Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1321 - The Birth of Ghost Pupil
Chapter 1321 – The Birth of Ghost Pupil
Without the inner demon’s harassment, Liu Wuxie could finally focus on refining the Darkness Heart. The Avici Hell appeared in the cauldron and suppressed the Darkness Heart.
The Darkness Heart stopped struggling and burst apart. Boundless dark-attribute energy poured out like a tidal wave that swept through the desolate world, dyeing it ink-black. Even the Ancestral Tree became stained with black residue.
Terrifying thunderclouds rumbled across the sky and swept outward. The Desolate Devouring Art accelerated its circulation, rapidly devouring the surrounding spiritual energy, while the Ancestral Tree’s roots extended into the void to draw power from heaven and earth.
Breaking into another major realm was not simple, so Liu Wuxie proceeded with extreme caution. With enough resources, one could easily make a breakthrough into the minor levels of a realm.
However, crossing from the Origin Conversion Realm to the Primal Origin Realm was a different story altogether, and he couldn’t afford the slightest mistake.
The Avici Hell vanished as the Darkness Heart continued to break down, releasing a vast amount of dark-attribute energy that had been accumulating inside it for thousands of years.
The Ghost Eye in his upper dantian suddenly stirred, beginning to condense. The Ghost Eye was only an eye technique, and the Eight Divine Pupils were eight eyes, each one terrifying in their own way.
The Eight Divine Pupils could observe everything under heaven, and the Divine Tribulation Pupils could even see through everything in heaven and earth.
When his upper dantian pulsed, an unusual gleam flashed in Liu Wuxie’s eyes.
“Could the Ghost Eye really be the Ghost Pupil?” Liu Wuxie wondered. If not, why would the upper dantian begin drawing in darkness laws? After all, the Ghost Pupil was also known as the Eye of Darkness, capable of controlling darkness itself.
Darkness laws continued to pour into his upper dantian as the Ghost Eye slowly transformed, and a black pupil began to take shape.
It was no longer the Ghost Eye. The original Ghost Eye relied on refraction across the eyeball to reveal what others couldn’t see, but the Ghost Pupil was different, as it was an independent eye.
Liu Wuxie swayed; he was taken aback. He didn’t expect the Ghost Eye to really evolve into the Ghost Pupil. It was rumored that the Ghost Pupil had vanished in ancient times, scattered and merged into the three thousand worlds, and Ghost Eye was only one of its branches.
If one were to keep cultivating Ghost Eye, it could return to its origin and awaken as the Ghost Pupil.
From the looks of it, the black eyeball in his upper dantian still had a long way to go compared to the Ghost Pupil in legends. It had yet to form completely; it was only a prototype. Even so, the revelation was enough to shock Liu Wuxie.
The Eight Divine Pupils had been lost since ancient times, and there were only records about them in the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm. No one had ever seen it, so he didn’t expect that he was lucky enough to possess one of the Eight Divine Pupils—the Ghost Pupil.
When the desolate world finally reached saturation, he used the excess energy to make his breakthrough to the Primal Origin Realm.
“Time to make my breakthrough,” Liu Wuxie said, shifting his attention from the Ghost Pupil and focusing on his breakthrough.
Outside the spiritual array, thousands of nether clan members had gathered along with the members of the faceless clan and the ghost clan. The phenomenon created by Liu Wuxie’s breakthrough was so terrifying that no one could miss it.
The nether clan finally attacked, unleashing various attacks on the spiritual array.
A’Lei and A’Li had personally witnessed the might of the Icebound Expanse Array during the blacksmithing event, and they knew ordinary people couldn’t tear it apart.
However, even the most formidable spiritual array would fall apart under constant attack.
Vanya had to control the spiritual array, so the magical force within her burned rapidly. At this rate, she could only last for two hours at most. In other words, Liu Wuxie had to complete his breakthrough within that time frame.
Otherwise, it would be over once Vanya could no longer control the spiritual array.
Liu Wuxie naturally saw everything taking place outside, but there was no change in his face. The breakthrough to a major realm would usually take about three to five days at least, and up to one month.
The breakthrough wouldn’t be easy, as one had to keep tempering before trying to pry open the gateway to the Primal Origin Realm.
Many cultivators would even take up to half a year in seclusion to complete the breakthrough.
When the ghost clan joined the battle, they unleashed hair-thin needles.
The needles drilled into the spiritual array to attack Vanya.
“Wind Erosion Magic!” Vanya roared, unleashing the Wind Erosion Magic that sent the hair-thin needles back along their path with the Icebound Expanse Array. This was the horror of the Wind Erosion Magic. It was capable of sending any substance into the enemy’s body.
Hissing sounds echoed as the nether clan that stood the closest to the spiritual array died in swathes, killed by the hair-thin needles. The sight of their fallen comrade further enraged the nether clan.
They stopped their assault and began to chant, as though they were summoning something. The faceless clan also released a bizarre energy, wanting to infiltrate the spiritual array.
Just then, the ground trembled violently.
“What’s going on?” A’Lei’s face turned grim. The tremors sounded like footsteps, but those footsteps were heavier compared to the giants’. Vision was greatly obstructed on the Netherworld’s sixth level, and A’Lei could see barely a hundred meters ahead.
The tremors grew even louder, and a massive black figure appeared in A’Lei’s line of sight.
“The Black Bull Demon!” A’Lei exclaimed with a grim face. He watched as the colossal Black Bull Demon rushed forward like a moving mountain. Its size matched the members of the giant clan, or perhaps it was even more robust.
Whenever the Black Bull Demon took a step forward, the ground would tremble violently.
Vanya furrowed tightly at the sight, looking a bit concerned. She wasn’t confident that the Icebound Expanse Array could withstand the Black Bull Demon’s attacks. After all, its massive horns looked like they could easily flip a giant mountain.
The Black Bull Demon was nurtured by the nether clan. Though it didn’t have much intelligence, it possessed unimaginable power. When it snorted, the shockwave it released sent the surrounding members of the nether clan flying away.
From that alone, anyone could imagine the Black Bull Demon’s power.
The members of the nether clan knew that if Liu Wuxie succeeded in making his breakthrough into the Primal Origin Realm, he would become even more troublesome to kill. Thus, the best plan was to interrupt his breakthrough.
The Black Bull Demon specialized in destroying spiritual arrays. Now, they were curious about how long Liu Wuxie could hold on for.
“Vanya, you stay to control the spiritual array. A’Li and I will intercept the Black Bull Demon,” A’Lei said. He would rather charge out and put up a fight than wait here for death to arrive.
With the two of them holding off the Black Bull Demon, the members of the nether clan would have a difficult time breaking the Icebound Expanse Array.
“No!” Vanya shook her head. If the two giants went out now, they wouldn’t just have to face the Black Bull Demon; they would have to face the members of the nether clan, the ghost clan, and the faceless clan as well.
Just the Black Bull Demon was already a handful of its own, and if the others all attacked them at the same time, the two giants would surely die.
Liu Wuxie had yet to master the Great Samsara Mythical Art, so the giants’ death would be final and absolute.
Liu Wuxie naturally heard their conversation, and anxiety crept onto his face as well. He had calculated everything but hadn’t accounted that the nether clan had reared a Black Bull Demon specializing in breaking spiritual arrays.
Even the strongest spiritual array was useless before the Black Bull Demon, as it could trample its way through it. Without the spiritual array, all four of them would die.
“It’s decided. We’ll fight our way out. Otherwise, we will all die if we stay here,” A’Lei said as he strode toward the edge of the spiritual array, urging Vanya to open it.
The two went with the resolve of dying, and even they didn’t know if they could survive to live another day. Since they would all die if they were to stay inside the spiritual array, they might as well put up a fight.
Perhaps they could use their lives to trade for Liu Wuxie and Vanya’s lives.
Since death was inevitable, they would rather die with honor.
Tears spilled from Vanya’s eyes. She also knew that they would die if the Black Bull Demon were allowed to get close enough to the spiritual array.
Without the spiritual array’s protection, the members of the nether clan could easily overwhelm them with their sheer numbers alone.
“Stop hesitating! Open it!” A’Lei roared. The Black Bull Demon was only fifty meters away, and all hopes would be lost if it were allowed to get any closer.
“Big Brother A’Lei, Big Brother A’Li! You two must come back alive!” Vanya yelled, wiping away her tears. She opened the spiritual array with a wave of her hand, allowing the two giants to leave.
When the spiritual array was opened, A’Lei and A’Li dashed out like a bolt of lightning, throwing punches that blasted away all the nether clan members in their way.
Thanks to their pressurizing spiritual arrays, their raw power reached unbelievable heights.
They rushed straight ahead, and the members of the nether clans who tried to stand in their way couldn’t even put up any resistance. Only the members of the faceless clan and the ghost clan could pose any threat to the two giants.
The faceless clan’s mysterious energy could counter the human race, but it had a limited effect on the giant clan.
The giant clan possessed massive bodies, and the structure of their soul seas differed from humans. In other words, it wouldn’t be easy for the faceless clan to control them.
On the other hand, the ghost clan’s attacks were hard to defend against, and the two giants sustained countless wounds in the blink of an eye. The wounds were the work of the members of the ghost clan.
However, the two giants disregarded the ghost clan’s attacks. Their target was the Black Bull Demon. They just had to kill the Black Bull Demon, and the rest would become more manageable.
The two giants crossed the distance of fifty meters in the blink of an eye, and their blood painted a bloody path behind them. They each threw a punch at the Black Bull Demon, and the impact produced a powerful shockwave that rippled outward.
The Black Bull Demon shuddered briefly, but it remained firm. As for the two giants, they took more than ten steps backward, staggering until they reached the spiritual array.
To prevent the Black Bull Demon from getting close to the spiritual array, A’Lei and A’Li sprang forward again with even more terrifying force this time. They activated the pressurizing spiritual arrays within them, and they crackled like thunder, shattering even the space around them.
The members of the nether clan and the ghost clan couldn’t even interfere in the fight and could only move out of the way. Just the shockwave produced by their moves alone could kill cultivators at the ninth-level Primal Origin Realm.
The two punches made the Black Bull Demon feel pain, and it let out an enraged bellow in response. Then, it thrust its massive head toward the two giants.
The moment the Black Bull Demon and the two giants collided, the Netherworld’s sixth level trembled, and spatial shards even started falling from the sky. At this rate, the fifth level and the sixth level of the Netherworld would shatter.
A’Lei and A’Li were hurled away again, vomiting out blood. Their fists had become bloody with bones exposed, creating a ghastly sight.
