First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1446 - The Divine Emissary

Su Yi’s eyebrows rose. “Is that a threat?”

The elderly dwarf shook his head. “You’re the guest His Excellency wants to see. This old man wouldn’t dare to threaten you.”

Su Yi walked over to the illusory portal floating above the stone stele.

A hint of a smile tugged at the dwarf’s lips, as if he’d long since anticipated this. “If you please!”

But Su Yi just stood there, stroking his jaw as he looked at the dwarf. “Tell me, if I kill you, will it anger that divine emissary of yours?”

The dwarf’s smile froze in place, and he suddenly raised his head. “I’m an insignificant figure tasked only with watching over the gateway. Surely someone of your status wouldn’t make trouble for me?”

He was only two feet tall, bony, and hunched. He only reached Su Yi’s knees, making him seem extraordinarily paltry.

But as he spoke, terrifying, calamitous light undulated around him, and his bronze lantern silently swayed.

Su Yi’s gaze was calm and indifferent. He said slowly, “If you’re really so insignificant, go ahead and kneel before this lofty one. I’d like to hear you call me ‘grandfather.’”

The elderly dwarf was at a loss for words. His turbid eyes slowly glinted with sharp light. “Sir, you’d best enter the secret pathway immediately...”

Boom!

Before he could finish his sentence, Su Yi stretched out his left hand, his fingers as weighty as mountains as he suppressed the dwarf.

The dwarf was visibly enraged. He raised his green lantern into the air.

Whoosh~

The lantern rumbled and boomed, scattering crimson flames full of calamitous, destructive power.

But in the face of Su Yi’s palm swathed in the power of reincarnation, it broke like a paper window, then collapsed into pieces with a bang. Even the green lantern was smacked backward.

The look on the dwarf’s elderly face shifted abruptly, but by the time he tried to dodge, it was already too late. Su Yi’s palm sent him flying, and his bony frame practically shattered.

Immediately afterward, Su Yi reached for him from afar.

Boom!

The power of the curse filling the nearby skies shattered as the power of reincarnation burst forth. Even the massive stone stele shook violently.

“Break!”

The dwarf bellowed, took off the string of prayer beads hanging from his neck, and flung them at Su Yi.

This was obviously an incomparably mighty secret treasure. Calamitous power blanketed heaven and earth, and it smoothly blocked Su Yi’s attempt to grab him from afar.

“You call yourself insignificant, yet you wield such power?” Su Yi laughed coldly.

The dwarf’s expression darkened, then blurred into a beam of tribulation light and shot towards the illusory portal hovering over the stele.

Su Yi teleported through the air, then stretched out his right hand, as if trying to blot out the sun. It descended swathed in illusions of the Sixth Paths, bearing down on its surroundings.

Boom!

The air shook on all sides.

The tribulation light was blocked, scattering mid-journey, where it transformed into an elderly dwarf.

The dwarf staggered, but before he could react, Su Yi shot through the air and trapped him beneath his foot! No matter how hard the dwarf struggled, it was to no avail.

His aged face was full of humiliation and indignation.

When Su Yi saw this, he frowned as if disappointed. “Alright, now I believe you’re just an insignificant little watchdog. Come on then. Call me ‘grandpa’ and I’ll let you live.”

The dwarf’s face was ashen, and his gaze was sinister. “Do this, and your companion will only suffer even greater torment!”

Bang!

Su Yi forced his foot down, crushing the dwarf into an illusory rain of gray light.

Strangely, a few blinks of the eye later, the cursed power surrounding the stele surged, and the elderly dwarf reformed.

However, his figure was extraordinarily indistinct, as ethereal as smoke.

Su Yi couldn’t help but find this surprising. He could tell that the old man was a strange spiritual body born of the mysterious stone stele.

So long as the stele remained, the old man was all but unkillable.

“Just you wait!!” the dwarf hissed in fury, then fled into the illusory portal.

“The anger of the inept.” Su Yi’s eyes shone with ridicule.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed. Both the green lantern and the black prayer beads fell into his hands.

These were the elderly dwarf’s treasures.

After Su Yi looked them over, he couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows. Both treasures were refined out of the calamitous power of the End of the Dharma!

Their power shared a common source with the blood-red lightning he’d gathered along the way and the cursed power emanating from the stone stele!

“There’s really someone in this world capable of refining the End of the Dharma’s power into treasures?”

Su Yi found this revelation quite surprising.

After all, during the End of the Dharma, a catastrophe swept across the Human Realm, destroying the Path of Transcendence and eradicating too many immortals to count.

Even Void Realm True Immortals perished, becoming revenants.

Not even extraordinary existences like Daoist Master Red Cloud escaped disaster!

Yet someone had absorbed and refined the power of the End of the Dharma. How could Su Yi not be surprised?

Anyone who could achieve such a thing was sure to be extraordinary!

Perhaps this was the work of the “divine emissary” the elderly dwarf spoke of.

Su Yi rubbed his forehead as he realized that there was a problem.

The so-called “divine emissary” had most likely long since set his sights on him. That was why he’d captured Daoist Master Red Cloud.

His goal was to force Su Yi to come see him!

Su Yi didn’t even need to think to know that the divine emissary was after the power of reincarnation.

But realizing this actually made Su Yi calmer. If nothing else, that the divine emissary was going to such lengths meant he wouldn’t hurt Daoist Master Red Cloud before achieving his goal.

“I’m actually quite curious to see just what kind of person this so-called ‘divine emissary’ is.”

As he pondered, Su Yi used the power of reincarnation to seal the green lantern and the prayer beads, then put them away.

He then turned his attention toward the illusory portal.

But it was then that another figure emerged from the portal!

He was handsome and dressed in a feather coat, with broad sleeves and a wide belt. This was none other than Holy Son Gu Yuanque of Vast Ocean Mountain!

When the divine chains ambushed them, they dragged both Gu Yuanque and Daoist Master Red Cloud into the fog. But now, Gu Yuanque had appeared!

Su Yi instantly sensed that something wasn’t right.

Strange, calamitous power emanated from Gu Yuanque, and there were wisps of cursed power floating around his eyes.

“The spirit of the stele was blind, and his attitude was poor. Please, don’t take offense, Fellow Daoist.” Gu Yuanque clasped his fist and bowed to Su Yi.

Su Yi’s eyes narrowed. “Are you the divine emissary?”

Gu Yuanque said warmly, “No, I’m merely one of the Divine Emissary’s attendants. I was ordered to welcome you on his behalf, Fellow Daoist. I trust that you have many questions, but all will become clear once you’ve met with His Excellency.”

Su Yi said thoughtfully, “It seems the divine emissary you speak of... is rather desperate to see me.”

Gu Yuanque looked stunned. “Don’t you wish to reunite with your companion as soon as possible?”

Su Yi said calmly, “I’m in no rush. How about this? Go back and tell the divine emissary that if he wishes to see me, he can come here himself.”

“You want the Divine Emissary to welcome you personally?” Gu Yuanque seemed to find this difficult to believe. He almost suspected he’d misheard.

His eyes shone with irrepressible fury. “Don’t you think you’re over the line?”

Su Yi said with cold indifference, “Over the line? He took my companion hostage. That was over the line. You’d best go back and report to him right now.”

Gu Yuanque was stunned. Just... who’s threatening whom? Is he really not at all concerned about his companion’s life or death!?

In the end, Gu Yuanque repressed his anger, turned, and passed through the illusory portal.

Meanwhile, Su Yi sank into thought.

He could say with certainty that the divine emissary was far more frantic than him. He was not only waiting for Su Yi to come, but downright afraid that he wouldn't!

That implied that the divine emissary had some sort of goal, one he was dead-set on reaching. Su Yi might have plenty of room to maneuver now, but the moment he agreed to enter the Abandoned Monument, he’d likely find himself trapped in a passive position.

The thought made Su Yi smile; he suddenly felt eager. This sort of unknown peril was actually rather interesting!

Time slipped by. Su Yi sat there, his legs crossed, drinking joyfully from a jug of wine.

An hour.

Two hours.

Four hours.

...When the sixth hour rolled around, an aged voice emanated from within the illusory portal. “I am confined here, and cannot come out to greet you. I’m afraid I'll have to trouble you to come see me in the Abandoned Monument, Fellow Daoist.”

The voice didn’t contain even the slightest fluctuation of emotion.

Su Yi smiled and said unhurriedly, “I have three questions. I’ll come see you immediately so long as I’m satisfied with your answers.”

After a moment’s silence, the aged voice said, “I cannot tell you my identity, but I can answer all other questions.”

Su Yi’s eyebrows rose, but he nodded. “Very well. First, why do you want to see me?”

“For reincarnation,” said the aged voice. “I trust you deduced that a long time ago, Fellow Daoist. There’s no need to hide it.”

“Now for my second question,” said Su Yi. “Why were you so certain I’d come to the Starjade Forbidden Zone?”

“I wasn’t. I’m trapped here, and all I can do is wait. Furthermore... I’ve been waiting a long, long time. Now, a thread of a chance has finally arrived.”

His tone contained a hint of desolation and frustration.

Su Yi thought for a moment, then rose. “Very well. I’ll come see you now.”

The owner of that aged voice was obviously stunned. He instinctively asked, “Weren’t you going to ask me three questions?”

“There’s already no further need,” said Su Yi. He was already walking toward the illusory portal.

“Welcome!” that aged voice extended another invitation. This time, it contained an undisguisable hint... of excitement!

Whoosh!

A rain of light flowed around the illusory portal, and Su Yi instantly disappeared without a trace.

“Reincarnator, have you finally cast yourself into the net?”

That aged voice rang out once more. Then, as if unable to repress his excitement, the speaker burst into laughter.

The sound of laughter echoed throughout the cursed light blanketing heaven and earth.

The thousand-foot stone stele rumbled, and the air shook as the illusory portal silently faded away.

Boom!

Heaven and earth spun on their axis as the stars shifted.

It was as if time and space were interweaving and shifting. More than ever before, Su Yi felt as if he were being swept away by the currents of time and space.

His brow furrowed, and his hand formed a seal. He circulated his power of the Grand Dao and unleashed a secret art. “Suppress!”

He suddenly rose to his full height, as if sloughing off invisible shackles, instantly freeing himself from the currents threatening to sweep him away.

But it was then that a startled cry rang out.