First Immortal of the Sword-Chapter 1947: Undying Bright Gold

The black plain was barren and devoid of light.

As Su Yi and his companions drew near, a beam of blood-red light shot out of the ground.

Boom!

The blood-red light shot into the firmament and transformed into a badly battered skeleton. It was dressed in fragmented armor, and it was missing its right arm. Unearthly, imposing death qi rose from its entire body.

A divine remnant!

This wasn’t Luo Tiandu and Xi Ning’s first time seeing such a monster, but even so, they felt intense pressure bearing down on them, practically suffocating them.

There was nothing for it. The divine remnant’s power was far beyond the bounds of the Great Realm!

“Not bad! This divine remnant’s aura really is stronger than a divine wraith’s.” Su Yi’s eyes lit up, and before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, he charged into the fray.

Boom!

He swung his fist like a sword, slamming directly into the divine remnant with tyrannical force.

The divine remnant roared, and its murderous intent blanketed heaven and earth as it charged and clashed with Su Yi head-on.

Bang!!!

The sky collapsed at the point of impact, shaking the surrounding mountains and rivers. Su Yi staggered on impact, while the divine remnant was forced hundreds of feet back, its bones clattering.

It was obvious who’d come out on top!

“This guy…” Luo Tiandu’s eyes widened, and he gasped.

Divine remnants were as strong as demigods! But Su Yi blasted one back in a head-on collision. Didn’t that imply that Su Yi’s strength had reached the demigod level?

Xi Ning’s bright eyes lit up with colorful light.

Among the God Domain’s Great Realm experts, you could only find demigod-level experts among Heaven’s Chosen, those born blessed with good fortune. You could count them on the fingers of a single hand!

But Su Yi was different. He was only in the Great Unity Stage! Based on that, not even Heaven’s Chosen could compare.

As he pondered, a grand battle erupted. Su Yi fought bare-handed, relentlessly pummeling the divine remnant. It was a completely tyrannical, contemptuous, and one-sided beatdown.

Within just a few breaths of time….

Boom!

Su Yi leaped from the heavens and slammed his fist into the divine remnant. A heaven-shaking impact followed, and the divine remnant split into pieces.

Dust and smoke permeated the air as Su Yi gently drifted to the ground.

He’d fought crisply and directly, seizing victory with ease.

Off in the distance, Luo Tiandu fell silent. He destroyed a divine remnant comparable to a demigod, just like that. Doesn’t that mean that Su Yi’s power in the Great Unity Stage is beyond the demigod level?

The thought shook Luo Tiandu’s heart, filling him with an indescribable sense of frustration.

When the disparity between you and your rival is small, you have hope of bridging the gap.

But when you are as far removed as heaven and earth, how can you possibly approach?

A sentence rose unbidden to Luo Tiandu’s mind. He’s left me in the dust!

Xi Ning walked over. “It seems the power of reincarnation really does counter those monsters.”

But Su Yi shook his head. “I didn’t use the power of reincarnation. I just wanted to see how strong the divine remnants were.”

“....”

“....”

Neither of the divine children knew what to say to that.

Su Yi, meanwhile, was looking at the ground. When the divine remnant shattered, it left fragments of bone strewn across the plains. Some of the pieces flashed with hints of radiant light. When he picked up a piece and examined it, he couldn’t help but be stunned. The bone fragments contained Undying Material!

Xi Ning walked over and used a secret technique to refine the bone fragments. In the end, she refined grains of a sand-like, golden substance. There were about one hundred pieces in total.

“This is Undying Bright Gold. Gods can refine it into their bodies, and it’s incredibly useful for defending against divine tribulations,” Xi Ning patiently explained.

Su Yi nodded. He roughly understood.

Undying Demon Gold was refined into the soul, while Undying Bright Gold was refined into the physical body!

Su Yi promptly divided the Undying Bright Gold in thirds. One portion, he kept for himself. The rest, he gave to Xi Ning and Luo Tiandu.

“Thank you.” Xi Ning graciously accepted the gift.

But Luo Tiandu was stunned. He was an unparalleled divine son of the God Domain. What hadn’t he seen before? He knew all too well that even gods would fight tooth and nail over a rare and precious treasure like Undying Bright Gold, risking death if need be. There was no way they’d give up even the smallest piece.

Yet Su Yi had straightforwardly handed him a full third. How could Luo Tiandu have been anything but shocked?

“I….” Luo Tiandu wanted to refuse. His bone-deep pride wouldn’t let him accept such a generous gift.

But Su Yi shoved it into his hands before he could object. “We’re traveling together, so it’s only right that we split the spoils. I’m not trying to buy your goodwill, and you don’t need to be grateful. This is just how I do things. Take it.”

He then called Xi Ning over, and the two of them set off.

Luo Tiandu’s gaze was instantly conflicted.

A little while later, he sighed to himself and followed his companions.

……

Su Yi led the way ahead, and the three of them went straight through the black plains. From time to time, divine remnants appeared to intercept them.

Only for Su Yi to blast them all to bits.

Xi Ning and Luo Tiandu both felt on a visceral level how wonderful and comfortable it was to have an ally leading the charge and killing everything in their way. There was no need for caution or concern, nor did they have to wrack their brains or avoid the dangers in their path. Su Yi just cut through everything in their way like a knife through tofu.

“It reminds me of when I was a little girl. Every time I went traveling, I had seniors leading the way. No matter what dangers we faced, they shielded me from the wind and rain.” Xi Ning sighed.

Luo Tiandu nodded. He felt much the same way.

A moment later, shame welled deep within his heart. How could I possibly compare that guy to my seniors, even for a moment?

“In the path of cultivation, having someone to guide and protect you is fortunate indeed, but it isn’t without its disadvantages,” said Su Yi casually. “Chief among them, that you miss out on opportunities to temper yourself, and it’s easy to grow dependent.”

Xi Ning laughed. “That’s indeed the case. In the God Domain, scions of factions only enjoy such special treatment until they’re old enough to fend for themselves. This helps them temper their hearts and wills.”

As they conversed, Su Yi divvied up the spoils once more.

Alas, although they encountered quite a few divine remnants, each yielded different amounts of Undying Bright Gold. Even after dealnig with a couple of divine remnants, the total amount of Undying Bright Gold was far less than the Undying Demon Gold he’d gathered in the Cave of Divine Tears. Most of it was lower quality, too.

But then, this was to be expected. According to Xi Ning, the black plains were the outer periphery of the Place Abandoned by Heaven, and for gods, the divine remnants weren’t particularly powerful in life.

Four hours later, the group passed through the black plains. There’d been a few scares along the way, but no real danger.

The plains gave way to a broken, collapsed mountain range that stretched as far as the eye could see. Spacetime faults spread across the sky. From a distance, it was as if a large section of the firmament had suddenly been severed. Spacetime currents ran rampant within the spacetime faults, and from time to time, dazzling beams of red tribulation light flashed through the barren, dilapidated mountains.

The Tribulation Light of the End of the Dharma!

Beneath it, it didn’t matter how strong you were; your cultivation base would be frittered away to nothingness. The Tribulation Light of the End of the Dharma was enough to strike terror into the hearts of even the gods.

Xi Ning and Luo Tiandu were both instantly solemn. They didn’t even need to think to know that they’d reached the heart of the Place Abandoned by Heaven!

Su Yi and company took a day to rest before setting off once more.

Boom!

Not long after they entered the barren stretch of mountains, heaven and earth swayed, and an enormous black skeletal bird shot off a nearby peak.

Its wings were like enormous clouds blotting out the sun, and it was fully one hundred thousand feet long and blazing with deathly divine flames. Its eyes were like twin blood-red full moons.

“A true phoenix!?” Luo Tiandu exclaimed. His hair stood on end.

The black skeletal bird was just too vicious and terrifying. Even from far away, the sight was enough to make him sense an impending lethal threat. It was nothing like the divine remnants they’d encountered earlier.

Moreover, from the look of it, it was a true phoenix, a divine beast of legend!

Except that now, all that remained of it were bones, and it was covered in black, deathly flames. It was full of a strange, malevolent aura.

“The monster’s aura is almost comparable to a Lesser God’s,” said Xi Ning. She was started, and she couldn’t even begin to imagine how such a terrifying divine remnant could have been lurking in the Place Abandoned by Heaven.

It had been dead for countless years, but it was still so ferocious. How powerful had its cultivation base been in life?

“Almost comparable to a Lesser God?” Su Yi’s heart stirred, and the irrepressible thirst for battle lit in the depths of his gaze.

“You wait here. I’ll test its strength for myself!”

With that, he leaped into the air and charged at the black skeletal bird, so suddenly that Xi Ning and Luo Tiandu had no hope of stopping him.

“That guy is simply…” Luo Tiandu was at a loss for words. He simply didn’t have the vocabulary to describe how insane and gutsy Su Yi’s behavior was.

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“Seems to me that Fellow Daoist Su wants to kill a god while still in the Great Realm!” Xi Ning said softly.

“Killing a god in the Great Realm?” Luo Tiandu was flabbergasted, but then, he immediately refuted the possibility. “That’s impossible!”

A god!

Even Lesser Gods who’d only just taken their first steps onto the Path of Divinity were far beyond the Great Realm. Great Realm experts could only look up to them from afar.

Throughout the God Domain’s long history, numerous unparalleled, dazzling monsters had arisen. Some had tried to kill gods in the Great Realm, but without exception, all such attempts ended in failure!

This was like an ironclad rule. None had ever broken it!

Su Yi was heaven-defying. There was no getting around it. But Luo Tiandu still didn’t think it was remotely possible that he’d succeed.

“Impossible? I wouldn’t be so certain. Don’t forget: Fellow Daoist Su is only in the Great Unity Stage. When he steps into the Great Profound Stage, his cultivation is sure to undergo an earth-shaking transformation. When the time comes, he might well be strong enough to defeat Lesser Gods,” said Xi Ning, her eyes shining with a hint of anticipation.

Luo Tiandu was just about to argue when Su Yi and the skeleton of a suspected phoenix began a fierce battle beneath the dome of heaven.