Aspiring to the Immortal Path
chapter-584

The surge of sword energy sliced the Blood River avatar vertically in half. At the same time, Tang Jie appeared behind it like a ghost, the shining golden Sovereign Blade in his hand!

"Awooo!" The Blood River avatar roared, still not dead, its tenacious life force sustaining him in the raging sea of flame. Each half of his body raised a hand, releasing a crimson light that fought back against the flames. At the same time, blood gushed out from the severed ends and began to bring the body back together.

The Blood River avatar was made from blood, and so long as its core, its essence, still existed, it would not die. Tang Jie's strike had destroyed countless drops of essence blood, but not all, which was why it could survive. But the avatar had been greatly weakened, falling from greater-attainment Heart Demon to initial Heart Demon.

But how could Tang Jie just stand back and let him come back together? His sneak attack had worked, so he was naturally going to use the chance to finish him off. The Sovereign Blade swung, shining with sword energy.

The Blood River Lord's avatar's hands were too busy fending off the sea of flames, so as the blade approached, he let out a strange shout and opened his mouth, from which a fountain of blood issued.

This fountain of blood turned into a shield, and when the Sovereign Blade stabbed into the blood shield, it bizarrely failed to pierce through, sinking into it like it was mud. In the middle of his surprise, the blood shield turned into a hand that seized the Sovereign Blade. A face appeared on the back of hand, saying, "What a tough weapon! A good treasure, and mine now!"

The hand pulled, trying to take the Sovereign Blade.

Tang Jie coldly said, "You'd have to be able to take it first!"

As he spoke, the sides of the Sovereign Blade erupted with countless spikes that pierced through the blood hand. A scream came from the blood hand as the Sovereign Blade transformed into a wolfteeth club, smashing into the blood hand and pulverizing it.

The tiger fiend realized what was going on and stared at Tang Jie in shock.

Tang Jie shouted, "What are you waiting for? Come and kill him with me!"

The tiger fiend naturally hated Tang Jie, but his life was at stake here, and he couldn't make decisions based on his emotions.

As he was about to charge in, the Blood River Lord let out an eerie laugh. "If you're willing to help me kill this brat, I'll forgive you for your previous offense."

"Many thanks, Ancestor!" The tiger fiend was delighted by these words.

He would have never dared to offend the Blood River Lord if he had known who it was he was dealing with. With this promise, he became unwilling to fight the Blood River Lord and turned to attack Tang Jie.

Tang Jie sighed. "I knew this would happen."

The Blood River Lord's broken avatar had reformed, and the tiger fiend was charging over, so Tang Jie shook his head and fell back into the flames.

The Blood River Lord grimaced. "He's running. Stop him!"

Tang Jie sneered. "If I want to go, who can stop me?"

In a flash, he produced more than a hundred duplicates that ran off in every direction, with some of them even charging at the two. The Blood River Lord and tiger fiend couldn't tell which one was Tang Jie and which were illusions.

The Blood River Lord roared, raising his hands and summoning the Blood Sea. Several dozen duplicates were engulfed by the Blood Sea and instantly turned to nothing.

But even his Blood Sea Divine Connection, which excelled at dealing with groups, couldn't cover all those fleeing duplicates, and there was also the sea of fire counteracting him, greatly reducing the power and range of his Blood Sea.

The Blood River Lord could only fume as Tang Jie escaped. He turned to the tiger fiend and said, "It's all because of you! You made me get ambushed by that kid!"

The tiger fiend was alarmed. "Ancestor, you agreed to let me go!"

The Blood River Lord sinisterly said, "It's not like I swore on the Heavenly Dao, so what if I don't let you go? Besides, I didn't say I would kill you. Since I agreed to let you go, I'll spare your life, but your cultivation will have to be crippled."

'Cripple my cultivation'? Isn't that the same as killing me?

This was the center of the sea of fire, and how could he resist the flames without cultivation? He would be almost instantly burned to ash.

Alarmed and angry, the tiger fiend turned to run. The Blood River Lord grunted, "Where do you think you're going!?"

The Blood Sea extended, closing around the tiger fiend and pulling him in, and countless Blood Fiends rushed at him.

"Fuck, you really think I'm afraid of you?" the tiger fiend roared.

He was still a Soul Transformation great fiend, and he had only sealed his cultivation out of fear of the holy fire. In the end, the Blood River Lord's avatar was only at the Heart Demon Tier, one tier lower than him. Even if the fact that it was an avatar of an Immortal Platform cultivator made it stronger, it was still inferior to an authentic Soul Transformation cultivator. In a one-on-one, he had the upper hand, not even considering that the avatar had been greatly weakened by Tang Jie's ambush.

Since the Blood River Lord had gone back on his word and was going to kill him anyway, the tiger fiend was driven by his rage to stimulate all his blood energy.

Who cares if you're the Blood River Lord? Who cares if you're an Immortal Platform Titan?

If you want to kill me, then I'll fight back! Even if I die, I'll drag you down with me.

As a cultivator, I go against the heavens, so why would I mind a battle against a powerful foe?

At the brink of death, the tiger fiend suddenly felt bold and courageous.

He roared, and his muscles bulged with immense power. A light radiated from his body, exuding a wild and berserk energy.

The Blood River Lord was slightly taken aback by this aura.

Soul Transformation!

This guy had undone his seal and returned to his original cultivation level.

A white tiger phantom rose up from behind the tiger fiend's head. Although it was still far off from the true White Tiger Clan, it had a little of the divinity of this King of Beasts.

Standing tall in the Blood Sea, the tiger fiend angrily glared at the Blood River Lord. "Old scoundrel, I'll fight you to the end!"

He began to rapidly punch, instantly deluging the Blood River Lord in energy blasts.

These energy punches were suffused with divine might, containing all the strength a Soul Transformation expert was supposed to have, and even the Blood River Lord found it hard to block them.

But even worse was that the tiger fiend undoing the seal caused a surge of energy to suddenly flow through Holy Fire Valley. It was as if the sea of flames had sensed this powerful existence and become incensed by it.

All of the flames seemed to come to life, taking on the form of bulls, tigers, snakes, wolves, and even trees. The sea of flames became a world of fire spirits.

Yes, the flames had spirituality.

In Holy Fire Valley, there was a spiritual existence.

This spirituality originated from that white flame in the heart of Holy Fire Valley, the Pale Cloud Flame.

Now, the Pale Cloud Flame had begun to move. Tendrils of white flame dissipated into the surroundings, and in their place were countless fire spirits. This was the special attribute of the Pale Cloud Flame. While the Deicide Flame burned all that touched it and the Southern Divine Fire burned away at the mind, the Pale Cloud Flame was the flame of transformation. There was a saying that went "Clouds could even appear like pale dogs", hence the name of the flame.

Now, the Pale Cloud Flame had used only a sliver of its power to produce countless ordinary creatures, but even this was enough to give the Blood River Lord a hard time.

The countless fire spirits rushed out. Their target was the tiger fiend, but because the tiger fiend was in the Blood Sea, the Blood River Lord suffered as well. The sea of flame vaporized swaths of the Blood Sea, and the countless Blood Fiends wailed as they were burned to nothing.

The Blood Sea instantly dried up, its power having been greatly reduced.

Although the Blood River Lord used his essence blood as his core, ordinary blood served as his limbs. If it were all evaporated, he would find it hard to do anything, even if his essence blood remained.

The Blood River Lord finally felt a sliver of fear, yelling and groaning as he beat at the flames, at the same time fleeing the tiger fiend like he was a plaguebearer. But the tiger fiend simply wasn't going to let him run. He knew that he wasn't strong enough to resist the flames of Holy Fire Valley now that he had undone his seal, so he naturally wanted to bring the Blood River Lord down with him. Thus, he ran to catch up with the Blood River Lord.

While doing so, he yelled, "This is the price for oathbreaking! Burn!"

The tiger fiend's body shone with even greater light as he used a forbidden spell to make himself even stronger, pushing himself from the middle of the Soul Transformation Tier to the upper level. This made Holy Fire Valley react with even greater force, and more white flames drifted out to fuse with the world. There was a resounding screech as a phoenix emerged from the sea of fire, and a great peng with golden wings appeared.

The peng and phoenix made even the Blood River Lord feel fear.

It had to be understood that these were no normal illusions, but existences that carried a part of the Pale Cloud Flame's true power, which was the scariest part about this flame. And this was only a part of the Pale Cloud Flame's simulation power. If the Flame Celestial Sovereign were using it, it would be a great horde of phoenixes, dragons, and qilins.

The phoenix and peng charged at the tiger fiend and Blood River Lord. Majestic flames devoured the tiger fiend, who laughed in the flames and embraced the Blood River Lord in a bear hug.

"Seeking death!" The Blood River Lord's face glowed with murderous intent as he thrust a palm at the tiger fiend's head, but the tiger fiend no longer feared death. He let the palm strike his head while flames devoured the Blood River Lord.

"Aaagh! You can't kill me!" The Blood River Lord unleashed all his strength, covering himself in a small Blood Sea. At the same time, another avatar appeared in the distance—the one who had made a bet with Tang Jie's duplicate. He had come right in time to see his other avatar in the most dire of straits, and with a wave of his hand, he released a Blood Sea to hold off the attacks of the phoenix and peng.

Meanwhile, the other avatar thrust his palm at the tiger fiend's head again and again. Only killing this tiger could calm the flames.

The Blood River Lord cared nothing for his image as he crazily flailed his palm. "Die! Die already!"

But fiends had most tenacious life forces, and the tiger fiend was at Soul Transformation. He had a will that would rather accept death than yield, but he just wasn't dying, glaring at the Blood River Lord as he tightly held on.

The sea of flames battled against the sea of blood, life and destruction contending against each other!

After several dozen strikes, the tiger fiend's head had been obliterated and all of his bones were broken. Only now was he finally dead, his grip loosening.

His body limply collapsed, still a little unwilling to go.

Perhaps he felt remorse that he didn't listen to Tang Jie and fight alongside him.

With the tiger fiend dead, the Blood River Lord's avatar shivered, his body somewhat unsteady.

With the fiend's death, the berserk flame spirits gradually fell silent.

At this moment, a sword lit up.

"Tang Jie!" As the Blood River Lord cried out in shock and anger, this unfortunate avatar was chopped in half again.

This time, he had no chance to put himself back together.