Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1633 - Third-Level Heaven Gaze Realm
Chapter 1633 – Third-Level Heaven Gaze Realm
Rumors soon spread that the Grand Unity Sect had been using the Great Divine Sun Bell to communicate with the celestial realm.
A million years had passed. Whether it was the Grand Unity Sect or the Heavenly Dragon Sect, both had produced immortals who had ascended to the celestial realm. A million years ago, Lingqiong Tian of the Heavenly Dragon Sect had ascended.
Three hundred thousand years ago, the Lingqiong Clan had also seized an opportunity to send a large batch of disciples into the celestial realm. The Grand Unity Sect had done the same and pushed many of their own disciples through during that window.
Only the Heavenly Dragon Sect had stood its ground when the celestial realm had opened, resisting the invaders head-on. But in the past few months, changes in heaven and earth had triggered all manner of bizarre events across the four astral domains.
Some claimed they had seen a gate in the sky, radiating unknown substances. Some swore a river of stars had swept across the heavens. Others reported rainbow-colored radiance spilling outward. None of these phenomena had ever appeared in the astral domains before.
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Now, everyone in the four astral domains talked about it, and a vast number of experts rushed toward the Outer Astral Spacetime.
Liu Wuxie already understood how violently the world had begun to shift. The widening cracks in the Heavenly Dao Book never stopped warning him that more than one person in the celestial realm had discovered his existence and was doing everything possible to halt his growth. That meant they would eventually send an immortal down into the astral domains.
With his current strength, he couldn’t even think about resisting such an existence. He had already contacted his master, Hua Feiyu, who had told him only about the Spirit Sealing Institute starting its preparations.
They had already devised countermeasures. Through Han Feizi’s calculations, they had created the Heavenly Sealing Array. If they completed it, they could seal the four astral domains and prevent immortals from descending. But setting up a heaven-defying spiritual array like that demanded time.
Han Feizi’s Spirit Sealing Physique had fully awakened, and he had also taken control of the entire Spirit Sealing Institute. His cultivation wasn’t high, but the Spirit Sealing Institute had begun to regain its vitality.
Liu Wuxie tossed those thoughts aside. Right now, his only objective was to keep breaking through. The higher his cultivation rose, the more prepared he would be for what was coming.
Immortal or mortal, everything became an illusion before absolute strength.
The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron swallowed the sarira, and black flames immediately began refining it. As the sarira melted down, sacred chants rang out from within. Each note struck at Liu Wuxie’s soul sea, as the sarira carried the Buddhist Clan’s profundities and laws.
What disappointed Liu Wuxie was the absence of the Great Karma Mythical Art, the Buddhist Clan’s renowned technique. If he could elevate it into a Great Karma Immortal Art, it would carry unfathomable power.
Even so, he didn’t know what that power would truly be. He understood the Buddhist Clan too poorly. Buddhist runes flashed, shuttling through his body before streaming into the desolate world.
Then the desolate world trembled, and a new realm took shape—the Buddhist Realm. The Buddhist runes brought Buddhist aura with them.
Something even more unbelievable followed: a Bodhi Tree sprouted inside the Buddhist Realm and began to grow.
Rumor had it that the Buddhist Clan’s ancestor had attained enlightenment beneath a Bodhi Tree and then ascended.
“Bodhi has no tree, the bright mirror no stand. Since there is not a single thing, where can dust alight?”
There had never truly been a Bodhi Tree in the world. It had gained its name only because a Buddha had achieved enlightenment beneath it. The “mirror” symbolized the mind, not a literal platform, so it required no deliberate polishing.
Everything in the world began as an illusion. Nothing existed in the first place, so no dust could ever land. That was the Buddhist Clan’s profound truth.
The birth of the Buddhist Realm also reshaped the desolate world. Faint Buddhist runes began to appear within Liu Wuxie’s immortal energy, making it feel even more archaic.
Energy continued to gush from the sarira, unabated. The sarira stood comparable to an immortal among the human race, yet Liu Wuxie couldn’t break through to the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm in a single step.
He didn’t rush. He could take his time before turning his blade toward the Grand Unity Sect. After all, he had nearly annihilated the Immortal Slaughter Palace, and the Grand Unity Sect had surely tightened its defenses by stationing experts at major assets, interrogating every unfamiliar face, and even demanding special passphrases to prevent another infiltration.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace served as a living example, and Liu Wuxie wouldn’t foolishly repeat the same trick twice.
Half a month later, Liu Wuxie had refined roughly one-third of the sarira’s energy. The gateway to the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm also began to rise before him, slowly but unmistakably. At last, his breakthrough had arrived.
Once he stepped into the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm, his cultivation would undergo another drastic transformation.
The Buddhist Realm expanded alongside the desolate world. The number of immortal runes doubled, enough to shock countless people if they ever learned the truth.
The more immortal runes he carried, the easier it became for him to execute immortal arts. As the third-level Heaven Gaze gateway manifested, all spiritual energy within a three-thousand-mile radius surged toward him like a tidal wave.
No one noticed the commotion, as this planet lay abandoned.
Countless experts were fixated on the strange phenomena in the Outer Astral Spacetime, and Liu Wuxie’s current location was in proximity.
“Strike!” Liu Wuxie gathered all his immortal energy, condensed it into an axe, and slammed it into the gateway to the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm once his momentum peaked.
The instant the axe fell, the gate shattered on contact. That only deepened Liu Wuxie’s curiosity about the axe’s power. It felt as if someone had branded the axe into his body, and he immediately wondered whether he had once cultivated axe-related immortal arts in his past life.
He had only glimpsed fragments of his past life when the Path of Fate was severed, and even those images remained unclear. What he had seen in the Heavenly Deity Monument only reinforced his belief that he truly carried a past life.
After the gateway broke apart, it dissolved into countless laws and fused into the desolate world.
As Liu Wuxie’s cultivation surged, he stepped into the late phase of the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm in the blink of an eye. Over a hundred million astral crystals shattered into an endless tide, and he also consumed half of the immortal stone he had taken from the Mad Demon Ancestors.
A single immortal stone could support elders in a first-tier sect for countless years, yet for Liu Wuxie, one stone only sustained a single level of breakthrough. Still, that terrifying consumption forged the foundation behind his overwhelming combat strength.
Rumbles shook the void as Liu Wuxie drained spiritual energy from thousands of miles away. Space collapsed in pockets, and thunderclouds flashed.
A massive black hole formed behind Liu Wuxie and began devouring everything around it. By now, the sarira still retained about one-third of its energy, but Liu Wuxie didn’t continue pouring it into the desolate world. Instead, he fed it directly into his body.
His physique had remained stuck at the Quasi-Immortal Realm. If he could elevate it to the level of an immortal physique, he wouldn’t have to fear his body collapsing under an immortal’s attacks.
Agony tore through him as energy surged across his flesh. His internal organs underwent violent transformation, along with his limbs, soul sea, and every pore. His body flickered as though it would dissolve into heaven and earth at any moment.
This was unity with heaven and earth. If one cultivated it to the peak, one could exist alongside heaven and earth itself.
Another ten days passed before Liu Wuxie finally stabilized his cultivation. The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron gradually quieted as the power seeping out slowed, focusing on nourishing the desolate world instead.
The Ancestral Tree continued to grow, and even Liu Wuxie couldn’t guess how tall it would become. If the outside world were to see it, it would pierce straight through the clouds.
When Liu Wuxie opened his eyes, two golden rays shot out and pierced space.
“What terrifying power!” Even Liu Wuxie hadn’t expected such a massive rise in strength after a single breakthrough. He owed it all to the sarira. Thick layers of immortal runes now covered every bone, binding into his body.
Then his physique shifted, morphing into different shapes. He could change his physical form at will. The realization shocked him. This was his first time reaching unity with heaven and earth in his life, and he still had to feel his way through it. He hadn’t attained it even during his time as an Immortal Emperor.
He drew in a deep breath, and fragments in front of him drifted inward. When he exhaled, his breath became a sword ray that tore through the clouds. Now he felt confident that ordinary quasi-immortals wouldn’t be his match.
Suddenly, two sharp whooshes rang out as two figures bolted toward him.
“This is strange. How did anyone find this deserted place?” Liu Wuxie’s Ghost Pupil pierced the distance and detected two powerful auras racing toward him.
This route could lead into the Outer Astral Spacetime, but it lay at the very edge, and few would dare to enter from there.
Still, the phenomenon Liu Wuxie had triggered during his breakthrough had cracked many abandoned planets in the surrounding region.
Liu Wuxie planned to leave immediately, unwilling to stir up trouble. But the instant he rose, a terrifying sword ray slashed down toward him. The two cultivators struck from more than three thousand miles away.
Rage surged through Liu Wuxie. He had already tried to avoid conflict, yet these two pressed in aggressively.
“You’re courting death!” If they insisted on dying, he would grant them their wish.
He flicked his right hand and split the incoming sword ray apart, leaving nothing behind. The two cultivators’ expressions changed instantly.
Both had reached the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm and wielded terrifying strength. As long as quasi-immortals didn’t appear, they stood at the summit of the astral domains, and they wouldn’t fear even if they met another cultivator at the same level.
They crossed the distance in an instant. Liu Wuxie had planned to leave, but their attack ignited his temper. He didn’t recognize them.
Likewise, they clearly didn’t recognize him either. They had likely secluded themselves for a long time and only emerged recently.
“Why did you two attack me?” Liu Wuxie asked grimly.
He had survived only because of his strength. If another cultivator at the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm had taken that strike, they would have died on the spot.
When the two cultivators saw Liu Wuxie, they exchanged a look. They had rushed over, thinking a treasure had emerged, only to run into someone breaking through.
Liu Wuxie had just finished his breakthrough, and traces of immortal energy still lingered in the air.
Their hearts jolted. They had reached the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm, but had never even seen an immortal stone before. It wasn’t hard to guess that Liu Wuxie had broken through by relying on one.
What shocked them more was Liu Wuxie’s appearance, as he looked barely in his twenties. Seeing someone at the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm at that age felt absurdly rare.
“Brat, hand over the immortal stone!” the man on the right demanded coldly. He looked thirty years old at most, but in truth, he had lived for more than five thousand years.
Liu Wuxie, in contrast, was not even twenty, at least according to his bone age.
