Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Not even someone as strong as Tang Jie could endure so many attacks at once. With a grunt, he instantly retreated a great distance while the Heavenly Dao Realm closed.

The fiends were delighted, shouting, “So that’s how it is! Let’s see you act cocky now!”

They all joined together to attack Tang Jie again.

Tang Jie remained unafraid of these Fiend Emperors, laughing, “We can just have a proper fight, then!”

He threw out the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace.

The Myriad Yin Yang Furnace spun in the air, exuding an ancient majesty as it fired off rays of divine light.

Tang Jie also punched, his enormous fist carrying enough power to shake the fabric of space itself. This was none other than the Star Shattering Strike of the Combat Emperor Catalog. When this fist was cultivated to the apex, it could even strike down the stars, such was its power. While Tang Jie lacked the cultivation level for this and could barely use it, it was still enough to express 30% of its power. More importantly, he had the perfect body, which meant that he had both brute physical strength and surging spiritual power.

The result of this combination was greater than the sum of its parts, on a whole new level.

Thus, when Tang Jie used the Star Shattering Strike, there was not just the simple unstoppable onslaught of power, but also countless ethereal fists. These fists seemed like mere illusions, but each of them was actually packed with power. The physical strength was the foundation, while the spiritual power was the leverage, multiplying the original power by many times.

These ethereal fists filled the void, making each Fiend Emperor feel like they were dealing with a massive barrage of Star Shattering Strikes.

Of course, these Fiend Emperors weren’t just empty shells, and each of them began to use their own abilities.

Mighty ocean waves emerged in the void, and then a shining moon emerged in the heavens. This was the Moon Rabbit Fiend Emperor’s Ocean Moonrise.

And then countless glistening motes of light shot out in a rainbow cascade, the Prism Scorpion using its innate Divine Connection, each mote of light brimming with lethality.

Another emperor spat out a pearl infused with ten thousand years of cultivation and fiend power.

Another fiend took on their terrifying true form, its steely claws tearing through space.

One by one, the Fiend Emperors revealed their divine might, clashing with Tang Jie’s Star Shattering Strikes and unleashing shockwaves across the cosmos, the grandeur akin to a battle of Immortals.

Tang Jie excitedly howled, “Keep it coming!”

He threw out another punch.

Moon Embracing Strike!

This punch was aimed at the moon in the heavens, and as the ethereal fist blasted through space, it slammed into the Moon Rabbit Fiend Emperor’s Ocean Moonrise and obliterated that Divine Connection in a single strike!

As the moon shattered like a mirror, the Moon Rabbit Fiend Emperor let out a terrible squeal. The destruction of its Divine Connection had inflicted a devastating backlash upon it.

Tang Jie punched again, his physical strength mixing with his spiritual energy to create a golden flame, which Tang Jie willed into the form of a giant bow. Tang Jie pulled his right arm back, and energy spewed out into a long arrow.

He took aim and unleashed the arrow. The arrow soared through the heavens, vaporizing the ethereal ocean waves, shattering the pearl, and then finally striking the world-destroying claw of that Fiend Emperor, blasting apart both it and its owner. The subsequent explosion sent shockwaves sweeping out, neutralizing the rainbow motes of light.

The Sun Shooting Strike!

The later six strikes of the Combat Emperor Catalog were each stronger than the last, and it was only because of his perfect body that he was able to use them at his current cultivation level. These three strikes had all the fiends trembling in fear.

But Tang Jie also swayed a little—in the end, using techniques above his level came with quite the large burden.

This restored the fiends’ confidence, and they once more charged.

Tang Jie cackled, “Seeking death!”

The Myriad Yin Yang Furnace spun around and blocked the majority of the attacks while Tang Jie raised his right arm high and then chopped it down.

The Heaven Breaking Strike!

This was the third-to-last move of the Combat Emperor Catalog, which made it the third-strongest. As the Heaven Breaking Strike, it sought to cleave open the firmament.

All in the void was obliterated before this strike, the wave from Tang Jie’s chop sweeping up and obliterating everything in its path!

Whether it was a Divine Connection, spell art, or innate talent, it was all rendered nonexistent.

The berserk energy flooded through the void, engulfing the Fiend Emperors, with at least three of them dying on the spot. Seven or eight were severely wounded, with the rest of them all being injured in some shape or form.

But after unleashing this heaven-shaking strike, Tang Jie reached his own limit.

This strike had squeezed out every last bit of potential he had. This was perhaps the most testing battle he had in the last few years.

His body tottered on the verge of collapse, and it was clear that he was out of the battle for the moment.

The fiends were terrified by the power of his strike, but when they saw the state he was in, they triumphantly continued their offensive.

“You’re dead meat now!” a Fiend Emperor snarled.

Tang Jie simply smiled and threw out an item.

A diagram.

The Mountain River State Diagram!

The diagram expanded in the void, a wondrous world unrolling before the fiends.

This world was home to all sorts of strange and bizarre creatures with their own unique methods of cultivation.

The fiends were pulled into this world, and while they were momentarily confused, the world began to exert its influence on them.

Meanwhile, Tang Jie floated high above, the sovereign of the nine heavens.

His majestic voice resounded across the horizons. “The foul fiends of Divine Spring rampage across my world. All people of my world are duty-bound to slay these fiends! Kill!”

With this cry of “Kill!” the world instantly brimmed with murderous intent toward the fiends.

There were traps everywhere, and the fiends themselves were mired in a great swamp, making it all the more difficult to deal with the dangers.

Meanwhile, Tang Jie seized this chance to rest.

But he knew that the Mountain River State Diagram alone was not enough to deal with so many Fiend Emperors. Fortunately, he just needed to delay these fiends, as the true main force was on the way.

The Fiend Emperors also knew that they were in trouble. If the human cultivators caught up, they would never be able to leave, so they hastily tried to blast away at the laws of this world.

While Tang Jie’s Mountain River State Diagram had formed its own world and Great Daos, it was still a small world, and its scale meant that the binding power of its Daos was weak. Things would have been fine if it were just trying to imprison one or two, but it was wholly insufficient for an entire group.

As the fiends attacked, the Yellow Court World faced an unprecedented trial, the Great Daos wavering while the denizens of the Yellow Court World tried with all their might to hold things together.

This was a battle to tear open the heavens.

If the fiends could tear open the sky of the Yellow Court, they could regain their freedom.

On the other side, the clam Fiend God blasted away at the illusion formation, which also wavered. Even though the Sovereign Blade added to its power, it was still somewhat insufficient—the strength of the Sovereign Blade was its sharpness, not its pure power; its offense, not its defense.

At this moment, both sides were doing their utmost, the fiends trying to break free and Tang Jie trying to keep them prisoner.

This struggle innately disadvantaged Tang Jie. Whether in terms of cultivation or numbers, Tang Jie was far inferior, but he was doing it all on his own. This feat would get him into the history books all on its own.

But as the fiends struggled, Tang Jie found it harder and harder to keep them under control.

The fiends within the world blasted away as they shouted, “You won’t keep us prisoner here!”

In the void, the Fiend God bellowed and raged, resonating with the fiends within the Yellow Court World.

Tang Jie slowly began to lose ground, the chains of the Yellow Court World’s Great Daos crumbling. This would soon even begin to affect the Yellow Court World itself.

Fortunately, at this moment, a figure came roaring up from below.

A Fiend God had come out from the domain.

The fiends were delighted, shouting, “We’re saved!”

Tang Jie also smiled. “You’re still all dead!”

The Fiend God ignored the fiends in the Yellow Court and continued its ascent, its face stricken with fear. Before the fiends could react, four more figures emerged—those of Ling Xiao and company.

As these four appeared, Xiao Biehan laughed and said, “Tang Jie, thank you for your effort. You can leave the rest to us!”

As they spoke, they moved to hold down the Fiend God. At the same time, the Yellow Court World reached its limit, so Tang Jie withdrew the diagram and released the several dozen Fiend Emperors.

The moment they were free, the four Immortals began to hunt them down. Moreover, even more human cultivators began to arrive, chasing down the fleeing fiends.

More and more fiends and human cultivators appeared, transforming the void outside the Rosecloud Domain into a battlefield.

The fiends knew that this was their last chance to escape and began to desperately fight with all they had. With hundreds of Titans clashing and unleashing world-destroying levels of power, even when they were out in the void, the aftershocks still affected the world down below, causing mountains to quake and rivers to run backward.

But no matter how they struggled, there was no escaping defeat for the fiends. As one fiend Titan fell after another, this day became a day of calamity for the fiends of Divine Spring!

Suddenly, a shockwave tore through the heavens.

There was a golden flash in the void.

A hole appeared in the illusion formation.

The illusion formation had been broken!

The clam Fiend God immediately howled and fled through the hole toward the Divine Spring Domain as a streak of light…