Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1479 - Eternal World
Chapter 1479 – Eternal World
Although the tension had eased for the moment, no one mistook that lull for a complete resolution of the impending fight.
Liu Wuxie also hadn’t expected elders from the Grand Unity Sect to be hiding in the crowd. This could be what it meant when enemies met on a narrow road.
Everyone formed into small clusters and racked their brains for a way out. Many of them tried repeatedly, but no matter which direction they flew, an unseen force dragged them back.
Liu Wuxie even tried sending the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron out, and he still failed. If the cauldron could leave, he could enter it with his senior brothers and escape this place. The entire region acted like a barrier, so not even a speck of dust could slip through.
“We might as well pool our strength and see if we can tear this barrier open,” Xiao Yuetian suggested. If they combined everything they had, they could push their power to its absolute limit.
Even though Liu Wuxie remained in the Void Realm, no one dared to look down on him. After all, his combat strength already matched the sixth- or seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm.
Xiao Yuetian’s proposal won universal approval, and even Sun Xiao agreed. For the time being, they set aside their grudges and focused on leaving.
The Dark Evil Emperor stepped to the front, and everyone began channeling their power into him. At first, it worked, as the suction force weakened and the group moved outward. But after they advanced about three meters, a violent surge erupted from the monument, yanking them straight back to where they had started.
“It doesn’t work!” Everyone grimaced, frustration written across their faces.
“What kind of damned place is this? Are we going to be trapped here until we die?” Many people’s moods wavered as panic rose. Even with the long lifespans of the Earth Immortal Realm, none of them could endure endless years spent there.
Liu Wuxie stayed with his three senior brothers, and together they tried every method they could think of, only to fail repeatedly.
“It has to be this monument. As long as we can uncover the monument’s secret, we should be able to leave this place,” someone said, and everyone lifted their heads to stare at the towering monument above them.
The monument was the reason they were dragged there in the first place.
Everyone rolled their eyes. Everyone already knew the monument kept them trapped, but the real problem lay in unlocking its secrets.
From the moment Liu Wuxie arrived, he had stretched his divine sense outward and realized this wasn’t a simple barrier. No matter how powerful a barrier might be, Liu Wuxie believed he could find a flaw somewhere—unless a deity had set it up.
This place felt more like a bizarre loop that had detached from the Outer Astral Spacetime. That also explained why no information could be transmitted outside.
Even in the astral domain, Super Communication Talismans could send messages. Yet here, nothing worked at all.
“Could it be…?” Liu Wuxie’s pupils narrowed as a thought struck him, and he raised his head to study the base of the monument.
“Junior Brother, did you discover something?” Sun Xiao asked, and the other two followed, since all of them had been watching Liu Wuxie closely.
Sun Xiao stood tall with a charming appearance, Tong Shan looked ordinary but carried a delicate heart that made speaking with him comfortable, and Yin Ying might have been a woman, yet she was breathtakingly beautiful. No wonder Sun Xiao had fallen for her at first sight.
“An eternal world,” Liu Wuxie murmured. He had only heard about it from his master—not Hua Feiyu, but the Heavenly Taoist from the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm.
“What is an eternal world?” Sun Xiao asked, completely baffled, since he had never heard of it before. Tong Shan and Yin Ying looked just as confused.
They couldn’t read their junior brother at all, because he had maintained a calm composure from the moment he had arrived. He hadn’t shown fear even when facing the two elders from the Grand Unity Sect.
“Senior Brother, do you have an hourglass on you?” Liu Wuxie asked Sun Xiao.
“I do,” Sun Xiao replied, taking out an hourglass filled with sand that usually took an entire day to drain from the upper layer into the lower.
Since everyone stood nearby, the surrounding cultivators also heard the exchange.
“What?!” Sun Xiao stumbled and nearly fell over when he looked at the hourglass. The sand inside had frozen, and no matter how he shook it, nothing moved.
Everyone hurriedly pulled out their own hourglasses, and they all saw the same thing. That meant time here had frozen, which explained why the trees looked as though they had grown for tens of thousands of years, yet none had developed spirituality. Without the flow of time, how could spirituality ever be born?
To put it bluntly, those trees hadn’t grown at all for hundreds of thousands of years, and they had retained the appearance they wore before time froze.
“Liu Wuxie, what’s going on?” Panic spread as everyone shouted at once, because none of them had ever encountered anything this eerie. They had seen time laws run faster or slower; cultivation chambers, for example, could slow time to a crawl, but no one had experienced time freezing outright.
Everyone’s gaze locked on Liu Wuxie, waiting for an answer. Even the two elders from the Grand Unity Sect stared at him now, and hope burned in their eyes as they listened. None of them wanted to die there, least of all those at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm, because one more step would let them reach the Heaven Gaze Realm and stand at the summit of the astral domain.
“I don’t know the specifics, and I have only read about it in ancient books,” Liu Wuxie said. He offered no deeper explanation, because he wasn’t entirely sure himself. When the Heavenly Taoist had mentioned it, he had only touched on it briefly.
Clearly, even the Heavenly Taoist didn’t understand much about the profundity of the eternal world.
That answer only deepened the crowd’s confusion. They had lived for thousands of years and read countless books, so why had none of them ever seen anything like this?
“Junior Brother, is there a way out?” Sun Xiao asked. He didn’t care where Liu Wuxie had learned about this place; he only cared whether they could leave safely.
The longer they remained trapped, the more troublesome it would become. Once everyone accepted they couldn’t leave, the Grand Unity Sect’s elders would inevitably make a move, and if it came to it, they might drag everyone down with them.
“It’s difficult unless we can uncover the secrets of this monument and comprehend the profundity of eternity,” Liu Wuxie said, sending the words to his senior brothers through divine sense. Since the outsiders couldn’t hear that exchange, they could only pace in anxious circles.
Tong Shan and Yin Ying had probed the monument many times, yet they couldn’t even make out the characters from this distance. Their divine sense also couldn’t extend outward under the suppression of the suction force.
“Senior Brothers, guard me,” Liu Wuxie said.
Time pressed on him, and he needed a way out immediately. The Dark Evil Emperor and the others were holding back for now, but that didn’t mean they wouldn’t strike later.
All three senior brothers moved at once, forming a protective ring around Liu Wuxie, while Fiery and Xiao Rou took their places as well. He also communicated with Gong Gong, ready to call for help the instant danger appeared.
With everything set, Liu Wuxie lifted his head and looked toward the sky. The monument stood too far away for anyone to make out the characters with the naked eye.
When Liu Wuxie tried to extend his divine sense, an unseen restriction snapped it back, as though the eternal space-time itself had trapped it.
Then his forehead split open, revealing the Ghost Pupil. He had tried using the Ghost Eye before, which activated through his normal eyes rather than the Ghost Pupil, but this time, a third eye opened directly on his forehead.
The instant that third eye snapped open, shock flashed across every face. After all, only a handful of people knew Liu Wuxie possessed one of the Eight Divine Pupils, the Ghost Pupil. Since the Ghost Pupil originated from the ghost clan, humans found it notoriously difficult to fuse with it.
Liu Wuxie had only fused with the Ghost Pupil because he cultivated the Desolate Devouring Art, which could encompass everything in the world. That meant he could turn what belonged to other races into his own.
The moment Liu Wuxie summoned the Ghost Pupil, a boundless force rippled outward. Many people clutched themselves as tearing pain stabbed into their soul sea, as if needles were driving deep into their souls.
The Ghost Pupil pierced through endless layers of spacetime, and the eternity laws couldn’t restrain it, allowing Liu Wuxie to push his perception toward the monument slowly. That development brought Liu Wuxie a surge of relief, because it meant they could leave once he solved the monument’s secrets.
“Liu Wuxie actually possesses one of the Eight Divine Pupils? I have to kill him when I get the chance and seize everything from him,” the Dark Evil Emperor murmured to himself.
They weren’t attacking Liu Wuxie right now, but no one planned to let it go. They were trapped there for the moment, yet the instant they escaped, they would definitely make their move.
The Eight Divine Pupils were treasures of heaven and earth, famed alongside the Eight Ancestral Talismans.
The Ghost Pupil continued its advance because the monument still lay too far away. Meanwhile, Liu Wuxie’s soul energy churned like an ocean in his soul sea, and he burned through one-third of it in only a few minutes. That was precisely why he usually avoided using the Ghost Pupil. The toll it took on his soul energy was terrifying. Yet with no other choice, he could only gamble on it.
He could only accomplish this feat because his soul sea was so mighty. If any other cultivator at the Earth Immortal Realm tried it, they would not even be able to activate the Ghost Pupil.
Five minutes later, the Ghost Pupil’s vision finally reached the bottom of the monument. The moment it touched that presence, an immense power descended, crushing down on Liu Wuxie in an attempt to annihilate his primordial spirit.
At that very moment, the Heavenly Dao Book flew out and released dazzling golden radiance that wrapped around Liu Wuxie, blocking the crushing force.
When the Heavenly Dao Book appeared, several cultivators lost control and dropped to their knees before they even realized it. It felt as though a deity had descended, and their dao hearts could only submit.
His three senior brothers’ faces changed as well when the golden brilliance enveloped them, along with Fiery and Xiao Rou.
In the next moment, all three of their cultivation began to rise, and Sun Xiao stepped into the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm. As he entered the high levels of the Earth Immortal Realm, his combat strength surged sharply.
The Heavenly Dao Book contained too many heavenly dao sequences, which benefited the three of them immensely. Xiao Rou and Fiery also gained significantly, as the heavenly dao sequences began transforming their aptitude. That was mainly because one was a demon and the other a beast, and their physiology differed from humans.
“What the hell is that? It actually helped Sun Xiao and the other two to make a breakthrough in their cultivation,” the surrounding cultivators said, jealousy glittering in their eyes. At this rate, if Sun Xiao reached the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm, killing Liu Wuxie would become impossible.
When Tong Shan broke through to the sixth-level Earth Immortal Realm, an immense power erupted from him, like a vajra awakening.
Another shocked exclamation rose from the crowd. “A Vajra Buddha! He’s the reincarnation of a Buddhist Clan!”
After his breakthrough, Tong Shan basked in the golden brilliance, and mantra chants echoed around him.
Yin Ying didn’t fall behind at all, as rainbow-colored radiance shone across her body and formed countless butterflies that drifted through the air.
Sun Xiao proved a late bloomer as a primal surge of power swept out from him, and he clearly awakened some hidden force within his body.
