Primordial Star Scripture

"Although Heavenly Sacred Palace doesn't interfere with the disciples' issues on the Barbaric Wilderness Continent, where there are people, there is strife. Especially because of our blood feud between the Southern Territory and the Western Wilderness, disciples of the ten great demonic sects from the Western Wilderness who cultivate at Heavenly Sacred Palace often trouble us!"

At this point, Qian Xuan was also somewhat infuriated.

However, immediately after, his fury turned into an excited voice, "Luckily we have you, Brother Ye Chen, and Sister Jiang Yao! With the two of you emerging this time, you've truly given the Southern Territory disciples a great boost of morale!"

"Brother Ye Chen, you don't know, these past few days, quite a few formidable disciples from the Polar Star Archipelago of the Northern Region of the Central Domain have been looking for reasons to get on good terms with us, wanting to make friends with us!"

"Especially those disciples from the ten great demonic sects of the Western Wilderness, who always liked to trouble us, now they stay far away when they see us; if anyone wants to cause us trouble again, even formidable disciples from the Central Domain will come forward and scold those Western Wilderness disciples for us!"

"Brother Ye Chen, we know that all these changes are brought about by you!" Qian Xuan said with overwhelming excitement.

Hearing Qian Xuan's words, waves of emotion surged in Ye Chen's heart.

Although Qian Xuan spoke simply, Ye Chen could imagine the troubles faced by those senior disciples who cultivated in Heavenly Sacred Palace from the Southern Territory, he could sense their excitement with the change of their circumstances.

"No matter where, it's all about strength after all!"

"Now, the performance of Jiang Yao and me in the Holy Temple Tower has made many disciples from other territories view the Southern Territory in a new light. If the Western Wilderness were to produce a disciple who could surpass ours, perhaps the disciples from other territories would lean towards the Western Wilderness. "

"I must continue to grow stronger! Strong enough to contribute a part of my strength for the Southern Territory that brought me up; strong enough to shield the Southern Territory from wind and rain; so strong that the Western Wilderness wouldn't dare to provoke us again!"

A strong conviction to become even more powerful welled up within Ye Chen.

For himself.

For Jiang Yao.

And for the entire Southern Territory!

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After meeting with Qian Ming and several hundred other Southern Territory disciples who were cultivating in Heavenly Sacred Palace, Ye Chen went to several places within the five great Holy Temples and Heavenly Saint Mountain.

Two days later, however, Ye Chen left the Heavenly Sacred Palace and headed straight for the Great Zhou Dynasty at the very north of the Central Domain.

"Heavenly Sacred Palace, truly worthy of being a second-rank major sect, there are very few restrictions on disciples apart from matters related to the other thirty-two continents."

"Taking advantage of the more than one month left, this time going to the 'Great Zhou Dynasty' in the Northern Region, I hope to successfully obtain that possibly existing water-type Five Elements Secret Treasure, to further enhance my strength and make the final preparations for the exploration of the Five Elements Mountain!"

On the flying artifact "Heavenly Origin Boat", Ye Chen was putting away a map scroll in his hands, gazing into the vast sky.

These past few days, because of devouring and refining "Minor Blue Flame True Fire" and "Nine Spirit Precious Earth", two of Ye Chen's five great divine arts had made considerable progress, substantially boosting his combat strength.

Naturally, Ye Chen wanted to acquire more Five Elements Secret Treasures that could enhance his strength.

Unfortunately, Heavenly Sacred Palace's Treasure Tales Pavilion no longer had any Five Elements Secret Treasures, and Ye Chen had made inquiries in many places during these days, and finally, it was in Heavenly Sacred Palace's "Treasure Tales Hall" that he had spent many treasures bestowed by the Heavenly Saint to exchange for a message that was a tremendous surprise for him.

Treasure Tales Pavilion records various precious and rare tales encountered by the numerous Heavenly Saints and disciples of the five great Holy Temples while traveling through the different realms; and within these precious tales, often lay very valuable information.

The tremendously surprising message Ye Chen exchanged was related to the Five Elements Secret Treasure. According to the records in "Treasure Tales Hall", at a certain place in the Northern Region of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there had once been a mid-stage Heavenly Saint who discovered a peculiar water pond.

This water pond is also known to the locals as the "Nine Nether Pond"!

The Nine Nether Pond was incomparably cold, and for dozens of miles around it, a blanket of cold qi engulfed the area, leaving all things lifeless. Even local martial warriors who have witnessed claimed that mythical creatures comparable to beings of the Heavenly Saint Realm who ventured into the area were directly frozen to death.

In the end, the Nine Nether Pond even became a forbidden area to the locals!

Such a peculiar place naturally attracted the attention of countless powerful martial warriors. As a result, numerous powerful martial warriors entered the vicinity of the Nine Nether Pond, and many perished in it. Even those lucky enough to escape from the Nine Nether Pond suffered great harm to their souls from the cold qi.

Eventually, this place truly became a forbidden area that not even powerful martial warriors dared to step into!

The mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm existence from Heavenly Sacred Palace, upon learning of the Nine Nether Pond, also made a special trip to check it out. This Heavenly Saint, whose strength was quite extraordinary even among the mid-stage Heavenly Saint Realm, felt he couldn't hold on just upon arriving at the edge of the Nine Nether Pond and in the end had to leave.

According to this mid-stage Heavenly Saint's observation, there might be an extremely powerful Water Element Five Elements Secret Treasure in the Nine Nether Pond that caused such strong cold qi in the waters.

And very likely, this Water Element Five Elements Secret Treasure had reached the level of a high-grade or even top-grade Saint Weapon!

After this mid-stage Heavenly Saint existence recorded the message of the Nine Nether Pond in the "Treasure Tales Hall" of Heavenly Sacred Palace, even Motian, the late-stage Heavenly Saint Realm existence and master of Heavenly Sacred Palace, personally went to explore the Nine Nether Pond.

However, even Motian couldn't penetrate deep into the Nine Nether Pond, only managing to go about five or six zhang deep before he couldn't dive any further.

This place, which even a late-stage Heavenly Saint Realm existence like Motian couldn't explore, truly made the Nine Nether Pond a place of legend.

Ye Chen only accidentally learned about this place, the Nine Nether Pond, while inquiring about the Five Elements Secret Treasure.

When he heard that the Nine Nether Pond was related to the Five Elements Secret Treasure, and it might be a powerful Water Element Secret Treasure that froze the area for dozens of miles, Ye Chen was greatly moved.

If it really was a Water Element Secret Treasure, even if Ye Chen wasn't as powerful as Motian, he was willing to try!

You should know that Ye Chen's five divine arts are especially suited for absorbing the Five Elements Secret Treasure. No matter how powerful the Five Elements Secret Treasure, he has ways to deal with it, so of course, Ye Chen wanted to give it a try!

Hence, in the "Treasure Tales Hall," when Ye Chen expressed his interest in this place and was willing to exchange treasure for the message of the Nine Nether Pond, claiming he just wanted to take a look at this place, he finally obtained the recorded scroll of the Nine Nether Pond message amidst the puzzled gaze of the guarding Heavenly Saint of Treasure Tales Hall.

After acquiring the scroll, Ye Chen studied it for a while and then directly left the Heavenly Sacred Palace to rush to the location marked on the scroll for the Nine Nether Pond. Find your next read on empire

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Ye Chen rode the "Heavenly Origin Boat" towards the Northern Region of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Not long after he left the Heavenly Sacred Palace, a figure also flew out from the palace.

This figure was none other than Yin Qianjue's good friend, Feng Lun Heavenly Saint!

Feng Lun Heavenly Saint squinted in the direction where Ye Chen disappeared into the sky, "I thought I would have to wait a long time to kill Ye Chen and Jiang Yao. I didn't expect that, without finding a trace of Jiang Yao, I'd encounter an unexpected surprise on Ye Chen's side. Ye Chen has just joined the Heavenly Sacred Palace and dares to go out alone."

"It seems he wants to go north?"

"Hmph, it's not easy to take action near the Heavenly Sacred Palace, but I want to see where he is heading. Once I find a suitable place and opportunity, I'll make my move and kill him!"

"One Ye Chen in exchange for a 'Heavenly Wood Divine Flower'; death would not be unjust for him!"

After musing to himself, Feng Lun Heavenly Saint's sleeves swept up, and he instantly disappeared from sight.