The giant hand reached toward Tang Jie, exuding a majestic and omnipotent aura, as if all the world was within its palm.
It was just one hand, but Tang Jie knew that he was in deep trouble.
…Because this hand came from a Boundless Gold Immortal.
Even a True Immortal couldn’t stop the blow of a Gold Immortal.
To kill Tang Jie, his enemies had even mobilized a Gold Immortal.
This hand had been waiting for hundreds of years now.
As that hand descended, Tang Jie understood that he was facing the greatest danger in his cultivation career.
Tang Jie roared and charged out of the palace. The moment he was out, he grew into a thousand-foot-tall giant, which erupted with countless rays of light that weaved themselves into the majestic Infinite Palace.
Tang Jie was using the powers of his physical body and his defensive Dao Art at the same time.
The Myriad Yin Yang Furnace radiated the light of divine treasures while the Sovereign Blade blazed with flames. At the same time, four arms grew from his back, each fist throwing out a strike from the Combat Emperor Catalog.
These weren’t even the strongest moves Tang Jie could make. That was the Mountain River State Diagram.
The diagram rose into the air, opening up a window of light behind Tang Jie’s head.
Countless arms emerged from this light.
The Azure Dragon, the Vermillion Bird, the Flame Celestial Sovereign, the Lithos Dragon, the Mother Cloud Metal combat puppet, and the countless creatures living within the Yellow Court World yelled in unison, gathering all of their power and unleashing it at the hand in the sky.
At this moment, all of Tang Jie’s strength and all of the Yellow Court World’s strength was being mustered up against that hand in the sky.
All of this energy gathered into a single point and then surged up toward the descending palm.
It was like two beams of light colliding in the air, and their impact resulting in a massive explosion of energy.
Tang Jie’s enormous body was sent flying, while in the Yellow Court World, the Azure Dragon and the others were instantly blown to bits, this single strike destroying one of their lives. Cries of misery arose from the Yellow Court World as that enormous torrent of energy surged in through the passages, wreaking calamity across the land.
In the primary world, this explosion of energy also unleashed a storm of destruction. Fortunately, Huang Wuji was able to respond in time to protect his sect and disciples, but the surrounding mountains were instantly obliterated, causing him to yell in alarm, “Get back!”
The energy shockwaves rumbled through the world for a long while before finally stopping.
When the embers faded, Tang Jie’s giant body was still standing.
He had blocked it?
Huang Wuji couldn’t believe his eyes.
Tang Jie had actually blocked the strike of a Boundless Gold Immortal!
But anyone who thought it was all over after one strike would be fatally mistaken.
That golden hand in the sky was still there, and it was readying another strike.
The cultivators all felt their hearts shudder from fear, and all of them secretly cursed this Boundless Gold Immortal for being so shameless, attacking again after their first attack had failed. Did they have no regard for their own dignity as the superior one?
Through the world passage, the Azure Dragon and the others also felt fear, but they didn’t have any right to choose.
The hand descended once more, and Tang Jie clenched his teeth, unleashing a salvo of punches and swinging the flame-wreathed Sovereign Blade. But the normally ever-powerful Sovereign Blade was seemingly ineffective now.
The golden hand exuded a faint glow, and when the Sovereign Blade cut into it, it seemed to be cutting into an ocean.
To be honest, the entire hand felt like an ocean to Tang Jie: heavy, majestic, and deep, draining him of the will to resist.
Gold Immortal!
This was the power of a Boundless Gold Immortal! Just one hand was enough to inspire terror and despair!
Tang Jie had once believed that he was on par with a True Immortal and would be able to fight back against a Gold Immortal. Only now did he understand how absurdly wrong he was. While he had exchanged blows with Immortal Ji Yao before, that had only been the finger of a Gold Immortal, and it had been bereft of Immortal Ji Yao’s guidance. When a Gold Immortal was able to truly use their strength, it was far above anything the current him could reach.
In the path of Immortality, the farther one went, the greater the gap was, and this was no empty statement.
Tang Jie knew that he was a frog in the well, but even so, he was fearless before the might of this Gold Immortal.
Even if it was an ocean, he would cut a path through!
The Sovereign Blade’s crimson flame grew even stronger, one phantom sword after another erupting from its blade. A mountain of swords plunged into the palm as if they had struck the bottom of the sea, causing ripples to cascade through the aura of golden light.
At the same time, the Azure Dragon and the others joined their powers once more, the strength of five Earth Immortals blasting out. In another massive shockwave, the attack was blocked once more.
“Hmph!” An angry snort rumbled like thunder.
The Gold Immortal was clearly enraged. Two attacks failing to strike true had left them feeling utterly humiliated.
The hand clawed at the air, and a moment later, the entire region began to distort.
To everyone’s shock, this region of space they were in had been altered.
This alteration was on the level of the Great Dao, meaning that this region’s Dao had been altered.
Tang Jie could tell that after this clawing, his control of the Great Daos had fallen to an extremely weak level, as if this region was rejecting the Great Daos, rejecting his power.
Tang Jie was flabbergasted.
Was this a Dao-Controlling expert? Able to adjust the laws of the world with a thought!
The flames on the Sovereign Blade began to fade, and the mountain of swords disappeared, as the power of the Great Daos waned. Tang Jie now found it difficult to use his various Dao Arts, the greatest trump cards in his battle against those above his level. All he could rely on was his own power!
The golden hand came down for the third time.
In its majesty was the conviction to kill.
Everyone despaired. To block the first two palms, both Tang Jie and the existences in the Mountain River State Diagram had used everything they had, but the gap between the two was just too great.
The Yellow Court World was in a state of devastation, having just experienced a massive calamity. The weaker Wuxing had already been slain by the first two strikes. But against this lethal threat, all the creatures of the Yellow Court World heedlessly charged into the fray, for this was Tang Jie’s will, the decree of the Domain Lord.
All the domain obeyed the Domain Lord, no matter what trial or tribulation they had to face!
Boom!
In the primary world, the Mountain River State Diagram erupted with a dazzling light, and a large door seemed to open, a torrent of energy rushing out through this door to meet the golden hand.
The golden hand slammed into it, and in the ensuing shockwave, countless creatures were obliterated, and bitter and painful shrieking rang out. Points of starlight that represented life shattered, and the Yellow Court World was turned into a wasteland. A sinister wind began to howl as the Nether Domain sensed this mass loss of life. The gates to the Nether Domain opened, manifesting in physical form so as to welcome all these souls. This was a phenomenon that would occur at any major disaster, the Nether Domain forcefully manifesting to bring in all the new souls.
Seeing this, Tang Jie angrily roared, “Scram!”
These creatures bore Tang Jie’s brand, and each one was a part of his wealth. Tang Jie would not permit them to fall into the Nether Domain, at least not in this fashion!
Even in this moment of peril, Tang Jie still had two of the arms on his back punch at the Nether Domain gates.
The wild power stopped up the gates, causing all of those souls to bounce back into the Yellow Court World.
At the same time, the golden hand finally broke through the torrent of energy and descended toward Tang Jie.
It was on the verge of touching Tang Jie, and Tang Jie wasn’t sure if he could endure the power within that strike.
Xu Miaoran suddenly let out a cry and appeared before Tang Jie, the crown on her head glowing with a golden light.
“Miaoran, don’t!” Tang Jie shouted in alarm.
The Gold Immortal was just too powerful, and the powers of the Great Dao had been weakened to the utmost, so even the crown would be of no use. No matter what, Tang Jie could not permit his wife to die for him, so just before the palm was about to strike Xu Miaoran, Tang Jie roared.
Raaaa!
The sound wave caused the palm to freeze for a moment, during which Tang Jie’s body flashed, a figure shooting out from his body, grabbing Xu Miaoran, and then vanishing, moving at a blinding speed.
In that moment, Tang Jie had unleashed all the Dao power he could get his hands on and used four Dao Arts. First was Split-Second Youth, to accelerate his own time. Second was Law Speaking, to slow down the hand. Third was Reflections of Floating Life, to separate the original body and avatar, the original body weakening the spatial restrictions and the avatar using Nearby Horizon. All this was just barely enough to save Xu Miaoran.
A moment later, the palm passed through their afterimages and struck Tang Jie.
There was a terrible howl, and time seemed to stop.
That giant figure stood motionless, and then it tumbled over.
Even the seemingly unkillable original body was puny and fragile before that hand. With one palm strike, all of the vitality in Tang Jie’s original body was annihilated, and even the Immortal Essence that could bring him back to life was scattered such that there wasn’t even enough to bring him back to life once.
A terrifying strike, a vicious strike, an invincible strike!
After this strike, that golden hand finally reached its limit, and with a soft sigh of helplessness, it faded away.
Tang Jie’s avatar flew over to the original body in an attempt to save it. But at this moment, another giant hand emerged from the still-open gates of the Nether Domain and grabbed Tang Jie’s original body. “You dare to stop the soul reception of my Nether Domain? Let this be your atonement.”
The hand pulled Tang Jie’s corpse through the gates of the Nether Domain, upon which they disappeared.
Little Three let out a shriek and then charged in the direction of the vanished gates, disappearing as well.
