Aspiring to the Immortal Path C.866: Escape and Pursuit (2)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

A law cultivator without their barrier was a wimp!

This was a principle of the cultivation world that no amount of time could change.

No matter how high a cultivator's level reached, the degree to which they could improve their body had a limit, or else there would be no need for body cultivators.

For the briefest of moments, when the Flame Celestial Sovereign was run through by those ten thousand blades, Tang Jie thought that he was really dead.

Alas, the Flame Celestial Sovereign quickly proved what made him an Immortal!

As the blades pierced through him, the Flame Celestial Sovereign bellowed, "RAAA!"

As the sound boomed through the cave, an immense Immortal energy erupted from within.

This Immortal energy was shockingly pure and majestic, and Tang Jie couldn't even estimate how much stronger it was than his own.

This Immortal energy prevented those blades from penetrating his body any farther, even pushing them out. Moreover, the wounds left behind did not bleed and began to rapidly heal, akin to the healing of Tang Jie's body cultivator self– no, even faster!

It had to be understood that these weren't just simple metal blades. Each one was imbued with immense energy, but all of it crumbled away under the Flame Celestial Sovereign's Immortal energy, unable to deal him any damage.

This was the Immortal Platform Realm!

After reaching Immortal Platform, law cultivators no longer had such flimsy bodies. Even if they sustained fatal injuries, Immortal energy would protect them and let them rapidly recover. Not only that, their bodies were also much stronger. The fact that those ten thousand blades could pierce an Immortal Platform expert's physical body was proof of the attack's power. Ordinary attacks wouldn't have even scratched the skin.

When one attained Immortal energy, the spiritual body was converted into an Immortal body, and one's body became everlasting. This was what it meant to ascend to the Immortal Platform!

This was the best way to describe Immortal Platform. Perhaps "undying and everlasting" was an exaggeration, but it also wasn't an empty boast.

From this, one could perhaps understand why body cultivators had gone extinct. It wasn't just due to a lack of resources, but because law cultivators had far more potential. No matter how much body cultivators cultivated, they could only make their bodies so much tougher. As for law cultivators, once they reached Immortal Platform, while they couldn't make their bodies as tough as those of body cultivators, they nevertheless greatly compensated for their shortcomings. In the final comparison, the advantages of body cultivators were no longer so obvious.

If not for the feats of the Martial Lord, even Tang Jie would have suspected the path of the body cultivator to be meaningless.

But this wasn't the time to doubt himself. After that strike of ten thousand blades, the Flame Celestial Sovereign was making his way over.

He extended his hand and picked up an eyeball.

It was the Illuminating Eye Tang Jie had planted earlier.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign declared, "Tang Jie, I know you're watching. Your methods are pretty good, but if you think that this is enough to kill me, then you're underestimating the Immortal Platform Realm a little too much. I am the Flame Celestial Sovereign, an Immortal, not someone a puny character like you can think about surpassing. If you show some sense and hand over the Deicide Flame and all your other treasures, I can leave you with an intact corpse!"

After saying this, he shattered the eyeball.

Tang Jie received a small backlash from the spell art, but given that it was a minor spell art, it presented little problem. He needed only a second to compose himself before he continued his escape.

"Stubborn fool!" Sensing that Tang Jie was still running, the Flame Celestial Sovereign harrumphed and continued the chase.

He hadn't gone far before he felt a corrosive wind blowing at him. This was a wind that Tang Jie had collected while passing through the Astral Wind region, able to melt away flesh. Alas, while it was a powerful wind, it could not be replenished, and after crashing into the Flame Celestial Sovereign's Immortal energy barrier, it dissipated.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign continued his pursuit, and what he faced next was wave after wave of black water. Tang Jie had triggered the Water Element formation to assail him.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign didn't care, pushing through with his fire. As water and fire clashed, steam filled the area. All of the black water was evaporated without being able to hurt the Flame Celestial Sovereign in the slightest.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign strode forward as if he had encountered no resistance.

Farther on was the Earth Element tribulation, mighty tremors sending boulders crashing down and turning every location into a potential death trap. There was also the Wood Element tribulation, which sent thick roots and vines extending outward, joining the Earth Element in attacking the Flame Celestial Sovereign.

But the Flame Celestial Sovereign didn't seem to feel anything. Those elusive branches and roots were all burned to ashes by his guardian flames before they could reach him, and the crashing boulders were like gentle breezes against his barrier.

All of Tang Jie's traps had been useless, and even four of the Five Elements had failed. As for the last, the Fire Element, Tang Jie didn't dare to use it, as using the Fire Element against the Flame Celestial Sovereign was like delivering food right to his door.fгeewebnovёl.com

But while the Flame Celestial Sovereign seemed at ease, he was inwardly furious.

In his view, chasing down Tang Jie should have been an easy task, but Tang Jie had been more slippery than expected, and he was able to use the formation to constantly create problems.

Although these problems weren't lethal, they constantly wore away at his Immortal energy.

This would be disadvantageous to him over the long term.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign's eyes viciously gleamed. "You little thief, you really think you can escape me? Die!"

As he roared, a blazing flame erupted from his body, and he turned into a streak of flame and charged forward.

This flame movement art was incredibly fast, leaving behind a long trail of flame through the cave, with nothing being able to halt his advance. Tang Jie had set up three formation traps behind him to stop the Flame Celestial Sovereign so that he could increase the distance between them. However, by the time the formations activated, the Flame Celestial Sovereign had already left them far behind.

Tang Jie saw all this through the Illuminating Eyes he had left behind. Stunned, he knew that this had to be some secret Divine Connection of the Flame Celestial Sovereign's, but he hadn't expected him to be so fast. As the Flame Celestial Sovereign came howling toward him, Tang Jie knew he was in trouble, so he clenched his teeth and threw something behind him.

Meanwhile, the Flame Celestial Sovereign was closing the distance.

He had moved faster than the speed of sound, so he arrived like a bolt of lightning, the flash of flame preceding the boom of thunder.

But the moment he appeared, the object Tang Jie had thrown out was flying toward him.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign could see that it was a divine treasure.

What had Tang Jie thrown at him?

In the middle of the Flame Celestial Sovereign's shock, the divine treasure suddenly lit up, exuding a dangerous aura.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign knew that this was trouble, but he was moving too fast to stop. All he could do was put all his Immortal energy into his barrier as he rammed into the divine treasure.

Boom! The divine treasure exploded, engulfing the Flame Celestial Sovereign in a massive shockwave. Spiritual energy rammed into Immortal energy, the lower-level spiritual energy inexplicably blasting through the higher-level Immortal energy. The Flame Celestial Sovereign was thrown back as quickly as he had come.

Bang!!!

The Flame Celestial Sovereign was thrown into a stone wall. This stone wall was reinforced by the formation to be as tough as Mother Cloud Essence Metal, so the Flame Celestial Sovereign was dizzied by the collision.

"Bastard!" The Flame Celestial Sovereign was so angry that he almost threw up blood.

This bastard was so extravagant as to use divine treasures as explosives!

The swine was throwing the pearls back!

But it was precisely because all of the energy gathered within a divine treasure had been detonated all at once that it could blast an Immortal Platform expert back.

A moment later, the Flame Celestial Sovereign pulled himself out of the wall, his Immortal energy instantly healing all the damage he had sustained. He once more turned into a streak of flame while roaring, "Let's see how many divine treasures you have!"

He once more caught up to Tang Jie in a flash, but what awaited him was another divine treasure.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign didn't know how wealthy Tang Jie really was and hadn't expected him to be so insane. Another explosion sent him flying back, and at this time, his words of "Let's see how many divine treasures you have!" just reached Tang Jie's ears.

"Weirdo." Tang Jie smirked as he continued running. Although his heart winced from blowing up all these divine treasures, he had far more divine treasures than the Flame Celestial Sovereign thought he had. The Treasure Cosmos Formation diagram alone had one hundred, let alone the thirty-some upper-grade divine treasures he had gathered in the Jewel Palace.

Even so, it still hurt to throw away those two lower-grade divine treasures. This was all money, resources! He could only hope that the Flame Celestial Sovereign would get a little intimidated after consuming all this Immortal energy and would stop chasing him.

At this time, the cave exit was near.

As Tang Jie charged out, he saw that, just like in the Verdant Cloud Domain, there was a whole underground world beyond the cave.

In front of him was a vast sea of clouds that obscured all, as if he was in the sky. But Tang Jie knew that he was still in the Court of Myriad Domains, though he didn't know where. Strangely, he had no memory of this place in his mind. Perhaps the Martial Lord had never been here?

There were both pros and cons to exiting the cave.

The cons were that the formation lines were no longer as concentrated, so it was difficult to use the Five Elements formation against the Flame Celestial Sovereign. The advantage was that he had much more space and could finally let out his rabbit.

With a wave of his hand, he called out Tutu and said, "Run!"

Tutu was used to this routine. If he was being summoned, it meant it was time to run, so he started running without even looking at the direction.

"Over there!" Tang Jie saw that he was running back to the cave, so he angrily turned the rabbit back around and pointed forward.

Behind him, a red flash signaled that the Flame Celestial Sovereign had caught up.

Thankfully, Tang Jie determined that the Flame Celestial Sovereign wasn't as fast as light.

He took out a third divine treasure and threw it at the cave, after which he rode away on the rabbit.

Plumes of smoke rolled out of the cave as that figure was blasted back in another explosion.

After this, Tang Jie heard the Flame Celestial Sovereign cry, "I won't let you escape!"

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Tang Jie sneered in disdain. "Villains always say such things. But to say so many classic lines in one day… you're definitely the first."

He had Tutu fly off.

This was a race between Tutu and the Flame Celestial Sovereign.