Aspiring to the Immortal Path
chapter-596

A golden light drew a bizarre curve through the air.

First, it fell on Large Bone Point, and then it flew on the wind and entered the Shoulder Well Point, then it traveled to the Greater Vertebra Point on the back of the neck, after which it traveled downward on the spine, passing through the Pot Way, Body Pillar, Divine Way, Spirit Platform, Reaching Yang, and Muscle Spasm Points. At the Central Pivot Point, the golden light then veered off into the Liver Transporter Point, where it then passed through the Gallbladder Transporter, the Gallbladder Link, the Thought Abode, the Stomach Granary, and Triple Burner Points, then arrived at the Life Gate Point, where it continued downward, traveling to the right leg. Here, it traveled through the Holding Support, Hamstring Gate, End Crease, and Yang Confluence Points, after which it jumped to the left leg. Lastly, it turned around and finished things off with the Ordering Gate and Capital Gate, having cut its way throughout the Blood River Lord's body.

When it was all done, the Blood River Lord could no longer move.

He was frozen for an entire second, after which he turned his head.

He saw Hei He's face melt away, turning into the one he was familiar with.

"Ha!" Tang Jie laughed at him.

The Blood River Lord trembled. "I'm… such a fool… only focusing on… Luo Hong."

"I know." Tang Jie nodded. "It's just human nature, and losing doesn't mean that you're a fool. I won't mock you for it."

The Blood River Lord wanted to say more, but he could no longer speak.

A sloshing sound came from his body, and in a flash, he dissolved into blood.

Tang Jie's strike had severed all of the blood essence maintaining this body, so he could no longer maintain this Soul Transformation avatar.

Killed in one strike!

A large blood gem fell into Tang Jie's hand, and Tang Jie absorbed it without a second glance. The crimson glow around him swelled, and the power of the Flesh Millstone surged.

At the same time, Tang Jie grabbed the Immeasurable Sword, and as he did, he felt a strange sensation, as if he had a connection with this sword.

Tang Jie quickly realized why this was.

"The sword hilt…" he muttered.

He had the hilt and sheath of the Immeasurable Sword, and though he didn't know how to use them, he had been on the scene when the Blood River Lord had demanded the hilt from Cang Qingfeng.

And now, the Blood River Lord had used the Immeasurable Sword to control the sword spirit, and considering that he had once demanded the hilt and sheath, Tang Jie would have to be a fool to not see the connection.

But he didn't immediately take out the hilt and sheath.

The Yin Ying Sword spirit was still struggling within the Immeasurable Sword, its independent will making it unwilling to be restrained. Even though the Immeasurable Sword had the will of its former master, the sword spirit stubbornly sought to break free. This made controlling the Immeasurable Sword extremely difficult, requiring immense strength to suppress the sword spirit. This was why the Soul Transformation avatar hadn't even been able to dodge and had been slain by Tang Jie in a single strike.

And without the Blood River Lord suppressing it, the sword spirit was showing signs of breaking free.

"Tang Jie, you haven't won yet!" another Blood River avatar shouted as it charged in.

This was yet another Soul Transformation avatar.

The Blood River Lord had four Soul Transformation avatars in all. The one in the center who had wielded the Immeasurable Sword was killed by Tang Jie, two were working together with the remaining Heart Demon avatars to deal with the representatives, and the last one had been dealing with the remnant sword spirits. The one coming now was the avatar that had been tasked with this mission.

Seeing the Blood River Lord furiously approaching and then looking at the sword spirit that was trying to break free, Tang Jie chuckled.

He threw the sword.

He threw the sword back at the Blood River Lord.

This flabbergasted the Blood River Lord, but he valued the Immeasurable Sword too much to not accept it.

The moment he grabbed the Immeasurable Sword, he saw a black dot on the blade.

It was the same sort of black dot that had previously drawn the attacks of the sword spirits, but it was much larger.

The Blood River Lord instinctively shouted, "Shit!"

When he looked up, he saw hundreds of sword lights breaking through the tentacles of the domain barrier and then instantly slicing him into several hundred pieces.

At least the sword spirits' attacks were not so targeted as Tang Jie's attack, and the blood seethed as he began to reform his body.

Tang Jie shook his head. "That won't do."

The crimson light rolled out from his body, instantly draining away more than half of the blood that made up that avatar.

The greatest ability of the Blood River Lord's avatars was that they could constantly reform from blood. So long as the blood essence in the blood remained, the Blood River Lord was unkillable, but Tang Jie possessed the means to destroy him in two ways.

When the Blood River Lord was intact, Tang Jie could use the Realm of Insight to find the locations of all the blood essence and destroy them all in a single strike. And when the Blood River Lord was liquid blood, he could use the Flesh Millstone to absorb it.

In this way, the Blood River Lord's unkillable attribute was completely useless in front of Tang Jie.

The turning of the Flesh Millstone essentially robbed the avatar of more than half of its life force. The Blood River Lord was aghast, and he knew if this were allowed to continue, he would lose another avatar to Tang Jie.

To lose two Soul Transformation avatars just like that? This was a little too much.

The Blood River Lord couldn't allow this to happen, so just when Tang Jie's Flesh Millstone was about to drain away more blood, the avatars who had been fighting with the representatives suddenly roared in unison.

"Yah!"

This thunderous roar shook Tang Jie's mind and made him freeze for a moment.

The blood that made up the Blood River avatar used this moment to retreat, merging into the Blood Sea Divine Connection and borrowing its power to restore its form. As the avatar examined himself, he found that more than half of his strength had been drained away, dropping him from peak Soul Transformation to initial Soul Transformation, and he was so angry that he almost fainted.

Worst of all, he had lost the Immeasurable Sword again.

The Flesh Millstone, while sweeping away his blood, had also taken back the Immeasurable Sword.

Tang Jie waved around the sword and said, "Come and get it."

"You think I won't?!" The Blood River Lord roared and charged out, a large crimson hand reaching for the Immeasurable Sword.

He had learned his lesson from last time, and as he grabbed the sword, blood engulfed the entire sword, washing away any sort of tricks Tang Jie might have planted on it.

Alas, Tang Jie hadn't done anything this time, but as he grabbed the Immeasurable Sword, the Blood River Lord sensed an unprecedented power attacking him.

It was the sword spirit!

Letting the sword change hands twice had resulted in the Blood River Lord losing any sort of suppression on the sword spirit, so the sword spirit was on the verge of breaking out of the Immeasurable Sword. Not only that, it could even use part of its power to attack him.

Tang Jie wasn't worried about the sword spirit running away, so he didn't restrain it. Thus, the sword spirit didn't cause trouble for him. But the Blood River Lord could not allow the sword spirit to run, so he used all of his power to suppress it, which earned the sword spirit's ire.

A moment later, a sword light lit up the center of the Blood River Lord's forehead.

This unfortunate fellow had been chopped in half again.

Before he could recover, Tang Jie laughed and rushed up, the Flesh Millstone turning and sucking away half of the Blood River Lord. But the other half of the Blood River Lord was able to get away in time, and unfortunately, it was this half that was holding the sword. Moreover, the Blood River Lord had a firm grip this time, so Tang Jie wasn't able to get back the Immeasurable Sword.

But Tang Jie was very content with getting two fish from the same bait.

Once the body had reformed, it had unexpectedly fallen down to the middle of the Heart Demon Tier.

The Blood River Lord gnashed his teeth in anger, but there was nothing he could do.

Fortunately, he had gotten back the Immeasurable Sword, so his first priority was to refine the sword spirit.

He knew that Tang Jie had returned the sword to him to bait him into refining the sword spirit, thus weakening him, but he had been after the Treasure Paradise for ten thousand years, so how could he give up on it? Even if Tang Jie killed off all his avatars because of it, it was worth it. Thus, the third Soul Transformation avatar took the Immeasurable Sword and began to refine it, while the remaining avatars were led by the last Soul Transformation avatar in dealing with the remnant sword spirits and representatives.

In terms of strength, while the representatives were formidable, they were still lacking compared to the Blood River Lord's avatars.

Although the Blood River Lord had only fifteen Heart Demon avatars after offering up some of them to the sword, under the leadership of the Soul Transformation avatar, they far surpassed their foes.

It had to be understood that Na Shan's group of five had been needed to deal with just one Heart Demon avatar.

And the representatives had lost their morale when they first recognized that they were dealing with the Blood River Lord, allowing the Blood River Lord to kill all the Hemos outside of Na Shan, which was a huge blow to their side. A third of the sixty-five representatives had been lost in one go, after which more were killed in battle, so only thirty-some were left.

Thirty-some representatives versus fifteen Heart Demon and one Soul Transformation avatars put the balance of power clearly on the Blood River Lord's side.

Moreover, the Soul Transformation avatar leading the battle was particularly powerful, taking on four people at once: Xuan Gui and Cai Jiu—two Soul Transformation fiends—and Na Shan and Liu Qianyi.

Without Tang Jie suppressing him, the Blood River Lord could display his full might, and the raging Blood Sea put them under immense pressure.

Liu Qianyi was the worst off. She was the weakest of the four, and the Blood River Lord was trying to take them down one by one and was focusing all his attacks on her. If not for the others doing everything they could to protect her, Liu Qianyi would have died long ago.

"Tang Jie, aren't you going to come and help?" Given that Tang Jie had just killed a Soul Transformation avatar and badly wounded another, Liu Qianyi finally called out for help, not even caring if this caused others to suspect her of having a relationship with him.

Tang Jie laughed, put away the Sovereign Blade, and flew toward Liu Qianyi's side.

The Blood River Lord roared, "Stop him!"

Countless Blood Fiends howled as they rushed at Tang Jie, doing everything they could to stop him.

At the same time, the Blood River Lord's offensive intensified.

As the Blood Fiends charged, Tang Jie chuckled and threw out a large number of bean soldiers.

He held nothing back, sowing more than ten thousand beans at once—all the beans he had accumulated over the last few years—and in a flash, the land was covered in bean soldiers.

The kingly little Tang Dou appeared with them.

It seemed like he had never commanded so many bean soldiers before, and when he saw all his soldiers, he became extremely excited. Rather than shouting for more soldiers as he usually did, he waved his little scepter, upon which banners unfurled in the air and war drums thundered.

The more than ten thousand bean soldiers arranged themselves in units of one hundred and began to march through the air at the Blood Fiends.

This grandiose display had all the representatives dumbfounded.

What in the world were these?

The Blood River Lord was also stunned.

He knew Tang Jie had beans, but not this many beans!

The sight of 1500 beans routing his forces was still fresh on his mind, and now, ten thousand had come out!

Moreover, among these ten thousand beans were fifteen hundred wearing crimson capes.

They were taller, bigger, and stronger than the other bean soldiers!

Fifteen bean generals led the army from the front, each one of them exuding an intimidating pressure, and the Blood River Lord could sense his own power within them!

These guys could absorb his essence blood to get stronger!

The Blood River Lord felt an inexplicable sense of fear.

If this power were allowed to grow, one day, he would become their food source.

He had to kill them all!

There was no stopping this idea once it had taken root in the Blood River Lord's mind.

He threw his head back and howled, and then a giant white lotus blossom slowly rose up from the Blood Sea.