Chapter 1483 - Sixth-Level Void Realm

Elder Jian had all but thrown away his life to protect Liu Wuxie. As long as he could sever the Path of Fate, he could stop the Lingqiong Clan from killing Liu Wuxie's previous life and safeguard his present life.

By now, Jia Mo had already lost both arms, and his body rotted inch by inch until he resembled a gigantic, pus-filled lump on the ground. He no longer had a recognizable shape, as he was reduced to what looked like a meatball.

Facing the attacks of the two Lingqiong Clan's experts, Elder Jian no longer had the strength to block them, as he had spent every last shred of power severing the Path of Fate.

With a deafening

boom

, the attacks blasted Elder Jian backward, his blood dyeing the sky red as nearly all the bones in his chest shattered. He was reduced to a bloody mess, and it felt like a miracle that he hadn't exploded on the spot.

When Elder Jian saw that the Path of Fate had failed to recover, a faint smile tugged at his face. He had completed his task, and he slowly closed his eyes, allowing himself to fall into the River of Fate.

Anyone who fell into the River of Fate would sink into it for eternity, and even an immortal couldn't bring them back. Yet right before Elder Jian could plunge into the River of Fate, a golden ray flashed and wrapped around him. A spatial rift opened in the same instant and carried Elder Jian away.

No one knew whether he lived or died. Even if he survived, though, he would still need an unimaginably long time to recover.

Liu Wuxie recognized that immortal ray, as it had appeared once before during the Myriad Race Ceremony. It had to be the Radiant Mirror.

As the River of Fate calmed, the Deity of Fate vanished, and the Path of Fate was severed completely. That meant no one could ever retrace Liu Wuxie's previous life, because someone had severed his heavenly dao.

"Senior Jia Mo!" the two experts of the Lingqiong Clan screamed, desperate for Jia Mo to find another way.

However, Jia Mo had already turned into a massive lump of meat, losing the ability to speak, leaving only a wisp of consciousness behind. The backlash of the heavenly dao worsened with every breath, and it was only a matter of time before he died.

The lump of meat wriggled as it slid into the River of Fate, splashing water up into the air.

Lingqiong Yu nearly went insane when he saw that. Since Jia Mo was already dead, who could remove the worms inside him? Anxiety and helplessness twisted together until Lingqiong Yu screamed, yet he still couldn't do anything about it.

The scene before Liu Wuxie blurred and faded away. The Heavenly Dao Book returned to normal, settling at the center of his soul sea.

In only a few short minutes, Liu Wuxie had brushed against death, while Sun Xiao and the others remained completely unaware. They continued to stand guard around him without realizing what had nearly happened.

With the power of fate no longer interfering, Liu Wuxie could finally devote himself to comprehending the profundity of eternity again. If the Path of Fate hadn't appeared earlier, it would not have been easy for him to grasp the profundity of eternity at all.

However, the shadow at the far end of the Path of Fate hadn't been him as an Immortal Emperor, and that made Liu Wuxie believe the burly man's words even more.

Perhaps his life in the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm had merely been another reincarnation.

That shadow allowed Liu Wuxie to glimpse the profundity of eternity, and insights began to bloom in his mind as everything grew clearer.

It felt as though his gaze had pierced through spacetime, and a wisp of aura swept through the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm, alarming countless ancient beings.

That aura only flashed past for a moment before it quickly returned to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain. When Liu Wuxie rose to his feet, he looked ahead with indifferent calm.

"Divine Eternal Fist!" Liu Wuxie said as he gently threw a punch. A powerful shockwave burst outward while the immortal energy detonated on its own.

This single punch carried power hundreds of times more terrifying than the Heaven-Severing Strike, the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art, and the Gate of Darkness, yet throwing it once drained all of Liu Wuxie's soul energy.

Since his actual body wasn't here, Liu Wuxie couldn't be sure if his body could actually withstand the backlash, or if the true essence in the desolate world could even support it.

He had comprehended this fist technique through the profundity of eternity. If he infused world force into it, it would become truly unstoppable, a punch that surpassed all mythical arts.

By Liu Wuxie's estimation, the power of this punch already rivaled an immortal art, and he could only unleash it using immortal energy. Ordinary true essence didn't even qualify to fuel this fist.

Originally, Liu Wuxie had planned to master an immortal art as his trump card after reaching the Earth Immortal Realm. He never expected to comprehend the Divine Eternal Fist; instead, it was a technique that made every immortal art he had mastered in his past life look like trash by comparison. This was a deity's punch, capable of annihilating immortals and slaughtering buddhas.

As the power of eternity surged outward, the Heavenly Deity Monument trembled violently as if it were responding to him. The faces of the experts beneath the Heavenly Deity Monument immediately changed, as they clearly hadn't expected Liu Wuxie to affect the monument when it hadn't been long since he went up.

They had no idea that Liu Wuxie had spent a full thousand years in seclusion inside the Heavenly Deity Monument. Since time didn't flow inside, cultivating within it produced twice the results with half the effort.

If Liu Wuxie could obtain the Heavenly Deity Monument, it would be like grasping a heaven-defying treasure. In the future, he could let everyone from the Heavenly Dao Society cultivate inside, raising their cultivation to terrifying heights in a short time.

His divine sense continued to probe, seeping into every corner of the Heavenly Deity Monument as eternal laws surged across it like a tide. Wherever that tide passed, Liu Wuxie perceived everything inside the monument with crystal clarity.

The Heavenly Deity Monument's vibration intensified once more, and those trapped beneath it immediately felt the pressure ease as their range of movement began to expand.

"It's time to leave," Liu Wuxie said as his divine sense withdrew from the Heavenly Deity Monument's interior. He had to return to his body first.

He knew the Dark Evil Emperor and the elders of the Grand Unity Sect would never let him go, and his only hope of escaping alive lay in controlling the Heavenly Deity Monument.

When his divine sense returned to his body, powerful soul energy radiated outward. After cultivating for a thousand years inside the Heavenly Deity Monument, his soul energy could now rival even experts at the seventh level of the Earth Immortal Realm.

The sight elicited changes in the faces of everyone present.

"Junior Brother, what happened?" Sun Xiao asked anxiously, unable to understand why the monument was shaking so violently. The trembling only intensified, as if the monument could crash down on them at any moment.

"I can't explain it in a few words. Relax your minds, as we might have to face a bitter fight next," Liu Wuxie said, and relief warmed him when he saw all three senior brothers had broken through in cultivation.

Even with those breakthroughs, the Dark Evil Emperor and the others remained stronger, and his three senior brothers still couldn't truly hold their ground against them.

Sun Xiao and the other two didn't know what Liu Wuxie planned, but they followed his instructions and relaxed. The next moment, a black hole appeared and swallowed all three of them at once.

"Senior Brothers, please bear with it for now," Liu Wuxie said, as he didn't want to drag his senior brothers into what was coming.

"Junior Brother, let us out! We can fight alongside you!" Sun Xiao yelled anxiously.

Liu Wuxie ignored him. He communicated with Gong Gong and told him to prepare to help, while Fiery and Xiao Rou stood ready at his sides to assist at once.

As Liu Wuxie formed seals with both hands, the Heavenly Deity Monument began shrinking rapidly above them and shot toward him.

Both the desolate world and the Ancestral Tree sensed the Heavenly Deity Monument. In the next instant, countless branches extended from the Ancestral Tree, wrapped around the Heavenly Deity Monument, and dragged it straight into the desolate world.

That scene left Liu Wuxie speechless, as he had been planning on using the monument to fight.

Once the Heavenly Deity Monument entered the desolate world, it manifested as a towering monument, standing upright like a giant pillar.

Shortly afterward, the desolate world began expanding rapidly, and Liu Wuxie sensed his cultivation climbing. In less than half a breath, he broke through to the sixth level of the Void Realm, and his desolate world's true essence multiplied along with his immortal energy.

The Dark Evil Emperor and everyone else nearly went mad when they saw the Heavenly Deity Monument vanish into Liu Wuxie. Then, they watched him make a breakthrough right in front of them.

At that moment, they hated themselves for not killing Liu Wuxie earlier.

The Heavenly Deity Monument had fallen by many levels and become a quasi-immortal artifact, but it still carried unrivaled might. If Liu Wuxie refined it, reaching the high levels of the Earth Immortal Realm would pose no issue at all.

Even if he had forged the Heavenly Deity Monument in his previous life, he still couldn't simply refine it and let it vanish from the world. Instead, he could slowly repair the laws within it and restore it to its former glory.

Through the Heavenly Deity Monument's alteration, the desolate world expanded to three times its previous size. The sight made Liu Wuxie feel like crying, as it meant his future breakthroughs would become even harder.

However, the benefits were just as clear, as the immortal energy within the Heavenly Deity Monument began nourishing the desolate world. Trees, grass, and flowers grew rapidly, and the most significant change appeared in Xiao Rou, who broke through to the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm right in front of everyone.

Watching Liu Wuxie's companions make a breakthrough one after another made the Dark Evil Emperor's face twist with greedy envy.

"Liu Wuxie, hand over the monument!" they shouted. None of them knew the monument's name, so they could only call it "monument."

As they spoke, fifty-odd people moved swiftly and surrounded Liu Wuxie in a tight encirclement. The suction force binding them had vanished completely, and everyone regained their freedom.

Above the Heavenly Deity Valley, the sky cleared up, and everyone could see the starry heavens again.

"Cut the crap and attack!" The elders of the Grand Unity Sect proved the most impatient. They felt like the Dark Evil Emperor was too talkative. If they had attacked Liu Wuxie earlier, none of this would have happened.

Facing so many experts, Liu Wuxie, Xiao Rou, and Fiery alone still wouldn't be enough to fight them head-on.

Inside the cauldron, Sun Xiao, Tong Shan, and Yin Ying circled anxiously, frantically trying to communicate with their junior brother.

However, Liu Wuxie remained calm and unmoving, refusing to release them.

Once the fight began, Liu Wuxie wouldn't have time to protect them, and he knew it. However, his cultivation sat below that of his three senior brothers, and his combat strength—backed by Xiao Rou, Fiery, and Gong Gong—already rivaled that of experts at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm.

This time, no one held back, and they charged at Liu Wuxie all at once.

"Gong Gong, suppress them! Xiao Rou, use your vines to bind them! Fiery, trap them with the True Samadhi Fire!" Liu Wuxie ordered, planning to sweep them away in one decisive strike, because many cultivators at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm had to be overflowing with treasures.

The desolate world had expanded threefold, and he needed to replenish it with the Earth Immortal Realm's laws. Only by refining them all could he fill the desolate world, reach the peak of the sixth-level Void Realm, and stabilize what came next.

At Liu Wuxie's command, a divine avatar, a demon, and a beast struck in the same instant.

The battle erupted within one-thousandth of a second—so fast no one had time to think—especially the two elders of the Grand Unity Sect, who immediately summoned artifacts that rivaled experts at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm.

With so many artifacts and so many Earth Immortal Realm experts, even cultivators at the Heaven Gaze Realm wouldn't dare meet them head-on.

Liu Wuxie formed seals with both hands, preparing to unleash the Divine Eternal Fist. He still didn't know precisely what level this punch had reached.

The Heavenly Deity Monument was a quasi-immortal artifact, but he still couldn't use it directly, as it was too powerful. He wouldn't be able to use it until he reached the Earth Immortal Realm.