Translator: Kazeyuki_ Editor: Jimmy_
With joy, Qin Chongyang beared in mind of the young man’s attitude that revealed to be free from arrogance and impetuosity.
When it was dusk, this group of people had arrived at the foot of the Aspiring Throne Mountain. This was Qin Wushuang’s first time coming to the Heavenly Emperor Mountain and his first time of coming to the headquarter of the Qin Clan. From the bottom of his heart, a form of indescribable mood had started to become complicated increasingly, accompanied with the views entering his sights.
As if it was the return of predestination, fate bounded to happen, Qin Wushuang felt that this Aspiring Throne Mountain, the headquarter of the Heavenly Emperor Qin Clan and everything else seemed to have appeared in his dream. Inside his head, the Heavenly Emperor Qin Clan seemed to have existed this way.
“Boss, I really like this place.” Bao Bao said with smiles of exultation.
The Heavenly Emperor Mountain, the holy place of the Xuan Yuan Mound, whoever arrived here would behold the high mountain with awe. It was because at the Heavenly Emperor Mountain, even the strongest martial artist could not refrain from feeling ashamed. They would feel that before such holy and divine place, individual power had appeared full of insignificance. Therefore, they felt deep veneration from the bottom of their heart.
“Boss, what’s the matter with you?” Seeing the strangeness from Qin Wushuang’s expression, Bao Bao could not but helped to ask.
Qin Wushuang had come around and smiled: “Third Chief, why do I feel that this Heavenly Emperor Mountain have appeared in my mind? For all the sceneries, I had seen, it seemed that they had existed the way it supposed to?”
Qin Chongyang said with a smile: “This could only prove one question.”
“What?” Qin Wushuang blinked his eyes.
“It proves that you have pure bloodline of the Qin Clan, and it’s incredibly pure bloodline. By the way, Wushuang, is Qin Yu really your ancestor?”
Qin Wushuang took out Qin Yu’s jade plate: “Third Chief, this is my ancestor, Qin Yu’s jade plate.”
Qin Chongyang took it and looked at that jade plate. His expression was somewhat disappointed and frustrated. The plate had came from the past, yet it did not display the vestige of years. Unconsciously, a few hundred years of time had passed unnoticeably.
The difference was that within the few hundred years, as big waves lashing the beaches, Qin Chongyang had witnessed the death of many of his colleagues and even his juniors. He had rise above the others and achieved the Supreme Dao.
“Third Chief, do you know my ancestor, Qin Yu?”
Qin Chongyang squeezed a trace of smile from his disappointed and frustrated complexion: “When Qin Yu left, I was only an ordinary Elder. Qin Yu was a core disciple. In terms of age, I am three or four hundred years older than your ancestor.”
“Ah?” Qin Wushuang also felt somewhat surprised, “This way, could it be that, you are about a thousand years old?”
“Thousand years old? Ha ha, in the Supreme Dao stages, a person of thousand years could only count as an up-and-coming youngster.” Qin Chongyang said with a smile, “In the Tian Xuan Land, I am afraid the most ancient warrior of the Supreme Dao would be a few ten thousand years old?”
“A few tens of thousands of years?” Bao Bao cried out, “Would that be old devils?”
Qin Chongyang chuckled: “Little monkey, don’t make such irresponsible remarks to the outsiders. In any Forbidden Spiritual Zones, there are elite warriors at a few tens and thousands of years. Only, they would rarely reveal themselves.”
“Then do we have such people among the Heavenly Emperor Eight Gates?” Qin Wushuang could not refrain from asking.
“The Heavenly Emperor Eight Gates also have many old and experienced Supreme Dao warriors. However, I don’t think there are any aged at tens and thousands of years. Only the Totem clan would have those warriors aged at tens and thousands of years. For example, the Xuan Yuan Clan of the Xuan Yuan Mound, the Profound Darkness Clan of the Extreme North Snow Domain, or the Dragon Clan of the Endless Eastern Sea, the God of Fire Clan of the Heavenly Fire of the Southern Border, Divine Agrarian Clan, the Immortal Kunlun sect of the Heavenly Illusive Lake, certainly they have many elite warriors of the Supreme Dao aged at tens and thousand of years.”
The names mentioned by Qin Chongyang were in correspondence of the five major Forbidden Spiritual Zones in the Tian Xuan Land. Compared to all the places, the Xuan Yuan Mound was only one of it.
When Qin Wushuang heard the words of the “Profound Darkness Clan of the Extreme North Snow Domain”, he was suddenly moved by it. Qin Wushuang had an impression of the two words “Profound Darkness.”
Now, inside his storage ring, there lay such identity plate and the words “Profound Darkness” was engraved on it.
Qin Wushuang had a deep impression of this plate. It was because this was the first object he had acquired from an enemy when he just entered the Stargaze Palace.
That man in black had focused to launch sneak attacks to disciples of the Stargaze Palace at the Virtuous Heaven Mountain Range. Initially when Qin Wushuang had just entered the sect and the Mountain rage to train, he was allured by the beast manipulation method used by the man in black. He almost fall into his sneak attacks.
In the end, Qin Wushuang used the “Power of Deep North” and absorbed him completely. Thus, with such lucky victory, he had embarked on his training journey that would defy the natural order.
Among the things the man in black left him, in addition to the snake-shaped soft whip, there were many other things. Those things had included the “Beast Catalogue” that allowed him to grasp the beast language and the broken map. The remaining object was this jade plate with the words “Profound Darkness” engraved.
When Qin Wushuang remembered this matter, he could not but help to doubt that could it that piece of jade plate was related with the Totem Clan of the Extreme North Snow Domain?
It appeared outrageous. If that was the case, how could the plate fall into the hands of the man in black?
Although that man in black posed as a great threat to Qin Wushuang, looking back, he had appeared insignificant. He could only count as a lowly ant in the world of martial artists.
Upon seeing Qin Wushuang pondering, Qin Chongyang knew that he was digesting these information. Suddenly, Bao Bao said: “Great Chief, the five places you talked about are the five Forbidden Spiritual Zones of the Tian Xuan Land, right? Are the powerhouses you mentioned the Totem centres of each place?”
“Yes, in any Forbidden Spiritual Zones, the Totem powerhouses hold aloof from worldly things.”
“Then why would the Heavenly Fire of the Southern Border have two Totem powerhouses?” Bao Bao asked.
“Ha ha, perhaps the Heavenly Fire of the Southern Border is the most complicated place among the five great Forbidden Spiritual Zones. Perhaps its’ territory was far less than the Endless Eastern Sea. However, the most unique part was that they do have two Totem powerhouses. One of them is the Fire God, the God of Fire Clan, the other one was the Divine Flame Clan.”
Qin Wushuang also pondered on these matters. In fact, he felt that the Tian Xuan Land shared many similarities to his previous world. At least, the major structure of the world was almost identical to the mythology era of his previous world. Perhaps, this Tian Xuan Land was truly a parallel world of his former world that have diverged from the history. The difference was that his previous world had developed to the technological era; and the Tian Xuan Land had developed into a post-mythology era!
Of course, these were his personal assumption. In fact, it would not be important. Regardless of the amount of similarities, this world would never connect with his former world. Qin Wushuang had completely blended into this world. Now as he thought back of his previous world, he felt as if it were a lifetime ago.
Now, the label of the Tian Xuan Land had also imprinted onto his soul.
Qin Chongyang explained patiently: “Initially, the Heavenly Fire of the Southern Border had belonged to the Flame Emperor of the Divine Flame Clan. Being a Flame Emperor, he conquered the territory in the immemorial age and established the position of the Heavenly Fire of the Southern Border. However, upon finishing the task of establishing and maintaining hegemony, he started to become infatuated with the art of healing. The legendary Flame Emperor had then, transformed into the Farmer God that tried hundreds of different grasses. This has also created disagreement to the later generation of the Heavenly Fire. One side insisted to inherit the legacy of the Fire God that used the fire as the Totem, the other side were the Divine Agrarian Clan that insisted the hundreds of grasses as the totem. This was the reason for the Heavenly Fire of the Southern Border to have two Totem powerhouses.”
As if drunk and stupefied, Bao Bao was fascinated to it: “It seems that the immemorial era must be so lively? Ha ha, I am truly jealous of that era. Just don’t know how my ancestor, the Ancient Spiritual Monkey had appeared in that time.”
At any given moment, Bao Bao would not forget the fact of possessing the bloodline of the Ancient Spiritual Monkey. He had to bring it out and talk about it to satisfy his little vanity.
Qin Chongyang returned Qin Yu’s identity plate to Qin Wushuang and said: “Wushuang, this is your ancestor’s jade plate, you just keep it as a souvenir. It will also remind you to not forget the sacrifice the ancestor had made for the Qin Clan.”
When he said here, Qin Chongyang took a deep inhale and said to Qin Wushuang: “I will first take you up the mountain and see all the higher-ups of the sect. Then, we will bury Qin Shuxun’s body.”
Of course Qin Wushuang would not object. He only issued a small request: “Third Chief, I would like to know what place my ancestor Qin Yu had lived.”
“Ha ha, this is easy. Qin Yu… If I remembered correctly, he should have siblings of the same bloodline alive in the world. However, their talent was far less than Qin Yu.”
“Ancestor Qin Yu still have siblings alive in the world?” Qin Wushuang found it somewhat unexpected.
“Yes, in the training world, if there were no accidents, it’s possible for one to live a few hundred years!”
In between their conversation, Qin Chongyang already took them to fly on top of the Aspiring Throne Mountain. Upon going throw layers of cliffs, they arrived at the entrance of the Upright Morality Hall. Many higher-ups were already waiting for them at the path.
When they saw Qin Chongyang, all of them came up to greet with a smile.
“Third Chief, congratulation on your return in triumph. Ha ha ha. This young man should be the famous Qin Wushuang that had shaken the Xuan Yuan Mound, right?”
“Wushuang Wushuang, as soon as the name was given, it prepares you to shake the world.”
“I didn’t expect you are this young. Good kid, well done!”
Each of these higher-ups of the Qin Clan came up and patted on Qin Wushuang’s shoulder and back. These actions had expressed a form of encouragement and expectation from the seniors.
From their eyes, one could clearly see a form of eagerness and hope.
Qin Chongyang said with a smile: “Everyone let’s not hurry with the greeting, let’s go in. Guanqi, you are already familiar with Bao Bao and Lone, you will be in charge of taking care of Wushuang. Let’s not give the cold shoulder to our young man.”
Guanqi said with a smile: “Who would dare to give the cold shoulder to him, the person the Third Chief valued greatly?”
As everyone laughed, the atmosphere was rather amiable. Initially, Qin Wushuang was worried that the each one at the Qin headquarter were serious seniors with a taut face.
At this time, he saw that the personality of many higher-ups were amiable. To put it precisely, they were incredibly easy-going with their own people. They had shown concern and care for young people from every aspects.
This made Qin Wushuang felt at home as soon as he had arrived. Guanqi took Qin Wushuang and introduced all the higher-ups at the scene to him.
Qin Wushuang had possessed such level of memory. In the headquarter of the Heavenly Emperor Mountain, those at the level of the Honored Warriors were symbolized with the word Zhi. For example, their names were Zhiyang, Zhisong, Zhipo etc.
The Elders all had the same letter symbol of “Guan”, such as Guanqi, Guanyu, Guanshan and many more.
Those able to appear at the Upright Morality Hall had at least, hold the position of the Elder. For those at the Guardian level, they were not qualified to enter the Upright Morality Hall.
The twenty to thirty higher-ups at the scene were only a portion of the people. The other portion held important duties at different places of the Aspiring Throne Mountain. They would not appear at the Upright Morality Hall.
While Qin Wushuang paid his honor to these seniors of the Qin Clan, he also experienced the unique unity atmosphere of the clan. Inwardly, his sense of belongingness had increased more. For such clan, such environment, no wonder they were once the Heavenly Emperor Gate!
