Desolate Devouring Art-Chapter 1365 - Clash Between Swords

Chapter 1365 - Clash Between Swords
To avoid falling into Liu Wuxie's trap, the elders of the Immortal Slaughter Palace immediately moved as one and surrounded Liu Wuxie.
Everyone could see the black hole hanging high above the Central Plains, and countless cultivators stepped out of their homes, faces filled with fury upon realizing that more invaders had arrived.
"Support Master Liu!" Everyone raised their right hand of their own accord, even without Liu Wuxie calling out to them.
The True Martial Star had birthed a large number of experts in just a few short days, especially cultivators at the Transcendent Realm. Aside from Xu Lingxue and the others, there were now dozens more Transcendent Realm cultivators on the True Martial Star.
With all their power pouring into Liu Wuxie, his strength surged to a new height, at least twice what it had been when he faced the divine race. On top of that, the strength from Zhen Yi and Mao Renfeng flooded into him as well, and Liu Wuxie's aura climbed even higher.
"What's going on? Why does the surrounding pressure keep increasing? Liu Wuxie's aura has even surpassed us!" exclaimed an elder from the Immortal Slaughter Palace as unimaginable power streamed into Liu Wuxie. From his aura alone, Liu Wuxie no longer seemed inferior to them at all.
"He has become a planet lord," said the white-haired elder.
They had come too late and allowed Liu Wuxie to become a planet lord, someone who could mobilize an entire planet's power in battle. This meant they were no longer fighting just Liu Wuxie, but the entire planet itself.
"What?! He has become a planet lord?" Ji Yuzhen swayed, and he almost fell out of the sky.
The faster Liu Wuxie grew, the more hatred festered in Ji Yuzhen's chest. The other elders wore the same horrified expression, and Liu Wuxie's rate of growth could be called monstrous even across the four astral domains.
Liu Wuxie had advanced slowly in the early days on the True Martial Continent. But once he entered the astral domain and gained access to more resources, he climbed from the Earth Profound Realm to the Primal Origin Realm within a single year.
"Attack together before he can gather all his power!" the white-haired elder shouted, ordering everyone except Ji Yuzhen to dive straight into battle.
Xu Lingxue and the others only hovered at a distance in the air. Their cultivation was still too low to intervene, so they could only watch on in anxious silence.
Elder Zhen Yi had already arrived with the grandmaster and the upper echelons of the various sects nearby. They all raised their right hand and began channeling their strength into Liu Wuxie's body.
"You think just attacking together will be enough to kill me? What a joke!" Liu Wuxie replied. His hands clasped together, and a tide of black mist swept outward in all directions.
He had cast the Great Darkness Mythical Art, and everything within ten thousand miles instantly plunged into darkness. Even those standing farther away lost their senses as the darkness swallowed their perception.
The elders of the Immortal Slaughter Palace immediately felt as though they had sunk into a swamp, unable to find any direction out of the pitch-black world around them.
"It's the Great Darkness Mythical Art! He has comprehended the Great Darkness Mythical Art!" someone cried out. It was notoriously difficult to master, and no one understood how Liu Wuxie had achieved it. Moreover, cultivating the Great Darkness Mythical Art made it easy for inner demons to erupt.
"Great Death Mythical Art! Great Curse Mythical Art!" Liu Wuxie unleashed several more mythical arts in succession, each blow infused with the strength of countless people.
Ji Yuzhen immediately felt his lifespan draining at a terrifying rate, as if an invisible hand were eroding his very years.
"Assume formation!" roared the white-haired elder. Dozens of elders struck out together, forming a grand formation that condensed into a barrier, blocking the darkness outside.
With the barrier holding back the Great Darkness Mythical Art, the region within the formation turned into a vacuum zone. At the same time, the elders of the Immortal Slaughter Palace still felt as if a boundless black world imprisoned them.
"Liu Wuxie, such tricks can't kill us," said the white-haired elder after they erected the barrier to block the Great Darkness Mythical Art.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace would never send unprepared elders to kill Liu Wuxie.
"Great Five Elemental Mythical Art," Liu Wuxie said with a mocking smile. He knew the Great Darkness Mythical Art had little direct lethality; he had used it to blind them, and his actual killing move had yet to be revealed.
A giant palm formed from the five elements manifested and blotted out the sky, slamming down onto the barrier. Cracks instantly spread across it, and the entire formation looked on the verge of collapse.
A mighty torrent of world force surged into Liu Wuxie's body from the True Martial Star. The desolate world within him had also become an independent space, filled to the brim with its own world force.
Empowered by that world force, the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art grew even more terrifying.
At the same time, Liu Wuxie secretly cast the Great Frost Mythical Art, forming an unbreakable prison of frost around the elders to prevent them from escaping.
Even one elder getting away would spell disaster for the True Martial Star.
"Damn it... How could the True Martial Star's world force be so pure?!" an elder cursed.
World force also varied in quality, and the True Martial Star originated from the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain. The world force it contained far surpassed that of any small-scale planet.
With a thunderous rumble, the giant palm descended from the heavens, forcing dozens of elders to retreat and unleash their own mythical arts in a desperate attempt to resist the incoming strike.
"Divine Thunder Sword!" The elders of the Immortal Slaughter Palace were about to buckle under the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art when a terrifying sword suddenly appeared out of nowhere and descended upon them from the sky.
With a resounding
crack,
the giant palm strengthened by world force was split in half by the sword.
Liu Wuxie's eyes narrowed at the sight. The Divine Thunder Sword was even stronger than the Heavenly Primal Wheel and the Thunderclap Sword; it was infinitely close to being an artifact on par with the Earth Immortal Realm.
The moment the Divine Thunder Sword appeared, the True Martial Star let out a low, ominous hum as it sensed danger. Countless trees exploded into splinters, and a towering mountain in the distance split cleanly into two.
Perhaps tens of thousands of years from now, anyone who saw that severed peak would speak of today's battle.
Everyone nearby wore grim expressions. The Great Darkness Mythical Art could not last forever, and the surrounding darkness laws began to recede.
As the vision of the Immortal Slaughter Palace elders cleared and the giant palm collapsed, all of Liu Wuxie's mythical arts dissipated. The Immortal Slaughter Palace had seized the upper hand in this clash.
"Liu Wuxie, give up," said the white-haired elder. Since they dared to come here, they naturally brought a flawless plan.
Liu Wuxie summoned the Thunderclap Sword, the artifact that initially belonged to the Grand Unity Sect. Its power could not match the Divine Thunder Sword, but it wasn't far behind it. He had initially planned to give this sword to Miao Jianying, an expert in the sword, but he had not expected to use it himself before that.
The white-haired elder frowned when he saw the Thunderclap Sword. He could tell at a glance that the sword was anything but ordinary.
Raising the Thunderclap Sword, Liu Wuxie executed the Heaven-Severing Strike. After all, there was no fundamental distinction between sword aura and blade aura.
"Pour all your power into me!" yelled the white-haired elder. He could sense that Liu Wuxie was about to unleash an earth-shattering attack.
A terrifying aura belonging to an Immortal Emperor swept out from Liu Wuxie, alarming many old antiques in seclusion across the True Martial Star. One after another, they raised their right hand and poured their strength toward Liu Wuxie.
When dozens of elders from the Immortal Slaughter Palace began pouring their energy into the white-haired elder's body, his aura rapidly climbed, reaching a level close to the high levels of the Void Realm.
The pressure weighing on Liu Wuxie intensified, causing the surrounding space to collapse and tear. Through the cracks, they could faintly glimpse the universe beyond.
"Flaming Thunderstorm Slash!" the white-haired elder roared and swung the Divine Thunder Sword down, unleashing endless flames infused with lightning. The strike possessed the power to slay experts at the high levels of the Void Realm.
Liu Wuxie was only at the Primal Origin Realm, and he could barely contend with them by relying on the True Martial Star's world force. If this battle were in the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, he'd be dead by now.
"World force, empower!" Liu Wuxie roared. Instead of retreating, he stepped forward and swung the Thunderclap Sword down.
Two colossal sword rays tore through the sky and collided, ripping open the heavens as rainbow-colored nebulae rained down on the True Martial Star. This phenomenon carried both benefits and risks. The planet could draw strength from the universe to stabilize its foundation and grow, but the unknown variables hidden in the cosmos could bring about deadly calamities.
Some of the nebulae could be carrying living beings wandering in the universe, and this phenomenon meant they could appear in the True Martial Star. If world force alone was this frightening, then what sort of power did cosmic force hold?
Only the lord of an astral domain could manipulate cosmic force.
"Everyone, run!" Elder Zhen Yi yelled.
Elder Mao Renfeng had already arrived at his side, and the two of them rapidly formed seals to seal off the surrounding space, trying to keep the battle's aftershocks from damaging the True Martial Star's foundation.
A battle at this level meant little to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, but just the stray shockwaves alone could destroy this planet. The True Martial Star was still far too fragile; it had only been two days since it evolved into a planet.
When the two swords clashed, a string of deafening explosions shook the sky. No one could tell whose attack held the upper hand.
The entire firmament transformed into primal chaos as violent wind blades and magnetic storms raged unchecked. The barrier Zhen Yi and Mao Renfeng had erected lasted barely a moment before shattering like glass.
The monstrous gale swept out in all directions, flattening every mountain range within a thousand miles and turning the land into a barren wasteland.
A single exchange had wrought such devastation that the murderous intent in Liu Wuxie's eyes intensified as he stared at the ruined landscape below. He had already become one with the True Martial Star, and as its planet lord, he would also suffer whenever anyone injured the planet.
"You all deserve to die!" Liu Wuxie roared. Spiderweb-like cracks spread across the Thunderclap Sword, that one clash having drained the power of both weapons—an outcome that bordered on the unbelievable.
The Divine Thunder Sword fared no better, with countless cracks covering it. Had Liu Wuxie not possessed the Thunderclap Sword, the consequences would have been disastrous; even with world force, the attack would have slain him.
As nebulas continued pouring into the True Martial Star, the entire planet expanded like an inflating balloon. A mountain range that had once stretched for a thousand miles now spanned five thousand miles in an instant.
Everyone could feel the ground beneath their feet growing heavier, and the world outside their courtyards seemed to stretch farther than before.
The trees thickened, lakes deepened, marshes became more treacherous, and mountains rose even higher. Even the demonic beasts roaming the land grew noticeably larger.
Out in the ocean, thousands of new islands appeared within mere minutes. Many small islands swelled rapidly into large ones.
The True Martial Star's growth far exceeded Liu Wuxie's expectations. This was the planet's instinctive self-protection, drawing power from the universe to strengthen itself.
As the True Martial Star grew stronger, the cultivators who had been swallowing pills to replenish their true essence felt their cultivation rising once again.
The white-haired elder sheathed the cracked Divine Thunder Sword with a pained expression, but he had no time to wallow in distress. Liu Wuxie still stood before them, having suffered only an internal shock from their previous clash as evidenced by the thin trace of blood at the corner of his lips.
Sensing the True Martial Star's changes, the elders of the Immortal Slaughter Palace felt a chill in their hearts. The larger the planet grew, the more power it could channel into Liu Wuxie. They had not only failed to kill him, but had even helped the True Martial Star grow stronger in the process.