were coiling and retracting within the void, and it brought two people along. However, the void outside of the cosmos started distorting again.
If one wanted to follow them, they would be thrown off guard by this, and lose their target.
As for the two people, they followed the retracting streams of air into the Pill Hall. The white jade hall closed its doors again, and it disappeared within the dark cosmos.
The two stood in the hall’s interior. It was Yue Zhenbei and Long Xueji.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1274 - Revenge
Previously, Yan Zhaoge released the three talismans for Yue Zhenbei, Long Xueji and Exalted Fire – Suo Mingzhang.
Despite having his North Ocean Clone being pushed out of the Pill Hall, Yan Zhaoge didn’t need to guide him back. He just allowed it to return back to the dao universe, and return back to the World beyond Worlds.
“Senior apprentice-uncle Yue, senior apprentice-uncle Long.” Yan Zhaoge immediately smiled when he saw the two of them, and greeted them.
Yan Di, Nie Jingshen and Yu Ye both stopped their action of refining; they went up to greet both senior apprentice-uncle as well.
Seeing the Sword Sovereign Yue Zhenbei, Yan Zhaoge and his father both felt rather emotional.
“Over the years, while we have received the care of the Jade Capital Crag, we father and son have also brought you many troubles. I’ve always wanted to meet senior apprentice-uncle Yue, but never got the chance to. I never expected us to meet today.” said Yan Zhaoge as he let out a sigh.
“It’s fine.” Facing Yan Zhaoge and his father, while Yue Zhenbei still kept a stern face, his gaze became more gentle.
He looked at Yan Di, and looked at Yan Zhaoge. The emotions he felt were even more intense than them.
At this moment, the Sword Sovereign saw his past master appearing in front of him again.
After so many years of waiting, it wasn’t all for naught.
Yue Zhenbei felt a sense of excitement within his chest, and he moved his lips.
However, what he said was different from what he wanted to.
His tone was rather serious, “Although we have gathered together, this world is filled with difficulties. Don’t be too careless.”
“Has the Earthly Sovereign passed the Profound Origin Tribulation?” Yan Zhaoge and the others looked at each other. They could vaguely feel what the Sword Sovereign actually meant.
Sword Sovereign – Yue Zhenbei said slowly, “Indeed. The Earth Sovereign had passed the Profound Origin Tribulation, and achieved the Five Qis Unification Realm. He had ascended to the realm of a Grand Virtual Immortal.”
Yan Zhaoge and the others nodded in silence when they heard it.
If it wasn’t for the Exalted Fire – Suo Mingzhang causing havoc within the Immortal Court, the Earthly Sovereign might have already returned to the World beyond Worlds.
Perhaps, it wasn’t appropriate to refer to him as the Earthly Sovereign anymore.
Star Conquest Lord was his current title. Otherwise, the title he had used last time, Exalted Earth, might be more appropriate.
Even the Astro Sovereign and Sword Sovereign would have difficulties fighting together against Jiang Shen which had ascended the Heavenly Lord Realm.
As for Exalted Fire – Suo Mingzhang, although he had ascended the Virtual Immortal Realm, and achieved Five Qis Unification earlier than Jiang Shen, Yan Zhaoge and the others wouldn’t be so blindly optimistic because of that.
Suo Mingzhang had his own troubles.
As expected, the Sword Sovereign continued saying, “There’s no doubt about the Exalted Fire’s strength. However, this time, the situation got out of hand.”
He seemed to be praising, “The besiege in the Original Nebula, and the continuous battle after that. Just the heretic Heavenly Lords alone, three of them had already perished under the Exalted Fire.”
“Those heretic experts which had joined the besiegement of the Exalted Wood, and were still currently alive had been killed by the Exalted Fire as a form of revenge.”
Yue Zhenbei’s tone was peaceful. However, everyone felt an aura of a fearlessness.
Long Xueji nodded slowly, “He lives up to his name!”
So many Immortal Court experts had already been killed by Suo Mingzhang. It was needless to say how horrifying the besiegement of Suo Mingzhang was.
Before this, the Immortal Court had assigned the underlings to surround the Original Nebula. Everyone that attended the capture of the Exalted Wood – Shao Junhuang were all deployed as well. First of all, they were much more familiar with the environment of the Original Nebula. Secondly, they served as baits to hold Suo Mingzhang back. They wanted to let Suo Mingzhang not have the intent of retreating, and fight till his death. With that, they would achieve their goal of besieging Suo Mingzhang.
In the end, the bait was swallowed. However, the net broke, and the fish did not die.
Suo Mingzhang forcefully endured the heavy besiegement and attacks. He killed the target he wanted to kill. After taking revenge for Shao Junhuang, he made a path for him to escape by killing all that stands in his way.
After that, he even managed to rid off the people chasing him, and reached the Pill Hall in time.
Just like how he had promised Yan Zhaoge.
“Even when the heretic Heavenly Lord expert took action, he couldn’t hold the Exalted Fire back,” said Sword Sovereign slowly.
The higher the cultivation, the higher the gap of strength brought upon each realm.
When one reached the level of Heavenly Lord, even if it was a heretic Heavenly Lord, he shouldn’t be underestimated at all.
Yan Di and the others praised, “We really can’t catch up to the senior.”
Yan Zhaoge said softly, “However, if that’s the case, the whole Immortal Court would definitely be in tremor. They would think of a larger-scale plan to besiege the Exalted Fire in order to take revenge.”
“Before that, we would have to be wary of the Blessed Lands’ actions. I’m afraid we would have to utilize more strength. However, I don’t know… if the Immeasurable Heavenly Lord would personally take action.”
The Sword Sovereign said, “It’s hard to say whether the Immeasurable Heavenly Lord would take action. However, there would definitely be more Heavenly Lord experts coming out of seclusion.”
He looked at Yan Zhaoge and said, “For the heretics, your mother – Snow Crane and you aren’t their utmost priority as a target anymore.”
Exalted Fire – Suo Mingzhang is the one they’re after.
Yan Zhaoge couldn’t help feeling weird.
Previously, he was still thinking of ways to locate the Exalted Fire to help him. Now, it seemed like he would be caught up into the Exalted Fire’s mess. The situation became quite laughable.
However, no matter what, he could not escape reality. He had to face what he was destined to.<
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If the Exalted Fire – Suo Mingzhang could take care of the problems brought by the Exalted Earth Luminary – Jiang Shen, he would definitely face a much bigger threat from the Immortal Court.
In fact, the Immortal Court might even make things hard for Yan Zhaoge and the others in an attempt to capture Suo Mingzhang.
For him and the Broad Creed Mountain, Jiang Shen himself was already a huge threat.
It was also hard to predict what attitude the legendary North Star Emperor would have.
“The situation had changed completely,” said the Sword Sovereign at last.
Everyone on the spot, including Long Xueji of the Roving Jade Heavens secretly nodded.
Indeed, the situation had changed.
Because of Suo Mingzhang, the problem they’re facing now might not just be the internal struggles and conflicts within the World beyond Worlds anymore.
With the spread of warfare, the situation had gone out of control. It might become a thunderstorm which engulfed the entire daoist universe.
In such a fierce thunderstorm, no one could guarantee where history might advance to.
Yan Zhaoge’s eyes were quiet.
He looked at his surroundings, and felt himself communicating with the Pill Hall. After thinking for a while, the radiance within his eyes became sharp.
For the Pill Hall, he had always had special thoughts and plans for it.
Because of how much hindrance there was, and how unconfident he was, he wanted to take things slowly and prepare for everything.
However, this plan might have to be altered, and be brought forward.
Indifferent to life and death, fight if you’re not convinced!
Yan Zhaoge turned his head to look at Long Xueji. He said in a deep voice, “Senior apprentice-uncle Long, senior apprentice-sister Yu, thanks to both of your help, I’ve managed to acquire the Pill Hall.”
Yu Ye had helped fill up the position as one of the five members of the formation. Without her, the formation would never work at all.
Long Xueji had also helped to hold Chen Qianhua back.
“The Roving Jade Heavens can use the treasures, and all kinds of pill formulas stored within here all they want,” said Yan Zhaoge, “However, I have uses for this Pill Hall. Please forgive me, senior apprentice-uncle Long.”
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