Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Stepping into the crack, Tang Jie found himself in a void.

There seemed to be no end to this void, as if he was still back in the vast expanse of the stars. Asteroids drifted around him, some of them as large as islands.

Strangely, there was no sign of Yu Cheng or any of the others who had come before him.

Or perhaps they hadn’t appeared in the same place to begin with. Tang Jie considered.

This bizarre dimension clearly didn’t exist within the Great Stellar Chiliocosm, nor in the Primordial Fog Domain. In such a situation, anything was possible.

Tang Jie tried to contact his avatar’s remnant will.

Yu Cheng may have been able to use the Wish Granting Book to obscure the avatar’s senses, but he couldn’t hide its existence. Tang Jie could contact it whenever he wanted.

Except for now.

Tang Jie was unable to sense his avatar’s remnant will.

What was going on here?

Had Yu Cheng succeeded in purging his remnant will? That was very unlikely. It had been there right before Yu Cheng had gone in, and how long had passed since he had entered? Was that really enough time?

There was one other explanation: the will was restricted in this place.

It was an easy theory to test.

Tang Jie released his Divine Will.

As expected, Tang Jie found that his Divine Will was greatly limited, the distance it could extend around a hundredth of what was normal.

Cultivators relied on their Divine Will connecting to the world to use their Divine Connections and Immortal Arts, so this limitation would affect them as well, which Tang Jie soon verified by using a few Divine Connections. Not only was casting them much slower, their power was also much weaker.

Despite being a Gold Immortal, Tang Jie was suppressed in this dimension to the level of a peak Violet Palace True Lord.

But Tang Jie’s physical strength was completely unaffected and could be used without limit.

“Is that how it was?” Tang Jie couldn’t help but think of the Gigantes King’s words from before: “You can’t do it.”

Could it be that the Gigantes King already knew that this mysterious place was a body cultivator’s world?

But so what if this strange dimension was more suitable for body cultivators? It was just emptiness, with no place to use the power of a body cultivator.

As his mind turned, he suddenly grimaced and said, “Hold on!”

If the Gigantes King believed that body cultivators were more suited for this place than law cultivators, it could only mean there was some danger hidden in all this serene emptiness.

Tang Jie immediately put up his guard.

At this moment, a distant asteroid drifted toward him.

Tang Jie decided to hop on, using the asteroid as a ship and letting it carry him where it may.

Tang Jie could sense that the existences in this place operated based on some underlying principle, so rather than try to fly on his own, he chose to go with the flow.

After flying for a while, Tang Jie saw something flashing ahead.

As he drew close, he saw that it was a Buddhist treasure, but it had been destroyed, its remains left to float in the void.

“If a treasure has been destroyed, a battle must have taken place. But against each other or against something else?” Tang Jie muttered.

But if there was a battle here, then it meant that everyone should have come in at the same location.

If this was the case, then why had they decided to go ahead while he had yet to come in?

Tang Jie wasn’t being conceited here. He was confident that someone of his status and strength wouldn’t be so easily disregarded by all those powerhouses. If he were Yu Cheng, if he didn’t immediately find that opportunity on coming in, he would have stood guard at the entrance to ambush Tang Jie.

But Yu Cheng clearly hadn’t done this, instead leaving with everyone else.

Tang Jie didn’t understand why.

Putting the thought aside, Tang Jie continued along the route.

As the asteroid flew along, he suddenly heard a sound.

Turning to it, he saw a gust howling toward him. While it didn’t seem particularly fierce, Tang Jie didn’t take it lightly, manifesting spiritual energy in the form of a tiger and sending it toward the gust.

This tiger had about the strength of an Earth Immortal and was purely used to test the gust’s power. But the moment the tiger vanished into the gust, the churning winds instantly obliterated it.

The gust settled down and continued on its way.

Tang Jie grimaced. The limits placed on his Divine Will meant that he couldn’t create any powerful barriers. In other words, this gust, despite its unremarkable appearance, possessed the ability to kill an Earth Immortal.

Realizing this, Tang Jie immediately turned to leave. While he had his perfect body, this place was just too weird. Tang Jie didn’t dare to take the gust head-on, for fear of what might come next.

The gust chased Tang Jie for a while but couldn’t catch up, eventually disappearing on its own.

Tang Jie sighed in relief. He wondered if anyone in the earlier group had run into this gust, as anyone that did would probably have died at least once.

As he was thinking this, something drifted over.

Tang Jie flew closer and saw that it was a corpse.

Tang Jie had seen this corpse before. It belonged to a True-Immortal-level general of the Court of Myriad Domains. He had been quite strong, but he had still ended up dead.

Tang Jie drew the corpse over and gave it a close inspection. The general’s face was ghastly pale, and his body was as stiff as a rock.

Tang Jie couldn’t recall anyone whose techniques manifested in such a way. Moreover, to his surprise, there was nothing here except the corpse.

As he was thinking, the corpse moved.

Startled, Tang Jie turned to the corpse and saw the general rising as if he had been revived.

He looked at Tang Jie and began to walk over to him.

Tang Jie frowned and threw out a blast of energy from his finger, but it struck the general as if nothing was there. The Immortal general continued to walk to Tang Jie, his body exuding a powerful energy.

“True Immortal! Curses!” Tang Jie cried out in alarm as he hastily retreated.

Who could have expected this Immortal general to revive with his full strength?

No, it wasn’t a true revival.

Tang Jie could tell that the general was still dead, but for some reason, it now had the ability to move as well as the strength it had possessed in life. As it flew toward Tang Jie, it thrust out a finger, sending a brilliant spear of light at Tang Jie, a Divine Connection this general had been an expert in.

Tang Jie currently had the strength of a peak Violet Palace True Lord and didn’t dare to take the attack of a True Immortal, so he evaded while inwardly cursing, What the hell is this place? Did I end up in the Nether Domain? No, not even the Nether Domain is this scary. Humans will become weaker when they turn into ghosts, but this damn place can actually make people stronger than they were in life.

The general didn’t seem to care that his first attack had been evaded, throwing out another spear. This time, the spear transformed into a black dragon.

Tang Jie didn’t have any hope of winning in his current state if they were dueling with arts.

Tang Jie decided not to and instead threw a punch at this Divine Connection.

As his fist slammed into the dragon, it let out a wail and dissolved back into spiritual energy.

The general simply threw out another Divine Connection, and then an Immortal Art, his face stiff as a corpse. But while he looked so clearly dead, his Immortal Arts and Divine Connections were very much real.

Tang Jie punched again and again, blasting apart those attacks. Gradually, he realized that while the general’s attacks were as powerful as ever, there was no variety to them, no sense of tactics or strategy.

“I knew there had to be a flaw,” Tang Jie chuckled.

After trading blows with the general for a while, he finally figured out its pattern, and he eventually managed to land a solid punch that instantly turned the corpse to dust. The remains simply floated in the void, as there was no Divine Soul left to revive the body—another flaw compared to the living person.

Just as Tang Jie was planning to leave, he suddenly turned back to the corpse.

The remains of the corpse started to melt away, vanishing into the void.

This made Tang Jie’s blood run cold.

Was this why there were no traces left of the battles that had clearly occurred here?

This place could scrape away any signs of life?

But if that was the case, why had that corpse been there? And why had it started fighting him?

Tang Jie didn’t know.

But he did know that if he kept going, he would eventually find his answer—far at the other end of this void, he could see motes of starlight.