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Chapter 1480 - Azure Dragon Ridge
Chapter 1480 - Azure Dragon Ridge
Chapter 1480 - Azure Dragon Ridge
A clamor of voices rose and fell.
A fierce battle had just raged in a nearby canyon. Everywhere you looked, there were signs of devastation.
A group of Transcendents from the Northern Abyss Star Domain had three Eastern Profound Star Domain experts surrounded, and they were slowly encroaching.
Suddenly, a white-robed man sensed something. He gazed into the distance and said, “Eh? Someone’s coming!”
Everyone else was instantly on guard. They looked over and indeed, a young man in blue was approaching from a distance.
“More prey from the Eastern Profound Star Domain!”
“What’s he doing? Is he trying to save them?”
...The Northern Abyss Star Domain experts’ eyes flashed. All of them were quite surprised.
Anyone with half a brain wouldn’t have dared approach.
But now, the young man in blue was approaching them right in the open. This unquestionably seemed out of place.
“The Temple Master!”
One of the three surrounded Eastern Profound Star Domain cultivators cried out excitedly, “The Temple Master is here!”
The other two lit up with mad delight.
The Temple Master? The Northern Abyss Star Domain cultivators instantly understood.
“You’re the Temple Master? Just now, these three rabbits were raving about how we’d be doomed if we encountered you, but... Looking at you now, you don’t seem like anything special,” said a middle-aged man in robes embroidered with dragons. His tone was rife with mockery.
One of his companions, a tall, stalwart man, grinned. “Everyone, allow me to see what this guy’s made of. After all, I only just said that if the Temple Master dared show his face, I’d rip his head clean off. I naturally can’t go back on my word!”
The crowd burst into uproarious laughter.
The tall, stalwart man stepped forth, raising his hand, and pointed at the still-distant Su Yi. He was just about to say something when Su Yi suddenly disappeared into thin air.
Crunch!
A crisp sound rang out, and the tall, stalwart man’s neck broke. A moment later, a still-bleeding head appeared in Su Yi’s hands.
He was already standing directly in front of the man’s headless corpse!
Throughout this process, he didn’t utter a single word.
But the severed head was like a silent proclamation of just how terrifying this young man in blue was.
Deathly silence ensued.
The Northern Abyss Star Domain experts’ smiles froze in place. Without exception, their expressions shifted.
“To tell the truth, if not for those ill-mannered tongues of yours, I would have disdained intervening in such a battle,” Su Yi said flatly. “But since I’ve already started, even if it’s boring, I naturally ought to send you all on your way.”
“You...” The man in dragon robes was just about to say something when Su Yi casually tapped the air. A massive explosion rang out, and the man exploded like a soap bubble, his Dao destroyed!
The others panicked and fled.
Su Yi sighed, suddenly lonelier than ever. Opponents like these are truly dull!
He waved his sleeve through the air. A sword rain descended upon the battlefield, destroying the Northern Abyss Star Domain Nascent Divinity Transcendents on the spot.
Blood splattered the air.
Desperate shouts shook the heavens.
But within moments, all of this came to an abrupt halt.
Su Yi’s figure had long since disappeared over the boundless horizon.
The three Eastern Profound Star Domain cultivators had just narrowly escaped a brush with death. All of them were stunned, and a long time passed before they could speak.
All they could think was, “We’re Nascent Divinity cultivators too, so why... is the gap so enormous? He destroyed a whole group of enemies in the blink of an eye!!”
Finally, one of them murmured, “Is His Excellency the Temple Master... really in the Nascent Divinity Realm?”
“Of course he is. Otherwise, he couldn’t possibly have entered the Third Battleground,” said another, astonishment all over his face. His eyes blazed with fanaticism. “However, his Nascent Divinity Realm is different from ours. He can already kill immortals. Throughout the four star domains, no other Nascent Divinity Transcendent can compare!"
......
They said humans couldn’t sense others’ joys and sorrows.
Take the three Eastern Profound Star Domain cultivators’ astonishment and reverence. Su Yi couldn’t sense any of that.
All he felt was... tedium.
An hour later, a rising and falling mountain ridge came into view. It was perpetually shrouded in chaos mist, and its slopes were as grand as could be.
Azure Dragon Ridge!
The greatest good fortune of the Third Battleground, Nascent Divinity Source, was hidden here.
Su Yi proceeded directly into the ridge. As soon as he entered its bounds, a dense, pure aura of the Grand Dao assailed his senses, soothing his heart and mind. Throughout his body, his vital energy livened up.
This really is a good place, thought Su Yi.
But before long, a terrifying wave of destructive aura swept toward him.
Boom!
The rumbling of thunder reverberated through the air, and the chaotic mist enveloping the ridge churned violently.
From a distance, Su Yi could see bolt after bolt of dazzlingly bright tribulation lightning descending upon the world below.
Much of the mountainside had been destroyed, forming a massive canyon. The ground was covered in numerous pits.
When Su Yi got closer, he could see it clearly. The thunderbolts were assailing the pits, scattering lightning on impact.
Su Yi narrowed his eyes. The power of that tribulation lightning could slay a Nascent Divinity cultivator with ease!
And at the center of the canyon, there stood a thousand-foot-tall black stone stele.
It was pitch black, and although lightning occasionally struck it, it couldn’t shake it in the slightest.
“The Grand Dao Combat Stele!” Su Yi stared intently at it. Rumor had it that the Grand Dao Combat Stele was condensed from the Laws of the Domain Boundary Battlefield, but no one had ever confirmed that.
Over the years, numerous Nascent Divinity experts had come here to leave their names atop the stele.
Everyone who managed to leave their name on its surface could enter the Second Battleground!
But only a select few managed to achieve this in the end.
Out of any given thousand Nascent Divinity Transcendents, only one or two managed to leave their name on the stele.
It was easy to imagine how strict this test was.
Later, let’s see just what rank I can get on the Grand Dao Combat Stele, thought Su Yi.
He’d heard that, long ago, three legendary experts had left their names on the stele, occupying the top three spots.
The Domain Boundary Battlefield had appeared countless times since, but no one had ever taken their positions in the top three!
Before long, Su Yi retracted his gaze and headed into the canyon.
Tribulation lightning surged in the skies overhead. Arcs of lightning flashed, and thunderbolts fell continuously, producing a terrifying aura of destruction.
On the canyon floor, the tribulation lightning repeatedly struck the pit caves. Destructive aura permeated from the point of impact, as well as a dense aura of the Grand Dao.
Thunder gives rise to new life amidst destruction. That’s why cultivators undergo metamorphosis when they prove their Dao and overcome tribulation.
But this tribulation lightning is different. It’s manifested of the Laws of the Domain Boundary Battlefield, and it instead gives rise to Nascent Divinity Source, the greatest good fortune of the Third Battleground.
As Su Yi pondered, he reached the canyon’s entrance.
“Stop right there!” A grand, icy voice rang out.
When Su Yi looked over, he saw a group seated cross-legged beside a pit. Their ranks included both men and women, and there were more than ten of them!
Su Yi could tell at a glance that these were Nascent Divinity experts of the Southern Flame Star Domain.
Furthermore, there were numerous other cultivators clustered around the canyon’s other pits.
All of them were from the Northern Abyss, Western Chill, and Southern Flame Star Domains!
They’d split into different camps, each occupying its own territory from which they absorbed and refined Nascent Divinity Source.
The experts of the Northern Abyss Star Domain were the most numerous, but they obviously weren’t united. They’d split into four camps, each occupying their own territory.
The experts of the Western Chill Star Domain were the second most numerous, and they were divided into two camps.
The experts of the Southern Flame Star Domain were the least numerous, and all of them were in the same camp.
Upon closer inspection, it wasn’t difficult to sense that the further you ventured into the canyon, the denser the Nascent Divinity Source power.
In contrast, the area near the entrance was far inferior.
The Southern Flame Star Domain experts who’d told Su Yi to back off were clustered around the pit nearest the entrance, while the experts of the other two star domains had occupied pits further in, where the Nascent Divinity Source was denser.
From this, it was obvious which star domains’ experts were stronger.
Awkward as it was, despite the sheer scale of the canyon, none of it belonged to the Eastern Profound Star Domain...
There wasn’t even a single expert of the Eastern Profound Star Domain here!
It’s all my fault. I killed so many of my enemies that I single-handedly lowered the level of the entire Eastern Profound Star Domain... Su Yi rubbed his nose, inwardly a bit ashamed.
He really couldn’t escape his share of the blame for this.
Of late, he’d killed far, far too many powerful foes. Yan Daolin of the Nine Heavens Pavilion, Ancestor Deng Zuo of the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect, and many other new Transcendents of the modern era had died at his hands.
He’d killed an enormous number of Nascent Divinity Realm revenants, too.
As a result, the overall strength of the Eastern Profound Star Domain’s experts was obviously far below the other three star domains.
As Su Yi pondered, he stepped into the canyon.
“Young man, I told you to stop. Didn’t you hear me?” a purple-robed old man from the Southern Flame Star Domain’s camp said coldly.
His companions looked decidedly unfriendly too.
Meanwhile, further in the canyon, the experts of the Northern Abyss and Western Chill Star Domain watched coldly. Some of them looked playful, as if they were excited to watch the show.
A kid from the Eastern Profound Star Domain dares come to Azure Dragon Ridge alone? Either he’s a reckless fool, or there’s a reason for his fearlessness!
Su Yi put his hands behind his back, looked over, and said plainly, “Want to fight?”
The purple-robed elder’s eyes narrowed, and his heart was instantly solemn. “You’ve misunderstood, sir. I just wanted to warn you that we’ve already occupied this area. If you overstep, you’ll become enemies with everyone here!”
He spoke with firm confidence, but it would have been obvious to anyone that the old man was reining it in. He wanted to avoid conflict with Su Yi!
Su Yi laughed, swept his gaze across the gathered Southern Flame Star Domain experts, then turned his attention to the experts of the Northern Abyss and Western Chill Star Domains. “Do all of you feel the same?”