Chapter 1048 - The Levitating Sword Hall

Parasol Tree City, Phoenix Perch Mountain.

It was early in the morning, and the light of the heavens was soft and gentle as it bathed the ten-thousand-foot Phoenix Perch Mountain in its warm glow. It gave the entire mountain the air of a blessed ground, and it lent the place an additional holiness and dignity.

A path lined on both sides with ancient parasol trees wound up the mountainside. Starting about halfway up the mountain, the slopes were covered in halls and pavilions.

That was the site of Profound Sky Academy!

When Su Yi’s sunlit figure leisurely strolled over from afar, he sensed something, and abruptly stopped in his tracks.

The students of Profound Sky Academy were in the habit of reading in the morning.

Every day, when dawn broke, a bell rang, and the sounds of people reading out loud would drift down the mountainside.

The students were all cultivators of the Confucianist path, and they clustered in groups to read classic texts together. Historically, these gatherings resulted in all manner of magnificent phenomena.

Like all-encompassing auspicious light, the descent of divine radiance, flocks of a hundred birds paying homage to the scholars.

These sights weren’t found anywhere else in Parasol Tree City.

But now, the sound of students reading classics aloud was nowhere to be found. The academy seemed extraordinarily still and silent.

Furthermore, Su Yi could tell at a glance that the formation covering Phoenix Perch Mountain was silently circulating, preventing any sound from reaching the outside world.

“What’s going on?” exclaimed Su Yi.

He remembered coming here in his past life. Then, the old glutton, that Confucianist of simply terrifying seniority, had bragged that the sounds of scholarship hadn’t stopped even once in tens of thousands of years!

Yet this morning, he couldn’t hear anyone studying at all!

Furthermore, the foot of Phoenix Perch Mountain was typically lively. Numerous cultivators came here because of the academy’s reputation. Their goal was to listen to the sounds of scholarship in the wee hours of the morning.

Yet now, the entire area was deserted. There was no one in sight!

Su Yi thought for a moment, and he was just about to proceed toward Phoenix Perch Mountain when someone called out.

“Didn’t you hear, little fellow? Starting last night, outsiders are forbidden from approaching Phoenix Perch Mountain.” A man in black emerged from the distant mountain gates. His face was cold and handsome, and he held his sword to his chest as he gazed coolly at Su Yi. “If you don’t want to die, hurry up and scram.”

Su Yi’s eyebrows rose. He noticed the apricot-yellow, sword-shaped jade pendant hanging from the man’s waist. It was carved with swirling, misty clouds.

A member of the Levitating Sword Hall!

Su Yi instantly realized their origins, and his brow furrowed slightly.

The Levitating Sword Hall was one of the Wilds’ Six Great Daoist Sects alongside the Divine Blue Lightning Sect, Dragon Tiger Dao Mountain, Holy Peak Sword Court, Profound Yellow Sword Pavilion, and Nine-Star Sword Mountain.

And Su Yi knew that all of the Six Great Daoist Sects had long since joined Pi Mo’s Abstruse Force Alliance!

Thinking back to five hundred years ago, just prior to his reincarnation, he personally witnessed the experts of the Levitating Sword Hall fight their way into the Grotto of Abstruse Force under Pi Mo’s leadership.

The old-timers had come to seize his treasures, but they went so far as to spout lies about how he owed them eight hundred and ninety-three lives, and they accused him of stealing their supreme Daoist canon, the Ten Directions Sword Sutra.

They said that they were invading to demand what they were rightfully owed.

At the time, Su Yi had been flabbergasted.

Because the Levitating Sword Hall was originally just a small, unknown faction. Its founder was just one of his thirty-six honorary disciples.

It was thanks to Su Xuanjun’s protection and prestige that the Levitating Sword Hall gradually rose to prominence, becoming one of the Wilds’ Six Great Daoist Sects.

But five hundred years ago, they’d used repayment of imagined debts as a pretense to invade under Pi Mo’s leadership, kill their way into the Grotto of Abstruse Force, and loot the place!

Su Yi still wouldn’t have expected to see members of the Levitating Sword Hall here on Phoenix Perch Mountain. After all, this was the Profound Sky Realm, while the Levitating Sword Hall was based in the Wilds. They were quite far away, too.

“What are you just standing there for? Scared stupid? Scram!” When the man in black saw that Su Yi had yet to move, he was a bit displeased, and he called out a rebuke.

But against all expectations, the young man in blue wasn’t scared away. No, he was actually drawing closer!

The man in black instantly lost patience. He gripped his sword and attacked Su Yi from afar.

Whoosh!

Sword light flashed like lightning, and sword qi arced through the air.

It was just a casual slash, but it effortlessly tore through the sky. The light of its edge seemed unstoppable.

But Su Yi didn’t even look at it. He just continued ahead, entirely unperturbed.

When the sword qi got within three feet of him, it popped like a soap bubble.

The black-robed man’s expression changed abruptly. “You…”

But before he could finish, Su Yi arrived before him, extended his right hand, and effortlessly grabbed the man in black by the throat.

Crunch!

The black-robed man’s neck snapped, and his head hung limply from his shoulders.

Su Yi then casually extracted his soul and started searching it.

A little while later, Su Yi understood.

Last night, a group of Levitating Sword Hall experts arrived in Phoenix Perch Mountain’s Profound Sky Academy.

According to the black-robed man’s memories, they came to Profound Sky Academy to take away a mysterious treasure.

In order to achieve this goal, they mobilized one of their high elders, the Profound Serenity Realm Wang Tianyun, as well as four Profound Illumination Emperors and ten Spiritual Revolution cultivators.

Their ranks also included a mysterious member of the Abstruse Force Alliance. They called him Elder Feng.

Starting last night, Profound Sky Academy had been thoroughly sealed off! But the man in black had no idea what had happened inside since.

He was just the Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivator responsible for watching over the gates at the foot of the mountain.

I’m afraid the old glutton has long since left Profound Sky Academy, Su Yi sighed to himself.

Were the old glutton around, how could he possibly have let the Levitating Sword Hall seal off Phoenix Perch Mountain?

No wonder I didn’t hear anyone reading early in the morning, and no wonder this place is so deserted…

Su Yi sighed.

The old glutton wasn’t here, which meant he’d effectively come all this way for nothing. There was no way he’d learn anything about his second disciple’s whereabouts.

Su Yi found this quite disappointing.

But he didn’t just leave. Instead, he passed through the gates and followed the path lined with parasol trees up the mountain.

There was obviously something fishy about the Levitating Sword Hall’s operation targeting Profound Sky Academy. It seemed highly likely that Pi Mo was involved.

Especially because one of the people on this expedition, the mysterious Elder Feng, was from the Abstruse Force Alliance!

Halfway up the mountain, the doors of Profound Sky Academy were tightly shut, and everything was silent.

Something really is amiss. Su Yi stood with his hands behind his back. After a cursory examination, he sensed that something was fishy here.

All of Profound Sky Academy was shrouded in the power of a formation, as if it were covered in a heavy, invisible curtain.

From the outside, you couldn’t sense the slightest disturbance.

But that was just because the academy’s interior was sealed within the formation and completely isolated from the outside world!

This was Profound Sky Academy’s territory, and it was the Profound Sky Realm’s top Confucianist faction. Phoenix Perch Mountain was covered in all manner of ancient formations.

Yet now, a mysterious formation had enveloped it completely!

There was no doubt about it: Levitating Sword Hall had come prepared, and they’d gone so far as to seal off Profound Sky Academy, all for the sake of achieving their goal!

“Stop right there! Who are you?” An icy voice rang out, and a group appeared in the distance and shot toward Su Yi.

The leader was a man in purple robes. He emanated the distinctive aura of the Profound Illumination Realm, and he was billowing with imposing murderous intent.

Four Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivators accompanied him.

Were most people to see this, they’d suspect they’d come to the wrong place. After all, Phoenix Perch Mountain was the site of Profound Sky Academy, yet a group of Levitating Sword Hall cultivators were on patrol!

Su Yi wasn’t sure what had happened in the academy, but he dared say with certainty that things weren’t going well.

Otherwise, that mysterious formation couldn’t have enveloped the academy this entire time.

“Capture him first! We can interrogate him later!” The leader, the man in purple, bellowed and charged.

Su Yi didn’t waste time talking. He swung his sleeves.

Boom!

Misty light surged, and divine radiance rumbled.

The four Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivators couldn’t even fight back before they died on the spot, their souls dispersed.

And the man in purple was locked in place, skull broken and bleeding. Many of his bones snapped, and he cried out in agony.

“Who are you? Why are you interfering with the Levitating Sword Hall’s affairs?”

Alarm and dread were written all over the purple-robed man’s face. He couldn’t even imagine how a teenager could be so unbelievably strong.

Su Yi walked up, stretched out his hand, and extracted the man’s soul.

He was just about to search it when, unexpectedly, he saw that it was covered in a secret spell. When touched, the man’s soul would self-destruct.

“If you have questions, you can ask me, but if you search my soul, there’s no way you’ll get what you’re after.” The purple-robed man’s soul cried out. Su Yi’s tyrannical methods had scared him out of his wits.

He couldn’t even imagine how such an unmatched, ruthless character had appeared on the Profound Sky Realm. One word out of turn, and he was ready to search his soul. His sheer domineeringness was enough to make one tremble.

“I can’t delay any longer,” Su Yi said softly.

The man in purple robes shuddered from head to toe. “What do you mean?”

Bang!

Before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, his soul exploded into bits.

In the last moment before his death, he was completely bewildered. Didn’t you want to ask me questions!?

Why kill me?

Su Yi paid this no heed. He rose into the air, the depths of his gaze shining with profound and unfathomable golden light as he started sensing and comprehending the power of the mysterious formation.

A little while later, his eyebrows rose. This formation is actually quite wondrous. It’s enough to trap even Profound Serenity Emperors!

A formation like this would be enough to protect the base of a peak faction!

But now, they’re using it simply to seal Sky Profound Academy. It’s obvious that the Levitating Sword Hall has come thoroughly prepared.

But this formation was no trouble to Su Yi. He shifted on his feet and shot toward Profound Sky Academy.

Weng!

The moment he drew near, a mysterious energy fluctuation surged forth, emanating terrifying, destructive power.

“Quick!”

But a moment later, Su Yi blurred into a streak of flowing light and effortlessly cleaved through the formation’s energy fluctuations, slipping silently into the formation.

Whoosh!

He was extraordinarily quick, and it was as if he were walking on flat ground. To him, that formation capable of trapping and killing even Profound Serenity Emperors might as well have not existed.

Just a few blinks of the eye later, Su Yi slipped past that mysterious formation without incident, arriving at Profound Sky Academy!

The scene in front of him, however, made his pupils instantly constrict.

It was a scene of incomparable carnage.