First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 437: The Cloudsky Eight Paradise Flag

“Young Lord, are you alright?” The old blind man appeared by his side.

Su Yi nodded. “I underestimated the survivors of the thirty thousand years of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness this time. As a result of my negligence, he escaped at the last moment.”

The Nirvanic Winds Holy Son really wasn’t simple. His cultivation was in the Origin Palace Realm, yet his combat strength was sufficient to kill Gathering Stars cultivators like Madam Miaohua.

Su Yi assumed his earlier strike would be enough to obliterate his opponent. Who’d have thought he’d merely injure him?

Looking back on it now, Su Yi realized that for his opponent to have survived, he surely had incredibly powerful defensive treasures at his disposal, as well as extraordinary life-saving trump cards.

Take that silver spirit pearl just now. It exploded with force comparable to a Spiritual Integration Realm cultivator’s full-strength attack, leaving Su Yi with no choice but to dodge.

“Monsters like him survived thirty thousand years of stillness, and their origins are extraordinary. Furthermore, before they went dormant, their seniors surely prepared numerous life-saving methods for them. To the Origin Dao cultivators of the modern-day Azure Continent, they’re absolutely one-in-a-million geniuses,” said the old blind man.?“Young Lord, for you to injure him with such ease is absolutely extraordinary. I even suspect that no other Origin Dao cultivator beneath the heavens is a match for you.”

This old inheritor of the Ghost Lantern Sarcophagus Bearers had absolutely mastered the art of flattery. No matter what was happening, so long as Su Yi was involved, he found a way to compliment him.

He was really?quite the eccentric.

“I cannot underestimate the world’s valiant elites,” said Su Yi. As he spoke, he put his hands behind his back and sauntered off.

“Young Lord, what about those members of the Deathbringer’s Gate?” asked the old blind man hurriedly.

He was referring to Lian Lengyue and the others.

“I said it already, didn’t I? I’m only interested in the main offender. Also, I rather liked what you said earlier: ‘an immortal refrains from squashing ants, and a general’s sword is not for cutting down flies.’”

Su Yi then drifted off without so much as a second look.

The old blind man was briefly stunned, but then, he laughed and followed him.

Lian Lengyue and the others still lay sprawled out on the ground. Despite their wounds, they rejoiced as they realized they’d survived this disaster.

……

“Young Lord, I’m afraid this old man must be on his way,” said the old blind man. He hesitated, then whispered, “Young Lord, should you ever require my assistance, all you have to do is light this ‘Heaven’s Mandate Lantern.’ So long as you’re within the Great Xia’s borders, I’ll be sure to find you within the day.”

He took out a palm-sized black paper lantern, then offered it to Su Yi with both hands.

Su Yi accepted it, then looked it over and said, “Don’t forget what I said earlier. Should you encounter difficulty, come looking for me. I trust that with the methods at your disposal, that shouldn’t be overly difficult.”

The old blind man grinned. “I’ll bear that in mind.”

With that, he turned and left.

Su Yi watched his bony frame disappear from view. Inwardly, he sighed.

He wouldn’t have guessed that the enmities of his past life would implicate the Ghost Lantern Sarcophagus Bearers.

Pi Mo… Whatever you do, you cannot die until your master returns to the Wilds…?Su Yi muttered to himself, his expression tranquil as the surface of a pond.

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Within their temporary residence.

When Su Yi got back, he sprawled out in his wicker chair, his whole body loose and relaxed.

Today, upon entering this “Little Ghost City Fengdu”, he visited the temple and met a member of the Ghost Lantern Sarcophagus Bearers in the ghost market.

Then, almost as soon as they arrived at their temporary residence and just as he was preparing to relax, the Nirvanic?Winds?Holy Son’s subordinates came calling…

Only now did Su Yi finally have time to rest.

He’d always been lazy when he wasn’t cultivating. If he could lie down, there was absolutely no way he’d remain upright.

“Big Brother Su Yi, look at this bracelet.” Qing Ya giggled, walked up to him, and raised her left sleeve, revealing a snow-white forearm. She stretched out her hand so Su Yi could see it, then shook the bracelet around her wrist.

The gentle light of the sun illuminated her fair skin, which shone with faint luster. The translucent, glittering bracelet flowed with misty, dazzling spiritual light.

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A wrist like snow, and a bracelet as blue as the sky.

As for the girl they belonged to, her pretty, adorable little face was grinning, her big eyes filled with joy and anticipation.

This scene was unquestionably a delight to the senses.

“Not bad, not bad at all.” Su Yi nodded.

He could naturally tell that the bracelet was made out of Coldblue Divine Jade, an extremely rare material. It was most likely a spiritual treasure, and one with numerous wondrous applications.

However, compared to the treasure, it was unquestionably the girl’s pure, simple smile and charm that drew his attention.

Qing Ya lowered her arm and chirped, “Big Brother Su Yi, this is the treasure I found in the sarcophagus hidden in the lantern I chose. It’s called the ‘Skyshadow Bluelight Bracelet’, and it can activate a defensive formation called the Seven Stars Spiritual Revolution Formation. They say it can even block a full-force attack from a Spiritual Manifestation cultivator.

As she spoke, she took out a jade bottle and passed it to him. “Big Brother Su Yi, it’s thanks to you that I managed to obtain this treasure. This bottle contains Precious Profound Pith. You have to accept it!”

Su Yi was quite surprised. Precious Profound Pith was an extremely rare spiritual medicine, and during the Gathering Stars Realm, it was inestimably valuable when tempering one’s cultivation base. It was shockingly expensive.

He considered refusing it, but when he saw the girl’s serious expression, Su Yi decided to accept the bottle of Precious Profound Pith.

It was then that Ling Yunhe smiled and walked up. “Fellow Daoist Su, earlier, I received word that Qing Ya’s little martial aunt is on her way…”

He then proceeded to tell Su Yi about Wen Xinzhao in full detail.

When Su Yi heard this, he said, “For you to say all that, this Wen Xinzhao must be an extraordinarily talented sword cultivator, right?”

Ling Yunhe nodded and sighed with emotion. “If you asked me who, of the cultivators I’ve met, had the greatest talent for swordsmanship, I’d have to say I’d never seen anyone greater than Junior Apprentice Sister Wen.”

At fourteen, she became the uncontested top genius of the One Sky Sword Pavilion’s younger generation. They called her the Little Sword Demon.

At fifteen, she broke the Heaven’s Net Divine Sword Formation, becoming the closed-door disciple of one of the Cloudsky Divine Palace’s Spirit Dao cultivators, the Daoist Master Coldsmoke…

This was such a dazzling record that even Su Yi couldn’t help but feel a bit curious about Wen Xinzhao.

Cloudsky Divine Palace was one of the Great Xia’s four peak-level factions. Wen Xinzhao had, three years ago, relied on her own swordsmanship and cultivation to become a Spirit Dao cultivator’s disciple. She really wasn’t simple.

Was she really worthy of the title “miraculous genius of the Dao of the Sword”? Su Yi would know if he met her for himself.

As they conversed, a treasure ship suddenly flew over from the distant skies.

It was several hundred feet long, and it bore down through the clouds, swathed in dazzling light. Its arrival startled numerous cultivators throughout Yin Mountain City.

“That ship is quite shocking and imposing. Which mighty expert has arrived in our Yin Mountain City?”

“The Cloudsky Eight Paradise Flag! My heavens! It’s Cloudsky Divine Palace’s treasure ship!” 𝘦𝘯.𝘰𝘳𝘨

Numerous experienced old-timers couldn’t help but cry out. They recognized the war flag on the ship’s deck: it was the unique symbol of Cloudsky Divine Palace, one of the Great Xia’s four peak-level factions!

“Experts from Cloudsky Divine Palace?”

The ship’s arrival caused a commotion throughout Yin Mountain City. Countless cultivators were stunned, and they gazed up at the ship with heartfelt reverence.

The Great?Xia’s vast territory was divided into thirteen provinces. Its borders were home to over one hundred factions of cultivators, and its orthodoxies flourished.

However, four of its factions towered above all others, like overlords gazing proudly down upon the world.

The Cloudsky Divine Palace was one of them!

To the cultivators of the Great Xia, it was a holy land, a place they could only gaze upon from afar.

It was no exaggeration to say that if you picked any one of their disciples at random and placed them anywhere in the Southern Skies Province, no one would dare provoke them!

Yet now, one of their ships had arrived here, in Yin Mountain City, the southernmost city of the Great Xia’s Southern Skies Province. Who wouldn’t have been surprised?

“The Cloudsky Eight Paradises Flag! Qing Ya, that’s most likely your little martial aunt.” Ling Yunhe felt a bit worked up too.

They watched as the ship quickly stopped above their residence and hovered in the air.

Then, four people emerged from the ship, three men and one woman.

The leader was a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted, handsome and powerful-looking young man in white. He had a four-foot-long sword bundled in gray fabric on his back, and he looked positively radiant.

The woman and the other two men each had their own majesty. It was obvious at a glance that they were dragons and phoenixes among men. All were extraordinary, and all would stand out in any crowd.

However, when they saw them, Ling Yunhe and Qing Ya were stunned.?Wen Lingzhao wasn’t with them!

It was then that the white-robed youth with a sword bundled on his back led his companions to their residence.?He scanned the group, then smiled and clasped his fist at Ling Yunhe and Qing Ya. “You must be Fellow Daoist Ling Yunhe and Miss Qing Ya, right?”

Ling Yunhe clasped his fist in greeting. “Indeed. Might I ask your name, Fellow Daoist?”

“I am Huo Yunsheng, and I’m here to fetch you on Senior Apprentice Sister Wen’s orders,” the young man in white said with a hearty laugh.

“Why didn’t Little Martial Aunt come herself?” Qing Ya couldn’t help but ask.

Little Martial Aunt?

The white-robed Huo Yunsheng was briefly stunned, but he quickly understood. He laughed, “As we passed through Spiritbend City, Senior Apprentice Sister Wen encountered a matter of the utmost importance. She won’t be able to leave for a while. However, she was worried about keeping you waiting, so she sent us here to invite you to Spiritbend City. You can convene with her there.”

This time, everyone understood.

Ling Yunhe smiled. “That actually works out rather nicely; we were already preparing to head to Spiritbend City.”

Huo Yunhe glanced at Su Yi, Yuan Heng, and Bai Wenqing. “Fellow Daoist Ling, who might these three be?”

Ling Yunhe smiled and introduced them, one by one.

When he learned that they were Ling Yunhe and Qingya’s friends, Huo Yunsheng smiled and nodded. “It?won’t do to delay. How about we set off right away?”

However, instead of answering, Ling Yunhe glanced at Su Yi. “Fellow Daoist Su, what do you think?”

Huo Yunsheng was stunned. He suddenly realized that this young Grain Avoidance Realm cultivator wasn’t as simple as he’d imagined!?After all, Ling Yunhe was a Gathering Stars cultivator, and he’d just asked for Su Yi’s input before making a decision.

“That works too.” Su Yi stretched in his wicker chair, then got up and put the chair away. “Let’s go.”