Liu Wuxie could clearly sense a tremendous upheaval in the celestial realm that was violent enough to punch through the boundary between the two realms. That meant the conflict there could not possibly involve ordinary immortals.

As for the next wave of items, Liu Wuxie looked forward to the possibility of an immortal's corpse appearing. If he could refine an immortal's corpse, he believed he would be able to break through to the fifth-level Heaven Gaze Realm. By then, he would also be able to upgrade Nightmare City into an immortal artifact.

Suddenly, a comet tore across the sky and vanished before anyone could react.

"So fast!" Everyone could only watch helplessly as the treasure disappeared before their eyes, and even Liu Wuxie had not expected such terrifying speed.

Everyone immediately focused their minds and steeled themselves. They knew they could not afford to miss this opportunity again.

This time, thousands of items spewed from the gate, including flowers, grasses, trees, and rocks, blanketing the entire sky.

The crowd instantly went mad as every cultivator unleashed their techniques, conjuring all kinds of palms across the sky and waiting for treasures to drop into their grasp. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

They all knew it would be foolish to charge out now because no one could track the treasures' trajectories.

Liu Wuxie activated Ghost Pupil. There were too many treasures, and he had no way of locking onto all of them. As a result, he could only choose the ones with the greatest value.

The scene before his eyes changed, and every treasure immediately slowed in his vision. Then he spotted a severed arm with fresh blood still dripping from it, a clear sign that someone had cut it off only moments ago.

Black holes often opened during battles in the astral domains and swallowed countless objects, including broken limbs, yet even Liu Wuxie could not say where they ultimately carried those things. Perhaps they ended up in the lower planes beyond the astral domains, where others were also fighting over treasures ejected from the astral domains.

He could abandon the other treasures, but he absolutely had to seize that severed arm. Without the slightest hesitation, he shot toward it.

Luo Jingcheng and the others were watching Liu Wuxie from the corner of their eyes the entire time. So the instant he moved, they moved as well.

"Stop Liu Wuxie!"

They had decided to forfeit the chance to obtain treasures rather than allow Liu Wuxie to keep growing stronger.

"Do you think you can match my speed?"

After refining a huge number of treasures from the celestial realm, Liu Wuxie's desolate world had been strengthened by more than tenfold. His immortal runes had also grown even stronger than before, carrying him through the air with horrifying speed.

In less than one-thousandth of an instant, Liu Wuxie appeared before the severed arm. He immediately summoned the black hole and devoured it. That arm belonged to a heavenly immortal and contained a massive amount of the celestial realm's laws.

"Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, it's your turn now," Liu Wuxie said. After collecting the severed arm, he immediately retreated, giving Luo Jingshan and the others no chance to surround him.

The moment it received his command, the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron erupted with a terrifying suction force. A giant black hole appeared in the sky, sweeping through the surroundings and dragging in all the objects streaking through the sky.

The sight instantly ignited everyone's fury, but none of them could do anything about it.

Someone finally snapped, unable to endure it any longer. "Liu Wuxie, you've taken it too far!" Liu Wuxie had become too tyrannical, monopolizing so many treasures by himself.

Ignoring the furious shouts from all sides, Liu Wuxie continued plundering without the slightest hesitation. With a wave of his hand, he redirected many items from their original paths and sent them flying toward the Heavenly Dragon Sect. He did not merely want to collect treasures for himself; he also intended to help the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

That action infuriated the crowd even more.

"Damn it! We have to kill him!"

Even those who bore no grudge against Liu Wuxie became enraged. They knew they had to find a way to kill him, or they would never get anything for themselves.

Out of the thousands of items that erupted from the mysterious gate, Liu Wuxie alone monopolized more than five hundred. At the same time, the Heavenly Dragon Sect and the Heavenly Dao Society took over three hundred.

The divine race also profited tremendously, using their net to collect over a hundred treasures.

Yin had produced a mysterious sack that covered half the sky and swept up many treasures.

Though the Grand Unity Sect had reacted immediately, they had still moved too slowly, and Liu Wuxie had already taken most of the treasures.

The Outer Astral Spacetime was too vast, and each treasure traveled across distances of tens of thousands of meters. It would already be impressive if anyone could collect two or three treasures. After all, no matter how fast someone moved, they could not surpass the speed of the treasures themselves.

Once the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron had collected the treasures, demonic flames erupted and began refining them. The immortal's arm, in particular, released a terrifying amount of the celestial realm laws.

The immortal runes within the desolate world immediately began multiplying at an explosive rate. No matter how many ordinary treasures he refined, none of them could compare to an immortal's arm.

In the blink of an eye, more than fifty thousand immortal runes appeared, pushing the total number of immortal runes within the desolate world to over one hundred thousand.

"It's time for Nightmare City to advance," Liu Wuxie said with a faint smile as all one hundred thousand immortal runes poured into Nightmare City.

The moment the immortal runes entered, the entire city released a dazzling radiance. But because everything was taking place inside the desolate world, no one outside knew what was happening. All they could sense was a suffocating pressure radiating from Liu Wuxie's body.

"I have a bad feeling about this. Something terrifying is nurturing within Liu Wuxie," Meng Cheng said. This time, he had managed to seize two items for himself, a segment of wood and a large rock, both stained with abundant immortal energy, which he quickly put away.

Most cultivators at the Quasi-Immortal Realm managed to seize something, whereas those at the Heaven Gaze Realm gained very little.

"Master, Nightmare City will advance to an immortal artifact in two hours," the artifact spirit reported after sensing the changes.

"Good!" Liu Wuxie was in high spirits. Once Nightmare City advanced to an immortal artifact, its released feedback energy would be enough to help him break through to the fifth-level Heaven Gaze Realm.

Items continued spewing from the mysterious gate as everyone fought over them with all they had. But because the gate had been violently disturbed this time, cracks began spreading across it, as though it could shatter at any moment.

The cultivators who had failed to obtain any treasures became frantic with anxiety. Once the gate disappeared, they would lose their chance of obtaining items from the celestial realm.

As time passed, Nightmare City underwent a tremendous transformation. All one hundred thousand immortal runes poured into the city, making it heavier and more imposing than ever before.

The Heretic Blade hovered within the desolate world, and it too benefited greatly from the immortal runes.

Liu Wuxie had also considered upgrading the Heretic Blade into an immortal artifact, but its foundation was too shallow. Nightmare City, by comparison, was already only a single step away from becoming an immortal artifact, and what it lacked now was precisely immortal runes.

Fifteen minutes before the two-hour mark, Nightmare City began trembling violently, as if it wanted to burst out of the desolate world. But Liu Wuxie knew he could not reveal that he possessed an immortal artifact. It had to remain one of his trump cards.

With his current cultivation alone, he could already slaughter quasi-immortals in droves.

More cracks spread across the mysterious gate, and its breaking echoed across countless miles. The battle in the celestial realm was drawing to a close, and the rift between the two realms was gradually healing.

Suddenly, an explosion rang out as the mysterious gate burst apart, releasing an endless wave of energy that swept through the heavens and blasted a few thousand more items outward.

"Grab them!" Everyone instantly went insane, and even people from the same sect trampled over one another. They all knew this was their final chance.

Everyone went all out, unleashing their strongest movement techniques as they charged toward the treasures. They would rather be blasted away than let this opportunity slip by.

Liu Wuxie activated Ghost Pupil and swept his gaze through the treasures. He narrowed his eyes as he spotted another arm.

He had taken the right arm earlier, and this time the left arm had appeared. More importantly, an interspatial ring rested on its ring finger.

That interspatial ring belonged to the celestial realm. The value of the ring alone was immeasurable, not to mention the treasures it contained. Even if it held only a few immortal stones, their worth would surpass more than a thousand immortal stones from the astral domains.

The value of immortal stones from the celestial realm was on a completely different level from that of those found in the astral domains.

"It's the arm of an immortal!" This time, Luo Jingshan and the others had noticed it as well. The arm was too conspicuous, and the interspatial ring emitted a faint glow visible even from a great distance.

"Grab that arm! We can't let it fall into Liu Wuxie's hands!" Meng Cheng panicked.

Liu Wuxie's cultivation had surged dramatically after he had seized the first severed arm, and Meng Cheng could not imagine what would happen if Liu Wuxie obtained another one.

Everyone went mad, abandoning the other treasures and charging straight toward that severed arm.

"Wuxie, I'll help you! Find a way to seize that arm!" Dong Wu said as he appeared beside Liu Wuxie. Earlier, Liu Wuxie had not been stingy during the fight for treasures, yielding many of them to Dong Wu even when he could have taken them for himself.

"Okay!" Liu Wuxie agreed. Though he did not fear the other quasi-immortals, it would still be troublesome if they tied him down. In the end, all his effort could benefit someone else.

Dong Wu flashed and appeared before Luo Jingshan and the others, cutting off their advance.

"Dong Wu, get out of my way!" Meng Cheng and the others did not recognize Dong Wu, but Luo Jingshan did, since they all came from the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain.

"You'll have to get past me if you want to seize the treasure," Dong Wu said, striking immediately and unleashing all kinds of techniques that blanketed the sky.

Liu Wuxie summoned a black hole and began sweeping everything up, dragging over five hundred items into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron. That move enraged not only the Grand Unity Sect, but also all the other sects.

The combined attack of four quasi-immortals nearly sent Dong Wu flying.

"I'll help!" At that exact moment, experts from the Abyssal Gate and the Ghost Sect appeared.

Six quasi-immortals immediately joined forces and formed an encirclement around Dong Wu.

"Meng Cheng, you go stop Liu Wuxie!" Luo Jingshan roared. The five of them were more than enough to hold Dong Wu back.

"Understood!" Meng Cheng immediately broke away from the battle and rushed toward Liu Wuxie. Their goal was to disrupt him and prevent him from obtaining the arm. Even if someone else managed to seize it, that result would still be a thousand times better than letting Liu Wuxie have it.

As Liu Wuxie closed in on the severed arm, Meng Cheng's attack arrived. This time, Meng Cheng had prepared in advance and gave Liu Wuxie no opportunity to transform into a celestial crane.

Now, Liu Wuxie had two choices. The first was to continue going after the severed arm, which meant taking Meng Cheng's attack head-on. The second was to abandon the severed arm and kill Meng Cheng instead.

Experts from the Nine Dragon Palace, the Comet Temple, and the other forces had also arrived. Though they had not attacked Liu Wuxie, they would not hesitate to snatch the arm away the moment he gave up.

Dong Wu was trapped within an encirclement and had no strength left to assist Liu Wuxie. That meant the situation had already turned extremely unfavorable for him.

However, Liu Wuxie was determined to obtain the severed arm. He had already sent one hundred thousand immortal runes to help Nightmare City advance, and now he desperately needed even more immortal runes.