First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1752 - Profound Ruin

The Divine Fortune Teller and the Zhuyou Great Peng were astonished. What kind of Grand Dao is this?

From a distance, it was like gazing upon an endless ruin intent on devouring heaven and earth!

The Divine Fortune Teller had a particularly strong reaction. His hands and feet quivered, and irrepressible astonishment overcame him in an uncharacteristic loss of composure.

He could sense a portion of the power of destiny in the mysteries of the Grand Dao emanating from Su Yi’s hand!

The path he’d sought his entire life was one of divining the mysteries of the heavens and the workings of fate. This path was among the most taboo, and it was full of unpredictable catastrophes. The vast majority of cultivators viewed it with dread and aversion.

By now, the Divine Fortune Teller was riddled with tribulations. His cultivation had dropped out of the Great Realm, and he had no choice but to scamper and hide to avoid divine punishment. All he could do was live in degradation and desperately cling to life!

The reason for this was simple. The path he sought touched upon the secrets of destiny. It was full of calamity and catastrophe!

But even if you’d hit the Divine Fortune Teller over the head, he would never have guessed that Su Yi had mastered a Grand Dao similarly connected to destiny!

Furthermore, it seemed incomparably mysterious and ethereal. It was unbelievable!

Why do I get the sense that this power of the Grand Dao is the one I’ve been searching for all my life? The Divine Fortune Teller watched in a daze, his expression shifting erratically.

In the distant skies, the seedling of the Tree of All Worlds swayed. It had obviously noticed the mysteries of the Grand Dao Su Yi had on display.

Chaos mist flowed around it, as if it had found a safe place to take refuge. It was suddenly eager for action!

“We’re in for a show!” The Zhuyou Great Peng looked excited.

Plants couldn’t leave the nourishing embrace of the earth. If they did, they’d inevitably become rootless.

Su Yi’s power of the Grand Dao was like the most enticing of soils. It had drawn the seedling’s interest!

Time slipped by until, finally, it seemed the seedling couldn’t take it anymore. It shot through the air. A moment later, it appeared in Su Yi’s hand.

That was where the wondrous power of the Grand Dao was emanating from, manifesting an endless illusory ruin. The seedling felt as if it had returned to its nest of chaos. This power could nourish its vital source energy!

Whoosh~

Its slender stalk swayed, and its leaves danced about, as if deeply intoxicated.

“He did it!” cried out the Zhuyou Great Peng.

A grin tugged at Su Yi’s lips. Just as I thought!

In his past life, he explored the Buzhou Mountains many times over in search of leads to the Tree of All Worlds.

To this end, he’d read countless ancient tomes, and he’d asked many of his friends for information regarding the tree. In the end, he acquired worthwhile intelligence.

The Tree of All Worlds grew amidst the chaos source of the Buzhou Mountains. It was like a natural-born divine life form, a divine tree of spatial power. Its branches stretched into the natural order of all worlds.

That aside, the tree had innate wisdom and awareness. The moment it sensed the danger, it fled.

It had innate control over space, so when it fled, it could cross space in an instant, shifting between worlds with ease. There was absolutely no way of subduing it with force; it was hopeless even for a Great Realm expert!

The only way to subdue the tree was to earn its approval.

This was a divine life form born of chaos. Nothing was more irresistible to such life forms than things capable of transforming their source energies.

Alas, transforming their source energy was far too difficult, as hard as changing a person’s innate aptitude. How could such a thing possibly be easy?

Treasures capable of transforming and developing the tree’s source power were thus incredibly rare. They could only be happened upon by chance, not sought.

For all of Wang Ye’s abilities, he’d only found a tiny handful of springs and treasures capable of transforming divine chaos life forms.

Even so, none had ever been useful, as in the end, Wang Ye never found the Tree of All Worlds.

But that was no problem for Su Yi! After all, he controlled a Grand Dao acquired in the River of Destiny: Profound Ruin!

This was a gift from his first incarnation, given to help him break the fetters of destiny and sever the karmic ties of his past lives!

Even now, Su Yi vividly recalled what that figure standing above the River of Destiny had told him. The Dao of Profound Ruin could sever karma and restrict fate! It would help him establish an unhindered mental state and no longer be subject to reincarnation’s karmic fetters!

Over the years, Su Yi had seldom used the Grand Dao of Profound Ruin. He didn’t even use it against Wang Ye’s Dao Imprint in their battle for control.

But Su Yi couldn’t deny that in terms of taboo power and mystery, Profound Ruin was in no way weaker than reincarnation. This was because it was connected to destiny. It could sever karma and restrict fate!

Now, when Su Yi used the Grand Dao of Profound Ruin to subdue the Tree of All Worlds, it really was as easy as could be. He barely had to do anything at all. The seedling threw itself into his hand!

“Congratulations, Your Excellency. You’ve tamed a divine chaos life form thought only to exist in rumors!” the Zhuyou Great Peng said toadyishly.

The Divine Fortune Teller, however, remained silent. He stared intently at the illusory, desolate landscape manifested of the Grand Dao of Profound Ruin, completely dazed.

Su Yi noticed his strange behavior and asked, “What’s up with you, old-timer?”

The Divine Fortune Teller reacted as if awakening from a dream. He took a deep breath, his expression suddenly full of eagerness, and said, “Grandpa Su, are you perhaps accepting disciples?”

“....” Su Yi didn’t even know what to say.

The Zhuyou Great Peng shuddered and said disdainfully, “Old bastard, how could you be this shameless? That’s not how you lick someone’s boots!”

“What do you mean by this?” Su Yi frowned; he too found this out of the ordinary.

The Divine Fortune Teller had a complicated look on his face as he gestured to the mysteries of Profound Ruin emanating from Su Yi’s palm and said, “Forgive my poor manners. I’m just desperate to learn those mysteries of the Grand Dao from you.”

Su Yi mulled that over. He vaguely understood. “Can this treat your Dao wounds?”

“Yes, but that’s not all,” said the Divine Fortune Teller. “Those are the unparalleled mysteries of the Grand Dao I’ve been bitterly searching for my entire life!”

He let out a deep sigh, his gaze suddenly bleak. “As you know, throughout the ages, I’ve been searching for mysteries of the Grand Dao involving the workings of fate, but such powers are far too fleeting and ethereal. They practically only exist in legend.

“I thought that this was as far as my powers of divination could go, and that I was doomed never to make any further progress.... I would never have thought I’d discover the very thing I was looking for in your hands!”

Here, his gaze heated up. “I even have a strong premonition that if I master that power of the Grand Dao, I’ll be able to cure my Dao wounds, shatter the endless tribulations plaguing me, and sever all of the negative karma I’ve accrued!

“Recovering my former peak strength will be well within the bounds of possibility, and I might even advance further within the Great Realm!”

Here, the Divine Fortune Teller waved his hands about. He was so excited that he’d completely lost his comportment.

Only now did the Zhuyou Great Peng understand why the Divine Fortune Teller wanted to become Su Yi’s disciple. It’s not because he was impressed that the Sovereign subdued the Tree of All Worlds. It’s because the Sovereign’s ability fits his chosen path perfectly!!

Su Yi now understood too. Prior to the Age of Fallen Immortals, the Divine Fortune Teller told Wang Ye that he’d once been in the second stage of the Great Realm, Great Unity!

But his powers of divination were so taboo that he’d provoked endless catastrophes and divine punishments. He was plagued by endless disasters, and his Dao wounds had significantly reduced his cultivation. He’d fallen out of the Great Realm completely!

“Please, I beg of you! Accept me as your disciple!” The Divine Fortune Teller wrapped his arms around Su Yi’s leg

“....” Su Yi didn’t even know what to say.

The Zhuyou Great Peng couldn’t stand to watch this. I know he’s doing this in pursuit of his own path, but why can’t he have the slightest comportment or moral integrity?

He’s literally clinging to the Eternal Night Immortal Sovereign’s thigh. Shameless!

Feh!

Even Su Yi was too dazed to react right away, but before long, he flung the Divine Fortune Teller away and said irritably, “Any more of this shameless behavior, and I won’t help you at all!”

The Divine Fortune Teller awkwardly scratched his head. “I’m just worried that you won’t agree, aren’t I? Besides, I truly cannot think of anything I can offer you in exchange. This is all I can do.”

“Stand aside and wait for now,” said Su Yi.

He found a suitable spot, sat down cross-legged, and silently sensed the Tree of All Worlds seedling in his hand.

He felt as if he were atop an immeasurably enormous tree, its dense branches stretching out like tentacles through countless worlds, piercing the barriers between them and the walls of the natural order!

The tree was just too enormous. It grew amidst outer space, and even stars seemed as minuscule as grains of sand before it. Entire vast worlds and planes were like lanterns adorning its branches!

And Su Yi felt as if he’d become a part of this mysterious tree. So long as he willed it, he could travel freely to each of the worlds it connected.

But then, all of these strange visions disappeared.

A swath of chaos surged forth, murky and gray, as if heaven and earth had yet to take shape.

Su Yi suddenly sensed a powerful longing.

It was as if a living thing were calling to him, hungry to grow and evolve!

The longing was so intense that the entire stretch of chaos shook violently and split. A seed burst through its casing and sprouted green leaves and a stalk.

So, this is a vision of the Tree of All Worlds ‘breaking through the ground’ and laying roots... Su Yi thought to himself.

A moment later, the vision disappeared completely, and Su Yi suddenly discovered that the seedling of the Tree of All Worlds had disappeared from his palm.

There was now a streak of verdant green within his Immortal Origin Space. Upon closer inspection, it was the seedling of the Tree of All Worlds!

Compared to the boundless enormity of his Immortal Origin Space, it seemed extraordinarily minuscule.

But after it appeared, his Immortal Origin Space silently gave rise to a dense, chaotic energy, and a unique and mysterious life force!

The “Sword of the Nine Hells” hovering in his Immortal Origin Space was condensed out of his powers of the Grand Dao, but the seedling didn’t seem at all afraid of it. On the contrary, it drew closer and extended its roots into it.

Boom!

Su Yi’s entire body shook. His Immortal Origin Space rumbled and boomed as the revelation hit him——

His Grand Dao of Profound Ruin was sufficient to transform and develop the seedling of the Tree of All Worlds!

Furthermore, its source powers could help him grasp the Laws of the Natural Order of all worlds as he cultivated, and he could continuously absorb the aura of the Grand Dao from throughout the surrounding area!

In the future, when the little seedling grew into a towering tree, he’d be able to travel between all worlds at whim!

After understanding all this, Su Yi couldn’t help but be astonished. The Tree of All Worlds really lived up to its reputation as one of the Six Great Divine Trees of the Primeval Era.

Possessing the Tree of All Worlds was like owning a divine artifact that accelerated his cultivation, as well as a door to all worlds and planes!