Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Chapter 654: Savagery

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

An uninjured fiend general might not have been afraid of Black Sin.

While Black Sin was powerful, that was only against weaker opponents. It was somewhat insufficient for dealing with Transformation fiends, at least for now.

But after the barrage from the Treasure Cosmos Formation, all the fiend generals were injured, and these were not ordinary injuries. Even the fiend generals weren't strong enough to immediately heal them. Moreover, they were also focused on rescuing the fiend king, so Black Sin managed to catch them unawares. In a flash, seven or eight fiend generals were caught in the vines and dragged into the abyss. And while many of the fiend generals managed to escape, Black Sin's flailing vines prevented them from getting close.

Giggling, Yiyi summoned her Jade Blossom Palace and then cast her Silkheaven Net to work together with Black Sin to hold off the fiend generals.

Individually, these fiend generals were on par with her, and together, they were definitely much stronger, but they were much weaker after being injured and Yiyi was focused entirely on defense. While winning was out of the question, she could buy time without a problem.

Meanwhile, Tang Jie's slaying of the fiend king was reaching a conclusion.

After that unreasonable and frenzied beating, this fiend king quickly followed his colleague on the path to the afterlife.

Amusingly, this guy had even tried to feign death in the middle of it all.

But Tang Jie didn't judge whether he had killed someone on whether they were moving, but on the strength of their life force. Life force was how one determined whether a cultivator was alive or dead, and anyone with sufficient life force could come back from the dead if they needed to. Transformation great fiends all possessed formidable life force and boundless spiritual power, and while it wasn't to the extent where they could revive from a single cell, there were quite a few who could revive from a tattered body. Thus, Tang Jie killed fiend kings by obliterating all life in their body, squeezing out every drop of life force that he could so that he was sure that there was no coming back.

With the second fiend king dead, the Mother Cloud combat puppet let out the third.

This was the bear king.

With its huge and powerful body, the bear king had a particularly formidable life force, and killing him would be extremely difficult.

And Tang Jie had just about reached the Herding Yang Pearl's limit.

Ever since the Herding Yang Pearl had been damaged, every instance it was used would put an additional burden on it and shorten its usable period. After killing two fiend kings, Tang Jie felt like he had clearly reached the pearl's limits, and using it any more would destroy it, so he had no choice but to take it out.

When the bear fiend saw Tang Jie exit the three-headed, six-armed form, he laughed and said, "You can't kill me!"

His life force was much greater than that of the slain fiend kings, and Tang Jie had now lost his empowered form. While he was still stronger than the bear king, he was no longer as unstoppable.

The bear fiend just needed to stall Tang Jie long enough for the five remaining fiend kings to destroy the puppet. By now, the Mother Cloud puppet had consumed immense amounts of energy, and it wouldn't be able to last for much longer.

But to his surprise, Tang Jie coldly replied, "Is that so? Actually, killing you will only take one swing of my blade."

"Bullshit!" the bear fiend roared.

Tang Jie thrust out the Sovereign Blade.

"Raaa!" The bear fiend swung a fist in response.

The Sovereign Blade instantly transformed into a spear, and Tang Jie icily declared, "Heaven Lifting Spear Art, Rending Earth!"

The spear transformed into a streak of light and stabbed into the bear fiend's body.

Tang Jie had diligently cultivated various combat arts in the Celestial Flame Pagoda, and the Heaven Lifting Spear was one of them. Although it was just an ordinary spear art, as the spear pierced through the bear fiend's body, the Sovereign Blade exploded with light.

The light lit up the bear fiend's insides like a sun, and a moment later, the bear fiend froze and then looked in disbelief at his body.

This single spear strike had obliterated his vast sea of life force like snow encountering the searing sun.

"A spear… it was a spear…" He looked at Tang Jie in disbelief.

"No, it was a blade," Tang Jie whispered.

The bear fiend froze, clearly confused by these words, and then he closed his eyes and toppled over.

The Ghostface King saw all of this, and he was stunned once more.

He suddenly recalled the battle at Dongjin Pass. When facing three Skyshakers, Tang Jie had used a weapon that could transform against one of them, and then there had been a flash of light, upon which that Skyshaker that had been brimming with life had died.

It was just that the results of that battle had been so shocking that many people neglected this detail upon recalling the battle.

It was only when the same thing happened that the Ghostface King remembered that terrifying strike.

What sort of Immortal art could be so powerful as to annihilate a Soul Transformation–level fiend king in a single strike?

The Ghostface King just couldn't understand.

He dumbly stared at Tang Jie, watching as he slowly extracted the Sovereign Blade from the bear's body, and his heart turned cold.

A moment later, the Star Chain Formation flashed, the fourth fiend king being sent out.

Tang Jie didn't use the same method this time. Instead, he used his domineering strength, swinging the Mother Cloud Essence Metal axe at the fiend king. As for the Sovereign Blade, he found it too light and not particularly fun to use, so he didn't like using it unless necessary.

While the fiend king tried his best to endure, he gradually began to falter under Tang Jie's frenzied assault. As for the puppet, since there were only four fiend kings left, the pressure on it was greatly reduced, allowing it to last much longer.

This was definitely the most speechless battle the fiends had ever been through. There was no battle of wits or clever tricks, only a glorious display of blood and power—a single human was enduring the attacks of other fiends and pummeling a fiend to death, switching them out for another once it was dead. It was more like a street brawl.

But this simple and crude style had allowed Tang Jie to get rid of three fiend kings in one go, and he was in the middle of taking down his fourth.

If this were allowed to continue, Tang Jie really might eat up all eight fiend kings.

All of the fiends were dumbfounded, stupefied, and terrified.

A single human was about to completely upturn the absolute advantage the fiends had held.

The seven fiend kings assailing Sun Shuming's group could no longer focus solely on the opponent before them. Two of them flew out to deal with Tang Jie—the Small Peach Queen and the wildcat fiend.

Tang Jie completely ignored these two fiends, continuing to pummel his foe. As for the attacks of the pair, he would just endure them.

This was Tang Jie's choice.

A body cultivator's way of fighting was barbaric and simple. No matter how many of you come at me, I'm only going one way!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Savage fists and sharp axe blows fell on the fiend king while whirling petals and sharp cat claws sliced at Tang Jie, turning his back into a sea of blood.

As the rain of petals sliced away, there was the occasional clang of metal, like a knife striking stone.

The sharp cat claws were even more vicious, digging deep into Tang Jie's back as if they were trying to excavate a well, and in the blink of an eye, they had scooped out a large chunk of flesh. If Tang Jie hadn't been in his giant form, it would have bored a hole straight through his body.

Even a Diamond Body that was almost at greater attainment couldn't completely ignore the attacks of two fiend kings. When this power that could overturn mountains was concentrated on Tang Jie's back, it became even more terrifying, and Tang Jie cried out in pain.

"Awooo!" he howled like a crazed beast.

But he refused to turn around, hacking even more savagely with his axe, venting all of his pain, anger, and strength on the unfortunate fiend king. No matter how the fiend wailed, defended, or countered, Tang Jie continued to pour out his strength.

"Hold! You have to hold!" the wildcat frantically called out. "Heaven Shatter Claw!"

His claws shone with a silver light as they dug into the body, his arms almost burying themselves into his flesh.

But a moment later, Tang Jie let out another roar.

The Mother Cloud Essence Metal axe came down.

Time seemed to stop. The wildcat's claw reached Tang Jie's heart, and the Small Peach Queen's flowers sliced and diced Tang Jie's flesh, and Tang Jie's axe slammed into the fiend king's chest.

And then… the fiend king fell.

His eyes were full of disbelief, despair, and dread.

"NO!" the Small Peach Queen and wildcat cried out in unwillingness.

Drawing back his arm, Tang Jie turned around and faced the two fiends, a cruel smile on his lips. "Did you have fun beating me up?"

This smile alarmed the two fiends, and they instinctively backed away.

This savage and terrifying fellow had robbed the fiends of all their confidence.

Although the humans were still down in numbers, and both Sun Shuming and Tang Jie were injured from their battle, and even the Mother Cloud puppet was running low on energy, the demoralized fiends were no match for the humans.

The following battle became very simple.

Tang Jie used the moment the two fiends retreated to take some medicine, and then he began to pursue the Small Peach Queen and wildcat. Although it was two versus one, in their demoralized state, Tang Jie had them running for their lives.

And the Ghsotface King was also reaching his limit.

Without the Ironblood Saber's pressure, the ghosts came sweeping back, and the fiends no longer had the power to fight back against them.

The defeat of the fiends seemed set in stone.

All of the fiends despaired.

The mighty fiends were facing defeat, and it was all because of that human.

All of the fiends looked at Tang Jie, unwilling to accept this result.

At this moment, a soft sigh resounded in everyone's hearts. "What a bunch of useless things. Outnumbering the humans by three times yet still utterly defeated by them. You have truly brought shame to the fiend race!"

As this voice rang out, Tang Jie felt a huge danger approaching.

He turned around and punched at the air.

"Eh?"

There was a gasp of surprise as a finger emerged from the void and tapped Tang Jie's fist.