First Immortal of the Sword

Su Yi took a sip of wine and started asking about the Church of All Spirits.

So long as Immortal King Kong Ye had answers, he held nothing back.

The Church of All Spirits was based in a blessed ground known as Celestial Palace Mountain. It was three hundred thousand miles from the Jadelight Pure Lands.

But their territories had expanded until there were just eight thousand miles between them and the Jadelight Pure Lands!

According to Immortal King Kong Ye, the Church of All Spirits had thirteen bases along the road to Celestial Palace Mountain.

Each was occupied by a faction of the Yao Path subordinate to the Church of All Spirits. These factions all had at least seven or eight Immortal Lords. Some had more than ten, and a few even had Immortal Kings!

These top experts aside, they had endless lesser experts of the Yao Path.

And these were merely some of the Church of All Spirits’ subordinate factions. The Church of All Spirits itself had dozens of Immortal Kings, over three hundred Immortal Lords, and eighty thousand experts of the Yao Path!

A lineup like that was enough to make even some of the top factions of the present-day Immortal Realm pale by comparison.

“But despite their power and influence, and despite having experts as numerous as the clouds, the Church of All Spirits is far from unified. Dragons swim with fish, and there are numerous camps and divisions within the sect. If we destroy their leader, the whole sect is sure to disintegrate,” said Kong Ye.

He then went on to introduce the leader of the Church of All Spirits. He was a peak Miracle Realm Immortal King of unfathomable power. They said all he needed was the right opportunity, and he’d step smoothly into the Great Realm.

His origins were mysterious, and a deity had appointed him his emissary. He controlled treasures and abilities bequeathed to him by his god, all of them terrifyingly powerful.

Beneath the sect leader, there were ten deeply loyal chief libationers, each an Immortal King.

Especially High Chief Libationer Wei Xun. They said he wasn’t any weaker than the sect leader!

Here, Su Yi corrected, “They’re down a few chief libationers. There should be just seven left.”

Not long ago, Chief Libationer Ming Xing targeted Immortal Queen Liu Yun in Blazing Firmament Immortal City, only for Su Yi to kill him instead.

Then, during that grand chase, five Immortal Kings of the Church of All Spirits died at Su Yi’s hands. Two had been chief libationers!

Kong Ye had to pause to process that before continuing. “It’s been a long, long time since the sect leader appeared in public. They say he’s gone into seclusion to prepare for a breakthrough into the Great Realm. High Chief Libationer Wei Xun is overseeing things in his place.”

After explaining several other details, he said, “Sovereign, it seems to me that if we sneak onto Celestial Palace Mountain, you’ll be able to catch them off guard and destroy them before they even know what hit them!”

Ying Xiu nodded.

There was no way the Church of All Spirits could possibly know that the reincarnation of the Eternal Night Immortal Sovereign had already arrived at the Buzhou Mountains. A surprise attack was undoubtedly their best option.

But Su Yi shook his head. “No need to hide anything. Let’s just kill our way to Celestial Palace Mountain.”

Kong Ye was flabbergasted, and Ying Xiu’s eyes widened. He wants to kill his way to their door?

That’s sure to alert them! That means that even if we make it all the way to Celestial Palace Mountain, they’ll have laid a thoroughly prepared trap for us!

Su Yi could tell at a glance what they were thinking, and he couldn’t laugh. “I’m giving them time to prepare on purpose. That way, we’ll be able to get rid of them all at once.”

Kong Ye and Ying Xiu understood that, but… they found it difficult to stay calm. Don’t tell me the Sovereign… really isn’t at all afraid of their divine backer!?

……

Four hours later.

Sect Leader Qi Xiaozhen rushed over and informed Su Yi that the other two pure lands had agreed to send their experts to watch the battle.

But just as Su Yi had anticipated, neither sect understood the situation well enough to commit to anything beyond just watching the battle. They weren’t going to help! ɽÂɴỔ𐌱ЕS̩

Su Yi wasn’t at all bothered by this. He’d never expected any help from them anyway.

As night fell, Su Yi got to work. Only Kong Ye and Ying Xiu left with him.

Sect Leader Qi Xiaozhen and the other higher-ups had made ample preparations to leave shortly afterward and take care of the aftermath.

……

The Buzhou Mountains covered eighty thousand miles. It was home to a few famous blessed grounds, but outside of them, it was a perilous place.

The most terrifying danger of all was the “spatial folds!”

But none of that was enough to threaten Su Yi.

In his past life, Wang Ye explored the Buzhou Mountains on numerous occasions in search of the legendary Tree of All Worlds.

In the end, he never found it. However, all that searching meant that Wang Ye knew the Buzhou Mountains like the back of his hand. With this valuable experience, walking through the Buzhou Mountains was like returning to familiar territory.

Not long after he left the Jadelight Pure Lands, a group of yao cultivators appeared in Su Yi’s path. Their leader was an Immortal Lord in silver robes.

“Immortal King Kong Ye? Has the Jadelight Pure Lands decided to submit to the Church of All Spirits?” The silver-robed Immortal Lord recognized Kong Ye at a glance, and his expression filled with laughter. “That means that going forward, we’ll all be one big family!”

The other yao cultivators chuckled too. They were facing an Immortal King, but they weren’t the least bit respectful or fearful. This made it obvious just how enormous the Church of All Spirits’ bluster was.

Alas, this time, they’d run into Su Yi.

Su Yi couldn’t be bothered to waste time talking. He just swung his sleeve through the air.

Whoosh!

Sword qi burst forth like an arc of divine light.

The silver-robed man and his companions exploded, one after another, their souls dispersed.

Su Yi didn’t so much as look at them. He just continued ahead, Kong Ye and Ying Xiu hot on his heels.

On the road ahead, they encountered several groups of cultivators from the Church of All Spirits. None were all that strong; some had yet to even become immortals.

Ultimately, even in the Immortal Realm, only a small number of cultivators ever entered the Immortal Dao.

Even in a massive, powerful faction like the Church of All Spirits, only a minority of disciples ever became immortals. Most were experts beneath the Immortal Dao.

But even when he ran into weaklings, Su Yi killed them without the slightest politeness. He was like a hurricane blowing through the mountains, killing everything in his path!

He said he’d kill his way to the Church of All Spirits’ lair, and he naturally wouldn’t go back on his word.

Eight thousand miles away.

Misty clouds permeated the air. An enormous valley shaped like a gourd stood by the banks of a coursing black river.

Calabash Valley!

This was one of the Church of All Spirits’ bases. It was under the control of one of their auxiliary factions, the Skyfire Yao Sect.

Calabash Valley was inhabited by three thousand yao cultivators, including nine Immortal Lords and an Immortal King!

It was almost nightfall, and the light of the setting sun cast elongated shadows.

Calabash Valley’s interior was lively and boisterous.

Today, the sect was celebrating one of its grand elder’s birthdays. They’d arranged a sumptuous feast, and all of their experts had gathered to eat, drink, and make merry.

“Hm?” Suddenly, an intoxicated old man rubbed his eyes. “Who are those three? How dare they trespass in the skies over Calabash Valley?”

The gathered yao cultivators all looked over, but before they could see the trespassers clearly, the dome of heaven burst with intense light, as if the very sun itself had exploded.

Everyone was startled, but before they could react, countless streaks of sword qi fell like a raging downpour, blanketing heaven and earth!

Every last streak of sword qi was resplendent, forceful, and seemingly unstoppable.

Boom!

Countless holes tore open in the formation blanketing Calabash Valley, and it quickly split into pieces and collapsed with a bang.

When the sword qi fell, agonized, desperate cries resounded throughout the valley as one yao cultivator after another died brutal deaths. The dense sword qi slew them where they stood, and their bodies bloomed like crimson fireworks, staining the skies red.

The buildings within the valley collapsed into pieces.

Even the Immortal Lords amounted to nothing at all. As the dense sword qi fell, all of them died instantly.

It happened in the blink of an eye!

All of Calabash Valley split, the earth riddled with holes as the ground ran red with blood!

Su Yi stood beneath the dome of heaven, calmly taking all of this in. Kong Ye and Ying Xiu stood behind him.

“Bastard!!” An enraged bellow rang out, and a tall, upright man in black robes shot through the air, waving a massive mallet that he ruthlessly swung at Su Yi.

He was an Immortal King!

Yet when Kong Ye and Ying Xiu saw him, their eyes filled with pity.

Bang!!

Su Yi stretched out his finger and tapped the air.

The massive hammer split into pieces, reduced to mere fragments of scrap metal.

The man in black visibly lost his composure. It was as if someone had dumped a bucket of ice water on his head. The anger burning in his chest instantly fizzled out, and he turned and fled!

There was no denying that he reacted quickly, and he fled decisively.

But before he got far, his entire body split down the midline!

Splurt!

A streak of sword qi passed through his bisected body and into the sky, where it created a startling, three-hundred-thousand-foot rift in the air.

“What a fast sword… He… He…”

But before the man in black could say anything more, everything went dark, and the last thread of his awareness dissipated.

Both halves of his corpse fell apart, transforming into a rain of blood that stained the sky a shade of red even more vivid than the fiery light of dusk.

“An early-stage Immortal King died… just like that?”

Beads of cold sweat formed on Kong Ye’s forehead.

It was just too terrifying.

He’d killed an Immortal King as if he were nothing!

Even Ying Xiu couldn’t help but feel dazed, but then, this was only natural. She and her master weren’t there to see how Su Yi slew all those Immortal Kings. Of course this was shocking!

Su Yi took a sip of wine, then gazed up at the curtain of dusk. “Come on. If we pick up the pace a little, we should be able to reach Celestial Palace Mountain by nightfall.”

Before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, he shot into the distance.

The light of the setting sun illuminated his blue robes, making them shine with dreamlike luster. He was like a god or saint on a journey through the mountains.

Kong Ye and Ying Xiu hurried after him.

At first, they’d been overcome with worry. They thought marching right into Celestial Palace Mountain would lead to unpredictable trouble and peril.

But their mentalities had already silently shifted.

Setting aside the god backing the Church of All Spirits, how many of the church’s Immortal Kings were any match for the Sovereign?

Besides, the Sovereign wouldn’t have done this if he weren’t confident that he could defend against the church’s divine backer!

An hour later.

Sect Leader Qi Xiaozhen led a group of Jadelight Pure Lands experts over.

When they say that Calabash Valley had been practically leveled, they froze, unwittingly stunned. Their hearts shook.

They could tell at a glance that the sect formerly based here, the Skyfire Yao Sect, had been annihilated!

Meanwhile, Su Yi and his companions had already arrived at the Church of All Spirits’ second base…

Seth's Thoughts

The “Tree of All Worlds” has the exact same Chinese name as the “Tree of Ten Thousand Worlds” we saw eway back when, but it doesn’t have any connection to the one in the Netherworld, and it looks and acts completely different.

I can't help but find this sort of thing frustrating. I decided to translate the name differently, despite it being completely identical in the raws, to differentiate. Hopefully that's enough to avoid confusion.

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