First Immortal of the Sword

After eating and drinking his fill, Su Yi sprawled out comfortably in a wicker chair.

When he looked up, he saw the dense stars overhead. They decorated a dim curtain of dusk, and they flickered on and off.

“Your Excellency, this old man predicts that the skies will erupt with enormous changes within six hours,” said the old blind man, who was standing beside Su Yi.

His empty sockets were fixed on the dome of heaven too, and it seemed he could detect numerous secrets.

“Mm,” said Su Yi, closing his eyes. “I’m going to rest for a bit. Don’t be nervous, everyone. Just wait for 'meat pies' to start raining down from the heavens.”

The old blind man, Wen Xinzhao, the Xia Emperor and the others looked at each other, strange looks in their eyes.

It was going to rain meat pies?

Su Yi was obviously fully confident! And indeed, his eyes were closed in repose. He seemed leisurely, as if he were too lazy to even speak.

He couldn’t tell them this, but even before the onset of the Radiant Epoch, the greatest treasure of the Origins of the Azure had already fallen into his hands.

Similarly, he couldn’t tell them that with the Seed of the Azure in his possession, when the source power of the Grand Dao erupted, he’d help them obtain the best possible benefits.

Telling them that would be too ostentatious. 

I just hope that I can find some worthwhile opponents in this new era. Otherwise, remaining in the Azure Continent any longer will have little value to my cultivation efforts… Su Yi muttered to himself.

He’d reincarnated to cultivate anew, but without opponents, how was he to sharpen his edge?

Even if he couldn’t find foes of the same cultivation, other opponents would still serve to polish him.

Now that his cultivation had reached the peak of the Spiritual Manifestation Realm, he could seize the arrival of the Radiant Epoch to step smoothly into the Spiritual Incarnation Realm. 

But in the modern Azure Continent, the strongest experts around were only in the Spiritual Revolution Realm. 

This meant that finding worthwhile opponents had already become rather difficult.

Thus, he was actually rather eager for this new golden age. He hoped it would give rise to a whole slew of worthy opponents.

It’d be fine even if their cultivation boundary far surpassed his!

Time slipped by.

Heaven and earth were shrouded in dusk, and the stars flickered. A terrifying, oppressive atmosphere and deathly silence enveloped the entire continent.

Deep within the mountains and forests, the spirit beasts were agitated and terrified. They hid, not daring to come out.

In prosperous, populated lands, mortals and cultivators alike lay dormant. The streets and alleyways were quiet and deserted.

Su Yi suddenly opened his eyes and whispered, “It’s here.”

They were just two light, airy syllables, but they seemed to contain the power of precognition. A moment later, the low, rumbling of the Dao reverberated throughout the dusky dome of heaven.

Boom!!

It sounded like the cleaving primordial chaos, the birth of the universe. Heaven and earth trembled, and every living thing on the Azure Continent shuddered. All of them looked into the sky.

The stars trembled as if about to fall, and one jarring, startling rift after another formed on the dusky curtain of heaven.

Everyone who saw this was terrified, as if the heavens were about to collapse.

Throughout the world, countless people were alarmed, and uproar rang out.

“The Origin of the Azure has already collapsed, and its power is about to feed back into the human world. The time we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived…”

“Hahaha! The curtains have finally opened on a new era!”

“The Prohibition of Ancient Darkness resulted in the decline of the Azure Continent's orthodoxies, and the spiritual energy was so sparse that no new Imperial experts have arisen in thirty thousand years. But from this day forth, all of that is destined to change!”

“Get ready. Be quick about it!”

Throughout the world, countless factions got to work.

The seven great ancient factions, the three top otherworld factions, the Kunwu Mountain Ye Family, the Purple Moon Foxes… All of them used whatever methods they’d prepared and rubbed their hands together with eagerness.

Azurecloud Court.

The old blind man, the Xia Emperor, Wen Xinzhao, and the others' hearts swelled as they realized an unprecedented stroke of good fortune was about to descend upon the mortal world.

Su Yi rose from his wicker chair. “Xia Emperor, in a bit, you should circulate the Nine Tripod Suppression Barrier Formation. That way, if anyone undergoes tribulation within city limits, it won’t destroy the city.”

The Xia Emperor solemnly nodded his assent. “Got it.”

“Let’s go into the sky,” said Su Yi. As he spoke, he’d already begun his ascent, soaring until he was ten thousand feet up.

He was followed by the old blind man, Wen Xinzhao, Weng Jiu, Qing Ya, and Daoist Master Coldsmoke.

“When the source power of the Grand Dao falls, just take what you need. Don’t get greedy; taking too much is just as bad as taking too little,” Su Yi ordered as he gazed up at the sky.

The group nodded.

Su Yi then took out the Soul-Nurturing Gourd and called for Qing Wan. “That goes for you too.”

Qing Wan nodded obediently. “Yes, master.”

She wore a fiery red dress. Her skin was snowy, and she was as pretty as a painting. She didn’t seem at all like a ghost cultivator; on the contrary, she had the charm of an immortal beauty. 

Just like Wen Xinzhao, Qing Wan’s cultivation had long since reached the peak of the Gathering Stars Realm, but she’d suppressed it all this time. She wanted to wait until the onset of the Radiant Epoch, then break through in one fell swoop.

Aside from Wen Xinzhao, this was everyone’s first time seeing Qing Ya, and all of them were stunned.

“What a pure soul body!” exclaimed the old blind man.

Ghost cultivators were a subset of soul cultivators, and there was nothing the Netherworld lacked more than soul cultivators.

That was why the old blind man could tell just how extraordinary Qing Wan’s aura was.

However, both he and the others were considerate enough not to ask questions.

Su Yi then swung his sleeves.

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Whoosh! Whoosh!

The Demonic Womb Xuan Ning was cultivating in and Ye Xun’s sealed origin power hovered in the air.

“Xuan Ning, how’s your situation?” asked Su Yi.

Xuan Ning’s respectful voice emanated from within the Demonic Womb. “Master, your disciple has already recondensed his fleshly body and soul. Furthermore, I’ve cultivated to the Xiantian Martial Ancestor level.”

“You managed that in just a few months? Not bad.” Su Yi nodded.

When Su Yi came to the Azure Continent, he encountered a spatial storm. In the end, all that remained of him was a battered portion of his soul. Later, Su Yi had helped seal him inside the Demonic Womb, where he borrowed its power to rebuild himself.

“And you?” Su Yi glanced at Ye Xun’s sealed origin power.

The bundle of energy quivered slightly, and immediately afterward, Ye Xun’s excited voice emanated from within. “Brother-in-Law, it won’t be long until I’ve completely refined the source power left within my body. Although I won’t be able to recover my peak cultivation right away…”

“Enough,” interrupted Su Yi. He knew full well that if he didn’t stop Ye Xun, the punk would ramble on all day!

“A grand stroke of fortune will soon arrive. You and Xuan Ning should both get ready,” ordered Su Yi.

“Master, I shall scrupulously carry out your orders!”

“Got it, Brother-in-Law!”

The Xia Emperor and the others who’d witnessed this exchange were thoroughly baffled.

When Qing Wan appeared, she called Su Yi her master, as if she were his servant.

But now, two others appeared. One called Su Yi his master too, except he was Su Yi’s apprentice. The other called Su Yi his brother-in-law.

This was just too strange.

The old blind man asked, “Miss Xinzhao, when did Fellow Daoist Su accept a disciple?”

The Xia Emperor asked, “Miss Xinzhao, when did Fellow Daoist Su get married?”

“.....” Wen Xinzhao was completely baffled too. How could she possibly answer their questions?

Boom!

Suddenly, thunder reverberated deep within the distant dome of heaven, echoing throughout the world below.

Everyone’s hearts shook.

Then, rifts appeared in the sky, one after another, and a boundless rain of the light of the Grand Dao burst forth, like water through the dam.

The source of the Azure Continent had finally erupted!

The boundless skies instantly seemed to collapse, and the rain of the light of the Grand Dao descended like the tide. It was just so dazzling and radiant.

Looking up from the ground, it was as if countless shooting stars were falling down to earth. They were bright and colorful, grand and majestic, a shocking sight.

The entire Azure Continent instantly boiled over!

The Demonic Huan Family.

Huan Tianxu’s sleeves billowed around him, and he shouted, “Activate the grand formation!”

Before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, the ten-thousand-meter ritual grounds activated, and pillars of light manifested of a formation shot into the heavens.

Similar scenes unfolded in other prominent factions.

It was as if the world’s cultivators had gone insane. They used every method at their disposal to seize as much of the good fortune raining from the heavens as they could. As big as it was, the entire world descended into mad revelry.

“Activate!” Xue Ye stood in the skies over the Dark Immortal Grounds, his voice booming like spring thunder.

A blood-red, mottled bronze lamp hovered in front of him, casting a thousand-foot-wide black shadow, like flowing, endlessly churning black waters.

The Xiantian Spirit Treasure, the Spirit Lamp of Redemption!

The Kunwu Mountain Ye Family.

Ye Xiao leisurely put away his book, gazed up at the sky, and muttered, “The Seed of the Azure is mine. If anyone tries to take it, I’ll kill them.”

The depths of his eyes shone with bloodlust and murderousness.

Whoosh!

A moment later, he arrived in the air, and took out a dusty gray clay pot. It revolved in midair, then suddenly expanded until it was the size of a house.

A vortex of black light surged within it.

The Heaven-Devouring Pot!

This was a Xiantian Spirit Treasure. 

Deep within Meteor Abyss.

Boom!

The power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness churned, and a tall, stalwart figure strode out of the depths of the mists. 

His black hair was disheveled, and he wore blood-stained, golden Daoist robes. The power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness surged around him, obscuring his features. 

“After tens of thousands of years of dormancy, I, Ninth Star, have finally made it to this day…” A cold, raspy voice emanated throughout the Meteor Abyss. That tall, stalwart, golden-robed figure threw back his head and laughed.

His laughter boomed like thunder, shaking the nine heavens. 

The skies above Azurecloud Court.

Su Yi stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the downpour of the light of the Grand Dao source power raining from the heavens. His expression was calm, and he did nothing at all.

However, the old blind man, the Xia Emperor, and the others were astonished to discover that the descending light of the Grand Dao gathered around the city, like a school of fish flocking around a reef. It was surging toward where Su Yi stood from all sides. 

“This….” Everyone couldn’t help but feel stunned. What was going on?

Was this heaven’s favor?

“Don’t just stand there. Go on and gather it up.” Su Yi glanced at the others. 

Only then did they react as if awakening from a dream. All of them got to work.