First Immortal of the Sword - Chapter 2488 - No Beginning, No End
Chapter 2488 – No Beginning, No End
No, that’s not right! Luo Qingdi rejected his earlier assumption.
Barely any time had passed since Su Yi had stepped into the Undying Realm. No matter how fast he cultivated, there was no way he could have overcome nine Dao-Refining Tribulations in just one year and begun striving for the River of Destiny.
In that case, Su Yi’s strength just proved how terrifying his foundations and attainments in the Undying Realm were. They were terrifying enough to suppress even Nine-Tribulation Master Gods with ease!
He really lives up to his reputation as the master of reincarnation and the bearer of the Epoch Spark. At this rate, when Fellow Daoist Su steps into the Path of Eternity, he’ll be invincible! A thought rose unbidden to Luo Qingdi’s mind. Looking at him, I’m ashamed of my own inferiority!
Crunch!
A treasure tower split, scattering into Undying fragments.
Its owner was a red-haired man with unearthly features. After the treasure tower split, he too shattered beneath Su Yi’s descending stomp!
His body and soul shattered, and he was instantly reduced to ash. Destroyed, body and soul.
This was the fourth Nine-Tribulation Master God to die since Su Yi joined the battle!
The eight remaining Nine-Tribulation Master Gods were now thoroughly intimidated. Their courage failed them.
In the God Domain, Nine-Tribulation Master Gods were practically all powerful. When those of this level fought each other, no matter who they were up against, they found it hard to kill their opponents.
That is, unless they outnumbered them. Barring that, when Nine-Tribulation Master Gods tried their utmost to flee, few could stop them.
Yet now, Su Yi was one-sidedly suppressing his opponents despite being thoroughly outnumbered. He’d just slain four Nine-Tribulation Master Gods in rapid succession!
Who wouldn’t have been startled? Who wouldn’t have been terrified?
The most terrifying part of this was that all of them knew that Su Yi wasn’t a Nine-Tribulation Master God. It had been barely over a year since he’d entered the Undying Realm…
“Fellow Daoist Su, I think you were right earlier. There’s something suspicious about this battle,” a silver-robed man said frantically. “We’d like to talk it over with you and get to the bottom of things. That will clear up any misunderstandings!”
He sensed Su Yi’s approach, and he dodged frantically, desperate to escape.
But every time he tried to flee, Su Yi blocked his path, leaving him frantic. He’d say anything to stop Su Yi from pursuing him.
“It’s too late,” said Su Yi. Then, before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, his sleeves billowed, and his slender white finger tapped the air.
The space around the silver-robed man suddenly caved in. Countless streaks of sword qi whooshed forth, slashing him up and down.
Splurt splurt splurt!
The silver-robed man was covered in countless wounds and stabbed full of holes. He soon collapsed into a heap of bloody chunks, dead on the spot.
This strike was an imitation of his second incarnation’s Dao-Severing Sword Cage. It simultaneously attacked and defended.
When the sword fell, it trapped enemies amidst collapsing space. When space crumbled fully, ten thousand slashes erupted at once, striking from all directions.
The trapped enemy was like a prey animal in a cage, and they died by a thousand cuts. It was extraordinarily tyrannical.
Yet another Nine-Tribulation Master God had died!
The remaining Nine-Tribulation Master Gods’ will to fight crumbled. They completely broke down.
“Run! Hurry up and run——!” someone bellowed, then flew off without waiting for a response. He even used a forbidden technique to flee faster at the cost of damaging his cultivation base.
The others followed suit. One after another, they fled like mad.
“When I have enough power to crush my opponents… there’s nowhere for them to run.” Su Yi shook his head slightly.
His voice had only just echoed through the air when the Sword of Proximity whooshed forth. Su Yi took it in hand, then slashed the air.
With the Sword of Proximity, even the ends of the earth were close at hand! Even the distant horizon was at arm’s reach!
It completely ignored the Laws of Space.
His enemies had scattered in different directions. Some were fast, while others were slow. The fastest among them had traversed tens of thousands of miles, and they’d almost left the bounds of the Tianxiu Sword Shrine.
But no matter what direction they fled in, or what level of taboo escape technique they used, Su Yi struck them all simultaneously!
Sword qi flowed through the air like beams of flowing light, exploding in midair with waves of sword hums as it cleaved into his enemies’ bodies.
Were someone to watch this from on high, they’d discover that blood-red “fireworks” were blooming simultaneously in different directions. As the bloody mist splattered, the surrounding landscape was destroyed, reduced to leveled ground!
This was what it looked like when a whole group of Nine-Tribulation Master Gods died at once.
Not one of them survived. All of them perished beneath Su Yi’s sword!
Su Yi’s endlessly tyrannical sword qi destroyed even the area around his targets.
Now, a full fourteen Nine-Tribulation Master Gods had perished!
Barely any time had passed. Su Yi had remained calm and composed throughout this entire process, and he was entirely unharmed, without so much as a hair out of place.
This was absolute, one-sided suppression. He’d cleaved through his enemies as if they were made of rotten wood, slaughtering them like chickens.
Clang!
Su Yi raised his hand, and the Sword of Proximity blurred into a beam of light and shot into his sleeve.
The No Beginning, No End Realm really is just as I predicted. I’m now strong enough to crush Nine-Tribulation Master Gods.
If I go all out, I ought to be able to threaten Gu Huaxian, the old hunchback, and others who’ve touched the threshold of the River of Destiny.
If I cultivate to the peak of this realm, people like Gu Huaxian won’t even be a match for me!
Although no one knew it, he’d effortlessly broken into a new realm on his way to the Tianxiu Sword Shrine!
Su Yi had touched upon the threshold of this new realm in the Hazy Sea Forbidden Zone, during his duel with Di E.
During his clash with the Malevolent Sword Venerate, Su Yi grasped this realm’s mysteries and learned its fundamental truths!
Finally, on his way here, Su Yi was drinking when something suddenly occurred to him. He seized the opportunity he needed to break through, invited a terrifying tribulation, and effortlessly broke through it, entering a whole new realm of cultivation!
This realm was neither life nor death, and it was without beginning or end. The mysteries of the Undying were on full display.
In this realm, his body, soul, and the secret power of his heart had fused fully into one, manifesting the changes of the cycle of withering and flourishing and breaking the barrier between the changeable and unchangeable. He’d fused the full extent of his cultivation base into the Epoch Spark, making his heart, body, and soul Undying and self-perpetuating, without beginning or end!
Thus, Su Yi had decided to name this new realm of cultivation No Beginning, No End!
This was the second level of his unique Undying Realm cultivation, the stage following the No Laws, No Heavens Realm.
Su Yi suddenly thought back to the distant past.
Back then, Yi Daoxuan had wandered the world, sword in hand, defeating numerous powerful opponents. He’d risen to prominence in the Endless Ocean.
Back then, Li Fuyou had explored the God Domain and intimidated the heavens. Every god and Buddha feared him as a mortal feared a tiger.
Both of his past lives had stood at the pinnacles of their respective eras. They’d been strong enough to suppress even other Nine-Tribulation Master Gods.
However… Su Yi was already stronger than them!
Admittedly, he was only in the second stage of his Undying Realm cultivation, but these Nine-Tribulation Master Gods were no longer any threat to him!
To Su Yi, this was like realizing a long-held wish. He was in competition with his past selves, and now, he’d surpassed two of his past lives at their strongest and most dazzling!
How could he not have been rueful? How could he not have been emotional?
When the dust and smoke cleared, all was silent and still on all sides.
The only sound was the wind blowing through the devastation, lending it an additional bleakness.
Su Yi took out a jug of wine, drank with relish, then let out a deep breath before turning and walking toward Luo Qingdi.
“If you’d sent word and asked for help earlier, this whole thing could have been avoided,” sighed Su Yi, his tone slightly reproachful. “But if you chose not to, I’m sure you had your reasons. Tell me, then. Why didn’t you contact us?”
The sword domain had vanished from around Luo Qingdi, who couldn’t help but grimace in the face of Su Yi’s displeasure.
“I indeed had reasons for not contacting you,” said Luo Qingdi, deciding not to hide it. “Back then, both my body and soul shattered. The last remnants of my soul took my vital source energy and lived on, and…
“When I woke up, I met Xiao Xiao.”
He went on to explain the situation in full.
“I originally planned to contact you, but I discovered that my enemies were tracking me relentlessly. They were like maggots gnawing on a rotting bone; there was no getting rid of them.
“And I was so badly injured that I had no choice but to go into hiding.
“Over the past nine years, I’ve been so concerned that our enemies would discover my location that I couldn’t even treat my wounds properly. I didn’t dare to cultivate for fear that our enemies would sense my energy fluctuations.
“That aside, for the past nine years, my intuition has screamed that enemies are hidden nearby. I was sure that if I let anything slip, anything at all, they’d discover me.”
Luo Qingdi sighed. “And what happened today proved me right. It was just that not even I realized that they’d actually discovered me a long time ago, much less that they’d prepared countermeasures!”
His gaze shifted to the girl in his arms. “Specifically, Xiao Xiao.”
Su Yi’s eyebrows rose. “Is… she from our enemies’ camp?”
“No, she’s just a kind-hearted little girl who inadvertently got swept into this storm,” Luo Qingdi said with pity. “From beginning to end, she didn’t understand any of this, nor did she know that our enemies had set their sights on her. Our enemies saw her kindness as a weapon they could use against me.”
Su Yi mulled that over. “You’re saying that our enemies discovered your close relationship with her, but instead of taking action, they just kept tabs on you in secret?”
Luo Qingdi nodded. “Yes, that’s most likely the case. What happened here in the Tianxiu Sword House proves it.
“Not long ago, Xiao Xiao’s sect ordered a group of disciples to undergo trials in the Tianxiu Sword Shrine. Xiao Xiao, an outer sect disciple, was among the chosen.
“Xiao Xiao celebrated this for a long time. After thinking it over, I agreed to go with her.
“It was only after Xiao Xiao left for the Tianxiu Sword Shrine that I realized that this was a trap!
“Our enemies’ goal was to lure me out of hiding and kill me here!”
Luo Qingdi broke into a self-deprecating grin. “I’m so badly wounded that I dared not go out to gather information. Otherwise, I would never have fallen for such petty schemes.”
Su Yi shook his head. “Have you considered why our enemies chose to target you now? And why they chose to do it in the Tianxiu Sword Shrine of all places? Why not just keep watching you in secret?”
“I was confused about that too, but now that you’re here, I think I understand,” said Luo Qingdi.
That’s right. The ultimate goal of this death trap was to use Luo Qingdi as bait to lure Su Yi out of hiding!
Su Yi inclined his head. “But I can tell that the old-timers we just killed didn’t know the true goal of this operation. They likely didn’t even know I was on my way. That might mean that the true mastermind has yet to attack! It’s even possible… That he’s nearby.”
Luo Qingdi’s heart shook, and he scanned the surrounding area.
