Aspiring to the Immortal Path - Chapter 1110: Battle Against a Nether God (2)

Nirvana dumbly stared at the broken mirror.

He didn’t dare to believe his eyes.

Tang Jie had just punched it and it shattered?

Shattered!

“Bastard! I’ll take you down no matter what it takes!” Nirvana stirred from his shock and let out a frenzied roar as he charged out.

He finally revealed his true appearance.

It was that of a giant snake, similar to that dragon skeleton from before. Although it wasn’t as big as the skeleton dragon, it seemed even more powerful and intimidating.

The aura emanating from his body was characteristic of ghost Gods, imbued with a profound majesty. But the observant would realize that there was weakness hidden behind it all, that this was all just a facade.

The God Immortal Slayer of the Immortal Emperor had just been too powerful.

The moment Nirvana appeared, Eternal Night sensed it.

He laughed, “Nirvana, you really were severely injured, even forced to show your true body. Good, good, you had better hold on. Don’t go getting defeated by your former subordinates now! Once I destroy this Soul-Sealing Death Prison, I’ll be taking your Primal Soul!”

The form of a giant Nether God appeared on the horizon as Eternal Night revealed his true form to join in on the offensive.

The Nether Emperors also stared in shock at Nirvana. While they had been caught up in the blast from the Radiant Evil Punishing Seal, they were still Nether Emperors. They were wounded but alive, and when they saw the Nether God they served fighting a human, they were both delighted and confused.

They were delighted because there was no doubt that Nirvana was injured, and confused because they had no idea where this human had come from.

Mei Huaping was so scared that his steel body went soft. Mustering his courage, he tried to retreat while Tang Jie was busy with Nirvana.

But Tang Jie still had the energy to keep an eye on him, chuckling, “Did I let you leave?”

Mei Huaping froze.

Tang Jie said, “Although you’re just a king, if used properly, you can still be useful. Go and kill those Nether Attendants. Bring back their Death God weapons!”

Tang Jie flicked off some metal from the Sovereign Blade, which turned into a chain that wound around Mei Huaping. This chain was both a weapon and his shackles. At the same time, Mei Huaping felt a will rising up from the depths of his soul and taking control of his body.

He wanted to cry out in terror, but he found that he couldn’t. His face changed into Tang Jie’s and let out a strange cackle. Swinging around the chain, he charged into the Nether God palace to hunt down the surviving Nether Attendants and seize their weapons.

Nirvana was enraged that Tang Jie still had spare energy to do other things.

He was a Nether God!

A God on high, yet he was being ignored!

He could be killed, but not humiliated!

Nirvana roared, “Even if I die, I’ll have your life! Take this!”

Even though he had lost exchange after exchange with Tang Jie, from beginning to end, Nirvana still thought that he was stronger. He had only lost because of other factors, like Tang Jie’s strong weapons or strange techniques.

But no matter what tricks he had, strength was still supreme.

With this confidence, Nirvana spat out a black flood of energy from his snake head.

He had concentrated his Nether God power in this strike. He could tell that the Sovereign Blade was good for offense but not defense, so exchanging attacks was the best choice.

Nirvana’s penetrating insight as a Nether God had allowed him to immediately find the right countermeasure.

Alas, Tang Jie didn’t have only the tricks he had already shown.

A light emerged from the top of Tang Jie’s head. Brighter than the Radiant Evil Punishing Seal, it created a barrier around Tang Jie, and the black flood failed to push through it.

Nirvana was shocked, and when he looked at what exactly was floating above Tang Jie’s head, he found that it was a slowly turning furnace.

The Myriad Yin Yang Furnace.

The Sovereign Blade was his weapon, and the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace was his shield. The formation of 108 divine treasures could create enough power to fend off the full force of a Nether God. Moreover, as Tang Jie constantly refined the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace, his connection with it grew stronger and stronger.

This was why he had used the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace instead of the crown.

While the crown was also a Dao armament, it had its own nature that wasn’t suitable for Tang Jie. Meanwhile, the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace was a treasure that grew alongside him, and in the future, it could very well equal or even surpass the crown.

As the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace blocked the black flood, Tang Jie swung the Sovereign Blade again at Nirvana’s serpentine body. Nirvana was able to react quickly enough to not be cut in half, but the long wound left on his body still stunned all the ghosts.

Eternal Night grew even more frantic as he watched all that transpired through the transparent barrier of the Soul-Sealing Death Prison. “Just how is that human’s weapon so sharp? Nirvana, you have to hold on. Don’t let that human take your life. And you lot, what are you still fighting with each other for? Since there’s a human, drop the defenses and hurry and kill him already!”

He seemed like a righteous protector of the country at this point, seeking to drive out foreign enemies before settling internal conflicts.

Alas, the Nether Emperors knew that letting this guy in would be even worse. There was only one human, and his target was Nirvana, but Eternal Night’s target was everything.

Moreover, Nirvana was the one who controlled the formation, and nobody except him could shut it off.

Eternal Night yowled in anger and helplessness.

But ghosts didn’t survive by flapping their lips, and that he had gone to the effort of attempting to negotiate was amazing. Thus, he continued his barrage, hoping that he could get in before the battle within was decided and that human took the spoils.

His hopes were quickly dashed.

Nirvana was defeated. After all, he was already heavily injured. But nobody had expected him to lose so quickly and thoroughly.

After slicing his sword across Nirvana’s body, Tang Jie laughed. “To be honest, you don’t need to be afraid of this sword, because this sword isn’t going to be the thing that kills you.”

“What?” Nirvana was startled.

He didn’t understand what Tang Jie meant.

“You swallowed that Primal Soul Stone not too long ago, right?” Tang Jie asked.

Nirvana trembled.

Tang Jie continued, “I messed with that Primal Soul Stone.”

Nirvana felt his heart fall to rock bottom.

“That’s impossible! You couldn’t have done something that I wouldn’t have noticed! You’re only at Deification!”

Tang Jie smirked in disdain and put away his sword.

He looked at Nirvana and said, “Whether you believe me or not, you’ll find out soon. I know that many tricks might not work against you, and that you might even have a plan to escape. Other ghosts might think your death is certain, but you might not. But I know that you will die. You died the moment you swallowed that Primal Soul Stone. That last attack was simply the match for the fuse, and now… the fuse is lit.”

As he spoke, Nirvana’s giant snake body began to shake, strange lumps bulging out from it. These were extremely small lumps, comparable in size to that of a mosquito bite on a human, perhaps even smaller.

But there were millions of them, all of them bubbling out of Nirvana’s body.

“What is this? What are they?” Nirvana screeched as he stared at his body.

“The innocent souls that died because of you,” Tang Jie coldly replied.

As he spoke, the lumps burst open to reveal faces that were twisted in pain, despair, sorrow, anger, or fear, their cries merging together into a chorus.

Their song did not resound in the Nether Domain, only within Nirvana’s soul, the countless lamentations and the vast tide of information packed into them almost bursting apart Nirvana’s Divine Soul. The wave of negative emotions and information blasted his fragile soul, causing him to cry out in agony.

“It’s them! Them!”

He finally knew who they were.

The countless resentful souls of the Flame Yang Domain!

They had come for revenge!

“Yes, it’s them!” Tang Jie coldly barked. “As you said, there’s no way I could place a trap in the Primal Soul Stone that you wouldn’t notice. But this can’t be considered a trap. I just let them in on some information, awakening these souls and drawing them out…”

Yes, this was what Tang Jie had done.

Awakening resentful souls was no easy task, but Tang Jie, who had the black grains and had entered the Plane of Reincarnation, could. He had awakened the vast number of souls from the Flame Yang Domain and guided them to find Nirvana.

He didn’t need to do anything else.

This was the vengeance of spirits, the blood debt of the mortal plane!

As the instigator, Nirvana had to endure their vengeance. He could disregard one or two, but millions of them?

Their tide of resentment flooded into his Sea of Cognition, drowning his Divine Soul.

Their wails and cries tore at his soul, and his body began to crack and shatter. The faces of the resentful souls exploded, damaging his body, and then more faces appeared and exploded.

Over and over, endlessly.

From his body to his soul, all that was Nirvana endured the revenge of the resentful souls.

He crazily yelled as his body grew smaller and smaller.

This was a loss on the fundamental level, an eternal passing.

His massive body rapidly disappeared as if it was being devoured by ants, and in this period, Nirvana could do nothing.

Finally, the last piece of Nirvana’s body vanished like a popping bubble, and nothing was left of him in this world.

He had disappeared.

All that was left was that fiend pellet and the Primal Soul, which the resentful souls had left specifically for Tang Jie.

“Thank you,” Tang Jie said.

There was a gust of wind.

A reply from the resentful souls.

Tang Jie began to emit a golden glow that made him seem majestic and sacred.

Tang Jie knew that this was a blessing from the spirits.

This blessing might have been useless for anyone else, but it was very important for Tang Jie, for it lowered the hatred from the Heavenly Dao.

Tang Jie’s Heavenly Dao Realm could be considered invincible.

But it had two flaws. The first was its range. His absolute will only existed within the range of his realm, and right now, this realm had a very limited range. The second was that each time he used it would draw the attention of the Heavenly Dao, along with its jealousy. And when this hatred reached a certain level, it would incur a Heavenly Tribulation. This was why, after the first time he used the Heavenly Dao Realm, he would always activate and then swiftly deactivate it, but that didn’t stop the slow accumulation of the Heavenly Dao’s hatred.

The millions of resentful souls had washed away much of this hatred, giving Tang Jie a precious buffer zone and pushing back the next punishment.

Of course, this was a one-time thing, and as he used the Heavenly Dao Realm more and more and as it grew stronger and stronger, the hostility of the world would continue to rise. But for Tang Jie, the delay was a good thing, for it meant that he could face the new Heavenly Tribulation with greater strength.

This was far more valuable than the Nether God’s Primal Soul. After all, rebel armies were most easily quashed when they were just getting started.

Gazing at the now-vacant space once occupied by Nirvana, he said, “Autumn winds brought a long night of misery; a rain of blood crept into a dream. Flame Yang was turned into a living hell, ghosts and ghouls stalking the land of mortals. For your own benefit, you had an entire world weeping in lamentation. You sent millions of souls into the cycle of Reincarnation, only to bring calamity upon yourself…”

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