Chapter 1781 - Adrift in the Sea of Bitterness

Boom!

The spacetime portal dissipated and disappeared completely from the dome of heaven.

The man in purple stood in the air. Even though he’d suppressed his cultivation down to the Great Martial Stage, the majestic aura emanating from him filled both heaven and earth.

The golden jade cauldron hovering before him was the most shocking of all. It was this treasure that had helped him block the turbulent spacetime power and neutralize most of the backlash from the Immortal Realm’s Laws. It was incomparably wondrous!

“Disciples Xiang Wu and Zu Yun of Floating Mountain greet you, Esteemed Divine Son!”

The distant Immortal Kings bowed, their gazes fervently pious. They’d watched as the man in purple forced his way into the Immortal Realm, and they couldn’t have been any more astonished.

The man in purple completely ignored them.

Instead, his eyes blazed like torches as he locked onto the distant Su Yi and said icily, “So, you didn’t run after all. How truly unexpected.”

He had the terrifying magnificence of an unparalleled ruler gazing down upon the four seas from on high. His entire body billowed with murderous intent, shaking the skies on all sides.

Su Yi gripped the Sword of the Human Realm and said casually, “Why should I run?”

“Aren’t you afraid to die?” asked the man in purple.

“Care to try me?” Su Yi asked calmly.

As they stared each other down, an oppressive atmosphere permeated the entire stretch of heaven and earth.

Neither of them attacked lightly. It seemed they were on guard against something. But at the same time, neither of them retreated in the slightest. They just stared each other down!

The purple-robed man’s eyes flashed. After gazing intently at Su Yi for a moment, he said, “The power the Immortal Realm knows as divine misfortune can harm this lofty one, but it can do no more.”

“Care to try me, then?” repeated Su Yi.

The man in purple frowned. He couldn’t quite see through his opponent and his paltry Saint Realm cultivation base. All he could do was temporarily suppress his murderous intent.

He said expressionlessly, “If we fight, you won’t live to converse with me any further!”

“Try me,” Su Yi repeated.

He looked calm and casual, yet he was domineering to the extreme.

The purple-robed man felt that this was an unprecedented affront to his dignity. His aura swelled like waters at high tides, and his divine majesty soared into the firmament. He was obviously just itching to do battle.

But in the end...

He didn’t attack.

When Su Yi saw this, he couldn’t help but chuckle. “You’re too afraid, aren’t you?”

Before the purple-robed man could respond, Su Yi said airily, “If you attack with too much strength, you’re sure to suffer divine misfortune. You might not be

afraid,

but you’re at the very least worried that it’ll damage your foundations in the Grand Dao. And if it does, it’ll inevitably impact your plans to become a god!”

The purple-robed man’s gaze focused. It was just as Su Yi said. The way he saw it, damaging his foundations just to kill his opponent would be stupid. It wasn’t at all worth the cost!

Su Yi sighed. “Achieving divinity is something even Great Realm experts can only dream of. So why is it that even a divine son like you has to come to the Immortal Realm to vie for an opportunity? The answer isn’t difficult to guess. Even in the God Domain, chances to prove your Dao and become a god are rare and fleeting. Were that not the case, what need would you have to force your way into the Immortal Realm?

“It’s because this opportunity is so rare and so precious that both your Divine Venerate Qing Di and the other gods have long since started making arrangements, going to great lengths to send you ‘divine children’ into the Immortal Realm to vie for a chance at achieving divinity.

“Thus, you dare not make any mistakes, and you cannot tolerate anything going wrong. The slightest misstep could affect your chances of achieving divinity.”

The man in purple said with calm disdain, “Anyone with half a brain would have been able to guess all that.”

Su Yi smiled, entirely unperturbed. “Knowing that is enough.”

He suddenly disappeared into thin air.

A heaven-shaking hum rang out, and the Sword of the Human Realm slashed at the man in purple, its edge swathed in terrifying sword force.

Sudden, quick, and tyrannical!

Irrepressible murderous intent appeared on the purple-robed man’s face as he used the golden jade cauldron to clash with this strike head-on.

In the end, although he managed to block it, the impact made him sway on his feet.

“See? You don’t dare to use your full power,” laughed Su Yi.

Kccch! Kcch! Kcch!

He swung his sword, and sword qi shot through the air like a raging storm. Every strike was full of heart-palpitating power. A Half Great like Ancestor Shen Shang would have been obliterated countless times over by now.

The man in purple didn’t get off lightly either!

He had Great Profound Stage cultivation, but even as a terrifying expert at the very pinnacle of the Great Realm, he feared the power of divine misfortune mixed into the ambient Laws. It left him no choice but to suppress his cultivation down to the Great Martial Stage.

Even that was like dancing on the edge of a knife. Even limited to the Great Martial Stage, if he attacked with full force, divine misfortune still posed a threat.

This was why he found himself in such a passive position in his fight against Su Yi! He even had no choice but to dodge repeatedly to neutralize Su Yi’s tyrannical power of the Dao of the Sword.

“Enough!” the man in purple roared in fury. He felt so stifled that he almost couldn’t take it anymore.

If he went all out, he knew that he was more than strong enough to simply squash the ant pestering him.

But he didn’t dare.

Divine misfortune had already damaged his foundations when he forced his way into the Immortal Realm.

He naturally knew that if he chased a moment’s satisfaction and went all out, he could kill his opponent, but doing so would inevitably provoke a backlash from divine misfortune! And that would in turn inevitably affect his chances of achieving divinity!

He was far from the only divine child with plans to enter the Immortal Realm. That meant the competition for opportunities to achieve divinity would be fierce and brutal.

The slightest misstep could turn into an enormous mistake!

Boom!

Su Yi attacked with renewed ferocity, completely disregarding the purple-robed man’s shout. He wasn’t at all afraid of provoking his opponent, either. Streak after streak of sword qi poured down, like the waters of the river of heaven blanketing all of creation.

He attacked relentlessly, and within just a few breaths of time, the purple-robed man was covered in wounds.

His injuries were superficial, but they only made his wretchedness all the more readily apparent!

“This....” The two Immortal Kings watching from afar, Xiang Wu and Zu Yun, were completely dumbstruck. Even if you’d hit them over the head, they would never have guessed that the esteemed divine son they viewed as a supreme monarch would seem so passive and pathetic.

“You little wretch! You’ve infuriated this lofty one. I’ll slaughter your entire clan!!” roared the man in purple. He was so angry that his lungs seemed like they might explode.

How could I have been so unlucky?

I’ve only just descended into the Immortal Realm, but Bai Liu is already dead, and I even suffered a backlash from divine misfortune, leaving me no choice but to suppress my cultivation base. And now, a mere Immortal Lord has forced me to dodge! It’s pathetic!

That stifling sensation repeatedly filled him with the urge to throw all caution to the wind and attack in full force.

But in the end... he endured!

Losing control now would only ruin his plans. He couldn’t bear to see any unforeseen twists and turns affect his chances of becoming a god.

“Take this!”

Suddenly, Su Yi shot over, drawing on the Sword of the Nine Hells once more. His wrists shifted, and he swung the Sword of the Human Realm furiously.

Heaven and earth abruptly descended into darkness. Visions of the Six Paths of Reincarnation floated into view, and all of creation seemed as if it had been plunged into the cycle of reincarnation.

A Moment of Silence!

But this attack’s power was more than twice as strong as before!

The purple-robed man’s pupils constricted.

Reincarnation!?

He dared not hesitate in the slightest. He poured everything he had into the cauldron and blocked with all his might.

Clang!!!

A rain of light scattered. Sword qi swept outward.

A heaven-shaking impact rang out, and both man and cauldron were sent flying back. The divine son’s clothes tore, revealing skin torn open by sword qi. Fresh blood splattered the air.

The golden cauldron buzzed and shook, and it almost flew uncontrollably from its wielder’s hands!

But Su Yi frowned.

That attack still wasn’t enough to suppress his opponent. The divine son’s wounds weren’t even particularly serious.

Ultimately, the divine son wasn’t a Great Martial Stage expert. He was a Great Profound expert who’d suppressed his cultivation base!

“No wonder you’re so fearless. So, you’re the one the gods are trying to kill!” The purple-robed man’s gaze was terrifyingly sinister.

This was no emissary of the Exquisite Goddess. This was the heretic who’d mastered the power of reincarnation!

“You only just realized that? It’s too late!” shouted Su Yi. All the while, he never stopped his attacks. He leaped into the air and swung his sword once more.

Weng!

The Sword of the Human Realm’s ink-black edge shone with the dark luster of an eternal night. Its blade quivered, and a sound like the rumbling of the tides rang out.

Instantly, a stretch of the turbid waters of the Sea of Bitterness was reflected over the landscape. It was vast, grand, and seemingly without limit.

Countless lifeforms struggled amidst its waters, only to disappear.

They said that the Sea of Bitterness was without end, and that you had to turn your head to see the shore.

But this Sea of Bitterness was truly boundless. What shore was there to be found?

Power that shook heaven and earth swept outward. The power of oblivion seemed intent on annihilating the world. It wanted to drag everything into the eternal oblivion of the Sea of Bitterness!

This strike was even more terrifying than a Moment of Silence. The Sea of Bitterness was like a cage sealing everything between heaven and earth. There was nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

This strike was called Adrift in the Sea of Bitterness!

During Su Yi’s recent thirty years of seclusion in the Spring and Autumn Space, he combed through his legacies of the Dao of the Sword and fused the mysteries of reincarnation into his swordsmanship. Thus, he created this supremely powerful attack!

If a Moment of Silence seized victory through sheer speed, then Adrift in the Sea of Bitterness was like a cage or restrictive force!

When fused with the aura of the Sword of the Nine Hells, this attack displayed taboo and mysterious power so intense that the Kunwu Hidden Realm cracked like porcelain. It wouldn’t be long before it shattered!

This taboo, terrifying power made Xiang Wu and Zu Yun’s hair stand on end. Both of them paled.

The purple-robed man completely freaked out, too. He had a strong premonition that if he tried to block this attack with Great Martial Stage power, it wouldn’t end well for him!

“Activate!” The purple-robed man bellowed, and the golden jade tripod erupted with the golden power of the Laws, like a golden son rising above the Sea of Bitterness.

𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Kaboom!!

Heaven and earth swayed.

The entire Kunwu Hidden Realm split and collapsed with a bang.

Within the boundless Sea of Bitterness, the man in purple let out a muffled grunt. Throughout his body, his skin split.

But it was also then that, with the golden tripod cauldron’s protection, he cleaved through the sky, tore open a corner of the Sea of Bitterness, and escaped!