Aspiring to the Immortal Path
chapter-597

The white lotus blossom rose out of the Blood Sea like a platform.

After rising into the air, it began to glow, and then its petals began to peel open.

As it bloomed, the petals began to shed from the lotus and spiral and dance in the air.

The lotus blossom seemed to have no end, one layer after another peeling away, more and more petals dancing in the air.

A petal fell upon a representative, and there was a hiss as it tore open a long and bloody wound on his body.

These enchanting petals glistened under the sun, but their toothed edges were the crimson of the sunset.

Crystalline and translucent, yet brimming with danger.

The petals spun faster and faster, and the air began to shriek, eventually turning into a blade-packed gale, a furious storm that sought to engulf every existence in the area.

"Watch out!" Tang Jie couldn't help but call out.

The first target of the storm was none other than the bean soldiers.

After battling once with the bean soldiers, the Blood River Lord had grasped the trick to fighting them. Rather than trying to kill the bean soldiers one by one, he used a large-scale spell art to indiscriminately attack everything.

In these circumstances, the combination arts of the bean soldiers were much less effective. Even if they could temporarily hold out against the storm, this omnipresent area attack fell on every part of the army, meaning that the bean soldiers had to endure the maximum force of this white lotus spell art.

Most terrifying of all was that the Blood Sea White Lotus was still blooming, shedding layer after layer, and with each layer, several dozen petals left the Blood Sea and entered the storm.

The bean soldiers were like an army in a sandstorm, barely able to move in the powerful gusts, and once the bean soldiers ran out of energy, they would all die.

"Ayaya!" Little Tang Dou anxiously called out.

He pointed his scepter at the sky, and the 1500 bean soldiers wearing crimson capes raised their heads and howled.

Then they pulled out longbows, aimed at the sky, and pulled back.

1500 arrows were loosed into the sky, targeting the distant white lotus.

"A puny trick!" the Blood River Lord laughed in contempt.

But a moment later, the arrows glowed and fused together into a single giant crimson-colored arrow.

This was the power the bean soldiers had absorbed from the blood gem, something only these 1500 bean soldiers could do.

This massive blood arrow, radiating an aura of death, forced the white lotus to stop blooming and withdraw, the petals that had yet to fully bloom forming a large barrier to protect it.

The arrow slammed into the flower barrier with a metallic clang. Numerous petals were obliterated in an explosion of rainbow-colored mist, but the giant arrow fell to the ground, its power spent.

Then the white lotus began to bloom once more, shedding its petals that danced in the air as they joined the battle.

Tang Dou was dumbfounded.

He didn't seem to want to give up, stomping his feet and preparing to order another attack on the white lotus. At this time, Tang Jie suddenly said, "Yiyi, have him change targets and attack the Blood River Lord. Leave this side to me!"

The center of his forehead flashed red. "Go!"

A little firebird jumped out of the center of his forehead, opened its wings, and spat out a tongue of flame at the white lotus windstorm.

The Pale Cloud Flame!

As the flame clashed against the lotus, its domineering storm was instantly burned up into disarray.

"The Pale Cloud Flame? How could this be?" the Blood River Lord cried out in shock.

It was natural to be burned by this flame in Holy Fire Valley, but to see the Pale Cloud Flame out here?

This bastard had managed to subdue the Pale Cloud Flame!

The frenzied flames instantly burned through the white lotus storm, and the remaining flames rushed at the white lotus itself, and the white lotus which had withstood that giant blood arrow was burned to ashes.

Tang Dou was overjoyed, and he ordered his soldiers to loose their arrows again.

1500 arrows once more fused into a giant blood arrow, but this one was targeting one of the Blood River Lord's avatars.

The Blood River Lord hadn't expected this move, and he could only watch as the giant arrow punched through his body. Power flooded out of the arrow and blasted his head into such small chunks that it couldn't piece itself back together.

The headless body swayed for a few moments, and then another head grew out, the Blood River Lord furiously glaring at the bean king. "Seeking death!"

"Jiji! Yaya! Yiyi!" Tang Dou shouted back.

He pointed a little hand, and a third blood arrow flew out, blasting apart the head that had just grown back.

The Blood River avatar cried out in anger, but his life force was so great that he immediately grew another head. But it was barely finished before it was blasted apart by another arrow.

The two sides seemed to be having quite the fun time, one side growing heads and the other side shooting them.

But with each new head, the Blood River avatar's body was a little smaller.

When the sixteenth head had been blasted apart, this Blood River avatar could no longer maintain its form. With an unwilling scream, it dissolved into blood and merged with the Blood Sea.

After seventeen arrows, those 1500 bean soldiers were clearly out of strength, the crimson glow on their body greatly dimmed and seemingly struggling to maintain itself.

At this moment, Tang Dou waved his hand, and a crimson halo spread out from him. Those faltering bean soldiers were instantly energized. It appeared that Tang Dou, after absorbing the blood gem's power, could help his soldiers recover their strength.

Without the white lotus storm to hold them back, the bean army started to flex its might. As they charged here and there across the battlefield, they slew many Blood Fiends. Yiyi also had her Jade Blossom Palace and Silkheaven Net supporting them from the sides. As for Black Sin, while it was strong, it could only emerge from the ground, so it wasn't suited for battle in the sky. It was useless here in the Hall of Three Immortals.

The howling army put on a most dominating and savage display, pushing back the enemy wherever they went. Let alone the Blood Fiends, even the Blood River avatars would have to beat a temporary retreat before these bean soldiers.

The bean soldiers pushed back the Blood River Lord's force all the way to the sky above the Soaring Immortal Hall.

The pressure on the Blood River Lord allowed the representatives to finally relax a little.

Some of them even had the chance to attack the Blood River avatar that was refining the sword spirit.

Even though the balance of power was temporarily even, the Blood Fiends were endless, and more of them were emerging from the Blood Sea and charging into the fray.

The battle began to turn gruesome, with Blood Fiends and bean soldiers dying every moment. So great were the losses that neither side was willing to let this go on.

"Big Brother!" Yiyi called out, grief-stricken over the deaths of so many bean soldiers.

Tang Jie nodded and threw out a formation diagram.

The Treasure Cosmos Formation!

Countless treasures rushed into the air, creating spinning motes of starlight in the air. Each point of starlight was suffused with immense power that destroyed numerous Blood Fiends on contact.

As the formation turned, it created rivers of blood in its wake.

"Tang Jie!" The Blood River Lord roared in fury, and with a wave of his hand, a thousand waves rose up.

This was none other than that powerful spell art he had used on Yiyi before, and now that it was being used with a Blood Sea Divine Connection made through ten-some Heart Demon avatars and several Soul Transformation avatars, it was many times stronger than before.

But the Treasure Cosmos Formation was being presided over by Tang Jie now, so it was also many times stronger than when Yiyi had used it. As the blood waves rose, Tang Jie flicked his wrist, and the starlight moved to welcome them.

Blood waves crashed against starlight in a fantastical light show above the Hall of Three Immortals.

Unexpectedly, neither side had the upper hand.

Tang Jie snorted, and the Pale Cloud Flame rose to merge with the Treasure Cosmos Formation, upon which the stars began to blaze.

This was the benefit of being proficient with formations, being able to adjust and even add to the power of the formation as the situation demanded it. No formation amateur would have been able to do what Tang Jie had just done with the Pale Cloud Flame.

Empowered by the Pale Cloud Flame, the Treasure Cosmos Formation instantly began to devour the Blood Sea.

Alarmed, the Blood River Lord immediately had one of his avatars give up on his current opponent and go to deal with Tang Jie, fists flying as it sent out numerous powerful blasts of wind. As he couldn't win in a pure clash of spell arts, the Blood River Lord had no choice but to send an avatar specifically to deal with the situation.

Tang Jie laughed. "Still not enough!"

He threw out another formation diagram.

Tang Jie had brought several dozen formation diagrams with him into the Treasure Paradise, to be used when the situation needed them. Although some of them weren't suitable for this situation, there were still twenty-some that could be used, any one of which could unleash heaven-shaking power.

For Tang Jie, his most powerful trump card would always be formations.

He was only a small corner of this iceberg.

As the second formation diagram flew out, a dragon of flames appeared.

The Earthfire Burst Formation!

Tang Jie used Earthfire Lava of the Northern Mountains as the core of this Grade 6 Formation, with 146 other kinds of rare materials arranged around it. It was a powerful formation covering a wide area and suitable for frontal attacks.

As the formation diagram unfurled, the dragon made of Earthfire charged at that Blood River avatar, and with the Treasure Cosmos Formation pushing aside the waves, the dragon had a free and clear path to the avatar, coiling its body around it.

Tang Jie clenched his fist. "Explode!"

The flame dragon exploded, all of that fire essence erupting in the most intense fashion in the shortest amount of time possible.

A flame lotus rose up into the air, appearing from the distance like a mushroom cloud.

The battlefield froze for a moment, as if someone had used a Time spell art to make everything stop for one second.

The massive explosion and shockwave had everyone's ears ringing and even their vision going blurry. It took several seconds for everything to clear up.

The area of the explosion was empty.

Another Blood River avatar had been slain.