Chapter 1355 - The Samsara Domain

Having trump cards and not using them was completely different from not having them at all.

Su Yi naturally had cards up his sleeves.

But both in his past lives and in his present incarnation, he typically disdained borrowing external power. This was the bone-deep pride of a sword cultivator.

But his distaste for external power didn’t mean he’d stubbornly throw away his life just to avoid using it. When his opponent was using their killer weapons, he had to give them a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye.

In short, he had to respond with his own trump cards.

And Su Yi had never been afraid of that!

Boom!

It was as if heaven and earth were splitting.

When a full six treasures of the Immortal Dao descended upon Su Yi with enough force to destroy all of creation, all the crowd saw was a burst of dazzling light.

At the same time, Su Yi swung his sword.

A mysterious, inscrutable aura surged around the deep blue blade of the Sword of the Human Realm.

It was ancient, dense, boundless, and immeasurable, as indescribable as chaos, with an unsurpassed majesty capable of making even the heavens themselves tremble.

This was the aura of the Sword of the Nine Hells!

Su Yi hadn’t drawn on this power since he first proved his Dao and became a World King.

Now that he tried it with his Cosmic Enlightenment Realm cultivation base, he discovered that he could effortlessly wield a portion of its power!

Although it was just a tiny portion, not even ten percent of the sword’s power, it brought Su Yi an unprecedented sensation.

It seemed like a force beyond the bounds of this world. It was an unsurpassed, supreme power that leaped past the cage of the heavens!

It felt as if, so long as he wished it, neither heaven nor earth could stop his sword. Even a sky full of gods and Buddhas would disappear in a puff of smoke!

Clang!

The hum of a sword shook the heavens as Su Yi attacked, clashing with the six descending Immortal Dao treasures at once.

A dazzling energy current swept through heaven and earth. It was as if a dazzling sun had filled up half the skies and an aura of destruction were sweeping outward with this sun at its center.

A long time passed before the dazzling light filling the skies gradually faded, and the fierce waves of energy smoothed out.

“Is it over?”

Numerous people looked over.

Were this all-encompassing power of destruction to strike them, any Transcendent of the present day would be badly injured, and that was assuming they even lived through it. How could Su Yi possibly have blocked it?

“It’s a pity. In this battle, our Illusory Sword Immortal Tower lost nine Transcendents. Still, if we can capture Su Yi, these casualties will have been worth it,” someone whispered.

“What do we do if he dies?” someone said with concern.

“We’ll just have to gather his corpse and belongings, then use a secret art to draw out the power therein. With our abilities, we should be able to grasp the aura of reincarnation!” someone said with cold cruelty.

He’d only just said this when the crowd sensed something, and their expressions shifted dramatically. All of them stared into the distance, eyes wide and jaws slack, as if they’d seen a ghost.

There, amidst the turbulent, ruined skies, a figure stood, proud and upright. Sword intent rose and fell in waves around him, and although his blue robes were tattered and stained red, his back was as straight as his sword. He was like an eternal immortal or deity gazing down upon heaven and earth!

The entire area fell deathly silent. Everyone was astonished.

Su Yi!

He was actually still alive!

Chills coursed through the Transcendents’ hearts. They felt as if they’d been plunged into an endless abyss.

Su Yi wasn’t just still alive. He had not one scratch more than before, and his gaze was not one shred less contemptuous. His aura was just as strong as before the clash!

The crowd’s minds went blank.

Six Dao Integration Revenants had unleashed their killer moves at once. Power like that could have threatened any Transcendent of the present day.

Yet Su Yi had blocked it!

“This is impossible... Impossible...”

The Transcendents’ hands and feet quivered. They weren’t willing to believe it.

“How is he still alive? Not even a Cloud Soaring Transcendent would have dared take the destructive power in that joint attack head-on. How did he pull that off?” someone said, his expression unsightly and alternating between rage and alarm.

“We have trump cards, but... did you expect him not to have some of his own?” someone said bitterly.

There was no need to even think to know that, no matter how terrifying Su Yi’s cultivation base was, he was far from comparable to a Cloud Soaring Transcendent Monarch!

He’d survived without a hair out of place. That naturally implied that he’d used some mighty and unbelievable trump card.

“Got anything else up your sleeves? If so, go ahead and show me,” said Su Yi, caressing the flat of the Sword of the Human Realm.

The entire area fell deathly silent. His survival came as a massive blow to the Dao Integration revenants’ will to fight.

In a contest of strength, they weren’t a match for him.

But their trump cards were useless against him too.

How could they fight like this?

“Retreat!”

The black-robed middle-aged man from the Hidden Skies Immortal Sect was the most decisive of the bunch. He let out a low bellow, then turned and fled.

One word, and the others reacted as if awakening from a dream. The other Transcendents dared not linger either. All of them chose to give up and flee.

When Su Yi saw this, he laughed dryly, and his gaze was distant and cold.

“Now that I’ve revealed all my cards, if I let you escape with your lives, won’t it make me seem inept?”

He’d only just said this when his sleeves billowed around him, and he attacked.

Clang!

He raised his right hand into the air, and ripples spread from the Sword of the Human Realm, forming an illusion of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

When Su Yi used the power of the Sword of the Nine Hells to circulate the power of reincarnation, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

Heaven and earth trembled on all sides as if about to collapse.

The bright midday skies darkened, as if a curtain of eternal night had descended upon them.

The Reincarnation Pool, the Platform of Rebirth, the Path of the Far Shore, the Sea of Bitterness, the dusky light of the End, the Tree of the Ten Thousand Worlds of Samsara, and other visions floated within this dimly lit domain.

“What is this?”

The fleeing Transcendents stopped in their tracks. All of them were unsettled.

They looked around and saw themselves in a dim world manifested entirely out of the Laws of Reincarnation. There was no longer any exit to be found.

Inscrutable profound light rose from the enormous Reincarnation Pool. Countless visions of birth and death appeared reflected over the Platform of Rebirth. The Path to the Far Shore was paved entirely out of fiery red flowers that flickered like torches, and it led into the endless darkness...

The Sea of Bitterness was boundlessly vast. Countless bones rose and fell within its waters, never to be reborn and never to find release.

There was a ground enveloped in the dim yellow light reminiscent of the apocalypse. Only silence and emptiness remained. The air was permeated with the eternal stillness of death.

The Tree of the Ten Thousand Worlds of Samsara swayed, and countless visions like portals to other worlds flickered on its branches....

Both the revenants of ancient orthodoxies and the new Transcendents of the present day were terrified and ill at ease. Their souls practically left their bodies.

We’re... trapped within the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation!?

Even Su Yi was seeing this for the first time, and he couldn’t help but be surprised.

By using the Sword of the Nine Hells to circulate the power of reincarnation, I actually created this world of the Six Paths? Unbelievable!

My past incarnations never grasped the power of reincarnation, but they still used the Sword of the Nine Hells to reincarnate. Does that mean that the Sword of the Nine Hells has its own unique power of reincarnation? Is that why it produced this Samsara Domain when I used it as a conduit for the Laws of Reincarnation?

“Run! Hurry up and flee!”

A terrified shriek arose within the dim landscape.

“There’s no way out. Where can we run?” someone else said with despair.

It was true. This stretch of heaven and earth seemed to have fallen into the endless cycle of reincarnation. There was no way out!

“Temple Master, I admit defeat! Please, show mercy!” Zhong Tianquan’s face was deathly pale, and he cried out in panic, “I guarantee that the Zhong Family will never oppose you again!!!”

The Transcendents were all frantic.

Meanwhile——

An explosive shout emanated from afar. “Temple Master, how about you take a step back just this once? Let them go, and we’ll leave immediately!”

The voice echoed through the air, but Zhong Tianquan and the others couldn’t see the outside world at all. All they knew was that someone had come to their aid!

Their spirits soared as they saw the light of hope once more.

Su Yi, meanwhile, saw a group of terrifying figures approach outside of the dim World of Reincarnation.

There were around a dozen of them, a mix of men and women. Each carried a treasure that obscured their presence.

Fu Dongli and the Obscuring Heavens Umbrella stood among them.

Him aside, Su Yi saw Li Zhong, the Mountain-Overturning Yao Monarch who’d pledged his service to Mo Qingchou.

The other faces were unfamiliar, but their statuses were surely not one whit inferior to Li Zhong and Fu Dongli’s!

But even after his group appeared, they stopped outside the Samsara Domain, not daring to draw near. Dread was written all over their faces.

Su Yi laughed. “You could have shown up earlier, but now that these people are about to die, you’ve appeared out of nowhere. Don’t you find yourselves ridiculous?”

“Su Yi, you ought to celebrate. Had we attacked earlier, you would never have lasted this long!” said a short, bony old man, his face ashen and seething with murderous intent.

He had a sword case on his back, and he held a fiery red gourd that supported a curtain of the light of the Grand Dao. It wrapped around his entire body with terrifying momentum.

“Oh?” said Su Yi. “Are you from the Illusory Sword Immortal Tower?”

The thin old man didn’t hide it. “That’s right! Stay your hand now, and today’s matter will end here. Otherwise...”

He’d only just said this when Su Yi tapped the air with the Sword of the Human Realm.

Bang!

Within that dimly lit Samsara Domain, the white-robed old man of Illusory Sword Immortal Tower exploded, his soul destroyed.

This scene left the other trapped Transcendents in a complete panic. Their courage completely broke.

They really were no different from caged beasts, helpless as they waited to be slaughtered. Trapped within the cycle of reincarnation, they couldn’t sense the outside world at all, let alone find a way out.

Su Yi glanced at the thin old man and asked, “The other experts of Illusory Sword Immortal Tower are already dead. Do you have anything else to say?”

“You...” the thin old man’s eyes bulged in fury. His murderous intent exploded around him.

“Don’t be so arrogant, Su Yi! If you rush to kill them all, I can assure you that the world to come will have no place for you!” said Fu Dongli coldly. “If you know what’s good for you, take a step back and let those people go! If you do, we’re willing to let this end here. If you refuse, this will be the day you die!”

He seemed incomparably confident.

Su Yi swept his gaze over the group. “Do you all feel the same way?”

“Of course!” several of them said without so much as pausing to think.

Only Li Zhong hesitated, then sighed. “Forget it. This old man won’t get mixed up in these muddy waters.”

With that, he silently moved further away.

The others frowned, but none of them said anything.

Su Yi took this in, then laughed. “I’m actually quite eager to see what qualifies you to boast like that.”

With that, he raised and swung the Sword of the Human Realm.

Boom!

The dimly lit Samsara Domain rumbled, boomed, and shattered with a bang.

The dozens of Transcendents still trapped inside died before they even knew what was happening.

Not even ashes remained!