Desolate Devouring Art

The gate convulsed violently, as though the divine metal force imprisoned behind it had reached the brink of eruption.

In the next heartbeat, countless golden arrows materialized from empty air. They hovered above the plain for one brief moment before hurtling toward the approaching cultivators.

While everyone else advanced in groups, Liu Wuxie moved alone. His solitary figure stood starkly apart from the crowd, and he became an obvious target. When the golden arrows locked onto him, an ominous chill swept through his body, as though some ancient beast had opened its eyes and chosen him as its prey.

A solemn light entered Shen Can's eyes. Even at the pinnacle of the Profound Immortal Realm, he did not dare underestimate arrows condensed from divine metal force.

The volley swallowed the sky and rained down upon the advancing cultivators. The arrows were packed so densely that not even the slightest gap remained for anyone to evade them.

"Hurry! Strike them down," a cultivator at the pinnacle of the Profound Immortal Realm roared.

Everyone raised their weapons at once, unleashing a surging tide of energy against the descending barrage.

Shen Can swept his sword across the air and carved a vacuum path straight ahead. The force of that single strike shattered hundreds of golden arrows.

Liu Wuxie narrowed his eyes upon witnessing the attack. Shen Can was unquestionably a formidable opponent, and eliminating someone of his caliber would demand tremendous effort.

When the cultivators at the pinnacle of the Profound Immortal Realm combined their strength, the resulting power rivaled that of Divine Immortals. Every golden arrow blocking their path shattered into nothingness.

Liu Wuxie received no such support. Golden arrows closed around him from every direction and sealed every possible avenue of escape.

Mocking laughter swept through the watching crowd.

"He'll be riddled with holes in another instant."

Not one person felt sympathy for Liu Wuxie. To them, a mere True Immortal had grossly overestimated himself by charging alongside their ranks. He had chosen to court death, so whatever happened next would be his own fault.

Just before the golden arrows pierced his body, a black hole opened above Liu Wuxie and swallowed the entire barrage.

The astonishing scene caught everyone by surprise. Liu Wuxie had not exposed even a trace of his aura, relying entirely upon the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron to consume the arrows.

The golden arrows were merely manifestations of divine metal force. Once the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron drew them inside, demonic flames immediately surged forward and refined them into pure energy.

A tremendous flood of divine metal force poured into the Desolate World. The influx became so violent that the entire realm seemed ready to burst apart. Liu Wuxie hurriedly restrained the Desolate Devouring Art and suppressed the rampaging power before it spiraled beyond control.

"What in the world was that? How could it devour every arrow?" shocked voices cried from all directions. Even experts at the higher levels of the Profound Immortal Realm stared in horror, unable to hide their disbelief.

The black hole's appearance planted fear in every heart. If it could devour divine metal force, what prevented it from swallowing them as well?

The Yin-Yang Elders exchanged startled glances from the distance. "Wait... I've seen that person before," they said.

During the battles inside the underground fight club, the same black hole had appeared every time Liu Wuxie had killed an opponent and devoured their corpses.

"That's Liu Wuxie," the Yang Elder shouted.

The name "Liu Wuxie" swept across the golden plain like a violent gale.

After destroying the first volley, Shen Can heard the name and immediately fixed his razor-sharp gaze upon Liu Wuxie.

"Kill him!"

Experts from the Shen Clan and Zhu Clan charged toward Liu Wuxie, every one of them intent on cutting him down.

"Time to move!" Liu Wuxie murmured.

With the arrows surrounding him gone, Liu Wuxie seized the opening and shot toward the gate of the Lung Palace. He had no other path. If he wanted to survive, he needed to continue breaking through his cultivation.

Nothing remained to obstruct him after the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron consumed the nearby arrows. Liu Wuxie surged forward at astonishing speed.

Shen Can transformed into a streak of light and pursued him without hesitation.

The gate to the Lung Palace trembled again, summoning another volley of golden arrows that targeted every cultivator on the plain. This barrage flew even faster and carried greater ferocity than the last.

Liu Wuxie executed the Divine Ninefold Step while the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron swallowed every arrow crossing his path. His speed not only matched Shen Can's but even surpassed it.

Shen Can lacked Liu Wuxie's advantage. Everyone had joined forces to repel the previous barrage, but he now faced the golden arrows alone.

"Young Master, we'll stop the arrows. Go after Liu Wuxie."

Numerous Shen Clan disciples rushed forward and summoned their artifacts, intercepting the incoming volley to clear a path for Shen Can.

The pursuit continued without pause. Liu Wuxie soon got close to within a few dozen meters of the gate, only for a tidal wave of divine metal force to erupt before him and nearly blast him backward.

"Mysterious axe imprint, lend me your power," Liu Wuxie roared.

The gate looked solid and tangible, yet Liu Wuxie could tell that it resembled an illusion. To enter the Lung Palace, he needed to tear open a crack directly through it.

The mysterious axe imprint beneath the Ancestral Tree emerged and transformed into a towering divine axe that hovered above the golden plain. The moment it manifested, everyone's eyes widened in shock.

"What kind of power is that? Why do I feel compelled to worship it?" people exclaimed.

A cultivator at the lower levels of the Profound Immortal Realm nearly dropped to his knees beneath the overwhelming pressure of the mysterious axe imprint.

The mysterious axe imprint descended from the heavens and struck the gate. A deafening roar exploded across the plain, forcing countless cultivators to clamp their hands over their ears.

The axe ripped open a crack, and Liu Wuxie slipped through it before disappearing. By the time Shen Can arrived, the opening had already sealed itself. Everything unfolded within a single breath, and before anyone recovered from the shock, Liu Wuxie had vanished without a trace.

"Damn it! How did Liu Wuxie get ahead of everyone?!"

Those who arrived a moment too late stomped their feet in frustration. They believed countless treasures waited beyond the gate, and whoever entered first would undoubtedly seize an overwhelming advantage.

"Stop wasting time. Attack the gate now," a Shen Clan cultivator shouted before bringing his sword down with tremendous force.

The strike opened a narrow crack, but it measured no more than the width of a finger. Even an insect would have struggled to squeeze through, much less a fully grown person.

The other cultivators launched a relentless assault and struck the gate repeatedly. Despite their efforts, the largest opening they created never exceeded the width of a palm.

"Everyone, stop," Shen Can's Third Uncle called, bringing the chaotic attack to a halt. "If we want to tear open a passage, we must concentrate all our strength upon a single point."

He understood that scattered attacks would never breach the gate, even if they continued for ten days and ten nights.

"He's right. We need to combine our power and strike the same point if we want to force the gate open," the other cultivators agreed, nodding their heads.

Only by shattering the gate could they enter the depths of the Lung Palace.

Under the direction of Shen Can's Third Uncle, every cultivator at the pinnacle of the Profound Immortal Realm began gathering power for a unified strike.

After crossing the gate, Liu Wuxie instantly lost his footing and felt as though he had stepped into a boundless universe.

"What an enormous world!" he exclaimed.

Despite the initial sensation of falling, Liu Wuxie never actually descended. He could move freely through the strange space and walk as naturally as if solid ground supported him.

Liu Wuxie rapidly surveyed his surroundings and spotted a vast golden mountain floating in the distance. Without hesitation, he charged directly toward it.

The golden mountain towered before him like a colossal peak rising a hundred thousand feet into the heavens.

"Ancient immortal runes," Liu Wuxie murmured.

Countless ancient immortal runes covered the golden mountain's surface. Liu Wuxie had only encountered such runes in ancient records. When he gently pressed his palm against the mountain, a powerful torrent of divine metal force surged into his body.

His cultivation immediately stirred, teetering on the verge of a breakthrough to the eighth-level True Immortal Realm.

The golden mountain was simply too immense. Liu Wuxie briefly considered devouring it with the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, but its sheer weight would likely shatter the cauldron instead.

Every trace of divine metal force within the Lung Palace originated from this mountain.

Liu Wuxie drove his fist into the golden mountain and blasted away a massive chunk of Metalline Stone. Collecting the entire mountain one piece at a time, however, would take an unimaginable amount of time.

With Shen Can and the others following close behind, Liu Wuxie needed to decide immediately.

"If only I could find the Divine Metal Core," Liu Wuxie muttered.

A golden mountain of such magnitude had undoubtedly nurtured a Divine Metal Core within its core. That essence represented the purest source of its divine metal force.

Liu Wuxie activated Ghost Pupil and the Divine Tribulation Pupil without hesitation, attempting to see through the golden mountain. Before his vision, the mountain gradually separated like flowing mercury and exposed its intricate internal structure.

Deep within the mountain, rhythmic thumps echoed like the beating of a heart. At its source, he discovered a Divine Metal Core as large as a water vat.

"There really is a Divine Metal Core," Liu Wuxie exclaimed, a brilliant smile spreading across his face.

Once he removed the Divine Metal Core, the golden mountain would become ordinary stone. At most, its remains would retain only a faint wisp of divine metal force.

Liu Wuxie raised the Bloodthirst Blade and slashed into the mountain, tearing open a massive fissure. Within the blink of an eye, he carved a passage nearly a hundred meters long, bringing the Divine Metal Core into view.

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Outside the Lung Palace, everyone concentrated their attacks upon one point and tore open a crack roughly a foot wide. Even then, the passage remained too narrow for anyone to enter.

Liu Wuxie had succeeded not because his strength surpassed theirs, but because the mysterious axe imprint possessed extraordinary power.

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"Break," Liu Wuxie roared.

The Bloodthirst Blade descended again, pulverizing the surrounding stone and exposing the enormous Divine Metal Core. The instant it emerged, a terrifying eruption of metal-attribute energy burst outward and nearly hurled Liu Wuxie away.

Fortunately, Liu Wuxie had anticipated the backlash and managed to withstand the impact.

"What an incredible treasure," he exclaimed, grinning broadly as he stared at the Divine Metal Core.

With the Divine Metal Core secured, his breakthrough to the eighth-level True Immortal Realm was nearly guaranteed. Even a Profound Immortal could directly advance an entire level after refining it, much less a True Immortal.

Liu Wuxie's Desolate World, however, was far too vast. For any other True Immortal, a single Divine Metal Core would have been sufficient to achieve three consecutive breakthroughs.

That drawback was unavoidable. Liu Wuxie could fight opponents with higher cultivation precisely because the laws within his Desolate World possessed such extraordinary density.

Without wasting another moment, Liu Wuxie collected the Divine Metal Core. "Come," he commanded.

He planned to refine it only after finding a safe location. If no other option remained, he would have to hide inside the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron could protect him, but its drawbacks were equally obvious. Its internal world remained completely severed from heaven and earth, making it ideal for secluded cultivation but unsuitable for a breakthrough.

Furthermore, once Liu Wuxie entered the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, the cauldron would remain fixed in place and prevent him from advancing farther. He would resort to that option only if every other path was cut off.

Cracking sounds reverberated throughout the golden mountain the instant Liu Wuxie removed the Divine Metal Core. With its core gone, the colossal structure began collapsing.

"Time to leave," Liu Wuxie muttered.

He had no reason to remain. The golden mountain's energy was rapidly dissipating, and any treasures others found among its ruins would pale in comparison to the Divine Metal Core.

At that moment, the cultivators outside finally shattered the gate and flooded inside.

Liu Wuxie secretly summoned the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, devoured a portion of the golden mountain, and turned to leave.

The colossal golden mountain immediately caught everyone's attention as they entered the broken gate.

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