First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1779 - Descent

As the red-robed Immortal Kunwu spoke, he looked at Su Yi. He’d obviously cast all reservations aside, and he seemed deranged.

He hissed, “Your Excellency, there’s something I’ve never understood. Please enlighten me!”

“Speak,” said Su Yi.

“During the Age of Fallen Immortals, I could only watch helplessly as my other three bodies died brutal deaths beneath the cataclysm. My life hung in the balance too. I vowed that if anyone saved my life, I’d work tirelessly on their behalf, no matter who they were!”

The red-robed Immortal Kunwu said slowly and clearly, “Tell me, Your Excellency, if someone saved you after you made such a vow, wouldn’t you serve them too?”

Su Yi instantly understood. During the Age of Fallen Immortals, someone from the Floating Mountain must have saved the red-robed Immortal Kunwu’s life. The red-robed Immortal Kunwu then chose to serve him to carry out his vow!

The vow was the reason behind the red-robed Immortal Kunwu’s promise!

In a sense, the red-robed Immortal Kunwu was just keeping his word, and there was nothing to criticize.

But he’d still chosen to help Floating Mountain hurt the white-robed Immortal Kunwu, and Su Yi, too. That was no different from betrayal!

“Did Floating Mountain force you to do this?” Su Yi asked after a moment’s silence.

The red-robed Immortal Kunwu smiled bleakly. “Does it make a difference? Back then, who in the Immortal Realm didn’t know that Yun Feijing, the founder of Floating Mountain, died by your hand?”

Su Yi said coldly, “Then why attack Ol’ Metal?”

The red-robed Immortal Kunwu’s expression shifted. In the end, he said nothing. “Just as a monk cannot love both a woman and the Buddha, a man cannot serve two masters. Your Excellency, all I want to know is, in my shoes, what would you have chosen?”

Su Yi said calmly, “Ol’ Fire, you fought by my side all those years. Surely you know that even in the face of death, I would never have made such a vow? I would never have placed my life into another’s hands in the first place.”

The red-robed Immortal Kunwu was stunned.

A moment later, he seemed overcome with emotion. The rims of his eyes reddened, and his expression contorted. “Your Excellency, if I told you that the very moment I was saved, I already regretted my vow... would you believe me?”

He smiled bleakly. “My decision has tormented me like a heart devil for countless years, fettering my Dao Heart. It’s been like a fishbone stuck in my throat, and I’ve known no peace since, but... it’s already too late to turn back....”

He took a deep breath, then gazed up at the dome of heaven. “I promised long ago that I’d usher the divine son into the Immortal Realm even if it cost me my life, and I naturally have to keep my word!

“I, Ol’ Fire, have made many mistakes in my life. Perhaps the only thing worth taking pride in is that I’ve always kept my promises...”

Boom!

His body instantly caught ablaze, and his source energy fused into the Grounds of Divine Sacrifice. An arc of divine light instantly started outlining a spacetime portal in the sky!

“Ol’ Fire! It’s not too late for you to turn back! Continue being stubborn, and you’ll only kill yourself!” The white-robed Immortal Kunwu’s eyes bulged, his heart full of frantic panic.

Su Yi didn’t waste any time talking. He immediately intervened.

Clang!

The Sword of the Human Realm appeared in his palm. Su Yi circulated the mysteries of reincarnation and slashed at the Grounds of Divine Sacrifice.

The power of this slash was far, far greater than the one Su Yi had used before. Even the Kunwu Divine Tree suffered a heavy impact, and numerous branches snapped and broke.

Contrary to Su Yi’s expectations, the Grounds of Divine Sacrifice was incomparably mystical. The nine bronze formation flags rumbled and boomed, blocking his attack!

“Sovereign, it’s useless. Divine Venerate Qing Di refined those nine formation flags, and he’s a true High-Ranked God! Even at your former peak, you would have struggled to destroy his secret treasures,” said the red-robed Immortal Kunwu with a sigh.

He straightened his back, but bis entire body burned like a candle, his figure rapidly growing more and more indistinct.

Meanwhile, deep within the dome of heaven, the spacetime portal was gradually materializing! They were indistinct, but two figures were just barely visible from beyond the gateway. They’d obviously been waiting there even prior to the ritual.

Su Yi’s brow furrowed, and he attacked once more without the slightest hesitation.

This time, he drew upon the Sword of the Nine Hells!!

Boom!!

The Grounds of Divine Sacrifice broke, and the nine formation flags scattered.

The tyrannical power of that slash created a perfectly straight rift through heaven and earth. Even the Kunwu Divine Tree’s towering trunk was damaged.

But Su Yi was ultimately one step too late.

A portal through space and time arose deep within the firmament, and an indescribable, taboo air billowed outward, shaking the entire Kunwu Hidden Realm.

By now, the red-robed Immortal Kunwu’s figure was blurry almost beyond recognition.

He suddenly whipped around, faced Su Yi, and said, “Your Excellency, I’ve made so many mistakes. It’s only right that I pay for them with my life.

“All of you should hurry up and leave. When the divine son gets here, I’m afraid you won’t get another opportunity to flee.”

The red-robed Immortal Kunwu faced Su Yi, then bowed.”Your humble subordinate shall be leaving ahead!”

Bang!

The red-robed Immortal Kunwu dissipated into ash. Just like that, he was gone.

The white-robed Immortal Kunwu stood there in a daze, overcome with a mix of grief and rage.

“If you hadn’t clung desperately to life then, you would never have died such a sorry death.” Su Yi sighed to himself.

Sometimes, the pitiful brought their misfortunes upon themselves. Ol’ Fire was a vivid example of that!

Boom——!

Deep within the dome of heaven, the spacetime portal rumbled and boomed, and a turbulent storm of spacetime power appeared around it.

The two figures beyond the gateway were now clearly visible.

A man and a woman.

The man was tall and majestic. He was dressed in purple, with a golden jade crown and youthful features.

He walked with his hands behind his back, and his eyes glittered like stars. A fist-sized golden jade tripod cauldron floated in front of him, reflecting a stingingly bright, golden power of the Laws that blocked the turbulent spacetime power.

The woman beside him hugged a sheathed sword to her chest. Her long hair was tied up, and she wore a long black dress. Her skin was as fair and smooth as snow.

She was tall, thin, and extraordinarily beautiful, with eyes that glinted like swords, with a cold, aloof air about her. Her entire body emanated imposing murderous intent.

There was no doubt about it. The purple-robed man was the divine son the Floating Mountain was trying to usher in!

The woman with the sheathed sword seemed more like an attendant.

There was no need to even question it. The moment the portal stabilized, both of them would charge through and descend into the Immortal Realm!

When Su Yi saw this, he quickly issued orders, “Ol’ Metal, put away the Kunwu Divine Tree. Red Cloud, take Xing Que and hide inside the Divine Replenishment Furnace.”

With that, Su Yi took out the furnace and put Daoist Master Red Cloud and Xing Que inside.

The white-robed Immortal Kunwu didn’t dare to be negligent. He shot ahead, straight into the Kunwu Divine Tree.

The towering tree instantly shrank countless times over. In the end, it was just the size of a fist.

The white-robed Immortal Kunwu’s much reduced figure appeared over one of its branches. He cried out frantically, “Hurry up and run, Your Excellency!”

Su Yi shook his head slightly. “You should hide for now, too.”

As he spoke, he placed the now palm-sized Kunwu Divine Tree and white-robed Immortal Kunwu into the Divine Replenishment Furnace.

Then, he rose into the heavens, swinging the Sword of the Human Realm at the spacetime portal.

The red-robed Immortal Kunwu had died to usher in this so-called “divine son.” How could Su Yi possibly just give up and let him enter the Immortal Realm?

Admittedly, the red-robed Immortal Kunwu had done this of his own volition, but hadn’t he been pushed to it by his vow?

When the purple-robed man and woman in black saw this, they were unwittingly stunned. It seemed they dared not believe that someone would impede their descent into the Immortal Realm.

Boom!!

Sword qi cleaved into the spacetime portal, like white light piercing the sun.

But the storm of spacetime power was far too terrifying. It instantly neutralized most of Su Yi’s sword qi, and by the time the remaining power reached its target, it barely managed to shake the portal.

Su Yi couldn’t help but frown.

Back in the Buzhou Mountains, he personally stopped the leader of the Church of All Spirits from ushering in Divine Son Lu Feng.

But Su Yi did it by disrupting the Church of All Spirits’ ceremony. This was different. The red-robed Immortal Kunwu had already offered up his source energy to open a spacetime portal. The ritual was already complete, so stopping the divine son’s descent was already incomparably difficult!

But... Su Yi didn’t give up. He attacked again without the slightest politeness. Dense sword qi rose into the firmament, launching a relentless onslaught.

“He’s blatantly blaspheming against the gods. He must face divine retribution!!”

The two Immortal King experts of the Floating Mountain had survived the earlier danger. When they saw what Su Yi was trying to do, they were overcome with anger and shock.

But they dared not get any closer! Su Yi was just too terrifying. He could kill them as easily as he could turn over his palm.

“Esteemed Divine Son, I’ll go destroy him!”

The woman hugging a sheathed sword to her chest erupted with murderous intent. She was obviously enraged.

The portal had yet to fully stabilize, but Su Yi was relentlessly attacking it. It was starting to show signs of instability.

The purple-robed man frowned. “Bai Liu, if you force your way through now, you’ll face an inevitable backlash from the Immortal Realm’s natural order...”

“A backlash, that’s all! I might get badly injured, but I’m confident I’ll survive with enough strength to crush that blasphemous, self-conceited little wretch!” the woman in the black dress said icily. “Please grant me this request, Esteemed Divine Son!”

“Very well. I’ll help you.” The man in purple hesitated no longer. Suddenly, he poured the full extent of his strength into the golden jade tripod cauldron in front of him.

Boom!

Glittering golden power of the Laws erupted from the cauldron. Shockingly, it forced open a path right to the portal and into the Immortal Realm.

The woman in the black dress, Bai Liu, seized the opportunity to dash through it.

But before she’d gotten far, turbulent spacetime power swept across her, and the power of the Immortal Realm’s natural order slammed into her.

At a critical juncture, she bit through the tip of her tongue, activated a secret technique, and raised a glittering silver disc into the air.

The Spirit-Inversion Yin-Yang Disc!

This was the life-saving treasure she kept in reserve, a supreme treasure of the Great Realm!

When light erupted from the disc, it blocked the otherwise lethal onslaught.

The blink of an eye later——

Crunch!

The supreme Great Realm treasure split into pieces. Even the woman in black was badly injured; half of her body was torn open.

The turbulent spacetime power was just too terrifying!

That aside, she suffered a backlash from the natural order of the Immortal Dao, making her injuries even worse!

Fortunately, sacrificing her treasure was just enough to save her life. She escaped disaster just in time, blurred into a beam of black light, and descended from the heavens!