First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1023 - A Lost Passerby

The starry skies were boundlessly vast and adorned with countless flickering celestial bodies.

Boom!

A spatial tunnel arced like a rainbow, tearing through the limitless starry skies and stretching deeper and deeper.

Then, the spatial tunnel exploded with a bang. A tall, upright figure appeared amidst a rain of light.

He was dressed in blue, and he floated there like one who’d risen above the dust of mortality.

This was none other than Su Yi.

“So, that spatial tunnel didn’t lead directly to the Azure Continent… Had I known, I would have gone to Meng Po Palace and borrowed their transmission array…” Su Yi looked around, and the corners of his lips twitched subtly.

This stretch of stars was completely unfamiliar to him.

Fortunately, he’d already reached the Profound Illumination Realm, and he had the ability to wander amidst the stars. Otherwise, every step would have been arduous, and he would have faced almost certain doom.

After all, the stars were full of unexpected calamity and danger. Sometimes, even a seemingly unassuming streak of flowing light could shatter an Emperor with ease!

That aside, beneath the Imperial Realm, cultivators simply couldn’t traverse the stars. Their cultivation boundary simply wasn’t enough; they couldn’t endure the baleful qi or astral winds.

And here Su Yi had thought he’d be able to reach the Azure Continent directly. It seemed he’d jumped to conclusions.

Did that woman assume that with my current cultivation, I’d be able to traverse the stars with ease and arrive smoothly in the Azure Continent? Or did she seize this opportunity to teach me a painful lesson? Su Yi’s eyebrows rose, and Po Suo’s delicate figure arose within his sea of consciousness.

Su Yi laughed dryly and shook his head. All I did was invite her to accompany me to the Wilds! If she didn’t want to go, fine. Why set a trap for me? Next time we meet, I’m taking you with me, whether that old fox Cui Longxiang likes it or not!

Something occurred to him, and a jade slip appeared in his hand. It was inscribed with a spatial node.

Su Yi had prepared for this when he left the Azure Continent; he’d asked the ninth libationer of Meng Po Palace to seal traces of the Azure Continent’s spatial node within this slip.

Now, it seemed this would come in handy.

Weng!

As Su Yi activated it, the jade slip trembled. Misty light rose, and a strange diagram floated in the air. A little beam of light hovered over the diagram like a pointer directing him toward his destination.

Su Yi inwardly sighed in relief.

That the spatial node was reacting proved that the Azure Continent wasn’t far away.

Su Yi shot toward the marked location without any further delays. Traversing the stars was as dull as it got.

Along the way, all he saw were scattered, unchanging stars. Everything seemed lifeless, and even his thoughts sank into silence.

He’d explored the stars before, in his past life. With the spatial node marker as a guide, he naturally wouldn’t get lost.

A day later.

“I’m finally here.” Su Yi stopped in his tracks and gazed into the distance.

The outline of a massive world had appeared amidst the stars, slowly revolving within the void.

The world was enveloped in a waterfall of flowing chaotic power. Its essence was condensed into droplets, which combined into dragons dancing through the void.

Su Yi’s divine sense was powerful, and his gaze was keen. He could even see the secret layers of the power of the Laws covering the world’s surface and surrounding it entirely.

The Azure Continent!

The spatial node marker in his hand buzzed in confirmation.

This was Su Yi’s first time gazing down on the world he’d been reborn into from the stars.

“I wonder how Lingxue, Qing Wan, Cha Jin, Yuan Heng, and the others are doing…?” The thought of them made him a bit excited, and his heart filled with eagerness.

The Azure Continent was like the homeland of his new incarnation. Memories of his life there were carved deep within his heart, and it was home to many of those he cared about in this lifetime.

But as a cultivator, Su Yi was well aware that he was ultimately just a passerby here. It wouldn’t be long until he left once more and returned to the Wilds.

Even as he pondered, Su Yi shot toward the Azure Continent.

“Hm?” As he drew near, his gaze focused. He’d just discovered something.

Although this boundless world was covered in the chaotic power of the Laws, there were numerous cracks and rifts all around it!

Like fine cracks covering an eggshell. They were a startling sight.

It seems that although the power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness covering the Azure Continent has withered, and although the Azure Continent has welcomed its Radiant Epoch, it’s just as I anticipated. As time passes, the Azure Continent will peak, then wane and wither completely…

He’d realized this when he first acquired the Seed of the Azure.

Now, as he gazed down at the Azure Continent from amidst the stars, the countless rifts were further proof that his hypothesis had been right on the mark.

I promised A’Cang to help the Seed of the Azure grow big and strong. If it can become a true world source, I wouldn’t mind playing repairman and helping the continent restore its Laws. That would prevent it from falling into ruin.

He’d long since learned that the Azure Continent was also called the Azure Realm, and that the Nine Heavens Pavilion saw it as the Ninth Star Ruin!

Just like the other eight star ruins, it stood within the stretch of stars surrounding the Wilds.

Furthermore, each of the star ruins was surrounded by numerous other planes both big and small. These smaller planes clustered around the massive star ruins.

If the Nine Provinces of the Wilds was the sun, then the nine star ruins were like planets orbiting it.

And the true depths of outer space lay beyond the nine star ruins!

As Su Yi pondered, he blurred into an arc of divine light and shot toward the Azure Continent.

Boom!

The chaotic power blanketing the Azure Continent suddenly rumbled and boomed.

Countless terrifying spatial fragments formed a windstorm that swept toward Su Yi. Its power was explosive to the extreme, and it could have ripped anyone beneath the Imperial Realm to shreds with ease.

Even an Emperor wouldn’t necessarily have lasted long.

“Open.” Su Yi didn’t panic even in the face of danger. Misty golden lord burst around him, and no matter how many spatial fragments slammed into him, he continued ahead.

Suddenly, countless fragments manifested of the natural order of the Laws bore down with enough destructive energy to reduce an Emperor to powder!

Su Yi’s pupils constricted, and he suddenly dodged.

Boom!

The space he’d stood in just moments prior collapsed and shattered as a terrifying blast of chaotic power enveloped it.

Even Su Yi couldn’t help but break out in cold sweats.

This was an attack from the Laws of the Azure Continent, and it stopped those with Imperial Realm cultivation from proceeding any further.

Su Yi’s eyes flashed. “It seems that although the Azure Continent has welcomed its Radiant Epoch, it still cannot withstand the power of an Imperial Expert. Otherwise, its Laws wouldn’t have attacked in such a frenzy…”

As he pondered, he used a secret art to suppress his cultivation base to the peak of the Spiritual Revolution Realm before continuing. Just as he thought, the windstorm of the Laws made no further attempts to stop him, and Su Yi passed through with ease.

Shortly afterward.

Su Yi arrived in the skies of the Azure Continent. From here, the ground was like a chessboard, and the mountains and rivers were its pieces.

“I’m finally back.” Su Yi instantly relaxed. Then, he blurred into a streak of light and shot toward the ground.

…

“Die!”

Fierce combat raged on the ground below. Two groups of cultivators fought amidst the mountainous landscape. All manner of lights and treasures danced madly through the air.action

Boom!

Suddenly, wind and lightning boomed overhead, and an arc of dazzling golden light ripped the skies asunder and swept toward them.

Both groups of combatants were stunned, and they abruptly stopped what they were doing and moved further away.

“Who… who is that?”

“Don’t tell me it’s a Spiritual Revolution Realm powerhouse?”

“Be careful!”

As the crowd watched in alarm and bewilderment, the golden light stopped, and a tall, upright figure appeared amidst a burst of radiant light.

An extraordinary young man dressed in blue.

An indescribable, formless pressure permeated the mountain wilderness.

Both armies had been locked in fierce combat just moments prior, but now, they shuddered. It was as if their souls had left their bodies; all of their faces were full of alarm and terror. All of them suspected that this new arrival from beyond the heavens was an expert their enemies had invited here.

The atmosphere was stifled and oppressive.

“My apologies. It seems I frightened you.” Su Yi rubbed his nose a bit sheepishly.

He’d suppressed his cultivation base earlier, but after arriving here, he wouldn’t have guessed that he was no longer quite used to Spiritual Revolution Realm power. For a moment, he failed to control his aura and momentum properly.

This was the influence of the Laws of this world.

Every world was covered in different Laws, and cultivators from other worlds needed to take time to adjust their cultivation bases accordingly.

When they heard Su Yi’s apology, the cultivators sank deeper into bewildered silence.

Su Yi was starting to run out of patience. “I’m just a passerby, and I’d like to ask where in the Azure Continent this is.”

The combatants looked at each other, but none of them answered. How could someone with such a terrifying cultivation base get lost?

An excuse like that… is simply an insult to our intelligence!

Su Yi could tell that they didn’t believe him, and he couldn’t help but frown. He fixed his gaze on a white-haired elder. “You tell me.”

The white-haired elder was dumbstruck, but a moment later, he slumped in dejection and said bitterly, “Senior, the Pill Treasury Sect admits defeat. Please, show mercy and spare us…”

The others behind him looked ashen too. There was no doubt about it; they thought Su Yi was their enemies’ reinforcements.

Su Yi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “I’m really just asking for directions.”

“Uh, truly?” The old man obviously didn’t believe it.

Su Yi nodded.

The old man gnashed his teeth, then said, “Senior, we’re near the border of the Great Wei and Great Zhou. The Great Zhou is three hundred miles to the east. If you proceed west, you’ll arrive in the Great Wei.”

“So, I’m near the Great Zhou… what a coincidence…!” Su Yi looked a bit dazed. A moment later, he waved. “Alright, you can continue.”

With that, he blurred into a streak of light and shot through the air.

A few blinks of the eye later, he’d disappeared over the horizon.

This left both armies in a daze.

“It seems that senior really was just passing by… and it seems that he really was lost, too…” muttered a young woman in red.

The others sank even deeper into silence, their faces full of uncertainty.

Since when were passersby asking for directions so terrifying!!!??

Both groups of cultivators had been ready to fight to the death, but now, it seemed they’d completely lost the will to fight. Both groups retreated shortly thereafter.

That very day, Su Yi returned from the Netherworld and arrived in the Great Zhou!