That being said, Astro Sovereign was the key person to count on.
The ice snake had carried the two in the Nine Underworlds for many days. During which Female Emperor kept her body frozen and didn't move or talk all the time.
When she was in fight, she was tough and dominant, while in daily life, she kept herself away from all troubles.
Hence, when encountering with the devils in Nine Underworlds, most of the time she would avoid them.
With many days pa.s.sed in silence, Yan Zhaoge estimated that the distance they had travelled had way surpa.s.sed that from the north to the south of World beyond Worlds.
Then, the ice snake that had been travelling in the Devilish Qi suddenly rushed out of the Nine Underworlds and into another Land of the tranquil stream.
However, this one was different from all other Lands of the tranquil stream.
In the depth of dark and gloomy emptiness, there seemed to be something.
"Glacier..." Then coming into his eyes was a vast snowfield of Glacier.
An icebound Land of the tranquil stream! The ice, however, was not reflective nor crystal but dark and opaque.
And the size and volume of the glacier were immeasurable.
One could not feel the chill there at first, and the snow seemed to be illusory.
However, as time went by, one would gradually be overwhelmed by the increasing cold that couldn't be alleviated.
It was a slow but irreversible process, and whatever one did to keep warm there, he would feel colder and colder.
At first, it was too weak to be felt, but it didn't take long before the extreme coldness chilled one to the bone, and in the end, he would be frozen to death without even the slightest strength to struggle.
What upset one most was not the extreme cold, but no matter how hard he tried to warm himself, it would be in vain.
"We've arrived." At this moment, Female Emperor, who had been in silence all the way, spoke.
Though she did not open her eyes, the frost on her was lifted.
The enormous ice snake then disappeared as well.
Yan Zhaoge followed Female Emperor and walked toward the depth of the glacier.
The glacier transformed into an ice field that was unmeasurable in size. Yan Zhaoge estimated that the ice could cover half of the World beyond Worlds, or even more.
Looking far into the distance, he saw a scene of desolation, and there was not any plant or building.
One could feel a primitive atmosphere of a vast expanse of land.
Also, there was not light nor any l.u.s.ter from the ice, and Yan Zhaoge felt as if he was back to the world of initial time that was under a state of chaos, silence and darkness.
Not a bit of human culture or the trace of human activity could be seen.
Following Female Emperor, Yan Zhaoge came to the foot of a continuous iceberg.
Just then, a voice suddenly rose up in the air.
"Who's with Ming Kong?"
The voice came from all directions, seemingly heard from every piece of ice and snow on the entire glacier continent.
"Master..." Female Emperor's expression was slightly changed.
Her look was unusually complicated, missing, joy, mixed with sorrow, unwillingness, worry, and so on.
For all disappeared in a second, Yan Zhaoge failed to see more on her face.
It was the first time he had seen such a complex emotional change in her face.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1179: Exalted Water Luminary
“This disciple greets Master,” Jie Mingkong took a deep breath to cool off her mind and bowed to the iceberg, resuming her cold face as usual.
It seemed all Yan Zhaoge just saw on her face was but a delusion.
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He lowered his eyelid with no further actions.
He believed that Female Emperor didn’t want a soul to notice that look on her face.
Therefore, out of courtesy, he pretended to look at nothing and to know nothing.
“But...” Suddenly, some doubts and suspicions overtook him as he thought to himself, “Did I read it wrong? I saw on her face some guilt and uneasiness...?”
For what did she feel guilty and uneasy?
Did Astro Sovereign’s current situation relate to her, or was it caused because of her?
He frowned, many thoughts flas.h.i.+ng through his mind.
"The one with me is the descendant of Exalted Gold Luminary,” Jie Mingkong said toward the iceberg with respect.
Seeing this, Yan Zhaoge took half a step forward and also bowed to the iceberg, saying, “Your Highness, this is Yan Zhaoge, a young descendant of grandfather Yan Xingtang.”
"Descendant of Yan Xingtang?”
The voice, as steady as before, didn’t change in tone.
While the enormous iceberg began to shake. There at the foot of the mountain, ice cracked to unveil a path.
“Get in,” Jie Mingkong said to Yan Zhaoge. “My master seems in a good mood and wants to meet you as he finds the descendant of Yan Xingtang is safe.”
Yan Zhaoge was in surprise and asked, “Aren’t you coming with me?”
"No, just walk down along the tunnel at the bottom of the iceberg and you will meet my Master.” After seconds of silence, she shook her head and said.
“Well, may we meet again, Your Majesty.” Yan Zhaoge nodded before walking into the cave.
However, although he was finally meeting Astro Sovereign, he became anxious now.
At the very moment Jie Mingkong refused to get down, he seemed to feel her sudden mood swing.
It was odd. She must be plotting something.
The next moment, he felt the ice-made steps underfoot, that were hard as iron, started to quake.
“HEY! Is it Astro Sovereign who intends to teach me a lesson, or you? Or.....it is Astro Sovereign you’re plotting against?” He muttered.
He was quite used to judging someone with a vicious intention, naturally now he took it as a conspiracy.
The thing was no matter how hard he pondered over the matter, he just failed to figure out any clue that would justify his speculation.
It made little sense either if they were on Earthly Sovereign's side, since from Female Emperor's hot temper, if she had supported Earthly Sovereign, she would have fought with Yan Zhaoge long ago.
Yan Zhaoge was lost in a series of questions, “Is it that Astro Sovereign is controlling something and can’t move, so Female Emperor pities him and plans to find him a scapegoat? Then, I am the scapegoat?”
“It still makes little sense...”
Though struggling in random thoughts and fancies, he acted composed when going through the path inside the iceberg and reached the bottom where a light came out of the endless darkness.
It shone over the entire world, like the first light appearing at the time of the creation of heaven and earth.
Yan Zhao attentively looked forward and found there was large water under the light at the end of the path.
The willful water was boundless like the ocean.
It was the sea in the glacier and under the iceberg!
On the surface of the water, Yan Zhaoge walked nonstop forward and found a giant ice pillar in the distance, towering and magnificent as if it was stabilizing the vast sea at the bottom and sustaining the ice canopy overhead.
The ice pillar crossed through the iceberg to the deeper layers of ice under the bottom of the sea, connecting the whole glacier like a central shaft.
Inside the icicle stood a vague figure.
Yan Zhaoge came close and raised his head, but he couldn’t get a clear view of his look because of the ice.
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It wasn’t the ice that blocked his sight but the other’s formidable strength that froze the Land of the tranquil stream and shut off the way to the Nine Underworlds.
“The descendant of Xingtang as you are, you look much different in appearance. Is that because of Grand Simplicity Splendor Cloud?”
The sound came out of the ice, and then the figure became clear.
He looked just like a youngster around age of twenty, almost at the same age with Yan Zhaoge.
However, his eyes betrayed his young look with the vicissitudes of life. His features were only average when viewed separately, but with them pieced together, one would immerse in his charming face out of instinct.
He looked calm and composed in his light blue robe with white stripes. He was still in the ice but Yan Zhaoge now could see the other’s face clearly. And this was the first time he saw with his own eyes how Astro Sovereign looked like, though he had seen his image many years ago.
Right before him stood Astro Sovereign, who was reputed as one of the Three Sovereigns besides Earthly Sovereign and Concealed Sovereign in World beyond Worlds before Sword Sovereign Yue Zhenbei did.
He was the Exalted Water Luminary, Chen Xuanzong, one of the Nine Luminaries of Kunlun.
“Astro Sovereign, Your Highness,” greeted Yan Zhaoge with a bow.
Astro Sovereign looked quite gentle without putting on any domineering air. He asked after sizing Yan Zhaoge up, “You are grandson of Xingtang, then Grand Simplicity Splendour Cloud should be your father’s. Is he still alive?”
Yan Zhaoge was surprised. It seemed that Astro Sovereign just heard about Yan Di and Yan Zhaoge, knowing nothing about what had happened to them before.
Several years pa.s.sed after the opening ceremony of Broad Creed Mountain, yet no one ever told Astro Sovereign about Yan Zhaoge and his father.
Concealed Sovereign was in his close-up cultivation, while Earthly Sovereign and Sword Sovereign hadn’t returned yet, so they didn’t get the chance to keep Astro Sovereign informed.
As for Earthly Exalt w.a.n.g Zhengcheng, he would try every means to stop Yan Zhaoge and his father from getting another backer.
But what about Female Emperor?
“She intentionally keeps it secret or this is also the first time she actually sees Astro Sovereign for all these years?” thought Yan Zhaoge as he narrated their current situation and what he and his father had been through all these years in World beyond Worlds.
Though Yan Zhaoge didn’t have the Grand Simplicity Splendour Cloud to prove his ident.i.ty, Astro Sovereign had no intention to question that as Yan was brought here by Female Emperor.
Astro Sovereign was short-spoken and only occasionally asked a few questions when Yan Zhaoge paused. Most of the time he just listened in silence.
When Yan Zhaoge finished, he nodded, “I’m much delighted to know that Xingtang has descendants. And he and Fellow Daoist Di of Roving Jade Heavens can finally rest in peace.”
“Pity that grandfather and grandmother died long ago that this junior and my father couldn’t fulfill filial duty before them,” said Yan Zhaoge in a gentle voice.
Astro Sovereign praised after looking Yan up and down, “A 9th level martial saint in the late stage of immortal bridge you are, you managed to kill w.a.n.g Zhengcheng who had the Yin Yang Earth Mountain River Diagram to protect himself. Even with the help of Origin Opening Sword, you’re remarkable.”
Instead of responding to the praise, Yan Zhaoge just waited silently for Astro Sovereign’s decision.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1180: Thousands Of Years In Suppressing A Demon
Yan Zhaoge didn’t explain for himself with plausible words when he stated the whole story to Astro Sovereign. Instead, his description was objective and calm.
And Astro Sovereign didn’t let Yan Zhaoge wait for too long.
“I always have disagreements with the people in the Qilin Cliff about their views toward Yin Tianxia and Hu Yuexin or your family.” Astro Sovereign said that calmly, nodding but then shaking his head.
“Unfortunately, I still cannot do anything about your matters. I could not help them at that time, I cannot help you right now.”
Since Yan Zhaoge had already been reminded by Female Emperor that Astro Sovereign might not be able to help, so he was not too disappointed right now.
“Your majesty, is it because you...cannot leave here?” He looked at Astro Sovereign and asked that lightly.
“Yes.” Astro Sovereign said that with a dispa.s.sionate look.
However, there was a crack appearing on his forehead. It seemed like a wound with indistinct blue light inside.
The moment this wound showed up, Yan Zhaoge had a feeling that he was back in the Nine Underworlds again!
The frozen and snow-covered world, with everything in it unchanged, now presented a scary distorted sense. The sky and the earth now transformed into white abysses which seemed about to swallow everything.
“Your Majesty...” Yan Zhaoge knitted his eye brows.
The man who was frozen in the ice pillar smiled while the dim blue light on his forehead faded away. Then the wound got healed and his skin went smooth again with no sign of injury there.
“I’ll take responsibility for the choice I have made in former years, no matter how things have developed.” Astro Sovereign said imperturbably. “But I could do nothing about the deadlock here right now.”
Yan Zhaoge took a deep breath, saying, “Your majesty, it seems that the demon you want to stifle is not an ordinary one.”
Astro Sovereign nodded while saying, “That’s right. It’s the Gui Shui Demon. He has been looking for a chance to be born again ever since he was destroyed. Now there’s only one step left for his rebirth. If it were not for this situation, I wouldn’t be stalemated with him right now.”
“So it’s true that...” Yan Zhaoge sighed.
Gui Shui Demon was one of the Twelve Devilish G.o.ds, the big demon of the Six Extinct Demon, one of the most powerful demons in the world.
If he was born again and went back to his heyday, even most of the Daoist lords were no match for him.
Since ancient times, big demons such as the Ice Demon, the Water Demon, the Frost Demon and the Blood Demon appeared in the world one after another. Most of them domineered for a period and gained intimidating reputations.
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The demons who had reached the level of the Six Extinct Demon were all leaders in the demon worlds who possessed formidable power.
Even if they were destroyed, they could still be reborn if they managed to find a suitable incarnation.
However, before they were reborn or a short while after they had been reborn, they were not able to approach their peaks and needed time to recover.
At that time when Yin s.h.i.+yang, the Sword Demon, had just turned demon, he had once again challenged Yan Xingtang, the Sword G.o.d.
Although Yin s.h.i.+yang had enhanced his power, he still couldn’t be compared to the Geng Jin Demon in his heyday.
As a result, the Geng Jin Demon had been destroyed again right after being reborn. Fate was such an uncertain thing.
What’s more, the duration of power enhancement of the big demon related to the cultivation of their incarnation.
The higher cultivation the incarnation had, the shorter time the big demon would need to recover.
However, the duration would never be longer than if following any other path of cultivation. Even the cultivation of the Pure Land Buddha Light or the Celestial Court Treasure Light were not as fast as that procedure.
Certainly that was also because those big demons
had already possessed a powerful cultivation before they were destroyed and there were only a limit amount of them existing in the world.
Nevertheless, if the big demon managed to find a suitable incarnation, he would go back to his peak in no time.
Right now the Gui Shui Demon had not been entirely reborn, so Astro Sovereign could still suppress that demon spirit.
However, Astro Sovereign also had to lock himself up here.
“This place is near the Nine Underworlds, which makes the demon spirits easy to breed. Your majesty, you have chosen here to suppress the demon spirit instead of the World beyond Worlds...” Yan Zhaoge muttered, “Is it because it’s easier to set up a certain kind of balance at a place between the Nine Underworlds and the human world where the brightness and the darkness meet each other?”
Astro Sovereign looked at Yan Zhaoge approvingly, saying, “It’s so rare to see a young man who has such a sharp mind.”
Then he shook his head, “Now, the Gui Shui Demon was already on the track of his rebirth. Normally, it’s already impossible to prevent him from being reborn.”
“I have tried my best to stop him and succeeded luckily. It’s true that it would be easy for me to stay in the World beyond Worlds. However, if that big demon makes up his mind and gives up his rebirth, in despair, it could incur great catastrophe to the World beyond Worlds by stirring the Nine Underworlds.”
Hearing his words, Yan Zhaoge nodded.
Even if the Gui Shui Demon was not reborn, he could still rip a crack on the Nine Underworlds if he decided to sacrifice his chance of rebirth. And that crack was huge enough to let the World beyond Worlds be swallowed by the Nine Underworlds.
“Being in the s.p.a.ce where the human world and the Nine Underworlds connect, I temporarily don’t have to worry about World beyond Worlds being threatened. Thus the big demon won’t try to sacrifice himself right now.”
That was because the Gui Shui Demon knew that sacrificing himself now couldn’t pose a direct threat to Astro Sovereign and his companions. The loss outweighed the gain.
Then, both parties ended in a stalemate.
And this situation had already lasted for thousands of years.
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