Yan Zhaoge looked back at Xia Guang with a baffled look on his face, "How else can we go back? Of course we head east."
"Uh …" Xia Guang choked for a moment before he smiled bitterly, "Young Master Yan, didn't you just say that there would be more than one batch of enemies coming endlessly to find trouble with us once news of our whereabouts were leaked?"
"For martial practitioners from the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory like us, this southern Blazing Heaven Territory is filled with enemies …"
Hearing his words, Yan Zhaoge smiled, "If you were travelling alone, of course that would be the case. Still, aren't you returning to the southeast with me now?"
Xia Guang was dazed once more as he opened his mouth, unable to even make a sound this time.
"The Southern Exalt included, the Exalts of Ten Territories have all been invited to the central Jun Heaven Territory." Yan Zhaoge said, "According to past experiences, they are virtually all in secluded cultivation. Even if the martial practitioners of the southern Blazing Heaven Territory wanted to send word, the Southern Exalt would not be able to receive it."
Otherwise, disregarding everything else, Zhuang Chaohui's death alone would have been sufficient for Zhuang Shen to put down everything at hand and return to the southern Blazing Heaven Territory at the first possible moment.
Yan Zhaoge spread his hands apart, smiling, "As the saying goes, 'When the tiger is absent from the mountain, the monkey reigns supreme'. With the tiger that is the Southern Exalt not present, it would be rather difficult for me, the monkey, to rampage unbridled within the southern Blazing Heaven Territory. However, it would not be difficult if I wanted to leave wholeheartedly."
Hearing his words, Xia Guang swallowed his saliva.
While Yan Zhaoge had spoken casually with some self-mocking and teasing tone, the meaning behind his words caused Xia Guang to tremble.
These simple words were clearly saying that as long as Exalts did not appear in the southern Blazing Heaven Territory, Yan Zhaoge would be free to stay or go as he pleased.
If a late Immortal Bridge Martial Saint had said this, Xia Guang would not have found it strange at all.
The problem, however, was that this Yan Zhaoge had yet to ascend the Immortal Bridge …
The southern Blazing Heaven Territory was naturally led by the Southern Exalt Zhuang Shen who presided over all.
Still, beneath Zhuang Shen, there were not just a few experts of the ninth level of the Martial Saint realm.
Any one of them was a peak expert who had been domineering under the heavens for many years, renowned throughout the entire World beyond Worlds.
Aside from them, there were also many Immortal Bridge experts, all of them hegemons of their own regions.
If it wasn't a sect leader, then it was an elder.
Under normal circumstances, any one of these people could easily crush a Seeing Divinity Martial Saint to death.
Zhuang Shen, Long Hanhua, Zeng Mo, and other outstanding disciples of famous sects were helpless against opponents whose cultivation realms were much higher than theirs.
Even a genius of a generation like Fu Ting would not dare to say that she would be able to move about freely in the southern Blazing Heaven Territory without relying on her background and only relying on her own strength.
They were all able to suppress most experts of the same cultivation level, being able to challenge and even defeat opponents of the seventh level of the Martial Saint realm while at the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm.
Still, the problem was that their opponents were likely experts of the eighth or ninth level of the Martial Saint realm.
And there was far more than one.
"Young Master Yan …" Xia Guang asked rather disbelievingly, "You mean that if anyone obstructs us, we will just fight our way back?"
Hearing his words, a solemn pondering expression appeared on Yan Zhaoge's face before he answered, "All the way back? Right, if we face more than one ninth level Martial Saint at a time, even if someone obstructs us, it would indeed be fine for us to fight our way back. "
While Yan Zhaoge looked like he had considered this very seriously, his words would still cause many people to think that he was either bragging or a madman.
Looking at Xia Guang, he smiled, "While I like to take risks sometimes, I would not go so far as to joke around with my life."
"What, did I scare you? Are you still willing to continue travelling with us? "
Looking at Yan Zhaoge's calm and peaceful expression, Xia Guang suddenly felt guilty.
He was a hot-blooded and fearless person in the first place as he immediately said loudly, "Being able to accompany Young Master Yan on this journey is truly the greatest joy of my life. How would I be unwilling?"
Xia Guang had previously been living in seclusion at home. While his family members had told him some news of the outside world, the information that he had been able to obtain had still been limited.
Still, he had heard of Yan Zhaoge's name before.
He was the most attention-grabbing Heaven's favoured son of the younger generation of the entire southeastern Yang Heaven Territory in recent years.
Xia Guang had a fiery temperament as well as a proud person.
Still, he was still rather in awe of someone who was similar in age to him yet had already long since attained the Seeing Divinity Martial Saint realm.
He had not believed it at first. Still, when Yan Zhaoge's name had spread throughout the entire southeastern Yang Heaven Territory, he had no choice but to believe it.
Xia Guang was naturally filled with curiosity towards someone of the same age as him.
While he remembered the warning and lesson that Yan Zhaoge had given him earlier, he still felt a little stifled all the same.
Hearing Yan Zhaoge's words now, Xia Guang only felt that this was exceptionally to his liking.
He could only hate himself for not possessing sufficient strength now. Otherwise, if he could be like Yan Zhaoge, able to go wherever he wanted, sweeping through all who stood in his way as he fought his way all the way back to the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory, how delightful would that be?
While Xia Guang had managed to preserve his life after the destruction of his family, he had met with setbacks one after another afterwards.
This had caused him to be incomparably furious as it was hard for him to get rid of it.
It was only now that he finally felt somewhat carefree.
"Since that is so, let us first make a trip back to that Bright Origin Pavilion." Yan Zhaoge smiled, "Still, I will not be helping you. That will depend on how much ability you have."
Xia Guang was both shocked and overjoyed.
… …
The disturbances in the Endless Mountain Range quickly alerted the peak powers of the area.
There were martial practitioners of the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory active in the region of the Endless Mountain Range who were also extremely powerful.
At first, the experts of the southern Blazing Heaven Territory had not thought much of it. It was just that their subordinates had spontaneously gathered their friends and gone forth to hunt them down.
While some people found it strange that martial practitioners of the southeast would appear in the northern Endless Mountain Range of the southern Blazing Heaven Territory, because the disturbance was not great, most people paid it no heed.
Still, they soon discovered that something was wrong.
The martial practitioners of the south who had joined forces earlier to hunt them down had actually all lost contact with them!
With this, the local experts of the Endless Mountain Range first grew vigilant as longtime experts of the peak powers of the Endless Mountain Range were dispatched.
Yet, a group of Seeing Divinity Martial Saints actually vanished without a trace like clay oxen entering the sea.
With this, the entire Endless Mountain Range erupted completely.
There were finally Immortal Bridge Martial Saints making a move.
While they did not wish for the outside world to interfere in the matters of the Endless Mountain Range, some vigilant people had already realised the severity of the problem now as they hurriedly sent people to contact Phoenix Ritual Mountain's Wutong Slope.
In the end, before Phoenix Ritual Mountain's Wutong Slope could reply, more grievous news arose in the Endless Mountain Range.
This time, the martial practitioners of the south who had placed great importance on this matter, not letting go of any clues whatsoever, finally confirmed the identity of the martial practitioner of the southeast who had crossed their boundaries.
Broad Creed Mountain, Yan Zhaoge!
Yan Zhaoge was not a bloodthirsty person, also not caring if his identity was leaked. While he did not intentionally publicize it, he did not intentionally conceal it either. Enemies aside, he would not slay all those whom he had come into contact with.
As the news spread, the entire Endless Mountain Range was instantly thrown into an uproar.
Soon, more news came back.
The Immortal Bridge Martial Saints who had gone in pursuit had all been slain as well!
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