It was only with Yan Di not exiting Broad Creed Mountain that Daoist Shi was able to barely hold on.
Seeing this, a solemn look finally appeared in Guan Lide’s eyes.
Gazing down upon Broad Creed Mountain, he said slowly, “Able to possess such strength at such a cultivation level, it truly is rare indeed. What a heaven-defying genius.”
“Admiring your talents, I would not like to push you to the brink. I am asking you for the last time. The Immortal Artifact-will you or will you not hand it over?”
Gazing at Guan Lide, Yan Di said in an indifferent tone, “Do your worst. Why speak unnecessary things?”
Guan Lide looked coldly at Yan Di, “It was only because I admire talent that I offered you this. However, you yourself are courting death. Someone like you indeed cannot be left for long. Otherwise, you are sure to become a major threat in the future.”
The light of countless stars agglomerated above his head, a crown of bright starlight appearing!
Instantly, the actual stars of the sky up above began to dim.
Between the heavens and earth, Guan Lide was like the hegemon of stars as he presided over Broad Creed Mountain.
An expert of the ninth level of the Martial Saint realm wielding a high-grade Sacred Artifact!
Having attained this level, martial practitioners and high-grade Sacred Artifacts would gradually become able to boost one another’s strengths as they vaguely surpassed their earlier limits.
Yan Di was ever dauntless as his sabre-light surged, rampantly facing off against Guan Lide with the help of the Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation.
In the meantime, however, Daoist Shi, King Xuancheng and those other Grand Xuan Dynasty martial practitioners were already attacking simultaneously as well.
Daoist Shi was extremely skilled in formations at the end of the day. While he was unable to quickly dispel the Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation, he was still able to majorly disrupt its circulation.
The attacks of the other Grand Xuan Dynasty martial practitioners descended towards Broad Creed Mountain, enveloping the heavens and covering the earth.
At this moment, Broad Creed Mountain resembled a sole vessel atop a turbulent sea as it rocked.
Still, even so, everyone appeared composed though they would frequently glance towards Yan Zhaoge’s Northern Ocean Clone.
Guan Lide had come for the Dim Radiant Wheel as he was currently engaged in a heaven-roiling, earth-overturning battle here.
In truth, however, Yan Zhaoge and the Dim Radiant Wheel were not at Broad Creed Mountain in the first place.
The Grand Xuan Dynasty was aware of this as Shen Lingzi and Kang Ping had headed to the south of the Royal Reed Sea together to capture Yan Zhaoge.
Guan Lide, however, was unaware of this. He thought that Yan Zhaoge had not appeared since he was at the third level of the Martial Saint realm and would not be of much help in this situation.
Sensing the gazes of his fellow disciples, the Northern Ocean Clone smiled.
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In the south of the Royal Reed Sea, the Phoenix Bearing Region.
Immediately after those abnormalities with the wound of the sky here had occurred, the person of the Grand Xuan Dynasty who was in charge of guarding over this area, Lord Protector Zheng of the four Lord Protectors, had quickly hurried over.
While hurrying over to where the wound of the sky was located, he had also dispatched someone to notify Shen Lingzi, King Xuancheng and Daoist Shi who had been about to launch an attack on Broad Creed Mountain in the Spirit Inheritance Region.
When he arrived at the wound of the sky, he saw that the pillar of light there which shot up into the skies above had actually still yet to dissipate.
The cracks between the heavens and earth there had still yet to heal as they were still distorted. Still, they were much less blurry and indistinct than before.
A figure stood between the heavens and the earth, basking within the pillar of light.
It was a youth in white clothes and a black-bordered blue robe.
Before the youth was placed a massive three-legged pill furnace that was completely purplish-gold in colour.
Attached to the pill furnace up above was another, smaller black furnace.
The two furnaces both had their lids open, their mouths facing each other. Attached to each other like this, they seemed exceptionally strange.
Lord Protector Zheng really could not have been any more familiar with that youth’s appearance.
Currently, no one in the entire Royal Reed Sea did not know of him, did not know of his exploits!
Broad Creed Mountain’s Yan Zhaoge!
“He was in the Vast Ocean World before this?!” Lord Protector Zheng’s heart sunk, “There, he broke through space to see true Divinity and accomplished the fourth level of the Martial Saint realm, the early Seeing Divinity stage, as he has now ascended to the World beyond Worlds?”
While he himself was a late Seeing Divinity Martial Saint, Lord Protector Zheng was currently totally unable to relax.
Yan Zhaoge’s magnificent battle exploits aside, when his father Yan Di had ascended that year, he had slain King Xuanmu of the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm, accomplishing his fame in that single battle.
While King Xuanmu had already been injured back then, Yan Di’s strength just could not be denied.
Being someone whose strength was inferior to King Xuanmu’s at the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm, it was no wonder that Lord Protector Zheng did not feel confident.
He decided to spy on Yan Zhaoge from far away, locking down his position as he left him for the likes of Shen Lingzi and King Xuancheng to deal with.
Just as Lord Protector Zheng was thinking about this, he saw radiance flicker within the acupoints of Yan Zhaoge’s entire body, the light of fire actually vaguely leaping about within that radiance!
It was as though patches of starry sky had begun to blaze.
Lord Protector Zheng was rendered wide-eyed and tongue-tied, “Lighting up starfire? This is the hallmark of early Seeing Divinity Martial Saints progressing towards the mid Seeing Divinity stage. But didn’t this Yan Zhaoge only just attain the early Seeing Divinity stage and ascend?”
How was it possible for someone who had only refined a single acupoint to achieve Divinity to light up starfire?
This was unless this person had simultaneously or consecutively refined numerous acupoints within an extremely short amount of time, shooting straight into the peak of the fourth level of the Martial Saint realm, in which case it would be possible.
In that case, he would hence be able to attempt surpassing that bottleneck, advancing into an even higher cultivation level!
“Lighting up starfire should be something that only occurs within the body of a martial practitioner himself. Outsiders should not be able to see this. Having caused such a major disturbance with his lighting of starfire, just how abundant and overflowing must his strength be?”
Not having battled, not having interacted, just watching on from far away, Lord Protector Zheng felt an all-pervasive chill shooting from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head, instantly enveloping his entire body as he felt like an ice sculpture.
Martial practitioners definitely were not to be interrupted when achieving their breakthroughs. This should be the best time for him to launch a sneak attack on Yan Zhaoge.
Seeing the scene before him, however, Lord Protector Zheng actually dared not make any reckless moves.
Events proved that his decision had indeed been the correct one. Yet, even that was meaningless.
It was virtually instantly that Yan Zhaoge broke through a barrier countless martial practitioners could only gaze distantly at, attaining the fifth level of the Martial Saint realm, the mid Seeing Divinity stage!
The starlight around his body and the illusory flames were both retracted simultaneously.
Apart from how abnormal it was that he was currently standing atop the air, Yan Zhaoge cu
rrently resembled an ordinary person who had never cultivated in martial arts before.
Yan Zhaoge laughed, his gaze turning as it accurately fell upon Lord Protector Zheng in the distance.
Lord Protector Zheng’s heart beat frantically as he could only feel that a great disaster was about to befall him.
He immediately realised that it would be impossible for him to succeed in keeping an eye on Yan Zhaoge as that would instead spell his death.
Without any hesitation whatsoever, Lord Protector Zheng turned and fled.
Yan Zhaoge did not move a single step as he instead first kept those two connected furnaces neither hurriedly nor slowly.
Then, he smiled, striding forth.
The next instant, he was already directly behind Lord Protector Zheng!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 876: The Yan Zhaoge who has truly ascended into the World beyond Worlds
HSSB876: The Yan Zhaoge who has truly ascended into the World beyond Worlds
Yan Zhaoge instantly arrived behind Lord Protector Zheng at a speed that far exceeded his expectations.
The Great Roc Spear of the Grand Xuan Dynasty’s supreme martial art, the Seven Fowl Treasured Spear, was also renowned for its speed.
Originally, amongst the powers active in the Royal Reed Sea, there had only been those of the Radiant Light Sect who cultivated in the Thousand Illusory Streaking Light Art who were able to compete with it in terms of speed.
As an expert of the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm, while Lord Protector Zheng was inferior to the late King Xuanmu, his martial prowess was still a cut above the rest.
As he thought to turn and flee, he quickly did so using the movement techniques of the Great Roc Spear.
However, Yan Zhaoge was actually even faster than him!
“You are the Grand Xuan Dynasty’s Lord Protector Zheng?” Having once seen images of all the Grand Xuan Dynasty’s peak experts before, Yan Zhaoge immediately recognised the other party.
He could not help but smile, shaking his head, “Back in that Dim Darkness Sect branch altar, we did also have an encounter. Still, it was fortunate that you did not see me then. Otherwise, I’m afraid I might have had it real bad then, no longer able to converse with you like I am today.”
Lord Protector Zheng’s face was livid as he thought that Yan Zhaoge was just trying to make a fool out of him.
He did not know that not long after Yan Zhaoge had come to the World beyond Worlds for the first time with the help of the paper fan of divine wood that year, Yan Zhaoge had temporarily resided in a branch altar of the Dim Darkness Sect which had ended up being attacked by the Grand Xuan Dynasty.
At that time, it had been none other than him, Lord Protector Zheng, who had been leading the attacking troops.
Yan Zhaoge had still yet to Transcend Mortality and achieve Sainthood back then as his cultivation base had been far from comparable to Lord Protector Zheng’s.
Currently, Lord Protector Zheng was still a sixth level Martial Saint whereas Yan Zhaoge had already attained the fifth level of the Martial Saint realm, his strength far surpassing his opponent.
Speaking of this, quite a few years had already passed since then.
Recalling this now, Yan Zhaoge inevitably felt somewhat emotional.
Lord Protector Zheng snorted, “Kid of the Yan Family, don’t you be arrogant!”
“Though your cultivation base may have improved by leaps and bounds now, you are still too inexperienced! Many ancestors of my Grand Xuan Dynasty have simultaneously returned to the Royal Reed Sea this time. Their momentum of sweeping through all beneath the heavens already cannot be stopped!”
He said hatefully, “Even if you immediately turn tail and run, trying to flee from the Royal Reed Sea, you still might not be able to succeed!”
Yan Zhaoge could not help but laugh upon hearing this, “Are you hinting to me that killing you would be useless, that I would do better letting you go and hastily fleeing now, in which case I might still be able to live for a moment longer?”
Having been seen through by Yan Zhaoge, Lord Protector Zheng’s expression changed slightly.
Yan Zhaoge shook his head, retracting his smile as he said earnestly, “From a certain perspective, it is only today that this Yan can be considered as truly having ascended into the World beyond Worlds.”
“Let eliminating this enmity between the Grand Xuan Dynasty and myself be this Yan’s first battle in the World beyond Worlds.”
Looking at Lord Protector Zheng, Yan Zhaoge said calmly, “I shall begin with you.”
Saying thus, Yan Zhaoge raised his palm, directly flipping it whereupon he brought it down upon Lord Protector Zheng’s head!
Lord Protector Zheng roared in rage, immediately retaliating as he would surely not be a sitting duck.
However, as Yan Zhaoge brought down his palm, Lord Protector Zheng could only feel as though the sky was directly collapsing, the heavens and earth being overturned.
This terrifying force that reversed the heavens and earth pinned him tightly to the spot, completely unable to shift his body.
The blazing fire formed of his true essence surged into the skies, yet was immediately extinguished the next instant.
Even the very heavens and earth had been overturned, much less these few flames between them!
Lord Protector Zheng’s eyes seemed on the brink of imploding as he watched Yan Zhaoge’s palm descend yet was unable to exert any power, being unable to even evade.
If one were to say that many opponents who had previously faced Yan Zhaoge’s Cyclic Heavenly Seal had been mentally intimidated by his fist-intent, the current Lord Protector Zheng felt as though he was truly faced with a terrifying disaster as the heavens and the earth were overturned with all of creation being reversed.
However he tried to withstand it, however he tried to evade it, he would still be unable to avoid this palm of Yan Zhaoge’s!
A ‘boom’ resounded as Yan Zhaoge’s palm mightily descended.
The mid-grade and low-grade Sacred Artifacts that Lord Protector Zheng had with him had not even had the time to activate when the top of his head had already been shattered by Yan Zhaoge’s palm!
After slaying his opponent with a single palm, Yan Zhaoge did not look at him again as he simply collected his treasures with a casual sweep of the hand before throwing them all into those two connected furnaces.
Following that, Yan Zhaoge directed headed northwest in the direction of the Spirit Inheritance Region and Broad Creed Mountain.
His speed was swift indeed as he sped over the endless ocean.
After travelling for some time, Yan Zhaoge’s heart jolted slightly as he gazed into the distance.
In the distance, a sword-light was cleaving over straight towards him!
The sword-light resembled a long river of time as it was vast and mighty, seemingly without end.
The radiance was not bright as it was even mild like water.
However, the heavens and earth were pale and blurry where the sword-light passed.
The newcomer’s voice contained boundless hatred as the words resounded one by one between the heavens and earth.
“YAN! ZHAO! GE!”
Seeing this, Yan Zhaoge laughed loudly, “Good timing, Kang Ping!”
This person was none other than the head of the Grand Xuan Dynasty’s Shenling Ten Swords and the former number one expert of the Royal Reed Sea, the early Immortal Bridge Martial Saint Kang Ping!
There was that death enmity due to Madame Kang, and he had even been beaten down within that black hole formed of the carcass of the Taotie in the deep sea of the Clear Scenic Region afterwards.
Several years having passed, he had finally managed to extricate himself from within.
All his fury and hatred had now transformed into a sharp, decisive killing intent!
While Kang Ping was expressionless with no rage visible whatsoever in his features, he spoke in a tone that caused shivers to run down on
e’s spine, “Yan Zhaoge, there is no Lin Hanhua to protect you this time.”
“Even without the Shadow Mountain Sword King making a move that year, you were still unable to leave me behind,” Meeting Kang Ping’s gaze, Yan Zhaoge smiled, “Today, I am instead wondering if there will be anyone who can protect you.”
“When my father ascended to the World beyond Worlds that year, he once said that obtaining an expert as a sacrifice to his sabre upon just having arrived in a land is truly a joyous matter indeed.”
“In this, I share the same view as my father.”
Standing atop the air at the ready, his hands behind his back, he tilted his head slightly, looking at Kang Ping, “Oh, there is still a difference, though. My father obtained a sacrifice for his sabre. I am going to sacrifice you instead to my sword.”
Looking at Yan Zhaoge, Kang Ping did not waste time on words as he directly stabbed outwards, “I will not be sacrificing you to my sword. I will be taking your head and sacrificing it to my dead wife!”
Those years trapped by that black hole in the deep sea of the Clear Scenic Region had not blunted Kang Ping’s sword.
His Time Flowing Sword was still just like when he had wanted to kill Yan Zhaoge for the first time back then as that sword-intent was sharp and domineering, possessing a shocking momentum.
It was not any inferior at all to how it had been in the past, even being to the contrary!
Yan Zhaoge did not conceal his cultivation base in the slightest.
Kang Ping was already vaguely able to tell at first glance that Yan Zhaoge was actually not just at the fourth level of the Martial Saint realm as he was instead shockingly already a fifth level Martial Saint.
The cultivation level of the youngster who had only been able to try and flee beneath his sword that year was already not far away from his now.
Also, how terrifying would the strength of this youth who had always presided domineeringly over most others be now?
Kang Ping too was unable to see through it.
However, the enmity of his deceased wife could be obstructed by no one!
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