First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1899: True Trump Cards

Shortly after Gongyang Yu, Qing Xiao perished!

This was the second divine son to die a brutal death. An enormous wave of uproar swept the entire area.

“His Excellency the Eternal Night Immortal Sovereign really did come prepared. Haha! How satisfying!” Li Xiehu cried out in excitement, making no attempt to hide his delight.

“Five divine children are attacking together, and they even used their strongest divine treasures. Yet two of them are dead, just like that! His Excellency… really is just far too strong!” Reverence was written all over the Sword Fanatic’s face. It was as if he’d witnessed a miracle!

In stark contrast, the experts gathered on Cloudsoar Peak were overcome with shock, and their hearts quivered in their chests.

Eighty-one Great Unity experts had died.

Eighteen Great Profound experts had died.

Were the divine children going to die too? If so…

The thought of the potential consequences of that sent chills coursing down Xuan Zhong, Qi Nie, and the others’ spines. They couldn’t help but shudder.

Weng!

The Sword of Proximity turned. This time, it pointed at Jin Zhuliu.

“Shit!!” Jin Zhuliu freaked out and poured everything he had into the Celestial Body Divine Disc.

Clang!!!

A streak of sword qi descended, sending the disc flying.

Jin Zhuliu immediately suffered a backlash and coughed up blood.

At a critical juncture, Fu Tianyi and the woman in black joined forces and charged at Su Yi. Only then did they buy Jin Zhuliu a chance to escape. And escape he did—to their shock, he simply turned and fled!

When Su Yi saw this, he couldn’t help but recall the expedition into the ruins of the Dragon Palace. Jin Zhuliu abandoned his companions, Qing Wu and Qing Xiao, in the face of danger.

He’d now fled yet again, but this time, Su Yi wouldn’t let him escape.

Boom!

Su Yi struck with domineering force, breaking Fu Tianyi and the dual-pupiled woman’s attacks before suddenly taking a deep breath and pouring the full extent of his power into the Sword of Proximity.

Kcch!

The sword produced a strange rumbling, then shot through the air.

Jin Zhuliu was already ten thousand miles away when the Sword of Proximity appeared above him and descended, swathed with boundless chaotic sword qi.

He visibly panicked.

At this critical juncture, he roared and poured the full extent of his strength into the Celestial Body Divine Disc in a desperate bid to survive.

Clang!!!

The Celestial Body Divine Disc was sent flying.

Jin Zhuliu completely broke down. How could the rumored Sword of Proximity be this unbelievably strong?

He couldn’t even struggle. All he could do was watch helplessly as boundless, chaotic sword qi enveloped him on all sides.

The six-inch Sword of Proximity was upon him in a flash.

Splurt!!

His body was torn to bits, and his soul dissipated. There was no spray of flesh blood; there simply wasn’t time. Terrifying sword force reduced him to powder in a flash. He was dead without even leaving a corpse behind!

The Celestial Body Divine Disc let out a heaven-shaking wail before shooting into the distance.

The Sword of Proximity disappeared too. It was over in a flash.

When they saw the Sword of Proximity disappear, Fu Tianyi and the woman in black seized the opportunity without hesitation. But the Book of Karma blocked all of their attacks!

“I just knew it! Fuck!” The Book of Karma was numb to it. It had predicted that Su Yi wouldn’t spare it this time, either.

Meanwhile, the Sword of Proximity reappeared out of nowhere above Su Yi’s head.

“Your turn.” Su Yi turned around to look at Fu Tianyi and the woman in black.

Both of them felt chills in their hearts. When they saw the Sword of Proximity return, they guessed what had happened to Jin Zhuliu.

Fu Tianyi took a deep breath and said, “Didn’t you want to know why we sent our subordinates into battle first? Now, I can tell you!”

He raised the Dao-Incinerating fan into the air, and his voice boomed like spring thunder. “The darkness of night as a curtain, the skyless cage!”

Boom!!!

The Dao-Incinerating Fan erupted with endless divine flames that soared into the Skyless Darkness Divine Formation.

Su Yi’s pupils constricted, and he immediately moved to stop him.

“Go!” He poured his strength into the Sword of Proximity and attacked the Dao-Incinerating Fan.

Clang!!!

The fan was sent flying, and Fu Tianyi coughed up blood.

But then, he laughed coldly, “You’re too late!!”

Boom!

Before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, the darkened landscape transformed.

The power of the divine formation surged forth, manifesting countless divine chains that descended upon Su Yi from all sides.

Su Yi continuously swung the Sword of Proximity, breaking the chains one wave at a time, only for them to repair themselves in the blink of an eye.

As if they had endless life force!

This strange scene threw the crowd into uproar. What kind of formation is this? How could it be so terrifying?

Were someone to gaze upon it from above, they’d discover that the “cage” of chains confining Su Yi resembled a massive sacrificial altar covered in secret markings of the Divine Dao. Furthermore, the formation was rumbling and booming. It erupted with extraordinarily taboo power, contorting and collapsing the sky as it tore open a rift through space and time!

The aura alone was enough to make someone give in to astonishment and despair. A powerful sense of terror and unease filled their hearts.

“That divine formation… was actually so wondrous?” Qi Nie, Xuan Zhong, and the other sect leaders were unwittingly awestruck.

They’d arranged this Immortal Peach Assembly, but Fu Tianyi and the other divine children were behind the Skyless Darkness Divine Formation.

Thus, they’d had no idea that this formation would be so terrifying and taboo at full power!

Kaboom!

Within that prison reminiscent of a sacrificial altar, Su Yi swung the Sword of Proximity with his full strength, slamming it into the chains.

But no matter how terrifying the impact, the cage recovered in the blink of an eye.

Su Yi couldn’t help but furrow his brow. What level of divine formation is this? Why is it so terrifying?

A moment later, something occurred to him, and he tried using the power of reincarnation to control the Sword of Proximity. Just as he expected, it was effective; a single slash cleaved a startling rift through the cage.

Just as he was about to follow up and launch an explosive attack on the rift, it vanished without a trace.

Su Yi instantly understood. The power of reincarnation really did counter this divine formation, but his mastery of the Laws of Reincarnation was limited to the Great Martial Stage. It could shake the formation, but it couldn’t break them.

In other words, the power filling this formation was far beyond ordinary divine treasures!

The Book of Karma was startled too. “The power of this formation is comparable to that old bald donkey Dipankara’s avatar of will!”

Su Yi’s heart sank. It’s comparable to the Dipankara Buddha’s avatar of will? Xi Ning said that in the God Domain, the Dipankara Buddha of the Past is a peak expert even among deities, a Master God presiding over an entire region. This is just a formation, but it’s comparable to his avatar of will? It’s no wonder the power of reincarnation isn’t enough to break it, even combined with the Sword of Proximity!

Another line of text appeared in the book’s pages. “It’s a pity, but you cannot truly display Brother Sword’s power, as he’s yet to accept you as his master. If he had, you could break a paltry divine formation with ease.”

“Well, good to know,” Su Yi said expressionlessly. “But you’re even less useful.”

“....” The Book of Karma didn’t know what to say. Fuck! Who’s the one who keeps using me as a shield? And who’s the one swinging me around like a brick? You call that useless?

In the end, the Book of Karma resisted the impulse to curse. It knew that this was a precarious situation, and it didn’t want to create trouble.

“Su Yi, I’ll give you one last chance to come quietly. If you do, you can escape death!” Fu Tianyi said coldly.

In his eyes, Su Yi was like a beast in a cage!

But Su Yi disregarded him and said, “You arranged for those divine emissaries to go to their deaths to activate this divine formation, didn’t you? You used their lives and fresh blood as a sacrifice, fusing them into the formation. I truly look down on your methods.”

His voice dripped with disdain.

Countless hearts quivered when they heard this.

A sacrifice! So, the eighty-one Great Unity experts and eighteen Great Profound experts had been exploited, used as sacrificial offerings to power the formation!

They finally understood why Fu Tianyi and the other divine children didn’t intervene when Su Yi slew their emissaries. In their eyes, their subordinates were no more than offerings!

“This…” Qi Nie, Xuan Zhong, and the others looked stricken. They were enraged and furious.

They hadn’t known about this either. They’d been kept in the dark, completely ignorant of what was happening behind the scenes. How could they have sent eighty-one Great Unity cultivators into battle with that knowledge?

The Great Profound cultivators were divine emissaries, but those eighty-one Great Unity experts were from Qi Nie and the others' respective factions. They were their seniors!

When the sect leaders realized this, their hearts filled with irrepressible fury and hatred. It might have seemed that the divine children were helping them fight Su Yi, but in truth, they didn’t take them the least bit seriously!!

No wonder Master told me to be on guard against Fu Tianyi’s attempts to exploit us, thought Qi Nie. He gnashed his teeth.

But Fu Tianyi just said coldly, “As I said, they didn’t shed their blood in vain. Besides, I’m avenging them now, aren’t I?”

His voice spread in all directions. He didn’t see anything wrong with using denizens of the Immortal Realm as cannon fodder and sacrificial lambs. They were just lowly servants, after all. Furthermore, it was because they were valuable that he deigned to use them; had they been useless, they wouldn’t have been worthy of serving him.

His heartless cruelty struck terror into the onlookers’ hearts and infuriated his allies. But Qi Nie, Xuan Zhong, and the others dared not give voice to their fury. No matter how stifled and aggrieved they felt, they could only force it back down. They had no choice but to lower their heads.

This was the fate of those who aided and abetted evildoers!

Moreover, they still needed Fu Tianyi’s help to defeat Su Yi. Who’d dare say something now?

The woman in black said urgently, “Fellow Daoist, can’t you see that Su Yi is stalling for time? We’d best suppress and kill him quickly. The longer we wait, the more likely we are to run into trouble!”

Fu Tianyi smiled inscrutably. “Don’t be in such a rush. He’s stalling for time, but am I not doing the same? Just watch, Fellow Daoist. The moment that determines the boy’s fate… will soon be upon us!”

As he spoke, he seemed to sense something, and he gazed up into the dome of heaven.@@novelbin@@

Beneath the dome of heaven, there was a spacetime rift torn open by the power of the divine formation. Now, something approached from far beyond the opening, and all of creation trembled beneath its terrifying aura!!