“She is still unable to divine information on you and your father through Oracle Divination or even project this from those other people who are related to you.”
“Some people who are looking for her are similarly proficient in projection and divination. With their skill at sieving out such secrets, they have specifically been waiting to obtain clues from these areas.”
“If that lassie does not divine information on you, unless those who are looking for her come into direct contact with you, it would be hard for them to know about your relation to her.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded, having heard some things about divination before.
He asked, “Are many people looking for my mother?”
The purple-crowned old man chortled, “That’s right. Not just those of Clear Light Locale, there are many other people looking for her as well. Still, Clear Light Locale is rather more persistent on this.”
Glancing at Yan Zhaoge, Liu Zhenggu smiled, “Killing so many Clear Light Locale disciples at once, you are ruthless indeed, also possessing great strength.”
Yan Zhaoge said softly, “They slandered my mother as having stolen some kind of treasure, which is why they are pursuing her.”
Liu Zhenggu said, “Since you have already used the word ‘slandered’, there is no need for this old man to speak more on this.”
Yan Zhaoge asked, “Then, I would ask the Northeastern Exalt-why are there so many people all looking for my mother?”
This time, Liu Zhenggu did not answer him as he only said, “You should ask her about it yourself when you see her. If she feels like she can tell you, you will naturally become aware of it.”
The lofty Northeastern Exalt was actually treating this subject like a deep taboo.
Even as Yan Zhaoge felt a bit surprised, he also felt interested in this.
Still, a warning bell simultaneously tolled within his heart.
This here was most definitely no minor matter.
Also, this matter might be related to Sikong Qing, Yue Baoqi, Li Cheng and the other lookalikes…
While Yan Zhaoge’s expression did not change, he was inwardly thinking, “The Eastern Exalt has even accepted Li Cheng as a disciple. Still, from the looks of it, even he and the Northeastern Exalt know nothing of the relationship between junior apprentice-sister Sikong’s lot and my mother, not having connected them together.”
The Eastern Exalt should long since have discovered the rune within Li Cheng. Still, he probably did not have access to other such lookalikes.
Even with many of these runes gathered together, one would still be hard pressed to comprehend the meaning contained within, much less when they only had one or two of these runes on hand.
Since the Southeastern Exalt was unwilling to speak more on this, Yan Zhaoge did not continue to press him on this matter.
“I wonder it was the Eastern Exalt who also arrived just now?” Yan Zhaoge asked.
Liu Zhenggu said, “That’s right. Still, this old man has already persuaded him into leaving.”
“It has been hard on the Northeastern Exalt. This Yan thanks you on my mother’s behalf,” Yan Zhaoge said.
At Golden Court Mountain, Yan Zhaoge had already heard Mu Jun, Chen Zhiliang and the others mentioning this.
The lineages of the Northeastern Exalt and the Eastern Exalt actually ultimately stemmed from the same source. Both of them could be considered as part of the direct lineage of one of the past Four Imperials of Daoism, the Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor.
Liu Zhenggu smiled, “You need not try to wheedle something out of this old man. Telling you about this is fine.”
“Your mother’s legacy originates from the same source as that of this old man and Clear Light Locale. Your mother’s lineage once produced numerous experts as it was stronger than our two lineages.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 850: Secret legacy, the mysterious sixth Emperor
HSSB850: Secret legacy, the mysterious sixth Emperor
The Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor, also known as the Jade Clear True King, had the full title of the Supreme Lord of Divine Sky Jade Clear True King Longevity Emperor Prime Heaven Ruler Sage.
He had been one of the top figures of Daoism alongside others of the Four Imperials like the Purple Tenuity Emperor and the Earth Queen.
He was not the one commonly known as the Old Longevity Star of the Southern Extremity Old Man by mortals. Instead, he had reigned over the elements as he had been able to summon the winds and beckon the rains, commanding spirits of electricity as the lord of Immortal Thunder who possessed control over the fortune and calamity of the myriad creatures.
He also possessed the title of Lord of All Thunder Sect Master Thunderbolt Gamma Reinforcement.
The Longevity Martial Scripture of the eastern Vast Heaven Territory’s Remote Cloud Mountain’s Clear Light Locale’s lineage as well as the Divine Sky Proper Arts of the northeastern Sky Heaven Territory’s Green Sky Mountain’s Grave Thunder Palace’s lineage were both of the Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor’s direct lineage.
Thus, it was said in the World beyond Worlds that the legacies of the Northeastern Exalt and the Eastern Exalt ultimately stemmed from the same source.
It was just that the two sides had different stances on many issues as their relationship was usually not very harmonious.
Yan Zhaoge had noted how it was rumoured that the Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor was also proficient in the Life Creation Heavenly Scripture of the Ten Primordial Heavenly Scriptures.
With how the Northeastern Exalt Liu Zhenggu was so familiar with his mother and how it seemed to be the same with the Eastern Exalt as well, Yan Zhaoge could not help but guess some things.
Liu Zhenggu straightforwardly affirmed Yan Zhaoge’s guesses.
As he mentioned Xue Chuqing’s martial lineage, Liu Zhenggu’s expression turned rather solemn, “Your mother’s Great-Grand Master was one of the Kunlun Nine Luminaries, the Exalted Wood Luminary.”
Yan Zhaoge muttered to himself, “I see…”
The whereabouts of the Exalted Wood Luminary had always been unknown. While some said that that person was dead, there was ultimately no proof of this.
There was little information about this major figure in the World beyond Worlds. This was the first time Yan Zhaoge was hearing that person’s name being brought up.
It was just that he had not thought that his mother might actually be a descendant of that person.
Liu Zhenggu continued, “Many years ago, there were actually six Emperors rather than five in this World beyond Worlds. One of them was rarely known, this being the disciple of the Exalted Wood Luminary and your mother’s Grand Master.”
Hearing this, Yan Zhaoge inwardly smiled to himself, “This seems like some sort of dark history…”
An exalted Emperor being rarely known, this actually entailed one thing.
The other peak figures, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, did not recognise their existence, this at least being true for most of their number.
Relating this to Xue Chuqing’s current situation, it was likely that their lineage had fallen to such dire straits for the same reason.
Thinking back on this now, it was really not baseless that Liu Zhenggu treated the reason behind Xue Chuqing being pursued like so great a taboo.
Now, Yan Zhaoge tried to verify a guess of his, “Senior, was my mother’s Grand Master a good friend of the Dim Radiant Emperor’s?”
Liu Zhenggu glanced rather surprisedly at Yan Zhaoge before slowly nodding, “That’s right.”
Yan Zhaoge’s gaze was somewhat deep and distant.
He suddenly wondered if the Dim Radiant Emperor’s mysterious death along with the Dim Radiant Sect’s rapid deterioration that year had anything to do with his mother’s lineage.
Yin Tianxia’s and the Dim Radiant Sect’s involvement might have been too deep, surpassing some unsaid boundary…
Yan Zhaoge had previously believed that
the Dim Radiant Sect’s expedition to extradimensional space had been to someplace like the Nine Underworlds.
Still, now that he had learnt of the existence of the ‘wall’ and Buddhism, Yan Zhaoge just had to consider if he might have oversimplified matters in his head back then.
Still, if this was about Buddhism, what was the Northeastern Exalt, Liu Zhenggu, so wary of?
While the World beyond Worlds was not like the Roving Jade Heavens where knowledge of Buddhism’s existence was widespread, Liu Zhenggu would definitely know about it.
Yan Zhaoge probed, “May I ask the Northeastern Exalt if this is related to Buddhism?”
Liu Zhenggu glanced deeply at Yan Zhaoge, chuckling, “Looks like you do know about quite a few things. Still, this shouldn’t be something that was told to you by that young lassie?”
Yan Zhaoge replied frankly, “In leaving the World beyond Worlds and traversing extradimensional space this time, I inadvertently flipped over that wall and arrived in a Buddhist world known as the Obscured Way World.”
Liu Zhenggu nodded, then shook his head, “You guess wrongly. It is unrelated to those baldies.”
Looking at Yan Zhaoge, he said, “Do not try to trick any words out of this old man. This is for your own good.”
The purple-crowned old man’s expression showed that he was not joking in the slightest.
Yan Zhaoge narrowed his eyes slightly, saying solemnly, “I will remember that.”
Liu Zhenggu nodded appreciatively, “This old man knows that you have many doubts. Still, like I said earlier, if you find your mother one day, ask her about it yourself. If she thinks that she can tell you, you will naturally know about it.”
Yan Zhaoge asked, “Then, senior, my mother’s Grand Master and Master or other seniors of their lineage-how are they faring now?”
Liu Zhenggu shook his head, “Their lineage is passed down through a single descendant. Your mother’s Master is already dead.”
“As for her Grand Master, it has been many years since he last appeared in this world. This old man has not been able to contact him. He may already be dead, or he could be in another world besides the World beyond Worlds.”
“Anyway, he definitely isn’t in the World beyond Worlds. Otherwise, Xue Chuqing would not have to hide everywhere like this.”
He glanced at Yan Zhaoge before continuing, “Those whose cultivation bases have surpassed the Martial Saint realm are able to freely traverse and remain in the lower worlds, disregarding the rejection of the power of dimensions.”
Yan Zhaoge nodded slightly, “So that’s how it is.”
Liu Zhenggu asked, “From the looks of it, apart from killing the Clear Light Locale disciples, you also captured a few of them? How do you intend to deal with them?”
Yan Zhaoge laughed, “Even if I did not act against them initially, not killing a single one, because of my mother, we are destined to be enemies and not friends.”
“Now that I have already killed some of them, I have no need to leave the rest alive. Slaughtering them or throwing them a feast and sending them off with gifts would really make no difference. Since that is so, I will naturally give them a quick end.”
Yan Zhaoge spread his hands apart, “In having captured them, I originally wanted to ask them some things. Still, you have already told me what I want to know. As for what you didn’t tell me, it would be impossible for them to know about it. Therefore, there is no need to keep them alive anymore.”
Liu Zhenggu chuckled strangely, “Good fella, no wonder you could create such a huge disturbance.”
He asked, “Where are you intending to go now? Back to the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory?”
Yan Zhaoge replied, “Those are precisely my intentions.”
Liu Zhenggu pondered for a moment before saying, “Well, this old man will send you over lest you have to traverse the entire eastern Vast Heaven Territory.”
“The situation here is something that no one knows of now. Still, as soon as it is revealed, Clear Light Locale will naturally not remain in inaction. The eastern Vast Heaven Territory is their domain at the end of the day. Your relationship with that lassie, Xue Chuqing, had best be kept a secret for as long as is possible.”
With that, Liu Zhenggu waved a hand, bringing Yan Zhaoge’s group along in soaring into the skies.
While the cultivated martial art was different, as they all ultimately stemmed from the lineage of the former Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor, many similarities coexisted between them.
This lineage’s martial arts contained both vitality and killing intent, both the qi of lifeforms and violent thunderbolts.
Containing and accumulating all of these was the proper, orthodox path.
Liu Zhenggu and the martial practitioners of Grave Thunder Palace all leaned towards a tough, fierce route which actually somewhat went against the normal principles of their lineage of martial arts.
They would more commonly face bottlenecks in increasing their cultivation bases, finding it more difficult to advance.
Still, it was also precisely because of this that Liu Zhenggu possessed exceptionally great combat prowess.
With him bringing them along, even if they encountered the Eastern Exalt in the eastern Vast Heaven Territory, Yan Zhaoge had no cause for worry unless Liu Zhenggu went to trample on the headquarters of Remote Cloud Mountain.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 851: Returning to the southeast
HSSB851: Returning to the southeast
Brought along by Liu Zhenggu, Yan Zhaoge’s group quickly traversed the eastern Vast Heaven Territory, returning to the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory.
Liu Zhenggu headed straight to Golden Court Mountain. Since he had come to the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory, he might as well meet with the Southeastern Exalt, Cao Jie.
Yan Zhaoge looked as if he was thinking about something.
Feng Yunsheng said, “When we met with the Southeastern Exalt back then, there was something which he left unsaid. It seems that that was not just about you cultivating in the Immortal Ending Sword Manual. Instead, it might have also been related to Senior Xue.”
“Perhaps he already discerned something from your appearance back then, just that he was unable to confirm it and could not very well ask you directly about it.”
Hearing her words, Yan Zhaoge nodded slowly, “That might be so. Still, the Southeastern Exalt seems to merely be turning a blind eye to this as opposed to the Eastern Exalt’s stance towards this issue.”
As Liu Zhenggu met with Cao Jie, Yan Zhaoge’s group stayed at Golden Court Mountain once more.
Mu Jun had already headed off to the Royal Reed Sea again.
In this one over year since Yan Zhaoge’s departure, hidden undercurrents had still surged in the Royal Reed Sea where the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory bordered the southern Blazing Heaven Territory.
The problem did not lie with the Royal Reed Sea and the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory. Instead, it lay in the continual instability of the southern Blazing Heaven Territory.
Both sides had continually been manoeuvring over the matter of Tang Yonghao’s phoenix bone.
The Royal Reed Sea was the frontline facing the southern Blazing Heaven Territory. Aside from Lin Hanhua who had continually been guarding the area, Mu Jun had hurried over as well.
Other than that, there were also other peak experts of the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory who hurried over as per the orders of the Southeastern Exalt, Cao Jie.
Still, Zheng Ming and Chen Zhiliang remained at Golden Court Mountain.
Following his short stay there, Yan Zhaoge was already well acquainted with these people.
Therefore, he had no need to worry about his lack of information channels now.
“Little Friend Yan, you and your father can really not be evaluated by common logic. I was still mentioning about your father’s extraordinariness earlier in how he actually ignited starlight and advanced into the fifth level of th
e Martial Saint realm in a short period of time. I had not thought that you would be not far behind, already having combined your body, avatar and spirit in attaining the third level of the Martial Saint realm now.”
Looking at Yan Zhaoge, Zheng Ming shook his head and sighed in admiration, “How long has it been since you accomplished the Martial Saint realm?”
Chen Zhiliang beside him similarly felt this to be inconceivable, “I personally witnessed your father breaking through two consecutive levels, going from the second to the fourth level of the Martial Saint realm as he broke through space and saw true Divinity, ascending to the World beyond Worlds. Still, I had really not thought that he could actually also improve again within a short period of time.”
“As for you, Little Friend Yan, you are even more unbelievable. How old are you now?”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “It was thanks to some fortuitous encounters. It’s nothing, really.”
His father having advanced to the fifth level of the Martial Saint realm, his strength improving further, this was naturally a good thing.
Yan Zhaoge was not surprised by Yan Di’s rate of improvement at all.
Yan Di’s cultivation was like the martial dao of his sabre, peerless as it slashed forth domineeringly.
The fiercer and faster he went, the smoother it would instead be. Slowing down to stabilise his foundations might instead be detrimental to him.
Generally speaking, the higher one’s cultivation base, the harder it would be for them to break through bottlenecks as they would have to spend more time and effort in their advancement.
For the ten levels of the Martial Saint realm, many experts could be stuck at a single level for decades to even a century. This was a perfectly normal thing.
Still, while this logic applied to other people, it did not apply to Yan Di.
It was just that it was not that there were no detriments to this. In continually ascending atop a peak of ten thousand feet, moving too quickly, as soon as one stopped, they could likely fall straight to the very bottom.
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