Free Web NovelChapter 1113: Chapter 598: Nine Trials on the Ancient Path! Audience with the Strongest among the Venerables! (Part 2)
The group walked on clouds, and along the way, what Jiang Shu saw opened his eyes. ƒгeewёbnovel.com
Disciples practiced boxing under the waterfall, the punch wind shattered the galaxy that was flowing backward; elders played chess, with each move causing a star’s phantom to explode; farther away, the entire sky was a martial arts arena, hundreds of disciples shuttled and battled through the void fissures.
"That’s the Battle Cave."
Zhan Feng pointed at the sky fissure and spoke, with a hint of caution in his eyes.
"Inside seals remnants of the Ancient Battlefield, most suitable for honing real combat skills."
After passing through the seven layers of restrictions, everyone arrived at the highest Bronze Main Hall.
Nine statues stood in the square before the hall, three of which emitted a suffocating aura that pressed against Jiang Shu.
"These are relics of the Saints."
Zhan Yun explained softly,
"Throughout history, the Human Clan produced nine Saints, three of whom are still in secluded deadlock."
Saints!
This is the pinnacle of cultivation, representing supreme power, mostly existing only in legends; never did Jiang Shu expect that the War Alliance, or rather the Human Clan, would still have three Saints alive!
The hall door opened silently, and a vast aura rushed in.
Jiang Shu felt as if he stepped into another realm, the inside of the hall vast with stars traversing mysterious paths.
In the center of the starry dome, sat a middle-aged man.
The man wore plain linen clothes, bearing a resemblance to Zhan Feng by seven parts, yet exuding a steadiness of one who has weathered many storms.
He was fiddling with a star in his hand, its terrifying mass light as nothing in his palm.
"Arrived?"
The man looked up and smiled.
Instantly, the entire starry space’s operation came to a halt.
Jiang Shu stepped forward solemnly, saying, "Junior Jiang Shu, greets Vice Alliance Hierarch."
Zhan Jiuxiao, renowned for his near-demonic intelligence, at this moment, seemed more a greenwood hero, casually waving his hand while saying, "Why call me Vice Alliance Hierarch."
"You are like brothers with Feng’er, just call me Uncle Zhan."
Zhan Feng winked and came forward smiling: "Father rarely treats outsiders so warmly."
Zhan Jiuxiao laughed heartily, and sound waves formed golden lotus flowers in the vacuum.
He casually crushed the star in his hand, star dust transformed into a teapot landing on a suddenly appearing stone table.
"The Deep Space Sea affair, thanks to your wise eye, the War Alliance owes you a great personal favor."
Amidst tea fragrance and mist, Jiang Shu saw the scene in Mirror Abyss from the other day reappear.
More strikingly, each image was woven with complete chains of the Great Dao.
Zhan Jiuxiao had refined time and space memories into Dao Tea!
The surface of the tea soup was covered with Blood-Colored Runes, each stroke containing Venerable Peak level fluctuations.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu felt puzzled, and thus cupped his hands, saying: "Uncle Zhan, I merely made some speculations, how is there talk of a personal favor?"
Zhan Jiuxiao gently shook his head and said, "The bodies of those fallen prodigies were all planted with Soul Burial Guides, even the Soul Testing Stele at Battle Tomb detected no anomalies."
Zhan Yun conjured a miniature star map on his fingertip, seventy-two Secret Realms shone like stars.
Zhan Jiuxiao pointed at those Secret Realms and said, "If discovered three months later, these curse marks would link through fortune and pollute all blessed lands of the War Alliance."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu was also startled, only now did he comprehend how terrifying the Black Robed man’s plot was.
The death of those prodigies was but a facade, the true goal was to use the fortune of burial grounds of various powers to set up something.
"Doomsday Sect..."
Zhan Jiuxiao suddenly sliced open the void with joined fingers, extracting a Bronze Scroll refined using some type of leather. freewebnσvel.cøm
When unfolded, the bamboo scroll emitted sounds of metal clashing, densely covered with forbidden records written in Venerable Blood mixed with star sand.
"They are older than any existing Ancient Clan."
As he spoke, a page of the scroll spontaneously combusted, ash formed a terrifying scene in the void.
Countless star systems decayed and collapsed within gray mist, monsters with bone wings devoured fixed stars.
The most frightening was those silver-white giant eyes deep in the starry sky.
Jiang Shu glanced once, and the Desolate Star Halberd instinctively erupted fifteen Great Dao Barriers.
"Little Shu, this is the Great Cataclysm of the late Ancient times."
Zhan Jiuxiao’s voice suddenly turned ethereal, each word resonated with the Great Dao.
"At that time, one-tenth of the Star Domain transformed into Death Domain, all withered."
"Only the last message from Saints before falling remains."
"Silver-white eyes."
The shadow continued to evolve.
Jiang Shu found his palm trembling uncontrollably.
The patterns of those silver-white giant eyes were surprisingly similar to the rune on Black Robed man’s left eye, as if stemming from the same source, seemingly a Nirvana of that giant eye.
More frightening was, as he gazed at the scene, his Dantian’s Heart of Space trembled with fear, as if witnessing a natural enemy.
"They accelerate the cosmic destruction process."
Zhan Jiuxiao waved to dissipate the scene, the bronze lamps in the hall dimmed for a moment.
"In the ruins they nurture what they call a new epoch."
"Which is the new world in their doctrine."
He suddenly stared at Jiang Shu, with a solemn expression saying,
"Yet this time, they are particularly focused on you."
"This has never happened before, therefore I meet you not only because you helped the War Alliance but also want to know the real reason they set their sights on you."
The hall suddenly became eerily quiet.
Jiang Shu felt Zhan Jiuxiao’s gaze penetrating all his defenses, even the Chaos Thunder Pool temporarily stopped functioning.
The Purple Sky Divine Thunder coursing through his meridians curled up as if encountering a natural enemy.
"Father!"
Zhan Feng’s face changed drastically, directly standing in front of Jiang Shu, looking at his father.
Zhan Jiuxiao enjoyed enormous fame in the cosmic, known for his near-demonic wisdom, plotting myriad schemes, and now, with Saints of the Human Clan not emerging, the clan had already secured its place as the Strongest Race in the cosmic, largely crediting Zhan Jiuxiao’s strategies.
Even Zhan Feng himself didn’t know what his father was thinking.
So when he heard Zhan Jiuxiao, he thought he meant harm to Jiang Shu, which he couldn’t accept.
"Don’t worry."
Zhan Jiuxiao suddenly laughed, sound waves echoed, making the Mystic Iron Bell hanging on the beam ring.
Each of those bells sealed with complete laws, now resonated, ripples of Dao Rhyme dyed the surrounding clouds golden.
"Tomorrow a banquet to welcome you, let those old ones see what it means to suppress the contemporary prodigies!"
"You are a close friend to Little Feng and Little Yun, an adversary of the Doomsday Sect, and the future star of our Human Clan, I won’t harm you publicly or privately; I’m merely curious, for in the long river of time, you are the only one deemed so heavily by the Doomsday Sect."
"Zhan Feng, take Little Shu to the side hall to rest."
With that, Jiang Shu had to bow and bid farewell, following Zhan Feng out of the main hall.
Once outside the palace, Zhan Feng quickly approached and said: "Brother, my father, albeit a bit cunning, must consider some things from his position, and since he stated he won’t harm you, he surely won’t go back on his word, rest assured, Little Yun and I are here."
Jiang Shu smiled, patting Zhan Feng’s shoulder, and looking at Zhan Yun who also exhibited concern, he laughed: "I understand."
"I naturally trust Uncle Zhan."
Though speaking thus, Jiang Shu had always felt apprehensive towards these ancient monsters, let alone figures like Zhan Jiuxiao.
Ultimately, his strength remains too weak in front of these grand figures.
As the starry sky rotated, the group had moved to the side hall.
Thirty-six maids dressed in Star Gauze carried Spirit Fruits in procession, walking without touching the ground, revealing faintly the space rune-engraved jade feet beneath their skirts.
The leading woman in purple ceremoniously bowed, the bronze sword in her hair emitted a dragon chant: "Zi Ling, serving at the Alliance Hierarch’s behest, attending Mr. Jiang."
Zhan Feng jokingly winked, whispered in Jiang Shu’s ear: "Sister Zi Ling is father’s top Sword Servant, her Lifebound Sword Pearl once severed a Venerable’s thought."
Seeing Jiang Shu confused, somewhat puzzled, he added: "Even if a Venerable comes, Sister Zi Ling merely greets briefly."
Jiang Shu was about to decline when the Desolate Star Halberd suddenly trembled violently in the Void Ring.
Raising his eyes, he saw outside the window, in the starry sky, a black shadow flickered past the Law Formation made of bronze bells.
