Yan Zhaoge could hear the rushing noise of water resounding from all around, resembling rapids.
On the other side, Liu Shengfeng had already died at Ruan Ping’s hands, as Ye Zhongzhou, Li Jingwan and the others were also supporting one another.
Pushing out with his palm, Yan Zhaoge externalised his aura-qi, forming a massive hand which lifted Ye Zhongzhou and the other few up as he rose into the air along with them.
Very quickly, the rapids surged in from all directions, the land beneath them gradually turning into a lake country once more.
However, the current Clear Concealed Lake was destined to be different from before.
For example, Clear Concealed Island and the other islands in its central region already no longer existed, while at the bottom of the lake, a massive crater signaled that something had happened.
Gazing into the distance, Yan Zhaoge felt that Clear Concealed Lake appeared completely different from before.
Many martial practitioners, especially many Martial Grandmaster experts, fighting in a huge battle on Clear Concealed Lake and the surrounding regions, easily affected thousands of kilometres away as the heavens roiled and the earth was overturned.
The Clear Concealed Lake of beautiful scenery completely faded away into history, as the clouds that once enveloped the lake’s surface all year round had completely disappeared, the spiritual qi flow of the region chaotic till it had completely changed.
With regard to the strength of the battle participants, if not for the Devilish Domain Grand Formation and the grand formation that Turbid Wave Pavilion had previously installed here, the vast Clear Concealed Lake might have been completely wiped off from the surface of the earth.
Hovering in mid-air, Yan Zhaoge’s heart suddenly moved slightly. Swivelling his head, he saw a figure speedily approach from the distance.
The newcomer was a big, burly man, who instead had the look of wanting to cry out to the heavens and slam his head into the ground, “Young Master, it’s just so good that you’re okay!”
Who was it if not Ah Hu?
Yan Zhaoge laughed, “Luckily, it was alarming but not dangerous, with the problem having been successfully resolved.”
Behind Ah Hu followed a giant being, with fur both black and white, with massive black rings around its eyes, simple and pure, walking with trademark knees bent inwards.
This giant fellow was naturally Pan-Pan. Not thinking about the Sikong Qing on his back, he opened his stride, shooting straight towards Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge was of course happy that Pan-Pan was close to him. However, he didn’t want such a giant fella to lunge onto him, as he hurriedly raised his hand to stop Pan-Pan.
Yan Zhaoge patted Pan-Pan’s huge head. Pan-Pan extended his tongue, gently licking Yan Zhaoge’s palm.
Looking at the lake which was gradually recovering before their eyes, feeling the fluctuations of spiritual qi in the distance from the large scale battle that had still yet to end, Sikong Qing’s eyes sparkled.
As Sikong Qing and Ye Zhongzhou and the others exchanged greetings, Yan Zhaoge looked towards another direction.
There, Xu Fei’s figure appeared.
Seeing that Yan Zhaoge and the others were all safe, Xu Fei first heaved a sigh of relief before he asked Yan Zhaoge, “The Devilish Domain Grand Formation collapsing, the aura of the Nine Underworlds also vanishing-all of this was…”
Yan Zhaoge laughed, “Luck, luck.”
Xu Fei gently punched him on the shoulder, “You’re good, actually managing to resolve the matter!”
“This is much more major in scale than the matters in the Heavenly Connection Meet,” Xu Fei sighed in praise, “It is hard to imagine that this is something a Martial Scholar was able to achieve.”
Yan Zhaoge smiled slightly, “As you know, senior apprentice-brother Xu, I had a fortuitous encounter, coming by a Sacred Artifact fragment. Otherwise, I would be like ‘a skilled housewife is also hard pressed to cook a meal without rice’.”
Xu Fei shook his head, “It’s a Sacred Artifact fragment, not a Sacred Artifact. Being able to wield it sufficiently as a Martial Scholar is already very good in itself.”
“Much less the fact that this fortune came from you clashing with opponents, and did not drop down from the sky without any rhyme or reason.”
As he was speaking, a figure appeared in the distance. As Yan Zhaoge looked over, he saw that it was Tang Yonghao from whom they had been separated earlier.
Tang Yonghao had also known of Yan Zhaoge’s intentions to enter the core of the formation, just that they had later lost contact in the midst of their journey together.
Currently, the Devilish Domain Grand Formation having fallen, the first one Tang Yonghao thought of was Yan Zhaoge, and after knowing that it was precisely Yan Zhaoge’s work, he said from the bottom of his heart, “Junior Brother Yan, no matter the relationship between our two clans, on this matter, I have to express my admiration, also thanking you on behalf of the ordinary people of the Eight Extremities World whom you have saved from disaster.”
Yan Zhaoge said, “Senior Brother Tang overstates things.”
He looked into the distance, knitting his brows slightly, “This matter having turned out so troublesome also stems from the Decimating Abyss’s encroachment and corrosion being too deep. Exactly who was it that came up wrong, I wonder?”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 197: Who under the heavens doesn’t know this Lord!
HSSB197: Who under the heavens doesn’t know this Lord!
Hearing Yan Zhaoge’s query, Tang Yonghao fell silent for a moment.
Yan Zhaoge and Xu Fei both felt rather surprised at this, as the latter asked, “Senior Brother Tang, do you know something?”
Frowning, Tang Yonghao answered, “On the way here, I met others and heard some rumours, but also cannot properly confirm the rumours now.”
Yan Zhaoge asked, “How about just sharing it with us?”
Glancing at Ye Zhongzhou and Li Jingwan, Tang Yonghao sighed but did not speak, instead sending a sound transmission with his aura-qi over to Yan Zhaoge and Xu Fei, “According to rumours, it was Elder Chen, who led Jade Sea City’s disciples over here this time.”
The features of that intractable Elder of Jade Sea City surfaced in Yan Zhaoge’s mind, “Elder Chen?”
Tang Yonghao said, “It still can’t be confirmed now. Elder Chen seems to have vanished, and we can only understand the truth of the matter once he has appeared.”
Tang Yonghao being from the Sacred Sun Clan, greatly at loggerheads with Jade Sea City, it was not good for him to evaluate this, and he himself was also not a person to jump to conclusions lightly.
However, Yan Zhaoge still understood Tang Yonghao’s meaning, which was that currently, whether dead or alive, Elder Chen was nowhere to be seen.
Such a longtime Martial Grandmaster expert actually vanishing was truly rather incomprehensible.
“Being bewitched by the Nine Underworlds can generally be attributed to various reasons. For example, Liu Shengfeng had an abusive personality and liked to torture others; this personality of his also having been suppressed and restricted by his clan, he made an easy target.” Yan Zhaoge rubbed his temple. “Martial Grandmaster experts, especially one with a high and deep cultivation, generally have firmer wills, and are thus not easily shaken by the Nine Underworlds.”
“However, it is also precisely because of their firm wills that once their state of mind changes, they also appear more stubborn, as well as more obstinate and more crazed.”
Yan Zhaoge let out a long breath, “I am not clear about Infinite Boundless Mountain’s Elder Mo, but from the looks of him, he is clearly antagonistic to the extreme, filled with anger and hate towards things. As for Jade Sea City’s Elder Chen, while he seemed rather intractable and temperamental before this, he still seemed overall upright and aboveboard.”
Tang Yonghao nodded upon hearing his words, whereas Xu Fei, after considering for a moment,
said somewhat hesitantly, “Could it be, because of the matter of his grandson?”
“Ah?” Yan Zhaoge was rather confused by this, while Tang Yonghao looked like he had suddenly realised something.
Xu Fei explained, “Zhaoge may not be too familiar with it, because this matter happened rather long ago. Elder Chen lost his son many years ago, leaving only a grandson remaining. However, his grandson was full of ailments and weaknesses, and was also not able to cultivate. Therefore, he could only slowly try to deal with his condition. Seeing his grandson’s body getting weaker and weaker became Elder Chen’s greatest problem in his heart.”
He sighed, “This is already something from long ago; in recent years, no news about this have been incoming. It is also unknown whether…sigh!”
“Like this…” Yan Zhaoge nodded, not saying anything further.
He gazed into the distance, where victory was gradually being decided in the various battlefields.
With no hopes of the Nine Underworlds descending, and the devilish domain shattering and assaulting them instead, the Decimating Abyss experts already had no hopes of victory. Those who could escape all began to escape, while those who couldn’t fought on where they were.
Having been captured alive, those few who had not fallen still had some chance of surviving.
The majority who had already fallen, even having been captured alive, would most likely be killed following interrogation.
Great battles ended one after another, as the battle of Clear Concealed Lake finally came to an end.
One after another powerful auras began converging at the middle of the lake.
The first to arrive was a white-haired old woman, back arched and coughing intermittently as she seemed extremely weak.
However, Yan Zhaoge, Xu Fei, Tang Yonghao and the others all recognised her as a Grand Elder of Turbid Wave Pavilion, one of the top experts in the entire Lake Domain.
Seeing that old woman, Zhang Yao called out in joy, “Grand Master!”
Ruan Ping bowed, “This disciple Ruan Ping greets Grand Aunt-master.”
Looking at Zhang Yao, some affection was revealed on the old woman’s face.
Yan Zhaoge and the others, including the still heavily injured Ye Zhongzhou, Li Jingwan and Xiao Yu all went up together to greet the old woman as well.
After hearing Ruan Ping and Zhang Yao’s reports, the old woman’s gaze landed on Yan Zhaoge, as she slowly said after appraising him for a moment, “Broad Creed is fortunate.”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “Senior overpraises me.”
The old woman similarly smiled, no longer speaking.
To a figure like her, the Yan Zhaoge who had dispelled the Devilish Domain Grand Formation was more worthy of her attention than the Yan Zhaoge who had domineeringly swept away many similarly-aged geniuses during the Heavenly Connection Meet.
Granted, a monstrous genius who presided loftily over those geniuses of the same age indicated that his future could not be estimated, possessing the possibility of achieving legend in the future.
However, a mere Martial Scholar coming out of nowhere and entering a major matter in which only longtime Martial Grandmasters would prove decisive, and also succeeding in a single go-this meant that the brilliance of Yan Zhaoge’s vision, judgement, breadth of spirit as well as talent had already completely surpassed the level of his current cultivation as well as age.
As a Martial Scholar, he could influence a matter which concerned the situation of the entire world. Then, if Yan Zhaoge’s cultivation rose in the future, what kind of legendary feats could he accomplish?
From another perspective, only a genius who did not die young could truly be considered a genius.
Of all humans, while the percentage of geniuses and heroes was small, given the condition of a massive amount of people, monstrous geniuses would still abound.
With the old woman’s identity and age, she had seen too many different kinds of geniuses over the years.
Not talking about others, being able to achieve her current position and cultivation base, when she herself had been young, how was this old woman not a Heaven’s favoured daughter at the top of her peers?
However, heroes were innumerable, but those who could achieve these heights were always only a limited few.
Huge waves cleansed the sand; too many geniuses never achieved their predicted heights.
And Yan Zhaoge’s feats, in the old woman’s eyes, as compared to those young geniuses who were only outstanding in terms of martial arts, at least increased his chances as he continued heading somewhere higher and further.
“Broad Creed Mountain has a successor ah; now all that remains to be seen is if he can surpass those before him,” Looking at Yan Zhaoge, the old woman sighed within her heart.
The experts of the other Sacred Grounds all arrived in turn.
A purple-haired old man, a longtime Elder of the Heavenly Thunder Hall, after having heard about the details of this matter, focused his gaze on Yan Zhaoge, not speaking for a long time.
A middle-aged Martial Grandmaster beside him frowned, “The Decimating Abyss experts were all held up by us; this kid was merely lucky, relying on the power of the Sacred Artifact fragment and succeeding in his ambush, also not having been obstructed by any Martial Grandmasters.”
Hearing this middle-aged man’s words, that purple-haired old man turned to look at him.
The old man did not say a single word, but caused the middle-aged man to feel numb across his entire body, nearly suffocating as he broke out in a cold sweat.
Only when the middle-aged man nearly couldn’t take it any longer did the purple-haired old man retract his gaze, saying mildly, “Firstly, his Sacred Artifact fragment was also not picked up by the roadside; it was obtained after consecutively defeating my Heavenly Thunder Hall’s disciples. Let’s first not talk about Yan Shan; do you think you could defeat the mid Xiantian stage Lin Zhou with a cultivation of the early Xiantian stage?”
“Afterwards, giving you a Sacred Artifact fragment, how much of its power would you be able to wield in the mid Xiantian Martial Scholar realm?”
“Finally, you also saw the strength of that Devilish Domain Grand Formation. Trapped within the devilish domain, how many Martial Grandmasters would still be able to accurately find the core of the formation? Even possessing a Sacred Artifact fragment, wanting to shake the core of the formation, the timing of the circulation of the formation also has to be accurately judged, only then being able to succeed in a single blow. Otherwise, it would only be wasting the power of the Sacred Artifact fragment for no good reason.”
The purple-haired old man looked at that middle-aged man, “Now, do you still feel that this was merely a matter of luck, something that any other Martial Scholar, as long as they had a Sacred Artifact fragment in hand, would be able to do?”
That middle-aged man’s face looked rather sooty as he lowered his head silently.
The purple-haired old man said mildly, “Granted, the Decimating Abyss experts were all engaged and held up by us on the outskirts. However, if not for him, The Great Nine Underworlds Door would have opened, and the results would have been completely different.”
Looking at Yan Zhaoge, he sighed, “From now onwards, in this old man’s eyes, you are no longer just the son of Yan Di. Broad Creed Mountain’s Yan Zhaoge; this name-this old man shall remember it.”
Not only this purple-haired old man, the gazes of the experts of the various Sacred Grounds present were all focused on Yan Zhaoge.
Following today’s incident, the name of Broad Creed Mountain’s Yan Zhaoge, would be known by all.
Who under the heavens doesn’t know this Lord!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 198: A recurring year, performing something major
HSSB198: A recurring year, performing something major
On Clear Concealed Lake, the battle had finally come to an end. The peak experts of the various Sacred Grounds met up, consolidating all the new informatio
n that they had gathered, while also discussing the problem of the Nine Underworlds and the Decimating Abyss a step further.
Although this time’s incident had been resolved, the various Sacred Grounds had all had losses.
The martial practitioners with a lower cultivation base also did not have it free and easy, as they were all communicating and interacting with those they knew.
The younger generation geniuses who had attended the Heavenly Connection Meet earlier were no longer the main characters at this moment.
However, as the core descendants of the various Sacred Grounds whom they groomed with much care, their vision and their knowledge as well as their grasp of the situation far surpassed others of the same age.
Regarding this time’s Nine Underworlds descent, they generally all had their own thoughts on the matter.
Of these, some had died in this incident, and no matter their relationship, as their fellow disciples thought of them, they would inevitably feel desolate.
Of course, their gazes also frequently fell on Yan Zhaoge.
Currently looking at Yan Zhaoge, the crowd of young geniuses all had complicated feelings within their hearts.
Even though he had shone brightly in the Heavenly Connection Meet, even though his talent and strength presided over many, earlier, when looking at Yan Zhaoge, it had not been any different from looking at themselves.
Yan Zhaoge’s brilliance had caused many to, amidst their admiration, think to want to chase him with all their might, contending with him once more in the future.
However, after coming to know everything that had happened, many of them gradually had changes in their thoughts.
There seemed to be a division between them and Yan Zhaoge, who no longer seemed to be the same type of person as them.
While he was still a Martial Scholar, he was able to resolve a problem that many Martial Grandmasters also might not be able to solve.
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