Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Violet Djinns had the unique ability to transfer their power to a designated devil Titan, gathering the energy of countless so that the devil could battle on a higher level.

Of course, this would make them weaker, and it took a while for them to recover. But it allowed the one receiving the energy to reach lofty heights.

At this moment, Libido was as powerful as a Gold Immortal.

In the sky, divine light flashed as the Gods began to remold their Immortal bodies with immortal energy.

But in this environment thick with demonic energy, even Immortals found it hard to revive, and the process was much slower than usual.

Libido reached for Tang Jie. “DIE!”

As his claw shot forward, black streams of energy shot out and tangled around Tang Jie, rendering him completely immobile and unable to resist the lightning tribulation.

Tang Jie struggled and failed to break free, and his face paled.

A thick lightning bolt cleaved straight toward Tang Jie.

“You think so?” Tang Jie coldly smirked.

Libido froze, his senses telling him that something was wrong.

The lightning bolt slammed into Tang Jie, but it also struck Libido’s hand.

Libido wailed in pain as terrifying streams of electricity coursed through the air.

“MY HAND!!!”

Libido’s black hand had been blasted open by the lightning, raining black blood on the ground below. Meanwhile, Tang Jie seemed fine, coldly smiling at Libido.

“Thanks!” he said.

As Libido angrily drew back his hand, he knew that he had fallen for Tang Jie’s trap.

Normally, Heavenly Tribulations targeted a specific individual and wouldn’t affect others. Of course, if one tried to interfere, the lightning tribulation wouldn’t try to avoid them and would even grow stronger as punishment. This was why those experiencing tribulations didn’t like others joining in, as this could easily be regarded by the Heavenly Dao as finding allies, causing it to strengthen the tribulation. As for using the Heavenly Tribulation against others, that was even more suicidal. No matter what, the main character would always receive more of the Heavenly Tribulation than the side characters.

Enduring a tribulation was receiving the punishment of the heavens, not a means of borrowing the hand of the Heavenly Dao to remove one’s enemies.

Libido had dared to reach for Tang Jie for this very reason. He wanted to use his own interference to strengthen the lightning tribulations, and he did so in his smoke form, which was not as easily injured by the lightning.

But Tang Jie’s lightning tribulation was different from the rest. As a tribulation meant for one who went against the heavens, it was the highest level of lightning tribulations. If the Heavenly Tribulation regarded its normal targets as convicted criminals awaiting execution, Tang Jie was a full-blown rebel leader. The Heavenly Dao was the king, so it was naturally more wary of the rebels and would punish them the most harshly. Anyone who dared to intervene at this time was a colluder, and even if all they did was exchange a few words, it was still treason! It deserved death!

Thus, the lightning tribulation didn’t grow stronger. It simply punished Libido just as much as Tang Jie.

As a cost for this mistake, Libido’s hand had been severely wounded, so severely that even demonic energy was barely healing it. He cried out in shock, “Pure Yang True Lightning?”

Only the supreme True Lightning formed from Pure Yang could so thoroughly annihilate his hand, to a level that no ordinary lightning tribulation could achieve.

Just what had Tang Jie done, that he was being barraged by Pure Yang True Lightning?

But Tang Jie had seemingly weathered the blow and come out perfectly fine. Four hundred years of cultivation had given him enough of a boost to resist this lightning tribulation, and when it came to both experience and actual resistance, he was far superior to Libido. He had fled back to the human ranks to endure the tribulation primarily because he was worried that he would be too injured after the tribulation to fight back against Libido. Otherwise, he really might have tried his hand at fighting while enduring the tribulation.

Once Libido drew back his hand, the lightning tribulation ceased targeting him and continued to blast away at Tang Jie. Libido sighed in relief, and meanwhile, Yun Tianlan and the others had finished reviving, all of them staring at Libido in shock.

With one finger, he had instantly killed all of them. There was no way they could not be awed by such a display of power. But regardless of their shock, they still had to hold him back. Yun Tianlan said, “Yuan Tianfeng, Shi Xinchan, kill those Djinns!”

The two Immortals of the Seven Absolutions Sect flew out and began to attack, and from below, numerous Shadow Nagas rose to fend them off.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The clashes of energy sent massive shockwaves rippling through the heavens.

Meanwhile, Libido attacked again.

It seemed unlikely now that the lightning would kill Tang Jie, but still, the Heavenly Tribulation was bound to leave Tang Jie injured. Since the Heavenly Dao did not like others interfering, he could attack once the lightning was done. Before then, these accursed interlopers remained his biggest concern.

“Get out of my way!” Libido roared, and a twisted, pale face appeared among the black clouds—his own face.

This pale face opened its mouth and unleashed a black flood on the Immortals.

The Immortals had no desire to test his power again, and they scattered.

“Trying to escape?” Libido chuckled. “Wano!”

“Raaaa!” The Lesser Demon Lord flew out, opening his mouth and spewing out countless demon soldiers. This was the last, for he had essentially summoned the last of his reserves.

The demon soldiers this time had the appearance of good-looking winged women.

They floated in the air, a strange melody coming from their mouths.

It was a pleasant melody, but it made Yun Tianlan pale. “The Dark Sun Serenade!”

The Immortals began to sway to the music as if enchanted, stopping in place.

Libido’s dark wave overtook them, and their flesh rotted away. As their Divine Souls reappeared, they found it difficult to rebuild their Immortal bodies within the dark tide, so they had no choice but to leave the area. In this way, they opened a path.

Ten-some Immortals could not stop Libido.

Libido thrust out a finger at the distant Tang Jie.

Primal Heaven Demon Finger!

Having learned his lesson from last time, he chose to attack from a distance. Tang Jie was in the middle of fighting against the heavenly lightning and only had time to throw out the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace, which cast a protective light on him. But the Primal Heaven Demon Finger pierced through the barrier and slammed into Tang Jie, sending him flying and adding a hole to his body. At the same time, the lightning came down, running through Tang Jie and even injuring his Divine Soul.

Unlike ordinary Immortals, he cultivated both body and arts. His perfect body was powerful, but it was also difficult to rebuild. Besides that, the lightning tribulation would seize every opening available to it, so he could not afford to die even once and had to put his all into resisting the tribulation. Thus, this injury made Tang Jie scowl, but he could only grit his teeth and endure.

Libido inwardly celebrated.

He had finally found the right way to kill Tang Jie.

He unleashed another Primal Heaven Demon Finger.

Plush!

Tang Jie was struck again, another bloody hole punched through his body.

“Hahahaha! Tang Jie, let’s see how you survive this time!” Libido bellowed as he unleashed blast after blast from his finger.

Tang Jie sustained wound after wound.

There was no way he could endure if this continued.

At this moment, a cultivator suddenly flew over and rammed into Libido’s finger blast. The cultivator was subsequently obliterated, but the blast was triggered prematurely, and while it resulted in a breathtaking shockwave, it failed to harm Tang Jie.

“Damn it!” Libido angrily cursed.

He once more threw out a finger blast, but several more cultivators flew over.

One cultivator shouted, “Protect to the death!”

“Protect to the death!” countless cultivators roared out in response.

“No retreat!” Another cultivator threw themself at Libido’s finger, crashing into the blast he had just fired.

There was another plume of demonic energy.

But the human cultivators continued to rush in.

They used their own lives to stop Libido’s attacks, and while Libido could kill vast swaths of these cultivators with a wave of his hand, what he was really short on was time.

He could sense the thunderclouds weakening, reaching their limit. If he didn’t use this chance to kill Tang Jie, he might not get another.

Frantic, Libido roared, “All of you die!”

He unleashed another black flood.

This lethal black flood was made from demonic essence that he had refined over many years, and each use would weaken his cultivation a little.

But he was willing to make this sacrifice to kill Tang Jie.

The cultivators withered away in the flood, their flesh shriveling and energy draining away before they ultimately dissolved into dust.

The cultivators died in great numbers.

The Beast Refining Gate’s Titans had great numbers of fiends leap into the fray, but before this black flood, all of them became cannon fodder. Nobody could stop the crazed Libido, and he cut through the cultivators like they were chaff.

But the cultivators refused to retreat.

Roaring and bellowing, they charged into the darkness, their blood energy scattering the fog and bringing light to the world, as well as stoking Libido’s flames of fury.

“All of you, die!” He roared, swinging down a giant hand.

Just when it seemed like a large number of cultivators would be crushed to death, a gust of Immortal wind threw back Libido’s hand.

It was Yun Tianlan!

The Immortals had finished reviving and returned to the battlefield.

Libido clenched his teeth and unleashed another black flood.

Yun Tianlan simply smiled. “As a cultivator, I do not fear death.”

He allowed the black flood to wash over him.

No retreat!

Libido despaired.

In his memories, human cultivators were cowardly creatures who did not dare to do battle with demons. But today, he had encountered a different kind of human.

Their persistence, their courage, their sacrifice, and their fearlessness had utterly crushed Libido’s hopes.

Libido knew he was finished.

There was a boom in the distance.

With the fall of the last thick lightning bolt, the clouds dispersed.

Tang Jie’s Heavenly Tribulation had ended.