Chapter 452 - 444: The Big Four 1
’But first things first, I have to actually get inside...’
"B-but... I still don’t understand why."
Mu Chen’s face darkened. In his experience, the Profound Old Ghost always liked to keep things mysterious, only ever telling half the story.
"Hahaha... Master knows you’re itching with curiosity, but there seems to be someone else who wants to tell you all about this place even more. To help you two get along, Master has decided to give this opportunity to that little fellow."
The corners of his mouth turned up as the Profound Old Ghost gave a roguish smile, his gaze drifting toward a faraway direction, where several extremely terrifying fluctuations of Primordial Power had suddenly appeared. Without asking any more questions, Mu Chen hurriedly pulled his consciousness out and regained control of his body.
"Brother Mu Chen, it looks like someone’s coming."
The moment he returned to his senses, Little Tiger’s good-natured voice came from the side. Mu Chen nodded, grunted in acknowledgment, and then his Ice Extreme Demon Pupils flared open. Two magnificent Ice Crystal flowers spun rapidly within his eyes. In an instant, his vision expanded to several thousand meters, and dozens of figures shrouded in Primordial Energy Vortexes appeared in his mind’s eye.
His mouth fell open, his expression one of utter shock. He never would have imagined that the Guides coming to welcome them into Holy Tomb Mountain wouldn’t be Elder Bai, but these two people...
’Great Elder Dilaka? Elder Shan Qiuhen? This is...’
Beside these two were two other figures with absolutely terrifying Primordial Power fluctuations. One of them, standing to Dilaka’s right, was an exceptionally massive fellow. And why the word massive, not strapping? Because he grew not vertically, but horizontally!
His face could be summed up in a few words: fat-headed, big-eared, and shining with grease. A huge Red Wine Gourd hung from his waist. By rough estimate, the gourd was probably half the size of Mu Chen himself. He wondered what was inside. ’Could it really be wine?’
’He’s not to be underestimated...’
This was Mu Chen’s intuition. This bloated old man was anything but simple!
Subconsciously, Mu Chen shifted his gaze to Shan Qiuhen’s left, but the sight left him stunned. There stood an exquisitely graceful figure, the polar opposite of the bloated old man—a difference like night and day. She wore the Elder Robe of Holy Tomb Mountain with a slender, jade-green longsword strapped to her back. A faint smile graced her mature face, and her eyes glinted with interest as waves of blue Primordial Power, like rippling jade waters, constantly swirled around her.
’So terrifying...’
Mu Chen’s scalp tingled. In over a decade, this was the first time he had seen so many Great Powers of the Martial Dao at once. But more than shock, he felt excitement! One day, he too would be like those four people thousands of meters away, standing at the pinnacle of this world!
"Heh heh... What an interesting little fellow, to have stared this old man up and down." The bloated old man laughed, a deep sense of appreciation in his eyes. But then he shifted his gaze to the mature woman and said with a wicked smile, "Elder Murong is the one at a real loss, though. That kid stared her up and down, too."
"Elder Zhu, I’ll say this one more time. If you don’t want a taste of the Bilan Sword, don’t make jokes at my expense again."
The mature woman, whom the bloated old man had called Elder Murong, narrowed her beautiful eyes. The rippling Primordial Power around her distorted violently, and the slender, jade-green sword on her back let out a soft hum, as if about to be drawn at any moment.
These two were none other than Elder Zhu and the mature woman, who had just rushed over from a secret chamber.
"Wait, wait, wait... Elder Murong, please don’t take it seriously! It won’t happen again, I promise." Elder Zhu wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered, ’Aren’t Martial Artists with the Water Attribute supposed to be gentle and virtuous? How strange...’
"What did you say?!"
Elder Murong snapped, and the Primordial Power fluctuations around her grew even more intense...