Aspiring to the Immortal Path
chapter-868

When Tang Jie saw the Flame Celestial Sovereign being reborn in the flames, he knew he was done for.

It was no wonder a Violet Palace expert fighting an Immortal Platform expert had always been something no one dared to imagine. The gap was just too big. In these current circumstances, trying to wear the Flame Celestial Sovereign to death was as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

With this plan having failed, Tang Jie stopped hesitating and activated the Infinite Palace.

Retreating under the barrage of the Flame Celestial Sovereign's attacks, he grabbed his heavily injured rabbit and threw him into the diagram, then flew off. Within the Mountain River State Diagram, Xu Miaoran began to pull out medicines to heal Tutu.

Giant palms of flame smashed into Tang Jie one after another, striking the palaces and tearing them apart like a behemoth, the resultant shockwaves making it difficult for Tang Jie to maintain his Dao Art.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign was surprised. "A Dao Art? So you do have some skill. But let's see how far that can take you."

He sent a finger flying like a shooting star at Tang Jie.

Before, the Flame Celestial Sovereign had been going easy, but now, he was using his real strength, displaying the might of an Immortal.

This single finger pushed the Infinite Palace to the brink, and it showed clear signs of overloading. Although it was a defense formed from a Great Dao, it was not invincible. Under the Flame Celestial Sovereign's unrelenting flood of heavenly might, it was gradually giving out.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign's finger was like the finger that Jewel had used to destroy the Infinite Palace all those years ago.

But this time, Tang Jie didn't need anyone to save him.

As the finger flew through the air, Tang Jie became tens of thousands of Tang Jies.

Reflections of Floating Life!

The moment those countless Tang Jies appeared, they scattered in all directions.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign snorted. "Trying to escape?"

The finger also split off into tens of thousands of fingers, each of them transforming into crows of flame that shot off in pursuit.

A battle of man versus bird played out, one crow for every man. The Flame Celestial Sovereign had locked onto every Tang Jie so that he couldn't escape! But while he was strong, his illusions were far below the level of Tang Jie's Reflections of Floating Life.

If each of the clones created by the Reflections of Floating Life had one hundredth of Tang Jie's power, the fire crows had only one ten-thousandth of the Flame Celestial Sovereign's power, which actually made Tang Jie the stronger party. A moment later, a churning red cloud appeared in the sky, grinding away at those fire crows.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign was startled. "Another Dao Art! To have entered two Daos, you're a real genius. Alas, you offended me, so no matter how much of a genius you are, you must die! I'll let you witness my Dao Art! Incinerate the World!"

As the Flame Celestial Sovereign roared, his Origin Flame once more swept out, transforming into a boundless sea of fire that blotted out the sky.

This was the Flame Celestial Sovereign's Dao Art, "Incinerate the World".

He had entered the Dao of Fire, and his Dao Art was much more powerful than Tang Jie's. As he unleashed his Origin Flame, nothing could escape the scourge of his blaze.

There was nothing particularly profound about Incinerate the World. It simply relied on the tyrannical, berserk, neverending flame to turn the entire world to cinder.

This flame melted away all metals, dried up the oceans, cracked the earth, and cast the entire world into despair. One could say that there was nothing that it could not burn, and such was its size that there was no place to escape.

Under this vast wildfire, Tang Jie's Reflections of Floating Life was an utter joke. All of his clones shattered and disappeared before they even had a chance to escape.

This secret art that had always helped him escape had been easily undone by the Flame Celestial Sovereign's Dao Art.

The fierce flame didn't stop there, rushing at Tang Jie's original body.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign felt like he could already see Tang Jie's death, savagely laughing, "Setting ablaze the myriad domains, turning the entire universe into a furnace! Tang Jie, how will you stop my Incinerate the World?"

"'Setting ablaze the myriad domains, turning the entire universe into a furnace'? That's quite the boast!" Tang Jie snorted. "But there's no need for you to make the universe your furnace. I have one right here! Let's see if you can make this one burn!"

With a wave of Tang Jie's hand, an item flew out from the Mountain River State Diagram.

The Myriad Yin Yang Furnace!

Tang Jie had refined this furnace from Heavenly Balance Mountain, and as Tang Jie summoned it, it assumed its original form and protected Tang Jie. Thanks to this enormous furnace, the flame couldn't reach Tang Jie.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign was surprised that Tang Jie would possess such an item.

While secretly harnessing the power of Karma, Tang Jie roared, "Hong Qianli, didn't you want to make the universe into your furnace and set all the domains ablaze? Why don't you try and melt me down first?"

The Myriad Yin Yang Furnace was no defensive treasure. In the end, it was a furnace, and it had an opening at the top. The Flame Celestial Sovereign simply needed to end his Dao Art and use any other move to break through this defense. But Tang Jie's words had provoked his temper.

Everyone had a temper, and at times, even when one knew that they were making the wrong choice, their temper and stubbornness would still make them do it.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign was doing just this, with the Dao of Karma further inflaming his temper, causing him to ultimately fall for Tang Jie's provocation.

You think I can't melt you down?

Then I'll do exactly that!

With a shake of his arms, his Origin Flames began to roast the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace.

This Origin Flame had been refined by studying all the flames of the world and creating from the Dao of Fire a true Great Dao Flame. As it began to blaze away, even the violet gold from which the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace was made began to gradually melt, great beads of metal flowing down its side. If this continued, it wouldn't be long before both it and Tang Jie were melted down.

But Tang Jie seemed to be in no hurry, bringing out the Treasure Cosmos Formation diagram.

The treasures within the diagram flew out, disappearing into the furnace in flashes of light. In this way, they became one with the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace. As these treasures fused with the furnace, Tang Jie was also drawing various formation lines on the furnace, which stabilized its melting form.

An onlooker who understood formations would understand that Tang Jie was drawing the Jewel Palace's formation!

The Jewel Palace's formation seemed very similar to the Treasure Cosmos Formation, both using treasures as the material that allowed the formation to unleash a boundless power. They were different in that the Jewel Palace's formation was a Dao formation while the Treasure Cosmos Formation was just an ordinary one. This difference mostly manifested in the power of the formation. The Jewel Palace's formation could use a divine treasure to imprison an Earth Immortal, which meant multiplying the divine treasure's power by tens of thousands of times. Meanwhile, the Treasure Cosmos Formation was the exact opposite, all the treasures within being unable to utilize their full power, relying purely on their numbers to push people around.

Since Tang Jie had understood the Dao formation on the Wall of Dao Comprehension, he naturally had to use it. But Daos could not be transmitted, so while Tang Jie understood the formation, he didn't understand the Dao within it. This formation without the Dao was only an empty frame.

But not understanding the Dao within the formation was fine, for he had his own Dao.

Nothing said that he had to use precisely the Jewel Palace's Dao.

But this also wasn't an easy task. This kind of formation couldn't be held by a formation diagram and needed a powerful medium. And even with a new medium, a powerful energy, ideally the power of a Great Dao, was needed to merge the formation with the medium. Lastly, this energy couldn't come from Tang Jie himself, because he would be busy laying down the formation.

Considering all the various difficulties, Tang Jie had quickly put the thought aside.

He could have never imagined that the opportunity would come so soon and so abruptly.

The descent of the Flame Celestial Sovereign had brought him the external force he sorely lacked, and it was the ideal Fire Element power, while the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace served as an excellent medium. Of course, violet gold alone wasn't enough. To bring the furnace up to par, Tang Jie didn't mind throwing all of his treasures into it, using the Flame Celestial Sovereign's Origin Flame to melt them down into materials.

The various spiritual materials that these treasures were made of swiftly increased the furnace's quality as they were melted down. Not only that, Tang Jie also added in the last bit of Mother Cloud Essence Metal he possessed as well as the various precious metals from the buildings he had dismantled. As such, there was no worry about a lack of materials.

Finally, Tang Jie used the Dao of Karma to support the formation to ensure its successful completion.

The refining was the cause, and the completion was the effect. As for the external factor that was the Flame Celestial Sovereign, the Dao of Karma made it so that he could only have a positive influence.

Of course, this also meant that the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace carried the heavy marks of the Dao of Karma.

Through all this, Tang Jie managed to forge a tool right under the eyes of the Flame Celestial Sovereign.

As more and more treasures were thrown in, and more and more formation lines were drawn, the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace grew more and more solid. As the divine treasures were added into the furnace, they no longer melted away, instead being stored in the furnace in a special manner, able to be released to hurt Tang Jie's enemies.

It was somewhat like the Myriad Immortals Cauldron in this respect. The Myriad Immortals Cauldron sucked in fiends and let them out to attack enemies, while the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace did this for divine weapons. But while the Myriad Immortals Cauldron was strong, Tang Jie wasn't at Immortal Platform yet, so he couldn't truly use the power of this Dao armament. Thus, Tang Jie tried to avoid using it for fear of a powerful backlash. Moreover, to be honest, with the Imperial Sky Stamp, Tang Jie could absorb the power of fiends, which made him reluctant to put them in the Myriad Immortals Cauldron. One kind of resource could be used in two ways, and the Myriad Immortals Cauldron was the way he had not chosen, which meant it was going to waste. While it was a pity, there was nothing he could do about it.

As for the Yin Yang Furnace, while it was weak, Tang Jie had personally forged it and could completely control it, and in the future, it would grow stronger as Tang Jie grew stronger.

As the heaven-incinerating flames continued to burn, Tang Jie slapped the furnace several times. With a resounding boom, the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace exploded with a dazzling light, suffused with the power of the Dao.

"Success!" Tang Jie laughed.

Using the power of the Fire Element, the treasures of the Treasure Cosmos Formation, and the formation of the Jewel Palace, he had finished refining the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace. Not only that, Tang Jie felt himself growing stronger in the Fire Dao—he had also entered the Dao of Five Elements, owning a small piece of primordial Fire Element, but it was like a firefly compared to the Flame Celestial Sovereign's moon. However, by constantly using and absorbing the Flame Celestial Sovereign's power, he had gotten a surprise bonus.

Of course, what was most important was still the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace.

The furnace's eruption of light startled even the Flame Celestial Sovereign.

He was no fool, so he finally realized that he had fallen for Tang Jie's ploy and helped him forge a treasure.

As for how he had only noticed this now?

He didn't know that Karma was involved, so he only felt rage and shock from falling for this ruse.

Seeing this furnace showing signs of a nascent Dao armament, the Flame Celestial Sovereign was so angry that he almost threw up blood.

"Tang Jie! You tricked me!"

"That's not all!" Tang Jie thunderously replied. He slapped the furnace, and a divine light shot out of it.