Huang Xu said, “There is one thing that is perhaps worthy of note, just that it is truly a little too inconceivable.”
“Earlier, there was news of Broad Creed Mountain’s Yan Zhaoge having stirred up a great storm on the Extreme Northern Snowy Plains, coming into a conflict with the Heavenly Thunder Hall and killing a few of their people, snatching away their high-grade spirit artifact bow Heaven Shocker, and at the same time also entering and obtaining something from the legacy site of the past Glacial Dragon Martial Saint that we cannot be certain of.”
“I already learnt of this piece of news long ago, just that some specific details were missed out. This time, I specifically found people of the Heavenly Thunder Hall to verify and ask about it, only then learning than in killing so many of their people, the trap and mechanism that Yan Zhaoge used was setting off an Ice Pith Vein branch of the Extreme Northern Lands.”
Huang Xu knit his brows slightly, “Both are earth veins; while one lies to the south and one to the north, one being ice and one being fire, it feels like there might exist a mysterious relation between them somehow.”
The surrounding Sacred Sun Clan higher echelon experts all fell into deep thought, “While that is so, isn’t the distance much too far? Could it really be related?”
Having always been silent, as though he was Huang Xu’s shadow, Huang Jie now said softly, “There is a matter that has been passed down from before the time of the Great Calamity, now resembling a legend.”
“The martial powerhouse Snowy Immortal Palace once had a Heavenly Ice Spring that suddenly dried up without any prior warning, without any understandable reason, all those of that time not being able to comprehend it, with it turning into an unsolved mystery.”
Huang Jie said, “While one is strengthening and one is deterioration, isn’t the situation of that Heavenly Ice Spring somewhat similar to that with the Southern Underground Palace today?”
Huang Guanglie raised his head and gazed into the sky, saying after a while, “Fire and ice coexist, born together as polar opposites, diametrically opposed…this possibility does exist.”
Looking down at the Southern Underground Palace beneath them which was incomparably massive, an old man said rather doubtfully, “It would be understandable it Yuan Zhengfeng did it, but just having entered the Martial Grandmaster realm, that Yan Zhaoge could have led to a change in the earth vein? Moreover, it was through the opposition of fire and ice, influencing the Southern Wilderness from the Extreme Northern Lands?”
The other Sacred Sun Clan martial practitioners all nodded slightly at his words.
Huang Guanglie, Huang Xu and Huang Jie, their family of three generations, all looked solemn as well as they felt that it was ridiculous to the point of utter incomprehensibility.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 355: Shaking your foundations!
HSSB355: Shaking your foundations!
If it was said that Yan Zhaoge had set up a trap with the Ice Pith Vein, using it to ambush a group of Heavenly Thunder Hall martial practitioners on the spot, while the difficulty of that would similarly be very great, they of the Sacred Sun Clan would still be able to accept it.
But if it was said that with Yan Zhaoge’s cultivation base, setting off the Ice Pith Vein in the Extreme Northern Snowy Plains, he could influence the Southern Underground Palace in the Southern Wilderness, that would truly be hard for them to imagine.
While they felt that they hypothesis of Huang Xu and Huang Jie was not baseless, they just felt like it was unreal, like building palaces within the air.
The World Illuminating Young Master Huang Jie gazed silently at the entrance of the Southern Underground Palace in the distance, not speaking for a long time, a rare grave look appearing on his face.
Huang Guanglie swivelled his head to look at Huang Xu, “What were the traces left behind; did you ask the people of the Heavenly Thunder Hall in detail?”
Huang Xu shook his head, “The Ice Pith Vein directly erupted with tides of coldness, destroying and messing up the entire area.”
At this point, this current Chief of the Sacred Sun Clan felt stifledness in his chest once more.
Finding the cause of the matter, they would then be able to think of a way to remedy it.
Currently, they could determine where Yan Zhaoge had done the deed in the Extreme Northern Snowy Lands, yet could not be clear on the method.
This way, the Sacred Sun Clan still lacked the ability to solve the problem at its source.
Because changes had already occurred with the Ice Pith Vein over at the Extreme Northern Lands, if they could not chase down the problem to its source, they would not be able to solve the problem.
Therefore, at the end of the day, the Sacred Sun Clan could still only wait patiently, silently waiting for time to pass and the earth vein to change till the Southern Underground Palace finally regained its calm once more.
Thinking of this, even Huang Guanglie felt rather bothered by it.
With the Southern Underground Palace in its current berserk state, of the entire Sacred Sun Clan, only he could move freely within it.
With the Extreme Yin Crown, Meng Wan would be able to stay within for a short period of time.
For the others, even a Transcending Mortality Martial Grandmaster would be unable to enter. This was an extremely serious problem for the Sacred Sun Clan.
With them unable to mine and obtain the several rare resources and speciality products within the Southern Underground Palace, the Sacred Sun Clan was still not extravagant to the point of hoping that Huang Guanglie and Meng Wan would specially become miners for them.
Taking a step back, if there was something they urgently needed and must have, Huang Guanglie and Meng Wan would just have to make a trip.
However, to the martial practitioners of the Sacred Sun Clan, they had lost a sacred ground for cultivation, their progress being gravely impeded.
Especially for those who cultivated in the Sacred Sun Clan’s most supreme martial art, the Extreme Yang Fist. They had to make use of the environment of the Southern Underground Palace to do so, but to the current Sacred Sun Clan, that was a virtually impossible thing.
The influence caused by this matter would not really show in the short term.
However, as time passed, it would fester unceasingly, growing more and more apparent, becoming harsher and harsher.
As the supreme martial art of the Sacred Sun Clan, the Extreme Yang Fist was not simply a combat method.
If they could not cultivate in it, while it did not mean that their road towards the Martial Saint realm had completely disappeared, the increased difficulty of that was something that would cause great despair in one just thinking about it.
Other than Transcending Mortality and entering Sainthood, entering the Transcending Mortality stage from the Essence Talisman stage as well as entering the Essence Talisman stage from the Essence Spirit stage.
For every level that they rose, the martial practitioners of the Sacred Sun Clan would all be heavily affected, hard to progress forward.
Making a rather extreme projection, having lost the Great Sun Measuring Ruler, if they now lost Huang Guanglie as well, not even having to wait for enemies to come attack them, tens of years later, the Sacred Sun Clan themselves would already almost have fallen out of the race.
If no other gains appeared to remedy this, this was virtually something which could already be foreseen.
If they could resolve this problem within a short period of time, it would not be a problem. But to the Sacred Sun Clan, they just didn’t have any means to take care of this problem within a short period of time.
While they were just at the boundary of the Southern Underground Palace, it was already incomparably blazing hot as the very air itself seemed to be on fire.
However, at this moment, all the Sacred Sun Clan martial practitioners could feel a slight chill pervading their backs.
Yan Zhaoge’s super long distance stifling rod from the Extr
eme Northern Lands all the way to the Southern Wilderness left the Sacred Sun Clan unable to catch their breath for a long time, all of their hearts heavy.
It was still fine for the younger Huang Jie, but everyone else here, Huang Xu included, for just that moment, suddenly felt as though they could kind of understand how Broad Creed Mountain’s old Chief Yuan Zhengfeng had felt that year.
That feeling of wishing to improve, yet being restricted and held back due to external circumstances, felt like a huge rock weighing down on one’s mind, pressuring them to the point of near suffocation.
To them, the matter having just happened, there was still time to think of a solution.
Therefore, this feeling just lasted a mere instant as they very quickly regained control of themselves, calming back down.
However, if a plan could still not be found, as time passed, the pressure within their hearts would definitely rise by the day, becoming greater and greater.
Now, Huang Guanglie said, “All of you return to the World Illuminating Peak first; do not destabilise our Sacred Sun Clan. This old man will remain here and analyse the matter, seeing if there might be any way to remedy things.”
Huang Xu and the others all nodded. Currently, this was the only thing that they could do.
Huang Guanglie suddenly gazed towards the north, “Keep a close eye on the movements of Broad Creed Mountain, Jade Sea City and Infinite Boundless Mountain.”
From a long term point of view, the Sacred Sun Clan was faced with an incomparably great problem that could shake their very foundations.
However, in the short term, it had not much of an influence towards the overall strength they currently possessed.
Gazing towards the north, Huang Guanglie suddenly said, “Broad Creed Mountain’s Yan Zhaoge, this person. From this moment on, follow his every movement closely, paying close attention to it whether it is major or minor.”
Huang Xu nodded, “I understand.”
Broad Creed Mountain’s Yan Zhaoge.
Not ‘Yan Di’s son’ or ‘Broad Creed Mountain’s disciple’, not ‘that junior’ or ‘that member of the younger generation’.
Just hearing Huang Guanglie’s way of addressing Yan Zhaoge, it was already enough to know how highly he thought of him right now.
With Huang Guanglie’s seniority, cultivation base and position, for him to address a young man of the same generation as his grandson this way, this was unprecedented, the very first time in his life.
However, none of the Sacred Sun Clan martial practitioners here expressed any amazement at this.
While they were unable to confirm that the change in the Southern Underground Palace did indeed have something to do with Yan Zhaoge, this didn’t stop those of the Sacred Sun Clan from attributing still even more importance to him.
Huang Xu said, “Whether or not it was done by Broad Creed Mountain and Yan Zhaoge, whether or not they have the ability to do it once more in the short term, contact Heavenly Thunder Hall, getting them to keep a close eye on the Extreme Northern Snowy Plains. Our Sacred Sun Clan should also dispatch people to watch over the area, lest the other party finds a chance and performs the same action once more.”
“At the same time, look for a chance. Other than openly sending away your lives, kill Yan Zhaoge whatever the cost,” Huang Xu’s face was expressionless, his gaze cold, “If we let him grow up any further, when his cultivation base and strength have both risen, he would be an even greater threat than his father Yan Di.”
Huang Jie remained silent, also soundlessly gazing towards the north, his gaze deep and distant.
……
As the people of the Sacred Sun Clan were all feeling majorly headached by this matter, Yan Zhaoge was in a good mood at Stone Rock City.
All the things he needed having been gathered, Yan Zhaoge began setting them up within his room.
A small scale spirit formation was stablished, the ice coffin in which Shi Jun’s body was stored placed at its centre.
With the final step of this expedition of ten thousand li finally at hand, Yan Zhaoge would not allow any accidents to occur here.
In the days that he had waited, he had also waited out Xu Fei here.
On the way to Stone Rock City, Yan Zhaoge had established communication with the clan as soon as he could.
However he would move following this would depend on the situation, but it would still be best for Shi Jun and his mother to be sent back to Broad Creed Mountain as soon as possible.
Standing beside Yan Zhaoge, Xu Fei also looked quietly at the ice coffin in the formation’s centre.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 356: Two Sikong Qings
HSSB356: Two Sikong Qings
Xu Fei had always been mature and capable. Even now, his expression remained sunken.
However, Yan Zhaoge could feel that he wasn’t actually calm inside.
“Senior apprentice-brother Xu,” Yan Zhaoge pondered for a bit before saying, “That year, Little Shi Jun should only have been three. It can’t be certain how much he understood about the situation back then.”
“The matter with senior apprentice-brother Shi afterwards, and also with eldest apprentice-uncle, if Little Jun asks about it after waking up…”
As Yan Zhaoge said this, his voice became slightly heavier.
Hearing his words, Xu Fei said softly, “All these years, Jun’er has been in slumber. He should not be aware of all that’s happened in the outside world.”
“While he looks to already be ten years old, his mind and memory should have remained at when he was three, with time needed for him to adjust to it.”
“He has always been clever and intelligent. I believe that as time passes and he grows up, he will be like other children in the future.”
“When his mind has grown healthy, I will tell him everything, not keeping things from him.”
Xu Fei raised his head, thinking for a bit, “Including the matter of senior apprentice-brother Shi falling to the dark side as well as what happened afterwards-I will tell all I know to Jun’er.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded quietly, “That’s also good. Otherwise, if someone in the know were to tell him the truth afterwards and he feels that we have been deceiving him, it would instead birth resentment within his heart, easily allowing those with malicious intentions to make use of him, just hoping that it will not be like with senior apprentice-brother Shi.”
Sighing softly, Yan Zhaoge shook his head, “This possibility does exist.”
Xu Fei gazed at the ice coffin, “At the same time, there is also the possibility of him agreeing with Master’s actions.”
Yan Zhaoge said, “This will have to depend on your usual education of him, senior apprentice-brother Xu. People have different understanding of things; everyone’s views on the same issue can be vastly different. Even for grown-ups like us, it would also be very hard for us to completely avoid letting our likes and dislikes influence our judgment, let alone children.”
If nothing went wrong, Shi Jun would be entering Broad Creed Mountain following this. As long as he was talented enough and could pass the test to become a core, direct disciple, his Master had already been decided to be Xu Fei.
This was Xu Fei’s own personal request, at the same time also being the will of the clan.
Xu Fei said quietly, “I will fulfil my duties as a Master. Still, at the end of the day, Jun’er’s personal path in life still has to depend on Jun’er himself. Some things cannot be forced.”
Yan Zhaoge agreed with him, “Yes, that is indeed so.”
As time passed, Yan Zhaoge could feel the vitality within Shi Jun’s body flourishing within the ice coffin.
Focusing on Shi Jun, he saw that while his eyes were still closed, his eyelids moved slightly, as though his eyeballs were moving about beneath.
“It’s coming,” Yan Zhaoge and Xu Fei both had their spirits raised greatly.
Yan Zhaoge bent down and clapped down on the ground before him with his palm,
the small scale spirit formation within the room instantly circulating, countless spirit patterns lighting up.
A great amount of dazzling, coloured steam rose up within the room. While it was formless, the vitality contained within could tangibly be felt.
As Yan Zhaoge tapped lightly on the ice coffin, the steam converged where the ice coffin was, before unceasingly merging within it.
The body of the boy within the ice coffin moved once more, his eyes finally opening.
Seeing this, Yan Zhaoge and Xu Fei both let out simultaneous sighs of relief. The two exchanged glances, actually having the feeling of a lifetime having passed.
The boy rubbed his eyes, as though he had just awakened from sleep, wanting to flip over his body to sit up.
Yan Zhaoge waved his hands, the lid of the coffin opening, as that boy gazed dazedly over.
Two big, one small, the three stared at each other for a long while before that boy gradually came back to his senses, first smiling at Xu Fei, “Uncle Xu!”
Then, he looked at Yan Zhaoge, sounding slightly doubtful, “Little Uncle Yan?”
“Right, it’s me,” Yan Zhaoge smiled.
Shi Jun’s intelligence was such that he had already been able to recognise people from the time he was still a little child.
However, when they had last met that year, Yan Zhaoge had still been a youth of a bit over ten years. Currently, already a youth of over twenty years, his appearance had surely changed somewhat, causing Shi Jun to be unable to confirm his identity immediately.
However, hearing Yan Zhaoge’s reply, little Shi Jun instantly smiled happily.
Surveying his surroundings, he asked curiously, “Where’s father and mother? Where’s grandfather?”
Yan Zhaoge swivelled his head to look at Xu Fei, sighing softly, “Senior apprentice-brother Xu, it’s all yours.”
Yan Zhaoge had already handed over the ice coffin containing Ying Yuzhen’s body over to Xu Fei to take care of.
Hearing his words, Xu Fei nodded, moving forward and lifting Shi Jun out of the ice coffin. Only now did Shi Jun react, lowering his head to look at his hands and feet as he realised perplexedly that he seemed to have grown by a lot, as though his body was not his.
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