First Immortal of the Sword-Chapter 2689 - Is This Enough to Pummel You With?

After the young monk appeared, he planned to head to the Five Elements Peak, only to sense something and gaze into the distance.

A woman emerged from the darkness.

She was dressed in plain hemp clothing, and a bronze mask obscured her face. Her long hair was tied into a ponytail with a piece of red string.

Her beautiful eyes shone with pale purple light.

Most striking of all, she gripped a long, gray spear. It was fully ten feet long, and its tip reflected no light.

But the young man narrowed his eyes.

“I just knew some skulking schemer would crawl out of the shadows at this juncture,” said the spearwoman, Lin Jinghong. She gestured to Five Elements Peak. “Want to pluck his Dao Fruit? You’ll have to get through me first.”

She seemed deeply unwilling, and she spoke with a hint of anger.

From beginning to end, she had no intention of getting mixed up in this mess. It wasn’t that she wanted to just stand back and watch Su Yi die, but that she knew that today’s catastrophe was also a chance for Su Yi to undergo metamorphosis.

If others interfered, it would ruin his opportunity to realize this transformation.

But now, she had no choice but to intervene, because that young monk... was just too dangerous!

He was far more dangerous than the three Heavenly Sovereigns fighting in the distant spacetime void!

The young monk silently turned to face the spearwoman, then said gently, “Little girl, if I’m not mistaken, you’ve yet to enter Eternity.”

The spearwoman said calmly, “Even if I had no cultivation base whatsoever, stopping a bald donkey like you wouldn’t be difficult.”

The young monk seemed surprised. He gazed intently at her for a moment, then said, “It’s strange. An invisible power is obscuring your past and future. Even standing here in the present, you’re full of unpredictable variables. A fate like this is extraordinary indeed.”

The depths of his gaze silently filled with countless mysterious swastikas, lending his whole body a formless air of destiny.

As if he were trying to glean insight into the inscrutable spear woman’s secrets.

But within moments, the young monk staggered on his feet and let out a muffled grunt. The mysterious swastikas crumbled, and he wept tears of blood.

His expression shifted dramatically.

Just now, he’d tried to perceive the mysteries of the spearwoman’s fate, only to gaze into a seemingly endless abyss. The abyss seemed capable of devouring the firmament, engulfing the heavens and all Daos. More than that, its depths surged with taboo power.

Before he could look closer, he suffered a terrifying backlash. Even though he decisively pulled back, his soul and eyes felt the impact.

It was enough to make even the young monk’s fearless Chan Buddhist Heart quiver.

He’d broken through the confines of fate, fusing three lives into one. His cultivation base hadn’t just returned to Eternity; his foundations were even stronger than they had been at his former peak.

He’d never even considered that in his first battle after becoming the Buddha of the Present, he’d suffer such a backlash at the hands of a girl yet to even step into Eternity.

“You...” The young monk was about to say something when the spearwoman snorted coldly, raised her hand, and took out a Daoist seal. It was perfectly square and the size of a fist.

The moment it appeared, heaven and earth transformed. The stars spun, and the entire ten-thousand-foot area instantly transformed into a mysterious space separate from the rest of the world.

The young monk was instantly calm and collected. He could tell at a glance that the Daoist seal was extraordinary.

The power of the Laws blanketing Red Pine Mountain was extraordinary. It was enough to make even Eternals cautious.

Thus, when the young monk descended onto Red Pine Mountain, he used a taboo secret art to suppress his cultivation base and aura. He didn’t dare to act recklessly.

But this seal was incomparably terrifying. Shockingly, it disregarded the natural order of Red Pine Mountain to cleave open a distinct miniature world. The young monk couldn’t help but find this eye-opening.

At the same time, he no longer dared to look down on his opponent. Someone whose fate had been obscured, and who could casually take out such a high-caliber Daoist Seal, was sure to have extraordinarily terrifying origins! 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Don’t tell me she’s the closed-door disciple of a Heavenly Sovereign? Or the inheritor of an expert from the Far Shore of Destiny?

As he pondered, the young monk sighed to himself. How does Su Yi always manage to surround himself with so many strange and unusual characters?

First, those two unknown old-timers fought their way into the River of Destiny. Then, Xiao Jian showed up and displayed enough power to single-handedly stave off three Heavenly Sovereigns.

Who could have imagined that now, on top of all that, I’d find such a mysterious spearwoman hiding on Red Pine Mountain?

As the young monk’s thoughts raced, he took a step forward.

An indistinct, illusory Dragon Elephant appeared in the sky. As the young monk took a step forward, it moved too, shaking the entire hidden realm.

“Miss, this humble monk urges you to end this here. Your cultivation base is insufficient. No matter how many treasures you have, you cannot stop me.”

The young monk’s gaze was clear and focused. He naturally wouldn’t pass up on such a perfect opportunity to pluck Su Yi’s Dao Fruit.

More importantly, he wasn’t just here to harvest fruit. He also wanted to venture deeper into that spacetime fault and acquire that mysterious tripod cauldron!

As his voice rang out, he drew closer and closer, and the Dragon Elephant grew larger and larger, filling every last inch of this hidden realm. It seemed the whole place would soon burst.

“This humble monk holds compassion dear to his heart. I can show leniency and not pursue what you’ve done any further,” said the monk. “That is, if you stop now...”

But his voice came to an abrupt halt, leaving the rest unsaid. His eyes widened, and even his foot froze in midair.

The spearwoman had just flung seven or eight treasures into the air at once.

There was a treasure tower scattering a rain of chaos light. It had thirty-three stories in total, each with its own sign, and they represented the thirty-three layers of heaven. Each floor surged with taboo, terrifying power, as if each housed an unparalleled, ferocious beast.

There was an ancient scroll covered in the inscriptions of ancient sages. Every word came to life, manifesting an ancient sage. They shook their heads and swayed as they chanted the classics, giving rise to endlessly dense Confucian power.

There was a sword with markings of the Grand Dao carved on its blade. Eighteen purgatory reams were suppressed within its blade, and the name “Heaven’s Highest Peak” was carved on its hilt.

There was a green gourd rooted in the sky, breathing out a rain of spacetime light.

That aside, there was a colorful spirit pearl, a glittering golden jade, and several other treasures. All of them were imbued with indescribably terrifying power of the Grand Dao. Each was more terrifying and mysterious than the one before!

The young monk’s eyelids twitched. Dazzling, flickering treasure light illuminated his face, flashing on and off.

“Is this enough to pummel you with?” the spearwoman asked solemnly.

The young monk took a deep breath. “I can tell that your origins are extraordinary, Miss. You must come from quite an impressive family. However...”

Whoosh!

Before he’d finished that thought, the spearwoman raised her hand, and ten minute treasures floated into the air. These were even more impressive than the last round.

The young monk felt prickling pain all over his skin. His Chan Buddhist Heart shook.

The treasures’ auras alone were enough to put unprecedented pressure on him. He sensed an enormous threat!

One treasure in particular, a monk’s ruler, shone with a sea of flowing Buddhist light, complete, perfect, and self-contained. It seemed it might well come to life at any moment!

The sight left the young monk unwittingly stunned. If I’m not mistaken, that ruler was made from the complete natal Śarīra of a Buddhist far beyond the bounds of the Five Realms of Eternity!

The most terrifying part was that the ruler was but one of a dozen treasures. Some of the others were even more terrifying and even more taboo.

The young monk was completely flabbergasted. Just who is this woman? Why does she have so many strange and unfathomable treasures?

How could her seniors go to such lengths? Even Heavenly Sovereigns would go red-eyed with greed at the sight of these treasures. How could anyone dump them all on a little girl yet to even achieve Divinity?

It’s... it’s simply...

The young monk’s heart was steady and firm, but now, he was at a complete loss for words.

In all his long years of cultivating on the River of Destiny, he’d seen too many rare and precious treasures to count.

But this was his first time seeing a little girl with such an unreasonable abundance of treasures. It wasn’t just unreasonable; it was simply perverse!

“Is this enough?” asked the spearwoman.

The young monk fell silent. He suddenly realized that this spearwoman was far more troublesome than Xiao Jian, the one now fighting three Heavenly Sovereigns at once.

Her individual strength was indeed unworthy of his concern, but every last one of her treasures was utterly extraordinary even by the standards of the Eternal Dao!

How could the young monk possibly fail to realize the implications?

A faction too powerful and enormous to grasp stood behind her!

That was the most troublesome part of all this.

The young monk felt indescribable frustration, but in the end, he made up his mind. “This humble monk would like to test his luck!”

The spearwoman’s eyes flashed with mockery. “Do you perhaps think that if you defeat me, you can seize my treasures as an unexpected harvest?”

The young monk said calmly, “Should fate will it, I’ll let nature take its course. As I’m sure you know, Miss, we Buddhists attach great importance to karma, and it seems to me that our meeting was a stroke of fate.”

“Go ahead, try to seize them. Let’s see if you’re skilled enough to pull it off,” the spearwoman said with a laugh. Then, suddenly, she swung her hand.

Kaboom!

Dozens of treasures whooshed through the air, each erupting with terrifying power. Their combined force surged within the hidden realm.

Even though the young monk had long since prepared for battle, the sight of so many Taboo Treasures attacking at once made him gasp.

He was instantly beset on all sides. Within just a few blinks of an eye, he was covered in wounds.

A Daoist Seal almost crushed his skull, but the most terrifying was a flying knife. It actually attacked his Chan Buddhist Heart directly! Its sharp edge seemed like it would quickly throw his heart into chaos!

When Lin Jinghong saw this, the corners of her lips twitched. If Father and my seniors saw me fail to take this bald donkey down despite using so many treasures, they’d feel aggrieved on the treasures’ behalf.

But there’s nothing for it. Who told Grandmaster Bodhi to seal my cultivation base, much less to place so many seals at once? Breaking them all is just too difficult...

Lin Jinghong sighed to herself and grimaced. Even Su Yi has broken into Eternity, but I’ve yet to break my seal! It’s aggravating!

Not far away, the young monk had been beaten black and blue. He was bleeding from numerous wounds all over his body. The onslaught of treasures had left him looking utterly wretched; none of the usual comportment of an expert remained.

Nonetheless, Lin Jinghong frowned and looked beyond this miniature hidden realm, a hint of worry on her brow.

Xiao Jian’s situation didn’t bode well!