“Senior apprentice-uncle Chang, you asked me whether Yin Liuhua could have come into contact with my Shadow Shrinking Pouch.”
“Whatever the Disciplinary Hall asked Yin Liuhua, she would definitely have denied it regardless of whether it was true or not.”
Hearing her words, Chang Zheng’s gaze focused slightly.
Feng Yunsheng said, “I answered back then that she could. Yet, in truth, she didn’t have such a chance.”
“Other than me myself, those who could have touched my Shadow Shrinking Pouch included only Elder Wang who took it away from my place as well as you yourself who guarded it afterwards.”
“The Shadow Spirit Talisman wasn’t mine, nor was it Yin Liuhua’s. Then, it could only belong to either you or senior apprentice-aunt Wang. How about we invite senior apprentice-aunt Wang over now?”
Chang Zheng’s expression did not change, but he sent a deep glance Feng Yunsheng’s way.
Feng Yunsheng’s gaze was bright and her expression fearless, “I had originally thought that Yin Liuhua had simply colluded with outsiders to frame me. However, after having heard about that Shadow Shrinking Talisman, I then knew that it was not simply Yin Liuhua who was problematic.”
“The one who was acting against me was likely you, senior apprentice-uncle Chang of the Disciplinary Hall, who holds a high status within the clan. I could also not be sure whether it was only you. Being uncertain of who I could report this to, I could only stay patient and let things pass. Fortunately, Master and Zhaoge were blessed by the heavens.”
Chang Zheng inhaled deeply, saying mildly, “Junior apprentice-niece Feng, I know that you feel wronged. However, you needn’t try to take revenge on me in such a manner. I was only doing my job at the time. After today, I will also be voluntarily stepping down from the role of First Seat of the Disciplinary Hall as I accept any punishments that are meted out to me for my failures.”
“Instead, it is you who should know that maligning a senior is a serious offence. Do not commit a mistake due to a moment’s anger. The clan does not prohibit its disciples from privately owning Shadow Spirit Talismans.”
Feng Yunsheng’s expression did not change, “Senior apprentice-uncle Chang is too serious. I am simply voicing my uncertainties.”
“With your history, why would you do something that would leave yourself so clearly vulnerable? There should be something that made you want to indict me so strongly, or want me to be unable to be absolved of the crime for a long time, thus acting so hastily.”
“If you are not someone of the Sacred Sun Clan, what benefit would there be in this for you?”
Chang Zheng had just been about to reply when Yan Zhaoge spoke up mildly, “I think I know why.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 589: I want to kill you, so what if you’re unresigned?
HSSB589: I want to kill you, so what if you’re unresigned?
Yan Zhaoge looked at Chang Zheng, his gaze calm yet cold. Seeing this, Chang Zheng’s heart involuntarily jolted.
“You wanted to find something, right? You thought that it was with Yunsheng,” Yan Zhaoge now asked Feng Yunsheng, “Did you obtain something at the East Sea? Right, it should have been destroyed afterwards.”
Hearing his words, Feng Yunsheng’s eyes suddenly lit up, “An orb! I was unable to determine its use, so I just brought it back to the Mountain.”
“After having returned, I had not paid any attention to it. On the night before Hong Jiaqi’s appearance, the orb suddenly shattered.”
Hearing Feng Yunsheng’s words, Chang Zheng’s pupils abruptly retracted. His body seemed about to move, but he forcibly kept it in check.
Yan Zhaoge said slowly, “That is a rare treasure, the Heaven Spying Orb. It has the use of long-range surveillance, also possessing the function of recording the scenes of the time.”
“These are split into mother and child orbs. The child orbs can only perform surveillance. However, everything they see will be visible to the possessor of the mother orb, in which a record can be made of it as well.”
Yan Zhaoge sent Chang Zheng a deep glance, “The scenes within the Heaven Spying Orb can be damaged, but they are hard to falsify or alter. It can truly be considered iron-clad proof.”
As Yan Zhaoge said this, an orb appeared on his palm.
Seeing that orb, Chang Zheng gradually lowered his gaze.
Feng Yunsheng stared at that orb, “It’s like mine, but a little bigger.”
As Yan Zhaoge lightly tapped the Heaven Spying Orb, a scene was instantly projected from within. It was shockingly that of Chang Zheng ambushing Infinite Boundless Mountain’s Grand Elder, Li Jingtu, at the East Sea back then, in an attempt to obtain the Heaven Cleaving Axe.
Feng Yunsheng, Fu Enshu and Elder Qin were greatly shocked.
Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “This is what Chang Zheng wanted to conceal.”
“After slaying the Sacred Sun Clan’s Huang Jie, I obtained this treasure. It was precisely because I looked at this recording that I immediately returned to the Mountain.”
“Back then, I still hadn’t known the exact situation regarding Yunsheng over here. Thus, I was more worried that Chang Zheng had been threatened by the Sacred Sun Clan, perhaps having tampered with things here.”
“After having returned and understood how things played out, only then did I realise that Chang Zheng probably still didn’t know whose hands the Heaven Spying Orb were in.”
He wielded the Heaven Spying Orb, three slots instantly surfacing, one of them flickering with light while the other two were dim and lustreless.
“Generally speaking, Heaven Spying Orbs have one child orb to one mother orb. However, this unique orb of Huang Jie’s is one of a kind with three child orbs to one mother orb, one of the child orbs having recorded the scenes at the time and been discovered and destroyed by Chang Zheng afterwards. The second instead remained in Huang Jie’s possession.”
A slightly smaller orb appeared in Yan Zhaoge’s hand.
Chang Zheng came to a realisation as he raised his head. Not being a fool, after having looked at the child and mother orbs that Yan Zhaoge was holding and hearing him mention that this Heaven Spying Orb had three child orbs to a single mother orb, he gradually understood what it all meant.
Yan Zhaoge continued, “The third orb ended up with Yunsheng. Chang Zheng was misdirected by Huang Jie, thus coming to believe that the child orb Yunsheng had was the Heaven Spying Orb itself.”
“The reason that he framed Yunsheng along with Yin Liuhua and Hong Jiaqi was in order to find this Heaven Spying Orb from her, thus avoiding his secret being exposed.”
“Sadly, ever since the start, Huang Jie had destroyed that child orb via remote control of the mother orb. With that, it was destined that Chang Zheng would never be able to find it.”
Yan Zhaoge looked calmly at Chang Zheng, “Chang Zheng, you don’t have to pat your chest so hard. You indeed aren’t in cahoots with the Sacred Sun Clan. Instead, you are merely Huang Jie’s wooden puppet who was led around on a string to dance when he wanted it and sing when he wanted it.”
At this moment, Chang Zheng could only feel as if the entire world was spinning around him as a chill permeated his entire body.
He was actually an arrogant person as well. The truth of the matter had really had too strong an impact on him.
Infinite scenes seemed to appear before Chang Zheng’s eyes. What awaited him was not merely the collapse of his reputation. There would also be countless people mockingly pointing him as a fool.
He shivered in his entirety.
Recovering, Chang Zheng inhaled deeply before rebutting, “That’s right, I was the one who killed Infinite Boundless Mountain’s Li Jingtu. However, I was not aware of the matter of the Heaven Spying Orb that you speak of!”
“In having killed Li Jingtu, harmed our ally and tried to acquire the Heaven Cleaving Axe, I was momentarily bewitched. Still, I only ever did so in order to improve the strength of our clan!”
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“In the matter of Feng Yunsheng and Yin Liuhua, I handled things incorrectly, but I definitely held no selfish desires in doing so. I didn’t even know about the existence of the Heaven Spying Orb, much less frame Feng Yunsheng in order to find it!”
Chang Zheng pointed at Yan Zhaoge, “All of what you have said are mere speculations. You have no real proof!”
“Currently, you are truly different from how you were in the past. Still, you are merely doing so in order to vent your fury for Feng Yunsheng now. I’m won’t accept it…”
Before he had finished speaking, he suddenly felt dizzy.
Yan Zhaoge coldly looked at Chang Zheng who was pointing towards him, unstable in his emotions.
He grabbed Chang Zheng’s hand in one shot, directly breaking hand, bones and wrist all in one go!
Chang Zheng was about to continue as his mind cleared up amidst the intense pain, but Yan Zhaoge now chuckled, “Having already understood how this matter came to be, it is already sufficient. There is no need for you to accept it.”
Yan Zhaoge exerted force with his palm, Chang Zheng’s body breaking unceasingly apart beginning from his fingers and next through his arm and towards his shoulder.
Fresh blood splattered all about his arm with the raw flesh visible as the very skin was ripped open, cold white bones having shattered greatly as they pierced distortedly out of the flesh and blood.
Chang Zheng felt a vast force that could not be resisted suppressing his entire body bit by gradual bit through the medium of his fingers!
All breaking together, as if grinded apart by a millstone!
Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “I want to kill you. So what if you’re unresigned?”
When the warping of Chang Zheng’s flesh and blood had reached his shoulder, Yan Zhaoge let go.
However, before Chang Zheng could sigh in relief, his feet as well as his other palm that had not been caught by Yan Zhaoge began breaking apart all at once, blood and flesh indistinct from the other as the destruction continued spreading upwards through those limbs as well.
A struggling Chang Zheng roared in rage, “You don’t have the authority to kill me! Even if I am no longer the First Seat of the Disciplinary Hall, there are still only the Chief or the newly chosen First Seat of the Disciplinary Hall who will be able to indict and punish me!”
“Chief not being here, all the higher echelon longtime Elders will have to decide together on how to deal with me. Before that, you can only imprison me at most. You cannot kill me!”
“You cannot!!”
He wanted to struggle, yet discovered that Yan Zhaoge’s Northern Ocean Clone was standing behind him, with a hand placed on his back that prevented him from moving.
Yan Zhaoge looked indifferently at Chang Zheng, “There’s indeed one thing that you said right. I am indeed feeling truly angry right now, even angrier than when I was killing the people of the Radiant Light Sect and the Sacred Sun Clan.”
“When I was at the front risking my life to take care of all those external enemies one after another, there was already someone of our own stabbing me in the back. If I don’t kill you, who should I kill?”
Gazing down upon Chang Zheng, Yan Zhaoge said slowly, “You don’t have to speak so loudly. Today, even if you howl so loud that you can be heard in the Flame Devil World, there will still not be a person that can protect you.”
Chang Zheng roared unrelentingly in rage like a cornered beast.
The Northern Ocean Clone continued exerting strength. Chang Zheng’s limbs were all mangled apart before the four forces all congregated at his central core. Finally, he was crushed into a bloody pulp!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 590: A single glance to render you dead
HSSB590: A single glance to render you dead
From the four limbs to the entire body, Chang Zheng resembled a broken rag as he was wrung out ragged, his blood and flesh mangled and his bones all showing.
Within the barrier, Yin Liuhua nearly fainted as she saw this.
She had rebutted Chang Zheng earlier. However, hearing Yan Zhaoge’s words now, she could not help but shiver in her entirety.
Yan Zhaoge now swivelled his head to look at Yin Liuhua.
Yin Liuhua shook her head panickedly, “Se…senior apprentice-brother Yan, I know that I’m wrong! I was only momentarily blinded; I didn’t mean it, Master! Master, this disciple knows her wrongs. Save me, please! This disciple won’t dare to do it again!”
Fu Enshu’s expression was complex as she looked at Yin Liuhua, “While Chang Zheng was at fault, his earlier words were correct. You deserve the penalty of death for your crimes this time.”
Yin Liuhua felt a chill run down her body as she called unresignedly, “Master, I definitely didn’t mean to harm you back then. I really didn’t mean to leak our movements to that person. I didn’t know that he was from the Sacred Sun Clan!”
Fu Enshu gazed at her, “I believe that. But what about afterwards?”
Yin Liuhua stuttered, “I was threatened by them. With your fate unknown and you missing, I was really scared silly at the time.”
Looking at Yin Liuhua, Fu Enshu’s gaze contained extreme disappointment, “You were scared silly at the time, but after having returned here from the East Sea, did you spend all this time silly as well?”
“Senior apprentice-brother Chang said that I don’t understand you. That is right, whilst also wrong. I understand many things about you, but I have discovered today that there are some things about you which I am really not clear on.”
“Even now, I still cannot understand-why have you come to this stage?” Fu Enshu shook her head as she said this.
Yin Liuhua’s expression turned dazed, but her gaze then gradually became a little maniacal, wild and without focus.
She chuckled, pointing at Fu Enshu and questioning loudly, “Why have I come to this stage? You are asking me why I have come to this stage? Hahahaha, do you really not understand?”
“From day to night, it is always the Extreme Yin Crown, the Extreme Yin Bout. Ever since the day I entered the clan, all of you have been judgmental of me. You always like to compare me with this woman!”
Pointing at Feng Yunsheng, Yin Liuhua asked in rage, “Why do I have to be like her?”
Fu Enshu’s gaze was focused on Yin Liuhua, “If you were really unwilling, if you really wanted to give up, while I would have felt it to be a pity, I still wouldn’t have forced you to go on.”
Yin Liuhua snorted, “You were already this dissatisfied with me. If I had said that I wanted to give up, wouldn’t all of you treat me even more lightly? How would I have been able to continue standing securely in the clan following that?”
Looking at Yin Liuhua, Yan Zhaoge raised his brows slightly, “Oh, I think I understand a little now.”
As soon as he spoke, Yin Liuhua’s body immediately trembled.
Yan Zhaoge said slowly, “So it was not just a matter of laziness and an undetermined will. It was not wanting to put in the effort while at the same time also not being able to bear giving up the position and treatment of a Maiden of Extreme Yin in the clan.”
“Wanting to drink water, yet not wanting to carry the load.”
Yan Zhaoge swivelled his head to look at Feng Yunsheng, “It is not simply jealousy and desolation due to a disadvantageous position. It is not a competitive mindset. Instead, it is wanting to have it all for yourself.”
“Might you have gained inspiration from the Heavenly Thunder Hall’s Nian Lei and Infinite Boundless Mountain’s Ling Hui?”
“If Yunsheng wasn’t here, our clan would only have you as our Maiden of Extreme Yin. However useless and lazy you are, before the hope of winning the Extreme Yin Crown had completely faded away, the clan would still have to tolerate you, and you would be able to leisurely relax and not do anything at all in peace.”
Yin Liuhua gazed at Yan Zhaoge in fear and rage.
She seemed to have completely lost it as her gaze shifted between
Yan Zhaoge and Feng Yunsheng, “There has been something going on between the two of you since long ago! That’s why you have taken special care of her! Whatever good things there are, you provide them all to her first!”
“I am inferior to her, yet you are always biased towards her, causing the gap between us to grow greater and greater. You’re just intentionally leaving me subordinate to her!”
“The worse I am, the better she appears!”
Feng Yunsheng frowned, “Biased in what way? Apart from the clan really no longer having Qilin Stones, you having the Heavenly Spring Baptism while I had the Qilin Spring Baptism, you had all of what I had as well. You are so worked up just over a single Qilin Stone?”
Yin Liuhua yelled, “Nonsense! That Cold Marrow Needle Technique obviously isn’t something that humans can bear at all! That’s one of the Seven Great Tortures! If not for him taking special care of you, how would you have been able to bear it?”
Hearing her words, Feng Yunsheng was angered to the point of a forced smile appearing on her face.
Yin Liuhua felt even more hateful, “You still have the gall to smile! From small things come big things. Since there is this, there must be others too. Other than that, who knows how many additional benefits he has given to you in secret? Don’t sit here and act nice like this!”
She was currently no longer able to conceal her emotions as she glared at Feng Yunsheng in hatred, “Bitch, do you know that every time you hypocritically pretend to be concerned about me, it only makes me feel like I want to vomit!”
Feng Yunsheng took a long look at Yin Liuhua, as if coming to know her for the first time.
After staring at her for a while, she slowly shook her head, her gaze gradually becoming sharp and intimidating.
Yin Liuhua felt a chill just by seeing that gaze.
Feng Yunsheng had never directed such a gaze at her before. Or maybe it would be more appropriate to say that Feng Yunsheng had almost never shown such a domineering aura in front of her fellow disciples before.
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