Aspiring to the Immortal Path

An unprecedented battle was taking place in the Immortal Emperor's tomb.

Boom!

With another punch from Tang Jie, the dark-faced Immortal was slain once more.

On his fifth rebirth, Tang Jie used the Void Light Strike and Heart Devouring Strike in combination with twenty percent of his law energy.

On the sixth rebirth, Tang Jie once more used the Gold Immortal finger, which made the finger shatter.

On the seventh rebirth, Tang Jie used the Blood Spirit Strike and the Corpse Soul Strike in combination with twenty percent of his law energy.

On the eighth rebirth, Tang Jie used the Spirit Tearing Strike and Illusion Crushing Strike in combination with twenty percent of his law energy.

On the ninth rebirth, the dark-faced Immortal's face had become ghastly pale. It was clear that he had used large quantities of Immortal energy and was reaching his limit. But Tang Jie was faring no better, these consecutive attacks wearing him out in both law energy and body. Even Xu Miaoran, Yiyi, and Tutu were exhausted from transmitting spiritual energy to him. Tang Jie was like a bottomless hole, devouring any spiritual energy they could put in before unleashing it once more.

Both sides were suffering. While the dark-faced Immortal was stunned at Tang Jie's deep energy reserves, Tang Jie was also stunned at how many times the Immortal could revive.

In truth, the number of times an Immortal Platform expert could revive was closely related to how much Immortal energy they expended. In this battle, both sides were actually doing only one thing, with the dark-faced Immortal being obliterated the moment he revived, unable to do anything else—Tang Jie knew he had a Dao armament, so he couldn't give him that chance.

Thanks to the Celestial Eye, he was able to grasp the moment his opponent was weakest. As a result, the Immortal was blown up again and again, and all his Immortal energy was used on rebirth, which greatly increased the number of times he could be reborn. On the other hand, in a protracted battle that dragged on for days, where every drop of Immortal energy was squeezed out, even a Boundless Gold Immortal wouldn't be able to revive.

As the dark-faced Immortal revived for the ninth time, Tang Jie didn't even have the energy to curse.

This life force was truly tenacious! Even an Immortal who was caught by surprise was squeezing him dry, so he could only imagine how terrifying and powerful a prepared one was.

Clenching his teeth, he unleashed his final move, the Reincarnation Strike, combining it with the last of his law power.

The dark-faced Immortal put his all into defense, and once the wave had passed, while he had a large hole in his chest and was mangled and bloodied all over, his face almost completely destroyed, he still stood.

The dark-faced Immortal saw that he was still alive and wildly laughed, "Brat, you're finally out of strength! It's time for me to kill you!"

But as he spoke, explosions rang out around him, obliterating him and sending him back to the underworld.

As his face reformed, it showed an expression of shock, fear, and disbelief. Even before he had finished his revival, he shouted, "How could this happen?"

"Be careful! When he killed Fu Feng and the others, he took their treasures, and now he's detonating them!" the Earth Immortal in the distance shouted.

He could see that the dark-faced Immortal had died because Tang Jie had thrown out four divine treasures after using the Reincarnation Strike.

The explosion of one divine treasure was huge enough, and Tang Jie had used four. The dark-faced Immortal had already been barely hanging on to life, so he naturally died instantly.

But the warning came too late.

As the Earth Immortal reformed, Tang Jie threw out twelve divine treasures in all, arranging them around the dark-faced Immortal.

Smiling, he shouted, "Explode!"

In a fierce explosion, the dark-faced Immortal was once more blown to bits.

"AAAH!" A bitter scream tore through the air.

This time, the dark-faced Immortal didn't revive. All of his Immortal energy had been exhausted.

Even so, he refused to give up, a divine light shooting out and fleeing into the distance—his Primal Divinity!

"Trying to run?" Xu Miaoran snorted, an elegant hand reaching for that Primal Divinity.

Limitless!

While the Primal Divinity moved swiftly, it couldn't escape from Limitless.

At his prime, the Immortal's Primal Divinity could have shattered Xu Miaoran's hand with a single shake, but he was now completely drained and incapable of breaking free. "Release me!"

"As you wish!" Xu Miaoran laughed, spiritual energy erupting from her hand and blowing up the Primal Divinity.

The Primal Divinity exploded into rainbow light.

An Immortal Platform Primal Divinity was extremely powerful, capable of casting spells and also creating their own pocket dimension in which they stored treasures, though this space was limited. Thus, Immortals would keep ordinary treasures in their Mustard Seed Bags and put the important ones in their Primal Divinity.

When Xu Miaoran detonated that Primal Divinity, numerous treasures blasted outward, one of them clearly a Dao armament. The poor Earth Immortal hadn't had a chance to use it before Tang Jie blasted him to death. Xu Miaoran simply swept up everything without taking a close look.

"Bastard!" the other Earth Immortal cursed.

But then he saw Tang Jie and Xu Miaoran turn on him, and he knew that he was the next target.

He grunted, "You really think this old man is that easy to deal with?"

He took out an item.

It was a small hammer, which he struck at the air, upon which thunder rumbled and lightning began to fall, as if a god of lightning had descended.

These lightning bolts had power comparable to the Heavenly Punishment, and Huang Wuji grimaced. "Be careful! It's a pseudo–Dao armament!"

But Xu Miaoran simply smiled and took out a jade ruler—the Dao armament she had taken from the slain Earth Immortal. Using Limitless, she placed the jade ruler in Huang Wuji's hand.

"Use it!"

Huang Wuji instinctively transferred his Immortal energy into the jade ruler, upon which mist began to pour out of the jade ruler, its Dao Runes flashing.

He waved the jade ruler, upon which all the lightning clouds dispersed. He couldn't help but laugh in excitement, "A fine treasure!"

Swinging the jade ruler, he began to fight with the Earth Immortal.

The Earth Immortal inwardly groaned, How did I forget about that?

In truth, he hadn't forgotten. It was just that Dao armaments were so valuable that many wandering Earth Immortals could go their entire lives without getting a single one. Who could have expected Xu Miaoran to be so generous as to gift one to Huang Wuji?

If he had known that this was going to happen, he would have gone to that dark-faced Immortal's aid.

While those two had been standing guard together here, they weren't actually from the same sect.

The dark-faced Immortal was part of the Stellar Net Gate, while he was from the Heaven's Equal Sect.

The two sects weren't exactly united, so while they fought alongside each other, they didn't go out of their way to help each other. On the contrary, they were happy to see each other eating dirt, which was why he had just watched that Stellar Net Gate Immortal die a miserable death.

But watching an ally fall to misfortune was one thing, and to suffer misfortune oneself was another.

He had certainly had fun watching the show, but once the show was over, and it was his turn? It wasn't so fun anymore.

Worse still was that it was two versus one, and that kid would be able to join in the battle once he had rested. Once he properly joined the battle, one of them could hold him down while the other could focus entirely on attacking, and it would only take a few rounds before he was completely dead.

He was full of remorse, but remorse was pointless now. He lost the will to fight and sought a chance to escape.

Tang Jie could tell what he was thinking and shouted, "Brother Huang, don't let him. If the Stellar Net Gate and Heaven's Equal Sect find out what happened, both of us will become wanted criminals."

Huang Wuji naturally understood the gravity of the situation, and he swiftly wove a net of Immortal energy to prevent the Earth Immortal from escaping. "Brother Tang, rest well, and once you've recovered, we can take him down. It's only a pity that nobody will know that Brother Tang was able to pull off a miracle of a Violet Palace expert slaying an Immortal Platform expert."

Tang Jie indifferently said, "I couldn't do it alone and had to borrow the help of my wife and little sister, so it's not exactly a glorious victory. Moreover, that Earth Immortal was far from the peak of the tier."

For him, this could not be considered a real victory over an Earth Immortal, but to Huang Wuji, this sort of help didn't really count. Any three Violet Palace experts joining together to kill a single Immortal Platform expert was a matter of immense glory, and those who could pull it off were bound to be some of the most illustrious people in all of history.

But Tang Jie was in no rush.

He knew that he would have a chance, that he could do better.

His law cultivation had reached the peak, but not his body cultivation. There was still a little way to go.

Once his body cultivation strength reached its peak, he was sure that he could singlehandedly kill an early-phase Earth Immortal without a problem, considering that he hadn't used any Dao Arts in this battle because he had already consumed so much Dao power. If he used the Sovereign Blade, his treasures, and his Dao Arts, he might even be able to take down a peak Earth Immortal.

It was this confidence that made Tang Jie not care too much about this achievement.

Huang Wuji couldn't help but admire Tang Jie's temperament, though his admiration didn't stop him from applying maximum pressure to his opponent. Using force to keep the Earth Immortal here meant he was using more energy, but he was completely unafraid, because Tang Jie was right there. At this moment, Tang Jie, Xu Miaoran, and Yiyi were furiously consuming pills to recover their spiritual energy.

The Earth Immortal knew that this was trouble and that he couldn't let it go on. Hardening his heart, he took out a divine treasure, learning from Tang Jie and detonating a divine treasure to escape.

But just how had Tang Jie detonated his treasures?

He used four to kill a half-dead Immortal, and twelve against an intact Immortal who had yet to put up any defenses.

But this guy was trying to use a single one against an opponent who had already laid down a comprehensive defense.

Was this a joke?

As a result, Huang Wuji pushed through that divine treasure's explosion and sent that Earth Immortal tumbling through the air with a swing of the jade ruler. If not for the fact that Huang Wuji was still getting used to the Dao armament, this blow would have been enough to heavily injure him.

Even so, the Earth Immortal had still been dealt a staggering blow.

Tang Jie sneered, "Such a bigshot, yet so petty! And this is an Earth Immortal! You should learn a thing or two from us instead."

On the side, Yiyi stood up and giggled, numerous vines growing from under her feet and creating a massive tree. From each of this tree's branches hung a divine treasure, their sheer number dazzling the eye. The Earth Immortal shrieked when he saw them, "The Jewel Ring, the Eight Treasures Lamp, the Everchanging Sword, the Parting Hook, the Moon Fog Mirror, Red Cloud Sleeve, Celestial Heart Stone, Seacloud Lock, Sealing Star Net, Leopard Tiger Chariot, Heaven Lotus Throne… How could this be? How could this be?"