Chapter 2650 - I’m a Heavenly Sovereign, the Master of Calamity and Punishment

The black sheep was originally a woman!?

Su Yi couldn’t help but find this surprising.

“Then why keep you by my side? What good are you?” laughed Su Yi. “Surely I can’t just roast and eat you?”

“...” The black sheep glared at him in silence.

Su Yi’s gaze suddenly grew serious. “You’re from the River of Destiny, so you’re at the very least an Eternal Dao Lord, right?”

The black sheep wrote, “I don’t remember.”

“Then what do you remember?” asked Su Yi.

The black sheep blinked, then wrote, “All I remember is that Master said that if you died, I’d find release, so how about you just die already?”

Whap!

Su Yi smacked her on the head and said, “Naughty.”

“....” The black sheep shook her head and glared, her eyes flashing lightning. She wrote, “Humiliate me again, and one day, I’ll...”

But before she could finish her sentence, Su Yi clamped his hand around her muzzle and laughed. “Don’t bother. Writing all that must be exhausting, and looking at it is exhausting for me, too. If you don’t remember anything, just stay mute.”

With that, he let go and walked off.

The black sheep glared and bleated furiously at him. “Baa! Baa! Baaaaaa!” echoed throughout the night sky.

But when she saw that Su Yi was about to fade from view, the sheep looked uncertain. In the end, she lifted her hooves and gave chase.

When she was still ten thousand feet away, she slowed down, following him silently beneath the cover of darkness.

All the while, she maintained a distance of ten thousand feet, never more, never less.

Su Yi disregarded her. Who cared what the black sheep Old Lord Gouchen had left behind was after? Su Yi couldn’t even be bothered to guess.

......

Meanwhile, beneath the same night sky, word of Su Yi’s arrival in the Central Divine Current spread.

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Dark currents flowed beneath the surface.

......

Seven days later, in a dim, boundless stretch of wilderness, thunderclouds surged overhead, rumbling intermittently.

Su Yi stood in a stretch of ruins. The ground was covered in broken walls, fragmented tiles, and other rubble. All of them bore the marks of countless years.

Deep within the ruins, beneath a collapsed ancient building, brilliant purple light flickered beneath a pile of rubble. It was so obscured that it’d have been easy to miss if you weren’t looking closely.

Su Yi waved his sleeve through the air.

Boom!

Rocks scattered as he swept the entire collapsed building away. The source of that flashing purple light instantly came into view.

It was the size of a fist and covered in billowing flames. The power of the Laws interwove around it, and it was shaped like a miniature moon.

This was a first-tier Fragment of Heaven’s Will, an incomparably precious treasure!

Su Yi couldn't help but be surprised. This was the first first-tier fragment he’d found since entering the Central Divine Continent!

The Central Divine Continent sure is full of treasure,

sighed Su Yi.

Over the past week, he’d travelled night and day, gathering no small number of Fragments of Heaven’s Will.

By now, he’d acquired thirty-two in total. Such a harvest would have been all but impossible in the other Divine Continents.

Su Yi stretched out his hand and grabbed the fragment. After looking it over, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

First-tier fragments were extremely rare, and they were far more precious than lesser fragments.

Su Yi immediately got to work refining it.

Su Yi had already refined all of the other fragments he’d gathered as fertilizer for the sprout of the Epoch Spark, but it had only grown marginally thicker.

But now, as he refined this first-tier Fragment of Heaven’s Will, a startling scene unfolded.

The Epoch Spark’s sprout grew noticeably taller, and it even grew a few slender branches laden with pointed, tender shoots.

Most mystical of all, its stalk, branches, and sprouts all gave rise to natural chaos markings of the Grand Dao. Chaos qi flowed over its surface, and it swayed in Su Yi’s Sea of Chaos.

None of this changed Su Yi’s cultivation in the slightest, but he could clearly sense that, as the sprout grew, his foundations in the Grand Dao solidified, becoming firmer and denser.

Su Yi had a strong premonition that if his foundations in the Grand Dao kept transforming like this, he’d be able to condense a true epoch civilization sooner or later.

He sat there in silence, sensing his changes for a long time before glancing down at the ruins beneath his feet and resuming his journey.

The black sheep followed. Inwardly, she cursed him out.

If I hadn’t been here this entire time, how could you possibly have found all that good fortune so easily?

She was so frustrated that she picked a piece of rubble before catching up.

...

Deeper in the ruins, there was a hidden realm covered in Dao Light. A tall, powerfully built man in red robes sat in a palace, his long hair hanging loose.

When Su Yi appeared in the ruins, the red-robed man sensed it immediately.

“Yet another little fishy has taken the bait. The fish covet the bait, while I’m eager to take a bite out of their flesh. That’s what you call fairness.” The red-robed man silently opened his eyes and smiled.

But then, a moment later, he seemed to sense something, and his smile froze in place.

A moment later, the red-robed man exerted his power and sealed the entire hidden realm off, but that wasn’t the end of it. He even sealed off all perception of the outside world without hesitation.

Even so, the red-robed man felt uneasy. His heart palpitated inexplicably.

The black sheep arrived in the ruins and stomped its hood.

Nothing happened in the outside world, but the underground hidden realm shook violently. Dense cracks formed all over its surface.

The red-robed man felt as if he’d been struck by lightning. He hacked up a mouthful of blood.

“What terrifying power. Are they trying to warn me?” The red-robed man’s face paled. “But... just who are they? How could someone so terrifying exist in the present-day God Domain?”

The red-robed man was an Unfettered Realm Dao Lord who’d proven his Dao in ancient times.

He’d hidden himself here of late, using that Fragment of Heaven’s Will as bait. He’d caught numerous fish that way.

In the process of butchering them, he learned quite a bit about the outside world.

He would never have guessed that things would go wrong this time. Someone had seized the bait, and worse, almost destroyed his hidden realm.

They’d even injured him!

“Just who was that? Don’t tell me they’re planning to participate in the Battle for Order?” The red-robed man’s expression shifted erratically. He couldn’t wrap his head around it.

All he could say for certain was that if that existence had attacked to kill, he’d be dead by now!

......

Su Yi knew nothing of this, but he wasn’t blind. He’d naturally noticed that a lot of unusual things had happened since the black sheep had started following him.

For instance, after night fell, he no longer encountered any strange creatures or undead.

And the Fragments of Heaven’s Will he encountered were all just lying there, just waiting for him to pick them up. Every time, he acquired them without the slightest danger.

Elder Po Xue of Hidden Blue Sword House had called him the favored son of fortune, but Su Yi knew that he wasn’t so lucky. He might get lucky sometimes, but never this many times in a row.

The black sheep had to be behind this!

I wouldn’t have thought that traveling with a black sheep would have so many unexpected advantages,

thought Su Yi. He turned to face the sheep, then said, “Are you hungry? Want to eat a little something? I can help find some grass if you’d like to graze.”

“...” The black sheep fell silent.

Does he seriously take me for livestock looking to graze!?

The black sheep ground its teeth and bleated.

Su Yi took out a rare and precious divine medicine. “How about this grass? Do you want it?”

It was a stalk of fiery red medicine. It was shaped a little like ginseng, but it also resembled a radish.

The black sheep stomped its feet and gestured in the air. “I don’t want it!”

“If you don’t want it, fine. What’s there to be so angry about? I’ve never seen a sheep as ill-tempered as you.” Su Yi laughed, then ate the divine medicine, munching as he walked.

One of these days, I’ll have you kowtow before me, you bastard! You’re simply loathsome!

The sheep gnashed her teeth.

But then, her gaze focused. She seemed to have sensed something, so she whipped around to gaze into the distance.

Practically simultaneously, Su Yi came to a halt.

A tall, upright figure in wide-sleeved, black robes was headed his way. His long hair hung loose, and his skin was fair. He looked young.

Di E!

An old acquaintance.

Now that Su Yi was capable of obliterating False Eternals, deep within his heart, he no longer saw Di E as a threat.

But now, his brow furrowed. Something wasn’t right!

Di E was still the same Di E, but his presence and disposition seemed starkly different. It was as if he were a completely different person!

“Are you surprised?” Di E asked from a distance. “I’ve finally realized who I really am.”

“Is that so?” asked Su Yi. “And who are you?”

Di E stopped in midair, pointed into the heavens, and said coldly, “I’m a Heavenly Sovereign, the master of the Daos of Calamity and Punishment!”

It was just one sentence, but as soon as the words left his lips...

Boom!

Space split around Su Yi, and destructive black light came crashing down, so quick that it seemed unbelievable.

Su Yi was caught off guard. All he could do was clash with it head-on.

It was just one attack, but it sent him flying, his hands charred and bleeding. Wisps of calamitous power forced their way in through the wounds, relentlessly destroying his blood, qi, and vitality.

This power was utterly tyrannical. Su Yi had to circulate his cultivation base with all his might just to suppress it; he couldn’t simply remove it!

This left Su Yi stunned!

Off in the distance, Di E looked surprised, too. “You’re still alive, and your wounds are so light. It’s truly unexpected. But... that’s the extent of it!”

Before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, he raised his hand and pointed at Su Yi.

Boom!

Heaven and earth crumbled.

Space shattered.

The entire area around Su Yi was enveloped in endless calamitous light.