First Immortal of the Sword - Chapter 2361 - A Mysterious Taboo Treasure
Chapter 2361 – A Mysterious Taboo Treasure
When Zhang Wushan took out the brocade bag, the crowd’s spirits soared.
Their founder was a supreme powerhouse of the same era as the Master of Sunset Perch Island. The brocade bag he’d left was surely enough to resolve the crisis at hand!
“Please look at this, Fellow Daoist.” Zhang Wushan proffered it with both hands and passed it to Su Yi from afar.
Su Yi accepted it, but he didn’t open it. Instead, he asked, “Does that mean that Ol’ Golden Crane long since anticipated that I’d come calling?”
Zhang Wushan shook his head. “The likes of us wouldn’t dare to guess what the founder is thinking.”
Su Yi laughed dryly. “He’s steady, cautious, and meticulous. Whatever he plans is sure to be airtight. Since he anticipated that this might happen, I’m sure he made ample preparations.”
Su Yi didn’t even need to think to know that Master Golden Crane had left something in the brocade bag that would convince him to leave Spirit Vessel Yao Court intact!
“Why not open it and have a look, Fellow Daoist?” Ancestor Hunshan said gravely.
The others looked at Su Yi, their hearts full of curiosity.
“There’s no reason I can’t open it later,” Su Yi said calmly. “First, I want to settle the score.
The crowd was stunned. A moment later, their hearts sank.
Zhang Wushan was a bit caught off guard. Inwardly, he cried out, We’re in for it this time!
He suddenly recalled the warnings in the prior two brocade bags. The founder had told them not to take out the third bag unless their lives and deaths hung in the balance.
Was the current situation truly life or death?
It wasn’t!
He’d obviously been hasty. He’d taken the bag out prematurely, before even trying to negotiate with Su Yi.
Su Yi was the one in control of the situation now!
And he’d chosen not to even look inside the brocade bag. Whatever it was the founder had put in there naturally couldn’t come into play.
But Zhang Wushan quickly calmed down. “Fellow Daoist, as I’m sure you can see, Spirit Vessel Yao Court would truly love nothing more than to reach an agreement and bury the hatchet. We’d hate for this to end in violence.”
Ancestor Hunshan added, “You decided to come here as our guest. I’m sure that means there’s room for discussion. Please, tell us your terms. I guarantee that if your conditions are within our power to grant, we’ll agree without so much as furrowing our brows.”
The others nodded along.
“Truly?” said Su Yi.
The crowd inwardly sighed in relief. Su Yi is wavering!
“There’s no way we’d joke about such a thing,” Zhang Wushan said firmly.
“Excellent.” Su Yi raised three fingers. “Then I have three conditions. I just want a few external treasures, so I’m sure you can fulfill them.”
The crowd was stunned. Wait, why does it feel like we’ve been tricked? Perhaps this was Su Yi’s true goal all along. He isn’t here to kill the sect leader or to learn the founder’s whereabouts. He just wants to seize this opportunity to extort us!
Zhang Wushan took a deep breath and mentally prepared himself to open up a vein. “Please, speak openly, Fellow Daoist.”
“I seem to recall that there’s a stalk of Endless Lightning Golden Bamboo growing in Spirit Vessel Yao Court. Is that true?”
It was just one sentence, but the whole group tensed. They felt like lambs awaiting slaughter, their hearts on tenterhooks.
The Endless Lightning Golden Bamboo was a wondrous lifeform born of chaos, an unparalleled Undying Treasure. It was one of the Ten Wondrous Lifeforms of the Endless Ocean.
The Endless Lightning Golden Bamboo grew just one foot every ten thousand years. It was full of boundless, churning Chaos Thunder Laws. Its leaves were unparalleled medicines, and its branches could be refined into Undying weapons.
Its stalk was even rarer and more precious. It was full of incomparably dense life force, enough to raise the dead and restore flesh to white bone.
It was no exaggeration to say that the Endless Lightning Golden Bamboo was one of the core treasures of Spirit Vessel Yao Court, and it was incomparably precious.
“It’s true.” Zhang Wushan steeled himself and said, “Our sect has gathered no small number of wondrous treasures from it over the years. We can give them all to you, Fellow Daoist!”
Even as the words left his lips, his heart ached. These treasures were in limited supply; there weren’t enough to go around even within the sect, yet now, they were giving them all away at once. How could his heart not ache?
“I don’t want that stuff.” Su Yi shook his head.
The others could no longer sit still. Ancestor Hunshan couldn’t help but ask, “Don’t tell me you want to take the Endless Lightning Golden Bamboo itself!?”
Su Yi laughed. “No, no. I want to take the Endless Lightning Golden Bamboo and the Chaos Lightning Soil it’s growing in.”
A series of gasps rang out. The gathered higher-ups felt as if they’d been stabbed in the heart. They couldn’t even speak.
This was just too ruthless!
And this was just the first of Su Yi’s conditions…
Zhang Wushan couldn’t help but recall what the founder had said in those brocade pouches: “If Yi Daoxuan’s reincarnation arrives, you are to surrender immediately. You might have to pay a bit of a price, but that will be enough to ensure the sect’s safety!”
In the end, Zhang Wushan sighed and said softly, “Very well. We agree.”
The others exchanged glances. They couldn’t help but feel aggrieved, indignant, and so stifled that they almost coughed up blood.
Before they could give the matter any further thought, Su Yi said, “Second, give me the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl.”
“The Sea-Stabilizing Pearl is our sect-protecting treasure! We absolutely cannot give it up!”
“Sect Leader, we absolutely cannot agree to that!”
…Everyone was talking at once. Their hearts were full of unbearable indignation, and if looks could kill, Su Yi would be dead already.
The reason was simple. As valuable as the Endless Lightning Golden Bamboo and the Chaos Lightning Soil were, the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl was far more precious.
Its wondrous applications were endless, and its power was enormous enough to fill even Nine-Tribulation Master Gods’ hearts with dread. It was absolutely a killer weapon!
Even Ancestor Hunshan’s expression was as dark as could be, and the veins bulged on his forehead. Su Yi’s request had obviously infuriated him.
Su Yi just sat there as if all of this were perfectly normal and kept drinking. “No matter how good a treasure is, it’s ultimately an external object. What’s more important to you? Your lives or your treasures?”
The crowd’s expressions filled with uncertainty.
“Forget it. We’ll just give it to you.” In the end, Ancestor Hunshan let out a deep sigh and represented Sect Leader Zhang Wushan in making this decision. “As they say, so long as the mountain remains, we needn’t fear a lack of firewood!”
Everyone remained silent, but their faces were as unsightly as if they’d eaten a dead fly.
Su Yi laughed coldly. “Don’t fail to recognize a kindness. Back then, I helped Ol’ Golden Crane acquire the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl in a forbidden zone. You’re really just returning a treasure to its rightful master.”
None of them dared argue with that. Even the Golden Crane Master had said that he’d acquired the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl in large part thanks to Yi Daoxuan’s assistance.
In the end, Zhang Wushan endured the humiliation and agreed, but he felt as if his heart were dripping blood.
“Now for my third condition,” said Su YI.
To the crowd, he was like a butcher, smiling hideously as he raised his cleaver. They, meanwhile, felt like lambs awaiting slaughter…
Their hearts were on tenterhooks. All of them were terrified that Su Yi would demand something even more unreasonable next.
A strange silence descended over the area.
Su Yi couldn’t help but laugh. “Don’t be nervous. My third condition is about the Sunset Perch Dao Assembly. Just tell me what arrangements Divine Billows Palace has made and you’ll be good to go.”
The crowd exchanged glances. He’s asking us to sell out Divine Billows Palace!
But they nonetheless sighed in relief. Better them than us! So long as we can send this god of death packing, who cares what happens later?
Zhang Wushan felt the same way. He pondered briefly, then said, “We don’t know all of Divine Billows Palace’s arrangements either, but we can tell you everything we do know!”
“Is that so?” Su Yi smiled faintly. “Then let me make myself perfectly clear. If I go to the Sunset Perch Dao Assembly and find out you’ve been lying, don’t blame me for paying you another visit.”
The crowd’s eyelids twitched, but they had no choice but to take his threats seriously.
After all, what if Divine Billows Palace failed to kill Su Yi at the Sunset Perch Dao Assembly?
“Rest assured, Fellow Daoist. I can bring out the secret messages Sect Leader Mo Xuchou of Divine Billows Palace sent me. You’ll be able to see their authenticity for yourself,” said Zhang Wushan. He was going all out; he couldn’t be bothered to worry about how Divine Billows Palace would feel about the leaked information.
They had to get through Su Yi before they worried about anything else!
“Good.” Su Yi inclined his head. “In that case, I’ll clean out my ears and listen attentively.”
Zhang Wushan promptly explained the assembly’s arrangements in detail. Some of these secrets were new to even the other higher-ups in attendance, and they couldn’t help but prick up their ears.
When they heard the full story, they couldn’t help but feel startled. Divine Billows Palace sure went to great lengths!
Su Yi, meanwhile, sank into thought. Some secrets, once laid out in the open, really weren’t all that complicated.
For example, although it looked like Divine Billows Palace had arranged the Sunset Perch Dao Assembly, the three spacetime forbidden zones of the Endless Ocean were orchestrating it from behind the scenes!
It wasn’t just the Blue Sparrow Forbidden Zone. The Ravening Wolf and Flying Serpent Forbidden Zones were participating, too!
The assembly was to be held on Sunset Perch Island. When the time came, several of the Endless Ocean’s top factions would participate.
And experts of the three spacetime forbidden zones would be overseeing the proceedings in secret!
So long as Su Yi showed up, there’d be no need for Divine Billows Palace to take action. The experts of the three spacetime forbidden zones would work together to capture him!
After learning all this, Su Yi had a few big questions. “So the experts of the three spacetime forbidden zones can freely enter the present day?”
This was critical!
Because the Dark Days of Legend had yet to arrive. The experts of spacetime forbidden zones were from other spacetimes, and they shouldn’t have been able to appear here!
Yet now, experts of these spacetime forbidden zones were going to get involved in the Sunset Perch Dao Assembly. How could Su Yi not find that strange?
“This was supposed to be top secret, as it’s the crux of the trap Divine Billows Palace has set at the Sunset Perch Dao Assembly, but since you asked, I naturally won’t keep it from you,” said Zhang Wushan. He was being very cooperative. “The Blue Sparrow Forbidden Zone is using a taboo treasure. They say it can obscure the mysteries of the heavens and sever the Laws of the God Domain. It can transform the power of spacetime, transforming a stretch of heaven and earth into a forbidden zone!”
When Su Yi heard that, he couldn’t help but feel solemn. A taboo treasure like that exists in this world?
No wonder Divine Billows Palace dared to set a trap on Sunset Perch Island. They’ve long since used a taboo treasure to transform it into a forbidden zone!
