Novel Full Chapter 2787 - An Acquaintance From Far Away
Chapter 2787 – An Acquaintance From Far Away
As the crowd conversed, a dazzling beam of light suddenly lit up over the horizon.
Then, a massive Kun Peng flew in, so huge that it looked like a continent in motion.
A group of one hundred cultivators stood on its back.
The scene startled everyone present. That’s the Great Kun Peng of Limitless Palace!
This mighty yao was famous throughout the Eternal Heavens Domain. Its massive wings were like clouds blotting out the sun, and it could pass between continents with ease, flying freely through time and space. It was terrifyingly strong, too.
They said that even if over a hundred Heavenly Monarchs joined forces, they could forget about blocking the Great Kun Peng’s full-force attack!
Divine Reverence Pavillion wasn’t at all stingy with its praise, either. They said that the Great Kun Peng’s cultivation base was at the peak of the Heavenly Fate Realm. It could illuminate the nine heavens and suppress the clouds with its imposing presence!
It was one of the Limitless Palace’s three guardian beasts.
“This is prestige! The Great Kun Peng alone could suppress the vast majority of the continent’s Heavenly Monarchs,” sighed Bu Meng.
Throughout the ages, Limitless Palace had sent a group to temper themselves in the Nine Luminaries Forbidden Zone every time it reappeared.
Thus, the prominent experts of the Literati Continent understood them well, Bu Meng included.
Su Yi noticed that the experts of the Literati Continent’s thirteen Heavenly Monarch-level sects, without exception, looked solemn and reverent before the cultivators of Limitless Palace.
That was true even of its most dazzling, unparalleled figures, Yun Qiaojun, Xiao Chi, and Wen Xiuran!
Su Yi suddenly understood something on a visceral level. This is why Heavenly Sovereign-level factions are viewed as supreme rulers of the Eternal Heavens Domain.
The Literati Continent is far from comparable to a backwater like the Blue Peak Continent, but the Literati Continent’s top orthodoxies pale in comparison to a Heavenly Sovereign-level faction.
There was no need for words. The disparity was obvious from the looks on everyone’s faces.
When the experts of Sevendeaths Court and the Heart-Tempering Sword House arrived, this feeling grew all the more intense.
Over one hundred cultivators of Sevendeaths Court rode in on a treasure ship as enormous as the moon.
This was the famous Divine Moon vessel. It was like a full moon in motion, and it could pass through the barriers between worlds like moonlight, traverse the River of Destiny, and slaughter malevolent beings with no fear of attack.
There were over a hundred cultivators from the Heart-Tempering Sword House, too. They rode together on the flat of a mountain-sized sword, its sword qi imposing as it cleaved through the wind and clouds.
The Heart-Tempering Sword House was a Heavenly Monarch-level faction, but its founder was the Greatest of the Unthroned, Jiang Wuchen.
It was one of the greatest Heavenly Monarch-level factions in the Five Great Continents.
The top thirteen orthodoxies of the Literati Continent unquestionably paled by comparison.
When the experts of Limitless Palace, Sevendeaths Court, and the Heart-Tempering Sword House arrived, an oppressive, stifled atmosphere enveloped Qingpu Mountain.
Even Bu Meng, someone utterly unafraid to die, a valiant Sword Monarch, felt a bit reserved. The same was true for the Literati Continent’s other top experts, no exceptions.
This was the disparity between factions.
They were as far apart as heaven and earth!
This was also clear from the allocation of opportunities to enter the Nine Luminaries Forbidden Zone.
The entire Literati Continent combined got just thirty spots, while Limitless Palace, Sevendeaths Court, and the Heart-Tempering Sword House got fifty each!
Moreover, they could each bring a Dao Protector. That was why, combined, each faction’s forces numbered over one hundred people!
Them aside, Su Yi noticed a few other assorted cultivators.
A golden-headed Luan flew through the sky, carrying ten people.
These were experts from the Court of the Southern Heavens, another Heavenly Sovereign-level faction!
A black mountain swathed in lightning flew toward them, a group of cultivators standing atop it.
These were the experts of yet another Heavenly Sovereign-level faction, Eternal Lightning Court!
Its founder was Heavenly Sovereign Wuxu.
Several other factions from the Five Great Continents arrived, but their numbers were paltry compared to Limitless Palace, Sevendeaths Court, and the Heart-Tempering Sword House. After all, those three factions had controlled access to the Nine Luminaries Forbidden Zone for a long, long time.
Thus, they monopolized most of the spots.
In the end, the experts of four Heavenly Sovereign-level factions and a dozen or so Heavenly Monarch-level factions of the Five Great Continents gathered near Qingpu Mountain.
The factions of the Literati Continent dimmed by comparison, like ministers before a monarch. The continent’s experts even approached to greet the new arrivals of their own accord, their bearings humble.
In stark contrast, the new arrivals accepted their greetings calmly.
The disparity was obvious at a glance.
Yun Qiaojun, Xiao Chi, and the other unparalleled Unfettered Realm cultivators had complicated looks on their faces. Inwardly, they struggled to stay calm.
They were likely realizing the disparity between the Literati Continent and the Five Great Continents, as well as the disparity between their sects and the Heavenly Sovereign-level factions!
Su Yi, however, thought nothing of it. Sure, he was only in the Unfettered Realm, but if he revealed everything he’d experienced, he could make the entire Eternal Heavens Domain jump with fright!
He’d clashed with the clones of Heavenly Sovereigns back in the God Domain, and he’d recently dueled Heavenly Sovereign Ku Xuan’s clone.
He’d drunk and celebrated with Lu Hongpao, too.
Besides, Xiao Jian, Su Wanjun, the River Lord, and Gongye Futu were existences so lofty that they could look down on Heavenly Sovereigns with disdain.
Thus, this scene left little impression on Su Yi. The only faction he was paying attention to was the Heart-Tempering Sword House.
There, he saw two familiar figures. The first was Mountain Lord Wu Qing of Heavenquench Mountain. Su Yi had seen his avatar shortly after reaching the River of Destiny.
It was only later that he’d learned that Pu Xuan had been Wu Qing’s guide in his pursuit of the Grand Dao. They weren’t officially master and apprentice, but they might as well have been!
Moreover, Su Yi was certain that this was Wu Qing’s true body.
What surprised Su Yi the most was actually the person standing beside Wu Qing. That was Yang Lingxiao!
Three years ago, Yang Lingxiao, an inner sect disciple of the Heart-Tempering Sword House, had become Su Yi’s captive.
But Yang Lingxiao had real backbone, and he’d earned Pu Xuan’s approval.
In the end, Lu Hongpao arranged for Lian Luo to escort Yang Lingxiao, Mu Qing and Yu Guangjun of True Martial Sword Court to safety.
Don’t tell me that the Heart-Tempering Sword House learned what happened outside the Huaihuang Empire from Yang Lingxiao? Su Yi’s brow furrowed. Does that mean that the Malevolent Sword Venerate knows I’m here?
But Su Yi wasn’t worried about it. Over the past three years, he’d lived under a pseudonym, and Lu Hongpao herself had helped hide him. Unless he let the cat out of the bag, his enemies couldn’t possibly have realized who he really was.
As he pondered, a burst of hearty laughter rang out. “It’ll be a little while before the Nine Luminaries Forbidden Zone appears. Might we take this time to get acquainted with the thirty representatives of the Literati Continent?” asked a member of Limitless Palace, a barefoot, gray-haired man.
He gripped a jade fan swathed in misty light, and he was tall and thin. His robes swayed around him, and even just standing there casually, he seemed capable of looking down on all of creation.
The crowd stirred.
This was Wu Xuan!
He was the most dazzling, heaven-defying Unfettered Realm cultivator in Limitless Palace. Moreover, he was in sixteenth place on the Unfettered ranking!
The nine Heavenly Sovereign-level factions were home to countless heaven-defying, unparalleled monsters.
Yet Wu Xuan had claimed sixteenth place on the Unfettered Ranking, a terrifying achievement!
“Now that you’ve spoken, Fellow Daoist Wu Xuan, how could we possibly refuse?” an old man said with a laugh.
This was Luo Chu, the grand elder of the greatest faction in the Literati Continent, the Southern Darkness Sword Court. He was powerful and influential, with enormous prestige.
That is, here in the Literati Continent.
In the face of Wu Xuan, an unparalleled monster of an Unfettered Realm cultivator from Limitless Palace, Grand Elder Luo Chu was as humble as could be.
Luo Chu and the other higher-ups conversed briefly, then arranged for Yun Qiaojun, Xiao Chi, and Wen Xiuran to step forth. The rest followed suit in order of ranking.
It was like they were trained monkeys putting on a show. Su Yi found it repulsive.
But he knew he needed to hide his identity and keep a low profile, so he held his nose and endured.
Before long, all thirty finalists in the Nine Luminaries Dao Assembly had lined up, like objects on display for the cultivators of the Five Great Continents to ogle as they saw fit.
Countless gazes swept over them.
Wu Xuan glanced coolly at them, then waved. “The top ten stay behind. The rest of you can disperse.”
Su Yi turned to leave, but he’d already made a mental note of this.
“When we enter the Nine Luminaries Battlefield, I’ll evaluate your abilities, one by one,” Wu Xuan said leisurely. “Impress me, and I wouldn’t mind giving you a recommendation and a chance to enter Limitless Palace!”
The crowd was instantly in uproar. Yun Qiaojun, Xiao Chi, and the others’ expressions shifted.
Their sects’ higher-ups looked stricken. He’s trying to snipe our most talented juniors right in front of us! This Wu Xuan sure is brazen! He obviously doesn’t think anything of us at all!
Wu Xuan noticed this reaction, but he didn’t mind a bit. He just smiled. “The ten of you ought to celebrate, as the twenty ranked behind you aren’t even worthy of my attention. I can’t be bothered to evaluate them, so they have no hope of receiving my recommendation or a chance to cultivate in Limitless Palace.”
Everyone heard every word. Many found his words provocative.
Bu Meng furrowed his brow, his expression dark.
But no one dared to say anything, because Wu Xuan was backed by Limitless Palace!
Su Yi just watched this all play out. He took a sip of wine.
Suddenly, a voice reached his ears. “Daoist Brother Li, is that guy really an unparalleled monster of Limitless Palace? Why does he look like a complete idiot?”
The speaker was Fu Lingyun, the Light Beam Sword Pavillion disciple that Bu Meng most doted on.
Su Yi was briefly stunned. He forced down laughter, then responded, “It’s because he’s been spoiled rotten. He lacks judgment.”
Fu Lingyun scratched her head and giggled. “The patriarch says that I’m a scatterbrain when it comes to everything except cultivating and hunting yao, but looking at this guy, I can’t help but think, ‘At least I’m not as stupid as him!’”
She had a smug look on her pretty face.
Su Yi barely resisted the urge to laugh. Fu Lingyun might seem a bit silly, but she’s actually quite interesting.