Aspiring to the Immortal Path - Chapter 1109: Battle Against a Nether God (1)
“Oh my!” Tang Jie cocked his head. “You got me.”
This was the first time he had been recognized as a human, so he decided to drop the act, shedding the silver-armored corpse appearance and returning to his original appearance, speaking in his original voice.
“It’s you!” Seeing Tang Jie’s appearance and sensing that familiar aura made Nirvana’s voice rise by an octave.
It was this bastard who had ruined his plan to fish out the Blade of Reincarnation and then used some terrifying attack to damage his Divine Soul, resulting in his current wretched state, surrounded by enemies on all sides.
To think that this brat would dare to come chasing after him and plunder his treasury!
An overwhelming killing intent swept out.
Nirvana had had some small desire to negotiate, but now, this idea was completely dead.
He was going to kill this human!
Kill him no matter the cost!!!
His aura began to crazily surge, and with his bellows, an immense energy rippled through the Nether palace, striking fear into all the ghosts. Even the hidden Eternal Night was confused. “Nirvana is very angry… Something seems to have enraged him to the point of madness, such that he’s gathering his power without limit… not good!”Eternal Night let out a shout.
An existence that could put Nirvana in such a state had to pose a major threat to him.
There was a competitor in the Nether God palace!
While he didn’t know the exact details, Eternal Night swiftly realized the implications of these events.
He immediately gave the order for a full assault.
The five mountains moved with greater haste toward the Soul-Sealing Death Prison, the lights on the mountains linking together and forming a giant ball of lightning.
Lightning was the bane of Divine Souls, and it was also the bane of this Soul-Sealing Death Prison. It was just that it was difficult for ghosts to carry a formation imbued with so much lightning, so Eternal Night had wasted a lot of time finding five living creatures tough enough and large enough to carry this Five Lightning Divine Mountain Formation.
As the Five Lightning Divine Mountain advanced, the Soul-Sealing Death Prison was put under more and more pressure.
But Eternal Night still felt like it was too slow, and he personally intervened, sweeping aside all ghosts in the formation’s way.
At this moment, what determined how long the Soul-Sealing Death Prison could last was no longer its defensive power, but how fast the five Nether beasts could move. Alas, Eternal Night could be of no help here.
The Five Lightning Divine Mountain was so powerful that not even he was willing to get close.
As the Death Prison was making its last struggle, Nirvana had reached his limit.
Deep underground, a formidable presence bellowed, “Kill you! I’ll kill you!!!”
The twelve python clones reared up, spewing breath at Tang Jie like they were dragons. At this moment, they revealed their true strength, unleashing power comparable to an Immortal.
The Nirvana Execution Formation!
This was the formation created by the twelve clones, possessing the power to fight an Immortal or Nether God. Its only flaw was that it didn’t have the undying nature of those two. It was no good in a battle of attrition, but that wasn’t a problem when dealing with a puny human.
But Tang Jie simply said without even glancing at it, “So you really weren’t behind that door… That’s just a trap meant to bait intruders. Mm, I’m guessing that Gold Extinction and Shadoweater don’t know this either, right? They’re just bait that you’ve thrown out. If Eternal Night were to charge into the hall, those two naturally wouldn’t be strong enough to stop him. And once Eternal Night came through, you would trigger your trap… a trap strong enough to severely injure, if not kill, Eternal Night.”
The twelve pythons froze.
This pause was fatal.
“Seems I was right,” Tang Jie chuckled as he thrust out a finger.
This finger wasn’t aimed at any python, the attack landing in the empty space between them. But not only did that gathering energy dissipate, it did so explosively, sending a shockwave rippling out.
The blast impacted the twelve pythons, causing all of them to hiss in pain.
This finger shattered the Nirvana Execution Formation, even using the aftershocks to injure the twelve pythons.
This was just Nirvana’s bad luck in attempting to use a formation against Tang Jie. While Nirvana was an entire realm above Tang Jie in terms of cultivation, the gap between Tang Jie and Nirvana in formations was more than just a few realms. It was like comparing the heavens to the earth, a divine dragon to an ant.
Besides that, Tang Jie was using his words to disturb Nirvana, seizing the opening to attack.
Nirvana felt like he had received a slap to the face, his strongest move having been undone by the simplest action. He roared in fury, “Even without the formation, twelve Nether Emperors is enough to kill you!”
The twelve pythons rushed at Tang Jie.
“That’s not necessarily true.”
Tang Jie sneered, his hands forming signs.
He was at Violet Palace, so any art that he needed to use hand signs for had to be extremely powerful.
A moment later, a light erupted from his hand like a rising sun.
Tang Jie chanted, “Light of the world, purge all demons! Radiant Evil Punishing Seal, rise!”
The light burst out, scattering the darkness and shining on the twelve pythons with a lethal glow, causing all of them to shriek in pain.
This was the Evil Punishing Seal, and as Tang Jie’s cultivation rose, he was able to use its Radiant Evil Punishing Seal form.
While the twelve python clones were at the Nether Emperor level, they were lower than Tang Jie. Tang Jie could sweep aside Soul Projection cultivators, so to him, these twelve pythons might as well have been cabbages, the Radiant Evil Punishing Seal easily striking them down.
The twelve pythons plummeted from the air, and it wasn’t just them. Even the five Nether Emperors and more than ten thousand elite ghosts locked in battle elsewhere in the palace, including large numbers of Nether Attendants, were also caught in the blast and turned to dust. Only Mei Huaping survived, a light protecting him as he stared at Tang Jie in slack-jawed awe.
Tang Jie waved his hand, and countless Death God weapons flew toward him. With one punch, all of them shattered, and black grains flew into his Sea of Cognition.
This punch carried some of the Martial Lord’s grandeur from when he had shattered countless weapons with a single shout. Of course, his cultivation wasn’t enough, so he had borrowed the Heavenly Dao Realm to make this possible.
“NO!!!” Nirvana’s indignant cry rose once more from the depths of the earth. The twelve pythons that could even hold off a Nether God had been utterly obliterated by a single Deification cultivator in only two strikes, dealing him a severe mental blow and turning his view of the world upside-down.
Even Eternal Night began to panic, the numerous lightning strikes on the Soul-Sealing Death Prison signifying his agitation.
“I’ll kill you!” Nirvana bellowed in despair.
The Death Prison was on the verge of breaking and his twelve clones had been destroyed. Nirvana knew that he was doomed.
But he was still a Nether God!
As a Nether God, he at least had to die with dignity!
He was going to kill Tang Jie!
Raaaa!
With a mighty roar, an enormous snake tail emerged from the ground and swung at Tang Jie.
Tang Jie flipped his hand around, producing a sword.
The Sovereign Blade!
The Sovereign Blade appeared like a toothpick trying to cut down an iron pillar as it swung at the snake tail, yet shockingly, it was the iron pillar that was cut down.
The Sovereign Blade moved through the snake tail as smoothly as if it was butter, slicing it in two, but the immense power contained in the tail traveled through the blade to reach Tang Jie, who was knocked flying as if ten mountains had slammed into him, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
But he simply laughed and said, “You really have gotten weaker, your soul and strength both exhausted!”
For a Nether God to only end up inflicting minor injuries on him, Nirvana had to be badly wounded. Meanwhile, severing the tail had furthered Nirvana’s wounds and elicited another howl of pain.
But there had already been plenty of howling and crying from him, whether in sorrow or anger, so howls of pain weren’t anything special. In any case, it was all going to end in tears and screams.
The Sovereign Blade erupted with streams of light that condensed into a raging river of sword energy that flooded downward.
The Sovereign Blade’s ability to simulate all weapons meant that its method of attacking was no longer so monotonous and lacking in damage. Each one of the swords in this river had a destructive power, and their total power could blast away half a planet. Even this Nether God palace with all its layers of defense couldn’t endure this, and the Soul-Sealing Death Prison exploded with light as it verged on extinction. The Nether God down in the earth fared no better.
But he was still a Nether God, with his own trump cards. In his moment of despair, he still didn’t give up, spitting out a black ball.
This black ball let out a glow and somehow blocked the Sovereign Blade’s strike.
“A fiend pellet?” Tang Jie was rather shocked.
This was most likely the fiend pellet the Nether God had cultivated in life. Rather than falling into enemy hands, it had followed him to the Nether Domain, where it had been refined into such a formidable treasure that it was able to block his attack.
At the same time, Nirvana spat out a small mirror which turned to face Tang Jie.
As the mirror faced Tang Jie, a skeleton appeared in it.
Tang Jie began to rapidly age and wither.
“Hahahaha, die, brat! My Calamity Mirror will make you decay until death!”
Bang!
Tang Jie punched at the mirror.
The mirror trembled, and then it cracked.
One crack, two cracks, three cracks… a spiderweb of cracks formed on the mirror before it exploded into shrapnel, leaving behind a single golden mote.
Tang Jie drew back his fist and said, “What did you say that mirror was called, again?”
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