First Immortal of the Sword

Beneath the dome of heaven.

When Chi Meng arrived, his eyes flashed with murderous light, and he said coldly, “Kneel for me immediately, and I’ll just take your head. I promise to leave your soul partially intact. Refuse—”

Su Yi interrupted him. “I refuse. We fight to the death.”

Chi Meng threw back his head and laughed uproariously. Then, without another word, he rubbed his hands together.

Boom!

A saber condensed out of glittering golden lightning. Countless streaks of electric light lit up the heavens, and terrifying destructive power ripped the sky to shreds.

Chi Meng took hold of the saber and attacked.

It was as if the sharp edge of the saber was ripping through the firmament. Heaven and earth rumbled and boomed. The mountains and rivers swayed, and everyone felt a piercing pain in their ear drums. Even their souls suffered a terrifying impact.

The greatest legacy of Jade Firmament Immortal Palace——Golden Lightning Slaughters the Sky!

When an Immortal King like Chi Meng used this ability, a single slash was like the descent of a god of lightning. Its power was unimaginably tyrannical and destructive.

“A lion uses its full strength even when hunting a rabbit. I can tell that Chi Meng hasn’t gotten complacent. He has no intention of giving Shen Mu any chance to struggle!”

The Immortal Kings’ eyes lit up.

It was just one slash, but Immortal King Chi Meng’s decisive ruthlessness was on full display!

Su Yi’s eyes narrowed, and a faint, mocking grin tugged at his lips.

Not long ago, he would have had to go all out against such a terrifying slash. He’d have needed his trump cards to have any hope of success.

But now, he was a Void Realm True Immortal!

Breaking into a new major realm might have not been that big a change to most experts of the Immortal Dao, but Su Yi’s foundations were heaven-defying and unparalleled. Every breakthrough was akin to nirvanic rebirth, a thorough transformation!

Su Yi sensed the slash’s power, and he too felt pressure, but he didn’t sense much of a threat.

He extended his finger like a makeshift sword and tapped the air.

This casual, understated gesture blocked the lightning saber qi with perfect precision.

Bang!

The sound of pierced metal and fragmented rock rang out on impact.

Everyone felt a piercing pain in their ear drums, and their hearts and minds shook.

Su Yi stood in the air, entirely unmoving. That roughly ten-foot streak of lightning saber qi stopped at his fingertip, shattering one inch at a time and unable to advance any further.

Everyone was flabbergasted. They almost dared not believe their eyes. He blocked it!?

Who could have imagined that an Immortal Lord, unrivaled though he was, could block the full-force slash of an enraged Immortal King in a direct confrontation?

Xie Kuiyuan, Li Beique, and the others’ hearts shook.

“He…” The other Immortal Lords’ eyes bulged. They felt as if they’d just witnessed a miracle.

Gong Nanfeng, Weng Changfeng, Fei Zhen, and the other Immortal Lords were struck dumb. They’d figured that someone of Su Yi’s strength could at least duke it out with an Immortal King, but that was his limit. They didn’t think he’d have any hope of victory.

Who’d have thought that Su Yi would display such tyrannical power right off the bat?

A tap of his finger, and an Immortal King’s attack collapsed!!

Tang Yuyan, Tang Lingqi, and Tang Jinhong were the most astonished of all. The reason for this was simple. They were the only ones here who knew that Su Yi was in no way an Immortal Lord, much less a peak-level one!

This was just too terrifying. Even they could never have anticipated that Su Yi could achieve this relying purely on his own strength.

Electric light scattered and fell like rain, illuminating Chi Meng so that everyone saw the way his pupils constricted and how the blood drained from his face. There was no hiding his sheer, overwhelming astonishment!

There was no doubt about it. Chi Meng was shocked too!

“Golden Lightning Slaughters the Sky is a supremely forceful ability, and it’s imbued with the powers of metal and profound lightning. Alas, in your hands, it’s weak and insipid. That wasn’t even worth looking at.” Su Yi shook his head slightly.

He sounded disappointed.

Chi Meng’s expression darkened. He swung his palm to strike Su Yi.

His open hand was like a saber swathed in dazzling and resplendent golden lightning. It crushed the sky, like a sun of pure electricity slamming into the world below.

Why were Immortal Kings so powerful?

It was because their Laws of the Immortal Dao had reached the Miracle Realm, a level of profundities upon profundities. In their hands, even a seemingly simple ability had far-reaching might. A simple skill could dominate and devour entire landscapes!

They were kings among immortals!

Chi Meng’s palm strike would have been enough to crush even the unrivaled Immortal Lords in attendance as if they were ants!

Alas, he couldn’t even touch Su Yi!

It was just as the Divine Fortune Teller predicted. After becoming a Void Realm True Immortal, fighting early-stage Miracle Realm Immortal Kings wasn’t at all difficult for Su Yi.

Boom!

Su Yi waved his sleeves through the air, and sword qi poured down like a waterfall, glittering and resplendent. It was mystical and unfathomable, and it tore into the incoming palm strike with ease.

That tyrannical sword qi made Chi Meng stagger on his feet, his blood and qi churning.

Su Yi took a step forward, formed a hand seal, and struck the air.

Thud!

Heaven and earth shook violently, and the sky caved in. His strike seemed as weighty and momentous as a divine mountain descending upon the world below, and it burst with immeasurably terrifying power.

Chi Meng roared and fought back with all his might.

In the end, he just barely managed to block, but he was forced back on impact, and the sky split and collapsed beneath his feet.

That terrifying destructive power swept outward, leaving countless onlookers horrified.

“He… He… He forced back an Immortal King!?”

“How is that possible!?”

“How on earth did he do it?”

…Startled cries arose on all sides. Everyone struggled to believe what they’d just witnessed. Even the Immortal Kings struggled to stay calm.

They’d seen it all the clearest. This was a direct confrontation, force against force, without the slightest flourish, a clash of pure might.

But the results were enough to make their hearts shake.

An Immortal Lord had forced back an Immortal King in a pure clash of strength!

This was simply shocking! Unheard of! Were Immortal Lords, unrivaled or otherwise, really capable of such power?

Yet for all their doubt, they were certain that Su Yi hadn’t reached the Immortal King level!

It all seemed far too out of the ordinary, but before Chi Meng could wrap his head around it, Su Yi seized the opportunity to attack.

His sleeves billowed around him as he swung his fist. It was a simple, direct punch, without the slightest flourish.

Yet its power shook heaven and earth!

In the face of an attack of this magnitude, Immortal King Chi Meng was repeatedly forced back hundreds of feet. His aged face flushed red, and his hair and beard bristled with anger.

He wasn't feigning weakness, nor was he holding back.

It was that no matter what level of secret art he used, his opponent, an "unrivaled Immortal Lord," neutralized them with ease. It was hard for Chi Meng to seize back the initiative. No, it was worse than that. This was gradually turning into a one-sided pummeling!

Chi Meng was both enraged and furious, and his eyes bulged. He felt like he had no place left.

He was an Immortal King, yet an Immortal Lord was smacking him around in front of a crowd. Who could have accepted this?

Su Yi, however, was thoroughly contended. He relished in his long-dormant will to fight. His qi rumbled, and his blood heated up!

In my past life, I couldn't have done this as a Void Realm True Immortal, Su Yi sighed to himself.

Miracle Realm Immortal Kings were different from Universe Realm Immortals, Void Realm True Immortals, and Siant Realm Immortal Lords. Each was more terrifying than the one before.

Throughout the ages, there’d been quite a few Universe Realm Immortals capable of crossing major realms to kill Void Realm True Immortals.

While Void Realm True Immortals capable of killing Saint Realm Immortal Lords were rare, a handful of them had appeared before.

But Immortal Lords capable of crossing major realms to kill Immortal Kings were unheard of. There wasn’t even any mention of such experts in ancient records!

Immortal Kings were, as the name implied, kings among immortals. They could completely suppress immortals of the three realms beneath them.

As a result, a saying had existed in the Immortal Realm since bygone days. It went: “Insulting a King is a path to certain death!”

This was advice directed at immortals of the first three realms of the Immortal Dao.

Yet now…

Su Yi had broken this ancient, widely acknowledged, ironclad rule!

And he’d done it as an early-stage Void Realm True Immortal! How could Su Yi not be emotional about it?

It was possible that, long, long ago, during the Immortal Realm’s Primeval Era, others had accomplished the same feat. Su Yi didn’t know for sure.

But he could say with certainty that in the almost million years since the Primeval Era, no other Void Realm True Immortal had defeated an Immortal King without relying on any external treasures as he’d done today!

Boom!

Su Yi struck with increasing force and intensity. The sound of the Dao rumbled as his fist through the air. It was as if no one could stand in his way.

It wasn’t long before Chi Meng was injured, and his clothes were in tatters. Su Yi’s fist stirred up fierce winds that sliced off chunks of flesh as they blew past Chi Meng’s shoulders. Blood sprayed from the wounds.

Despite the Immortal King power protecting his body, he was injured!!

This scene threw the crowd into uproar. Every last onlooker was left wide-eyed and tongue-tied.

“Die!” Chi Meng bellowed, and his aura abruptly soared to new heights.

His eyes went red, and golden Laws of the Immortal Dao surged around him, connecting heaven and earth. An illusory beast appeared reflected behind him, like a tiger but not a tiger, leopard-like but not a leopard.

Whatever it was, it was fully ten thousand feet long, with limbs like pillars, vividly lifelike, and horrifyingly fierce!

When Chi Meng attacked, the illusory beast roared and swung its sharp claws, stirring up monstrous Immortal King Laws that descended ruthlessly upon Su Yi.

Bang!!

Su Yi swung his fist and clashed with them head-on, only to stagger back on impact. Chi Meng seized the opportunity to deliver a follow-up attack.

As he shifted through the air, that terrifying illusory beast attacked repeatedly, each strike crushing the surrounding skies and shaking the surrounding mountains and rivers.

It was simply far too ferocious.

“The innate divine ability of a Denglong really is terrifying! Add that to Chi Meng’s Immortal King cultivation, and he’s much stronger than before!” whispered an Immortal King.

“Chi Meng was forced to use such a divine ability against a mere junior,” another Immortal King said sourly. “What’s there to rejoice over?”

Su Yi’s strength was far too terrifying, and the Immortal Kings’ hearts shook. All of them found it hard to believe. They couldn’t even imagine how terrifying such an Immortal Lord would be after he proved his Dao and became an Immortal King.

“With us here, how could he possibly have any hope of survival?” Li Beique said flatly.

Quite a few Immortal Kings’ eyes flashed in response.

It wasn’t that they were petty, but that they knew that there was already a grudge between them and Shen Mu. The only way to prevent future problems was to make sure Shen Mu never left this place alive!

“The True Denglong Heaven-Devouring Art is strong, but it isn’t undefeatable.”

Suddenly, Su Yi’s calm voice resounded from the battlefield.

A moment later, the clear, impassioned hum of a sword resounded throughout the dome of heaven.

Like a sudden thunderclap on a clear day!