First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1461 – Severing a Heart Devil

The heavy curtain of dusk spread throughout heaven and earth, tinging everything dark red.

When Su Yi saw Lady Snowjade from a distance, an irrepressible emotion welled within his heart. He couldn’t help but recall everything she and Shen Mu had experienced together, with all the excitement, delight, and joy….

This was a karmic tie!

A heart devil!

Shen Mu had been so thoroughly infatuated that he willingly destroyed his Dao Heart and died for her. How could such powerful emotion be removed so easily?

When Su Yi fused with the power of Shen Mu’s Dao Imprint, he naturally had to accept all of this, too.

Lady Snowjade watched from on high, instinctually sensing the changes in Su Yi’s emotions. A nigh imperceptible hint of a smile tugged on her lips. “Su Yi, I have no hatred for you. Come here and lower your head. If you do, I’ll treat you as I did before. I absolutely won’t harm you.”

Complete silence followed this declaration.

Those who didn’t understand the inside story were baffled. Only the old-timers of the Six Desires Demonist Sect understood. Their leader was attacking her enemy’s heart!

This was what the Six Desires Demonist Sect most excelled at.

They used the Six Desires to enter the Dao, only to sever them and achieve true freedom from emotion!

Su Yi sank into a brief silence, then shook his head. “That isn’t enough.”

Lady Snowjade’s gaze shifted, and her voice contained a charm that touched the heart directly. “Rest assured. So long as you lower your head, the Shen Family can live on, and even your little apprentice sister can see the light of day once more. As for me…?”

She stared directly at Su Yi. “I’m not afraid of others’ laughter. I’m willing to throw away everything I have to accompany you, just as I did back then.”

Su Yi’s heart churned with emotion, and he felt a powerful impulse course through him. It was as if a voice were urging him on, assailing his awareness. He felt an instinctual longing to lower his head.

Even Wu Meng sensed that something wasn’t right with His Eminence. Su Yi’s calm expression had vanished, replaced with shifting uncertainty, as if his heart were in turmoil.

“Don’t tell me… Is this His Eminence’s heart devil?” Wu Meng didn’t understand, but he was inwardly astonished. Heart devils might be formless, but in truth, they were the most insidious of all.

No matter how powerful you were, a moment’s mental weakness could result in complete and utter defeat!

Outsiders were helpless to assist in this type of battle. Even if Wu Meng killed Lady Snowjade, it wouldn’t fix anything. It might well make His Eminence sink even deeper into his inner turmoil, unable to extricate himself.

Even the members of the Six Desires Demonist Sect could tell that Su Yi’s situation didn’t bode well.

Some of the old-timers couldn’t help but laugh. They could even picture Su Yi losing to his heart devil and obediently lowering his head in submission before their leader.

As for Lady Snowjade? The depths of her gaze shone with derision. So, it seems… this is all Su Yi’s got!

Despite thinking such thoughts, on the outside, her voice filled with tenderness. “Hurry to my side! I’ve been waiting for you for far too long. All I want is for us to reunite.”

But then, Su Yi suddenly laughed. “Many thanks.”

All signs of turmoil had disappeared from his expression, and his gaze had regained its former calm clarity.

Lady Snowjade was stunned. “What?”

Su Yi said with complete seriousness, “Had you died, removing this heart devil would have taken a lot more time and effort. Fortunately, you’re still alive. Seeing you made my heart devil erupt. It might have seemed perilous, but to me, it was in truth a rare and precious opportunity to use my Dao Heart as a sword and rid myself of this heart devil once and for all!”

As he spoke, his entire body suddenly emanated a calm, extraordinary air. It was as if he’d shattered the invisible shackles binding the deepest depths of his heart. Any lingering infatuation and longing for Lady Snowjade had now gone up in a puff of smoke!

Su Yi could even clearly sense a change to his mentality!

“You… really did it?” said Lady Snowjade. It seemed she found this difficult to believe.

Su Yi laughed. “Are you disappointed?”

To him, a heart devil like his was no more than formless shackles. He couldn’t shatter them earlier, but that was because they were formless and invisible, all but impossible to detect.

But the moment this heart devil reared its ugly head, Su Yi’s mental strength was enough to destroy it with ease!

Ultimately, he wasn’t Shen Mu. More importantly, he wasn’t overcome by infatuation like Shen Mu!

“Disappointed?” Lady Snowjade’s gaze frosted over. “No. You’re doomed to die here today. If anything, I’m delighted. How could I possibly be disappointed?”

With that, she whispered, “Who wants to capture him for me?”

“I might be untalented, but I’m willing to assuage your worries, Fellow Daoist!” A middle-aged Cloud Soaring Transcendent from one of the other seven Demonist sects stepped forth with a laugh.

“Be careful, Fellow Daoist. Su Yi isn’t simple,” urged Lady Snowjade.

“Hahah! Just watch and see, Fellow Daoist.” The middle-aged man in black threw back his head, laughed, and shot out of the sect’s gates.

His terrifying aura was monstrous to behold, and he was the center of attention the moment he entered the fray.

But Su Yi couldn’t even be bothered to look at him. He just stepped back and continued drinking.

“I’ll leave this to you. Remember, don’t kill that woman. I want her to break mentally first,” Su Yi ordered softly. 𝓯𝘦𝘦𝑤𝑣.𝒸𝘰

Wu Meng grinned. “I’ve been waiting for you to say that, Your Eminence!”

“Die!”

The middle-aged man in black shot over.

Wu Meng expressionlessly backhanded him.

Bang!!!

The middle-aged man in black exploded into a spray of blood in midair.

A Cloud Soaring Transcendent, swatted like a pesky fly!

He’d been a proud and mighty cultivator, yet now, he’d been slapped to death before he could even attack. This left the crowd completely astonished. Every last one of them was tongue-tied.

The gap between expectations and reality was so great that they almost thought they were seeing things!

Before the crowd could react, Wu Meng shot into the heavens and arrived before the mountain gates.

He raised his hand, then pressed down.

Boom!

Blood-colored light surged, and the formations covering the mountain split and collapsed.

The backlash reached the nearby experts, all of whom died brutally. One terrifying palm strike was enough to destroy them all.

That tyrannical, valiant power stunned everyone in the Six Desires Demonist Sect. Who is that old timer? Why is he so strong?

“Quick, attack!” Lady Snowjade’s eyes glinted with icy light as she issued orders.

“Get him!”

The Cloud Soaring experts of the Six Desires Demonist Sect and their seven allied sects attacked without hesitation. All manner of treasures whooshed through the air, and all manner of secret arts burst forth.

Over a hundred Cloud Soaring Transcendents had attacked at once. How terrifying was their combined power?

But then——

Boom!

Heaven and earth trembled, and the skies split.

A terrifying current of destructive power swept forth, like the river of heaven breaking through a dam, blanketing heaven and earth. All of this was targeted at Wu Meng.

Even just watching from afar made the onlookers’ courage fail them.

“Fortunately, I did as Martial Uncle told me and prepared numerous trump cards and backup plans. Otherwise, that old-timer really would have caught us off guard,” said Lady Snowjade. She’d already retreated to a safe distance.

They said a wealthy man didn’t sit beneath the eaves. She was the leader of her sect; she naturally wouldn’t risk herself.

But she’d only just thought this when her delicate frame stiffened, and the look on her beautiful face shifted.

The gray-robed, cold, and severe Wu Meng didn’t just not dodge. No, he broke the joint attack of over a hundred Cloud Soaring Transcendents with a single swing of his palm!

A rain of light swept through the air, and the entire stretch of sky collapsed.

Then, Wu Meng took a deep breath. Blood-red divine flames surged around him, rising into the firmament to form a pair of blood-red wings. They were so vast that they blotted out the sun.

A dense power of the Laws surged around his wings, like scattered stars. Destructive power spread and blanketed the dome of heaven.

Everyone held their breath, their faces filling with astonishment. This is….

“Die!” Wu Meng bellowed and swung his palm.

Those blood-red wings descended a moment later.

Boom!!

The Thousand Eddies Divine Mountain shook violently. One peak after another was sliced off, leaving behind mountaintop plateaus. Countless ancient buildings collapsed with a bang.

The power of those blood-red wings was far too explosive, and they were swathed in Laws of the Immortal Dao far beyond the Cloud Soaring level.

Just one attack had executed several dozen Cloud Soaring Transcendents!

Blood fell like rain.

Shrieks shook the air.

In the blink of an eye, the Thousand Eddies Divine Mountain were like a vision of purgatory!

“A yao immortal! He’s a real yao immortal!!” someone cried out in a quavering voice tinged with terror.

“A yao immortal?” Lady Snowjade’s face paled with disbelief. Where did Su Yi find an assistant like that!?

Didn’t they say that his stretch of stars doesn’t have any true immortals?

She suddenly realized just how thorny this problem was!

Boom!

Wu Meng had already begun a massacre. He now seemed like a demonic god, his blood-red wings blotting out the sun and obscuring the skies. Every time he beat his wings, it was like the eruption of a natural disaster.

The Cloud Soaring Transcendents were top experts by the standards of the present day, but now, all of them seemed pathetic. They were slaughtered without mercy, one after another.

As for those beneath the Cloud Soaring Realm? The aftershock alone was more than they could take. They exploded on the spot, unable to even fight back.

Wu Meng, the founder of the Demonic Court of Ten Thousand Domains, was now displaying the full extent of his ferocity!

Throughout this process, Su Yi just stood in the distance, calm and composed. He watched blood flow like rivers between sips of wine, and his gaze never so much as rippled with emotion.

“Quick! Retreat to the main peak——!” shouted Lady Snowjade. Her eyes bulged, and her pretty face was ashen. Her heart was full of rage and indignation.

But in the end, she could only lead her sectmates back into their territory.

Boom!

The primary peak of the Thousand Eddies Divine Mountains surged with the dazzling power of an Immortal Dao-level formation. Waves of power spread throughout heaven and earth.

As soon as the formation appeared, it blocked Wu Meng’s offensive. The experts who’d fled within its bounds sighed in relief, but a moment later, their expressions were incomparably unsightly. They could see that aside from the protected central peak, everything else had been destroyed.

Barely any time had passed at all, but they’d already suffered devastating casualties. There’d been over a hundred Cloud Soaring Transcendents, but only around twenty had been fortunate enough to survive. As for the weaker ones…the dead were too many to count!

Their heavy losses left her gnashing her teeth so hard they almost broke. Her entire body quivered with rage.

She’d miscalculated!

She hadn’t anticipated that Su Yi wouldn’t appear on the thoroughly sealed-off Star Origin Mountain, much less that he’d show up right at the Six Desires Demonist Sect’s gates. And she certainly hadn’t anticipated that Su Yi would have such a terrifying yao immortal accompanying him!

All of this had caught her completely off guard.

A moment later, she took a deep breath and tried to comfort the crowd. “Everyone, don’t panic! I still have plenty of cards left. They’re enough to avert this crisis!”