Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Aspiring to the Immortal Path - Chapter 680: Battle Against the Thunder Emperor

A brilliant wave of saber energy sliced toward the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor.

Even the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor couldn't help but tremble a little at the sight of this resplendent attack.

But he was still a Fiend Emperor, a Divine Division fiend. In the face of Tang Jie's almost invincible blade, he first took in a deep breath, suppressing the heavy injury on his belly, and then he raised his hand. There was a flash of lightning, and his Heaven Thunder Saber rose up to confront Tang Jie's Ten Extinctions Blade.

There was another flash of lightning as the energies from the two blades collided.

First, two people crashed together, and then, two people were sent flying away from each other.

The Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor was sporting another wound on his chest that was infected with gray-black energy, but Tang Jie had a long wound on his face. It had only been a slight brush, but the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor's attack had almost cut him in half. Besides that, lightning was still dancing across his face, lighting up his face with brilliant sparks as it crackled.

It seemed like both sides had come away wounded, but it also indirectly proved that Yiyi was right. Tang Jie's Devil Crushing Fist had severely weakened the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor, enough so that he couldn't exert the power of a Divine Division fiend against Tang Jie.

Even so, the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor still majestically stood there, Heaven Thunder Saber in hand as he bellowed, "Who the hell are you? And where is Silver Eyes? Talk! Is all this some scheme by Silver Eyes?"

Tang Jie cocked his head. "'Silver Eyes'? He left even earlier than you."

"What?" The Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor was stunned.

He recalled how Tang Jie had assumed another person's form, and then he understood everything. He said in a trembling voice, "You… you killed Silver Eyes, disguised yourself as him, and infiltrated the fiends?"

"Once I kill you, the fiends and humans will be equalized, which will buy Fengshan some precious time to breathe… Really, I wonder how they're going to thank me," Tang Jie chuckled.

"With only you?" The Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor fiercely smiled as he turned around and roared, "What are you guys still standing around for? Come and kill this bastard with me!"

He was shouting at the four fiend kings.

Although the formation had suppressed their Four Poles Heaven Stamp, it didn't mean that they couldn't fight.

The Imprisoning Dragon Formation Tang Jie had laid down focused mainly on preventing his enemies from escaping so that they wouldn't ruin his plans, and its secondary focus was concealment so that it wouldn't be discovered. It was only its tertiary focus that was sealing and suppression, so the suppression was limited. While suppressing the combined seal of the four fiend kings wasn't hard, suppressing the fiend kings themselves was basically impossible. As for lethality, that was at the very end, only serving a supporting role.

The four kings were just about to join the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor in encircling Tang Jie when Yiyi laughed and jumped out. "Your opponent is me."

"Scram, little girl." Any one of the four fiend kings could knock aside a sprite who had just entered the middle phase of Transformation, so none of them took her seriously.

But just when a fiend king was about to attack Yiyi, a puppet appeared at her side.

The Mother Cloud combat puppet!

Starlight lit up the puppet's body, and the puppet raised an arm and fired off an attack at that fiend king.

The fiend king was blasted away, leaving the other fiends stunned.

A fiend king roared in anger, "You think a single puppet is enough to deal with us?"

As the four kings prepared to attack together, Yiyi smiled and said, "What if we add in this, then?"

With a wave of her hand, she sent out the Treasure Cosmos Formation, and as its treasure lights lit up the four kings, it caused them all to howl in pain and misery. The energy of so many treasures put together, even if they were only operating at the most basic level, was enough to occupy the four kings for some time. Even though the four kings focused entirely on defense, they still suffered under the Treasure Cosmos Formation. Yiyi also understood that breaking one finger was better than injuring all ten, so she focused half of the formation's power on a single fiend king, at the same time sending the puppet at him. Meanwhile, with a wave of her hand, she sent numerous vines coiling toward the other three kings, joining with the formation in holding them back.

The puppet and formation were incredibly powerful, and the unlucky fiend king was one who wasn't too skilled in defense, and the puppet even used multiple formations in its assault, so the fiend king ended up being almost instantly slain.

After killing one fiend king, the puppet lunged at its next target. This fiend king had to endure half of the initial salvo's power, and a quarter of the formation's power was not to be underestimated. While that fiend king resisted with all his might, he was still badly wounded, and the follow-up punch from the puppet left him even worse off.

Finally, the treasure formation ran out of power, and with a unified attack, the three fiend kings managed to push back Yiyi and the combat puppet. Upon taking stock of their forces, they realized that one of their number was dead and one was heavily injured, which made them pale.

The three fiend kings stared at Yiyi and said, "Scoundrel, let's see what other tricks you have!"

But Yiyi laughed. "This lady has plenty more where that came from."

She waved her hand, and the Jade Blossom Palace rose up, cutting off the three fiend kings from the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor. And with another wave of her hands, she sowed numerous bean soldiers. As for Black Sin, she didn't summon it. After all, Black Sin was more appropriate for chaotic battlefields, not powerful foes like these.

Tang Dou stood together with Yiyi at the flower pavilion on the top floor. With a shout and a wave from his scepter, bean soldiers rushed toward the three fiend kings in a great wave.

"What are these things?" The three fiend kings were dumbfounded.

But regardless, it was clear that they no longer had the advantage in numbers.

The puppet was already charging at the injured fiend king…

"Don't put your hopes on them," Tang Jie callously said. "Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor, come—let's have a duel!"

Holding his wound, the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor grunted, "You think you can kill me? You look down on this emperor too much!"

He grabbed at the air with his left hand. "A thousand threads to forge clouds! Congeal!"

The countless clouds over the summit were twisted into ropes through the power of spiritual energy and moved to wrap around him like Immortal-Binding Ropes, but even tougher and more refined.

At the same time, the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor swung his saber, and three bolts of lightning lit up the sky. "Profound lightning generates the obliterating slash!"

As the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor roared, the three bolts of lightning merged into a single giant lightning saber. This was one of the ultimate techniques of the Thundershatter Saber Art.

The most violent energies of the world had been gathered into this saber, and in the face of this power, even the earth would quiver in fear and mountains would yield the path.

But Tang Jie simply glanced at this saber. Flexing his four arms, he broke apart the ropes that bound him and swung the Sovereign Blade up toward that lightning saber.

No matter how mighty your power, I will fight back all the same!

This was the Dao of the Martial Lord.

In the battle with Silver Eyes, Tang Jie had come to completely understand the meaning of the Martial Lord's Dao. He still had some of his own habits, like making pre-battle ambushes to weaken opponents, but in his view, the Dao of the Martial Lord wasn't some suicidal Dao, so he didn't think that weakening a powerful enemy appropriately was anything inexcusable. One could say that Tang Jie had mixed his own personality with the Martial Lord's peculiarities.

Tang Jie had chosen to plan things out before the battle and fight bravely during the battle.

As the thunder saber clashed with the Ten Extinctions Blade, the gray energy of Destruction and brilliant splendor of lightning attacked their respective foes. While the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor gained yet another gray wound, Tang Jie had another bolt of lightning dancing around his body, and both of them grunted in pain.

While Tang Jie had some lightning resistance, what was once formidable was no longer enough to meet the situation. In front of the lightning that the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor had spent a thousand years cultivating, this little resistance might as well have not even existed.

But the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor wasn't having a good time either. Tang Jie's Destruction power had the ability to seep in and corrode, and it could even be considered more powerful than the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor's lightning arts. This realization left him stunned, and he couldn't help but wonder where the humans had gotten such a powerful individual.

After two exchanges, the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor had realized that he had no advantage, perhaps was even slightly weaker, so he changed fighting styles.

The Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor first wiped his wound with his left hand, getting rid of the Destruction power coating the wound. His eyes then flashed, and those ropes of spiritual energy once more moved to coil around Tang Jie. Then, the clouds formed into a giant hand, after which he formed his Thunder Barrier, and as a finishing touch, he also created walls of energy in front of him in case his opponent decided to charge at him.

He had cast four or five spell arts in the same second, and when he was doing all this, he even summoned three lightning bolts that slashed at Tang Jie from three different directions.

The ability to cast arts with a thought meant that defense and offense required only a split second to think it. This was the power of a Divine Division fiend.

The Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor no longer had any plans to engage in close combat with Tang Jie.

But Tang Jie didn't care, pushing through the lightning and unleashing another Ten Extinctions Blade. Boundless strength surged through his body, snapping the ropes as soon as they touched his body. The giant cloud hand wasn't able to bring Tang Jie down, but it made his body crack and splinter, and while those walls of energy couldn't stop his charge, the impacts also wore away at his body.

Who cares how many tricks you have? I'll just push through them all!

The Ten Extinctions Blade bit into the Thunder Barrier in a blinding burst of light.

At the same time, the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor's three lightning slashes fell on Tang Jie's body.

After trading one blade for three, the two broke apart again.

This time, Tang Jie had clearly taken a loss, his body swaying and almost falling to his knees, sporting three new wounds. In comparison, thanks to the Thunder Barrier, the Ten Extinctions Blade had clearly done much less damage to the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor.

The Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor looked at him and laughed. "You must be done now, right?"

"You think so?" Tang Jie sneered. "That's not what I think! Again!"

Tang Jie roared and jumped to his feet, unleashing another Ten Extinctions Blade.

"Seeking death!" the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor roared.

Another torrent of spell arts surged toward Tang Jie.

Thanks to the ability to cast arts with a thought, the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor could cast seven or eight spell arts in the time it took for Tang Jie to swing his saber once. This was the difference in cultivation, not something that could be overcome through pure resolve, and it was the reason Violet Palace and Divine Division cultivators were able to dominate.

By means of his Divine Will, the Thunder Blade Fiend Emperor controlled the world, truly displaying the might of a Fiend Emperor.

The world was his to use, and in terms of power and speed, he far surpassed his opponents, sending ceaseless spell arts surging toward Tang Jie in an attempt to drown him.

But Tang Jie was like a small boat in a sea of spiritual energy, pressing onward no matter how fierce the waves became.

He pushed forward against the waves and current, never backing down from the fierce downpour, as if he had gone insane. So long as he lived, he would never stop charging!