First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1267 - Youth Passes in a Flash

The three Cosmic Enlightenment Realm World Kings’ sudden retreat was outside the onlookers’ expectations.

Ordinary people might not have been able to react in time, but Su Yi had long since anticipated this. He slashed his sword at Gu Lingyun.

Boom!

Sword qi flew through the air. A terrifying restrictive power permeated the air.

It was as if the entire stretch of sky had been sealed. The Laws of Primordial Unity stagnated.

Gu Lingyun’s fleeing figure instantly seemed stuck, as if she’d sunk into the mud. Her entire body was under terrifying suppression.

The look on her beautiful face shifted abruptly. She suddenly activated a secret art. Her back arched, and her hand formed a seal.

Light manifested of the Laws rose, blocking Su Y’s slash.

But Gu Lingyun staggered back, coughing up blood as she almost fell from the skies.

“Dammit!” Gu Lingyun’s eyes blazed with fury.

But before she could steady herself, Su Yi attacked once more.

Boom!

Yet another slash descended.

The boundless power of the Laws of Restricting the Profound sealed off everything within a thousand feet.

And Gu Lingyun was caught right in the middle of it, like a bug caught in a spider’s web. Her beautiful face instantly lost its color. This is bad!

She struggled like mad, to no avail.

“Die!” A low bellow rang out.

Boom!

A streak of sword qi bathed in immortal light descended from the skies.

Heaven and earth dimmed. The air trembled, and indescribable murderous intent prickled Su Yi’s skin. His hair stood on end.

He abruptly raised his head.

The descending sword light was like a slash from an immortal. It was full of power far beyond the World King level.

The immortal sword formation?

Even as this thought arose in his mind, Su Yi didn’t retreat. On the contrary, he advanced, still intent on killing Gu Lingyun. No matter what, he had to cut her down!

Boom!

All manner of terrifying mysteries of the Grand Dao appeared reflected around Su Yi’s tall, upright figure. His qi erupted like a volcano.

The illusory Six Paths of Reincarnation shot forth, blanketing the heavens and blotting out the sun.

But mere seconds passed before that streak of immortal sword qi exploded it into pieces.

Immediately afterward, Su Yi surged with the profundities of restricting the Profound. They interwove into a curtain of light, perfectly round, like a massive umbrella.

But this too was ultimately to no avail.

That immortal sword qi was too forceful and tyrannical. It instantly shattered the Laws of Restricting the Profound.

But just as that streak of sword qi was about to cleave into Su Yi, a streak of blue light of the Grand Dao appeared, as radiant as the light of a new dawn. It blocked Su Yi’s head like the curtain of heaven.

The Laws of Profound Ruin!

An unsurpassed Grand Dao from the River of Destiny.

Ultimately, it blocked that streak of immortal sword qi.

But before Su Yi could sigh in relief...

The curtain manifested of the Laws of Restricting the Profound shattered in the blink of an eye.

In this moment of crisis, Su Yi’s sword transformed into a vine shield in front of him.

Bang!

That streak of immortal sword qi descended, and Su Yi was sent flying back.

Although this sequence of events seemed to take a long time, it happened in a flash, and it was perilous to the extreme.

When that streak of sword qi struck Su Yi, it saved Gu Lingyun’s life. Her back was drenched in cold sweat, and she raced toward the sect gates, not daring to hesitate.

But although she didn’t see it, as Su Yi was sent flying, the sleeves of his right arm billowed, and he instantly unleashed a slash.

This slash was full of an ethereal aura, transcendent and fleeting, but its power was terrifying beyond measure.

The Laws of the Light of the Universe!

The power of the Grand Dao the Temple Master had taken the most pride in.

What was the light of the universe?

In the very beginning, the universe was written with the characters for “time” and “space.”

The Light of the Universe was therefore the light of time itself.

The mysteries of the Light of the Universe was a branch of the Grand Dao of Time, and they created a complete, wondrous Law.

It could sever longevity and turn back time to recreate scenes from the past.

When Su Yi teasingly offered to use a secret art to recreate the scene of a young Li Xunzhen pissing himself, he wasn’t just bragging.

With the Laws of the Universe, he could create a curtain of light and do just that.

As for severing longevity? That meant instantly plunging an opponent into the River of Time, where time passed at many times its usual speed. His opponents’ longevity was instantaneously frittered away to nothing.

When one’s longevity was up, their life was no more.

Out amongst the stars, practically every member of the older generation had heard the phrase “Youth passes in a flash, a beauty ages in an instant.”

This described the Temple Master’s swordsmanship. He could instantly sever his opponent’s longevity, making them wither like plants and disintegrate into ash!

The Laws of the Light of the Universe were incomparably powerful in combination with the Temple Master’s self-invented sword canon, the Drifting Sword.

When drifting about the boundless seas, you could perceive their enormity, their transformations, and their endlessness.

In doing so, you could attain their unfettered freedom.

The Drifting Sword strived for just that. There was nowhere it could not reach, so there it was nowhere it could not appear.

And this was Su Yi’s first time using it in battle!

Kcch!

A sword rose like flying light, then disappeared.

Su Yi, meanwhile, retreated into the distance.

Because several more streaks of immortal sword qi were descending upon him with terrifying power. After witnessing the strength of the immortal sword formation, Su Yi could only choose to avoid them for now.

Whoosh!

Su Yi stopped in place after retreating ten thousand feet away.

Meanwhile——

Li Xunzhen and Shui Tianhan had already made it back to the sect.

When they saw Su Yi forced back by the immortal sword formation, both of them visibly relaxed.

But then, they couldn’t help but feel a twinge of regret. Earlier, they actually failed to take the Temple Master down!

In truth, when the three Cosmic Enlightenment experts attacked, they were effectively using themselves as bait. They were deliberately restricting Su Yi to give Sect Leader Weng Pu the opportunity to annihilate him with the immortal sword formation.

But Su Yi’s strength was far beyond their imagination. He wasn’t suppressed at all. At best, they fought him to a draw.

In the final, critical moment, they failed to use the immortal sword formation’s power to destroy Su Yi.

Beyond the sect gates, Sect Leader Weng Pu stood in the air, gripping a beast bone that emanated immortal light.

Countless streaks of sword qi manifested of formation glyphs appeared around him, densely packed and glowing with immortal energy. An austere killing intent permeated the nine heavens and the ten earths.

When Weng Pu saw Su Yi retreat into the distance, he couldn’t help but look unwilling.

Three Cosmic Enlightenment ancestors had attacked together, coordinating with the immortal sword formation, but they still couldn’t take their enemy down!

Fortunately, he dodged. A’Cai inwardly sighed in relief.

She’d watched as Weng Pu used the immortal sword formation to attack Su Yi. That terrifying power made her shudder despite the lack of cold; she couldn’t help but sweat on Su Yi’s behalf.

“Hm?”

Suddenly, Li Xunzhen seemed to sense something. He turned to look at Gu Lingyun.

His eyes widened, and he couldn’t help but cry out in alarm, “Lingyun, you...”

Shui Tianhan whipped around. When he saw Gu Lingyun, he couldn’t help but stiffen, and his expression filled with disbelief.

“What... What about me?” Gu Lingyun furrowed her brow, a bit confused. A moment later, she cried out, “How is this possible——!?”

Her shriek was full of terror and alarm. All eyes were instantly upon her.

They then saw that this youthful, stunning beauty was suddenly incomparably aged. Her formerly smooth, lustrous skin was loose and dim, and her formerly delicatel and beautiful face was now covered in dense wrinkles.

Even her long black hair turned white, then fell out and drifted to the ground.

In the blink of an eye, an unmatched beauty transformed into an old woman as fragile as a candle flickering in the wind!

This strange and unsettling scene startled everyone present. They broke out in cold sweats, and their expressions visibly shifted.

“How did this happen? This is impossible! Impossible!”

Gu Lingyun cried out in alarm, completely losing her cool.

Beneath the crowd’s astonished gazes, her essence, qi, and spirit flowed away, and her vitality dissipated.

Just a few blinks of the eye later, and her entire body suddenly fell apart, disintegrating into ash and dispersing.

The entire area fell deathly silent.

Everyone was astonished. This strange, unsettling scene left them stunned.

A Cosmic Enlightenment World King’s lifespan lasted as long as the sun and moon. They weren’t truly undying, but they were close.

And this was Gu Lingyun, Ancestor Deng Zuo’s closed-door disciple. Her cultivation base was incomparably deep and profound.

Yet now, just as she fled through the sect gates, she lost her remaining longevity and life force, crumbling to ash in the blink of an eye!

This was unquestionably far too terrifying.

Li Xunzhen seemed to realize what had happened. His face was ashen as he rasped, “‘Youth passes in a flash, a beauty ages in an instant.’ This... This was one of the powers of the sword the Temple Master was most proud of...”

Youth passing in a flash!

The crowd recalled Gu Lingyun’s rapid aging. Despite themselves, chills coursed down their spines.

What made this all the more terrifying was that from beginning to end, they had never noticed his attacks land on Gu Lingyun!

“It’s a pity. I’ve only just barely crossed the threshold of mastery of these Laws. Otherwise, that attack would have aged her and reduced her to ash in an instant.”

Off in the distance, Su Yi seemed to find this result a bit of a pity.

Mysteries of the Grand Dao were a profound and inscrutable power of the Laws. You weren’t born understanding them, and you couldn’t take them with you when you died.

Despite inheriting the Temple Master’s experiences and memories, if Su Yi wanted to master the Light of the Universe, he’d need to contemplate and master it from the beginning.

“Su Yi, I’ll rip your corpse into shreds and scatter your ashes to the wind!” Weng Pu’s voice emanated from within the sect gates, shaking the heavens. He sounded utterly enraged and utterly murderous.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A series of sword hums rang out. Terrifying immortal light surged out of Primordial Unity Divine Mountain, rising into the clouds.

The entire mountain seemed to be awakening from dormancy.

Countless streaks of the power of a formation transformed into radiant sword qi swathed in immortal light, all of them reflected in the sky.

This was the immortal sword formation the sect’s living fossil, Ancestor Deng Zuo, had placed personally. Now, Weng Pu was activating it with all his might.

Sword qi filled heaven and earth, and immortal light charged like a bull!

Throughout the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect, everyone was astonished.

This was their first time circulating the immortal sword formation!

Its power was such that even Cosmic Enlightenment World Kings like Li Xunzhen and Shui Tianhan felt their hearts shake.

“Cut!” Weng Pu bellowed.

Countless streaks of sword qi whooshed through the air. Immortal light glittered, blanketing heaven and earth. It was as if an army of sword immortals were descending from the heavens with enormous momentum.

Terrifying murderous intent enveloped everything within eight hundred miles.

Su Yi’s brow furrowed slightly. A strong sense of crisis arose within his heart, and he immediately retreated.

Boom!!

It was as if heaven and earth had overturned where he’d been standing just moments prior. The air exploded, everything crumbled, and unstoppable sword qi scattered. The aftershock alone would have been enough to threaten a Cosmic Enlightenment Realm World King.

But this attack ultimately hit nothing but air.

Because Su Yi had never been trapped within the immortal sword formation. How could it possibly have affected him?

“This power is far beyond that of the Illusionist’s clone. This really is an Immortal-level sword formation...” Su Yi sighed his approval.

Meanwhile, within the Primordial Unity Daoist Sect, when they saw Su Yi dodge this blow, everyone’s expressions turned unsightly. They gnashed their teeth hatefully, but there was nothing they could do about it. They were so angry they almost coughed up blood.