First Immortal of the Sword

Chapter 1820 - Setting a Trap

Earlier, Su Yi, Xi Ning, and Fan Zhui had hidden themselves in the distance. To avoid discovery, they withdrew their auras and maintained their distance. They hadn’t heard Yun Jiu and the others’ conversation, either.

But that wasn’t important to Su Yi. The moment he realized who he was dealing with, their death sentence was pronounced!

“Come on, let’s follow them,” said Su Yi.

“Do you have a grudge against them?” Xi Ning transmitted.

“That’s right.” Su Yi inclined his head.

He wouldn’t have guessed that he’d encounter experts of those six top factions of the Immortal Realm while exploring the ruins of the Dragon Palace.

But since he’d run into them, he naturally wouldn’t let such a perfect opportunity slip through his fingers!

“Shall we attack them now?” asked Xi Ning. She wasn’t at all concerned about why there was a grudge between those people and Su Yi. She knew that they were enemies, and that was enough.

“No rush. Let’s see what they’re up to first,” Su Yi said casually.

......

An hour later, an enormous ridge came into Yun Jiu and the others' field of view, stretching across the landscape.

It was like an insurmountable natural wall, several hundred thousand feet tall. Its peaks rose and fell, their slopes stained permanently blood red. Everywhere they looked, they saw devastation and ruin.

Dense layers of blood-red lightning clouds hung over the mountains. Lightning coursed through them, and a terrifying power of the Laws surged deep within the clouds. The rumbling of thunder was so intense that the entire area trembled.

A series of gasps rang out. Many of the Immortal Kings looked stricken.

The blood-red thunderclouds hovering over the ridge contained the explosive power of the Laws, but more than that, the heart-shaking, terrifying power of karma!

They didn’t even need to think to know that even Great Realm experts would meet with tribulations if they attempted to fly over the ridge!

“This is Buried Dragon Ridge? It really is a first-rate danger zone...” A grave look appeared on Yun Jiu’s face.

Even though he was a Great Martial Stage powerhouse, the scenery before them was enough to make his heart quiver with fright.

“Buried Dragon Ridge... Is this perhaps the graveyard of the ancestors of the dragon race?” someone couldn’t help but ask.

“No, it was the Giant Whale Spirit Race who gave this place that name.” Jing Cheng shot over from a distance and approached with a smile. “Corpses are strewn throughout the ridge, and we suspect that in life, they were experts of the Dragon Palace, hence the name.”

He then greeted each of the Great Martial Stage experts in turn. “This old man has been waiting for you.”

Yun Jiu approached, and he and Jing Cheng started discussing the details of their cooperation.

Once they’d finished, Jing Cheng led the way through the ridge, and Yun Jiu and the other experts of the six factions followed.

“Anyone who wants to enter the heart of the ruins must pass through Buried Dragon Ridge,” Jing Chang said ruefully. “I won’t lie to you all. Over the past few years, the Giant Whales have lost over a thousand clansmen, including numerous Immortal Kings, to find the one safe path through this ridge.”

Everyone was stunned. They paid such a massive, cruel price simply to figure out how to pass through Buried Dragon Ridge?

It was instantly obvious how terrifying this place was!

“Fellow Daoist, just what dangers lurk within the ridge?” Xie Changque asked.

Jing Cheng gestured to the sky. “The blood-red thunderclouds overhead are the most dangerous of all. Anyone who attempts to fly through them, no matter who they are, will be suppressed and killed by the Laws.” n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

“That aside, the ridge is home to countless wraiths, each more terrifying than the one before. Even a Great Realm expert would be doomed if they charged in recklessly!”

Xie Changque and the other Great Martial Stage powerhouses were instantly solemn, and they inwardly celebrated their choice to work with Jing Cheng.

Without him, they’d undoubtedly have met with unforeseen peril as they ventured through Buried Dragon Ridge!

Yun Jiu suddenly asked, “Fellow Daoist, how do you plan to capture that boy, Su Yi?”

Jing Cheng didn’t even pause to think. “Simple! First, we lie in ambush in Buried Dragon Ridge, and when Su Yi arrives, we use it to our advantage and attack him. That will be enough to take Su Yi down.”

Yun Jiu’s eyes flashed. “Please explain in detail.”

Jing Cheng smiled. “A spear thrust in the open is easy to dodge, but a hidden arrow is hard to defend against. We’ll hide in the darkness of Buried Dragon Ridge, and when Su Yi arrives, he’ll inevitably be attacked by wraiths!”

“But what if he runs away?” asked Yun Jiu.

“With us here, how could he possibly escape?” said Jing Cheng.

Yun Jiu thought for a moment, then looked at Su Yi and said, “Fellow Daoist, I’d hate for anything to go awry when we target Su Yi, and I hope that no problems will arise in our cooperation.”

His tone was casual, but it carried an implied warning.

Jing Cheng instantly picked up on it, and he said solemnly, “Fellow Daoist, please rest assured. We of the Giant Whale Spirit Race have no intention of doing anything disadvantageous to your six factions!”

Only then did Yun Jiu nod.

When they arrived at the foot of Buried Dragon Ridge, Yun Jiu suddenly recalled something. “Fellow Daoist, why not choose to work with the divine children?”

Jing Cheng sighed. “Working with them would be like asking a tiger for its hide. It’d be far too dangerous. A moment’s incaution and I might well find myself eaten instead.”

Yun Jiu agreed completely. “That’s indeed the case. The divine children have never taken any of us denizens of the Immortal Realm the least bit seriously.”

The group quickly set off for Buried Dragon Ridge under Jing Cheng’s leadership.

Everything was shrouded in dark fog, and the collapsed mountainsides were covered in the scars of battle. There were fragmented treasures, rotting hunks of armor, dried pools of blood, and even scattered bits of corpse!

Most of the corpses were incomplete, and they’d long been reduced to dried bones, but some were more like shriveled corpses. These were a particularly shocking sight.

It was like taking a stroll through an ancient battlefield. Dense death qi hung in the air, and the ground was strewn with corpses!

Kaboom!

The blood-red lightning clouds churned overhead, and the sound of thunder boomed in all directions. Terrifying power of the Laws swept outward like a hurricane.

Everyone’s hearts tensed as they prepared to meet a powerful foe.

Along the way, Jing Cheng transmitted a solemn warning. “Be careful, everyone. Whatever you do, don’t try to examine any of the corpses with your divine sense. If you do, you’ll alert whatever wraiths are lying dormant within them, and that could be utterly catastrophic.”

All of them were on guard.

Fortunately, under Jing Cheng’s leadership, they bypassed the danger, fearful but unharmed.

When they passed a rugged stretch of path and arrived at the halfway point, Jing Cheng let out a breath of turbid air and visibly relaxed.

“Everyone, for now, let’s wait here,” Jing Cheng said with a smile. “If Su Yi shows up, he won’t escape alive!”

As he spoke, he recalled his humiliating discussion with Su Yi, and his heart filled with irrepressible fury. That bastard doesn’t just have a ridiculous appetite. He’s prideful and domineering to ridiculous extremes! Does he really think his ability to decipher the Dragon Palace’s secret glyphs means he can do whatever he wants? If so, he’s sure to fall flat on his face this time!

“Is this the place?” Yun Jiu looked around, then furrowed his brow. “There’s quite a few ancient corpses near here, too. If we startle them..”

He left the rest unsaid, but his meaning was perfectly clear.

Jing Cheng smiled and said, “Please, rest assured, everyone. This is the heart of Buried Dragon Ridge. So long as we’re cautious, there’s no way anything will....”

Boom!!!!

He’d only just said this when a streak of sword qi rose into the heavens. It was fully one hundred thousand feet long and dazzlingly bright. Its boundless sword intent made heaven and earth tremble.

A moment later, this enormous streak of sword qi descended upon Buried Dragon Ridge!

“This....”

Everyone’s eyes widened in shock.

“Dammit! Jing Cheng, how dare you trick us!?” Yun Jiu roared in fury, his gaze terrifying.

They’d only just arrived in Buried Dragon Ridge, only for this to happen. All of them suspected that Jing Cheng was behind it.

Kaboom!

When the sword qi cleaved into Buried Dragon Ridge, it caused an enormous disturbance. When it swept outward, all of the corpses, armor, and weapons strewn throughout the ridge shook and swayed.

Then, a terrifying scene unfolded before them.

One after another, ancient corpses awakened from their long dormancy, crawling out of the earth and surging with stingingly bright flames. All the while, the battered armor and weapons whooshed into the air.

As far as the eye could see, the entire landscape was covered in terrifying wraiths. The entire Buried Dragon Ridge seemed to have transformed into a vision of purgatory!

Yun Jiu, Xie Changque, and the others looked stricken. Chills coursed down their spines.

We fell for it! This was obviously a trap. The Giant Whale Spirit Race tricked us!!

Yun Jiu and Xie Changque reacted the quickest. Both of them immediately charged at Jing Cheng.

“This was a misunderstanding! Please, whatever you do, don’t attack without thinking!” shouted Jing Cheng.

When the streak of sword qi first fell, he too was stunned. He couldn’t even imagine how such a thing had happened.

Yun Jiu, Xie Changque, and the others’ misunderstanding drove Jing Cheng to franticness. When did these dumbasses see me trick them!?

“A misunderstanding my ass!” Yun Jiu roared in fury and attacked without mercy. He was certain that if they didn’t capture Jing Cheng, all of them would meet with disaster!

“Die!” Xie Changque and the other Great Martial Stage experts attacked too, their fury beyond measure.

Jing Cheng was so angry that he felt like he was going insane. What the hell is going on? It’s like mud is smeared all over my pants, and they refuse to believe I didn’t shit myself!

“I’ve been framed! Everyone, you’ve falsely accused me! There’s no grudge between us. Why would I do this? Please, calm down!” shouted Jing Cheng.

“Like hell I’ll calm down!”

A streak of saber qi swept past Jing Cheng’s ears, shearing off part of his scalp. Blood gushed from the wound.

Jing Cheng freaked out, then roared, “I said, this was a misunderstanding, so why are you...”

He’d only just said this when terrifying wraiths swarmed at him from all sides, like sharks after smelling blood.

“Shit!” Jing Cheng’s heart pounded in his chest. He no longer attempted to argue. Instead, he forced his anger and frustration back down, turned, and fled without any further hesitation.

“You think you can run? Like hell!” Yun Jiu, Xie Changque, and the other Great Realm experts chased him like mad.