Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The problem with people who were too righteous was that they weren't cute in the slightest!

Tang Jie helplessly shook his head and said, "Do whatever you want. Right, do you know what place this is? How should I get to the West Bull Divine State?"

Yuan Chenfei told Tang Jie that this was the country of Xing in the Gray Heron Divine State, specifically Heping County, under the Daye Prefecture and administered by Lan'an City. The Herding Yang Sect was one of the three sects of Heping County and had some influence in the region.

Though Tang Jie had prepared himself for this, hearing that a sect with an Infant Tending Violet Palace cultivator was only a county-level force still left Tang Jie stunned.

After a long daze, he finally sighed. "As expected, a frog living at the bottom of a well can't understand how big the world really is."

Yuan Chenfei was stunned by this melancholy comment. Could these people have come from another domain?

This was a huge matter, and Yuan Chenfei's heart began to beat faster and faster.

But in the end, he couldn't say anything and only stared at Tang Jie in shock.

Tang Jie then said, "Forget it. Since there is some destiny between us, before I go, I will give you a warning. That senior brother of yours is a schemer with big ambitions. Although you let him go, he might not do the same for you. If I were you, I would immediately leave this place and find a new sect to join."

Yuan Chenfei shook his head. "Master has treated me with immense kindness. I can't do this."

Tang Jie was unsurprised. "I knew you would say this. Everyone picks their own paths, and since you've made up your mind, I won't say anything. This chicken fiend is a gift to you, a connection between the two of us. That's all I have to say. We won't meet again!"

He tapped Yuan Chenfei on the forehead, passing the method to control the chicken fiend to him, and then he turned and left.

Yuan Chenfei dumbly watched as he departed, his gaze lingering for a long time.

As they were flying, Yiyi asked, "Since you said you wouldn't meet again, why did you want me to plant a seed on him?"

Tang Jie replied, "I don't know why, but something told me that the destiny between me and him had yet to run its course, and we will probably meet again in the future. I had you leave a seed in case of this future encounter."

Yiyi was confused, but as she had always listened to Tang Jie, she didn't care much.

The three of them set off for the West Bull Divine State.

Meanwhile, Yuan Chenfei returned to his sect.

Upon returning to the sect, Yuan Chenfei found that everyone was giving him weird looks.

As he was wondering what was going on, a disciple came over and said, "Junior Brother, the sect master is waiting for you at the Hall of Knowledge."

"Oh."

As he was about to leave, the disciple whispered, "Be careful."

Yuan Chenfei was left confused, but in the end, he shook his head and made his way toward the hall.

He felt like he had done nothing wrong, so he headed to the Hall of Knowledge without worry.

Upon entering the hall, he found that the ten-some major figures of the sect were all present.

Seated at the very center was the sect master, Master Clear Spring, and behind him was Senior Brother Du.

Seeing the sinister look and cruel gleam in Senior Brother Du's eyes, Yuan Chenfei realized that something bad had happened.

As expected, an elder sternly said, "Yuan Chenfei, you've got some guts! Do you still not know what you've done wrong?"

Startled, Yuan Chenfei replied, "This disciple does not know of any crime that he has committed."

The elder slapped the table. "Still trying to argue! You and Senior Brother Du entered the depths of the Rainbow Meadow together and departed with many treasures. But on the way back, you ran into people from Avatamsaka Temple and the Verdant Goat Sect, and you actually abandoned him and ran away on your own! And you refuse to admit it!"

What?

Yuan Chenfei's mind exploded.

He looked at Senior Brother Du, and that insidious and smug gleam in his eyes told him everything.

He had let him go, but he had wickedly reported him.

Just as Tang Jie had said, just because he had welcomed the tiger didn't mean that the tiger wouldn't claw at him!

Yuan Chenfei was full of remorse for his decision.

"What? Nothing to say?" that elder furiously said. Du Tiande was his disciple, and he was naturally enraged that his disciple had been betrayed by a fellow disciple, which was why he was pushing the issue.

Yuan Chenfei shouted, "I didn't do it! Listen to my explanation."

And then he realized that he couldn't explain anything.

If he wanted to explain how Senior Brother Du had abandoned him, he would have to explain how he had reversed the situation, which meant giving up Tang Jie. And Senior Brother Du had clearly realized this, which was why he hadn't brought it up either.

If he gave up Tang Jie, that still didn't change the fact that he was guilty, and the sect would also chase after Tang Jie. No matter who won, the Herding Yang Sect was bound to lose many people. These people had all been very good to him, and he didn't want to see them die.

Thus, his mouth opened, but no explanation came out. All he could do was point at Senior Brother Du and say, "It was him. He abandoned me and ran off on his own."

The sect master roared, "If Tiande abandoned you, why did you come back unscathed, and with so many things? Are you going to say that you fought your way out from that encirclement of five people on your own and then headed deep into the Rainbow Meadow to plunder the fiend dens?"

Yuan Chenfei shouted, "I'm telling the truth! If you don't believe me, you can ask those people from Avatamsaka Temple and the Verdant Goat Sect."

"I get it now!" Du Tiande suddenly shouted. "No wonder those five attacked me with all their strength but let you off easy, letting you get away. So you had planned everything out with them. And the price for selling me out is that you would work together to sweep the area, after which you would take all the spoils. That's how you got so many treasures! You sold me out so that you could get more credit in the sect."

Yuan Chenfei was dumbfounded, not having expected this move from Du Tiande.

Du Tiande's master chuckled. "An ambitious schemer who colluded with other sects to frame a fellow disciple! You should be executed for your crime!"

"No!" At this moment, someone rushed in and shouted, "My disciple isn't that sort of person."

It was that donkey-riding old man with a gourd on his back.

He tearfully implored, "Martial Uncle, you watched Chenfei grow up, so you know his nature the most. When it comes to heart, no one in the sect has a kinder heart than him. All he thinks about is how to right the wrongs of the world and the duties of a cultivator. How could he frame a fellow disciple?"

He prostrated and kowtowed several times, the sound of his head striking the Mountain Sea Jade slabs resounding through the hall.

The sect master's brow slightly creased, and then he sighed. "I do know Yuanfei's nature. But the natures of youth are most unstable, and even the kind and purehearted might be tempted into becoming demons. The stubborn and obsessed are most easily turned to demons, and the kindhearted can become butchers. It is not strange at all for such things to happen."

The elder despaired, and even Yuan Chenfei was stunned.

He looked at the sect master and said, "Sect Master, don't listen only to Senior Brother Du. He's framing me, truly! Back in the paradise, someone helped me, and it was only because of that that I could escape…"

The sect master couldn't keep listening, and with a wave of his hand, Yuan Chenfei was silenced.

"The Five Origins Paradise is a secret ground shared by the three sects. That you would make such an obvious lie as someone helping you escape is a clear sign that you've exhausted your tricks," the elder from before said in disdain. He then turned to the sect master and bowed. "Sect Master, how should this beast who colludes with outsiders and betrays his sect be dealt with?"

After some thought, the sect master said, "Colluding with outsiders and framing a fellow disciple is an unpardonable crime. Cast him into the Demon Abyss."

The donkey-riding elder shuddered upon hearing that his disciple would be cast into the Demon Abyss. He rushed over and grabbed the sect master's leg, pleading, "No, please don't! Sect Master, Chenfei is a good child. He would never do something like this. You have to give him a chance!"

The sect master shook his head, and with a finger, he suppressed that old man and had him thrown out of the hall, where the old man continued to beg and weep.

Yuan Chenfei collapsed to the ground upon hearing his punishment.

The Demon Abyss! He was being cast into the Demon Abyss! This was an execution!

Two enforcer disciples came forward, seizing Yuan Chenfei and taking him away. The chicken fiend tried to run away, but one enforcer disciple grabbed him and put him with Yuan Chenfei. Just like that, they carried him off to the Demon Abyss, not even removing his Mustard Seed Bag.

After flying for a while, the two enforcer disciples reached a black fissure that was more than a hundred feet wide. This fissure was so long that it was impossible to see its end, and it seethed with black energy. Glancing at it would make one feel like one's mind was being drawn away, and those of weak will might even be compelled to throw themselves into the abyss.

This was an abyss that was said to cross the entire Vast Wilderness World, like a giant blade scar that cut the world into northern and southern halves. And at the very bottom was the legendary Primordial Fog Domain.

Yes, this was a giant passage that linked the positive and negative planes, and it possessed an unimaginably bizarre power.

Every three thousand years, this passage would open, and countless Primordial Fog fiends and demons would rush out of the Demon Abyss to invade the Vast Wilderness World. At the same time, the barriers between other domains would thin, and the Primordial Fog's Archdevils would break them and invade. But all of the other passages put together weren't as big or as wide as this one.

This Demon Abyss that ran through the entire Vast Wilderness World was the primary invasion route of the Primordial Fog Domain, making this world the front line against the invasion.

When a cultivator was cast into the Demon Abyss, they would never be able to come out.

Some said that they would pass through that abyss into the Primordial Fog Domain, because going from the positive plane to the negative plane did not require three thousand years.

But this was impossible to verify, as there was no coming back from this abyss.

For this reason, many human cultivators treated it as a place to execute disciples. Being thrown here meant only one thing: death!

At the same time, they would let that disciple keep their treasures, giving them a chance to fight to the death once they entered the Primordial Fog Domain. Of course, that was only if they weren't carrying anything too valuable.

The two enforcer disciples stood in front of the Demon Abyss. One of them looked at Yuan Chenfei and sighed. "What a pity that a genius would do something like this.

"Since you betrayed your sect and sold out your fellow disciple, you are no different from a demon, so you might as well join them."