Desolate Devouring Art

Chapter 303 - Entering the Cultivation World

After adapting to the flying sword, Liu Wuxie returned to the flying carpet.

“Senior Brother Fan, I suggest you leave with them first. I’ll be right behind you.” The flying sword was a formidable advantage, its speed far surpassing the flying carpet. Once he had dealt with the treacherous Heavenly Origin Sect, catching up with them would be child's play.

Liu Wuxie turned and flew towards the Heavenly Origin Sect’s warship.

Liu Wuxie’s actions shocked everyone; even those on the warship were dumbstruck because this was too bold and reckless.

Like a comet, Liu Wuxie streaked across the horizon and got closer to the Heavenly Origin Sect’s warship.

“Senior Brother Yu, what is he trying to do?” The ten-odd people standing on the deck looked at Yu Tianyi with a hint of shock. Liu Wuxie seemed too familiar with the flying sword, as if he had honed it for a long time.

“Hmph, what a pathetic struggle!” Yu Tianyi snorted and steered the warship to crash towards Liu Wuxie.

Fan Lin took control of the flying carpet and continued flying away, occasionally looking back.

Liu Wuxie got closer to the warship and was only five meters away. The flying sword suddenly flew upward while he tilted his body. He stepped on the flying sword with his feet and quickly ascended.

Without hesitation, Liu Wuxie swung the Heretic Blade down, unleashing a powerful blade aura that flew toward the warship.

The warship was inferior in terms of mobility and could not compare with a flying sword, which was more flexible.

Sparks flew from the warship, but it wasn’t destroyed as it could withstand the attack of cultivators in the Heavenly Phase Realm. After all, Liu Wuxie was only in the True Core Realm, and even if he was strong, there was no way he could tear apart the warship’s defenses.

However, that was enough because Liu Wuxie’s goal was to hinder them and let Fan Lin’s group escape. His action enraged Yu Tianyi thoroughly, with his murderous intent sweeping out.

“Liu Wuxie, I want you dead!” Yu Tianyi said, gritting his teeth. Liu Wuxie was merely an ant in his eyes. However, he had managed to provoke him; Yu Tianyi could only quell his anger by killing Liu Wuxie.

The warship accelerated, and there was an offensive weapon on it. A mighty sword aura flew out of the warship and aimed at Liu Wuxie’s legs.

The sword aura reached the extreme speed in an instant. If Liu Wuxie didn’t react, he would be struck by the sword aura and fall from the sky.

The flying sword performed a 180-degree rotation, and the sword aura brushed past Liu Wuxie’s legs.

“That’s impossible. How can he be so familiar with the flying sword?!” Ye Feng’s eyes became grim. He had the privilege of seeing his uncle riding a flying sword and sharing much knowledge about it with him.

It would take at least ten days to half a month for someone to get familiar with the flying sword. It had only been a few minutes, and Liu Wuxie flew through the air gracefully.

Liu Wuxie glided through the air and appeared at the bottom of the warship. He executed Ghost Eye and saw through the materials used to construct the warship.

“Hmph, it’s slightly more advanced than the flying carpet, and I’ll destroy your warship today!” The depth of the warship was filled with flying spiritual runes, and the warship required spirit stones to fly.

The energy from the spirit stones would flow into the warship, activating the flying spiritual runes to fly. The sword aura was also energy from the spirit stone. The warship had an offensive spiritual array, converting the spirit stones’ energies into sword aura to attack.

Not only could spiritual runes be inscribed on the ground, but they could also be inscribed in armor, weapons, and even flying treasures.

“Where’s he?” Everyone on the warship looked around, but they didn’t notice Liu Wuxie was at the bottom of the warship.

Maintaining the same speed as the warship, Liu Wuxie sheathed the Heretic Blade. He began forming seals with his hands and injected them into the warship. His goal was to destroy the warship and cause the entire warship to fall from the sky.

Since the Heavenly Origin Sect wanted to take it so far, he did not need to show any mercy. Time passed by the second, and the warship showed no movement.

Suddenly, cracking sounds came from inside the warship, and fissures began to appear on the deck. This sight caused everyone's expressions to change as they quickly retreated.

What goes around comes around. Since they nearly crashed onto the flying carpet, Liu Wuxie would destroy their warship as revenge.

“Shit! We are in trouble!” Yu Tianyi screamed. He finally understood what Liu Wuxie planned to do: destroy his warship. If he lost his warship, who knew when they could return to the Heavenly Origin Sect? If they traveled by foot, they wouldn’t be able to reach the Heavenly Origin Sect even if they took three to five years.

Was he going to abandon everyone and return by himself on the flying sword?

“Liu Wuxie, damn you!” Yu Tianyi was furious and took out his flying sword. He opened the defensive barrier and flew towards Liu Wuxie.

In the next moment, Liu Wuxie sped up and bolted into the distance to chase after Fan Lin and others.

This placed Yu Tianyi in a difficult position. If he went after Liu Wuxie, the warship would be wholly scraped, and everyone on it would die. This left him no choice but to give up chasing after Liu Wuxie.

Gritting his teeth, Yu Tianyi felt a deep ache in his heart, having invested so much effort into the warship.

“Just you wait! I will kill you even if you escape into the cultivation world!” After weighing his options, Yu Tianyi suppressed his murderous intent and returned to the warship. When he returned, the cracks on the warship had grown bigger.

“Senior Brother Yu, what happened? Why is the warship shaking even more violently?” The ten-odd people on the deck trembled in fear.

Looking at the expanding cracks on the warship, Yu Tianyi clenched his fists. He had failed to kill Liu Wuxie and even paid a significant price with his warship.

“There’s a large city around here. We’ll go there first to fix the warship before we continue our journey!” Yu Tianyi had no choice but to make this decision.

Yu Tianyi controlled the warship and headed to the nearest large city he had passed by on the way there.

Liu Wuxie didn’t go far and hovered deep in the clouds. He finally heaved a sigh of relief after the warship left. What he had done earlier was dangerous, and Yu Tianyi could have killed him if he hadn’t been careful.

This was ultimately because he was too weak. Yu Tianyi was in the Heavenly Dipper Realm; the only outcome would be death if they clashed.

Vanishing into the clouds, Liu Wuxie finally caught up with Fan Lin and others a day later. When Fan Lin saw his return, he heaved a sigh of relief. This time, everyone looked at Liu Wuxie with reverence.

“Wuxie, did they catch up?” Fan Lin asked.

“They won’t be able to catch up!” Liu Wuxie said, but he didn’t explain much as there wasn’t a need to. The others didn’t ask as they weren’t qualified. The rest of the journey was tedious and dry.

Returning to the flying carpet, everyone made room for Liu Wuxie.

Liu Wuxie took out the Everlasting Pill to reach the third level of the True Core Realm before reaching the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.

Under everyone’s envious gazes, Liu Wuxie swallowed the Everlasting Pill. The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron soon devoured the violent energy released by the pill.

For some time, he was stuck in the pinnacle of the second level of the True Core Realm, and the Everlasting Pill’s effect was to raise one level unconditionally.

As he circulated the Desolate Devouring Art, the surrounding spiritual energy was devoured into the world in his dantian. The phenomenon he created naturally shocked everyone on the flying carpet with horrified expressions.

“What a terrifying cultivation technique. His speed of devouring spiritual energy is a hundred times compared to mine.” Lu Xinde opened his mouth with disbelief.

Almost everyone felt the same way because they had never seen such a terrifying phenomenon. They also knew nothing about Liu Wuxie because they didn’t come from the same dynasty.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and everyone had become accustomed to flying.

“We’ll enter the cultivation world after crossing this mountain range.” Fan Lin lowered the altitude. A massive mountain range looked like a barrier, isolating the mundane and cultivation worlds.

“This is the legendary Heavenly Gorge?” Everyone’s attention was focused on the towering mountain range. Crossing it was tough for those in the True Core Realm; the only way across was to fly through it.

“The world might seem vast to you now, but you will soon realize that empires are insignificant compared to the cultivation world. The scale of an empire is not even comparable to that of a single city.” As they neared their entry into the cultivation world, Fan Lin shared this common knowledge with everyone to ensure they wouldn’t be clueless upon their arrival.

Liu Wuxie spent three days examining the ground before stabilizing his cultivation in the pinnacle of the third-level True Core Realm.

The Heavenly Gorge was massive. Not only were there towering mountains, but many powerful demonic beasts resided in the mountain range, making it impossible for ordinary people to cross.

The mountain range seemed endless, and the mountains became shorter after crossing it because this place was only the cultivation world’s outer region. The Heavenly Phase Realm was the prerequisite to cross the mountain range, as only they could fly.

“It’s weird...the spatial laws here are more fortified than in the mundane world.” Upon entering the cultivation world, everyone soon noticed something was amiss.

Liu Wuxie had long noticed it, but he said nothing. It was normal for laws to become stronger in higher planes, making them more suitable for cultivation.

Regardless of spatial laws or the purity of spiritual energy, the cultivation world was tens of times stronger than the mundane world.

In the same realm, one could unleash a punch weighing 5,000 kilograms in the outside world, but throwing out a punch carrying 500 kilograms in the cultivation world would be impressive. This was because space in the cultivation world was stronger.

“This is only the outer region. The environment is a thousand times better when we reach the inner region.” Fan Lin chuckled. He didn’t look down on them. He was born in the cultivation world and knew how fresh it was for these cultivators from the mundane world.

Everyone was excited to hear that the environment in the inner region was even better. In the blink of an eye, all of the ten-odd people made a breakthrough in their cultivation.

Due to the change of space, the true essence in their bodies began to be suppressed, smoothly allowing them to make a breakthrough. Some in the third-level True Core Realm easily reached the fourth level.

As Liu Wuxie had just made a breakthrough not long ago, his cultivation did not change much. This meant his cultivation was still the lowest among everyone.

However, everyone knew they couldn’t gauge Liu Wuxie’s strength based on his cultivation.

As they flew over the mountains and rivers, celestial cranes flew side by side with them and showed no fear for humans.

“This is the cultivation world?” Lu Xinde danced excitedly, wishing he had wings so he could soar in the sky.