Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1327 - Shaking the Heavens
Chapter 1327 – Shaking the Heavens
The Heavenly Primal Wheel covered the sky and most of the plain. The moment it descended, it would crush everything beneath into minced meat, and the impact would flatten even the entire mountain range.
The seven giants raised their hands to the sky and unleashed their full power. The elves followed close behind, casting spells and releasing torrents of water that mingled with other forces, spiraling upward in an attempt to stop the Heavenly Primal Wheel.
Cracking sounds echoed through space as countless spatial shards fell from above. Liu Wuxie stood his ground, and Vanya halted as well, no longer working to break the spiritual array; their attempts were too slow compared to the Heavenly Primal Wheel’s speed. Hundreds of thousands had gathered around the seventeen mountains, with representatives from various races present.
“Liu Wuxie is finished!” Many murmured, for not every race had a grudge with him.
Outside the spiritual array, many giants and elves gritted their teeth in hatred, but they could do nothing. The Myriad-Phase Divine Buddha Array had already activated, ensuring that no one outside could enter, and vice versa.
More disciples of the Grand Unity Sect joined in, forming seals to control the Heavenly Primal Wheel. The few hundred disciples who had controlled it previously had exhausted all their true essence, and the next batch stepped forward to fill the gap. From this alone, one could imagine the immense amount of true essence required to manipulate the Heavenly Primal Wheel.
The bodies of A’Lei and the other giants bent under the pressure. The Heavenly Primal Wheel had yet to descend fully, yet fissures spread across the ground, opening multiple craters. Each crater was bottomless, and terrifying nether energy gushed up from beneath.
“What should we do? We can’t possibly watch Liu Wuxie die at the hands of the Grand Unity Sect!” The Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples had long arrived at the ninth level, searching for Liu Wuxie’s whereabouts, but they were ultimately a step too late and found him inside.
If the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples didn’t step out to help him, their sect’s reputation would suffer a heavy blow. Reputations were critical to a powerful sect.
“Who told him to be reckless? He was already warned not to go in,” said a few, convinced Liu Wuxie courted death by entering the spiritual array.
“If you’re in his position and your friends are trapped inside, would you stand by and watch?” the supporting disciples shot back, their anger flaring. Not only did these people refuse to help, but they even fanned the flames, drawing countless dissatisfied glances from those around.
The Heavenly Primal Wheel’s grinding speed wasn’t fast; it sought to crush them slowly.
Suddenly, a giant finally collapsed, unable to withstand the pressure. A’Lei and A’Li bellowed and activated all the Pressurizing Spiritual Arrays in their bodies. The power they released actually held the wheel in check.
The nether energy gushing from the ground grew so terrifying that it shrouded everyone’s sight. Seizing the moment, Liu Wuxie summoned the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron to devour the nether energy, rapidly strengthening the Ghost Pupil. The terrifying poison and demonic energy within that surge poured into the cauldron, which rapidly consumed them.
Liu Wuxie waited, and only he knew what he was waiting for. The elves had nearly consumed all their magical force, and the Heavenly Primal Wheel’s descent began to speed up.
“Liu Wuxie, don’t bother putting up any futile struggle. You will all die today,” a jeer echoed through the air.
In less than fifteen minutes, another batch of Grand Unity Sect disciples stepped forward to fuel the Heavenly Primal Wheel with their true essence. They repeated this cycle without pause, denying Liu Wuxie and his allies any time to recover.
Facing the Grand Unity Sect’s ridicule, Liu Wuxie remained indifferent and looked at Vanya.
“Vanya, the fight ahead will be brutal, and you have an important task. Not only do you have to destroy the spiritual array, but you also have to use spiritual arrays to protect them,” Liu Wuxie said.
He had already taught Vanya the method to destroy the spiritual array, and with the Heavenly Primal Wheel about to drop, he no longer had much time.
“Then we live and die together!” Vanya said, biting down on her lips. If they couldn’t share the same pillow in life, they could rest together in death. What she said was meant for lovers.
Liu Wuxie naturally caught the hidden meaning in Vanya’s words, and so did the giants and elves. Looking at the resolve in her eyes, a bitter ache stirred in his heart.
“Don’t worry about it. None of us will die today,” Liu Wuxie said, giving Vanya a comforting gaze. With him here, nothing would crush them—not the Heavenly Primal Wheel. Even if the sky fell, he would smash it apart with his fists.
Boundless fighting spirit erupted from Liu Wuxie and condensed into a dragon’s palm that struck the Heavenly Primal Wheel with blinding speed. As the dragon’s palm transformed, it became a golden divine dragon, coiling in the sky and stopping the wheel from falling.
The addition of Liu Wuxie’s strength halted the Heavenly Primal Wheel’s plunge and gave the giants and elves a chance to catch their breath. But that was all he could manage; he couldn’t destroy it.
“Liu Wuxie, I’ll see how long you can last!” a Grand Unity Sect disciple cried. Hundreds joined forces, pouring their laws and true essence into the Heavenly Primal Wheel until their power reached the level of cultivators at the pinnacle of the fourth- or fifth-level Void Realm.
The Heavenly Primal Wheel creaked again and continued to drop. The golden divine dragon roared, its cry echoing through the sky and making the entire Netherworld tremble. No words could capture the spectacle. How many years had it been since a battle like this?
The sight of Liu Wuxie resisting the assault from thousands of people and an artifact comparable to the pinnacle of the Void Realm left the spectators outside stunned. They couldn’t imagine the pressure on him at this moment.
The Heavenly Primal Wheel, which even seven giants and dozens of elves couldn’t resist, was stopped by Liu Wuxie alone.
“This Liu Wuxie is too terrifying. If he can survive, he will surely change the Indigo Bamboo Star’s layout,” many spectators whispered, fear creeping into many hearts.
Liu Wuxie’s talent shocked them. They had watched him climb from the fourth-level Origin Conversion Realm to the first-level Primal Origin Realm in a few short months. Though his cultivation wasn’t high, that achievement alone was enough to shake the world. If he were left to grow, it was only a matter of time before he stepped into the Earth Immortal Realm, and who could stop him then?
Prodigies weren’t terrifying; they were common on the Indigo Bamboo Star, and every superpower had a few monsters now and then. But Liu Wuxie was neither. He stood in a class of his own, beyond the scope of humans.
The seventeen mountains took turns to cycle, sending in a new batch as exhausted disciples fell back, maintaining the Heavenly Primal Wheel at full power without pause. To set up the Myriad-Phase Divine Buddha Array, many Grand Unity Sect disciples had given up collecting spiritual herbs.
Only a portion of the disciples had gathered enough spiritual herbs, and they were the ones with real shots at the champion spot thanks to their talent in alchemy.
The golden divine dragon kept descending, and Liu Wuxie’s true essence burned away at a rapid pace. Vanya set up a spiritual array to protect the giants and elves within. The upcoming battle would be devastating, and they couldn’t afford collateral damage. With the spiritual array’s protection, the pressure on them lightened.
Once Vanya finished, she plunged back into the Myriad-Phase Divine Buddha Array to continue destroying it.
“The saintess seems to have grown a lot,” said two elf maidens as they looked at the saintess.
“Yeah. She hasn’t just matured, but she can carry the mantle now,” said another elf. Pride stirred as they watched Vanya’s growth. They believed that if they survived this ordeal, the elven race’s overall strength would soar significantly.
One by one, the Myriad-Phase Divine Buddha Array’s cores dimmed and broke under Vanya’s hands.
“That’s impossible! Since when are elves versed in spiritual arrays?” asked a cultivator outside the mountain range. The elven race wasn’t known for proficiency in spiritual arrays, but Vanya moved as though she had practiced for decades.
There were many spiritual array grandmasters in the surroundings, and even they couldn’t find the Myriad-Phase Divine Buddha Array’s flaws anytime soon. Yet Vanya wove through it as if she strolled through a garden.
“Increase the power!” Mo Hong said.
Another hundred disciples joined at his command, and five hundred disciples poured their power into the Heavenly Primal Wheel. The pressure on Liu Wuxie spiked, and cracks spread across the golden divine dragon, pushing it to the edge of collapse.
Judging by the current pace, the golden divine dragon would shatter in three breaths at most. When that happened, the Heavenly Primal Wheel would drop and grind them to ashes.
“What is he doing? Why is he devouring the Netherworld’s laws like a madman?” Confusion spread as they noticed Liu Wuxie refining the laws of the Netherworld even now.
“That’s a futile effort. It’s too late even if he could reach the second-level Primal Origin Realm now,” many spectators sneered.
The Heavenly Primal Wheel was only fifty meters from dropping, and a powerful force swept out in waves.
The giants rose to their feet again and raised their hands to catch the Heavenly Primal Wheel, especially A’Lei and A’Li, who stood 30 meters tall; when they stretched toward the sky, their combined height reached 50 meters.
The moment they began to carry the Heavenly Primal Wheel, cracking sounds echoed from their arms, and their feet sank into the ground inch by inch.
Right then, an even more terrifying surge of the Netherworld’s laws poured over and vanished into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron. A few minutes had passed, and even Liu Wuxie didn’t know how much of the nether energy he had devoured.
The laws condensed into a mountain in the cauldron’s depths, where the Avici Hell began to surface.
“At least, the Avici Hell has finally formed,” Liu Wuxie whispered with a smile. He had been absorbing the Netherworld’s laws with the sole objective of helping the Avici Hell take form. Since he entered the astral domain, the Avici Hell had only been a phantom, and he couldn’t summon it.
The Netherworld’s laws on the ninth level were denser than on the eighth. In mere minutes, what he absorbed matched what he would have taken several hours to learn on the eighth level.
When he refined the Void Realm expert from the nether clan, the Avici Hell had already begun to stir on the brink of formation.
“Everyone, retreat to the spiritual array!” Liu Wuxie yelled, directing his command to everyone, including Vanya.
When Vanya glanced at Liu Wuxie, she returned to the spiritual array she had set up.
“Giants, prepare to withdraw your hands!” Liu Wuxie called out once again.
