Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Libido running away immediately threw the demon ranks into chaos.

This was the soul of the army!

If the commander was running away, what reason did the soldiers have to keep fighting?

Demons might have been savage and fearless by nature, but without a leader to lead them, even they would become confused, at a loss for what to do.

They had lost their spiritual pillar, and they had also lost their ability to remain organized and work together.

Losing the ability to work together meant a loss in strength.

The middle- and low-level demons had always relied on their ability to combine their powers to resist the enemy. If they had to fight on their own, they became much weaker.

At this time, Wei Tianchong was fighting against a squad of Shadow Nagas. While these were powerful demons, they were much weaker than Wei Tianchong. The problem was that he was exhausted from all the fighting up until now. This was a battlefield, and on the battlefield, it wasn’t just cultivation that mattered, but also one’s reserve of power. In unending battle, not even energy restoration pills could keep up with the oceans of power being expended. Wei Tianchong was using Divine Connection after Divine Connection, using copious amounts of spiritual energy. He wanted to conserve his power, but the enemies kept coming and coming and coming. He felt exhausted and weak, but he could only keep fighting. In this state, even a small group of Shadow Nagas had him feeling helpless.

Just when Wei Tianchong thought that he was about to die from exhaustion, he suddenly sensed something strange about his enemies.

Their tightly-coordinated formation had loosened. Wei Tianchong immediately unleashed a Coronal Radiance Slash, upon which a Shadow Naga wailed, severely wounded from the blow.

It had failed to block it? The powerful defensive barrier that they had made with their combined powers was no more. It wasn’t because the Shadow Nagas had no more energy, but because a serious problem had emerged in their coordination.

The streaks of light from retreating devils drew the attention of all the demons. Libido’s cry and retreat was the last straw on the camel’s back, destroying the confidence of the demons.

Wei Tianchong was so delighted that he seemed to recover some of his energy. As he struck blow after blow, the extremely troublesome Shadow Nagas were easily slain, not even able to put up a meaningful resistance.

At the same time, Qi Shaoming, Cai Junyang, Peng Yaolong, and many other Rosecloud Domain cultivators were able to unleash their might. After a tough battle, they finally had their moment.

Collapse!

The collapse of the demons had commenced. Even though many of the savage demons were still bellowing and fighting, they could not alter the course of the battle, only use their blood to add a dash of heroism and tragedy to the end of this battle.

But in the history books, their struggles would not even be worth mentioning.

The true battle was taking place high above, among the peak combatants…

When Libido ran, the remaining high-tier devils immediately up their minds to retreat as well, which hastened the collapse of the demon army.

But Tang Jie would not let them leave so easily.

Libido’s words hadn’t shaken his convictions, and he said with a cold smile, “Libido, you really think I don’t know all that? But what I aim for is far beyond the comprehension of someone as short-sighted as you.”

He threw out the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace.

This treasure erupted with a rainbow light.

This rainbow light was made of numerous beams of divine light, imbued with the power of countless Divine Connections, able to alter its abilities according to the will of the user. For the demons, this seemingly gentle rainbow light was as heavy as a mountain. Every step taken under this rainbow light took immense strength, more than it took to drill through a mountain.

Even Libido found it a struggle to move, but an Archdemon Lord was still an Archdemon Lord. With a roar, he erupted with crimson light and accelerated toward the bronze gate.

Tang Jie swung the Sovereign Blade at Libido, but just as it was about to strike true, Libido spat out a mouthful of black blood. The demonic energy around him exploded, and he accelerated even more, instantly closing the gap and disappearing through the gate.

Tang Jie didn’t mind Libido running away. On the contrary, he chuckled and waved his hand, upon which the rainbow light from the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace intensified, doubling in power.

Lesser Demon Lord Wano was intending to follow Libido, but then the rainbow light increased its power, and he found it impossible to advance. No matter what the devils did, they could not break this restriction.

Over centuries of tempering, Tang Jie had gradually perfected the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace. The 108 divine treasures were able to use their full power and combine their effects on top of each other. Moreover, as a treasure he had personally forged, it had a mental link with him that allowed him to use it as he pleased. Although it still wasn’t a Dao armament, it was already showing some indications, and it was not at all inferior to one in terms of power.

The demons were powerless before the power of the furnace, and all that awaited them was annihilation.

Spell arts, Divine Connections, and Immortal Arts devastated the land.

The Primordial Fog demons that had once struck fear in the hearts of the positive plane’s cultivators had been crushed before they could even show off their cruelty and ferocity.

Their massive army had fallen apart, and the battle became a one-sided massacre.

The human cultivators were pouring out their energy and rage without restraint, releasing all of their fear toward the demons. As those powerful demons died wailing under their attacks, their souls felt unprecedented satisfaction.

Even those high-tier devils and the sole remaining Demon Lord could only wait to be slaughtered. In the rainbow light of the furnace, they could neither advance nor retreat.

It was like a great swamp had imprisoned all the devils, and all their efforts to break out served only to trap them deeper in the mire.

This made them despair even more.

In truth, if Libido had been there, he could have broken the binding of the rainbow light. But he was selfish, and knew that responding this way would only force Tang Jie to use the Heavenly Dao Realm. If the result was still failure, there was no need to even try.

And if the devils had all combined their powers, they could have broken out of the rainbow light. But the devils were also all selfish and were only thinking about escaping on their own, not giving one thought for their comrades.

As a result, none of them could escape. With Tang Jie maintaining the rainbow light to hold the demons, the other Rosecloud Immortals unleashed their attacks on the trapped devils.

The path toward the Demon Gate became a death zone, and any existence that tried to pass through would die under the combined might of several dozen Titans. Even space itself was torn to shreds under the sheer amount of firepower focused here, all existences blasted to oblivion.

The outcome of the war was finally decided.

The Primordial Fog demons had suffered a historically devastating defeat, with countless demons dying.

While the battle was still going, it was already in the clean-up phase. There was no such thing as compromise between humans and demons, let alone captives. All surviving demons were still fighting, but their faces were covered in sorrow and despair. They did not seek to battle to the death. It was just that they had no other choice.

On the other side of the battlefield was a sea of ghost soldiers.

They had drowned out the Violet Extrema Formation, running the formation out of energy with sheer numbers. Piercing through the demon ranks, the ghost army vanguard was on the verge of meeting with the human cultivators. All that was stopping them was the last group of demons in the middle.

This made the atmosphere rather tense.

The cultivators went from viewing the ghost soldiers with excitement to wariness.

They weren’t sure that the ghost soldiers wouldn’t attack them, and after the battle, they were all exhausted, only the excitement of victory still pushing them onward. They didn’t have the physical or spiritual energy to keep fighting.

But at this moment, the ghost army began to slow its advance.

It began to make an orderly retreat toward the spatial passage.

The cultivators sighed in relief.

So did Yun Tianlan.

Tang Jie’s original plan called for using the enemy conspiracy to kill a large number of the Earth-Immortal-level devils, following up the elimination of the enemy cannon fodder by cutting down their higher-level combatants.

But the plan had not gone as expected. Tang Jie had used the forces of the Nether Domain to take the demons by surprise and destroy their defense line, resulting in a victory in the entire war rather than just a victory in a single battle.

Yun Tianlan hadn’t expected this.

For this very reason… they still weren’t ready for all of this.

Yun Tianlan turned to Tang Jie and mentally transmitted, “Tang Jie, Libido escaped.”

“Mm,” Tang Jie responded. He had stopped the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace and was now gazing at the battlefield with a profound look.

“Libido… Did you let him go on purpose?” Yun Tianlan sternly asked. Though he hadn’t been paying much attention to Tang Jie, he had still sensed that Tang Jie had been holding back when chasing after Libido.

Tang Jie nodded. “Yes.”

“Why?” Yun Tianlan asked in shock.

After a momentary pause, Tang Jie carefully said, “Libido was right about one thing. Defeating him doesn’t actually mean winning the war, nor does it mean resolving the Primordial Fog Calamity. The Primordial Fog Domain has invaded the positive plane for eons, and its strength can never be underestimated. Libido is only a single Demon Lord, and there are still many more like him in the Primordial Fog Domain. Killing him would only draw a stronger enemy. If Libido is still alive, then unless he announces that he is giving up on us, another Archdemon Lord will not lightly intervene.”

Yun Tianlan seemed to understand, but then he found the flaw in the argument. “Does letting Libido escape mean that no more enemies will come?”

“Of course not. But so long as Libido still lives, the situation won’t be the same. Most importantly, Libido’s power has taken a big blow from this battle, and there will inevitably be challenges to his position.”

Yun Tianlan fully understood. “The demons are fierce individuals, and their world has always been one where the strong eat the weak. Libido could never have expected the war to turn out this way. If he doesn’t want to just sit around for his death, he will definitely try something… I get it!”

Tang Jie casually replied, “I just hope that his ambitions are a little greater and that he isn’t completely vanquished because of this battle…”