While he was still unable to exert the full power of this high-grade Sacred Artifact, the power of the Extreme Yang Seal was itself already greater than the great majority of high-grade Sacred Artifacts!
This was a top existence amongst Sacred Artifacts that was sufficient to slay an expert like Shen Lingzi with a single strike at its peak.
Even while its power was not full exerted now, it was still fearsome to the extreme.
The golden sunlight collided with the all-encompassing sword-light, both seeming evenly matched.
Time flowed, seeking for the sun to set.
Golden light illuminated the area as the great sun seemed to hang eternally high within the sky.
Even with his current cultivation base, Yan Zhaoge was unable to wield the Extreme Yang Seal at this level of power for very long.
However, it was already sufficient for him to do other things.
Borrowing the Extreme Yang Seal to temporarily hinder Shen Lingzi, Yan Zhaoge tapped out with his finger, yin and yang intermingling and causality and effect shifting.
A portion of Shen Lingzi’s sword-light directly hacked over towards Kang Ping.
Even though Kang Ping too cultivated in the Time Flowing Sword, the sword-light now was sufficient to pose a lethal threat towards the heavily injured him.
Kang Ping’s expression changed as he hurriedly tried to evade. However, gravely wounded, he could not outrun that sword-light.
Seeing this, Shen Lingzi frowned.
Finally, he took out the Light Yin Sword Seal, striking at the Extreme Yang Seal.
This high-grade Sacred Artifact of his had a unique ability. People or things that it left a sealing mark on would be temporarily sealed, their power temporarily restricted.
Even a powerful existence like the Extreme Yang Seal would be sealed for an instant.
Shen Lingzi would only need that one instant.
However, Yan Zhaoge had long since been waiting for this as he raised his dark green bamboo cane, red light appearing.
The next moment, Yan Zhaoge had already arrived before Shen Lingzi, striking towards the Light Yin Sword Seal.
Shen Lingzi’s gaze flickered as he swiftly kept the Light Yin Sword Seal before immediately substituting sword with finger, stabbing towards Yan Zhaoge himself.
He was even faster than Kang Ping was. However, Yan Zhaoge’s Immortal Trapping Sword was a perfect counter to his Time Flowing Sword.
Although Shen Lingzi was more powerful than him, he was still restricted by this.
After dispelling Shen Lingzi’s sword-light, Yan Zhaoge executed the Yin Yang Finger once more, directing a portion of it towards Kang Ping.
Kang Ping received this sword with great difficulty.
“You dare!” Shen Lingzi was infuriated as he utilised his full power, jolting the Extreme Yang Seal aside.
Yan Zhaoge laughed loudly, “What dare I not?”
He suddenly spun and sped towards Kang Ping!
The Immortal Ending Sword was connected to the profundities of time and space and even faster than the Time Flowing Sword. Yan Zhaoge instantly arrived before Kang Ping!
“Those who kill can always themselves be killed. This applies to everyone,” He stabbed out with a sword that penetrated straight through Kang Ping’s body, “It is the same for me, for your wife, for you as well.”
Kang Ping struggled, wanting to go all out as he put up his final show of resistance.
Yan Zhaoge’s expression did not change as he raised his palm.
Shen Lingzi roared in rage, “Yan Zhaoge!”
“If you’re capable, come battle. If you’re not, shut up,” Yan Zhaoge’s palm descended without the slightest hesitation whatsoever, shattering Kang Ping’s skull as blood fluids splattered everywhere!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 879: One sword quelling the chaotic heavens!
HSSB879: One sword quelling the chaotic heavens!
Seeing the descendant he thought most highly of being slain by an enemy right before his very eyes, Shen Lingzi was greatly enraged.
He abruptly waved a hand, a streak of light shooting outwards.
The light streaked into the horizon, swiftly expanding as it transformed into blurry, glowing dust which enveloped the heavens and the earth before him.
At this moment, time seemed about to be forcibly reversed in this world!
Reversal Light Divine Stone!
Reversing the past, reversing time!
The scenes in the heavens and earth changed, the bloodstains disappearing as Kang Ping was safe and sound again, not having been slain by Yan Zhaoge.
Watching this scene, Yan Zhaoge said coldly, “This Yan wants him dead at three, who can let him live till five?”
He wielded the Extreme Yang Seal to obstruct the approaching Shen Lingzi, the dark green bamboo cane which he held causing streaks of piercing red light to surge which streaked across the horizon!
Where the red light passed, space was ripped apart and time extinguished.
The blurry, glowing dust formed of the Reversal Light Divine Stone was quickly cleansed as only a few red marks were left between the heavens and the earth, resembling wounds.
The miraculous abilities of the glowing dust had been completely quelled.
It had been forcibly put a stop to amidst its functioning.
The flow of time regained its normalcy.
Kang Ping again erupted into a rain of blood, perishing instantly!
He had still been slain by Yan Zhaoge right in front of Shen Lingzi at the end of the day!
Seeing Yan Zhaoge quelling the abilities of the Reversal Light Divine Stone with his sword-light and still rampantly slaying Kang Ping with a palm, Shen Lingzi who had originally been both shocked and enraged instead calmed somewhat.
“Immortal Trapping Sword, actually the Immortal Trapping Sword of the Prime Clear direct lineage,” Shen Lingzi said darkly, “This southeastern Yang Heaven Territory really is full of crouching tigers and hidden dragons indeed.”
Now, Shen Lingzi suddenly flashed his own Light Yin Sword Seal, directly charging at Yan Zhaoge.
He no longer paid any heed to the Extreme Yang Seal as the target of his Light Yin Sword Seal was actually none other than the dark green bamboo cane which Yan Zhaoge held.
This high-grade Sacred Artifact of Shen Lingzi’s possessed the unique function of being able to seal the Sacred Artifacts of others.
He wanted to see if it was his Sacred Artifact or Yan Zhaoge’s dark green bamboo cane which could suppress the other.
Yan Zhaoge fearlessly raised his dark green bamboo cane, executing the Immortal Trapping Sword as where that red glow passed, space and time was shattered, the flowing of time ruptured.
The Immortal Trapping Sword whittled down at the sword-light of the Time Flowing Sword while the top of the dark green bamboo cane now collided with the Light Yin Sword Seal.
A strange sigil was instantly imprinted on the dark green bamboo cane.
The dark green bamboo cane also trembled slightly in mid-air.
The treasured light on the Light Yin Sword Seal similarly dimmed somewhat.
Yan Zhaoge was totally unfazed as purple light circulated about the bamboo cane in his hand, the mark which had been imprinted on its top portion instantly becoming milder and fainter as it had vanished the next instant.
The next moment, the dark green bamboo cane shook, beating down on the Light Yin Sword Seal once more!
A ‘smack’ resounded.
Shen Lingzi was nearly unable to keep hold of the Light Yin Sword Seal.
Yan Zhaoge swept the bamboo cane through the air, again striking towards the Light Yin Sword Seal.
“What in the world is it?” Shen Lingzi’s face was extremely dark as he could only helplessly keep the Light Yin Sword Seal and stop using it.
Others of the Grand Xuan Dynasty had also mentioned this dark green bamboo cane to him before.
It was just that such a treasure that could suppress low-grade Sacred
Artifacts yet was unable to do anything to mid-grade Sacred Artifacts naturally would not have been paid much attention to by an expert of Shen Lingzi’s level.
Who would have thought that the next time Yan Zhaoge used it, this bamboo cane would actually be able to beat even the Cloud Circulating Heavenly Light Sword and the Light Yin Sword Seal?
Shen Lingzi inhaled deeply, calming himself as he unleashed the full power of his sword dao, attacking towards Yan Zhaoge.
With a high-grade Sacred Artifact, he was even more powerful.
Even without a high-grade Sacred Artifact, he was still an expert of the mid Immortal Bridge stage.
And he was also an outstanding mid Immortal Bridge Martial Saint who could virtually contend with late Immortal Bridge Martial Saints!
Now, Shen Lingzi unleashed his sword-light to the maximum.
Between the heavens and earth, countless images of him materialised which filled the surrounding area, simultaneously stabbing out towards Yan Zhaoge!
These figures were not illusory as they were actually all real!
Unleashing the Time Flowing Sword to the maximum, Shen Lingzi’s speed virtually surpassed the boundaries of time and space as he simultaneously occupied every single location at every single moment.
All those figures belonged to that same instant of time with an infinitesimally small time difference between them as they were all real.
An instant of time was really too short as even Immortal Bridge Martial Saints would find it difficult to grasp it well.
Thus, while there was inevitably a slight time lag between the countless Shen Lingzis, in the eyes of his enemies, it was no different from them attacking all at once.
Countless real Shen Lingzis simultaneously encircling and attacking a single enemy!
This was Shen Lingzi’s strongest sword which seemed truly able to render space invalid, destroying the heavens and extinguishing the earth!
Facing this sword, Yan Zhaoge performed just a single action.
He formed a sword seal with his left hand while wielding the dark green bamboo sword in his right, striking forth horizontally with a sword amidst space.
An endless red glow surged amidst the surrounding space before instantly congregating there with Yan Zhaoge as its centre.
Yan Zhaoge brandished his sword, the red sword-light expanding into the surroundings all round.
When the red glow reached the outside and met with the countless incarnations of Shen Lingzi, those figures instantly turned from real to illusory, resembling illusory dreams which shattered beneath the sunlight.
The sole remaining Shen Lingzi’s attack arrived before Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge’s sword struck outwards, colliding with Shen Lingzi’s sword-light.
Frenzied tides instantly expanded into the surroundings yet again where the two clashed.
Shen Lingzi’s gaze was solemn as it had never been before, “Your cultivation level is so much lower than this old man’s. Even if the Immortal Trapping Sword counters the Time Flowing Sword, things should still not be like this!”
Yan Zhaoge’s face was composed, “The reason for this is simple. It is because our actual strength is not as far apart as our cultivation levels.”
The vigorous true essence obtained from cultivating in the Cyclic Heavenly Scripture was constantly produced in a ceaseless stream with the help of the Yin Yang Heavenly Scripture and then supplied to Yan Zhaoge for his attacks.
At the root of it all were the miraculous principles of the combined Three Purities which formed a core source, ceaselessly manifesting wondrous miracles.
Even as Yan Zhaoge defended against this supreme sword of Shen Lingzi’s, the Extreme Yang Seal was already slamming down towards Shen Lingzi’s head from up above!
Shen Lingzi was helpless against this as he could only retreat.
However, Yan Zhaoge capitalised unforgivingly on his momentum as he struck out with the Immortal Trapping Sword once more.
Aided by the high-grade Sacred Artifact, the Extreme Yang Seal, Yan Zhaoge completely suppressed Shen Lingzi of the eighth level of the Martial Saint realm to the point of floundering chaotically.
At this point, however despondent Shen Lingzi felt, however furious he was, he could only stifle all these emotions.
He wanted to delay and deplete Yan Zhaoge, not believing that a mid Seeing Divinity Martial Saint could have a deeper foundation than a mid Immortal Bridge Martial Saint.
However, with the foundation of the Peerless, Cyclic and Yin Yang Heavenly Scriptures as well as the Taiji Yin Yang Palm, Yan Zhaoge was really indeed not much inferior to him in terms of the amount of his true essence.
In terms of the speed at which their true essence was recovered, Yan Zhaoge even surpassed him!
In the end, Shen Lingzi powerlessly discovered that as an eighth level Martial Saint, he was actually truly unable to deplete Yan Zhaoge who was but a fifth level Martial Saint!
While this went against all common logic as it seemed utterly ridiculous and laughable, it was just an undeniable fact.
Therefore, a shocking scene destined to be recorded in the annals of the Royal Reed Sea and the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory and perhaps even the very World beyond Worlds itself unfolded.
With a sword in hand, Yan Zhaoge chased the bigwig sword cultivator Shen Lingzi of the eighth level of the Martial Saint realm whose strength was comparable to that of a ninth level Martial Saint’s all the way from the south to the west of the Royal Reed Sea, being completely unstoppable!
Where his sword passed, nothing could stand in his way!
As the pursuit continually advanced, they soon arrived in the vicinity of the Spirit Inheritance Region.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 880: Yan Zhaoge’s self-created martial art
HSSB880: Yan Zhaoge’s self-created martial art
The sword-light of the Time Flowing Sword that Shen Lingzi cultivated in was extremely swift.
Yet, hounded by Yan Zhaoge’s Immortal Trapping Sword, he was totally unable to raise his speed.
It would be fine if it was just Yan Zhaoge’s own attacks alone. The problem was that even as Yan Zhaoge executed the Immortal Trapping Sword, he was also controlling the Extreme Yang Seal.
Shen Lingzi who was unable to use the Light Yin Sword Seal was helpless against this combination.
He could only feel that this was ludicrous to the extreme.
As an exalted Immortal Bridge Martial Saint who was able to sufficiently bring out the power of high-grade Sacred Artifacts, he was currently only able to face his enemy bare-handed.
Meanwhile, his opponent who was just a Seeing Divinity Martial Saint was relentlessly pursuing him with a high-grade Sacred Artifact.
Even more rage-inducing was the fact that as opposed to some Immortal Bridge Martial Saints with insubstantial backgrounds who did not possess high-grade Sacred Artifacts, he possessed not just a high-grade Sacred Artifact but several mid-grade Sacred Artifacts as well.
The Light Yin Sword Seal that he had was unordinary even amongst high-grade Sacred Artifacts. Yet, he simply could not use it to face the enemy lest the same fate befall it as had the Cloud Circulating Heavenly Light Sword.
That was originally his own sword which he had given to Kang Ping and his other descendants. In the end, it had been beaten away by Yan Zhaoge and kept neither hurriedly nor slowly within the Myriad Dragon Palace afterwards.
This was no longer something that the word despondent could describe. He felt trashy and useless!
Having battled all the way from the southern to the western seas, Shen Lingzi’s body was already riddled with wounds.
These wounds were all not very serious individually. Yet, he had not had the time to suppress and treat them. With this gradual accumulation, Shen Lingzi already felt unable to bear it somewhat.
This further affected his strength and speed as he fell to an even greater disadvantage as time passed.
Shen Lingzi had already cal
med down now as his thoughts were clear despite his overwhelming repressed feelings of fury and hatred.
He did not return to the Grand Xuan Dynasty.
That way, he would be safe as he utilised the geographical advantage with the grand formation of the capital.
Yet, things would be terrible for Daoist Shi and King Xuancheng in the Spirit Inheritance Region then as Yan Zhaoge would return vengefully to the Spirit Inheritance Region and attack them from both in front and behind at once along with the others of Broad Creed Mountain.
Shen Lingzi had hurried to the Spirit Inheritance Region in the western seas in order to join up with Daoist Shi and King Xuancheng.
They would join forces before deciding on a further course of action.
With a formations grandmaster like Daoist Shi to back them up, the possibility of flipping the tables would still exist.
While he had paid a great price in having been pursued by Yan Zhaoge, with the Spirit Inheritance Region now in sight and his goal finally attained, Shen Lingzi still heaved a sigh of relief somewhat.
Nearing the area, he saw Daoist Shi’s Heaven Earth Divination Formation currently enveloping the Spirit Inheritance Region as they were locked in a major battle with Broad Creed Mountain’s Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation.
Aside from King Xuancheng, Daoist Shi and the other Grand Xuan Dynasty experts, there was clearly an additional person present within the formation.
That was a middle-aged scholarly-looking man with a crown of stars on his head, his movements seemingly able to pluck the stars and grasp the moon!
The Star Plucking Practitioner Guan Lide of the ninth level of the Martial Saint realm, the late Immortal Bridge stage!
His target was also Broad Creed Mountain!
On seeing this, Shen Lingzi felt totally reassured.
With this person opposing Broad Creed Mountain as well and serving as reinforcements for his Grand Xuan Dynasty, Shen Lingzi was sufficiently confident of turning the tables!
While Yan Zhaoge’s strength surpassed that of his cultivation stage, the strength of his high-grade Sacred Artifact aside, he had only been able to beat Shen Lingzi into fleeing thanks to his Immortal Trapping Sword which countered the Time Flowing Sword.
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