Aspiring to the Immortal Path
chapter-724

Bang!

Elder Wind's steely palm exploded the head of a Breeder Baby, splattering gore and blood over the purplish-black earth.

But he felt no excitement over this, darkly scowling at the body.

A demon!

All fiends who had been through the Primordial Fog Calamity understood what this thing meant.

Almost every domain of the Great Stellar Chiliocosm had been invaded by the Primordial Fog Domain, and the demons had spread their infamy to every corner of the universe.

Just as all the domains shared the same system, they shared the same disgust and fear of demons.

"I didn't think a demon would appear here," Elder Wind rasped.

He looked to the avatar. "Your Majesty?"

Tang Jie understood what he meant and replied, "I know. Keep going. There's no need to stop just because of one or two demons. We have to at least see what's there before we make any decisions."

"Yes!" Elder Wind said, leading the fiends forward.

The deeper in they went, the thicker the fog became, reducing their field of vision. The ground was covered in bones that cracked as they walked over them. The thick fog, the eerie environment, and the occasional demon charging out of the fog put everyone on edge.

Suddenly, a dark silhouette charged out of the fog.

A fiend general swung his saber at the dark silhouette, which dropped to the ground without a sound.

As the fiends approached it, they saw that it was a large demon with a curled horn growing out of its head.

"It's an Allcomer," Tang Jie said.

This demon was known as the "Allcomer", and it was a little stronger than a Breeder Baby.

They had large bodies and prodigious strength, but they had no intelligence, couldn't use spell arts, and couldn't even fly. In the demon armies, they were normally laborers and servants who did simple work, occasionally taking part in some ground battles.

But the existence of an Allcomer meant that there had to be an even higher level of demon present—there could be no servant without a master.

Everyone's faces turned serious.

At this moment, Tang Jie saw the Allcomer's body twitch.

Grimacing, he shouted, "Watch out!"

A black object flew out of the Allcomer's body and shot into the fiend general.

The fiend general shuddered and quickly inspected his body, but when he found that he had no wounds, he sighed in relief.

Raising his head, he saw that all of the other fiends were backing away while giving him horrified looks.

Startled, the fiend general said, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Nobody said anything, but the fiend general felt his face was a little itchy, so he scratched it. Plop! A chunk of flesh fell off his face and into his hand.

Stunned, the fiend general instinctively felt his face and found a large hole in it, large enough for his finger to go in.

And then more flesh began to fall off his face, chunk by chunk.

"My face!" the fiend general wailed.

And then he saw that the rest of his body was rotting away, and his eyeballs fell out of their sockets and onto the ground, leaving him with only two bloody holes.

He could no longer see his body, but he lost the senses in his legs, and then his kneecaps shattered, bringing him to the ground. He let out a helpless call for help, but in the end, he collapsed into his own blood like a clump of mud.

"A Rotpoison Needle!" Tang Jie said. "Be careful! There should be a Bone Rotter around here."

Bone Rotters were ranked 248th in the Demon Codex. While they weren't particularly powerful, they possessed an extremely corrosive poison ability. Even those who were stronger than them would almost always die on the spot when they were infected by their poison, with the fiend general serving as a classic example. In a direct clash, the average Bone Rotter would have been no match for that fiend general.

"Heeheehee." Sinister laughter came in from all sides, carrying a bone-chilling terror and an annoying sense of pride. "Since you've come to this battlefield, don't think about going back!"

A dark object flew out of the fog, flying toward the back of a fiend general. This dark object gave off no energy, so even Divine Will would have found it hard to detect. At this moment, Tang Jie roared and swung his saber, striking that dark object.

The dark object fell to the ground, revealing itself to be a small black needle around three inches long. It didn't seem to be made of metal, wriggling on the ground like a snake before dissolving into a puddle of black water.

It was no wonder no problem had been felt when the needle had struck. It turned out that the needle was made from the poison.

The fiends began to barrage the fog with attacks, but the blasting spell arts seemed to have no effect, that eerie laughter ringing out again. "This is the land of my demon race! And killing me in demon land isn't that easy."

"Is that so?" Tang Jie looked down at his feet. "Using the violet fog to block Divine Will, and then adding on your own concealment methods. You think that's enough to make you unfindable?"

If the other fiends hadn't been here, Tang Jie would have used the Celestial Eye and easily found the Bone Rotter.

The Bone Rotter's laughter rang out. "If you could find me, you would have found me ages ago rather than wait until now."

"Is that so?" Tang Jie chuckled. "Then what if I do find you?"

"What else? This life of mine would be yours," the Bone Rotter continued to laugh.

Tang Jie sighed. "You're so confident, so you must think that no one can find you just because you're hiding in a corpse?"

"What?" The Bone Rotter was aghast.

The Allcomer's body exploded, a little figure running out.

The fiends attacked, and with a scream, the Bone Rotter was blasted to bits.

A fiend king examined the corpse and confirmed it to be a Bone Rotter. "Your Majesty is truly wise. Sure enough, the Bone Rotter was hiding in the Allcomer's body. But how did Your Majesty know?"

Tang Jie indifferently said, "The poison needle that killed Black Moon came from the Allcomer's body. The second needle was meant to confuse us, making us think that our opponent was constantly moving and skilled in concealment. The problem is that I've never heard of Bone Rotters being experts in this… I was talking with it to imply to it that concealment methods weren't reliable, but it felt no fear, even provoking me. From this, I guessed that it wasn't using some concealment art. Since it wasn't hidden, it had to be near us, and as it isn't a type known for traveling through the earth, where else could it be besides the corpse? Of course, this was only a guess to fool it. I didn't think it would show itself."

The fiends praised, "Your Majesty is truly wise."

Only Elder Wind gave Tang Jie a deep look, saying nothing.

Tang Jie continued, "Since even Bone Rotters have appeared, we can't guarantee that there aren't any others. Everyone, be careful. There's no need to conserve your spiritual energy. Put up your shields before advancing."

"Yes!" the fiends rang out.

They were now extremely close to the giant pillar. Tang Jie estimated based on the two days it had taken them to get here that this pillar would have been located right at the center of the five demon caves if it had been on the surface.

In other words, everybody was seeing the same pillar, and as they were all headed toward it, it meant they were about to meet each other soon.

A meeting of Fiend Emperors was bound to be a huge trial for Tang Jie's acting skills, but Tang Jie was confident and unafraid.

As they kept going, they encountered a few scattered demons, but there weren't many of them, and they weren't especially strong, so they were easily taken care of.

After great effort, they finally arrived at the pillar.

This giant pillar rising out of the earth was a tower of immense size, blazing with a crimson light as if it was a pillar of fire.

Most astonishing of all was that the base of this tower was suppressing something. At first glance, it seemed like a giant mountain, but as the fiery light burned away the fog, it became apparent that this was a dragon!

A vast Azure Dragon, its body like a mountain range!

This giant dragon was coiled up in the center of this land, its head linked to its tail to form a circle. The tower was pressed down on the back of the dragon. If one looked carefully, one would realize that this dragon was long-dead, its face twisted in pain.

Everyone was aghast by the sight of this dragon.

Even Tang Jie was stunned by this.

"Azure Dragon…" he muttered.

Sure enough, the Azure Dragon was here, but unexpectedly, it was already dead.

It seemed that it had been sealed by this tower. Unable to escape, after some unknown amount of time, it had finally died.

Such a death was truly unjust. But what sort of Titan would be able to seal one of the Four Sacred Beasts, and why would they do it?

But a moment later, Tang Jie thought of something that made him excited.

Dragonbone Spirit Sesame!

Since there was an Azure Dragon's corpse here, there might be Dragonbone Spirit Sesame growing on it.

Dragonbone Spirit Sesame was key for Tang Jie's extreme long-distance teleportation formation. Without it, it didn't matter how much of the other materials he gathered. But if he had this plant, he could slowly find replacements for the other materials, or even nurture them on his own.

Tang Jie hadn't just spent the last hundred years wandering. He had also been searching for materials.

He had gathered most of the materials he had been missing, but the Dragonbone Spirit Sesame remained elusive. And as this plant had to grow from dragon bones, even finding a substitute was difficult.

To his surprise, he had finally found a dragon corpse.

The hope of going home was right in front of him!

Gazing at the giant dragon, Tang Jie found it hard to repress his excitement.

At this moment, a voice came from the distance: "The Chaos Tower! I can't believe it's the Chaos Tower!"

He turned to the direction of the voice and saw another group approaching from the distance, led by an obese man in a dragon robe, his belly somewhat unreasonably large. Tang Jie's eyes narrowed. As expected, they had come.

The newcomer was none other than one of the Five Fiend Emperors, the Blackwater Fiend Emperor.

The Blackwater Fiend Emperor swiftly walked up to the tower, his entire body trembling in excitement, his eyes shining with greed. He flew around the tower as if he was admiring a lover before flying back to the ground.

He then looked at Tang Jie and brought his hands together in greeting. "So it's Little Brother Thunder Blade. Forgive your foolish older brother for losing control. I am a little excited over seeing the Chaos Tower for the first time."

Tang Jie smirked. "Losing control is fine, but why exactly did you sprinkle poison around the tower?"