Desolate Devouring Art

Chapter 128 - Seventh-Level Xiantian Realm

Chapter 128 - Seventh-Level Xiantian Realm

Over three thousand droplets of the enigmatic liquid surged into Liu Wuxie’s dantian simultaneously, equivalent to ingesting over a hundred fourth-grade pills at once. Even an individual in the Marrow Cleansing Realm would be torn apart by such energy.

However, this demonstrated the formidable power of the Desolate Devouring Art. It rapidly consumed the energies, compressing them and transforming them into true essence before filling Liu Wuxie’s dantian. Despite this, the agony of his meridians being torn apart was unbearable. Blood began to seep from Liu Wuxie’s pores, drenching him and forming a pool of blood where he sat. The blood then flowed into the magma river like a small stream.

Liu Wuxie took out the Marrow Cleansing Pill he had received as a reward from the assessment and swallowed it down to speed up the tempering of his physique.

As the blood entered the magma river, a reaction ensued, causing the massive rock at the river’s center to shake abruptly. If Liu Wuxie had been observing the rock at that moment, he would have been astounded. This was because the rock was devouring his blood.

However, Liu Wuxie needed to concentrate on his breakthrough and thus overlooked this scene. The sapling within his dantian’s world began to grow rapidly. It had grown to over a meter in just a few minutes, with the leaves becoming more lush and bewitching. It gave off a shocking amount of wood-attribute aura coursing through Liu Wuxie’s body.

Among the five elements, fire represented ferociousness, water represented gentleness, earth represented weight, metal represented sharpness, and wood represented life. Each element had its usage, such as fire being suitable for refining pills, water being suitable for women, earth being suitable for arranging spiritual arrays, metal being suitable for those who practiced swordsmanship, and wood being suitable for refining pills and engraving spiritual runes. But the most significant benefit lay in its unrivaled healing properties among the five elements.

The first attribute that Liu Wuxie awakened was the wood element. He depended on wood elements to secure his victory in the alchemy competition. Consequently, he used it to mend his body, and his injuries were rapidly healed, addressing the issue of his body being on the brink of collapse. This was the reason why Liu Wuxie was so audacious in his breakthrough.

The spiritual energy oscillated with each of his breaths, giving the impression that Liu Wuxie had integrated with his surroundings. Each of his breaths caused the heavens and the earth to ripple, a sight that would leave any observer in awe. After all, it was remarkable for someone in the Xiantian Realm to grasp the concept of unity with heaven and earth.

As Liu Wuxie’s dantian began to expand, it rapidly grew due to the influx of the three thousand droplets of mysterious liquid. The mountain range and rivers within his dantian expanded and developed. Suddenly, Liu Wuxie achieved a breakthrough, reaching the seventh-level Xiantian Realm.

Even after making a breakthrough, Liu Wuxie had no intentions of stopping. He was devouring the surrounding spiritual energy, and his cultivation continued to rise. Spiritual stones exploded as pure spiritual energy flowed into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, producing over a hundred droplets before flowing into his dantian.

“Carry on!” Liu Wuxie roared as his aura formed into a tidal wave, sending the surrounding rubbles flying away with the entire cave shaking. If this carried on, the entire Flame Sun Cave would be destroyed by him. The shockwave that he released upon making a breakthrough was even more terrifying than someone in the Marrow Cleansing Realm making a breakthrough.

In just one breath, Liu Wuxie reached the seventh-level Xiantian Realm, soon reaching the pinnacle. Even so, he had no intention of stopping as he was refining three thousand droplets of the mysterious liquid. He had accumulated for so long just for this moment.

When Liu Wuxie joined the Imperial Academy, he had the potential to reach the sixth-level Xiantian Realm. However, he had been suppressing his breakthrough as he didn’t need to worry about the accumulation of his breakthrough. Each breakthrough was smooth, and he didn’t need to stabilize his cultivation before making another breakthrough.

But his speed gradually slowed at the pinnacle of the seventh-level Xiantian Realm. According to his speculation, reaching the eighth-level Xiantian Realm shouldn’t have been an issue due to his accumulation. Could it be that something was lacking?

The density of the surrounding spiritual energy had decreased, and the circulation of the Desolate Devouring Art had also slowed down. He could make a breakthrough forcibly, but he didn’t want to do that. He wanted a natural and smooth breakthrough. If he tried making a breakthrough forcibly, he would face an obstacle in the future.

After spending two days stabilizing his cultivation, Liu Wuxie’s cultivation was finalized at the pinnacle of the seventh-level Xiantian Realm. When he opened his eyes, a powerful shockwave swept out at the surrounding stone walls, causing rubles to fall from above, smashing beside Liu Wuxie before breaking apart.

A thick layer of rubble was gathered in the passage far away, and Liu Wuxie had to clean it up when he went out. He sank his consciousness into his body. Joy soon appeared on his face when he saw his meridians.

“These are my meridians?!” Liu Wuxie was dumbfounded, looking at his body's meridians that looked like rivers intertwining. Even if someone consumed heaven-defying pills, there was a limit to how much they could broaden their meridians. After all, there was a limit to everything, and the speed would slow down after being broadened to a specific limit.

Take a person, for example. Their growth would be the fastest when they were young, gradually slowing down after the age of eighteen. This pattern was similar for trees, demonic beasts, and other races.

This was also true for the meridians in a person’s body. It was optimal to lay the foundation before the age of eighteen. After that, the growth would be limited even with the help of pills.

Liu Wuxie had delayed for so many years, and his meridians had already solidified, thus making it challenging to broaden them. But the Desolate Devouring Art compensated for this shortcoming. The process might have been painful, but the harvest was plentiful. Bearing the pain and relying on wood attributes to recover allowed his meridians to be broadened beyond his imagination.

Aside from broadening his meridians, every piece of muscle in his physique began to wriggle. Liu Wuxie could sense an unimaginable power lying beneath his muscles. But his bones were even more terrifying as they began to emit a faint golden radiance as though each had been tempered.

The strength of his growth had far exceeded compared to that of the Xiantian Realm. His entire body had undergone a drastic transformation, and he had grown taller and more mature. When his consciousness sank into his soul sea, his soul sea had completely turned golden, looking like a golden world.

My soul energy is no weaker than someone in the Marrow Cleansing Realm. Relying on Ghost Eye, it should be easy for me to kill someone in the low levels of the Marrow Cleansing Realm. Paired with Overlord Fist, I can even kill someone in the third-level Marrow Cleansing Realm. Liu Wuxie thought that the harvest had far exceeded his expectations.

Even so, this still didn’t reach Liu Wuxie’s desired expectations. He could only unleash the full power of Overlord Fist by reaching the Spirit Cleansing Realm, which was also required for him to refine high-graded pills. The transition from the Xiantian Realm to the Spirit Cleansing Realm represented a significant threshold, and he needed to cross it swiftly to further his cultivation.

As he circulated his soul energy, his right eye began to transform. The space before his eyes abruptly collapsed under the influence of Ghost Eye. This alteration startled Liu Wuxie, as the Ghost Eye had deviated from his understanding. After all, the golden soul sea alone had already diverged from his previous knowledge.

The deviation wasn’t just the lethality of his soul energy, but it also allowed him to differentiate the grade of a pill and deduce the refining method of a pill. This was too heaven-defying.

The fluctuation released by the Ghost Eye extended further, penetrating through the rocks to the depth of the mountain. Even the rocks could no longer block his sight. He had already experienced this penetrative ability back in Azure Billow City. But it was still somewhat blurred back then and wasn’t this realistic.

His vision wasn’t as vivid in the past, and he could barely see through a wall. But it was different this time as the fluctuation continued to extend. Even after reaching seventy meters, he still hadn’t reached his limit.

A surge of dizziness swept over him when the fluctuation extended to ninety-nine meters. This should be his limit, meaning nothing could escape him from within a hundred meters of a radius. As long as he performed Ghost Eye, everything would be revealed before his eyes.

The strength of Liu Wuxie’s consciousness would directly impact his efficiency when forging weapons in the future. In the past, his primary concern was his soul energy and innate talent. After all, he possessed unparalleled knowledge and would find himself in a difficult position if his cultivation couldn’t keep up. This was akin to having a mountain of treasures but being unable to utilize them.

He was confident his soul energy exceeded those in the Marrow Cleansing Realm. If he continued cultivating, he could fully utilize his knowledge and bring the greatest out of it.

This attempt exhausted almost all of his soul sea. Liu Wuxie could only close his eyes to rest and recover his soul energy.

Meanwhile, Elder Gu grew increasingly anxious outside the hall as it had been three days, and there still wasn’t any news about Liu Wuxie. He even sent someone down to search, but Liu Wuxie could not be found in the Flame Sun Cave. The person Xue Pinzhi sent over hadn’t slept for three days, guarding outside the Flame Sun Cave.

Meanwhile, the massive rock emitted a boundless chill after absorbing Liu Wuxie’s blood, alarming him. The chill was too freezing, covering the surrounding walls with a layer of ice, and this scene made Liu Wuxie narrow his eyes.

“Something’s not right,” he thought. The place wasn’t this cold when he first arrived, but now the chill was almost overpowering the heat from the magma. Intrigued by the rock’s sudden and terrifying coldness, he paused his cultivation to investigate. The chill seemed to draw the sapling, indicating something extraordinary about this place.

As he stood up, his body crackled like thunder, and his blood roared like mighty rivers in his meridians, creating a thunderous sound with each surge.

Driven by curiosity, Liu Wuxie advanced to uncover the mystery, covering five steps in an instant. Upon gazing at the magma river, he was so astounded that he nearly lost his footing and retreated hastily.

“Unbelievable!” Liu Wuxie exclaimed. The sight before him was beyond anyone’s comprehension. However, it wasn’t the sight that shocked him, but the realization of finding such a priceless treasure in the True Martial Continent.