Aspiring to the Immortal Path

The Flesh Millstone's power had grown along with Tang Jie's cultivation.

It was a churning cloud of blood, seemingly light yet actually as heavy as a mountain.

It instantly sucked up the White Bone Divine Lord's chilling wind and neutralized it.

Unperturbed, the White Bone Divine Lord spat out another ball of cold energy. This one was countless times more dense, and Tang Jie's Flesh Millstone was unable to grind it down.

As this blast of chilling wind approached, it exuded a powerful cold wave that froze the surrounding area, even though the White Bone Divine Lord was concentrating all of its power on Tang Jie so as to not drag in other people.

Unable to endure this, the White Bone Gate cultivators retreated, the True Lords of the sect even activating a formation to protect the land below. Otherwise, no matter how careful two Earth Immortals were, when they exchanged blows, the aftershocks had a chance of destroying the area. And if they fought without restraint, there was no hope of protecting the area.

As this wind assailed him, Tang Jie felt the blood in his veins freezing.

The White Bone Divine Lord sneered, "This is the Freezing Yin Energy I gathered from the Yellow Springs of the Nine Nethers. What do you think?"

"Not bad," Tang Jie casually replied. The Flesh Millstone continued to churn, slowly grinding away at the chilling wind.

But while the Flesh Millstone had grown stronger, it was ultimately still a Divine Connection he had created in his early years, which would be inferior to anything he created now, so it was ultimately weaker than this Freezing Yin Energy. Moreover, the White Bone Divine Lord had been an Earth Immortal for many years and had a much greater cultivation than Tang Jie. Thus, in the clash of two energies, the Flesh Millstone needed to turn six times to finally grind away the wind.

The White Bone Divine Lord smugly laughed. "You talk big, but you're really nothing much."

Tang Jie didn't mind. In terms of Divine Connections, he was naturally inferior to a veteran Earth Immortal like the White Bone Divine Lord.

Tang Jie was stronger than others because of his peerless physical body and his numerous Dao Arts.

Right now, Tang Jie was using neither of them, which brought him down to the level of an ordinary cultivator.

This left him without many advantages.

But even without advantages, he still had something.

He had three times the normal amount of Immortal energy.

In the Heaven–Man Union phase, Tang Jie had used his own Yellow Court World as the foundation, so his zone had covered an area three times larger than normal.

This meant that he started off with a stronger cultivation than other Immortals.

This was also why he was able to fight with the White Bone Divine Lord.

He was testing his ordinary combat power, without his Dao Arts and physical body.

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For this reason, Tang Jie had not used a single Dao Art. In his eyes, the White Bone Divine Lord was nothing more than his training dummy.

Even though the White Bone Divine Lord was pushing him hard, Tang Jie refused to use his lethal moves, continuing to use the Flesh Millstone. With three times the usual Immortal energy, he was able to wear down the White Bone Divine Lord's offensive.

But his opponent simply grunted, "A junior that doesn't know how high the heavens or how thick the earth is."

He slapped the coffin, and then countless white skeletons appeared in the sky, piling high into a mountain of bones. The coffin flew up to the peak of this mountain, and the White Bone Divine Lord pointed down at Tang Jie. "Now that you're in my Bone Realm, hurry up and submit. Considering that you're an Earth Immortal, I can spare you and accept you into my White Bone Gate. Not only that, I can even transmit to you the supreme Divine Connections of my White Bone Gate."

At Earth Immortal, one could form a realm.

This meant influencing the surrounding area with one's power, making it more favorable for oneself.

This was essentially the same as a Dao Realm. The difference was that the Dao Realm altered the world's laws while an art realm simply relied on one's strength to forcibly convert the area.

The White Bone Divine Lord's Bone Realm was an art realm, as was Flowing Wind's Ethereal Rain and the Flame Celestial Sovereign's sea of flames.

For Tang Jie, who had been able to wipe the floor with Earth Immortals while at Violet Palace, this Bone Realm wasn't stronger than the realms he had seen in the past, but it was rather novel. Thus, he privately praised it and began to study this art realm.

The White Bone Divine Lord was unaware that Tang Jie was free enough to use this opportunity to grow stronger, taking his attitude as one of fear instead. He laughed and said, "Forest of Bones Formation, Rise!"

Countless bones flew out of the mountain and shot toward Tang Jie.

Tang Jie raised an eyebrow, and countless blades appeared, suffused with fire and ice as they hurtled toward the bone arrows.

As expected, Tang Jie's Nine Heavens Calamity Blades were unable to stop these thousands of bone arrows, which blasted through the blades and covered the sky in white bones.

In the distance, the White Bone Gate cultivators cheered, "Our ancestor is mighty!"

They were beside themselves with excitement.

Tang Jie truly was having a rather tough time.

He had to admit that these veteran Earth Immortals were veterans for a reason. Even with three times the Immortal energy, without the appropriate moves, he was still no match for his foe. Moreover, the White Bone Divine Lord had cultivated for many years, so his Immortal energy reserves were essentially on par with him. Three times referred only to the base value, if Tang Jie were facing another cultivator who had just become an Earth Immortal. Meanwhile, there was no gap to speak of against someone like the White Bone Divine Lord.

This was why, as the battle wore on, Tang Jie's excess Immortal energy failed to make itself apparent.

Even so, Tang Jie held on, and within the Bone Realm, the White Bone Divine Lord used all kinds of ghost cultivator Divine Connections.

The Ghost Dao had always been known for being fierce and sinister, and it was very strong in the early stages. However, after Immortal Platform, where everyone became much harder to kill, the instant-kill techniques of the Ghost Dao became rather weak. This made it so that ghost cultivators were on the weaker side when it came to Immortals.

The White Bone Divine Lord had always been resentful about this, and it was only today when he had run into Tang Jie that he could go all out, use anything he wanted to use.

Heart-Piercing Bone Needles, Freezing Yin Energy, Bone-Melting Blackwater, Soul-Severing Ice Devil, and so on—he was truly able to attack to his heart's content.

This newborn Earth Immortal didn't have any other kind of ability, but he did have ample Immortal energy, able to last until now. The White Bone Divine Lord initially wanted to recruit him, but now, he felt like this person had too much potential and instead decided to kill him. Thus, he stopped talking and unleashed all of his power.

As the battle grew more exciting, he stood up out of the coffin, revealing that his legs were nothing but bones, like he was a skeleton wearing a human suit. Any ordinary person would have been scared to death by this half-human, half-ghost appearance.

When the cultivators of his sect saw him stand, they cheered, "Our mighty ancestor possesses boundless divine might, his powers reaching even into the Nether Domain!"

The Vast Wilderness Continent was already ruled by the two major sects, so these disciples didn't dare to boast about dominating Vast Wilderness, so instead they crowed that their ancestor's power reached all the way to the Nether Domain. After all, it wasn't like the Titans of the Nether Domain were going to run over and object.

Even more excited, the White Bone Divine Lord attacked with greater gusto, the skies lighting up with the power of his abilities.

In the future, they would say that an Immortal Platform Titan came to cause trouble at their White Bone Gate but was easily defeated by the Divine Lord.

Tang Jie endured another round, but after seeing that the White Bone Divine Lord hadn't used anything new, he asked, "Sir, might I ask whether you have any other moves?"

The White Bone Divine Lord was taken aback. "Why do you ask that?"

Taking this as a non-answer, Tang Jie shook his head and said, "I said before that I wanted to see if you had the strength to defeat Huang Wuji. Based on the battle just now, while Divine Lord isn't weak, you're still somewhat weaker than Huang Wuji. I don't believe you could defeat him."

The White Bone Divine Lord hadn't expected this reply, angrily roaring, "Arrogant! Still daring to say such things right as you're about to die!"

A giant hand of bone swung at Tang Jie's head.

He was using 100% of his strength, seeking to kill Tang Jie in a single blow, so greatly had Tang Jie infuriated him.

Tang Jie sighed. "It seems that that really is all."

He hadn't used any ultimate move after being so angered, so he truly wasn't hiding anything else.

Tang Jie had by now confirmed the strength of both parties. He understood that he was still weaker than a veteran Earth Immortal in terms of ordinary combat power, and he couldn't be bothered to continue the testing, slapping at the bone hand.

In the earlier battle, Tang Jie had needed three or five attacks to deal with one of the White Bone Divine Lord's attacks, but now, Tang Jie didn't even bother to use a spell art, relying on just his physical body. The White Bone Divine Lord judged this to be suicidal.

But as the hands clashed, Tang Jie's hand didn't explode into dust. Instead, the bone hand froze for a moment, and then countless cracks spread across it, making it seem like it would shatter at any moment.

Although it was a hand created by a spell art and its shattering would be no big loss, the White Bone Divine Lord was dumbfounded.

How could this kid's physical hand break down one of his Divine Connections?

The cheering disciples stopped yelling in unison, as if someone had grabbed them by the neck.

A clever disciple suddenly shouted, "A desperate strike made with the last of his strength, but it's not enough to turn the tables! The ancestor will win!"

Cheers of "The ancestor will win!" rose up to the heavens.

Tang Jie produced an item in his hand.

It was a sword.

The Sovereign Blade.

He swung the Sovereign Blade, and the Bone Realm popped like a bubble.

The mountain of bones dissolved into the wind.

The Bone Realm that had dominated the heavens had been obliterated with the light swing of a sword, once more stunning the spectators.

The White Bone Divine Lord was also stupefied.

He was unwilling and unable to believe that his Bone Realm had been so easily broken.

Staring at Tang Jie, he suddenly shouted:

"You… you… you actually used a weapon! Shameless!"