First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 2134 – A Sword Sheath

He was a thin man with distinctive features and long robes.

The final opponent of the ninth divine tower was his third incarnation, Xiao Jian, yet again!

However, unlike the Xiao Jian in the sixth divine tower, this Xiao Jian had no will, awareness, or vitality. He was purely a manifestation of the power of the Laws.

“I wouldn’t have guessed that he was unsurpassed in all past epochs in the Fortune Realm, too,” exclaimed Su Yi.

But this was exactly what he wanted, because this final trial tested the cultivation base. Now, he and Xiao Jian could compete once more!

Clang!

Xiao Jian waved his hand through the air, and a Dao Sword condensed in his grip. Then, he took a step forward and swung his weapon.

His Dao of the Sword hadn’t changed: his deep mastery of the Grand Dao took the form of ultimate simplicity. As unassuming as it looked, every streak of sword qi brimmed with unbelievable power.

Su Yi dared not be negligent. He attacked directly.

Boom!

His internal Sea of Chaos churned, and the Epoch Spark cast a rain of light as his cultivation base circulated to the very limit.

When he attacked, chaos qi rose and light flashed with every strike. Soon, he and Xiao Jian were locked in fierce combat.

The sea of chaos clouds was thrown into upheaval, with eye-piercing, terrifying streaks of sword qi all over the place.

After stepping into divinity, Su Yi’s biggest change was that his cultivation base had transformed into divine power, and his Laws of the Grand Dao had been refined into Divine Laws.

It was a qualitative change. The gods stood above the experts of the Great Realm primarily because of their Divine Laws and divine power.

Kaboom!

Sword qi swept out like the tides, like the river of stars coursing through the nine heavens, and like turbulent winds. Every time Su Yi struck, he seemed to manifest all Daos with his sword.

It was in stark contrast with his third incarnation’s swordsmanship. Su Yi’s swordsmanship could manifest all Daos, while Xiao Jian’s swordsmanship could cut through all Daos!

Neither was fundamentally superior or inferior. It all came down to whose cultivation base and foundations in the Grand Dao were stronger.

Throughout the course of the battle, numerous revelations flooded into Su Yi’s mind, as well as legacies of the sword he’d never used before!

These revelations and legacies belonged to his fifth incarnation, Li Fuyou.

Prior to this, Su Yi had yet to become a god. Despite fusing with Li Fuyou’s power of the Grand Dao, many of Li Fuyou’s experiences and legacies were inextricably tied to the Divine Dao. Su Yi, who was not yet a god, could not yet grasp them.

But it was different now. Su Yi was a god, too!

As a god, Su Yi could fuse with all of Li Fuyou’s experiences and knowledge of the Divine Dao and all related legacies.

Now, all of these revelations, experiences, and legacies came into play as Su Yi fought!

As the battle raged on, Su Yi fused with these experiences, revelations, and legacies, fully digesting them and making them his own. Thus, the more he fought, the stronger he became!

Before long——

Splurt!

Bloody light scattered, and a streak of sword qi pierced Su Yi in the back, tearing his flesh and skin open.

But at the same time, sword qi slammed into Xiao Jian, forcing him several hundred feet back.

At that moment, their clash of the Dao of the Sword reached peak intensity.

Ten snaps of the fingers later, Su Yi’s whole body was smeared with blood and riddled with wounds. Xiao Jian was covered in numerous criss-crossing long gashes, too.

It was just too brutal!

Even though Su Yi had stepped onto an unprecedented path of divinity, Xiao Jian was a supreme expert among Fortune Realm Greater Gods. He still put enormous pressure on Su Yi.

Thirty snaps of the fingers later.

Bang!!!

Sword qi flowed, natural and smooth, but with unstoppable force. It ripped through Xiao Jian’s defenses as if they were made of rotten wood, then pierced his chest.

But practically simultaneously, one of Xiao Jian’s attacks sent Su Yi flying backward, a waterfall of blood gushing from the wound!

“You’ve lost.” Su Yi wiped the blood from his lips, then smiled, his gaze full of the utmost pride.

Off in the distance, Xiao Jian’s battered frame split, scattered into a rain of light, and dissipated.

It was true. Xiao Jian had lost!

This was different from the battle atop the sixth divine tower. Then, the Limit Realm Xiao Jian had left Su Yi sprawled out on the ground, his body, soul, and cultivation base on the verge of collapse, without even a thread of strength left!

This time, Xiao Jian was a supreme Fortune Realm Greater God, but Su Yi had defeated him in a direct confrontation.

It was a hard-fought, brutal victory, but even so, Su Yi couldn’t help but be rueful.

The Limit Realm Xiao Jian might well have been the strongest Greater God of any past epoch, but relying purely on his own strength, he could never have killed an Undying Realm Master God. He could only have pulled it off if he relied on some external power!

With that, Su Yi sat cross-legged and silently replayed the battle in full detail.

In terms of raw strength in the Fortune Realm, Xiao Jian and Li Fuyou were roughly comparable. The Fortune Realm Li Fuyou couldn’t have defeated a Master God. At least, not relying on his own strength.

The reason was simple. Becoming a Master God meant becoming truly Undying!

No matter how heaven-defying a Greater God was, they could at most fight Master Gods. Actually defeating or killing one was almost impossible.

Of course, it was a different story if you used certain taboo killer weapons or external powers.

Li Fuyou had pulled it off before. Back in the Fortune Realm, he used his personal weapon, Phoenix Song, and a wisp of the Sword of the Nine Hells’ power to defeat a One-Tribulation Master God!

Su Yi was confident that the Fortune Realm Xiao Jian had killed Master Gods too, but he was also certain that he’d used external power to do so.

A Greater God’s Fortune Realm Laws of the Grand Dao couldn’t destroy something Undying.

Undying meant ageless and indestructible! If you couldn’t destroy the Undying, how could you kill them?

But I’m still just in the early-stage Creation Realm, and my Path of Divinity is starkly different from that of other people. I’ll naturally have a chance to break that ironclad rule and destroy the Undying one day!

Of course, Su Yi wasn’t arrogant enough to look down on Master Gods.

Master Gods had to overcome the Nine Dao-Refining Tribulations. They were thus subdivided into nine levels accordingly.

Su Yi’s current goal was simply to defeat a One-Tribulation Master God.

I just wonder if there are opponents like that in the Ancient God Domain. The Seven Great Celestial Venerates are all at least Six-Tribulation Master Gods.

The strongest of them, Celestial Venerate Brilliant Universe, is a Nine-Tribulation Master God! I might have become a god, but I’m still far from capable of fighting someone like him.

Suddenly, the sound of a bell rang out, and the ninth divine tower rumbled and emanated brilliant light.

When the crowd gathered outside saw this, a weight seemed to lift from their shoulders. They finally felt reassured.

He’d won again! And created yet another new record!

In just one day, Su Yi broke the records of all of the Nine Great Celestial Trials! This was a true, unprecedented miracle! This time, it wasn’t just the ninth divine tower that rumbled. The entire trial grounds resonated with it, and a rain of light fell.

A bell rang, resounding throughout the entirety of the Ancient God Domain, as if announcing the birth of a new, unprecedented miracle.

Everyone beneath the heavens was astonished. The whole world shook!

……

“A long, long time has passed since the Nine Great Celestial Trials first appeared in the Path of the Ancient Gods, but no one has ever accomplished this before!” said Celestial Venerate Brilliant Universe with a complicated look on his face.

“Su Yi… really is far too terrifying. He’s a true Transgressor. You can’t judge him with common sense,” Celestial Venerate Purple Lightning said darkly. “But that’s exactly what I don’t get. Why… have those Primordial Ancestral Gods forbidden us from attacking him?”

The other Celestial Venerates were instantly bitter, too.

Su Yi had single-handedly overcome all of the Nine Great Celestial Trials, setting one new record after another in each. He’d even achieved divinity mid-trial, inviting an unprecedented, astonishing, calamitous tribulation.

Shouldn’t they eliminate an enemy like that as soon as possible!?

Besides, Su Yi was that swordsman’s reincarnation! The one who’d consigned those Primordial Ancestral Gods to the darkness!!

Celestial Venerate Burning Winds said gravely, “My master says that anyone who dares violate orders will die, him included. Not even the Primordial Ancestral Gods dare to act recklessly.”

The others’ hearts shook, and their expressions shifted.

Celestial Venerate Burning Winds’ Master was the Lingyu Dao Monarch, a mysterious Primordial Ancestral God. If not even he dared to violate these orders, it was obvious how terrifying the one who issued them must be!

The Celestial Venerates instantly dispelled all notions of wiping out Su Yi.

……

The Abyssal Ruin.

Xiao Jian sat in his chair in front of the bronze coffin, his gaze a bit strange.

He could hear the bell too!

It wasn’t just him, either. All of the terrifying existences consigned to the darkness of the Abyssal Ruin could hear it too.

It was just that none of them dared say anything. They certainly didn’t dare to make any attempts on Su Yi’s life.

All of them knew that the Dragon-Headed Daoist had taken action without permission earlier, and that Xiao Jian had annihilated him for it! Who’d dare say anything after that?

He’s only just become a Creation Realm Lesser God, but he can already defeat me as I was at the pinnacle of the Fortune Realm. This new and different Path of Divinity really is far too unbelievable.

If all goes as I expect, it won’t be long before he’ll break yet another ironclad rule and slay an Undying Realm Master God!

Xiao Jian suddenly felt a nigh imperceptible hint of urgency.

He furrowed his brow. It was true that there was still a huge gap between him and Su Yi, but Su Yi’s latent potential and unique path put unprecedented pressure on him.

Su Yi had just defeated the strongest Greater Gods in history as a new Lesser God. His latent potential was simply far too terrifying.

But isn’t this, in a sense, exactly what I was hoping for? Xiao Jian gently rubbed his fingers together. Thirty years, that’s all. That won’t be too late at all. When the time comes, he’ll lose, and replace him entirely!

……

Atop the ninth divine tower.

As the bell rang, an inscrutable Dao Light fell from the heavens. When it appeared before Su Yi, it solidified into a sheath.

It was only about a foot long, and it was completely covered in rust. It looked as if it were about to rot away completely.

It looked incomparably ancient, but there was nothing else overtly special about it.

Su Yi gazed intently at the sheath. He almost expected that the ninth divine tower had goofed. Otherwise, how could it have given him a piece of rusted trash as a reward?

It was only a foot long, rustled, and it lacked even the barest hint of spirituality. It wouldn’t have looked at all out of place in a rubbish heap!

Still, this was the greatest reward of the Nine Great Celestial Trials. The more unassuming it seemed, the more it piqued Su Yi’s curiosity.

He stretched out his hand to take it.

Just where… did this sheath come from?

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