First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1844 - As Wine Enters my Stomach, I Feel as Joyous as the Wind

One slash, and he’d injured Luo Tiandu. That terrifying, tyrannical strike had crushing, unstoppable force! 

Xi Ning and Fan Zhui were watching from a distance. Both of them were astonished.

Endless Lightning, Eternal Silence and the Frenzied Demon Battle Intent were Luo Tiandu’s trump cards.

The first was his innate divine ability, and it was famous throughout the God Domain for its extreme destructive power. It was ranked among the hundred greatest divine abilities of the God Domain.

The Frenzied Demon Battle Intent was even more terrifying. This power originated from Luo Tiandu’s bloodline, and when he used it, his strength soared by thirty percent!

This was another of Luo Tiandu’s reserve killer weapons. Luo Tiandu had used the Frenzied Demon Battle Intent to establish his reputation among the God Domain’s Great Profound experts. It was how he’d earned the title “unparalleled!”

Yet now, Luo Tiandu had been badly injured in a direct confrontation. Who wouldn’t have been shocked?

Admittedly, he was only using the power of the Great Martial Stage, but Su Yi was only a mid-stage Immortal King!

From that angle, it was obvious who was superior.

The turbulent waters churned, and the air was in disarray. Heaven and earth were a vision of upheaval.

Beneath the dome of heaven, Luo Tiandu’s eyes erupted with divine light. “Is this… the power of reincarnation?”

Countless tears had appeared all over his skin, and his clothes were stained with blood. He looked wretched, but his injuries weren’t serious. They were, at most, superficial flesh wounds.

Luo Tiandu wasn’t concerned about them at all.

When he looked at Su Yi, his blood and qi rumbled like thunder, and the light of the Dao surged. His imposing aura was instantly even fiercer and more forceful than before.

“That’s right,” Su Yi said calmly. “Can you contend with it?”

Luo Tiandu wiped the blood from his lips and burst into uproarious laughter. “You’ve misunderstood. I was just surprised that the power forbidden by the gods would amount to so little!”

Su Yi’s eyebrows rose. “So you do have means of countering it?”

“It’s a surprise!” Luo Tiandu’s will to fight surged around him, blanketing the sky and blotting out the sun.

Boom!

Before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, lightning scattered around him, instantly shooting at Su Yi from all sides.

The dazzling electric power transformed into a black electric sun and hovered behind him. Meanwhile, a twelve-foot electric dagger-axe appeared in his hands. 

Boom!

Heaven and earth were overturned, and the skies shattered like powder.

The black electric sun hovering behind Luo Tiandu descended, locking down everything within a hundred thousand feet and bursting with searing destructive power.

Like an electric purgatory!

Bang!!!

The sword qi in Su Yi’s hand exploded, and he was forced back on impact. Before he could steady himself, that black electric sun’s oppressive power surged on all sides, compressing and bursting the sky.

Su Yi’s footsteps came to an abrupt halt. He waved his fist like a sword, striking both heaven and earth.

Overflowing, unstoppable sword intent accompanied his fist, parting heaven and earth with indescribable, tyrannical power.

Kaboom!

One punch, and heaven and earth caved in. Yin and Yang were turned on their axis.

That omnipresent restrictive force collapsed and broke, and the black lightning sun swayed violently.

But Luo Tiandu was already swinging his electric dagger-axe, quick as a beam of light and explosively tyrannical. He didn’t even give Su Yi the chance to catch his breath.

The dagger-axe danced madly through the air, unleashing an avalanche of sharp electric strikes at Su Yi, one after another. This onslaught was far more terrifying than before, and his divine majesty was far greater, too!

From a distance, Luo Tiandu was like a lightning-wielding god of slaughter. His entire body erupted with explosive electric power, and his expression was full of deranged, frenzied battle intent.

Luo Tiandu’s onslaught was so fierce that he’d reversed his earlier disadvantage to seize control of the situation. He relentlessly targeted Su Yi, and it seemed he was suppressing him.

Fan Zhui said nervously, “Young Leader, things aren’t looking good for Fellow Daoist Su.”

Xi Ning watched this unprecedented battle with rapt attention. “Don’t tell me you thought Luo Tiandu was a pushover?”

She paused, then whispered, “This is Dark Sun Suppression, a technique Divine Venerate Dark Sun passed onto him. It’s fused into his Dao of Lightning, circulated with his Frenzied Demon Battle Intent, and displayed through Endless Lightning, Eternal Silence. It combines three supreme abilities. It’s naturally far from ordinary.   

“It’d be fair to say that this is the greatest strength Luo Tiandu can display at the Great Martial level. It’s enough to kill even some Great Unity cultivators with ease.”

Fan Zhui gasped. Suppressing and killing Great Unity cultivators in the Great Martial Stage was already heaven-defying, but Luo Tiandu could do it with ease. That was simply unheard of!

“But…” Xi Ning’s starry eyes shone with thoughtful light. “While I can, albeit barely, grasp the extent of Luo Tiandu’s abilities, Fellow Daoist Su’s strength is difficult to pin down.”

Difficult to pin down? What does that mean? Fan Zhui was a bit confused.

But before he could give the matter any further thought, the situation turned on its head.

Clang!

The boundless hum of a sword filled the air.

Su Yi, who’d been on the defensive just moments prior, suddenly used his hand as a sword and slashed.

This attack was entirely unassuming. It looked no different from what he’d done before.

But the scenery changed completely in response. Darkness descended over the dome of heaven, like the onset of an eternal night. The entire stretch of ocean transformed into a turbid Sea of Bitterness. Countless terrifying entities struggled amidst its waters.

A power that struck terror into all of creation swept outward.

The power of Oblivion!

It seemed to bury and destroy the entire stretch of heaven and earth, dragging them into eternal oblivion within the Sea of Bitterness.

This strike was called Adrift in the Sea of Bitterness!

Su Yi had invented it during his thirty years of seclusion in the Spring and Autumn Space. There, he’d combed through all of his legacies of the Dao of the Sword and combined them with the mysteries of reincarnation. This was the second such attack he’d created!

Now, when Su Yi unleashed it through his mid-stage Immortal King cultivation base, the entire Sea of Bitterness was like a cage sealing off heaven and earth. There was nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

The Sea of Bitterness was without limit. It pulled on the black lightning sun hanging overhead, pulling it directly into its turbid waters.

Kaboom!

The black lightning sun struggled violently and tried to break free, but in the face of that power of oblivion, its struggles seemed weak and futile.

In the blink of an eye, the black lightning sun broke. Countless fragments of electric light fell like rain and disappeared into the Sea of Bitterness.

When the black lightning sun disappeared, the power restricting Su Yi vanished completely.

But it wasn’t over yet.

In the face of Su Yi’s strike, Luo Tiandu immediately withdrew. Instinct told him how powerful this attack was. If he let it trap him, he’d find himself in grave peril.

“Break!” Luo Tiandu bellowed and swung his lightning dagger-axe. It erupted with endlessly powerful Laws of Lightning. 

This strike seemed to overturn rivers and seas. It was imbued with immeasurable electric power.

The entire Sea of Bitterness rumbled and boomed.

But in the face of the omnipresent power of oblivion, Luo Tiandu was firmly restricted and dragged downward, as if stuck in a swamp. If things went on like this, he’d be completely sealed!

Luo Tiandu’s expression shifted. His sleeves billowed around him as he roared, “Break!!”

Endlessly tyrannical, destructive power erupted from Luo Tiandu’s body. From a distance, it was as if a long-dormant volcano were erupting within the Sea of Bitterness.

Boom!

Heaven and earth swayed. The surrounding ocean was completely thrown into upheaval. Raging torrents of divine light pierced the sky, blotting out the sun like a boundless swath of chaos.

Xi Ning and Fan Zhui sensed the danger and moved further away once more.

Even so, the aftershock reached them. If Xi Ning hadn’t blocked with all her might at the first sign of danger, Fan Zhui would undoubtedly have been injured on the spot!

Meanwhile, beneath their disbelieving gazes…

The enormous Sea of Bitterness split, transformed into a rain of light, and dissipated. Misty light spread, revealing two figures. 

The first was Su Yi. He stood in the air, his robes tattered and his face pallid. He was covered in numerous still-bleeding wounds. 

The other was Luo Tiandu. He’d blocked Su Yi’s strike!

But he was obviously far more wretched than his opponent. He looked downright miserable, and his tall frame was completely covered in startling sword wounds. His flesh was in tatters and gushing blood.

The lotus crown on his head had split, and his long hair hung loose. His handsome face was pale with blood loss.

He breathed in ragged gasps, and his chest heaved. His qi was in complete disarray, and his hands trembled uncontrollably. The soft flesh between his thumb and forefinger had torn, revealing the bones below.

There was no doubt about it. Su Yi’s strike had injured him badly!

Fan Zhui stood there in a daze. He couldn’t have been any more astonished.

He suddenly understood why Xi Ning had described Su Yi’s strength as “difficult to pin down.”

Earlier, it had seemed like Su Yi was getting one-sidedly pummeled while Luo Tiandu attacked relentlessly.

But in the blink of an eye, the situation turned on its head. One slash, and Su Yi dealt Luo Tiandu a massive setback!

It was far too unexpected. Fan Zhui suddenly understood on a visceral level how apt a description “difficult to pin down” was.

“Fellow Daoist Su obviously hasn’t been pushed to the edge yet, and his wounds aren’t serious, but he’s still displaying enough strength to put Luo Tiandu at a disadvantage…” murmured Xi Ning. Her heart was as cold and clear as ice, yet now, it rippled.

She understood Luo Tiandu’s terrifying strength far too well. Thus, she understood on a visceral level how incredible Su Yi’s strength was. It was simply unbelievable!

Heaven and earth were in turmoil, and misty light still swept outward. 

“Why not use your treasures?” Su Yi’s voice swept outward, and he looked at the distant Luo Tiandu in surprise.

Luo Tiandu took a deep breath and said expressionlessly, “I disdain to do so.”

A moment later, he furrowed his brow. “Why not strike the killing blow earlier?”

He really had broken through Su Yi’s strike earlier, but he could tell that Su Yi had held back at a critical juncture, passing up an ideal opportunity to kill him. 

Had Su Yi attacked without hesitation, Luo Tiandu might have been able to block, but he would have been badly injured at the very least!!

But Su Yi had done no such thing.

Su Yi said casually, “I naturally don’t show mercy to my enemies, but since you used neither your treasures nor your Great Profound Stage cultivation, there was no need for lethal force. There’s no need to continue fighting, either. I’ve lost interest.”

He then flung the sword qi in his hand into the air, where it scattered into a rain of light and disappeared.

Then, he took out a jug of wine, threw back his head, and drank.

As the wine poured into his stomach, he felt as joyous as the wind.