Aspiring to the Immortal Path

The giant hand falling from the sky was as big as a mountain.

But the Blood River Behemoth that had blasted apart ten mountains failed to break this one.

This hand contained all of the strength that Tang Jie had accumulated. Even a Violet Palace Titan was not capable of directly receiving it, would not dare!

The Blood River Lord was sharp-eyed enough to tell that this palm contained far too much power for his current self to contend against.

At that moment, the Blood River Lord took the most straightforward response: run!

Up until now, the Blood River Lord had been attacking, attacking, and attacking.

All of the various techniques and spell arts he had used had displayed his prodigious strength and resources.

But now, he was finally panicked, afraid.

For the first time, when facing this sky-obscuring hand, the Blood River Lord felt helpless.

He began to retreat, turning into a crimson streak of light as he attempted to evade the giant hand.

Tang Jie shook his head. "It\'s useless."

The hand slapped down on the Blood River Behemoth as one might swat down a fly, sending the behemoth flying. Its enormous body rolled on the ground, crashing through numerous mountains and rivers, finally stopping at a majestic mountain.

"Awooo!" The Blood River Behemoth let out a startling roar.

But the louder it roared, the greater the fear in its heart really was.

A sheep in wolf\'s clothing was the best comparison for it. In the sky, Tang Jie thrust a finger at the behemoth.

The Blood River Behemoth turned and swung an arm at the mountain, loosening it, and then it picked it up and threw it into the air. Tang Jie ignored it, continuing to thrust his finger down, which grew larger as it continued downward. It pierced through the mountain like a pillar of heaven, obliterating it and continuing onward, striking the behemoth\'s arm. This arm that could lift up mountains was instantly blasted apart by Tang Jie\'s terrifying strength, the shattered flesh turning directly into mist.

A hint of Destruction power infiltrated the stump of the behemoth\'s arm, preventing it from healing.

"No, don\'t even think about killing me!" the Blood River Lord roared. "Blood River Roaring Punch!"

The fist carrying the surging power of the Blood River hurtled toward Tang Jie.

But this time, this punch that could crush all things was lacking its earlier majesty. In the face of this crimson fist, the god-like Tang Jie simply snorted and thrust a finger down.

Large amounts of world power pumped into his body and rushed into his finger, which touched the fist.

At that moment, within the Mountain River State Diagram, the Myriad Immortals Cauldron suddenly flew up. Upon the cauldron, countless Immortals laughed and danced, sharing drinks as they conversed. Two beams of light, one red and one white, divided the world into day and night, and five colors of the rainbow made the clouds flow and thunder rumble. As for the genesis stone slab, it cast its light over the world, expanding verdant green plains, filling them with life and treasure. The Sovereign Blade floated in the air like the moon, and the sword spirit appeared, causing the world to resound with sacred hymns, the mountains to become as sharp as swords, and murderous intent to fill the air.

The projection of a world appeared behind Tang Jie\'s head, reflecting the vistas within the diagram.

Although the Blood River Lord was powerful, he couldn\'t fight back against an entire world. Fist met finger, and under the endless power of a world, the Blood River Lord\'s fist began to crumble, disappearing into the wind, and then the Blood River Lord\'s right arm was gone.

He had now lost both arms.

Tang Jie\'s body swayed, and then a storm suddenly stirred in the world projection behind him.

The cauldron, stone slab, and divine sword resonated with each other, and the world began to crumble. He Chong\'s trio watched this from a distance, feeling awe and fear as doomsday approached.

A single punch was able to shake the diagram world to such an extent, showing that the Blood River Lord lived up to his power and infamy.

But this was his limit.

The power of Destruction continued to infiltrate the behemoth\'s body, Tang Jie having used all of that little bit of Destruction power he had comprehended and grasped at this moment.

He didn\'t have any other choice. The small world within the diagram still wasn\'t complete, and there was no recovering anything that he used up. Whether it was because of the limited world power or the constraints of his body, it was impossible for him to stay for long in this state. Thus, ending this battle quickly was his only chance at victory.

Wiping away the blood from the corner of his mouth, Tang Jie prepared to attack again. Suddenly, a light flashed in the distance.

A gate slowly appeared on the horizon—clearly the gate they had used to enter this place.

The stone gate to leave the Treasure Paradise had appeared early!

It was clear that the Celestial Flame Pagoda had noticed that something weird was happening in the Treasure Paradise, so they had opened the passage early.

The Blood River Lord was delighted to see the passage opening.

Although his avatars were doomed the moment they merged with the behemoth, the instinctive desire to live meant that he wasn\'t willing to just sit back and wait to die, so he immediately ran toward the distant stone gate.

"You can\'t run," Tang Jie softly sighed.

Tang Jie moved his body, crossing through all spacetime constrictions to appear in front of the stone gate, blocking the Blood River Lord\'s path.

The Blood River Lord stopped and looked at Tang Jie in despair.

Tang Jie raised a finger. "If you block this attack, I\'ll let you leave."

He thrust his finger.

The Blood River Lord wailed as he stared at that descending finger, "No! I won\'t accept this!"

Yes, he couldn\'t accept this.

He had spent much effort for the sake of this day. He had used the excuse of chasing Tang Jie to infiltrate the Treasure Paradise, but he had never expected that Tang Jie would be the source of both his success and his failure. Not only had Tang Jie ruined his plan, he had even killed all his avatars.

"Tang Jie, I will kill you no matter what!" the Blood River Lord howled.

His previous hatred had had ulterior motives, but now, he was truly someone who couldn\'t share the same universe as Tang Jie.

"I\'ll be waiting," Tang Jie coldly said.

The finger thrust down!

It struck the Blood River Behemoth in the forehead.

The behemoth froze, and then a crack appeared where the finger had touched, and then it began to spread across the forehead like it was porcelain. In a flash, it had spread across the behemoth\'s entire face, and then it continued downward, more and more cracks appearing across the behemoth\'s body. Finally, it blew apart, splattering the area in gore.

Tang Jie lightly waved his hand, and all the blood and flesh was drawn into the diagram world. Each piece of flesh and drop of blood contained great energy, and as they decayed in the diagram world and became dirt and soil, they would become a part of the framework of the world and restore a little of what Tang Jie had lost.

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The Blood River Lord had died, just like that?

That powerful, terrifying, and invincible monster had been killed by Tang Jie, just like that?

The representatives were all dumbfounded by the sight, not daring to believe their eyes.

Tang Jie still stood tall in the heavens, silent and cold.

Suddenly he swayed, and then he threw up blood.

The blood splashed down from the sky like a waterfall.

There was a flash as a figure disappeared into the Mountain River State Diagram, upon which Tang Jie\'s lofty appearance disappeared, and what appeared in the sky was none other than the avatar Tang Jie.

He waved a hand, and the Mountain River State Diagram flew toward him.

Holding the diagram, Tang Jie fell straight from the sky.

"Tang Jie!" Na Shan, Hei Yan, and Liu Qianyi shouted together and rushed over.

Liu Qianyi was still the fastest, getting ahead of the others and grabbing Tang Jie.

Tang Jie\'s face was as white as a sheet of paper, his breathing so weak that it seemed like he might die at any moment.

"Are you okay?" Liu Qianyi frantically asked.

Tang Jie weakly replied, "To kill Blood River, I forcefully manifested the power of a small world on my body. This was too much burden for me, and now I\'m suffering the backlash from the world power. I will need a long period of rest to recover."

Upon hearing that Tang Jie was going to live, Liu Qianyi breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. "You just need rest? Then your luck is pretty good. Blood River is dead, so you can take your time to rest."

"Is that so?" a voice sinisterly said. "Sneaking a small world into the Treasure Paradise, destroying more than half of it in battle, and even doing away with the sword spirit and Divine Genesis! Tang Jie, do you really think that the Four Heavenly Kings will let you be, even if you manage to get out of here alive?"

"Who said that?" Liu Qianyi angrily turned around.

It was a fiend representative.

This person was one of the only two surviving fiend representatives. The representatives had suffered grievous losses in the battle, and all four factions had only a few people left, with the fiends having suffered the greatest loss.

As the fiend representative stared at Tang Jie, his eyes gleamed with indescribable greed.

Liu Qianyi was startled, and then she realized that this fiend was after the Mountain River State Diagram!

Most of the resources of the Treasure Paradise were now in the Mountain River State Diagram, and the Qian Kun Bag world had basically been left an empty shell. And the core of Divine Genesis and the sword spirit were all in the diagram world, and considering what Tang Jie had already accumulated, one could say that the Mountain River State Diagram was the new Treasure Paradise.

Moreover, it was a treasury that could be carried around!

If Tang Jie were at his prime, nobody would have dared to touch it.

But he had publicly admitted that he was out of strength and unable to battle. Wasn\'t this the perfect chance to take it from him?

Earlier, they had fought alongside each other, but now, all of them realized the problem. Quite a few people began to avariciously stare at Tang Jie, with even that Young Master Hua showing a hostile gaze.

Liu Qianyi knew this was bad news and shouted, "I\'d like to see any of you try and touch him!"

Liu Qianyi herself didn\'t realize what it meant for her to step up at this time. She naturally had ample reason for doing this. For example, Tang Jie had planted a seal in her, so she was protecting Tang Jie for her own sake. But to be honest, when she stood in front of everyone, she hadn\'t even thought about this problem.

She simply didn\'t want Tang Jie to be hurt.

"With just you?" a representative chuckled.

"Then what about me as well?" Na Shan rumbled.

"And also me." Hei Yan also stood up.

"And also me." Shui Yao came forward too.

Young Master Hua snorted. "Na Shan, Tang Jie is already a dead man walking. Even if we don\'t do anything, once he leaves this place, the Four Heavenly Kings will take him. You\'re part of the Western Heavenly King\'s group, so why do something that upsets him?"

Na Shan rumbled, "I can\'t control whatever the Western Heavenly King wants to do with Tang Jie, nor do I care. But in the Treasure Paradise, Tang Jie is my brother, my comrade-in-arms. I won\'t agree to anyone touching him. As for once we leave… let\'s wait until we\'re out first."

"It will be too late once we\'re out," a representative said while staring at the Mountain River State Diagram. "We have to get the diagram first. If we wait until we\'re out to split it up, we won\'t get a thing from the treasure."

"Keep dreaming!" Liu Qianyi said, grasping the divine fire fan.

The situation had taken a sudden turn, and the representatives had divided themselves into two factions.

One faction was led by Liu Qianyi and Na Shan. It also included Hei Yan, Shui Yao, and that Zhao Wei who had assisted Liu Qianyi in ambushing Tang Jie once, making for five of them in all.

The other faction was led by Young Master Hua, and he was joined by two representatives each from the factions of the Eastern and Northern Heavenly Kings, making for five people as well.

There were eleven survivors in all. One person was still standing in the center, not knowing which side to choose: Zuo Quanming.

Liu Qianyi looked at him and said, "Zuo Quanming, whose side are you on?"

Zuo Quanming bitterly sighed. "Do I have a choice? Tang Jie\'s, of course."

He walked over to Liu Qianyi\'s side.

Liu Qianyi was happy to see this, as this gave them the advantage in numbers.

Zuo Quanming walked past Liu Qianyi, seemingly intending to stand behind her.

But as he brushed past her, Liu Qianyi suddenly had a bad feeling.

She suddenly recalled Zuo Quanming\'s words:

"I saw you dying to my sword!"

All the hairs on Liu Qianyi\'s body suddenly stood on end.

At the same time, Na Shan and the others also seemed to realize something, paling as they turned their heads in one direction, just in time to see Zuo Quanming standing next to Tang Jie.

He reached for the Mountain River State Diagram with his left hand while the small silver sword gleamed in his right hand.

The sword slashed!

Tang Jie\'s head went flying high into the air.