Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1615 - Heaven Gaze Realm
Chapter 1615 – Heaven Gaze Realm
In the span of a month, the Immortal Slaughter Palace had already launched full-scale reconstruction, with recruitment proceeding at full throttle.
Yet, recruitment this year faltered from the start. The Azure Thunder Sect had chosen the exact same moment to accept disciples, cutting directly into their pool of talent. The Immortal Slaughter Palace was still staggering from the loss of the Seven-Treasure Glazed Stone, its mines on the Serene Peace Star crippled, and many elders dead. The weight of it all came crashing down like a landslide.
The Azure Thunder Sect, in contrast, had lost nothing at all. It seized the timing and began to nibble away at the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s territory bit by bit. That steady pressure made the Immortal Slaughter Palace look weaker than before.
Even though the Immortal Slaughter Palace still held its position as a first-tier sect, rumors spread everywhere that it had already fallen into the ranks of second-tier sects. People believed it could still cling to the first-tier label only because it had immortals around. Even if they fought until no one remained, they would still keep that first-tier position.
After a full month of refinement, Liu Wuxie extracted over ten thousand complete immortal runes from the Heretic God’s remains, along with a vast amount of immortal energy. He also pulled out a wisp of the tribulation’s aura and fused it into the desolate world.
That tribulation’s aura would make things far more convenient for Liu Wuxie when he eventually broke through to the Immortal Realm. The refinement also cost him several immortal stones, leaving him with only four.
Throughout this stretch, immortal stones dissolved into a boundless tide of immortal energy, pouring endlessly into the desolate world. Nearly ninety percent of his immortal energy had already transformed into gold, leaving only a trace of ordinary energy behind. Liu Wuxie was certain that once he broke through to the Heaven Gaze Realm, he could refine the rest into gold as well. At that point, he would be able to wield immortal arts easily.
Tian Can sat to the side and absorbed many immortal runes as well, and his aura continued to climb. His current presence felt severalfold stronger than that of ordinary quasi-immortals. If he continued improving at this pace, he might even reach Gong Gong’s level.
“Strip!” Liu Wuxie said as he formed seals. He peeled a thick immortal rune from the Heretic God’s remains and fused it into the desolate world.
In the next instant, creaking sounds rolled through the desolate world, signaling a breakthrough. If Liu Wuxie failed to complete this breakthrough, the immortal runes would blow him apart.
Aside from refining the Heretic God’s remains, Liu Wuxe devoted most of his time to comprehending heaven and earth. Only those who grasped the profundities of heaven and earth could step into the Heaven Gaze Realm.
The Dao Comprehension Stone beneath Liu Wuxie turned ash grey as cracks crawled across its surface. It had already fulfilled its purpose.
When it came to comprehending heaven and earth, no one could surpass Liu Wuxie. That meant his breakthrough to the Heaven Gaze Realm had become only a matter of time. Driven by the immortal runes, the gateway to the Heaven Gaze Realm began to manifest before Liu Wuxie.
A vast mass of immortal energy compressed into a single point and slammed into the gateway to the Heaven Gaze Realm. Only by reaching the Heaven Gaze Realm could he open the gate of heaven and earth and transform all his true essence into immortal energy. Yet Liu Wuxie had already completed that process while he was still at the Earth Immortal Realm.
A thunderous explosion erupted, yet the Heaven Gaze Realm remained unmoved. Even beneath that surge of immortal energy, the gate showed not the faintest crack.
I’m only at the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm now, and I have already converted so much immortal energy. It won’t be easy for me to make my breakthrough to the Heaven Gaze Realm. Liu Wuxie thought.
The deeper the accumulation, the harder the breakthrough became. The benefit, however, was equally obvious. Liu Wuxie’s combat strength had already soared far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.
If one strike failed, he could strike the gate twice. As long as he kept hammering it, he believed he could break open the gateway to the Heaven Gaze Realm. The moment it opened, the entire world would become clear to him.
Immortal energy surged like a tidal wave and crashed against the gateway to the Heaven Gaze Realm without pause. At first, the gate refused to yield, but Liu Wuxie’s relentless blows slowly forced cracks to appear; the entire process dragged on for a full half-month.
In the past fifteen days alone, Liu Wuxie had vomited blood countless times. Though the blood was condensed from the laws of heaven and earth, it still eroded the foundation of his body.
“Again!” Liu Wuxie roared.
As fissures crawled across the gate, a luminous moon ascended behind the gateway to the Heaven Gaze Realm. Immortal energy roared like a tempest, condensing into a colossal axe that crashed down upon the gate.
Behind Liu Wuxie, a massive axe imprint appeared. Now that he had broken into the Heaven Gaze Realm, he finally managed to comprehend the power of the domain.
His domain had always taken the shape of a giant axe, and it had long baffled him. He could only set it aside for now and investigate it later, trusting that time would unravel every mystery.
When a notch finally appeared on the gateway to the Heaven Gaze Realm, immortal energy surged through and began tearing it apart. The cracks multiplied at a terrifying pace. Through the gateway to the Heaven Gaze Realm, Liu Wuxie managed to see the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm behind it.
He caught a wisp of heaven and earth’s profundity. The location of the immortal gate and everything about the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm unfolded with perfect clarity before Liu Wuxie, sharper than anyone else could see.
When ordinary people broke into the Heaven Gaze Realm, they couldn’t even perceive the immortal gate, let alone the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm. At best, they only glimpsed the starry skies.
After Liu Wuxie broke through, the desolate world began to expand. The change wasn’t merely about size, but about the vastness of heaven and earth itself.
Before this, heaven and earth in the desolate world were located too close together, and the desolate world pressed down with suffocating pressure. Ariel had felt it clearly while living there, but everything shifted now.
After Liu Wuxie’s breakthrough, the distance between heaven and earth widened. Liu Wuxie could feel that weight and depth with absolute clarity.
Ariel began hopping around the desolate world in joy. Immortal energy nourished her, making her feathers shine brighter than before. Her cultivation also began to rise, yet she still couldn’t restore her actual form.
The desolate world underwent a drastic transformation. The shift didn’t stop at space and time; more importantly, the laws deepened and grew far more profound. A majestic force fed back from behind the gateway to the Heaven Gaze Realm and poured into the depths of the desolate world.
Every world began by taking its first breath, then went on to nurture its own civilization. All civilizations began from nothing and evolved step by step, while other races appeared only in later phases.
Now the desolate world began to undergo that same transformation. The Abyssal Realm started producing abyssal stones and abyssal crystals; the Demon Realm started producing demon stones and demon crystals; and the Ghost Realm started producing ghost vines and ghostly energy.
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Each world began to transform at a breathtaking pace.
When Liu Wuxie lifted his head to the sky, the immortal gate seemed to hang right before his eyes, as if it were within reach. He knew he could open the gate, and he knew he could enter the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm.
However, Liu Wuxie also understood that even if the immortal gate looked close enough to grasp, it remained unimaginably far away. With his current cultivation, he still couldn’t touch it.
From the True Martial Astral Domain to the astral domains, he could ride astral storms to travel. But if he wanted to ascend from the astral domains to the immortal realm, only two paths existed.
The first path required opening the immortal gate, just as he had done three hundred thousand years ago, to reach the celestial realm. The second path demanded reaching the Immortal Realm and ascending to the celestial realm in broad daylight.
Both paths were brutally difficult, so Liu Wuxie slowly lowered his gaze. The Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm remained within reach, and Liu Wuxie felt certain that reaching the Immortal Realm was only a matter of time.
Now, the greatest obstacle before him was the Immortal Realm itself. Logically speaking, refining the Heretic God’s remains should’ve pushed him to the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm, yet he had only reached the first level.
After the Desolate Devouring Art advanced, his need for resources surged to a terrifying level. In just over a month of seclusion, Liu Wuxie consumed a hundred million astral crystals. Such a rate of consumption would leave even quasi-immortals speechless.
The air around him began to churn, and Tian Can also benefited greatly from cultivation. Even though Tian Can couldn’t comprehend the Immortal Realm, the immortal runes in his body increased threefold.
If Tian Can faced Chu Zhongtian again, he could crush him with overwhelming dominance.
Next, Liu Wuxie needed to consolidate his cultivation, but he didn’t rush and planned to polish it steadily.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace fell into an eerie calm because no one knew where Liu Wuxie had gone. They recruited only a portion of the disciples this year and found no prodigies.
“Now that I have made my breakthrough to the Heaven Gaze Realm, it’s time for me to condense immortal arts,” Liu Wuxie murmured as his eyes snapped open and a wisp of chill shot out.
If the spiritual arrays hadn’t contained it, that sheer force would have destroyed everything around him.
“The immortal arts from the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm don’t suit the four astral domains, so I have to build everything from my own mythical arts,” Liu Wuxie muttered.
He decided to merge the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art and the Heavenbound Immortal Finger into a single immortal art.
Liu Wuxie abandoned the Divine Eternal Fist. Its power was far too devastating, and an immortal art version would drain all his immortal energy the moment he executed it.
The power of the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art didn’t fall behind the Eternal Divine Fist. Once he upgraded them into immortal arts, he would possess the ability to kill quasi-immortals.
The Heavenbound Immortal Finger already hovered between a mythical art and an immortal art, which meant upgrading it into an immortal art would be comparatively simple.
The Great Spatial Mythical Art still held room for an upgrade. As for the Great Samsara Mythical Art, the best approach was to find the actual Gate of Samsara.
However, elevating an art from mythical to immortal would never be easy. Liu Wuxie knew thousands of immortal arts, but each required laws of the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm to unleash, which made them useless in the four astral domains.
The Heavenly Dao Book began deducing and evolving, and whenever it shifted, immortal runes flashed in response.
The five elements began to twist together, forming a talisman. The axe behind Liu Wuxie also sharpened into clearer form, like a divine axe that could split heaven and earth, and then it vanished with a single thought.
Liu Wuxie still couldn’t grasp the axe’s true use, and he knew he would need an actual battle to find the answer.
Tian Can suddenly rose to his feet as a premonition struck him, and he immediately retreated far into the distance.
An invisible shockwave swept outward from Liu Wuxie, and the five elements formed its core.
“Immortal art…” Tian Can murmured.
Even after becoming devoted to Liu Wuxie, Tian Can retained his insights and experiences, and so, disbelief filled his face the moment Liu Wuxie executed the immortal art.
Tian Can wasn’t wrong. Liu Wuxie was practicing an actual immortal art.
Thick thunderclouds began to gather in the sky. Condensing an immortal art was no different from attempting a breakthrough to the Immortal Realm. It mirrored Liu Wuxie stepping into the life-and-death tribulation, as the four astral domains forbade the use of immortal arts.
The moment it appeared, its devastation could destroy heaven and earth, including the very foundation of the astral domain itself, since each astral domain carried a lifespan. The astral domain released its own aura and tried to stop Liu Wuxie from comprehending the immortal arts.
As the immortal arts took shape, the entire Laman Astral Domain sensed it, and countless people turned to stare toward the Immortal Slaughter Palace.
People wondered, “Is someone making a breakthrough to the Immortal Realm?” They were completely unaware that Liu Wuxie was condensing an immortal art.
“This is bad! Liu Wuxie is refining the Heretic God’s remains!” The Immortal Slaughter Palace’s palace lord roared as he rushed out of the main hall and stared toward a mountain range three hundred miles away.
That sight felt worse than death. Not only had Liu Wuxie made his move, but he had done it right under their noses, and his arrogance went beyond madness.
