History's Strongest Senior Brother c1-1474

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

  Unable to beat the old one, the Crimson Spirit Flag Master changed his target to the young one, setting his eyes on Yan Zhaoge.

  When Yan Zhaoge’s strength had risen to the point that the Crimson Spirit Flag Master could no longer beat even him, the Crimson Spirit Flag Master would naturally no longer have come looking for Yan Zhaoge.

  Instead, he would most likely have switched his focus to an even younger, weaker Broad Creed Mountain disciple.

  Yan Zhaoge would naturally no longer have to be worried at that time, but at the end of the day, there would still be someone facing the threat of the Crimson Spirit Flag Master.

  There was only being a thief for a thousand days-since when was there guarding against a thief for a thousand days?

  Able to cleanly slaughter the Crimson Spirit Flag Master, putting a definite stop to future troubles, Yan Zhaoge was extremely satisfied, at what could be considered an unexpected gain.

  And while an element of luck had been contained within, leaving the foreign dimension left behind by Loose Practitioner He this time, Yan Zhaoge had also had somewhat great gains.

  After taking his leave of Xu Fei and Feng Yunsheng, Yan Zhaoge returned to his lodgings, beginning to inspect the many treasures that he had obtained this time.

  First and foremost was naturally Yan Zhaoge’s initial primary target, the Life Illuminating Immortal Stone.

  Yan Zhaoge had just know that Loose Practitioner He had one, not able to truly confirm beforehand whether it was really placed within that foreign dimension.

  “Looks like my luck is still not bad,” Playing with that Life Illuminating Immortal Stone in his hands, a hint of a smile was revealed at the corners of Yan Zhaoge’s mouth.

  Having obtained the Life Illuminating Immortal Stone, there would no longer be a need to seek out a substitute item.

  After breaking through into the Heavenly Connection stage and accumulating and consolidating his foundation slightly, he would be able to begin attempting crossing through that heavenly gulf into the Martial Grandmaster realm.

  Of course, ambitions were faraway things, and he should step firmly on the ground right beneath him, first achieving his breakthrough into the Heavenly Connection stage.

  However, with Yan Zhaoge’s current foundation, the difficulty of that would not be high.

  Other than the Life Illuminating Immortal Stone, there was still an expected surprise, naturally the unique treasure, the Immortal Crane Wings.

  After having entangled with the Crimson Spirit Flag Master, its spiritual qi had been depleted very greatly, unable to be used for a time like the Eye of the Thunder Emperor fragment.

  However, nourished by its master Yan Zhaoge, when it had recovered its lost vitality, it would be able to display its true flair once more.

  Along with that Life Illuminating Immortal Stone on that short table previously had been a few other things, all cleanly taken away by Yan Zhaoge.

  Amongst them was a medicinal bottle, containing pills that Loose Practitioner He had previously concocted. However, with the ravages of time, all the way from before the time of the Great Calamity up till now, while some of these pills were still efficate, the spiritual qi of some had already gradually dissipated completely over time.

  Yan Zhaoge was not particularly concerned about this, as his attention was currently drawn by another object.

  It was a scroll formed on a beastskin of who knows what beast.

  Unfurling the scroll, Yan Zhaoge saw that it was completely empty, with only a square-shaped pattern right at the centre.

  By the looks of it, this pattern should have been left behind by some kind of seal.

  Looking carefully, Yan Zhaoge saw that that pattern resembled a sun.

  The pattern appeared very ancient, but as Yan Zhaoge focused on it, he felt a piercing pain in his eyes, as though he was looking at the true sun itself.

  This beastskin scroll was an object of Loose Practitioner He, left behind in the foreign dimension. Before Yan Zhaoge and Lin Zhou had entered today, it had always been lying there, being an artifact of before the Great Calamity, thus naturally having nothing to do with the current Sacred Sun Clan.

  However, as Yan Zhaoge knew, the Sacred Sun Clan had similarly been formed on the foundation of unearthed remnants of the martial civilisation of before the Great Calamity alongside the comprehension and development of martial practitioners afterwards. Tracing it back, the Sacred Sun Clan still had some roots from before the Great Calamity.

  Yan Zhaoge stroked his lower chin, “This seal might be related to that Divine Sun Scripture legacy of legend, though who knows how an imprint of it might have landed in Loose Practitioner He’s hands.”

  History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 246: The pyramid of the Eight Extremities World

  HSSB246: The pyramid of the Eight Extremities World

  Fingering that beastskin scroll, Yan Zhaoge pondered for a moment, before pocketing it once more.

  Afterwards, he began examining the various medicinal plants.

  These medicinal plants had all been planted by Loose Practitioner He in the medicinal field behind the thatched hut in his foreign dimension. Over so many years, not having been tended to, some of these medicinal plants had also withered and died.

  However, the ones which still remained even now were all precious spirit plants and medicines which had existed for a long time, also possessing powerful medicinal effects.

  However, what made Yan Zhaoge the happiest was that many of these medicinal ingredients were ones that were already extinct in the Eight Extremities World following the descent of the Great Calamity.

  Yan Zhaoge often sighed emotionally. It seemed that a skilled housewife is indeed hard pressed to cook a meal without rice. Currently, having obtained so many precious spirit medicines from Loose Practitioner He’s old residence, he instantly felt like he had much more room to work with.

  Carefully thinking back and considering, many thoughts of his that had originally been unfeasible now had the possibility of being implemented in reality.

  This especially caused Yan Zhaoge great joy.

  After having settled the various spirit plants and medicines, Yan Zhaoge stretched himself lazily, finding himself in a rather good mood.

  However, very quickly, the smile on Yan Zhaoge’s face gradually faded, as his expression became a little stern.

  He took out a black metal piece. Looking at it, his gaze gradually grew deep and distant.

  This arched metal piece vaguely seemed to align with the lines on a person’s face.

  It was precisely that broken piece of mask that he had severed from that masked Martial Grandmaster with a single sword back in the foreign dimension previously!

  Looking at that fragment of mask, Yan Zhaoge’s expression was a little complicated as the scenes of that time played back ceaselessly within his mind.

  At that time, he had only felt it to be familiar. Now, however, that person’s features gradually came to match with that of a face from Yan Zhaoge’s memories.

  “How I hope I’ve recognised wrong…” Yan Zhaoge sighed, keeping the mask fragment once more.

  After sitting silently in meditation for a time, Yan Zhaoge opened his eyes.

  Ah Hu reported from outside, “Young Master, the Howling Wind Sword Sect’s Elder Jun is here.”

  “Oh? Invite him in,” Yan Zhaoge stood up, pushing open the door and exiting.

  A middle-aged man currently sat within the hall. Behind him were a few young men and women, with Jun Luo at their head.

  Yan Zhaoge went up and bowed towards that middle-aged man, “Uncle Jun, you’ve returned to the Sand Region? I also just happen to be back from a journey, not knowing that you had come. Otherwise, it should definitely have been me going to pay you a visit.”

  The middle-aged man before him was precisely Jun Luo’s father and a good friend of Yan Zhaoge’s father Yan Di, the Elder of the Howling Wind Sword Sect Jun Zhiyuan.

  Like the King of t
he Eastern Tang Kingdom Zhao Shicheng, Jun Zhiyuan was also a longtime friend of Yan Di’s, with the Yan Family and the Jun Family on extremely good terms.

  What caused Yan Zhaoge some interest was that his father’s old friends all seemed to be older than him.

  Therefore, Yan Zhaoge had many older uncles, but no younger uncles at all.

  Jun Zhiyuan smiled slightly, “I have come to thank Zhaoge for taking care of the little girl of my family. If not for you, Zhaoge, I fear that I would no longer be able to see her.”

  Standing behind Jun Zhiyuan, Jun Luo was looking down at the floor, behaving extremely meekly and obediently, appearing completely different from how she was like in private.

  Yan Zhaoge said, “Uncle Jun overstates things. The matter of that youth of the Lian Family Fortress Lian Ying stemmed from remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain wanting to use him as a chess piece in order to enhance their assassination plan.”

  “Luo Luo is completely innocent, yet was swept into it. Naturally, I had to do my utmost to ensure her safety.”

  “While no danger ultimately befell her, I still feel very uneasy about it.”

  Hearing his words, Jun Zhiyuan shook his head, saying, “That was also you saving this child’s life. Moreover, if not for you and those others of Broad Creed Mountain lending a helping hand, trapped within a Black Nightmare Storm, the three of them would most likely have perished.”

  Yan Zhaoge smiled, “Even ignoring the relationship between our two families, the Howling Wind Sword Sect is affiliated to my Broad Creed Mountain. Passing by and seeing them in crisis, lending a helping hand was only natural.”

  While this was true, Jun Zhiyuan still got Jun Luo to go forward and solemnly thank Yan Zhaoge once more. Yan Zhaoge hurriedly stopped them.

  Looking at those others behind Jun Zhiyuan and beside Jun Luo, Yan Zhaoge asked, “These are all Uncle Jun’s disciples?”

  Jun Zhiyuan said, “That’s right; I brought them along with me this time to gain experience. Not having returned to the sect, I heard of Luo Luo’s incident, therefore brought them along with us.”

  These young people all bowed towards Yan Zhaoge in unison.

  While by seniority, they were of the same generation, with Yan Zhaoge taking Jun Zhiyuan as a senior and Jun Luo also behaving like a little sister before Yan Zhaoge, they couldn’t be careless.

  While they all called him ‘Senior Brother Yan’, their forms of respects were all that of juniors.

  Jun Zhiyuan had on an attitude like this was only natural.

  If not for the relationship between the two families, he too would have to treat Yan Zhaoge like an equal, as did Elder Hong and Elder Bai of the Howling Wind Sword Sect.

  Even while Yan Zhaoge was currently only around twenty years of age; even while Yan Zhaoge was still a Martial Scholar while they were all Martial Grandmasters.

  Looking at the youths before him, Yan Zhaoge also felt momentarily emotional.

  Actually, truly calculating age, these youths were already sixteen or seventeen. While they could not be considered similarly aged to him, they were definitely still of the same generation.

  However, in terms of cultivation base, looking at them was sufficient to clearly distinguish the distance between a Sacred Ground-level power like Broad Creed Mountain and other powers.

  The Howling Wind Sword Sect was already a first-rate power, also possessing a long history. Even when Black Nightmare Mountain had still ruled the Wind Domain, the Howling Wind Sword Sect had already been founded in the Sand Region, surviving all the way up till now.

  As the one of the Howling Wind Sword Sect with the highest cultivation base apart from its old Chief, Jun Zhiyuan was renowned for his teaching of his disciples.

  His disciples, his daughter Luo Luo included, were basically the elite of the Howling Wind Sword Sect’s younger generation, all of them outstanding figures of the younger generation of the entire Sand Region’s first-rate powers.

  However, comparing them with similarly aged disciples of Sacred Grounds like Broad Creed Mountain and the Sacred Sun Clan, they were clearly inferior in terms of strength.

  When placed in Broad Creed Mountain, the most brilliant disciples of the Howling Wind Sword Sect’s younger generation would immediately seem completely unremarkable amongst the similarly aged disciples there, their genius haloes completely gone, and they would likely find it very hard not to be at the bottom.

  Of course, this was also due to Broad Creed Mountain absorbing brilliant geniuses in its various lands in great numbers. Being under Broad Creed Mountain’s rule, the Sand Region’s seedlings with the most potential would definitely be taken in by Broad Creed Mountain, who was given the foremost priority in doing so.

  Powers like the Howling Wind Sword Sect were left to pick out generals from the shorties.

  It was not like Broad Creed Mountain would completely net all of them, but people climbed to where power lay as water flowed to low-lying areas. The most brilliant geniuses would definitely yearn to join Broad Creed Mountain.

  There were only those occasional geniuses who lacked knowledge and had not heard of Broad Creed Mountain’s great name, having been overlooked by Broad Creed Mountain, who would be obtained by first rate-powers like the Howling Wind Sword Sect. That would be like having picked up a treasure.

  Very naturally, the pick order started from the strongest and ended with the weakest. Broad Creed Mountain would have the first pick, first-rate powers like the Howling Wind Sword Sect followed and then came second-rate powers like the Lian Family Fortress and the Yellow Wind Mountain Manor.

  While the martial civilisation was currently still in the midst of redevelopment, the pyramid of the Eight Extremities World had already taken form.

  History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 247: Stepping into the Heavenly Connection stage!

  HSSB247: Stepping into the Heavenly Connection stage!

  Being born into a second-rate power, Lian Cheng and Lian Ying would naturally have a lower cultivation base than even Jun Zhiyuan’s disciples, who were part of the Howling Wind Sword Sect.

  For them, they didn’t even dream of being accepted into Broad Creed Mountain as a disciple. Rather, they hoped to be accepted into the Howling Wind Sword Sect.

  The Lian Family of course hoped to find a worthy successor among its younger generation, but even more so hoped that they could produce talented disciples who would be able to join first-rate powers.

  As a result, when trying to influence the local powers, the twisting intrigue that existed behind the scenes could only be imagined.

  But this was also to be expected given the circumstances. Just like in the Eastern Tang and the Scarlet Rainbow Sect, these first-rate powers would always hope to have genius descendants that could be nurtured by Broad Creed Mountain.

  Indeed, the grandson of the current Chief of the Howling Wind Sword Sect was a Broad Creed Mountain disciple. Yan Zhaoge had also seen him several times and had been asked by Elder Jun to keep an eye on him.

  This system was also beneficial for Broad Creed Mountain since it helped them strengthen their control over their subordinates.

  Likewise, the Sacred Sun Clan, Infinite Boundless Mountain, and the other five Sacred Grounds all engaged in the same practice.

  Even in these subservient regions for powers like the second-rate Yellow Wind Manor, there would naturally be even weaker forces under them.

  Speaking from experience, the number of these weaker forces was even higher.

  The Eight Extremities World had a culture that emphasized strength. Looking downwards, between local martial arts halls, small sects, and small clans, these existences were as numerous as the hairs on a cow.

  From second-rate powers downwards, martial practitioners born into these kinds of circumstances had to continuously step upwards into a broader world lest they become part of the faceless crowd.

  Practicing martial arts was a way of life in the Eight Extremities World. Beyond exploring the marti
al dao, it was more for protecting oneself. Beyond that, it was a livelihood.

  “Uncle, I guess you have already heard of the situation at the Clear Concealed Lake.” Yan Zhaoge continued, “Nine Underworlds Evil Devils and Flame Devils are both enemies of the entire human race. The fallen practitioners of the Decimating Abyss Organization want to force the Nine Underworlds to descend. The entire Eight Extremities World must be guarded against them.”

  Jun Zhiyuan nodded. “This is natural. After hearing the news about Clear Concealed Lake, our sect took many precautions to prevent being infiltrated by spies from the Decimating Abyss Organization.”

  Yan Zhaoge spoke out. “Thank you for your hard work. I’ll have to trouble Uncle Jun this time.”

  The devilish will was best at magnifying one’s negative emotions, especially evil thoughts, desires, and obsessions.

  Compared to martial practitioners from the six Sacred Grounds, solitary practitioners like the Ghost Hatchet Elder Han Sheng who were dissatisfied with the lofty position of the Sacred Grounds were much more likely to be recruited by the Decimating Abyss Organization. Their thoughts went along the lines of ‘without destruction there can be no growth.’ They wanted to switch the heavens and change the earth.

  Actually, from a certain point of view the stratified society of Sacred Grounds, first-rate powers, and second-rate powers suffered from that exact problem.

  All of these lower tier powers wanted to replace an existing Sacred Ground. Wanted to become the new Sacred Ground. Wanted to attain absolute power and status.

  Thoughts along these lines, regardless of whether they spawned schemes or unyielding resolve, were all inroads for the Decimating Abyss Organization.

  Of course, this kind of thinking was not representative of everyone in the Decimating Abyss Organization. Neither did it represent a certainty of succumbing to an inner devil.

  It all depended on each person’s individual willpower, intelligence, and power.

  But one could not exclude the pessimistic possibility that some first-rate and second-rate powers would definitely be corroded by the influence of the Decimating Abyss Organization.