First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1519 - The Sovereign’s Return!

The atmosphere was stifled and tense.

Including the Five Poisons Mountain Monarch and Yao Immortal Liang Tu, there were already seven uninvited guests.

All were among the fiercest experts in the Jing Province, and all had monstrous reputations!

Liu Yunjing’s expression was overcast, and his heart sank into the pit of his stomach.

Yu Chen, Qin Suxin, and the other ascendants might well have been among the most dazzling figures of the Human Realm, but they’d only just arrived in the Immortal Realm. Furthermore, this was their first time experiencing a situation like this; all of them were fraught with worry.

That is, except for Su Yi, who acted like all of this was perfectly normal. He was calm and leisurely, to the point that he’d taken out his customary jug of wine.

“Fellow Daoist Su, do you... have a way out of this situation?” Qin Suxin suddenly transmitted, sounding hesitant.

Su Yi was stunned. He looked at her, then the other uneasy new ascendants.

After a moment’s thought, he said, “I do.”

It was just two words, and he didn’t explain.

But his sheer composure left Qin Suxin feeling inexplicably calmer, as if she’d seized a thread of hope.

She stammered, “Fellow Daoist Su, in that case, might you... help us too?”

Su Yi nodded. “Yes.”

Qin Suxin was once the greatest Cloud Soaring Transcendent in the Western Chill Star Domain. She was proud, aloof, and confident to the extreme.

Yet she’d taken the initiative to request Su Yi’s aid. This made it obvious how helpless this proud daughter of heaven must have felt.

But Su Yi hadn’t agreed to help her out of pity or sympathy, but because she’d used the word “us!”

That’s right. When Qin Suxin asked for help, she didn’t forget the other ascendants!

“Many thanks, Fellow Daoist Su!” Qin Suxin visibly sighed in relief, her bright eyes full of gratitude. “No matter what happens today, I’ll carve this benevolence into my heart. I’ll never forget this kindness!”

Su Yi shook his head. “If you really want to thank me, tell the others what I said one by one. Tell them not to cause a disturbance. Have them just watch for now; I’ll take all of you with me soon.”

“Got it!” Qin Suxin didn’t hesitate to agree.

Before long, Yu Chen, Ren Changqing, and the others looked at Su Yi with delight, excitement, and gratitude.

Su Yi naturally wasn’t concerned about any of that.

Meanwhile, the seven terrifying new arrivals stared either other down.

“I can’t wait any longer!” The Five Poisons Mountain Monarch seated on the Blood Spider stood up and scanned the area with seething murderous intent. “If we drag this out, more and more powerful experts will arrive. If that happens, we won’t even be left with a mouthful of soup, let alone a full meal!”

His voice boomed throughout the entire area.

Yao Immortal Liang Tu stood atop his green long sword and said, “Daoist Brother, that’s exactly what I’m worried about. Seems to me that we should work together to capture those ascendants first.”

He then turned toward Ding Hanqiu, the Ancient Darkness Immortal Mountain elder. “What do you think, Fellow Daoist?”

The way these old-timers saw it, she had the highest cultivation of anyone present, and her strength was the most terrifying.

All eyes were instantly upon the woman dressed in black, with hair as white as snow and a cold, intimidating bearing.

She inclined her head in response. “Very well.”

The atmosphere was instantly increasingly austere and stifled.

Liu Yunjing bellowed, “You’re acting like the Falling Cloud Immortal Sect doesn’t even exist!”

His hundred-plus Universe Realm Immortal subordinates gathered beside him, ready for battle.

“Scram!” Ding Hanqiu’s voice boomed like spring thunder as she attacked directly.

Clang!

She raised her hand and tapped. A silver immortal sword rose into the air and cleaved at Liu Yunjing.

Liu Yunjing did his best to defend himself, but that slash still sent him flying backward and repeatedly coughing up blood.

A single strike had dealt him a massive setback!

“This is bad!” The immortals of Falling Cloud Immortal Sect were all visibly stricken.

They might have had the advantage in numbers, but they were almost all in the Universe Realm. They had no chance of victory against a group of Void Realm True Immortals!

The Five Poisons Mountain Monarch, Yao Immortal Liang Tu, and the others sneered. Liu Yunjing overestimates himself!

They attacked directly, without the slightest hesitation, charging at the Ascension Ground from all sides.

Liu Yunjing’s eyes bulged as if they were about to pop, but there was nothing he could do.

Yu Chen, Qin Suxin, Ren Changqing, and the other new ascendants' hair stood on end. They instinctively looked at Su Yi.

The way they saw it, Su Yi was now their only hope. Even if they didn’t have that much faith in him, all of them were hoping for a miracle. If anyone could turn the tides, it was Su Yi.

But Su Yi was just drinking from a jug of wine, entirely unperturbed. It was as if he hadn’t even noticed the seven terrifying Void Realm True Immortals duking it out overhead.

It was then that the low, heavy hum of a saber suddenly resounded between heaven and earth. It swept forth like the tides, and when it entered the Void Realm True Immortals’ ears, it slammed into their souls like a hammer. All of them staggered on their feet.

All of them looked stunned. They came to an abrupt stop in midair, and all of them looked at the same place——

The banks of the Immortal Transformation Pool!

They weren’t sure when, but the motionless old man clutching a wine gourd to his chest had risen to his feet.

His bony figure was covered in a single layer of worn gray clothing, and his scraggly hair and beard billowed in the wind.

That terrifying saber intent originated from the long black saber he gripped in his right hand. It was long, thin, lustrous, and as black as ink, but it shone with a hint of blood-colored light.

The sight of it stung the onlookers’ souls!

“This....” Liu Yunjing, Luo Yunzhong, and the others were flabbergasted. How is this...?

Yu Chen and the others were wide-eyed and dumbstruck, too. They'd seen that motionless old man as soon as they emerged from the Immortal Transformation Pool, but at the time, they’d thought nothing of him. They just took him for a guard.

Who could have imagined that at this moment of crisis, this entirely unassuming old man would use nothing but raw saber intent to intimidate seven Void Realm True Immortals?

It was simply unbelievable!

The Five Poisons Mountain Monarch furrowed his brow in confusion. Yao Immortal Liang Tu and the others sensed that something was amiss too.

The saber intent emanating from the thin old man was far too sharp and tyrannical, and its dense murderous intent made their hearts shake. All of them felt uncomfortable from head to toe.

“Might I ask who you are, sir?” Ding Hanqiu furrowed her brow.

But the thin old man disregarded her. His eyes were turbid, and he casually held his saber to the side, pointing downward, as he stepped into the sky.

It was just one step, but the sound was explosive, as if heaven and earth collapsed beneath his feet.

An indescribable, terrifying majesty surged around the thin old man, connecting heaven and earth. Even the wind and clouds shifted.

“How is this old man’s presence so terrifying?” The Five Poisons Mountain Monarch gasped.

Clang!

Yao Immortal Liang Tu was the most decisive. He poured his full strength into the sword beneath his feet and fled. He was so quick that it left the crowd dumbstruck!

But it was as if the bony old man had precognition. He suddenly swung his saber and slashed the air.

Tens of thousands of feet away, the sky split with a bang.

Explosive, tyrannical, blood-colored saber qi enveloped Yao Immortal Liang Tu’s fleeing figure, splitting him into pieces! Even the green long sword beneath his feet shattered inch by inch!

One slash, and the old man effortlessly slaughtered an old monster of the Void Realm!

The Five Poisons Mountain Monarch and the others’ eyes widened with terror. Is that old man an Immortal Lord!?

Boom!

The gaunt old man took another step into the air, drawing closer to the Void Realm True Immortals. His aura was far too terrifying, and it shook the firmament. The entire Ascension Ground filled with tyrannical saber intent.

In the face of this threat, Ding Hanqiu reacted practically on instinct, seizing the initiative to attack.

“Cut!” Ding Hanqiu poured her strength into her silver immortal sword, stirring up a swath of boundless white sword qi.

But the thin old man didn’t even look at it. He just swung his saber at an angle.

Clang!!!

Her silver sword qi split in two.

And a cut appeared on Ding Hanqiu’s delicate figure, starting from her shoulder and cleaving her in two at an angle!

Splurt~

Fresh blood splattered the air.

An expert who’d long since reached the pinnacle of the Void Realm couldn’t block even a single saber strike. She was slain on the spot!

“Retreat! Hurry up and retreat——!” roared the Five Poisons Mountain Monarch.

But there was no need for this reminder. The others had already turned tail to flee.

They arrived with ferocious bluster, but when it was time to run, they were as panicked as dogs who’d lost their masters!

All of this was because the thin old man’s cultivation base was far too terrifying! But the thin old man didn’t let up. His expression was as indifferent as before as he stood proudly in the air. His wrists turned, and he waved his arm, sending his black saber sweeping through the air.

Boom!

Terrifying blood-red saber qi swept outward.

Off in the distance, that mountainous Blood Spider shrieked in agony as chunks of its massive body rained down to earth. The Five Poisons Mountain Monarch was instantly reduced to mincemeat, too.

Practically simultaneously, the other four Void Realm True Immortals met with similarly bloody ends. All of them broke like paper winder paneling, dying beneath a single strike.

Not one survived! Just like that, all seven Void Realm True Immortals had been executed.

And it had happened in just a few blinks of the eye!

Deathly silence followed. The crowd was dumbstruck. This enormous catastrophe was averted, just like that?

It wasn’t just Yu Chen, Qin Suxin, and the other new ascendants, either. Even Liu Yunjing and the other new arrivals were dumbstruck.

“That old-timer is actually so impressive...?” Luo Yunzhong’s heart quivered. He and the other Emissaries of Welcoming present all worked under the Church of the Pure One.

But they didn’t know who the thin old man was. All they knew was that he, just like them, followed the Church of the Pure One. He was a guard of sorts, appointed to oversee the Ascension Ground.

Earlier, Luo Yunzhong and the others had interacted with him, but they hadn’t learned anything at all.

Now, they suddenly realized on a visceral level that this “guard” was actually a terrifying existence!

But what happened next overturned their perception of reality once more.

To the point that their minds went completely blank!

The thin old man put away his black saber, turned, and descended from the sky. He stopped just one hundred feet away from Su Yi.

Then, just as the crowd was wondering what he was going to do next, the old man who’d just seemed as tyrannical and contemptuous as a god solemnly straightened up his clothes and got down on one knee!

“Junior Qi Fufeng is here on his late father’s orders to welcome your return, Sovereign!”

The old man shouted at the top of his lungs, as if giving release to his surging pent-up emotions. His voice boomed like thunder, reverberating throughout the surrounding area.