Around a year ago, Shen Lingzi had returned to the Royal Reed Sea, sweeping through the surrounding area.
Other than Broad Creed Mountain who had defended its headquarters, the main forces of the other three anti-Xuan forces, the North Sea Sword Pavilion, the Dim Darkness Sect and Copper Men Island, had all been breached.
Copper Men Island's Island Lord Gongsun Wu had been killed, and North Sea Sword Pavilion's Pavilion Lord Gu Hong had been captured.
Unable to do anything to Broad Creed Mountain for the time being, Shen Lingzi turned and attacked the Dim Darkness Sect after leaving.
However, the Shadow Mountain Sword King Lin Hanhua chased him all the way from the western part of the Royal Reed Sea to the southern part of the sea, engaging in a great battle with Shen Lingzi.
In the end, Gu Hong was rescued by Lin Hanhua while the Chief of the Dim Darkness Sect, Zhou Haosheng, was protected by Lin Hanhua.
Shen Lingzi returned to the capital of the Grand Xuan Dynasty, Blackblaze City.
"From the looks of it, it is still Lin Hanhua who has the upper hand," Yan Zhaoge had come to this conclusion after hearing the news.
When two sides fought, it would be very difficult for one person to protect the third party. It was easy to kill, but difficult to protect.
To a certain extent, the protector had given up the initiative.
Under such circumstances, Lin Hanhua was still able to fight Shen Lingzi to a draw and successfully protect Gu Hong and Zhou Haosheng, which was actually equivalent to him gaining the upper hand.
But the problem was that Shen Lingzi's strength was not weak.
He was one of the rare few who could challenge experts of the ninth level of the Martial Saint realm while at the eighth level of the Martial Saint realm.
Although Lin Hanhua was strong, it was very difficult for him to protect Gu Hong and Zhou Haosheng's lives from Shen Lingzi's sword while preserving his strength.
At that time, Yan Zhaoge had been wondering if Lin Hanhua had revealed anything.
While the Grand Xuan Dynasty and Shen Lingzi had not made any moves afterwards, this did not mean that they were safe and sound.
When Yan Zhaoge had revealed the Immortal Trapping Sword in battle with Shen Lingzi, amidst his shock, Shen Lingzi had once said this.
"This southeastern Yang Heaven Territory is truly a place of crouching tigers and hidden dragons."
Why was it said that the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory was filled with crouching tigers and hidden dragons, and not just purely because Yan Zhaoge was proficient in supreme martial arts of the Prime Clear direct lineage?
Had he met other people who knew the supreme arts of the Clear Lineage in the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory?
"Now that I think about it, perhaps when Lin Hanhua fought with him, he more or less saw some clues." Yan Zhaoge lightly rubbed his temples, sighing, "Lin Hanhua's identity should be a top secret. Let alone the Ten Exalts, not even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors know about it."
Knowing that such a person existed, knowing that a descendant of the Dragon Spring Emperor's lineage would return to the World beyond Worlds.
However, there weren't many top experts who knew who this person was.
The Earthly Sovereign was definitely aware of it, and the Southeastern Exalt Cao Jie was definitely aware of it. However, this might not necessarily be the case for others.
However, if Lin Hanhua's exchange with Shen Lingzi was seen through, that would be equivalent to the Heaven Emperor knowing as well.
Yan Di, Yuan Zhengfeng and the others all frowned, not speaking.
After a while, Fang Zhun said, "The Earthly Sovereign's decree is no joke. Moreover, this decree has received the support of most of the major figures of the World beyond Worlds."
The matter of Lin Hanhua was actually tacitly approved by the Earthly Sovereign.
Can do, but can't say.
In private, those in the know turned a blind eye.
However, once it was exposed and the matter was placed on the table for the public to know, it would not be so easy to fool them.
It was also impossible for the Earthly Sovereign to continue feigning ignorance.
Yan Di said, "The other party should have used this as a bargaining chip and communicated with the Southeastern Exalt. Still, the Southeastern Exalt clearly did not compromise."
Everyone sighed. All along, the Shadow Mountain Sword King Lin Hanhua had been on good terms with Broad Creed Mountain, also looking out for them.
Indeed, news soon spread, spreading like wildfire.
The head disciple of the Southeastern Exalt, the Shadow Mountain Sword King Lin Hanhua, was of the Prime Clear direct lineage and had been in hiding in the World beyond Worlds for many years.
As the news spread, it instantly caused a great commotion.
Due to the influence and control of the Southeastern Exalt Cao Jie, the news spread rather slowly in the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory. Still, it had already spread like wildfire outside of the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory.
Affected by this, more and more people in the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory heard of it as well.
Yan Zhaoge and Broad Creed Mountain received the news rather early. However, it did not originate from the southern Blazing Heaven Territory that bordered the Royal Reed Sea. Instead, it was from external visitors.
These were not unexpected visitors.
A descendant of Kunlun Mountain's Ingenious Flying Peak, of the lineage of the Brocade Emperor of the World beyond Worlds' Five Emperors.
This was already the second time that a descendant of Ingenious Flying Peak had come to Broad Creed Mountain. Still, unlike the previous time, it was shockingly the daughter of the Brocade Emperor, the 'Grand Red Lotus' Fu Ting who had come this time.
As soon as Fu Ting saw Yan Zhaoge, her gaze hardened slightly.
The last time the two had met, Yan Zhaoge had been a mid Merging Avatar Martial Saint. Compared to Yan Zhaoge's actual age, he was already shockingly young.
Now, in terms of time in the World beyond Worlds, in just over three years, Yan Zhaoge had actually made three consecutive leaps, rushing into the fifth level of the Martial Saint realm, the mid Seeing Divinity stage.
Such a speed was simply unheard of as Fu Ting could not help but suspect that she had misjudged Yan Zhaoge's true age.
She was the most outstanding genius of the World beyond Worlds' younger generation and also had an oceanic amount of resources to nurture her. Yet, even she was unable to attain such a rate of improvement.
The current Fu Ting was also of the fifth level of the Martial Saint realm, the mid Seeing Divinity stage.
Still, when she had first met Yan Zhaoge in the foreign dimension, she had already been at the peak of the third level of the Martial Saint realm, just a half-step away from the Seeing Divinity stage.
In truth, after that incident, Fu Ting had very quickly broken through her bottleneck, breaking through space to see true Divinity as she attained the fourth level of the Martial Saint realm.
After over three years of dedicated cultivation, she had recently advanced further, attaining the fifth level of the Martial Saint realm.
Such a speed was already sufficient to leave the world stunned.
Clearly, however, Yan Zhaoge's rate of improvement was even fiercer than hers.
Thinking of how Yan Zhaoge's father, Yan Di, had also advanced to the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm in just a few short years after having ascended to the World beyond Worlds, Fu Ting felt shocked as well.
She and her fellow disciples had naturally not come over this time to inform Yan Zhaoge about Lin Hanhua.
Yan Zhaoge and Yan Di's cultivation speed had been too shocking. Ingenious Flying Peak could not help but suspect that the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace had fallen into Broad Creed Mountain's hands back then.
It was just that observing Yan Zhaoge and Yan Di's current cultivation bases, while they possessed shocking strength, it should still be insufficient for them to wield the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace.
Broad Creed Mountain also had no other secluded experts who could wield the furnace. Therefore, Fu Ting and the others still found it hard to understand.
Temporarily suppressing her doubts, Fu Ting sat on the guest seat of Broad Creed Mountain's Heaven Rising Peak's main hall, continuing, "Senior apprentice-brother Lin's identity is not ordinary. He is of the Prime Clear direct lineage. Uncle Cao might have to bear some responsibility for this."
Yan Zhaoge and the others nodded slowly.
Fu Ting gazed at Yan Zhaoge and Yan Di, "I have come on my father's orders this time to invite Young Master Yan and Chief Yan to the Minor No Hatred dao arena as guests."
The Minor No Hatred dao arena was named after the Lihen Heaven.
The Lihen Heaven was also known as the Great Scarlet Heavens, the legendary residence of the founder of the Grand Clear lineage, the Lord of Dao and Virtue.
The Brocade Emperor's dao arena was the Red Lotus Cliff of Kunlun Mountain's Ingenious Flying Peak in the current World beyond Worlds' central Jun Heaven Territory.
The Minor No Hatred dao arena was a manor that he had established in extradimensional space outside of the World beyond Worlds. (To be continued.)
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