Chapter 396: Fish on the Chopping Block to Slaughter as I Please

“Get him!” Old Yao Bone Eater waved his sleeves.

Boom!

The white bone spears filling the skies swept forth, as densely packed as trees in a forest and swathed in blood-red mists. The power of every strike carried a strange, taboo power.

This was the power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness.

Almost thirty thousand years ago, the Origins of the Azure erupted within the Well of Ancient Chaos, influencing the entire Azure Continent.

Thus began thirty thousand years of darkness and turmoil.

Now, although the vast majority of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness’ power had been frittered away, what remained was still terrifying beyond limit.

It wasn’t just Old Yao Bone Eater; the other three Perils of the Sea of Chaotic Spirits had been trapped here for thirty thousand years too. Although their cultivation was suppressed, after years of contemplation and research, they’d learned to borrow a portion of the power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness when they attacked.

Otherwise, they couldn’t possibly have unleashed such power during their confinement.

Su Yi had keenly picked up on this during their earlier clash, and he was naturally well aware of how to handle them.

Clang!

The Abstruse God Sword hummed.

Su Yi soared through the sky, sword in hand, and suddenly slashed the air.

It was like the river of stars bursting through a dam. A hundred feet of sword qi arced through the sky, and an overflowing tide of pure origin power merged into it, rumbling like thunder.

It was just one slash, yet its power was starkly different from when he’d been a Xiantian Martial Ancestor.

This was the difference between a mortal and a cultivator, the gap between origin power and true essence.

This was what it meant for one’s heart and body to be connected with heaven and earth, as natural as the Dao itself.

He was as far removed from his past self as clouds were from the mud!

Furthermore, this slash carried a trace of the Sword of the Nine Hells’ Aura!

Bang Bang Bang—

Booms rang out, and the densely-packed bone spears shattered like scrap metal, pieces shooting in all directions.

“Hm? How is this possible!?” Old Yao Bone Eater exclaimed in disbelief.

“That sword can actually neutralize the power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness?” Thunder Monarch Oblivion and Fire Demon Lihuo were dumbstruck. This scene shook them to the core.

The power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness had enveloped the Azure Continent for almost thirty thousand years. When it first descended, even Imperial Realm Experts were helpless to stop its strange, taboo power.

Otherwise, how could an Imperial Realm expert like the Heavensphere Yao Emperor, the founder of the Immortals’ Sword House, possibly give up and leave the Azure Continent?

How could all those ancient orthodoxies have gradually sunk into the long river of history?

All of this was because the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness was simply too terrifying.

Admittedly, by now, the power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness scattered throughout the continent was on the verge of dissipating.

But the power that remained was still enough to threaten the lives of Spirit Dao cultivators!

Now, in just a single slash, Su Yi shattered an entire swath of bone spears containing the Prohibition’s power!

Who wouldn’t have been surprised?

𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

“So strong!” The woman on the shoulders of the giant ape went rigid. The power of this sword left her shocked.

She didn’t know the origins of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness, but that didn’t stop her from realizing the power of Su Yi’s attack.

When he slashed, even she, a Spirit Dao cultivator, was astonished. She couldn’t help it; it was unimaginable that such an attack was the work of a young Grain Avoidance cultivator.

“Does this mean that if we’d encountered this boy earlier, he could have broken through the power of the Prohibition of Darkness and freed us?” muttered Fire Demon Lihuo, instantly excited.

Thirty thousand years of confinement!

Thirty thousand years of darkness and torment. Who wouldn’t long for freedom after all that?

“It’s not too late,” said Thunder Monarch Oblivion solemnly. His eyes surged with electricity as he saw hope of escaping captivity.

Before this, all they could do was bitterly endure and wait for the day the Prohibition of Darkness dissipated.

They would never have guessed that hope of early release would appear now, in the form of a young man like Su Yi!

The gaunt, ethereal silhouette standing atop the Starlight Vessel locked onto Su Yi, his eyes flashing with sharp light. It seemed he was already planning to get involved.

As the Four Perils conversed, Su Yi launched into action.

Whoosh!

He stepped into the air, charging into the blood-colored mists.

White Bone Tower and its red smoke was of the Four Perils of the Sea of Chaotic Spirits. For countless years, anyone who entered the mists shriveled into a dried-up corpse and became just another piece of White Bone Tower.

In the eyes of mundane cultivators, this was already an ironclad law!

As mighty as she was, even the woman seated on the shoulder of the giant ape dared not risk it.

But now, Su Yi shot forth, quick as lightning and entirely unaffected. In the blink of an eye, he charged directly into the mist.

He stopped directly before the ten-thousand-foot-tall White Bone Tower.

Here, he finally saw Old Yao Bone Eater’s appearance clearly.

He was as thin as bamboo and shrouded in dense, imposing yao qi. His cheeks were sunken, while his eyes flashed with unearthly blue light.

Serpentine wisps of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness wrapped around him, trapping him in the vicinity of the tower.

“And here I thought you were something impressive. So, you’re just a paltry little Spiritual Integration ghost cultivator.” Su Yi shook his head contemptuously.

The Spirit Dao was divided into three realms: Spiritual Manifestation, Spiritual Integration, and Spiritual Revolution.

In his past life, never mind someone in the Spiritual Integration Realm; even Spiritual Revolution cultivators were beneath his notice.

Old Yao Bone Eater’s eyes widened; it seemed he almost dared not believe his ears.?A Grain Avoidance pipsqueak dares look down on a Spiritual Integration Realm cultivator? What…? Does that even make sense?

“Die!” bellowed Old Yao Bone Eater.

Boom!

Throughout White Bone Tower, skeletons rose, then swarmed at Su Yi, filling the skies.

From a distance, their grand procession resembled the armies of the Netherworld.

But Su Yi didn’t even look at them. The Abstruse God Sword flashed.

Whoosh!

A sharp, indomitable streak of sword qi carrying a trace of the Sword of the Nine Hells’ aura soared into the air.

Beneath the onlookers’ dumbstruck gazes, it cut through the tens of thousands of skeletal soldiers like a knife through cloth. They were split through their mid-sections, offering no resistance at all.

Rumble!

An earth-shaking explosion rang out, and Su Yi’s sword qi cleaved directly into Old Yao Bone Eater.

Crunch! Crunch!

The power of the Prohibition of Ancient Darkness wrapped around Old Yao Bone Eater split and crumbled, bit by bit.

This should have been his best opportunity to escape, but as that sword descended, it ushered in his demise!

With an audible?splurt,?Old Yao Bone Eater’s withered, stick-thin figure split apart with a spray of blood.

A wisp of soul light shot forth. It was like a miniature version of him, an Old Yao Bone Eater no bigger than a thumb.

Spiritual Integration of the soul!

This was a power only those at or above the Spiritual Integration Realm could condense.

But before he could escape, Old Yao Bone Eater’s remnant saw a blue Buddhist seal shoot towards him. The mysterious energy it released trapped him, and with a?whoosh?he flew and landed in Su Yi’s palm.

The blue Buddhist Seal was called “Three-Inch Purgatory”. It was a secret technique of ghost cultivators, and it could restrict souls, enslave ghosts, restrict corpses, and exorcise spirits. It was incomparably miraculous.

In the past, Su Yi couldn’t have unleashed an attack of his level.

However, things were different now. He was now a true cultivator, and his true essence had transformed entirely into origin power. He could now use numerous secret arts and Daoist magics inaccessible to his former self.

“I know you’re a Spiritual Integration cultivator, so how could I possibly let you flee?” Su Yi laughed dryly, then sealed his captive away.

Then, he turned and shot back in a flash.

Boom!

The red mists filling the sky dispersed behind him, and the ground beneath White Bone Tower crumbled. Countless dry bones sank into the waters below.

It turned out that White Bone Tower wasn’t some mighty treasure after all; it was just a pile of countless dried-up bones.

Old Yao Bone Eater’s death severed his connection to the tower, which promptly dispersed into nothingness.

“Old Yao Bone Eater is dead? Just like that?”

Fire Demon Lihuo and Thunder Monarch Oblivion witnessed the entire clash, and it made their scalps numb. For the first time, they sensed the threat of imminent death.

“That guy isn’t afraid of that taboo power?” The woman on the shoulders of the giant ape suddenly seemed to realize something, and her expression shifted erratically.

She had long since realized that those four terrifying existences were trapped and that a taboo power was suppressing them, rendering them unable to escape.

But she could never have anticipated that Su Yi wasn’t the least bit afraid of that taboo power!

Without that taboo power to threaten him, it didn’t matter how grand and terrifying those four terrifying existences’ cultivations were. In Su Yi’s eyes, they weren’t much of a threat.

It was just as Su Yi said earlier; to him, they were like fish on the chopping block. He could do with them as he pleased!

“Incredible!” Hua Xinfeng’s eyes sparkled with excitement, and her heart filled with pride.

“Young friend, might we end the fighting here and resolve our earlier misunderstandings?” When he saw Su Yi approach the Isle of No Return, Fire Demon Lihuo was instantly frantic. “If you can help me escape my bonds, I’m willing to serve you! I’ll work like a horse or a dog on your behalf!”

The four of them were bound. The strongest method at their disposal was borrowing a portion of the Prohibition of Darkness’ power to kill their foes.

Why was it that, despite countless years, not one person could approach the Isle of No Return? It was due to the overwhelming terror of the Prohibition of Darkness!

Yet now, their strongest method was ineffective against Su Yi. Of course they were frantic. How could they not be?

“Earlier, you were barking and snarling like a mad dog, going on about how you wanted to kill me. Why are you suddenly begging for mercy, Fire Monarch Lihuo?” Su Yi was rather disappointed.?Isn’t this guy a bit too spineless?

Fire Demon Lihuo wanted to respond, but Su Yi had already attacked.

Whoosh!

Sword qi arced like a rainbow, piercing through the skies.

Just like before, it was only a single slash, but no matter how hard Fire Demon Lihuo struggled and no matter what methods he used, he couldn’t block its unstoppable advance.

In the end, before the others’ astonished gazes, a single slash obliterated him!

In the end, the Spiritual Integration of his soul tried to self-destruct and take Su Yi down with him.

Alas, in his last life, when he was a Spirit Dao cultivator, he’d taken down countless others of the same level. How could he possibly let Fire Demon Lihuo succeed?

He simply slashed, dicing the remnant soul to bits and dispersing it completely.

In but a few blinks of the eye, he executed both Old Yao Bone Eater and Fire Demon Lihuo. They were truly like lambs to the slaughter, helpless against him.

Were those terrifying existences insufficiently powerful?

No, the crux of the matter was that their ultimate trump card was ineffective against Su Yi.

And it was their very trump card that had kept them trapped for thirty thousand years. They had the mighty cultivation of Spirit Dao cultivators, yet no means of displaying them.

In the end, before the Radiant Epoch descended, they became just two more souls fallen beneath Su Yi’s blade!

The entire area fell so silent, you could hear a pin drop.

What they’d just witnessed was shocking to the extreme!

But Su Yi just flicked the corners of his clothes, not the least bit concerned, as if he’d just a fly. He turned and left the Isle of No Return.

His gaze turned toward the distant Mountain of Funerals.