Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1577 - One Billion

Chapter 1577 – One Billion

Everyone already understood that Liu Wuxie’s combat strength went far beyond what his cultivation level suggested. The Peach Blossom Gate elders had watched him slaughter over a hundred people, and that terrifying scene still burned fresh in their memories.

“Lemor, do you have Liu Wuxie’s whereabouts?” Nalan Qiuhe asked the leader of the divine race. Since the divine race had arrived here so quickly, they had to possess a way to track Liu Wuxie down.

“He disappeared,” Lemor replied with a shake of his head. Liu Wuxie’s aura had vanished completely, and even the Ancestral Tree could no longer sense his presence.

“How is this possible! Did he manage to get his hands on a treasure and leave the Peach Blossom Cave?” Tao Xuanming asked with his brows drawn tight. If Liu Wuxie had already left the Peach Blossom Cave, then all their effort would truly go down the drain.

Lemor said, cutting Tao Xuanming off, “No, he’s still here, but we just can’t sense him for the time being.” The Ancestral Tree’s trunk segment in his hand clearly told him Liu Wuxie hadn’t gone far. It simply refused to reveal Liu Wuxie’s exact location for the moment.

“Then what do we do next? Do we search for treasures, or do we keep searching for Liu Wuxie?” Tao Xuanming asked. He had never cared much about hunting Liu Wuxie; he had only allied with the Nalan Clan for two reasons: the Nalan Clan’s power and Nalan Qiuhe’s beauty.

They couldn’t keep abandoning treasures to chase after Liu Wuxie because that approach would never last.

“We should look for treasures. Since Liu Wuxie can increase his cultivation, we can also do the same to maintain a balance,” said the Peach Blossom Gate elders, quickly catching Tao Xuanming’s intentions.

That logic held because every breakthrough Liu Wuxie achieved would multiply his combat strength again.

Even the Nalan Clan couldn’t refute that point, because they only cooperated with the Peach Blossom Gate and nothing more.

“We can track Liu Wuxie down while searching for treasures. The two don’t conflict with each other,” Nalan Qiuhe said, adjusting their approach. She also needed treasures to increase her cultivation. Tao Xuanming was lecherous, but he was no fool.

Meanwhile, Liu Wuxie had already sunk fully into his breakthrough. The Divine Galaxy Sand hovered above the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron as fragments of the Great Dao of Earth were extracted and fused into the desolate world.

“Once I refine the Great Dao of Earth’s fragment, the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art would be able to manifest a hint of an immortal art. The power will instantly grow ten times stronger than before,” Liu Wuxie murmured.

For the time being, the Divine Eternal Fist still ranked first in raw destructive power, followed by the Gate of Darkness, the Divine Purgatory Palace, and the Soul Spear. The Great Five Elemental Mythical Art had already fallen behind because it could never reach completion with one fragment missing.

The Divine Galaxy Sand proved far too overwhelming. The land in the desolate world grew heavier as small hills rose into towering mountains, and even the already massive peaks kept climbing higher and higher.

The entire desolate world underwent a drastic transformation as earth-attribute energy surged through it. Earth stood first among the five elements, able to restrain fire and water, give birth to metal, and nourish wood. Now that he had obtained the Great Dao of Earth’s fragment, he wouldn’t just further complete the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art, but he would also complete the desolate world itself.

The five elements began to revolve, and yin and yang circulated in tandem. The desolate world started to take on the shape of an independent realm, and a terrifying surge of world force began to brew within it. From then on, world force would empower every mythical art Liu Wuxie unleashed.

Each time Liu Wuxie broke through, the desolate world transformed alongside him. That also meant anyone who fought him would, in a sense, be facing an entire world.

The benefits and drawbacks were split right down the middle. The desolate world had enabled Liu Wuxie’s achievements, yet it had also shackled him. Without the desolate world dragging him down, his talent would have pushed him to the Immortal Realm long ago.

However, without the desolate world supporting him, Liu Wuxie would have died ages ago on the True Martial Continent. That was why his breakthroughs came slowly, as each one demanded resources hundreds of times greater than what ordinary people required.

With a series of thunderous explosions, immortal energy began to rumble through the desolate world. True essence dwindled to about one quarter, while the rest converted into immortal energy.

After refining dozens of strands of Primordial Indigo Aura, anyone else would have already converted all their true essence into immortal energy.

The gateway to the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm slowly emerged. It looked even more terrifying than the gates before it, covered in countless immortal runes. Those immortal runes crowded together so densely that they number well over a thousand. As the immortal runes sank into the desolate world, they triggered a drastic transformation in Liu Wuxie.

Liu Wuxie would now be able to fully control the Heavenly Deity Monument by relying on these immortal runes.

The Desolate Devouring Art began to circulate harder. Another ten million astral crystals detonated, dissolved into liquid energy, and poured into the desolate world to bolster immortal energy.

The Divine Galaxy Sand still hadn’t been fully refined. After the Great Dao of Earth’s fragment tore free, a five-elemental diagram rose above the desolate world, and the five elements intertwined into bridges that completed a self-sustaining cycle. That meant the five elements would never run out within the desolate world.

“I can try to make my breakthrough now,” Liu Wuxie murmured. The five elements condensed into a giant palm that slammed into the gateway to the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm.

The collision thundered, yet the gate still stood firm, even though the blow carried the weight of thousands of immortal runes. Once, a single immortal rune could kill someone of the same generation, so the might of a thousand immortal runes bordered on absurdity.

Liu Wuxie drew a deep breath and mobilized the immortal energy within him. True essence and immortal energy fused, forming a dragon, while a five-elemental hammer condensed within it. The moment the hammer formed, the desolate world’s sky began to change.

Even the laws in the eternal world began to shatter. Those laws began to weaken, and the eternal world could never remain in eternal stillness again, yet it had also fulfilled its mission.

With a loud explosion, the gateway to the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm cracked, and a thousand immortal runes began to dance in midair like fairies before pouring into the desolate world.

With so many immortal runes surging in at once, the desolate world finally reached its limit and produced cracking sounds. Liu Wuxie had to break through quickly and reinforce the desolate world before it split apart.

A second hammer formed and smashed into the gateway again. Even without additional immortal rune reinforcement, the gateway shattered cleanly.

A powerful tide surged out from behind the broken gate, rushed through Liu Wuxie’s limbs, and poured into the desolate world. In that moment, Liu Wuxie finally broke through to the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm.

The surrounding space began to collapse as the eternal world slowly crumbled.

Liu Wuxie watched with a trace of pity in his eyes. This meant he could no longer rely on the eternal world for future cultivation, and he would need higher cultivation to create an independent lesser realm. He knew how to carve one, but his cultivation still held him back.

As the eternal world fell apart, Liu Wuxie stabilized his breakthrough to the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm. Immediately after, immortal runes began to pour into the Heavenly Deity Monument, struggling to seize control of it.

If he managed to control the Heavenly Deity Monument fully, he would be able to kill even the experts at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm.

With the Divine Eternal Fist, the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art, the Heavenly Deity Monument, and the Soul Spears, he could kill anyone who dared stand in his way.

Meanwhile, Nalan Qiuhe and the others had found another stone chamber and had already begun breaking the door’s restriction.

Liu Wuxie had no idea how much time had passed inside the Heavenly Deity Monument, yet only ten minutes had slipped by outside.

A violent wave of energy swept through the desolate world. Just as Liu Wuxie had suspected, the desolate world and the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron began to merge. For the time being, Liu Wuxie still couldn’t tell what the Desolate Devouring Art would become in its later stages.

Liu Wuxie’s astral crystals continued to dwindle, but he wasn’t short on them. In the past few days alone, he had obtained tens of millions more after killing so many people. The Spirit Martial Astral Domain held richer astral crystal resources than the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, and even a small clan like the Spirit Clan could easily produce thirty million, let alone the experts of the various sects.

When Liu Wuxie rose, crackling sounds rippled through his body. He let his divine sense sink into his soul sea and discovered it had become one-third fuller than before. The number of Soul Spears didn’t increase, but each one had grown twice as large, capable of easily piercing through the soul sea of those at the high levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm.

The Nether Deity Harvest also grew more terrifying. Once unleashed, it would manifest as a nether deity wielding a scythe.

“Time to leave.”

Liu Wuxie spread his divine sense out first to ensure no one lurked nearby, then stepped out of the Heavenly Deity Monument. After his breakthrough, Ghost Pupil had also strengthened, allowing him to see farther than before.

“Heavenly Deity Monument!” Liu Wuxie called out as a thousand immortal runes surged. The monument flew out from the desolate world and expanded in size.

“Go!” Liu Wuxie formed seals with both hands, and the monument shrank and expanded at his will. Yet the drawback remained obvious because immortal energy began draining rapidly within the desolate world.

Although he could now control the Heavenly Deity Monument, he faced a time limit. His immortal energy could only support three breaths of use before it exhausted completely, yet that still beat falling unconscious after a single use like before.

“Return!” Liu Wuxie sent the Heavenly Deity Monument back into the desolate world’s sky.

“Time to keep searching for more treasures,” Liu Wuxie murmured. He tore off his disguise now that he had broken through, no longer needing it.

As he had said before, the day he could control the Heavenly Deity Monument would be the day he would slaughter anyone who dared block his path. He had endured and restrained himself for so long, and now he finally stood at the pinnacle of the astral domains.

He activated Ghost Pupil and immediately locked onto several stone chambers. Most of them already had occupants, yet he still found a few undiscovered ones in the depths. The Peach Blossom Cave was too vast, and many stone chambers remained hidden.

Lady Rong had told him that the last chamber contained precious treasures, and that became his main target. If he could break through again to the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm, his odds against cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm would rise drastically.

Even so, Liu Wuxie already felt satisfied just reaching the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm. That had been his original goal when entering the Peach Blossom Cave.

With a few bursts of movement, Liu Wuxie arrived before a stone door. This door looked far more complex than the ones he had opened before, and the restriction remained largely intact because no one had ever found it.

“Open!” Liu Wuxie didn’t even summon the Heretic Blade. He used the Dragon-Grasping Hand to crush the immortal runes on the door, a method that would shock anyone who saw it, as even cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm wouldn’t dare to act so bluntly.

The restriction shattered, and the stone door slid aside. Liu Wuxie strode in at once, anticipation tightening in his chest as he waited to see what lay inside.