Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Libido cackled at Tang Jie’s words. “Still acting tough! I admit that your Sovereign Blade is sharp, and this black hole Immortal Art of yours is powerful, and you have the power of the core to aid you, but so what? No matter how strong you are, how can you be stronger than all of us? Hurry up and submit so that you can become a demon. So long as you hand over the Eight Ocean Mountains and the Sovereign Blade, as well as your understanding of cores and this black hole Immortal Art, I will let you become my deputy.”

He had earlier said that Tang Jie only needed to hand over the Eight Ocean Mountains and Sovereign Blade to become his deputy, but having seen that Tang Jie also knew about cores and had this black hole Immortal Art, he got greedy and decided to add on those two as well.

Tang Jie smiled. “Why don’t we do this instead? You give me that demon art that let you devour my arm and I’ll consider leaving your corpse intact. How about it?”

“Impudent!” Libido scowled. Even though his face wasn’t visible, his intense desire to kill Tang Jie could be felt through the black fog.

The black fog once more rushed toward Tang Jie, and with it were the three Lesser Demon Lords and twenty-some devils.

Tang Jie immediately began to create a small black hole in his left hand.

The devils already knew the terror of the World Devourer, and the sight of it immediately had all the devils backing away in a rush.

Only the Archdemon and Lesser Demon Lords were capable of contending against such a powerful Immortal Art.

Logi roared, “Attack from all sides without pause!”

He regrew his eight arms that had been destroyed by the World Devourer, and they grabbed at the air, transforming the demonic energy into numerous spears that he tossed in swift succession at Tang Jie.

Windfang also spat out gusts of wind, each one imbued with dark energy. This dark energy had a powerful corrupting effect, able to turn weaker beings into demons. Alas, Tang Jie was ready for this, having moved all the creatures of the Yellow Court World away before the battle. At this time, this entire world was empty, so there were no creatures to corrupt. But the gusts of wind remained highly lethal.

Wano also spat out another army of demons. But having been taught a harsh lesson last time, he spat out much fewer this time, and they were organized in echelons, advancing rank by rank.

As before, Libido remained hidden in the darkness, not even showing his true form. Although he had yet to directly exchange blows with Tang Jie, he was the only devil to seriously injure Tang Jie. Whenever he moved behind Tang Jie, Tang Jie couldn’t help but get shivers.

“Finally focusing on tactics?” Tang Jie smiled.

Only after suffering several setbacks did the devils finally drop their pride and start taking Tang Jie seriously.

For the vast majority of devils, this was an unacceptable humiliation!

All these devils working together had failed to crush a single human! On the contrary, they were being careful around him!

This was defeat!

A disgrace!

Kill him!

Only by killing him and eating him could they wash away their shame!

All the devils shared this same thought.

Demonic clouds roiled in the heavens and a spatial storm howled as Titans battled within it. At times, one would see flashes of demonic flame, and at times, one would spot bursts of golden light or glimpse an all-devouring black hole.

The more the devils fought, the more alarmed they became. What they thought was an easy opponent was far stronger than they had anticipated.

Never before had one human been able to hold off so many devils. On the contrary, quite a few of these devils who had attacked the human world before had played the role of the besieged.

It had always been them being surrounded and outnumbered, but then this human had come out of nowhere and refused to die, even killing them a few times in return. How could they not be upset?

Demons had always been humanity’s nightmare. In every Primordial Fog Calamity, they had invaded human territory and committed all manner of evils, and humans could only rely on guerilla attacks and trade space for time, using the prosperity of humanity to disperse the demon army so that they could divide and conquer. But the Rosecloud Domain was a much tougher nut to crack. Half a year of infiltration attempts had failed, their mass invasion had run straight into an iron wall, and now, they couldn’t even properly gang up on a single human.

It wasn’t that the demons were ignorant. The world had just changed too much.

Even so, Tang Jie was slowly losing ground.

His World Devourer was powerful, but it couldn’t be used endlessly, and the devils knew about it now and would no longer let him wreak as much havoc with it. In the end, Tang Jie mostly relied on the fusion of his Immortal energy and physical strength.

His every punch was brimming with an immense and mysterious strength that placed immense pressure on the devils.

“I don’t believe that there could be any human this strong in the world!” a devil impatiently shouted, rushing over and swinging his axe at Tang Jie.

Bang!

The axe shattered, and before even retracting the Sovereign Blade, Tang Jie kicked with such force that he pulverized the devil’s body, forcing him to revive. Tang Jie then threw out the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace to block a slew of attacks while a punch from the Combat Emperor Catalog pushed back a Lesser Demon Lord.

Libido was delighted. “Hand over the Eight Ocean Mountains, the Sovereign Blade, your understanding of cores, the black hole Immortal Art, and also this furnace and your fist arts, and then obediently become a demon, and this lord will give you the chance to become my deputy.”

Another two conditions had been added.

Tang Jie laughed. “If I use a few more moves, I’m afraid you’ll get tongue-tied.”

“Not wrong, not wrong. You really do have a lot of tricks and treasures. I’m starting to think that it would be better to kill and eat you rather than recruit you, taking everything you own.” Libido didn’t feel any shame, and he seemed to be seriously considering the possibility of giving up on making Tang Jie a demon.

Tang Jie replied, “But if I don’t become a demon, how could I hand over the Eight Ocean Mountains? This is no treasure, but a complete Immortal formation. It requires a lot of work to hand over and can’t be so easily taken.”

“That’s true.” Libido immediately hesitated. While Tang Jie had many treasures, the Eight Ocean Mountains was far more valuable. In the end, was it better to eat him or make him a demon?

Ah, he could just make him a demon and then eat him once he had handed over the formation!

Having resolved this serious issue, Libido relaxed. It was just that this would mean going back on his promise of making Tang Jie his deputy if he agreed to become a demon. But then again, he could just cook up some crime to accuse him of, like betraying his people.

Libido thought of a lot in this short amount of time, even thinking about how to handle Tang Jie after he had surrendered, and his mood greatly improved.

At this time, Tang Jie, losing more and more ground against the demons, suddenly grunted, and the Mountain River State Diagram erupted with core energy to support him. As he fended off another round of attacks, he countered and killed a devil one more time.

Libido’s eyes lit up. He had forgotten about this small world, which was a treasure as well.

He said, “Hand over the Eight Ocean Mountains, the Sovereign Blade, your understanding of cores, the black hole Immortal Art, the furnace, your fist arts, and this small world, and obediently become a demon, and this lord will let you become my deputy!” Meanwhile, he wondered if this guy was still holding something back.

And then a sacred light lit up the heavens.

The Evil Punishing Seal!

Tang Jie had developed this art in the Nether Domain to deal with ghosts and other such creatures. As Primordial Fog demons were also foul and corrupted beings, they could also be suppressed by the Evil Punishing Seal.

The light of the Evil Punishing Seal banished the darkness and caused the devils to back away with a wail.

Libido was tempted once more. He was just about to add on another condition when he realized that he couldn’t make use of such a holy art. Thus, he dropped the matter and summoned black fog to continue eating away at Tang Jie.

In this intense battle, the two sides had already exchanged countless blows. While Tang Jie had succeeded in killing the devils numerous times, with the weaker ones having died around seven times and even the three Lesser Demon Lords been killed twice apiece, Tang Jie was drenched in blood, having taken many attacks from the dozens of devils.

But worst of all were Libido’s treacherous attacks, and each attack targeted a specific part of his body.

Tang Jie, with his perfect body empowered by core energy, could not be completely suppressed by Libido, but if he used all his strength to suppress only part of his body, like a hand or foot, then he could hold it down for a while. And each time he did this, Tang Jie was bound to take immense damage.

At this moment, Tang Jie’s enormous figure was covered in wounds. He had only half of one arm left, while the other had had most of its flesh gnawed off. One of his legs had simply been bitten off, he had lost an eye and an ear, his nose was gone, and there were various chunks torn out of his body, one on his chest so large that the organs were exposed. But when Libido had tried to use this chance to eat his heart, the energy emitted from the organs was so intense that it had burned a hole in his head.

This was the only wound Libido had taken in this entire battle.

This cunning Archdemon Lord remained in the shadows, using his subordinates to distract Tang Jie while he continued to nibble away.

While those devils were being killed numerous times, with the Sovereign Blade’s weapon spirit even dealing damage to their souls, these devils were all extraordinary figures in their own right, each with their secret techniques and treasures. Many of them could even draw on the surrounding demonic energy to quickly heal their souls. Thus, Tang Jie had yet to truly kill a single devil.

Unless he could kill them in body and soul, all this slaughter was pointless.

And right now, Tang Jie was even beginning to run out of energy, both spiritual and physical.

He was just one person, and against so many devils, even someone of his abilities began to tire.

The devils wildly laughed and roared as they rushed at Tang Jie.

Tang Jie valiantly and futilely struggled to push them back.

Against so many opponents, all of his powers seemed meaningless, and all his efforts seemed in vain.

Logi said, “Tang Jie, just become a demon! If you hand over everything you have, you can become the deputy commander of the demons!”

Libido inwardly chuckled, Having this guy say it for me saves me the effort of repeating that tongue twister.

Tang Jie replied, “‘Everything’? I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle it!”

Logi laughed. “We won’t know unless you try!”

Tang Jie nodded and earnestly replied, “That’s true. Then, as you wish: Heavenly Dao Realm, activate!”