First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1387 - The Aftermath

Chapter 1387 - The Aftermath

Mount Clearmoon, Universal Emptiness Temple.

“Young Master.” Old Wei brought Wei Shan and Illuminating Emptiness to see Su Yi. They brought a jug of wine with them.

Su Yi accepted it with a smile, threw back his head, and drained it.

Throughout Old Wei’s long years accompanying the Temple Master, they’d maintained a routine. Every time the curtains fell on a major battle, Old Wei would bring him a jug of wine.

This was his and the Temple Master’s tacit agreement.

“Monk, quick, arrange a banquet. Let’s eat and drink to our hearts’ content tonight,” said Su Yi.

“I’ve long since finished making arrangements!” laughed Illuminating Emptiness. “I understand you quite well, don’t I?”

The others laughed.

Later that day, they held a banquet on Mount Clearmoon. The guests didn’t just include Sword Immortal Qingshi and the Universal Emptiness Sword Buddha. Li Zhong, the Yellow Sword Demon, the Wood Spirit Monarch, and several other old monsters participated too.

When the crowd spoke of the morning’s battle, their hearts were full of emotion.

There was no avoiding it. The mere mention of Hong Feiyu’s family filled the old monsters with dread. The Hong Family’s foundations were just far too terrifying. They were far beyond your typical ancient orthodoxy.

But Su Yi didn’t take any of this to heart. So what if they were from the Immortal Realm? They were still just a pack of revenants who’d been lucky to survive the End of the Dharma.

Admittedly, the Hong Family’s experts were as numerous as clouds in the sky, and their ranks included quite a few immortal revenants. However, due to the restriction of the Laws, they still had no opportunity to wander the world.

Take today’s battle, for instance. How terrifying was the immortal will Hong Feiyu had summoned? Yet in the end, it too was destroyed by the backlash of the Laws.

Over the course of their conversation, Su Yi learned that within two months, Cloud Soaring revenants would be able to wander freely and unrestricted by the Laws. Furthermore, within the greatest of ancient factions, immortal revenants were regaining awareness.

He could already foresee that sooner or later, the immortal revenants would re-enter the Human Realm, transforming its balance of power!

When the banquet ended, Li Zhong and the others bade farewell and left.

......

Su Yi sat in his room, the Divine Replenishment Furnace hovering before him.

Three blue spirit pills floated within the furnace. Each contained an illusory, swimming flood dragon stirring up roiling lightning, and each contained a shocking, divine aura.

Su Yi had a strange look in his eyes. The furnace had actually refined the Blue Astral Immortal Flood Dragon’s soul essence into pills!!

Were someone from the Hong Family here to see this, they’d likely have been so furious that they coughed up blood.

Kcch!

As if sensing Su Yi’s gaze, the furnace’s purple light manifested a hand, which reclaimed one of the two pills.

The others shot out of the furnace and floated in front of Su Yi. He thought for a moment, and in the end, he only took one of the pills. The other, he tossed back into the furnace.

“You did me an enormous favor today,” said Su Yi. “Consider this your reward.”

The Divine Replenishment Furnace was silent for a moment, but then, its purple light took on the shape of a hand and gave him a big thumbs up. It seemed to approve of Su Yi’s display of gratitude.

“....” Su Yi had nothing to say to that. He just proceeded to take out a bag of holding. When he opened it, a flood of treasure burst forth, creating a massive pile on the ground.

These were today’s spoils. Illuminating Emptiness had gathered them and delivered them to Su Yi.

Su Yi gently tapped the Divine Replenishment Furnace. “I can tell you’re a mature immortal treasure. You ought to know how to act on our own. Go on, then. Refine the spoils, and we can split them fifty-fifty.

He was originally just teasing. Who’d have thought that the furnace would waggle excitedly in front of Su Yi, as if nodding its head in incomparable delight?

“....” Su Yi almost suspected that the furnace had already given rise to a treasure spirit!

Otherwise, how could it be so sentient?

“Interesting,” said Su Yi. He’d once gleaned insight into some of the furnace’s past, and he knew it had wondrous origins. It was far from a typical immortal treasure.

During today’s battle, the Divine Refinement Furnace had played an unimaginably enormous role. It didn’t just suppress the Blue Astral Immortal Flood Dragon. It even blocked the full-force attack of an immortal’s will!

Su Yi didn’t even need to think to know that this treasure hid enormous secrets!

But with the Sword of the Nine Hells around, Su Yi wasn’t at all worried that the furnace would turn on its master.

He then cast his scattered thoughts aside, crossed his legs, and started cultivating. He’d taken heavy injuries during this battle, and he’d expended an enormous amount of energy.

But his gains far outweighed his losses. He’d further excavated and unleashed his latent potential! Meanwhile, the Divine Replenishment Furnace got to work. Wisps of immortal light stretched out of its interior like tentacles. Each dragged divine medicinal ingredients into the furnace, where they underwent refinement.

Upon closer selection, it wasn’t grabbing them at random. Rather, the furnace was selecting ingredients much like a master alchemist would.

It was too wondrous for words.

......

That very day, word of the battle at Mount Clearmoon spread.

As expected, it swept through the stars like an unprecedented windstorm.

“He cut down a descendant of immortals and twenty-one Cloud Soaring Realm experts. He slew the soul essence of a Blue Astral Immortal Flood Dragon, a variant species from the Immortal Realm. And... he even withstood the will of an immortal?”

This news left everyone who heard it dazed and dumbstruck.

“The Temple Master is even more terrifying than it was at Goldendawn Divine Mountain!” someone said in bewilderment.

At Universal Emptiness Temple, the Temple Master could defeat Nascent Divinity Realm revenants, but only in a one-on-one duel.

At the Divine Forge, he slew several opponents of this level in rapid succession!

Then, at the battle of the Violet Heavens Platform, he slew over a hundred Transcendents, including more than twenty Dao Integration revenants!

And against all expectations, just a few days later, he slew Wei Changfu, a Cloud Soaring Realm revenant, at the battle of Goldendawn Divine Mountain.

The gaps between each battle were short.

But every time, the Temple Master displayed strength even greater than before!

Today, by the time the curtains fell on the battle at Mount Clearmoon, the Temple Master had single-handedly slain a whole group of Cloud Soaring Realm experts!

How could anyone possibly have remained calm after hearing that?

“When the Temple Master first reincarnated and returned, the top factions all thought he was a legend of bygone era, and that he was doomed to wither and fade into obscurity. They thought it would be the Transcendents who controlled the days to come.

“Looking back on it now, it seems like one big joke!

“Those powerhouses of the stars who once viewed the Temple Master with enmity, the lofty and supreme Ancient Guardian Clans of the Dao, and even the mysterious and unfathomable ancient orthodoxies... Who among them hasn’t been left bruised and bleeding after their confrontations with the Temple Master? Who hasn’t paid a brutal price for opposing him?”

“This is what it means to be a true legend!”

“Even if gods and immortals really exist, they too must avert their gazes before him!””

“Is the Temple Master going to keep getting even with his enemies in such a sensational fashion?”

...The world was in uproar, and every star realm shook. This news rocked the Ancient Guardian Clans of the Dao, too. All of them were despondent.

“We Ancient Guardian Clans of the Dao are now completely unqualified to compete with the Temple Master!” an old fogey of the Blue Luan Spirit Race said with a deep, dejected sigh.

The heaven-defying strength Su Yi displayed today was more than enough to let him trample the Ancient Guardian Clans of the Dao beneath his feet!

This was absolutely incontrovertible.

Even though their clans had also given rise to experts of the Path of Transcendence, they were all merely in the Nascent Divinity Realm.

To the Temple Master, they weren’t even remotely worth looking at!

Even though each Ancient Guardian Clan of the Dao was now backed by an ancient orthodoxy, their pillars of support wouldn’t be anywhere near enough to protect them.

The Yun Family had been backed by the Profound Divinity Sword House, but where had that gotten them?

And at Mount Clearmoon, even the mighty Cloud Soaring Realm experts of Yellow Springs Demon Mountain and the Hidden Skies Immortal Sect had fallen. Not one had survived!

No one could deny that as long as the Temple Master drew breath, even the mighty Ancient Guardian Clans of the Dao would be helpless against him! They were unqualified to even be his enemies!

Word of the battle at Mount Clearmoon soon reached the stars’ ancient orthodoxies too.

The resulting waves were unimaginably intense!

After all, in the present day, the Cloud Soaring Realm represented the very pinnacle of strength!

Yet Su Yi could single-handedly slay them with ease!

What ancient orthodoxy wouldn’t have been startled?

And the orthodoxies who’d suffered crushing defeats today at Mount Clearmoon were even more deeply shaken.

Or rather, infuriated to the brink of insanity.

Or overcome with anxiety.

Or grief-stricken to the brink of despair.

As for the ancient orthodoxies who’d expressed goodwill toward Su Yi? They were all celebrating, but at the same time, they felt enormous pressure.

As the light of the crescent moon illuminated the world, some celebrated, while others mourned.

......

“Mistress, Su Yi actually won! He even killed that little imp of the Hong Family!”

In the depths of the Impermeable Demon Ocean, the yellow dog, Xing Que, was overcome with astonishment.

“The Hong Family...” Daoist Master Red Cloud was busy shelling a plate of sunflower seeds, but when she heard the Hong Family’s name, she couldn’t help but frown. “Fellow Daoist Su might well be in for unpredictable danger.”

Prior to this, she’d been largely unconcerned with external affairs.

For her to say something like this now proved that she understood the Hong Family’s foundations. She wouldn’t have made such a judgment otherwise.

“Mistress, should I go warn Su Yi?” the yellow dog couldn’t help but ask.

“No need,” Daoist Master Red Cloud said softly. “The sharpest swords can only be tempered in the midst of grave peril. Besides, immortal revenants are far from ready to enter the world. There’s no need to worry about Fellow Daoist Su’s safety.”

The dog froze, then argued, “I wasn’t worried about that punk! I’d just love it if he fell flat on his face!’

Daoist Master Red Cloud had no more to say on the matter.

......

“This means trouble.” Mo Qingchou furrowed her brow. “The Hong Family is a Demonist faction from the Immortal Realm. Their foundations are terrifying, and their conduct is tyrannical. There’s absolutely no way they’ll let Hong Feiyu’s death go.”

Li Zhong said solemnly, “Doesn’t that mean Fellow Daoist Su is in danger?”

After a moment’s silence, Mo Qingchou said, “Not yet, but I can say with certainty that even if I make a personal appearance, I won’t be able to quell a storm of this magnitude.”

Li Zhong’s heart sank.

......

The Flying Immortal Forbidden Zone, a divine mountain shrouded in perpetual, blood-red lightning.

Red Lightning Immortal Mountain.

This was the Hong Family’s territory.

A delicately handsome young man sat casually by the side of a cliff, the wind rustling his snow-white robes.

He was staring dazedly into the distant night sky. A long time passed before he sighed. “I’m his older brother, but I got Feiyu killed...”

His voice was full of utter melancholy.