Aspiring to the Immortal Path

The first move couldn’t be an attack, the second move couldn’t be defensive, and the third move could be neither.

He had to kill the Void Whale in three moves under these conditions. Never in his life had he heard of more absurd conditions.

Of course, he could refuse. In the end, Yu Cheng didn’t have the right to order him around.

But he didn’t want to.

This wasn’t a struggle for possession, but a test of advancement.

It wasn’t in Tang Jie’s nature to give up on a chance to grow stronger. This was a nature that Immortal Emperor Yu Cheng had planted in him, and it was also the deep understanding carried by the other soul residing in him that had come from another world. They had merged together into a complicated obsession, a twisted fixation, an abnormal insistence, and it was what had created the current Tang Jie.

Tang Jie had never tried to change this, nor did he want to.

He wanted to face all challenges that could make him grow stronger!

Thus, after hearing Yu Cheng’s requirements, Tang Jie immediately said, “Okay!”

The Void Whale was still attacking, but it simply couldn’t break through that celestial door. Its limited intelligence meant that it couldn’t see the enormous threat behind the door. Only that alluring energy made it unwilling to give up and keep attacking.

After taking control of the body, Tang Jie didn’t immediately act, instead studying the structure of the celestial door. Only by personally experiencing it himself could he comprehend its majestic essence. And once he took action, the door would shatter, and it would truly be his turn to attack.

Yu Cheng patiently waited.

After a while, Tang Jie said, “I get it now.”

The method Yu Cheng had used was one that he knew. It was just that he had never thought of using it before. Regardless, since he could use it, it meant it was easy to understand, so digesting all this knowledge wouldn’t be difficult.

The real difficulty was in innovating on the old and dealing with the Void Whale in three moves under the conditions Yu Cheng had set.

After some thought, Tang Jie developed a plan.

He wasn’t sure if this plan would succeed, but this was like a test, not a life-or-death battle. Tang Jie had no burden and simply had to try his best. With his plan set, he gazed at the Void Whale with a resolved and chilling gaze.

He called out, “My first move, with the aspiration of seizing the Dao of the Heavens, Fake Sky/False Sun Seizure!”

He flew toward the Void Whale, and as he did, the celestial door, unable to follow and with no one to maintain it, disappeared.

The Void Whale’s feelers rushed at Tang Jie.

Tang Jie moved among the feelers as agilely as a fish in water, dodging here and there and weaving through the feelers, at the same time, thrusting out his palms again and again.

The first move couldn’t be an attack.

Tang Jie’s palms weren’t aimed at any part of the Void Whale. His energy turned into claws that seized the mountains, rivers, and forests atop the Void Whale’s back.

If the Void Whale’s back was a continent, then Tang Jie was an eagle flying over the continent. Though there were “cannons” firing at him from the ground, the hawk nimbly evaded them all as it constantly dove down, snatching up the existences on the ground and crushing them before flying back up.

Thus, strange contrails began to appear over the “Void Whale Continent”.

Tang Jie flew across almost the entirety of this continent. To be honest, it was hard to call this “one move”, because in this process, Tang Jie took action tens of thousands of times and covered just as many kilometers. But from a cultivator’s perspective, he had only used one move, because Tang Jie’s mission in this move had been the same throughout: evading and arranging.

He pushed his movement art to the limit as he flew about the Void Whale, even merging into it the Daos of Time, Space, Wisdom, and Truth.

After avoiding another sweep from the Void Whale’s feelers, he flew up high and said with a laugh, “The second move! Dragons without a leader throw the world into chaos, a hundred thousand Immortals battling across the heavens. Blood rains across the heavens and earth; the Martial Lord shatters the Immortal Palace with his axe!”

As Yu Cheng raised an eyebrow, Tang Jie made numerous complicated hand signs, forming an extremely complicated image.

As this image was completed, an immense mass of energy appeared, which formed into a black hole aimed at the Void Whale.

This was not any known spell art, but one that Tang Jie had created on the spot for the current situation using all that he had learned. As a True Immortal, he was already capable of creating arts from nothing, and at Gold Immortal, even Divine Connections were possible. As Tang Jie grew more and more familiar with his newfound power, he was able to use it more proficiently, and finally, he had used his profound cultivation to create his own Divine Connection: World-Destroying Black Hole.

The World-Destroying Black Hole had a spell art as its foundation and also contained the Daos of Yin Yang, Five Elements, Slaughter, and Destruction, seeking absolute strength. Aimed at the Void Whale, it sought absolute destruction, the obliteration of a world.

His second move could not be defensive.

Since he couldn’t defend, he would concentrate all his power into offense so that his enemy couldn’t attack him.

The World-Destroying Black Hole collided with the Void Whale’s body, and its mountain-sized feelers began to crumble away. That world-destroying power continued onward, slamming into the ground. The surface was blasted open, and the power continued downward, penetrating through the Void Whale’s thick crust and reaching its skin. That berserk energy tore open that skin that was tens of thousands times tougher than steel, reaching the insides of the Void Whale, where it began to bounce around like a giant fireball.

“Awooo!” The Void Whale let out a piercing howl of pain.

The World-Destroying Black Hole didn’t have the same terrifying penetrative power as the Immortal Shows the Path, but this was a move Tang Jie had developed specifically to target the Void Whale’s immense vitality, so it was a hundred times more threatening.

This black hole ran rampant within the Void Whale’s body, vaporizing everything it came into contact with.

Of course, the World-Destroying Black Hole’s power weakened with each part it disintegrated.

After seven or eight minutes, the World-Destroying Black Hole finally reached its end, disappearing from sight and leaving a massive cavity in the Void Whale.

Even then, the Void Whale was still alive.

It swam through the void, and if it had eyes, they would have been full of loathing for Tang Jie.

Tang Jie didn’t find its survival strange.

The Void Whale was just too big. Its body the size of a small world contained an unimaginable amount of life force. The World-Destroying Black Hole had inflicted devastating damage, but in the end, it failed to live up to its name. This was because he had only recently learned how to combine Daos and arts.

But this was fine, because it had already done as he had anticipated.

A moment later, just when the Void Whale was about to start its counterattack, Tang Jie snapped his fingers.

Boom!

It was like a clap of thunder, transcending the vacuum of space to resound through the cosmos.

Countless rainbows began to arc through space.

And in the middle of these resplendent rainbows was the giant Void Whale.

It was surrounded by the rainbows like a fish in a net, with no place to hide.

Yes, it was a formation!

Of course it was a formation!

It could only be a formation!

If he was limited to only three moves, and with the limits placed on those three moves, what else could he use besides a formation?

The materials he lacked could be taken from the back of the Void Whale, and any power he lacked could be made up for with Dao power.

This was the role played by Wisdom and Truth. It appeared that they couldn’t be used in battle, but when used properly, they served as an even more lethal combination than Slaughter and Destruction.

Tang Jie was laying down the formation in his first move, and his second move was a powerful attack. It would have been best if that move could have killed the Void Whale, but if it didn’t, it would at least grind away at its life force, creating optimal conditions for the formation.

The rainbows now surged into the wound created by the World-Destroying Black Hole. No longer needing to deal with external defenses, the rainbows could maximize their power. These rainbows had a powerful corrosive effect, causing the Void Whale’s body to fall apart wherever they went.

It howled and moaned, but there was no escaping the omnipresent rainbow light with its immense body.

It finally grew afraid and turned to flee.

It wanted to escape before it was killed by the rainbows.

But how could Tang Jie let it run?

He still had his third move.

All he had done just now was to activate the formation laid out in his first move. In no way did that count as his third move.

The third move could be neither offensive nor defensive.

Gazing at the retreating Void Whale, Tang Jie muttered, “Returning after ten thousand years of slumber, a clap of thunder awakens the heroes of the world!”

As he pushed out his hands, countless threads emerged from his palms.

These threads wove an enormous spiderweb in space. The Void Whale charged straight into it, but its struggles to get out served to only tighten its hold rather help it escape. All it could do was helplessly howl as the rainbows ate away at it, unleashing its hatred and sorrow at its imminent death.

Perhaps it only now understood that delicious food had its own dangerous downsides.

“Excellent use of Life, Reincarnation, Karma, and Fate. You were able to manifest the Web of Fate and use it as a real net to snare your foe. Tang Jie, your comprehension and creativity are truly astounding,” Yu Cheng remarked.

Tang Jie indifferently replied, “That’s because this guy is too stupid. A smarter opponent wouldn’t fall into this kind of trap, or even give me the chance to set it up in the first place. Only this sort of dumb creature would let me lay down a formation as I pleased.”

“Eh, if not for that, I wouldn’t have set the limit of three moves. Regardless, you killed the Void Whale in three moves. From now on, you can move around as you please within the Great Stellar Chiliocosm.”

“I thought I could do that ages ago.”

“Haha,” Yu Cheng chuckled. “The world is vast and full of experts, far more than you can imagine. My little frog in a well, do you really think you can traverse the world as you please?”

“And you? Can you traverse as you please?”

To his surprise, Yu Cheng fell silent.

After a while, he sighed and said, “There are a few problems. Unless I remove them, I will never be able to rest easy!”

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