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History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 717: Embryonic Immortal Artifact
HSSB717: Embryonic Immortal Artifact
Yan Zhaoge met Yin Tianxia’s gaze.
While it was just a sliver of will, Yan Zhaoge felt like he had really traversed millennia, meeting face to face with this mighty hero and hegemon of his time.
Now, he finally knew why Yin Tianxia’s coffin was empty and where exactly his corpse had gone to.
The ritual established by this Dim Radiant Emperor following his death was actually to transform his own body into this Dim Radiant Wheel!
A supreme, almighty treasure that surpassed Sacred Artifacts.
A legendary Immortal Artifact!
Yan Zhaoge’s gaze was dim and distant, “Who would have thought that there would actually be an Immortal Artifact here, even though it is one that has still yet to be completed…”
Not all Martial Saints had accompanying Sacred Artifacts. Immortal Artifacts were extremely hard to come by in much the same way. One had to possess a cultivation base comparable to Yin Tianxia’s at the very least in order to attempt to forge one.
Not all experts above the Martial Saint realm had accompanying Immortal Artifacts as well.
This had been so even in pre-Great Calamity times. For example, Yan Zhaoge knew that the Flame Devil Emperor from whom the Flame Devil World was descended had not had an Immortal Artifact.
The Dim Radiant Emperor Yin Tianxia had been like a brilliant shooting star, dazzling and stunning yet quick to fall.
While the Dim Radiant Sect had been wealthy, the materials for forging an Immortal Artifact were still rare.
Without sufficient time and accumulation to back them up, everyone knew that the Dim Radiant Sect had not possessed an Immortal Artifact.
Yin Tianxia’s accompanying Sacred Artifact that everyone was the most familiar with was the high-grade Sacred Artifact, the Dim Radiant Lamp.
Yan Zhaoge had not thought that the Dim Radiant Emperor would actually set things up such that his body would be refined into part of an Immortal Artifact, the Dim Radiant Wheel, following his death.
Looking at the Dim Radiant Wheel, aside from feeling desirous of it, Yan Zhaoge first felt bemused.
The actions of the Dim Radiant Emperor were really too strange.
“Was it to leave behind a mighty treasure for his descendants to protect their lineage with or simply to satisfy an unfulfilled wish?” Shocking tides surged within Yan Zhaoge’s heart, “Or might this Immortal Artifact be a method the Dim Radiant Emperor was preparing to revive himself with?”
Aside from this, there was still another possibility.
The Dim Radiant Emperor had painstakingly toiled hard before his death to forge this treasure in order to keep some sort of secret under wraps.
Could it be related to his death as well as the deterioration of the Dim Radiant Sect that year?
Looking at the features of the Dim Radiant Emperor before him, Yan Zhaoge pondered in silence.
While Xiao Ai was unable to see the image of the Dim Radiant Emperor, looking at the Dim Radiant Wheel, she was filled with curiosity, “Young Master, is this a high-grade Sacred Artifact?”
“No, this is an Immortal Artifact, just that it has still yet to be completed,” Yan Zhaoge replied, “It would be more accurate to say that this is an embryonic Immortal Artifact, an unfinished mould.”
Xiao Ai opened her mouth, unable to close it for a long time.
While she had never seen an Immortal Artifact before, she had heard Xue Chuqing mention legends related to them.
Yan Zhaoge saw the girl’s eyes shine bright as they had never before.
As her jet-black eyes blinked, it was like there were countless black wheels spinning within.
In Xiao Ai’s eyes, the originally innocuous-looking black wheel seemed to contain taels upon taels of money, emitting an incomparably enchanting lustre.
Yan Zhaoge rolled his eyes, waving a hand in front of Xiao Ai’s face.
“Young master, young master…this! This…” After Xiao Ai regained her wits, she swallowed her saliva, rendered somewhat speechless as she gesticulated wildly at the Dim Radiant Wheel before pointing at Yan Zhaoge, “You must definitely…definitely…”
Yan Zhaoge shrugged, “Relax, it’s still unknown whether it’s fortune or calamity. Even if it is fortune, it wouldn’t be that easy to obtain it.”
Xiao Ai’s breathing having finally calmed with great difficulty, she tugged at Yan Zhaoge’s sleeve, looking at him with a face full of adulation, “Young Master, you definitely have a method, right?”
Yan Zhaoge said rather amusedly, “Your cultivation base aside, even my own cultivation base definitely wouldn’t be able to unleash the power of an Immortal Artifact at this point in time.”
“While delicacies are great, only being able to look at and not eat them, you don’t have to be so passionate about it, right?”
Xiao Ai said eloquently, “For such a great treasure, just looking at it alone, it’s also an extremely blissful thing!”
Yan Zhaoge stroked his lower chin, smiling as well, “What you say also seems to make sense?”
He turned to look at the Dim Radiant Wheel once more, feeling the concept contained within as he analysed what were possibly the principles of the legendary Dim Radiant Twelve Arts.
Time slowly passed, with Yan Zhaoge silent and unmoving. Xiao Ai quietened down as well, gazing intently at him in a nervous manner as she dared not make a noise to interrupt.
Every time her gaze fell on that quiet, mysterious black wheel, she would have to swallow a mouthful of saliva as she felt as though her heart was being scratched by the paws of a cat.
After who knew how long, the world that they were currently in suddenly shook intensely.
Awakened from his deep ponderings, Yan Zhaoge raised his brows.
Xiao Ai’s expression changed slightly, “Others have found this place!”
The foreign dimension that the altar was in was gradually enveloped by an indistinct layer of radiance that was neither bright nor dim.
Yan Zhaoge’s mind was connected to the Dim Radiant Wheel. The world before his eyes suddenly turned dark after which lamp light eventually appeared amidst the boundless darkness, resembling the first light of the world.
“It’s the Dim Radiant Lamp. Luo Zhiyuan has completely refined the Dim Radiant Lamp,” Yan Zhaoge realised what had happened.
The late Seeing Divinity Martial Saint Luo Zhiyuan who had already possessed the high-grade Sacred Artifact, the Sun Moon Wheels before, had now successfully refined the Dim Radiant Lamp that was a high-grade Sacred Artifact as well.
Who within this Dim Radiant Mausoleum might still be able to stand against him?
Currently searching with the help of the Dim Radiant Lamp, he arrived before the stone door, attempting to force it open and intrude into this foreign dimension!
Xiao Ai looked nervously at Yan Zhaoge, “Young Master…”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “There’s still time.”
With a hand still grabbing onto the Dim Radiant Wheel, he flicked his other sleeve, Feng Yunsheng who had previously been swept off and tucked away by his true essence leaping out from within.
Xiao Ai stared wide-eyed as she saw Feng Yunsheng appear before her.
Feng Yunsheng smiled and nodded towards her.
Yan Zhaoge said, “We’ve got to be fast.”
Feng Yunsheng smiled, saying, “Of course, I wouldn’t be able to do anything even if it takes long.”
Dim blue light suddenly appeared within her pupils, both resembling cold moons that illuminated the surrounding area.
A shocking aura that shook the heavens and the earth was emanated from her, the Dim Sun Divine Sabre unsheathing itself behind her and falling into her hand.
With this, the surface of the Cold Sun Divine Sabre and Feng Yunsheng’s skin were both enveloped by expanding dim blue patterns of light, the terrifying, brutal aura of destruction unceasi
ngly rising.
She went over to the other side of the Dim Radiant Wheel, standing opposite Yan Zhaoge.
The tip of her sabre advanced right towards the centre of the Dim Radiant Wheel.
Yan Zhaoge concentrated, infusing the power of reversed moon into the Dim Radiant Wheel to combine with the domineering might of Feng Yunsheng’s power of reversed sun.
The Cyclic Heavenly Scripture circulated, changing extremities as yin and yang reversed.
Streams of light instantly shot out from the surface of the jet-black Dim Radiant Wheel, shining on Yan Zhaoge and Feng Yunsheng.
Currents of qi were emitted from the twelve slots, enveloping the entire altar.
The next moment, the Dim Radiant Wheel seemed as though it was amidst endless radiance and eternal darkness as it slowly rose.
The trajectory that it rose in seemed like the dividing boundary between light and darkness in this world.
Yan Zhaoge and Feng Yunsheng rose alongside the Dim Radiant Wheel.
At this moment, the heavens and earth of the world outside had gradually already been enveloped completely by that dim light.
Amidst the light, darkness suddenly appeared. At the centre of the darkness, a speck of lamp light appeared.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 718: You should be awakening from your dream
HSSB718: You should be awakening from your dream
At the centre of the dim light that concealed the heavens and covered the earth appeared boundless darkness, and amidst this darkness suddenly shone a speck of light that was dazzling to the extreme.
Amidst the radiance was a speck of lamp light.
The lamp light swayed lightly, breaking through the all-encompassing dim light as it descended upon the coremost area of this foreign dimension and arrived before the altar.
That sole lamp was precisely the Dim Radiant Lamp!
Bright patterns of light surfaced on the exterior of the lamp, seeming eternal and inextinguishable.
Guided by the lamp light, a few figures appeared within the foreign dimension.
The person leading them was garbed in black, a sun and a moon circulating above his head with their shocking aura suffusing the area without the least bit of concealment.
Swivelling his head and gazing over, Yan Zhaoge saw the figure of the Chief of the Radiant Light Sect, Luo Zhiyuan.
With the Sun Moon Wheels above his head as he controlled the Dim Radiant Lamp in advancing forward, Luo Zhiyuan truly appeared brilliant and dazzling at this moment.
Beside Luo Zhiyuan were Guo Song and a few others.
Not all the Radiant Light Sect martial practitioners who had entered the Dim Radiant Mausoleum were present.
This was because Luo Zhiyuan had felt an existence that was even more powerful and even more important than the Dim Radiant Lamp in the mausoleum, thus having hurried here at the greatest possible speed.
With the mausoleum unable to transform into space any longer, Luo Zhiyuan had only been able to find a few people.
Still, with the Dim Radiant Lamp and the Sun Moon Wheels in hand, it was already sufficient for him.
Beneath the radiance of the Dim Radiant Lamp, the intimidating, terrifying aura that had pressured Luo Zhiyuan and the others to the point of suffocation earlier no longer posed a threat now. Instead, they felt as if a refreshing spring breeze was sweeping over them.
It was as if they were enjoying the bestowed merit of their ancestors.
Luo Zhiyuan’s gaze first focused on the Dim Radiant Wheel atop the altar.
A shocked look was revealed in his eyes, “It seems incomplete, but…let alone the Sun Moon Wheels, even the Dim Radiant Lamp at its most powerful would still be far inferior! What…what exactly is…”
Beside him, Guo Song and the others also had shocked, uncertain looks on their faces.
“Could it be…a legendary Immortal Artifact?!” Luo Zhiyuan inhaled deeply, “Could this be the greatest secret of the Dim Radiant Mausoleum, and also the most precious treasure within?”
Having obtained the Dim Radiant Lamp, Luo Zhiyuan had simply felt joyful and reassured. Looking at the Dim Radiant Wheel now, however, his heart was surging madly to an almost irrepressible extent.
Beside him, Guo Song and the others appeared wildly overjoyed as well.
It was not their fault for losing their composure. It was that the significance of the Dim Radiant Wheel was really too great.
While the Dim Radiant Wheel before them was still in its embryonic form, having yet to be forged completely, it was already exceptionally powerful.
If the forging was successful, it would indisputably be the number one treasure of the entire southeastern Yang Heaven Region.
After Luo Zhiyuan had advanced further, stepping into the Immortal Bridge stage, as he wielded the Dim Radiant Wheel, even the Southeastern Exalt would not be able to do anything to him!
The Radiant Light Sect would possess the qualifications to act as domineeringly as they wished in the entire southeastern Yang Heaven Region.
At that point, they would truly have taken an incomparably stable step in re-establishing the glory of the former Dim Radiant Sect.
The lifelong dream possessed by the past ancestors of the Radiant Light Sect and he himself would finally truly see hope.
As Luo Zhiyuan’s gaze swept past the bottom of the altar where treasures were heaped into a mountain, his eyes narrowed once more.
His gaze finally returned to the top of the altar, focusing on the Dim Radiant Wheel and Yan Zhaoge who had currently extended his hand to grasp it.
The fiery fervour within Luo Zhiyuan’s eyes faded to be replaced by coldness.
Yan Zhaoge appraised Luo Zhiyuan, smiling with a composed expression on his face, “Although you have the Sun Moon Wheel and the Dim Radiant Lamp as well, in having arrived here so quickly, you probably didn’t waste much time on the Dim Darkness Sect.”
“Chief Zhou and the others of the Dim Darkness Sect chose to retreat when you were refining the Dim Radiant Lamp?”
Luo Zhiyuan’s gaze was icy cold, no fluctuations visible within whatsoever, “Do not attempt to delay. That will serve no use whatsoever.”
“The relics of the Emperor and the treasures of the former Dim Radiant Sect only have one owner now, and that is my sect. How is it something that you can touch?”
He raised his palm towards Yan Zhaoge from far away, lining his index and middle fingers into a sword before stabbing outwards!
“Hands off!”
A sword-light that was swift as a shooting star instantly traversed space, seemingly completely unobstructed by the boundaries of space as it was already right before Yan Zhaoge in an instant!
Unleashed by an expert of the peak of the late Seeing Divinity stage, this sword was fast to the point that even Yan Zhaoge was almost unable to catch its trajectory.
Yet, Yan Zhaoge completely ignored that sword-light.
The rotating Dim Radiant Wheel suddenly stopped at this moment.
This Radiant Light Sword of Luo Zhiyuan’s suddenly changed direction, shooting past Yan Zhaoge!
The twelve slots on the black metal wheel all became like deep, dark abysses, resembling twelve worlds of dim light.
The bright sword-light suddenly split apart in mid-air, transforming into twelve streaks of light that respectively landed within the twelve slots of the Dim Radiant Wheel.
“The more time that passes, you lot would actually be the ones who benefit, able to remain in your dreams for a little while longer,” Yan Zhaoge’s smile gradually turned cold, “Now, time to wake up.”
“Huh?” Luo Zhiyuan’s pupils retracted intensely.
Those of the Radiant Light Sect all felt shocked and uncertain. It was already inconceivable enough that Yan Zhaoge could wield the high-grade Sacred Artifact, the Extreme Yang Seal.
How was it possible for him to wield this supreme treasure that seemed to be an Immortal Artifact?
“It is not that he is control
ling this treasure. Instead, he is making use of the ritual originally used to forge it. That ritual was left behind by the Emperor!” Luo Zhiyuan yelled loudly, “Destroy the altar down below, and he will not be able to use the treasure at all!”
Guo Song and the others immediately shot downwards.
However, before they could draw near, that altar had already shattered mightily on its own!
The silent Dim Radiant Wheel began rotating once more!
The dim-blue lustre within Feng Yunsheng’s eyes faded as she kept her sabre and stepped back.
Meanwhile, Yan Zhaoge roared, “Up!”
The Dim Radiant Wheel left Yan Zhaoge’s palm, continuing to rise higher into the air, seeming like the centre of the world was wherever it was.
The Dim Radiant Lamp in front of Luo Zhiyuan suddenly shook intensely.
The next moment, the lamp light that was bright and radiant was suddenly extinguished.
Luo Zhiyuan’s expression changed as he tried to stop it. Yet, the Dim Radiant Lamp shot into the air, directly breaking free of his control as it flew towards the Dim Radiant Wheel!
Bright, dazzling patterns of light swiftly faded from the surface of the ancient lamp as it once again became dim and lustreless, simple and rustic.
Luo Zhiyuan’s eyeballs looked on the brink of imploding.
While he was not like Yan Zhaoge who had come into personal contact with the Dim Radiant Lamp, the scene before his eyes still caused him to come to a realisation.
From the very beginning, in the plans of the Dim Radiant Emperor Yin Tianxia, this Dim Radiant Lamp had already been one of the original materials designated for the forging of the Dim Radiant Wheel!
Unless one was able to deal with Yin Tianxia’s ritual, whoever the Dim Radiant Lamp was obtained by, it would not have any ability to resist the Dim Radiant Wheel at all.
Being absorbed and assimilated by the Dim Radiant Wheel was simply its fate.
Yet, whilst understanding this, how could Luo Zhiyuan and those of the Radiant Light Sect accept it?
They had painstakingly made preparations all these years, relying on the clues they found with great difficulty to locate this Dim Radiant Mausoleum.
In the battle with the Dim Darkness Sect, they had even had a mid-grade Sacred Artifact of theirs, the Inextinguishable Light Armour, destroyed in order to obtain the Dim Radiant Lamp. Yet, at the end of the day, it had been compromised just like that, being taken away by someone else so easily.