The Strongest Dandy in the City Chapter 2706 - 2695: Their Era Is Over

The tomb of the Chaos Demon Emperor?

There’s no time to lose.

For Ye Chenfeng right now, what he lacks most is time. He has to seize every single moment to raise his cultivation; otherwise, what courage does he have to stand against the Hes?

Even though the Chaos Immortal Array protects Sky Pole City, Sky Pole City is the main base of the Ye Sect, and everyone most important to him is here.

So Sky Pole City must have a Peak of the Divine Emperor Realm expert sitting in town.

Ye Chenfeng decided to have Lan Yun and Xue Ningsi stay behind with the others. He would go alone to the tomb of the Chaos Demon Emperor to investigate.

Right now, he at least possessed cultivation of the Middle Stage of the Divine Emperor Realm; he had gained a certain ability to protect himself. Besides, the tomb of the Chaos Demon Emperor was certainly riddled with deadly mechanisms—too many people going in wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing.

Only after Ye Chenfeng repeatedly persuaded them did Lan Yun and the rest agree to remain in Sky Pole City.

He had just returned to Sky Pole City, and Ye Chenfeng immediately left again.

Carrying the Skyhawk’s severed head in his hand, he strode through the air toward the northern side of Sky Pole City.

The Skyhawk obediently helped Ye Chenfeng calculate the general direction of the Chaos Demon Emperor’s tomb. After all, so many years had passed that it could only deduce a rough location; to know the precise position, they still needed a round of detailed deduction.

And while Ye Chenfeng was carrying the Skyhawk’s head toward the Chaos Demon Emperor’s tomb—

On a mountaintop at the back of the Lin clan in the Upper World.

Of the five ancient great clans—the Wus, the Jiangs, the Kongs, the Lins, and the Hes—now only the Kongs, Lins, and Hes remained.

The Hes, Lins, and Kongs could all be called overlord-level clans in today’s Divine Origin Realm. Of course, among these three clans, the Hes were enjoying an extremely flourishing momentum, having already overshadowed both the Kongs and the Lins.

On the mountaintop stood an antique-style pavilion, and around the pavilion a huge pool had been carved out, the entire pavilion erected in the center of the pool.

Lotus leaves floated on the surface of the water, along with some aquatic plants of unknown species.

Thin white mist drifted in the surrounding air, all of it dense Spiritual Energy that refused to disperse.

Inside the pavilion were a stone table and four stone chairs. An old man and a middle-aged man sat facing each other.

Each had a teacup placed in front of him, with hot steam continuously rising from within.

If Ye Chenfeng were here, he would definitely be able to recognize this old man.

Back then, in the Illusory Realm Forest, one of the four great forbidden grounds of the Earth Profound Realm, he had once seen a Divine Sense avatar of this old man.

This old man was Lin Wentian, the good brother of Old White Wu Fengxian and Old Black Jiang Yuntian, most skilled in the art of calculation.

Back then, after Old White and Old Black perished together, Lin Wentian spared no cost to deduce the whereabouts of their remaining souls, to the point that his appearance aged rapidly. Otherwise, with his cultivation, he could not possibly look like this now—and this aging left behind by such deduction was irreversible.

After all, this deductive art contained some meaning of defying the heavens within it, which was why it exacted such a severe price.

Lin Wentian’s current cultivation was at the Peak of the Divine Emperor Realm. Of course, he was no longer an ordinary Peak of the Divine Emperor Realm expert; he could be said to have stepped half a foot beyond that peak. He had yet to reach, or one could say approach, Eternal Life, and he was now the clan ancestor of the Lins.

The middle-aged man sitting opposite Lin Wentian was a genius of the same era as Lin Wentian, as well as a genius of the same era as Old White and Old Black. His name was Kong Nanzhi, once a genius of the Kong clan among the five ancient great clans. His present cultivation was on par with Lin Wentian’s, and he too was the clan ancestor of the Kongs.

The matter of Ye Chenfeng publicly declaring war on the Hes outside the city gates of Sky Pole City had yet to spread throughout the Upper World.

However, the deaths of the five Shadows of the Hes were slowly fermenting across the entire Upper World.

As two of the overlord-level clans, the Lins and Kongs naturally had extremely well-connected information networks within their families.

Both Lin Wentian and Kong Nanzhi already knew of the deaths of the five Shadows of the Hes, and both knew that those deaths were related to Ye Chenfeng.

"Kong Nanzhi, are you really willing to spend this lifetime beneath He Kongsheng? Don’t forget the grudge between you and He Kongsheng. Where has your temper gone now? Are you still the Kong Nanzhi I knew?" Lin Wentian’s sharp gaze bore into Kong Nanzhi.

Kong Nanzhi’s expression did not change in the slightest. "Lin Wentian, I know your relationship with Wu Fengxian and Jiang Yuntian was extremely close. But even if those two were still alive, could they really reverse the current situation in the Upper World?"

"This is no longer their era. Their era has long since passed."

Lin Wentian let out a self-mocking laugh. "Kong Nanzhi, Wu Fengxian and Jiang Yuntian once treated you as a brother. Don’t forget, they even saved your life. Now their disciple has come to the Upper World—do you intend to just stand by and watch?"

Kong Nanzhi’s brows furrowed slightly. "To be able to kill the five Shadows of the Hes—if their disciple’s own strength is lacking, then there must be a powerful expert by his side. Rumor has it their disciple has also reached the Divine Emperor Realm? Didn’t one of your Divine Sense avatars meet them and their disciple before? What cultivation was their disciple at that time?"

How long has it been from then until now? One year, or two?

Lin Wentian clearly remembered that back then Ye Chenfeng had only been at the Nirvana Realm, and had only just stepped into it not long before!

To break through to the Divine Emperor Realm in such a short time? That was simply inconceivable, verging on impossible.

Between the Nirvana Realm and the Divine Emperor Realm, how many major levels were there?

Lin Wentian sighed and said, "At that time he was in the Nirvana Realm."

Kong Nanzhi shook his head. "Rumors shouldn’t be believed too much. Do you think it’s possible for him to rise to the Divine Emperor Realm in such a short period? It’s all baseless fiction, very likely deliberately spread by someone."

"Even if we step in to help that brat, do you really think we could defeat the Hes?"

"Lin Wentian, stop daydreaming here. Even if Wu Fengxian and Jiang Yuntian returned to the Upper World, they would only be trampled beneath He Kongsheng’s feet."

"Have I not treated them as brothers? Am I truly content to remain beneath He Kongsheng? It’s just that He Kongsheng’s combat power is too strong—so strong it exceeds your and my imagination. With our current battle strength, I fear we wouldn’t last five moves under He Kongsheng’s hand."

"This world belongs to the strong. Besides accepting our fate, what else can we do? Feng Xian and Yun Tian’s era has truly passed. They once shone so brilliantly—who could catch up to them? Yet they can never return to what they were. Now it is He Kongsheng’s era."

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