Chapter Fourteen: One Against Two, Reaching the Immortal Realm

Zhang Sanfeng paid no attention to the expressions of the others and walked straight toward the dueling platform with Guan Zhiheng and the other man.

“Oh, this is going to be good!”

The spectators stirred excitedly, and a large portion of the market surged toward the platform. This was a spectacle rarely seen in a million years. An early-stage Celestial Immortal was actually going to challenge two early-stage Great Firmament Golden Immortals at once. The last time anything similar had happened seemed to have been a million and a half years ago.

When Zhe Sheng and Kuang Liang arrived on the platform, their faces displaying a dazzling variety of expressions, Zhang Sanfeng merely nodded calmly at them.

“Begin.”

“Hmph. Once a fight begins on this platform, life and death are disregarded. You can still step down now.”

Seeing how calm Zhang Sanfeng looked, Zhe Sheng began to feel uneasy. Could this man be pretending to be weak in order to catch them off guard?

Kuang Liang, the dark-faced brute, wore a fierce expression the moment he stepped onto the platform. He often mingled around the planets on the outskirts of the Extreme Devil Abyss. Anyone who could survive in such a place was no ordinary fighter.

“Pretty boy, stop wasting words with him. Since he has stepped onto the platform and wants to challenge both of us, we will deal with him first. Then we can settle our own score.”

Kuang Liang sneered contemptuously at Zhang Sanfeng. “Old man, if you want to die, I will gladly oblige. The Black-Faced God does not kill the nameless. State your name!”

“Zhang Sanfeng.”

After giving his name, Zhang Sanfeng placed his left hand behind his waist and summoned the Taiji Sword he always used with his right hand. Its tip pointed naturally toward the lower right, and his aura abruptly changed.

It seemed to have risen to the level of a late-stage Celestial Immortal.

The two men opposite him were startled. After examining him carefully, they found that Zhang Sanfeng was still only an early-stage Celestial Immortal. Had they imagined it? That was impossible. Could Zhang Sanfeng possess some special immortal technique?

Both men instinctively became cautious and alert.

“Come on. Stop dawdling!”

Zhang Sanfeng called out impatiently.

“Hmph. Since you want to die, we will grant your wish!”

Provoked by his words, the two men flew into a rage and summoned their weapons at the same time.

The fair-faced young master produced a long sword that flickered with azure light in his left hand. With his right, he flung his folding fan directly at Zhang Sanfeng like a concealed weapon.

The dark-faced giant, meanwhile, summoned a massive beast as tall as a man. It had the shape of a tiger and was pitch-black from head to toe. He gripped an enormous and peculiar saber in both hands. The blade was broad, its entire length black as ink.

With one slash, a streak of black light shot straight toward Zhang Sanfeng. At the same time, the black tiger leaped high into the air and pounced down with the force of Mount Tai bearing down upon him. Close behind came a sword aura alternating between blue and white from the fair-faced young master.

The dueling platform was only a hundred meters long. Zhang Sanfeng stood merely sixty or seventy meters from the two men—no distance at all to Great Firmament Golden Immortals.

“Ah! Third Young Master, your master should be all right, shouldn’t he?”

Guan Xiaoyun asked Guan Zhiheng anxiously.

“He will be fine. You have to trust Third Young Master’s instincts!”

At that moment, Tang Yi’s ship trembled violently and finally entered the Immortal Realm in earnest.

When everyone realized that they had returned to the Immortal Realm, their auras suddenly surged. Several of them rose directly to the level of Immortal Emperors. Yet in the very next instant, every one of their cultivations fell back to the level of mid-stage Earth Immortals.

“Heh heh…”

In the control room, Tang Yi snickered to himself. “Do not think becoming an Immortal Emperor makes you so impressive. On my ship, the highest cultivation anyone can have is mid-stage Earth Immortal. Go on, keep showing off. Let me see you show off now. Heh heh…”

“Fellow Daoist Tang, why is this?”

The Celestial Extremity Adept, standing beside him, sensed the change and asked in surprise.

“It is nothing, really. It is because of the materials used to build the ship, combined with my own designs. Within eight hundred li of the ship, as long as the core of the Divine Immortal vessel is activated, everyone’s cultivation will be suppressed to the mid-stage Earth Immortal level. Of course, if someone has already become a god, I cannot guarantee it.”

Tang Yi spoke with undisguised pride.

“I see. Now that we have arrived in the Immortal Realm, we shall part ways. To repay your assistance, Fellow Daoist Tang, I have a few small things for you. Please accept them as a token of my gratitude.”

With that, the Celestial Extremity Adept took a small bundle from his spatial ring and handed it to Tang Yi.

Tang Yi accepted it without ceremony and placed it directly into his own spatial ring. Although spatial rings could not be opened before reaching the Immortal Realm, that did not prevent Tang Yi from crafting one himself.

“Wow, there are nearly ten thousand people here. If every one of them gives me something, I will make a fortune! Ha ha, I am a genius!”

Tang Yi secretly rejoiced. He immediately put his plan into action.

He set the ship to jump directly to the orbit of the nearest planet, then stood at the open exit with one hand extended, asking everyone for gifts.

Xiao Feng, Xuzhu, and Duan Yu were the first to reach the exit. Seeing Tang Yi’s appearance, they could not help laughing.

Xiao Feng asked, “Brother Tang, what do you need? Just name it. If I possess it, I will give it to you. Even if I do not have it now, I will certainly obtain it for you later.”

“Heh heh, Brother Xiao, you are too kind. I have only just arrived in the Immortal Realm, with neither wealth nor possessions, so I have no choice but to ask everyone for a little travel money. Anything will do. And I also have a small gift for everyone.”

Tang Yi took out an Immortal Master One.

Thus, Tang Yi stood at the exit, collecting gifts with one hand and handing out gifts with the other, while bidding farewell to everyone one by one. The gift he gave each person was an Immortal Master One.

Those who were friendly with Tang Yi gave him valuable items and left him their universal means of communication in the Immortal Realm—a jade pendant containing immortal stones. Those who disliked him casually took out what they considered useless trinkets from their spatial rings, tossed them over, turned up their noses, and strode away.

Tang Yi did not mind. Something was better than nothing, and the more the merrier. As the saying went, even the smallest mosquito still had meat on it.

He kept examining the items in his ring while muttering to himself, never forgetting to wave goodbye to the others.

“Hmm, this is pretty good.”

“Heh heh, those three brothers are the most generous. They gave me so many fine things!”

“Oh, this is quite nice. That naturally expressionless fellow is actually rather decent.”

“Tsk, what a smiling fox. So stingy!”

“…”

The Celestial Extremity Adept was the last to leave. Watching Tang Yi smile and wave repeatedly as he bid farewell to everyone, he could not help smiling as well.

“Fellow Daoist Tang, I shall take my leave too. Before I go, let me give you one last item. I believe it will be useful to you. If you ever have the time, you may visit my Celestial Extremity Sect. There is a rare tea tree there that has lived for a hundred million years. The tea brewed from it is absolutely comparable to the supreme Cloudmist Tea you mentioned.”

“Really? Then I will certainly pay a visit. But how am I supposed to find your Celestial Extremity Sect?”

The Celestial Extremity Adept handed Tang Yi an object. It was grayish-white and resembled a compass, with a circular interior and a square exterior. The inner circle was smooth and gleamed like a mirror.

“With this item, you will be able to locate the Celestial Extremity Sect.”

Tang Yi took it and examined it briefly. He immediately understood its function.

Is this an Immortal Realm navigation device? he wondered.

Then he asked aloud, “What is it called?”

“This is a Star Compass of the Immortal Realm—in other words, a map of the Immortal Realm. Generally speaking, everyone in the Immortal Realm possesses one. Of course, the contents of each immortal’s Star Compass are different. So do not assume that this one is ordinary. The star chart inside was drawn by me during my travels throughout the Immortal Realm. It can be said to be the most complete star chart in existence. I have just copied that chart into it. Very well, we shall part here.”

After saying this, the Celestial Extremity Adept walked away without looking back, his hands clasped behind him.

He drifted into the distance with an otherworldly grace, like an immortal descending from the heavens.

Watching his receding figure, Tang Yi thought, Tsk, you are an immortal, but I am one now too. What is so impressive about that? If you can do it, so can I. Brother Tang is very busy; I have no interest in putting on such a pointless and flashy display.

With that, Tang Yi turned around and said, “Open, sesame.”

The ship’s doors clattered shut.