He was still most worried about and feared Yan Zhaoge catching up to him the most.
He had been exceptionally nervous in fleeing earlier, having devoted all his energies to escaping.
As a result, he had even forgotten that he had captured someone back in the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory’s Consecutive Drum Mountain Range.
At that time, he had decimated the Consecutive Drum Mountain Range’s Listening Thunder Peak’s Xia Family along with the other experts of Three Foot Mountain, obtaining that half-broken whisk and hence gaining the ability to enter that cave manor.
Listening Thunder Peak’s Xia Family had been totally destroyed with only this youngster, Xia Guang, left alive. Due to his unique physique, he had been spared and merely captured.
Having been ordered to keep an eye on him, he had originally not been much concerned about this at all.
Who knew that drastic changes would come to the situation thereafter, his Three Foot Mountain virtually being totally wiped out in the Daoist temple as he too had hastily fled, gravely wounded.
In the end, Xia Guang had actually managed to escape.
If this was usually, however unique Xia Guang was, this Three Foot Mountain Elder would still not mind it.
The difference in their cultivation bases was just so great, after all.
At this crucial juncture, however, this might truly claim his old life.
“If I wasn’t injured by Yan Zhaoge earlier, how could this brat act so audaciously?”
Having been entangled by Xia Guang for so long, that Three Foot Mountain Elder grew vicious.
He went all out against Xia Guang, seeking to slay him and free himself up from being delayed.
Without this crazed red-clothed youth hounding him, he would be able to focus completely on fleeing. Otherwise, he dared not imagine how he might end up when Yan Zhaoge caught up.
While his opponent had been heavily injured, his strength decreasing greatly, Xia Guang still immediately felt pressured as he now went all out in his attacks.
Still, he did not take this to heart in the least.
There was only one thought in his mind now.
Either his enemy would perish, or he would die!
“Let’s see who dies first!” He roared wildly, resembling the explosion of thunder over flat land.
Xia Guang maintained the Blood Thunderbolt Ritual, sacrificing his longevity as he unceasingly blazed his Thunderbolt Blood.
The wild, severe thunder patterns filled his entire body now, flickering with a dark red light as they simultaneously emitted a thunderous roar which was so loud it caused one to wish they were deaf.
The violent power was stimulated non-stop, transforming into numerous streaks of bloodred light that resembled electricity whilst also sharp blades, unrelentingly, dauntlessly attacking his enemy.
That Three Foot Mountain Elder sent fresh blood spurting from Xia Guang’s body with a single palm.
Xia Guang’s sabres were blocked by him. Still, as their might collided, the earlier injury inflicted upon him by Yan Zhaoge acted up once more.
The Three Foot Mountain Elder immediately vomited a mouthful of blood as well.
“No, I can’t go on like this,” He wiped the bloodstains off the corners of his mouth, feeling harried.
Seeing Xia Guang clenching his teeth and attacking again with utter disregard for his injuries, the gaze of this Three Foot Mountain Elder flickered as he simultaneously raised his palms, pushing forward horizontally.
Boundless golden sunlight illuminated the world, two Great Sun Golden Crows simultaneously appearing as they flew towards Xia Guang!
“Since you seek death, little beast, this old man will send you down to reunite with your family!”
That Three Foot Mountain Elder yelled severely as he attacked with full force, seeking to slay Xia Guang with a single palm.
Xia Guang’s gaze never wavered as he dauntlessly came to meet that attack of his head-on.
In the ensuing collision, it was actually that Three Foot Mountain Elder who was sent flying backwards in retreat, losing out in that exchange.
Yet, Xia Guang’s expression changed as he felt that the other party had not merely been aiming for power in that clash, instead having employed subtlety in his techniques.
As that Three Foot Mountain Elder fell back now, he had actually borrowed Xia Guang’s strength to retreat from the area.
Xia Guang wanted to pursue him. Yet, his opponent’s subtle force kept him where he was. Exerting strength to dispel this, he was inevitably delayed.
“You accursed scum!” Xia Guang yelled, hurriedly going after him.
Yet, the other party was not slower than him, also having a greater foundation than him. Now that this chance had been lost, how could he possibly still manage to catch up with him?
As the distance between them increased non-stop, that red-clothed youth was thoroughly enraged as his good eye was completely bloodshot.
Finally, the fleeing figure of that Elder of Three Foot Mountain vanished before his eyes.
Xia Guang was unwilling to give up just like this as he pursued him for a while longer. Still, he soon lost track of him completely.
Those Three Foot Mountain martial practitioners cultivated in the Golden Crow Incinerating World Scripture as where they passed, their auras would be completely incinerated and vaporised with no trace of any fire qi remaining.
Xia Guang howled madly as he hacked down onto the great earth, cleaving out a deep valley amidst a mountain.
He was despondent and enraged as he hacked down unceasingly, chopping and riddling a mountain range with deep gouges all around.
“Father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, granduncle, uncle, aunt, second brother, young sister, second sister, youngest sister…” The rage gradually faded from Xia Guang’s face as it was replaced by sorrow, “I’m useless! I couldn’t even manage to kill an enemy who was already heavily injured, failing to take revenge for you all.”
After his rage had faded, the pain from his wounds and a sense of intense weakness assaulted him all at once.
Those bloodred patterns of thunderbolts gradually faded from the surface of his body, retracting as they finally ended up on his back, condensing into a bloodred, lightning-shaped tattoo.
Xia Guang descended to the ground with his hand over his right eye that was stained completely in blood as anger reappeared on his face.
That eye had been blinded by those of Three Foot Mountain back when he had been captured and had refused to cower and lower his head.
“Three Foot Mountain, Three Foot Mountain…Three Foot Mountain!” Xia Guang ground his teeth, “The monks can run, but the temple cannot! Three Foot Mountain, the one hundred and twenty-seven lives of my Xia Family will definitely not go unavenged!”
“If this enmity is not repaid, Xia Guang fails as a person!”
Collapsing into a sitting position within the valley due to his weakened body, he suddenly realised that his hair was had already turned white.
Xia Guang was not taken aback by this. He knew full well the price he would have to pay for invoking his Blood Thunderbolt Ritual.
Even without using a mirror, he already knew that he must currently look a lot older than before.
While he had not used the Blood Thunderbolt Ritual for that long a time earlier, his longevity had already dropped drastically as a result.
If he were to repeat the intensity of his earlier experience, he would probably run out of longevity?
Xia Guang clenched his fists.
The Three Foot Mountain Elder had been a Seeing Divinity Martial Saint.
Three Foot Mountain had not just a single Immortal Bridge Martial Saint.
While they had dispatched numerous experts to the cave manor this time, they would definitely have left sufficient forces to guard their headquarters.
He was unable to kill even a heavily injured Seeing Divinity Martial Saint. This being so, just how difficult would it be for him
to exact his full vengeance?
Xia Guang did not fear hardship or the enemy’s strength.
What he felt troubled about was that he might not have enough time…
“Eldest brother and eldest sister…” Xia Guang abruptly realised, “I wonder how the two of them are doing now. They are out adventuring. Would they have received news of what happened to our Family? I should try to find a way to contact them lest Three Foot Mountain viciously attacks.”
Xia Guang scanned his surroundings rather blankly, “We are far from the Consecutive Drum Mountain Range now, but just where is this place? And how should I search for eldest brother and eldest sister?”
With his state of mind being rather chaotic, he suddenly remembered the person that Three Foot Mountain Elder had mentioned earlier, “Yan Zhaoge…I seem to have heard someone of our family mentioning this name before. Although his age is similar to mine, he is apparently already a Seeing Divinity Martial Saint. It is said that he is a heaven-defying genius.”
“That scum just now was a late Seeing Divinity Martial Saint, but was injured by that Yan Zhaoge, thus giving me a chance.”
Xia Guang could not help but wonder now, “What sort of person is he?”
Amidst the cloud layer up above, Yan Zhaoge sat on Pan-Pan’s back, grabbing the neck of that escaped Three Foot Mountain Elder with a hand as he looked rather interestedly at Xia Guang.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 960: Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder
HSSB960: Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder
While grabbing onto that Three Foot Mountain Elder, Yan Zhaoge smiled, asking him, “This is the sole survivor of the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory’s Consecutive Drum Mountain Range’s Listening Heaven Peak’s Xia Family, right?”
The other party’s face was deadly ashen as he nodded numbly.
“Did you keep him alive just for his unique Thunderbolt Blood?” Yan Zhaoge asked, “Logically speaking, such an outstanding talent should not be totally unknown.”
The power of the Listening Thunder Peak’s Xia Family was not to the extent that it would hide its geniuses for them to shockingly rise to prominence in a single go thereafter.
What they should be doing was solidify their foundation and attain greater fame, finding allies or seeking a backer.
That Three Foot Mountain Elder said disinterestedly, “This brat was living in a secluded courtyard that was locked down by restrictions. If we had not levelled the Xia Family’s manor, we would not even have been able to discover him.”
“So after you discovered him, you captured him alive?” Yan Zhaoge laughed, “Well, it is no wonder. You might not care much about the Thunderbolt Blood, and it is also impossible that someone with such great enmity with you would enter your sect.”
“Still, the Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder holds great allure for you, right?”
This Three Foot Mountain Elder appeared rather taken aback as he looked at Yan Zhaoge, “You…”
Yan Zhaoge shrugged, “I what?”
The other party regained his wits, his face turning deadly ashen once more as he spoke no longer.
The Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder was ranked eighth amongst the Nine Heavenly Immortal Thunders.
Thunderbolts were the greatest manifestation of yang existing between the heavens and the earth.
As for the Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder, it was at the supreme peak of yang amongst the transformations of two extremities where yin and yang intermingled.
At the opposing end was the Great Yin Wilderness Thunder that was ranked seventh amongst the Nine Heavenly Immortal Thunders as the supreme manifestation of yin that had great profundities.
It had commonly been said before the Great Calamity that those who bore Thunderbolt Blood were conducive for gaining control over Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder.
This was not a mere guess as it was confirmed by actual experimentation.
While the martial arts of Three Foot Mountain were unrelated to thunderbolts, they saw this tough, hot power of the Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder as something that could really benefit them.
This was the reason they had left Xia Guang alive.
While they had no inkling of where to find Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder, it was better to be prepared in case they did find it, right?
This news was extremely hard to come by as few people knew of it. It was not mentioned within the legacies of Three Foot Mountain. Instead, it had inadvertently been mentioned by that bigwig who had once restored their Golden Crow Incinerating World Scripture that year, having always been remembered by them thereafter.
Therefore, this Three Foot Mountain Elder was rather astonished by this.
It was not surprising that Yan Zhaoge knew of Great Sun Glorious Heavenly Thunder.
Yet, those who knew the relationship between this thunder and Thunderbolt Blood were rare indeed.
As a result, this Three Foot Mountain Elder could not help but speculate that Yan Zhaoge might really be related to the Exalted Solar Luminary of legend.
Yan Zhaoge was unconcerned about his suspicion as he felt more interested in how Three Foot Mountain was so clear on such an obscure piece of information.
Although they had obtained a legacy of pre-Great Calamity times, the Golden Crow Incinerating World Scripture that their founder had obtained had been incomplete.
They should have learnt of such an obscure piece of information elsewhere.
Yan Zhaoge grew increasingly curious about the backer of Three Foot Mountain.
Even as he pondered, Yan Zhaoge’s gaze remained on Xia Guang down below.
“Do we not head on down now, Young Master?” Ah Hu asked him curiously.
Yan Zhaoge shook his head, looking rather interestedly at Xia Guang, “No rush. Let us first see what he intends to do next.”
Xia Guang tore off his clothes, bandaging his wounds simply before circulating his profound arts and moderating his condition.
“These injuries are very serious. The external ones are bad enough, but the internal ones are worse,” Xia Guang was rather troubled after he had done so.
For his external injuries, he was naturally worst injured at his right eye, having been rendered blind.
He could only be a ‘one-eyed-dragon’ from here on out.
Thinking of this, fury surged in Xia Guang’s heart again as he wished that he could immediately rush to slaughter Three Foot Mountain, exterminating his foes.
His internal injuries were even worse, however, all these having been left behind by that battle with that Elder of Three Foot Mountain earlier.
Executing the Blood Thunderbolt Ritual itself already depleted his vitality. He had also put his life on the line in ignoring defence and concentrating only on offence. It was only natural that he was badly injured.
As a result, he was currently fatigued and gravely injured as he felt devoid of energy, also hurting all over.
“I should first treat my injuries. My body is currently very weak from overexertion. If I do not treat myself fast, my foundation may be damaged for good. Let alone improving my strength, I may even topple back into the Martial Grandmaster realm.”
Xia Guang was not someone who was good at planning things out long term. He could only make an easy decision on what he was going to do next.
He would first get his wounds treated before looking for his sole remaining kin, his brother and sister who had been away when the family had been decimated. Afterwards, they would think of a way to exact revenge together.
Thinking of his family members who had died, sorrow overcame Xia Guang yet again.
He bore Thunderbolt Blood, his talent and comprehension abilities in the martial dao being extremely outstanding.
The family originally had high hopes of him, not even having intended for him to succeed their martial arts as they had instead to tried to get him inside a major sect.
Back then, the Listening Thunder Peak’s Xia Family had be
en subordinate to a major power of the Consecutive Drum Mountain Range which had been their backer.
Sadly, Xia Guang had a bad, fierce temper. Before even having entered the sect, he had caused some major trouble, hence causing everything to fall through.
Not only that, in order to avoid trouble, the Xia Family had announced to those of the outside world that he had died young.
A supreme genius who had yet to truly shine vanished in the eyes of the outside world just like that.
Xia Guang had almost never been able to leave the family after that as he was effectively confined.
Xia Guang too had been dissatisfied about this in the past. Still, thinking about it now, he felt that that was also a form of protection by his family towards him.
His mother’s painstaking efforts in raising him and his father’s sadness that iron could not turn into steel was currently deeply imprinted within his mind. Thinking about it, tears uncontrollably trickled down his face.
“What are you crying for! What use is there in crying!” After crying for a while, Xia Guang suddenly slapped himself twice, “Can you take revenge for everyone by crying?”
He wiped his face, forcibly raising his spirits as he forced himself to get up.
“Where exactly am I now?” Xia Guang gazed around blankly.
In the end, he randomly chose a direction and went to look for a populated area.
When he learnt that he was in the southern Blazing Heaven Territory, Xia Guang had a rather foolish look on his face.
He thought for a moment before deciding that it was still best to focus on getting his injuries treated first.
Injuries like these could not be treated by ordinary doctors.
There were only martial practitioners who were proficient in alchemy who might have a remedy.
While Xia Guang was rather knowledgeable, also being a Martial Saint, there was little that he knew about alchemy.
There was an old adage that medicine and martial arts were inseparable. The more powerful a martial practitioner, the better the grasp they had over the intricacies of their bodies.
Still, there was still a big difference between the two at the end of the day.
First not speaking of how Xia Guang did not have a pill furnace on hand, even if he had, he would only be able to try refining some ordinary medicinal pills. However, he would really have no way of concocting some which could cure his current serious injuries.
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