Aspiring to the Immortal Path

After completing the Eight Ocean Mountains, Tang Jie entered seclusion.

Wei Tianchong and the others were confused. Given that he had spent a hundred-some years living a simple life among mortals, they thought that he had given up on advancing and was satisfied with Earth Immortal. Why was he suddenly trying to ascend at the last minute?

Only veteran Immortals like Yun Tianlan and Fairy Gu Ye understood that Tang Jie had never wasted a single day.

A hundred years of cultivating among mortals was a type of cleansing, a kind of accumulation, a test of the spirit, a summarization of one thousand years of cultivation!

Only this kind of experience could truly temper the self, giving him a strong foundation that could withstand the trials of this ascension.

After completing the Eight Ocean Mountains, Tang Jie no longer needed this kind of cultivation.

Having solidified his foundation, he had once more set off on the highway to ascension.

But this time, he did not use resources, but the Eight Ocean Mountains.

This Immortal formation could let him sense all beings, all things, and even the core of the world, so gathering energy and focusing it on his body was no trouble.

When others cultivated, all the spiritual energy in the range of their Divine Will was available for them to use. Thus, when other cultivators entered seclusion, they normally found a place that they marked as their territory, not merely for their own peace of mind, but also to avoid fighting for spiritual energy with someone else.

Tang Jie took the entire Rosecloud Domain as his range, his will extending wherever the Eight Ocean Mountains went, mustering the spiritual energy of the entire world. In this way, his cultivation speed was naturally thousands of times faster than normal.

But it was really only Tang Jie who could do such a thing.

Using the Eight Ocean Mountains to draw in spiritual energy and convert it to Immortal Essence was no easy task. First of all, one had to be an expert in formations. Someone who didn’t understand formations couldn’t control the formation, so they would be unable to sense all things. Secondly, one also needed potential. A cultivator who had exhausted all their latent potential and tried to use this method to grow stronger would end up blowing themself up, for they would lack the ability to digest it all. Thirdly, one also needed the proper mindset to endure this sort of accelerated advancement. This sort of mindset was the product of abundant experience, not something one could just have. For example, Tang Jie had experience in rapid improvement and often converted large amounts of spiritual energy to grow stronger, but the average cultivator would find this extremely difficult and could easily end up hurting themself. Even then, Tang Jie had honed his mentality for a hundred years. Finally, accelerated improvement wasn’t favorable to pushing through a bottleneck. In cultivation, more spiritual energy didn’t necessarily mean that one could advance. Simply charging forward might result in one lacking sufficient comprehension, which could put a halt on further advancement.

But Tang Jie didn’t have these problems. Having already been reborn once, he had a deep understanding of what it meant to advance to True Immortal, and he even had knowledge of core energy that advancing to Gold Immortal required. Others were stuck at bottlenecks while his problem had always been experience and time, which was why he could go for this option.

In summary, the Eight Ocean Mountains wasn’t meant to bring someone to True Immortal. Only Tang Jie could use its various attributes to grow stronger. Nw ovel chaptrs are published on novel·fiɾe·net

In ten years, Tang Jie’s cultivation level soared, experiencing a significant boost almost every day.

No bottlenecks existed, his solid foundation allowing Tang Jie to speedily advance toward True Immortal.

Ten years went by in the blink of an eye.

One day, in the Zephyr Mountains, the Mountain of Heavenly Secrets.

There was a mighty howl, and a beam of light shot into the sky.

Everyone within several thousand kilometers of the Mountain of Heavenly Secrets sensed a majestic will sweeping over them, which instilled a sense of awe and reverence in them. Some powerful cultivators attempted to break free of this state, but the moment they thought of resistance, they were rendered immobile. Most people couldn’t even think about resistance, dropping to their knees and prostrating to the Mountain of Heavenly Secrets.

Only cultivators at Violet Palace understood that someone had advanced to True Immortal. It was just that this level of phenomena was completely unheard of. A sharp cultivator shouted, “It’s the Freedom Celestial Sovereign! The Freedom Celestial Sovereign has advanced to True Immortal!”

This time, Qi Shaoming, Cai Junyang, and all the upper echelons of the Basking Moon Sect prostrated to the Mountain of Heavenly Secrets.

Even the sect master had to show the proper respect to a True Immortal.

A sacred white sun shone over the Mountain of Heavenly Secrets, heavenly music drifted through the air, and ethereal petals danced in the wind. These were worldly phenomena that would automatically be created by an Immortal of heaven-shaking cultivation.

A person descended from the mountain.

Although he was far off in the distance, that figure didn’t seem small at all, instead seemingly right before them. Despite this, they could not make out his face, his features blurred akin to the Tang Jie from his past life.

This wasn’t some illusion, but simply because his power was so great that one could no longer look directly upon him, similar to how an ant could not see all of a mountain. This was also a good thing for them. A simple glance or sigh from a Titan was imbued with immense power.

Starting from today, all cultivators below Violet Palace could only know of Tang Jie’s face from memories or statues. His full form was too vast for them to perceive.

Tang Jie slowly strode through the air, reaching the Hall of Divine Conference in only a few steps. This wasn’t a Space Dao Art. It was simply because for a True Immortal, all arts in the world were a thought away.

Tang Jie stood before the hall.

Qi Shaoming immediately saluted Tang Jie. “Senior Brother, congratulations on advancing. Never in history has anyone attained True Immortal in only one thousand years. Perhaps it won’t be long until we hear of Senior Brother proving your Dao and becoming a Saint!”

Cai Junyang and the others all said in unison, “May you live as long as the heavens and earth, everlasting through the ages!”

“‘Live as long as the heavens and earth’?” Tang Jie muttered, his lips curving into a smile.

For the vast majority of people, becoming a Saint Immortal and living as long as the heavens and earth were ultimate dreams.

But having inherited the Martial Lord’s will and experienced the Immortal Emperor’s ambitions, Tang Jie knew that there was an even higher goal, to transcend the world itself…

For this reason, he felt nothing from such praise, simply commenting, “That’s only natural. I might be able to reach it in one hundred years.”

These words left everyone stunned.

What? Reaching this goal in one hundred years?

Although they were all congratulating him with sincerity, they still found achieving the goal in one hundred years too absurd. After all, achieving each of the four tiers of Immortal Platform took thousands of years, and that wasn’t even considering the bottlenecks.

Wei Tianchong stammered, “You… you’re… you’re talking about Gold Immortal, right?”

Achieving Gold Immortal in one hundred years was already difficult to believe, but considering that Tang Jie had only needed 1200 to achieve Supreme True Immortal, achieving another miracle wasn’t out of the question.

But Tang Jie shook his head. “Gold Immortal isn’t at the level where one can live as long as the heavens and earth.”

Then Saint Immortal in one hundred years?

The thought made all of them dizzy, someone even wondering, Was there a problem when ascending to True Immortal that messed up Tang Jie’s mind and made him more arrogant?

Tang Jie could tell what they were thinking, but he couldn’t be bothered to explain, simply saying, “The Primordial Fog Calamity is both a crisis and an opportunity. If this opportunity is used well, achieving Saint Immortal is not impossible. After all, that man… ascended the same way.”

He didn’t say who it was, simply looking into the distance, in the direction of the Court of Myriad Domains.

Yu Cheng had absorbed his memories, but he had done the same back, learning many secrets of High Antiquity. For example, how had Yu Cheng created his golden age? What else besides his own talents and efforts had led to his success?

In those memory fragments, Tang Jie had glimpsed a sliver of the truth. He still wasn’t completely sure, but once Yu Cheng started moving, he would know everything.

He was waiting for the Primordial Fog Calamity, and so was Yu Cheng!

As if sensing this anticipation, the dark clouds in the sky thickened.

The countdown had begun to the Primordial Fog Calamity. Nobody knew the exact day it would come, but the ever-darkening clouds and that suffocating feeling in the air told everyone that a fissure to the Primordial Fog Domain was opening.

Indeed, the fissure didn’t open at once, but gradually.

As time passed, this sense that a storm was coming grew stronger and stronger. The Rosecloud Domain became almost bereft of light, the dark clouds hanging like ink in the sky, yet not a single drop of rain falling from them. Even the ordinary mortals knew that a great calamity was approaching, and they began to move underground.

Two months after Tang Jie ascended to True Immortal, the first incident of a demon injuring someone appeared in the Rosecloud Domain.

Nobody knew where this demon had come from, and it was just a very weak demon infant, but it signified the first drop of rain.

More and more demons began to appear in the Rosecloud Domain.

They seemed to grow from the earth or the trees, coming out of nowhere, and some of them even inexplicably disappeared again.

What was only a few demons became dozens, and then hundreds. Most of the demons were weak, of little threat to humans, and they would be callously killed on sight.

But still more and more demons kept appearing.

Four months after Tang Jie advanced, the humans finally found out where the demons were coming from.

These were spatial fissures that spawned out of nowhere, appearing in the sky, underground, in the water, and anywhere else one could think of. Most of these spatial fissures would disappear after a short while, and the occasional demon would squeeze their way through. This was why humans had failed to notice their arrival.

But as time passed, these spatial fissures lasted longer and longer.

Half a year after Tang Jie advanced to True Immortal.

An extremely long spatial fissure opened up in the sky.

This was the largest spatial fissure to date.

It didn’t disappear.