First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1262 - An Era of Transcending and Pursuing Immortality

A’Cai didn’t hide anything. She explained the whole situation from beginning to end.

In recent years, numerous changes had taken place amongst the stars. It was just that most people had no idea.

For instance, good fortune and opportunities related to immortality had appeared in numerous forbidden zones and hidden lands!

The ancestor of the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect, Deng Zuo, obtained their Immortal Dao sword diagram from a long-ruined battlefield here in the Thousand Opportunities Star Realm.

Just how strong was this Immortal Dao sword diagram? What secrets did it contain? A’Cai wasn’t certain.

All she knew was that according to Sect Leader Weng Pu, Ancestor Deng Zuo had practically drained the sect’s treasury of its top divine materials!

Even so, he’d yet to complete the sword formation.

According to Weng Pu, even if they circulated the formation with all their might, they could unleash at most forty percent or so of its full power.

Still, that was more than enough to kill Cosmic Enlightenment World Kings!

Su Yi couldn’t help but find this surprising.

In that case, this Immortal Dao sword diagram really was terrifying. It was far beyond ordinary World King-level formations.

Meng Changyun said in confusion, “There have been numerous changes connected to the pursuit of immortality over the years? Why haven’t I heard of any of them....?”

He’d only left the stars for a year or so.

Yet now, A’Cai was telling him that numerous major changes had affected the starry skies.

“For now, only the stars’ top factions are aware of these developments. Word has long since been sealed, and the general populace has no idea,” explained A’Cai. “After all, these changes are connected to the legendary Immortal Path of rumors, and nothing comparable has happened before. The top factions hate that they can’t monopolize this information. Who among them would let it leak to the general public?”

Countless years had passed, but fortune regarding the Immortal Dao had returned to this world!

This secret left Su Yi a bit stunned too.

In the Divine Kingdom of Illusions, he saw leads connected to the Path of Transcendence.

He also learned that a long time ago, the Path of Transcendence was severed by a strange, unknown tribulation.

But he would never have guessed that good fortune regarding immortality had reappeared in this world in recent years!

Is all of this connected to the Domain Boundary Battlefield set to re-open within three years?

Is the long-vanished Path of Transcendence truly going to re-enter this world?

All sorts of thoughts arose in Su Yi’s mind.

“However, this is only the beginning of the changes to come, changes related to immortality,” A’Cai said softly. “A few years ago, Ancestor Deng Zuo said that the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect’s most ancient stone stele contained a record of secrets regarding transcending and achieving immortality. According to his predictions, when these changes fully re-enter the world, the entire Eastern Profound Star Domain will welcome a new era.”

A’Cai paused, then said slowly and clearly, “An era of transcendence and pursuing immortality!”

“Transcending mortality? Does the Immortal Dao of rumors truly exist?” Meng Changyun was startled.

Su Yi shook his head. “Immortality is Immortality, and the Path of Transcendence is the Path of Transcendence .”

He concisely explained what he knew of the Path of Transcendence and becoming an immortal.

It was actually quite easy to understand. At the end of the Path of Heaven’s Ascension, there waited the Path of Transcendence. At the end of the Path of Transcendence, there lay the Immortal Dao!

However, a long time ago, a strange, unknown power severed the connection to the Path of Transcendence and the Immortal Dao.

Henceforth, the Immortal Realm was the Immortal Realm, and the Human Realm was the Human Realm. The two were entirely separated, and immortals no longer walked amongst mortal men!

Meng Changyun felt enlightened, but more than that, he couldn’t help but be astonished. So, His Excellency the Temple Master has known the secrets of transcending mortality for a long time!

Radiant light flowed through A’Cai’s beautiful eyes. “Fellow Daoist, do you still plan to make trouble for the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect?”

“Yes,” said Su Yi without so much as pausing to think.

Before even becoming a World King, he could destroy Heavenly Longevity World Kings and duke it out with the Graveyard of Fallen Immortals' Oneness Realm Enforcers.

After becoming a World King, ordinary Oneness World Kings were no longer worthy of his attention. He could destroy them with a snap of his fingers.

And he was already in the late-stage Heavenly Longevity Realm.

According to his estimations, while his strength had yet to surpass the Temple Master at his peak, cleaning up most Cosmic Enlightenment experts wouldn’t be difficult.

“It’s just a pity that the Old Charlatan isn’t around. Otherwise, I’d have just loved to have confirmed for myself whether or not the old-timer’s cultivation has improved at all.” Su Yi sighed.

According to what A’Cai had told him, Deng Zuo had left the sect years ago to seek out good fortune in the Flying Immortal Forbidden Zone.

He had to admit that this was an awful pity.

“You... You really want to fight Deng Zuo?” A’Cai found this difficult to believe.

Deng Zuo!

One of the greatest experts of the stars, a legendary existence. Even if you searched every star realm in the Eastern Profound Star Domain, you could count comparable figures on your fingers!

And Su Yi was ultimately just the Temple Master’s reincarnation, not the Temple Master at his peak.

A’Cai found it difficult to imagine where he got the confidence to contend with a living fossil of a World King like Deng Zuo.

“I don’t just want to fight. I have people to save, too,” said Su Yi.

“....” A’Cai finally realized that Su Yi wasn’t joking. He really did plan to attack the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect!

“Do you need my help?” asked A’Cai.

Su Yi subtly shook his head. “Without Deng Zuo around, throughout the entire Primordial Unity Daoist Sect, only that Immortal Dao sword diagram is worth paying attention to.”

......

Two days later, at dawn.

A drizzle fell from the misty dome of heaven, and the landscape was lush and verdant.

Su Yi dressed in blue, his long hair casually tied into a Daoist topknot. He walked amidst the mist and rain, headed in the direction of the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect.

This time, he traveled alone. He’d left Meng Changyun in Thousand Leaf City.

......

The Primordial Unity Daoist Sect.

“Are all of our preparations in order?”

Within a grand hall, Sect Leader Weng Pu fiddled with a snow-white beast bone.

It was about the size of his palm and carved into the shape of a flying sword. It glowed with immortal light.

“Sect Leader, everyone in the sect has been settled into place. Furthermore, the elders and ancestors are ready for battle,” an elderly servant reported respectfully.

Weng Pu subtly inclined his head.

It was then that three figures rushed in from outside the grand hall: a middle-aged man with a sheathed sword strapped at an angle across his back, a gaunt old man with the air of a Daoist immortal, and a beautiful woman covered from head to toe in jewels.

Weng Pu solemnly rose to his feet. “Greetings, Ancestors!”

These new arrivals were the three Cosmic Enlightenment experts currently presiding over the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect!

They’d long since ceased to occupy any formal post, and over the years, they typically lived deep in seclusion, seldom venturing outside and paying no heed to worldly affairs.

But the sect’s imminent battle with the Temple Master’s reincarnation had startled all three out of seclusion, and they were here in person.

“Have you set up the Heaven-Surveying Mirrors?” asked the middle-aged swordsman. He had a willowy beard, phoenix eyes, a scholarly appearance, and a bearing that would have stood out of any crowd.

Shui Tianhan.

With his mid-stage Cosmic Enlightenment Realm cultivation, he was one of the greatest sword experts in the Thousand Opportunities Star Realm. A long time ago, his name spread to other star realms, and they called him Realm Lord Cold Sky.

“Ancestors, twenty-four Heaven-Surveying Mirrors have already been put in place. So long as Su Yi gets within eight hundred miles of the sect, they’ll alert us immediately,” said Weng Pu. As he spoke, he swung his sleeves.

Whoosh!

A bronze treasure mirror rose into the air, transforming into a thirty-foot, perfectly round curtain of light.

The curtain reflected a boundless landscape in full detail.

Furthermore, as the bronze mirror revolved, it displayed every last nook and cranny of the landscape.

This was a Heaven-Surveying Mirror.

It could sense and reflect anyone with the aura of a cultivator right away, no matter who they were.

“How are the hostages?” asked the thin old man with the air of a Daoist immortal. He was tall, and his hair and beard were silver. His eyes were as deep and cold as ancient wells, and his entire body was enshrouded in wisps of the purple flames of the Laws. His majesty was imposing.

Li Xunzhen.

A late-stage Cosmic Enlightenment World King.

In the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect, Li Xunzhen’s seniority was second only to Deng Zuo’s. He too was a true living fossil.

“They’re both alive and well,” said Weng Pu. Hostages were only useful when they were alive.

“The Temple Master’s reincarnation, that’s all, yet we’ve gone to such lengths and come up with thorough countermeasures. If word spreads, who knows how the outside world will see us?” The beautiful woman covered in jewelry said with an air of self-deprecation.

Her hair was tied up, and her good looks were unparalleled, but as her eyes took in her surroundings, they contained the dignified, contemptuous air of one who gazed down upon the masses.

Gu Lingyun.

She was in the mid-stage Cosmic Enlightenment Realm, and she was the youngest Cosmic Enlightenment Ancestor in the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect. It had only been nine thousand years since she’d started cultivating.

Compared to most other World Kings, who could measure their ages by the tens of thousands of years, she really was quite young.

Furthermore, she was Deng Zuo’s closed-door disciple!

Although her cultivation base was inferior to Li Xunzhen’s, her strength wasn’t!

“Lingyun, there’s no shame in this. Any top faction of the stars would have done much the same in our shoes. None would dare be the slightest bit negligent,” said Shui Tianhan, a complicated look on his face. “After all, this is the Temple Master’s reincarnation!”

Li Xunzhen subtly inclined his head and sighed. “Were this the former Temple Master at his peak... We could prepare even more thoroughly, and we’d still just be eggs flinging ourselves against a rock.”

Only older-generation experts like them truly understood how terrifying of an existence the Temple Master was at his peak.

“Fortunately, he isn’t the former Temple Master. No matter how heaven-defying his strength may be, he’s still just a young man who only recently became a World King,” laughed Shui Tianhan. “Furthermore, the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect is different from before, and we’ve made ample preparations. Taking down the Temple Master’s reincarnation should be well within the bounds of possibility.”

Li Xunzhen’s eyes flashed. “That’s indeed the case. Furthermore, if we can acquire the secrets of reincarnation, that will make this an absolutely unprecedented stroke of good fortune!”

“If Master were here, he’d surely be delighted to see this happen,” chuckled Gu Lingyun.

She’d only just said this when Sect Leader Weng Pu said, “Ancestors, he’s here!”

One sentence, and all eyes were instantly upon the curtain of light manifested of the Heaven-Surveying Mirror.

There, they saw a boundless landscape shrouded in mist and rain, and a handsome, detached young man walking with his hands behind his back.

His blue robes billowed around him, and he seemed as leisurely as if he were out sightseeing.

Like an immortal traveling amidst mortal dust.