HSSB554: Refutation

A great number of human martial practitioners gathered in the East Sea for a decisive battle against the Flame Devils.

This battle finally ended with the Chief of Broad Creed Mountain Yan Di, the Painting Saint Old Man Mo, the Grand Elder of the Sacred Sun Clan Huang Guanglie and the City Lord of Jade Sea City Song Wuliang joining hands and wielding the Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation, sealing the Flame Devils along with the dimensional passageway to the Flame Devil World.

The human martial practitioners rejoiced. Not only had they slain a great many Flame Devil experts in this battle, they had even had a chance to seal the dimensional passageway. For a considerably long period of time thereafter, it would be hard for the Flame Devils to pose any threat to the Eight Extremities World.

The problem of the Flame Devils had been alleviated greatly this time.

The Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation that sealed the Flame Devils had originated from Broad Creed Mountain, causing a great rise in their reputation.

However, amidst this great battle, the human martial practitioners had paid a great price as well. Most conspicuous of these was the number one young genius of the Eight Extremities World, the Great Rider of Dragons Yan Zhaoge.

While the Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation had sealed the Flame Devils, when the seal had formed, it had led to immense destructive power both within and outside of the formation.

All under the Martial Saint realm would have been extremely hard pressed to survive.

Yan Zhaoge had been within the formation at the time as well. For some unknown reason, he had not retreated from inside it in time. He had also not showed up after seal had been completed.

After searching carefully and being unable to find any traces of him, everyone’s hearts turned heavy.

Logically speaking, Yan Zhaoge had likely met with disaster, being affected by the aftershocks of the formation of the seal as he had perished amidst this world-shaking battle.

All of Broad Creed Mountain was naturally greatly despondent at this. They never gave up on trying to find him. However, as time slowly passed and there was still no news of Yan Zhaoge, the hope that lay before their eyes seemed like a more and more ephemeral one.

Apart from Yan Zhaoge, of Broad Creed Mountain’s higher echelons, there was Fu Enshu who had been swept within the vicinity of the seal as well.

As a result, right after the great battle had ended, a conflict erupted between Broad Creed Mountain and the Sacred Sun Clan which very nearly culminated in another major battle over the East Sea.

Fu Enshu’s disciples, Feng Yunsheng and Yin Liuhua, reported to their clan that during the formation of the seal in the East Sea, a peak expert of the Sacred Sun Clan had suddenly launched a sneak attack on the three of them, causing Fu Enshu to be swept within the vicinity of the seal.

The two sides fought irreconcilably. And over this period of time, a major incident happened there as well.

In the great battle with the Flame Devils, the Chief of Infinite Boundless Mountain, Chu Yan, had been heavily injured, returning to his clan to rest as a result. Because of this, he had entrusted their Grand Elder, Li Jingtu, with their clan’s Sacred Artifact, the Heaven Cleaving Axe.

While the Heaven Cleaving Axe had been heavily wounded as well, in order to deal with the attack of the Flame Devils, Li Jingtu had still remained on the East Sea with it.

After the seal had been formed, a period of chaos had ensued. After the situation had gradually calmed, the other Infinite Boundless Mountain martial practitioners realised to their great shock that Elder Li had been killed.

Meanwhile, the Sacred Artifact, the Heaven Cleaving Axe, had actually landed in the hands of the Sacred Sun Clan.

The Eight Extremities World was momentarily thrown into an uproar.

While the Heaven Cleaving Axe was damaged, possessing it along with the Extreme Yin Crown, the Sacred Sun Clan’s authority skyrocketed.

Yan Di, Old Man Mo and Song Wuliang were still trapped within the Seal of the East Sea. What also made things worse for Broad Creed Mountain, Jade Sea City and Infinite Boundless Mountain was the fact that the Chief of the Heavenly Thunder Hall Shen Li had appeared, still being allied with the Sacred Sun Clan.

With the two clans joining hands, even the Pavilion Lord of Turbid Wave Pavilion, An Qinglin, had to feel cautious regarding it.

Broad Creed Mountain felt especially stifled, because news had returned from the Earth Domain that while the threat of an invasion by the Nine Underworlds had already been eliminated, their Grand Elder, the ‘Heaven Equalling Saint’ Yuan Zhengfeng, had been lost amidst chaotic space, his current whereabouts unknown.

Meanwhile, this was to a very great extent due to Shen Li of the Heavenly Thunder Hall having fled in the face of danger.

When Broad Creed Mountain publicly rebuked Shen Li for having fled in the face of danger, Shen Li instead refuted them, saying that while he had been in the midst of preventing the descent of the Nine Underworlds, Broad Creed Mountain’s Yan Zhaoge had greedily moved the rare treasure within the Earth Domain, leading to the collapse of the seal as the devils had very nearly succeeded.

It was because of him, Shen Li, that the crevice to the Nine Underworlds had finally been sealed successfully with the true Devils being prevented from descending.

Broad Creed Mountain was naturally unhappy with that. However, almost all of the Eight Extremities World martial practitioners who had been present in the Earth Domain at the time had died in battle.

Of the survivors, Fang Zhun was in a coma while Yan Zhaoge’s fate was unknown with him having vanished without a trace. There was actually only Shen Li who could speak legitimately about what had happened back then.

As a result, even if Broad Creed Mountain wanted to counter his words, they seemed rather ill-equipped to do so. Their claims against each other gradually became undistinguishable as to who was in the right.

The Flame Devils and the Nine Underworlds having been suppressed simultaneously, the Eight Extremities World had been cleared of its external threats.

However, the global situation did not calm as a result. The smell of gunpowder evidently suffused the air between the Sacred Ground