Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Chapter 1111: Void Whale

"Bastard!"

Eternal Night's furious roar woke Tang Jie up from his melancholy.

He turned and saw the Soul-Sealing Death Prison slowly crumbling, Eternal Night's power beginning to seep into the Nether God palace—without Nirvana supporting it, the formation couldn't last long.

Tang Jie chuckled. Grabbing the Primal Soul and the fiend pellet, he rushed to the main hall of the palace, where he last saw the five Nether Emperors.

At the same time, the controlled Mei Huaping ran up with numerous Death God weapons. The moment they got close, Tang Jie punched and shattered the weapons, gaining numerous black grains, enough to create a shortsword when added to his existing stock.

At this moment, the black grains in his Sea of Cognition formed into a black shortsword on their own, which flew out of his Sea of Cognition and into reality.

Tang Jie was shocked, but before he could figure out what was going on, the black shortsword disappeared into the Sovereign Blade.

At that moment, the Sovereign Blade erupted with light and let out a brilliant chime.

Surprisingly, one could hear joy and gratitude in this chime.

Tang Jie froze, and then he called out in realization, "Sword spirit? The Sovereign Blade's sword spirit?"

He finally understood that the black grains were actually the sword spirit of the Sovereign Blade.

It turned out that this was the real way to generate the Sovereign Blade's weapon spirit.

In the past, Tang Jie had attempted to use the sword spirit of the Yin Yang Sword as the Sovereign Blade's sword spirit, but the two had not matched, so he had eventually been forced to pull it out and have it serve as the spirit for Xiao Biehan's Sky-Parting Sword.

It wasn't that the Sovereign Blade couldn't have a sword spirit, but that its sword spirit had an exotic origin, formed from the black grains of Death God weapons.

It made sense when he thought about it. The black grains were soul grains, obtained in the same way as he obtained the Sovereign Blade. What could they be for if not to create a sword spirit?

Tang Jie felt like he had been enlightened.

But he wasn't sure what it meant for the Sovereign Blade to have a sword spirit.

He didn't have time to find out, for Eternal Night had come in.

A hole had been torn in the formation, and he was reaching through to seize Tang Jie.

He wanted to take the Primal Soul!

"Give it to me!"

Tang Jie snorted, "It's not going anywhere!"

He activated his Heavenly Dao Realm.

The moment Eternal Night's hand entered the realm, half of it fell off, dissolving into a bit of Primal Soul that fell into Tang Jie's hand.

"Awooo!" Eternal Night let out the same howl of pain as Nirvana before him.

He didn't dare to believe that someone of his strength had lost a hand to Tang Jie in a single exchange.

Tang Jie withdrew his realm and continued charging, running into the hall together with Mei Huaping.

As Nirvana was dead, the hall was already deserted. The moment Tang Jie entered the hall, he disappeared.

Eternal Night bellowed as he regrew his right hand. Grabbing the edges of the opening, he tore it open, and the Soul-Sealing Death Prison shattered with a bang.

Eternal Night strode into the palace and headed toward the main hall, shouting, "I'll kill you! Human!!!"

Transforming into a gust of black wind, he rushed into the hall.

Even though Tang Jie had caused him to lose a little bit of his Primal Soul, Eternal Night was still confident that Tang Jie was no match for him.

Even though he didn't know about the hostility of the Heavenly Dao, Eternal Night had still identified that the weakness of that special realm was its range. So long as he attacked from outside this range, this human wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

Perhaps he could use that realm to ignore or absorb his attacks, but such a formidable realm could not possibly be permanent. At best, it was an invincible barrier that lasted only for a short time.

A Nether God's insight was truly penetrating.

But he never imagined what would happen next.

When Eternal Night charged in, he saw Tang Jie disappearing behind a giant set of bronze double doors. Atop these doors was a ghost head, the deceased King River Cross.

Eternal Night immediately gave chase.

He was greeted by a pitch-black stillness.

This is…?

Eternal Night was taken aback, but then he saw Tang Jie standing nearby. The fact that there was no light here was no impediment to a Nether God's eyes.

He gleefully made to grab him, but then he realized that this Tang Jie was looking at him in terror, seemingly trying to say something. Then his body began to charge, the human face falling away and the soft skin turning tough and dry, with a faint golden luster.

A golden-armored Corpse King?

Eternal Night was stunned. He hadn't been chasing Tang Jie, but a puppet under his control!

He inwardly cried out in dismay as alarm bells rang out in his head.

He was about to turn around and run when that endless blackness suddenly constricted, collapsing toward the center of the room and sucking in both him and the golden-armored Corpse King…

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The moment Eternal Night went through the door, Tang Jie immediately turned and ran.

This was the place where Nirvana had set up a trap for intruders, so there was no doubt that some immense danger was lurking within. Thus, the farther he was from it, the better.

He had even summoned the Myriad Yin Yang Furnace and Sovereign Blade to protect himself.

But even though he fell back a great distance, he saw no explosion or shockwave, as if nothing had happened at all.

This made Tang Jie disappointed.

Had he been wrong?

Had Nirvana not set up a trap? Or perhaps the trap needed him to actually be there to activate it, so it had lost effect now that he was dead?

Tang Jie didn't know.

All plots relied on sufficient information. If information was lacking, then it wasn't strange for things to not go as expected.

It now appeared that some unexpected circumstance had affected the sneak attack, which Tang Jie found to be a great pity.

He was already prepared to take out a talisman and summon his avatar for the third time.

But Immortal Emperor Yu Cheng was around this time, and the third descent would undoubtedly affect his avatar's struggle with Yu Cheng for control over the body. Tang Jie didn't want to do this unless it was absolutely necessary.

At this moment, the main hall suddenly flashed.

Tang Jie saw a black dot erupt outward, devouring everything it touched like a black hole.

The main hall had disappeared.

The surrounding halls also disappeared into the black hole. Whether it was ghosts, buildings, or anything else, all of it disappeared, the sight of which made Tang Jie's blood run cold.

"Devouring Darkness! He used Devouring Darkness! Nirvana, you really are a vicious sort, but I like it," Tang Jie muttered as he retreated even more.

Devouring Darkness was a famous demon art of the Primordial Fog Domain, and it created a region of absolute darkness that devoured all existences.

In the majority of circumstances, one would be directly dissolved into the eternal darkness of the Primordial Fog Domain. If one was sufficiently strong, one could resist the corrosion of the darkness, but as a price, one would fall into the Primordial Fog Domain.

Eternal Night probably wouldn't be killed by the Devouring Darkness, but he had probably already fallen into the Primordial Fog Domain.

Although the Primordial Fog Domain was allied with the Nether Domain, and he wouldn't be attacked on sight like a human would, there was still some level of infighting within the domain, so an outsider wouldn't fare much better.

Most importantly, without the vast armies of the Nether Domain, a Nether God could only rely on themself.

One could say that Eternal Night was finished.

Even if he didn't die, he would still pay a bitter price.

Saving his third talisman was also good news for Tang Jie.

"Nirvana, since you were so kind, it would be rude for me to decline." Tang Jie laughed as he watched the darkness spread, and then he began to attack the rest of the palace—this palace was made of Soulrest Wood, which made the building itself extremely valuable, and if conditions allowed, Tang Jie wanted it for himself.

The remaining ghosts bellowed in fury.

The Nether Emperors under the two Nether Gods began to charge into the fray.

Tang Jie slapped his forehead. "Ah, I forgot about all of these walking bags of money…"

With a wave of his hand, he unleashed a holy wave of light…

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Tang Jie's avatar was flying through the endless void.

With the original body providing him orientation, even though he was in darkness and could see nothing, he still moved forward without hesitation.

As he was flying, he felt a strange pulse of energy.

This pulse wasn't on his flight path, so Tang Jie intended to ignore it, but then he sensed it approaching him on its own will, presumably having sensed his energy.

At his level of cultivation, to breathe in and out was to create a storm, and to open and close one's eyes was to create a flash of lightning. Unless one suppressed it, the pulses of energy one emitted would be like a shining sun, visible to others for a great distance.

Tang Jie didn't know if he was being targeted, but he was unwilling to give up on his current flight path, so he continued on his course.

He flew for several more days, during which the pulse grew stronger and stronger, drawing closer and closer to Tang Jie.

Finally, as Tang Jie was flying, a dark silhouette appeared in the distance.

This silhouette was so immense that it seemed like a moving world.

"A Void Whale," Tang Jie muttered.

Void Whales actually shared no similarities with real whales. Its body was rather flat, it had 1,360 feet each on its left and right sides, and it had no eyes. It was called a whale primarily because it was the largest creature in the void. Adult Void Whales were the size of small worlds, and its back bore mountains, seas, forests, canyons, and all the life forms that could be found in such environments.

For the creatures there, the Void Whale was their world!

Void Whales lived by consuming the void's detritus. No matter what it encountered, it would all be swallowed up in a single bite. The stronger the existence, the more flavor it had, the more filling it was.

A Gold Immortal morsel might not be very large, but it was packed with far more energy than even ten mountains, a veritable feast.

Thus, when this guy saw Tang Jie, it immediately opened its large mouth and began to suck him up.