Aspiring to the Immortal Path -
Chapter 1142: The Fisherman Profits (2)
Such a large-scale battle naturally couldn’t escape the attention of the other Titans of the Divine Spring Domain.
But the Dark Night Ancestor’s region of darkness was the best method for blocking Divine Wills, so everyone only knew that the Dark Night Ancestor was fighting with some powerful existence, not who it was. Moreover, the Dark Night Ancestor had just been fighting with the Ice Dragon Emperor, so if it was fighting again, many assumed that it was just the Ice Dragon Emperor giving chase.
The sea fiends knew that it wasn’t their boss, but given that they had just been invaded, they weren’t going to explain the situation to anyone. On the contrary, they were happy to see this misunderstanding. Only the strong could protect themselves from invasion. The fiends of the Divine Spring Domain had never been united, or else they wouldn’t have been so slow to react to the Rosecloud Domain.
Thus, while this battle sent shockwaves through the world, nobody interfered, only silently watching.
In terms of pure strength, Tang Jie was a little weaker than the Dark Night Ancestor. Even with his perfect body, his cultivation level was still lower than that of the Dark Night Ancestor by a tier, and an extremely critical tier at that. Moreover, Tang Jie couldn’t use the power of Dao Arts to combat the Dark Night Ancestor’s Dao Art, which further widened the gap.
He could fight the Dark Night Ancestor evenly primarily because of the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace and the Sovereign Blade.
…Particularly the Sovereign Blade.
This unbreakable and unstoppable weapon was Tang Jie’s greatest tool. Wherever the blade pointed, the Dark Night Ancestor would have to flee if it didn’t want to be diced and sliced. Fortunately, its region of darkness allowed it to move around freely, or else it would have been busy with simply running from the Sovereign Blade.
Even so, Tang Jie could only fight the Dark Night Ancestor to a draw, and it wasn’t like the Dark Night Ancestor didn’t have any treasures.
“My name is Tang Jie,” Tang Jie answered with a smile.
Although he couldn’t beat the Dark Night Ancestor, he also wasn’t losing, and he remained composed and at ease.
“I have no interest in the name of a corpse,” the Dark Night Ancestor gruffly replied, throwing out an item.
It was a string of black prayer beads.
The moment these beads appeared, Tang Jie felt an immense pressure descending on him, and a terrible fear seized his heart, as if the entire world was about to be destroyed.
Just what was this thing that instilled such fear in him?
Tang Jie was alarmed.
As the prayer beads flew out, they began to pulse with energy, upon which the entire region of darkness became like a swamp. Tang Jie found it difficult to move within, and even the Sovereign Blade moved as if there were countless threads pulling on it.
As the apex product of the Weapon Dao, the Sovereign Blade was peerlessly sharp and capable of simulating all weapons, but this didn’t mean that it was invincible. The toughest steel feared the soft and pliable, and the Dark Night Ancestor’s methods of teleporting through the darkness and swamping the area both countered the Sovereign Blade, leaving it unable to display its space-rending power.
And this was not the only power of the black prayer beads.
While turning the region of death into a viscous mass, the prayer beads unleashed a wicked energy that suppressed Tang Jie. The darkness became as heavy as the world, almost crushing Tang Jie under its weight.
“Aaagh!” He couldn’t help but cry out.
Not since Blood River had he been through such a difficult battle. In a one-on-one, only a select few could push him to the brink, but the Dark Night Ancestor had done it.
This bastard hadn’t even taken out the prayer beads against the Ice Dragon Emperor, so he hadn’t expected it to be holding such a trump card.
There was no time to consider this problem, for the immense pressure forced Tang Jie to make a crucial choice that would decide whether he lived or died.
Resist or run?
Tang Jie instantly made his decision.
He was never going to run!
As the prayer beads exerted their pressure, Tang Jie roared and revealed his true form.
His body instantly grew to the size of a sky-holding giant, his mountain-sized arms lifting up both the sky and that string of prayer beads.
He lifted up this stream of energy with all his might, even if he had to lift up the entire world with it!
The Dark Night Ancestor was stupefied.
It knew the power of its prayer beads best, and it had never imagined that a single person could resist their pressure. But Tang Jie was clearly using all of his strength, all of his muscles bulging, pulses of power rolling off his body. That elegant scholar had transformed into a strongman.
The fusion of spiritual power with physical strength unleashed a wild power that pushed back the pressure of the prayer beads through sheer force.
Seeing this, the Dark Night Ancestor snarled, “The power of the Buddha is infinite and not something a mere mortal can resist! Manifest, Golden Buddha Ancestor!”
As it spoke, a giant Buddha appeared in the air.
This Buddha was so large that his head was crowned by the Astral Winds, the world seeming to serve as his prayer mat. His eyes were closed, his hands forming a sign, and behind his head was a black halo.
The dark Buddha’s appearance instantly increased the pressure on Tang Jie, and even worse, a wicked force began to inflict excruciating pain on his body.
“What is this?” Tang Jie cried out in alarm.
Tang Jie had never heard of any Buddha Ancestor possessing such thoroughly evil power.
The Buddhist sects made it their business to bring salvation to all beings, and the vast majority were representatives of compassion and benevolence. While there were evil people among them, most of them were failures. There had never been a Buddha Ancestor that was so wicked.
Tang Jie was baffled.
Regardless, this Buddha was definitely on the Ancestor level, a Gold Immortal or even Saint Immortal. There was no other way for its projection alone to be this powerful.
When it manifested, the entire world seemed to be at its service.
The Dark Night Ancestor laughed. “What do you think? Do you understand the power of my dharma pearls now? You will have to experience a thousand kinds of torment, with no hope of escape!”
“‘A thousand kinds of torment’?” Tang Jie was taken aback, and countless thoughts ran through his mind before he shouted, “Are these the Thousand Tribulation, Hundred Calamity Pearls?”
The Dark Night Ancestor suddenly stopped speaking, disbelief in its eyes.
Tang Jie immediately understood. “They really are? I was wondering which Buddha this was. So it’s the Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor of the Longevity Heaven.”
The Longevity Heaven was one of the secret grounds of the Great Stellar Chiliocosm, and its master was the Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor, who was of the same generation as Yu Cheng.
The Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor was said to have been born in a time of great strife and tribulation, but despite a lifetime of hardships and trials, he never stopped cultivating. Not only did this endless torment fail to break his yearning for Buddhism, it created the most tenacious ascetic, an ancestor that could hold up the world. In other words, he singlehandedly bore the suffering of an entire world.
After reaching Saint Immortal and becoming a Buddha Ancestor, the Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor secluded himself within the Longevity Heaven and no longer appeared before the public.
Tang Jie had found out these things from his time traveling the Vast Wilderness Continent. After all, the Vast Wilderness Continent was the main world, and it was there that the Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor had proved his Dao.
He hadn’t expected those prayer beads to be connected to him. It was no wonder they were so powerful.
But the Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor was a monk of great virtue, not a wicked person, so why were those prayer beads and that Buddha projection thick with evil energy?
After some thought, Tang Jie understood and sneered, “I heard that the Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor proved his Dao three times, and in one of them, he severed all of his wicked thoughts, forsaking darkness and attaining a heart of light. To think that rather than disappearing, his wicked thoughts took on physical form and managed to attain such a high level of cultivation.”
“Shut your mouth!” the Dark Night Ancestor shrieked, its mud-like body suddenly transforming. It became another Buddha, identical to the Buddha projection. “It’s not like that, not like that!”
“Still trying to deny it?” Tang Jie snorted. “No wonder you didn’t want to use the Thousand Tribulations Pearls against the Ice Dragon Emperor. You thought it would see you for what you really were, right? But you didn’t think that I would also know your background, and your background is your greatest weakness!”
“No!” the Dark Night Ancestor screeched. “It’s not like that!”
But its trembling revealed its fear and exposed the truth. It just couldn’t believe that Tang Jie was able to identify its true nature.
Tang Jie smiled.
“How can we know if we don’t try?”
He began to chant the name of Hundred Calamities, upon which a vast will suddenly descended.
This will was as vast as the endless void, brimming with infinite compassion and tolerance. Appearing in the skies of the Divine Spring Domain, it cast its attention downward.
When this will appeared, the darkness was instantly wiped away.
Trembling all over, the Dark Night Ancestor gazed up at the sky. “No, no…”
That will locked on to the Dark Night Ancestor, and then there was a soft sigh. “I did not think that a sliver of that evil I severed all those years ago would persist in this world and grow to this. I created this evil, so I must destroy it.”
The black prayer beads instantly disappeared, taking with them the immense pressure they exerted.
The Dark Night Ancestor shuddered even more as its entire body began to rapidly vanish.
This was a peak Earth Immortal, yet it couldn’t even put up the slightest resistance against its former original body’s projection. This wasn’t merely because the original body was strong, but also because it was the evil side that had been severed from the original and was innately suppressed by the original’s will. For ten thousand years, it had been careful to never expose itself, but today, it had run into Tang Jie.
But at this moment, Tang Jie shouted, “You’ve done what you needed to do. As for that, it’s my trophy, and you have no right to take it!”
Those spectating existences were all alarmed.
Just who was this person, that they dared to order around a Saint Immortal? They had finally realized that the Dark Night Ancestor might not be fighting the Ice Dragon Emperor.
Surprisingly, the will that was causing the Dark Night Ancestor to disappear really vanished, departing with a sigh.
The Dark Night Ancestor exhaled in relief, and then it glared at Tang Jie. “Why did you save me?”
“Tsk, because I wanted to do it myself,” Tang Jie said in scorn. “It’s hard to find a good opponent, and you are undoubtedly one. I’m benefiting a lot from this fight, so… take this punch!”
He threw out a mighty punch.
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