Chapter 60 The Golden Generation of the Spirit Hall
"Dou Emperor..."
His consciousness slowly withdrew from his mind, and Zhou Chen slowly opened his eyes, murmuring.
Just now, in the virtual space set up by the system, Zhou Chen had the privilege of witnessing the cultivation image left by the Ancient Clan's Golden Emperor for his descendants tens of thousands of years ago.
After this Golden Emperor used the Mountain Opening Seal and the Sea Overturning Seal, he then successively demonstrated the Earth Covering Seal, the Heaven Annihilating Seal, and the Ancient Emperor's Seal!
The power of each of these latter three seals was dozens of times greater than the previous one.
By the time that Golden Emperor performed the fifth seal—the Ancient Emperor's Seal—the moment he merely extended his hand, the space for tens of thousands of li had already begun to collapse!
"Ding... Demonstration complete, virtual space closed, Emperor Seal Technique cultivation complete!"
The system's prompt brought Zhou Chen back to his senses.
At this moment, with the system's help, the cultivation essentials of the Emperor Seal Technique were deeply imprinted in his mind.
And his body, as if it had practiced the Emperor Seal Technique thousands of times, had developed a mechanical memory in its muscles.
He looked at the sky outside the window; it was now dawn, and a faint white light was appearing.
"Huu..."
Getting up from the sofa in the living room, Zhou Chen let out a tired breath. Cultivating a combat technique in the middle of the night without sleep was truly exhausting.
It would be better to sleep for a while longer.
Just as Zhou Chen turned to return to his bedroom, suddenly, three meters behind him, a "shua" sound of wind was heard!
Someone!!
This sudden situation made the hairs on Zhou Chen's body stand on end.
He subconsciously extended his left hand, instantly forming a yellow-brown energy handprint, and turned to push it toward the suddenly appearing figure!
Emperor Seal Technique, first form, Mountain Opening Seal!
"I am a Saint..."
"Bam!"
Before she could finish speaking, the Mountain Opening Seal crushed down toward the figure like Mount Tai pressing from above, its majestic momentum scaring the figure out of her wits!
Left with no choice, her second, fifth, and sixth soul rings instantly lit up, and three soul skills emerged one after another!
The figure's second soul skill was called Guardian, a purple shield. But the shield was shattered the moment it appeared by the Mountain Opening Seal, only slightly delaying Zhou Chen's speed.
However, in that brief moment of delay, the figure's fifth soul skill was released.
Instantly, Zhou Chen felt his physical strength and soul power become incredibly weak, and even his attack speed slowed by seventy to eighty percent.
This was the Weaken soul skill, which could weaken an enemy's attributes by eighty percent for one second, usable once per day.
Then, the figure unleashed her sixth soul skill, Flash.
This soul skill allowed her to move freely within a range of two hundred meters, usable five times a day.
However, just as the figure activated this soul skill, she discovered that she couldn't move!
She didn't know that the Emperor Seal Technique was created by a Dou Emperor and could completely lock down a space. Her spatial traversal soul skill was utterly unusable!
"Bam!"
The next moment, a sound like thunderclap rang out. The figure hastily exchanged palms with Zhou Chen and immediately staggered back a dozen steps, her tiger's mouth splitting and a trace of blood seeping from the corner of her lips.
Obviously, the figure had suffered a not-so-light injury, and this was after Zhou Chen's Mountain Opening Seal had been weakened by eighty percent!
If it had been at full power, the figure would have been pierced through the chest on the spot.
"Damn it, I attacked the wrong person."
Seeing the figure's appearance, Zhou Chen was stunned.
This figure was the elusive female Soul Saint responsible for protecting Hu Lie Na!
"What are you doing?!"
The female Soul Saint was furious. Zhou Chen's palm just now had truly frightened her out of her wits.
If her fifth soul skill hadn't been able to weaken Zhou Chen, she would have been lying here today.
She deserved her misfortune.
Because she possessed the Flash soul skill, she could bypass the detection of the Heaven Sight Earth Listening Art and appear suddenly. As a result, Zhou Chen failed to ascertain her identity in time and had already struck.
The majestic, mountain-like handprint had already left a psychological shadow on the female Soul Saint.
She truly could not understand how a handsome-looking teenager, seemingly only a dozen or so years old, could repel her, a level 72 Soul Saint.
Could it be that this person's strength had already reached the Titled Douluo level, allowing them to rejuvenate?
For example, Her Holiness the Pontiff, who at over fifty years old still looked like a young woman of twenty, standing beside the Saintess like a pair of sisters.
The more she thought about it, the more alarmed she became, and in her heart, she had already confirmed Zhou Chen's identity.
What a pity.
The thought that such a handsome boy might be older than her made the female Soul Saint feel it was a pity.
What pained her even more was that the Saintess seemed to have a close relationship with this boy...
"Creak..."
Just then, the bedroom door was suddenly pushed open, and two slender figures leaped out. It was Hu Lie Na and Zhu Zhuqing.
"What happened? Is there an assassin?"
Looking at Zhou Chen and the female Soul Saint, Hu Lie Na was bewildered.
"It's nothing."
Zhou Chen immediately lied.
The female Soul Saint also shook her head, likewise saying it was nothing. She had no intention of provoking the mysterious person before her.
"That's good then."
Hu Lie Na patted her chest, letting out a sigh of relief.
Then her expression turned serious as she looked at the female Soul Saint with confusion and asked, "Why aren't you sleeping in the middle of the night, running into my room?"
"Saintess, it is already approaching morning."
The female Soul Saint explained, then said aggrievedly, "I came to inform you that your brother, Xie Yue, and Yan have already arrived with the strong ones from the Pontiff's Palace."
"What? Didn't they say they wouldn't arrive until tonight? Why are they here in the morning?"
Hu Lie Na's face changed, then she asked urgently, "Where are my brother and the others now?"
"When I came to report, they had just entered Sivir City. Now... they are probably already at the hotel." Ka Miao replied.
"Damn it!"
Hu Lie Na cursed.
Her brother's sudden attack left Hu Lie Na completely unprepared.
She had originally planned to discuss with Zhou Chen during the day today to fabricate a reasonable identity for him, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the Spirit Hall.
Now she had to make something up on the spot.
"You may withdraw for now."
Hu Lie Na waved her hand, saying irritably.
"Yes, Your Highness."
With that, the female Soul Saint disappeared from the room.
Then, Hu Lie Na pulled Zhou Chen and Zhu Zhuqing to sit on the sofa in the living room and said softly, "The main force of the Spirit Hall is about to arrive. The leader is my brother, Xie Yue. He, Yan, and I are currently the strongest of the younger generation in the Spirit Hall, known as the Golden Generation."
"Sister Na Na's talent is truly remarkable."
Zhu Zhuqing offered a timely compliment, although it was rather strange for her, a level 79 Soul Saint, to praise the talent of a level 49 Soul Master.
"It's all thanks to the Spirit Hall's resources."
Hu Lie Na waved her hand modestly, then her expression turned serious as she said, "To avoid having your identity exposed, Zhou Chen, your identity needs to be disguised."
After thinking for a moment, Hu Lie Na said slowly, "From now on, your name is Ji Chen, 16 years old. Your identity is the heir of a secret soul master family from the Balac Kingdom, a 40-level genius soul master who, out of admiration for me, has voluntarily become my personal guard."
"Mm-hmm."
Zhu Zhuqing nodded, very much in agreement with Hu Lie Na's opinion. She knew this was for Zhou Chen's safety.
Zhou Chen, on the other hand, stared at Hu Lie Na, dumbfounded. This girl was even better at making things up than he was.
Indeed, the more beautiful a woman is, the better she is at deceiving.
"Oh, right."
Hu Lie Na suddenly thought of something and added, "Zhou Chen, as my guard, there will certainly be times when you need to take action, but you cannot expose your golden humanoid martial soul. Our Spirit Hall has records of it."
"So I suggest you just use your second martial soul, the Xuanyuan Sword. Besides you and me, no one else has seen that sword, right?"
"No one."
"Perfect, then."
Hu Lie Na nodded in satisfaction.
Hearing this, Zhou Chen's mouth twitched. Just as he was about to speak, a sudden movement came from his ear.
He activated the Heaven Sight Art and saw that more than twenty people were heading toward the top floor.
And on the chests of these people, they all wore the emblem of the Spirit Hall.
"Your brother and the others are here."
(End of Chapter)
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