“Are you telling the truth?” Whitebrow Shao shouted.
Tang Jie replied, “I personally saw him escape. The news of this devil’s death wasn’t false. It was just that some of his Primal Divinity remained, somehow surviving despite being sealed within the Unbounded Palace for ten thousand years.”
Whitebrow Shao said in shock, “In other words, only his Primal Divinity is a Gold Immortal, while the rest isn’t?”
“Correct. This is why he doesn’t eat Immortal Platform cultivators, because Earth Immortals are too hard to digest. Once he devours one, he needs a while to completely absorb them. This is why I was able to escape last time. But here, if he were to absorb an Earth Immortal, you would definitely notice something wrong. That’s why he started with Violet Palace cultivators. Once he’s absorbed all the Violet Palace cultivators, he will be strong enough to eat Earth Immortals. You had fallen for his scheme and were only thinking about escaping, unable to distinguish the truth, and by the time you realize something’s amiss, it would already be too late.”
“Shut your mouth!” the Primordial Heavenly Demon roared in anger.
But no matter how he shouted, Tang Jie’s voice continued to ring out, reaching the ears of all the cultivators present.
Tang Jie even sneered, “He can’t even find me or cut off my voice, so you can tell that this Lord Heavenly Demon is actually quite weak. With that little bit of Gold Immortal Primal Divinity, he’s invincible against Violet Palace experts, and terrifying to Earth Immortals, but against four True Immortals, he has little advantage to speak of. So are you still going to run away?”
Whitebrow Shao and the others stopped and turned to glare hungrily at the Primordial Heavenly Demon.
Tang Jie was right. This Primordial Heavenly Demon was strange.
It was just that they had been intimidated by his aura and also habituated to the fact that demons often did things that didn’t make sense.
The Primordial Heavenly Demon knew that he was in trouble.
He chuckled. “Think you can deal with this old man? Hah! Keep dreaming! Go, my minions!”
The demon cultivators he controlled rushed forward while he used this chance to run.
This completely exposed him as putting up a false front, proving Tang Jie’s words.
The cultivators furiously pursued, but the demon cultivators held them back.
These cultivators-turned-demons were all at Violet Palace, far weaker than Whitebrow Shao and his peers. But they were former friends and comrades, and the cultivators found themselves reluctant to slay them.
Meanwhile, the Primordial Heavenly Demon roared, “Brat, I’ll remember you! If I find out who you are, I’ll turn you into a demon, make you my slave, and humiliate you every day!”
“This Hong Qianli will await the Heavenly Demon’s visit!” Tang Jie shamelessly pretended to be the Flame Celestial Sovereign.
“‘Hong Qianli’, is it? I’ll remember that!” the Primordial Heavenly Demon roared as he flew off.
“You stay right there!” Whitebrow Shao and the other True Immortals flew as swiftly as they could. In any case, they were all headed toward the exit anyway, though now the sides had been reversed.
As the combatants departed, two people emerged from the void: Tang Jie and Xu Miaoran.
As he appeared, the formation’s collapse greatly slowed.
It turned out that Tang Jie had been the one pushing its collapse.
The merging of the Immortal Emperor’s place of Dao Proving was a slow process, and while this process would cause tremors and collapse, it certainly wouldn’t be this intense. Tang Jie had used his knowledge of the formation to throw everything into chaos and disarray, allowing himself to hide. Otherwise, a Boundless Gold Immortal would have been powerful enough to sense him.
As he appeared, the chaos began to stabilize, but through Tang Jie’s manipulations, it intensified near the exit, forcing everyone to leave as quickly as they could so that Tang Jie could have his own chance to escape.
Glancing in the direction of the combatants, Tang Jie grumbled, “This demon is a crafty one. Those people are eventually going to lose a few people to his machinations.”
“Husband, why do you say that?” Xu Miaoran asked.
Tang Jie coldly chuckled. “While the Primordial Heavenly Demon hasn’t regained his Gold Immortal strength, a Gold Immortal Primal Divinity is scary enough. In a real fight, he could just kill a few and then make his escape, not like right now, where he’s running off without even a fight. He put on a show of strength before so that he could subdue his enemies without a fight. Now that I’ve exposed him, he’s pretending to be weak so he can suddenly strike back and kill a few.”
Xu Miaoran was stunned. It sounded like the Primordial Heavenly Demon had never done anything sincere from start to finish.
“It’s rather like you,” Xu Miaoran said after some thought.
Tang Jie immediately grew angry. “Have I ever been this lowly?”
Xu Miaoran rolled her eyes. “What do you think?”
Tang Jie seriously considered the question, and then he sighed. “Fine, I admit that I’ve sometimes been a little shameless. It’s because I was too weak at the time.”
“So what do we do now?” Xu Miaoran asked.
Tang Jie chuckled, his eyes flashing with murderous intent. “Do you need to ask? The four True Immortals and sixteen Earth Immortals have gone after the Primordial Heavenly Demon, leaving behind a group of Violet Palace experts who are fighting among themselves. Wouldn’t we be losing out big time if we didn’t use this opportunity? Come on—let’s kill those guys and take their treasures!”
He grabbed Xu Miaoran’s arm and flew forward.
Xu Miaoran couldn’t help but cover her mouth and giggle. “You’re strong now, but you’re still acting shameless.”
Tang Jie laughed and then acted like he didn’t hear anything, stuffing Xu Miaoran back into the diagram.
At his current speed, catching up to the fighting Violet Palace experts was as easy as could be.
Using Nearby Horizon, he could travel to wherever he could see, so he reached that battlefield in a flash.
The moment he appeared, he thrust a finger at a demonized cultivator.
This demon cultivator instantly felt danger engulfing him and threw up layers of defensive barriers. But Tang Jie’s finger blasted through them as if they weren’t there, shattering the barriers at first contact. The finger touched the demon cultivator’s forehead and unleashed an explosion of light. The last thing the demon cultivator saw was a blinding light that utterly devoured him.
In the eyes of others, Tang Jie had melted away that demon cultivator with one finger.
This nameless move seemed simple, but it actually integrated all that Tang Jie had cultivated over the years through the Black Yellow Treatise, exuding the aura of a grandmaster. This was why such an understated action was able to unleash such a destructive attack.
One could say that Tang Jie was beginning to go from spell arts with form to those without form.
Even Tang Jie was satisfied at his feat of killing a Violet Palace expert in one strike. He immediately turned and flew to another demon cultivator. He swatted his hand at him, but his hand at this moment was imbued with a mountain-crushing strength. The demon cultivator countered with a punch, palm striking fist. The demon cultivator’s fist froze for a moment, and then it came apart like it was made of sand, the collapse traveling up his arm all the way to his shoulder. It turned out that Tang Jie had put a trace of Time power into his palm, which made the demon cultivator lose his entire arm.
He easily killed this second demon cultivator. Emboldened, he laughed and moved on to the next.
He had only intended to kill the demon cultivators and not touch the human cultivators from the two sects, but his actions ended up infuriating the two sects anyway. These demon cultivators had been their fellow disciples, some of them having been friends for a thousand years, so even though they had turned into demons, they were still unwilling to attack them. So when Tang Jie began to slaughter them, how could they not be angry? As a result, they began to charge at Tang Jie.
Tang Jie might have been the person who most understood this emotion, but understanding didn’t mean support. He felt no kindness toward the two sects, as they were after him for the Immortal Emperor’s treasures, so since they weren’t willing to let him go now, Tang Jie also chose not to hold back. His face darkened as he barked, “Seeking death!”
“Brazen fool, you really think you alone can deal with the more than one hundred people here?” a cultivator roared as he fired off a bolt of purple energy. At the same time, the other cultivators, even the demon cultivators, began to use various treasures on Tang Jie. These people who had been fighting each other to the death had now joined hands, barraging Tang Jie with attacks.
Tang Jie couldn’t help but moan, “Am I really that hated?”
As he spoke, his body vanished.
Startled, the cultivators began to look around for him, wondering where he had gone.
There was a flash of light in the distance, and only then did they realize that Tang Jie had somehow moved extremely far away, and he had brought a cultivator with him that he was now in combat with.
Aghast, the rest of them hastened to catch up.
A golden saber energy rose from Tang Jie’s hands, and that Soul Projection cultivator he was fighting tried his best to block. But somehow, Tang Jie managed to chop him in half nevertheless. There was a massive explosion that obliterated the cultivator, killing him in body and soul. With another slap, even the remains disappeared, taken into the diagram. The cultivators he had killed before were demon cultivators, and their demonic energy would have contaminated his small world. But the one he had killed just now was a normal cultivator, so his remains could be used to nourish the world and recover some of what had been lost in the last one hundred years.
By the time this was done, the cultivators had caught up. Tang Jie simply laughed and did the same as before, grabbing a cultivator and leaving, then using the Sovereign Blade to kill them.
With his absurd speed, he was able to constantly create one-on-one situations and prey on the cultivators.
It had to be understood that this was in his unmerged state. Tang Jie had never before been so brazen and relaxed, casually and easily dealing with an enemy that outnumbered him by more than a hundred times.
This was all thanks to Nearby Horizon. Without it, he would have to rely on his strength to fight these cultivators. It had to be understood that there had originally been more than two hundred of them, and there were still 134 after the Primordial Heavenly Demon had massacred them.
Even an Earth Immortal wouldn’t be confident about their victory against them. Their combined power could devastate the lands and seas, and in a Rosecloud Domain where Yun Tianlan had not yet broken through, they could flatten the entire place.
But with Nearby Horizon, Tang Jie could avoid direct confrontations and always make it so that he was fighting isolated targets. With the Sovereign Blade to pierce through defenses and his Divine Connection to slay his foes, even a Soul Projection cultivator could block no more than ten of his blows. As for Deification cultivators, those would be slain in one blow.
With each person he killed, he would take their belongings. The demon cultivators he would leave, but the regular cultivators he would throw into the diagram.
Some of these Tang Jie had killed himself, and some of them had been slain by the Primordial Heavenly Demon and had had their remains carried away by their comrades. In any case, Tang Jie threw them all into the diagram. These people had such profound cultivations that even their Returned Remnants took some time to settle, which gave Tang Jie an opportunity.
Whether it was bodies or treasure, he wanted them all!
Back in the Mountain River State Diagram, He Chong and Xu Miaoran looked up and saw one body after another falling from the sky, all of them belonging to Violet Palace cultivators.
