A towering tree appeared on the ground, and swayed its branches to cover the dome and hold up the sky.
Yan Zhaoge’s palm rested on the canopy of the big tree.
With a roar, all the branches and leaves of the big tree, which looked like a pillar reaching to the sky, were suddenly bent together, and even the straight and thick trunks were trembling.
“How are you, your Majesty. I’ve said in the Royal Reed Sea that one day even if I don’t cultivate immortality, you can do nothing to me.”
Yan Zhaoge stood in mid-air. The old tree, though thick like a sky-propping pillar, looked like a fragile grass under his palm.
“Now I’m keeping my word. Your Majesty, don’t you wanna check it for yourself?”
His palm was pressing downward; the big tree was gradually bent down.
Suddenly, the earth trembled around the Illusory Coming Peak.
Light streams flowed through the ground one after another, building complicated and metaphysical formation lines.
Centered on the Illusory Coming Peak, air pillars from four directions broke out of the earth and shot up into the sky, like a fountain rising from the ground.
The four air pillars showed respectively colors of cyan, red, white and black.
The cyan pillar was active, revealing endless energy of life.
The red one was hot like blazing fire, freely displaying the essence of fire.
The white one was sharp, piercing the sky with hard-edged image of golden iron.
The black one was vigorous and huge, gathering endless expanse of rivers in one track.
Rising with the four air pillars was the Illusory Coming Peak itself.
Ochre-yellow smokes spiraled up like yellow dragons, circling around the Illusory Coming Peak, making the earth look more solid and thick.
The power of the five elements worked together; four large and one small formation lines circled in the air to form five light circles, occupying all cardinal points and the center.
With the help of the large formation, the towering tree, which was nearly bent by Yan Zhaoge’s palm, began to come alive gain, and gradually withstood his palm and stop falling.
Looking gleefully at the formation, the guardian of the Illusory Coming Peak, Yan Zhaoge highly praised, “Just with a glimpse of your formation in the Royal Reed Sea, I had known your attainment was outstanding. Furthermore, your large formation today is enough to prove that reputations never get their fame for nothing.”
“However, my cultivation level now is not the same as it was in the past.”
He shook his head sadly, “Unfortunately, we can’t compete on formation changing face to face.”
Wang Pu watched him far away, “Though the Upper Exalt broke through the gate of the Brocade Emperor on the Ingenious Flying Peak, and Zhaoge is strong enough, the Illusory Coming Peak is still different from the Ingenious Flying Peak.”
“The Heaven Emperor has always been known for his formation, and his accomplishments for it probably rank the first among the five emperors in the World beyond Worlds.”
So, the guardian formation and restrictions over the Illusory Coming Peak were actually more powerful than the Ingenious Flying Peak.
If the Heaven Emperor defended the mountain gate himself, and with the advantage of geography, even he had no fairy soldiers, he could keep out other fairy emperors armed with soldiers.
In the entire Kunlun Mountain, the geographical advantage of the Illusory Coming Peak was probably second only to the Three Emperors Cave.
“But it seems that the Heaven Emperor is not there….” With his hand on the shelter, A’hu looked out at the Illusory Coming Peak, which was trying to stop Yan Zhaoge.
He scratched his head, and then took a tumble, “Is it possible that he fears the Master, the Childe and Southern Exalt Nie will come together? Adding the Origin Opening Sword, he may have nowhere to run.”
“Though he is not here, the Illusory Coming Peak, unlike the Ingenious Flying Peak, is powerful enough to run the formation on its own,” Wang Pu looked down at his sword, and smiled sadly, “You had killed the Earthly Exalt with it; are you gonna use it to break up the Illusory Coming Peak today?”
“Don’t worry, Mr. Wang,” Tiger giggled, “If the Heaven Emperor is not here, my Childe won’t borrow your Origin Opening Sword.”
“As for the formation here….”
Before A'hu had even finished his words, Wang’s eyes opened wide.
Yan Zhaoge pushed his palm downward, quelling the changes of Five Elements below.
He cast a spell, while his right palm keeping the gesture of the Cyclic Heavenly Seal, holding the formation down.
Then, his index and middle fingers of left hand paralleled like a sword, piercing in the air.
A turtle entwined together with a snake, and Yin and Yang were folded, revealing the image of Xuanwu.
Then appeared the Xuanwu Bloodshed, a storm of fierce sword beams fell on the formation guarding the Illusory Coming Peak.
A Taoist showed up on the Illusory Coming Peak, and fumed hatefully, “Yan Zhaoge, don’t push me too far! How dare you barge in in Kunlun Mountain?”
“Your Master have visited the Royal Reed Sea twice; I only came here for the first time today. How can you say that?” Yan Zhaoge smiled, and suddenly changed his sword gesture, “Whether I can play here is not clear, but you can’t do that.”
Following Slaying Xuanwu, he performed a move of Slaying Azure Dragon.
The target was the cyan air pillar, one of the five pillars supporting the large formation.
The large formation, which had been weakened by Slaying Xuanwu, was hit by another move, Slaying Azure Dragon.
The cyan air pillar represented wood phase among the five elements, the Qi of creatures, and its greatest fear was the martial arts such as Yan’s Slaying Azure Dragon.
The five elements circled in mutual generation sequence, and because of this the formation was hard to be restricted.
However, Yan Zhaoge also mastered the changes of the formation. His swordsmanship was not a storm all the time, but full of variables, and he intended to attack the weakness of the Illusory Coming Peak.
Slaying Xuanwu and Slaying Azure Dragon interacted with each other, attacking the opponent with blade flurry.
After all, the person taking charge of the formation wasn’t the Heaven Emperor. Even he tried his best to change the formation, how could he be faster than Yan Zhaoge?
The more they fought with each other, the better Yan Zhaoge knew about the formation.
As time went on, the change of formation on the Illusory Coming Peak finally failed to follow the speed of Yan Zhaoge’s sword.
At first, with a raging move of Slaying Azure Dragon, the cyan air pillar was cut off.
The running of five elements was broken, resulting in losing of the overall power of formation.
With another Slaying Xuanwu, Yan Zhaoge cut the rest four pillars.
Finally, his right hand that had been suppressing the formation from above, slammed down.
The large formation guarding the Illusory Coming Peak was completely collapsed.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1171: Destroy Your Mountain and Pull Out Your Tree
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The faltering formation finally collapsed under the strong attack of Cyclic Heavenly Seal.
The five pillars of qi all dispersed, forming five giant vortex of nimbus that nearly engulfed the Illusory Coming Peak. All present on the peak was panicked by the sto
rms of nimbus.
“Now that Heaven Emperor is not present, I won’t attack you little guys. However, Illusory Coming Peak collapses today.”
With that, Yan Zhaoge came to the tip of the mountain with his hands clasped behind back.
All disciples of Heaven Emperor ran hysterically away for their lives as they all knew that whoever stayed would no doubt perish with the peak.
No one dared to trash talk and all tried desperately to get far away from Yan Zhaoge.
Trash talk for the moment would be making fool of themselves and even cost their lives.
Yan Zhaoge ignored all scattering disciples and came straight to the center of the Illusory Coming Peak, where stood a Daoist temple that Heaven Emperor used for cultivation.
Dispelling the defensive restriction, Yan walked in and straight to the backyard without paying any attention to anything along the way.
In the backyard stood a towering tree glistening pale green glow.
“Pity that it isn’t a pure ginseng fruit tree, but one grafted. No wonder the fruits don’t carry rich nimbus. Still, a great treasure.” Yan Zhaoge smiled and made a gesture of grabbing with his hand.
Then the towering tree was immediately pulled out by this invisible giant hand conjured by Yan. It seemed its exuberant roots had reached deep throughout the whole Illusory Coming Peak, but that didn’t stop Yan Zhaoge from ripping it out.
Then the giant Illusory Coming Peak began to crumble, violently.
And Yan Zhaoge’s last stamp accelerated the process of its destruction. The immortal peak that had been famous for years in Kunlun Mountain collapsed into ashes.
Standing far above the clouds, Wang Pu and Ah Hu saw the flying dusts in Kunlun Mountains and the place where Illusory Coming Peak stood caved down!
Holding on his palm the towering ancient tree that was thousands of times larger than his size, Yan Zhaoge casually walked in the air and out of the Kunlun Mountains to where Wang Pu and Ah Hu stood.
“Junior Brother Yan, I almost forgot your marvelous talents in formation,” said Wang Pu after managing a wry smile.
In fact, he didn’t forget it. Yan Zhaoge just demonstrated too many great talents in other aspects that his talent in formation was easily ignored by others.
A ninth level Martial Saint of Immortal Bridge defeated black-clothed Brocade Emperor with his overbearing mightiness.
A man of marvelous gifts and skills in forging artifacts and items.
And he alone ran the Heavenly Mysteries Pavilion that attracted the world’s attention by bringing many long-lost treasures back to the world.
Cultivation, artifacts and items forging all required much efforts, which most people could hardly achieve anything big in just one field. However, Yan Zhaoge excelled in almost everything that none other could.
Yan Zhaoge’s shocking achievements dimmed Wang Pu’s memory that Yan had slaughtered a group of Martial Saints of Immortal Bridge in The Nine Bends Yellow River Formation before he started Heavenly Mysteries Pavilion when he was still wondering in southeast and south with his cultivation at the Seeing Divinity stage.
Wang Pu had been thinking that Yan Zhaoge must have been too exhausted to take the cultivation of other aspects with such great achievements in both martial arts and artifacts forging. However, Wang Pu now realized that he was completely wrong.
“No, I didn’t think it wrong.” Wang Pu forced a smile, “It applies to everyone else, only not to Junior Brother Yan.”
“Senior Brother Wang, sorry to have kept you waiting,” smiled Yan Zhaoge with a simple nod. Then he turned to Ah Hu, “Please take this tree back to Eastern Vast Heaven Territory and hand it over to my father. He’ll handle this.”
Jade Capital Crag would surely get a share of the fruits, so Yan Zhaoge just saved the bother of asking Wang Pu.
Yan Zhaoge raised his hands and slowly drew his two hands together, contracting the towering ancient tree into a sapling. Two qi, black and white respectively, circulated around the sapling to prevent it from restoring to its previous size.
Yan Zhaoge then handed the sapling to Ah Hu.
“Young master, shall we drop a ‘visit’ to Qilin Cliff too?” Ah Hu asked after taking the sapling. Though he smiled quite honestly, his eyes beamed with obsession for treasures.
The corner of Wang Pu’s mouth twitched out of speechlessness.
“No, we don’t go to Qilin Cliff. Maybe next time.” Yan Zhaoge answered casually with a simple wave of his hand.
Wang Pu was relieved to hear the first half of Yan’s words but then was grieved by the latter half.
“But young master, Earthly Sovereign is not home, Concealed Sovereign in secluded cultivation, and Earthly Exalt killed by you outside Kunlun Mountian, so Qinlin Cliff is rudderless at the moment. An opportunity hard to get.” Ah Hu blurted out his confusion.
Wang Pu forced a wry smile, “As an adobe of a Profound Immortal, the grand guardian formation and protective restriction were set by the Earthly Sovereign himself, a Profound Immortal of tranquil level, which is mightier than that of Illusory Coming Peak. Even without anyone running the formation, Martial Saints like us are not able to crack it. Even if Earthly Sovereign perishes, the unattended formation still can run for at least a thousand years. Perhaps we may stand a chance by then.”
Ah Hu blinked his eyes for several times, looked at Wang Pu as if planning to say something but then refrained.
However, Wang Pu immediately got his unsaid meanings, “No, not even impossible with Origin Opening Sword. Unless someone who has pushed open Immortal Gate wields the sword.”
“Young master, what if you have ascended to Human Exalt?” whispered Ah Hu.
Yan Zhaoge said casually, “You saw the sword light Martial Uncle Yue sent to us on the opening ceremony of Broad Creed Mountain?”
Ah Hu nodded repeatedly, “Yeah! It was so formidable and terrible that Heaven Emperor et al couldn’t even resist.”
“Uncle Yue didn’t even show his real skill,” Yan Zhaoge shrugged his shoulder. “Let’s presume that there is this martial saint who is extremely formidable, who, though unable to kill or hurt a true immortal that has successfully passed Immortal Mortal Tribulation, can fight the true immortal and make fun of him just like playing with a ball…So from what you can see, it is quite the same thing as a profound immortal fighting a true immortal?” Yan Zhaoge asked.
Ah Hu nodded repeatedly.
Yan Zhaoge continued, “However, this martial saint would have to suffer crushing defeat when facing any profound immortal.”
“Why?” Ah Hu couldn’t get it. He just scratched his head out of confusion.
“Because True Immortal is Leakless while Profound Immortal Tranquil.” Yan Zhaoge explained with a smile, “Leakless and Tranquil are the most visible difference between a True Immortal and a Profound Immortal, which has nothing to with the comprehension and practice of martial arts, nor with talents, aptitude or constitution, but with the natural laws of nature. If you couldn’t detach from it, you have to obey it. If you can detach yourself from it, then even a Profound Immortal is not your opponent.”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1172: The Leakless True Immortal versus the Tranquil Profound Immortal
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Indeed, with years of martial arts practice with Yan Zhaoge, Ah Hu’s horizon and experience had way surpassed the peer martial practitioners.
He frowned for a moment and tentatively asked after some ponderation, “Being Leakless means difficult to be hurt and Tranquil undisturbed?”
“Yes, the state of being Leakless is hard to be injured, and Tranquil unbothered.” Wang Pu said with a sigh, “Here, Tranquil means that all existence on earth won’t bother him a
t all.”
Ah Hu scratched his head, saying “Does it mean a Profound Immortal wouldn’t be bothered by either attack or defence in fight?”
“That’s right.” Yan Zhaoge shrugged and said, “Although Martial Saint can’t hurt True Immortal during the fight, he can dissolve the attack and even unravel the movements of a True Immortal.”
“In this situation, if Martial Saint takes the extreme advantage of his strength that surpasses too much of the True Immortal, then he may own a chance to defeat True Immortal.”
Seeing Wang Pu with a desperate expression, Yan Zhaoge said with a smile, “Come on, at any rate, no one can make it, but at least, there is a chance.”
“So, frequently, we say that when a True Immortal comes down to the mortal world, he is invincible, but not every time.”
“Whereas, if it’s the profound immortal, then he will be invincible for sure.”
Yan Zhaoge waved his hand and continued, “Because a Martial Saint can’t hurt a Profound Immortal, and strictly speaking, he can’t even touch a Profound Immortal. On the contrary, no matter how good your defence is, a Profound Immortal can effortlessly crush it with even a whistle.”
“As explained by the phrase that Leakless True Immortal won’t get hurt by mortals, and Tranquil Profound Immortal won’t be bothered.”
Ah Hu thought to himself and said, “That’s what the ‘Tranquil’ means…”
“Yes, as I mentioned before.” Yan Zhaoge laughed and said, “Let’s say there is a Martial Saint with extreme strength that overwhelms that of a True Immortal, but if fighting against the same Profound Immortal, then he may be knocked down in an instant and act even poorer than the True Immortal who, at least, has a chance to fight back.”
“Sounds confusing and abnormal? But this is the basic principle of the world that if one cannot detach himself from it, then he must obey the rule in it.” Yan Zhaoge said, spreading out his palms, “In most people’s opinion, it’s indeed unusual for a Martial Saint to defeat a True Immortal.”
Wang Pu dryly coughed a few times, and Ah Hu fatuously smiled.
“Well, it sounds like I’m blowing my own trumpet” Yan Zhaoge pursed up his lips, saying, “Moreover, some True Immortals and emperors are powerful, and some are not.”
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