First Immortal of the Sword

A month later, Buried Dragon Ridge.

Boom!

Sword qi crisscrossed, rumbling and booming like thunder.

A blood-red figure shattered the sword qi filling the sky with a swing of its palm.

Bang!!

Su Yi was sent flying back, covered in blood. His wounds were severe, and his body was cracked like broken porcelain. His handsome face was deathly pallid.

Before he could respond, that blood-red figure attacked explosively, its entire body emanating ferocious majesty. This was a wraith comparable to a Great Profound Stage expert!

Su Yi turned and fled without hesitation.

Whoosh!

The Great Profound Stage wraith roared with bitterness, and a long time passed before it turned and re-entered Buried Dragon Ridge.

“Still not enough, huh…?” Su Yi reappeared out of nowhere, not far from the ridge, with a hint of exasperation on his brow.

He’d come to Buried Dragon Ridge seven times over the past month to fight this Great Profound Stage wraith.

He wasn’t using the mysteries of Profound Ruin, nor did he use any of his treasures. He was relying purely on his own strength to fight it.

Every battle was incomparably fierce, leaving Su Yi badly injured, his life hanging in the balance. Every time, he had no choice but to flee.

The disparity in strength was just too enormous. With Su Yi’s mid-stage Miracle Realm cultivation base, he had no hope of victory against a Great Profound Stage wraith even if he fought with his life on the line.

But I’ve at least made considerable progress. Su Yi sank into thought. He’d fought seven brutal battles over the past month, and every time, he returned in defeat. But he could clearly sense his strength growing.

During the first battle, he barely lasted a moment. Now, he could fight for ten minutes straight!

This was the advantage of life-or-death tempering. He fought amidst grave peril, bathed in blood, and this let him temper and polish his cultivation base to the extreme.

This time, after I’ve finished my seclusion, I ought to be able to break into the late-stage Miracle Realm!

Su Yi turned and headed back to the treasury. The Divine Replenishment Furnace was waiting there for him with all types of medicine: recovery pills, energy replenishment pills, pills for tempering his essence, qi, and spirit, and pills for nourishing the soul…

Over the past month, every time Su Yi returned from battle, he needed to consume an ocean of pills to replenish himself. Otherwise, given the severity of his injuries, he could never have recovered so quickly. ȐáNòᛒÊṣ

Before Su Yi resumed his cultivation, the Divine Replenishment Furnace said, out loud, “Your Excellency, at this rate, the pills I refined earlier will last two months at most.”

That’s right. The Divine Replenishment Furnace was now capable of conversation. It no longer needed to communicate with Su Yi in writing.

This was for the simple reason that, of late, it had refined countless rare and precious treasures. Its source power had by and large recovered, and even its awareness had recovered considerably.

Su Yi was stunned. “So soon?”

The Divine Replenishment Furnace said, “If you break through again, you’ll need even more than that. In that case, the pills won’t even last that long…”

Su Yi couldn’t help but rub his forehead. This was the disadvantage of his overly heaven-defying foundations in the Grand Dao.

The pills the Divine Replenishment Furnace had refined earlier would have provided near endless benefits to even a Great Martial Stage cultivator. It would have taken them a long time to burn through them all.

But for Su Yi, all those pills couldn’t even last him three months…

The Divine Replenishment Furnace said comfortingly, “Your Excellency, your strength is already sufficient to fight that Great Profound Stage wraith. Not even Great Unity experts can compare with you, never mind other Immortal Kings.”

Su Yi said nothing. How could he not understand that already?

Cultivation required wealth, companions, techniques, and a good location. The higher one’s cultivation base, the rarer and more precious the resources they required.

By now, Immortal King-level medicines and treasures could in no way satisfy Su Yi’s needs. Even Great Martial Stage medicines were increasingly ineffective. All of this was because Su Yi’s foundation in the Grand Dao was just too terrifying. It was simply unparalleled, unprecedented!

The higher the level of the treasure, the rarer it was. This was one reason why at higher levels of cultivation, cultivators were increasingly few in number. The Immortal Realm was home to trillions of cultivators, but only a handful had reached the Great Realm.

The further you went down the path of cultivation, the more difficult and perilous the journey. And resources suitable for Great Realm experts were just too rare!

This was why, historically, Great Realm experts often spent their days wandering beneath the heavens in search of good fortune.

There was nothing for it. For the sake of their cultivation, they had no choice but to strive for good fortune.

Cultivating was like rowing a boat upstream. If you didn’t keep at it, you’d regress.

Su Yi thought for a moment, then said, “Little Furnace, you’re a grown-up treasure now. It’s about time you learned to take initiative.”

“????” The furnace was baffled. What the hell does he mean, a ‘grown-up treasure?’ What does he mean, ‘take initiative?’

The furnace probed, “Your Excellency, forgive my ignorance, but I don’t understand what you mean.”

“The Dragon Palace is like a world in its own right,” said Su Yi. “Everywhere you look, there are treasures and precious natural resources strewn about. There’s even no shortage of rare and precious immortal medicines hard to find in the outside world. Wouldn’t it be a shame to let them go to waste?”

The Divine Replenishment Furnace instantly understood. “Got it!”

Whoosh!

It blurred into a beam of light and got to work immediately.

I can finally put it to work! Thought Su Yi. If I just let it sit around and ‘feast’ all day, no amount of wealth would be enough.

He then gazed into the distance. The Red Dragon Dao Monarch was still cultivating in the Dragon Progenitor’s Cauldron, and she’d yet to stir.

……

Another month passed in a flash.

Buried Dragon Ridge.

“Descend!”

Su Yi slashed with his right hand, and a waterfall of sword intent descended from the heavens.

Visions of the six paths of reincarnation floated within the sword qi. It was dark and mysterious, enough to make one’s heart palpitate. It was as if the entire stretch of heaven and earth had been plunged into the cycle of reincarnation.

The surrounding landscape withered and turned to ash, all of its life force ground away to nothingness.

“Die!” The Great Profound Stage wraith fought without fear of death, its ferocity shaking heaven and earth

But when that strike fell, it was locked in place, completely trapped within the cycle of reincarnation. In the blink of an eye, it was destroyed, inch by inch, and soon, it had vanished completely.

Boom!

Sword qi spread outward, and the dark, dim power of the six paths of reincarnation disappeared.

Su Yi let out a long breath of turbid air and sat down. His entire body was covered in wounds, and he looked utterly exhausted, yet a heartfelt smile tugged at his lips.

He’d finally succeeded in killing a Great Profound Stage wraith with his own strength!

He’d paid a brutal price for his victory, but the progress was undeniable.

Ultimately, a wraith is just a wraith. They aren’t truly intelligent, and they cannot compare to living Great Profound cultivators, thought Su Yi. It seems that before breaking into the Great Realm, I’ll at most be able to put up a fight with Great Profound experts, but even then, I’ll have little hope of actually winning.

He’d already reached the late-stage Miracle Realm. Killing a Great Profound Stage wraith was the limit of his abilities.

Also, my Six Paths Sword Wheel still lacks tempering. It obviously has room for improvement.

Su Yi got up and pondered as he made his way back.

Over the past two months, when he wasn’t cultivating, he focused on tempering his power of the Dao of the Sword and fusing the mysteries of reincarnation into it. He’d now successfully created his third such attack: the Six Paths Sword Wheel.

When this sword flew through the air, it was imbued with the six paths of reincarnation, and it created a barrier akin to a Sword Domain.

Once trapped, it was as if his enemies had been cast into the cycle of reincarnation. They were then subject to terrifying, restrictive, crushing force!

A Moment of Silence was about seizing victory in a single rapid strike, while Adrift in the Sea of Bitterness was a wide-range attack. The new Six Paths Sword Wheel was all about maximizing destructive power in a head-on confrontation.

Force against force, strength against strength. In this attack, Su Yi used his strongest power of the Dao of the Sword to crush his opponent completely. This strike strove for invincibility and indestructibility!

Thus, using it exhausted all of the power at Su Yi’s disposal. He had to attack with unfettered courage, free of all reservations!

The Six Paths Sword Wheel was currently the strongest attack at Su Yi’s disposal. It was utterly destructive.

However, Su Yi could tell that it had room for improvement. It could become even stronger!

Two months have passed, so why isn’t she waking up? When Su Yi returned to the treasury, he stood before the Dragon Progenitor’s Cauldron and peered inside. The Red Dragon Dao Monarch was still immersed in her cultivation inside.

It was as if she’d fallen asleep. She was entirely unaware of the world around her.

But then, it makes sense. She reached the pinnacle of the Miracle Realm a while ago, and now, she’s happened upon a rare and extraordinary stroke of good fortune. It’s likely that she’ll undergo a transformation akin to a rebirth. And it’s likely that she’ll prove her Dao and enter the Great Realm as soon as she awakens.

Su Yi couldn’t help but feel eager.

She was a pureblooded Red Dragon, and now, she was refining the blood of the Dragon Progenitor. Moreover, she had the Draconic Origin Sutra. Her foundations and strength were enough to leave the vast majority of experts of the same level too ashamed even to lift their heads!

I ought to start planning for my own breakthrough into the Great Realm too…

Su Yi sat on the ground, tended to his wounds, and pondered his next steps. He was certain that once he entered the Great Realm, he’d have nothing to fear from even Great Unity Stage opponents!

Half a month passed in a flash.

“Your Excellency, you have less than seven days'worth of cultivation resources left,” the Divine Replenishment Furnace said tentatively.

Even though Su Yi had anticipated this, he couldn’t help but feel a bit frustrated.

There was no doubt about it. A shortage of cultivation resources would limit him. He couldn’t risk bloody combat against a Great Profound Stage wraith like this, nor could he make rapid progress as he had before.

All he could do was focus his attention elsewhere. For instance, he could contemplate his Laws of the Grand Dao, temper his swordsmanship, or steady his cultivation base. None of that required medicine. Instead, it was a matter of sustained effort and comprehension.

Hm? Su Yi suddenly sensed something and took out a flickering talisman. When he examined it, he couldn’t help but feel stunned. Qing Wu actually found the Fuyou Boat!?

This was completely outside of Su Yi’s expectations. He’d only told her to look for the boat so she’d leave him alone.

It was true what they said: sometimes, even an accidentally planted tree could grow large enough to provide shade.

Su Yi immediately made up his mind.

This is good, too, though. I can seize this opportunity to explore outside for a bit. I might even find the opportunity I need to break into the Great Realm.

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