CHAPTER 543: CHAPTER 109: DRAGON CLAN SECT LEADER, YUE NIAN

It must be fate that Ni Qianjun witnessed such a rare spectacle as the Thousand Mirage Sunrise, becoming the second person to see the unique landscape of stone formations following Mercenary King Bo Sai.

You should know that ever since Mercenary King Bo Sai proclaimed that he had achieved a breakthrough in cultivation at Qianshen Mountain, every year, people pilgrimage eagerly to the mountain, but very few persist until the mountain’s summit when the rising sun reveals the stone formations.

The rising sun pierces through the sea of clouds, illuminating the stones.

All of a sudden, the stones seem like mirrors; once illuminated, their originally smooth surface ripples like a lake into which a stone has been dropped.

A blurry figure becomes clearer and clearer.

"!" Ni Qianjun’s eyes widened as he saw the stone transform into a mirror, revealing a scene of a Trial Arena.

The arena was vast and imposing, with countless young boys around ten years old practicing Dark Skill.

These young boys, though not aged much, each moved with swift agility, each strike and punch executed with unmatched purity.

Looking at their Cultivation, with a short shout, Dark Energy immediately formed protective Dark Armor around them.

Each set of Dark Armor flickered with flowing light, dazzlingly bright, instantly enveloping their entire bodies in a flash, much quicker than the Dark Practitioners on Dragon Road as they gather Dark Energy into Dark Armor.

With Ni Qianjun’s keen vision, he recognized instantly that the Cultivation levels of these hundreds of young boys could not be below the Great Success of Pill Realm. Most of them could even be experts who have formed Dark Pills.

This scene filled Ni Qianjun with thrill and anxiety, rendering him unable to maintain his composure.

The figures emerging from the stones: are they real or an illusion? If real, which power do they belong to?

Such young ages, yet all being... experts of the Pill Realm; if these young men and women truly belong to the same organization, then that organization is incredibly formidable.

Even today’s powerful nations, the Dragon War Empire and the Ruison Federation combined, couldn’t readily assemble so many well-trained and promising young Dark Practitioners.

It is certain that these young people must belong to an extremely secretive and powerful organization.

At this moment, they are engaged in their morning training session.

"Could it be that what Bo Sai saw years ago was also such a scene?" Overwhelmed by surprise, Ni Qianjun began to pay close attention to the moves of these young Dark Practitioners.

Soon he realized that the Dark Skill practiced by these young people was a very unique one. The explosive power was astonishing, and it would be best if it could be applied to his own Wind Red Slash.

After recognizing this, Ni Qianjun temporarily set aside his doubts about the origin of the stone mirror, and began to carefully observe the foundation Dark Skills and movement techniques practiced by these hundreds of young ones.

Regrettably, his mental capacity was limited. After barely memorizing their footsteps and a set of Sword techniques, just when he was about to continue memorizing and had yet to comprehend, the young practitioners on the stone suddenly ceased their training.

"Why stop training, could it be that the morning session is over?" Ni Qianjun scratched his head, anxiously pacing on the spot.

The young practitioners who had been training individually, now split into two rows to each side.

Two men then walked forward.

The leader strode with the demeanor of a dragon and a tiger, imposing and powerful, dressed in a Golden Python colored Training Clothes, sporting a short beard, and his hawk eyes sternly surveying the young ones.

And the man following behind him was just the opposite; he was clearly just waking up from drunkenness, with phoenix eyes half-open and half-closed, messy long hair, and his large coat gaping open, revealing wheat-colored skin.

"Such a handsome man," Ni Qianjun couldn’t help but inwardly sigh upon seeing the face of the drunk man, despite being a man himself.

The man seemed utterly languid, yawning as he walked, but even so, it didn’t change the fact that he was extremely attractive.

"Good morning, Lord Sect Leaders," greeted the young boys and girls upon seeing the two men, all in chorus.

"Alright, alright, no need for formalities, you all did well in training, much better than I did back in the day," the unearthly handsome man yawned again, internally complaining about his clan forcing him to take on the role of Sect Leader, responsible for training the young lads in the clan early in the morning.

"Humph, all show and no substance, with this level of martial arts, you think you can surpass the descendants of the three Holy Beasts, what a joke," the two Sect Leaders truly complemented each other perfectly, one playing the good cop, the other the bad.

The man with phoenix eyes touched his nose, his face showing a bored expression.

"Watch me perform the Cloud Trace Steps once more, and if you still can’t get it right, I’ll suggest to the elders to exile you to the Star Plane for trials," after speaking, the bearded man cast a mocking glance towards the man with phoenix eyes.

The latter still looked utterly uninterested.

Seeing no reaction from him, the bearded man huffed again and walked up to the young boys to demonstrate the Cloud Trace Steps.

Ni Qianjun got energized upon seeing this, unaware of what level of Cultivation the bearded man possessed, but knowing the Dark Skill he was about to teach must be extraordinary.

Just as he was concentrating closely, suddenly, the bearded man’s forehead twitched, and he shouted, "Who’s the junior, daring to spy on the Dark Skill of Yue Long Clan?"

Ni Qianjun was shocked, unable to believe that the man had sensed him secretly observing.

The bearded man felt a gaze sweeping around him and thought it was someone from another clan secretly learning their techniques, he roared in anger, gathering Dark Energy in his hand, and suddenly a Spirit Cloud Ruler appeared, about five feet long, and he swung it fiercely toward the air.

Ni Qianjun, who thought that even if the bearded man discovered him, could do him no harm, suddenly felt a massive surge of Dark Energy from the stones in front of him, breaking through the Prohibitions of time and space, directly striking towards his face.

This attack was sudden, and Ni Qianjun was entirely unprepared. The bearded man was already a peerless master, and the Spirit Cloud Ruler was his famous skill; with this attack, if Ni Qianjun couldn’t avoid it, he would be utterly annihilated.

Just as it seemed Ni Qianjun would be killed, the man with the phoenix eyes behind the bearded man slightly smiled, his figure suddenly shifted, and he was already standing in front of the bearded man, his sleeve gently sweeping.

The Ruler in the hands of the bearded man suddenly veered off course.

Ni Qianjun only saw the phoenix-eyed man wink at him, and then the rocks suddenly exploded.

The bearded man, the phoenix-eyed man, and the group of Yue Long Clan’s young Dark Practitioners all vanished.

Ni Qianjun felt cold sweat drench him, touching his forehead, only to see a strand of hair had been sliced off by the Dark Energy of the Ruler, everything that had just happened seemed like a dream, unsure if it was real or just an illusion.

Meanwhile, in the distant Moon Plane, the bearded man, whose attack was thwarted, was furiously livid; in a fit of rage, he questioned the phoenix-eyed man: "Yue Nian, what are you doing?"

But the phoenix-eyed man yelped, "Ouch ouch, my head’s ailment is acting up again. You know, ever since I returned from the Star Plane, I’ve had amnesia, occasionally doing odd things, please forgive me."

Next to them, a group of young men and women from the Yue Long Clan looked at each other helplessly, only able to watch the two Sect Leaders stare at each other.