Chapter 1153

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

This sour scholar was none other than Zhao Ziyue!

Back then, Xu Zhangqing, Hu Bugui, and Zhao Ziyue, the three of them, idled their days away together in the Dongting Immortal Sect.

Later, the Hundred Dragons Patrol descended, and Zhao Ziyue was taken away; from then on, there was no news of him.

He had originally thought they would never meet again in this lifetime; he never expected to actually run into him here in the depths of the Chaos Sea.

Moreover, judging from the discussions of the surrounding people, this fellow's current identity was extraordinary — he was actually the Agent of the Master of Gui Xu.

The corner of Xu Zhangqing's mouth curled up slightly; not only did he not retreat like the others, he instead urged the Lei Ming Yin Long Boat straight toward him.

The hundred-zhang giant ship tore through the Chaos Fog; the Dragon head at the bow crackled with purple lightning, forming an extremely absurd contrast with the shabbiness of that leaf skiff.

When the two boats were less than ten zhang apart, Xu Zhangqing stood at the bow, looking down from above at Zhao Ziyue who was still concentrating on fishing, and opened his mouth to tease: "With your fishing skill, even in another ten thousand years you won't catch a single fish."

As his voice fell, the faces of the several hundred cultivators around them changed instantly.

"Has he gone mad?"

"He actually dares speak to the Agent of the Master of Gui Xu like this?"

"Even if he is a North Dipper Direct Disciple, this is too…"

"Retreat quickly, don't get caught in the backlash!"

Amidst the dead silence, Zhao Ziyue's hand visibly trembled once.

Not from anger, but from shock.

In the entire Chaos Sea, there were truly very few people who dared speak to him in this tone.

And, why did this voice sound so familiar?

He pushed up his worn bamboo hat, narrowed his eyes, and looked toward the bow of the Lei Ming Yin Long Boat.

He saw the Chaos Fog surging, purple lightning and black light intertwining; a figure in a blue robe stood with hands behind his back, looking at him with a half-smile.

Zhao Ziyue's whole person froze.

The fishing rod nearly slipped from his hand; his mouth gaped wide enough to stuff a chicken egg into.

He just tilted his head back like that, staring blankly at that familiar face, unable to speak for a long while.

"How about it?"

Seeing his appearance, Xu Zhangqing's smile deepened: "You've become the Agent of the Master of Gui Xu, and you don't recognize an old friend?"

"Old… Old Xu?"

Zhao Ziyue recovered from his shock, leaping up from the skiff; he yanked off the bamboo hat on his head, revealing a face flushed red with excitement: "It really is you!"

Xu Zhangqing grinned: "Of course it's me."

Zhao Ziyue asked in shock and doubt: "This is the Chaos Sea, how did you end up here!"

When the Hundred Dragons Patrol took him away from the Tianyuan Realm back then, he thought he would never return in this life, never see those familiar people from the Tianyuan Realm again.

But he never ever expected that in the deepest, most dangerous part of the Chaos Sea in this universe star domain, he and Xu Zhangqing would actually meet again.

Xu Zhangqing took a step forward, landing on Zhao Ziyue's skiff: "This is a long story."

He sat down opposite Zhao Ziyue and briefly recounted his experiences after leaving the Tianyuan Realm.

Entering the Floating World Four Domains, joining the North Dipper Immortal Mansion, becoming the Ninth Direct Disciple under the Dao Venerate.

After hearing this, the wrinkles on Zhao Ziyue's face stretched wide with a smile: "The Dao Venerate's Ninth Direct Disciple?

Your luck path is even wilder than mine!"

He laughed a few times, then suddenly seemed to recall something.

His gaze swept past Xu Zhangqing's shoulder, glanced at the Lei Ming Yin Long Boat, then scanned a circle through the surrounding Chaos Fog.

"Where's Old Hu?"

"Is he also in the Chaos Sea?"

"The three of us, now only Old Hu is missing."

"Find him, let's drink some wine together, catch up on old times!"

Xu Zhangqing fell silent for a moment, then replied: "Old Hu… is gone."

As these words fell, Zhao Ziyue's smile froze on his face.

After several breaths, his eyeballs suddenly bulged wide.

"Gone?"

"What do you mean gone?"

"Speak clearly!"

Xu Zhangqing did not evade; he narrated the events of that year in full detail.

Hu Bugui and his Dao Companion Lin Xiaoyan, the two of them died in the internal split of the Yanguang Sect.

"What?"

Hearing this, Zhao Ziyue seemed to have been struck in the chest by an invisible hammer.

His whole person retreated a step backward; the skiff suddenly sank down a section.

After a while, he suddenly raised his head, his eyes turning blood-red.

"Who killed them?!"

The voice was very cold, cold enough to make the several hundred surrounding cultivators all shiver in unison.

In the next instant, a suffocating aura exploded from Zhao Ziyue's body.

The surface of the Chaos Sea beneath his feet sank sharply with the small boat as the center, forming a massive vortex over a thousand zhang in diameter.

The surrounding Chaos Fog was forcibly shaken away by this might, revealing large stretches of vacuum zones; even the omnipresent gray-white fog dared not approach within a hundred zhang.

That seemingly tattered bamboo fishing rod in his hand cracked with countless fine lines, and dark blue water light flowed out from within the lines.

The water light appeared gentle, yet it caused the magic treasures of all cultivators present to simultaneously emit mournful cries.

The Chaos Sea surged violently; countless seawater defied reason and flowed upward in reverse, condensing behind him into a towering water curtain reaching a thousand zhang high.

Within the water curtain, unknown giant beasts roared and howled.

"It's over!"

"He's gone mad!"

"Run!"

Seeing this, the surrounding cultivators retreated frantically backward; those who ran too slowly were swept by that aura and fell from midair on the spot, bleeding from their seven orifices.

Even the Chaos Strange Beasts let out cries resembling fear at this moment.

Zhao Ziyue's robes fluttered loudly, tears spinning in his eye sockets; he stared at Xu Zhangqing and asked again, word by deliberate word: "Who killed him?"

Xu Zhangqing said seriously: "Don't rush, I've already avenged Lao Hu.

Everyone who participated in that matter, not a single one survived."

Instantly, Zhao Ziyue's momentum stalled.

He stared wide-eyed, his chest heaving violently several times.

The cracks on the bamboo fishing rod closed back up, and that terrifying aura that made everyone's courage shatter withdrew bit by bit.

The next second, he turned back into that sour scholar.

Only his eye sockets were terribly red!

Xu Zhangqing asked with concern: "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

Zhao Ziyue took a deep breath: "Once things here are settled, I'll make a trip back to the Tianyuan Realm."

Xu Zhangqing nodded: "Going back to take a look is good too; the current Tianyuan Realm is different from before, everything has changed."

Zhao Ziyue said with a melancholy expression: "You are my only attachment in the Tianyuan Realm; I never expected the dead would die, and those who left would leave."

Xu Zhangqing waved his hand: "Don't mention that, talk about you instead.

The Agent of the Master of Gui Xu — what exactly is going on?"

He paused, then said: "And there's something I've never understood.

Why did the Hundred Dragons Patrol end up taking you away?"

Zhao Ziyue set up the bamboo fishing rod again, lowering the line into the Chaos Sea; he did not answer directly, but chose to transmit his voice: "Because of a Dragon Pearl."

Xu Zhangqing was stunned: "Dragon Pearl?"

Zhao Ziyue smiled bitterly: "Back then, when I went to Xuanxin City to find you.

A Dragon Pearl carrying a wisp of a dragon soul suddenly appeared.

At first I thought it was an opportunity, but later discovered things weren't that simple.

However, it was precisely because of this Dragon Pearl that I was taken away by the Hundred Dragons Patrol, and became the Agent of the Master of Gui Xu!"