First Immortal of the Sword

Boom!

The power of divine tribulation wove into dazzling, sharp swords. When Chief Libationer Ming Xing attacked, they whooshed forth like raging gales and fell in a dense downpour.

All of them were aimed at Su Yi!

But Su Yi didn’t even look at them. His sleeves billowed around him, and he pressed down on the air.

The World-Suppressing Seal rumbled and boomed as its power locked down the entire stretch of heaven and earth. The sky, the Grand Dao, the floating motes of dust, even light and shadow… everything seemed to freeze in place.

The people scattered throughout the area—from the Immortal Lords of the Church of All Spirits to Wen Zhiqiu, Liu Yun, and Su Yi’s other friends and allies—felt intense, oppressive power bearing down on them.

They were like fish in a lake that froze so suddenly that it left them trapped in ice.

This was the power of the World-Suppressing Seal! A Great Realm Immortal Treasure!

It could seal an entire realm in an instant. How could its power possibly be ordinary?

Its suppressive power restricted Chief Libationer Ming Xing and the dense, calamitous sword qi around him too.

Chief Libationer Ming Xing froze in place. The dense sword qi around him quivered, but it was as if it had sunk into the mud!

This is bad! Ming Xing looked stricken.

A moment later, an agonized shriek rang out.

Streaks of dazzling golden light shot out of the World-Suppressing Seal, splitting the sky and killing the Church of All Spirits Immortal Lords where they stood.

Blood fell like rain.

Mournful howls shook the sky.

When the second strike fell, every expert of the Church of All Spirits died save for Chief Libationer Ming Xing. None were spared!

This bloody scene shocked everyone left to see it.

It was just as Su Yi said earlier. This second attack really did massacre the experts of the Church of All Spirits, and despite Ming Xing’s control over that catastrophic divine power, there was nothing he could do to stop it!

When Ming Xing saw this, his eyes bulged and reddened. He roared in fury, and monstrous immortal power burst around him and shot at Su Yi, interwoven with the terrifying power of divine tribulation.

That terrifying power and momentum stunned even the Miracle Realm Liu Yun and Wen Zhiqiu; they could tell that the old-timer was going all out with no regard for his life. Neither of them hesitated to rush to Su Yi’s aid.

“Go!” Wen Zhiqiu bellowed. A blue lamp shot through the air, scattering a rain of purple fire onto the world below.

“Descend!” Liu Yun took out a scroll painting, which manifested a boundless, surging silver river.

Neither of them held back. Both were using the strongest abilities at their disposal.

But Su Yi was even faster than them. He’d already unleashed his third attack!

Boom!

His hands formed seals, and the World-Suppressing Seal suddenly shot through the sky and descended like a divine mountain from beyond the heavens. The explosive power of its Immortal Laws swept outward, sealing the area off completely.

“Break!” bellowed Chief Libationer Ming Xing. His hair and beard bristled with fury as his very cultivation itself seemed to catch ablaze. He was pouring everything he had into the black treasure tower, which unleashed the dense power of divine tribulation.

However——

A heaven-shaking impact followed. The descending World-Suppressing Seal completely crushed that surging power of divine tribulation.

This Great Realm immortal treasure was just too tyrannical. It broke everything in its path as if it were made of rotten wood and sent Ming Xing flying back.

“Bastard!!” The chief libationer’s face was contorted and hideous as he poured every last drop of power he had into the black treasure tower to defend himself.

Bang! Crack!!

When the seal collided with the black treasure tower, the air collapsed, stirring up an explosive energy current.

Finally, the black treasure tower couldn’t take it anymore. Countless cracks appeared all over it, and in the end, it shattered.

And the World-Suppressing Seal continued, slamming ruthlessly into Ming Xing.

It was just one strike, but the Immortal King’s body burst into countless bloody chunks on impact.

His soul shot out of his mangled corpse and tried to flee, but the World-Suppressing Seal’s power had long since sealed the entire area off. His soul was like a fly trapped in a spider’s web, enveloped by endless glittering golden immortal light.

Chief Libationer Ming Xing’s face filled with uncontrollable despair. Even if you’d hit him over the head, he could never have guessed this. They should have had this operation in the bag. Who’d have thought a young Universe Realm Immortal would show up to turn the tides?

Just who is that young man? How could he awaken the full extent of the World-Suppressing Seal’s power? How did he do this?

Boom!

As these questions flitted through his mind, Ming Xing’s soul was ripped to shreds, which caught ablaze. In the blink of an eye, his soul scattered.

In the last moments before his death, he gazed bitterly at the distant Su Yi. His eyes were full of hatred and fury.

All of this took quite some time to describe, but it happened almost instantaneously.

Chief Libationer Ming Xing was dead before Immortal King Wen Zhiqiu’s blue lamp and Immortal Queen Liu Yun’s scroll painting reached him!

Dust and smoke permeated the landscape, and the stench of blood hung in the air.

The onlookers stood there in a daze, too astonished for words.

The third strike went just as Su Yi said it would, just like the others. He’d suppressed and killed an Immortal King in a single attempt!

In other words, Su Yi had realized every last one of his promises, and all of Ming Xing’s struggles were to no avail. None had changed his fate.

Not even the black treasure tower, which could unleash the power of divine tribulation, could save him!

This was unquestionably far too terrifying.

Only now did everyone truly grasp how unbelievably terrifying the World-Suppressing Seal’s power was!

“In my hands, that treasure was like a pearl buried in the mud,” murmured Liu Yun. She was deeply ashamed.

Just like that, Su Yi had crushed the Church of All Spirits’ death trap in just three attacks!

The Divine Capital Blood-Refining Formation had crumbled, and the almost three hundred Void Realm True Immortals guarding Blazing Firmament Immortal City had been executed. Dozens of Immortal Lords had perished, and even the Miracle Realm Chief Libationer Ming Xing had been executed.

All of them were dead!

Whoosh!

Su Yi stretched out his hand, and a fragment of the black treasure tower Ming Xing had used landed in his palm. It was thanks to this treasure that the chief libationer could control the strange, calamitous power of divine tribulation!

Su Yi examined the fragment intently for a moment. His eyebrows rose.

Its materials were extraordinary, and it emanated wisps of divinity. Its surface was carved with strange, intricate Dao Markings.

Su Yi surmised that the markings were a strange divine formation. They were likely the work of a deity! Alas, a mere fragment like this was of little use.

Still, it was enough for Su Yi to guess that the tower had been given to the church by their divine backer. It was like a vessel for the taboo power of divine tribulation.

It wasn’t a true divine artifact. If it was, how could the World-Suppressing Seal have broken it in a single strike? And how could an Immortal King like Chief Libationer Ming Xing have controlled it?

“Your Excellency Su, you have this junior’s utmost gratitude. Thank you for saving my life!” Immortal Queen Liu Yun rushed over and bowed. Her snow-white hair waved as she moved, a striking sight.

Her youthful, beautiful face was full of awe, gratitude, and reverence.

Qing Wei, Fang Yourong, Fang Han, and the others all reacted as if awakening from a dream. All of them rushed over to express their gratitude.

Su Yi swept his gaze across the group, then looked at Immortal Queen Liu Yun in confusion. “Didn’t Yao Sovereign Ruyi teach you the Nine Secrets True Invocation when she gave you the World-Suppressing Seal?”

The Nine Secrets True Invocation was the secret method for activating the World-Suppressing Seal’s power. Without it, it didn’t matter how high Liu Yun’s cultivation base was. She could at best display twenty percent of the seal’s power.

Immortal Queen Liu Yun lowered her head and said with grief, “Your Excellency, the Yao Sovereign left to go exploring prior to the Age of Fallen Immortals, and there’s been no word of her since. When she left, she simply entrusted this treasure to my care. She never taught me to use it.”

She paused, then looked at the seal. “Furthermore, this treasure was badly damaged during the cataclysm of the Age of Fallen Immortals. Its spirituality was lost, and its lain dormant ever since. Try as I might, I could never awaken it.”

Only then did Su Yi understand. Treasures of the Great Realm typically had shocking spirituality and intelligence. This let their owners control them as they might their own hands and fingers.

A single thought from its master, and a Great Realm treasure would kill their enemies of its own accord!

This spirituality was different from a treasure spirit. Treasure spirits had emotions, and this gave them weaknesses exploitable in battle.

Some treasure spirits would even turn on their masters! Such incidents had happened numerous times throughout the course of history.

Thus, the higher someone’s cultivation, the less willing they were to raise a treasure spirit. Most just chose to leave a treasure’s spirituality intact.

That was just the kind of treasure the World-Suppressing Seal was.

If its spirituality remained intact, combined with the Nine Secrets True Invocation, it could have unleashed even more terrifying, unbelievable power!

Su Yi returned it to Immortal Queen Liu Yun and said, “When we have a bit of spare time, I’ll teach you the Nine Secrets True Invocation.”

Immortal Queen Liu Yun’s spirits soared, and she said with gratitude, “Many thanks, Your Excellency!”

Su Yi waved dismissively. “No need for such politeness. I’ve never liked such pleasantries. How about this? Let’s find a quiet place to rest, then chat.”

“Of course!” Immortal Queen Liu Yun was all too happy to agree.

Wen Zhiqiu witnessed this entire exchange, and although he remained outwardly calm, he was inwardly startled!

Immortal Queen Liu Yun oversaw every branch of the House of Little Joys in the Immortal Realm. She’d once fought the mighty Yao Sovereign Ruyi, and she had an extraordinarily lofty status.

Wen Zhiqiu proved his Dao and became an Immortal King after the Age of Fallen Immortals. Even people like him had to treat Immortal Queen Liu Yun with respect!

Yet now, she was calling Su Yi “His Excellency!” Even her mannerisms were as respectful as could be. How could Wen Zhiqiu be anything but surprised?

Is Fellow Daoist Su… perhaps the descendant of a Great Realm powerhouse? Or their closed-door disciple? If not, how could Immortal Queen Liu Yun possibly treat him with such respect?

Waves of emotion coursed through Wen Zhiqiu’s heart. He increasingly felt that Su Yi was far too mysterious. The more he learned about him, the less he understood.