Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1476 - Killing the Eighth-Level Earth Immortal Realm
Chapter 1476 – Killing the Eighth-Level Earth Immortal Realm
Remembering how he had disgraced himself earlier, Shi Yangyun’s face flushed red with rage as he lifted his longsword and slashed down at Xiao Rou.
The sword ray he released swept across the heavens, and under the same condition, a Vine Demon found it challenging to truly overpower a human cultivator.
Liu Wuxie had taught Xiao Rou a set of offensive mythical arts. Those methods worked well against ordinary humans, but no one who dared venture into the Outer Astral Spacetime qualified as ordinary.
Shi Yangyun drove every strike with killing intent, while Xiao Rou fought as a Vine Demon. When it came to wits and cunning, she stood no chance against a human cultivator.
After forcing Xiao Rou back ten-odd steps, Shi Yangyun pressed in on Liu Wuxie with every heartbeat.
On the other side, Fiery could only pour everything into holding Gong Shan back, as it had no way to kill the latter. The fight ground into a stalemate like this, and if it continued to drag on, Xiao Rou and Fiery would lose sooner or later.
Their attacks were too straightforward, lacking the profundity of the mythical arts humans employed.
With a thunderous explosion, Xiao Rou failed to dodge in time and took the blade ray head-on, green fluid splashing from her right arm. The pain made Xiao Rou suck in a cold breath. Aside from her master, no one had ever wounded her this badly.
Gong Shan had taken out an artifact that managed to suppress the True Samadhi Fire, but Fiery still held its ground by relying on its thick hide. Xiao Rou, however, couldn’t compare, and her physique looked pale beside Fiery’s.
After that wound, Fiery’s combat strength dropped sharply, and it slipped into a disadvantageous position.
Shi Yangyun kept up his assault like a madman, thoroughly provoked by what had happened earlier. He could only vent the hatred boiling in his chest by killing Xiao Rou.
Gong Shan pinned Fiery down and even split off a strand of his divine sense, using his soul energy to suppress Xiao Rou.
A Vine Demon didn’t excel at soul attacks, since they mainly relied on illusions to defeat their foes. The instant that soul energy swept over her, Xiao Rou felt searing pain rip through her mind.
Liu Wuxie had already completed his breakthrough, and he refined a few hundred astral crystals before his aura finally began to settle. When his eyes snapped open, he immediately registered the changes in the battle.
A wisp of soul sword shot out and cut off Shi Yangyun’s soul energy. He had stepped in at the last moment, and he could not possibly watch Xiao Rou die at Shi Yangyun’s hands.
Once Xiao Rou matured, she would become an enormous help to him.
“Get lost!” Shi Yangyun roared. He had been about to kill Xiao Rou, only for Liu Wuxie to ruin it at the last second. He slammed out a palm and sent Xiao Rou flying off to the side.
Seizing the opening, Shi Yangyun burst toward Liu Wuxie at full speed with his sword, stabbing straight for Liu Wuxie’s throat.
“Don’t hurt my master!” Xiao Rou yelled. She knew she would die as well if Liu Wuxie died, so she had to save him even at the cost of her life.
Even as the sword closed in, Liu Wuxie remained seated, revealing a faint smile. They thought he was still making his breakthrough, yet they had no idea he had already consolidated it.
Swoosh!
He vanished, and no one knew how he disappeared. The Heretic Blade appeared in his hand, and he chopped downward, sparks flaring as a blinding flash erupted and blasted Shi Yangyun away.
In pure combat strength alone, Liu Wuxie already stood comparable to cultivators at the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm.
“Xiao Rou, when I give the signal later, release your vines to bind him at once,” Liu Wuxie said.
He understood that fighting for even a single opening against the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm would be his limit, and he stood no chance against two opponents at the eighth level.
This was why he needed both Xiao Rou and Fiery’s strength. This urgency was precisely why Liu Wuxie had been in a hurry to increase Xiao Rou and Fiery’s strength.
“Okay!” Xiao Rou replied with a nod. They had already communicated through their divine sense, and no one had any idea what they were discussing.
Liu Wuxie charged straight in and unleashed one mythical art after another, catching his opponent off guard.
Shi Yangyun’s mythical arts carried tremendous power, and his cultivation stood higher as well, yet Liu Wuxie still found a flaw in them every time.
The situation felt bizarre because, with greater cultivation, his mythical arts ought to have been even more exquisite.
“Great Five Elemental Mythical Art!” After devouring the Great Dao of Wood’s fragment, Liu Wuxie finally put it to use, conjuring a giant palm that dropped from the sky.
With a loud rumble, a colossal palm descended from above and blotted out the sky, plunging the world into darkness. The moment he cast the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art, he jolted at its power, barely believing he had comprehended something like this.
He had already expected the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art’s power to increase significantly after refining the Great Dao of Wood’s fragment, but he had never expected it to become this terrifying.
If he could obtain the Great Dao of Metal, Earth, and Fire’s fragments, he believed the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art could even rival immortal arts once he refined them all.
After all, even the power of immortal arts varied. If the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art advanced into an immortal art, it would rank among the very best.
Shi Yangyun’s expression changed, realizing just how badly he had underestimated Liu Wuxie’s power.
Gong Shan tried to rush over and join forces with Shi Yangyun to deal with Liu Wuxie, but Fiery blocked him with brutal force.
Fiery swelled up, growing from three meters tall into a mountain. It stood like a towering peak, enveloped in True Samadhi Fire.
The clash instantly drew the attention of countless people, who began converging on their location. Fiery’s enormous size made it visible even from ten thousand meters away.
At the sight of Fiery’s colossal form, Gong Shan immediately revealed a grave face.
After transforming, Fiery’s combat strength could even rival cultivators at the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm, and it stomped a foot down at Gong Shan.
Gong Shan managed to dodge in time, but the ground where he stood earlier collapsed into a bottomless abyss. Had that stomp landed, it would have turned him to ash.
Fiery followed up with another stomp at once, leaving Gong Shan no chance to go after Liu Wuxie.
Gong Shan’s attacks felt like a tickle to Fiery, and they had no real effect.
The Great Five Elemental Mythical Art had already descended to suppress Shi Yangyun, who felt like a mountain was crushing down on him and severely hindering his movement.
“Xiao Rou, now!” Liu Wuxie shouted. He could only suppress Shi Yangyun; he couldn’t kill him.
Xiao Rou had already been waiting for that cue. The moment she received Liu Wuxie’s signal, countless vines shot out from the ground and wrapped around Shi Yangyun, cocooning him in the blink of an eye and binding him in place.
Without the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art’s suppression, Liu Wuxie would not have been able to suppress Shi Yangyun so easily. The coordination between him and Xiao Rou flowed seamlessly.
“Heretic Blade, strike!” The Heretic Blade turned into a streaking meteor and pierced through the vines with ease, entering from Shi Yangyun’s chest and bursting out from his back.
Everything happened within a thousandth of a moment, and by the time Shi Yangyun tried to react, it was already too late. The vines bound him, and the colossal palm conjured by the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art crushed him.
This was what Liu Wuxie wanted, and it caught Shi Yangyun completely by surprise.
A cultivator at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm would not die so easily from that blow, but the strike alone still left him heavily injured.
The Heretic Blade devoured most of the blood essence in his body, significantly decreasing Shi Yangyun’s power.
The outcome left Shi Yangyun enraged. As a dignified expert at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm, how could he not burn with fury at what he was seeing? The vines exploded as he tore free of Xiao Rou’s control.
Right then, the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art also reached him, catching Shi Yangyun off guard once more. One killing move chained into the next in a seamless plan laid by Liu Wuxie.
“This is bad!” Shi Yangyun had only just broken free from the vines, but the colossal palm had already arrived above his head. It was far too late for him to resist or dodge.
With a deafening explosion, the sky turned dark, and the ground shook violently, as if an earthquake had struck. The terrifying shockwave spread out for tens of thousands of meters, grinding countless trees into powder.
A colossal palm print appeared on the ground, horrifying to behold. Shi Yangyun lay in the pit, yet he was not dead. As a cultivator at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm, he could regenerate his body even if he only had one arm left. With his absurdly powerful physique, death would not come to him so easily.
Liu Wuxie could have borrowed Gong Gong’s hands to kill his opponent, but the latter clearly had no intention of helping.
Every time Liu Wuxie needed Gong Gong’s assistance, it would become a bargaining session, and Liu Wuxie could not be bothered to do that unless his life was truly in danger.
“Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, refine him!” Liu Wuxie growled.
Shi Yangyun was a cultivator at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm. Even if countless laws in his body had snapped, refining him could still help Liu Wuxie further consolidate his cultivation. The more Earth Immortal Realm’s laws he absorbed, the more his foundation would accumulate.
Before Shi Yangyun could respond, a terrifying black hole tore open out of nowhere and dragged him inside. Once he was within, demonic flame erupted and wrapped around him, reducing him into endless liquid that poured into the desolate world in the blink of an eye.
The sight terrified Gong Shan so severely that his soul nearly left him. Liu Wuxie was only at the fifth-level Void Realm, yet he had managed to slay a cultivator at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm.
Gong Shan wouldn’t believe that if someone were to tell him about it, but it had happened right in front of him.
“Run!” Gong Shan’s first thought screamed, and he tried to flee for his life.
If Gong Shan were alone, Liu Wuxie would not be his match, but with Xiao Rou and Fiery present, their combined prowess could rival even a cultivator at the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm.
Ordinary mythical arts would not affect Liu Wuxie, and his understanding of mythical arts had reached an unfathomable height.
“Since you’ve come, how can I allow you to leave?” Even after absorbing a cultivator at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm, the desolate world still could not be satisfied.
His breakthrough to the fifth-level Void Realm had depleted the laws within, even though his desolate world brimmed with true essence.
Fiery stomped once more; each step shook the ground and toppled countless trees. The spectacle drew everyone in the distance into motion as they rushed over, drawn by the battle’s commotion.
At this moment, Liu Wuxie knew he had to end the battle quickly before more experts arrived. He struggled against a cultivator at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm, so if he ran into experts like the Dark Evil Emperor, he could only wait for his demise.
Liu Wuxie used the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art again to crush Gong Shan. Fiery breathed out True Samadhi Fire, and Xiao Rou released her vines to fuse into the True Samadhi Fire and envelop Gong Shan.
A bizarre scene soon unfolded as the True Samadhi Fire burned even more fiercely when the vines reinforced it, rising to an unbelievable intensity. Boundless flames spread outward, and all the dense wood-attribute energy in the surrounding trees strengthened the True Samadhi Fire even further beyond.
As wood gave birth to fire, Fiery’s combat strength doubled in an instant.
Gong Shan found himself enveloped by flames on all sides, trapping him in place.
“Divine Purgatory Palace!” On top of the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art, Liu Wuxie even summoned the Divine Purgatory Palace’s power.
Xiao Rou did not idle either, and vines coiled around Gong Shan, significantly restricting his movements. Just like that, the trio coordinated flawlessly, moving together as one.
