Chapter 1918 - Sixth-Level Spirit Immortal Realm

Time slipped away, and before an incense stick could burn out, Liu Wuxie and Blackie had already traded several hundred blows.

Every collision hurled Liu Wuxie through the air, especially after the Primal Chaos Shard sent Blackie's combat strength soaring. Yet each exchange further tempered the Five Elemental Divine Palm. Gradually, Liu Wuxie brought the five elements into perfect harmony, weaving them into an endless, self-sustaining cycle.

"Sixth-level Spirit Immortal Realm, open!" Liu Wuxie roared as he drove his palm toward the gateway.

The instant his strike connected, the gateway to the sixth-level Spirit Immortal Realm exploded into countless fragments.

"What terrifying power! This Five Elemental Divine Palm could easily kill a first-level Origin Immortal with a single strike," Liu Wuxie murmured in shock.

Armed with the Five Elemental Divine Palm, Purgatory Palace, Divine Mystic Yin Needle, Divine Ninefold Step, and Heavenly Crest Divine Blade Art, Liu Wuxie would dare to confront even a third-level Origin Immortal. No one within the Profound Immortal Realm could rival him now.

Back in the Ancient Origin Spatial Realm, he had already slaughtered cultivators at the pinnacle of the Profound Immortal Realm as easily as livestock.

"He broke through to the sixth-level Spirit Immortal Realm!?" astonished cries rang through the surroundings. Scarcely any time had passed since Liu Wuxie's previous breakthrough.

No one suffered more from the sight than the members of the Celestial Moon Dao Hall. Their deepest fear had finally become reality. If Liu Wuxie continued advancing at this pace, his combat strength would likely increase dozens of times before the martial path category began.

By then, even cultivators at the pinnacle of the Origin Immortal Realm wouldn't be able to contend with him.

"Damn it! Damn all of this!" Zhu Gaoyang snarled, flinging his hands around as he desperately vented the rage boiling inside him.

Gongye Zhang remained stationed beside Liu Wuxie, denying anyone the chance to approach. The Celestial Moon Dao Hall had tried to interfere several times, but every attempt ended in failure.

"What can we possibly do now? Are we supposed to stand here and watch Liu Wuxie break through repeatedly?" Li Baoshu asked, looking grim.

Meanwhile, Liu Wuxie consumed two million immortal stones in an instant. Such a horrifying rate of consumption defied imagination.

"What a monstrous physique! He swallowed two million immortal stones without producing so much as a ripple," the Qin Clan's patriarch said, his face rigid with shock. From what he could sense, Liu Wuxie's physique alone had already become comparable to that of someone at the pinnacle of the Profound Immortal Realm.

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron gradually grew still, and Liu Wuxie's surging aura slowly settled back to normal. His eyes suddenly snapped open, releasing two glacial gleams that swept across the heavens and collapsed the surrounding space.

"That feels incredible!" Liu Wuxie exclaimed, completely refreshed after finishing his breakthrough.

More importantly, the transformations within the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron and the desolate world, along with the larval beast's birth, had infused it with a trace of spirituality. Its world force had also grown far more powerful. Liu Wuxie believed that combining the Divine Eternal Fist with that world force would produce might as strong as the Five Elemental Divine Palm.

"Liu Wuxie, you've held up the competition long enough. We demand the cancellation of the mentor competition," Zhu Gaoyang shouted.

Canceling the mentor competition would naturally invalidate every oath they had sworn.

Once freed from the Heavenly Dao's restraints, the Celestial Moon Dao Hall could recover from its losses and search for another opportunity to destroy Liu Wuxie.

"What a pathetic joke. Who gave you the authority to end this competition?" Liu Wuxie sneered.

His figure flashed, and he landed inside the arena designated for the soul art category, ready to begin the third match.

Liu Wuxie had completed only half his plan, so he would never allow the competition to end here. If he let this opportunity slip away, another like it might never come.

Two reasons had persuaded Liu Wuxie to accept Gongye Zhang's request for assistance. The first was, naturally, the Profound Myriad-Aspect Sand and the sixth-grade immortal pill. The second was the opportunity to acquire vast quantities of resources through this competition.

Obtaining the Golden Roc blood essence and driving the Celestial Moon Dao Hall toward destruction had already fulfilled his objectives.

Zhu Gaoyang's face darkened into a terrifying mask. He had swallowed his pride and attempted to make peace by ending the competition, yet Liu Wuxie had rejected the proposal without a moment's hesitation.

"Liu Wuxie, you are taking this too far," Zhu Gaoyang roared. Despite his anger, he dared not take a single step and could only remain rooted to the spot as the color gradually drained from his face.

"Send someone into the arena," Liu Wuxie ordered coldly, unwilling to waste another word. If the Celestial Moon Dao Hall failed to produce a participant within the allotted time, they would automatically forfeit the match.

After a brief discussion, one mentor finally emerged from the Celestial Moon Dao Hall. His soul energy was exceptionally powerful, and he taught soul art within the dao hall, ranking among their strongest mentors in that field.

The moment he entered the arena, he unleashed his soul energy, sending it surging toward Liu Wuxie like a towering tidal wave.

Liu Wuxie met the overwhelming pressure by simply unfurling the Heavenly Dao Book within his soul sea. The incoming suppression dispersed instantly.

Refining the Primal Chaos Shards had made Liu Wuxie's soul sea incomparably dense. Even someone at the pinnacle of the Origin Immortal Realm would struggle to break through its defenses.

"My name is Hao Lianying, and today, I'll be the one who takes your life," the man opposite Liu Wuxie declared. He intensified the soul energy pouring from his body, condensing countless soul swords that rained toward Liu Wuxie's soul sea.

"You're nothing but garbage. What makes you think reaching the Origin Immortal Realm gives you the power to kill me?" Liu Wuxie sneered.

He swiftly erected the Soul Shield and intercepted every descending attack.

Hao Lianying's expression finally shifted as he realized how severely he had underestimated Liu Wuxie's soul energy.

The battle officially erupted. Hao Lianying unleashed barrage after barrage, shaping his soul energy into swords, arrows, and needles. He employed every method at his command, yet not one attack managed to shake Liu Wuxie's soul sea.

A cold bead of sweat slid down Hao Lianying's forehead. Liu Wuxie's soul sea seemed utterly impenetrable. Even after attacking for so long, Hao Lianying remained unable to determine the limits of Liu Wuxie's soul energy, and that uncertainty alone terrified him.

From the opening exchange onward, Hao Lianying launched every attack while Liu Wuxie did nothing but defend, never once retaliating.

"What is taking so long? Why hasn't Hao Lianying defeated Liu Wuxie yet?" Zhu Gaoyang demanded, frowning deeply.

Whatever Hao Lianying's shortcomings, he was still a fifth-level Origin Immortal whose soul energy rivaled that of a seventh-level Origin Immortal. Against anyone at the lower levels of the Origin Immortal Realm, his attacks would have breached their soul sea long ago.

"Don't panic. Mentor Hao must still be probing Liu Wuxie's defenses," Li Baoshu said, trying to reassure everyone.

The Divine Immortals seated around the arena remained silent. They could plainly see that Hao Lianying had already exhausted his capabilities. Had he possessed any method capable of killing Liu Wuxie, he would have used it long ago instead of waiting until now.

The Azure Flame Dao Hall's mentors had initially watched with unease. As the battle continued, however, their tension gradually faded.

"You've attacked me long enough. Don't you think it's my turn?" Liu Wuxie asked.

The Soul Shield suddenly expanded and blasted every one of Hao Lianying's attacks apart. In the next instant, Liu Wuxie's soul energy converged in midair and materialized into a Soul Spear.

Most spectators could not perceive the Soul Shield, but Hao Lianying sensed it with perfect clarity. Terror gripped his heart, forcing him into a hasty retreat.

"Mentor Hao, fight him to the death," Zhu Gaoyang roared.

He wanted Hao Lianying to break the rules, draw upon his martial cultivation, and kill Liu Wuxie by force.

The Celestial Moon Dao Hall had reached the point where no method seemed too extreme. As long as Liu Wuxie died, violating the competition's rules meant nothing to them.

The instant Hao Lianying realized that his soul energy could not overcome Liu Wuxie's, he resolved to sacrifice his own life to kill him.

"Skyborne Execution!"

Hao Lianying summoned his sword and brought it down from the heavens with unstoppable momentum.

"You're asking to die," Gongye Zhang thundered.

His figure flickered as he released the full force of his Divine Immortal Realm aura. The overwhelming power coalesced into a tidal wave and swept across the entire arena, as if to shield Liu Wuxie.

Before Gongye Zhang could complete his defense, the Celestial Moon Dao Hall intervened. A colossal palm descended from the sky and smashed his barrier apart.

The surrounding spectators could no longer endure watching and cried, "How utterly shameless!?"

For the past few days, the Celestial Moon Dao Hall had lost all matches back-to-back. They had also discarded every last shred of dignity.

With Gongye Zhang's defenses destroyed, Hao Lianying's attack appeared directly above Liu Wuxie.

Liu Wuxie's lips curved in a brutal smile as he faced the all-out strike of a fifth-level Origin Immortal. The Soul Spear pierced through space and materialized before Hao Lianying in an instant.

"Divine Tribulation Pupil!" Liu Wuxie called.

Before Hao Lianying could evade, the world before him suddenly dissolved into a blur, and a stabbing agony ripped through his soul sea.

His anguished scream resounded across the entire Ten-Mile Slope.

"AARGH!"

Meanwhile, the Skyborne Execution had already reached Liu Wuxie. Just before the attack descended, however, his figure vanished with uncanny speed through the fifth form of the Divine Ninefold Step. His mastery of Flash surpassed Xiang Rulong's by countless times.

The Skyborne Execution slammed into the arena, throwing an enormous cloud of dust into the sky. Its impact carved a long trench across the ground.

Hao Lianying collapsed and writhed in agony, clutching his head with both hands as though desperate to tear his own skull apart.

"Die!" Liu Wuxie commanded, tapping one finger through the air. A glacial gleam shot forward, pierced Hao Lianying's throat, and extinguished his life.

Sharp breaths swept through the surroundings. No one could believe Liu Wuxie had killed a dignified fifth-level Origin Immortal this way.

Exclamations erupted from every direction. "How can this be? He's only a sixth-level Spirit Immortal. How could he possibly have killed a fifth-level Origin Immortal?!"

They could accept Liu Wuxie killing Profound Immortals because his ability to battle above his cultivation level was already well known. Slaying an Origin Immortal, however, belonged to an entirely different realm of possibility.

"Could Liu Wuxie have killed the cultivators who entered the Ancient Origin Spatial Realm? None of them possessed cultivation beyond the Profound Immortal Realm," someone suddenly shouted.

"That's probably what happened. So many cultivators had entered, yet not one of them returned alive," another person replied.

Liu Wuxie's terrifying combat strength inevitably led everyone to connect him to the events in the Ancient Origin Spatial Realm. Without evidence, however, their suspicions were nothing but speculation.

If undeniable proof emerged, nearly 90% of the cultivators there would likely turn against Liu Wuxie. After all, everyone who had entered the Ancient Origin Spatial Realm had come from the region surrounding Eastern Emperor City.

Hao Lianying's corpse slowly withered as Liu Wuxie devoured every trace of its energy and every law within it. However, Liu Wuxie gained none of his resources, as his interspatial ring was not on him.

After killing Hao Lianying, Liu Wuxie turned toward Zhu Gaoyang and slowly drew one finger across his own throat. The blacksmithing category would come next, and Zhu Gaoyang had personally challenged him to that match.

Panic finally surfaced in Zhu Gaoyang's eyes. Despite being a ninth-level Origin Immortal, all he could do was tremble.

After the Celestial Moon Dao Hall's earlier interference, Gongye Zhang would never grant them another chance to launch a sneak attack. Even now, the shock of witnessing Liu Wuxie kill a fifth-level Origin Immortal continued to hang over the crowd.

In the spectator stands, the murderous intent blazing within the Thousand Hands Yama's eyes no longer carried any hint of concealment.

"Now this is becoming interesting. Even a fifth-level Origin Immortal couldn't survive a single move from him," the owner of the Skyhalberd Auction House remarked with a faint smile, increasingly certain that he had chosen correctly.

The price of becoming Liu Wuxie's enemy had already been displayed before the entire world. The White Tiger Merchant Association, Azure Bamboo Gang, Wen Clan, and Shadow Divination Gate had all met destruction.

Now the Celestial Moon Dao Hall stood next in line.

If Liu Wuxie continued at this pace, how many forces throughout the region surrounding Eastern Emperor City could possibly stand against him?