First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1516 - No One in the Immortal Realm Can Stop Me

After a moment’s silence, the man in Confucian robes suddenly transmitted, “My young friend, if you wait until the emissary of the Church of the Pure One arrives, I’m afraid you and the other ascendants will all be in for danger!”

Su Yi’s expression didn’t so much as waver. “What makes you say that?”

The man in Confucian robes’ eyes flashed. “You’re the first batch of ascendants to the Immortal Realm in a long, long time. You’ve long since drawn the attention of the Immortal Realm’s factions. Do you know why only we have come here to welcome you today despite that? It’s simple! The Church of the Pure One sealed off all intelligence and diverted others' attention elsewhere.

“A year ago, they spread rumors that those passing through the Immortal Realm’s gates would most likely appear in the Dark, Gold, White, or Jade Provinces, but they never mentioned the Jing Province! This is what they call stealing the sky to swap out the sun, or creating a ruse in the east to attack the west! And they did all of this to ensure that everyone rising to the Immortal Realm remained under their exclusive control!”

This explanation finally cleared up some of Su Yi’s confusion.

Even prior to the Age of Fallen Immortals, whenever the Gates to the Immortal Realm opened, it drew enormous attention from throughout the forty-nine provinces. Numerous factions were sure to appear and send their emissaries to elucidate the rules of the Central Immortal Court and select disciples from among the ascendants.

Yet now, the Gates of the Immortal Realm had opened for the first time in ages, but the area around the Jing Province’s Ascension Grounds was all but empty, with only emissaries from a dozen factions.

Furthermore, although these immortals hailed from different sects, all of them served the Church of the Pure One!

Before, Su Yi had been a bit surprised, and he’d wondered when the Church of the Pure One had grown strong enough to monopolize the Ascension Grounds.

Now, he finally understood. The Church of the Pure One had begun making arrangements a year prior, using false information to trick the Immortal Realm’s other top factions.

They’d even sent their forces here in secret to monopolize the Jing Province’s Ascension Grounds!

“Isn’t the Church of the Pure One worried that information will leak?” asked Su Yi.

The man in Confucian robes smiled. “No. They’ve been preparing for this for a long time, and even if word does leak, they have nothing to be afraid of. They sent their forces to take over the Ascension Ground on the Jing Province’s White Deer Mountain a year ago. Given the circumstances, even if word does get out, what immortal faction will dare hold them accountable?”

Here, the man’s tone was rife with meaning. “And the Church of the Pure One is dead set on acquiring you new ascendants. I’m afraid they don’t have anything good in mind.”

The man paused, then said, “But if you’re willing to come with you, you have no need to fear failing to establish yourself in the Immortal Realm!”

Su Yi couldn’t help but laugh. He could tell that despite all that talk, the man in Confucian robes just wanted to take him away. He was surely plotting something too.

“Why laugh, my young friend?” The man in Confucian robes frowned.

Su Yi took a deep look at him. “I suddenly recalled a certain phrase.”

“Which phrase?”

“Those who offer unsolicited hospitality harbor ill intentions.”

The man in Confucian robes was briefly stunned. His face reddened, and his gaze filled with anger. He’d obviously been provoked.

But Su Yi just looked at calmly and said nothing at all. Against his expectations, the man in Confucian robes endured and said nothing at all. He just sank into silence.

“Finally, someone sensible.” Su Yi commented with a chuckle.

The man in Confucian robes was so angry that he felt the urge to wipe the grin off Su Yi’s face with his fist. Sensible? How is a paltry little new ascendant like you qualified to put on such airs before me?

As the man in Confucian robes glowered, Su Yi walked up to Sword Immortal Qingshi and said, “Come on, let’s get out of here and have a walk around White Deer Cliff.”

This wasn’t a transmission, so everyone nearby heard every word clearly.

The crowd was stunned, and all of them looked over.

Even the immortal experts stationed outside the Ascension Palace looked decidedly unfriendly. Liu Yunzhong had ordered that no one was to leave until the emissary of the Church of the Pure One arrived. Who’d have thought someone would openly announce his intention of leaving?

Even the motionless, gaunt old man on the shore of the Immortal Transformation Pool twitched his eyelids!

“My young friend, White Deer Cliff isn’t far from here. If you want to take a stroll, you can wait until after the emissary of the Church of the Pure One arrives,” laughed Luo Yunzhong. The other emissaries nodded along.

They all thought extremely highly of Su Yi for the simple reason that he’d reached the Immortal Realm without first breaking into the Cloud Soaring Realm. This was a simply unprecedented feat!

“No need.” Su Yi shook his head and proceeded outside. Sword Immortal Qingshi followed shortly behind him.

Luo Yunzhong and the other Emissaries of Welcoming were stunned. Even Yu Chen, Qin Suxin, Ren Changqing, and the other new ascendants were surprised.

Liu Yunjing had his subordinates had sealed off the entire area, yet Su Yi insisted on leaving. Surely he wasn’t ignorant of the consequences of that?

That kid... don’t tell me he realized that something was amiss during our conversation, and that he’s in a hurry to flee? The man in Confucian robes furrowed his brow, and his eyelids twitched.

“Stop right there!” One of the immortal experts stationed nearby stepped forth to intercept Su Yi. He was a tall, stalwart man in armor, and he glared at Su Yi with seething murderous intent. “Those who leave without permission will be executed without mercy!”

The other immortal experts looked over as well, their expressions decidedly unfriendly.

“Little friend, hurry back! Don’t bring disaster upon yourself!” Luo Yunzhong hurriedly called out.

At the same time, he transmitted a warning to Su Yi. He said that the hundred-plus experts of the Immortal Dao were Liu Yunjing’s Universe Realm subordinates. They were from a Jing Province cultivation faction known as the Falling Cloud Immortal Sect, and although it wasn’t an Immortal Lord faction, their foundations were extraordinarily powerful. It wouldn’t do to underestimate them.

Su Yi shook his head, not at all concerned. Way back when, the vast majority of Immortal Lord factions were beneath Wang Ye’s notice, let alone a sect that didn’t even qualify as an Immortal Lord Faction.

Admittedly, he’d yet to become an immortal, but unless an Immortal Lord visited in person, he truly had nothing to worry about!

“My young friend...” Luo Yunzhong started to say something.

But Su Yi just smiled and said, “As large as the Immortal Realm is, there’s nowhere I cannot go. If I want to leave, no one in the Immortal Realm can stop me.”

With that, he continued into the distance.

His words left Luo Yunzhong unwittingly stunned. The others were dazed too. Is that any way for someone who’s only just reached the Immortal Realm to talk!? How arrogant!

Earlier, Su Yi had been calm and subdued, not revealing anything. He’d been keeping a low profile.

But now, Luo Yunzhong and the other Emissaries of Welcoming realized that the young man they thought so highly of was actually this wantonly arrogant!

Yu Chen, Qin Suxin, and the others naturally knew how domineering and contemptuous Su Yi was. They’d witnessed it with their own eyes in the Domain Boundary Battlefield.

But they would never have guessed that he wouldn’t tone it down in the slightest even after reaching the Immortal Realm!

They even couldn’t help but feel a bit ashamed of themselves. In contrast, the other new ascendants had all been reserved, meek, and awed before these long-established immortals!

Of the other ascendants, Sword Immortal Qingshi was the calmest.

Back in the Eastern Profound Star Domain, Mo Qingchou, a scion of an Immortal Lord Clan, respected Su Yi immensely. Even an extraordinary existence like Daoist Master Red Cloud dared not look down on him.

Besides, countless immortal revenants had already fallen at Su Yi’s hands, including no small number of Void Realm True Immortal revenants!

How could Su Yi possibly fear the immortals present here?

“Little bastard! If you insist on doing this the hard way, we’ll punish you severely!”

The armored man bellowed, then attacked directly.

Boom!

He stretched out his right hand. It was enormous, the size of a cattail leaf fan, and immortal light wrapped around his fingers. The Laws interwove with terrifying power.

He was, after all, a Universe Realm Immortal.

The power of his casual strike made many of the new ascendants’ hearts jump with fright. They felt enormous pressure.

Only Yu Chen, Qin Suxin, and the others remained outwardly calm. Inwardly, however, they were solemn. They knew that in Su Yi’s shoes, they would have to go all out to block such a strike.

“Be careful!” Luo Yunzhong immediately stepped forward to defend Su Yi and neutralize this attack for him.

It didn’t matter how brazenly Su Yi had spoken earlier. Luo Yunzhong still couldn’t bear the thought of such a good seedling meeting with disaster.

“Oh, seriously now. Just stand aside and watch.” A soft, exasperated sigh rang out, and Su Yi swung his sleeve.

Luo Yunzhong had only just rushed to his aid, but it was as if an invisible power held him aloft, then returned him to his initial position.

At the same time, Su Yi took a step forward and swung his palm.

It was just one light, airy strike, but it was like a divine mountain in motion. It shattered the tall, stalwart man’s strike with ease.

A deafening explosion rang out, and everyone watched in astonishment as the tall, stalwart immortal’s armor shattered into countless fragments.

As for the tall, stalwart man himself? He was forced to the ground, battered and bleeding. Throughout his body, countless bones had snapped!

One slap, and Su Yi had suppressed an immortal!

This tyrannical strike left everyone who saw it dumbstruck. Is it... possible for someone who only just ascended to possess such power!?

Yu Chen, Qin Suxin, Ren Changqing, and the others looked at each other, their hearts full of astonishment.

These former top experts of the Cloud Soaring Realm suddenly realized on a visceral level just how wide the gap between them and Su Yi was!

Yun Luozhong and the other Emissaries of Welcoming were stunned too. Their faces were full of astonishment. How is that young man so heaven-defying? He hasn’t even stepped into the Cloud Soaring Realm yet!

“How is this...”

The hundred-plus immortals of the Falling Cloud Immortal Sect were stunned too, to the point that their jaws practically fell off.

They were that tall, stalwart man’s sectmates. They naturally knew how terrifyingly powerful his foundations were compared to other Universe Realm immortals, and they would never have guessed that a single palm strike would suppress him! He’d been swatted like a fly!

Most terrifying of all, just before suppressing the tall, stalwart man, that young Dao Integration cultivator slapped Luo Yunzhong back to his original spot!

No one knew when, but the unmoving old man seated on the banks of the Immortal Transformation Pool had opened his eyes. He was gazing at Su Yi’s tall, upright figure.

The depths of his turbid gaze surged with inscrutable light.

Deathly silence fell over the entire area. The very air itself seemed to solidify.

All was quiet save for Su Yi’s calm voice. “Consider that strike a warning. If anyone dares to block my way, they’ll have to face the consequences.”