First Immortal of the Sword

Cha Jin wanted to ask, “Just who was it who said he wasn’t desperate? Just who was it who made himself sound so righteous?”

“Who was it who said there was little benefit to dual cultivating with Qing Wan before she reached the Spiritual Manifestation Realm?”

“Why is it that you suddenly changed your mind the moment you laid eyes on Qing Wan?”

She even wanted to shout, “Men! You really can’t trust a thing they say!”

Despite thinking all this, out loud, Cha Jin smiled. “Qing Wan, in that case, I shan’t disturb you two.”

Before Qing Wan could respond, Cha Jin turned and left, as if fleeing.

She even closed the door on her way out.

The atmosphere was instantly stifled yet enchanting.

Qing Wan was obviously nervous.

She lowered her head and tightly gripped the hems of her clothing, and she stood there in a daze, like a lost little bunny uncertain of what to do next.

Su Yi, however, didn’t feel at all ill at ease. He sat casually on the bed, but when he saw how tense Qing Wan was, he was briefly at a loss for words. 

Then, he waved her over. “Come here.”

“Mm….” Qing Wan trembled, then lowered her head and walked toward him.

She was timid and shy. It was hard not to pity her.

“Listen carefully. I’m going to teach you a dual cultivation technique, and you must commit it to memory. Otherwise, something could go wrong, and we don’t want that to happen,” said Su Yi.

Qing Wan’s heart shook. She suddenly took a deep breath. “I’ll be sure to remember it all!”

Su Yi laughed. “Don’t be nervous. Dual cultivation is most profound when performed in accordance with one’s emotions and in unity with the Dao. The method I’m about to teach you is called ‘Perceiving Subtleties and Guiding the Profound.’ It’s a Daoist dual cultivation technique, and…”

Qing Wan listened in silence. Gradually, her nervousness faded.

After explaining the full technique in detail, Su Yi asked, “Is there anything you don’t understand?”

Qing Wan shook her head.

“Then go to sleep,” said Su Yi. “We can dual cultivate when you step into the Spiritual Manifestation Realm.”

As he spoke, he got into bed and rested his head against the pillar.”

“.....” The young woman was obviously stunned, and confusion was written all over her little face.

After a while, she stammered, “Master, did you keep me here just to teach me the dual cultivation technique?”

Su Yi closed his eyes and said distractedly, “Cha Jin said that if I just ignored you tonight, it would hurt you. I thought about it and realized she was right, so I decided to keep you by my side. Don’t… Don’t overthink it.”

Qing Wan felt enlightened, but more than that, she felt moved. A heartfelt smile appeared on her picture-perfect little face.

“What are you smiling about?” asked Su Yi.

Qing Wan sheepishly lowered her head. “I… I feel indescribably happy. I would never have guessed you’d be so considerate and caring toward me, Master.”

Su Yi pointed at the bed. “Sit.”

Qing Wan hesitated for a moment before approaching, but although she sat down, only half of her butt touched the bed, as if afraid he might touch her abruptly.

The sight of her cautious, tentative obedience moved Su Yi, who said, “Now that I think about it, you’ve actually been by my side longer than anyone else, and your heart is as pure as jade, innocent, and even a bit simple. I naturally have to look out for you. When it comes to something like this, I naturally ought to consider you first.

“Even if, when the time comes, you’re unwilling to dual cultivate with me, I naturally won’t force the matter. Matters of passion and pleasure are about mutual feelings, not simply venting one’s lusts. Sleep.”

Having said his piece, Su Yi promptly fell fast asleep.

Tonight, the night of his eighteenth birthday, the power of the Grand Dao fell like rain, and he welcomed an unprecedented Tribulation of Spiritual Manifestation.

It had been an incomparably joyous night.

However, his path of cultivation would always return to tranquility in the end. 

Qing Wan stared at Su Yi’s face in a daze. Suddenly, the rims of her eyes reddened and misted with tears.

After a while, the young woman carefully curled up like a cat by Su Yi’s side. She felt an unprecedented sense of assurance and satisfaction. 

……

The next morning.

When Su Yi woke up, he left his room, stood in the courtyard, and began his daily cultivation, just as he always did.

However, his cultivation method was already completely different. 

His footwork was neither rigid nor lax, and his hands were like wicker branches blowing in the wind, slowly drawing upon the power of his surroundings. This was a display of the wonders of stillness and movement, of truth and illusion.

His qi flowed through him like a river, reaching every part of his body. It wandered throughout his meridians, and when he breathed, twin snakes of white air emerged from his nostrils. 

The Supreme Unity Spirit Void Chapter!

The greatest Spirit Dao cultivation technique of the Wilds, a supreme Daoist canon!

In his past life, Su Yi once invited several of his friends—the Peerless Martial Emperor, the Ghost Emperor of the Western Seas, and Buddhist Master Inkstone Heart—to a discussion on Supreme Unity Peak. His goal was to create the best Spirit Dao cultivation technique in the world.

The four of them went into seclusion and discussed the Dao for a full hundred years. 

In the end, the Emperors fused their collective wisdom and comprehension with their understanding of the Spirit Dao, creating a cultivation technique unmatched throughout history.

When they created the technique, Su Yi wrote the original manuscript by hand. Every word manifested the charm of the Grand Dao, each character a brilliant pearl. The music of the Dao and divine light filled the nine heavens and shook the skies. 

His friends all praised it, saying it was unprecedented and irreplicable, the ultimate technique of the Spirit Dao!

Unfortunately, the requirements for cultivating it were far too stringent. This technique was even stricter about who practiced it than the legacies of the Ghost Lantern Sarcophagus Bearers.

The reason for this was simple. To practice this sutra, someone had to fulfill three requirements before reaching Spiritual Manifestation.

They needed a soul comparable to Spiritual Incarnation Realm cultivator.

They needed a body comparable to the Buddhist Undying Golden Body.

And they needed to condense at least sixty thousand Origin Power Stars in the Gathering Stars Realm!

If someone failed to meet even one of these conditions, they couldn’t practice the Supreme Unity Spirit Void Chapter.

Otherwise, the profundities of this sutra would turn on them, and they’d lose more than they gained.

However, even in the top soul cultivator orthodoxies of the Wilds, Gathering Stars cultivators with souls comparable to Spiritual Incarnation cultivators were rare. Such geniuses appeared less than once in a thousand years.

The Undying Golden Body requirement was even more extreme. This represented the highest level of attainment for a body refiner, and even in the greatest Buddhist holy land of the Wilds, the Little Western Paradise, only the young Buddhist Master Inkstone Heart had achieved such power of the fleshly body before Spiritual Manifestation. 

And those with sixty thousand or more Origin Power Stars were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.

In his past life, Su Yi’s youngest disciple, Qing Tang, condensed seventy-two thousand Origin Power Stars in the Gathering Stars Realm, and she was considered the greatest Gathering Stars Realm cultivator of the Wilds!

Were it sufficient to achieve any one of these three conditions, they could have indeed found people capable of cultivating the Supreme Unity Spirit Void Chapter. 

But finding someone capable of simultaneously satisfying all three requirements was unquestionably far, far too difficult.

At the time, Su Yi’s friends had teased him, saying that Su Xuanjun had poured so many years of effort into developing the technique, only to invent something no one alive or dead could even use. They said the “greatest cultivation method of the Spirit Dao” was as useless as chicken ribs.

Although his friends didn’t know it, in his new life, Su Yi could easily cultivate this “useless” ultimate Spirit Dao cultivation technique!

His soul? Even back in the Origin Palace Realm, it was already comparable to a Spiritual Incarnation Realm cultivator’s.

His physique? By the time he stepped into the Gathering Stars Realm, it was no inferior to an Undying Golden Body. 

His Origin Power Stars? Before breaking into the Spiritual Manifestation Realm, he had ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine of them!

He met every requirement with room to spare.

In the Spiritual Manifestation Realm, cultivators temper their Grand Dao Spirit Palaces. The firmer the Grand Dao Spirit Palace, the greater and denser the power of the Grand Dao it can contain, Su Yi thought as he cultivated.

My current foundations are unmatched; most likely, no one in this world can compare with me. However, cultivating the Supreme Unity Spirit Void Chapter requires far too much spiritual energy…

Before stepping into the Spiritual Manifestation Realm, fifth and sixth-tier spirit stones were still enough to sustain Su Yi’s daily cultivation.

Now that he’d entered the Spiritual Manifestation Realm, the spiritual energy they contained was merely a drop in the bucket.

If he used spirit stones to cultivate, he’d burn through over a thousand a day!

Different cultivation boundaries had different requirements for cultivation resources.

Su Yi’s foundations were extremely solid, and he cultivated the Supreme Unity Spirit Void Chapter. His demand for cultivation resources was far beyond other cultivators’ imaginations.

Fortunately, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is gradually recovering. Furthermore, last night, I gathered plenty of Grand Dao source energy. I won’t need to worry about sustaining my cultivation for a while.

The Azure Continent was undergoing a massive transformation. In less than three months, the Radiant Epoch would be upon them.

So long as Su Yi put effort into gathering them, he could surely find sufficient resources suited to his cultivation.

In the short term, I’ve got to focus on condensing the Mysterious Truths of Genesis and reforge the Abstruse God Sword as quickly as possible. Otherwise, it’ll inhibit my ability to display my true power.

Su Yi had a clear goal in mind for his cultivation post-reincarnation.

He’d begun his preparations for his Spirit Dao cultivation while he was still in the Origin Dao.

For instance, the three types of peerless Dao Charm he’d mastered—the five elements, Yin and Yang, and wind and lightning—were chosen with his Spirit Dao cultivation in mind. His ultimate goal was to fuse these three types of Dao Charm into a Spirit Dao Mysterious Truth known as “Genesis”!

Then, he’d proceed to comprehend two other Mysterious Truths, the Supreme Ultimate and the Void Cosmos. Once he’d mastered all three, they would undergo a complete metamorphosis, fusing into a brand-new Spirit Dao Mysterious Truth.

Despite the Wilds’ long history, this particular Mysterious Truth had never once appeared before. No one had ever mastered it.

This was because it originated from a trace of enlightenment he’d received from the Nine Divine Chains sealed by the Sword of the Nine Hells.

Its name was the Apex of Genesis!

The start of genesis, the apex of the spirit. The Apex of Genesis is realized, and the Grand Dao returns to its origins!

Similarly, Su Yi had long since decided to reforge the Abstruse God Sword upon advancing to the Spiritual Manifestation Realm. He planned to fuse it with Celestial Blue and forge himself a Natal Dao Sword.

Celestial Blue was the weapon the Sumeru Yao Emperor, Yuan Motian, had left behind. Although it was severely damaged, it still had its source. Su Yi would use it as a sword embryo and fuse it with the Abstruse God Sword. The resulting Natal Dao Sword was sure to be extraordinary.

In simple terms, Su Yi saw the Spiritual Manifestation Realm as a new beginning.

His cultivation technique, the Mysterious Truths he aimed to condense, the natal weapon he planned to forge—all of them were incomparable to what he’d done in the past.

When he finished his cultivation, Su Yi ate his breakfast. He was halfway through the meal when the unkempt old Daoist came looking for him again.

One look, and it seemed he’d sworn he wouldn’t leave until he’d said his peace.

“Let’s hear it, then. Just what did you come here for?” asked Su Yi.

The unkempt old Daoist’s gaze landed on Cha Jin, who was attending Su Yi as he ate his breakfast. “Miss, might you step aside for a moment?”

Su Yi waved, and Cha Jin considerately made herself scarce.

Once she was gone, the unkempt old Daoist took a deep breath and said, “Fellow Daoist, to tell the truth, ever since I first saw you in Nine Tripod City, you’ve reminded me of someone.”

“Who?” asked Su Yi, but his thoughts were elsewhere.

The old man’s eyes flashed. “My brother-in-law!”

Splurt!

Su Yi had only just taken a bite of porridge, but he immediately spat it back out.

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