First Immortal of the Sword-Chapter 2065 - Risking It All

Luo Xuanji’s declaration left the whole crowd stunned.

She intends to repay him with her life! Is the former master of the City of the Lost about to oppose everyone else here?

Su Yi was stunned, but he didn’t deny her debt of gratitude.

Daoist Master Endless Tribulations was the first to chime in. He said coldly, "Luo Xuanji, do this, and you’ll destroy your true body completely! Don’t forget that you are not of this era, and that the Laws of the present are enough to grind your true body away completely. No further traces of you will exist in this world!”

“If I were afraid to die, I wouldn’t have come here,” Luo Xuanji said calmly, her eyes shining like stars as she scanned her surroundings. “If you don’t believe me, you’re welcome to try me.”

The gods’ expressions filled with uncertainty.

This was the ruler, or at least former ruler, of a forbidden zone, and she was here in the flesh. If she really chose to risk it all to defend Su Yi, who’d dare to disregard her?

Many of the Master Gods frowned. Luo Xuanji was a variable that none of them had anticipated.

Meanwhile, Luo Xuanji approached Su Yi and said gently, “Fellow Daoist Su, I’ve come to open a path for you. All you have to do is follow me.”

Su Yi took a deep, hard look at her, but in the end, he said nothing.

Luo Xuanji’s red dress swayed around her. She was already on her way to the Ancient God Ridge.

The Master Gods and rulers of forbidden zones looked on in fury. None of them could tolerate this.

“Luo Xuanji, you’re seeking out your own demise!”

“Attack together. Kill her!”

“Yeah!”

......The Master Gods and rulers of forbidden zones all attacked at once.

Boom!!

Dazzling divine radiance shook heaven and earth.

Master Gods stood proudly over the God Domain, like the rulers of heaven. They were true, undying existences.

And the rulers of the forbidden zones were even more ferocious; each had fought their way to life as their eras of origin faded into the past, surviving amidst turbulent spacetime!

Even though they’d just sent their avatars here, who’d dare to disregard the havoc they could wreak if they joined forces?

The dome of heaven seemed to explode, and the mountains and rivers swayed. Time and space themselves were affected, and the entire Kingdom of Lasting Light felt the impact. Its countless inhabitants were overcome with horror, as terrified and ill at ease as if they’d just witnessed the descent of the apocalypse.

Su Yi narrowed his eyes. The unrestricted power of a Master God was far too terrifying. Even though these were just their avatars, they were still far above Fortune Realm Greater Gods.

At that moment, Su Yi felt a powerful, impending lethal threat. Both his body and his soul were under a terrifying suppression. Even his heart showed signs of being shaken and intimidated!

But it was then that Luo Xuanji intervened.

She waved her slender, snowy, jade-like hand through the air, and a swath of fiery, crystalline rain manifested out of the Laws. It neutralized the suppression bearing down on Su Yi in a flash.

Practically simultaneously, Luo Xuanji waved her sleeve through the air.

Boom!

Endless, resplendent, fiery red divine radiance soared into the firmament, like perfectly straight chains of the natural order piercing time and space. Wherever they passed, they blocked all enemy attacks.

Heaven and earth shook violently. Currents of destructive power swept outward, blasting the entire surrounding area to bits. Everything showed signs of falling into chaos.

Although she’d blocked the enemies’ attacks, yet another streak of calamitous, taboo power surged forth and lashed into Luo Xuanji like a divine whip. She staggered back on impact, and her pretty face paled.

Su Yi was the closest to her, and he saw it clearly. A long, thin wound tore open the snowy skin of her back, and a taboo power of the Laws emanated from the wound, relentlessly corroding and destroying Luo Xuanji’s vitality and powers of the Grand Dao.

It was a startling sight. This was a backlash from the Laws of the Natural Order!

Luo Xuanji wasn’t of this era, and she was here in the flesh, not as an avatar. When she fought with all her might, that only made the resulting backlash even more terrifying.

“Luo Xuanji, if things go on like this, you won’t last much longer. You won’t just fail to protect Su Yi; you’ll lose your life here, too. Why is this necessary?” The Guye Heavenly Maiden sighed.

“Get them!”

“We absolutely cannot let them enter the Path of the Ancient Gods!”

“Got it!”

......Shouts shook the heavens. The Master Gods and rulers of forbidden zones attacked with full force, all of them seething with murderous intent.

Their secret arts and divine abilities were all as strong as could be and incomparably terrifying. Now, all of them converged on just one person: Luo Xuanji.

Even if the Master Gods’ true bodies had been here, they’d likely have been too afraid to face such an onslaught directly.

But Luo Xuanji didn’t try to escape. She had to protect Su Yi and bring him safely into Ancient God Ridge!

Luo Xuanji raised her hand and formed a seal. “My Will Manifests the Stars!”

Boom!

Countless crimson stars floated into the sky, weaving to form a net so massive as to blanket the skies and blot out the sun.

Countless powers of the natural order appeared within this giant net, and it brought with it resplendent, searing light. The net surrounded all of the powerful enemies’ attacks.

A moment later, the countless stars shattered, then erupted with destructive power that swept throughout the nine heavens and the ten earths. It forced the Master Gods and rulers of forbidden zones back.

Without exception, their expressions shifted. There was no getting around it; Luo Xuanji’s true body was terrifyingly strong!

In a one-on-one duel, none of their avatars of will would have been any match for her.

Meanwhile, Luo Xuanji was already leading Su Yi closer and closer to the Ancient God Ridge!

They were only one hundred thousand feet away. Under ordinary circumstances, they could have crossed that in a flash.

But things were different now. The power of the gods had long since enveloped the entire area. All manner of forbidden techniques had sealed time and space completely.

If they wanted to reach the Ancient God Ridge, they’d have to overcome grave peril at every step of the way. It was incomparably dangerous.

The battle ranged with increasing intensity.

The gods attacked like mad, doing their utmost to suppress and intercept Luo Xuanji and Su Yi. It was so intense that the gods they’d brought with them couldn’t even intervene.

Even the Fortune Realm Greater Gods were useless!

A battle of this level could destroy heaven and earth with ease, and it was doing severe damage to the Kingdom of Lasting Light. How could deities beneath the Master God level possibly get involved?

But Luo Xuanji was no pushover. She led Su Yi straight ahead, never once retreating. Every time the gods tried to stop them, she domineeringly blocked and neutralized their attacks.

Furthermore, along the way, she divided her power and focus to protect Su Yi, ensuring that none of the aftershock reached him.

But she paid a brutal price for doing so! The calamitous power of the natural order attacked her relentlessly, like whips of the Grand Dao tearing into her again and again and again.

By the time they were thirty thousand feet away from their destination, Luo Xuanji was completely covered in bleeding wounds!

Her enchanting, beautiful face was pale and translucent, and her brow was knit with undisguisable agony.

The “whips” tearing into her weren’t whips at all, but rather, a manifestation of the backlash of the Laws of the present day. Her wounds might have looked superficial, but in truth, they were corroding and damaging both her life force and her powers of the Grand Dao!

Su Yi had watched the battle all this time, never intervening. He was paying particular attention to Luo Xuanji’s movements—and her wounds.

He thought of her as cold, cruel, heartless, unpredictable, and crafty, so he was on guard against her. He wouldn’t trust her so easily.

Thus, even when Luo Xuanji stepped forth and stuck out her neck on his behalf, he never actually believed that she was here to repay his kindness.

But by now, at the very least, he could say one thing with certainty: Luo Xuanji was going to such lengths to help him because of the Path of the Ancient Gods.

She had, after all, told him outright that she wanted to use his power of reincarnation to visit her home in a long-lost epoch civilization.

Because there were still people she cared about trapped there!

“Luo Xuanji, you won’t be able to last much longer. Are you really going to keep fighting?” someone on the battlefield bellowed. “You are no idiot; I’m sure you’ve realized that you won’t be able to bring Su Yi all the way to the ridge, not even if you put your life on the line!”

Luo Xuanji disregarded him. Her wounds were severe, but she was nonetheless extraordinarily domineering, and she attacked without reservation, neutralizing one attack after another.

The Master Gods and rulers of the forbidden zones couldn't help but scowl.

If not for Luo Xuanji’s interference, they’d have captured Su Yi with ease a long time ago!

“Everyone, the longer this drags on, the more likely it is that something will go wrong. We’ve got to kill her!” the Dipankara Buddha said gravely.

Luo Xuanji’s defeat was inevitable. What they were really on guard against were Su Yi’s hidden cards!

Anyone who dared look down on Li Fuyou’s reincarnation was sure to suffer!

Take what had happened last time, in the Immortal Realm’s Epoch Battlefield. All of their avatars had been wiped out.

If the same thing happened this time, they’d come across as completely inept.

“Got it!”

“Yes, we ought to do just that!”

......The other Master Gods chimed in their agreement. The rulers of the forbidden zones remained silent, but that was in turn a form of tacit agreement.

“Go!”

The Dipankara Buddha immediately activated his bronze lamp, which shone radiantly in midair, surging with endless Buddhist light. It illuminated the nine heavens, enveloping everything in its heaven-shaking, taboo power as it descended upon Luo Xuanji.

At the same time, the other Master Gods and rulers of forbidden zones unleashed their own killer moves. All of them went all out.

Luo Xuanji finally lost her cool, but she chose to risk it all without hesitation.

“Activate!”

Her long white hair danced like mad around her, and a silver rope appeared at her fingertip. When she flung it through the air, it transformed into a boundless river of stars that swept through the sky.

Kaboom!

Heaven and earth dimmed. Everything was shrouded in darkness, and everything withered.

It was as if the entire Kingdom of Lasting Light had been plunged into endless catastrophe. All manner of buildings collapsed, the streets split, and startling, heart-palpitating spacetime rifts appeared all over the place.

Countless living beings shrieked in terror and fled in panic.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Luo Xuanji coughed up blood. Countless minute tears ripped open all over her snowy skin, the blood flowing in numerous tiny but continuous streams.

She’d blocked her opponents’ killer moves, but she’d suffered a heavy impact, and she wouldn’t last much longer.

Her beautiful frame now seemed utterly wretched.

Su Yi could see it clearly. Luo Xuanji’s vitality and power of the Grand Dao were on the verge of descending into complete chaos.

He was finally moved, and he couldn’t remain silent any longer. “After this...”

But before he could finish, Luo Xuanji transmitted, “We’re still thirty thousand feet away. I’m going to go all out to stop their encirclement. You have to seize the opportunity to rush into the Ridge of the Ancient Gods as soon as possible. Only then do we have hope of victory!”

With that, she took a deep breath. That silver rope appeared once more, and her face filled with determination. There was no doubt about it. She was really putting her life on the line!

Su Yi really wanted to ask, “You spent so long in captivity. It wasn’t easy for you to survive this long. Is it really worth risking yourself just to return to the past? If you die, how will you go back?”

But in the end, Su Yi held back. Such words would be far too grating and far too hurtful.

Because she was currently risking it all for him!!