Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1524 - Devastating
Chapter 1524 – Devastating
Even with his cultivation far beneath the Divine Son’s, Liu Wuxie still accomplished something formidable by spotting a flaw in the Divine Son’s domain. With his current strength, he couldn’t possibly shatter that domain through brute force unless he reached the Heaven Gaze Realm.
He had another route to take: he could pinpoint the domain’s weak point, use it as leverage, and rip the domain open with minimal force.
“What a brilliant method! Liu Wuxie is truly worthy of his reputation as a monstrous prodigy.” The human cultivators burst into applause the instant they grasped what he had done.
Liu Wuxie earned the crowd’s admiration in an instant. Instead of clashing directly against the Divine Son’s domain, he struck its flaw and unraveled it from within.
They couldn’t help imagining themselves facing the Divine Son’s domain, and the thought alone sent a chill down their spine. In the end, they understood they could only crash into it head-on, and that would end in mutual destruction.
Liu Wuxie and the Divine Son hovered in mid-air, their last exchange leaving them evenly matched.
The Divine Son swept a finger through the air and released a savage blade ray, abandoning the Grand Divine Void Claw that had descended from the sky before. Laws wove through the blade ray, and it looked even more ferocious than the one his divine blade had unleashed.
“Golden Crow Slash!” The moment the attack fell, exclamations erupted from the surroundings as everyone recognized its origin. That mythical art belonged to the human race, yet the Divine Son had mastered it.
As he struck, it looked as though a golden crow had descended from the sky itself. Legends called the golden crow an ancient divine beast that had appeared alongside the divine race. It was said that ten golden crows once existed in the world before vanishing into the universe long ago.
The Golden Crow Slash carried a wisp of the golden crow’s energy, and as it dropped, it manifested into a golden crow that spread its wings and blotted out the sky. With a single wingbeat, it turned the magma splashing on the ground into a roaring hurricane, then drew that hurricane into itself.
Terrifying metal-attribute energy churned within the golden crow as it conjured countless blade rays and swept them outward.
Liu Wuxie immediately shifted into a defensive form. The blade rays were so fierce that even ordinary Heaven Gaze Realm cultivators would be obliterated on contact.
Shockwaves raged as a storm and magma rained from above, hissing as it struck. The spectacle turned horrifying, and countless people retreated at once, unwilling to get caught in the aftermath.
Liu Wuxie’s eyes held neither sorrow nor joy, as though he could see through every illusion, yet that single move still pressed down on him with crushing weight.
“Dragon Subduing Tiger! Dragon Slither! Dragon Roaming!” Liu Wuxie unleashed three attacks in a row, linking the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s Nine Heavenly Dragon Forms without hesitation. As those forms erupted, his body shot into the sky and transformed into a divine dragon; not a mere projection of true essence, but a transformation of his entire body into a genuine divine dragon.
“What?!” Exclamations rang out as the crowd stared, stunned that Liu Wuxie could transform into a dragon.
The Heavenly Dragon Sect’s upper echelons were the most shocked because they understood the Nine Heavenly Dragon Forms’ terror and also knew they lacked the final forms needed to chain them like this. Once all nine forms merged, the power could destroy heaven and earth.
Those three forms fused and became a blazing sun in the sky, tearing open the heavens. Space around them vanished in an instant, replaced by a colossal black hole whose suction threatened to swallow both combatants whole.
The Divine Son shifted his position, and domain power surged again, anchoring him firmly in place.
Liu Wuxie coiled through the air, whipped his tail, opened his jaws, and collided with the golden crow head-on. The golden crow’s size didn’t fall short of the dragon’s, and the two divine beasts slammed into each other in mid-air—divine beast against divine beast.
The golden crow tilted back its head and cried out, releasing a shockwave that destabilized the divine dragon and sent it tumbling from the sky. If the divine dragon fell into the magma, the consequences would be unimaginable.
A clear dragon’s roar immediately shook the heavens, and countless planets trembled in response.
The golden crow beat its wings, revealed its talons, and lunged straight at the divine dragon.
In that instant, a golden dragon claw reached down from the sky, and an ancient dragon’s aura swept across the heavens like a tidal wave.
“It’s the Primordial Desolate Dragon!” Elder Long said. He had left the moment he had finished making arrangements in Heavenly Azure Star, unwilling to miss Liu Wuxie’s fight with the Divine Son.
The experts who had been mining had also rushed over because a battle like this occurred only once every ten thousand years. No ordinary dragon could carry such a pure bloodline, and only the Primordial Desolate Dragon counted as a pure-blooded dragon.
The golden dragon claw shifted into a palm and fell from above, blotting out the sky as it packed a boundless dragon aura.
Heaven and earth ruptured, and countless spatial fragments shot upward like a torn curtain. Space itself looked corroded as it collapsed, refusing to repair.
“With a laugh that echoes across the heavens, one strike decides the fate of heaven and earth.” The golden crow cried as it soared higher and slashed its talons at the golden dragon’s claw.
The power swept across the horizon in an instant, and the sky split into two layers as Liu Wuxie and the Divine Son fought between them.
“All forms unite and one with the dragon!” Liu Wuxie roared as he entered a profound state he couldn’t describe.
Terrifying primordial energy erupted from the desolate world and poured into the divine dragon’s body, while Liu Wuxie’s power climbed under a vast cloak of Heaven Gaze Realm laws.
A violent aura burst from him and plunged the surroundings into chaos, until neither side could see the other’s figure anymore. Only two blinding rays of light hung upside down from the horizon.
As the layered rift widened, heaven and earth fractured further, and a rare phenomenon unfolded before everyone’s eyes.
“Break!” Liu Wuxie’s voice echoed as his fist smashed through the golden crow’s attack.
The law-made golden crow cracked apart, yet before it could fully shatter, it hurled itself forward and crashed into the divine dragon.
A deafening explosion followed, and two different forces spiraled outward as twin storms, expanding the shattered space into something apocalyptic. They traded blows like this and fought with ferocious intensity.
“Origin Reversal!” The Divine Son formed seals with both hands and unleashed another unusual mythical art.
Space around them plunged into reverse flow, and that reverse flow stole Liu Wuxie’s control, dragging him toward the Divine Son. Each of the Divine Son’s mythical arts looked more terrifying than the last.
After he completed the seals, the Divine Son lifted his blade to the sky because this mythical art demanded the divine blade to execute it. The power behind that strike surpassed even the Golden Crow Slash.
Liu Wuxie struggled violently, trying to break free of the reverse flow, yet he only felt himself sinking deeper as control slipped away.
“Soaring Dragon! Dragon’s Roar, Tiger Howl!” Liu Wuxie roared as he shot upward, tearing himself free from the reverse flow’s grasp.
Seals spread outward, the ground began to collapse, and darkness swallowed the entire Blood Purgatory Summit.
From the very start, Liu Wuxie had fought on the defensive under relentless suppression from the Divine Son. He struggled to mount any effective counterattack while the Divine Son’s mythical arts crashed over him like a storm, each wave higher than the last, leaving Liu Wuxie no room to retaliate.
Countless people clenched their fists as worry for Liu Wuxie tightened their throats.
With a casual flick, the Divine Son lifted a distant mountain and hurled it straight at Liu Wuxie.
Liu Wuxie dove low, swept his dragon’s tail, and launched another mountain to meet it. Both peaks shot into the sky at the same time.
A thunderous rumble split the air as the mountain shattered into boulders and dust that filled the heavens. The impact’s ripples swept Liu Wuxie and the Divine Son away, flinging them ten thousand meters back while blood dripped from the corners of their lips. After thousands of exchanges, they still matched each other.
Although it looked like Liu Wuxie was at a disadvantage, the Divine Son still couldn’t kill him easily.
The Divine Son drew a deep breath, his belly rumbling, as heavenly thunder brewed above while he raised the divine blade and pointed it at Liu Wuxie.
Liu Wuxie didn’t pause for even a heartbeat, and his aura continued to climb while he held his dragon form.
Tension snapped tight across the battlefield, and the gathered cultivators felt crushing pressure as it rolled over them. Everyone could sense how devastating this next move from the Divine Son would be.
“It’s the Great Annihilation Mythical Art!” Several older-generation experts recognized it at once because, once unleashed, it could reduce everything around it to nothingness.
Just as everyone had suspected, the Divine Son executed the long-lost Great Annihilation Mythical Art, using the divine blade as a channel to release it with greater ease.
“When heaven and earth fall to ruin, all things scatter,” chanted the Divine Son.
A muffled boom rolled through heaven and earth like buried lightning, surging outward in tidal waves.
Heavenly thunder swallowed Liu Wuxie, yet the thunder itself wasn’t the truly terrifying part—Great Annihilation Mythical Art was.
Liu Wuxie sensed an invisible substance coiling around him, ready to tear him apart at any moment, and that was the frightening part of Great Annihilation Mythical Art.
“Dragon Dive! Dragon Ascent!” Liu Wuxie refused to wait for death, and he seized the opening to unleash the sixth and seventh forms of the Nine Heavenly Dragon Forms. His figure shot out like a dragon diving into the ocean, and his entire body condensed into a dragon’s fist that carried shadows of the Great Dragon Aspect Mythical Art.
If someone were to combine all nine forms, they would become the Great Heavenly Dragon Mythical Art, capable of conjuring a wisp of an immortal art’s shadow.
Liu Wuxie flew even faster as the Divine Son’s Great Annihilation Mythical Art descended from the sky.
Neither yielded an inch. They both understood that whoever retreated would lose the fight.
“Could Liu Wuxie have mastered the last two forms as well?” Many Heavenly Dragon Sect elders whispered among themselves, unable to hide their agitation.
The last two forms of the Nine Heavenly Dragon Forms had long been lost to history. As a result, few disciples were willing to practice it at all. Cultivating an incomplete mythical art only shackled the cultivator, making every step feel restrained.
The ten thousand meters between them vanished in the blink of an eye as Liu Wuxie and the Divine Son slammed together.
A colossal rumble followed as mountains collapsed and seas howled, and space shattered to reveal a world of void. If either of them got dragged into that void, they wouldn’t return alive.
Dazzling brilliance washed over heaven and earth, forcing even Quasi-Immortals to cover their eyes as they failed to see the clash clearly. The explosion felt like two blazing suns detonating at once, and cracks appeared in the surrounding barrier, forcing many of the Quasi-Immortals present to reinforce it.
As Liu Wuxie and the Divine Son tangled, the divine dragon form began to shatter, and countless cracks spidered across Liu Wuxie’s body. Like two planets detonating, shards punctured through the barrier, killing many cultivators at the lower levels of the Earth Immortal Realm and spraying blood into the air.
Even those who survived didn’t escape unscathed, and heavy injuries followed in the wake of that blast.
Faint traces of divine energy seeped from the Divine Son as he finally went for the killing move.
