Chapter 952: The Far Shore
The silver-robed man’s pupils constricted. He held his spear horizontally and blocked.
Crunch!
The spear split in two.
Dazzling sword qi continued ahead, its power undiminished. It cleaved into the man in silver, sending him flying once more. The layer of armor beneath his robes burst, and a bloody slash extended from his left shoulder all the way down his ribs.
He’d come perilously close to getting disemboweled!
The silver-robed man visibly lost his composure. His heart filled with terror and disbelief.
He had late-stage Profound Illumination Realm cultivation, and he controlled the taboo power of the Laws of Heavenly Prayer.
Yet now, he suddenly realized that the strongest ability at his disposal, the Laws of Heavenly Prayer, might as well not exist when used against this young Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivator!
He turned around and fled, not daring to hesitate.
“They say not to make the same mistake more than three times. Similarly, killing someone of your level won’t take more than three slashes.”
As Su Yi’s calm voice rang out, a streak of sword qi shot forth.
Several thousand feet away.
The silver-robed man suddenly split down the midline. As both halves of his corpse plummeted from the sky, they crumbled into dust and dissipated.
Destroyed, both body and soul!
It had taken just three attacks, and it happened so quickly that it was unbelievable.
Wang Chonglu had witnessed the entire battle from a distance, and he was left tongue-tied.Isn’t… Isn’t he a bit too fierce?
That kid is obviously just in the Spiritual Revolution Realm, and he’s obviously just seventeen or eighteen, so why does he possess such heaven-defying power?
Wang Chonglu was an established mid-stage Profound Serenity Emperor, but even in peak condition, he would have paid a heavy price to defeat such an opponent!
In stark contrast, this young man’s flurry of attacks had destroyed his terrifying opponent. This was unquestionably astonishing.
Just as Wang Chonglu fell into a daze, Su Yi drifted down and sat languidly at the head of the Unsinkable Boat. “Now can you answer my questions?”
Wang Chonglu suddenly came to his senses.
He took a deep breath, then stared intently at the young man in blue. A moment later, he said, “Then can you tell me your origins?”
He couldn’t remain calm. He even felt a bit humiliated.
Prior to this, he’d put on the airs of a lofty expert detached from worldly affairs, and he spoke to Su Yi like a senior addressing a junior. He called him “little fellow”, and his love of talent had even given him the urge to take Su Yi as a disciple. He’d even been so shameless as to express his wish that Su Yi could carry on his mantle.
Now, Wang Chonglu suddenly realized how much of a clown he’d been!
A wave of humiliation assailed his heart, and his expression filled with discomfort.
“You have no room left to bargain,” laughed Su Yi. “I’ll count to three. If you don’t agree by then, I’ll toss you into the ocean. That won’t be enough to kill you, but if word gets out, it’ll deal a heavy blow to your reputation.”
Wang Chonglu was instantly frantic. “You wouldn’t dare!”
A Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivator dared threaten him? Did he really think the Thunderflame Demon Sovereign was some kind of herbivore?
Su Yi ignored Wang Chonglu’s powerless threats and started counting. “One.”
“You…” Wang Chonglu stretched out his finger and pointed at Su Yi, bristling with anger. He would never have guessed that the junior he’d tried to look out for would turn around and walk all over him.
He was so angry that he almost coughed up blood.
“Two.”
Su Yi leisurely took a sip of wine.
When the utterly infuriated Wang Chonglu saw that Su Yi was calm and entirely unmoved, he couldn’t help but feel frantic.
He had a sudden premonition that if he refused, this kid almost certainly really would toss him into the ocean!
“Three.”
Su Yi had only just said this when Wang Chonglu said indignantly, “Fine! You’re ruthless, kid. What do you want to know? Ask!”
He plopped down in the boat, crammed his mouth full of recovery medicine, and chewed aggressively. It was as if he weren’t eating medicine at all, but rather, Su Yi’s flesh and bone.
But his indignant appearance only gave Su Yi the urge to laugh.
“It’s the same question as before. Who’s after Liu Changsheng?” asked Su Yi.
For a moment, Wang Chonglu felt as if he’d become the junior, and that his senior was questioning him.
This left him utterly stifled, and his expression darkened. “The guy you killed earlier was from the Far Shore, the same faction that’s targeting the Mad Sword Netherworld Sovereign.”
“The Far Shore?” said Su Yi. “Why haven’t I heard of them?”
“It’s not just you,” said Wang Chonglu, his expression shifting and uncertain. “Even I still can’t figure out where this mysterious faction came from. Nine years ago, they appeared in the Sea of Bitterness seemingly out of nowhere. Its experts refer to themselves as disciples of the Far Shore.”
Here, his face filled with deep-seated dread. “What’s terrifying is that even the weakest of their experts is in the Imperial Realm, and furthermore, all of them control a calamitous, taboo power of the Grand Dao!
“You saw it when I fought and killed the last one. Although my cultivation far surpassed his, I had to pay a heavy price to take him down.”
Su Yi couldn’t help but sink into thought.
He remembered that the Fifth Executioner had similarly arrived in the City of the Wrongfully Dead nine years ago!
Furthermore, it seemed every expert of the Far Shore controlled the power of the Laws of Heavenly Prayer.
From this, he inferred that the so-called ‘Far Shore’ was really the Nine Heavens Pavilion of the Heavenly Prayer Star Realm!
“Why are they after Liu Changsheng?” Su Yi asked again.
Wang Chonglu really wanted to ask, “What does that have to do with a Spiritual Revolution Realm young man like you? Why poke your nose in other people’s business?”
But in the end, he held back.
This was just the situation he was in. What could he do about it?
Wang Chonglu said coldly, “I don’t know the details either, but I heard that not long ago, Liu Changsheng killed a prominent member of the Far Shore. It seems that’s where their enmity began.”
Su Yi’s eyebrows shot up.A prominent member of the Far Shore? Was it an Executioner? Or perhaps a Warden?
A moment later, he reached the conclusion that it most likely wasn’t a Warden. Had someone comparable to the Netherworld King been involved, most likely no one beneath the Profound Unity Realm would have been a match for them!
Su Yi took a sip of wine, then asked, “And you? Why has the Far Shore set its sights on you?”
Wang Chonglu’s expression soured. “I suppose you could consider me unlucky. I owe Liu Changsheng an enormous debt, so when I learned that he’d fallen out with the Far Shore, I decided to investigate them and see if I could learn anything that might help him. I thought I might be able to repay him that way.
“Who’d have thought that the experts of the Far Shore would be so pervertedly strong? Had I known, I wouldn’t have gotten involved.”
Here, his expression filled with dejection.
Su Yi couldn’t help but laugh. “You’re a bit unlucky, but your intentions were good. Besides, it seems you uncovered their plans to target Liu Changsheng in the near future.”
Wang Chonglu’s expression smoothed out. “Music to my ears.”
Su Yi thought for a moment, then said, “Right, do you know how many adherents the Far Shore has in the Sea of Bitterness?”
Wang Chonglu shook his head. “No one knows the answer to that.”
Su Yi couldn’t help but frown. What are members of the Nine Heavens Pavilion doing in the Sea of Bitterness? Are they investigating the Burial Ground of the Dao? Are they seeking out the secrets of reincarnation?
Or were they lured here by that mysterious Netherworld Vessel?
Here, Wang Chonglu couldn’t help but interject, “I truly don’t understand it. None of this has anything to do with you, so why ask all these questions?”
Su Yi laughed. “I’m curious.”
“....” Wang Chonglu was an old fox. How could he possibly believe an explanation like that?
He took a deep breath, then asked, “Then can you tell me just where you came from?”
It was already his second time asking that same question.
Now that he thought about it, it was rather unbelievable.
He was the Thunderflame Demon Sovereign, and most of the world’s cultivators paled at the mere mention of his name. He spent his time wandering the Sea of Bitterness, and even its most wicked and vicious heretics and devils treated him with the utmost respect. They dared not show even the slightest negligence.
Yet the young man in front of him didn’t seem to take him the least bit seriously!
He was even bullying him!
If word got out, Wang Chonglu feared no one would believe it.
Su Yi shook his head. “It’s better not to tell you. It’d only scare you.”
“????” Wang Chonglu felt a deep sense of humiliation.
Who in the Sea of Bitterness didn’t know of the Thunderflame Demon Sovereign’s reputation? Who in the Netherworld was ignorant of the Sea of Bitterness’s Seven Devils?
Yet this young man seriously seemed to think his origins would scare him!
Wang Chonglu was so angry that he almost burst into laughter. “Earlier, I admired you in vain! It seems I was simply blind!”
Su Yi nodded in complete agreement. “Your eyesight really is quite lacking.”
“....” Wang Chonglu didn’t know what to say to that.Is this kid even capable of conversing properly!?
After a lengthy silence, Wang Chonglu forcefully suppressed his displeasure. “Even if you refuse to tell me your origins, surely you can at least tell me your name?”
“Su Yi.”
“You’re surnamed Su?” Wang Chonglu racked his brains for a while, but he couldn’t wrap his head around it.
There were no ancient clans with that surname in the Netherworld!
“I do actually know of an almighty expert by that surname. If he appeared in front of me, it would indeed be enough to scare me. Not just me, either. Any old-timer of the Netherworld who saw him would be scared,” sighed Wanng Chonglu.
But then, he looked at Su Yi with disdain. “Of course, that person isn’t even remotely comparable to a Spiritual Revolution Realm kid like you. It would be no exaggeration to say that the gap between you and him is like the difference between the light of a firefly and the radiance of the full moon!”
His words were full of admiration for that legendary expert surnamed Su, as well as disdain for the Su Yi seated in front of him.
Su Yi couldn’t help but laugh. How could he fail to realize who Wang Chonglu was talking about?
“But just now, I saved your life,” Su Yi said leisurely.
Wang Chonglu’s expression froze. He had nothing to say to that, and he suddenly didn’t want to chat any longer.
He was worried he’d die of anger!
Su Yi picked up the jade slip Wang Chonglu had given him earlier. “I said that with me here, you’d make it to the City of Eternal Night alive. This jade slip naturally isn’t needed, so you can keep it.”
He flung it, and it landed in Wang Chonglu’s palm.
Wang Chongly was dazed, and his cheeks heated up. He felt utterly ashamed.
He suddenly recalled thinking that Su Yi was trying to comfort him earlier, and that Su Yi was speaking out of consideration for his feelings. He’d even felt moved!
But now, it seemed that he’d misinterpreted the situation!
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