Within the circle of light were scenes of a burning hell of flowing lava, as an illusory giant of blazing flame was vaguely revealed once again, seemingly roaring angrily towards the sky.
Having been greatly damaged by Shi Tie, the power of this ring had also weakened greatly. Now, Ye Jing was actually planning to activate and unleash it with his own life force!
“Flame Devil leaves the body! Incinerate the Heavens and the Earth!”
With the hand on which he was wearing that dark red ring, Ye Jing actually pierced down directly towards his own chest!
The dark red ring sunk into Ye Jing’s body which was now already almost completely composed of flame, before within his body, a dazzling radiance abruptly lit up!
It was no longer the red light of flames, but rather bright, white light!
A piercing white light was emitted directly from within Ye Jing’s body that was composed of flame as these leaping flames suddenly seemed to solidify at this very moment.
Next, cracks began gradually appearing on Ye Jing’s body as though it was made of porcelain.
Within the cracks, the white light grew more and more dazzling, the destructive force emanating from within becoming more and more distinct!
Seeing this scene, Yan Zhaoge chuckled.
Not avoiding or evading, the massive palm above his head formed of his aura-qi, still just descended as it slammed downwards!
“Boom!!!”
As the massive boom resounded, the white light that had yet to erupt, was extinguished!
With a single palm, Yan Zhaoge slammed Ye Jing’s entire person down into the ground!
With the two of them at their centre, the surrounding hundred metres of land all collapsed, caving inwards as a deep, gigantic crater was formed!
Yan Zhaoge stepped into the air, silently standing in the sky above the deep crater as he lowered his head to look into it.
“A mere little ghost, and you still think fit to call yourself a devil?”
“You really think that you are the Flame Devil Emperor?”
At the bottom of the deep crater was a figure which almost didn’t seem human any longer, as it resembled the remnant ashes following a huge fire.
His legs had completely vanished along with one of his arms, only leaving behind a single arm, a ring riddled with cracks still worn upon its finger.
His entire body’s skin resembled burnt charcoal.
Only some dark red patterns could still be seen, glowing with light in intermittent intervals as they resembled an ember in the ashes that had still yet to been completely extinguished.
A Ye Jing whose face was black as charcoal glared at the Yan Zhaoge above him, weak and powerless as he had never been before, though the hatred as well as anger within his gaze was also intense as it had never been before!
Because of that palm of Yan Zhaoge’s, the surrounding earth collapsed and sunk in all around, shaking and rumbling unceasingly as it seemed as though an earthquake had been triggered.
With that deep crater as their centre, a series of massive cracks began spreading out in all directions.
Amidst the quaking, the land beneath the deep crater seemed as though it was going to collapse a step further, the sound of flowing water audible as though there was an underground river surging beneath.
Ye Jing’s body slumped downwards, about to fall into the underground river.
Streams of miasma surged up into the sky from within, seemingly able to consume metal and corrode iron as they obstructed Yan Zhaoge’s path.
Ye Jing hissed, “You dog Yan Zhaoge, as long as there is breath left within my lungs, I will definitely have it out with you! I…”
Ye Jing’s words not finished, Yan Zhaoge had already descended as he activated the Heaven-Thwarting Mantra, completely not fearing the miasma, instantly arriving right before him!
Yan Zhaoge shot him a sideways glance, “Main Character halo?”
“When someone wants to kill you, a situation arises. Failing in their attempt, you escape, successfully mastering a godly ability and coming back to exact your vengeance?”
“You didn’t die in the Sealing Dragon Abyss because I had no intention of killing you in the first place. Now, however…”
The massive palm formed of aura-qi above Yan Zhaoge’s head, slammed downwards once more!
“This Yan wants you dead at midnight, who can keep you alive till dawn!”
As his palm descended, Ye Jing’s enraged howl, abruptly, stopped!
“Boom!”
As the massive boom resounded, completely and utter destruction!
The faint silhouette of a soul, completely and utterly destroyed!
The soul flying and the spirit scattering, to complete and utter, eternal, damnation!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 98: A great harvest
HSSB98: A great harvest
As that palm landed, it was as though strange scenes departing from the ordinary had appeared before Yan Zhaoge’s eyes.
It was as though the qi flow of the heavens and the earth could be seen, all coming together to give their support to Ye Jing.
When the times, the heavens and the earth give power together, the luck of the heavens and the earth do converge.
And with that one palm of his, the qi flow of the heavens and the earth gradually dissipated, turning illusory alongside the surging of the clouds and the rising of the wind.
“When the times, the heavens and the earth give power together, which lucky hero doth not possess freedom?”
Yan Zhaoge let out a carefree laugh as he gently blew towards that ethereal scene.
The winds surged along with the remnant clouds, as that illusory luck of the heavens and the earth was blown away and scattered as easily as simple smoke.
The deep crater before Yan Zhaoge’s eyes was still continuing to collapse. Ye Jing having been turned into dust by that palm of his, only that mottled dark red ring still remained, which fell downwards towards the underground river.
“Disappearing just like this; who knows when it will recover its vitality, seeing the sky and the sun once more, taking the form of a fortuitous encounter for yet another hot-blooded youth, giving it a chance to soar up once again, a golden finger that defies the heavens wherever it points, achieving yet another legend and myth…”
Yan Zhaoge curled the corner of his mouth, “…As if.”
Making a grabbing motion with his palm, he sucked the dark red ring from mid-air into it with the help of his aura-qi.
Stepping into the air, exerting a little bit of strength with his foot, Yan Zhaoge’s figure rose from the bottom of the deep crater, flying outside of it.
Ah Hu came up to meet him, “Young Master.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded, “Collect Yan Xu’s body well, and also his belongings.”
Ah Hu gave a simple and honest laugh, “Hehe, Young Master, you don’t have to tell me that. His belongings-I took them all the moment I could.”
Yan Zhaoge curled his lips, “En, I have always trusted you on that.”
Ah Hu said, “Young Master, I’ve glanced through, and there really are quite a few good things inside!”
“What a pity that most of them, like that mid-grade spirit artifact of his, are damaged; that must have been caused by that attack of Elder Shi’s.”
Yan Zhaoge sighed, “That’s only to be expected; otherwise, we also wouldn’t have been able to take care of him that easily.”
“However, at the very least, there should still be some rewards,” Yan Zhaoge perked himself up.
As a Principal Elder of a territory, Yan Xu’s private stash was rather abundant.
He would not carry many of these belongings along with him, rather keeping them safe within his own private residences.
The things that he had on him were either something that he had urgent need of recently, or something that could help him increase his current combat ability.
While there was a shortage of artifacts as well as spirit
artifacts, as the Principal Elder of Broad Creed Mountain, one of the few Sacred Grounds of this world, the powerful weapons that were suited for someone of Yan Xu’s cultivation would naturally not be lacking.
Besides that mid-grade spirit artifact, the Hidden Clear Sunlight Sword, Yan Xu also had two accompanying low-grade spirit artifacts.
Although neither of them was as powerful as the Hidden Clear Sunlight Sword, they both still had their own subtle uses.
A protective light armour-while unlike Ah Hu’s Black Nightmare Armour, it did not possess dual functions in being able to both attack and defend, it was not inferior in terms of defensive ability.
A green belt-specifically made to coordinate with the Wind Calamity of Broad Creed Mountain’s Wind Fire Calamities, causing martial practitioners to be like tigers given wings when executing the Wind Calamity movement techniques.
These two low-grade spirit artifacts having fallen into Yan Xu’s hands, unleashing their true power under normal circumstances, their use would definitely be extremely great.
A pity that whether it was Yan Xu or them, they were completely not on the same level of power as Shi Tie at all.
Earlier, when Yan Xu had wanted to escape, he had directly activated the power of the green belt to withstand Shi Tie’s blow, whereas the light armour had automatically moved to protect him.
As a result, the two low-grade spirit artifacts had suffered the same fate as their owner and been damaged.
Looking at them now, they were riddled with cracks, from which spiritual qi was leaking out unceasingly. Let alone not being able to use them, they were about to be completely destroyed.
The extent of their damage was even more severe than it was for the Hidden Clear Sunlight Sword.
Especially that light armour; while it had been unable to perform its function when Ah Hu had attacked Yan Xu with the Sun Rain earlier, it had still suffered a portion of the damage from that attack.
A little pained, Ah Hu said, “But it’s a spirit artifact.”
Having followed by Yan Di’s side since young, his vision was far broader than that of others. However, seeing a spirit artifact damaged to this extent, he still felt that it was a pity.
Yan Zhaoge scrutinised the artifacts for a moment, then, not saying a word, rummaged through Yan Xu’s belongings, from which he retrieved a few crystalline rocks in the form of ice.
Ah Hu looked, “Young Master, these seem to be the Suppressive Ice Rocks which martial practitioners use to temporarily suppress and treat their injuries.”
“Get me some Caltrop Flower Grass,” Yan Zhaoge said as he crushed the Suppressive Ice Rocks.
Ah Hu was somewhat puzzled, his entire brain full of question marks.
He did have Caltrop Flower Grass on him, but such spirit grass primarily only served as a guiding drug for the medicinal properties of a few unique medicines.
Whether it was the Caltrop Flower Grass or the Suppressive Ice Rocks, both were only used by the living. Neither could help in the refining of artifacts.
However, he still did as was asked of him, giving Yan Zhaoge some Caltrop Flower Grass.
Receiving the Caltrop Flower Grass, Yan Zhaoge clapped out with his palms. The spirit grass dried up, and he crushed their leaves to dust, adding it to the fine powder that was left of the Suppressive Ice Rocks.
As the two met, a green smoke was gradually emitted from their mix as they actually began burning up on their own.
Yan Zhaoge waved his hands, and the blazing flames landed on those spirit artifacts of Yan Xu’s.
While they still remained weak, the outflow of spiritual qi gradually stopped as it ceased to leak out.
Yan Zhaoge nodded, “Some emergency treatment will have to do for now. Afterwards, put them back in the Internal Crystal Furnace and refine them once more, and they will have a chance of recovering. Now, at the very least, we can be assured they won’t be completely destroyed.”
Ah Hu stared till his eyes saw stars, “Young Master, this…this…”
Yan Zhaoge appeared as though there was totally nothing out of the ordinary at all, “In this boundless world, countless wonders abound. In our daily lives, we should try to gather up all those various minor bits of general knowledge as well as little methods of doing things that we encounter. Who knows, they might come in useful sometime.”
Ah Hu opened his mouth wide for quite a few moments before finally closing it again, as he now exclaimed with a fawning look on his face, “Young Master, you’re really a genius!”
Yan Zhaoge rolled his eyes, “Your expression is too fake.”
Ah Hu chortled happily.
Yan Zhaoge shook his head, his attention falling on yet another of Yan Xu’s belongings.
As opposed to his spirit artifacts which were currently damaged and unable to be used, this thing actually drew Yan Zhaoge’s attention even more.
“Oh, how rare; Yan Xu actually has one of these things?” Yan Zhaoge’s eyes shone as he beheld a red orb within his palm that was bright red as blood, clear as crystal.
Within the bloodred orb, it was as though there was a liquid substance constantly flowing about.
The orb faintly emanated a bit of yin qi as well as baleful qi.
Ah Hu’s large head squeezed over, looking at it from quite some time before he asked hesitantly, “Young Master, isn’t this thingy a Blood Refining Orb?”
Yan Zhaoge nodded, “That’s right, it is precisely a Blood Refining Orb.”
The Blood Refining Orb was a rare, unique treasure. It only had a slight possibility of being found in battlefields which were like hell on earth, where blood flowed into rivers.
This was one of the favourites of martial practitioners who trained in the demonic arts. However, the Blood Refining Orb itself was actually not bloody and brutal, only being a crystallisation of the purest of yin qi and blood qi.
Demonic martial practitioners could use it to cultivate, whereas normal martial practitioners, when heavily injured, could also use it to replenish their qi and blood.
It was only that absorbing the Blood Refining Orb required one to be seated in the meditative position for a rather long period of time. Having been murderously pursued by Yan Zhaoge so closely, Yan Xu had not had the time to do so.
“This thing’s greatest function is actually that it can be used to refine a Blood Devil Plate; just that I’m not sure whether in this time and age, there is still anyone who knows that this can be done.”
“Unexpected gains; what a great harvest, what a great harvest.”
Smiling, Yan Zhaoge happily kept the Blood Refining Orb well.
He checked over the other valuable items as well as precious medicines that Yan Xu had on him, collecting all of them.
Next, Yan Zhaoge took out the dark red ring that he had obtained from Ye Jing.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 99: The fire seed within his dantian
HSSB99: The fire seed within his dantian
Yan Zhaoge rubbed the ring that was riddled with cracks.
This ring had been in the form of light earlier, even having merged into Ye Jing’s body. Now, it had regained its true form once more.
It was only that the ring which had originally been dazzling and eye-catching like flames was currently dim and completely without light as it appeared filled with dust, as well as extremely mottled.
Numerous cracks riddled the exterior of the ring, resembling spiderwebs as the ring looked as though it could shatter at any moment.
However, holding the ring within his hand, Yan Zhaoge could still vaguely feel the blazing heat contained inside of it.
Yan Zhaoge narrowed his eyes, focusing his mind to gradually sink within the ring.
The scene before his eyes instantly changed.
First was pitch darkness. Next, in that darkness where one would be unable to see even their own outstretched hand, a glow suddenly lit up.
The glow was actually extremely weak, only a faint line of light. However, b
ecause the surrounding environment was completely dark, even that one line of light appeared extremely dazzling and eye-catching.
Looking over carefully, it seemed to be but a mere spark of fire, flickering with a crimson red glow.
The spark slowly grew bigger and bigger, the light of the fire correspondingly blazing brighter and brighter as it gradually expanded into a small ember.
The flame blazed stronger and stronger, its strength increasing more and more, from a small ember, turning into a large, dominating fire that surged high into the skies, till eventually, it had formed an infinite sea of flames.
At the end, the darkness had completely vanished, the glow of fire illuminating the heavens and the earth as all before them was completely a world of flame.
All other objects no longer existed, only leaving behind a burning flame blazing through the heavens.
Yan Zhaoge calmed himself down, slowly proceeding through the sea of flames, feeling the concept from which their strength stemmed.
All around him was blazing fire, but observing the area carefully, he could feel that although the flames were all around, they were not chaotic and unordered.
Like the tides of seawater, the flames too possessed their own pulse and natural direction of flow.
Scrutinising and pondering on it carefully, Yan Zhaoge gradually came to an understanding.
The surrounding flames engulfing this world which had originally appeared chaotic, now seemed to take form before Yan Zhaoge’s eyes.
The flames seemed to have solidified into strange characters, lining up and arranging themselves into innumerable rows of words before intersecting and moving past one another, flowing non-stop within the air, layer and layer stacked upon one another.
As Yan Zhaoge looked at these words, the corners of his mouth gradually curved upwards, “Words from before the Great Calamity, created by the Flame Devil Emperor.”
“Although I have not specifically done any research into it before, I am still familiar with some general laws about this. Half-guessing and half attempting blindly, I can also come to understand these contents.”
“As expected, it is indeed the legacy of the Flame Devil Emperor.”
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