First Immortal of the Sword

Waves surged across the surface of the lake.

In the spot where Ye Fenghe died, blood dyed the water red, creating a wave of red.

A few blinks of the eye later, that smear of red faded and disappeared.

The onlookers watched in astonishment.

The battle was over almost as soon as it began.

Su Yi had cut down a mighty Spiritual Incarnation cultivator on the spot! 

Who wouldn’t have been surprised?

“Dammit!” Ye Changchun’s murderous intent was on full display.

Earlier, he’d been focused on preventing Ye Yunlan from interfering, so he hadn’t intervened. He’d assumed that Ye Xueting’s intervention would be enough to avert Ye Fenghe’s crisis.

Who’d have thought that Ye Fenghe would die in the end?

“His combat strength is far superior to Ye Yufei’s at his age,” sighed Ye Yunlan. He looked excited and gratified, but also grief-stricken and melancholy.

Ye Yufei had proved her Dao and entered the Spiritual Manifestation Realm at seventeen. The clan once saw her as the most peerless genius of its younger generation; her combat prowess would have dazzled whatever era she’d been born into. Throughout the Mysterious Blue continent, practically no one could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with her.

But Su Yi was obviously even stronger!

He’d killed Ye Fenghe, a top-notch Spiritual Incarnation cultivator, as if he were slaughtering a chicken or monkey. There wasn’t a single Spiritual Manifestation cultivator capable of that in the entire Mysterious Blue Realm!

This guy’s far stronger than I thought… Shen Suiyun’s heart shook, and his expression filled with uncertainty.

He’d come prepared; before deciding to duel Su Yi, he’d conducted a thorough investigation and analysis of Su Yi’s combat skills.

Now, he suddenly realized that he’d underestimated his opponent!

On the tenth day of the third lunar month, Su Yi was still in the early-stage Spiritual Manifestation Realm. Today was the first day of the fourth month. Only twenty days had passed, but Su Yi’s cultivation had already reached the late-stage Spiritual Manifestation Realm.

He’d crossed a full two lesser realms!

Shen Suiyun was a peerless monster of the ancient era; he was confident that he could have killed Ye Fenghe too. However, he knew he couldn’t have done it with such casual ease.

When he compared the two of them, Shen Suiyun finally felt pressured!

“It’s your turn.” Meanwhile, atop the lake, Su Yi turned to face Ye Xueting.

Ye Xueting’s delicate frame stiffened, and the look on her pretty face changed dramatically.

She was a Spiritual Incarnation cultivator just like Ye Fenghe. After witnessing his death firsthand, facing Su Yi filled her heart with irrepressible dread.

Whoosh!

Without any wasted words, Su Yi shot through the air.

Ye Xueting instantly felt enormous pressure. Never mind fighting back; she felt the impulse to flee.

“Out of my way! I’ll take care of that little beast!” A cold bellow rang out, and Ye Changchun shot forward in a flash, appearing on Goldenscale Lake seemingly out of nowhere.

Boom!

His robes billowed around him, his hand like a seal as he struck ruthlessly.

Heaven and earth were suddenly in uproar. Booming waves swept across the surface of the lake, and a roughly ten-foot palm imprint of flowing golden light bore down on the skies. It descended mercilessly upon Su Yi.

Its momentum startled the nearby cultivators out of their wits. The Spiritual Revolution Realm!

This was a terrifying Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivator!

“An expert with a complete Grand Dao Spirit Wheel!” exclaimed Shen Suiyun.

As the best swordsman of his generation at Hidden Cloud Sword Mountain, he was naturally well aware that someone like this was far stronger than the five Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivators who’d died beneath Su Yi’s blade.

The Xia Emperor’s fists silently clenched, while Weng Jiu’s expression shifted.

Ye Yunlan was about to intervene, but in the end, he held back.

Ye Changchun was indeed a powerful existence. Even in the Kunwu Mountain Ye Family, he was a prominent figure amongst Spiritual Revolution cultivators, and he was renowned throughout the Mysterious Blue Realm.

However, Ye Yunlan also knew full well that given the power Su Yi had displayed, Ye Changchun wouldn’t be able to suppress him so easily.

If I let him taste a little pain now, he won’t refuse my help in the future… Ye Yunlan thought to himself.

All of this took some time to describe, but it happened quickly.

In the face of Ye Changchun’s attack, Su Yi pressed his fingers into a sword, like a deity swinging a massive axe to cleave through heaven and earth.

Boom!

The resulting collision shook heaven and earth. A current of destructive power ran rampant. The lake trembled, and its waters swept back and into the air. The power of the Nine Tripod Suppression Barrier enveloping the lake shook violently.

Amidst the misty light, both Su Yi and Ye Changchun took several steps back.

Everyone’s eyes widened, and their scalps went numb.

Who could fail to realize that, as strong as the Spiritual Revolution Realm Ye Changchun was, he hadn’t gained even the slightest advantage in their clash?

The Xia Emperor inwardly sighed in relief, while Weng Jiu fell into a daze.

Ye Yunlan’s eyes widened. And here I thought Su Yi would suffer a little. Who’d have thought he could contend with the seventh elder!?

“Hmph!” Ye Changchun’s robes billowed around him as he attacked once more.

This purple-robed, youthful-featured Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivator’s aura rumbled like thunder. His terrifying imposing aura spread out in all four directions, bearing down on the surrounding air, which crumbled and boomed.

 When he next took a step forward, he was like a divine mountain in motion, and he emanated an enormous amount of pressure.

Even watching from a distance, the onlookers felt suffocated and helpless.

“Go!” Ye Changchun waved his sleeves.

Thousands of arcs of golden light surged through the skies, forming a glittering golden cage, which descended upon Su Yi.

This was the loftiest inheritance of the Ye Family: the Circle of Confinement!   

When used, the Mysterious Truths of the Grand Dao acted as a prison, drawing upon the force of the surrounding area. It severed the connection to the Grand Dao of those trapped inside, as if heaven and earth had rejected them and the Grand Dao had abandoned them. They were reduced to helpless prisoners.

“Be careful!” Ye Yunlan’s expression shifted, and he couldn’t help but cry out a warning.

As a member of the Ye Family, he was naturally well aware of just how terrifying this secret art was.

However, Su Yi merely laughed dryly and extended his hand. “Nothing but petty tricks. I can break them with a flip of my hand!” 

Boom!

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A dazzling streak of sword qi descended, like a boundless galaxy pouring onto the human world.

A sword drew upon the river of stars. 

The slash contained the overflowing, nigh unblockable Dao Intent of Genesis. It manifested a misty, dim yellow glow, like the boundless, inestimable radiance of twilight.

Boom!

A terrifying force instantly struck the glittering golden cage, which collapsed with a bang.

To the onlookers, it seemed as if the galaxy had poured down from the nine heavens, destroying an earthly prison!

“This…” Ye Yunlan gasped.

The Ye Family’s Circle of Confinement was enough to trap and kill even other Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivators, but it couldn’t withstand even a single hit from Su Yi!

Ye Changchun visibly reacted. He would never have guessed that the merely Spiritual Manifestation Realm Su Yi would be this strong.

It was completely beyond his expectations. 

“Cut!” Su Yi seized the opportunity to attack once more, quick as a beam of flowing light as he chopped with his palm.

As forceful as a sword cleaving through heaven’s gate!

Ye Changchun dared not get complacent. He called upon his full power and clashed with it head-on.

Just like that, a grand battle broke out. 

The two of them clashed above Goldenscale Lake, their battle shrouding the world in darkness. The sun and moon lost their light.

One combatant was a young man in blue, and his aura was forceful and proud. He was as unrestrained as a banished immortal, and with every movement, unstoppable sword qi whooshed in all directions. 

The other was a top Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivator of the Mysterious Blue Realm, an influential authority figure of the Kunwu Mountain Ye Family. His majesty blanketed heaven and earth.

It was easy to imagine how shocking their clash was!

Witnessing this due left the onlookers in a daze. It was as if they were witnessing a duel between gods and immortals, a battle straight out of a legend. Their hearts shook.

Waves of emotion coursed through Shen Suiyun’s heart. As proud as he was, when he watched this battle unfold off in the distance, how could he possibly remain calm?

Earlier, I really was reckless to have challenged him… 

He’d come here with complete confidence that he could win over Su Yi. That was why he’d come for a duel.

He had to admit that if he were the one fighting Su Yi now, he dared not guarantee his victory.

“The Azure Continent has yet to welcome its Radiant Epoch. Why does this kid have such heaven-defying combat strength?” Ye Xueting’s face paled. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

As an expert of the Mysterious Blue Realm, and as a member of the Kunwu Mountain Ye Family, her sense of superiority was bone deep.

Especially here, in the Azure Continent. She didn’t take this world’s cultivators seriously at all.

Yet now, Su Yi’s display of heaven-defying abilities came as an enormous shock!

So, he’s already this strong. No wonder he refused my help earlier… Ye Yunlan’s heart shook with emotion.

Previously, whenever he interacted with Su Yi, he was focused on protecting him, and Su Yi’s refusal of his help had stung him.

Now, Ye Yunlan finally realized just how dazzling and powerful his nephew was. He could neutralize even a storm like this entirely on his own!

“Activate!” Suddenly, Ye Changchun bellowed explosively mid-battle.

He’d been fighting all this time to no avail, and he was running out of patience, so he directly called upon his Natal Spirit Treasure.

Whoosh!

A blue Daoist seal took to the skies, firing off beams of lightning. Misty light soared into the firmament.

The seal’s surface was engraved with the image of a tree supporting the heavens. The image was formed entirely out of mysterious Dao Markings.

The Blue Lightning Daoist Seal!

The Ye Family’s territory, Kunwu Mountain, was home to a Xiantian Divine Tree. It towered into the heavens, shrouded in clouds year-round, drawing upon the essence of heaven and earth and the energies of the sky. They called it the “Kunwu Divine Tree”!

Ye Changchun’s Daoist seal was refined from a portion of the Kunwu Divine Tree’s essence. He’d polished it for close to eight hundred years, and it contained the power of Qingyi Lightning. Its destructive power was shocking.

Boom!

As the Blue Lightning Seal soared, the skies were stained dark blue. Surging lightning spread outward.

Its terrifying aura made the onlookers feel as if their souls had left their bodies, and their courage failed them.

“Suppress!” Ye Changchun shouted and poured his entire cultivation base into the Blue Lightning Daoist Seal, then attacked.

“This is bad!” Ye Yunlan’s expression shifted, and he shot into the air without hesitation.

He was just about to rush to Su Yi’s aid when Su Yi shook his head and said, “Is that all you’ve got? I’ll just send you on your way, then.”

His voice had only just rung out when——

Abstruse Celestial silently shot forth. Su Yi shifted his wrists and stabbed the air, like a deep, ethereal flash of night. 

Boom!

The blue lightning filling the air abruptly came to a standstill, then shattered in front of Su Yi. A rain of light receded like the tide and dispersed.

The sword qi’s power was entirely undiminished as it slammed into the Blue Lightning Daoist Seal.

Crunch!

Amidst a deafening impact, spider web-like cracks formed on the surface of the Natal Spirit Treasure refined from the Kunwu Divine Tree’s essence. It then burst into pieces.

One slash destroyed a Natal Spirit Treasure!

Ye Changchun immediately suffered the resulting backlash. He cried out in agony, coughed up blood, and staggered.

It was then that Su Yi appeared before him, seemingly out of nowhere. Abstruse Celestial flashed through the air.

Splurt!

Ye Changchun’s head flew from his shoulders.