Chapter 1946: Like an Old Married Couple

Su Yi approached from afar.

Luo Tiandu said immediately, “Shall we fight?”

His eyes glinted like sharp swords as he stared at Su Yi with an irrepressible will to fight. This unparalleled divine son of the god domain had his all-encompassing majesty on full display, and it was an imposing sight.

Xi Ning’s brow furrowed slightly.

Su Yi looked Luo Tiandu up and down, then said, “Sure.”

The atmosphere was instantly hostile and tense. Xi Ning hadn’t anticipated that Luo Tiandu would challenge Su Yi the moment he arrived, and she instantly felt a headache coming on.

Why was this necessary? What good will it do you?

The sky was thrown into disarray as the light of the Laws erupted around Luo Tiandu. Dazzling firelight interwove into a grand and mysterious totem. Within it, a flying serpent danced through the air, lightning flashes, and thunder boomed.

This was Luo Tiandu’s Hidden realm of the Grand Dao——the Flying Serpent Domain! It was the manifestation of his Great Realm cultivation base.

With every step Luo Tiandu took, his aura expanded, like a sword gradually emerging from its sheath. His power was concentrated; none leaked, and it triggered no strange phenomena of heaven and earth. But it was like a net, firmly locked onto Su Yi.

Most striking of all, a blazing sun glyph appeared in the center of Luo Tiandu’s forehead. Fiery sunbeams shot forth, restricting the surrounding space!

“The Flying Serpent Domain! The Heavenly Annihilation Divine Mark!” Xi Ning recognized the abilities Luo Tiandu was using at a glance. Her frown deepened.

𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

She could tell that Luo Tiandu wasn’t interested in drawn-out, fierce combat. He wanted to use the strongest abilities at his disposal to crush Su Yi in a single strike. He wasn’t holding back in the slightest.

But this made it obvious that deep within his heart, Luo Tiandu took Su Yi seriously. Otherwise, there was no way he’d have gone all out right off the bat.

Su Yi stood in the distance, not moving in the slightest. His eyes didn’t so much as ripple with emotion.

Luo Tiandu’s Great Profound Stage cultivation base was unimaginably powerful. He wasn’t at all inferior to unparalleled figures like Jia Yun and Feng Wuji. He was among the mightiest Great Profound experts Su Yi had seen to date, and by the standards of the Immortal Realm, Luo Tiandu was a suffocating presence.

Alas… He’d run into Su Yi.

Boom!!!

Heaven and earth shook. As Luo Tiandu took his ninth step, his cultivation base reached its peak strength, and he attacked without hesitation.

Quick as a thunderclap, like a beam of flowing light!

When he leaped into the fray, he tore a perfectly straight rift through the sky. Heaven and earth transformed. Thunder ran rampant, wind rumbled and boomed, and dazzling firelight connected heaven and earth. A flying serpent took to the skies.

The flying serpent was inestimably enormous, its body like a natural wall blanketing the sky and blotting out the sun. Countless streams of divine radiance poured down around it, like falling stars.

This was the Flying Serpent Domain, a world under Luo Tiandu’s command. All enemies trapped inside were under his control!

That aside, a beam of divine light full of taboo, oppressive power shot out of the mark on his forehead. When the light hit even an opponent of the same level, it would seal and restrict them. This was his innate divine ability, the Heavenly Annihilation Divine Mark!

Su Yi was trapped within the Flying Serpent Domain, and thoroughly enveloped in the power of the Heavenly Annihilation Divine Mark.

Meanwhile, Luo Tiandu attacked explosively. Endless divine radiance poured from the flying serpent, crashing onto Su Yi.

But in the face of this imminent, perilous strike, Su Yi just inclined his head and commented, “Not bad at all.”

He’d only just said this when…

Boom!!!

Boundless, tyrannical sword intent shot out his tall, upright figure.

The sealing power of the Heavenly Annihilation Divine Mark broke, shattered like a layer of ice. It dispersed into countless tiny fragments. The explosive storm of divine radiance vanished into nothingness before it could even get close to Su Yi.

The Flying Serpent Domain shook violently, as if it were about to collapse.

“This….” Luo Tiandu’s pupils constricted. Even if you’d hit him over the head, he would never have guessed that the strongest abilities at his disposal would be so ineffectual. Su Yi hadn't even attacked properly; he had relied purely on his Dao of the Sword to shatter Luo Tiandu’s attacks!

But…. Luo Tiandu didn’t retreat. Mid-charge, he gnashed his teeth, formed seals with both hands, as if lifting and hurling a mountain at Su Yi.

Su Yi waved his sleeves.

Boom!

Heaven and earth collapsed, and the Flying Serpent Domain broke.

Luo Tiandu was flung backward, and he landed several thousand feet away with a thud. His long hair hung loose, and he looked utterly wretched.

Disbelief was written all over his handsome face.

He defeated me with a single swing of his sleeves!?

When Xi Ning saw this in the distance, she couldn’t help but gasp.

She had long since anticipated that Su Yi’s strength had surpassed the bounds of the Great Realm, but she still hadn’t guessed that an unparalleled divine son like Luo Tiandu would seem so pathetic against him.

Luo Tiandu really was like an ant trying to shake a tree!

When the dust and smoke dissipated, Su Yi casually brushed off his clothing and said, “I told Xi Ning I wouldn’t kill you. Of course, there’s no need for gratitude. If you still want to kill me, you’d best hurry and raise your cultivation. If you don’t, at your current strength, you’ll be no more than an egg flinging itself against a rock.”

Luo Tiandu’s expression shifted erratically. He couldn’t help but question everything.

When he decided to fight Su Yi, he figured that even if he lost, they could at least have a proper duel. But the reality was a one-sided suppression—Luo Tiandu couldn’t even fight back!

This blow was far too heavy.

When Luo Tiandu finally regained his senses, he couldn’t help but ask, “Just… just how strong have you become?”

“I’m not sure,” Su Yi said with a sigh. “I’d love nothing more than to fight a god to see where my true limits lie.”

“.....”

“....”

Neither of the divine children knew what to say to that.

Although they didn’t know it, Su Yi’s words came straight from the heart.

Back in the Cave of Divine Tears, he fought divine wraiths comparable to demigods with his Great Martial Stage cultivation. When he broke into the Great Unity Stage, the divine wraiths ceased to be his opponents.

Half a year ago, he went deep into seclusion with the Ancestral Demon Grounds and refined a portion of the Spirit Domain’s chaos source. He’d long since tempered his cultivation base to perfection within the Great Unity Stage, and now, he was just one step away from proving his Dao and entering the Great Profound Stage!

His combat strength was completely different from before, to the point that Su Yi himself really did not know how strong he’d become. The reason for this was simple: He had no one to measure himself by!

A long time passed before Luo Tiandu calmed himself down and let out a long sigh. He said no more on the matter.

It would have been obvious to anyone that this loss came as an enormous shock. He’d need time to get over it.

“With your current strength, when the Epoch Battlefield appears, you’ll be able to crush all enemies in your path.” Xi Ning walked up, her starry eyes bright, as if she were rather looking forward to it. “When the time comes, I’m afraid few will really be able to seize opportunities at divinity.”

Su Yi was briefly stunned, but then, he shook his head. “I can say with certainty that the gods won’t just stand back and watch as that happens.”

Xi Ning thought that over. “The gods might intervene, but they’ll undoubtedly be subject to the fetters of the Laws of the Natural Order. You needn’t worry about it, Fellow Daoist.”

Su Yi nodded. After making idle conversation a while longer, Xi Ning brought up their plans to scour the Place Abandoned by Heaven for good fortune.

Only then did Su Yi learn that although both were forbidden grounds leftover from the prior epoch, the Place Abandoned by Heaven was far more mysterious and terrifying than the Cave of Divine Tears. There were numerous terrifying monsters here called divine remnants, as well as numerous strange and calamitous powers that could destroy Great Profound Stage experts with ease. These included severed spacetime, Dharma-ending tribulation light, and soul-destroying winds.

Xi Ning and Luo Tiandu had first arrived half a year ago, but they were still stuck in the outer ring. Even so, they’d lost track of how many life-threatening perils they’d encountered.

But Xi Ning also told him bluntly that although this place was perilous, there were numerous rare and precious treasures to be found, mostly Undying Materials. Treasures that survived the end of an epoch typically contained Undying Materials.

Then, Xi Ning brought up that mysterious spearwoman.

But Su Yi actually seemed eager. “I came here in part because I wanted to see her and ask her some things.”

Xi Ning was stunned. “Aren’t you afraid she’ll kill you?”

Su Yi laughed. “If, as you say, she’s really an unfathomably terrifying goddess, she could have killed me back in the Human Realm.”

Xi Ning was stunned. She couldn’t understand Su Yi’s relationship with the spearwoman.

But in the end, she decided against asking any further questions.

“Come on, let’s go deeper into the Place Abandoned by Heaven and have a look around.” Su Yi turned and beckoned to Luo Tiandu.

Su Yi’s invitation obviously caught Luo Tiandu off guard, and he looked a bit uncomfortable.

But before he could refuse, Xi Ning said, “Let’s go together.”

The words had been on the tip of his tongue, but Luo Tiandu forced his refusal back down. “Alright.”

With that, the three of them walked toward the distant black plain. Xi Ning and Luo Tiandu were as cautious as could be; they’d witnessed the terrifying power of the divine remnants, and they knew that these monsters were all over the black plains!

“There’s a divine remnant hiding up ahead. We’d best go around,” Luo Tiandu said suddenly.

Xi Ning nodded. They’d explored this stretch of the plains before, and they had a rough understanding of the divine remnants’ distribution.

“No rush. We can decide whether or not to take a detour after I’ve seen the divine remnant’s power for myself,” Su Yi said eagerly.

Divine wraiths lurked throughout the Cave of Divine Tears, and they were comparable to demigods. They were formed from the vengeful souls of the gods who’d fallen during the end of the prior epoch.

The divine remnants strewn about the Place Abandoned by Heaven were instead manifested of the gods’ corpses. According to Xi Ning, they were even stronger than divine wraiths.

Naturally, this piqued Su Yi’s interest.

“You….” Luo Tiandu frowned and was just about to say something when he held back.

He looked at Xi Ning as if to say, “This guy is insane enough to fight divine remnants. Shouldn’t you try to dissuade him?”

But against all expectations, Xi Ning nodded. “No reason we can’t try it. Fellow Daoist Su, your strength and power of reincarnation combined ought to be enough to counter a divine remnant.”

Luo Tiandu didn’t know what to say.

What’s going on here? Why do they get on like an old married couple?

They’d shattered his defenses once more. It was like ten thousand swords were piercing his heart.