First Immortal of the Sword-Chapter 1958: Natural Variant Species

The night was as dark as ink.

A group of Great Realm cultivators attacked without hesitation.

Boom!

Over a dozen treasures took to the sky, brimming with searing treasure light as they cut through the darkness and illuminated heaven and earth.

Off in the distance, mountains collapsed. The ancient buildings of the Academy of Eternal Night broke, offering no more resistance than paper window paneling. They were completely reduced to powder.

“Hm?” The Great Realm experts were bewildered. They’d come here prepared for a bloody struggle. Who’d have imagined the Academy of Eternal Night would break immediately?

“It seems we came here for nothing. They left a long time ago,” someone grumbled with obvious bitterness.

It was as if the entire academy were just there for decoration. It didn’t even have a grand defensive formation. Moreover, even when it was destroyed, they didn’t hear a single scream. That proved that its inhabitants had already retreated.

“That’s impossible! According to our spies, early today, the Academy of Eternal Night showed no sign of retreating, and few have gone in or out. So how could everyone possibly have disappeared by nightfall?” someone asked in confusion.

“I’m sure that this is one of that Su guy’s arrangements! He left for the Epoch Battlefield a long time ago. I’m sure he anticipated that someone would attack the Academy of Eternal Night in his absence, so he prepared backup measures,” someone said darkly.

“It’s fucking frustrating!” someone cursed.

But then, a calm voice arose out of nowhere. “No need for disappointment. I’ve been waiting for you all this time.”

Whoosh!

The Great Realm cultivators looked over and saw a figure emerge from the ruins of the Academy of Eternal Night. He was a young man with clear, handsome features and long robes. He had a proud, unrestrained air about him.

This was none other than Lin Feng.

“Just you?” The Great Realm experts frowned, instantly on guard.

Lin Feng said calmly, “I’m more than enough to kill riff-raff like you.”

Before his voice had even finished echoing through the air, he attacked.

Boom!

The Sky-Covering Boat shot through the air. A waterfall of chaos power poured down like a waterfall, directly suppressing the ten-plus Great Realm cultivators. At the same time, the clanging of a sword rang out without end, resounding throughout the night sky and echoing in all ten directions.

One streak of dazzling sword qi appeared after another, then fell to earth in a raging, explosive downpour.

“Die!” The ten-plus Great Realm experts joined forces and struck back. Shockingly, their ranks included two Great Profound Stage experts! There was no doubt about it: This group had come prepared.

Lin Feng chuckled, then attacked with all his might.

Less than ten minutes later, the battle was over. Lin Feng stood alone amidst a rain of blood, shaking his head. “Another pack of detestable fools who serve the gods. Their deaths are unworthy of pity.”

He’d killed four of the enemies himself. The others were destroyed by two of the Divine Puppets Su Yi had left behind. The battle was over just like that; not one enemy survived.

“My master might not be here, but not just anyone can bully the Academy of Eternal Night. No matter how many enemies show up, I’ll kill them all!”

Lin Feng turned, then walked toward the ruins of the Academy of Eternal Night.

When he waved his hand, something unbelievable happened. The seemingly destroyed mountains and buildings of the Academy of Eternal Night recovered in an instant, good as new.

In truth, those Great Realm experts had destroyed a mere illusion. It was just that the Great Realm experts never realized it.

But then, that just proved how wondrous and extraordinary the formation covering the Academy of Eternal Night was.

“Problem solved?” Ning Xiu walked up and asked.

“A few divine emissaries, that’s all. They’re unworthy of concern. It’s just as Master suspected; now that the struggle has begun in the Epoch Battlefield, so too have attacks on the Academy of Eternal Night,” said Lin Feng. “Similar situations are likely to arise in the days ahead. We’d all best be careful. At the very least, we have to protect this place until Master returns.”

“Got it!” Ning Xiu nodded.

Lin Feng silently added, With nine Divine Puppets defending the place, even Great Realm experts will just be throwing their lives away.

Still, he dared not get complacent. He knew that after the Path of Divinity appeared, the gods’ power would be able to reach the Immortal Realm!

……

The Epoch Battlefield.

A place like a world of chaos.

Mountains towered into the clouds. It seemed ancient and primeval, and the air was full of a shocking aura of chaos. Upon arriving, cultivators felt as if they’d entered the chaos source of the Immortal Realm, or reversed time to return to the days prior to the first parting of primordial chaos.

From time to time, resplendent, colorful streaks of divine radiance flashed past like shooting stars. These were Epoch Fragments born of the Immortal Realm’s chaos source!

Apparently, every Epoch Fragment was imbued with an Epoch Law. Any Great Profound Stage cultivator who acquired one could refine it into a Godhead, ignite their Divine Flame, and achieve godhood!

But Epoch Fragments weren’t so easily acquired. If they weren’t strong enough, the power within an Epoch Fragment could blast even Great Profound Stage cultivators to bits, killing them on the spot!

If everyone cultivated in an environment like this from the moment of their birth, they wouldn’t need long at all to reach the pinnacle of the Immortal Dao. Su Yi looked around and sighed to himself.

This place was like an ancestral chaos nest. It was full of dense, pure, primordial power of the Grand Dao far beyond the blessed grounds of the Immortal Realm!

If someone cultivated here, they wouldn’t even need to expend much effort. They could naturally sense the fundamental nature of the Grand Dao and make rapid progress in their cultivation!

But… the disadvantages were enormous, too.

In the path of cultivation, cultivators didn’t just seek power. They had to temper their hearts, too. It was just like Daoists said: you left the world to cultivate the Dao, and entered it to temper the heart. If you made rapid breakthroughs without overcoming the repeated tempering of the wind and rain, no matter how high you rose, you’d be like a tower without a base. The slightest adversity could shatter you.

The reverse situation, tempering the heart without cultivating, wouldn’t work either. If you had an unshakeable heart but lacked the power to truss a chicken, you’d still be no more than a fish on the chopping block, helpless to control your fate.

They say that this chaos battlefield has numerous naturally formed treasures in addition to opportunities to achieve divinity. I can take this chance to hunt for them, thought Su YI.

He’d asked Xi Ning about the Epoch Battlefield not long ago, and he knew that it was home to good fortune rare and precious beyond imagination. It was just that chances at divinity were so enticing that the general populace was focused on that instead.

This stretch of heaven and earth has no power of the Laws, but it does have a dense chaos source aura. It seems it really is just as Xi Ning said. The gods might not be able to descend into this place in the flesh, but I’m sure they can project their avatars of will and act directly!

As Su Yi sensed his surroundings, he walked confidently ahead. He wasn’t just wandering aimlessly. Rather, he was headed in the direction with the densest chaos source energy.

The denser the chaos source energy, the more likely he was to find good fortune, including naturally formed medicinal herbs, divine materials, and treasures. Dense chaos source energy also increased his chances of finding Epoch Fragments.

No wonder the divine children brought all those divine emissaries with them. The greater their numbers, the more good fortune they’ll be able to acquire. Numbers will also give them an advantage in the struggle for divinity. That said…

Here, a nigh imperceptible grin tugged at Su Yi’s lips. In the end, survival will come down to strength! When the time comes, all of the good fortune they went to such pains to acquire will become another’s spoils!

Simply put, if you wanted to acquire the most good fortune possible, robbing other people was the simplest, most effective way to do it. And Su Yi planned to do just that. Even before the Epoch Battlefield appeared, he knew that countless others would target him when he showed up. Who knew how many people wanted to seize this opportunity to kill him?

Given the circumstances, how could he possibly be polite?

He wasn’t afraid. On the contrary, he was downright eager for his enemies to appear before him!

Su Yi walked alone through this space permeated with chaos source power, enjoying the scenery. He wasn’t at all bored or lonely.

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“Hm?” A little less than ten minutes later, he suddenly turned and gazed into the distance. It was faint, but he heard the sounds of combat emanating from that direction. His spirits soared, and he immediately rushed toward the source of the commotion.

“Die!”

A grand battle had broken out in a valley. Three Great Profound Stage experts had joined forces against a thousand-foot-long silver centipede. Its countless legs were like sharp, shifting blades, glinting with terrifying silver light.

The silver centipede really was quite terrifying, and its entire body emanated chaos power. Its eyes were like enormous bronze lanterns flashing with viciousness and glinting with craftiness.

Even though it fought against three Great Profound Stage experts, it wasn’t at all at a disadvantage!

“Don’t tell me that this is a natural variant species born of the Immortal Realm’s chaos source?” Su Yi exclaimed.

Natural variant species, also sometimes known as primeval beasts, were creatures born of chaos sources. They had extraordinarily terrifying power.

This primal beast, for instance, was incredibly strange, and there was no record of such a creature anywhere in the Immortal Realm.

If I capture it and bring it back to the Immortal Realm, it would make an absolutely top-class guardian beast. Su Yi stroked his jaw and pondered.

A moment later, the valley beyond the battlefield drew his attention.

Unlike in the outside world, the landscape and vegetation of the Epoch Battlefield were enveloped in incomparably dense chaos source energy year-round. The mountains could withstand even the full-force attack of a Great Profound Stage expert.

As for “burning mountains, boiling seas, and ripping the sky asunder?” They couldn’t even think about it.

All of this was because this world was comprised entirely out of chaos source energies. Take the battle raging ahead—despite the astonishing commotion and shockwaves, the surrounding landscape merely quivered a little, and a few rocks and plants were destroyed, That was the full extent of it.

And within the valley, there churned a swath of fiery purple radiance, colorful and resplendent. It emanated a holy air. Upon closer inspection, a fist-sized medicinal herb was the source of it all!

Su Yi immediately walked toward it.

This was no ordinary herb. Rather, it was a Xiantian medicinal elixir born of a chaos source! Throughout the Immortal Realm’s long history, such wondrous herbs were practically unseen and unheard of.

Suddenly, someone bellowed. “Brazen! Get any closer to that herb, and we’ll kill you without mercy!”

A man in ink-black robes was currently locked in fierce combat with the silver centipede when he noticed Su Yi and shouted.

“Want to seize this opportunity to run off with our treasure? Impudent!”

“Hurry up and scram!”

The other two Great Profound Stage cultivators were frantic. They were risking their lives and fighting with all their might to acquire that precious herb. Now, someone wanted to swoop in and take it while they were locked in combat? Who could tolerate such a thing?

Without the slightest hesitation, they gave up on the silver centipede and shot toward Su Yi. All of them were seething with murderous intent.