Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1517 - Primordial Indigo Aura
Chapter 1517 – Primordial Indigo Aura
Unity with heaven and earth meant his body had become indestructible and immortal, yet something still felt off. For some reason, he couldn’t enter a fusion of souls with Vanya the way he had with Xu Lingxue, and the discrepancy made him wonder if he and Xu Lingxue had already been husband and wife in their past lives. That thought lingered only for a heartbeat before he reached out to Xu Lingxue outside.
The Heavenly Deity Monument opened, and Jian Xing’er, Chen Ruoyan, and Murong Yi entered together. The instant they stepped in and sensed the surging aura saturating the air, longing washed over their faces. Xu Lingxue had already reached the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm, and even Vanya had broken through to the first-level Heaven Gaze Realm. Seeing their advancement, an immense pressure bore down on them.
When Vanya returned to the outside world and met Xu Lingxue’s gaze, the two exchanged meaningful smiles and remained silent.
“Mistress Vanya, congratulations on your breakthrough to the Heaven Gaze Realm,” Bi Gongyu said in a teasing tone as he stepped forward. Vanya rolled her eyes at him, and laughter rippled through the private room.
Below, Elder Wu Hen kept introducing the new method, and only fifteen minutes had passed.
Liu Wuxie lifted his hand and split into three, his figure dividing like phantoms as he appeared before the three women. Only cultivators at the Heaven Gaze Realm could create an avatar of themselves, yet Liu Wuxie had accomplished it anyway. His avatars couldn’t match the strength of his main body, but each still carried about seventy percent of his strength.
Hua Feiyu often did the same, keeping his main body in cultivation while his avatar handled the sect’s affairs. Once someone reached the Quasi-Immortal Realm, their avatar could think independently; even if the main body died, the avatar could inherit its will and continue cultivating until it eventually returned to peak strength.
The three women soon immersed themselves in the union as well, while Liu Wuxie shifted constantly between his avatars. Six silhouettes overlapped in mid-air, weaving together like threads of shadow and light.
The three women felt as though a furnace burned inside them, and as that furnace raged faster, it swelled into a fireball that wrapped around them completely. The moment the fireball erupted within them, the laws of the Heaven Gaze Realm raged without restraint. By the time the remaining energy of the Nine Cauldron Divine Pill ran dry, all three women had stepped into the Heaven Gaze Realm.
Their souls never fused with Liu Wuxie’s, but their wills had melted together.
A year slipped past in the blink of an eye, but Liu Wuxie’s cultivation still remained at the second-level Earth Immortal Realm. Even so, he drew a vast amount of Heaven Gaze Realm’s laws from them and used them to nourish his physique. Relying on physique alone, he now rivaled the second-level Heaven Gaze Realm, and it was exceedingly rare for an Earth Immortal Realm expert to possess such a terrifying body.
After he sent the three women back, he prepared to enter seclusion and digest what he had gained.
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Outside, people kept arguing over the ‘dispersed sales’ as every private room window stood open, eyes locked on the auction hall.
“Elder Wu Hen, stop keeping us in suspense already and tell us what it means!” Even the Comet Temple could no longer wait and demanded an answer.
The other sects’ members stayed silent, but their faces betrayed them. The Primordial Indigo Aura tempted cultivators at the Heaven Gaze Realm too strongly, because it could accelerate the conversion of true essence into immortal energy.
Even first-tier sects that had once produced an immortal, wanted to have more immortals in their sects? The Grand Unity Sect stood above the other first-tier sects precisely because it had produced two immortals before.
“Our Skybrim Pavilion has mined the stones from Heavenly Azure Star, and we’ve transported five thousand stones back. We will lay them out, and everyone can pick freely. Each stone has a marked price, and anyone has the right to buy them,” Elder Wu Hen explained.
Gasps burst out across the crowd. “Doesn’t that mean if someone buys all the stones with Primordial Indigo Aura, they’ll become rich?”
Five thousand stones meant five thousand strands of Primordial Indigo Aura, and the idea alone made people wonder if the Skybrim Pavilion had gone insane. Selling a single strand at auction already felt shocking enough, after all.
The Skybrim Pavilion also needed a Primordial Indigo Aura to raise the strength of its Heaven Gaze Realm elders.
“Please don’t misunderstand. Not every stone mined from Heavenly Azure Star contains a vast amount of primordial laws like this stone, and divine senses can’t penetrate through them. We only found the Primordial Indigo Aura after cutting it open,” Elder Wu Hen explained.
If every stone contained Primordial Indigo Aura, the Skybrim Pavilion would never have sold them like this and would have auctioned them off.
“I see! While some of the five thousand stones might contain Primordial Indigo Aura, others might be empty. That’s why the Skybrim Pavilion is selling them in this manner. If they auction them off and sell a useless stone, people will lose trust in them? But if we choose it ourselves, it’s our luck.”
Everyone immediately understood the Skybrim Pavilion’s intent. If someone bid at auction and received a useless stone, the Skybrim Pavilion would have no way to justify it, but if everyone chose by free trading, no one could blame them for buying emptiness.
“What if the Skybrim Pavilion puts out five thousand stones, and none of them contains a Primordial Indigo Aura? Wouldn’t that be equivalent to wasting our money?” someone argued.
Elder Wu Hen had already said that even Quasi-Immortals couldn’t pierce the primordial laws with their divine senses.
Heavenly Azure Star was far too ancient, and the ancient ore vein had remained buried underground for countless years. It may have existed since the Primeval Era. Waves of cultivators had already rushed there, and the Skybrim Pavilion wanted to make a profit before others managed to mine everything; once everyone started mining, the Primordial Indigo Aura would lose its rarity.
“Rest assured. Our tests confirm one detectable strand per five to seven stones on average, with no more than ten stones at most,” Elder Wu Hen said, putting the crowd at ease.
They abandoned the auction method only because uncertainty made it too risky, yet a chance of one strand out of five to seven stones was still a good deal. The real issue now was pricing: if the price remained reasonable, various sects could buy hundreds at a time.
Elder Wu Hen clasped his hands, and the platform expanded to reveal five thousand stones. No one knew which of them concealed the Primordial Indigo Aura.
“This is a fine scheme from the Skybrim Pavilion. This method will allow them to sell the useless stones for a high price as well,” murmurs rose from the surroundings.
Everyone knew the Skybrim Pavilion had set a trap with this selling method, yet no one could do anything about it. After all, they still had a chance to find a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura. Only now, the auction had turned into a gamble on luck.
“That’s expensive! Two hundred thousand astral crystals for a raw stone!” Many people drew a deep breath at the price.
Most major sects had little astral crystal left, with only one or two million in reserve. That meant they could buy ten stones at best, and that would mean purchasing a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura for two million astral crystals.
Under normal circumstances, a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura could fetch about one million astral crystals at best. If someone got lucky, they might even draw two or three strands from the ten stones.
This method would create winners and losers, but the seller would benefit regardless.
As for the cultivators in the common area, they had no hope at all, because most of them couldn’t even produce one hundred thousand astral crystals. Even an expert like the Dark Evil Emperor had only one hundred thousand astral crystals when Liu Wuxie had encountered him.
Only major sects with their own assets could accumulate massive astral crystal reserves. With the platform expanded, it could now accommodate tens of thousands of people at once.
“Space is limited, and anyone who wants to buy must verify their assets first. I want to ask everyone to cooperate with us!”
There were too many people, and if over a million rushed in at once, it would get too crowded. The Skybrim Pavilion had no choice but to verify assets first, and only those with at least five hundred thousand astral crystals could step onto the platform. That single rule instantly eliminated 99% of the crowd, leaving only the first- and second-tier sects eligible to participate.
Only a handful of third-tier sects managed to scrape together enough astral crystals to stand on the platform and watch.
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Inside the Heavenly Deity Monument, another thousand years passed as Liu Wuxie finally consolidated his cultivation. His understanding of the Divine Eternal Fist also climbed to a new height, and a layer of its mystery unveiled itself before him.
With a flicker, he appeared back inside the Heavenly Dao Society’s private room.
“Master, congratulations on your breakthrough to the Earth Immortal Realm!” Everyone stepped forward to offer their congratulations the moment they saw him standing in the Earth Immortal Realm.
“Junior Brother, congratulations on your breakthrough!” Sun Xiao, Tong Shan, and Yin Ying said. With the Dao Comprehension Stone’s help inside the Heavenly Deity Monument, they had also benefited greatly and reached the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm.
Sun Xiao’s face glowed with excitement as he patted Liu Wuxie on the shoulder.
“What happened down there?” Liu Wuxie asked after a quick exchange of pleasantries, still unsure why the auction had turned out this way.
Mu Tianli quickly explained what had just happened, and a faint smile tugged at the corner of Liu Wuxie’s lips as he listened.
“Even the heavens are helping me,” Liu Wuxie said.
No one understood what he meant, because Elder Wu Hen had already said everyone would rely on luck. Primordial laws wrapped the raw stones, and divine sense couldn’t penetrate them; Xu Lingxue and the others had tried several times, but they had failed every time.
Below, asset verification had already begun, and the various sects began leaving their private rooms.
“Let’s go down,” Liu Wuxie said, leading everyone from the Heavenly Dao Society out.
They ran into the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s party coincidentally, and they headed toward the auction platform together.
“Wuxie, you’ve broken through to the Earth Immortal Realm?” Zhuge Ming said, his eyes locking onto Liu Wuxie so entirely that he didn’t even notice the changes in Mu Tianli and the others.
Even though Liu Wuxie’s cultivation was the lowest among them, he still stood out dazzlingly. The aura he gave off felt sharper and heavier than before, and even those at the low levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm sensed an invisible pressure pressing down on them.
“It’s just a coincidence,” Liu Wuxie said, rubbing his nose.
“Y-Y-You! All of you!” The other Heavenly Dragon Sect elders turned speechless, unable to form a complete sentence as they stared at seven or eight members of the Heavenly Dao Society who had reached the Heaven Gaze Realm.
Xu Lingxue shocked them the most, with her cultivation at the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm and a layer of rainbow-colored glow wrapping around her that made her look like a celestial fairy.
“Wuxie, I also want to make my breakthrough to the Heaven Gaze Realm! Lend me the Dao Comprehension Stone!” Zhuge Ming grabbed Liu Wuxie immediately, clinging like he wouldn’t let go unless Liu Wuxie agreed, and his antics drew a wave of laughter from the crowd.
Everyone knew Zhuge Ming had been stuck at the Quasi-Earth Immortal Realm for a long time now.
“Forget lending. I will give it to you,” Liu Wuxie replied with a chuckle. Zhuge Ming had helped him greatly, and a mere Dao Comprehension Stone meant nothing compared to the help he had received.
