First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1728 - One Master, Four Sword Sovereigns

Su Yi subtly inclined his head.

It was true. He’d seen visions of Luo Changning in the golden beast skin. In them, he learned that the gods had tried to suppress him and prevent him from seeking divinity. They even wanted to make Luo Changning into one of their slaves, but Luo Changning saw this as an enormous affront to his dignity!

Looking at it from another angle, the mere fact that the gods had targeted him and joined forces to suppress him proved just how extraordinary Luo Changning’s Great Realm cultivation was.

Su Yi thought for a moment, then said, “But you’ve fought with gods before too. You shouldn’t be much weaker than Luo Changning.”

The Abyss of Dark Fog was actually an ancient battlefield! A shocking, grand battle took place here during the Primeval Era.

Back then, the sword-bearing ape fought alongside his allies, waging war against a group of divine emissaries.

In the final, critical juncture, the power of the gods descended into the Human Realm, suppressing the ape and his allies!

In the end, all of them died brutal deaths save for the ape. The battle was undoubtedly brutal.

The ape survived, but he didn’t escape divine punishment. A calamitous, taboo power invaded his body, trapping him in the ruins of the battlefield. Even now, countless years later, he’d yet to escape captivity.

“There’s no way to compare us.” The sword-bearing ape shook his head. “Sword Sovereign Changning was my senior. Perhaps I wasn’t much weaker than him, but in terms of accumulations and prestige, I was definitely inferior to him.”

Here, he seemed to recall something, and his gaze turned strange. “More importantly, Sword Sovereign Changning’s master was inextricably involved in my breakthrough into the Great Realm.”

Su Yi was quite surprised, and he couldn’t help but be curious. “Tell me more.”

The ape’s expression filled with reminiscence. “This was a long, long time ago, the middle of the Primordial Era. Four unparalleled Sovereigns of the Dao of the Sword Appeared, one after another.”

“Their names were Sword Sovereign Changning, Sword Sovereign Lin Feng, Sword Sovereign Ning Xiu, and Sword Sovereign Dong Xuan.

“All four were leading figures of their era, and all were among the greatest experts of the Primeval Era, as radiant as the sun illuminating the skies of the Immortal Realm.

“But although almost no one knew it, all four had a common origin!”

Su Yi couldn’t help but find this astonishing. What kind of orthodoxy could give rise to four unrivaled Sword Sovereigns in a row?

It’s simply unbelievable!

Wang Ye founded an academy, never a sect, and he had no disciples. However, over the course of his life, he’d offered his guidance to numerous others. Several had reached the Great Realm with his help.

But only a few of those Great Realm experts were worthy of the title “unrivaled.” They included the first dean of the Academy of Eternal Night, Yu Linyuan, and the seventh leader of the Central Immortal Court, the Southern Profound Immortal Sovereign.

And neither of them were Wang Ye’s disciples. He’d merely offered them aid and guidance.

By comparison, a single sect producing four unrivaled Sword Emperors in rapid succession had to have extraordinarily terrifying foundations.

“What sect were they from?” Su Yi couldn’t help but ask.

The ape shook his head. “They weren’t from a sect. Rather, they were disciples of the same master.”

Su Yi found this even more surprising. “Who?”

The ape’s eyes filled with reverence as he whispered, “Li Fuyou, the most mysterious and transcendent sword immortal of the Primeval Era.

“He wandered with the ancestor of all things, treating things as things, never letting himself become an object!”

“In the Primeval Era, ordinary immortals didn’t even know his name. It’s much like how the Grand Dao has no name.

“But to Immortal Sovereigns of the Great Realm, Senior Li Fuyou was an insurmountable existence!”

“We saw him as an unfettered immortal freely wandering the heavens, and a ‘ferryman’ of the Grand Dao. He left his ship, the Fuyou Boat, on the shore of the Eastern Sea. Anyone who earned its recognition, no matter who they were, could board it. The ship carried the chosen to the place Li Fuyou lived in seclusion, Spiritual Desolation Mountain.

“Senior Li Fuyou left a Tower of Scriptures on Spiritual Desolation Mountain. It was the greatest repository of knowledge in the Primeval Era!”

Here, the ape let out a rueful sigh. “I could tell you tales of his exploits for three days straight without running out of things to say. Simply put, in the Primeval Era, Great Realm experts reigned supreme, but only Li Fuyou was the only one to stand above the Great Realm!”

Su Yi’s eyebrows rose. “Does that mean he achieved divinity and became a god?”

The ape shook his head. “I’m not sure. When Sword Sovereign Changning first rose to prominence, Senior Li Fuyou had already vanished. Rumor had it that he left for the River of Epochs in search of greater heights of the Dao of the Sword. In the countless years that followed, there was no further word of him.”

Su Yi whispered, “He trained four Sword Sovereigns, and even Great Realm experts revered him. This Li Fuyou... really was unbelievable!”

The sword-bearing ape’s expression filled with nostalgia. “Although I never met Senior Li Fuyou, I was once fortunate enough to earn the Fuyou Boat’s recognition. It carried me through the Eastern Seas, all the way to Spiritual Desolation Mountain, where I spent over a year contemplating Daoist canons in the Tower of Scriptures.

“This experience helped me to fully establish my Dao of the Sword. It’s thanks to him that I later proved my Dao, entered the Great Realm, and rose to prominence!”

The ape couldn’t help but be wistful.

Su Yi finally understood why the sword-bearing ape said he had a deep connection to Sword Sovereign Changning.

It was also no wonder the ape dared not compare himself to Luo Changning. Luo Changning’s master, Li Fuyou, had effectively enlightened the ape, an enormous act of benevolence. How could the ape possibly treat one of his disciples with disrespect?

Besides, Luo Changning proved his Dao and entered the Great Realm long before the sword-bearing ape.

“A truly impressive figure. It’s truly a pity that since we were born in different eras, I’ll never get to meet him,” said Su Yi. He took a sip of wine.

The sword-bearing ape laughed. “Prior to the Age of Fallen Immortals, you reigned supreme over the Immortal Realm, accomplishing numerous dazzling, legendary feats. You aren’t one whit inferior to someone like Sword Sovereign Changning, and Senior Li Fuyou is superior to you only in that he went a step further in his pursuit of the Dao.”

He paused, his gaze suddenly strange. “Besides, throughout the ages, you’re the first and only person to have ever mastered reincarnation.”

Su Yi couldn’t help but laugh dryly. “That’s true. Rather than lamenting that I cannot meet my forebears, I ought to lament that they never got the chance to see me!”

A moment later, Su Yi flipped his palm, and a bronze command medallion transformed into the Combat Soul Puppet Lei Ze.

“Do you recognize him, Daoist Brother?”

The ape was initially stunned. His pupils constricted, and he shot to his feet, unable to remain seated as he cried out in disbelief, “Lei Ze!?”

The ape’s astonishment was immediately obvious!

“Fellow Daoist, where on earth did you find Lei Ze?” asked the sword-bearing ape.

So Yi patiently explained everything that had happened in the hidden realm deep within the Demon Hunt Divine Mountains.

Learning the full story only made the ape even more agitated and excitable. “There was a Dao Contemplation Platform forged of Chaos Essence Stone, and a six-inch sword coffin, too?”

Su Yi nodded. “The platform has shattered, but I acquired the sword coffin.”

He then took it out for the ape to see.

But when he tried to pass it to his old friend, the coffin struggled violently and burst with inscrutable energy fluctuations that sealed it firmly to Su Yi’s palm. He couldn’t give it away even if he wanted to.

Su Yi rubbed his nose awkwardly. “Seems that this treasure only recognizes me.”

The ape said nothing. He just stared intently at the coffin, his expression shifting erratically and his chest heaving violently.

He’d completely lost his composure!

After seeing Lei Ze, and especially after seeing the six-inch sword coffin, the ape’s reaction was strange, and he lost control of his emotions!

This was naturally out of the ordinary. This strange reaction told Su Yi that the ape recognized Lei Ze and the coffin’s origins!

The ape slowly regained his calm, but when he next looked at Su Yi, his gaze was strange and a bit complicated. “Old friend, if I didn’t already know who you were, I’d suspect you were really Senior Li Fuyou!”

Su Yi didn’t know what to make of that. “???”

But before he could ask questions, the sword-bearing ape continued, “The Combat Soul Puppet Lei Ze has power equivalent to a Great Unity Stage expert. They say one of Senior Li Fuyou’s close friends refined Lei Ze personally, and that Lei Ze served Senior Li Fuyou ever since, attending to his daily needs.

“One of Senior Li Fuyou’s disciples, Sword Sovereign Ning Xiu, confirmed the rumor. It’s most likely true."

“I wouldn’t have thought I’d see Lei Ze again now, countless years later, much less that he’d appear beside you,” said the ape, his gaze strange. “It’s far too strange.”

Without so much as batting an eye, Su Yi said, “And what about the six-inch sword coffin?”

“As I’m sure you’ve already guessed... it too belonged to Senior Li Fuyou!”

Su Yi instantly sank into silence. Despite his outer calm, waves of emotion coursed through his heart.

Don’t tell me that Li Fuyou was my fifth incarnation!?

He recalled the way Lei Ze addressed him as “Master” when they first met, and how the long-dormant Sword of the Nine Hells reacted when he laid eyes on the six-inch sword coffin. The divine chain representing his fifth lifetime moved!

It was because of that strange movement that the six-inch sword coffin threw itself into his arms of its own accord!

At the time, Su Yi guessed that both the coffin and the Combat Soul Puppet, Lei Ze, were deeply connected to his fifth incarnation.

He would never have guessed he’d get such an answer so soon after discussing the matter with the sword-bearing ape!

Li Fuyou!

The master of the four unrivaled Sword Sovereigns of the Primeval Era, the most transcendent, legendary figure of his age, was actually his fifth incarnation?

Is this true? Su Yi muttered to himself. He tried to use his divine sense to examine the Sword of the Nine Hells, but he got no response whatsoever.

Su Yi couldn’t calm down. He had a strong premonition that all of this was true!

Meanwhile, the ape continued, as if speaking to himself, “In the Primeval Era, rumors circulated that when Senior Li Fuyou left the Immortal Realm, he left behind a six-inch sword coffin.

“They said that whoever acquired it would inherit everything he’d left in the Immortal Realm!”