First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1805 - Impotent Rage

He escaped!?

Qin Jianshu saw Su Yi appear outside the Purgatory of the Silver Wheel. Despite himself, his eyes widened.

It was unbelievable!

This guy’s got to be a Great Unity Stage expert at the very least! Qin Jianshu’s expression darkened.

The way Qin Jianshu saw it, only a Great Unity Stage expert could have achieved this. There was no other explanation for what had just happened.

Boom!

Before Qin Jianshu could give the matter any further thought, the trapped Su Yi swung his sword at the Purgatory of the Silver Wheel. Sword qi descended onto the world like the river of stars pouring down from the heavens.

The Purgatory of the Silver Wheel rumbled and boomed.

The old woman was startled and furious, but she dared not pause to think. She poured her strength into the Purgatory of the Silver Wheel and attacked.

It was as if the entire world were under her control and the might of her own heaven were bearing down on it... only for Su Yi to vanish from the face of the world.

The old woman chased him like mad, but she couldn’t find any trace of him. Naturally, she had no way of capturing him again.

The stalemate went on for quite some time. The old woman was frustrated, but she wasn’t the only one. Su Yi was exasperated too.

He’d only just proved his Dao and become an Immortal King, and he’d run into a powerful opponent of the Great Unity Stage already. However, if he wanted to keep his identity hidden, he couldn’t use the Sword of the Human Realm or any of his other trump cards.

Thus, he could only draw things out.

But Su Yi didn’t get discouraged. He was waiting for an opportunity!

“I’ll help you!” Suddenly, Qin Jianshu couldn’t take it anymore. He leaped through the air and charged at Su Yi.

Weng!

He drew a purple jade ruler and stirred up a swath of raging lightning and fire. It swept out in all directions, blanketing heaven and earth in an attempt to restrict Su Yi’s movements and give the old woman a chance to strike.

But Su Yi just laughed dryly. His hands formed a seal, and he broke the fire and lightning filling the sky in a single attack.

Instead of tangling with the old woman, he flashed through the air and charged at Qin Jianshu.

Bang!!!

Sword qi burst forth like a tidal wave or avalanche.

Qin Jianshu was sent flying back, his face alternating white and green. He felt stifled enough to explode.

There was nothing for it. He couldn’t reveal his full strength if he wanted to avoid the effects of divine misfortune. All he could do was use his restricted Great Martial Stage cultivation.

But the power of the Great Martial Stage was obviously useless against Su Yi!

Boom!

Su Yi flashed through the air and attacked once more. Dazzling sword qi criss-crossed in the air.

Qin Jianshu gnashed his teeth, took out a divine talisman, and manifested a current of lightning that flooded the surrounding hundred-thousand-foot area.

Its taboo power was so terrifying that heaven and earth dimmed, and the sky showed signs of an imminent collapse.

But Su Yi disappeared into thin air just as the power was about to strike him. The talisman’s power missed him completely.

“Fuck!!” Qin Jianshu couldn’t resist the urge to curse. That divine talisman was no ordinary item; it was supposed to save his life at a critical juncture.

Yet now, it had gone to waste!

Su Yi appeared elsewhere in the smoke and fog-shrouded landscape, swung his sword, and attacked.

He could tell that Qin Jianshu was different from the old woman; he in no way dared to use his full strength.

Even if Su Yi couldn’t kill him here, he had to at least seize this opportunity to pummel the bastard while he had the chance!

“Young Leader, come here! Hurry!” The old woman shot through the sky.

Qin Jianshu forced his pent-up fury back down and reconvened with his subordinate.

But then, he stiffened, and his expression shifted dramatically. “Watch out!”

Even as he spoke, he dodged and fled into the distance.

The old woman froze, stunned, then looked up. There, beneath the dome of heaven, she saw murky gray tribulation lightning formed of the taboo power of the Laws.

“Dammit! That’s Divine Misfortune!” the old woman cried out in alarm and withdrew her Grand Dao Hidden Realm. She suppressed her cultivation base, put the gray cloth bundle back on her back, then turned and fled.

But she was one step too late.

And ppwerful though she was, her struggles were doomed to be futile in the face of divine misfortune.

The tribulation clouds suddenly transformed into a beam of tribulation light and disappeared.

A moment later...

Boom!!

The lightning slammed into the old woman. That calamitous power split open her gray bag and ripped her defensive power apart. Her flesh was torn to shreds, and her body was on the verge of breaking apart. Her lips parted, and she cried out in agony.

Qin Jianshu’s hair stood on end.

Divine misfortune!

This was a calamitous power that the gods joined forces to place within the Laws of the Immortal Realm during the Age of Fallen Immortals. It specifically targeted Great Realm experts.

Although Qin Jianshu had anticipated that the old woman would provoke divine misfortune if she used her Great Unity Stage cultivation base, when he saw it with his own eyes, he still couldn’t help but break out in cold sweats.

It was just too terrifying!

A single strike dealt the old woman massive damage, practically destroying her foundations in the Grand Dao.

Suddenly, Su Yi appeared out of nowhere, right in front of the old woman, and swung his sword.

Splurt!

A bloody head fell through the air.

Even in death, confusion and anger were written all over the old woman’s hideously contorted face. She never would have guessed that a Great Unity Stage expert like her would die at the hands of an Immortal King.

Boom!

Her body exploded into ash.

Su Yi let out a long breath. Damn, that felt good!

This was the moment he’d been waiting for, the reason he’d dragged the stalemate out instead of fleeing.

In the end, he seized his opportunity and cut down the old woman. It was a thoroughly satisfying feeling.

When Qin Jianshu saw this, his eyes bulged out of their sockets, and they almost lost it. His eyes were bloodshot, and murderous intent exploded around him.

When Su Yi saw Qin Jianshu’s infuriated, almost maddened expression, he couldn’t help but laugh, and his eyes shone with disdain. “Worthless. Even now, you’re too afraid to reveal your full strength and fight me?”

Worthless? Qin Jianshu quivered with anger.

He was a divine son. Even in the God Domain, he could gaze down upon an entire region with pride, and he was all but invincible among those yet to achieve divinity.

Yet now, someone was blatantly insulting him. How could he not be furious?

For a moment, Qin Jianshu really did feel the impulse to cast aside his reservations and attack Su Yi!

But in the end, he held back. The old woman’s death was a lesson to him. How could he dare reveal his full strength now?

If divine misfortune merely hurt him, it’d be one thing. He came from the God Domain, and his ancestor was a true deity. A god could naturally resolve any damage caused by divine misfortune.

But Qin Jianshu had no choice but to weigh the consequences of potential damage to his foundations in the Dao!

After all, his primary goal in coming to the Immortal Realm was to seize an opportunity to prove his Dao and become a god.

“You really are a useless coward,” said Su Yi. “Racked with indecision and terrified at every turn. All you’re capable of is impotent range. With a mentality like that, you have no hope of achieving divinity.”

“You...” Qin Jianshu gnashed his teeth so hard they almost broke.

“What about me? Am I wrong?” jeered Su Yi.

As he spoke, he walked through the air, swung his sword, and attacked with unrestrained, domineering force.

In Qin Jianshu’s eyes, Su Yi’s behavior was a blatant affront to his dignity. Su Yi was trampling all over his pride.

But in the end... Qin Jianshu turned and fled. No matter how furious he was, he wasn’t stupid. He knew Su Yi was saying all that to provoke him into throwing all caution to the wind and using his full cultivation base.

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If he fell for Su Yi’s tricks, he might well kill him, but any hope he had of achieving divinity would be ruined!

Qin Jianshu could in no way bear such a price.

Becoming a god was far, far too difficult! Even in the God Domain, such opportunities were incomparably rare and fleeting. Were that not the case, why would he have risked his life to descend into the Immortal Realm?

Li Xuanjun has to be one of Xi Ning’s hidden cards. She was keeping him in reserve for use at a critical juncture!

Qin Jianshu gnashed his teeth. He now hated Xi Ning too. The way he saw it, Li Xuanjun was one of her hidden cards, and today, he’d inadvertently fallen into her trap!

Within just a few blinks of an eye, Qin Jianshu vanished without a trace.

Su Yi didn’t pursue him. Even rabbits could bite if pushed into a corner.

Besides, Qin Jianshu was a divine son, and he had Great Profound Stage cultivation. If his life was at risk, he really would cast aside his reservations and attack.

Hm. If he finds out that I’m really Su Yi, will he regret not having gone all out against me today?

Su Yi had a strange look in his eyes. He knew that divine sons like Qin Jianshu would do everything in their power to kill the "Heretic Reincarnator," heedless of the cost. Had Qin Jianshu known his true identity, he wouldn’t have been afraid of divine misfortune at all!

This was why Su Yi refrained from using the power of reincarnation at the Sword of the Human Realm earlier. The moment he revealed his identity, the resulting danger wouldn’t be so easily resolved.

Even his life might well be at risk!

Ultimately, both he and his opponent had reservations.

“Hah~” Su Yi let out a long breath of turbid air.

This battle had been far too risky, but in the end, he managed to cut down a terrifying Great Unity Stage powerhouse. Su Yi found that immensely satisfying.

Without any further delays, Su Yi shot through the air and left this stretch of ocean. He planned to find a safe place to recover his strength before he did anything else.

Although he hadn’t been injured, he’d expended an enormous amount of energy. Moreover, using the Breaking Barriers ability had all but depleted the Tree of All Worlds.

Su Yi estimated that with the tree’s current strength, he could at most use Breaking Barriers twice in one go, and it would be hard for the tree to recover in less than two weeks.

......

A day later.

Su Yi and the Red Dragon Dao Monarch returned to the Blood Whirlpool Zone and thoroughly combed the area for traces of the Fuyou Boat.

But even after searching thirty thousand miles of ocean, they found nothing at all.

In the end, Su Yi gave up, and the two of them set course for their next destination. “Forget it. It’s time we left for Barrenwood Island.”

Only six days remained until the expedition into the ruins of the Dragon Palace.

It was a three-day journey from the Blood Whirlpool Zone to Barrenwood Island at the very least. If anything unexpected happened along the way, it would undoubtedly take even longer.

“For now, stay in the Divine Replenishment Furnace. Once we’ve entered the ruins of the Dragon Palace, I’ll see if I can find you any good fortune connected to your draconic lineage,” Su Yi ordered gently.

The Church of Supreme Oneness was already watching the Red Dragon Dao Monarch. If anyone discovered they were traveling together, they’d undoubtedly figure out who he was by extension.

“Got it!” The Red Dragon Dao Monarch agreed.

Once this was settled, Su Yi boarded his boat alone and was just about to leave for Barrenwood Island when he suddenly sensed something and gazed over the distant horizon.

Two figures were shooting toward the Blood Whirlpool Zone.