Chapter 854: Arrival of the Union (2/2)

However, he never thought that the Jian Chen he had placed high hopes on possessed another identity. Not just that, he even took away the saint artifact of the union, almost causing the entire union to come crashing down, falling into a state beyond recovery. This pained him to the extreme.

Right now, he saw his disciple who had bore his high hopes once again. The president’s heart experienced both love and hatred; he loved Jian Chen’s unprecedented talent and hated Jian Chen’s following actions, as well as the fact that he had almost brought the union to utter damnation.

“Yang Yutian. Jian Chen. Changyang Xiangtian. I don’t know how I should refer to you.” The president sighed gently. His face was filled with exhaustion.

“President, it’s best if you call me Jian Chen,” Jian Chen said.

“Alright, I’ll call you Jian Chen. Jian Chen, is the saint artifact on you?” The president asked.

After some deliberation, Jian Chen replied, “President, the saint artifact is indeed on me but I can’t give it to you right now.”

“Yang Yutian, the saint artifact belongs to the union. You actually tried to take it for yourself. So much for the union treating you the way we did in the past, for you to do something like this. We really have been treating you too nicely!” The ninth elder could not help but curse.

“Jian Chen, the saint artifact is extremely important to the union. Think about how we once treated you. You really should return it to us,” said the grand elder. His voice carried the trace of pleading.

“Grand elder, president, it’s not that I don’t want to return the artifact but the artifact has a spirit and it’s already taken me as its master.”

“What!? The artifact has taken you as its master? How is that possible?” The president paled from shock. He clearly knew about the artifact spirit’s existence.

A golden light shot from the center of Jian Chen’s eyebrows, landing directly in the middle of his palm. It formed a golden, palm-sized tower.

When they saw the golden tower, skepticism appeared in the eyes of the group. Although the artifact had been with the union for countless years, there were not many people who had seen its true form. None among them had seen it. Even the president was no exception.

“Artifact spirit, explain it to the president yourself,” Jian Chen said to the artifact spirit.

The artifact spirit abided to Jian Chen’s words, immediately communicating with the president through a sliver of a thought.

The president’s expression immediately became courteous. As the president of the union, he knew extremely clearly just what the artifact spirit was. It was equivalent to a Saint Emperor; even though that was only the case in the artifact space, it still carried a great force of deterrence.

A while later, the president’s courteous expression disappeared. He sighed at the sky while his face was filled with helplessness. Afterward, his gaze toward Jian Chen became even more complicated, with deep shock sandwiched in between.

“Grand elder, president, I know exactly how important the artifact is to the union. Without it, the union will not have any more origin energy. But I can help you solve that problem.” Jian Chen pulled out a purple medallion from his Space Ring and continued, “Grand elder, this was the medallion you gave me all those years ago. I’ve stored several dozen strands of the origin energy of Radiant Saint Force within it. It should be able to deal with the imminent problems the union faces.”

As he spoke, Jian Chen tossed out the purple medallion. It stopped before the grand elder and he took it up and sensed it. A sliver of joy immediately sprang up on his face and he said, “There really are several dozen strands of origin energy inside.”

With that, slivers of joy appeared on the faces of the elders too.

Jian Chen continued, “I know this won’t work out in the long term. There will be a day where the origin energy will be consumed entirely but fifty years in the future, I will fill up the purple medallion again. During this period of wait, I hope you can collect some more objects that can store origin energy.”

“Jian Chen, since the saint artifact has already taken you as its master, you should go. My union will not be troubling you, though I hope in fifty years’ time, you will do as you have promised and replenish the union’s supply of origin energy.” sighed the president. Since the artifact had already accepted him as its master, this was the president’s only choice.

If the artifact had not done that, they could still restrict Jian Chen’s actions and search through his Space Ring for it. But now, this was impossible. Once the artifact took a master, they could only kill Jian Chen to get it back. However, they did not have the courage to do that at all.

This was because if they killed Jian Chen, it was equivalent to the union completely offending the Changyang clan and the Pure Heart Pavilion of the ten protector clans, as well as the Arctic Ice God Hall that even the protector clans feared very much.