337 The Brightest Star in the Night Sky

Divine beasts at levels like the Golden-winged Great Peng were capable ofshaking both the heavens and the earth. Before, in the time that had alreadypassed when Chen Changsheng did not have the ten thousand swords, he would nothave been able to block a casual flap of its wings, and would definitely die.However, for some reason, it remained as a shadow and floated quietly as ashadow in the sky, never attacking the mausoleum. Only now, when Nanke used asecret technique to send her spiritual sense into the shadow, did the scenebefore Chen Changsheng’s eyes occur. Perhaps it was just like the conclusion Xu Yourong and Chen Changsheng hadreached: Nanke who only had the Soul Wood, and not the Soul Pivot, was unableto completely control the monsters in the grassland—at least, it was not enoughto control a divine beast like the Golden-winged Great Peng. As a result, Nankeneeded such a long amount of time to invite the Great Peng to appear. Just how could he face up against this terrifying divine beast? For ChenChangsheng’s upper level Ethereal Opening cultivation to accomplish such a deedwould be the same as a myth. The Black Dragon continued to sleep in the lakeoutside his Ethereal Palace. Even if it woke up at this moment, what enteredthe Garden of Zhou was just a spiritual soul of the Black Dragon, and wasunable to face up against a Golden-winged Great Peng that actually existed. Even with the help of the ten thousand broken swords, there was not anypossibility of success. After all, he was not as strong as the owners of theswords from before. At this moment, the pressure and light of the Golden-wingedGreat Peng stilled the swords. Although there was no fear, this silence alreadyindicated that they could not be an opponent of the Golden-winged Great Peng. Only the first ten or so swords that had appeared—the Mountain Sea Sword, thetemple sword and so on—lifted up their pommels slightly. They raised in powersilently, as if they were prepared to attack at any moment. In the ten thousandswords, the strongest and proudest sword of them all trembled at great speeds,giving out a continuous hum. The sword trembled, not out of fear, but out of excitement. Seeing the Golden-winged Great Peng glide towards the mausoleum with countlessrays of light, the sword… was very excited, and was rushing to fight it inclose quarters. Before, Chen Changsheng had already noticed the sword. It was because this sword was the highest and proudest sword of the tenthousand swords. It did not even have any intention of backing down to thesword intent of the Yellow Paper Umbrella. At the same time, it was thebrightest sword, shining back at the light that scattered from the edge of theplains, just like the brightest star in the night sky. It had its own air ofnobility. Looking at the sword, Chen Changsheng associated it very easily with thatscene at the Ivy Festival when Luoluo announced to the crowd that she was thedaughter of the White Emperor. This type of pride did not originate from theexterior. The nobility originated from the bloodline. Even if the opponent wasa Golden-winged Great Peng, just how could it feel fear? The sword was currently high up in the sky above the mausoleum, and extremelyfar from the ground. Chen Changsheng extended his hand into the air, andthrough the Yellow Paper Umbrella, he conveyed his idea. Afterwards, the swordintent that had been separated returned to the Yellow Paper Umbrella, returningfreedom back to the sword itself. With a whoosh, the sword transformed into an extremely bright sword ray. Itreturned to the stone platform in front of the mausoleum from high up in thesky, and fell into Chen Changsheng’s hand. Holding onto the sword hilt, Chen Changsheng thought about the history of thesword. Afterwards, when he gazed at the Golden-Winged Great Peng covered by anaura tens of thousands of zhang across, his gaze became more resolute. The sword was called the Dragoncry Sword. It was very powerful. Before, whenit was in his hand, a strike from it heavily injured Teng Xiaoming. However, even more importantly, the Dragoncry Sword once belonged to a princeof the imperial family of Great Zhou. The prince was called Chen Xuanba, and he was Emperor Taizong’s youngestbrother. He was endowed with exceptional talent since youth, and cultivated topeak level Star Condensation at a very young age. Even though it was in a greatage of blossoming flowers and the birth of geniuses, he was still regarded as apeerless genius, because what flowed in him was the blood of the true dragon. In other words, he was that generation’s Qiushan Jun. Chen Xuanba died when he was very young. When he died, the great army that originated from the Tianliang County hadjust taken the capital. This was before the government had been changed and theZhou Dynasty founded. His title as Prince had also been conferred posthumously.However, nobody questioned this, and it had nothing to do with his surname. Itwas because the entire continent understood what sort of role he played whenthe great army of Tianliang County swept across the continent. In the imperial family of the Zhou Dynasty, this mighty youth who had diedyoung was publicly renowned as the greatest expert. Although he did not fightagainst his second brother Emperor Taizong before he died, no one questionedthis, because he had only died after fighting Zhou Dufu for a night and a dayin the Garden of Zhou. Until now, because of some complicated reasons, there were already very fewpeople who still remembered Chen Xuanba, the name that was once overbearingwithout equal. There were also very few records in the official dynastichistory regarding him. However, whenever the people who still remembered thehistory from before heard the name Chen Xuanba or the Dragoncry Sword whichonce belonged to his waist, they would feel a lot of complicated feelings ofsorrow. Because Chen Xuanba had died early, he did not compete in the bloody battlebetween Emperor Taizong and his brothers for the imperial throne. To the mightyyouth who had died young, it could be regarded as some sort of happiness, butto the imperial family of Chen, it was instead an extremely great misfortune.This was because if he was still alive, under his great battle prowess, it wasextremely possible that the battle would not happen at all. Even if theconflicting views had lasted for a long time, perhaps it would not have been sobitter and bloody, causing hundreds of members of the imperial family to bekilled and the capital to turn into a river of blood in the end. Of course, there was an even more widespread rumor that if Chen Xuanba couldhave lived until afterwards, Emperor Taizong would not have been able to takethe title of Emperor at all—the records of Tianliang County and the unofficialhistories recorded it very clearly, that Chen Xuanba was clearly much closer tohis eldest brother, who was the Prince of Jian. If he also participated in thebattle for the title of emperor, how could Emperor Taizong—who was in his nightclothes—avoid the assassination in the Hundred Herb Garden? As a result, a chilling conspiracy theory appeared. Seeing that the army of Tianliang County was about to conquer the capital,that the Zhou Dynasty was about to be founded, that he was about to become aprince set up high, and that he had an extremely splendid future, just why didChen Xuanba take the initiative to enter the Garden of Zhou and battle ZhouDufu? Yes, not much of it was recorded in the currently-existing records.However, all of those who were once involved said extremely clearly that it wasChen Xuanba who had proposed the battle between peerless experts himself. Why?According to the official history, it was exactly because Chen Xuanba saw thatthe Zhou Dynasty was about to be founded, and he did not need to shoulder theheavy responsibilities of the clan, so he continued his pursuit of the HeavenlyDao. It was just that this type of explanation lacked some cogency. Mostimportantly, on the verge of defeat, why did he have to die? Even if Zhou Dufudid not care about the anger of the imperial family of the Great Zhou, did henot care about how Emperor Taizong felt? It must be known that Emperor Taizongwas Chen Xuanba’s direct second brother, and also Zhou Dufu’s sworn brother. It was no longer possible to clear up the past history. Chen Xuanba was dead.Emperor Taizong was also dead. Looking at the mausoleum now, it could basicallybe confirmed that Zhou Dufu was also dead. Heroic figures always left withhardships, and what was left was the Dragoncry Sword in the Garden of Zhou,carrying the glory that it once had and the pride it had from before. Young member of the Imperial Family, peerless war god, true dragonbloodline—this was Chen Xuanba. The Dragoncry Sword he used was noble without equal and extremely proud. Howcould it fear the Great Peng? Chen Changsheng looked at the Dragoncry sword, and felt that remaining pridein the sword. For some reason, he felt that it was extremely familiar. This type of familiarity was hard to describe and extremely strong. Itactually cause his mind to become agitated, and it was hard for him to remainhimself.