Chapter 98

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Chapter 98: Provoking Pursuit

Immortal Su Yuan had been chased for over a thousand years.

It was not only because he betrayed the Dongxuan Sect as a humble commoner, or because he offended many people within the sect in the past by refusing to yield, but also because he angered Shang Wuyang’s supporters.

For the first thousand years, he had been cultivating his sword skills in seclusion in the Dongxuan World. During that time, the most outstanding disciple in the sect was Shang Wuyang, whose swordsmanship was said to have reached a profound level, daring to cut through the thunder during ascension.

When Shang Wuyang ascended, Immortal Su Yuan was still in the Dongxuan Sect and witnessed the scene.

Every one of the over a hundred thunder tribulations was a rare genius of a millennium, and the slightly declining reputation of the Dongxuan Sect was revived because of Shang Wuyang’s ascension, making everyone in the sect proud of him.

At that time, a disciple who disapproved of Immortal Su Yuan’s sword skills drew his sword intending to embarrass him. He asked, "Aren’t you supposed to be skilled in swordsmanship? Then tell us, how does our Martial Uncle Shang’s swordsmanship compare?"

For people who are more polite, they might say they don’t know enough to judge, or they might praise Shang Wuyang’s swordsmanship excessively, but it’s true that Shang Wuyang’s sword skills are indeed exceptional, even a nice word of praise wouldn’t be considered a lie.

But even the person asking the question didn’t expect that Su Yuan was such a tough kid.

He was so straightforward that he even commented on Shang Wuyang’s swordsmanship—

"Very impressive, but not as amazing as you all make it out to be."

Shang Wuyang is indeed very skilled, he admitted.

But praising is one thing, insisting on praising to the level of a master swordsman, the number one sword cultivator in the world, and a sword that outshines all others in the world, that’s going too far.

Not to mention, Immortal Su Yuan himself is not inferior at all.

Just with that one sentence, Shang Wuyang himself wasn’t upset, but his fans held a grudge against Immortal Su Yuan. This made Su Yuan’s already tough time within the Dongxuan Sect even more difficult, and eventually he escaped the Dongxuan World, with this group of people relentlessly pursuing him for thousands of years.

He cursed silently, thinking that the ways of the world were outrageous, not letting honest people speak up!

"Huh? You still want to escape?"

The girl in the blue dress seemed to have discovered something unbelievable. Her eyebrows raised as she gazed at Immortal Su Yuan, her red lips slightly parted.

"Ants like you all think you can escape our grasp."

"Don’t waste your efforts. Kneel down and await our judgment. Maybe Martial Uncle Shang will spare your life. Then you can sweep the mountain gate or work in the medicinal field."

"No, if the herbs are contaminated by the lowly people, they’ll be ruined. It’s better to kill them."

The voices were not actually malicious towards Immortal Su Yuan, as they were not physically harming anyone; it was just their ingrained beliefs.

They were disciples of the Dongxuan Sect, feeling entitled to dictate everything about the lowly people in the mortal world.

That was their common mindset.

Unfortunately, Immortal Su Yuan did not share the same views!

Never give up without a fight.

Even if it takes them half an hour, it’s worth fighting to help Shen Xinghai and two others get a chance to escape.

Cloud Sea World is huge and filled with mysterious clouds, which can block Divine Sense from detecting them. So once they escape down there, it won’t be easy to find them!

Keep moving forward, sword cultivator!

"How dare you draw your sword! Your sword skills were taught by our Dongxuan Sect. How dare a mere weakling like you draw a sword in front of us?"

No, this is my way of the Qingliu Sword Sect!

Immortal Su Yuan rushed forward, roaring with sword intent, refusing to step back.

He may not remember his past in the Qingliu Sword Sect, but his body still recalls the details of sword movements, engraved into his bones. He remembers he is the founder of the sect, with his descendants behind him. He is no longer a wandering sword cultivator, he now has a sect and descendants to protect!

While swinging his sword and cursing, Immortal Su Yuan’s tears suddenly rolled down his dirty and wrinkled cheeks.

I don’t want to die either, who the heck wants to die?

Is it wrong for people from the lower realm to just want to live?

Striking out fiercely with one sword after another, feeling cold from fingertips to the heart, knowing they are no match yet still struggling, refusing to submit to defeat; this is probably the pride of a sword cultivator.

"I have pride too!"

"Ridiculous!"

"Curse you! Get lost, you trash from Dongxuan World! I’ve been fed up with you for a long time!"

"How dare a lowly citizen speak so arrogantly!"

"I won’t just curse you, I’ll curse your father, curse your ancestors, curse your Martial Uncle Shang too!"

"Outrageous!"

Finally, the people from Dongxuan Sect were angered by these words. The girl in the blue dress, who seemed to be the leader, had a frosty expression on her face. She bit her silver teeth and angrily ordered the three people behind her, "What are you waiting for? Quickly cut off this commoner’s tongue for me!"

"But you just said you wanted to capture him alive…"

"Kill him!"

In between speaking, she tightly gripped the thin blue sword in her hand, pressed it with her delicate hand, and stabbed directly towards Immortal Su Yuan.

If it were just her alone, Immortal Su Yuan could still handle it. After all, most of these young disciples had been practicing inside the sect for years and lacked the combat experience he had accumulated from countless battles in various realms.

However, with the four of them attacking together, he barely managed to counterattack against this sword, while another unrelenting sword intent pierced straight towards his heart.

The sword intent was as cold as ice, causing Immortal Su Yuan’s body to slow down, freezing half of his body. Even his attempts to dodge came to a halt.

It’s over.

His heart sank, his drooping eyelids trembled, and he took the last breath of his life…

"Roar!"

A fierce dragon’s roar echoed through the world like thunder.

In the twisted void, a massive dragon head emerged from a spatial crack, followed by a blazing golden-red flame. The scorching heat carried a dominating aura, clashing head-on with a cold ice sword intent!

The ice sword intent was not easily melted by ordinary flames, but this fire was no ordinary fire.

This was dragon fire!

The ice sword intent was instantly evaporated into wisps of white smoke. The disciples of Dongxuan Sect reacted quickly, realizing that someone had come to rescue Immortal Su Yuan. Without hesitation, they attacked again towards the front.

The woman in green shouted, "Kill this monster along with the peasants!"

However, at that moment, the golden-red monster that had emerged from the spatial crack finally revealed its complete form. It was so massive that it almost covered the entire sky above. A cluster of incredibly beautiful and stunning hot golden flames burned on its short tail.

The cold look from its golden vertical pupils.

She took two steps back.

"Who are you trying to kill?"

A clear and graceful voice, completely different from the red giant dragon, sounded out. The lady in the blue dress was stunned, and upon closer inspection, she realized that it wasn’t the dragon speaking.

A young lady in a pale white dress sat on the back of the giant dragon, her features delicate and elegant like a watercolor painting, with a hint of a lazy smile on her lips, holding a staff in her hand.

The attention of several Dongxuan World cultivators was drawn to her, but before they could speak, the previously smiling young lady suddenly flew up and swung her strange staff heavily in their direction!

Wen Yun’s style was to act without much ado.

"Darn it! Kill that girl!"

"There are only two of them… oh, there is actually one more!"

A sword thrust diagonally, sharp and fierce in intent, caught everyone off guard as another figure, previously shielded by the giant dragon, now revealed himself as he launched an attack.

Little Charmander felt like he was being hinted at that he had gotten fat again.

"Hey, Yun! Ye!"

Immortal Su Yuan was ecstatic, but he couldn’t reminisce at this crucial moment. Seeing the other two starting to attack without a word, he immediately joined in with his sword.

In the midst of the battle, he secretly glanced over at Wen Yun, becoming more and more worried as he looked.

When did Ye Shubai reach the Transmigration Realm again? And judging by his aura, he seemed to be on the verge of ascension?

What’s even more dangerous is that both of them have an overly strong sense of battle awareness!

The prestigious direct disciple of Dongxuan World, albeit not very famous individuals, were actually being suppressed by these three.

Battles between sword cultivators are often a matter of life and death in an instant. Once the sword is drawn, you can only keep fighting. If you’re a moment too slow, the opponent’s sword will pierce through your body. Wen Yun and the others acted too swiftly, leaving these Dongxuan Sect sword cultivators with no time to use their treasures!

Seeing his side gaining the upper hand, Immortal Su Yuan roared, "Kill them, don’t let them escape!"

At this moment, being soft-hearted is no different than releasing a tiger back into the mountains, and it’s more likely to bring great trouble to Cloud Sea World.

Upon hearing these words, the woman in the blue dress who was desperately defending herself felt flustered, and her sword defense revealed a flaw.

"If you dare to strike, Dongxuan Sect will not spare you… Argh!"

A trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth as the wooden sword stabbed straight from her back, pierced through her chest, and the powerful force almost instantly crushed her lungs and injured not only her body but also her soul, taking the life of an expert in the Ascension Realm.

Just now, they killed Immortal Su Yuan from behind, but in the blink of an eye, the roles of hunter and prey were reversed.

Immortal Su Yuan was fighting with her in front, while someone stabbed her from behind.

Before taking her last breath, the woman in the blue dress struggled to turn her head, as if trying to see clearly who was killing her.

However, upon seeing the clear and cold face, her eyes widened suddenly, seemingly witnessing an unbelievable scene, and she choked on incomprehensible words.

Until her last moment, her wide eyes never closed, always reflecting that face.

Ye Shubai pulled back his sword.

*

The arrival of two powerful foreign players instantly turned the game into a decisive battle.

The dust settled.

Immortal Su Yuan held the sword dripping with blood, and his agitated emotions slowly calmed down.

He cast a shocked look at the little dragon and murmured, "I never thought… that Little Hong, you are the true hidden expert."

The cool entrance of the little dragon not only stunned the cultivators of Dongxuan World, but also completely won over Immortal Su Yuan.

From his address, it was evident that he truly admired the little dragon who had broken through space, and his attitude changed completely.

The little dragon blushed; if Wen Yun was not present, it could still pretend, but now its master was here, it felt too embarrassed to take credit.

"It wasn’t me, it was her…"

Wen Yun was squatting on the ground skillfully searching through a space bag on the corpse. Without looking up, she replied, "I placed a teleportation array on you."

"A teleportation array?"

Immortal Su Yuan didn’t understand the meaning of this sentence at first.

Wen Yun nodded and patiently explained, "I was a bit worried when I asked you to return to Qingliu Sword Sect earlier, after all, your old enemies are everywhere in the realms…"

"I have always made friends with many people, it’s not as bad as you say!" Immortal Su Yuan tried to argue against her statement.

"So, being hunted down this time was just an accident?"

Immortal Su Yuan fell silent.

Wen Yun continued searching through things and explained, "I was worried that you would be hunted down, so I placed a teleportation array on your sword earlier. If I sense you are in danger, I can teleport to your side immediately from Cloud Sea World."

Just now she was discussing recent cultivation insights with Ye Shubai when she suddenly sensed the formation in turmoil, guessing that Immortal Su Yuan was in trouble.

Hurrying over, the two of them unexpectedly saved the old sword cultivator from almost losing his life.

Immortal Su Yuan’s eyes turned slightly red after hearing this, sighing, "Little Yun girl, I never expected you to care for me so much…"

He was deeply moved and felt grateful for the filial concern from the younger generation, regretting scolding Wen Yun as heartless earlier.

Wen Yun, not noticing the old sword cultivator’s reaction, was skillfully using her powerful Divine Sense to erase the spiritual imprints on their space bags and various treasures.

The disciples of Dongxuan Sect were all wealthy, each carrying an abundance of Origin Crystals, but more importantly, they possessed a variety of precious treasures.

Hearing Immortal Su Yuan’s words, she casually replied, "Actually, this teleportation formation had never been used before. I just wanted to experiment with it using you, and it unexpectedly worked."

Experiment?

Judging by her words, if he had been unlucky and the formation had failed, he would have met his end at the sect’s doorstep today?!

Originally, all the worries of the ancestors were false?

Immortal Su Yuan was so angry that he almost rolled his eyes and fainted.

Wen Yun happily tossed the plundered spoils to Ye Shubai, then curiously looked at the three palm-sized wooden plaques, "Senior, what kind of treasures are these? I can’t figure out what these things are used for."

Immortal Su Yuan’s eyes fell on the object, his expression changed drastically, and he sternly said, "Give it to me!"

Wen Yun was taken aback.

Immortal Su Yuan snatched the three small wooden plaques from Wen Yun’s hand and said heavily, "These are the identity plaques of Dongxuan Sect disciples. Alas, I’ve been away from Dongxuan Sect for too long and actually forgot about this!"

"This item consists of a main and a sub plaque. The main plaque is placed in the sect, while the sub plaque is carried on one’s person, each containing the disciple’s soul imprint. Once the person dies, it will crack."

He displayed the wooden plaques in his hand, and sure enough, all three plaques had cracks on them.

"Dongxuan Sect probably already knows about the deaths of the three of them, and based on the position of these sub plaques, they have likely deduced that they are near Cloud Sea World. They will probably arrive here within three days! I will now take these three sub plaques and escape to other realms to distract them. You all quickly go in the opposite direction…"

His voice sounded more and more bitter as he continued speaking.

He thought he could finally settle down, but to his surprise, even at his age, he still had to keep running for his life… Oh, he had no choice but to run, after all, only he had rich experience in escaping.

"I’ll go first, you destroy the body…"

"Elder!" Wen Yun interrupted Immortal Su Yuan.

"What is it?"

"This time, you don’t need to keep running." After many years, Wen Yun’s presence grew stronger, she looked at Immortal Su Yuan with bright eyes and said, "It’s not easy for Little Bai and me to establish some properties in Cloud Sea World after working hard, how can we easily let go of them?"

Ye Shubai also nodded in agreement and said seriously, "The Cloud Island we’ve earned could perhaps be exchanged for millions of Origin Crystals."

Millions of Origin Crystals?

Immortal Su Yuan couldn’t help but swallow nervously upon hearing this number, but he quickly reacted and angrily said, "Are you two valuing money more than life! Is Origin Crystal more important or life?"

"Life is important, I value it the most."

Wen Yun quickly took back the three wooden tiles from his hand, weighed them in her hand, then glanced at Immortal Su Yuan and raised an eyebrow, "Did they come to Cloud Sea World not to chase you?"

No matter how you think about it, this kind of professional work of hunting should not be left to these four pampered young people.

The old sword cultivator hesitated for a moment and answered truthfully, "It was an accidental encounter. They seem to have come to Cloud Sea World for trial…"

"Trial? That’s simple then."

Wen Yun squinted her eyes and revealed a contented smile.

"Just recently, I discovered where the most dangerous place in Cloud Sea World is."

Immortal Su Yuan instinctively asked, "Where is it?"

Wen Yun pointed downwards and said softly, "It’s the sea of clouds below."

Ye Shubai timely added, "Didn’t the predecessors say before that Cloud Island is precious because there is a Cloud Beast devouring it deep in the cloud sea? I checked Cloud Island a few days ago and found that one of the islands had disappeared."

"To be precise, only a small piece the size of Little Hong is left, and the rest has been completely devoured." Wen Yun waved her wand lightly and said,

"Going out for training, if you encounter some monsters and get eaten, it’s your own fault, right?"

She wasn’t originally good at shifting blame, but after receiving guidance from the Wan family ancestor years ago, she made rapid progress.

The little fire dragon shook its tail and wondered, "I always feel like you’re implying that I’m a monster?"

Wen Yun, "…Stop always assuming things in situations like this."

When someone calls you a pig, why don’t you realize it yourself?