Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Under a heavenly pillar of fire, a fiend and human battled.

One was a long-reigning Fiend Emperor who had dominated Verdant Cloud for many years, and the other was a rising star who had created miracle after miracle.

When they battled, it was a battle of awe-inspiring might and grandeur.

Rainbow divine light lit up the entire sky like an aurora.

Under the light of this aurora, divine power became like water, filling up every part of the sky, and the people within it felt every action to be difficult, whether it was moving or gathering energy, and even spell art casting took twice as long. But the Aurora Fiend Emperor was like a fish in this water, moving with even greater agility, numerous mighty spell arts appearing all at once and deluging Tang Jie.

Tang Jie's response to this storm of attacks was rather simple. He couldn't cast arts with a thought like a Divine Division great fiend, but he had a sturdy body and immense strength. Thus, his fighting style was extremely simple and monotone.

A steely fist blasted through the surging waves, opening a path for Tang Jie to move through. A new storm of spell arts quickly filled in the gap, which Tang Jie simply punched again.

The clash of his fists with Aurora's spell arts produced enchanting and dazzling bursts of light in the sky.

This was a clash between a body cultivator and a law cultivator, a clash of brute strength and spell arts, a fearless contest between one man and the power of the world!

Skill, tactics, and variation became unimportant in this clash. Only courage, power, and will would decide the outcome.

In terms of cultivation level, Aurora was a Divine Division great fiend. In terms of strength, his two bodies each had 70% the strength of a normal Divine Division fiend, which was much more than the normal Divine Division fiend when put together. This was why Aurora was so confident he could beat the other Fiend Emperors even though they were all at Infant Tending.

But in terms of courage, will, and even experience, Tang Jie was not at all inferior. The Dao of the Martial Lord was all about bravely pressing forward, and the Parting Classic emphasized fighting strong enemies and allowing one to get stronger by fighting.

The two fought for half a day with neither of them being able to get the upper hand.

The Aurora Fiend Emperor proved himself to be a peak Infant Tending cultivator, unleashing an endless number of spell arts such that Tang Jie was having a hard time fighting to a draw, let alone winning. In truth, in the past, he hadn't even been able to beat the weakest Infant Tending cultivator without relying on ambushes. That he could now fight the strongest to a draw was a sign of his vast progress. However, he had yet to reach peak Diamond Body, so he still wasn't able to overcome this threshold.

Even so, the spectators were all stunned.

"A young hero, a young hero!" Liu Zongchang sighed. To people like Liu Zongchang, Tang Jie, who had only cultivated for a hundred-some years, was still considered young.

Reverend Seer snorted, "No matter how heroic he is, he is still an elite among the demons. You'll regret it if he's not strangled in the cradle!"

"Raaa!" Tang Jie let out another frenzied punch.

The punch pushed through the waves and got all the way to Aurora, erupting in a burst of brilliant light on his chest. Aurora's face paled, but he quickly mustered his blood energy and managed to suppress the attack. "A good punch! So you've walked the path of refining the body into a treasure, seeking divinity through the physical body. But body cultivation goes against the traditional spiritual energy cultivation, so perhaps Reverend Seer was not wrong. You truly have done something that goes against the Heavenly Dao."

He thrust out a finger, which punched through Tang Jie's fist blast and shot through Tang Jie's leg, trading a wound for a wound.

"Bullshit! Countless people in High Antiquity pursued the path of body refining, so why do they no longer exist?" The demon's voice rang out again. She was on the other end of the passage and couldn't see what was happening on this side, so she was relying entirely on what she heard.

Tang Jie laughed. "While the path of refining the body to achieve divinity is a fine one, it consumes too many resources. As those who came after started to run short of resources, they gradually began to abandon this path, and it has been in decline for several thousand years now. Although Senior is in Primordial Fog, since the Primordial Fog Calamity occurs once every three thousand years, there should be some information exchange, so why does Senior not know?"

That demon replied, "Ridiculous! How am I supposed to know? Do you lot really think this passage leads to the Primordial Fog Domain?"

Tang Jie was so startled that his reaction slowed for a moment, allowing a blast of rainbow light to mangle his flesh. "Is that not the case?"

The demon replied, "Of course not. This is simply an independent small world used to suppress this venerable one. Even if you opened the passage, you would just be releasing this venerable one. There is no possibility of linking Primordial Fog to the Chiliocosm."

Aurora said in disbelief, "Since it isn't the Primordial Fog Domain, why is there so much of the Primordial Fog's violet energy?"

The price of asking this question was that Tang Jie's Ten Extinctions Blade sliced through his barrier and caused blood to gush out of his body.

The demon explained, "Because this small world was sliced off from the Primordial Fog. Just like how there are many small worlds that have been modeled on, created from, or cut off from the positive plane that is the Great Stellar Chiliocosm, the Primordial Fog Domain's negative plane also has many small worlds, just not as many as the Great Stellar Chiliocosm. This venerable one is in one of them. Once the land of the Primordial Fog, it was cut off and used as this one's jail… Yu Cheng, I won't forgive you for this!"

That demon shrieked, her voice brimming with loathing and resentment.

The name of Yu Cheng sent a shiver through everyone's minds.

"The Chaos Immortal Sovereign?" Tang Jie blurted out.

"The Immortal Emperor?" Aurora questioned.

"Yu Cheng" was a relatively unknown name, but if one were to bring up the founder of the Court of Myriad Domains, the Immortal Emperor, the Chaos Immortal Sovereign and Dao-Proving Saint Immortal, the true controller of the Chaos Tower, the highest existence of High Antiquity, many people would immediately understand who this was.

Yu Cheng was this person's name before they attained the Dao.

Had this Titan personally sealed this demon?

Tang Jie and Aurora were so stunned by this name that the pace of their attacks slowed.

Reverend Seer howled, "Fight already and cut the chatter!"

"Shut it!" Tang Jie and Aurora roared.

Reverend Seer was instantly silenced, and the two shared a look and smiled.

Tang Jie brought his hands together and bowed. "My apologies!"

He used that moment to throw out another punch, at the same time asking, "How can I know you're telling the truth and not lying to us so we can let you out?"

The demon laughed. "Does this venerable one need to lie to you? Even if this passage doesn't lead to the Primordial Fog Domain, does that mean you would have the guts to let this one out? After all, this venerable one is a Boundless Gold Immortal. The moment I escape, I could crush you all with a finger, and this puny Verdant Cloud Domain could be overturned with a flip of my hand!"

Everyone was stunned by these words.

A Boundless Gold Immortal!ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ ɴovel(ꜰ)ɪre.nᴇt

If this female demon was a Boundless Gold Immortal, didn't that make her even more terrifying than the 99 Demon Lords?

It had to be understood that most of the 99 Demon Lords were only at the True Immortal tier, with only the peak Demon Lords being at Gold Immortal or above.

The White Tiger Demon Lord who had invaded the Rosecloud Domain was a True Immortal, and the ancestors of the six major sects were all Earth Immortals. To deal with the White Tiger, the six Earth Immortals had used everything they had and deployed all their disciples, defeating the White Tiger with sheer numbers, and the ancestor of the Beast Refining Gate had even died, leading to the grudge between the Basking Moon Sect and Beast Refining Gate.

But this demon was an even stronger Boundless Gold Immortal.

It was no wonder a sliver of her Demonic Will could control Fiend Emperors and her illusions could fool the masses. In front of her, Violet Palace Titans were just ants. If it weren't for the passage being blocked and sealed by the talisman, preventing her from using most of her power, she really might have crushed everyone with just a finger.

Everyone was dumbfounded by this female demon's strength.

The demon called out, "Tang Jie, that Reverend Seer has slandered you as a demon, which is truly contemptible. If you are willing to help me break free, I will pass on to you an art that will give you a big boost in power, allowing you to easily kill Aurora and Reverend Seer, and even boost your chances of reaching Violet Palace. What about it?"

She had stopped trying to tempt him in his mind, making her offer openly.

Again, the crowd was stunned by her words.

If this really was a Boundless Gold Immortal, then her words might not be pure boasting.

A Gold Immortal's power could not be underestimated!

Tang Jie asked, "Can you protect my little sister?"

As he spoke, he thrust out a finger, but this finger appeared to have no power behind it at all.

The demon replied, "Fate controlling them, disaster and happiness are only a thought away from each other. Though this venerable one has heaven-reaching methods, this one cannot bring you to that level in an instant."

"If you can't save my little sister, what's the use of your divine arts? I'll just continue fighting with His Majesty Aurora." Tang Jie swung his blade, but there was still no power behind it, so Aurora used that chance to get a few punches in.

The demon said, "Attaining the Dao will grant you an eternity. If you wish to become Immortal, you must put aside your mortal relationships. Having such obsessions, being mired in sibling affection or addicted to romance, is no way to transcend the Dao!"

Tang Jie laughed. "Does that mean transcendence first requires the annihilation of all human emotions? That's not cultivating the Dao of Immortality, but the Dao of madness! And don't give me some nonsense about how the ways of the heavens require the end of human desires. Humans aren't plants or stone, so how can they be without emotion? I have to save my little sister. Anyone who kills her will be killed by me!"

"You would even give up your life for this?"

"Yes!" Tang Jie roared as he punched again.

But this time, his punch was aimed at Reverend Seer.

"Devil Crushing Fist!"

This was the strongest attack Tang Jie had ever made in his life.

It was a wild and untamed fist, brimming with the most frenzied power in the world.

As he punched, the rainbow light from Aurora struck him, but Tang Jie ignored it and continued to attack Reverend Seer.

Reverend Seer hadn't expected Tang Jie to attack him in this situation. Grimacing, he immediately conjured a golden barrier around himself.

But even a prepared Violet Palace cultivator would have found it hard to stop Tang Jie's full-power attack, let alone one who had put up a hasty defense.

Even so, Reverend Seer still howled, "Kill her!"

The cultivator holding Yiyi immediately took action.

He raised his palm and brought it down on Yiyi's head.