Chapter 2614 - We Agreed. No Running!

Su Yi’s battle with Huang Yanleng had already deeply convinced Wang Zhiwu of Su Yi’s terrifyingness.

But Wang Zhiwu still had no idea just how strong Su Yi was.

That is, until now.

When he saw one old-timer after another shrieking like slaughtered pigs and wailing like mournful ghosts, he barely managed to resist the urge to laugh.

Who among those old-timers

wasn’t

an influential figure even on the River of Destiny?

These were just their clones and avatars, but even so, the sight of Su Yi breaking through their encirclement and cutting them down one by one was far too exciting and far too astonishing.

Still, Wang Zhiwu remained calm.

On their way to Returning Dragon Mountain, he’d told Su Yi that, due to the restrictions of the God Domain’s chaos source, everyone’s cultivation was capped at the same level. Even though some of the visiting experts had much higher cultivations than Huang Yanleng, her avatar of will could still defeat theirs!

𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Within the same level of cultivation, Huang Yanleng’s foundations were stronger and more terrifying.

Nonetheless, Su Yi had defeated Huang Yanleng with just sixty percent of his strength!

It was naturally readily apparent just how terrifying Su Yi was.

Thus, even when he saw the old-timers here fall, one by one, Wang Zhiwu was merely surprised. He didn’t lose his composure.

But he still couldn’t be certain whether or not Su Yi was using his full strength.

That aside, Wang Zhiwu knew that Lu Shi and Yu Chiyang were the most dangerous of the old-timers present.

Even if Su Yi had the advantage for the time being, the battle wasn’t over yet. It was too early to say who’d win!

No matter what, once I’ve recorded the full battle, none of these old-timers will dare provoke me. If they do, I’ll let the whole world watch how they were cut down!

Wang Zhiwu thought gleefully.

He held a golden talisman. It had been shining since the start of the battle as it recorded the battle in full detail.

Boom!

The battle raged with ever-greater intensity.

As more and more enemies fell, Su Yi seemed increasingly relaxed. Every moment seemed calm and collected.

He made no overt displays of power. Every strike was simple as could be.

Yet every strike was full of unstoppable force, like an axe through bamboo. Every strike left his enemies badly injured—assuming it didn’t kill them outright.

Many of the experts were overcome with terror. Their expressions had shifted too many times to count. Many of them felt the urge to flee.

But when they recalled the threats Lu Shi and Yu Chiyang had made before the battle began, they extinguished all such notions. If they fled, it would implicate their true bodies down the line.

Their bodies here were mere clones and avatars. So what if they were destroyed?

The consequences of fleeing were unquestionably far more dire!

“I’ll fucking kill you——!” A white-robed man roared in fury, his whole body catching on fire, as if a blazing sun had fallen down to earth. He charged at Su Yi.

He’d actually destroyed his own avatar of will in a bid for mutual destruction!

His power was naturally terrifying beyond limit.

The others immediately moved further away, including Lu Shi and Yu Chiyang.

But Su Yi didn’t retreat. On the contrary, he charged straight ahead.

Clang!

The Sword of Proximity suddenly hummed, and a heart-palpitating power coursed along its blade.

Su Yi flowed through the battlefield, flashing through the air and clashing with the white-robed man’s burning figure.

When the two combatants separated, Su Yi stood there, calm as ever. The only difference was that now, the Sword of Proximity hummed and shook violently in his grip.

As for the white-robed man who’d destroyed his own avatar of will? He roared bitterly, then split into pieces, dissipating on the spot.

The entire stretch of sky was enveloped in firelight.

The other combatants’ expressions were unsightly. Their eyes widened with disbelief.

Destroying his own avatar wasn’t enough?

This came as a heavy blow to the others. Their will to fight wavered.

They finally understood why Su Yi dared to flip over the table. It was because he was strong enough to do so.

Lu Shi and Yu Chiyang’s expressions filled with unprecedented solemnity. More than half of the experts in their camps had been destroyed.

Su Yi, meanwhile, didn’t have so much as a hair out of place.

Off in the distance, the short old man’s fingers quivered on the zither, the music showing signs of discord.

His mastery of the Dao of Music was famed throughout the River of Destiny. Ordinarily speaking, playing a song was enough to eradicate his enemies in no time flat.

But now, his famous Dao of Music had been rendered ineffective.

He couldn’t shake Su Yi in the slightest!

How could the old man remain calm? Especially after watching as Su Yi cut through his powerful enemies with unparalleled majesty?

His heart had been shaken, and his music reflected his mental state. When his heart was in turmoil, how could his music

not

be in turmoil?

Wang Zhiwu frowned. By this point of the battle, it was obvious that unless something changed, the old-timers would die, one by one. Not one escape.

But there was one thing that Wang Zhiwu found strange. Even now, neither Lu Shi nor Yu Chiyang had revealed their killer weapons!

He’d only just thought this when Yu Chiyang bellowed, “Activate the Five Aggregates Heart-Cleaving Flags! Kill him!”

Boom!

As his voice rang out, he and four of his allies attacked, each taking out a flag. All five were different colors: red, blue, yellow, black and white. The fabric seemed to burn as it surged with colorful, dreamlike chaos firelight, its hues dyeing the surrounding landscape.

Just as I expected!

Thought Wang Zhiwu.

I knew Yu Chiyang wouldn’t just sit back and wait to die.

It was true that losing an avatar of will couldn’t really hurt their true bodies.

But it was also true that they had to pay an enormous price to send an avatar from the River of Destiny all the way to the God Domain!

In other words, if Yu Chiyang’s avatar of will was destroyed, he could send another, but only at great expense to his true body!

That was true for Yu Chiyang, and for the other prominent experts of the River of Destiny, too.

Boom!

Five colors of divine flame suppressed the tumultuous landscape, as if sealing it in place. An unnatural stillness descended over the area.

As the five colors of light swept outward, they sealed even time and space around Su Yi. He was stuck there, unable to move. He couldn’t even budge!

From a distance, he looked as if he’d been encased in ice.

This was the wondrous application of the Five Aggregates Heart-Cleaving Flags.

This was a set of five treasures refined from Eternal materials. They targeted the heart with unfathomable power.

This was a killer weapon that Yu Chiyang had brought with him from the River of Destiny!

When they saw that Su Yi had been suppressed, everyone simultaneously sighed in relief. They felt as if a massive weight had been lifted from their shoulders.

Su Yi was just too terrifying. He’d put far too much pressure on them earlier.

“Go!” Lu Shi no longer hesitated. He swung his sleeve and summoned a snow-white flying sword.

The flying sword arced through the air with resplendent light, glinting like snow. Its cold light illuminated the nine heavens, and its edge was so sharp and radiant that the onlookers could barely keep their eyes open.

“The Lifeless Half Moon!” exclaimed Wang Zhiwu.

This was a famous, unparalleled flying sword even among Eternals.

Logically speaking, it should never have been able to reveal its strength here. The moment appeared, the chaos source of the God Domain should have suppressed it.

Yet now, here it was!

But there was no time for Wang Zhiwu to give the matter any further thought. The flying sword flashed through the air, its cold light filling the skies as its sharp edge flew toward the immobilized Su Yi.

Many of the onlookers watched eagerly. So long as Su Yi died, the avatars and clones he’d destroyed wouldn’t mean a thing.

And those who remained... could divide Su Yi’s good fortune!

I bet he’s going to whip out that rusted sword sheath,

thought Wang Zhiwu. The sheath had left a deep impression on him, and the thought of it still filled him with dread. The way he saw it, Su Yi was sure to use his killer weapon at this critical juncture. If he did, he could turn the situation on its head.

Except... nothing of the sort happened!

Wang Zhiwu watched as the “suppressed, immobile” Su Yi suddenly raised his hand.

Boom!

Heaven and earth shook violently as the five-colored radiance filling the sky shattered and collapsed.

The Five Aggregates Heart-Cleaving Flags shook, their wails shaking the heavens. Yu Chiyang and the others controlling them suffered the resulting backlash, staggering backward as the hands flew from their grips.

Even more unbelievably, when that glistening, snowy flying sword landed, its all-encompassing sword qi actually dispersed.

By the time it neared Su Yi, it seemed pitifully weak, to the point that Su Yi just grabbed it between his thumb and forefinger and held it fast.

Weng!

The flying sword shook violently and wailed, but it couldn’t break free.

Lu Shi’s expression shifted dramatically, his face deathly pale. He could clearly sense that the flying sword was under absolute suppression. Worse, his link with it had been severed.

Before he could react, the snow-white flying sword shattered between Su Yi’s fingers, shards scattering like fragments of glass.

Lu Shi quivered from head to toe, his avatar instantly less distinct. There was no doubt about it; the flying sword’s destruction had made him suffer a severe backlash!

“So, that was a counterfeit Lifeless Half Moon...” Wang Zhiwu finally understood. That flying sword wasn’t the real thing; it had at most thirty percent of the charm and strength of the real thing.

All of this took quite some time to describe, but it was over in a flash. Su Yi shattered the Five Aggregates Heart-Cleaving Flags and grabbed the flying sword between his fingers practically simultaneously.

Just like that, he’d escaped seemingly certain doom!

Everyone present was too shocked to even speak.

Any False Eternal in Su Yi’s shoes would have died a long time ago!

Yet Su Yi had turned the situation on its head in a flash.

Most terrifying of all, he hadn’t even used the Sword of Proximity. No one could tell just what power he’d used to pull this off.

Everyone’s hearts sank into the pits of their stomachs.

Not even our killer weapons work. How are we supposed to fight him now?

“You all agreed not to flee,” Su Yi said suddenly. “Besides, you’re all just clones and avatars. So what if you die? And how embarrassing would it be if you fled and word got back to the River of Destiny?”

Every word was like a knife to the heart.

Lu Shi, Yu Chiyang, and the others’ expressions were unsightly. Their eyes blazed with fury.

When Wang Zhiwu saw the looks on their faces, he felt the urge to slap his thigh and laugh uproariously.

They look like they just swallowed dead flies!