The Prodigies War

Bo Yazi fired a series of questions in one breath, “Teacher, where have you been all these years? Why hasn’t there any news of you at all in the whole Ancient Nebula Road? Have you encountered a tricky situation?”

Li Xuanwei helplessly sighed, “Little fisherman, why do you lose control of your emotions so easily even now when you’re an Emperor? Calm down and allow me to have a chat with my junior brother first.”

Bo Yazi repeatedly nodded. He was indeed unable to contain himself at the moment.

Li Xuanwei turned to Lin Xun with a gentle look. “Junior Brother, did you come to Xuanji Dao Sect to learn about Fangchun Mountain?”

Lin Xun was surprised, “You anticipated this?”

Li Xuanwei smiled. “I don’t have the ability to foretell. What you’re seeing is something I prepared just in case. I never thought you’d find this place so quickly.”

He proceeded to explain that the stone-carved portrait had been created by a force of his will that he had left behind back then.

The power of the Dao Immeasurable Bottle could awaken this will force, thus creating a unique connection with his original self.

Lin Xun asked, “Senior Brother, since you are aware of my intentions, could you help clear up my confusion?”

Li Xuanwei sighed softly, “It’s not that I don’t want to tell you, Junior Brother, but with your current cultivation, knowing those old stories will only do more harm than good.”

The corners of Lin Xun’s lips twitched. He had been dismissed by similar excuses more than once.

Senior Brother Ge Yupu had said so, Senior Brother Xuan Kong had also said so, and even Senior Brother Pu Zhen had either consciously or unconsciously avoided this kind of topic.

Li Xuanwei said, “However, right now there is indeed a matter that requires your help, and only you can do it.”

Lin Xun was stunned and instantly became focused, “What is it?”

On his cultivation path, he had received too many favors from Fangchun Mountain, yet he still had little information on its current state, let alone help with anything.

“Attend the Dao Debate Assembly hosted by the Great Six Courts,” said Li Xuanwei, taking Lin Xun aback for a moment.

Immediately afterward, he explained why.

The ultimate reason why the Dao Debate Assembly was being organized was to capture a ‘chaos treasure’ born in an uncharted land.

Only participants who had made it to the top one hundred in this assembly would be sent to the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone!

The Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone was one of the Eight Forbidden Zones of the Primordial Chaos World. It had existed since the ancient era as a mysterious land of perils.

Over a long course of time, countless powerful experts had gone to explore it, but, without exception, they had either fallen there or returned empty-handed.

According to Li Xuanwei, the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone had recently gone through a shocking change in its Law Power, and it was suspected to be related to the emergence of an ancient treasure.

Such a large-scale disruption in the heavenly laws had allowed the Great Six Courts to catch a glimpse into that forbidden world, and after a long string of calculations, they finally came to an astonishing conclusion.

The treasure born in the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone was most likely a chaos treasure!

What was a chaos treasure?

Lin Xun quickly learned about it in the following time.

The Mythical Huang Dao Stele, which was regarded as Mythical Huang Dao Court’s greatest treasure, was a chaos treasure!

Lin Xun still remembered clearly what Sword Emperor Brave Gale had said on this topic. After a perilous trek, the founding ancestor of Mythical Huang Dao Court had arrived at an unknown land where he would discover a stele born from primal chaos origin.

The stele had allowed him to realize the dao in one fell swoop, and thus he had founded Mythical Huang Dao Court, an ancient dao lineage.

That stele was the Mythical Huang Dao Stele.

The unknown land that had given birth to it was now the stronghold of Mythical Huang Dao Court, which was known by the whole nebula as Qingmang Sacred Mountain.

In other words, a single stele had resulted in a star-shaking ancient lineage who had made it to the ranks of Great Six Courts and intimidated the world with its name!

This was the wonder of chaos treasures.

Therefore, how could it not drive people crazy that the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone had probably birthed a chaos treasure?

Even behemoths like the Great Six Courts and Great Ten Battle Clans were unable to sit still.

The benefits of obtaining that kind of treasure were far beyond imagination!

Today’s Mythical Huang Dao Court was the best proof of this!

What threw everyone off guard was that despite the great disruption, the terrifying Law Power filling Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone was still not something anyone could get close to.

Later, the Great Six Courts had deduced that in order to enter and seize the treasure in the forbidden zone, they needed to join forces and use their strongest means to blast an opening in the barrier enveloping it.

However, such an opening would be extremely unstable. It would collapse the moment an Emperor stepped into it.

This meant that even if they were able to create an entrance, it still wouldn’t be able to withstand the power of an Emperor or stronger expert!

The Great Six Courts unanimously agreed to play it safe by organizing a dao competition, the Dao Debate Assembly, through which they would select the strongest Saint-Kings and send them into the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone.

By doing so, they could avoid conflicts that could lead to large-scale bloodshed that no dao lineages could otherwise withstand.

An open competition was most ideal since all the parties would be able to compete fairly with each other and then join hands to send their people into the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone.

After learning all this, Lin Xun sighed as he realized how one-sided his knowledge had been. He hadn’t even known that the actual purpose behind the Dao Debate Assembly hosted by the Great SixCourts was a chaos treasure!

“Junior Brother, the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone has been regarded as one of the Eight Forbidden Zones of the Primordial Chaos World since time immemorial. Very few have ever truly understood the risks therein, but Junior Sister Jun Huan is an exception.”

As Li Xuanwei said this, his lips curled up into a slight smile.

On the contrary, Lin Xun looked like he had been struck by lightning and asked, “Did you just say Junior Sister Jun Huan? It can’t be…that ambiguously beautiful guy who loves to wear rose pink clothes and act coquettishly?”

Jun Huan had left too deep an impression on him.

During his journey from Tianqu World to the Great Yu World, he had come across Jun Huan after the latter had just single-handedly killed a group of Skeleton Bird Bandits.

He was clearly a man, but his clothes were covered in pink rose and cloud patterns. He had a hairpin inserted diagonally in his long black hair, and a face that could only be described as stunningly beautiful.

He had a pair of flirtatious phoenix eyes, skin as fair as fresh cream, and a slender physique. Even his voice carried a uniquely soft and magnetic charm.

Anyone who laid eyes on such an exquisite man was bound to be astounded.

Despite being so well adorned with pink robes and a hairpin, he did not give off a vulgar vibe but instead an unrestrained and elegant air.

Facing him back then, Lin Xun had felt incredibly uncomfortable and awkward, which was why he had a deep impression of Jun Huan.

Therefore, Li Xuanwei had merely mentioned the name, but the first person Lin Xun was reminded of was that fellow.

“Uhh, ambiguously beautiful?” Li Xuanwei had an odd look on his face. “Junior Brother, do you have some sort of misunderstanding about your Senior Sister Jun Huan?”

Lin Xun was stunned. “Senior Brother, you are really talking about him?”

Li Xuanwei nodded, “Yes, Junior Sister Jun Huan loves the color pink. That…guy you mentioned should be one of her disguises.”

Lin Xun revealed a wry smile upon hearing this.

To think she’s actually my senior sister… But the way I treated her at the time wasn’t anywhere near polite…

He couldn’t help but question, “Why didn’t she just tell me?”

Li Xuanwei pointed at the sky, “She has gotten into too much trouble recently and got targeted by some old fogeys. She probably didn’t want to implicate you by openly recognizing you as her junior brother. You can say she meant well.”

Lin Xun sighed, “So that’s how it is.”

Jun Huan was a masculine sounding name, but that person actually turned out to be his senior sister!

Li Xuanwei lamented, “The path becomes empty in an instant, the path of the sword is the most elegant. Jun Huan and I both certified our dao with the sword, but she has killed far more opponents than me…

“Right, if you ever come across her again in the future, be on your best behavior. Jun Huan’s character is like her sword dao, seemingly gentle as water but actually capable of killing without a sound. Annoy her and even I won’t be able to help you.”

Lin Xun felt a prick of guilt. At first, he had thought Jun Huan to be a weird pervert, so his attitude toward her had been distant and unfriendly.

He wondered if Senior Sister Jun Huan held a grudge because of this.

Li Xuanwei continued, “Jun Huan once traveled to the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone and experienced something unimaginable in there that almost prevented her from leaving alive.

“When she returned, the first thing she said was that that place was hiding a supreme fortune that had never been revealed to anyone.”

Saying that, he snapped his fingers. A mysterious map of a mountain emerged and turned into a mark that entered Lin Xun’s head.

Instantly, the image of a vast and massive mountain appeared in his mind, presenting an aura of destruction, devastation, and savage horror.

It was only the illusion of a mountain, but the pressure it posed on the mind made it difficult for Lin Xun to breathe.

Li Xuanwei’s voice resounded in his ears, “This is an origin aeth mountain in the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone. According to Jun Huan, it’s called Heedless and is filled with origin power of destruction. Countless dangers lurk in it, but probably does have a supreme fortune that no one else knows about.

“These were all Jun Huan’s inferences from back then. Now, we can already conclude that that supreme fortune was most likely the chaos treasure that the Great Six Courts have their eyes on.”

“Mount Heedless…” Lin Xun quietly recited, then said, “So you’re saying that as long as one finds Mount Heedless after entering the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Zone, they will have a great chance to seize that chaos treasure?”

Li Xuanwei nodded with a smile, “Exactly. If you seize it, Junior Brother, then you can start your own sect in the future, and maybe it’ll grow to rival Mythical Huang Dao Court.”

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