I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts-Chapter 260 - 159: Lingyan Pavilion Archives

This was Han Zhan's second time entering the Lingyan Pavilion.

Wearing the "Geng Jiu" core token that signified his identity, the guards responsible for watching over the Lingyan Pavilion did not obstruct him.

The air inside the Lingyan Pavilion carried a faint aroma of books.

The records and archives have been placed on their respective shelves for a long time.

Yet from their dust-free state, it looks like someone is still responsible for cleaning them regularly.

Han Zhan walked straight to the Jia Character Bookshelf and picked up a record archive to browse.

[Jia Character Scroll - Armor Dao]

[Eleventh Leader of the Anti-Xia Alliance.]

[Tier Eight Peak.]

[Finally died in the Slaughter Battlefield, under siege by the three great forces.]

The beginning of the archive described the identity, position, and realm of the recorded individual.

Flipping further, it recorded some of his life deeds, contributions to the Anti-Xia Alliance, and remarkable achievements among others.

After reading for a while, Han Zhan switched to another and continued browsing.

Being able to become the decennial of the Anti-Xia Alliance, all were extremely talented and resourceful, and the leader who could become the Jia Character, among the decennial, was even more outstanding.

The most important point was.

Han Zhan discovered that in the Anti-Xia Alliance, not everyone was of inept talent; among the offspring, many also gained strong talents through awakening.

The more he flipped, the more Han Zhan's brows furrowed.

Not because there were too few archives, but on the contrary, because there were too many.

Just on one Jia Character bookshelf, there was a thick stack of archives. Each archive corresponded to a Jia Character decennial, an Anti-Xia Alliance leader.

Roughly counting, the number of leaders of the Anti-Xia Alliance through history already exceeded one hundred!

This was extremely unscientific!

"Even the Great Xia didn't have over a hundred capable strongmen in history, and Teacher Li Shutong remained steadfast for a hundred years."

"Why is it that in the City of Extreme Evil's Anti-Xia Alliance, there can be so many talents?"

Han Zhan did not believe in some exceptional locus.

Moreover, the City of Extreme Evil should have nothing to do with such a concept.

"The time of emergence of various great forces within the City of Extreme Evil shouldn't be very different from that of the external Five Great Forces. With roughly the same development timeline, the number of Anti-Xia Alliance leader changes was at least ten times that of the Great Xia."

"Within this, it's not impossible that the uncontrollable external factor of the Slaughter Battlefield might have some influence."

"But in the archive records, the realms of these Anti-Xia Alliance leaders are at least Tier Seven, mostly Tier Eight, and even Tier Eight Peak."

"How did they train to achieve such speed?"

Such doubts flashed in Han Zhan's mind.

Just when he was about to set down the Jia Character archive in his hand and look at other shelves, he came across the most recent Jia Character archive, causing his hand to pause.

[Jia Character Scroll - Jia Zhou]

[One hundred and second leader of the Anti-Xia Alliance.]

[Tier Eight Peak.]

[Died suddenly of unexpected causes.]

Everything in the archive seemed normal except for the somewhat strange cause of death, but this wasn't the reason for Han Zhan's attention. What truly caught his notice was this "Jia Zhou's" true name.

Jia Zhou, true name, Chen Zhongxia.

Surname Chen?

Han Zhan's reflexively thought of a smirking young man.

The surname "Chen" shouldn't be a very common one.

With this assumption, Han Zhan continued to flip through this archive.

Sure enough, the content recorded in the subsequent life deeds explained part of Han Zhan's doubts.

"Chen Zhongxia is indeed the father of Chen Tao and also the one hundred and second leader of the Anti-Xia Alliance."

"Chen Zhongxia had two children, with the elder daughter being Gongyang Jin, whom he raised from childhood rather than being his biological daughter, but he always treated her as one."

"Besides that, he had a biological son, the younger son, Chen Tao."

Before the last Slaughter Battlefield opened, the situation of the Anti-Xia Alliance was very promising.

Chen Zhongxia himself was a Tier Eight Peak Spirit Contract Master, his adopted daughter Gongyang Jin was a genius among geniuses, also reaching Tier Eight strength, and the young son Chen Tao, also very talented, reached Tier Seven.

The strength of the Anti-Xia Alliance during that era was imaginable.

But heavens do not always follow human wishes. A sudden unexpected death of Chen Zhongxia caused great upheaval in the Anti-Xia Alliance.

Fortunately, Gongyang Jin stood out, stabilizing the situation single-handedly and winning the previous Slaughter Battlefield.

This is also why Gongyang Jin has such a high reputation in the Anti-Xia Alliance.

...

"Chen Tao, the latest feedback I received from the Mechanical Sect indicates that you colluded with the Holy Master's Apostle to attack its main city, the Ruins Capital. How do you explain this?"

In the Alliance Leader's Meeting Hall, Fan Chaohui tapped the table and took the lead in attacking.

Fan Chaohui's personality is rigid, rarely bending in action, strictly following procedural norms. Such a personality fits perfectly with dealing with the Mechanical Sect, which also likes to talk data and has strong rules.

Not long ago, it was Fan Chaohui who facilitated the alliance with the Mechanical Sect for a joint night raid against the Sun Never Sets Port.

Logically, the two should be in a "honeymoon period."

But Chen Tao's actions were like stabbing the Mechanical Sect hard in the back, right in the heart.

The Mechanical Sect informed Fan Chaohui of this matter immediately.

In the Anti-Xia Alliance, the decennials do not interfere with each other, but there is an overarching consensus within the whole, and actions are taken under the premise of not violating this consensus.

"In our last core council, the consensus reached was to woo the Mechanical Sect to oppose the Sun Never Sets Knight Order."

"The Holy Master's Apostle, because of his terrifying power of being unkillable, was a being we went to great lengths to seal jointly with the Mechanical Sect in the Ruins Capital, and now you've helped him break away, unleashing chaos!"

Facing Fan Chaohui's unabashed accusations, Chen Tao chuckled twice sinisterly.

"Ding Shi, there is a reason for my actions."

"Although you all may forget, I never will, which is the sudden death of my father Chen Zhongxia."

As Chen Tao reached this point, his gaze fell on the stern-faced Gongyang Jin as he continued: "Once, you were all under my father's banner. His death, you may choose not to investigate, his revenge, you may choose not to exact."

"But I cannot!"

"That's no excuse, Chen Tao." Gongyang Jin interrupted him.

"This is the meeting hall, not a revenge alliance. Every core member's actions should prioritize the interests of the entire Anti-Xia Alliance."

"You ignored everyone's consensus, backstabbed the Mechanical Sect, estranging it from us, and released the horrifying entity that should have remained sealed, the Holy Master's Apostle."

"Don't think that just because you are your father's biological son, you can act recklessly. Even though I promised him to take care of you, if your actions endanger the entire Anti-Xia Alliance, I will not hold back!"

"Chen Tao's actions constitute severe dereliction; let's vote whether to revoke his core member status."