Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Chapter 798: Ambush (2)

A band of sword energy tore through space, aiming for Meng Guanshan's head.

Meng Guanshan howled and leapt up from the back of his eagle like a monkey. He thrust out his hands, his fingers like hooks, and managed to block this strike. At this moment, the Sky-Parting Sword unleashed a powerful shockwave. Meng Guanshan immediately realized that something was wrong and jumped away with a yelp, but he was still too late.

There was a flash of sword light, and a streak of blood sliced across his chest.

He instantly retreated ten thousand feet away, and as he stared at Xiao Biehan, he squeezed out, "Dao armament?"

"Correct!" Xiao Biehan said with a hearty laugh.

Previously, he had used the God-Conquering Merak Sword to get the better of Shi Wunian, and this time, he had used the newly-ascended Sky-Parting Sword to get the better of Meng Guanshan.

While Meng Guanshan had only a single cut wound on his chest which had almost instantly healed, in reality, the Sky-Parting Sword had also dealt a significant blow to Meng Guanshan's Divine Soul. Although it wasn't severe as the damage done to Shi Wunian's, when these two fought, this damage would come into play at key moments and be an important factor in the balance of power.

But Meng Guanshan was unafraid, baring his teeth at Xiao Biehan like a vicious dog. Just when he was about to lunge, Li Nanfei shouted, "Guanshan!"

Unlike in the Basking Moon Sect, where the Sword Holder and sect master were peers, Meng Guanshan was subordinate to Li Nanfei, so he immediately stopped.

Li Nanfei shouted, "Ling Xiao, aren't you going to come out?"

A group of people emerged in the distance: Ling Xiao and company. At the same time, another larger group appeared in the distance, seemingly having heard the news that the ambush was off. The darkness concealed their numbers, leaving only a large mass like an ominous cloud, and the Beast Refining Gate gasped in shock.

Those cultivators who had cultivated spirit eye spell arts peered into the distance and shouted, "It's the Seven Absolutions Sect! The Basking Moon Sect has joined hands with the Seven Absolutions Sect!"

These words made the hearts of the Beast Refining Gate cultivators sink.

Li Nanfei asked, "Then what of Godhead Palace?"

Tang Jie replied, "Starting from today, the Rosecloud Domain has only five major sects."

Li Nanfei felt his entire body go cold. "This is impossible! With Earth Immortal Ye present, how could you have destroyed Godhead Palace so quickly?"

Ling Xiao smiled. "Godhead Palace has an Earth Immortal, but so does my Basking Moon Sect! Ye Yun broke the agreement and attacked a junior, and he has already been defeated by my lowly sect's ancestor, Yun Tianlan. He has sworn a Heavenly Dao Oath that he will lead Godhead Palace to their home island and enter seclusion, not emerging until the Primordial Fog arrives."

"What?" Li Nanfei shuddered.

Ye Yun had lost to Yun Tianlan, lost so badly that he had been forced to make such an oath?

While the six Earth Immortals normally didn't show themselves, their unwillingness to do so didn't mean that they couldn't.

But now, Godhead Palace had been turned into a turtle, holed up on their island until the next Primordial Fog Calamity.

"But they also had the Jade-Cleansing Golden Sunset Formation!" Feng Muyuan shook his head.

Even if Yun Tianlan canceled out Ye Yun, the two sects shouldn't have been able to break Godhead Palace so easily.

Tang Jie casually said, "Yes, without Ye Yun, they at least had the Jade-Cleansing Golden Sunset Formation. But what about you? Mu Ziyang isn't here, so what else do you have?"

They all paled.

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Tang Jie's words had made everyone stop worrying about Godhead Palace's fate and brought them back to reality.

Yes, what was being worried about Godhead Palace going to do?

They were going to have a tough time staying alive themselves.

As this was a hasty deployment, the Beast Refining Gate had not mobilized everyone. Moreover, it had been on a constant decline, even losing two Violet Palace experts, and had become the weakest of the six sects, so it might not even be a match for one of the Basking Moon Sect or Seven Absolutions Sect, let alone both.

Li Nanfei shouted, "Everyone, retreat!"

Xiao Biehan laughed. "But I think you should stay!"

Sword energy ceaselessly barraged Meng Guanshan, while Ling Xiao and Ji Qingfeng looked at each other and flew toward Li Nanfei. As for the four True Lords of the Seven Absolutions Sect, they battled against Feng Muyuan and his Blue Sky Demon Wolf. In both cases, it was a two-to-one ratio. But when Mystic Moon sought to help Xiao Biehan, Xiao Biehan barked, "I don't need your help. Go find someone else!"

'Go find someone else'?

There's only this much available. Where am I going to find another opponent?

Mystic Moon and Nine Splendors shared a helpless look, after which they flew toward Li Nanfei.

The white elephant under Li Nanfei trumpeted and transformed into a giant elephant-headed man wielding a hammer.

Ming Yekong and Tang Jie were left behind with no opponents. Ming Yekong smiled and said, "Do you want to compete in who can kill faster?"

"Fine with me," Tang Jie agreed.

The moment he was done speaking, Ming Yekong shot into the crowd of Beast Refining Gate cultivators. He didn't even use his sword, summoning countless beams of sword energy with a raise of his hand and shooting them into the bodies of the Beast Refining Gate cultivators. Many of them died on the spot, and those few that managed to put up some defenses beforehand were still heavily wounded.

In a flash, Ming Yekong had killed several dozen Beast Refining Gate cultivators. Tang Jie couldn't help but shake his head. "This is a little shameless."

When it came to speed, who could be faster than Ming Yekong, who was so proficient in the Dao of Space? The moment he entered the Dao, Ming Yekong would be a Celestial Sovereign of Space.

Still, Tang Jie had no plans on conceding. With a laugh, he said, "If that's how you're going to be, then let me show off some of my ability."

He threw up a mouthful of blood.

Reflections of Floating Life!

An intimidating army of thousands of Tang Jies appeared and immediately cast Heavenly Cloud Blades.

A dense rain of blades descended from the heavens.

The Beast Refining Gate had already tasted the might of the Reflections of Floating Life once, one hundred and thirty years ago.

It was also during that battle that Tang Jie became known for possessing two Dao Arts, for a time being the talk of the domain. The Reflections of Floating Life and the Infinite Palace became his trademarks.

Upon experiencing this move again, the Beast Refining Gate felt like this move had become even stronger.

This wasn't a misperception.

A hundred-some years of cultivation and growth had also made the Reflections of Floating Life stronger. The duplicates created were stronger than before, and they could now use spell arts three times rather than once.

This was a qualitative transformation that essentially doubled the power of the illusions, and the result was an even more terrifying and inhumane deluge of blades.

The blades were so densely packed that they were fighting for space, and as they slammed down, their long trailing chains blotted out the sky. Ming Yekong was left rather dumbfounded, muttering, "This guy's spell arts are getting stronger and stronger."

This terrifying attack left the cultivators of the Seven Absolutions Sect and Basking Moon Sect who arrived afterward feeling like they had nothing to do, so they decided to stay in the rear and spectate.

Cai Junyang, Wei Tianchong, and Bei Canghan had also taken part in this operation. After nearly two hundred years of cultivation, they were now all Soul Transformation cultivators, new upstarts now supporting pillars of the Basking Moon Sect. A few years ago, a former Celestial Chief had failed in the attempt to reach Violet Palace and died, so Cai Junyang had defeated all other competitors and become the new Celestial Chief.

After being stunned by Tang Jie's power, he had worked and slowly closed the distance. He had thought that there was only one tier between them, and once he was ready, he might even reach Violet Palace before Tang Jie reached Deification, drawing even with Tang Jie for a moment. But when he saw Tang Jie's strengthened Reflections of Floating Life, he sighed and finally acknowledged the gap between him and Tang Jie, putting aside any thought of catching up with him.

Three waves of Heavenly Cloud Blades became like a heavenly punishment, slaying countless Beast Refining Gate cultivators. Copious amounts of blood spilled from their bodies, raining over the world.

This blood rain painted the mountains and valley red, dyed the rivers scarlet, and drenched the soil in crimson.

It was to the extent that this place became known as the Scarlet Land in the future, and because of all the cultivators that died here, the Scarlet Land became a somewhat famous blessed land. As time passed, the Scarlet Land gradually replaced Nadir Hill as the name of the country, which became Scarlet Hill.

But that was far in the future.

Right now, Tang Jie's Heavenly Cloud Blades had killed 30% of the Beast Refining Gate's cultivators, heavily injured another 30%, and inflicted light injuries on another 30%. Few had been left unscathed. With the death of a third of their forces, the Beast Refining Gate's force had basically lost all of its lower ranks, and its middle ranks had been heavily wounded. Ming Yekong sighed, "This kid… I thought his nature had changed, but it seems that callous heart of his was just taking a nap."

This massacre made the eyes of the upper echelons of the Beast Refining Gate redden in anger.

Tang Jie laughed and lunged at the heavily injured cultivators. With a wave of a hand, he summoned numerous roaring wind dragons, and those cultivators immediately fled, howling in sorrow and anger, unable to deal with Tang Jie's brazen offensive.

Meng Guanshan could no longer restrain himself, and with a howl, he abandoned Xiao Biehan and lunged at Tang Jie, bolts of dark energy shooting from his fingers at Tang Jie. At this time, he was the only one who could free himself to attack Tang Jie.

The attack of a Soul Projection cultivator wasn't to be underestimated, even for Tang Jie. He immediately activated the Infinite Palace to block the attacks as he fell back, Meng Guanshan right on his tail.

Tang Jie didn't fight with him, rushing toward the Beast Refining Gate cultivators to use them as human shields. Meng Guanshan attacked several times, but each time, Tang Jie used the Beast Refining Gate cultivators to evade it, making him almost want to throw up in anger.

Ever since he had become half-fiend, his blood had gained the explosive properties of fiends, and his temperament had also become more irascible. He grew increasingly incensed by Tang Jie's provocations, throwing out finger blast after finger blast.

There were so many dark bolts flying from his fingers that one began to wonder where he had gotten so many fingernails, and his entire body seethed with blood energy as he charged after Tang Jie.

This crimson tide of energy was Meng Guanshan gathering all of his blood essence into a Divine Connection. While it seemed simple, the terrifying lethality contained within was something even a Soul Projection cultivator couldn't block, let alone Tang Jie.

That he would use it against Tang Jie was solely because of his anger.

But just as Meng Guanshan used this Divine Connection, there was a gust of wind behind him.

He knew that Xiao Biehan had come, but he didn't care. With a bark, white spikes of bone grew out of his back, winding together into a suit of armor to protect his rear. The bone armor couldn't completely block Xiao Biehan's attack, but Meng Guanshan was willing to take an injury if it meant killing Tang Jie.

But as the bone armor emerged, Meng Guanshan heard Li Nanfei and Feng Muyuan cry out in alarm, "Guanshan, watch out!"

Meng Guanshan was startled, but before he could react, Ling Xiao appeared before him, thrusting his palm at that crimson tide of energy.

Limitless True Astral energy.

Tang Jie turned around and charged at Meng Guanshan, sprouting an additional two heads and four arms, the Sovereign Blade lighting up with flames.

The Ten Extinctions Blade!

On his left and right, Mystic Moon and Nine Splendors had appeared, and behind him, Xiao Biehan's Sky-Parting Sword erupted with a dazzling light.

At that moment, Meng Guanshan finally understood that this was a trap aimed at him.

From the very beginning, the Basking Moon Sect had really been targeting him!

"Awooo!" At this moment of peril, he howled, and a golden light surged out of his body.

The attacks of Ling Xiao, Xiao Biehan, Tang Jie, Mystic Moon, and Nine Splendors all fell on Meng Guanshan's body.