Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1583 - Heavenbound Immortal Finger
Chapter 1583 – Heavenbound Immortal Finger
Watching the sea demons scatter in panic in every direction, Liu Wuxie’s eyes lit up as a way out finally appeared. He slipped into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron at once, then guided it into the stomach of one of the fleeing sea demons.
Driven by terror, the sea demons fled into the depths of the sea without direction. Liu Wuxie couldn’t enter the desolate world, as it had already become part of his body, but he could still hide inside the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.
The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron shrank into a tiny black speck and fused into the sea demon, fitting perfectly among its organs. Even a quasi-immortal’s powerful divine sense was of little use, as the sea demons scattered wildly in every direction at terrifying speed, then vanished without a trace.
The Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master sensed Liu Wuxie’s aura disappearing, yet he had no way to stop it.
The sea demons swam farther and farther away, and no one knew where they would end up. Liu Wuxie didn’t dare to emerge either until he could be sure the Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master had truly left.
Just as Liu Wuxie had anticipated, the Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master continued searching for him and nearly turned the entire region upside down. He slaughtered large numbers of sea demons and sea beasts, venting his frustration on anything he found.
In the end, the Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master’s rampage finally provoked the oceanic clan. They dispatched an expert at the Quasi-Immortal Realm to stop him after he crossed the boundary into the oceanic clan’s territory.
The pursuit dragged on for an entire day and night before the Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master had no choice but to withdraw. When he returned to Peach Blossom Island, countless cultivators stared in disbelief after hearing that Liu Wuxie had escaped. They couldn’t believe Liu Wuxie had shaken off the pursuit of a quasi-immortal, and his name spread rapidly throughout the Thousand Islands Sea Region.
People discussed Liu Wuxie’s feats in the Peach Blossom Nunnery and the Peach Blossom Pavilion without pause, “Liu Wuxie is a monstrous prodigy that he actually managed to shake off the pursuit of the Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master.”
As for what Liu Wuxie had done in the Peach Blossom Cave, it left everyone stunned. After all, he had slaughtered nearly ten thousand experts by himself, including over thirty cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm.
The Peach Blossom Gate suffered a crippling blow with Tao Xuanming’s death and the loss of over a hundred elders. In a single day, the Peach Blossom Gate’s status crashed to a second-tier sect, with their upper echelons nearly wiped out and an entire generation of experts erased.
What people talked about most was the mysterious box Liu Wuxie had taken. No one knew what it contained. Some insisted it held a massive trove of immortal stones, others swore it contained immortal art, and many speculated it likely contained a hidden method to reach the Immortal Realm.
Inside the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, Liu Wuxie sat in silence and recovered most of his immortal energy. After refining so many people, the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron brimmed with immeasurable liquid formed from countless elements of heaven and earth.
When Liu Wuxie poured it into the desolate world, he sensed it growing more complete. The desolate world didn’t expand, and his immortal energy didn’t increase. Yet, he could feel it developing toward an independent world with wind, rain, thunder, lightning, five elements, volcanoes, earth, yin, yang, and more taking shape.
All the realms inside the desolate world also started to overlap.
Liu Wuxie took out the mysterious box and set it before him. To ensure there were no hidden mechanisms, he drew the Crescent-Moon Blade and pried the lid open.
No terrifying aura burst out. Inside lay only an ancient interspatial ring, yet immortal energy leaked faintly from it, likely due to its age.
Liu Wuxie’s eyes brightened at the sight. Since immortal energy seeped out from within, immortal stones had to be inside, and even a single immortal stone could greatly refine the quality of his immortal energy.
This was the mortal realm, and no matter how much Liu Wuxie tried to convert the immortal energy inside his desolate world, it could never match the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm. True immortal energy was golden, yet Liu Wuxie’s immortal energy remained pale blue, leaving him a long road before it could reach gold.
That became even worse with the sheer vastness of the desolate world. Where others needed a hundred years to convert their immortal energy, Liu Wuxie would need a thousand, ten thousand, or even a hundred thousand years.
The eternal world had already vanished, and Liu Wuxie could no longer rely on the Heavenly Deity Monument to cultivate. Yet he also couldn’t afford to wait a hundred thousand years, so the best path forward was to absorb the immortal energy stored inside immortal stones and accelerate the conversion of his immortal energy.
He had to reach the Heaven Gaze Realm within one year, as a crack had appeared on the Heavenly Dao Book, proving that a powerhouse had already begun to act. Based on his speculation, someone in the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm had discovered his existence.
The battle back then had killed many, but plenty of experts had still survived. If they learned he was still alive, they would never allow him to keep growing.
It wasn’t easy for someone in the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm to descend into the mortal realm, as they would need to open a passage between the two worlds, and that would take time. By Liu Wuxie’s estimate, it would take about half a year to a year at most.
Hua Feiyu had also warned him that the Heavenly Dragon Sect would face a catastrophic calamity, and Liu Wuxie had become nearly certain the danger would come from the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm.
The Grand Unity Sect and the Heavenly Dragon Sect stood evenly matched, and even if the Nalan Clan and the Immortal Slaughter Palace joined the Grand Unity Sect, they still couldn’t shake the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s foundation. After all, the Heavenly Dragon Sect now had the Nine Dragon Palace, the Comet Temple, the Divine Sun-Moon Palace, and the Skyward Gate as allies.
Liu Wuxie picked up the ancient interspatial ring and sent his divine sense inside. The space within was massive, far larger than all the interspatial rings he carried, yet despite that vastness, it looked empty.
“There’s nothing?” Liu Wuxie frowned, certain the immortal energy had come from within.
“Wait, something isn’t right!”
Liu Wuxie pushed his divine sense deeper, and at the farthest depth, he finally sensed something abnormal. A milky-white sphere of light floated there, and immortal energy poured steadily from it.
With the milky-white sphere hovering before him, Liu Wuxie extended his divine sense into it and crushed it with a gentle squeeze.
With a loud rattle, a heap of items spilled out from the shattered light sphere. The instant the items scattered, a terrifying surge of immortal energy swept outward. The light sphere had been sealing that immortal energy within.
Without the light sphere, the immortal energy inside the immortal stones would leak out gradually over time.
“One… two… three… five… ten!” Liu Wuxie counted ten immortal stones with a wide grin, each the size of a washbasin.
“I’ve struck it rich! These immortal stones can help me to accelerate the conversion of my immortal energy!” Liu Wuxie exclaimed, excitement surging through him.
“It’s a pity that the eternal world in the Heavenly Deity Monument has vanished, and I can’t use the immortal stones to nurture the Heavenly Dao Society. From here on, every member of the Heavenly Dao Society can only rely on themselves,” Liu Wuxie murmured.
He had no choice in the matter because once someone reached the Heaven Gaze Realm, they could only rely on themselves to comprehend heaven and earth. Liu Wuxie had already done everything he could to accelerate their growth.
Among the immortal stones lay a book, and Liu Wuxie beckoned it over with a flick of his hand.
“Heavenbound Immortal Finger!” Liu Wuxie read aloud, then flipped through the cultivation manual.
“Not bad! This is a pseudo-immortal art,” Liu Wuxie said as he scanned through it quickly.
At his current cultivation, Liu Wuxie still couldn’t unleash the true might of an immortal art. Whether it was the Divine Eternal Fist or the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art, both only carried a hint of an immortal art.
If Liu Wuxie tried to unleash a true immortal art, it would drain all the immortal energy in his desolate world in an instant. After all, only an immortal could wield immortal arts, while a pseudo-immortal art stood between an immortal art and a mythical art. The owner of the Peach Blossom Cave had likely created it, and it stood one step away from a genuine immortal art.
For someone in the mortal realm to create such a top-tier pseudo-immortal art was an astonishing feat.
“The immortal energy in my desolate world can’t support the execution of an immortal art, but the power of ordinary mythical arts is limited. This pseudo-immortal art is perfect for the time being,” Liu Wuxie said, smiling faintly. He had gotten his hands on the manual at the perfect time.
If he mastered the Heavenbound Immortal Finger, its power would surpass even the Divine Eternal Fist. The Divine Eternal Fist needed the Heaven Deity Monument to amplify its might further, and when used alone, its power only matched the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art.
In the wake of the events on Peach Blossom Island, seven days slipped by in the blink of an eye.
When Nalan Tiancheng saw Nalan Qiuhe’s condition, murderous intent surged out of him.
Nalan Qiuhe threw herself into Nalan Tiancheng’s arms and sobbed, “Big Brother!”
“Don’t worry about it. I’ll kill Liu Wuxie to avenge you,” Nalan Tiancheng said, patting Nalan Qiuhe’s back.
In the past seven days, Nalan Qiuhe had stayed in the Peach Blossom Gate, and whenever she closed her eyes, Liu Wuxie would appear in her soul sea like a fiend. The torment had left her terrifyingly thin, worn down to bones, and Nalan Tiancheng flew into rage the moment he saw his younger sister like this.
Aside from Nalan Tiancheng, the Nalan Clan had also dispatched an expert at the Quasi-Immortal Realm.
After sending his younger sister back to rest, Nalan Tiancheng stepped outside.
“Second Uncle, did the Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master manage to find anything?” Nalan Tiancheng asked a middle-aged man who entered the courtyard. That man was Nalan Tiancheng’s second uncle, the younger brother of the Nalan Clan’s patriarch. He was a Quasi-Immortal who led the expedition to the Thousand Islands Sea Region.
They had just arrived on Peach Blossom Island, and while Nalan Qiwen went to meet the Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master, Nalan Tiancheng stayed behind to comfort his younger sister. The other experts stood on both sides, rage burning on their faces.
“There is no news for the time being. Liu Wuxie vanished after he dove into the sea,” Nalan Qiwen relayed what he had learned.
“He has to be still in the Thousand Islands Sea Region. We have sealed off the Three Realm Island, and we will detect him immediately if he tries to leave,” Nalan Tiancheng said. This time, the Nalan Clan had mobilized its entire force.
That meant anyone who stepped onto Three Realm Island would be stopped and questioned by the Nalan Clan.
“The Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master has gone to the Snowfall Cave to discuss with pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves about forming an expedition to hunt Liu Wuxie. I’ll head to the oceanic clan now. If we can form a cooperation with them, Liu Wuxie won’t be able to escape our grasp,” Nalan Qiwen said, then vanished and headed toward the oceanic clan.
As long as the profits were sufficient, even enemies could become allies. Snowfall Cave was where the great cave lord resided, and people rarely ever went there, yet today, a guest visited.
In overall strength, the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves were inferior to the Peach Blossom Gate, the Nalan Clan, and the oceanic clan. However, the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves had eyes throughout the Thousand Islands Sea Region, and their network was something the Peach Blossom Gate and the Nalan Clan could never match. That was why both forces knew they had to borrow the pirates’ strength.
After the Peach Blossom Cave’s catastrophe, the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves had lost several cave lords at Liu Wuxie’s hand. How could they let him go without paying the price?
