On the back of his hand, numerous light patterns shockingly also appeared, cut of the same cloth as the ones on the stone pillar’s exterior.
The light patterns on the stone pillar resembled flowing water as they trickled along the stone pillar and onto the back of Yan Zhaoge’s hand, then extending unceasingly towards his wrist and forearm.
Numerous silhouettes appeared in Yan Zhaoge’s mind, countless scenes flashing past.
For a moment, it seemed as though a massive palm descended from the heavens, slamming onto the roof of the Divine Palace!
Seeing this scene, Yan Zhaoge abruptly awakened, returning to reality.
While that massive stone pillar, stuck within the desert, shook once more, like mountains shaking and the earth quaking as ripple-like patterns that resembled flowing water extended unceasingly on the sandy ground towards the surrounding distance.
The vast desert seemed to have become like the surface of a sea once again, tides rising and ebbing.
By the side, Ah Hu, Feng Yunsheng, Pan-Pan, as well as ‘Elder Li’ and the others all heaved up and down along with the ground beneath them.
Finally, the quaking stopped, the great earth regaining its former calm.
That stone pillar remained standing tall where it was, as though it had completely merged as one with the great desert.
Within the gazes of ‘Elder Li’ and ‘Yao Shan’, well-concealed mocking, delighted looks flashed by.
They gazed towards the distance, “It’s coming!”
While the quaking of the earth had stopped, the storm in the sky was getting stronger and stronger.
The sky before them had already completely turned dark, the terrifying black hurricane resembling numerous black dragons rampaging wantonly between the heavens and the earth.
The black hurricane roared in rage, assaulting towards them as it obscured the heavens and covered the earth.
Yan Zhaoge turned his head back and looked silently at that Black Nightmare Storm which was growing stronger nearby at a rapid rate.
Under the assault of the storm, the various defences that they had set up in the surroundings trembled.
The sudden Black Dragon Dread had already surpassed the limit of what the barrier formation could bear.
Often traversing the desert, they had also prepared for Black Dragon Dreads that might suddenly fall upon them. They immediately used these preparations, stabilising the formation.
However, these could only be sustained for a relatively short period of time. As time passed, the formation finally still began to collapse!
Everyone looked at Yan Zhaoge.
There, the stone pillar still stood tall.
Yan Zhaoge’s expression was calm. “Gather over where I am.”
They all neared Yan Zhaoge and the stone pillar.
Just behind them, the terrifying storm broke through the formation, strong black gales that filled the entire sky surging madly!
‘Elder Li’ and ‘Yao Shan’ drooped their eyelids, concealing the cold light in their eyes, rushing towards Yan Zhaoge amidst everyone else!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 220: The helpful Black Nightmare Mountain
HSSB220: The helpful Black Nightmare Mountain
They all gathered around Yan Zhaoge and the stone pillar, its surface flickering with a golden radiance.
The illusory light patterns condensed within the air seemed to reconstruct the broken, missing parts of the stone pillar.
Standing by the bottom of the stone pillar, Yan Zhaoge pressed on its surface with one hand. With his other hand, he extended his index finger, tapping lightly on his dantian.
He stared fixedly at the encroaching black storm outside that was breaking through the formation.
‘Elder Li’ and ‘Yao Shan’, meanwhile, had their attentions placed on Yan Zhaoge and Ah Hu, as well as Pan-Pan who had already retreated to Yan Zhaoge’s side.
Looking at the storm which was sweeping over towards them, Yan Zhaoge’s gaze flickered unceasingly as he swiftly calculated within his heart.
Within his dantian, the clear qi spread to the sides, and the chaotic qi mass began surging unceasingly.
The aura-qi suddenly flowed with a wondrous, unique rhythm; it was faint yet also vigorous.
Others were unable to detect its existence. But even if they could do so, they would be unable to understand it, unable to identify it.
The aura-qi infused through Yan Zhaoge’s palm into the stone pillar became more and more forceful, causing the light patterns on the pillar’s surface to become more and more dazzling.
Rushing over to Yan Zhaoge’s side, everyone looked nervously at him.
Looking back, the terrifying Black Nightmare Storm seemed to resemble numerous vicious dragons that ascended to the heavens and descended into the earth.
Wherever the storm passed, devastation was left in its wake as one gully after another was ripped out of the desert, levelling many sand dunes as a great amount of sand and wind swept violently everywhere.
With Yan Zhaoge’s vision, he could even see those tiny sand particles, after having been swept into the storm, shatter a step further to become even smaller than dust!
As the hurricane blew, because of the stone pillar’s connection to the desert, the sand in which it was buried remained stable as Mount Tai.
However, those standing on the desert’s surface would be hard pressed to escape; they were most likely going to be ripped apart by the rampant hurricane!
As the storm was already right before their eyes, and Yan Zhaoge still hadn’t done anything, everyone began to feel a little uneasy.
While a commotion did not arise, within their gazes were all ill-concealed looks of anxiety.
Earlier, it was because of Yan Zhaoge’s decision that they had not retreated to avoid the Black Dragon Dread.
Now, the Black Dragon Dread having arrived, if Yan Zhaoge really had no way of dealing with it, all of them would have to die here along with him.
Of course, they did not think that Yan Zhaoge might intentionally be putting them in this situation, because Yan Zhaoge himself was facing the same danger.
However, seeing the storm descend upon them now, without any reactive measures having been taken, they were all greatly disappointed.
‘Elder Li’ and ‘Yao Shan’ exchanged gazes, “He doesn’t intend to activate the power of that Sacred Artifact fragment? Is it that he isn’t willing to or that he can’t do it in the first place? Without a Sacred Artifact fragment, where does his confidence in not retreating stem from?”
“If that Sacred Artifact fragment of his truly cannot be drawn upon, we wouldn’t even have needed to induce a Black Dragon Storm! Now, it having descended, even we ourselves have been drawn in!”
‘Elder Li’s’ gaze was sombre, “While I am a little unresigned, if it really like this, that’s just fate. Bringing down along with us the first person of Broad Creed Mountain’s younger generation, a monstrous genius barely past twenty who can influence the overall situation of this world with a cultivation of the Martial Scholar realm-it would not be a loss for us!”
He gave a cold snort, “Raise your vigilance; perhaps he has a cold-blooded, selfish personality, and having a method to protect himself, he intends to let us perish, while he escapes unscathed”.
“If it is really like that, we must grasp that final chance, sending him on his way!”
Within a mere few short breaths of time, the terrifying storm had already arrived before them!
Those standing the furthest away from their centre, their footing unstable, were actually unable to stay rooted on the ground as they seemed about to be directly swept into the air!
Seeing this, everyone’s faces changed!
The shadow of death hung over everyone, as danger was already about to descend!
At this time, Yan Zhaoge’s hands pressed onto the pillar together!
The stone pillar on which light patterns flickered shook intensely, strea
ks of light shooting outwards in all directions!
Their radiance resembled numerous chains, shooting out like lightning into the rampaging storm.
For just that one moment, time itself seemed to freeze.
The terrifying black storm seemed to pause in mid-air, resembling the still image of a painting as bright radiance extended rapidly within the black winds, intermingling with the storm.
The next moment, time, seemingly having been paused for an instant, resumed once more, the fierce storm still lunging towards them.
However, at this moment, numerous thick spirit patterns reappeared on the sandy ground beneath everyone’s feet, enveloping the nearby area of desert.
Numerous streaks of spiritual light shot up into the air, enveloping all of them, holding off the storm once more.
Shocked, they watched the numerous radiances emanated from the stone pillar, still clashing with the tempest, dancing wildly in mid-air along with the strong, severe winds.
Yan Zhaoge exhaled and roared, “Condense!”
On the stone pillar radiating light, spiritual light flashed where the broken, missing parts were, with light actually extending unceasingly to fill up the areas in which the light patterns were missing.
It was as though the broken stone pillar had grown out once more, about to regain its original form!
On seeing this scene, everyone, ‘Elder Li’ and ‘Yao Shan’ included, was left staring and gaping in amazement, “Could it be that he can really pull this stone pillar out from the Great Western Desert?! Even elite Martial Grandmasters couldn’t do it ah!”
As the broken stone pillar stopped growing, illuminated by radiance, regaining its original appearance and contours perfectly, Yan Zhaoge let out a low roar once more.
“Up!”
Accompanied by Yan Zhaoge’s low roar, the numerous radiances that extended from the stone pillar abruptly grew taut!
The black storm that had originally brought them the threat of death now resembled thousands of divinities grabbing these radiant chains in unison, before pulling on them mightily!
The desert beneath the stone pillar shook intensely as it never had before!
At this moment, the very heavens and earth in the surrounding area seemed to be shaking along with it.
Then, under their shell-shocked gazes, that stone pillar which seemed to have completely merged with the desert, flickering with infinite radiance, lifted up from the ground!
The massive stone pillar emerged little by little from the desert, breaking free from the imprisonment of the sand below!
The ground beneath their feet surged unceasingly, the radiance protecting them also weakening non-stop.
However, that rampaging storm overhead was currently not of the leisure to cause any harm to them, instead being completely focused on being a pulley for the stone pillar.
Although they were not clear on the specifics of this, not knowing how in the world Yan Zhaoge had managed to achieve it, they all gradually realised, “He made use of the power of the natural disaster from the Great Western Desert itself, instead using it to help the stone pillar to break free of its imprisonment and merger with the desert…”
Everyone could not hold back on their praises within their hearts, “At the Martial Scholar realm, actually able to instead make use of the power of natural phenomena. This is just too incomprehensible, too terrifying! How exactly did he achieve this?”
Upon regaining their wits, ‘Elder Li’ and ‘Yao Shan’ stared at each other, “That was…instead making use of the Black Dragon Dread that we created?”
If not for the Black Dragon Dread that had sprung up, giving an abrupt boost to the storm in the surrounding area, if Yan Zhaoge had wanted to directly lift the stone pillar up with the Black Nightmare Storms in this area, it would definitely not have been so easy for him.
Realising that their side had instead helped Yan Zhaoge out, the faces of the two turned somewhat green, as though they had swallowed a dead rat whole.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 221: Left hand leading a panda, right hand…
HSSB221: Left hand leading a panda, right hand…
The radiances entangling the stone pillar in the form of numerous bands of light surged in the air, drawn taut by the Black Nightmare Storm.
The tension forcibly pulled the stone pillar out from within the desert.
In that moment in which the stone pillar was completely removed from the ground, a majestic force suddenly emanated outwards in all directions.
Swept by these wild waves, the Black Nightmare Storm around them, was completely eradicated!
The sand within the air was completely crushed into dust, dispersing along within the wind into the distance.
If one were to look down from above the nine heavens, they would see that within the desert enveloped and obscured by Black Nightmare Storms, a clear patch of land had suddenly appeared.
Where the stone pillar had stood originally, the vast desert had virtually been levelled into flat land, forming a massive depression in the ground.
That stone pillar hovered in mid-air, the numerous radiances extending outwards from it already having been retracted, only leaving the pillar itself, enveloped by light.
As the golden radiance on the surface of the stone pillar gradually dissipated, the crowd saw that the broken and damaged parts on it had shockingly been repaired.
The stone pillar was complete, as if it had been reborn.
Looking at the massive stone pillar before them, then turning their somewhat stiff necks to look at the surrounding sky which had suddenly cleared up, they finally regained their wits, letting out simultaneous whoops of joy.
The movements of ‘Elder Li’ and ‘Yao Shan’ were half a beat slower, but they immediately put on joyful expressions along with everyone else.
It was only that as the two exchanged looks, their gazes were both filled with despondence.
The real Yao Shan sucked in a deep breath and calmed his emotions before sending a sound transmission via aura-qi to his companion, “Do not move rashly; now, there is no way to ascertain whether he can use that Sacred Artifact fragment of his.”
The fake Yao Shan replied, “I understand.”
Although he said this, within his tone could still be detected some grinding of teeth.
The stone pillar slowly descended. Seeing this, Ah Hu hurriedly prepared to receive it.
Yan Zhaoge was just saying, “I’ll do it,” when he saw that Ah Hu’s hands had already reached out.
Who knew that as soon as his palms touched the bottom of the stone pillar, his expression would change greatly as he felt a boundless force pressuring down on it, his wrists nearly being dislocated!
Only looking at that stone pillar’s exterior, while it was massive in size, Ah Hu was already at the peak of the Heavenly Connection Martial Scholar realm. His wrists exerting force and his aura-qi erupting in full, how could his strength be just at hundreds of thousands of kilograms.
However, supporting that stone pillar now, he felt that he was completely unable to bear its weight as he could only hurriedly remove his hands.
Standing by the side, Yan Zhaoge reached out, also moving to support the bottom of the stone pillar.
A scene which nearly caused Ah Hu’s eyeballs to nearly pop out of their sockets now transpired. The stone pillar which he was unable to support even erupting with all the strength in his body, was actually easily supported by Yan Zhaoge with just one hand.
And by the looks of it, it evidently appeared extremely light in his hands.
Seeing this, everyone else also jumped in shock.
Because of his position and usual behaviour, Ah Hu would easily be overlooked, whether intentionally or not.
However, accompanied by Yan Zhaoge being looked upon more and more highly in the outside world, everything about him would also fall into the eyes of others. Therefore, the outside world’s understanding of Ah Hu had also been increasing steadily.
Many people even wondered in private about between him and Yan Zhaoge, one servant, one master, who exactly was the stronger.
Just now, when Ah Hu had supported the stone pillar, his entire body’s aura-qi erupting, that powerful force had caused everyone to be shocked.
Ah Hu usually didn’t show the spiritual light above his head, but when he had exerted force earlier, the spiritual light above his head that connected straight to the heavens had actually been a completely tangible radiance, showing him to have a cultivation of the Heavenly Connection stage.
However, while a Heavenly Connection Martial Scholar like him had been unable to support the stone pillar with even his full strength, Yan Zhaoge had been able to do it easily with but a single hand. This truly left everyone stunned.
Looking at the deeply shocked Ah Hu, the corners of Yan Zhaoge’s mouth twitched slightly.
“This stone pillar is special, the concept within extremely profound. Not only you, even many Martial Grandmasters would be unable to lift it up.”
“The reason I can do this is because I have achieved an initial refinement of this stone pillar, merging my fist-intent within. Therefore, while it is as heavy as a mountain to you, to me, it is even lighter than a blade of grass.”
Everyone came to a sudden realisation at his words, Ah Hu rubbing the back of his head as he grinned, “Young Master ah, being able to refine this stone pillar is proof enough of your abilities ah.”
Hearing his words, everyone nodded.
If it were any other situation, Yan Zhaoge would be very happy being simultaneously looked upon by all these gazes of worship and admiration.
However, while his outward expression had not changed, his current emotions were actually very complicated as he didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.
Looking at the raised stone pillar on his palm, Yan Zhaoge forcibly resisted the urge to roll his eyes.
Carrying such a giant fella around would truly make for a majestic sight, filled with much visual offensive power, extremely shocking to the eye.
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