Desolate Devouring Art

Chapter 1798 - Second-Level True Immortal Realm

A flood of information abruptly appeared in Ye Linghan's mind without warning. Before she could even begin to digest it, Liu Wuxie's shout had already reached her ears.

"Attack!"

The moment Liu Wuxie's command rang out, a violent surge of mental energy swept forward like a tidal wave and drove straight into the minds of the five men.

"ARGH!" the two Spirit Immortals screamed in agony. They felt as though invisible hands were ripping their minds apart. The mental energy released by the Eye of Insight pushed them into madness, dragging their consciousness little by little into a frenzy.

Even the Origin Immortal failed to guard against the sudden mental energy, and sharp pain pulsed through his upper dantian. However, as an Origin Immortal, he quickly forced himself to regain stability.

Just as he prepared to strike, Ye Linghan transformed into a streak of light and vanished from where she stood. The information that had appeared in her mind revealed the flaws in the techniques of all five men.

The sword in her hand swept outward like autumn leaves scattered by a sharp wind. Every movement and every strike landed with terrifying precision. Her attacks shifted between fierce and weak, cold and surging, at times silent as frost and at times roaring like a violent storm.

In a single exchange, four people collapsed, and blood pooled beneath their bodies. Ye Linghan's sword had slit each of their throats.

The instant the four died, Liu Wuxie summoned the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron and swallowed their corpses.

Then the Frostsword shot toward the final Origin Immortal, but he reacted in time and swiftly retreated into the distance.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Ye Linghan said. She naturally would not spare him. These people had forced her into the poisonous miasma forest and nearly cost her life there. Only by killing them could she vent the hatred burning in her heart.

A flag appeared in Ye Linghan's hand. As an Origin Immortal, she could activate it far faster than Liu Wuxie. The flag expanded in the air and swept down, binding the origin immortal in place.

"Leave his corpse intact!" Liu Wuxie called out. He was confident he would reach the second-level True Immortal Realm by refining this Origin Immortal.

Ye Linghan swiftly controlled the flag, and the Origin Immortal collapsed to the ground. He had not died, but only the faintest thread of life remained in him.

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron turned into a terrifying black hole and devoured the Origin Immortal whole. Before he could even put up a struggle inside the cauldron, demonic flames flared up, and miserable screams echoed from its depths.

After refining an Origin Immortal, three Profound Immortals, and two Spirit Immortals, their corpses became boundless liquid and laws that poured into the desolate world.

"Protect me!" Liu Wuxie said, sitting down with his legs crossed.

Ye Linghan immediately took out several flags and set them around the area. As a grandmaster in spiritual arrays, arranging a spiritual array posed no difficulty for her. Within only a few breaths, she completed a defensive spiritual array strong enough to ensure their safety even if an Origin Immortal arrived.

She then sat to the side and adjusted her condition. The earlier battle had consumed too much of her immortal energy, and the poison in her body had begun showing signs of breaking through the seal.

Meanwhile, Liu Wuxie circulated the Desolate Devouring Art, drawing immortal energy from within a radius of ten thousand meters as it surged toward him like a raging flood. A massive vortex appeared above his head, leaving Ye Linghan deeply shocked.

"What kind of cultivation technique is that? How could it be that powerful?" Ye Linghan murmured.

When the condensed energy fell like rain and poured into her body, her bottleneck finally showed signs of loosening. She had remained at the first-level Origin Immortal Realm for some time, and her breakthrough was about to arrive.

The liquid was not ordinary liquefied spiritual energy. After the conversion of the Desolate Devouring Art, the energy became even purer than before, making it perfectly suited for cultivators to absorb.

Two auras intertwined on the left and right. Liu Wuxie, as a man, represented Yang, while Ye Linghan, as a woman, represented Yin. As their auras circulated, a yin-yang phenomenon formed around them, resembling two fish coiling around one another.

With yin and yang complementing one another, Liu Wuxie and Ye Linghan entered a mysterious state. They felt as though they floated among clouds, like two embryos slowly being nurtured. The sensation was strange and profound, as though they had become one.

Yin and yang energies flowed through their bodies, allowing Liu Wuxie to sense the aura inside Ye Linghan. In the same way, Ye Linghan could also sense the aura within Liu Wuxie. The energies moved through their meridians like water blending with milk, leaving them deeply entwined.

Under the nourishment of yin-yang energies, Liu Wuxie and Ye Linghan's auras began rising even faster. The desolate world expanded as a torrent of energy rushed toward the gateway to the second-level True Immortal Realm.

The phenomenon triggered by Liu Wuxie's breakthrough was even more terrifying. As an Origin Immortal, the fluctuation Ye Linghan created caused the surrounding array flags to flap loudly.

Meanwhile, the other team had guarded the other entrance for a long time. When they still saw no trace of Liu Wuxie and Ye Linghan, they finally lost patience and sent a message to their companions.

After waiting half a day without receiving any reply, they finally sensed that something was wrong and circled around from another direction.

"They're not dead?!" the six cultivators exclaimed when they saw Ye Linghan and Liu Wuxie. From the moment the duo entered the poisonous miasma forest, they had all assumed death would be their only outcome.

"Quick, stop their breakthrough!" the Origin Immortal said, lunging toward the spiritual array to interrupt Ye Linghan's breakthrough. It was not hard for him to guess that their five companions had met disaster here.

The moment the six approached, the spiritual array around Liu Wuxie and Ye Linghan activated, trapping all six inside. As time passed, they still couldn't find a way out.

On the other side, Liu Wuxie spent a full hour before his cultivation finally stabilized. When he swept his gaze around, a cruel smile curved across his lips. He rose to his feet and moved through the spiritual array, intending to kill all six of them.

With his current cultivation, he couldn't kill them with sheer strength alone, but with the power of the spiritual array, he still had high hopes of succeeding. Even if he couldn't kill the Origin Immortal, he could trap all of them until they died.

A breakthrough within the Origin Immortal Realm required a long time, and Liu Wuxie had no intention of sitting idly and waiting.

Using Ye Linghan's spiritual array as the foundation, Liu Wuxie began modifying and transforming it into a lethal spiritual array. Soon, thunderbolts flashed within the spiritual array and struck down at all six people.

"What's going on? The spiritual array seems to have changed!"

The expressions of the six cultivators who had entered the array changed dramatically. They had finally discovered some clues about the spiritual array and felt confident that they could break it in at most fifteen minutes. But who could have expected the spiritual array to change suddenly and become even stronger?

A thunderbolt dropped from the sky without warning and struck one of the Spirit Immortals directly. Although the thunderbolt failed to kill him, that Spirit Immortal lost all strength, and a charred smell rose from his body.

Liu Wuxie moved through the spiritual array and silently approached the cultivator whom the thunderbolt had just struck. The Bloodthirst Blade descended, ending his life.

"Junior Brother!" a cultivator shouted, drawing his longsword from nearby and slashing down at Liu Wuxie. But by the time his sword ray arrived, Liu Wuxie had already vanished without a trace.

Using strange footwork, Liu Wuxie toyed with them like a cat playing with mice. Now that he had broken through to the second-level True Immortal Realm, his combat strength had multiplied. Low-level Spirit Immortals no longer posed much of a threat to him.

With the suppression of the spiritual array added in, Liu Wuxie had already placed himself in an invincible position.

Thunderbolts continued to descend, locking onto another Spirit Immortal and blasting open a large hole in his chest. He collapsed to the ground, howling in pain.

"Leave! Run! I'm done with this," the Origin Immortal shouted.

Even he was scared now, especially as Ye Linghan's aura gradually stabilized, and she was closer to completing her breakthrough.

The team had attacked the spiritual array for half a day, yet it had not even trembled. When the Bloodthirst Blade descended again, the second Spirit Immortal died. Only four people remained, but Liu Wuxie acted cautiously, as their cultivation was far above his.

Another fifteen minutes later, Ye Linghan's eyes snapped open, and a terrifying chill swept outward.

If Liu Wuxie had not stopped them, the consequences would have been unimaginable. They would have certainly broken into the spiritual array and killed the two of them before their breakthroughs were complete.

When Ye Linghan rose to her feet, a powerful aura swept from her body. Now that she had reached the second-level Origin Immortal Realm, her combat strength had soared. The seal suppressing the poison inside her had also become even sturdier than before, allowing her to fight without restraint.

With a single strike, she slew three Profound Immortals before turning toward the remaining Origin Immortal. As she approached him, her murderous intent surged higher with every step she took.

"I'll fight you to the death!" the Origin Immortal said, knowing there was no longer any hope of reversing the situation. He lunged at Ye Linghan, choosing a desperate fighting style that disregarded his own life.

However, Liu Wuxie waved his hand and controlled the spiritual array, dissolving all of the Origin Immortal's attacks. With a loud explosion, a crack tore open in the spiritual array.

At that very moment, Ye Linghan struck with her longsword and locked onto the Origin Immortal's neck. A sword ray flashed, and a head flew into the air.

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron swallowed all the corpses. Even if refining them could not help Liu Wuxie break through, they could still strengthen the desolate world. Moreover, he obtained over a million immortal stones from the eleven people, along with a large quantity of immortal herbs.

"These immortal herbs are almost enough to refine the Detoxification Pill," Liu Wuxie said, taking out the alchemy cauldron.

The eleven had often roamed through the Dragon Burial Mountain Range, so it was only natural that they carried a large stockpile of immortal herbs. Now, however, all of those resources benefited Liu Wuxie.

As Liu Wuxie performed the Heavenly Destiny Alchemy Art, fate, destiny, and heavenly dao energies surged in from the surroundings and empowered the alchemy cauldron, accelerating the refining process. Not every Detoxification Pill could neutralize the poison of the Three-Inch Thorn-Tipped Viper.

Ye Linghan stood quietly at the side, warmth rising in her heart as she watched Liu Wuxie refine pills for her. She knew that without Liu Wuxie, her entire world would have changed. He had neutralized her father's poison and saved the City Lord Mansion.

Only at dusk did Liu Wuxie finish refining two Detoxification Pills. He did not need them himself, since he was already immune to poison and could directly refine it in his body with the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

Ye Linghan accepted the Detoxification Pill, her gaze settling on Liu Wuxie. Her lips moved slightly, but she said nothing before swallowing the pill. Sitting down with her legs crossed, she circulated her cultivation technique to dissolve the pill and guided its energy through her body. The poison inside her rapidly broke down and seeped out through her pores.

The Detoxification Pill Liu Wuxie had refined contained the power of the heavenly dao. It not only neutralized the poison but also helped transform Ye Linghan's physique and deepen her understanding of heavenly dao.

After spending a full hour, Ye Linghan finally neutralized all the poison in her body. She released a breath, and a joyful smile blossomed across her face.

"Thank you!" she said, rising to her feet and giving Liu Wuxie a deep bow.

"We'll rest for the night and leave the Dragon Burial Mountain Range the first thing tomorrow morning," Liu Wuxie said. After sensing that Ye Linghan had developed feelings for him, he tried to keep as much distance from her as possible, and this was not a good sign.

Once the matter in the Azure Flame Dao Hall ended, he would have to leave this place. He needed to focus on raising his cultivation and had no time to become entangled in romantic affairs.

He had yet to take revenge; his child and wives remained in the mortal realm, and he also had to search for the Angel Spring for Ariel. Each of these matters weighed on his shoulders like a mountain, and the Heavenly Sealing Array could only last for twenty years.