Desolate Devouring Art-Chapter 947 - Sixth-Level True Profound Realm

Their anger meant nothing. There was nothing they could do but stand helplessly outside and watch Liu Wuxie stride toward the treasures.

No one dared to attack either. They feared the retaliatory force from the spiritual array, as they would only injure themselves if they tried. They could only curse at Liu Wuxie to vent their frustration.

Liu Wuxie couldn't hear their curses from inside the spiritual array, but by reading their lips, he could easily guess they were cursing at him. He ignored them and made his way to the heavenly tree.

He hadn't come this far to leave empty-handed. His plan was simple: to monopolize all the treasures for himself, as each one was equally valuable to him.

The heavenly tree's essence and Molten Flame Stone could strengthen the Great Five Elemental Palm; the Autumn Blossom Fruit could help him make a breakthrough in his cultivation and reshape his physique; and the Winter Crystal Leaf could aid in deepening his mastery of the Frost Dao Art.

Each one was indispensable.

Those gathered outside were tired of yelling and leaned against the barrier, venting their fury through silent glares.

"Brother, what should we do now?" the woman from the Liao Clan asked uneasily.

Now that Liu Wuxie was inside, continuing to open a rift in the barrier seemed pointless.

"Continue! He'll need time to harvest the treasures. We have to be done before him," Liao Changhong said, still unwilling to give up, and began to speed up.

They would open an entry and kill Liu Wuxie before retrieving the treasures.

Word spread quickly about Liu Wuxie, a disciple of Heavenly Spirit Celestial Academy. More information began to circulate among the crowd.

The cultivator who had recognized Liu Wuxie had also participated in the academy's recruitment test a year ago, but he had failed. This was why he could recognize Liu Wuxie at once.

Standing before the heavenly tree, Liu Wuxie summoned the ancestral tree that extended its roots into the former.

Strangely enough, the Heavenly Tree did not resist him; instead, it seemed to welcome his presence.

There was no doubt it was because of the Ancestral Tree.

After all, the ancestral tree was the first tree to exist in the universe, and it wasn't an exaggeration to call it the progenitor of all trees.

The heavenly tree might have been ancient, but it was a child compared to the ancestral tree. It was like a lost child returning to its mother's embrace, releasing its wood-attribute energy willingly and sending it into Liu Wuxie's body.

Liu Wuxie didn't need to refine the energy as the wood-attribute energy began to strengthen the Wood Suppression Stele. He could only watch in awe as the heavenly tree's essence danced like a fairy, rejoicing as it entered the desolate world.

"What's going on? Why is the heavenly tree's essence entering his body on its own?" someone exclaimed. Although they couldn't enter the spiritual array, it didn't obscure their view.

They had initially assumed that Liu Wuxie would need time to collect the treasures, but it seemed they had miscalculated.

As a boundless stream of the heavenly tree's essence flowed into Liu Wuxie's body, his fifth-level True Profound Realm bottleneck began to loosen.

The essence also began to reshape the desolate world and strengthen the ancestral tree. Even though Liu Wuxie's constitution was reshaped, his immortal root grew thicker.

"He's going to make a breakthrough!" someone groaned. It stung deeply to watch Liu Wuxie making a breakthrough.

Liao Changhong threw his materials on the ground in rage, looking at the treasures slipping away.

The heavenly tree began to wither before everyone's eyes, and all of its essence flowed into Liu Wuxie's body.

"How is this possible? How can someone at the fifth-level True Profound Realm absorb all that essence?" Everyone was puzzled. An ordinary person couldn't absorb all the essence of the heavenly tree. Just absorbing a sliver of it would be a great fortune to them.

This was why those at the True Profound Realm and the lower levels of the Spirit Profound Realm had stayed. They had hoped to share the essence of the heavenly tree, as no one could absorb everything. They would've also benefited significantly if they could have had a share of it.

However, Liu Wuxie had absorbed everything. This meant those with lower cultivation had no hope left, even if the spiritual array was destroyed.

The ancestral tree expanded in size after absorbing the essence of the heavenly tree, becoming broader and greener.

The ancestral tree suddenly swayed, and Liu Wuxie immediately turned toward the crowd gathered outside the array.

"There are divinekins mixed in the crowd," Liu Wuxie muttered with a grave expression. He hadn't expected the divine race to find him so soon, let alone hide among the crowd. It appeared he had underestimated their patience.

Now that the ancestral tree had grown larger, he knew the divine race would stop at nothing to have it destroyed.

Previously, Liu Wuxie had to rely on the ancestral tree to alert him to the presence of the divine race. But now, he could use it as a medium to locate them himself.

He sat cross-legged. According to his calculations, the spiritual array would collapse once all four treasures were taken, so he had to find an escape route after claiming the last one.

After the heavenly tree's essence merged into him on its own accord, it allowed him to make a breakthrough. It was different for the other treasures as he would need time to refine them.

As Liu Wuxie's aura intensified, the spiritual energy in the spiritual array became denser, condensing into a spiritual rain that poured down on him.

"Look at how quickly he's absorbing spiritual energy!" someone gasped when they saw Liu Wuxie drawing all the spiritual energy from the surroundings.

"Kill him, and his treasures and techniques will become ours!" Many people realized that Liu Wuxie's cultivation was closely tied to the cultivation technique he employed.

Additionally, the heavenly tree's essence still lingered in his body; they would be able to take it if they killed him.

With that, everyone began plotting how to strike Liu Wuxie down when he emerged.

Two hours later, Liu Wuxie's cultivation rose to the pinnacle of the sixth-level True Profound Realm. When he made his breakthrough, a shockwave burst outward, forming a storm that swept up the nearby snowflakes. He had devoured even the heat surging over from the other region.

When he stood up, crackling sounds burst from within his body.

"That feels great!" Liu Wuxie commented. Not only had the heavenly tree's essence allowed him to make a breakthrough, but it had also healed the lingering injuries he had suffered from encountering the Black Plume Pavilion's assassins.

Impurities had been expelled from his body, further strengthening his internal organs. Even the Wood Suppression Stele gleamed with crystalline radiance. It had miniature trees etched on it, patterns left behind by the heavenly tree that resided on it.

Liu Wuxie turned to the Molten Flame Stone next as he was collecting the treasures individually. He could sense the weakening of the spiritual array.

If Liao Changhong had entered instead, he would've first gone after the Autumn Blossom Fruits and Winter Crystal Leaf.

Liu Wuxie had done the opposite, choosing to collect the more difficult treasures first. As previously mentioned, the spiritual array would fall apart once the last treasure was collected, and Liu Wuxie had to be ready to flee in that split second.

If he had gone with Liao Changhong's approach and collected the less troublesome treasures first, it would have been impossible for him to monopolize them for himself. This was why he saved the Winter Crystal Leaf for last.

The Molten Flame Stone was buried about one meter into the ground, which Liu Wuxie located easily with his divine sense.

When exposed to the air, they immediately released an intense heatwave. If it were entirely unearthed, the surroundings would catch fire.

However, Liu Wuxie didn't fear the heat. He walked over to the Molten Flame Stone and shaped his true essence into a giant palm, splitting the ground and revealing the stone hidden beneath.

His action caused the surrounding temperature to spike with heat that could be felt outside the spiritual array.

This left the onlookers in awe.

"It's over if he claims the Molten Flame Stone, too!"

Wood gave birth to fire based on the connection between the five elements. Liu Wuxie had just obtained the heavenly tree's essence, and the power of the Great Five Elemental Palm would soar if he could get the Molten Flame Stone.

The Molten Flame Stone was roughly a meter in diameter. It was oval, with a glowing orb at its core the size of a fist. The orb was the actual Molten Flame Stone, and its outer layer consisted of molten rocks forming a shell around it.

However, even this shell was highly valuable as it contained the laws of the Molten Flame Stone itself.

"Come!" Liu Wuxie tossed an interspatial ring over to the stone.

The energy radiating from the Molten Flame Stone was too terrifying. Unlike the heavenly tree's essence, which had merged into his body of its own accord, he would need time to refine the stone.

Time was short, and he had to get to the last two treasures quickly.

The spiritual array dimmed even further when the Molten Flame Stone was collected.

People outside summoned their weapons to hack at the barrier wildly. There was no backlash from the spiritual array after it had been significantly weakened, and cracks began to appear on it.

"Keep it up! Focus our attacks on one point! It won't be long before we break this spiritual array apart!"

Losing the two treasures had halved the spiritual array's power, and now that they saw a chance, madness took over the crowd.

Liu Wuxie could now hear the outside commotion and rushed toward the Autumn Blossom Fruits. There were five fruits, and only the first one would be effective. However, one might not be enough, given Liu Wuxie's unusual physique.

No one knew how long these five fruits had hung there.

A breeze stirred when he approached the tree, and the fruits fell on their own.

He collected them with a wave of his hand in a pouch he had prepared before storing it in the interspatial ring. There was no time to refine them, as the spiritual array was about to collapse.

It was a race against time, and he had only three breaths before the spiritual array collapsed.

This was why Liu Wuxie had decided to collect the Winter Crystal Leaf last, as three breaths weren't enough for him to collect the stone or the heavenly tree's essence. On the other hand, it would only take him one breath to collect the Winter Crystal Leaf.

The barrier splintered like a web with cracks spreading in every direction.

Liu Wuxie vanished and lunged at the Winter Crystal Leaf.

"LIU WUXIE, YOU DARE?!" A colossal palm descended from the sky and shattered the spiritual array.