Aspiring to the Immortal Path
chapter-653

The essence blood rolled around in Tang Jie's palm like a crimson pearl. Tang Jie could feel the immense power within the blood, but unlike the essence blood he was using now, this essence blood also gave Tang Jie an indescribable sensation.

Tang Jie didn't know how to explain it. All he knew was that there was a voice warning him: Do not swallow this drop of essence blood.

Tang Jie was flabbergasted.

Not by the essence blood, but that voice in his mind.

As someone who calculated everything and always relied on logic, he had never once felt something through intuition. He had always relied on planning and hidden cards to fight.

But today, at this moment, before this drop of essence blood, he suddenly had an intuition.

There was no rigorous analysis or close inspection, only an inexplicable voice warning him. This left Tang Jie completely baffled.

Where had this feeling come from?

Why was it appearing now?

Tang Jie couldn't figure out the answer.

But at that moment, he still chose to trust the feeling, putting the essence blood in a jade bottle rather than consuming it, completely ignoring the Ghostface King in front of him.

"You…" the Ghostface King blurted out, staring at Tang Jie.

Tang Jie put the jade bottle into his bag and said, "What?"

'What'?

'What' my ass, you motherfucker!

The Ghostface King felt a deep sense of humiliation.

You stand before me after stealing my things and ask me 'What?'

Even though he knew his foe was powerful, the dignity of a fiend king did not permit him to back down.

Savage killing intent appeared on his face as he roared, "DIE!"

He swung the Ironblood Saber.

To cut down this powerful foe, the Ghostface King activated the countless wills, and his aura began to soar. Unexpectedly, the powerful stimulus presented by Tang Jie had put him on the verge of a breakthrough, and saber intent erupted and engulfed Tang Jie.

Tang Jie hadn't expected to run into a foe who was about to break through mid-battle, and he was momentarily taken aback. The sense of danger in his heart soared, and Tang Jie knew that even his current constitution couldn't take this blow.

Shaking his right hand, he produced the Mother Cloud Essence Metal axe and used it to block the saber.

But a moment later, the radiance unleashed by the blade penetrated through the axe and struck Tang Jie, the wills of countless experts hammering into his mind, and Tang Jie couldn't help but cry out in pain.

He threw a punch in return, and with a bang, Tang Jie and the Ghostface King separated.

While the Ghostface King's chest was caved in, Tang Jie was bleeding from both eyes.

Standing in the air with those bleeding eyes, Tang Jie looked quite horrifying.

And even with his powerful recovery abilities, he wasn't able to immediately heal this injury.

Tang Jie laughed. "Excellent! Quite the mighty saber! In your sudden enlightenment in the Dao, you managed to strike with some of the quintessence of Slaughter! Ghostface King, you're incredible!"

These words left everyone stunned.

The Ghostface King had been suddenly enlightened in the Dao?

This was the only explanation for why Tang Jie couldn't heal his injury.

While experiencing a breakthrough in the middle of battle was a very refreshing thing, having it happen to an enemy was equally as displeasing!

But life was just like this sometimes. The good things couldn't always come to oneself. There was also a chance that they might happen to the enemy.

This was just what had happened here: a fiend had been suddenly enlightened to the Dao.

Sun Shuming paled, and he sighed, "The heavens do not favor my human race!"

For the humans, a breakthrough was a small matter, but the implication to Fate made Sun Shuming's heart turn cold.

"Precisely!" the Ghostface King laughed.

Although Tang Jie had stolen the essence blood, the sudden breakthrough had made the Ghostface King himself much stronger, tantamount to the drop of essence blood. The Ironblood Saber shone in his hand, the figures of countless experts flashing as their powerful wills once more dominated everyone present.

All of the ghosts howled under these terrifying wills, not daring to take another step forward. The Ghostface King was singlehandedly suppressing all of the ghosts, but because he was releasing the full might of the saber, he temporarily couldn't move.

"Kill him first!" the Ghostface King roared.

Seven fiend kings remained to keep Sun Shuming's group busy, while the remaining eight fiend kings charged at Tang Jie.

"Tang Jie, watch out!" Shentu Yuan and the others called out from the rear.

"Don't come over! Go and help Sir Sun!" Tang Jie shouted back. "I can deal with these guys."

"Arrogant human!" the bear fiend roared in fury.

One versus eight? Just who did this human think he was?

He had never seen Tang Jie before and knew nothing of his abilities. With rage in his heart, he charged ahead and punched a mighty paw at Tang Jie.

Tang Jie didn't dodge, thrusting a palm to meet the paw as he coldly replied, "If you have the guts, then you also break through in the middle of battle."

Bang! The bear fiend was sent flying.

Trying to compete in strength with Tang Jie?

Even the Colossus King had ended up on Tang Jie's dinner table, so this bear wasn't going to fare much better.

But as the bear fiend was sent flying, the attacks from the other fiend kings arrived. Several fiend arts exploded on Tang Jie, and Tang Jie couldn't help but grunt in pain.

When cultivation levels were equal, numbers definitely mattered.

The combined power of eight fiend kings was nothing to be trifled with, and they even had an expert in defense-piercing attacks. Not even Tang Jie was powerful enough to take their blows directly.

"A mantis trying to stop a carriage!" A fiend king laughed at the situation, lunging at Tang Jie and opening his mouth wide to eat Tang Jie alive.

But as his mouth bit down, the Mother Cloud combat puppet appeared in front of Tang Jie.

The teeth bit right down onto the puppet.

In terms of toughness, the combat puppet forged from Mother Cloud Essence Metal was far superior to Tang Jie's original body, and there was a sharp crack as the fiend king's sharp teeth all shattered. The fiend king wailed in pain, but a moment later, the combat puppet threw a punch that sent the fiend king flying.

The fiends were all stunned by the appearance of the puppet. Tang Jie took out the Herding Yang Pearl and put it in his mouth, after which he asked, "Can you block seven of them?"

The Mother Cloud combat puppet made a gesture to indicate that it could only do so for around seven minutes.

"That's enough," Tang Jie said with a laugh, upon which he transformed into a three-headed, six-armed giant. Wielding the Mother Cloud Essence Metal axe, the Desolate Heavens Halberd, and the Sovereign Blade, he charged at a fiend king.

He needed to kill them as quickly as possible, one by one!

At the same time, a complicated diagram appeared beneath the puppet's feet, creating a vast cage of starlight.

The Star Chain Formation.

The Star Chain Formation prevented anyone from leaving the formation unless the master of the formation let them out or was defeated.

The Mother Cloud combat puppet wasn't just a weapon. Its existence also had huge tactical significance. One of its important uses was that it could hold down and divide enemies for Tang Jie. As the puppet locked the seven fiend kings within the formation, points of light began to light up across its body.

It was activating both its defense and acceleration formations.

The combat puppet's mission currently wasn't to kill its opponents, but to hold them fast, so the ghost guard controlling the puppet had given up completely on offense and put all its energy into defense and speed.

While the puppet was holding down seven fiend kings, Tang Jie began his hunt.

Six arms lashed out, all weapons striking at that fiend king.

The fiend king howled in pain and lashed back.

But Tang Jie ignored the fiend king's counterattacks, trading blow for blow, his six arms attacking the fiend king in rotation so as to kill him as quickly as possible.

But he wasn't facing just a single fiend king, but also fiend generals.

"Save me!" the fiend king roared, and several dozen fiend generals rushed at Tang Jie.

More than half of the fiend generals had died in the earlier battle, but even so, there were still several dozen of them. All of them together represented a power that could not be underestimated.

But Tang Jie ignored them, one of his arms throwing out a formation diagram.

The Treasure Cosmos Formation!

Seeing this, the Ghostface King narrowed his eyes and shouted, "Watch out!"

As a fiend king who had taken part in that city assault, he was well aware of how powerful this formation was.

But the fiend generals did not know.

Ten thousand treasures ascended into the sky, their lights shining down over the fiends, and they all wailed as they hurried to defend themselves. To keep the fiends off him, Tang Jie didn't use the concentrated treasure beam. While this would raise the lethality, it would let some of the fiend generals escape and attack him. Thus, he chose to evenly distribute the light so as to hold down every fiend general. This made the treasure light much weaker, unable to kill a single one of the several dozen fiend generals, but it bought him precious time.

Tang Jie's six arms thrust out, blasting the fiend king with all his power.

The fiend king tried to run, but Tang Jie seized him and refused to let him go. Frenzied torrents of energy filled the fiend king's body, threatening to make him explode.

The fiend king struggled for his life and cried out for help, but nothing he did mattered. He was like a slab of meat on the cutting board. Ultimately, he was cut into a pile of ground meat, losing all life.

Tang Jie put away the corpse and waved a hand behind him. The Star Chain Formation flashed as a fiend king was sent out.

The fiend kings within the formation had seen what happened to their comrade, so the moment this fiend king got out of the formation, he released a thick black smoke. This black smoke contained countless fiends and devils, jumping and flying around, manifesting in various forms as the black smoke spread outward.

This was this fiend king's strongest move, and its name was the Myriad Manifestation Hell. If one fell into this hell, one would suffer from countless illusions and be assailed by countless horrors until death.

Tang Jie cared little about such things. He charged into the black smoke and unleashed his blood energy, preventing all those wicked creatures from getting close. The moment those fiends and devils tried, his prodigious blood energy would wash them away. The black smoke retreated as Tang Jie strode toward the fiend king.

The fiend king cried out in shock and transformed into a giant mouth that attempted to bite Tang Jie.

Tang Jie savagely smiled and thrust out his heads.

The three heads opened their mouths and bit down on the fiend king. In his giant form, he was just as terrifying as his opponent, and rather than eating Tang Jie, the fiend king ended up being devoured, the three mouths messily tearing into him as he cried out for help.

Tang Jie continued to attack with his three heads and six arms, seeking to kill the fiend king as quickly as possible.

At this time, the light of the Treasure Cosmos Formation faded. While the fiend generals were all badly wounded, they still lived. As the formation retreated, the generals rushed at Tang Jie, trying to save the fiend king.

But at this moment, laughter rang out.

Yiyi's graceful figure flew through the air, and as she grabbed the formation diagram, countless black vines erupted from the earth, reaching for the fiend generals.