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At this moment, they felt that perhaps they should not have placed their attention merely on that rumoured Immortal Artifact which that had not actually even seen.
They should not merely be paying attention to Golden Court Mountain in the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory.
An entity which had once meant nothing to them had already become a full-blown threat now!
Looking at the Extreme Yang Seal and then Yan Zhaoge, Zhuang Chaohui suddenly shivered.
“If this person ascends the Immortal Bridge, he would then be able to wield the full power of this Extreme Yang Seal!”
The Extreme Yang Seal was totally incomparable to other high-grade Sacred Artifacts.
Could Yan Zhaoge ascend the Immortal Bridge?
While they were enemies, Zhuang Chaohui had to admit that this was virtually a surefire thing!
It was only a matter of time. The real question was: When would Yan Zhaoge ascend the Immortal Bridge?
Still, just thinking about how he had still been a mid Merging Avatar Martial Saint six years ago, Zhuang Chaohui could feel his heart twitching madly.
Actually, Yan Zhaoge had experienced more than six years due to the faster time flow in the Vast Ocean World.
Even so, however, considering his actual age, his rate of cultivation advancement was still shocking.
Thinking about this, the two of Wutong Slope felt increasingly pessimistic.
Moreover, it had also been six years ago that Yan Zhaoge’s father, Yan Di, had broken through space to see true Divinity, ascending from the Eight Extremities World to the World beyond Worlds.
Six years later, the last time Yan Di had appeared before the eyes of the world, he had shockingly also already been a late Seeing Divinity Martial Saint!
At this moment, Zhuang Chaohui truly realised that he had overlooked Yan Zhaoge and Broad Creed Mountain too much in the past.
He desperately wished that he could remind his father and the seniors of his lineage about this now.
Even if it meant temporarily setting aside the matter of Golden Court Mountain and the phoenix bone, they should first concentrate their power and deal with the calamity that was Broad Creed Mountain!
He felt bitter at how let alone the fact that they might not be able to leave this Daoist temple alive today, even if they could, they still might not have a chance to make up for their previous oversight.
His father Zhuang Shen had left the southern Blazing Heaven Territory two years ago, having yet to return even now.
Even worse was the fact that from prior instances, he knew that Zhuang Shen would not return for the next few years.
Of course, Zhuang Shen aside, the Southeastern Exalt Cao Jie and the others were currently away too.
Still, going by how the Star Plucking Practitioner Guan Lide had previously perished before Broad Creed Mountain and referencing the powerful strength displayed by Yan Zhaoge now, if Zhuang Shen of the Human Exalt stage did not make an appearance, would Phoenix Ritual Mountain’s Wutong Slope be able to decimate Broad Creed Mountain even launching an all-out assault?
The two of them who were already beginning to take Broad Creed Mountain seriously now were not all that confident of this.
Moreover, the local martial practitioners of the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory would not just sit back and do nothing.
Thinking about this, they inevitably felt even more despondent now.
Pressured unceasingly by the Extreme Yang Seal up above, the bones of the two began to creak.
As the magnificent sun blazed, the golden flames seemed about to devour their bodies entirely.
The shadow of death loomed over these two experts of Wutong Slope at this moment.
“How about a trade, Zhuang Chaohui?” Yan Zhaoge asked smilingly, “If I do not see wrongly, as the son of the Southern Exalt, you should have some sort of mechanism placed on you to save you from unsalvageable crises of death like this one.”
“The Phoenix True Form Scripture that you yourself cultivate in may not be able to secure your life, but your father’s may be able to.”
“I wonder if I am right?”
Zhuang Chaohui’s pupils abruptly dilated.
There was indeed a mechanism left behind by his father, Zhuang Shen, on his body.
After his nirvanic rebirth had been used up, if he met with a death tribulation again, he would be able to borrow the mechanism left behind by Zhuang Shen and obtain a second chance at fleeing.
Also, he would directly revive back home at Phoenix Ritual Mountain’s Wutong Slope.
With that, he would be able to escape whatever the remaining dangers.
This sort of technique depleted one greatly as it extracted a great price as well. There might be immense negative side-effects afterwards.
Still, at a crucial moment of life and death, one’s life was naturally most important.
This matter was top secret as even the middle-aged man beside Zhuang Chaohui had no idea about it. His expression changed slightly as he turned to look at Zhuang Chaohui.
Yan Zhaoge raised the Extreme Yang Seal with one hand, clutching the jade talisman that he had obtained from this Daoist temple with the other.
A strand of black qi vaguely surfaced from the jade talisman, seeming illusory and indistinct.
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “I will tell you beforehand. If there really is such a method, it might not work against me.”
“The contents of our trade are this. Answer one question of mine, and if you have such a backup mechanism, I will spare your life.”
“Still, if you do not have such a mechamism, sorry, but you will still have to die,” Yan Zhaoge said mildly, “Therefore, you do not have to feel that I definitely want an answer out of you. In truth, I would still be happier to slaughter you.”
As he said this, Yan Zhaoge exerted pressure with his palm.
The Extreme Yang Seal shook, seemingly expanding in its entirety as it transformed into an actual sun.
The fleshly bodies of Zhuang Chaohui and that middle-aged man were incinerated as they began falling apart together!
They transformed into two phoenixes and struggled desperately in resistance. However, it was useless.
The two simultaneously emitted a furious roar and agonised wail, going from high to low before finally dissipating.
Gazing carefully over, Yan Zhaoge indeed saw the fiery phoenix formed of that middle-aged man being completely extinguished, no trace of it left whatsoever as his soul dissipated into the winds.
However, after being extinguished, a clump of flames actually reappeared amidst the air from the fiery phoenix formed of Zhuang Chaohui.
That clump of flames broke through space, seeking to escape far off into the distance.
Where the flame was, time and space seemed to have completely broken away from the world of the Daoist temple at this moment, forming a world of its own as even the Extreme Yang Seal was unable to interfere with it at this instant.
“Now, now, you’re going nowhere,” Yan Zhaoge chuckled, extending his palm as the phenomenon of chaos vaguely appeared within.
Where the chaos passed, the clump of flames was actually forcibly sucked in place!
Some fluctuations of thoughts vaguely seemed to emanate from amidst the flames.
Zhuang Chaohui’s features gradually surfaced within, staring in shock at Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge said leisurely, “Very good. Looks like there is room for a trade between us. It is just-are you willing?”
“Back in the Clear Scenic Region of the Royal Reed Sea, you took away a girl named Meng Wan when you left. I hear that there is a senior of your sect called Liu Xianting. If I am not wrong, they should be mother and daughter?”
Yan Zhaoge gazed at Zhuang Chaohui, “My question is-who is Meng Wan’s father?”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 956: Breaking the phoenix
HSSB956: Breaking the phoenix
Hearing Yan Zhaoge’s question, Zhuang Chaohui was cl
early stunned momentarily.
Regaining his wits, his expression turned rather strange.
He looked at Yan Zhaoge for a moment before appearing both angered and amused at once, “I remember now. That Meng Wan comes from the same lower world at you but another lineage, which was destroyed by your Broad Creed Mountain, right?”
“Who is her father, who is her father…ha! Who is her father?”
Zhuang Chaohui suddenly laughed loudly, “You wouldn’t want to know this.”
“Still, you will know about it very soon!”
His smile was filled with mockery, “Very soon!”
Zhuang Chaohui stared at Yan Zhaoge, “I really want to see your expression when you learn of this. Still, it would not be so entertaining if I were to tell you about it now.”
“Oh?” Hearing his words, Yan Zhaoge was not angered, “Since that is so, die with regrets now then.”
With that, he grabbed towards that clump of flames, closing his fist as he pinched down upon it!
Zhuang Chaohui’s face gradually dissipated amidst the flames.
Still, there was still triumph on his face as he howled, “Yan Zhaoge, I will be waiting for you down below! That day is not far! Soon, very soon!”
“While you had nothing to tell me, I could basically understand that Meng Wan is safe after being taken away by you,” The corners of Yan Zhaoge’s lips arched lightly upwards, “And actually, that is already enough.”
Zhuang Chaohui yelled severely, “Surnamed Yan, I’d like to see how you die!”
“That isn’t anything for you to be concerned about,” Yan Zhaoge chuckled, exerting greater force with his fingers as he thoroughly crushed that clump of flames into nothingness.
The flourishing vitality was quelled at this moment, Zhuang Chaohui’s life force extinguished for good.
Yan Zhaoge retrieved that jade talisman, looking at it, “Killing these martial practitioners with a stronger vitality who cultivate in special techniques are indeed more troublesome.”
Still, the jade talisman did not react whatsoever this time.
Zhuang Chaohui had already used up his nirvanic rebirth, the backup method which his father Zhuang Shen had set on him having been dispelled too.
However powerful Zhuang Chaohui’s vitality was, he would be going to see King Yama now.
Zhuang Chaohui having been slain here, this indicated that the enmity between Yan Zhaoge’s Broad Creed Mountain and the Southern Exalt Zhuang Shen had reached a whole new level.
Yan Zhaoge looked very calm, without joy or sorrow as he kept the Extreme Yang Seal and the jade talisman, turning to look at Ah Hu and Pan-Pan, smiling, “We can leave after searching through this Daoist temple one last time.”
While they had not clashed for long as Yan Zhaoge had taken care of Zhuang Chaohui and the other guy, the power he had drawn on was not low at all.
The battle had affected the entirety of the Daoist temple which appeared on the brink of collapse.
After all, this place had been decrepit for many years, not being as sturdy as it had formerly been.
Many treasures and medicinal pills were still stored within the Daoist temple.
Still, having undergone a great tribulation that year, coupled with the passing of time, most of these goods had already decayed.
Even so, however, there were still quite a few valuable treasures amongst all that remained.
Some of these things were ordinary and innocuous in the eyes of most, being of limited worth.
In the eyes of Yan Zhaoge, however, there were ways they could become miraculous treasures.
After sorting out the things there which caught his eye, Yan Zhaoge brought Ah Hu and Pan-Pan along in leaving the Daoist temple.
After bowing to the statues of the ancestors of the Three Purities again, Yan Zhaoge came before the incense burner table, looking at the spirit patterns drawn of cinnabar on the yellow cloth.
“Oh, they are leaving?”
Because those of Wutong Slope had already first received the assault of the simultaneous activation of the three tribulations, the second batch of people from Three Foot Mountain in the back hall had it much easier than them.
While the simultaneous three tribulations were terrifying indeed, unleashing them would decrease the duration for which they could be sustained.
Still, after seeing the nirvanic rebirth of the pair from Wutong Slope which they had inadvertently used to get past the restrictions, a warning bell instead tolled in the heart of those of Three Foot Mountain.
While the other experts of Wutong Slope had all perished, their two Immortal Bridge Martial Saints who had fortunately survived possessed remarkable strength.
There were already two groups of people who had beaten them in entering, both of them also being extremely powerful.
The first batch of Three Foot Mountain martial practitioners that included their Chief had most likely perished. After a bit of hesitation, the second batch ultimately chose to give up as they tried to leave this cave manor which had caused them to suffer catastrophic losses.
The weakened protective restrictions in this place allowed them to successfully extricate themselves.
Yan Zhaoge smiled, shaking his head as he led Ah Hu and Pan-Pan along in leaving the great hall.
Feeling the local spiritual qi flow, Yan Zhaoge could not help but raise his brows lightly, “Someone opened another door. It looks like Zhuang Chaohui’s lot entered from a new door. It is just that…”
It was just that this way, the door that he and the Three Foot Mountain martial practitioners had entered from in the Wilderness Sea had been closed as a result. It would be difficult to reopen it.
This entailed that Yan Zhaoge or those of Three Foot Mountain would have to enter the path that Zhuang Chaohui’s group had entered from in order to return to the World beyond Worlds.
It did not have to be asked for it to be known that the other end of the passageway most likely led within the domain of the southern Blazing Heaven Territory.
Yan Zhaoge could not help but smile as he left the Daoist temple, identifying their general direction before heading in the direction of the big lake that those of Wutong Slope had entered from earlier.
Arriving by the lake, they saw a few figures who were also about to enter the lake. From the way they were dressed and their martial arts, they were Three Foot Mountain martial practitioners.
Seeing Yan Zhaoge appear, their expressions all changed slightly.
They wondered what exactly had transpired within the Daoist temple.
Yan Zhaoge did not stand on ceremony as he directly strode before those of Three Foot Mountain, raising his palm as he struck out with a Cyclic Heavenly Seal!
“You…” The leading Elder of Three Foot Mountain had just been about to speak when a gust of wind blew over, forcing him to shut his mouth.
While he was an early Immortal Bridge Martial Saint, he was hard pressed to deal with the peerless might of Yan Zhaoge’s Cyclic Heavenly Seal as he was left vomiting blood with a single strike.
Yan Zhaoge continued striking forth with his palm, pressuring downwards as it was like the sky was collapsing.
The entire heavens and earth here distorted along with Yan Zhaoge’s palm, concaving towards the centre of the lake.
The Three Foot Mountain martial practitioners dared not block this as they hurriedly fled towards the dimensional passageway at the bottom of the lake.
Still, many people were directly clapped dead beneath Yan Zhaoge’s palm!
There were only two people who spat out blood, being gravely wounded as they just barely managed to preserve their lives, hurriedly scrambling off into the dimensional passageway.
Yan Zhaoge’s expression was leisurely as he sat on Pan-Pan’s back.
Pan-Pan moved off on all four paws, following them into the dimensional passageway neither hurriedly nor slowly.
Those two Three Foot Mountain Elders were shocked and afraid as they saw this, “This is tha
t Yan Zhaoge? Vicious indeed! Chief and the rest have all already been killed by him?”
Passing through the dimensional passageway, they arrived on the other side.
There, they found someone blocking their way.
These were people of the southern Blazing Heaven Territory’s Phoenix Ritual Mountain’s Wutong Slope.
After Zhuang Chaohui and the others left for the Daoist temple, there had been fellow disciples watching over the entrance for them over here.
Seeing those two Elders of Three Foot Mountain appear, the expressions of the Wutong Slope martial practitioners who were guarding the area all changed, “Who are you people?”
“Away! Away!” The two Three Foot Mountain Elders simultaneously yelled and fled like crazy.
Still, they were gravely wounded and had difficulty moving. Blocked by the martial practitioners of Wutong Slope, the two’s eyes turned bloodshot, “Move aside if you do not want to die!”
The Wutong Slope martial practitioners flew into a rage upon hearing this, “What gall!”
Blazing fire transformed into an all-encompassing rain of blades, hacking towards the two.
The two Three Foot Mountain wanted to cry but lacked the tears for such. Behind them, that terrifying aura could indistinctly be felt as it got closer and closer to them!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 957: Entering the southern Blazing Heaven Territory
HSSB957: Entering the southern Blazing Heaven Territory
Sitting on Pan-Pan’s back, Yan Zhaoge exited the dimensional passageway. Seeing the environment that he had walked into, he could not help but laugh.
A few Wutong Slope martial practitioners were currently encircling and ferociously attacking those two Elders of Three Foot Mountain.
While the Wutong Slope martial practitioners were all Seeing Divinity Martial Saints, being greatly proficient in their martial arts with the two Three Foot Mountain Elders also having suffered some grave injuries at the hands of Yan Zhaoge beforehand, they now held the upper hand in this battle.
Still, after Yan Zhaoge appeared, the two sides ceased to battle.
The Wutong Slope martial practitioners looked over at Yan Zhaoge in astonishment.