First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1819 - Cooperation

As the medicinal power permeated her soul body, the wraith erupted with vitality.

But Su Yi knew it was temporary. It wouldn’t be long before she disappeared from this world completely. He immediately chanted a series of strange, inscrutable syllables tinged with an ancient, boundless rhythm.

The wraith trembled in obvious excitement, then looked at Su Yi and responded in the same inscrutable language.

Xi Ning and Fan Zhui couldn’t make heads or tails of it. They had no idea what the wraith and Su Yi were discussing.

They’ve got to be using the secret language of the Dragon Palace! Fellow Daoist Su must be asking that wraith about the Dragon Palace!

When Fan Zhui reached this conclusion, his expression filled with astonishment. Su Yi’s abilities are simply ridiculous! He doesn’t just have heaven-defying combat prowess. He can even neutralize karmic power and use the secret language of the Dragon Palace to communicate with a long-dead wraith!

Xi Ning watched their exchange too. No wonder he was so confident. This was his plan all along.

When it came to knowledge of the ruins of the Dragon Palace, who could possibly know more than this wraith woman? She was a member of the dragon race!

The Giant Whale Spirit Race thought they had the home turf advantage, but they couldn’t understand the Dragon Palace’s secret language, so their mastery of its secrets was very limited!

All Su Yi needed to do was ask for more detailed information about the ruins, and the advantage the Giant Whales were relying on would disappear in a puff of smoke.

To Su Yi, the ruins of the Dragon Palace were no longer mysterious. After this, no matter where he went, he could transform danger into good fortune!

Simply put, the ruins of the Dragon Palace were a mysterious, unknown, and dangerous world, and Su Yi effectively had the only “map.” This “map” clearly demarcated where danger lurked and where treasure waited!

Xi Ning couldn’t help but be impressed by Su Yi’s abilities. He’s right; his enemies are the ones who really ought to worry about reprisal!

Shortly after, the dragon race woman’s soul body dissipated into a rain of light, and this conversation between lives separated by countless years came to an end.

Su Yi sank into thought.

The woman’s name was Ao Yue, and she was a branch lineage descendant of the Dragon Palace. In life, she’d been an elder responsible for instructing young disciples’ cultivation. Her position wasn’t particularly high, but it wasn’t low, either.

Ao Yue’s memories had been badly fragmented, and there was a lot she no longer remembered. Even so, she was incomparably familiar with the Dragon Palace, and she used the power of a secret soul imprint to show Su Yi a vision of the entire Dragon Palace as it had looked during the Primeval Era!

They called it the Dragon Palace, but the name didn’t refer to a singular building. Rather, it referred to this entire hidden world. Back then, everywhere you looked, there were extraordinary mountains and rivers and glorious palaces and pavilions. It was like an otherworldly pure land, a treasure ground for immortals.

Alas, a cataclysm had destroyed it all, and the Dragon Palace now lay in ruin.

After their conversation, Su Yi knew where in the Dragon Palace they were, and he’d committed the names of the different areas of the Dragon Palace to memory.

It really was like having an incomparably detailed, thorough map. All he had to do was analyze it, and he could figure out which parts of the Dragon Palace were most important—and most likely to hide treasure.

Alas, Ao Yue’s memories were fragmented, so she couldn’t tell Su Yi how the Dragon Palace had been destroyed or where to find the Book of Karma.

“Fellow Daoist, did you uncover any worthwhile leads?” Xi Ning and Fan Zhui walked over and asked.

Su Yi nodded, then concisely recounted what he’d learned. Although Xi Ning and Fan Zhui had anticipated this, they still couldn’t help but exclaim inwardly.

Whoosh!

Su Yi stretched out his hand, and Ao Yue’s silver pendant landed in his hand.

This was a Cultivation Technique Repository Pendant, and it contained over a hundred different legacies and secret arts. Alas, the vast majority of them were only suitable for descendants of dragons. Only a small number were suitable for experts of other races.

The pendant was of little use to Su Yi, but it was absolutely precious to the Red Dragon Dao Monarch. These were the most orthodox and ancient legacies of the dragons!

“Come on, let’s push further into the ruins,” said Su Yi.

......

A blood-colored stretch of heaven and earth.

“Die!” High Elder Yun Jiu of the Church of the Pure One bellowed, circulated a Great Realm Yin-Yang diagram, and smote a wraith on the spot.

Boom!

The wraith exploded, and Yun Jiu fled into the distance.

When the wraith’s soul body exploded, it transformed into a flood of karmic power that swept outward like a blood-red tidal wave.

But Yun Jiu had grown accustomed to such things. This was already the fourth wraith they’d destroyed since entering the ruins!

An Immortal King of the Church of the Pure One flew over. “High Elder, this treasure is carved with the secret glyphs of the Dragon Palace, too. It’ll be hard to use its full power without deciphering them.”

He raised a black jade scepter aloft. Its surface was covered in the strange, contorted, secret glyphs of the Dragon Palace. This was the treasure the last wraith had attached itself to.

“We need glyphs deciphered? Again?” Yun Jiu frowned. They’d destroyed four wraiths thus far, acquiring one rare and precious Great Unity Stage medicinal herb, as well as three Great Realm Treasures.

It might have seemed like an ample harvest, but the treasures were all refined by experts of the Dragon Palace, and they were thus carved with their mysterious writing. No one could control them without first deciphering the text.

“It seems that if this operation is to succeed, we need to get our hands on Li Xuanjun no matter what. Otherwise, it won’t matter how much good fortune we acquire. It’ll all have been a waste of effort,” Yun Jiu said glumly.

As he pondered, he turned and shot toward a distant stretch of ruins. Numerous figures were gathered there already.

They were from the Church of the Pure One, the Church of Supreme Oneness, the Church of Divine Flame, the Qianyuan Sword House, the Profound Blue Daoist Sect, and the Church of the Exquisite Goddess.

Every faction had a Great Martial Stage expert to oversee things, as well as a group of older-generation Immortal Kings.

Their lineup was too enormous to underestimate.

High Elder Yun Jiu of the Church of the Pure One was their leader on his expedition.

Earlier, under his leadership, they’d remained uninvolved. Their plan was to watch tigers fight from a safe distance and not get mixed up with any of the other camps’ affairs.

But now, Yun Jiu realized that they had to change their approach.

“Everyone, Li Xuanjun is the key to this operation!” Yun Jiu said gravely. “If we can’t capture him, it won’t matter how many treasures we acquire. They’ll all be useless!”

“So I’ve decided to ask the Giant Whale Spirit Race for assistance.” Yun Jiu’s eyes flashed. “No matter how well they understand the ruins, they cannot decipher their secret writing, so I’m sure they’ve run into a wall too. Based on that alone, we have a common goal. I’m sure they’ll agree to work with us.”

“But Li Xuanjun is Divine Daughter Xi Ning’s subordinate, and when we left, our founder told us that we’d best not come into conflict with the divine children, even if it meant making concessions,” said an old man in blue. He had an otherworldly air about him.

This was Xie Changque, a Great Martial Stage expert of the Church of Supreme Oneness.

Over the years, Great Realm experts like them hadn’t dared to show their faces for fear of divine misfortune. But this time, they’d braved the enormous risk and used secret treasures to obscure their auras, all for the sake of the good fortune of the Dragon Palace. In the end, they made it in, on edge but unharmed.

The other Great Martial Stage experts voiced their agreement. All of the divine children had impressive origins. No one wanted to come into conflict with them unless it was absolutely necessary.

“You needn’t worry, everyone,” Yun Jiu said calmly. “No matter how strong the divine children are, they too are threatened by the Laws here.”

He paused, then continued, “Of course, if we truly have a falling out, we needn’t fear reprisal. A mighty dragon cannot defeat a local serpent. This is the Immortal Realm, not the God Domain! The divine children aren’t in charge here!”

He spoke with staunch conviction.

The crowd exchanged glances, then nodded. This was no empty boasting. Each of them had a powerful faction behind them, and all of these factions had Great Profound Stage experts. In other words, so long as gods couldn’t enter this world, they had no need to fear the divine children. After all, the divine children weren’t gods yet!

“That aside, it seems that Qing Xiao and his cohort of divine children are at odds with Xi Ning. No, I think we can say they’re bitter enemies,” said Yun Jiu. “Should the need arise, we can simply make contact with Qing Xiao. If we can work together, all the better.”

He’d only just said this when he slipped a flashing message talisman from his sleeves. Yun Jiu inserted his divine sense, and after a moment, his expression filled with uncertainty. He sank into silence.

After a while, he let out a long breath of turbid air. “Everyone, it seems we really have no choice but to capture—or kill—this ‘Li Xuanjun!’”

“Fellow Daoist, don’t tell me something unexpected has happened?” Xie Changque couldn’t help but ask.

Yun Jiu said gravely, “I just received word from High Elder Jing Cheng of the Giant Whale Spirit Race that Li Xuanjun... is really Su Yi!”

Su Yi!!

The entire group boiled over, like a pot blowing off its lid. Uproar arose on all sides, and the looks on their faces were a sight to behold.

At the mention of Su Yi’s name, grudges both old and new flooded into their hearts, and the crowd gnashed their teeth in hatred.

The reason was simple. All six of their factions had a deep-seated, irreconcilable grudge against Su Yi!

“Su Yi actually appeared beside Divine Daughter Xi Ning under the guise of Li Xuanjun. Truly unexpected.”

“This time, we have to destroy him no matter what!!”

“If the divine children learn that he’s the heretic who controls the power of reincarnation, how could they possibly let him off?”

The crowd conversed, all of them seething with murderous intent.

When Yun Jiu saw this, he said directly, “Jing Cheng contacted us because he wants to work together. He gave me a map and said that with it, I could proceed to the place known as Buried Dragon Ridge.

“You have to pass through Buried Dragon Ridge to reach the heart of the ruins. According to Jing Cheng’s plans, we’ll place a death trap for Su Yi there and wait for our prey to fall into our lap! n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

“Everyone, if you have no objections, we can begin right away.”

The crowd exchanged glances, but in the end, all of them looked at Yun Jiu, who hesitated no further. He promptly led the group off.

Not long after they left, three figures silently appeared out of nowhere.

Su Yi, Xi Ning, and Fan Zhui.