First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1375 – Seizing Food From a Tiger’s Jaws

“It’s a pity about Zero-Seven….” The Tailor’s heart twitched. He felt as if he’d been stabbed.

Over the years, he’d poured an enormous amount of effort and practically all of his wealth into refining the nine Hidden God Guards. They were his ultimate trump cards, and there was no way he’d reveal them if he had any other choice.

But now, his cards had been revealed, and worse, he’d even lost one of them. How could the Tailor not be furious?

The whole point of a hidden trump card was that your enemy didn’t know about it. The moment it was revealed, it was no longer anywhere near as threatening!

This was what truly made the Tailor’s heart ache.

A long time passed before he gradually regained his former calm.

But he suddenly seemed much older. A lingering, overcast look appeared on his face, and he was no longer as calm or composed as before.

“After this, the Temple Master surely knows how to find the Hidden God Lands. Will… he come here?”

The Tailor frowned. He could predict that the Temple Master most likely wouldn’t come! They’d been enemies for such a long time. How could the Tailor not understand the Temple Master’s disposition?

Still, in the end, the Tailor dared not take this gamble. He was keenly aware that the Temple Master understood him too. The Temple Master could surely guess what he’d predict!

Even if it was unlikely that the Temple Master would show up and attack, he had to leave no traces behind!

“I.. cannot remain in the Hidden God Lands…!” The Tailor immediately made his decision. “However, I absolutely cannot let this grudge go unavenged!

“Next time! Next time, I’ll end things with you forever, Temple Master!”

“Even if I can’t play any tricks or employ any schemes, even if I can’t borrow another’s hands to kill him, I’ll naturally show him what I’m truly capable of!”

The Tailor’s eyes shone with dense hatred and murderous intent.

……

Within his room.

Su Yi pondered for a long time before slowly undoing the seal on the jade box.

Immortal light flashed inside, an illusory shade of purple. The whole room glittered, and an invisible, holy aura permeated the air.

As soon as the box opened, a fist-sized bronze furnace whooshed out. It was simple, worn, with a thoroughly patinated surface. Its base had three legs, and its opening was perfectly round. Radiant purple immortal light billowed from it.

This treasure was wondrous to the extreme and full of spirituality. As soon as it appeared, illusory wings sprouted from its sides and gently beat the air, stirring up a lightning storm as the furnace shot out of the room.

Su Yi stretched out his hand and pressed the air.

Boom!

The Laws of Restricting the Profound surged forth, weaving a radiant net and sealing the bronze furnace’s escape route off completely.

The furnace was obviously frantic. Immortal light exploded around it, and it tried to charge on through.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Laws of Restricting the Profound churned violently. The impact left them on the verge of collapse.

Su Yi, the one controlling them, couldn’t help but gasp. He had no choice but to give it everything he had. Only then could he prevent the fist-sized furnace from escaping.

Meanwhile, Su Yi’s heart filled with delight. What a treasure! Its spirituality alone is far beyond any ‘ordinary’ immortal treasure.

But a moment later, Su Yi’s expression shifted.

Stingingly bright purple Dao Markings suddenly charged out of the furnace, like resplendent Laws of the Immortal Dao. They condensed into a sword and slashed at Su Yi.

Crunch!

The web woven of the Laws of Restricting the Profound split, offering almost no resistance.

The immortal sword’s power continued, entirely undiminished, and it cleaved at Su Yi.

Su Yi was just about to counterattack when the boundless hum of a sword rang out.

Shit!

Su Yi’s heart thudded in his chest. The Sword of the Nine Hells had awakened again! It had obviously set its sights on the bronze furnace, and it wanted to devour it!

Before Su Yi could react, the immortal sword slashing at Su Yi exploded into Immortal Dao talisman markings, then shot into the bronze furnace as if fleeing.

Meanwhile, the furnace seemed to sense the danger. It swayed on its three legs, blurred into a streak of electricity, and flung itself directly into Su Yi’s Laws of Restricting the Profound.

It was throwing itself into the net!

There was no doubt about it. This immortal treasure was spiritual and intelligent. The Sword of the Nine Hells’ aura had obviously startled it so badly that it would rather offer itself to Su Yi and let him seal it than risk attempting to flee.

This was completely beyond Su Yi’s expectations, but he didn’t even pause to think. His hands closed around it, and he clutched the furnace to his chest, like a mother hen protecting her eggs.

Boom!

The illusory Sword of the Nine Hells appeared.

Su Yi could sense the furnace trembling in his embrace, like a rabbit before a hungry wolf: helpless, pitiful, and in the throes of despair.

How could Su Yi bear to see such a treasure devoured by the Sword of the Nine Hells?

He took a deep breath, then stared at the illusory sword and said with the utmost seriousness, heedless of whether or not it could understand him, “Give me face, okay?”

The Sword of the Nine Hells hovered there, unmoving. It obviously had no intention of sparing the furnace.

“You ate three treasures in a row already,” Su Yi said with a frown. “Surely you can’t monopolize them all?”

The Sword of the Nine Heavens had devoured Qin Chongxu’s Divine Tribulation War Spear, the Magician’s Immortal-Burning Ruler, and, more recently, the Profound Divinity Sword House’s Divine Purple Sword.

Even just thinking about it made Su Yi’s heart ache.

But the illusory Sword of the Nine Hells didn’t back down in the slightest. Rather, it had no intention of giving the furnace up, and it seemed as stubborn as could be.

Su Yi couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on.

As mighty as his abilities were, and for all his talent and skill, he couldn’t help but feel helpless against a treasure as unique and wondrous as the Sword of the Nine Hells.

He couldn’t be bothered to dwell on the matter any further, though, so he just said directly, “Relax. I have already guessed that you’ve expended an enormous amount of energy over the years, and that you urgently need to replenish it to recover your source power. I promise to help you gather even more nourishment in the future!

“But this particular treasure is extremely useful to me. I can’t just let you eat it…”

The sound of Su Yi’s rambling voice filled the room as he earnestly tried to persuade the Sword of the Nine Hells to “mend its ways.”

Were anyone else to see this, they might well laugh so hard their jaws fell off. It turned out that sometimes, even the lofty Temple Master had no choice but to lower himself and beg!

But Su Yi didn’t dare about any of that.

According to the Bookkeeper, the bronze furnace was most likely an incomparably wondrous pill furnace. With it, he could refine unparalleled medicines.

With this treasure in hand, he would no longer need to fear failing to refine medicines sufficient to meet the needs of his cultivation!

After rambling on for a while, Su Yi saw that the illusory Sword of the Nine Hells still had no intention of backing down. He couldn’t help but get irritated at it.

Finally, he took a firm stand. “In any event, I’m protecting this furnace no matter what!”

He spoke with firm conviction.

The illusory Sword of the Nine Hells seemed to sink into silence. It was as if it were contemplating the consequences of offending Su Yi.

In the end, it silently dissipated into a rain of light and disappeared.

When Su Yi saw this, he was visibly delighted, and he couldn’t help but sigh in relief. After this incident, he dared say with certainty that if he encountered an immortal treasure he really, really wanted, the Sword of the Nine Hells wouldn’t seize it from him. All he had to do was fight for it!

This was unquestionably a wonderful development.

But I can’t push this too far. I’m not sure why, but the Sword of the Nine Hells needs to replenish itself. When I encounter treasures we both take a shine to down the line, we’ll just have to split them, thought Su Yi.

As he pondered, he held the bronze furnace in the palm of his hand. The treasure was still quivering in apparent fright, as if it knew it had only just narrowly escaped disaster.

It had obviously decided to behave itself. It no longer dared struggle or fight back, and it certainly dared not attempt to flee.

Su Yi felt the urge to laugh just watching. There was no doubt about it; the illusory Sword of the Nine Hells had scared it straight!

Su Yi took the opportunity to examine it closely. It was the size of his palm, simple, worn out, with a mottled, patinated surface. There was a nick around the opening, and the surface was charred around it, as if it had been struck by lightning.

There was nothing else noteworthy about its surface, but purple immortal light surged within the furnace, like billowing, mysterious mists.

Su Yi examined it with his divine sense, only for a mysterious power to block the attempt. The furnace buzzed and shook, obviously unwilling to let this happen.

“Behave. Let me have a look.” Su Yi naturally wouldn’t just give up. A hint of the Sword of the Nine Hells’ aura appeared in his divine sense.

The bronze furnace trembled in fright and no longer rebelled.

This time, when Su Yi inserted his divine sense, something boomed within his soul, and an unbelievable scene floated into view.

It was of a world facing apocalyptic devastation. Tribulation light surged, blanketing the nine heavens and the ten earths. Countless immortals, each with a terrifying aura, perished beneath the catastrophe’s power, their bodies reduced to ash.

Su Yi saw an unparalleled sword cultivator who could shake the void of outer space with every breath he took. Wherever he pointed his sword, stars fell, and with every slash, entire star realms split.

Yet even that terrifying sword cultivator died instantly beneath the power of the catastrophe. Before he died, he merely let out a deep, unwilling sigh.

In another vision, an unparalleled yao immortal soared through the clouds, charging through the dome of heaven. With a flip of her hand, the skies fell and the earth caved in. All of creation withered around her. The immortal light surrounding her was overflowing and terrifying, suppressing everything on all sides and overturning the heavens.

But in the end, she couldn’t escape disaster either. Tribulation lightning eradicated her!

That aside, there was a Buddha capable of manifesting himself as a thousand worlds, a seemingly immeasurably powerful Daoist sovereign, a Demonist monarch of unparalleled beauty…

All of them had struggled to survive that apocalyptic catastrophe. Even so, in the end, all of them perished!

Everywhere that apocalyptic catastrophe struck, everyone, from the mightiest of immortals to the lowliest of lifeforms, met with annihilation.

But it was during that very apocalypse that a bronze furnace flew through the air, enduring the relentless onslaught of tribulation light, piercing through the barriers between countless worlds before finally escaping the bounds of the catastrophe.

The scene ended here.

Understanding arose in Su Yi’s heart.

The apocalypse was the so-called Age of Fallen Immortals!

Even before the Human Realm’s access to the Path of Transcendence was severed, the Immortal Realm had already changed, and the natural order of the Immortal Dao showed signs of breaking.

When that catastrophe swept through the Immortal Realm, its supreme orthodoxies and sacred grounds couldn’t escape the devastation.

In the dark, tumultuous days that followed, even lofty and unparalleled immortals fell from the heavens, crashing down to earth like falling stars.

Even legendary figures, powerhouses of the Immortal Dao who’d stood since antiquity, plummeted into the abyss, reduced to vengeful spirits beneath the power of this catastrophe!

This was the Age of Fallen Immortals.

Su Yi had once heard about it from Daoist Master Red Cloud. But to him, it had been nothing more than a secret of a long bygone age. He couldn’t really feel its weight.

Now, by sensing the bronze furnace’s mysteries, Su Yi had caught a firsthand glimpse of the apocalyptic scenery of the Age of Fallen Immortals!

Immortals fell from the heavens like rain!

And this bronze furnace endured the relentless onslaught of that apocalyptic catastrophe, fleeing the Immortal Realm to find safety in the Human Realm.

It looked largely intact, but in truth, its source energy was severely damaged. The “nick” near the opening had been left there by apocalyptic tribulation light!

But despite all that damage, it was far beyond most immortal treasures!

After all, during the Age of Fallen Immortals, even the greatest of immortals fell in battle, yet a mere furnace had endured, finding a path to life by fleeing the Immortal Realm!

This was almost unbelievable, and it also served as proof of just how wondrous this treasure was.

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