Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 454 - Heavenly Phase Realm

Chapter 454 – Heavenly Phase Realm

Time was pressing, and the consequences would be dire if Liu Wuxie couldn’t reach the Heavenly Phase Realm by dawn tomorrow.

The Wild Lion Gate definitely wouldn’t let him make a breakthrough to the Heavenly Phase Realm and would kill him while he was making a breakthrough.

The Desolate Devouring Art continued to evolve, accelerating the rate at which it devoured energy. This caused more cultivators to gather on the ground.

Many cultivators hid while the three major forces rampaged and avoided being captured.

“Treasure! It must be a treasure!” whispers circulated, with some suggesting the presence of an underground palace brimming with riches. Exaggerations grew wilder, with claims of a legendary Dragon Palace beneath the island, once home to the Dragon Clan.

It was impossible to verify whether the rumors were true. By the latter part of the night, as the Desolate Devouring Art’s evolution slowed, Liu Wuxie observed a remarkable transformation: the devoured spiritual energy was now manifesting as spiritual rain.

“Spiritual energy transformation!” Liu Wuxie murmured to himself. He had to compress the energy he had absorbed previously to convert it into true essence. However, it was different now because it turned into spiritual rain pouring down on the desolate world after he absorbed it.

The desolate world was Liu Wuxie’s dantian. The more spiritual rain it absorbed, the purer his true essence would become, and this discovery shocked Liu Wuxie.

He knew that wasn’t all, and there were more functions to the Desolate Devouring Art, just that he couldn’t access them because his cultivation was too low.

“Breakthrough!” Liu Wuxie growled, and two Blood Abyssal Stones vanished, transforming into a massive amount of true essence coursing through his meridians.

A powerful suction force came from the Wood and Earth Suppression Steles. They absorbed most of the energy from the Blood Abyssal Stone, causing Liu Wuxie’s face to change. Because he had never refined the Suppression Steles into his internal organs before, he had no experience and could only explore as he progressed.

The two divine palaces were like a vast universe with boundless energy pouring in. A bizarre scene occurred when the initially dark palaces were illuminated from within.

A mysterious power came from the divine palaces and strengthened the constructed bridge, suddenly causing Liu Wuxie’s five organs to tighten. A faint halo was released from the depths of the divine palaces and enveloped the five organs.

“My internal organs seem to be strengthened!” Liu Wuxie was utterly stunned. He knew refining the Suppression Steles into his internal organs would increase his strength, but he had only a rough idea.

This was just the result of refining two Suppression Steles, and he couldn’t imagine the transformation in his strength if he could gather all five Suppression Steles.

He could sweep through all his opponents with the desolate world and five elemental Suppression Steles. Furthermore, he also had the Spirit Clan’s Soul Forge Art and the Frost Finger he had comprehended, each surpassing countless others.

Cracking sounds came from the desolate world as it expanded with more trees. The volcano became more majestic, and demonic sounds could be heard from the abyssal realm.

When Liu Wuxie’s aura continued rising, Gu Yu stood up emotionally in disbelief. His grandfather had taken him to witness other cutivator’s breakthroughs into the Heavenly Phase Realm, but no one had created such a terrifying phenomenon before.

“So many spiritual runes! How much spiritual energy did Big Brother Liu absorb?” Gu Yu muttered. He couldn’t believe how a person’s body could contain so much spiritual energy and laws.

This was the tip of the iceberg because even those in the Astral River Realm couldn’t achieve the desolate world in Liu Wuxie’s dantian. Only Liu Wuxie knew the vast desolate world could contain an entire world. He felt it could even turn into a universe in the later stages.

Once his bottleneck broke, there was no longer any hindrance in Liu Wuxie’s way, and his cultivation began to rise like a wild stallion.

Liu Wuxie’s accumulation was enough because he had killed several cultivators in the Heavenly Phase Realm in the past few days, with laws accumulated in his body that had yet to be refined. However, it became easier for Liu Wuxie to refine the laws after reaching the Heavenly Phase Realm.

As another Blood Abyssal Stone disintegrated, Liu Wuxie had now consumed five of these precious stones in his breakthrough, an astonishingly large amount.

A violent aura erupted from him, leaving sword-like marks along the walls on either side. This potent energy formed invisible hurricanes that swept through the tunnels, pushing outward with relentless force.

Gu Yu had to raise a protective shield to protect himself from injury. Even so, the shield was covered in cracks and barely held up.

“What terrifying aura!” Gu Yu couldn’t describe his feelings because just the aura alone was enough to kill ordinary cultivators in the Heavenly Phase Realm. If Liu Wuxie had given it his all, even those in the fifth-level Heavenly Phase Realm might not have been his match, and this was the conclusion Gu Yu reached.

A hint of dawn rose from the east, signaling the arrival of a new day. The spiritual clouds above the mine also gradually dispersed, but the situation was far from over because the rumors grew even more exaggerated.

Even the Sea Demon Clan and Abyssal Clan had received news of a treasure appearing there. They were gathering their troop to attack this region.

The Wild Lion Gate also mobilized troops to guard this place and sent people underground to investigate the phenomenon’s cause. They searched for half a day and couldn’t find any clues. The underground mine didn’t seem to have the treasure trove they had imagined.

No matter how the Wild Lion Gate explained it, the other factions did not believe them, thinking the Wild Lion Gate wanted to keep it all to themselves.

Just like that, a siege targeting the Wild Lion Gate began. The Wild Lion Gate was the largest force on the Blood Sea Abyssal Island and had long drawn much discontent from the other factions.

Liu Wuxie opened his eyes, and two cold beams shot out, leaving two craters on the stone wall behind.

At this moment, Liu Wuxie had successfully reached the Heavenly Phase Realm. All his acupoints began to circulate, forming a vortex, and each acupoint was like a bridge that connected his body. When the vortex started to revolve, Liu Wuxie was slowly lifted off the ground.

“I can finally fly!” Liu Wuxie was a little emotional, which was reflected on his face. He had long mastered the art of flying, but his low cultivation held him back.

The tunnel wasn’t high, so Liu Wuxie hovered only a meter above ground before returning down. The vortex formed from his acupoints were like a fish’s swim bladder, granting him precise control over his ascension and descent.

That was the same for humans, but this was the initial flying stage. As his cultivation advanced, he wouldn’t have to rely on his acupoints and could fly using his mind alone.

The more flying laws he grasped, the faster his flight would become. He circulated the Breath Concealing Art to conceal his genuine cultivation. This meant even an expert in the Astral River Realm couldn’t detect his actual cultivation, and he maintained his cultivation in the pinnacle Heavenly Dipper Realm.

After all, it wasn’t wise for him to reveal his cultivation, and it was better to quietly excavate Blood Abyssal Stones to grow stronger without alarming anyone.

With the abundance of Blood Abyssal Stones at his disposal, Liu Wuxie had ample resources to advance to the third level of the Heavenly Phase Realm. Achieving a higher cultivation level would significantly increase their chances of survival.

“Gu Yu, dig twenty meters to your right, but don’t touch the last ten meters. We can use it as an escape route if anything goes wrong,” Liu Wuxie instructed, preparing for any potential danger. They planned to remain underground and continue mining unless absolutely necessary.

“Okay!” Gu Yu was excited. The fact that Liu Wuxie had reached the Heavenly Phase Realm meant they had a greater chance of survival.

They dug for two hours before Xiao Yanlong came in with his men, and Xiao Yanlong’s face turned terrifyingly grim when he saw the three corpses on the ground.

“Are you disappointed?” Liu Wuxie looked at Xiao Yanlong with a smile. He had killed all three men arranged by Xiao Yanlong.

Upon seeing the three corpses, Xiao Yanlong’s expression became solemn because they were all in the second level of the Heavenly Phase Realm. This meant Liu Wuxie’s strength was stronger than he had imagined; he needed to send someone to the third level of the Heavenly Phase Realm.

“I’ll have the hall master kill you both if you can’t hand over any Blood Abyssal Stones today!” Xiao Yanlong snorted. He knew he wasn’t Liu Wuxie’s match and could only try to pressure the latter using the Wild Lion Gate. After all, Liu Wuxie and Gu Yu would have to die if they couldn’t produce any Blood Abyssal Stone.

“Here is the Blood Abyssal Stone you wanted. You can get lost now if you have nothing else!” Liu Wuxie tossed the prepared Blood Abyssal Stone to Xiao Yanlong, causing the latter’s face to turn livid with anger.

However, Xiao Yanlong didn’t dare to lose his temper with others present. The Wild Lion Gate didn’t belong to him, and the other captains beside him were watching with a smile.

Xiao Yanlong could only leave in anger, and the mine returned to silence.

“Big Brother Liu, are we really just giving them the Blood Abyssal Stone like this?” Gu Yu asked, feeling frustrated. They had come to the mine to gather these stones, and it felt wrong to hand them over so easily.

“Those Blood Abyssal Stones I gave out aren’t easy to take. You’ll know in a few days,” Liu Wuxie replied with a mysterious smile. He had tampered with the Blood Abyssal Stone, hoping it could reach Kuang Shi.

He planned to stir more chaos on the Blood Sea Abyssal Island to make it easy for him to benefit from the situation. Only Liu Wuxie dared to make such a bold move and inject the Netherspirit Flower’s poison into the Blood Abyssal Stone.

They continued to mine, and Liu Wuxie obtained ten more Blood Abyssal Stones in just one day, relying on Ghost Eye.

Gu Yu sat nearby, steadily accumulating his foundation for the right moment to make a breakthrough.

When Xiao Yanlong arrived on the second day, Liu Wuxie tossed three Blood Abyssal Stones over; Xiao Yanlong could only leave furiously.

Xiao Yanlong wasn’t furious on the third day and looked at Liu Wuxie with a smile.

“Liu Wuxie, I should thank you. The mine I’m in charge of has produced the most Blood Abyssal Stones, and I will soon be promoted to the vice-hall master. My authority will increase then, and I can’t wait to kill you.” Other mining sites hadn’t produced many Blood Abyssal Stones, and some had none.

However, Liu Wuxie’s mine had produced six Blood Abyssal Stones in three days, which were all handed over to Kuang Shi.

“We all have our needs,” Liu Wuxie smiled. He had deliberately handed over a few more Blood Abyssal Stones so Kuang Shi wouldn’t suspect anything.

The Netherspirit Flower’s poison could even kill a cultivator in the Nascent Transformation Realm, and Kuang Shi was only in the Astral River Realm. If he were poisoned, he would practically have no odds of survival.

“I don’t necessarily have to kill you. If you want to reveal your secrets and swear allegiance to me, I can help you regain your freedom,” Xiao Yanlong said as he was in a better mood. His master was already dead, and there was no need to hold a grudge for a dead person still.

Liu Wuxie had too many secrets about him, especially the cultivation technique he practiced, which Xiao Yanlong had long coveted. He believed he could reach a higher realm in his cultivation if he could obtain it.