A'Lei had ultimately been too rash. His desire to avenge his father was understandable, but the moment he lost his reason, he became an easy target for his enemy. After all, the Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King had lived for countless years and possessed extremely rich battle experience.

The instant he charged forward, A'Lei hurled another punch toward the Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King's chest, since the wolf king always moved upright.

With a violent impact, the Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King lifted its right leg and drove a savage kick at A'Lei, sending him flying once again. This time, A'Lei smashed into the ground with even greater force, and he could not even get close to the wolf king.

A'Li watched with growing anxiety, but he could do nothing. The Heavenly Howling Moon Wolves had already pinned him down.

The Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King knew that A'Lei and A'Li would become extremely troublesome if they joined forces. He intended to kill A'Lei first and then turn around and kill A'Li. If it could devour both giants, its cultivation would surge again and might even approach the Immortal Realm.

"A'Lei, you dumbass! Fight how you used to fight in the past!" A'Li shouted, trying to snap A'Lei back to his senses.

The wolf king's kick had caved in A'Lei's chest and left him seriously injured. He drew in a deep breath, and his eyes gradually cleared. He had not yet fully digested the energy of the Radiant Golden Bull Fruit inside his body, and that energy immediately began healing his injuries.

As for Liu Wuxie, the Heretic Blade had already killed thousands of astral beasts, slaughtering them so thoroughly that none of them dared to approach and could only huddle in the distance.

A powerful aura surged from the Heretic Blade as it transformed into a crimson blade ray and shot into the sky. The clouds could not withstand its power and burst apart.

The Heretic Blade was only a single step away from becoming an immortal artifact, but the materials required to forge an immortal artifact were unimaginably rare. They were not treasures one could obtain easily.

Liu Wuxie drew upon his immortal energy and continued forcing his way toward the ninth-level Heaven Gaze Realm. By now, his physique had reached an unbelievable height, and if it had to be judged by cultivation alone, it could already compare to the fourth-level Heavenly Immortal Realm.

The main purpose of the Radiant Golden Bull Fruit was to transform the physique. But Liu Wuxie's soul sea also absorbed that energy and began to transform as well. After all, the soul sea was also part of the body. The crystalline walls around the soul sea grew even stronger and became capable of holding even more soul energy.

"Mysterious axe, smash it apart!"

Worried for A'Lei's safety, Liu Wuxie hastened his breakthrough.

The Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King turned out to be even more terrifying than he had expected. The two giant brothers would have only a slim chance of victory if they could join forces.

The moment the mysterious axe came down, a fine crack appeared on the gate to the ninth-level Heaven Gaze Realm, and an endless torrent burst forth from behind it, containing a vast amount of immortal runes.

When those immortal runes fused with the desolate world, it grew even more complete and advanced, indefinitely close to the pinnacle of the mortal realm.

"Again!" Liu Wuxie roared and gathered an even greater force before slamming it toward the gate once more. This time, the gate shattered under the impact.

Then an even more suffocating force surged into the desolate world, and countless immortal runes began pouring in like a flood.

Liu Wuxie did not stop to examine them in detail. He simply glanced over them and deduced that there were now at least seven hundred thousand immortal runes in the Desolate World, and the number was still climbing.

According to his earlier estimate, his immortal runes would exceed one million once he stepped into the Quasi-Immortal Realm, and only cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heavenly Immortal Realm could normally possess that amount.

Yet Liu Wuxie already held more than seven hundred thousand immortal runes while only at the ninth-level Heaven Gaze Realm. That meant once he reached the Quasi-Immortal Realm, he would not fear even cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, and he could even kill them outright.

Fifty immortal stones detonated, transformed into pure immortal energy, and flooded the desolate world. At the same time, a boundless surge of astral domain force began to appear since the desolate world had already refined a planet's core.

That meant the world force inside the desolate world had evolved into an astral domain force. World force represented only a single world, whereas an astral domain contained countless worlds.

As the surrounding laws surged, a vast amount of immortal energy poured into the remaining giants and helped temper them. Since A'Wu had the highest cultivation among them, he completed his breakthrough first, while the other giants still needed another fifteen minutes before they could reach the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm.

However, reaching the Quasi-Immortal Realm wouldn't be easy for them, as they would need to undergo the same kind of systematic cultivation as A'Lei and A'Li. However, A'Wu was already at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm and only one step away from the Quasi-Immortal Realm.

The Desolate Devouring Art began circulating at a terrifying speed and drew in all the spiritual energy within a radius of three hundred thousand miles.

The laws on this planet were powerful, and they perfectly suited Liu Wuxie's cultivation. But his body had also begun to swell, and he did not want to become a giant. If he continued cultivating on this planet without restraint, it would not be long before his size began rivalling that of the Giant Clan.

He quickly refined those laws and fused them into his body, shrinking back his swollen frame to normal size. Then he used the remaining time to consolidate his cultivation and polish it to perfection. He continued circulating the Desolate Devouring Art as vast quantities of liquid flowed within the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, but he did not absorb it immediately. He intended to store it and use it to replenish himself in future battles.

Meanwhile, A'Lei's battle against the Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King had reached its climax. After A'Li's reminder, A'Lei gave up fighting head-on and used his agility, relying on superior footwork to launch attacks from unexpected angles.

The wolf king's body was too huge, resembling a moving mountain. Because of that, his speed could not compare to the Giant Clan's. Then again, the Giant Clan could hardly be considered swift themselves. They only seemed fast by comparison.

Since A'Lei had already given birth to true essence within his body, he could fly for short periods, and that was his greatest advantage. With an explosive step, he appeared behind the wolf king and hurled a punch downward from the sky.

With a loud explosion, the wolf king staggered and nearly toppled from the strike. He roared furiously as A'Lei moved with sly cunning, unlike the other giants, who would have chosen to fight head-on.

Now that A'Lei had changed his approach, the tide of battle naturally turned in his favor. He shifted position immediately after every strike and searched for another opening, while the wolf king could not react in time.

The Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King could crush A'Lei with raw strength and cultivation, but his poor agility had become a fatal weakness. After all, the wolf king had never needed speed, as no other astral beast would have dared to approach it.

A'Lei rose in the air using true essence and darted around the wolf king like a moving mountain. When he successfully landed another punch, a bloody hole exploded open on the wolf king's right arm, and A'Lei's strength began rising the longer he fought.

Battle had always been the best catalyst for growth, and A'Lei was evolving at a terrifying pace while fighting the wolf king.

On the other side, A'Li was struggling bitterly against thousands of Heavenly Howling Moon Wolves. Several of those wolves possessed strength and cultivation no weaker than his own.

"Young Master Liu, open the spiritual array!" A'Wu said. He had completed his breakthrough and wanted to leave the spiritual array and help A'Li.

The Giant Clan and the Heavenly Howling Moon Wolves had a longstanding grudge, and they did not want to drag a human into their feud any more than necessary.

When the spiritual array opened, A'Wu strode out and charged into the wolf pack, battling beside A'Li like an unstoppable war god. A massive wolf was blasted into the air and crashed onto the ground, leaving behind a huge crater.

As the wolf king watched members of his pack die, he grew restless, creating even more openings for A'Lei.

As time passed, Liu Wuxie stabilized his cultivation, and the other giants also finished their breakthroughs.

When Liu Wuxie opened the spiritual array again, all the giants charged out at once. They had only just made breakthroughs, and all of them desperately needed battle to consolidate their newfound strength.

Liu Wuxie remained suspended in the air, his gaze fixed on A'Lei and the wolf king, ready to move the instant A'Lei showed even the slightest sign of losing momentum. The Heavenbound Immortal Finger had already formed in the sky, casting tremendous psychological pressure on the wolf king.

When the other giants joined the battle, the Heavenly Howling Moon Wolves' casualties rose sharply, and their corpses began piling up throughout the valley.

Liu Wuxie wasted none of those corpses. He summoned a black hole and devoured the energy and laws inside them, further perfecting the desolate world. Those corpses also gave birth to several new realms in succession, since too many different species of astral beast had died there. The more realms the desolate world gained, the more complete it became.

Suddenly, A'Lei found a perfect opening and struck the vulnerable point on the wolf king's left arm, shattering that arm completely. With that, the wolf king's strength dropped at once.

At that exact moment, the last three Radiant Golden Bull Fruits finally ripened and released an even richer fragrance, drawing more astral beasts into the valley.

With a wave of his hand, Liu Wuxie collected the last three Radiant Golden Bull Fruits. However, at that instant, a loud explosion erupted from a mountain in the distance, as though something sleeping inside it had awakened.

That commotion startled countless astral beasts as huge boulders began raining from the sky. The smallest were the size of washbasins, while the largest rivaled houses. It would be catastrophic if those boulders, falling like meteors, struck anyone in the valley.

Liu Wuxie immediately raised a defensive barrier and blocked the falling rocks in time. The giants also smashed the boulders apart with their fists.

The sudden disturbance brought A'Lei's battle with the Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King to a halt, and neither side moved.

Another thunderous rumble followed as a giant hoof emerged from the shattered mountain. That single hoof stretched more than three hundred feet long, and the moment it appeared, terror flashed across the faces of A'Lei, the wolf king, and the surrounding astral beasts.

The Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King trembled, and it turned to flee without the slightest desire to continue fighting. No one knew what kind of being had emerged, but even the Heavenly Howling Moon Wolf King feared it.

A'Lei, however, was completely consumed by murderous intent, and there was no way he would let the wolf king escape. If the wolf king managed to return to its territory, killing it in the future would become far more difficult. But if he could kill it here and now, the entire wolf pack would collapse on its own.

Liu Wuxie's eyes had already locked on the distant mountain. The summit had exploded apart, and countless boulders lay scattered across the ground.

Then a giant claw reached out from the mountain, shaking the ground like a massive earthquake, and the surrounding mountain ranges began to collapse. A long ravine tore across the ground, and many astral beasts fell into it and were buried alive before they could escape.

A'Lei let out a roar and cut off the wolf king's escape route, forcing another clash. But since the wolf king had already lost all will to fight, his attacks had become much more sluggish than A'Lei's.

Just as the two locked into battle once more, the ground trembled again, and a massive spine rose from the depths of the earth.