Aspiring to the Immortal Path

The Rosecloud Domain.

This newly-arrived domain was like a bright moon, radiating its gentle light over the Gigantes Domain.

In the Hall of Divine Conference, Tang Jie was lying with his head on Xu Miaoran’s legs, deep in thought.

It had been one day since his return to the Rosecloud Domain, and Tang Jie had spent it all in his wife’s embrace.

Xu Miaoran knew that this was Tang Jie’s habit when he was thinking.

“Is it about that Nine Disaster Fiend Monk?”

“Mm,” Tang Jie lazily replied.

After a few moments of silence, he said, “The Gigantes King told me that, counting this time, the Nine Disaster Fiend Monk has invaded the Gigantes Domain four times. Don’t you find it strange? Other demons will go wherever the resources are, never specifically targeting any one place. But Nine Disaster seems to have his eyes set on the Gigantes Domain.”

Xu Miaoran answered, “Didn’t you already investigate him? The Gigantes Domain had a glorious past, so perhaps there’s something here from that period that Nine Disaster is interested in.”

Tang Jie replied, “This is precisely the problem. So many years have passed that even if there were some kind of treasure, it would have already vanished into the river of time. And if there was some kind of treasure that could resist the corrosion of time, after all this time, the Gigantes would have found it and used it for themselves rather than let Nine Disaster use it.”

Xu Miaoran nodded. “This truly is a problem, but what does that have to do with the war? If Husband wants to know, you can simply capture that baldy alive after defeating him and ask him yourself.”

Xu Miaoran had always been supremely confident in Tang Jie’s abilities.

“Not necessarily…” Tang Jie shook his head. “This Nine Disaster is no simple demon. You can see that just by the fact that he was able to advance to Boundless in only ten thousand years, rising a tier with every passing three thousand years. Beating him will require sufficiently understanding him.”

Xu Miaoran covered her mouth and chuckled. “Are you praising yourself? Don’t forget that you took only fourteen hundred years to reach Boundless.”

Tang Jie also chuckled. “I was so successful because of the Martial Lord and the Immortal Emperor. It wasn’t all on my own effort. But that’s clearly not the case with Nine Disaster. It’s impossible for him to have received help from two of the strongest existences in the universe like me, so how did he manage to do it? Don’t forget that his cultivation aptitude had been average, and it was only later on that he suddenly soared in cultivation… He’s like a model main character.”

Xu Miaoran had been with Tang Jie for a long time and knew of his speaking habits, and it wasn’t hard to understand what it meant to be a model main character. “If he’s the main character, then what of the Immortal Emperor and Martial Lord who lived in the same era?”

Tang Jie was just about to reply when he froze, and then he asked, “He lived in the same era as the Immortal Emperor and Martial Lord?”

Xu Miaoran’s words were not entirely correct. Strictly speaking, the Nine Disaster Fiend Monk had not lived in the same era as those two. After all, when he was born, the Immortal Emperor and Martial Lord had been famous for many years. But in one way, he really had lived in the same era… Nine Disaster lived in the time before both the Immortal Emperor and the Martial Lord disappeared!

In other words, the period during which Nine Disaster became a demon was when the Immortal Emperor faked his death and the Martial Lord destroyed the court.

Was there some connection there?

Tang Jie’s mind began to work.

Alas, the destruction of the Court of Myriad Domains had taken place far too long ago, and ten thousand years was only an estimate, so he found it hard to compare it to the Nine Disaster Fiend Monk’s history. But when Tang Jie thought about how the Martial Lord had left his legacy in the Gigantes Domain before going to destroy the court, he couldn’t help but think it was related to the Nine Disaster Fiend Monk’s four invasions of the Gigantes Domain.

He had to know exactly when the Court of Myriad Domains was destroyed!

Tang Jie suddenly had an idea.

The Immortal Domain.

This artificial small world with the Court of Myriad Domains as its center was still expanding, each expansion costing a great number of resources. Every inch of soil was covered in formations, and the sky was rich with spiritual energy.

The Immortal Domain was expanding as if one was forging a treasure.

Yes, this was a divine treasure to the extreme, possessing an incomparably vast amount of energy. The control core of this treasure was the Court of Myriad Domains, and the core of the Court of Myriad Domains was the Hall of Myriad Immortals.

The Hall of Myriad Immortals.

Yu Cheng sat on his throne, reading through the reports from various areas.

While the demons of the Vast Wilderness Continent had been defeated, just like what had happened with Tang Jie, the demons were neverending. So long as the spatial barrier remained thin, more demons would come in, so there was no end to the wars… Yu Cheng didn’t have an Ice Phoenix to help him stop the demons.

But for Yu Cheng, this was a trifling inconvenience.

Suddenly, Yu Cheng grunted and raised his head.

The attending Immortal officials all looked to the Immortal Emperor.

Yu Cheng waved his hand. “You are all dismissed!”

“As you command!”

The attendants retreated.

Once the hall was empty, Yu Cheng scowled. “Tang Jie, what are you up to? Are you breaking our agreement?”

In his Sea of Cognition, Tang Jie slowly took form. “Yu Cheng, don’t be so nervous. Do you have some big plan brewing that you’re afraid I’ll ruin?”

Yu Cheng snorted. “Haven’t you already seen all my plans? What else is there to hide from you? These last few years, my only plan has been to exterminate the demons.”

These words left Tang Jie somewhat suspicious.

It was true that all Yu Cheng was doing right now was battling with the demons. All of his actions had been expected, and perhaps it was only at the battle of the Sky Burial Plains that he had shown off some of his talent in commanding. But Tang Jie knew that Yu Cheng was hiding something.

There was no way Yu Cheng had hibernated for ten thousand years just so he could go back to a life of ordinary cultivation. He must have prepared a plan. But because Tang Jie had been spying from his mind all this time, Yu Cheng had to be careful. However, Tang Jie was certain that even with his avatar’s will keeping a constant watch, Yu Cheng had definitely been able to get things done through other methods.

Tang Jie had originally appeared to ask about Nine Disaster, but Yu Cheng had acted excessively, sending away his subordinates.

This was a conversation in his mind, so nobody else would have been able to listen in. And given Yu Cheng’s intelligence, he was completely capable of managing the war and speaking to Tang Jie at the same time without anyone noticing.

Sending away his subordinates was a clear overreaction.

And he had also exposed himself in his words: “Haven’t you already seen all my plans? What else is there to hide from you?” These were not words that an Immortal Emperor would say.

Could it be… Yu Cheng’s plan was on the verge of fruition?

Or else, he had awakened right at a critical moment in Yu Cheng’s plan? So his awakening had instantly made Yu Cheng nervous.

As countless thoughts ran through his mind, he said, “But you’re in the Vast Wilderness Continent, so it’s impossible to kill all the demons.”

He spoke very ambiguously, but it immediately set off a storm in Yu Cheng’s mind. He barked, “Tang Jie, what do you mean?”

Looking at the turmoil around him, Tang Jie was even more certain of his answer.

Yu Cheng was a Titan of a generation and had excellent control over his emotions. On the outside, he would remain cool and composed even if the sky were falling.

But this was Yu Cheng’s Sea of Cognition, so all of his disguises were pointless. So long as he was alarmed, his Sea of Cognition would stir, and there was no hiding this from Tang Jie.

When Tang Jie had first awoken, the Sea of Cognition had slightly stirred, but now, waves had formed. Tang Jie realized that Yu Cheng was likely at a critical juncture in his plan.

Alas, he had spent most of his attention on Rosecloud and Gigantes recently, not focusing as much on Yu Cheng, so he couldn’t be sure exactly what Yu Cheng’s plan was. He simply said, “It’s nothing much. I was just thinking: why doesn’t Your Majesty take the path of the stars, going around the various domains to vanquish the demons? Penning yourself up in the Vast Wilderness Continent is not like Your Majesty.”

Yu Cheng snorted, “How do you know I’m not doing that? After the victory at the Sky Burial Plains, I dispatched four divine armies to campaign across the domains, saving countless people from disaster. As for the path of the stars, hmph, your Rosecloud Domain can move, but that doesn’t mean the Vast Wilderness Continent can move. This place… is fixed in place.”

“Oh?” Tang Jie grew interested. “Weren’t domain migration formations developed in Vast Wilderness? Why is it that it can’t move now?”

Meanwhile, he remarked to himself that it seemed like Yu Cheng’s ambitions weren’t on the path of the stars.

“What do you know? The Vast Wilderness Continent has already matured, and its core is fixed by the heavens as the center of the universe. It can no longer be easily moved.”

“‘The core is fixed by the heavens’? ‘The center of the universe’?” Tang Jie question. “It seems a little off, no? Isn’t the center of the universe the Gigantes Domain?”

“But it’s in the process of being replaced…” Yu Cheng scoffed, and then he realized in shock, “How do you know that the Gigantes Domain is the center of the universe?”

Tang Jie sighed. “It’s been a long time since you’ve paid any attention to the Rosecloud Domain’s movements, right?”

Yes, after that incident where Tang Jie had given out chaotic orders that had thrown Yu Cheng’s plans into chaos, Yu Cheng had ceased to pay attention to the Rosecloud Domain. This meant that while Tang Jie was able to know everything that was going on in the Vast Wilderness Continent, Yu Cheng knew almost nothing about Rosecloud, creating a large information gap.

Yu Cheng gave Tang Jie a hard stare. “Just what are you up to?”

“It’s nothing. The Gigantes King simply called for help, saying that the Nine Disaster Fiend Monk was attacking his domain. I’m too far from the Gigantes Domain, so I wanted to ask for your help,” Tang Jie lied.

Yu Cheng didn’t believe his strange story, sneering, “What’s your relationship with the Gigantes King, that he would ask for your help?”

“You once hibernated in my body, so you should know that I encountered the Gigantes King during my time in the Nine Palace Illusion Formation. Now that I’m at Boundless, I’m at the level of speak-not, think-not. The Gigantes King called out to me, and I was able to sense it and communicate with him through Divine Will,” Tang Jie continued to lie.

Yu Cheng was even less convinced. “While those at Boundless can sense themselves being called and manifest their Divine Wills, communicating is still extremely difficult. Moreover, this is heavily affected by the Dao of Fate and can only happen by pure coincidence. He contacted you just by calling your name… Tang Jie, do you take me for a fool?”

Tang Jie sighed again. “I don’t think you’re a fool, so why are you still trying to hide your plan to invade the Primordial Fog Domain from me?”