Aspiring to the Immortal Path

“Tang Jiye”!

An old yet familiar name.

After nearly a thousand years, if not for this possession battle, he might not have even remembered that he had this other name.

Standing in the Sea of Cognition, Tang Jie began to get a little sentimental as he smiled at the Immortal Emperor.

Yu Cheng’s complexion was ashen.

Even in this world guided by his mind, he still couldn’t stop himself from looking a little pale. “I killed you… killed you with my own hands. You couldn’t have survived,” Yu Cheng said, gritting his teeth.

He had no idea what this “Tang Jiye” business was about.

But a moment later, Yu Cheng sensed a strange existence, sensed a changed future—or perhaps it was better to say “a changed past”.

“Eh?”

Gasping, he activated his Celestial Eyes and peered through Space and Time to gaze into the past.

In the river of history, he glimpsed a strange sight.

It was a familiar figure, standing tall and bellowing at the heavens.

“Li Jiuyang!”

Yu Cheng muttered.

He saw that unrivaled madman shattering his court with one swing of his axe and then swinging his axe at the symbol of the Great Stellar Chiliocosm, the Heavenly Dao Law Wheel.

The Heavenly Dao Law Wheel vanquished the Martial Lord with its counterstrike, and he fell into a small world.

The world he fell to was none other than the Rosecloud Domain, the same place Yu Cheng had chosen to reincarnate his soul.

“This is…” Yu Cheng trembled.

He saw the Martial Lord descend like a comet.

As he entered the Rosecloud Domain, his body shattered and dissipated, the majority flying into a parasitic small world implanted in a small boundary crack.

The Martial Lord’s hidden realm.

The rest transformed into a stream of light and entered Rosecloud.

A ripple pulsed across the Rosecloud Domain’s Web of Fate.

“NO!” Yu Cheng shouted.

Before using the Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art, he had seen into the future and divined Fate, then deployed the appropriate countermeasures.

But Fate was everchanging, and the future was endless. Anything could happen, and what he was seeing was not within his predictions.

There was a change in the Web of Fate, one that had been concealed from his eyes and senses until now. A message that should have been sent ten thousand years ago had only now been delivered to him.

Yu Cheng followed this shift in Fate, and the scene changed to a small village.

Jade Orchid Mountain, Little River Village.

A boy was hunting in the mountains with his parents.

This was the young Tang Jie, immaturity and childishness still apparent in his movements.

But there was no fear.

He bravely hunted along with his parents, waving his iron pitchfork at fierce beasts.

When a wild boar charged at him, he had the chance to dodge.

But at that moment, he tripped on a rock, which ended up costing him his life.

It all seemed like an accident. Only one proficient in Fate would understand that all of this had long ago been decided by Fate.

As the young Tang Jie died, a light shot out of the sky.

A new soul entered Tang Jie’s body.

Tang Jie was reborn.

“NO!!!” Yu Cheng cried out in terror.

This scene did not exist in his memories, and it was only now that he came to know of it.

He crazily roared, “Li Jiuyang!!!”

This roar rippled out from the Sea of Cognition, entering reality. Such was its power that even the mountains trembled, the formation protecting them groaning from the excessive load, and half the world experienced a massive earthquake.

And this was simply the enraged roar of the Immortal Emperor.

If Yun Tianlan and the others hadn’t focused all their powers on stabilizing the Zephyr Mountains, nobody below Immortal Platform would have survived.

Even so, many cultivators and mortals were obliterated by this roar.

The roar resounded through the world for quite some time before finally fading.

The Immortal Emperor’s eyes were a frightening crimson.

He roared, “You aren’t of this world! You aren’t of this world!!!”

The face changed again, turning cold and sorrowful. “Yes, I’m not. In the past, I thought my coming here was an accident, but only now do I know that I was just a piece in the chess game between you and the Martial Lord. Heh, it’s truly interesting. You never knew that the Martial Lord was also an expert in the Dao of Fate, did you? Not only that, just like you, he also comprehended a lot of the other Great Daos. But he chose a different path from yours. You chose to unite the Great Daos and become the Heavenly Dao. He chose to betray the Daos and take the path of the heretic.”

The face changed again, and the Immortal Emperor roared, “Li Jiuyang is the traitor of the chiliocosm! Calling himself the Martial Lord, he recklessly attempted to control the Great Daos, and for his traitorous actions, the Heavenly Dao executed him. It’s already been proved that his path was wrong!”

“Your path might not be correct either,” Tang Jie replied. “He used his life to lay down this trap and ruin your plans. You wanted to use the Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art to unite the Great Daos, so he threw in a small variable in your vessel of reincarnation. While the Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art is formidable, a variable like me is not within its scope.”

The avatar Tang Jie’s will truly had been obliterated by Yu Cheng.

But Tang Jie’s will actually consisted of two parts. One part was Tang Jie, and the other part was Tang Jiye, who had come from another world.

The Fake Sky, False Sun Immortal Art’s suppressing powers targeted the original will and had no special effect on any other wills. Thus, Yu Cheng had killed the part belonging to the original Tang Jie, the mind of the young boy Tang Jie.

Thus, Tang Jie’s will was not completely destroyed, continuing on in a special form and, like the Immortal Emperor, being reborn in the Sea of Cognition. Right after it was reborn, it immediately began to fight with Yu Cheng for control of this body.

Only now was Yu Cheng informed of all this.

Even so, he was still somewhat in disbelief. “This is impossible. Even if you’re two souls merged into one, you should have become one over a thousand years of cultivation. How can you still be two?”

Tang Jie sighed. “That’s why I said that the Martial Lord was just as good in the Dao of Fate as you. Without the World Descender Mantra, I would have never been able to divide a merged soul.”

‘The World Descender Mantra’?

Yu Cheng froze.

This was another piece of information he did not know.

In the end, ten thousand years of hibernation was not ten thousand years of observation. He spent most of the time in slumber, only waking slightly at the most critical moments. Most of his information was gained after his proper awakening.

Thus, there was a great deal of information that was still unknown to him.

He hadn’t known that Little River Village’s Tang Jie had died and been reborn. He also hadn’t known that the World Descender Mantra could divide the Divine Soul into two. He didn’t even know if Tang Jie or the Martial Lord might have laid some other trap.

Too much could change while he slumbered, beyond the ability of Yu Cheng to see or control.

He could see his resurrection after ten thousand years of hibernation, but he could not see his own court being destroyed in that time.

He could only see what he cared about.

What he did not care about was overlooked, let alone what his enemies wanted to hide from him.

Yu Cheng couldn’t know if there were any conspiracies or accidents in that unobserved history.

Even the current variables were giving him enough of a headache.

“Even so, you can’t beat me!” In the Sea of Cognition, Yu Cheng snarled.

No matter what, he was the current owner of this body, possessing an inherent advantage within this Sea of Cognition.

Possession battles were dangerous, but in the end, they mostly favored the original owners.

This factor was enough reason for Yu Cheng to win.

But a moment later, Tang Jie’s formidable pressure once more overturned his understanding.

A powerful energy was wrapped around Tang Jie’s will, so boundless and majestic that even Yu Cheng was stunned.

He quickly saw what it was.

“Fate… the power of Fate… How can this be? Why is the power of Fate protecting you!?” Yu Cheng roared.

For one side of a possession battle to be protected by Fate, this was downright cheating! But how could he, an expert in the Dao of Fate, not be able to do this while Tang Jie could?

Tang Jie said nothing as the power of Fate seeped into his mental body.

This was…

Yu Cheng immediately turned suspicious.

Despite being protected by Fate, Tang Jie was not attacking, instead choosing to absorb that power. What did this mean?

Yu Cheng’s mind immediately began to develop hundreds of thousands of theories, and at the same time, he activated the Dao of Reincarnation and began to look through all that Tang Jie had done in the past to cause this.

He was like a supercomputer, sorting through the data at incredible speed, and he quickly found the information he needed.

“So it was this!”

A scene appeared in his mind.

A golden page rising into the air, a line of words written onto it:

“The Basking Moon Sect will remain at its zenith and rule Rosecloud for ten thousand years!”

This was the supreme blessing Tang Jie had used the Wish Granting Book for.

“AH!” Tang Jie fell out of the Plane of Reincarnation.

His head felt like it was splitting open.

This was the inevitable result of sending one’s consciousness into the Plane of Reincarnation.

But Tang Jie didn’t have time to nurse this pain, for several things happened the moment he fell out of the Plane of Reincarnation.

First of all, the avatar’s descent disappeared.

The avatar having been possessed by Yu Cheng, it could no longer send him strength, and the mental connection had been severed.

Secondly, an immense energy was traveling along the connection between the original body and the avatar, seeking to obliterate Tang Jie. A formless behemoth was traveling along that now-severed mental thread, getting closer and closer to him, and this behemoth was the attack of a former Dao-Proving Saint Immortal turned Gold Immortal.

The God Immortal Slayer Art!

Thirdly, now that Tang Jie’s consciousness had withdrawn, the Blade of Reincarnation had begun to fall back into the Yellow Springs.

Finally, the Nether God let out a roar of anger and panic, and a giant hand emerged from space, not to seize the Blade of Reincarnation, but to seize Tang Jie. The point of all this had always been to grasp the Blade of Reincarnation and, through it, comprehend Reincarnation. Tang Jie had already touched the blade and comprehended its Dao, and the blade’s Dao power had weakened so that it no longer had the strength to ascend and was falling back into the abyss. This meant that the Nether God had lost his chance. Not only had he failed to get this Dao armament, he had also lost the chance to enter the Dao of Reincarnation.

Thus, this hand was here for revenge!

Pure revenge!

He wanted to tear Tang Jie apart.

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