Chapter 1564 - Refining the Abyssal Sea Dragon's Bone

Liu Wuxie crippled Water Glider's combat strength with a single punch, and the latter sprawled on the ground, spitting blood as his organs ruptured.

"Your big brother is never coming back," Liu Wuxie replied as he raised his hand and summoned a glowing sphere. Inside that sphere rested the soul of Four Waters Island's lord, which Liu Wuxie had forged into a martial soul.

The trip to the Thousand Islands Sea Region had been fraught with danger, so Liu Wuxie armed himself as thoroughly as possible. He treated those martial souls as insurance for his safety, saving them for the moments he needed them most.

"Big Brother!" Water Glider's eyes turned bloodshot when he saw his big brother's soul. He could never have expected his big brother to fall into Liu Wuxie's hands.

Martial souls at the Heaven Gaze Realm were rare. Liu Wuxie immediately inscribed soul runes and sent them into Water Glider's soul sea. In just three breaths, Water Glider's soul condensed into another sphere of light and flew into Liu Wuxie's palm, and with that, Liu Wuxie wiped out Four Waters Island's pirates completely.

"You're all safe now. Go home," Liu Wuxie said, glancing at the women the pirates had captured. With the pirates dead, they had regained their freedom.

The women dropped to their knees and kowtowed to Liu Wuxie. "Benefactor, thank you!"

Liu Wuxie's figure flickered, and he vanished before reappearing in front of a stone hut. He pushed the door open, and when light streamed inside, gold, silver, and jewels glittered across the floor.

To cultivators, ordinary metals were no better than trash, useful only for decoration and nothing more. Liu Wuxie didn't spare them a glance and instead fixed his gaze on the two chests at the back.

Four Waters Island had plundered for centuries, so it had amassed a terrifying fortune. Most of that wealth had been amassed by the two bosses, but it all belonged to Liu Wuxie now. It was ten million astral crystals. He also found various strange items and tossed anything spiritual into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

The desolate world embraced everything through its laws, growing more complete with every devouring.

When Liu Wuxie opened the first chest, a dazzling radiance burst out and forced his eyes shut. A terrifying aura slammed down and sent him flying as a massive beast surged out from inside.

"This is...!" Liu Wuxie's expression changed as he retreated. The beast before him revealed no true body, only a projection.

"The Abyssal Sea Dragon!" Liu Wuxie's eyes flashed with shock as he retreated ten meters away. How could he have anticipated facing the phantom of an Abyssal Sea Dragon? Its dragon aura nearly blasted the stone chamber apart.

That phantom vanished as quickly as it appeared, and the chest settled back into silence. When Liu Wuxie approached again and looked inside, he found a segment of white bone resting within.

"The bone of an Abyssal Sea Dragon!" Liu Wuxie rubbed his nose and stared at the remains. The Abyssal Sea Dragon belonged to the dragon clan as well, and its bloodline was said to be so pure it had gone extinct. He had no idea how the pirates of Four Waters Island had obtained it.

"What pure dragon laws! No wonder the two bosses of the Four Waters Island didn't refine them. If I didn't possess the divine dragon's bloodline, that dragon aura would have killed me earlier," Liu Wuxie murmured, relief mixing with lingering fear.

The two bosses of Four Waters Island had tried to refine it countless times over the years, only to be injured by its aura each time. In the end, they could only give up, yet they still couldn't bear to part with it, so they had locked it away in this stone chamber.

Even though the Abyssal Sea Dragon had died for countless years, its will still clung to the bone.

Liu Wuxie released his own dragon aura and pressed it against the Abyssal Sea Dragon's, forcing a clash. As time passed, the oppressive aura from the Abyssal Sea Dragon slowly retreated, sinking back into the bone.

"This is great! With this remnant of the Abyssal Sea Dragon, I can push my True Dragon Physique to the state of perfection," Liu Wuxie concluded as he collected the chest, planning to refine it once he found a truly safe place.

Only one chest remained. To avoid a repeat of what had just happened, Liu Wuxie retreated the instant he opened it, but this time, everything stayed silent, without even a ripple.

When he stepped closer, he saw a piece of black metal inside, roughly the size of a washbasin.

"The Phoenix Rune Meteoric Iron!" Liu Wuxie narrowed his eyes. It was perfect material for forging a quasi-immortal artifact. He was surprised to find two top-tier treasures on a backwater like Four Waters Island, and these finds only fueled his anticipation for the Thousand Islands Sea Region.

After stowing the second chest, Liu Wuxie left the stone chamber and departed from the island. The journey from Four Waters Island to Peach Blossom Island would take roughly five days, but Liu Wuxie didn't rush.

Once Liu Wuxie left Four Waters Island, a scrawny pirate crawled out from a hidden chamber.

"How dare you offend us, the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves. You will die even if you run to the end of the world," the pirate hissed through clenched teeth.

Four Waters Island had a hidden passage to the seabed as an emergency escape route, and this pirate was patrolling the tunnel when Liu Wuxie had slaughtered the island. He had survived by luck, but he had clearly seen Liu Wuxie's face.

Liu Wuxie flew across the endless ocean and arrived at a deserted island a day later. The island wasn't large and lay covered in reefs that made human survival impossible, with countless sea demons living there. The moment Liu Wuxie set foot on it, waves of sea demons rushed at him without hesitation.

"Get lost!" Liu Wuxie snarled as he unleashed flames that swept over the island and turned it into a living hell.

Sea demons feared fire most, so they fled the instant the flames appeared and dove back into the ocean.

When the island fell quiet, Liu Wuxie took out array flags and planted them around the island to prevent a sneak attack. After he finished, he sat at the island's center and placed a cushion between the reefs.

This location suited him perfectly, with reefs ringed around him. Even if someone flew overhead, they wouldn't notice him.

Liu Wuxie considered entering the Heavenly Deity Monument, since it would be safer and allow him to cultivate in the eternal world. But that path had its drawbacks. The eternal world never changed, and its laws differed sharply from those of the outside world.

Liu Wuxie needed to comprehend the Dao of heaven and earth, and staying inside the Heavenly Deity Monument would sever him from the laws of the outside world. The Heavenly Deity Monument excelled at breakthroughs, not at comprehending daos.

Everything carried pros and cons, and the Heavenly Deity Monument wasn't omnipotent because it was only a quasi-immortal artifact.

As Liu Wuxie circulated the Desolate Devouring Art, the surrounding seawater churned violently, and giant waves slammed into the reefs. The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron rapidly refined the treasures he had plundered from Four Waters Island, dissolving them into laws that poured into the desolate world.

Liu Wuxie also tossed the Abyssal Sea Dragon's bone into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, and a terrifying surge of flame gushed out and wrapped around that bone.

A dragon roar erupted from within as the Abyssal Sea Dragon's will struggled and refused to be refined, trying to burst out of the cauldron.

“You exist only to serve as material for my refinement. With only a fragment of bone remaining, reincarnation is impossible for you,” Liu Wuxie snorted.

He summoned the Divine Purgatory Palace and crashed it down onto the bone, forcing it into immediate silence.

Thick strands of divine dragon's laws began seeping from the bone, carrying immense weight. They rumbled loudly as they poured into the desolate world.

Liu Wuxie instantly mobilized his true essence, lifted those laws, and fused them into his physique. He circulated the True Dragon Art, and dragon roars echoed from his flesh as if a slumbering divine dragon stirred awake. His own dragon laws answered, and the new laws began merging into his body.

Violent pain ripped through Liu Wuxie in an instant. The Abyssal Sea Dragon had likely reached the Quasi-Immortal Realm or even higher when it lived, and even though Liu Wuxie's physique already rivaled the Heaven Gaze Realm, that pain still proved how terrifying the laws within that bone truly were.

His True Dragon Physique had already reached its peak state, only one step from perfection. As the True Dragon Art accelerated, Liu Wuxie felt every inch of his bones tempered countless times over. Flames tempered his bones until they felt like he had bathed in sacred fire.

That was bone fire, the sign of his bones purging impurities and evolving toward divine dragon bones. The pain lasted only briefly. As the soul-rending agony faded, primal power surged from the depths of his bones instead.

Liu Wuxie's divine dragon aura climbed higher and higher, and tiny golden dragons appeared around him, coiling overhead. Those were dragon auras, yet the ones Liu Wuxie had manifested before had been illusory. This time, each strand transformed into a true dragon aura, shaped like a divine dragon. Those dragon auras carried independent wills as they merged into a massive dragon.

The transformation continued, and Liu Wuxie's blood began to change. It hammered through him in heavy thuds, and each drop felt like several kilos as it surged like a roaring river. His muscles bulged and churned while every pore absorbed the energy released by the Abyssal Sea Dragon's bone.

Liu Wuxie sighed. "It's a pity that I can't increase my cultivation with it." He remained stuck at the sixth-level Earth Immortal Realm and still couldn't break through to the seventh.

If Liu Wuxie could reach the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm, he could mobilize the Heavenly Deity Monument without fearing backlash.

Now that the True Dragon Physique reached perfection, the dragon aura wrapped around Liu Wuxie, and he could command it with a single thought to transform into a dragon and fight alongside him.

The Abyssal Sea Dragon's bone dissolved into golden liquid and flowed into the desolate world, strengthening the Dragon Realm until it faintly showed signs of even surpassing the Black Crow Realm.

The reefs around him couldn't withstand Liu Wuxie's aura and began to melt, and a dragon roar rang out across hundreds of thousands of miles.

After refining the Abyssal Sea Dragon's bone, Liu Wuxie's True Dragon Physique reached perfection. When he rose to his feet, explosive cracks rang from his body. When he clenched his fist, space itself collapsed in front of him.

Liu Wuxie murmured in disbelief as he felt the power in his body, "What a terrifying physique! The current strength of my physique should be comparable to the fifth-level Heaven Gaze Realm."

"Attack!" Liu Wuxie threw out a punch without even mobilizing true essence. The moment his fist moved, the surrounding space shattered, unable to withstand the sheer pressure of that strike.

Even reefs in the distance exploded like rain, and the sea demons lurking nearby didn't dare to move even an inch closer to Liu Wuxie.