Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1616 - Condensing Immortal Arts
Chapter 1616 – Condensing Immortal Arts
Countless experts of the Immortal Slaughter Palace streamed out from their residences, and the sect’s air turned taut in an instant.
“Palace Lord, are you certain it’s Liu Wuxie?” Sima An asked, his gaze fixed on a mountain range three hundred miles away.
“Mobilize all the experts. We will surround him!” the palace lord commanded. Whether it was Liu Wuxie or not, anyone who dared to make a breakthrough to the Immortal Realm inside the Immortal Slaughter Palace was no ordinary person.
In the next instant, a vast number of experts rushed toward the mountain range to investigate the situation.
Liu Wuxie had never expected that attempting to condense an immortal art would trigger a life-and-death tribulation, yet the heavens answered him anyway. One tribulation after another crashed down from the sky.
Under the tribulation’s pressure, cracks raced across the spiritual array Liu Wuxie had set up, and those fractures forced his aura to leak through.
The moment his aura spilled out, shock ripped across the faces of the incoming Immortal Slaughter Palace experts.
“It’s Liu Wuxie’s aura!”
They had searched for two months, and Liu Wuxie had been hiding right under their noses the entire time. The humiliation stung like a slap. Now that his aura had already leaked, Liu Wuxie stopped hiding altogether and began comprehending immortal arts openly.
The five elements twisted together and formed a massive net that hung in the sky, and every thunderbolt that descended sank into that five-elemental diagram and vanished.
Chu Zhongtian arrived with horror etched across his face. “What a terrifying immortal art!”
With the Serene Peace Star’s veins destroyed, it would take at least a year to rebuild them. With the Heretic God’s remains gone and only astral crystal veins left, that place no longer required a quasi-immortal to guard it.
No ordinary mythical art could ever reach this level. Space began collapsing around them, and mountains and rivers started to vanish because the four astral domains would not allow immortal arts to exist.
As the tribulation intensified, the thunderbolts began piercing through the five-elemental diagram and pressing down in an attempt to kill Liu Wuxie.
“Devour!” Liu Wuxie roared.
The tribulation carried vast elemental power from heaven and earth, and a portion of it even came from the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm.
As the desolate world absorbed the laws of the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm, it expanded at a terrifying pace. Every trace of Liu Wuxie’s immortal energy turned into pure gold, far denser and purer than the immortal energy of ordinary heavenly immortals.
Liu Wuxie threw his head back and roared again, and boundless energy swept the skies, reaching a level that plunged countless people into despair. Cultivators from Tranquil Peace City also arrived from afar and gathered in the sky to witness what was happening.
“He’s not making a breakthrough to the Immortal Realm, but he’s condensing immortal arts!” an expert at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm blurted out.
“Liu Wuxie is only in his twenties, and he’s only at the higher levels of the Earth Immortal Realm. How could he possibly comprehend immortal arts?” many experts discussed, shaking their heads in disbelief.
No one knew that Liu Wuxie had already broken through to the Heaven Gaze Realm. If they did, their reaction would have been far worse.
The murmurs spread as more Immortal Slaughter Palace experts continued to converge. “Rumor has it that Liu Wuxie is the reincarnation of an immortal. I wonder if that’s true.”
Two experts at the Quasi-Immortal Realm released their auras, forcing the tribulation back through sheer pressure.
Sima An, Niu Yichang, Gong Yangbo, and the others all manipulated mythical arts and tore the restrictions.
“Liu Wuxie, prepare to die!” Chu Zhongtian roared. He knew he had to kill Liu Wuxie before the immortal art could fully form, because if Liu Wuxie succeeded, the Immortal Slaughter Palace would drown in nightmares.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace had already suffered a massive blow in just a few short months, and Liu Wuxie had fully expected their arrival.
“Tian Can, hold them off for fifteen minutes.”
Tian Can had grown stronger. After absorbing a vast number of immortal runes, his combat strength had skyrocketed. Even though he still stood at the Quasi-Immortal Realm, the force he unleashed erased everything around him.
With a loud explosion, Tian Can struck first, and his punch released the power of a vast galaxy.
Chu Zhongtian moved the fastest, yet the impact still crushed his chest with suffocating force.
“Damn!” Chu Zhongtian exclaimed. He formed seals with both hands and threw a punch of his own at the incoming strike.
Space collapsed in layers, and boundless black holes opened across the sky, cutting off Sima An and the others before they could close in. Even at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm, they had no right to intervene in a fight like this.
“Palace Lord, I’ll stop him. You find a way to stop Liu Wuxie! We can’t allow him to comprehend immortal arts,” Chu Zhongtian roared.
The palace lord’s figure flashed, and he tried to pass through the tribulation like a comet.
“Get lost!” Tian Can roared back.
He released an immense force that blocked both the palace lord and Chu Zhongtian. He had to hold them off for fifteen minutes at any cost.
“How is this possible? Your cultivation was nowhere near this terrifying two months ago!” Chu Zhongtian shouted. On the Serene Peace Star, he and Tian Can had clashed multiple times, and he knew Tian Can’s limits.
Yet Tian Can’s strength had transformed so drastically in only two months that Chu Zhongtian couldn’t even lift his head under the suppression.
The Azure Thunder Sect’s sect master arrived with many elders to witness the earth-shattering battle, and none of them interfered, as the Azure Thunder Sect would benefit no matter who survived.
“Crippling Sword Art!” Tian Can formed seals, and countless sword-shaped seals condensed in midair, shooting out in a storm.
“Everyone retreat!” Sima An shouted as he barely stepped forward before suffocating pressure threatened to crush him. He and the others had no choice but to retreat if they didn’t want to get caught in the battle.
Only Liu Wuxie stood unharmed in the center of the tribulation. The Great Five Elemental Mythical Art continued condensing, and it now hovered only one step away from an immortal art.
“What frightening cultivation speed! He’s too terrifying to condense an immortal art in such a short time,” the other quasi-immortal from the Azure Thunder Sect said, shock etched across his face.
“We’re lucky that our Azure Thunder Sect has no feud with him. Otherwise, having him as an enemy would bring unimaginable consequences,” the Azure Thunder Sect’s sect master said. He appeared to be in his fifties and had already heard Liu Wuxie’s name a few years ago.
Back then, Liu Wuxie had used the Azure Thunder Sect’s name to restrain the Immortal Slaughter Palace and slip away safely.
Sima An and the others managed to retreat in time, but sword rays still cut them open, covering them in blood. Even at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm, they couldn’t muster the strength to resist in front of quasi-immortals.
“Apocalyptic Leaf Mythical Art!” the lord of the Immortal Slaughter Palace roared and unleashed a top-tier mythical art that stood infinitely close to an immortal art.
In a heartbeat, the surroundings turned apocalyptic as runes intertwined, forming a doomsday scene.
Tian Can’s Crippling Sword Art also stood infinitely close to an immortal art, and the two powers collided like two collapsing worlds.
“Go!” Liu Wuxie continued to comprehend his immortal art, then swiped his right hand through the air and manifested a powerful immortal rune, injecting it directly into Tian Can’s mythical art.
That immortal rune empowered the Crippling Sword Art and pushed its speed even higher, forcing the Apocalyptic Leaf Mythical Art back.
Sizzling sounds ripped across the heavens as sword rays ravaged the sky, and countless broken swords manifested and shot outward, slicing through distant mountain ranges as if they were paper. In a single exchange, everything within three thousand miles fell into ruins.
The defensive spiritual array activated by the Immortal Slaughter Palace had completely shattered. Tian Can, by himself, had managed to hold back both Chu Zhongtian and the palace lord.
Time nearly ran out. The five elements began to settle, and the five elemental diagrams in the sky shrank into a special imprint that burrowed into Liu Wuxie’s body. That change signaled that heaven and earth had recognized the immortal art. The tribulation vanished as the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron absorbed every remaining thunderbolt.
“Tian Can, you take care of the palace lord,” Liu Wuxie said, then turned and charged straight toward Chu Zhongtian.
In raw cultivation, the Immortal Slaughter Palace Lord stood on the same level as Tian Can, and those two far surpassed Chu Zhongtian.
“Good!” Tian Can said. Facing two opponents at the same cultivation had been too difficult, and this division finally made it manageable.
“Liu Wuxie, I’ll take your life today!” Chu Zhongtian roared like a ferocious wolf and lunged.
As expected of a quasi-immortal, he moved with thunderous speed and attacked with crushing force that left Liu Wuxie no room to breathe.
Chu Zhongtian understood perfectly that this was his best chance. If Liu Wuxie escaped again, they might never catch him.
Earth roared, sky fractured, and everything sank into chaos until night and day became indistinguishable.
Cultivators who had gathered too close fled in terror and retreated beyond 3,000 miles.
“Sima An, what should we do? Do we stand here?” Gong Yangbo asked, staring at the carnage.
The aftermath made it impossible for them to approach, leaving them forced to watch from the edges.
“Liu Wuxie is dead for sure. He actually dares to contend with Elder Chu?” Sima An sneered.
Yet the moment Liu Wuxie released the aura of the Heaven Gaze Realm, Sima An narrowed his eyes and finally sensed something deeply wrong.
His words spilled out before he could stop himself. “That’s impossible! He reached the first-level Heaven Gaze Realm!”
They had just received reports that Liu Wuxie had only been at the higher levels of the Earth Immortal Realm. Even if he had refined the Heretic God’s remains, it made no sense for him to break through this quickly.
An earth immortal would need at least eight to ten years to refine the Heretic God’s remains.
Liu Wuxie released the full aura of the Heaven Gaze Realm and manifested his domain.
A colossal axe appeared behind him and blotted out the sky, and the domain’s power surged hundreds of times stronger than before.
Even Chu Zhongtian’s domain began cracking under that pressure, fissures spreading faster and faster.
A suffocating force radiated from the axe, but the most terrifying part came from the primordial power sleeping deep within it, a presence that felt capable of destroying everything.
Even Liu Wuxie felt shocked by its power. The axe domain had always baffled him, yet now its true terror became undeniable, and it clearly exceeded everyone’s imagination.
“Great Five Elemental Immortal Art!” Liu Wuxie roared as he unleashed the immortal art he had just comprehended.
The desolate world shuddered, and boundless immortal energy erupted outward, and the pressure of an immortal art hovered in the sky like a judgment waiting to fall.
