Aspiring to the Immortal Path

As Origin Defender reformed, he looked at Tang Jie in disbelief. "You managed to kill me once!?"

"Do you find it strange?" Tang Jie smirked.

"The audacity!" Origin Defender roared. "Autumn Canopy of Nine Dirges, go!"

He spread out his arms, and his body erupted in threads of yellow and black that swept toward Tang Jie. Even before they touched him, Tang Jie felt an immense danger from them.

This manifested as a kind of chill and sorrow that came from the depths of his soul and made his body tremble.

Tang Jie actually felt helpless before the Autumn Canopy of Nine Dirges.

He immediately bit his tongue and let out a thunderous roar.

This roar seemed to twist time and space, swaying the threads of yellow and black, breaking through the darkness and sweeping away that air of sorrow.

Tang Jie threw several punches at Origin Defender, the power of the Combat Emperor Catalog making each punch like a shooting star. Origin Defender knew that these punches were not to be trifled with and raised a barrier, but in the face of this terrifying attack, he knew that this wasn't enough.

Boom! The barrier shattered, and Tang Jie's fist slammed into his cheek and blew away half of his head. A moment later, Origin Defender recovered, but while his physical wounds were gone, his mind remained shaken.

"How could this be?" he cried out.

The first time could be written off as carelessness, but just now, he had used his strongest Divine Connection. The Autumn Canopy of Nine Dirges could not only corrode a cultivator's will to fight, it could also attack and defend. Unless one had a mind and a body that were both as tough as steel, it was very difficult to break through. But Tang Jie had broken it with a single shout.

"Nothing is impossible. Taste another one of my abilities!" Tang Jie roared, swinging the Sovereign Blade.

Origin Defender knew of this blade's sharpness and didn't dare to take it on directly. Opening his arms, he manifested countless threads to wrap around the Sovereign Blade, using the soft to counter the hard.

As that vast cloud of spider threads coiled around the Sovereign Blade and rendered it immobile, Origin Defender exhaled. "So you were actually a brute! On account of how you laid down that formation, I took you for a meticulous planner, but you were actually one of those reckless barbarians. Now that I know the limits of your strength, let's see what you can do now! Capture him!"

Even more white threads shot out from Origin Defender, as if he was a spider.

These white threads were actually manifested from his Immortal energy and almost unbreakable. After wrapping around the Sovereign Blade, they proceeded to wrap around Tang Jie, and as layer after layer covered him, Origin Defender relaxed and finally began to laugh in celebration.

"Junior, how could a Violet Palace fight with an Immortal? I have an endless number of lives, so I can just try again if I fail, coming at you again and again until you finally fall. But you, even if you're a dragon among men with a powerful weapon and other such tricks, can't compare to me and my boundless Immortal might. Just one attack from me is enough to kill you!"

"Are you done talking?" Tang Jie sneered.

"Eh?" Origin Defender was taken aback.

By now, Tang Jie was already wrapped in a cocoon, only his head still free. Suddenly, his eyes erupted with light.

This light left Origin Defender stunned and with the vague sense that he had made a mistake.

He heard Tang Jie say, "As you said, you're an Immortal and have many lives, which makes you hard to kill. But for me, what's important isn't how to kill you, but how to kill you in a way that preserves most of my strength. After all, you're not the only Immortal I plan to kill. So… it would be better to save strength and kill you a few less times."

As Tang Jie spoke, a flame erupted from the Sovereign Blade, which instantly melted away the white threads of Immortal energy tangled around it.

"How could this be?" Origin Defender cried out in shock. These were made from Immortal energy, so how had Tang Jie so easily burned them away?

But as he gazed at the flames on the sword, he felt a terrifying destructive energy from them.

"The power of Destruction!" Origin Defender shrieked.

He finally understood what had destroyed his white threads. This was the power of Destruction fused together with an exotic flame, the power of a Great Dao.

Although his Immortal threads were strong, they clearly didn't match the level of a Great Dao, and the power of Destruction specialized in annihilation. As a result, the white threads had simply melted away like snow thrown into a bonfire.

"No, no!" Origin Defender crazily yelled. He tried to pull back his threads, but it was too late.

The flames flew off the sword, burning away many of Origin Defender's threads. At the same time, Tang Jie closed the distance. "Ten Extinctions Blade, go!"

The Sovereign Blade sent out a dragon made from those destructive flames.

The completed Ten Extinctions Blade was far more powerful and terrifying. With just one swing, it unleashed an unstoppable aura of Destruction!

Origin Defender did his best to defend himself, but he was cut in half all the same.

This time, the Sovereign Blade didn't simulate the Ten Thousand Slayer Sword. Although that sword was strong, it wasn't uncounterable, and Origin Defender was bound to be ready for it this time.

He also had no need to use it.

As the sword sliced through, Tang Jie had the power of Destruction invade Origin Defender's entire body and obliterate him. The greater form of the power of Destruction could even obliterate Immortal energy and prevent an Immortal's resurrection. Alas, Tang Jie couldn't do this, but even so, he managed to destroy so much Immortal energy with this attack that he took away at least one extra life, killing Origin Defender twice for the price of one. This together with the white threads that had been burned up meant that Origin Defender had suffered a heavy loss.

As he was reborn again, he snarled, "There might be Violet Palace cultivators out there who can kill an Immortal Platform cultivator, but none that can exterminate an Immortal Platform cultivator! You can't beat me! You can't!!"

He rushed at Tang Jie.

He still thought that he could win.

Because for him, there was no precedent in the Great Stellar Chiliocosm for a Violet Palace cultivator who had ever exterminated an Earth Immortal.

Origin Defender didn't believe that this record would be broken with him.

Tang Jie simply grunted and used the Combat Emperor Catalog. Those punches packed with the power of Destruction instilled fear in Origin Defender's heart.

He used all his Divine Connections and treasures, holding nothing back against this man who had killed him twice and made him use almost half of his Immortal energy.

But the more he fought, the more stunned he was by Tang Jie's strength. Tang Jie was far stronger than he had ever imagined.

How could this be the strength of a Violet Palace cultivator?

His strength surpassed Earth Immortal, surpassed that of most Immortals he had met.

Whoosh!

With another chop of a sword, Origin Defender died and was reborn again.

Tang Jie remained as terrifying as ever, and Origin Defender finally grew afraid. Shaking off his shock and disbelief, he turned and ran.

He was running away!

Tang Jie snorted. "You're not going anywhere!"

He gave chase.

Origin Defender shouted as he fled, "Tang Jie, you can't exterminate me! There might be Violet Palace cultivators who can kill Immortals, but none that can exterminate Immortals! You can't do it! You can't!"

He flew as quickly as lightning!

"What a chatterbox." Tang Jie activated Nearby Horizon, appearing in front of Origin Defender and chopping him in half with his sword.

Origin Defender reformed and fled again, but he could never escape Nearby Horizon.

With each death, Origin Defender despaired more and more.

He kept shouting, "Impossible… No Violet Palace can exterminate Immortals… No Violet Palace can exterminate Immortals!!!"

After another several dozen swings of the sword, Origin Defender crumbled in the wind.

In the breeze, he struggled to reform himself, still screaming in disbelief, "No… Violet… Palace… can… exterminate… Immortals…"

"There is one that can now," Tang Jie said, waving his hand, shooting off a blast of wind that blew apart that human-shaped cloud.

It didn't reform this time.