First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 392: Seen as Prey

Against Hua Xinfeng’s expectations—

Su Yi suddenly let out a muffled grunt, and the surging, blazing power receded like waters at low tide.?His energy quickly sank back into calm silence.

“This….” Hua Xinfeng was dumbstruck.?He failed to break through?

Meanwhile, atop the jade platform, Su Yi sat cross-legged, his expression shifting erratically.

His earlier breakthrough had gone incredibly smoothly, but as soon as he crossed the threshold of the Grain Avoidance Realm, he discovered that despite his incomparable foundations and attainments in the Grand Dao, he couldn’t materialize an origin power seed in his dantian, no matter how hard he tried.

It was like an uncrossable chasm.

Throughout the long history of the Nine Provinces of the Wilds, not one person has successfully condensed the Strongest Dao Seed. However, the Netherworld has records of the Strongest Dao Seed’s secrets.

According to the research and divinations I performed in my past life, with my current accumulations in the Grand Dao, I ought to have a chance of success, yet for some reason, I cannot take that final step. Why exactly is that?

Am I lacking the right opportunity? Or is it that I must first provoke and overcome a tribulation if I wish to create the Strongest Dao Seed?

Su Yi pondered. He could roughly gauge that creating the strongest possible Dao Seed wouldn’t be possible through bitter cultivation alone. He had to invite tribulation, then overcome it first!

A while later.

Su Yi let out a breath of turbid air, then rose to his feet.

“Young Lord Su, are you… Are you okay?” Hua Xinfeng rushed up to him in concern.

“Do I look hurt?” asked Su Yi, but his thoughts were elsewhere.

Hua Xinfeng immediately tried to comfort him. “Don’t get discouraged! The way I see it, it’s because your foundations are just too solid. That’s why the difficulties you encountered while attempting to break through far surpass others of the same realm. You might have failed this time, but I trust that you’ll definitely break into the Grain Avoidance Realm one day!”

Su Yi couldn’t help but find it funny. “How do you know I failed?”

Was she joking? The cultivation resources he’d expended during this breakthrough were precious enough to make any other cultivator of the same realm?sigh?over their own inferiority.

Especially that drop of true dragon blood essence. Even a Spirit Dao cultivator would drool over such a treasure.

How could Su Yi possibly let all those treasures go to waste?

“Ah? You didn’t?” Hua Xinfeng was dazed.

“Of course I didn’t,” said Su Yi. He thought for a moment, then added, “I’ve already half succeeded. I’ve effectively gotten one foot over the threshold. All I need now is an opportunity. Then, I can truly leap into the next realm and become a full-fledged Origin Dao cultivator.”

He didn’t hide anything.

His cultivation really was in the Grain Avoidance Realm, with one major difference: he had yet to condense an origin power seed.

“You?need an opportunity?” Hua Xinfeng was somewhat baffled. To the best of her knowledge, when cultivators broke into the Grain Avoidance Realm, they didn’t need any such thing. All that mattered was the purity and firmness of their xiantian qi and foundations.

For example, when she broke into the Grain Avoidance Realm, the process went extremely smoothly. Seven days of silent cultivation, and a first-rate origin power seed condensed as smoothly as water flowing downhill.

“You wouldn’t understand even if I told you.” Su Yi shook his head.

Even in the Nine Provinces of the Wilds, no one had ever seen the Strongest Dao Seed.

He could explain it to Hua Xinfeng, but she might not believe such a thing could exist in this world.

“Let’s go.”

Su Yi decided to leave. Three days had passed since they first entered the ruins of the Immortals’ Sword House. He’d already obtained the ruins’ good fortune, so there was no point in sticking around.

As he spoke, he took out the white bone seal and exerted strength through his fingers.

Bzzzz!

The strange, obscure fluctuations of the restriction spread out from the seal.

A moment later, they enveloped Su Yi and Hua Xinfeng, and both of them disappeared.

Atop the Sea of Chaotic Spirits.

Three days passed, but the Isle of No Return, Mountain of Funerals, White Bone Tower, and Starlight Vessel floated there the whole time, waiting in silence.

The woman on the shoulders of the giant white ape looked deeply exhausted.

Three days. She’d endured the pressure of those four terrifying existences from up close. Although she wasn’t fighting, her nerves were constantly on edge.

On several occasions, she felt the urge to turn and leave.

In the end, she always chose not to.

Giving up halfway through wasn’t a good thing, and the one thing worth celebrating was that none of those four terrifying existences paid her any heed.

Why hasn’t anyone come out yet? Don’t tell me all the cultivators who ventured into the ruins are already dead?

She couldn’t get this question out of her head.

She could see that all of the strange phenomena reflected over the Immortals’ Sword House had already transformed into a vortex-like gateway.

There was no doubt about it; it was an entrance to the ruins.

But even now, not one person?had?emerged.

No, wait!

Suddenly, the woman’s eyes lit up.

She just saw a man and woman appear near the entrance to the vortex, seemingly out of nowhere.

The man wore long white robes, and he looked handsome and detached. The woman’s face was sallow, and her features were unexceptional, but her eyes were incredibly bright and beautiful, like deep, limpid pools.

These were none other than Su Yi and Hua Xinfeng.

“This is bad! What the heck happened to this place?” Hua Xinfeng’s expression shifted dramatically the moment she saw the floating Isle of No Return, Mountain of Funerals, White Bone Tower, and Starlight Vessel.

These were the Four Great Perils. Ordinarily speaking, encountering even just one of them was enough to make any cultivator give in to despair.?Yet now, all four of them had appeared at once!

This made Hua Xinfeng’s hair stand on end, and she felt a chill in her hands and feet.?What’s going on?

When Su Yi saw this, he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes.

He’d already heard about the Sea of Chaotic Spirits Four Great Perils, and although he’d never seen them before, he recognized them at a glance.

However, he was unquestionably calmer than Hua Xinfeng.

When the two of them emerged, a raspy, effeminate voice emanated from the Isle of No Return. “Ee? Why are there only two little babies? Don’t tell me everyone else is already dead?”

The voice soared into the heavens, breaking the oppressive silence enveloping this stretch of ocean.

Whoosh!

Before the voice even finished speaking, a green lantern shot out of the Isle of No Return, transforming into a giant hand made entirely out of blazing green flames.

The hand was a full hundred feet across, and it filled the skies with blue-green light as it reached for Su Yi and Hua Xinfeng from a distance.

Up on the great ape’s shoulder, the woman’s beautiful eyes focused.?This ‘Fire Demon Lihuo’ is ruthless! He’s attacking just like that? Is he worried the others will seize the opportunity otherwise?

Boom!?The waters churned, and heaven and earth changed.

The power emanating from the giant hand was extremely strange and terrifying. Even just watching from a distance, the woman felt suffocated.

There was no need to even question it; that power was beyond the Spirit Dao!

“Lihuo, don’t you think directly attaching two juniors like this is beneath you? Aren’t you afraid of inviting others’ mockery?” A forceful, despotic voice boomed on the Mountain of Funerals. action

As that voice rang out, a spear suddenly shot out of the mountain. It was condensed entirely out of gray mist. It cut through the air, stabbing directly into the blazing blue-green hand.

Boom!

The resulting impact shook heaven and earth. The spear bore a hole through the giant fiery hand, which dispersed in midair, scattering currents of energy and churning the surrounding seas.

Hua Xinfeng watched his play out. She couldn’t help but break into cold sweats.

Just now, as the hand drew near, she couldn’t even think about resisting. It was just too terrifying!

Power like that could easily obliterate her!

Su Yi, however, was just as calm as before, except that his brow furrowed slightly. A chill flashed through the depths of his gaze.

Fire Demon Lihuo had attacked unprovoked; he obviously saw him and Hua Xinfeng as prey, and he couldn’t even be bothered to waste time talking to them. He wanted to capture them first!

That was unquestionably arrogant and domineering to the extreme.

“In a moment, you should hide within the ruins. No one can hurt you there,” Su Yi transmitted calmly.

“But what about you?” asked Hua Xinfeng.

“Didn’t I say that if I wanted to condense an origin power seed, I needed an opportunity? Well, it seems an opportunity has come knocking on my door,” said Su Yi, his hands behind his back.

Hua Xinfeng was dazed, and her heart shook.?Is he planning to fight them to realize a true breakthrough in his cultivation?!

As she pondered, a cold, feminine voice emanated from the Isle of No Return.

“Oblivion, all of us are here to fight for the Heavensphere Yao Emperor’s natal bone. There’s no need to put on airs. You stopped me, but wasn’t that just because you were worried I’d seize the treasure before you?”

The countless, eerie green lamps floating above the island rose like the tide, and a tall, gaunt, dark figure floated into view, filling the air with unearthly green light.

Fire Demon Lihuo!

“You can seize good fortune, but you cannot resort to underhanded means! If our two young friends are willing to hand over the item in question, I naturally won’t harm them. This is the difference between us,” said a despotic voice, booming like thunder. The gray mists enshrouding the Mountain of Funerals rose, and the four ancient corpses bound in massive chains shook.

A stalwart, ethereal figure stood proudly on the mountaintop, his entire body surging with threads of unearthly red lightning.

Thunder Monarch Oblivion!

The woman on the great ape’s shoulder felt her pupils constrict.

Bloody mist rose in the distant seas, and a cold, sinister voice emanated from a tower of white bone, reverberating throughout heaven and earth. “You two, Fellow Daoist Star Girdle said that this good fortune will go to whoever is capable enough to seize it. Way I see it, we might as well spar first and see who comes out on top!”

As his voice rang out, a figure suddenly floated into view. It was a withered man in red, so gaunt, he resembled a bamboo pole. Every inch of him emanated dense, imposing yao qi.

Old Yao Bone Eater!

“Why shouldn’t we?” laughed Fire Demon Lihuo from the Isle of No Return.

“In that case, dare you two say with certainty that you’re a match for Star Girdle?” jeered Thunder Monarch Oblivion.

“And what say you, Fellow Daoist Star Girdle?” Old Yao Bone Eater gazed at the distant Starlight Vessel.

The Starlight Vessel floated on the surface of the water, light circulating around it, like an illusion. All eyes were instantly upon it.

Silently, a gaunt, ethereal figure stood on the Starlight Vessel, radiating starlight like a god or immortal. A sharp, shocking, terrifying aura emanated from him, permeating the air.

The instant she saw him, Hua Xinfeng felt a stinging pain in her eyes, as if a sword were cutting into her mind. Her hair stood on end, and her expression shifted dramatically.

What terrifying momentum!

Up on the white ape’s shoulder, the woman tensed up.

Su Yi arched his brow.?A… Sword cultivator?