Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1484 - Divine Eternal Fist
Chapter 1484 – Divine Eternal Fist
Even though Liu Wuxie had forged the Heavenly Deity Monument in his past life, he carried no memory of it in his present one. He had heard that some cultivators could awaken past-life memories once their cultivation reached a certain level, but he still didn’t know whether that rumor held any truth.
For now, Liu Wuxie could only grope forward because his understanding of the Heavenly Deity Monument remained stuck in the exploratory stage, and he remained too weak to wield it.
To control a quasi-immortal artifact, he needed more than immortal energy; he also needed a vast quantity of immortal runes. Immortal energy wasn’t the issue, since his desolate world held quite a lot of it.
The real problem lay with immortal runes, as he possessed only a handful of them.
He had only two ways to obtain immortal runes—he could enter the celestial realm, where immortal runes lay everywhere, or he could hunt immortals, refine them, and seize the immortal runes from their bodies.
Whether he chose the first method or the second, both remained nothing but fantasy for the current Liu Wuxie.
He would return to the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm sooner or later, and he had already begun laying the groundwork for that day.
Since he couldn’t use the Heavenly Deity Monument for the time being, the Divine Eternal Fist became his strongest offensive technique without question.
The moment he invoked it, he felt the true essence and immortal energy in the desolate world draining at a terrifying pace, and it drained far faster than he had imagined.
The moment the Heavenly Deity Monument merged into the desolate world, the desolate world expanded threefold, and he needed to refine three thousand astral crystals to fill it. Yet he never expected a single punch to drain all his true essence.
If the Heavenly Deity Monument hadn’t fused into the desolate world and expanded it, the Divine Eternal Fist alone would have turned him into a mummy.
In that case, he wouldn’t have died at the hands of the Dark Evil Emperor and the others—he would have died to the Divine Eternal Fist itself.
The thought alone sent a chill down his spine, and he could only feel grateful at the expansion of the desolate world.
For the moment, he didn’t need to worry about his soul sea. After comprehending the Heavenly Deity Monument for a thousand years, his soul energy now rivaled the seventh level of the Earth Immortal Realm.
The instant Liu Wuxie unleashed the Divine Eternal Fist, the sky grew dark, and the world felt as though an apocalypse had descended.
Many Vine Demons lived on the Astral Sea, and they could clearly see everything unfolding inside the Heavenly Deity Valley. With the Heavenly Deity Monument gone, the Heavenly Deity Valley had begun merging back into the Astral Sea.
Sun Xiao and the other two could also see everything happening outside with absolute clarity. Shock froze on their faces when they saw eternal intent erupt and spread outward.
“It looks like this junior brother of ours isn’t simple,” Yin Ying said as she clicked her tongue, growing even more curious about their junior brother.
The Dark Evil Emperor and the others felt it most profoundly. Eternal intent pinned them in place and froze them where they stood. Even though so many experts had joined forces and could have fought the Heaven Gaze Realm, they couldn’t muster the slightest resistance against the Divine Eternal Fist.
“What is that fist technique? Why am I immobilized?” The cultivators at the seventh level and the eighth level of the Earth Immortal Realm could only glare in furious disbelief. No matter how they struggled, their bodies refused to move, and they could do nothing but watch as their fleshly bodies crumbled.
The power of the fist pressed down from the sky.
“Divine Eternal Fist!” Liu Wuxie had only assumed the starting posture earlier, but now, the Divine Eternal Fist finally descended.
The moment the fist descended, everyone regained their freedom.
“Run!” The instant those at the Earth Immortal Realm could move again, the people at the outer edge turned and fled for their lives.
“Great Spatial Mythical Art!” Liu Wuxie had already anticipated this, so how could he possibly allow them to escape?
The instant he cast the Great Spatial Mythical Art, Gong Gong erected a barrier that locked down the surroundings within a radius of ten thousand meters.
Xiao Rou moved right after, and countless vines shot out and sealed in the fifty-odd experts. After breaking through to the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm, she no longer fell behind them in combat strength, yet trapping so many people at once still wasn’t easy.
Just as they started to break free, Fiery exhaled flame and swallowed the surroundings in fire.
Liu Wuxie knew he couldn’t kill them all easily. He would have to borrow the full strength of his three companions if he wanted to wipe out everyone present.
“This is impossible! How could he possibly be so powerful?!” Xiao Yuetian roared in disbelief.
When they hunted down Liu Wuxie earlier, they could tell that he hadn’t been this strong. However, his strength had transformed drastically in such a short period of time, leaving everyone wondering what Liu Wuxie had experienced inside the Heavenly Deity Monument.
The Grand Unity Sect’s elders also stared, eyes wide, their faces ferocious as they roared like wild beasts. Vines bound them, and with the Great Spatial Mythical Art layered on top, the restriction locked them completely in place.
Wood gave birth to fire, so when Fiery breathed out True Samadhi Fire, the flames grew even more terrifying as the wood-attribute energy nourished them. They even ignited the surrounding space itself.
Even before the Divine Eternal Fist landed, the cultivators at the seventh- and eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm had already turned into charred corpses under the True Samadhi Fire, and a stench of roasted flesh spread through the air.
A tearing sensation surged from the desolate world as the Divine Eternal Fist kept draining Liu Wuxie’s true essence. He had little true essence left in the desolate world, and once it ran dry, his physique would start to lose power.
He could already feel his body shrinking and withering like a mummy.
In response, he threw his head back and roared.
A loud dragon’s roar burst from Liu Wuxie’s throat as dragon scales surfaced across his skin. As the True Dragon Physique neared completion, tyrannical divine dragon power swept out of him.
With a series of thunderous rumblings, the Divine Eternal Fist finally took shape, hovering above everyone’s heads like a vast star. Yet the truly terrifying part wasn’t the fist itself, but the eternal intent inside it, which restricted everything around it, including the laws of space and time.
The profundity of eternity meant immortality and undying. The Divine Eternal Fist carried that same immortality and undying within a single punch.
After the Heavenly Deity Monument disappeared, the trees in the Heavenly Deity Valley began to give off spirituality, and the laws of this world shifted. The moment the trees birthed spirituality and the laws of heaven and earth changed, the place became an eternal world once more.
The Dark Evil Emperor and the others could no longer feel the flow of time. They could only watch as the Divine Eternal Fist descended from the sky.
“Silverfrost Tyrant Blade!”
“Sacred Golden Dragon Burst!”
“Overlord Axe!” Over fifty people unleashed their strongest attacks, preparing to meet Liu Wuxie’s fist head-on.
The Divine Eternal Fist looked slow, but it descended with an unstoppable momentum.
“This is bad!” Xiao Yuetien’s fleshly body cracked open, and the true essence in his dantian drained at a terrifying speed.
A cultivator at the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm could no longer endure the pressure and exploded into a cloud of blood mist. The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron appeared immediately afterward and devoured all the energy, converting it into Earth Immortal Realm laws that flowed into the desolate world.
The desolate world, which had been on the verge of drying out, began generating new true essence after absorbing those laws of the Earth Immortal Realm.
“Liu Wuxie, please don’t kill me! I have no grudge against you!” Many of them had blindly followed the Dark Evil Emperor, and they didn’t even know who Liu Wuxie was. Having been dragged into this disaster for no reason, they sank into regret.
However, Liu Wuxie had already unleashed the Divine Eternal Fist, and he couldn’t stop it now. Moreover, he hadn’t reached the stage where he could control its power at will.
From the moment they chose to pursue him, they were no longer innocent, and they wouldn’t have joined the chase if they had been innocent, so Liu Wuxie remained indifferent to their pleas.
“Liu Wuxie, you demon! Do you really want to slaughter everyone here?!” When their begging failed, many of them turned and spat venomous curses instead.
The ground split apart as countless laws from the Outer Astral Spacetime swept in from all directions, and Liu Wuxie devoured them through the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.
“Junior Brother is too terrifying. Does he have the body of a kunpeng that allows him to devour without limit?”
The kunpeng had always been a creature on par with the qilin, and they were enormous that unfolding their wings could blot out half the sky.
Rumors even claimed a kunpeng could devour multiple planets in a single day. No one had ever heard of a kunpeng appearing in the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, and if such an ancient beast were to emerge, it would become the human race’s nightmare.
“Junior Brother must have a great secret, and we shouldn’t make guesses recklessly,” Sun Xiao said, cutting off the other two. Even so, he understood that their junior brother already stood in an undefeated position from this fist alone.
With Gong Gong, Xiao Rou, and Fiery on his side, Liu Wuxie held an overwhelming advantage in this battle.
After devouring several Earth Immortal Realm cultivators, Liu Wuxie channeled all that power into the Divine Eternal Fist, and it created the illusion of a massive world.
This no longer felt like a fist technique at all, but like an actual world, which meant the Earth Immortal Realm cultivators weren’t fighting Liu Wuxie—they were fighting an eternal world.
Even Liu Wuxie hadn’t expected the Divine Eternal Fist to contain a wisp of world force.
“I understand it now! The desolate world is also a world like the True Martial Continent, and that means that it can supply me with world force,” Liu Wuxie murmured, sudden realization striking him.
He had always believed that only true worlds like the True Martial Continent could supply world force. However, the desolate world also counted as a world, and perhaps because of the Vine Demon, it finally began its evolution into an actual world, giving birth to world force.
When the Vine Demons on the Astral Sea saw the Divine Eternal Fist, they retreated rapidly, afraid the fist’s power would lock onto them too.
“Liu Wuxie, y-you actually comprehended world force!” There was no planet here, so no external world could supply Liu Wuxie with world force, leaving only one possibility—Liu Wuxie had comprehended world force.
Everyone continued resisting, trying to break free from the Divine Eternal Fist’s suppression. World force pressed down like a colossal mountain crashing onto them.
Two cracks rang out, and the eternal world crushed two more Earth Immortal Realm cultivators into dust.
The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron continued to absorb their energy, and their true essence recovered rapidly within the desolate world.
True Samadhi Fire raged as Xiao Rou formed seals and summoned more vines. She even summoned vines from the Astral Sea itself to join the fight.
A vast mass of vines wrapped around the Dark Evil Emperor’s legs, stripping away his ability to resist.
The two elders of the Grand Unity Sect had only lasted this long because of their artifacts. They had nearly torn an opening earlier and could have escaped had it not been for Gong Gong, who quickly restrained them again.
“It’s time to end this,” Liu Wuxie said. This was his first time executing the Divine Eternal Fist, and instead of smashing it down immediately, he had taken the chance to comprehend its profundities.
In the future, once he used the Divine Eternal Fist again, he could slam it down without wasting time speaking to enemies. Various insights filled Liu Wuxie’s heart, and he steadily grew more familiar with the fist technique.
As the fist descended from the sky, the surrounding space collapsed under the Divine Eternal Fist’s crushing force.
This wasn’t an ordinary mythical art at all, but an immortal art, as only an immortal art could produce such a terrifying phenomenon.
The pain tearing through Liu Wuxie grew more violent. Had it not been for the True Dragon Physique, he couldn’t have endured for this long.
