Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The Blood River army's sudden appearance had once more turned the tables.

Vast numbers of soldiers surged out of the Blood Sea, the hundred thousand Bloodguards blotting out the sky, their numbers sufficing to make anyone's blood run cold.

Unlike the bean soldiers, these soldiers didn't have the ability to fight together. Fighting together required a certain level of intelligence, but the Bloodguards were nothing more than mindless puppets, so they naturally couldn't do this.

But each Bloodguard had impressive combat abilities, all of them having the strength of the initial Hundred Refinement Tier, and all of them were body cultivators.

One hundred thousand Hundred Refinement cultivators put together was a terrifying strength. Even a Heart Demon or Soul Transformation True Person would be pulverized if they carelessly took on this sort of charge.

As this terrifying tsunami approached, Na Shan's group also paled.

"Big Brother Na Shan, what do we do?" Hei Yan shouted.

"What else can we do?" Na Shan roared back. "Bring out your courage! Fight to the end!"

"Right, fight to the end!" The representatives all shouted, their fighting will aroused.

"Go and die!" Shui Yao shouted as she attacked first.

Blue waves rippled through the air, sweeping toward the opposing army like an ocean, and within this ocean, the shapes of fiend beasts could be seen. The Bloodguards swept up into the waters were rushed by these fiend beasts and torn to shreds or simply swallowed whole. So many Bloodguards were swept up that the blue waters turned red.

Qing Lian also made his move. This normally taciturn man was quite ruthless when he turned serious. His methods were extremely similar to Yiyi's, relying on plants for battle. Green plants appeared out of nowhere and began to coil around enemies. With their sharp thorns and toothed corollas, these gorgeous flowers were even more terrifying than man-eating beasts.

In comparison, Na Shan and Hei Yan had simpler fighting styles.

Hei Yan kept throwing out his black flames, which were far more powerful than any spell art, burning Bloodguards to ash. As for Na Shan, he swung his Starshatter Axe again and again, unleashing wave after brilliant wave of energy. With each swing, a Bloodguard would be torn open and die on the spot. As he killed, he cried out in grief, "Apologies, my people!"

Liu Qianyi's charming arts were useless against puppets, but she had a prestigious master and so possessed many other various methods, and Tang Jie had also given her the Pentaflame Divine Fan, so with a wave of her hand, she conjured fierce flames that killed countless.

Zuo Quanming was much more slippery. Rather than throwing himself into battle, he wielded his small silver sword and sought out isolated or injured Bloodguards, finishing them off. It was a shameless way of doing things, but as the saying went, it was better to break one finger than injure ten, so his kill count wasn't smaller than the rest.

As for Tang Jie, he began to take out his formation diagrams.

A yellow curtain appeared, and shouts began to rise and fall from within the Hall of Three Immortals as earthen giants emerged from the soil to meet the Bloodguards.

The Earthen Legion Formation!

The greatest use of this formation was to convert soil into puppets to do battle. It was the best for group battles and was one of the Tang Jie's strongest formation diagrams. Alas, as they were in the air, there was no soil to convert, only some Cloud Mud to serve as a substitute, making the giants much weaker in numbers and strength. But under the pressure of the Blood River army, Tang Jie had no choice but to use it.

After deploying the Earthen Legion Formation, Tang Jie took out another formation diagram. The diagram lit up, and eighteen scarlet bronze pillars rose up, each pillar bearing four mirrors of Violet Glass, for 72 mirrors in total. The mirrors rotated around, throwing off balls of light that fell upon the Bloodguards, who began to dissolve. The 72 mirrors caused Bloodguard after Bloodguard to fall mid-charge.

Tang Jie then took out another formation diagram, but this one ascended into the sky, where it became a cloud that cast down bolts of lightning.

Finally, he used the Nine Heavens Calamity Blades, sending a ceaseless barrage of blades, each one taking the life of a Bloodguard.

All the representatives also took out everything they had, going one versus a hundred, a thousand, cutting through the endless Bloodguards as one would chop vegetables.

But no matter how many they killed, more and more Bloodguards kept coming.

The Bloodguards refined by the Blood River Lord did not know pain, fatigue, or fear, charging up like machines. They did not fear death or strong opponents, and with spears in hand, they rushed up to their foes and thrust. They didn't seek to kill, only to add another wound, or even waste a little bit of spiritual energy. Their formidable constitutions meant that even if they didn't have spell arts, they were able to endure for a while under the storm of spell arts. Under the cover of their fellow soldiers in front of them, they came in wave after wave.

They were simple killing machines, with no thought or soul. All they knew was how to kill. Though weak, thousands upon thousands of them filled the air with suffocating murderous intent.

And the Blood River General at the very front was an elite of slaughter, a symbol of savagery.

He flitted through the crowd, and suddenly, he was in front of a Cloud Mud giant. With a light flick of his spear, the giant was nailed to the ground, and then the general rushed off to the next giant. He thrust his left hand into the giant's chest, and with a single swipe, he turned the giant into debris before the giant he had stabbed through with the blood spear had even stopped twitching.

A lightning bolt lashed out at the Blood River General, but the general only swayed a little, seeming unharmed. He then ran over to a representative and thrust out his spear. That representative immediately swung his sword to block, and a barrier was raised up around him. The Blood River General then moved up and thrust out a clawed left hand, which acted as if the barrier wasn't even there and lightly touched the representative's body. A moment later, five gouts of blood exploded from his body.

Thankfully, the representative managed to retreat quickly enough that the general couldn't dig out his heart, but he was still severely injured and incapable of fighting for the time being, and he stared at the Blood River General in shock.

Tang Jie was startled, and that sense of familiarity intensified.

The Blood River General threw his head back and screeched, upon which even more Bloodguards rushed out in a frenzied charge.

Cultivators had limited energy, and this constant battle was rapidly draining their reserves. They had already been relying on pills to keep up, and the Bloodguards only made things more difficult.

It wasn't just the law cultivators. Even the body cultivators were faring poorly.

While Na Shan was still swinging the Starshatter Axe with great gusto, he felt like it was getting heavier, his strength so spent that he was starting to feel dizzy. But more and more Bloodguards kept coming.

A representative finally ran out of spiritual energy and could no longer do anything. He could only watch as the Bloodguards came in like a flood and engulfed him. In a blink of an eye, he was buried under the Bloodguards, and all that could be seen was blood spears stabbing down again and again into his body. The powerful body of the Spirit Ring Tier meant that he could survive a hundred spear stabs, but it also meant he had to endure more pain. As more spears stabbed into him, he was left so full of holes that he was basically a fish net, and with a wretched cry, he finally died.

Meanwhile, Tang Jie wasn't having a good time either.

After summoning the Blood River Legion, the Blood River Lord could focus all of his power on Tang Jie. Four of his eight Heart Demon avatars converged on Tang Jie, showing how much he hated him.

Tang Jie had no choice but to bring back some of the bean soldiers to hold off one avatar. The Treasure Cosmos Formation held off another, and Yiyi and Tutu also handled one, while he dealt with the last one.

Even so, four Heart Demon avatars exerted an immense pressure on him.

The Blood River avatar battling with Tang Jie laughed as he pressed a giant hand down on him. "Tang Jie, do you have anything else up your sleeve?"

Tang Jie swung out with his fists, and two streams of energy, red and white, collided with the crimson hand. There was a massive explosion that made that giant blood hand dissipate.

"The Infinity Sphere Art?" The Blood River Lord snorted. "I didn't expect you to have already cultivated it to this extent. By combining the powers of Yin and Yang, it truly is possible to temporarily create a great power, but… how much Yin Yang energy do you have to use? You probably can't last long like this, right? Hahaha!"

There was another bout of crazed laughter as another giant hand formed in the Blood Sea.

Tang Jie had no choice but to punch with both fists again, using the Infinity Sphere Art to also block this attack. But while these blood hands had a barely noticeable effect on the Blood Sea, it took Tang Jie a great deal of time to refine Yin Yang energy.

Even so, Tang Jie didn't retreat, retorting, "What about you? How long can you last? You must also be reaching your limit, no? While I might be using a lot of energy, I have medicine. But what about you? What do you have?"

He took out a bottle of spirit pills and dumped the entire bottle's contents into his mouth.

Yes, although the Blood River Lord wasn't using much energy now, his total consumption was rather significant.

The Blood River Lord's face darkened. "It's enough to kill you!"

"That's not for certain!" Tang Jie grunted, and with a flip of his hand, he revealed another formation diagram.

The Blood River Lord's heart shivered.

Just how many formation diagrams did this bastard have?

The Earthfire Burst Formation had made the Blood River Lord afraid of Tang Jie's formation diagrams, so the moment he saw one, he swiftly retreated.

But this formation diagram wasn't meant for him. It was meant for the endless Bloodguards.

As the formation diagram flew out, a crescent moon rose up over the sea.

A bright moon had risen over the sea!