Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 696: Imminent Storm

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The Immortal path was difficult and full of unpredictable dangers.

These dangers could take the form of fiends, one's peers, and also various personal difficulties.

Starting from the charge at Celestial Heart, a cultivator faced the risk of dying upon failure. But the chances weren't high, and the Five Energies Sovereign Essence Pill greatly increased the chances of success and reduced the dangers.

But so long as the risk was still there, there would come a day when they eventually came to pass.

Heng Wei's death was a reflection of this risk, both a coincidence and an inevitability.

Losing a companion made everyone depressed, and rather than cheering them, Cai Junyang's successful summiting worsened their moods—losing a friend would make one feel bad, and having a friend outperform one by too much would make one feel even worse.

Not in their wildest estimations had anyone expected Cai Junyang to have the ability to reach the summit.

When Tang Jie had divided the Ninedark Mantra and passed them on to everyone, each person had benefited, even using what they had been given to develop their own understandings and developing those chopped-up chapters into their unique personal arts, their trump cards and foundations. Even Tang Jie hadn't done this, nor had he expected it. And among them, the one who had done this the best was Cai Junyang.

The Hundred Tribulations Passage Art had been tempered through countless life-or-death trials, put to full use every time, allowing Cai Junyang to take it beyond its regular form and display a style unique to himself.

To push against the currents and fearlessly advance was the source of his confidence, and through all the countless missions he had gone on and the bloody battles within, he had comprehended a sliver of the Dao of Slaughter.

Only those with the Dao of Slaughter could permanently kill the Reaping Wind Snakes and reach the summit.

In each and every attempt, Cai Junyang accumulated understanding, until finally,

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