First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 2461 – Su Yi’s Retribution

Di E really was there, but he dared not enter the battle personality.

This reality made Master God Yun He and the others’ hearts sink. They could tell that something was amiss.

Meanwhile, Wen Qingfeng, Jian Dushan, Ji Heng, and the others struck to kill.

It was Su Yi whose brow silently furrowed. Even now, he dares not show himself personally. Isn’t he worried about disappointing his allies? Or… is he just that certain that Master God Yun He and the others can escape even without his help?

This thought had only just occurred to him when a bellow shook the entire battlefield.

“Activate!”

Master God Yun Xiao, the “beast in a cage”, erupted with far-reaching firelight. It looked like he was burning his vitality and cultivation base.

A marking like a vertical eye appeared on his forehead. The eye was strange and mysterious, and it flowed with blood-red tears.

When it appeared, the entire stretch of heaven and earth shook violently. The sky wailed, and Master God Yun Xiao seemed to transform into an entirely different person. His aura turned hideous and explosive, and his countless blood-red, contorted markings appeared all over his skin.

“Senior Apprentice Brother!” Master God Yun He looked stricken.

This was the “Blood Restriction Pupil!” An utterly taboo divine ability that burned one’s latent potential in exchange for temporarily multiplying their cultivation base.

But using it resulted in severe Dao Wounds and permanently weakened the cultivation base. It would be hard to realize any further breakthroughs.

In other words, now that he’d used this forbidden technique, even if Master God Yun Xiao survived, his path would halt here forever. He could forget about ever striving for Eternity!

“Junior Apprentice Brother, run!” Yun Xiao roared. As his strength and ferocity soared, he instantly turned the tables on his opponents, breaking through their encirclement!

“Die!” The vertical eye on Yun Xiao’s forehead fired a beam of light, cleaving through the sky and staining heaven and earth red.

Jian Dushan and the others attacked with all their might, but they couldn’t block Yun Xiao’s power. All of them were forced back.

Yun Xiao seized the opportunity to shoot toward Yun He’s opponents with unparalleled ferocity.

All of Su Yi’s allies knew that if they couldn’t suppress Yun Xiao’s fierce momentum, their advantage would vanish completely!

“Risking it all, huh? Two can play that game!” Jian Dushan snorted coldly, and was just about to unleash the killer move he kept in reserve when Su Yi’s voice transmitted directly into his ears.

“Retreat!”

It wasn’t just Jian Dushan. Wen Qingfeng and the others heard it too. All of them did as they were told immediately; none so much as paused to think.

Such was their tacit understanding with Su Yi; they had absolute confidence in him. No matter how unwilling they were to retreat, and despite not knowing why he’d order them back, they chose to trust him unconditionally!

The moment they retreated, something unbelievable happened.

A mysterious silver curtain blanketed the place they’d been in moments earlier.

The silver light rippled, radiant and resplendent. It brought with it a heart-palpitating fluctuation of the power of the Laws. Within moments, everything it covered was silently melted and refined.

As far as the eye could see, the air was riddled with holes!

Wen Qingfeng and the others’ hearts shook. They gasped. What terrifying Laws!

The aura was so far beyond the Undying Realm that it made even their hearts’ palpitate with terror and unease.

Who is behind this?

Only Yun He, Yun Xiao, and Tian Huang and the area around them were unaffected.

The three of them had been on the brink of despair. Now, without exception, they rejoiced.

It was then that they saw Su Yi’s figure blur like a beam of light, shooting into the dome of heaven. He suddenly drew and swung his rusted sword sheath.

A black line of sword qi extended, stretching into the firmament.

Where the sword qi flew, a petite figure suddenly appeared in the empty skies. She was a little girl, her figure dreamlike and ethereal. Her eyes were cold and cruel, like twin portals to an endlessly deep abyss.

As the sword qi drew closer, she stretched out her hand and grabbed.

Crack!

The silver power of the natural order condensed into a phoenix of silver flames.

In that moment, heaven and earth burned, and the dome of heaven melted. Everyone felt as if they were standing in a furnace, their bodies suddenly subject to terrifying, burning power. They felt searing pain on their skin, and their hearts and minds felt as if they might melt away.

The old-timers’ expressions shifted, and their hair stood on end. All of them fought back with all their might.

There was no doubt about it. The little girl had attacked out of nowhere intent on killing Wen Qingfeng.

But Su Yi had sensed her arrival at a critical juncture, warning Wen Qingfeng and the others just in time. This let them narrowly escape disaster!

Kaboom!

The phoenix of silver flames beat its wings, scattering divine flames. It burned the nine heavens, setting everything ablaze.

But then, beneath the onlookers’ flabbergasted gazes, this attack mighty enough to astonish the entire God Domain vanished inexplicably!

No, it wasn’t inexplicable. That dark line of sword qi that Su Yi had created devoured it.

The black line seemed to tear open a portal to another spacetime, devouring all of those silver flames!

An indescribable astonishment washed over the crowd.

Meanwhile, that black sword qi continued, its power undiminished. It was headed toward the little girl!

The little girl turned and fled, her ethereal figure vanishing in a flash.

But she was ultimately just a bit too slow.

The moment she vanished, the sword qi swept over her, cutting her right arm clean off. It fell out of the sky.

But the expected spray of blood never happened. When the limb fell off her body, it transformed into a glittering bundle of silver light.

All of this happened in a flash. Su Yi swung the sheath and arrived beneath the dome of heaven even as he warned his friends to retreat.

Meanwhile, the little girl unleashed the phoenix of silver flame practically the moment her injuries forced her to retreat!

Those who witnessed the perils therein couldn’t help but shudder.

Yun Xiao and Yun He exchanged glances. Both retreated explosively, fleeing into the distance with all their might.

The little girl had been forced back, but she’d created a rare and precious opportunity for them to escape. They naturally wouldn’t miss it.

Wen Qingfeng, Jian Dushan, and the others reacted quickly, too. However, because they’d only just retreated, creating distance between themselves and their opponents, they were a bit too late to intercept them.

Tian Huang fled too. At least, he tried too. Before he’d gotten far, Ji Heng and the others intercepted him.

He’d reacted even quicker than his allies, fleeing as soon as the little girl appeared, heedless of the consequences.

Unfortunately for him, Su Yi had named him as the one person they absolutely had to kill today. Ji Heng and the others naturally hadn’t forgotten.

More importantly, Tian Huang’s injuries were the most severe, and that made him the easiest to surround!

Kaboom!

The grand battle raged on. Master God Tian Huang found himself thoroughly surrounded once more.

When Su Yi saw that Wen Qingfeng and the others were about to chase after Yun Xiao and Yun He, Su Yi shook his head and stopped them. “Don’t bother.”

Even if they caught up, they wouldn’t necessarily be able to kill their enemies. They were old enemies who’d fought for countless years; Su Yi naturally understood that Yun He and Yun Xiao still had cards up their sleeves.

In a true no-holds-barred confrontation, they might well manage to defeat their enemies, but they’d pay an enormous price for the victory.

In truth, Su Yi wasn’t really concerned about either of them. He was more focused on Di E, who still refused to come out of hiding.

It was a pity, but although Di E had intervened, he’d done so merely as a show of strength. He still hadn’t revealed himself, and Su Yi couldn’t figure out where he was hiding.

The spirit of the natural order in the form of a little girl had appeared at a critical juncture to save Yun He and Yun Xiao, but… She’d paid the price for her intervention!

She’d lost an arm, and with it, a portion of her source power!

“No need to thank me this time. She’s prey I’d long since set my sights on. Her source energies aren’t overly impressive, but they can still help this sheath recover some of its vitality,” said the heart devil in the sheath. “Of course, if you want to owe me a favor, you’re more than welcome.”

“No matter what, I still have to thank you,” said Su Yi.

His first incarnation’s heart devil could have stayed out of this, but he’d helped out instead. He might have done it simply to acquire the little girl’s source energies, but he’d still done Su Yi a big favor.

Su Yi naturally had to acknowledge that. Even if his first incarnation’s heart devil didn’t care, he did!

“What’s there to thank me for? As you’re well aware, I want to help you, the more the better. I want you helpless to refuse me, to owe me more and more favors, and to become dependent on me.”

Here, the heart devil sighed. “But I also know you’ll remember all of your favors and meticulously pay them back. That gives me precious few opportunities, so… I’ve changed my mind.”

“You’ve changed your mind? How so?” Su Yi’s eyelids twitched.

“Yes, that’s right. I’ve decided to become your friend, someone you can trust and rely on, just like your brothers-in-arms. We’ll live and die side by side. How about it?” laughed the heart devil.

Su Yi shook his head. “I don’t like it at all! Better that we remain competitors in the battlefield of the heart!”

Friends? This was a heart devil eager to displace him. How could he possibly become Su Yi’s sworn brother? It was immediately obvious that this was some kind of scheme.

“Argh. You’re just too small-minded,” sighed the heart devil.

Was “small-mindedness” really the problem here? No, it wasn’t. Su Yi just ignored the heart devil; he wasn’t going to dignify that with a response.

Even as they conversed, they watched the battle from afar.

Su Yi’s thirteen allies had surrounded Tian Huang. His physical body had already fallen apart. Only his soul remained, and it bitterly fought on.

Seeing this, Su Yi couldn’t help but recall how Li Fuyou had been surrounded and killed in the Boundless Battlefield.

He’d fought alone, surrounded on all sides by enemies. It was enough to leave anyone overcome with despair, bitterness, and fury. Those who’d never experienced it for themselves could never have understood it.

The difference was that even in Li Fuyou’s last moments, he just found it a pity that he wasn’t strong enough, and that his sword wasn’t strong enough.

That obviously wasn’t true of Tian Huang. Tian Huang fought in a frenzy, roaring and cursing hysterically. He’d completely lost his composure.

He couldn’t have been any more wretched!

In the end, Master God Tian Huang died in battle, his soul blasted to bits. Even its remnants were ground into nothingness.

He’d been eradicated completely, destroyed in both body and soul!

In the last moments before his death, his gaze focused on the distant Su Yi. His eyes were full of hatred so intense, it seemed almost tangible!

Su Yi just laughed this off. He was simply giving Tian Huang a taste of his own medicine. Avenging an injustice was only right and proper, the natural order of things. Or was it?

No, this wasn’t divine justice. This was Su Yi’s retribution!