Aspiring to the Immortal Path

It had been a long time since Tang Jie had felt this good.

Three hundred Death God weapons!

He had never seen so many before.

In the Nether Domain, one Death God weapon was enough to start a war between ghost cities.

In the Flame Yang Domain, the Ghost Kings were willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of people to get just one Death God weapon.

Even when he could use the black grain to sense the Death God weapons, the number of Death God weapons he had been able to gather in that period before the Yellow Springs geyser erupted had ultimately been rather limited.

But now, he had obtained ten times as many black grains as he had ever obtained before. How could he not be excited?

Thus, he did his utmost to keep those Underworld Nether Attendants around.

And while it was true that the Weapon Mantra used his physical strength, as Tang Jie grew stronger and stronger, the number of times he could use the Weapon Mantra increased. Several hundred years ago, he was already capable of destroying several dozen art relics in a single battle. With his perfect body, he could freely convert his energy back and forth and had enhanced regeneration abilities, so he could naturally use it even more times.

Thus, he played the self-sacrificing hero, relying on his outstanding acting skills to fool Zoros into hesitating, even tricking his own people. It was only when Zoros had finally seen through his ruse that he revealed himself.

No longer pretending, he chased after the Nether Attendants as fast as he could, hoping to kill as many as possible.

Let alone the ghosts, even his own allies were taken aback by this change.

While Chang Xiran possessed a high cultivation level, his mind had become somewhat inflexible from all the sword training he did, so he actually asked, “How is he suddenly fine?”

Yuan Tianzhong rolled his eyes. “He’s been fine the entire time.”

Chang Xiran was stunned, and then he said in realization. “So he was acting! But why…”

Thankfully, he didn’t finish his sentence, understanding why Tang Jie was acting.

Tang Jie was clearly hunting the Nether Attendants.

Why he was so interested in the Nether Attendants was still an enigma, just like how Tang Jie could shatter those Death God weapons.

While those of the Flame Yang Domain were shocked and dumbfounded, those of the Rosecloud Domain were far more accepting.

Wei Tianchong simply laughed and said, “Like I was saying, when has Tang Jie ever been so courageous and self-sacrificing? It’s never been his style to fight to the death against all odds. He’s more likely to draw his enemy into a trap to screw him over.”

This was gravely mistaken. Tang Jie had fought to the death before. In order to make Wei Tianchong a True Inheritor, he had fought so desperately that he had even gotten the title of Fierce Tiger.

But after all these years, everyone had gotten so used to the sly swindler Tang Jie that they had forgotten about his fierce and upright side.

But one had to say that at least this time, Tang Jie had gone back to his old nature and thoroughly scammed Zoros.

He doggedly chased the Nether Attendants as if they owed him money, even calling on others to help intercept them.

The cultivators didn’t know why he was so passionate about chasing the Nether Attendants, but they all understood how much of a problem they were. Since Tang Jie could counter them, the cultivators were glad to help him out. They couldn’t kill the Nether Attendants, but they could at least hold them down without a problem.

Thus, the retreat path of the Nether Attendants became flooded with spell arts. They didn’t seek to kill, only to slow, creating a path of thorns for the escapees.

Tang Jie used this chance to massacre them, shattering the Death God weapons and accumulating more and more black grains, which gradually began to take on the form of a small blade. By now, there were fewer than a hundred Nether Attendants left.

Zoros grew frantic.

He was currently engaged in battle against Xi Canhen, Wei Tianchong, and a Violet Palace True Lord of the Flame Yang Domain. Now, ignoring his opponents, he turned his black wheel of a face to Tang Jie and fired off a salvo of starlight.

This terrifying starlight had the power to kill on contact, and even Tang Jie with his perfect body didn’t dare to test his luck. But as the lethal starlight approached, Tang Jie suddenly reached out and grabbed a Death God weapon.

This weapon had not been shattered, and Tang Jie didn’t use the Weapon Mantra, instead letting the starlight strike it.

A Death God weapon for a death star ray!

When this weapon that not even a divine treasure could break encountered the supreme starlight attack of a Nether Emperor, there was an enchanting eruption of light.

The numerous colors like a rainbow river dazzled everyone’s eyes.

And then the sound of a crash reached everyone’s ears, shaking their souls to their core.

As the rainbow light faded, everyone saw that those lethal rays of starlight had disappeared, but the Death God weapon still stood tall. In this contest, the weapon had won, once more proving its toughness, that only Tang Jie’s Weapon Mantra could destroy it.

But Zoros’s attack bought more time for the Underworld Nether Attendants, and they swiftly retreated down into the city. Tang Jie gave chase, refusing to let them go. In his eyes, these were all rare treasures, so he had to get his hands on them no matter the cost.

Zoros’s most faithful bulwark, his Nether Attendants, were being cut down like wheat, and Zoros was stunned and enraged.

Finally, he made up his mind and screeched, “Chaos Net Heavenly Formation, turn!”

At his cry, a dazzling light erupted from the city.

Countless beams of light rose up from the ground and wove themselves into a giant white dome.

A high-tier Ghost King emerged from underground and shouted, “Your Majesty, the formation isn’t complete yet!”

It was Ghost King River.

Zoros shouted back. “This emperor knows, but this is an emergency, so we can only use part of the formation’s power to stop this man. While that’s happening, you had best finish that formation as quickly as possible!”

He thrust a finger at the white dome of light, which instantly erupted. Tang Jie felt an immense force falling over him and immediately tried to run, but he found that the light had bound him. Then, in a flash of light, he was no longer in Heaven City but instead surrounded by fog.

This was…

Tang Jie froze for a moment, and then he realized that he was most likely in that “Chaos Net Heavenly Formation”.

He had never heard of this formation before, which wasn’t strange, given how vast the Great Stellar Chiliocosm was, home to countless kinds of secret arts.

But all of them shared the same underlying principles, and Tang Jie could figure some things out based on what he had seen before and what he was experiencing now.

He muttered, “Illusory fog is born from Wind, and the Xun position is in the east, so that must be where the View Gate is. This is an illusory Space formation! No wonder it was able to drag me in.”

(TN: Xun is one of the Eight Trigrams and is traditionally associated with wood and wind. The View Gate’s main focus is concealment and disguise.)

As a formation master, Tang Jie quickly determined that he was in a formation that possessed formidable spatial and illusory powers. This was why it could pull Tang Jie in once it had been forcibly activated by Zoros.

But what confused Tang Jie was that he wasn’t encountering any dangers in the formation, not even an illusion zone.

There was nothing at all in the formation, as if it was a void.

Tang Jie was certain that this wasn’t some void formation, because he could sense surrounding walls of spiritual energy that prevented him from exploring. This meant that he could move along those walls, and that the Space properties of the formation were not used to create a limitless dimension, but to teleport.

That being the case, why wasn’t there anything more?

This formation had clearly enhanced the power of the View Gate, indicating that it was formidable in terms of concealment and illusion, but there were no illusions within the formation. This made no sense.

This was also true for the Space power. Other than when it had first drawn him into the formation, it had shown none of the formidable Space properties it was supposed to have.

There was no manifestation of the formation’s power within the formation. Tang Jie said to himself, “If it’s not aimed at the inside, it can only be aimed at the outside. But what could illusions and Space do to the outside?”

Externally-aimed formations were primarily meant to kill the enemy, but since this formation wasn’t doing that, it had to have some other purpose. Alas, Tang Jie couldn’t find it no matter how much he tested the formation. And since he couldn’t find critical nodes like the hidden entrances and exits as well as the potential attack targets, breaking the formation would also be a challenge.

Since he couldn’t find them, he decided on a different approach, coldly laughing, “You think this can stop me? Zoros, your biggest mistake was running into me!”

He took out a number of formation materials.

Tang Jie was no longer the Tang Jie that had been unceremoniously dumped in the Nether Domain. The arrival of the reinforcements from the Rosecloud Domain had also brought a large amount of resources, and he no longer lacked the materials to lay down formations.

Yes, Zoros’s greatest problem was that he had run into Tang Jie and that he knew nothing about him. He had no idea that the person he had expended the power of his precious formation to drag in was a formation master. He would have never done that if he had known.

The lack of intelligence made Zoros commit a fatal error. Letting Tang Jie into the formation was like putting Sun Wukong into Princess Iron Fan’s stomach. If he didn’t start punching and kicking to put this formation to the test, he would be letting down his reputation.

(TN: In the Chinese novel “Journey to the West”, Sun Wukong goes to Princess Iron Fan to request the use of her fan, which has the power to put out flames. She refuses, so Sun Wukong turns into a fly and flies through her mouth into her stomach, where he starts punching and kicking until Princess Iron Fan is in so much pain that she relents and gives him the fan, [which turns out to be a fake fan].)

He didn’t know how to get out of the formation.

No problem.

Destroying was always easier than building.

Since there was no danger in the formation, he could just lay down his own formation.

First, he would lay down a survey formation to find the location of the Eight Gates, and then he would lay down a chaotic space formation to disrupt the flow of energy.

Zoros could never have imagined that by finally imprisoning his devilish foe in the formation, he was only brewing up a great problem for himself…

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