Aspiring to the Immortal Path

The Ice Dragon Emperor of the North Sea was strong, displaying the might expected of a True Immortal Fiend God.

But Tang Jie saw that the Ice Dragon Emperor would inevitably lose.

The reason was simple: it was injured!

Tang Jie had heard from Yiyi that the Ice Dragon Emperor had been burned by the Eternal Flame of a Fire Qilin in the war with the Ocean King Domain and was tormented by flames year-round. Even its Celestial Frost Fog was greatly weakened.

While the North Sea was currently engulfed in ice energy, this only served to conceal the reality of its weakness. In the middle of this extreme cold, Tang Jie could faintly sense a fiery energy seeking to break out.

It was clear that as the Ice Dragon Emperor fought back against the Dark Night Ancestor, it was gradually losing control of the Eternal Flame.

“Dark Night, have you had enough?” the Ice Dragon Emperor raged. “Back off now, or I won’t hold back!”

The Dark Night Ancestor cackled, “You have to be worthy of it first! You really think I can’t tell that you’re just an empty shell?”

The black cloud suddenly gathered together and surged downward.

The region of death began to expand rapidly once more, swiftly melting away the ice dragon’s mountains, even pushing back the sea.

A black pit had formed on the surface of the ocean, water evaporating into nothing. Not even the surging mountains of ice could fill in this gap.

A massive black dragon emerged from the depths with fury on its face: the Ice Dragon Emperor. As it revealed its true form, the entire world darkened, and an immense energy carried along a tsunami of water that halted the expansion of the death region. Alas, Tang Jie could still see the weakness and age that this display attempted to conceal.

“Hahaha, finally came out, huh?” the Dark Night Ancestor laughed.

In this struggle where both sides were fighting while remaining in the shadows, the one who came out first essentially lost.

With this line of reasoning, it was no wonder the Dark Night Ancestor was happy to see the Ice Dragon Emperor being forced to come out to stop the Dark Night Ancestor’s offensive. A moment later, a wriggling mass of mud appeared in the sky, an ugly and ever-shifting face growing from it.

The moment the Dark Night Ancestor appeared, it said, “Old dragon, since you’ve shown yourself, let’s completely decide things between us today.”

It spat out a black pearl.

The pearl instantly dissolved into black water and vanished into the air, upon which the darkness thickened, and the death region grew even larger.

“The Tenebrous Pearl! You even used that!” The black dragon looked upward and snorted. “So you had this all planned out? Dark Night Ancestor, there was no stolen treasure at all, was there? You were just looking for a motive to attack me, right? You’ve been coveting my position for a long time now.”

“Hahahaha!” The Dark Night Ancestor simply laughed, not denying the accusation.

“So that’s what was going on,” Tang Jie said in realization.

The Ice Dragon Emperor was right on the mark. The Dark Night Ancestor hadn’t been fooled by Tang Jie at all. It was simply using this matter as a pretext to attack the ice Dragon Emperor.

After the Ice Dragon Emperor had returned from the Ocean King Domain in defeat, the Dark Night Ancestor had started to covet its position and treasure, but it had never been sure enough about the state of its injuries and had been unwilling to attack. Otherwise, if the dragon’s injuries were less severe than imagined, the Dark Night Ancestor would be the one that suffered.

But for all these years, it had been looking for an opportunity.

Tang Jie’s thievery was this opportunity. Once its four treasures had been stolen, regardless of what the truth was, the Dark Night Ancestor planned to blame the Ice Dragon Emperor.

If it had the advantage, it would slay the dragon emperor and take everything it had. If it was at a disadvantage, it would immediately surrender and claim that it was all a misunderstanding. In any case, it was true that its four treasures had been stolen, and the Ice Dragon Emperor would find out immediately once it started investigating. The Dark Night Ancestor naturally wouldn’t give up on what was essentially a free opportunity to attack.

As for Tang Jie, the Dark Night Ancestor would naturally chase him down, but Tang Jie had the stone man, which enabled him to cross a thousand kilometers in an instant. Since catching him swiftly was out of the question, it was better to demand compensation from the dragon first. Once this was done, it would muster its subordinates to chase down that brat.

The Dark Night Ancestor was not only no fool, it was quite the schemer. From the moment it found that its treasures had been stolen, it had already devised a way to exploit it.

If it hadn’t confirmed the dragon emperor’s injuries and started to get bold, Tang Jie wouldn’t have figured out the problem so quickly.

Huangfu Meng had also realized this, and she couldn’t help but blush over her earlier reasoning for the Dark Night Ancestor’s seeming idiocy.

Tang Jie smiled and gave her a pat. “It’s fine. It’s very normal to make mistakes, so long as you don’t make them again. Regardless, there’s one thing that you were right about… They are the snipe and clam, and we are the fishermen…”

Tang Jie’s tone was oozing with derision.

Although he hadn’t spent long in the Divine Spring Domain, he had already started to understand this world. A world of fiends was actually not much different from a world of humans, full of conspiracy and backstabbing.

Why had the Divine Spring Domain made no reaction since the last battle? Why had the Dark Night Ancestor refused to help the Ice Dragon Emperor?

It was because they weren’t internally united.

Many dynasties in history had fallen to external foes for this reason, and this was just another example.

The Dark Night Ancestor wasn’t a fool, but there was also no doubt that the internal conflicts made all the fiends short-sighted.

“Clever in the small picture, and short-sighted in the big picture” described this world perfectly!

Understanding this, Tang Jie knew exactly what to do.

He activated Heart Consonance and contacted Yiyi.

“Yiyi, notify the sect to begin the attack right now!”

“‘Now’?” Yiyi, who was still scouting the Divine Spring Domain, said in shock.

“Yes, ‘right now’!” Tang Jie firmly said.

If the Ice Dragon Emperor and Dark Night Ancestor were fighting, then no matter what the outcome was, the powerful existences of this place wouldn’t have spare attention for anything else. This was the best moment to attack!

This opportunity would soon pass, so Tang Jie immediately gave the order to attack. Yiyi immediately burned the message talisman in her hand. This was an ultimate-grade message talisman, which was the only kind able to ignore distance and swiftly convey information from the Divine Spring Domain to the Rosecloud Domain.

The moment the talisman was destroyed, a bell sounded in the Hall of Divine Conference.

A majestic voice boomed through the heavens: “The moment has come! Attack!”

“Attack!”

“Attack!”

“Attack!”

The call to attack resounded through the entire domain.

As the enormous planet flew toward the Divine Spring Domain, numerous cultivators also flew out of the Rosecloud Domain.

In the North Sea, the two Titans were still fighting.

The Ice Dragon Emperor was clearly faltering against the Dark Night Ancestor’s assault.

The dragon threw its head back and roared in fury, upon which sea fiends began to shoot out of the waters.

“You can’t beat me, so you’re summoning your peons?” the Dark Night Ancestor cackled. “Unfortunately, it’s useless against me!”

Shadows began to emerge from the death region to do battle with sea fiends, each one on par with their opponent.

These shadow creatures were not the result of any spell art, but bizarre existences refined through shadow energy for thousands of years. They lived in this shadowy darkness and could appear the moment they were summoned to form a vast army.

But the sea fiends were clearly a stronger force, with four Fiend Gods pouncing at the Dark Night Ancestor.

Only they could resist the Death energy of the region of darkness to fight against the Dark Night Ancestor.

One True Immortal and four Earth Immortals were quite a force against the singular Dark Night Ancestor.

But the Dark Night Ancestor simply laughed. “I wouldn’t have come here if I was afraid of your lackeys! You think I was sleeping for ten thousand years for no reason? My subordinates, come forth!”

As it shouted, another black tide appeared in the distance.

But on closer inspection, this black tide was made of countless fiends. All manner of fiends stormed out, all of them fiends of the underground, brimming with primal savagery. Some of them gave off a particularly strong aura, clearly Fiend Gods.

“It really did come prepared,” Tang Jie muttered.

The arrival of the Rosecloud Domain was a catalyst that instigated the rivalries between the fiends of the Divine Spring Domain, which ended up causing them to fight among themselves first.

Nothing could be better for the invaders.

Huangfu Meng said, “No matter who wins this battle, it is we humans who will ultimately come out ahead!”

After thousands of years of waiting, humanity finally had a chance to be free. Huangfu Meng couldn’t restrain her excitement.

But after some thought, she added, “It’s too bad the Ice Dragon Emperor is going to lose. It would be better if it was the winner.”

“Why?” Tang Jie asked.

“Because the Wood Elemental is still on the Dark Night Ancestor,” Huangfu Meng said. “If it doesn’t lose, how are we going to steal it?”

Tang Jie chuckled. “You really are like me. No matter where you are or what time it is, you never forget to maximize your profits. Since that’s the case, let’s lend the old dragon a hand. Tang Chuan, protect Meng’er. I’ll be back in a bit.”

He transformed into a sea fiend and borrowed the snow girl’s power to travel through the water and head to the battlefield.