Chapter 1040 - The Yue Family’s Storm

The entire stretch of stars fell silent.

Su Yi turned to look at the middle-aged man in Daoist robes.

Around here, they called him Old Devil Blood Owl, but this old monster had long since been scared out of his wits.

When he sensed Su Yi’s gaze, he stiffened, gulped with great difficulty, then took a deep breath. He straightened his clothes, then faced Su Yi and bowed with the utmost respect.

“Earlier, I was blind. I didn’t recognize the expert before me. Fellow Daoist, please show mercy and forgive my transgressions. I’ll be sure to turn over a new leaf and make up for my mistakes.”

Blood Owl’s modesty was solemn, and his flattery contained terror. He comported himself with the utmost humility.

There was nothing for it. He really had been scared out of his wits. The thought that he’d initially mistaken Su Yi for a fatty lamb left him completely drenched in cold sweat.

“Ol’ Bro, this seems awfully spineless of you.” Su Yi laughed. His attitude sure changed quickly. It’s hard not to cluck my tongue at him.

Blood Owl waved hurriedly, then grimaced. “Fellow Daoist, please, don’t call me that any longer. These old bones are unworthy of such respect.”

“Oh,” said Su Yi. “Alas, no matter how well you adjust your attitude, you won’t escape death today.”

It was as if Blood Owl had been struck by lightning. He cried out in terror, “I’m willing to turn over a new leaf and repent for my crimes! I’ll work for you like a dog for the rest of my life! Senior, please, spare my wretched life!”

His gaze was pleading, but Su Yi shook his head. “I gave you a chance earlier, but you didn’t treasure it. You can’t blame me for that.”

As he spoke, he approached Blood Owl.

“Don’t get any closer!” Blood Owl cried out, then shot toward the distant Yue Yunshan. “If you do, I’ll kill him!”

As his voice rang out, his momentum intensified, becoming violent and explosive. He used his full strength to unleash a forbidden secret art in an attempt to take Yue Yunshan hostage in one fell swoop.

But he was still mid-charge when a streak of sword qi as clear and ethereal as moonlight cleaved into him.

Bang!

His defensive treasures shattered with a bang, and he staggered back, repeatedly coughing up blood.

Yue Yunshan’s hair stood on end. He’d only just narrowly avoided disaster!

Blood Owl’s hair was a mess, and his expression was hideously contorted as he roared hysterically. “I never attacked you, dammit! So why must you kill me?”

This infamous old fiend was completely unwilling to accept it. He still didn’t understand. He looks like a harmless little lamb, so why is he so unreasonably strong?

“Were I any weaker, I’m afraid you would have long since skinned me alive,” Su Yi said softly.

Before his voice had even finished through the air, the humming of a sword abruptly swept out like the tide, and a streak of sword qi ran Blood Owl through.

In the last moments before his death, something suddenly occurred to him: Don’t tell me this guy… really is Su Xuanjun!?

There was no way he’d forget that when he tried to probe this fatty lamb for information, he called himself Su Xuanjun!

At the time, Blood Owl dismissed it as a ludicrous lie. He’d been pissed off, too. He figured Su Yi couldn’t even be bothered to deceive him properly. Such a blatant lie insulted his intelligence.

But now… Blood Owl… suddenly believed him!

Alas, it was already too late for regrets, and he had no more time to think. He’d only just thought this when his body exploded and his soul was extinguished.

Just like that, fourteen old monsters who’d roamed the stars and caused widespread harm were dead. Su Yi had cut them all down like chives, harvesting them with ease!

This accomplishment was enough to dazzle this entire stretch of stars, and it was sure to cause uproar when word got out.

But to Su Yi, it simply wasn’t worth mentioning. After all, these chives had yet to even enter the Profound Serenity Realm.

But off in the distance, Yue Yunshan had witnessed the entire battle, and his heart shook. Chills coursed through his entire body.

Every last one of those old devils had a lofty and profound cultivation. Furthermore, they were crafty and insidious.

Yet Su Yi had slaughtered them all in a flash!

Facing Su Yi now, Yue Yunshan felt irrepressible terror and dread.

“The jade record in this box seals pure sword intent. It looks like a peak Profound Serenity Emperor left it there. Was he the Yue Family ancestor you spoke of?” Su Yi approached and asked casually.

Yue Yunshan lowered his head; he dared not meet Su Yi’s gaze. “That’s right.”

“Why was his cenotaph left here?” asked Su Yi.

Yue Yunshan still couldn’t quite get a handle on what Su Yi was after, but he was reasonably confident that this young man of mysterious origins bore no enmity toward him.

He took a moment to calm himself, then said, “The third-generation high elder of the Yue Family left it here himself.”

Su Yi was stunned. “He built his own grave marker?”

Yue Yunshan explained, “Back then, Ancestor Jianhe decided to venture into the depths of outer space. Before he left, he placed this cenotaph here. He said that if he didn’t return within ten thousand years, his clansmen could consider it his burial ground.”

Su Yi instantly understood.

Grave peril lurked in the depths of outer space.

Yue Jianhe must have feared that he’d never return. Thus, he built his own cenotaph.

There was no doubt about it: Yue Jianhe indeed never returned. Otherwise, the cenotaph would never have re-entered the world.

“Was it you arriving to take the bronze box that caused that massive commotion?” asked Su Yi.

𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Yue Yunshan was instantly a bit uncomfortable. He said bitterly, “Your eyes are as bright as torches, and your powers of prediction are like a god’s. Indeed, I arrived here a few days ago. I just didn’t expect that the bronze box would cause such a massive commotion after I entered the ancestor’s cenotaph…”

Su Yi couldn’t help but laugh. “The power of a peak Profound Serenity Emperor really is far more than you can handle.”

He paused, then asked, “Might you tell me why you came to retrieve the box?”

After a moment’s silence, Yue Yunshan responded with another question. “Forgive my impetuousness, but might I ask why you’re so interested in this?”

Su Yi said casually, “I mentioned earlier that I was connected to this treasure by fate. I know a young woman whose sword is emblazoned with a power much like the one your ancestor left. It seems they share a common source.”

When Su Yi and Yue Shichan first met in the Great Zhou, he sensed the sword she carried on her back. It had an extremely distinctive aura, and it seemed to seal a mysterious power. This immediately attracted Su Yi’s attention.

Later on, he learned from Yue Shichan that she’d had the sword for as long as she could remember. Apparently, her father had left it for her.

The ancient sword was called Lunar Osmanthus.

As the old poem went, “the light of the moon shines down from the heavens, casting an autumnal chill over the world.”

The sword’s name was a reference to the legendary tree that grew on the moon.

Furthermore, Yue Shichan’s surname just so happened to mean “moon.” It was a perfect match.

Earlier, Su Yi sensed a familiar aura emanating from the bronze box.

Now, he finally recalled what it reminded him of. It was a perfect match for Yue Shichan’s ancient sword, Lunar Osmanthus.

That was why he took action.

When he heard that, Yue Yunshan couldn’t help but exclaim in bewilderment, “Sir, do you… perhaps know Shichan?”

Su Yi laughed. “That’s her. I just so happened to be on my way to the Profound Sky Realm to see her.”

Yue Yunshan couldn’t help but look stunned. I can’t even imagine it. How could Shichan have befriended someone so terrifying? It’s simply unbelievable!

To the best of my knowledge, she didn’t grow up in the Yue Family. Rather, her father brought her back from a mundane world called ‘the Azure Continent’ just two years ago.

And I’ve never heard anything about her knowing someone so limitlessly terrifying!

“Here, take this back.” Su Yi handed Yue Yunshan the box. “If you don’t mind, can we chat while we walk?”

Yue Yunshan took a deep breath, suppressed his confusion, and clasped his fist. “I naturally won’t refuse.”

No matter what, Su Yi had saved his life, and he’d even returned the bronze box. He was already inclined to trust Su Yi, and his taut nerves had relaxed.

But he most certainly didn’t dare be negligent, and he certainly didn’t dare treat Su Yi like a junior just because he called himself Yue Shichan’s friend.

After gathering the spoils, Su Yi and Yue Yunshan promptly set off along the Thousand Whirlpools Star Road.

They conversed along the way, and Su Yi soon learned why Yue Yunshan had come to retrieve the bronze box.

The Yu Family had run into incomparably thorny trouble. Furthermore, it involved Yue Shichan! Simply put, a year ago, Yue Shichan participated in a “discussion of the Dao” with the Profound Sky Realm’s top Demonist Faction, the Red Lotus Spirit Cult. Conflict broke out between her and one of their holy sons.

In the end, she crippled his demonic cultivation technique!

This displeased the higher-ups of the Red Lotus Spirit Cult, and they attacked her then and there. They were intent on making her pay for what she’d done.

Yue Shichan was no match for them, and she suffered grievous injuries, but in the end, she used a secret treasure to escape their encirclement.

When word reached the Yue Family, her father, the Ash Night Sword Emperor, was furious, and he personally avenged his daughter, slaying three higher-ups of the Red Lotus Cult in rapid succession.

There’d been a grudge between the Yue Family and the Red Lotus Cult ever since, and the two factions got along like fire and water.

In the end, some of the Profound Sky Realm’s old-timers mediated their conflict, and both factions decided to let matters end here.

Or so it seemed. Against all expectations, during a recent excursion, Yue Changtian fell into the Red Lotus Cult’s ambush and almost died. Although he escaped with his life in the end, his injuries were so severe that he’d gone straight into seclusion upon returning to the clan.

This incident enraged the entire Yue Family.

But disasters tended to come in packs. Not long after Yue Changtian was injured, the Red Lotus Cult announced that if the Yue Family didn’t hand Yue Changtian and Yue Shichan over for punishment, they’d have to bear the consequences.

A single stone could create a thousand ripples.

This announcement didn’t just shake the entire Profound Sky Realm. It put the entire Yue Family into a perilous situation!

And now, only three days of the allotted month remained.

Su Yi couldn’t help but arch his brow. The Profound Sky Realm’s Red Lotus Cult?

He vaguely remembered this Demonist faction. Apparently, their founder had some connection with one of the top three Demonist factions of the Wilds, Red Dust Demon Mountain.

But Su Yi didn’t remember anything else about them. There was nothing for it; the Profound Sky Realm was just one of the thirty-three subsidiary worlds surrounding the Wilds.

In his past life, Su Yi was already the sole sovereign of the Wilds. How could he possibly have concerned himself with a little Demonist faction with roots in the Profound Sky Realm?