Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1322 - Power of the Ghost Pupil
Chapter 1322 – Power of the Ghost Pupil
When the two giants staggered upright, the ghost clan struck again, conjuring countless hair-thin needles that pierced A’Lei and A’Li and deepened their wounds. The faceless clan joined the siege, trying to seize the giants’ soul seas.
“ARGH!” A’Lei clutched his head, eyes bloodshot as if his skull would burst.
Vanya swallowed her tears as the giants writhed in pain. She knew crying would not help.
“Retaliate! Doom Tempest!” she roared, rage flaring. Since she was young, she had never imagined taking a life. She could scarcely harm a small animal, but in this moment, the urge to kill burned within her.
A gale exploded outward, hurling members of the ghost clan and the faceless clan away. Elven magic naturally countered the faceless clan, and she instantly helped A’Lei and A’Li break free from their control.
Before the giants could steady themselves, the Black Bull Demon stamped both hooves into their chests. With strength enough to level a mountain, it forced blood from their mouths and nearly ruptured their organs.
Gritting their teeth, they bled until the ground ran red.
“Get lost!” A’Li roared. He seized the Black Bull Demon’s leg and heaved, toppling the beast and slamming it to the earth with a thunderous crash.
Seizing the opening, A’Lei rushed up and smashed a fist into the Black Bull Demon’s lower abdomen. The two giants moved in perfect tandem; this was far from their first battle together.
They had no time to treat their wounds. This was their chance to kill the Black Bull Demon while Vanya bought them time.
Still in the middle of forcing his breakthrough, blood seeped out of Liu Wuxie’s lips. The recoil nearly tore his internal organs apart. He guided his true essence, conjuring golden dragons that shuttled through his meridians.
Soon, the gateway to the Primal Origin Realm appeared. He had to make a breakthrough as soon as possible, or A’Lei and A’Li would die at the Black Bull Demon’s hooves.
Even if the giants slew the Black Bull Demon, they would be grievously injured, and a single coordinated charge from the nether clan could tear them apart.
The Black Bull Demon groaned, rolled, and sprang up in one motion, charging again with even greater force.
Their clash hit like planets colliding with each other, and the sheer impact generated a tidal wave that reduced everything within a thousand-meter radius to a wasteland.
The shockwave slammed into the cliff behind Liu Wuxie, splitting it apart.
Meanwhile, Vanya kept the spiritual array under control and held back the members of the ghost clan and the faceless clan—the magic within her drained rapidly from the exertion.
After refining the Storm Beast, her combat strength soared dozens of times. Prior to that, she could never have endured for so long. She cast Doom Tempest twice and one Great Purification Magic, forcing the members of the faceless clan to halt their assault on the giants.
Everyone fixed their eyes on the duel between the giants and the Black Bull Demon. Wounds lacerated the beast’s body, and the giants fared no better; blood coated them from head to toe.
Blow after blow landed. When both sides paused, the Black Bull Demon panted heavily; A’Lei’s right arm hung limp with shattered bones, and A’Li’s left arm lay flayed and slick with blood.
Sheer will kept the giants upright. Without Liu Wuxie, the dwarf clan would have killed them, and their chieftain’s order to aid Liu Wuxie unconditionally drove them to finish the task.
Just then, the members of the nether clan struck, unleashing a barrage at the giants. A spear punched through A’Lei’s calf and burst out the other side.
He roared as blood poured down his leg, and then he sent dozens of nether clansmen flying away with a kick.
Meanwhile, Liu Wuxie slammed against the gateway to the Primal Origin Realm three hundred times before it finally began to yield. He gathered all his true essence, condensed it into a single strike, and hurled it at the gate.
With a thunderous rumble, the gateway shattered, dissolving into countless laws of the Primal Origin Realm that merged into the desolate world.
The instant the gate broke, the dark-attribute energy of the Netherworld’s sixth level converged on him. Space seemed to warp as the scene brightened while Liu Wuxie devoured the darkness laws.
“This is bad! He’s about to make a breakthrough! We have to stop him now!” cried the nether clan’s commander, sensing the danger and intent emanating from Liu Wuxie.
The nether clan members began to chant, directing the Black Bull Demon to abandon A’Lei and A’Li and charge at the Icebound Expanse Array instead. They would destroy the spiritual array first; everything else could wait.
“Don’t even think about destroying the spiritual array!” A’Lei roared. Dragging his limp leg, he hurled himself onto the Black Bull Demon’s back and hammered it with everything he had.
A’Li did the same, clamping onto the beast’s hind leg to halt its charge.
Another wave of attacks from the nether clan members landed; spears pierced the giants’ backs, leaving wounds too ghastly for words.
Vanya cast nonstop to help the giants repel the nether clan members and buy Liu Wuxie time.
Thanks to the sixth level’s unique conditions, few humans lingered here, and with the entrances to the fifth and seventh levels sealed, no one could enter the sixth level.
Liu Wuxie’s group of four stood alone, with no reinforcements coming.
The Black Bull Demon neared the Icebound Expanse Array, while A’Lei and A’Li staggered on the verge of collapse.
Boundless darkness laws poured into the desolate world, and then they surged toward the upper dantian. The black eye’s form solidified, no longer a mere phantom, yet it remained closed; it had to open for the Ghost Pupil to awaken.
Outside the array, the ghost clan began to retreat, dread rising as if a power from the depths of their soul seas had locked onto them. Darkness laws were deadly to the ghost clan.
Liu Wuxie’s cultivation climbed. Moments ago, he stood at the pinnacle of the Origin Conversion Realm; in a blink, he reached the first-level Primal Origin Realm. The space around him collapsed under the force he exuded, and he split a thread of divine sense to monitor the battle.
Liu Wuxie’s anxiety outstripped everyone else’s. If A’Lei and A’Li were to die here, how would he face the giant chieftain or their families?
The Black Bull Demon’s charge slowed as A’Lei bit into its neck, gulping blood and wrenching pained cries from the beast. It had no choice but to thrash and try to fling A’Lei away.
A’Lei’s consciousness blurred as he held to his last thread of will. Even if he died here, he would die with the Black Bull Demon. A’Li’s strength bled away as the beast dragged him forward. Blood soaked both giants.
A massive vortex opened behind Liu Wuxie like a funnel. A breakthrough to a major realm demanded spiritual energy hundreds of times greater than usual.
Close to two hundred thousand Pure Yang Pills ignited, and their pure-yang energy fused into the desolate world. Millions of astral stones vanished as well, condensing into liquid spiritual energy that poured into the desolate world.
In a blink, the desolate world doubled in size.
Liu Wuxie could no longer see its edges, and it was like he had returned to the True Martial Continent. The desolate world finally took shape. A divine dragon’s phantom manifested behind him and roared in answer to his rage.
The Black Bull Demon pressed on, now only a dozen meters from the Icebound Expanse Array.
The nether clan ceased attacking A’Lei and A’Li, certain the giants would soon die. They funneled all power into destroying the spiritual array, unwilling to miss the chance.
Vanya stopped casting and watched. She had little magical force left and could manage only one more spell.
After absorbing hundreds of thousands of Pure Yang Pills, Liu Wuxie’s desolate world reached saturation. With the liquid spiritual energy from the astral stones, his surging aura finally steadied, and the Ghost Pupil in his upper dantian snapped open, repelling all surrounding darkness.
“It’s the Ghost Pupil! It has awakened!” the surrounding ghost clan members cried out, fear twisting their faces. They had never imagined Liu Wuxie would awaken the Ghost Pupil, which possessed absolute control over darkness. Its power was unimaginable, even if it ranked last among the Eight Divine Pupils.
Pain split Liu Wuxie’s forehead, leaving a black eye. When he swept that eye across the world, a different realm unfolded—dark-attribute energy had gathered before him like a tidal wave.
From this moment on, there would be no darkness in his world.
Shortly after, an even larger black vortex opened in the sky.
“It’s the power of the Ghost Pupil! Retreat now!” the members of the ghost clan shouted. Even the undead clan retreated from the powerful suction; only the faceless clan stood unafraid.
Before the ghost clan members could flee, the vortex pulled them in.
“NO! HOW COULD THIS BE!” the ghost clan members screamed as the vortex devoured them, while Liu Wuxie rapidly consumed the deathly energy in their bodies.
Deathly energy surged within Liu Wuxie. If he mastered the Great Death Mythical Art, he could reap his enemies’ lifespan in battle, exhausting foes until they were reduced to nothingness—that was the terror of the Great Death Mythical Art.
The vortex expanded, dragging even the helpless members of the undead clan into it. They carried deathly energy as well, and Liu Wuxie devoured and refined it all.
The Netherworld’s sixth level was perfect for the Ghost Pupil, as it was full of dark-attribute energy.
In broad daylight, however, the Ghost Pupil’s power would diminish greatly and could probably not match even an ordinary mythical art. However, this was mainly because the Ghost Pupil was still at an early stage and had yet to fully evolve. At its peak, it could manifest even under the noonday sun and turn day into night.
“Destroy the spiritual array before he consolidates his cultivation!” the members of the nether clan roared.
The Black Bull Demon finally reached the spiritual array, but it was already on the brink of death. Liu Wuxie was still busy consolidating his cultivation, so the nether clan members could rush in and kill him the instant the array collapsed.
