Aspiring to the Immortal Path

Chapter 952: A Hundred Years of Accumulation

The Yellow Court World was valuable enough to turn even the eyes of a Dao-Proving Saint Immortal red with envy, and there was no limit to the value of its contents. Not even considering the vast amount of materials put into it, there were also two Dao armaments buried within, as well as the child of a Dao armament, the Genesis Stone Slab. The Genesis Stone Slab wasn't a Dao armament, but it had inherited its power from a Dao armament and was not at all lacking when it came to creation. It together with the Eternity Sarcophagus and Myriad Immortals Cauldron represented a trio that could control time and create life.

The Yellow Court World was finally a place that Tang Jie could cultivate in.

Just as Tang Jie had expected, because he was the Domain Lord, his Heaven–Man Union zone was much larger here than it was in the Great Stellar Chiliocosm.

According to the original plan, Tang Jie should have moved in mortals and established his Divine Kingdom, creating his own Immortal court that would push him onto the Immortal Platform.

But for some reason, Tang Jie changed his plan.

Instead of bringing in mortals, he chose to raise the creatures living on the central island.

The completion of the time formation allowed him to massively accelerate the time of the Yellow Court World. To get the fruit to ripen as quickly as possible, Tang Jie adjusted its "clock", making time here flow a hundred times faster compared to the outside world.

Tang Jie resided outside this zone of accelerated time, quietly waiting and observing.

He waited ten years.

Ten years in the Great Stellar Chiliocosm was a thousand years in the Yellow Court World.

As the five seasons cycled and the sun rose and fell, the world was transformed.

The Yellow Court World had greatly changed over these one thousand years.

The thin sky and earth had become much more natural, growing more varied and rich in contents. The Web of Fate was beginning to proceed according to the Heavenly Dao that Tang Jie had set down, and Tang Jie himself wouldn't know what happened unless he took his time to investigate.

The creatures on the central island had finally taken an extremely important step—they had left the Immortal island and walked onto the world.

They were the "masters" of this world, and traces of their footprints and life could be seen all around it.

Over these one thousand years, they had developed their own culture and species. They were not humans yet were similar to humans. They were similarly an intelligent species, but they had their own special way of cultivating.

Tang Jie named this species the Wuxing (Five Elements).

Unlike humans, the Wuxing were divided by their five seasons, with one tribe for each of the Five Elements. Each season had a tribe that was active in the world, which led to the development of a unique lifestyle in the Yellow Court World.

However, as they still hadn't had enough time to evolve, the Wuxing had yet to completely differentiate, and they shared more commonalities than differences. They had also only barely begun to adapt to the five seasons.

Much more time was needed to get there.

Still, the Wuxing had entered the ranks of intelligent species.

Under Tang Jie's influence, they could be made to act according to his emotions, liking what he wanted them to like, getting angry when he wanted them to be angry, growing sad when he wanted them to be said, and despairing when he wanted them to despair.

Their minds were under Tang Jie's control, moving as he willed.

With this, Tang Jie could finally take on the trial that was Heaven–Man Union.

From then on, Tang Jie entered the Yellow Court World every day to experience Heaven–Man Union and sublimate his Divine Soul.

As he was the one who had created the Heavenly Dao of the Yellow Court World, sublimating the Divine Soul was incredibly easy.

But Tang Jie knew that "easy" wasn't necessarily a good thing. Sublimating the Divine Soul was itself a kind of tempering.

Thus, Tang Jie didn't give up on cultivating in the Stellar Chiliocosm, doing both at the same time. He used the Yellow Court World to advance and the Stellar Chiliocosm to temper, ensuring that his progress was steady and stable.

Meanwhile, Tang Jie's status as the Divine Lord of All Life continued to receive incense, reinforcing his Fate power and fortune.

During the day, Tang Jie and Xu Miaoran would travel around the Vast Wilderness Continent, seeing the sights, experiencing the Daos of nature, and communing with the world so as to temper his body and mind. At night, he would enter the Yellow Court World, expanding his mind and merging it with the minds of the people to sublimate his Divine Soul.

And even though his pace was steady and unhurried, his cultivation speed was astonishingly fast.

Twenty-some years went by in the blink of an eye, and Tang Jie's Divine Soul finally completed its sublimation, completing the trial of Heaven–Man Union.

It had to be understood that the ascension to Immortal Platform was no easy task. Not only did it have several major phases, each phase consisted of numerous small steps, and every step consisted of innumerable details, each one absolutely vital such that skipping one would lead to failure. This was why a cultivator could spend several hundred years on Heaven–Man Union, or even reach the end of their life in this phase.

But Tang Jie had needed only thirty years. This was the advantage of the Yellow Court World. Not only did it let him accelerate time, it also let him have a much larger Heaven–Man Union zone, which meant that he would have far more Immortal energy than other Immortals.

Tang Jie's Divine Soul was now sublimated, but it still couldn't be considered a True God, perhaps a half-step True God.

Several other steps were required to become a True God, which weren't guaranteed to be any easier than the Heaven–Man Union.

Thus, Tang Jie still had to keep working hard for his ascension.

A hundred years swiftly went by.

Tang Jie and his wife spent all this time wandering the Vast Wilderness, and they gradually developed some fame.

Astonishingly, after the battle in the Five Origins Estate, the Stellar Net Gate and Heaven's Equal Sect didn't try and settle the score, as if they had accepted their lot.

So many Earth Immortals had died, yet the two major sects had bowed their heads. There was clearly something suspicious going on, but Tang Jie and his wife acted as if they knew nothing, focusing on their travels and cultivation.

The others also didn't slack off. Xu Miaoran and Yiyi had both reached the peak of Soul Projection and entered the Heaven–Man Union phase. Like Tang Jie, they utilized the Yellow Court World to pass the trial. But because they weren't the Domain Lord, they didn't have as easy of a time as Tang Jie and were somewhat slower.

But Tang Jie wasn't worried. If the Heaven–Man Union phase was slow, it could be made up for with other factors. While Tang Jie had spent these two hundred years working toward his own ascension, he was also helping Yiyi and Xu Miaoran prepare for theirs. With Tang Jie smoothing the path for them, the two would have a much easier time with the rest of their ascension, and besides, Xu Miaoran was also a master pill refiner.

As for the Vermillion Bird and the Mother Cloud combat puppet, they actually managed to reach the Immortal Platform Realm before Tang Jie, giving Tang Jie five Immortal subordinates.

This was inevitable for the Vermillion Bird. As a holder of a Sacred Beast bloodline, she would advance even if she didn't do anything. Her advancement before had been stopped by the Martial Lord's restriction, and now that she was free, her strength began to naturally rise.

As for the Mother Cloud combat puppet, Tang Jie had been constantly gathering Five Elements Essences to upgrade it.

He had the Yellow Court World, which was a world based on the Five Elements, its seasons each taking an element, so if there was one thing he could be certain of about it, it was that he had enough objects belonging to the Five Elements. Tang Jie didn't even need to refine them himself. With an order from him, the Wuxing would refine the Five Elements Essences for him and offer them as tribute to the heavens.

The Wuxing's various differences had become more distinct now, the one species now developing into five with their own unique attributes.

In this period, Tang Jie had also gradually figured out what resources he actually had in his world. He now had many special materials unique to his own world at his disposal and was able to create many new formations. Alas, because the two major sects didn't come to cause trouble for him, he had nowhere to use them and could only sigh.

Days without an opponent were rather lonely.

Tang Jie could only harden up and cultivate even harder. But the stronger he became and the greater his cultivation, the more difficult it became to find opponents.

182 years after the battle at the Five Origins Estate, Tang Jie finally finished all the preparations. All he needed to do was "Shatter the Void" to become an Immortal.

Two hundred years to get to this state was an absurd level of speed.

But now that he was here, Tang Jie found that he wasn't in a rush.

Going from Violet Palace to Immortal Platform was like going from Spirit Platform to Mortal Shedding, a qualitative evolution. The latter was from human to inhuman, and the former was from inhuman to Immortal.

In terms of evolution, the two weren't too different, but in terms of numbers and level, Mortal Shedding clearly couldn't compare to Immortal Platform, so one could say that the qualitative evolution of Immortal Platform was in a league of its own.

In terms of mentality, it was like Laozi finally achieving transcendence, on the verge of looking down on all life. It was very normal to be flooded with all kinds of feelings at this sort of juncture.

Gripped by such emotions, Tang Jie chose to not immediately break through. Instead, he opted to return to the Rosecloud Domain.

In the Rosecloud Domain, he went to see Yun Tianlan, Ling Xiao, Xiao Biehan, and Ming Yekong.

When they learned that Tang Jie wanted to ascend to Immortal Platform, they all sighed.

Some people were able to ascend but still had to wait some more, but more people could never ascend, for they had used up all their potential.

Ming Yekong and Mystic Moon were in this category. They had already used everything to reach Violet Palace, so ascending to an even higher level was just too difficult.

Meanwhile, Ling Xiao and Xiao Biehan were waiting for an opportunity.

But as time wasted away, such opportunities became more and more unlikely.

When they heard that a junior was about to surpass them and become the second Immortal Platform expert of the Basking Moon Sect, they couldn't but have mixed feelings. They were delighted and admiring, but also helpless and sorrowful.

Regardless, this was good news.

Wonderful news!

The Basking Moon Sect decided to hold a feast, inviting guests from all around.

The Basking Moon Sect was currently the number one sect of Rosecloud. The era of the six sects had fallen, so now when they held a feast, all sects big and small would come.

It wasn't just them. The important disciples of the Basking Moon Sect stationed across the land also returned to pay respects to the Freedom Celestial Sovereign. Of course, Tang Jie's old friends and acquaintances were among them.

But when Tang Jie saw Wei Tianchong, he was dumbfounded.