Chapter 1804 - A Hidden Realm of the Grand Dao, I Control Its Size at Will

“Compress!”

Su Yi was still in midair when he stretched out his hand and grabbed.

Boom!

Resplendent Immortal Laws condensed into a Dao Sword, and when Su Yi shifted his wrist, the sword slashed through the air like an arc of divine light, slamming into the old woman’s palm strike.

The two clashed, and his sword qi collapsed and broke, inch by inch.

But the old woman’s palm strike was blocked and neutralized too!

Boom!

The sky was thrown into turmoil at the point of impact, and the surrounding waters were thrown into upheaval. Fierce winds raged past. It was an apocalyptic vision.

Su Yi swayed on his feet and staggered several dozen feet back. Despite himself, his eyebrows rose.

The old woman’s strength was far beyond an ordinary Great Unity Stage expert. She was most likely a top expert of her level!

The old woman was stunned. She’d already undone her seal, and she was no longer suppressing her cultivation base. Her Great Unity Stage cultivation base was on full display.

Who’d have thought she

still

couldn’t take her opponent down in a single strike?

“Die!”

As if they'd discussed it before, Su Yi and the old woman attacked once more, at the exact same time.

The former used his Immortal King Laws to condense a Dao Sword. His sleeves billowed in the air as his slashes flew through the sky. Every attack that landed was full of boundless, tyrannical force.

The latter had her Great Unity Stage power of the Grand Dao on full display. Every movement erupted with enough force to crush heaven and earth.

The entire stretch of ocean was instantly in turmoil. The sound of the Grand Dao rumbled and boomed, and divine radiance scattered in all directions.

But it was clear that the old woman was gradually seizing the advantage and slowly but surely suppressing Su Yi.

Her Great Unity Stage Laws manifested a glittering silver wheel of light that bore down on the skies, shattering them in all directions. Its momentum alone was enough to crush most Immortal Kings.

Not even Great Martial Stage experts could have defended themselves!

But Su Yi was different. Even in the face of the old woman’s terrifying pressure, he didn’t retreat. On the contrary, he leaped into the fray, his sword qi piercing the nine heavens and the ten earths!

Admittedly, his offensive was repeatedly neutralized, and he was thoroughly suppressed, but this only intensified his will to fight.

The more he fought, the fiercer he became!

“Is he... seriously an Immortal King?” Qin Jianshu was visibly flabbergasted. His expression was full of disbelief.

He was from the God Domain, and he was a full-fledged Great Profound Stage cultivator. His knowledge and breadth of experience were far beyond the inhabitants of the Immortal Realm.

Despite this, he’d never heard of an Immortal King capable of clashing with Great Unity Stage experts!

There’s something seriously suspicious about him! I’m sure he’s hiding his real cultivation base. If not, there’s no way he could be pulling this off!

Qin Jianshu gnashed his teeth. He knew that certain wondrous treasures and secret abilities could obscure one’s aura and hide one’s true cultivation.

The way he saw it, Su Yi had to be some unparalleled figure pretending to be an Immortal King. His true cultivation was surely in the Great Realm!

But why would Li Xuanjun hide his cultivation base? Just what is he after?

Qin Jianshu’s expression filled with uncertainty.

Don’t tell me Xi Ning arranged all of this?

Bang!!

Su Yi was sent flying backward.

Immediately afterward, the enormous silver wheel of light bore down on him, giving him no time to catch his breath.

But then, Su Yi circulated the power of the Tree of All Worlds and vanished into thin air. The old woman’s “surefire hit” missed him completely!

She gnashed her teeth in fury.

Su Yi had used this unbelievable instantaneous movement technique several times since the battle began, letting him dodge all of her killer moves just in the nick of time.

The old woman couldn’t help but feel as if he were leading her around by the nose. It was deeply frustrating.

Boom!

Sword qi swept forth like the tide as Su Yi attacked once more, quick as a beam of light.

His will to fight blazed, fierce and unrestrained, yet he was completely clear-headed and focused. His essence, qi, and spirit were completely fused into his Dao of the Sword.

He could have avoided this battle completely. The power of the Tree of All Worlds would have been enough to escape this place unharmed, avoiding the danger altogether.

After all, even though he’d become an Immortal King, the gap between his cultivation and the old woman’s was enormous. No, there was no comparing them.

Immortal Kings and Great Realm experts were on starkly different playing fields. Great Realm experts stood at the pinnacle of the Immortal Dao. How could anyone beneath that level compare?

But Su Yi never once retreated.

This wasn’t pride, nor did he overestimate himself. No, this was confidence originating from his unique and unprecedented accumulations in the Grand Dao!

What did a Great Unity Stage expert amount to? It wasn’t like he hadn’t killed them before in his past lives.

Now, he wanted to test himself and see if he could slaughter a Great Unity Stage expert as an Immortal King!

Su Yi swung his sword like mad. Glittering sword qi ran rampant, flying throughout heaven and earth and mincing the air. The dome of heaven trembled.

Gazing at him from a distance, it seemed obvious that he was just an Immortal King, yet he was slowly but surely starting to hold his own with the old woman!

This left her both shocked and furious.

She could clearly sense that Su Yi’s will to fight, momentum, and swordsmanship were only getting stronger! The longer the battle dragged on, the more valiantly he fought!

His attainments in the Dao of the Sword were particularly unbelievable. Even she, a Great Unity Stage expert, felt her heart quiver at the sight of them!

“I cannot hesitate any longer!” The old woman gnashed her teeth, stretched out her hand, and tapped the air.

“Activate!” Heaven and earth transformed, and a grand, overcast Grand Dao Hidden Realm appeared.

Countless circles of light hung in the air within this hidden realm, like glowing full moons. There were so many of them that they blotted out the sky. The ground, meanwhile, was an endless sea of blood.

Countless fiends floated within the blood-red waters.

Grand Dao Hidden Realms were different from Immortal Kings’ Dao Domains. They were created entirely out of Great Unity Stage cultivators’ Laws of the Grand Dao, yet they could connect with the power of the Laws around them. This made these hidden realms seem tangible and real.

The Great Unity Stage expert in charge of the Grand Dao Hidden Realm was thus the arbiter and executor of heaven’s will within its bounds!

When judging a Great Unity Stage expert’s abilities, their mastery of their Grand Dao Hidden Realm was first and foremost. The stronger it was, the stronger they were.

The old woman’s Grand Dao Hidden Realm was called the Purgatory of the Silver Wheel. It was condensed out of nine supreme Laws of the Grand Dao. It was absolutely top-class!

As soon as this Grand Dao Hidden Realm appeared, it trapped Su Yi inside.

“He cannot possibly escape now!” Off in the distance, Qin Jianshu relaxed considerably.

He knew how powerful the Purgatory of the Silver Wheel was. It was a first-rate Grand Dao Hidden Realm even among Great Unity Stage experts.

Furthermore, when the old woman created it, she did so with the personal guidance of a god. It was no exaggeration to say that even experts of the same realm would be doomed if trapped inside!

Meanwhile, within the Purgatory of the Silver Wheel, Su Yi furrowed his brow.

That old woman really isn’t comparable to ordinary Great Unity Stage experts.

There was great variation among xperts of the Great Unity Stage. Naturally, those yet to condense Grand Dao Hidden Realms were the weakest.

After condensing a Grand Dao Hidden Realm, experts were divided into levels based on their quality: third-rate, second-rate, first-rate, and top-class.

The old woman was somewhere between first-rate and top-class. Her Grand Dao Hidden Realm was condensed out of numerous supreme Laws of the Immortal Dao. It was self-contained yet capable of connecting with the Laws of the world beyond it to support itself.

But she wasn’t truly a peak expert of her level because she’d yet to temper her Grand Dao Hidden Realm to perfection.

What was “perfection?”

The answer was simple. It meant controlling the size of one’s Grand Dao Hidden Realm at will! Such experts could make their Grand Dao Hidden Realms immeasurably enormous or shrink them down to the size of a Daoist seal!

At their largest, they were boundlessly vast independent planes. At their smallest, they were like grains of sand.

It was like the Buddhist saying: A world is hidden in every grain of sand, a bodhisattva in every leaf.

True top Great Unity Stage experts could throw punches imbued with the power of their Grand Dao Hidden Realms, sealing everything on all sides! The place where they stood was their territory, their Grand Dao Hidden Realm. There, everything was under their control.

Only such power was truly considered “peak.”

The old woman’s Purgatory of the Silver Wheel already showed signs of that level of control, but she wasn’t quite there yet, so she wasn’t exactly a peak expert within her level.

Still, she was far beyond most “first-rate” experts.

Su Yi would never have guessed that he’d find himself up against a first-rate, almost peak Great Unity Stage expert so shortly after becoming an Immortal King. This was his first battle as a Miracle Realm cultivator!

He now knew he had almost no hope of killing her.

“Why not run, Li Xuanjun?”

The old woman appeared out of nowhere within the Purgatory of the Silver Moon. There was no disguising the dense murderous intent in her gaze.

“If I wanted to flee, a paltry little hidden realm like this couldn’t stop me,” Su Yi said calmly.

“Shameless boasting!” The old woman let out a hideous laugh and attacked directly.

Boom!

The Purgatory of the Silver Moon churned, and its countless full moons swayed, stirring up dazzling silver light. They swept through the sky and descended upon Su Yi.

The endless sea of blood below rumbled and boomed. Countless demonic figures shot out of the waves, teeth bared and claws dancing about as they swarmed at Su Yi from all sides.

It was as if the whole world were targeting Su Yi at once, and as if the old woman ruled all of creation!

A powerful sense of impending danger washed over Su Yi. He could sense the risk of impending death!

He didn’t even need to think to know that if he relied purely on his own strength and refused to use his hidden cards, he’d have no way of contending with a Grand Dao Hidden Realm of this level!

In the end, Su Yi resisted the urge to draw on the Sword of the Nine Hells.

The Sword of the Nine Hells could likely resolve the crisis at hand, but using it would reveal his identity. It was better to refrain.

However... that didn’t mean Su Yi couldn’t resolve this.

Without any further hesitation, he focused inward. The Tree of All Worlds swayed in Su Yi’s body, and its chaos aura rumbled and boomed.

At the same time, Su Yi stretched out his hand and ripped the air apart in front of him. The sky tore like canvas, and a rift appeared.

Su Yi then stepped through it and vanished from the old woman’s Purgatory of the Silver Moon.

This was the Tree of All Worlds’ divine ability——Breaking Barriers! It could sever the barriers between worlds and shuttle between them freely! This was a taboo spatial divine ability! It could tear through even the Grand Dao Hidden Realms of Great Unity Stage cultivators!

“How is this possible!?” The old woman’s eyes practically popped out of their sockets, and her mind went blank.

𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

This Grand Dao Hidden Realm was condensed out of her power of the Laws and entirely under her control. It even drew upon the power of her surroundings. Even other Great Unity experts would have struggled to escape.

Yet now, an Immortal King had broken free with ease!

This was far, far too out of the ordinary. It completely overturned her perception of reality. How could anyone possibly accept such a thing?