Chapter 2622 - Setting a Time to Fight in the Borderless Mountains

The entire God Domain was instantly thrown into upheaval. Everyone was talking about it. No one would have guessed that Su Yi would be the one to launch this storm!

“And here we thought the two alliances would seek revenge first. Instead, Sword Venerate Su has taken the initiative to draw his sword!”

“He’s just one person, yet he’s declared war on the two alliances!”

“Sword Venerate Su sure lives up to his reputation. He really is the greatest sword cultivator in the God Domain’s history! This is how Sword Venerate Su does things. His spirit is without equal. There’s no one else like him!”

“Now we just have to see if the two alliances are willing to accept his challenge!”

...Everyone throughout the God Domain was talking about it. The whole world was in uproar.

The various major cultivation factions were startled too. They couldn’t even imagine where Su Yi got the confidence to declare war against both alliances at once.

“What an incredible move. Su Yi has seized the initiative. He refuses to give the two alliances an opportunity to plot against him!” sighed some of the older-generation cultivators. “He set the time and place, so both shall serve in his favor. The two alliances can only react passively. It doesn’t matter whether they accept or refuse his challenge. It’ll ruin their plans either way!”

Many people agreed with this assessment. Everyone had been expecting the two alliances to take action against Su Yi sooner or later.

They didn’t even need to think to know that when the two alliances declared war, it would mean they’d prepared thoroughly and ensured that both time and place were in their favor. When that happened, Su Yi would have no choice but to respond passively.

But things were different now. Su Yi had declared war. That would unquestionably throw the two alliances’ plans of course!

“Will the two alliances accept the challenge?”

That was what everyone beneath the heavens was most eager to learn.

“Come on, let’s go to Windswept Mountain and claim a spot!”

“That’s right. Whether the battle actually takes place or not, there’s no harm in claiming our seats!”

Throughout the God Domain, numerous experts were frantic with impatience. When they heard the news, they immediately set course for Windswept Mountain.

People loved a spectacle. It was just human nature.

And everyone knew that if Su Yi and the two alliances really fought, it would change the world’s balance of power irrevocably.

This was absolutely unprecedented. Who wouldn’t have paid attention?

Even those old-timers with unfathomably deep cultivation bases could no longer remain seated. One after another, they set course for the Southern Flame Divine Continent.

“Why would Su Yi choose Windswept Mountain?”

“No idea. It’s just one of countless mountains in the wilderness of the Southern Flame Divine Continent. It’s not even famous. There’s nothing special about it whatsoever.”

Su Yi’s choice of location drew widespread discussion.

But against everyone’s expectations, just two days after Su Yi declared war, the two alliances issued a joint proclamation

They accepted his challenge!

But only on the condition that they got to choose the place. Su Yi could choose the time.

Sometimes, a single stone could create a thousand ripples. Uproar swept across the whole world once more.

“Are the two alliances worried that Su Yi set a trap for them on Windswept Mountain? If not, how could they try to haggle like this?”

“Well, the fate of the entire God Domain is on the line. How could they

not

be cautious?”

“That’s right. Any faction faced with such a challenge would be similarly cautious.”

“The two alliances really are being a bit cowardly. After all, Sword Venerate Su is just one person.”

The two alliances had accepted Su Yi’s challenge; they just didn’t want to let him lead them around by the nose. They wanted to decide the duel’s location, that's all.

That very day, Su Yi borrowed the Qilin Trading Company’s hands to issue another decree. It was just two sentences long.

“Very well. Same time, at the location of your choosing!”

It was as if he’d poured oil onto a fire. The world’s uproar intensified.

“Tyrannical! Sword Venerate Su sure lives up to his reputation. He isn’t the least bit concerned with their plots and schemes. So long as they dare to accept his challenge, he’ll go into battle!”

“The two alliances really do seem lacking in spirit by comparison.”

“Spirit? Who gives a crap! The winner takes all. If the two alliances crush Sword Venerate Su, no one will care about their ‘breadth of spirit!’”

...The day Su Yi responded, the two alliances responded in turn, announcing the duel’s location.

The Borderless Mountains!

This announcement threw the world into uproar once more.

The Borderless Mountains were a famed forbidden zone of the Eastern Victory Divine Continent. Rumor had it that the mountains stretched on without end, and that throughout the ages, no one had ever been able to measure them.

Experts had tried to discover their borders, but all such attempts had ended in failure.

This was because the Borderless Mountains weren’t just enormous. There, the Laws of Space were mottled and turbulent, producing numerous spatial chasms, currents, and storms. When space was that erratic, there was naturally no way to measure it.

That aside, the Borderless Mountains were dangerous! Throughout the ages, countless powerful cultivators had explored the mountain, but less than one in a hundred made it out alive.

No one had guessed that the two alliances would choose to fight in a place like that. Still, everyone could guess that they’d long since set a meticulously planned trap for Su Yi there.

Would Su Yi accept their challenge?

As the world was in uproar, Su Yi responded with a single word. “Sure.”

Sure!

It was just one word, but had effectively opened the curtains on this duel.

The whole world boiled over. Countless people set course for the Eastern Victory Divine Continent’s Borderless Mountain.

All they wanted was to witness this world-changing battle for themselves!

......

The Borderless Mountains were shaped like a dragon, its “body” stretching endlessly into the distance.

The clouds hanging overhead seemed just as endless. They hung in the air like lead, dark and oppressive. From time to time, lightning flashed through the clouds, tearing through space to create enormous, startling rifts.

Countless cultivators were gathering here from across the God Domain, like an endless sea of bobbing heads, a veritable mountain of people. It was a spectacular sight.

“I truly wouldn’t have guessed that Sword Venerate Su would agree to fight them here. Isn’t he at all worried?”

“Even during these dark, tumultuous times, this battle is absolutely one of a kind. If the alliances fall, Sword Venerate Su will stand over the entire God Domain!

“But if he loses... His unparalleled legend will end, and the two alliances will reign over the God Domain!”

Countless people whispered to each other.

“Just how strong do you think Sword Venerate Su has become? Is he a Nine-Tribulation Master God? A Half-Step Eternal? Or perhaps a False Eternal?” someone asked in confusion.

“Who knows? I’m afraid... that few in the God Domain know just how strong he’s become,” someone else sighed.

Su Yi was really just too strong. Over the past years, he’d faced far too many shocking battles, but in the end, he’d won a complete victory every time.

The battle at Returning Dragon Mountain was particularly shocking. It astonished the whole world. There was nothing even remotely comparable in the God Domain’s history!

Still, many of the onlookers weren’t confident about Su Yi’s chances in the upcoming battle on Borderless Mountain. After all, he was up against the two great alliances!

After their major loss at Returning Dragon Mountain, the two alliances had undoubtedly prepared enough trump cards and forces to snuff Su Yi out, once and for all!

“I suspect that things don’t look bright for Sword Venerate Su this time,” someone sighed.

“That isn’t necessarily the case. Sword Venerate Su was bold enough to issue this challenge. How could he have done so if he weren’t confident that he could win?”

“I just wonder when he’ll show up.”

This was the appointed day!

The Borderless Mountains were surrounded on all sides. Every inch of space within eight thousand miles was packed by cultivators from all across the God Domain.

But none of them dared to approach the slopes, as the forces of the two alliances had long since sealed The Borderless Mountains off.

One of the Borderless Mountains' many peaks pierced the cloudcover. They called it Heavenbreaker Peak.

Numerous terrifying experts of the two alliances had gathered there.

No one knew just how many experts the alliances had rallied this time, nor did they know how many cards they’d prepared to defeat Su Yi.

But that just made the situation all the scarier. After all, nothing was more terrifying than the unknown.

Everyone was waiting frantically.

From time to time, lights flashed overhead. All of them were would-be spectators. As time passed, their ranks grew and grew.

Countless people were rueful.

“By now, practically everyone’s shown up. Experts are as numerous as the carp in the river or the grains of sand on the shore. No matter the outcome, this battle will go down in the annals of history, to be spoken of for ten thousand generations to come!”

Meanwhile, on Heavenbreaker Peak, there stood a freshly built temple.

Almost a hundred people were seated inside, men and women of all ages. Without exception, all of them emanated terrifying, imposing auras.

Some blazed like fire, while others were swathed in flowing sword qi or flashing electric light...

The attendees were so powerful that the Nine-Tribulation Master Gods could only sit on the edges or tucked away in corners.

They were the weakest ones here!

The ten or so people sitting at the front of the room were the most terrifying of all. All were shrouded in Eternal radiance. With every gesture, they emanated the unsurpassed air of one gazing down on all of creation.

These were the most important members of the two alliances!

Of them, two drew the most attention.

The first was the little girl leading the group from the New World Alliance. She looked just six or seven years old, and she was dressed in black. Her face was innocent and guileless, but her gaze was cold, and her presence was endlessly terrifying, to the point that many of the powerful attendees found it hard to breathe.

This was Di E’s guardian, a spirit of the natural order and an expert of the River of Destiny!

She would lead the New World Alliance’s forces during this battle.

She was accompanied by several avatars of powerful figures from the River of Destiny, as well as Gu Huaxian, Jiao Mu, and Su Yi’s other old enemies from his past lives.

On the other side of the room, Taishu Gong, the Celestial Polarity Great Sovereign of the Heavenly Court of the Five Sovereigns, led the forces of the Myriad Daos Alliance.

He was a False Eternal, and he sat there casually, calm and composed, the very picture of a ruler.

In truth, Taishu Gong was far from the only False Eternal present. There were close to thirty others here!

If the spectators outside saw this, they’d surely have found it shocking.

Because, due to the constraints of the God Domain’s Laws, False Eternals could only lie in wait in their spacetime forbidden zones. The moment they ventured into the outside world, they faced an inevitable backlash

Yet now, there were almost thirty False Eternals gathered in this very hall. The power that represented was unquestionably far too terrifying!

“In this lofty one’s view, given our alliances’ forces and arrangements, so long as Su Yi dares to show up, there’s no way that he’ll ever leave,” Taishu Gong said solemnly.

He swept his gaze across the room, then looked at the little girl. “What do you say?”