Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Aspiring to the Immortal Path - Chapter 624: The Way of Heaven

Regardless of the reason, Tang Jie and Yiyi had gotten into the fiend city.

Being unable to unleash his accumulated fighting intent was rather uncomfortable, but since he was in the city, he didn't mind seeing the sights before fighting.

A fiend city was extremely different from a human city. There was no clamorous marketplace, nor was there an endless stream of people going back and forth. Instead, there were fiends in various forms striding through the streets, often followed by a few human slaves.

Every fiend Tang Jie passed would shoot him a flabbergasted look.

Tang Jie didn't understand at first, but when he saw the collars tied around the necks of each human he passed and then looked at Yiyi, he finally understood.

Yiyi also seemed to understand, shooting Tang Jie a strange look.

Thus, the two of them laughed.

"What do we do now?" Yiyi asked.

"There's no rush. Let's take a look around first," Tang Jie casually replied.

There happened to be a restaurant nearby, so Tang Jie and Yiyi went inside.

A human waiter came up and asked Yiyi in a quavering voice, "Might I ask what my lady requires?"

Yiyi took the menu and saw that there were dishes like sautéed human heart, stir-fried human liver, human brain and potato orchid soup, steamed child, and so on, scaring her so badly that she almost dropped the menu.

Tang Jie's face darkened. Looking up at the waiter, he said, "Are these the dishes you're offering?"

The waiter didn't know how he had offended this pair. As he trembled in fear, there was a mighty roar. "Such audacity! Daring to run into this personage!"

Turning his head, Tang Jie saw a boar fiend standing at the stairs, a soup stain on its chest. A human waiter was prostrating in front of it, repeatedly bowing. There was a bowl of soup in his hand, and it was clear that he had spilled soup on the boar fiend.

The boar fiend was so angry that it grabbed the waiter and bit off his head. As it noisily chewed, bits of brain flew out of its mouth, after which it finished off the corpse with another few bites.

The waiter who had given them the menu trembled even more fiercely, but the fiends at the table next to theirs laughed as if this wasn't a big deal.

The boss of the restaurant was a Transformation fiend. It came out to see what was going on and then said "one spirit stone" before turning around and leaving.

Fiends didn't use spirit coins and instead used spirit stones for their trading. The boar fiend pursed its lips. "So expensive." But it still obediently paid the deal.

A new waiter was sent out to serve it.

The menu was still the same menu, but Tang Jie and Yiyi no longer had any appetite.

Yiyi glanced at Tang Jie and was shocked to see how composed he was. "Let's go," she said.

Tang Jie silently stood up.

"Big Brother, aren't you angry?" Yiyi curiously asked.

"'Angry'? Why should I be angry?" Tang Jie countered.

"They were eating humans!" Yiyi said.

Tang Jie smiled. "It's not like you're finding out that fiends eat humans for the first time."

"But in the past…"

"In the past, we just didn't see humans being put on the dining table. But what's so strange about it? Fiends have intelligence, so they would naturally imitate human behavior. We didn't see it before because the fiends of Rosecloud and Blood River didn't have that right, as they were often the ones who ended up on the table… Humans can eat fiends, so why can't fiends eat humans?"

Yiyi was gobsmacked. She had never expected Tang Jie to say something like this.

Tang Jie laughed. "Of course, that's not to say that I support their actions. I'm just saying that this is completely normal from the perspective of the fiends. Humans eat everything, so everything can naturally eat humans. Nobody is more valued than anyone else. All that matters is who is stronger. That's why humans are eaten by fiends. It's not because fiends are cruel, but because humans are too weak. In this place, I have no plans to talk about righteousness, only about who is weak and who is strong."

Tang Jie's reasoning almost made Yiyi faint. "Why is it that your words sound so reasonable yet sound so unpleasant to me?"

"Because you've already started to consider problems only from the human perspective," Tang Jie replied. "You're stuck on human principles, so naturally can't accept my argument. What I'm discussing is the way of the world, far surpassing the way of humans. Of course, as a human, after seeing such a thing, I should at least express some indignation. Thus, when I kill them in a little while, I'll put a little more force behind it."

As he spoke, power surged through his body.

This power came from nowhere and resonated with his body, but while it rumbled within him, nobody except Tang Jie could hear it.

Tang Jie could tell that this was the celestial resonance of the Fate Standard within his body.

The Fate Standard was brimming with mysteries, but Tang Jie had never been able to truly refine and absorb it. Yet as Tang Jie spoke, it began to send out slivers of Fate power into Tang Jie's body. Tang Jie's head buzzed as many principles that he had once so desperately sought to understand were suddenly revealed to him, and in a split second, Tang Jie had made a great stride upon the Great Dao.

This stride wasn't in any particular direction, but in all aspects. Tang Jie had developed a deeper understanding of cultivation, spell arts, and Dao Wills, with some difficult cultivation questions that he had yet to figure out being solved. His cultivation level even increased by a sliver.

Tang Jie looked up at the sky in shock.

He didn't understand what was going on, and Yiyi looked at him curiously, wondering why he had stopped talking.

At this moment, a voice boomed, "Hey, that sprite over there! What's the meaning behind letting your slave run around without a collar?"

Turning their heads, they saw a bull fiend pointing at Yiyi.

This fiend was only middle-grade Mind Opening, yet it dared to shout at Yiyi. It was clearly one of those people who lacked vision despite having eyes.

Yiyi snorted and ignored it.

The bull fiend saw Yiyi ignoring it and turned on Tang Jie, a malicious look in its eyes. "This human is quite sturdy, with much more meat than those other slaves. Why not let me eat it? I'll give you one spirit stone in return."

It reached out to grab Tang Jie.

Tang Jie didn't move, letting the bull fiend place a hand on his shoulder. He then glanced at the bull fiend and said, "Three catties and seven taels."

"What?" the bull fiend said in surprise.

Tang Jie waved a hand, and the bull fiend shuddered and looked down in disbelief, seeing that Tang Jie's hand had already disappeared into its chest.

Extracting a bezoar from the bull's body, he said, "I'm talking about this thing. Three catties and seven taels."

"But… how?" The bull fiend threw up blood. It wanted to take back its treasure, but it found that it couldn't do anything and collapsed.

Everyone was stunned.

A human had killed a fiend! It was as rare as a chicken killing a human back in human country.

While all the fiends were stunned, Yiyi took the bezoar from Tang Jie and placed it on a balance. She cried out in surprise, "It really is three catties and seven taels. How did you know?"

"Simply Fate," Tang Jie replied. He once more reached out, grabbing a rainbow pheasant's approaching claw. With a squeeze, he obliterated the claw, causing the pheasant to squawk miserably in pain.

The fiends began to realize that this human was no slave, and they lunged at him.

All sorts of spell arts began to fly toward Tang Jie.

But the fiends were too weak, these various spells barely itching him. He didn't even use defensive spell arts, pushing through the spell art storm to slaughter the fiends.

Body cultivators had always had very simple and brutal fighting styles. Tang Jie simply kicked and punched, basically killing anyone on contact.

An upper-grade Mind Opening gray wolf fiend swung a cudgel at the back of Tang Jie's head. There was a boom, but Tang Jie's head came out perfectly fine. The cudgel, on the other hand, was now bent. Tang Jie swung a fist at the wolf fiend, and the wolf fiend's head exploded.

A weasel fiend rushed over and raised its butt, upon which thick yellow smoke spurted out. This smoke was chock-full of toxins, and the slightest whiff could make one faint. Tang Jie lightly sniffed and began to sway, upon which the weasel shouted in glee, "Fall, fall!" A moment later, Tang Jie kicked the weasel in the stomach, instantly piercing through its stomach and intestines. The weasel didn't understand how Tang Jie could be so strong despite being struck by such powerful poison, but it had no idea that Tang Jie's swaying had nothing to do with the poison, only with the stench.

A hedgehog fiend charged in and arched its body, peppering Tang Jie with its spines, which struck Tang Jie with a great clatter. When the rain of spines stopped, the hedgehog was barren, and Tang Jie was now standing in front of it with a sinister smile on his face. "Are you done shooting? My turn now!" He took a spine and shoved it right up the hedgehog's rectum.

"Raaa!" The boar fiend that had eaten that human charged out of the restaurant and rammed at Tang Jie with its long tusks. Alas, Tang Jie didn't even give it the chance to test its tusks, thrusting out a palm that sent the boar fiend's head into its chest cavity, after which he pulled out the tusks and stabbed them into the bodies of two other fiends.

A few moments later, Tang Jie had the fiends in disarray, while Yiyi was busy cleaning up the bodies, skinning hides and digging out fiend pellets. As they were in the middle of the city, Tang Jie had no plans to take out the Mountain River State Diagram.

The surviving fiends were horrified by the slaughter they had just witnessed, but at this point, a resounding voice called out, "Such ability, such daring! So you were a body cultivator! But you think this is enough to wreak havoc in my Hundred Battle City?"

Standing atop a nearby house was a fiend general in human form, wearing a suit of silver armor and holding a spear, coldly staring at Tang Jie. In a flash, hundreds of fiend soldiers surrounded the area.

The fiend general pointed its spear at Tang Jie. "Kill him!"

The fiend soldiers charged in.