"Hahahaha, kid Jianchen, you've finally come out. If you didn't come out, the great Nubis would have gone to the Sea of Illusory Stars to find you."
Nubis shone with a dazzling golden light like a sun. A vast and tremendous energy radiated from his body, causing the surrounding space to violently tremble.
Jianchen stared at Nubis in interest. He gently smiled, "Nubis, looks like you've benefited quite a lot in the past few years of seclusion. I feel like your strength has completely surpassed the Seventh Heavenly Layer of Saint Ruler."
Nubis' golden light slowly receded, revealing his figure. Perhaps because his strength had increased, Nubis' golden robes seemed even more dazzling. It seemed to radiate with a faint golden light.
Nubis was filled with joy. He crossed several hundred meters in a single step and arrived before Jianchen. He directly punched Jianchen's shoulder and chuckled, "Jianchen, I really never thought that you would lose your virginity after just a single trip to the Sea of Illusory Stars. Hehehe, looks like you've benefited quite a lot from your trip to the Sea of Illusory Stars this time. Tell me honestly, did you hook up with that demoness?"
As a beast of antiquity, Nubis' senses were much more powerful than humans. He could tell with a single glance that there was something wrong with Jianchen.
Jianchen purposefully avoided the question and said, "Nubis, let's not talk about that for now. Let's talk about you. How was it? You must have benefited quite a lot from your past few years of seclusion."
"Of course." Nubis excitedly said, "I've already absorbed around seventy percent of the old snake's essence. The essence contains the old snake's comprehension of the mysteries of the world. I've completely fused with it and converted it into my own power. I've reached the peak of Class 7 Magical Beasts now. According to you humans, that's equivalent to the Ninth Heavenly Layer of Saint Ruler. As long as I have a little more time, I'll be able to break through and reach Class 8 once I absorb the remaining thirty percent of the old snake's essence."
Even though Jianchen was mentally prepared, he still leaped in fright when he heard that. Nubis had actually gone from the Third Heavenly Layer to the Ninth Heavenly Layer in just four short years. Even he was dumbfounded by how fast Nubis had progressed. Compared to Nubis, the improvements he had made in the past few years were nothing.
"Jianchen, I can sense that your strength has increased by a lot as well. Looks like you've profited quite a lot from your trip to the Sea of Illusory Stars this time," Nubis looked at Jianchen meaningfully and snickered mischievously.
"Alright, let's not talk about that for now. Nubis, we've already stayed here for quite some time. I think the people of the Tian Yuan Continent will expand their search very soon, so let's leave this place quickly. The sooner we reach the Sea race, the sooner we'll be safe," Jianchen said.
"Alright, let's go to the Sea race first. If there's still a powerful old snake on the Beast God Continent and he calls a large group of people to deal with me, the great Nubis will be in danger."
With that, Nubis was stunned. A gleam of light immediately flashed through his eyes as he stared ahead sharply.
The space where Nubis looked at began to distort violently. Soon after, it ripped open and a Space Gate suddenly appeared. An old man in simple clothes stepped out of the Space Gate.
Jianchen's eyes immediately froze the moment he saw the old man. He was familiar with the old man. He was the old man who had wiped the table in the Tower of Radiance.
Figures constantly walked out from behind the old man. First, there were cultivators in various robes. There were a total of eight of them, and every single one of them was a Saint Ruler. Lastly, there was a group of white-robed Radiant Saint Masters. There were over twenty of them in total, and all of them wore a shining, violet badge on their chests. They were all Class 7 Radiant Saint Masters, including the president and grand elder of the union.
The union had only managed to find Jianchen's whereabouts after so much difficulty. They had basically turned out in full force this time to successfully retrieve the saint artifact.
"Yang Yutian, I've finally found you." An old voice rang out from the group of people. With that, a white-robed old man walked out from the group. He was the president of the union.
Compared to a few years ago, the president seemed even older. His face was filled with wrinkles, and he was haggard. The matter of the saint artifact had tormented him quite a lot in the past few years.
The president looked at Jianchen with extremely mixed feelings. His heart was filled with bitterness. In the past, when he discovered Jianchen's talent, he had accepted him as his disciple without any hesitation. He planned on choosing between him and Yun Tian to be the successor of the union.
In the following days, Jianchen's performance became more and more outstanding. He had actually grasped the God's Descent as a Class 6 Radiant Saint Master and killed over thirty Heaven Saint Masters in the Fragrance River all by himself. This shocked the president. At the same time, he became even more determined to nurture Jianchen into the future successor of the union. He had even begun to use his other disciple, Yun Tian, as a chess piece to temper Jianchen.
He was filled with hope for Jianchen.
However, he had never thought that Jian Chen, who he had placed all his hopes on, would have another identity. Moreover, Jian Chen had even taken away the saint artifact of the Radiant Saint Master Union, almost causing the union to collapse and be doomed. This made him extremely pained.
Now that he had seen the disciple he had once placed such high hopes on, the president felt both love and hatred. He loved Jianchen's unprecedented talent, but he hated Jianchen's actions after that, as well as the terrifying consequences of almost causing the union to be doomed.
"Yang Yutian, Jianchen, Changyang Shōten, may I ask how I should refer to you now?" The president gently sighed. He was exhausted.
"President, just call me Jianchen," said Jianchen.
"Alright, I'll call you Jianchen. Jianchen, do you have the saint artifact on you?" The president asked.
Jianchen hesitated for a while before replying, "President, the saint artifact is indeed on me, but I can't give it to you right now."
"Yang Yutian, the saint artifact belongs to Radiant Saint Masters, yet you actually want to take it for yourself. To think that we've treated you so well in the past, yet you've actually done something like this. You've really blinded us," the ninth elder could not help but curse.
"Jian Chen, saint artifacts are extremely important to our Radiant Saint Master Union. Considering how we've treated you well in the past, please return them to us," the grand elder said with a pleading tone.
"Grand elder, president, it's not that I don't want to return the saint artifact, but the saint artifact has a spirit and has already accepted me as its master."
"What? The saint artifact has already accepted you as its master? How is that possible?" The president paled in fright. Clearly, he knew about the existence of the Artifact Spirit.
A golden streak of light shot out from Jianchen's forehead and landed in Jianchen's hand. It turned into a palm-sized, golden tower.
The people from the Radiant Saint Master Union became doubtful when they saw the golden tower. Although saint artifacts had existed in the union for countless years, there were not a lot of people who had actually seen them. They did not recognize any of them, including the president.
"Artifact Spirit. Explain it to the president," Jianchen said to the saint artifact.
The artifact spirit obeyed Jian Chen's orders. He immediately communicated with the president of the Radiant Saint Master Union.
The president immediately became respectful. As the president of the union, he knew extremely well what kind of existence the Artifact Spirit was. It was equivalent to an expert on par with the Holy Emperor. Even though it was only in the artifact space, it was still a great deterrent.
A while later, the president's respect vanished. He sighed at the sky as helplessness filled his face. Afterward, his gaze toward Jianchen became even more mixed. It was filled with deep shock.
"Grand elder, president, I know how important the saint artifact is to the union. Without the saint artifact, the union will lose its origin energy, but I can help you deal with this problem." Jianchen took out a violet medallion from his Space Ring and continued, "Grand elder, this is the medallion you gave me in the past. I've already stored several dozen strands of Radiant Saint Force origin energy in there. It should be enough to deal with the union's current situation."
With that, Jianchen tossed the medallion over. It stopped before the grand elder. The grand elder caught the medallion and sensed it. A sliver of joy immediately appeared on his face, "There really are several dozen strands of origin energy in there."
The members of the union all rejoiced when they heard that.
Jianchen continued, "I know this is not a long-term solution. There will be a day when the Radiant Saint Force origin energy is used up. However, I will fill up the medallion with origin energy again in fifty years. I hope you can find a few more items that can store origin energy during that time."
"Jianchen, since the saint artifact has already accepted you as its master, you can leave. Our union won't make things difficult for you. However, I hope that you will come as promised in fifty years and replenish our Radiant Saint Force origin energy," the president sighed. The president of the Radiant Saint Master Union sighed. Since the saint artifact had already accepted a master, this was the only choice he could make.
If the saint artifact had not accepted him as its master, they could still restrict Jianchen's movements and search his Space Ring for the saint artifact. However, that was no longer possible. Once the saint artifact had accepted him as its master, they could only kill Jianchen to take it back. However, they did not have the courage to do so.
If they killed Jianchen, they would basically have completely offended the protector clans of Changyang Prefecture and the Pure Heart Pavilion, as well as the arctic Ice Goddess Hall that even the protector clans feared.
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