Xin Dongping looked at Yan Zhaoge, “Young man, you seem very familiar with the Nine Underworlds Evil Devils as well?”
“In the process of interrogating junior apprentice-brother Liu, this old man heard you say that with his cultivation base, even if he fell to the dark side, he would still be unable to gain a true devil’s body that can be reborn.”
“Still you understand this, you should also know that with this old man’s cultivation base, while not having stepped into the Martial Saint realm, there is still a chance.”
Xin Dongping swivelled his head to glance at Yuan Tian, “While the Devil Saint will definitely be able to accomplish a devil’s body that can be reborn.”
Yan Zhaoge targeted his arrows at the two, his gaze cold.
Xin Dongping sighed emotionally, “Even Martial Saints have limited longevities. When the great limit comes, there is no one who can escape it.”
“Countless people yearn for the unattainable eternal life. To this old man, I actually didn’t think much of this in the past. This old man’s lifelong dream is also not like that of senior apprentice-brother Wang and junior apprentice-brother Liu.”
“Living carelessly in this world, ordinarily and commonly-there is also no meaning in that.”
Xin Dongping said, “However, I have still felt some benefits of it today. This old man is regretful, not wanting to die so early. If I can be reborn in the Nine Underworlds, I will come to fight with Yuan Zhengfeng, with you father and son, once more.”
Yan Zhaoge had no mind to pay attention to Xin Dongping’s swords. Currently, other than controlling the Clear Qi Grand Formation to trap Xin Dongping and Yuan Tian where they were, his attention was completely focused on the bow and arrows within his hand.
Simultaneously pressured by Yan Zhaoge with the Clear Qi Grand Formation and Yan Di with his sabre-intent, the two could finally hold on no longer.
Xin Dongping’s body was completely crushed by the Clear Qi Grand Formation!
Yuan Tian was beheaded by a single swipe of Yan Di’s sabre!
While the two had died, countless streams of black qi circulated, dispersing within the air, not remaining in the air of the Eight Extremities World, but seemingly wanting to pass through the boundaries of space, heading for a place that could not be described, could not be spoken of.
The black qi was weak and unsubstantial, but even Yan Di’s domineering sabre-intent and Yan Zhaoge’s unleashed power of the Clear Qi Grand Formation was unable to touch it.
The two seemed to reside in different worlds.
The silhouettes of Xin Dongping and Yuan Tian surfaced within the black qi, the former calm, the latter resentful and angered.
Xin Dongping opened his mouth to speak. While no voice left his mouth, from its movements, it could be identified that what he said was: we will meet again.
Seeing this, Yan Di knit his brows tightly, a furious expression appearing on his face.
“Xin Dongping, you’re Transcending Mortality, and Yuan Tian, you’ve entered Sainthood. I am clear on whether having completely fallen to the dark side, you can be reborn in the Nine Underworlds.”
Yan Zhaoge finally shifted his gaze away from the bow and arrow within his hands, shifting it to Xin Dongping.
Currently, his expression was as cold and gloomy as calamitous clouds descending from the sky, but his eyes seemed to be blazing with a great fire that surged to the heavens.
“However, you are not clear on what you are facing is.”
Yan Zhaoge uttered word by word, very clearly, “Bow, named Highspeed, a mid-grade spirit artifact. It is not important, and you don’t have to place it on your mind.”
“Arrow, named Devil Shattering.”
Xin Dongping and Yuan Tian revealed stunned looks.
Having finished his words, Yan Zhaoge released his fingers.
Golden light flickered, the black arrow suddenly disappearing without a trace!
A moment ago, on the bowstring of Highspeed.
The next moment, striking that black qi, striking the chests of Xin Dongping and Yuan Tian!
Lowering their heads, Xin Dongping and Yuan Tian looked uncomprehendingly at the small holes penetrated through on their chests.
Afterwards, the small hole expanded unceasingly in all directions, becoming a big hole.
The big hole continued expanding.
Empty space appeared where the centre of the two’s bodies were, the empty space expanding outwards unceasingly, containing completely nothing.
As the area of that empty space grew larger and larger, the bodies of the two gradually began to vanish, as though consumed from the inside by that space of emptiness.
Finally, their figures broke completely apart, dissipating to nothing.
Even the black qi that enveloped them seemed to have been cleansed.
“You!” Xin Dongping looked disbelievingly at Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge met his gaze, saying in an indifferent tone, “You want eternal life?”
“I grant you eternal slumber.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 304: Something that attracts Martial Saints
HSSB304: Something that attracts Martial Saints
The Decimating Abyss had been founded by Xin Dongping in recent years.
The Nine Underworld Evil Devils had been there since times long past.
Before the Great Calamity, they had already existed.
In the time of before the Great Calamity, people had already been acquainted with the Evil Devils, some becoming devils, some slaying devils.
And because of this, some techniques had been born. Following the Great Calamity, in the current Eight Extremities World, most of them had been lost, seldom known by others.
Devil Shattering Arrows were one of these.
Devil Shattering-this meant destroying the chances of life of devils.
Devils could not be killed or extinguished, as they would be reborn in the depths of the Nine Underworlds afterwards. The Devil Shattering Arrows were meant to forcibly stop this process, gifting the devils eternal slumber.
When late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster experts fell to the dark side, they still weren’t truly Nine Underworld Evil Devils.
Human-devils was a more appropriate term for them.
However, Transcending Mortality Martial Grandmasters, after dying, would have a certain chance of becoming true Nine Underworld Evil Devils, with the possibility of rebirth following death.
If Martial Saints fell to the dark side, they would definitely be reborn in the Nine Underworlds following their deaths.
In preparing the Devil Shattering Arrows, Yan Zhaoge had specifically been waiting for this moment.
Xin Dongping looked at the unceasingly expanding empty hole in his chest, looking at it gradually expand, sweeping through his entire body, consuming him from the inside.
He raised his head to look at Yan Zhaoge once more, “You!”
Yan Zhaoge’s expression was cold, but his gaze was like fire, “Did you think that it was omnipotent, falling to the dark side?”
Xin Dongping let out a long sigh towards the heavens, no sound leaving his mouth, but one barely able to distinguish its contents from there.
Indeed, not having dealt with you first was a greater mistake than underestimating Yan Di…
By the side, the resentful, angered expression on Yuan Tian’s face had also gradually vanished, appearing blankly at a loss.
He was not a member of the Decimating Abyss, and Xin Dongping was also unable to control him.
However, he was drawn in by the Nine Underworlds, having desires within his heart, therefore clicking with Xin Dongping.
He had originally thought that with Yuan Zhengfeng currently in secluded cultivation in an attempt to achieve his breakthrough into the Martial Saint realm, also having Xin Dongping dealing with the Clear Qi Grand Formation within, his only opponent would be the Sacred Artifact, the Clear Qi Robe.
In the outside world, Jade Sea
City and Turbid Wave Pavilion had to deal with the Flame Devils on the East Sea.
The Sacred Sun Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Hall would most likely also make use of this chance to make a move on Broad Creed Mountain, at the same time also restricting the movements of Broad Creed Mountain’s other ally, Infinite Boundless Mountain.
Timing, geography, and personnel, they all possessed. Even if any unforeseen circumstances cropped up, with the matter hard to accomplish, as a Martial Saint, he would at least still be able to retreat fully intact.
If he succeeded, he would receive what he wanted. If he failed, even in the worst case scenario, there wouldn’t really be any loss for him.
These were Yuan Tian’s true thoughts.
Stemming on one hand from his consideration of the current situation, and on the other from his confidence as an expert of the Martial Saint realm.
Even when he had been unexpectedly transported by Yan Zhaoge and Yan Di from the Yan Family ancestral manor at Yunzhen County directly over to Broad Creed Mountain, trapped within the Clear Qi Grand Formation, Yuan Tian had still thought this.
However, he later discovered that he had thought wrong.
Broad Creed Mountain, was where he would be buried forever.
The last Martial Saint to have been buried here was Black Nightmare Mountain’s final Chief, and it was his, Yuan Tian’s turn today.
He did not really feel any strong regret. As someone who had surpassed many huge winds and waves in his life, Yuan Tian possessed a firm will, not easily shaken towards decisions that he had made.
It was only that he could not help but feel somewhat at a loss. He had still underestimated the heroes of this world.
The hole within Yuan Tian’s chest also grew larger and larger, consuming his body from the inside.
Suffering the same fate as him was Xin Dongping.
The two’s figures and the black qi that enveloped them were together cleansed between the heavens and the earth, completely dissipating into the air just like other fallen practitioners.
Holding Highspeed, Yan Zhaoge looked coldly at this scene, not speaking for a long time.
Xin Dongping, a Transcending Mortality Grandmaster, stably amongst the top three for the Martial Grandmaster experts of the current Eight Extremities World.
Yuan Tian, titled Devil Saint, one of the mere six great Martial Saints of the current Eight Extremities World.
Today, they had both perished at Broad Creed Mountain, their deaths fully brought about by Yan Zhaoge.
Garbed in the Clear Qi Robe, gripping the Heavenly Dragon Sabre, Yan Di came by Yan Zhaoge’s side, asking in a heavy tone, “What happened to eldest apprentice-brother?”
Yan Zhaoge narrated the situation regarding Shi Tie’s death that he had heard from Xu Fei and Ying Longtu to Yan Di in full.
After listening to it, Yan Di was silent.
“Eldest apprentice-uncle’s body is currently within the ice coffin, placed on the Heaven Rising Peak,” Yan Zhaoge said softly.
Yan Di nodded, leaving the foreign dimension alongside Yan Zhaoge, landing on the main peak of Broad Creed Mountain, the Heaven Rising Peak.
At this moment, the great battle at Broad Creed Mountain had already gradually drawn to a close, the Decimating Abyss martial practitioners almost all having been slaughtered.
It was only that having experienced a great battle, the past clear, spiritual mountains seemed full of scars now.
Especially in the back mountain, the Converting Lake Peak, where the Devilish Domain Grand Formation was deteriorating unceasingly, though still yet to completely vanish.
Yan Zhaoge turned to look at Yan Di, saying, “I will go to assist second apprentice-uncle in completely suppressing the Devilish Domain Grand Formation.”
Standing before the ice coffin that held Shi Tie’s dead body, Yan Di nodded slightly, not speaking.
Yan Zhaoge descended the Heaven Rising Peak, hurrying to the Converting Lake Peak.
On the Heaven Rising Peak, Ah Hu, Xu Fei and Han Long’er no longer had to guard the coffin as they followed Yan Zhaoge down the mountain, sweeping up the few enemies who remained.
“Young Master, after you entered the foreign dimension, I attempted to communicate with the other Broad Creed Mountain martial practitioners on the mountain,” Ah Hu said as they walked.
Yan Zhaoge let out a long breath, “How is the situation on the mountain now?”
Ah Hu answered, “Where Elder He is guarding the seclusion grounds of the old Chief, the situation is fine. The area was not disturbed.”
“After having been heavily injured by Xin Dongping, Elder Zhang’s injuries are rather grave, but his life is not in any danger.”
“While the First Seat of the Heaven Sealing Gorge, Elder Gong, was also heavily injured, his situation is a bit better than Elder Zhang’s.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded. Of their peak experts who were stationed at Broad Creed Mountain for the long term before this, other than the old Chief Yuan Zhengfeng and his father, Yan Di, who had just stepped into the Transcending Mortality stage, there had been three others. They were Xin Dongping and the Grand Elders Zhang Kun and He Ning.
The traitor Xin Dongping had been slain, Elder Zhang was heavily injured, while Elder He, guarding Yuan Zhengfeng who was in secluded cultivation, was unable to leave.
Of those at the ninth level of the Martial Grandmaster realm, being late Essence Talisman experts, there were only his eldest apprentice-uncle Shi Tie, his second apprentice-uncle Fang Zhun, the First Seat of the Heaven Sealing Gorge, Elder Gong, as well as the past Elder Wang.
Now, the traitor Elder Wang had been personally killed by his eldest apprentice-uncle Shi Tie, Shi Tie had sacrificed his life for the greater good, Elder Gong was heavily injured and Fang Zhun was suppressing the Devilish Domain Grand Formation, probably also with quite a bit of difficulty.
Under the late Essence Talisman stage, there were still many other martial practitioners of Broad Creed Mountain who were injured or dead.
Broad Creed Mountain had truly not tided through this massive tribulation easily.
And on the other side, the Decimating Abyss had been virtually completely wiped out, the Abyss Lord, the Transcending Mortality Martial Grandmaster Xin Dongping, the reinforcing Devil Saint Yuan Tian, an exalted Martial Saint, as well as at least four late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster experts, Sima Chui, Elder Wang and the two longtime Elders of Black Nightmare Mountain, all perishing in this place.
The other Decimating Abyss martial practitioners who had dared to invade Broad Creed Mountain were all either dead or close to the equivalent.
However, Yan Zhaoge and Broad Creed Mountain could still not completely relax.
Yan Zhaoge swivelled his head to look to the south, where the Fire Domain was located.
He then looked towards the east, where the Earth Domain was located, from where the people of the Heavenly Thunder Hall had shot an Anti-Sun, interfering with the Clear Qi Grand Formation.
His gaze cold, Yan Zhaoge patted the two Shadow Shrinking Pouches within his hands.
With Xin Dongping and Yuan Tian having died as devils, while they wouldn’t leave corpses behind, their earlier possessions had still been preserved.
“Old Man Xin, let me see just what it was based on that you could attract a Martial Saint to brave danger for you.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 305: Preparing a ‘gift’ for the Sacred Sun Clan
HSSB305: Preparing a ‘gift’ for the Sacred Sun Clan
Yan Zhaoge opened the Shadow Shrinking Pouches of Xin Dongping and Yuan Tian.
As peak experts of this world, the private properties of these two bigwigs were naturally rather abundant.
However, Yan Zhaoge’s eyes just swept past most of them.
It was not like there were no good things, rare things or precious things, but all of them could be dealt with slowly later. What Yan Zhaoge was checking for now was mainly what could have been used for an excha
nge between Xin Dongping and Yuan Tian.
Most possible was a unique treasure related to the Nine Underworlds and Hell.
As a solitary practitioner and a Martial Saint, Yuan Tian had an abundant amount of resources, freely rising to the heavens and descending into the earth and unearthing many precious treasures as well as resources.
However, comparatively speaking, however abundant his material strength was, it was also unable to compare to Sacred Grounds like Broad Creed Mountain and the Sacred Sun Clan.
Even so, Yuan Tian’s net worth was even more abundant than Xin Dongping’s.
While Xin Dongping was one of the few limited longtime Elders of Broad Creed Mountain, he was also limited in his deployment of Broad Creed Mountain’s resources. Broad Creed Mountain did have many possessions, but they were not Xin Dongping’s private property.
Broad Creed Mountain’s substantial resources and Xin Dongping’s net worth were two different things altogether.
Of course, this had the precondition that only the resources of Broad Creed Mountain that Xin Dongping could deploy were calculated within.
Xin Dongping had another identity, the Abyss Lord.
Of the current Eight Extremities World, he was very possibly the person closest to the Nine Underworlds.
What exactly Xin Dongping had obtained from the Nine Underworlds and Hell-this was very hard to say.
If he had something that attracted the Devil Saint Yuan Tian, Yan Zhaoge believed that it originated from here.
“Heavenly Pool Transforming Jade, probably not…”
“Returning Underworlds Divine Medicine, probably not…”
“Ghost Body Condensed Paste, probably also not…”
Yan Zhaoge checked carefully, his gaze falling on something from Xin Dongping’s Shadow Shrinking Pouch after a moment, “Nine Underworlds Dark Soil…”
After pondering for a moment, Yan Zhaoge checked Yuan Tian’s Shadow Shrinking Pouch once more, this time very quickly discovering his target.
Carrying a few small black orbs the size of pearls within his palm, Yan Zhaoge appraised them for a moment, then removed one of them, infusing his aura-qi within.
Yan Zhaoge closed his eyes, his mind calming, streams of qi vaguely coiling before his eyes, formless and shapeless.
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