Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

A mammoth several hundred feet in height charged at the walls with an unstoppable momentum. Suddenly, it raised its long trunk, making it rise up over the walls like an enormous python. Coiling around Tang Jie, it pulled him off the walls.

"Sir!" Zhao Qing shouted.

The Colossus King's smug voice rang out over the fortress: "Eat this!"

The giant trunk threw Tang Jie at the ground.

With a massive boom, a giant crater was blasted open at the base of the walls of Dongjin.

After completing this strike, the Colossus King looked down below. Seeing Tang Jie lying motionless in the crater, it couldn't help but mutter, "Already dead? Doesn't seem that impressive to me."

He had barely finished speaking when Tang Jie suddenly opened his eyes. "In return, you can eat this!"

He grabbed the Colossus King by the trunk and swung it into the air.

Shockingly, Tang Jie really did manage to fling the Colossus King's massive body skyward.

It was like a mountain ascending into the sky, blotting out the sun.

In repayment for its attack, the mammoth smashed into the ground in the same manner as Tang Jie had.

Boom!

A fierce tremor rippled through the earth while a giant plume of dust billowed upward. A massive crater of several hundred feet in diameter had appeared.

Within this crater were the groaning Colossus King and several dozen fiends who had been crushed to death—Tang Jie had made sure to throw in the direction of the fiends.

And this was only the beginning.

After smashing down the Colossus King by its trunk, Tang Jie grabbed its trunk and flung it skyward.

The fiends flying around had not expected this calamity, and as that giant elephantid rocketed upward, all of the fiends in its path were bashed aside, which shattered their bones and caused them to throw up blood, with some of the weaker ones dying on the spot.

The enormous body reached its apex and then started its journey downward, plummeting down toward an area where fiends were more concentrated, causing them to scatter in panic.

The lucky ones managed to survive this round, but before they could come to their senses, that mammoth went up again, causing them to pale in fear. "Again?"

The Colossus King was like a flyswatter in Tang Jie's hand, and the countless fiends flying in the sky were the flies. Tang Jie constantly waved the flyswatter to shoo away the fiends, instantly throwing the battlefield into chaos. The Colossus King desperately struggled, but it couldn't break free from Tang Jie's grip. Instead, its struggles only managed to kill off fiends that originally would have been able to escape.

In the distance, the Venomheart King and Heaven Swallowing King paled. "This is bad!"

The Heaven Swallowing King jumped up and opened his mouth in Tang Jie's direction, and a black flood rushed out at Tang Jie, countless souls bobbing within the waters. This was the Heaven Swallowing King's Hell Belly Corpse Flood, created after he consumed the flesh of countless humans and stored a sliver of their souls within his belly, refusing to let them enter the cycle of reincarnation and styling himself the ruler of hell. As for the black fluid, that was his stomach acid, and it was extremely corrosive. While this Hell Belly Corpse Flood didn't have the most elegant of names, it was extremely powerful, and the slightest contact with it would cause one's body to start rotting away.

The Venomheart King also took action, shooting behind Tang Jie like a bolt of lightning and clawing at his back. This claw that flashed with lightning was a move that he was most proud of, the Lightning Slayer Claw.

Two fiend kings had joined together and used their strongest moves, and even the old general on the walls paled. Just when he was about to call for reinforcements, Tang Jie laughed and swung the Colossus King at the Heaven Swallowing King. This also meant that most of the Hell Belly Corpse Flood ended up striking the Colossus King.

"Awooo!" The Colossus King howled in unbearable pain. Even its thick hide was no match for the corrosive stomach acids of the Heaven Swallowing King. Its enormous body began to dissolve, and countless resentful spirits within the acid began to gnaw away at it. But in return, the Colossus King slammed into the Heaven Swallower King's gut, causing that golden toad to throw up blood.

Meanwhile, the Venomheart King's Lightning Slayer Claw struck Tang Jie's back. This move was much like Zhu Yun's Jade Shattering Finger, and even Tang Jie's formidable physical defense was incapable of stopping it. It plunged through the muscles on Tang Jie's back, aiming straight for his heart. But at that moment, Tang Jie suddenly called out, "Stop!"

The Venomheart King felt a boom at his ears, and he was momentarily dizzied. His attack slightly slowed, allowing Tang Jie to rush forward and break free before the claw pierced his heart. Although his constitution was such that even having his heart pierced wouldn't kill him, this was bound to affect his performance in battle. After all, he was facing three fiend kings.

But the Venomheart King's interference gave the Colossus King a chance, and by exerting all of its strength, it was finally able to free its trunk from Tang Jie's grip.

"Bastard!" The Colossus King angrily roared. Never before had it suffered such humiliation as losing to Tang Jie in a contest of strength despite calling itself the Colossus, and this wasn't even considering that Tang Jie had used it as a shield, even causing much of its body to be eaten away by the Heaven Swallowing King's Hell Belly Corpse Flood. Fortunately, it had a powerful vitality, and the Heaven Swallowing King had also sucked back much of its acid upon realizing that it was attacking the wrong target. The injuries were already starting to heal. But still, it was badly wounded from the clash.

The three fiend kings angrily glared at Tang Jie, the Venomheart King sinisterly saying, "He really does seem capable of killing the Violet Flame King."

Tang Jie smirked. "Are you trying to find an excuse?"

The three fiend kings blushed. But they all had thick skins, and the Venomheart King chuckled. "How could the rules of humans be suitable for fiends? In the eyes of us fiends, the best adapted survive, and the strong eat the weak."

"That's true." Tang Jie nodded. He cracked his neck and loosened up his muscles. "So then, what are you waiting for? Let's get fighting already!"

He roared and began to sprint, his body rapidly growing larger in the process. As he turned into a giant of nearly one hundred meters in height, he swung a fist at the Colossus King.

The Colossus King had been rather frightened by its encounter with Tang Jie. Its greatest attribute was strength, but its fight against Tang Jie had been completely one-sided, traumatizing it. As Tang Jie rushed over like a tiger, it instinctively backed away.

But this presented a problem.

Even though the Colossus King had been suppressed by Tang Jie in terms of strength, it was still the only one who could go head-to-head against Tang Jie in terms of resilience. The other two fiend kings would have been smashed to death after such brutal treatment. Only the Colossus King could get back up as if nothing had happened.

In backing away, it exposed the Heaven Swallowing King.

This guy didn't have as tough a body as the Colossus King, and probably only a few punches from Tang Jie would be enough to leave it hanging on to life by a thread. It jumped in fright and unleashed the Hell Belly Corpse Flood again. Tang Jie laughed and threw out a jade bottle, which began to suck in the flood. Tang Jie then grabbed the bottle and threw it far into the distance, out of sight. A moment later, there was a boom, and a giant flame appeared in the distance.

"My Hell Belly Corpse Flood!" the Heaven Swallowing King lamented. A single middle-grade art relic had destroyed all the acid he had gone to such great pains to refine.

It didn't know that Tang Jie had the power of Insight, so after seeing the corpse flood once, Tang Jie had gotten extremely lucky and seen how it worked. Thus, he had quickly found a countermeasure, which was the jade bottle. With its self-detonation, he had destroyed the corpse flood, handling the Heaven Swallowing King's strongest move at the lowest price possible.

This loss was so great that the Heaven Swallowing King could no longer control itself. Opening its mouth, it shot out its long, black tongue at Tang Jie like a bolt of lightning.

A toad's tongue was the most powerful part of their body, and after the Moonswallower Golden Toad became a great fiend, it became its most powerful weapon. Like a spear, it stabbed at Tang Jie, but Tang Jie laughed and let it strike him. At that moment, the Heaven Swallowing King suddenly remembered what had happened just before and silently cursed.

But it was already too late. The tongue stabbed into Tang Jie's palm, and Tang Jie grabbed the tongue like he felt nothing and snarled, "Let me see you run now!"

The Heaven Swallowing King felt its heart freeze. "No!"

Tang Jie pulled and swung the toad into the air, striking a fiend in the air, and then he pulled the toad back to the earth. It was just like with the Colossus King, except that he was holding a tongue rather than a trunk.

The Heaven Swallowing King desperately wailed, but it was much weaker than the Colossus King. If that mammoth hadn't been able to escape, how could a toad? Tang Jie began to fling it around by its tongue.

While the Colossus King had been a flyswatter, the Heaven Swallowing King wasn't big enough to catch that many flies. But its tongue was quite long, so Tang Jie ended up playing with it like a yo-yo, constantly adjusting its length. Sometimes, it was so close that Tang Jie could catch it with a sneeze, and sometimes, it was so far that it was like a chained ball, whizzing around and dazzling all the fiends.

"Save me!" the Heaven Swallowing King cried out in a muffled voice.

The Colossus King roared and charged in.

But it wasn't that easy to save the toad. The Colossus King had been so heavy that it had affected Tang Jie's reaction speed, but this was not so for the toad, which was like a toy in his hands.

As the mammoth charged in, Tang Jie grinned. "So you're coming again!"

He charged at the mammoth.

The people on the walls saw a giant and a mammoth sprinting at each other, and in a flash, they impacted in a heaven-shaking shockwave.

A massive cloud of dust billowed into the air, and then there was a furious roar, followed by the body of the Colossus King tumbling away.

In this clash of pure strength, Tang Jie had overwhelmingly crushed this fiend king.

"Yeaaa!" All the people on the walls excitedly cheered.

For the first time, a human cultivator was going one versus three and had three fiend kings running for the hills.

Wait! Where is the Venomheart King?

Startled, everyone realized that the Venomheart King had not done anything after that initial strike.

Suddenly, an enormous figure jumped out of the dust cloud—Tang Jie.

And then an even more enormous figure than a mammoth appeared in the dust. Letting out an intimidating bellow, it stomped a foot at Tang Jie.

Skyshakers!

All three Skyshakers appeared, stomping at Tang Jie with indomitable power, and sitting atop the leading Skyshaker was none other than the Venomheart King.

This cunning bastard wasn't satisfied with three versus one, even bringing the Skyshakers onto the battlefield.