Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1475 - Fifth-Level Void Realm
Chapter 1475 – Fifth-Level Void Realm
The Great Dao of Wood’s fragment was so tough that Liu Wuxie couldn’t break it down at all. Gong Gong had not only shattered it, but he also destroyed the law that the Dark Evil Emperor had left on it.
Without that imprint, the Dark Evil Emperor had no way of locating Liu Wuxie anytime soon.
Liu Wuxie continued his breakthrough while he poured all the remaining energy into the desolate world. As pure wood-attribute energy flooded in, the plants in that world began to grow rapidly.
Outside, Xiao Rou sat quietly and felt her cultivation rise. The moment she sensed the change, she jumped around happily like a little fairy.
Her antics drew a look of contempt from Fiery. What was so surprising about that? As long as they followed behind Big Brother Liu, even more shocking things would appear in the future.
When the gateway to the fifth level appeared, it rumbled loudly. If Liu Wuxie pushed through his breakthrough now, the resulting commotion would be massive, and he could even trigger a phenomenon.
The Desolate Devouring Art spun rapidly, devouring the surrounding spiritual energy as it poured over him like a tidal wave.
Upon consuming the fragment of the Great Dao of Wood, the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron swelled larger, and even more laws of heaven and earth emerged within it, further accelerating its devouring speed.
In the Heavenly Deity Valley, the laws of heaven and earth were incredibly firm, especially the spatial laws. Hence, cultivators at the Void Realm couldn’t fly here.
As a torrent of laws poured into Liu Wuxie’s body, the benefits quickly became obvious—his mastery of the Great Spatial Mythical Art rose sharply. At the same time, those laws reinforced the spatial laws within the desolate world.
Liu Wuxie’s true essence roared as it slowly transformed into immortal energy, moving through him in an agonizingly slow way.
When that immortal energy entered his meridians, he immediately felt a tearing pain; with his current physique, he couldn’t control it.
If he tried to wield it by force, the immortal energy would tear straight through his flesh. Upon reaching the Earth Immortal Realm, however, he would not only be able to control immortal energy, but he could also unleash simple immortal arts.
In the distance, two figures emerged from the dense forest where they had been wandering. Drawn by the converging spiritual energy, they came over to investigate.
“What’s going on here? Why is all the spiritual energy heading in that direction?” one of the two cultivators asked.
The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron formed a terrifying vortex above Liu Wuxie, devouring all the spiritual energy within a radius of ten thousand meters.
The surrounding trees instantly withered and drooped, drained of their spiritual energy.
“Let’s go take a look!” the two exclaimed as they shot toward Liu Wuxie’s location.
Meanwhile, Liu Wuxie continued attempting his breakthrough to the fifth-level Void Realm, but his foundation still felt somewhat lacking. An ordinary cultivator would need time to consolidate after breaking through two levels in succession, yet he had taken only a few hours to reach this point.
After coming this far, he knew there was no path of return.
If he gave up this chance to complete his breakthrough, the remaining energy would fuse into the desolate world, and who knew how long it would take before he could attempt another breakthrough?
“Breakthrough!” Liu Wuxie made his decision and gathered his true essence, now carrying a wisp of immortal energy, to strike at the gateway to the fifth level. Even though he only mobilized a single strand of true essence, he felt like a myriad needles had prickled him at once.
As the immortal energy coursed through his meridians, it left tiny cracks behind in its wake. He didn’t have time to worry about that and accelerated the flow of his true essence instead, allowing it rampage through him like a dragon.
With a loud explosion, the gateway to the fifth-level Void Realm shook violently as fissures spread across its surface, ready to burst open at any moment. This was the power of immortal energy—hundreds of times stronger than true essence.
“Again!” Liu Wuxie gritted his teeth and forced himself to endure the pain tearing through his meridians.
He launched his second attempt, gathering power even more ferocious than before. Cracks spread across him, and blood poured out of him, turning him into a bloody mess in an instant.
Xiao Rou covered her mouth at the sight, her eyes full of concern as she watched agony twist her master’s face.
Fiery, on the other hand, watched calmly; it had seen scenes like this many times before.
With another thunderous explosion, the gateway to the fifth-level Void Realm finally broke apart. The instant it shattered, a new gate appeared before Liu Wuxie. It was like a new world had opened to him.
His soul sea expanded rapidly, and his soul energy surged in response. In moments, it had already grown stronger than before and reached a level comparable to a fourth-level Earth Immortal.
He immediately took out a handful of pills and tossed them into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron. After the pills dissolved, their energy turned into liquid and began to mend his wounds.
The fissures in his meridians healed rapidly as energy flowed back from the desolate world, aiding his recovery. In just a single breath, he recovered completely, and his physique had become noticeably stronger than before.
“That feels great!” Liu Wuxie suppressed the urge to roar. He had never felt such comfort before.
Heaven and earth had nurtured the Great Dao of Wood’s fragment for hundreds of thousands of years, and now he fully reaped its benefits. No words could describe the satisfaction surging in his heart.
The desolate world hadn’t expanded, but its density had doubled. Most importantly, the power of the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art had increased tenfold after being empowered by the Great Dao of Wood’s fragment.
He felt confident that this power could easily crush cultivators at the lower levels of the Earth Immortal Realm.
The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron continued to revolve, but there was little spiritual energy left in the surroundings, so he threw a few hundred astral crystals into the cauldron.
He had killed two hunters, and together with the astral crystals he had plundered from the Sky Cloud Star, the Tranquil Meteor Star, Nightmare City, and the cultivators slain by Xiao Rou, he now possessed more than a hundred thousand astral crystals.
Across the entire Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, even the wealth of many high-level Earth Immortal cultivators couldn’t compare to his.
As hundreds of astral crystals melted inside the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, Liu Wuxie’s cultivation gradually stabilized at the fifth-level Void Realm.
The desolate world brimmed with energy, and his true essence and immortal energy surged before him like two vast oceans.
Suddenly, two figures appeared before Xiao Rou, and their faces lit up with delight when they saw Liu Wuxie cultivating inside the hollowed tree.
“It’s Liu Wuxie! He’s refining the Great Dao of Wood’s fragment here.” The two had been present when the fragment appeared, but they hadn’t had the chance to contend for it, as they were only at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm.
Fiery immediately stepped forward and let out a roar, unleashing a powerful shockwave that nearly sent the two men flying.
The two men exchanged a look and saw greed blazing in each other’s eyes.
“Brother Gong, you hold off that qilin while I go after Liu Wuxie. We have to capture him before he makes his breakthrough,” the cultivator on the left said.
“Alright,” the man on the right replied. His name was Gong Shan, and his companion was known as Shi Yangyun. They were both cultivators from the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain.
As for Xiao Rou, the two cultivators disregarded her. In their eyes, Vine Demons weren’t strong and were easy to handle, especially when this one looked like she was only in her teens. That alone made her existence easy to ignore.
After speaking, Shi Yangyun moved, detouring around Xiao Rou and Fiery as he rushed toward the hollowed tree.
“Xiao Rou, now!” Fiery shouted in the human tongue. As a divine beast that had awakened its bloodline memories, its knowledge and experience could even surpass that of many experts from the older generation.
Xiao Rou attacked instantly as countless vine tendrils lashed out toward Shi Yangyun, wrapping around his ankles and slowing him down to buy time for her master.
By the time Gong Shan and Shi Yangyun arrived, Liu Wuxie had already sensed their presence, but he didn’t take them seriously.
Now that he had reached the fifth-level Void Realm, protecting himself wouldn’t be a problem, even if he couldn’t defeat eighth-level Earth Immortal opponents outright.
If Xiao Rou and Fiery joined forces with him, they could kill the two two cultivators.
Liu Wuxie narrowed his eyes and turned his gaze to Xiao Rou. He never had to worry about Fiery, whose loyalty was absolute, but Xiao Rou was still in her trial period. This was the perfect chance for him to test her loyalty.
Facing the oncoming vines, Shi Yangyun raised his longsword and swung it down, cutting apart all the tendrils in his path and reducing them to scattered laws, as those tendrils were manifestations of laws.
Fiery fought even more ferociously, breathing out True Samadhi Fire that surged into a blazing ocean to block Gong Shan’s advance.
The purple True Samadhi Fire Fiery unleashed could even rival the True Samadhi Fire within the Universal Gourd.
Gong Shan howled in anger. He was at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm, but he was utterly helpless before the True Samadhi Fire.
Shi Yangyun tore through the last of the tendrils and charged straight at Liu Wuxie.
“Don’t even think about harming my master!” Xiao Rou darted forward as a red mist burst from her body and enveloped Shi Yangyun. That was her illusion art.
Wrapped in the red mist, Shi Yangyun immediately lost all sense of direction. Just as Liu Wuxie had experienced before, several bewitching women appeared and walked toward him, each displaying her charm.
Their clothes slowly faded away, leaving Shi Yangyun dumbstruck as his eyes turned hazy and he pounced toward them.
After all, not everyone was like Liu Wuxie, who had the protection of the Heavenly Dao Book. Having personally experienced Xiao Rou’s illusion before, he knew how powerful it was and how dangerous it was for others to sink into it.
Gong Shan was utterly baffled as he watched Shi Yangyun hugging a massive tree and kissing it wildly. However, time was running out, and if they couldn’t subdue Liu Wuxie before he completed his breakthrough, capturing him later would become even more difficult.
A faint smile curled on Liu Wuxie’s lips; Xiao Rou had passed his loyalty test. She had thrown herself into the fight with everything she had, even without his command—proof that she had truly submitted to him.
“Shi Yangyun, what are you doing?!” Gong Shan shouted anxiously at the top of his lungs. Shi Yangyun, however, paid him no mind and continued kissing the tree. The sight was so painfully awkward that it was hard for anyone to keep watching.
Fiery spat out a ball of fire and turned to look at Xiao Rou with a hint of lingering fear in its eyes. The illusion had trapped Shi Yangyun, and only by awakening his primordial spirit could he escape. If he remained in the illusion for too long, he would completely lose himself. By now, the red mist had already stained his soul.
In another minute at most, Shi Yangyun would become Xiao Rou’s puppet. She had relied on this method to kill experts at the Earth Immortal Realm in the past.
Just then, things took an even more indecent turn as he actually reached into his pants, a scene that nearly made Gong Shan spit blood in fury.
No one could imagine what kind of illusion Shi Yangyun was trapped in for him to lose himself so completely; it was utterly unbelievable. Ordinary illusions couldn’t threaten Earth Immortals with their powerful primordial spirits.
Only those who reached the Heaven Gaze Realm could see through all illusions and gain a wisp of ability to glimpse the heaven’s profundities.
“Shi Yangyun, wake up!” Gong Shan roared, infusing his voice with soul energy after dodging the True Samadhi Fire. The soul energy broke through Xiao Rou’s defenses and charged straight into Shi Yangyun’s soul sea.
Shi Yangyun’s mind cleared in an instant, and his face flushed red when he saw his own state. He had been living for thousands of years and had never embarrassed himself in such a way before. The whole scene was downright ridiculous.
“W-What happened?” Shi Yangyun asked after he quickly tidied up his clothes. When he recalled what had happened earlier, he immediately realized that an illusion had trapped him.
He was lucky that Gong Shan had woken him up; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
