First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 910: Sponging with Dignity

Huo Zheng.

His cultivation had been in the mid-stage Profound Illumination Realm, and he’d condensed the complete Laws of Fireblood.

He was originally the grand elder of the Netherworld River Territory’s Thousandflame Yao Sect. After submitting to the Mysterious Netherworld Divine Court, he became one of their dharma protectors. He was cruel and crafty by nature, and he had an abundance of combat experience.

Earlier, the Iron Daoist had agreed to let Huo Zheng test Su Yi because he knew that Huo Zheng wouldn’t get complacent.

Who’d have thought that, even though Huo Zheng went all out, he’d lose his head in an instant!?

The entire area was deathly silent.

Yuan Linning’s hands quivered, and her pink lips parted.

Qing Mu was stunned, and his eyes blazed with fervor, as if he were gazing upon a god.

Within the Seed of the Azure, Qing Teng couldn’t help but sigh. This is His Excellency Su!

He can kill an Emperor with a snap of his fingers!

The five Emperors behind the Iron Daoist were visibly stunned, and their hearts shook.

“That was the power of a sword hum!” one of them muttered, his expression dark and overcast.

Earlier, when Su Yi attacked, a mysterious sword hum appeared. Although it disappeared in the blink of an eye, its sword force was terrifying beyond limit. Even the distant onlookers felt as if their hearts and souls had been restricted and intimidated!

The other Emperors nodded. All of them had sensed this too.

Bang!

In the distant skies, Su Yi tightened his grip, and Huo Zheng’s head exploded.

“With his paltry skills, he dared proclaim that he’d take my head? Wasn’t that simply inviting his own humiliation?” Su Yi said flatly.

His gaze was cold and indifferent as he strode through the air, approaching the group of Emperors. His tall, upright figure had no imposing momentum, but the Emperors’ hearts clenched nonetheless.

The Iron Daoist said expressionlessly, “You all keep an eye on the others. I’ll deal with this young friend of ours.”

Boom!

Before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, fiery light burst from his tall, thin figure, filling the skies. His imposing aura swept forth like a tidal wave or avalanche.

Profound fire surged, burning and refining the skies.

The monstrous momentum of the Profound Serenity Realm made heaven and earth tremble.

And the fiery jade ruler in the Iron Daoist’s hands lit up as if ablaze. Its lustrous surface burst with the explosive, rampaging power of its Laws.

Qing Teng and Qing Mu’s expressions shifted.

The Burning Silence Ruler!

One of the Netherworld King’s Nine Taboos!

Just last night, the Iron Daoist used this treasure to break the Laws enshrouding the Little Necropolis and kill until blood flowed like a river.

Su Yi’s eyes narrowed, and he was just about to attack when the skies suddenly dimmed. Cold, serene light broke through the firmament and descended upon the world below.

The Iron Daoist’s?pupils constricted, and the five remaining Emperors felt suffocating. They felt a prickling pain all over their skin as a bone-piercingly cold, terrifying pressure descended upon them.

“Fortunately, I finally caught up to you.” A relieved, clear voice resounded throughout heaven and earth.

All eyes turned toward the speaker. There, they saw a figure as graceful as a lady immortal appear out of nowhere beside Su Yi.

She looked young, perhaps sixteen or seventeen, and her features were clear and ethereal, while her skin was as white as snow. She wore an old-fashioned, wide-sleeved pure white dress.

Wisps of dim Dao Light condensed into flower petals that drifted down around her proud, upright figure. They made her seem even colder and more aloof.

Yuan Linning?was stunned, and she almost dared not believe her eyes.

She’d seen this young woman outside the City of the Wrongfully Dead, but at the time, her presence was withdrawn. Furthermore, when she accompanied Su Yi, she was as meek and obedient as a servant.

Aside from her extraordinary beauty, it had seemed like there was nothing noteworthy about her.

Yet now, the formerly meek, obedient young woman seemed like a goddess descending upon mortal dust. Her entire body emanated the majestic aura of a deity overlooking the heavens!

Those who gazed upon her from afar felt ashamed of their own unsightliness, and their hearts filled with awe.

So, this is her true magnificence… Yuan Linning’s heart shook.

In that moment, the Iron Daoist, his companions, Qing Teng, and his apprentice Qing Mu, were all unprecedentedly astonished.

She’d arrived like an immortal, with the magnificence of a goddess!

“Why are you? Why must you intervene in the Mysterious Netherworld Divine Court’s affairs?” The Iron Daoist forcefully suppressed his impulse to attack and said gravely.

He sensed an enormous threat emanating from the young woman!

This was, of course, You Xue.

Her bright eyes were cold and distant, and she scanned the area

But when she looked at Su Yi, her iciness instantly melted away, replaced with tenderness, and her tone was soft. “Fellow Daoist, please leave these people to me.”

She even asked Su Yi’s permission before fighting.

Seeing this left Yuan Linning?in a daze.

And the ignored Iron Daoist and company had increasingly unpleasant expressions on their faces.

Su Yi furrowed his brow. With his current cultivation, if he wanted to kill a Profound Serenity Emperor like the Iron Daoist, he’d have to use the power of the Tiny Heart of the Cosmos and the Book of Diting.

If he wanted to thoroughly suppress the Burning Silence Ruler, he’d have no choice but to use the Sword of the Nine Hells.

You Xue’s arrival naturally meant he didn’t need to go to all that trouble.

But the thought of leaving a battle like this to a woman hurt his self-esteem a little. There was no getting around it. He was like some pretty boy mooching off a woman…

But a moment later, Su Yi nodded. “That works too.”

How could someone call this “sponging off a woman”?

You Xue had obviously requested this of her own accord.

Others could accuse him of sponging if they wanted. At least he was sponging with dignity!

You Xue instantly smiled, her eyes full of utter delight.

At first, she’d been a little uneasy; she was worried he’d refuse her request. But it seemed that Su Xuanjun was gradually starting to accept her, and he didn’t mind letting her help.

“Use this to suppress the Burning Silence Ruler’s power,” said Su Yi, offering her the Book of Diting.

The Burning Silence Ruler was one of the Netherworld King’s divine artifacts, and it contained the profundities of the Laws of Burning Silence. It had been famous throughout the ages as a supreme treasure.

No matter how strong You Xue was, she was still just a treasure spirit, and the Tianya Dark Torchlight wasn’t with her. Su Yi couldn’t help but worry about her.

“Uh…” You Xue was a bit stunned.

Su Yi’s offer was an inadvertent expression of concern, and flowers of joy bloomed in her heart. Su Xuanjun cares about my safety after all!

“Fellow Daoist, I appreciate your kind intentions, but… killing someone of that level in no way requires such a treasure,” You Xue refused with a smile.

Su Yi didn’t push her.

Seeing them converse as if there were no one else around, the distant Iron Daoist and company’s expressions were increasingly unsightly. It was no exaggeration to say that the City of the Wrongfully Dead was now Mysterious Netherworld Divine Court territory. Who beneath the heavens would dare disregard them?

Yet now, that Spiritual Revolution Realm young man wasn’t the only one ignoring them.

Even that young woman who’d just appeared out of nowhere was treating them like they didn’t exist!

“You go deal with that punk. I’ll take down that woman!” The Iron Daoist’s face was ashen, and he attacked directly.

He stepped into the air, his entire body shrouded in flames that filled the sky as he swung the Burning Silence Ruler at You Xue.

Boom!

The fiery Laws filling the sky burst forth, manifesting a stretch of purgatory that bore downward.

The skies caved it, and the fire left them riddled with holes.

The power of Profound Serenity Laws was so terrifying that the slightest wisp could incinerate a mountain or boil an ocean.

Now, the flames reminiscent of the fires of purgatory all swept toward You Xue.

You Xue’s starry eyes were cold.

She took a step forward in the air, using her fair hand as a saber.

Boom!

The Laws of Torchlit Darkness condensed, forming a thousand-foot streak of saber qi that ripped through the dome of heaven and cleaved mercilessly into the fires of purgatory.

When the two clashed, they resulted in an earth-shaking current of destruction that swept outward in all directions.

Just like that, a grand battle began.

The Iron Daoist swung the Burning Silence Ruler, its power monstrous and fierce. He summoned the heaven-burning flames of purgatory with ease, and they ravaged everything around them.

In the modern Netherworld, Profound Serenity Emperors already stood at the pinnacle of the Imperial Realm.

And the Iron Daoist was unquestionably even more terrifying than that.

He was in the mid-stage Profound Serenity Realm, and he’d condensed?a Profound Serenity Dao Platform. On top of that, he was currently wielding one of the Netherworld King’s Nine Taboos, the Burning Silence Ruler. His divine majesty was naturally far beyond any ordinary Profound Serenity Emperor’s.

But You Xue’s abilities were even more astonishing.

She looked like a teenager, but she fought like a goddess. As she wielded the Laws of Torchlit Darkness, she never once retreated.

The dimly discernable projection of a bronze lantern floated behind her. Every time its flames flickered, they cast the wondrous and inscrutable Dao Light of Torchlit Darkness. Its radiance cleaved through the Iron Daoist’s attacks like an axe through bamboo, forceful and tyrannical!

Meanwhile——

“Die!”

Five Emperors joined forces, unleashing their various treasures against Su Yi.

The strongest of them were in the peak of the Profound Illumination Realm, while the weakest were in the mid-stage Profound Illumination Realm. All were prominent experts of the heretical path.

They didn’t just have an abundance of combat experience; they coordinated well with each other, and when they struck, they struck with overwhelming force. None of them held back in the slightest.

After all, Huo Zheng’s death was fresh in their memory. How could they possibly lower their guard?

Rumble!

Heaven and earth shook, and the sun and moon lost their radiance.

In the face of these attacks, Su Yi merely shook his head. He flipped over his palm, and…

The Book of Diting?appeared. The bronze page as thin as a cicada’s wing burst with strange, multicolored light. Landscapes and all manner of heavenly phenomena were reflected within its radiance.

“Go!” Su Yi stretched out his finger and tapped the page.

Six Soul-Swallowing Birds beat their wings and soared into the air with a resounding thunderclap. Their vicious majesty shook the heavens.

As they beat wings seemingly forged out of divine iron, they filled the sky with Netherworld Hell Thunder and descended upon the five Emperors.

Boom!

The five Emperors’ attacks were instantly thrown into disarray, and they found themselves beset on all sides.

“Dammit! Why are the Soul-Swallowing Birds of the Cliffs of Overwhelming Sorrow following that kid’s orders?”

Infuriated shouts reverberated throughout the dome of heaven, and the Emperors visibly lost their composure.

Earlier, they’d surrounded Su Yi. Now, the six Soul-Swallowing Birds had them surrounded instead!

Clang!

The hum of a sword rang out as Su Yi gripped Abstruse Celestial and charged into the fray.

He was deeply displeased. First, because of the horrible things these people had done to Qing Teng.

Second, because he had too many opponents, including foes in the peak of the Profound Serenity Realm. There was simply no chance for him to fight with his own strength, so he had to use tyrannical external means to end this quickly.

“Die!” A cold voice rang out.

Immediately afterward, a silver-robed man locked in bitter combat with a Soul-Swallowing Bird froze. His eyes widened, and a bloody hole appeared smack dab in the middle of his forehead.

A sharp, unparalleled streak of sword qi had pierced right through his skull!

Boom!

Immediately afterward, a Soul-Swallowing Bird beat its wings, opened its mouth, and devoured him.

It happened in a flash. Just like that, a mid-stage Profound Illumination Emperor had died in battle! The other four Emperors’ expressions shifted, and without exception, their hearts shook.

But the Soul-Swallowing Birds were attacking them too, and they couldn’t possibly have helped him out in time.

And Su Yi’s movements didn’t so much as pause. He shot forward in a flash, launching himself at an old woman in robes as black as ink.

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