Liu Wuxie decided to go all out with only two opponents remaining. He knew he had to end the battle as quickly as possible because the ninth battle would be even more brutal, forcing him to face nine opponents at once. As his blade ray descended, it resembled a crescent moon hanging upside down over the cage, radiating an overwhelming aura of destruction.

The crushing pressure of the blade ray drove the Murderous Fiend back a step. That brief retreat created an opening, and Liu Wuxie seized it without hesitation, shooting toward the other true immortal like a bolt of lightning.

"Azure Crimson Sword!" The true immortal refused to retreat and immediately unleashed his strongest attack in response. Azure and crimson sword auras burst forth, intertwining in the air before colliding head-on with Liu Wuxie's blade ray.

The instant the two weapons collided, a deafening metallic shriek exploded outward. The piercing sound swept through the underground fight club, bounced off the surrounding walls, and echoed endlessly throughout the arena. The weaker cultivators could only cover their ears as they struggled to withstand the terrifying sound wave.

The azure and crimson sword auras shattered apart one after another as the crescent moon blade ray tore through them with unstoppable force.

At that precise moment, the Murderous Fiend launched his attack. Taking advantage of Liu Wuxie being held up by the other true immortal, he swung his giant hammer toward Liu Wuxie's waist. The momentum behind the strike was unrivaled, and the hammer released a thunderous rumble that completely overshadowed the clash of weapons.

"Damn it!" Liu Wuxie cursed. Suspended in mid-air, he had no leverage whatsoever to evade the incoming attack.

If he descended to the ground, the other true immortal would immediately attack him. If he remained where he was, the giant hammer would smash him into meat paste. This was a true test of combat experience. Had another cultivator been placed in Liu Wuxie's position, they would have undoubtedly fallen into a passive state under such deadly pincer attacks.

Not a trace of fear appeared in Liu Wuxie's eyes. Instead, a frenzied gleam flashed within them. After slaughtering so many people in succession, the rage he had suppressed deep within his heart finally found an outlet.

As the hammer closed in on Liu Wuxie and was about to strike him, many spectators shut their eyes. They could not bear to witness what was about to happen.

Ye Linghan clenched her fists tightly as torrential chilling energy erupted from her body. Had the Yin-Yang Elders not restrained her, she would have already charged into the cage and fought alongside Liu Wuxie.

Many true immortals shook their heads regretfully. "What a pity. He's going to lose in the eighth round."

The fact that Liu Wuxie had survived this long already defied all common sense. Reaching this point alone was something he could be proud of.

Had Liu Wuxie managed to advance to the tenth battle, everyone would have found it utterly unreal. Even if he could not leave his name in history, he would at least become famous throughout the underground fight club.

When the giant hammer was only half an inch away from Liu Wuxie, he suddenly rose another half meter into the air. The sight completely defied logic. Without reaching the Origin Immortal Realm, flight was impossible. As a High Immortal, Liu Wuxie should have begun falling the moment he exhausted his momentum in mid-air.

"How is this possible?!"

Everyone stared in stunned disbelief as Liu Wuxie rose higher instead of falling.

After he rose, Liu Wuxie's feet landed firmly on the giant hammer. Borrowing its surface as a foothold, he dove toward the other true immortal once more. This time, his speed was twice as fast as before, catching the true immortal completely off guard.

As the Bloodthirst Blade descended from the sky, a large head soared into the air while blood sprayed in every direction. Boundless laws poured into the desolate world, and Liu Wuxie refined them in less than one-thousandth of an instant.

Now, only Liu Wuxie and the Murderous Fiend remained within the cage.

"Did any of you see how he managed to accomplish that?"

Everyone looked at Liu Wuxie with a hint of fear in their eyes. No matter how hard they thought about it, they could not understand how he had risen instead of falling in mid-air.

"I noticed a powerful surge of air current around him that fortified the surrounding space," said a cultivator at the higher levels of the True Immortal Realm.

Discussions broke out throughout the surroundings. "Could it be a spatial art?"

Their guess was correct. Liu Wuxie had relied on the Great Spatial Mythical Art to alter his trajectory in mid-air. He had not teleported through the air. Instead, he repeatedly reinforced the space beneath his feet for brief moments, using it as a foothold to propel himself upward.

As their eyes met, a crimson light burst from the Murderous Fiend's eyes. Without uttering a single word, he swung his enormous hammer toward Liu Wuxie. The attack blanketed the entire cage, leaving Liu Wuxie no room to dodge.

With only one opponent remaining, Liu Wuxie didn't intend to dodge and unleashed the Divine Mystic Yin Needle, which transformed into a powerful shockwave as it burrowed directly into the Murderous Fiend's forehead.

The instant the needle vanished into the Murderous Fiend's forehead, the hammer fell from his grip. The giant weapon flew through the air before crashing heavily onto the ground, causing the entire arena to tremble from the impact.

"Refine and absorb!"

Liu Wuxie intended to refine them all and use the laws within their bodies to help him break through to the third-level High Immortal Realm.

These fighters possessed numerous valuable items within their interspatial rings, and Liu Wuxie had already discovered more than a dozen second-grade immortal pills among them. Without the slightest hesitation, he tossed them into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron. Combining them with the laws of the True Immortal Realm, they allowed him to achieve his breakthrough effortlessly.

A powerful shockwave erupted from Liu Wuxie as he smoothly stepped into the third-level High Immortal Realm. The result exceeded everyone's expectations. Not even Ye Linghan or the Yin-Yang Elders had anticipated that Liu Wuxie would end the battle so quickly and even achieve a breakthrough in his cultivation.

Fear still lingered within Ye Linghan's heart as she witnessed Liu Wuxie's victory. She felt as though she herself had been fighting inside the cage. The moment she saw Liu Wuxie kill the Murderous Fiend, tears streamed down her face. Although they did not share an especially deep friendship, they could at least be considered friends.

Yin-Yang Elders' expressions darkened. The underground fight club had spent years nurturing those fighters, only for Liu Wuxie to slaughter every one of them. Every fighter who died in battle represented enormous wealth belonging to the underground fight club, and anyone could imagine their fury as they watched someone destroy their assets.

However, with the life gate's challenge still active, there was nothing they could do to Liu Wuxie. They could only continue sending fighters into the cage to fight him.

Meanwhile, Liu Wuxie circulated the Desolate Devouring Art and devoured all the immortal energy surrounding him.

The surrounding spectators stared in shock. "What a terrifying devouring speed!" Liu Wuxie's combat strength had already left them breathless, yet they had never expected his cultivation method to be equally terrifying.

Liu Wuxie's cultivation continued to rise and reached the intermediate phase of the third-level High Immortal Realm in the blink of an eye. However, time was limited. After completing the challenge, he would have to enter seclusion to consolidate his cultivation after making two consecutive breakthroughs.

The iron gate opened once again, and nine figures appeared before Liu Wuxie. This time, not a single high immortal was among them. Every one of them had reached the True Immortal Realm. In other words, Liu Wuxie, a third-level High Immortal, now had to face nine true immortals.

The irony was bitter, and the spectators could no longer laugh. Every face in the arena had become solemn.

As the challenge progressed, the battles only grew more brutal. The underground fight club clearly had no intention of allowing Liu Wuxie to survive.

After the nine fighters entered the cage, their gazes settled on Liu Wuxie. They had witnessed the previous battle from the very beginning.

The battles had been spectacular. Throughout, Liu Wuxie had honed both his combat techniques and his art of killing to the absolute limit. Even true immortals paled in comparison, and only someone who had experienced countless battles could attain such a level. Yet that only raised an even greater question. Given Liu Wuxie's age, how could he possibly have tempered his skills to such a terrifying degree?

Every fighter present had honed their abilities through countless battles, yet they still could not suppress the trace of fear rising within them as they faced Liu Wuxie at this moment.

Liu Wuxie had once told Shi Wa that when brave warriors met on a narrow path, the braver one would emerge victorious. Now, those very words had come back to him.

Every fighter present had stained their hands with countless people's blood. They feared neither death nor battle. Yet at this moment, their confidence had begun to waver, and that was the greatest taboo for any cultivator.

The nine fighters wielded nine different weapons as nine elements gathered in the sky, forming a powerful current that surged toward Liu Wuxie with overwhelming force.

As Liu Wuxie swept his gaze across the cage, he licked his lips while a cruel smirk slowly curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Fight!"

Liu Wuxie wasted no words. Having just broken through to the third-level High Immortal Realm, he desperately needed a battle. If he could refine these nine fighters, he would be able to push his cultivation into the late phase of the third-level High Immortal Realm.

Various dazzling techniques blanketed the sky before descending toward Liu Wuxie and enveloping him completely. Anyone could tell the fighters lacked coordination and had likely come together at the last moment.

Because they were unfamiliar with one another, their teamwork was far from seamless. That flaw presented Liu Wuxie with an opportunity. He had to kill as many of them as possible before the nine fighters could perfect their teamwork.

Without any hesitation, Liu Wuxie charged forward with the Bloodthirst Blade. His speed had increased yet again after reaching the third-level High Immortal Realm. Even so, he could only rely on the most primitive footwork because he did not dare use the immortal arts stored within his mind.

His footsteps were light and elusive, seemingly resonating with Dao itself. As a result, he avoided every incoming attack by the narrowest possible margin.

"Something doesn't seem right. Does he possess the ability to foresee the future?"

Even the spirit immortals could no longer comprehend what they were witnessing. They watched Liu Wuxie evade every incoming attack with effortless precision, making them feel as though they had wasted all their years of cultivation.

Ye Linghan understood that feeling better than anyone. Back at the lake, Liu Wuxie had successfully dodged two of her attacks, and that incident was the primary reason she had chosen to investigate him. She refused to believe that someone with such abilities could be an ordinary person. Liu Wuxie had to be hiding some secret.

Then again, all of this was thanks to Ghost Pupil. It allowed Liu Wuxie to see through the trajectories of incoming attacks. Relying on his bizarre footwork, he appeared before two true immortals in an instant.

"NO!"

Fear gripped the two fighters as they retreated beneath the crushing pressure of the blade force.

Liu Wuxie's methods were too terrifying. He hadn't left a single opponent with an intact corpse. He had refined every one of them. No one knew what cultivation technique he practiced that allowed him to devour other cultivators and strengthen himself.

Although similar cultivation techniques had appeared in the celestial realm before, their practitioners had always needed to be extremely cautious when devouring others to avoid backlash. Yet no one saw any such problem with Liu Wuxie, who had managed to achieve breakthroughs in an astonishingly short period of time.

As Liu Wuxie's blade force became even more ferocious, it resembled an ominous beast that had locked onto its prey. When the Bloodthirst Blade descended upon the two true immortals, they abandoned all thoughts of resistance.

The attack also unleashed a powerful blade aura that swept outward, preventing the other fighters from approaching.

Now that Liu Wuxie had reached the third-level High Immortal Realm, his combat strength had doubled instantly. He could even contend against a second-level True Immortal now.

The blade left behind a crimson shadow as it cut through the air, resembling the crimson afterglow of sunset, which was breathtakingly beautiful and lethally deadly.