Aspiring to the Immortal Path -
Chapter 1143: Two Eagles With One Arrow (1)
The Dark Night Ancestor died.
There was no suspense to it. The Dark Night Ancestor had lost its greatest card, the black prayer beads.
It should have been strong enough to still fight against Tang Jie, but it was already injured from its battle with the Ice Dragon Emperor and had simply been suppressing its injuries all this time. Besides that, the Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor hadn’t killed it, but had greatly drained it of energy.
Meanwhile, Tang Jie had grown stronger from this battle. Tang Jie hadn’t lied when he said that he had greatly benefited from this battle. The pressure from the prayer beads had been somewhat akin to that of the Heavenly Tribulation.
Tang Jie had even been able to use it to once more trigger higher fusion. While he hadn’t fused a lot, his strength had definitely grown.
One was strengthened while the other was weakened, so the Dark Night Ancestor’s defeat wasn’t a surprise.
As the darkness faded and the sky cleared, the turbulent world grew calm once more.
There was no sign of the Dark Night Ancestor, nor was there a sign of Tang Jie, but all the hidden spectators knew that the battle had been decided—only one energy signature had remained, and it clearly hadn’t belonged to the Dark Night Ancestor.
Alas, the spectators couldn’t confirm who the winner was, the Divine Wills scanning here and there only confirming that this expert had been there, but not where they had come from or their identity. And as time passed, even this energy began to fade…
One was a set of black prayer beads.
Only when he got his hands on them did he understand that these beads were actually the vessel which had held the Hundred Calamities Buddha Ancestor’s wickedness.
This had started off as an ordinary set of prayer beads, but when the Buddha Ancestor severed his evil, while the majority of the evil dissipated into the world, one sliver inadvertently ran into these prayer beads, which had just gained a little spirituality, and ended up attaching to them. The owner of these beads was also a Buddhist cultivator, and as they spent every day refining them, the beads gradually grew into a wicked weapon.
The first offering to this weapon ended up being its owner. Over a hundred days, the beads sucked their owner dry of Yang energy, after which they used illusory arts to change owners. In this way, it devoured more and more souls, ultimately gaining a fiend body. At that moment, it called itself the Dark Night Ancestor, dabbling in evil and darkness.
One could say that the prayer beads were both the Dark Night Ancestor’s main body and its life. When it threw them out, it was essentially using all its power, which was why it could draw energy from the world and manifest that Buddha.
Alas, its opponent ended up having sharp eyes and a wide range of knowledge, and its strongest attribute ended up becoming its lethal weakness.
Regardless, it had lost, and with its death, the prayer beads had ended up with Tang Jie.
With the Dark Night Ancestor dead, the prayer beads naturally weren’t as powerful as before, but they had been steeped in the Dark Night Ancestor’s influence for so many years that they had ceased to be an ordinary art relic long ago. Critically, the Dark Night Ancestor had entered the Dao, and these black prayer beads had also been affected, etched with the Dao Runes, so they could be considered a Dao armament.
Alas, the evil energy was too thick, and would inevitably affect the user. They would need to be refined before he could use them. Moreover, it didn’t really match Tang Jie’s fighting style, so once he refined them, Tang Jie planned to leave them with the sect.
The second item was the wooden doll that the Dark Night Ancestor had taken. It was lush and verdant, somewhat like Yiyi, but as a pure Wood Elemental, it couldn’t be considered a real lifeform like Yiyi. While the Dark Night Ancestor had already become its master, using the prayer beads, Tang Jie managed to easily switch owners.
With this, he had gathered all of the Five Elementals.
Having Five Element Essences and having Five Elementals might sound very similar, but the difference was huge. The former was simply a valuable resource while the latter was a sublime manifestation of this resource.
It was like comparing metal to a metal bowl– no, metal to a robot!
When the essences were formed into lifeforms, they not only possessed powerful abilities, they were also an endless resource.
Of the Twelve Great Daos, Yin Yang governed polar opposites while the Five Elements governed all fundamental matter.
To have all of the Five Elementals meant that they could convert the Five Elements into all sorts of resources, for the Five Elements made up all things.
To put it simply, if Tang Jie wanted, he could use the Five Elementals to create something as rare as the Nine Heavens Luan Grass from nothing.
Scary, right?
It was no wonder the Dark Night Ancestor had spent more than ten thousand years nurturing them.
But even the Five Elementals weren’t perfect. Creating something as rare as the Nine Heavens Luan Grass would consume a great deal of essence. Moreover, the Five Elements didn’t govern time, so the Nine Heavens Luan Grass would be created at year zero, which wasn’t particularly valuable. What was gained would be less than what was lost.
The real use of the Five Elementals wasn’t to create cultivation resources, but to lay down formations.
Tang Jie could have the Five Elementals substitute for any materials he might need, so long as it was within the Five Elements. This was extremely convenient, allowing him to lay down formations many times faster.
Tang Jie excitedly laughed, “I just happen to have one more opponent to test out the power of the Five Elementals.”
He arrived at the North Sea. It turned out that he had made his way back after killing the Dark Night Ancestor.
When he arrived, he was greeted by a force of sea fiend soldiers. Before their leader could say anything, Tang Jie flew over and right through them, upon which each of the sea fiends exploded.
Tang Jie kept going, moving as swiftly as lightning.
Having just experienced a major battle, the North Sea was a tense location, with all the fiends on guard. Many great fiends had already sensed his approach and had been observing his actions from the shadows. But only when he killed the sea fiends did they finally jump out.
A sea ray Fiend Emperor rose up from the ocean in a spray of froth, shouting at Tang Jie, “Where did you…”
Before it could finish, there was a thrum, air vibrating as Tang Jie moved through it at high speed. Tang Jie preceded this sound, arriving next to the Fiend Emperor and chopping off its head with a light wave.
It hadn’t reached Void Returning, so it couldn’t regrow the head, but a white light emerged from its neck as its Divine Soul attempted to project itself and escape.
Tang Jie reached out and sucked that soul into his hand, throwing it into his mouth, the fiend screaming as his teeth crunched down. “Truly delicious!” he said with a giggle.
The fiend’s corpse fell into the ocean.
He continued forward like an arrow, nothing able to delay him in the slightest. Instead, anyone who got in his way ended up being killed on the spot and devoured.
Boom!
The waves rose up as a giant hand swatted toward Tang Jie, exuding power far greater than that of an ordinary fiend.
A Fiend God had finally intervened.
For the first time, Tang Jie stopped, unleashing a punch at the giant hand.
The peerless power of this punch instantly blasted a giant hole in the hand, a storm spreading out from the hole and shredding it apart.
But then waves rose up on all sides, four giant hands converging on Tang Jie.
Tang Jie laughed. “Attacking together? Even better!”
He plunged into the ocean.
The four Fiend Gods had their giant hands give chase, and at the same time, the surface of the sea became as tough as steel. But Tang Jie simply bashed his way through the surface and then used a water movement spell to instantly travel a hundred kilometers out. He then shouted, “Old dragon of the North Sea, come out and fight me!”
He was directly challenging the Ice Dragon Emperor.
The Ice Dragon Emperor’s old injuries had flared up, so there was no better time to challenge it.
“Hmph!” a voice angrily snorted. “Where did this human come from, that he is so arrogant? Not even out of Soul Projection, and you dare to challenge this emperor.”
“But this Soul Projection junior killed the Dark Night Ancestor, broke through your four Fiend Gods, and has come to your dragon palace,” Tang Jie laughed. “So? Do you dare fight me?”
The Ice Dragon Emperor didn’t reply.
It was currently focusing all of its power on suppressing the Eternal Flame and had no time for Tang Jie. Although it didn’t know where Tang Jie had come from, the power he had displayed showed that he was not someone to be trifled with.
It didn’t want to fight, but Tang Jie insisted.
“If you’re not coming out, I’ll have to make you come out.
“Go!”
Scarlet, yellow, black, green, and white—the Five Elementals shot out, floating in the air and turning from human back into their elemental forms. These five merged in the air and instantly began to go through numerous transformations.
At the same time, Tang Jie began to wave his finger through the air, conducting the products of these transformations to the places he wanted to go, creating a formation.
Meanwhile, the four Fiend Gods arrived on the scene, a hundred kilometers meaning nothing to beings of their cultivation.
Tang Jie didn’t care, casting out more resources and then throwing out the Eight Gates Banners. “Sea Reversing Immortal Formation, rise!”
The formation erupted with light, everything finally becoming fixed as it descended toward the ocean.
The moment it landed, the waves rose up, but this time, they attacked the Fiend Gods…
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