Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1030 - Kill
Chapter 1030 – Kill
Steward He’s tone grew sharp with impatience. He would face disgrace if word got out that he had used the Great Golden Moon Bell against a third-level Spirit Profound Realm cultivator.
The bell wasn’t just any weapon, but it was a rare, high-grade earth-spirit artifact that the City Lord had personally gifted him. Since receiving it, he had drawn on its power only three times. Now, he was drawing on its power for the fourth time against Liu Wuxie.
There was no denying that Steward He viewed this battle with the utmost seriousness.
“You’re right,” Liu Wuxie said calmly. “There’s no point in dragging this out any longer. Let’s finish it.”
He didn’t reach for the Frost Dao Art right away. He wanted to temper his cultivation through combat. Since his breakthrough, he hadn’t yet fought at full strength.
This was the perfect chance to push his limits and refine his control over the Frost Dao Art.
Without hesitation, Liu Wuxie began forming seals. In an instant, the air around him turned frigid.
Far in the distance, Miao Jianying struggled to breathe. It felt as though the very space around him had frozen solid.
“We have to get back—now!” he shouted, quickly leading the two women even farther away as the danger became clear.
The Frost Bead still pulsed with lingering power.
As Liu Wuxie tapped into it, a surge of ice laws burst from the interspatial ring. He channeled the reserve of laws directly into the Frost Dao Art.
Frost consumed the space around him inch by inch.
In a blink, the canyon their battle had carved turned into a world of snow and ice.
Steward He’s expression shifted dramatically. The Frost Dao Art Liu Wuxie had unleashed was far more potent than he had imagined. It was dozens of times stronger.
This was no longer just an ice-based dao technique. It was a force capable of destroying the world.
The frost sealed off the entire battlefield, trapping Steward He inside with no escape.
“You refined the Frost Bead?!” he exclaimed, his composure finally breaking.
Even those at the peak of the Earth Profound Realm wouldn’t dare absorb the energy within the Frost Bead. Yet, Liu Wuxie had not only retrieved it, but he had also refined its power.
“Bingo,” Liu Wuxie said. “I refined the Frost Bead’s energy. And that means only one of us is walking away alive today.”
“You think refining the Frost Bead gives you the power to kill me?” Steward He sneered. “Then let me show you the true strength of someone at the fifth-level Earth Profound Realm!”
His earlier reaction had been nothing more than surprise.
With a flick of his wrist, he summoned a massive hammer into his hand and struck the Great Golden Moon Bell with it. The resulting sonic waves were hundreds of times stronger than what he had produced with his palm.
The shockwaves tore through the air, shattered the ice laws in every direction, and smashed Liu Wuxie’s frozen prison to pieces.
But Liu Wuxie had anticipated this outcome. He knew killing someone at the fifth-level Earth Profound Realm wouldn’t be easy. The actual threat wasn’t Steward He, but the Great Golden Moon Bell.
That artifact was no ordinary treasure. If he could obtain and refine it, it would give him the power to contend with most Earth Profound Realm cultivators.
The sonic waves twisted into fireballs, hammers, and spears, then shot straight at him.
Each blast slammed into Liu Wuxie’s Frost Dao Art and broke apart its force. The battle had reached a deadlock, and neither side could gain the upper hand.
In terms of raw power, neither side held an advantage. Any attempt to suppress the other would come at a devastating price.
“Do you think that’s all I’ve got?” Liu Wuxie asked, a cold smirk curling at the corner of his lips.
Suddenly, he clenched his right fist and raised it high into the sky. The clouds above churned violently, and space around him began to collapse inch by inch.
“This is bad! What is this dao technique?!” Steward He shouted, panic flashing on his face.
For the first time, Steward He felt genuinely threatened by a dao technique he had never seen before.
The Great Five Elemental Palm, though rare, still appeared in ancient texts. The Frost Dao Art was considered ordinary among cultivators in Northern City, even if Liu Wuxie’s execution of it had been far more potent than anything they had seen.
“Be ready,” Murong Yi warned. She understood precisely what Liu Wuxie was preparing.
This was an attack that risked mutual destruction. If Liu Wuxie sustained any injuries, they would need to rush in without hesitation.
“Annihilation Fist!” Liu Wuxie roared, and the immortal rune within his body ignited with brilliant light.
The sky split open as golden rays streamed down, illuminating the canyon and merging into his strike.
“That’s impossible!” Steward He gasped. “How can your fist technique possibly resonate with the heavens and earth?!”
This meant Liu Wuxie’s attack had surpassed the level of an ordinary dao technique. It now drew upon the power of heaven and earth itself, further amplified by the immortal rune within his body. The force behind it had reached a level no ordinary cultivator could withstand.
Since refining the immortal rune, Liu Wuxie no longer suffered a severe backlash from using this move. Even during the battle in the Sacred Ground, he had only fainted afterward, no longer taking heavy damage to his body.
“You’re just a backwater Northern City cultivator,” Liu Wuxie sneered. “You have no idea how vast the heavens truly are. There’s so much you still don’t understand.”
He hovered in the sky like a deity, appearing cold, detached, and without emotion.
The atmosphere shifted. The shattered ice laws around them began to reform at an alarming rate, turning the tide sharply against Steward He.
He froze, locked in place by the resurgent Frost Dao Art.
Even with the power of the Great Golden Moon Bell, Steward He couldn’t break free. And without a way to escape, he had no choice but to face the full force of the Annihilation Fist.
Darkness blanketed the land as a colossal fist descended from the sky, blocking out the sun and engulfing the canyon in shadow.
“This is impossible…” Steward He muttered, disbelief flickering in his eyes.
The cold sank deep into his bones, and he began to stiffen.
The Frost Bead’s power was no trivial force. It contained the essence of bone-chilling water. Just a single drop could prove lethal even to someone at the peak of the Earth Profound Realm.
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“What a powerful strike! This attack is on par with the higher-level Earth Profound Realm cultivators,” Miao Jianying’s eyes widened in shock as he exclaimed.
He had never personally witnessed a battle between high-level Earth Profound Realm cultivators, but the force behind Liu Wuxie’s punch gave him a vivid glimpse of what such power could look like.
Xu Lingxue and Murong Yi both nodded in silent agreement.
Although their cultivation levels had already surpassed Liu Wuxie’s, they could at most hold their own against cultivators at the first level of the Earth Profound Realm.
……
The Annihilation Fist continued its descent, radiating the power of absolute obliteration.
To amplify its strength even further, Liu Wuxie infused his soul energy into the strike.
Thanks to the Divine Thunder Physique, the backlash was minimal. With a quick channeling of energy, he could recover almost instantly.
“Liu Wuxie! If you kill me, the City Lord won’t let you off!” Steward He shouted in panic.
But the Great Golden Moon Bell had already lost its effect. Its sonic waves slammed into the layers of Spatial and Frost Dao Art shielding Liu Wuxie, but the barriers held firm and stopped them cold.
“Will Bei Ming spare me if I spare you?” Liu Wuxie retorted.
Steward He fell silent, unable to respond.
The feud between them had long become irreconcilable. Liu Wuxie had no intention of showing mercy, nor would he let Bei Ming go. One day, he would confront Bei Ming himself and demand to know why Bei Ming had ordered his execution.
A massive black hole opened and devoured Steward He, along with the swirling Frost Dao Art.
As for Steward He’s fate, only Liu Wuxie knew the truth.
When the Annihilation Fist descended, Steward He unleashed his most powerful counterattack. Though he managed to reduce some of the damage, the blow still left him severely injured.
In that moment of weakness, Liu Wuxie acted without hesitation. He summoned the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, and the Demonic Purgatory Chains erupted from the void, latching onto Steward He and dragging him into the cauldron.
Had Steward He been at full strength, Liu Wuxie wouldn’t have dared make such a move unless he no longer valued his life. But the Annihilation Fist had left his opponent dazed and broken, giving Liu Wuxie the perfect opening.
“Liu Wuxie, you bastard! Let me out!” Steward He roared, his voice echoing from within the cauldron.
Demonic flames surged up from the depths, wrapping around him.
“ARGH!” he howled in agony as the searing flames tormented him relentlessly.
Liu Wuxie attempted to use the Conversion Art on him multiple times, but each attempt failed. Steward He’s primordial spirit was too powerful to be subdued.
If Liu Wuxie forced the conversion, it could backfire, putting him at serious risk.
Left with no other choice, he decided to kill Steward He and extract the laws of the Earth Profound Realm from his body.
“Xue’er, Murong Yi, prepare to make a breakthrough,” Liu Wuxie said as he took out two Autumn Blossom Fruits and two Divine Fruits, handing them to the two women to aid their advancement into the Earth Profound Realm.
Neither of them hesitated. They immediately sat down cross-legged and consumed the fruits.
The Autumn Blossom Fruits would ensure their breakthrough, while the Divine Fruits would help unlock the divine gates within their soul seas.
Originally, Liu Wuxie had planned to refine the Autumn Blossom Fruits into pills so more people could benefit from them.
Even after reuniting with the two ladies, he hadn’t taken out the fruits because he lacked the laws of the Earth Profound Realm. Even if they had managed to break through with the fruits alone, their strength would have been on par with only average Earth Profound Realm cultivators.
Now, however, Steward He held the laws of the fifth-level Earth Profound Realm, which was more than enough to support their ascension.
Xu Lingxue and Murong Yi’s auras surged as they stormed toward the Earth Profound Realm gate.
Liu Wuxie channeled Earth Profound Realm laws into them to fuel their breakthrough.
Even Miao Jianying, standing nearby to keep watch, benefited from the overflow. After absorbing a portion of the laws, his cultivation advanced significantly.
Liu Wuxie didn’t stop there. He took out dozens of supreme-grade spirit stones and infused their energy directly into the two women, further accelerating their breakthrough.
Their cultivation surged, pushing them beyond the threshold of the first-level Earth Profound Realm. However, it didn’t stop there, and within moments, both had broken through to the second level.
With the combined effects of the Divine Fruits, Autumn Blossom Fruits, and the laws drawn from a fifth-level Earth Profound Realm cultivator, it was no surprise they achieved two consecutive breakthroughs.
Not long after, Miao Jianying’s breakthrough followed.
Though he hadn’t received an Autumn Blossom Fruit, the lingering laws in the atmosphere left behind by the fruit had benefited him greatly.
Meanwhile, exhaustion wracked Liu Wuxie. His body ached, and his primordial spirit remained wounded from the earlier battle. Without delay, he absorbed a portion of the Earth Profound Realm laws to begin repairing the damage.
Liu Wuxie had reduced Steward He’s body to an empty shell, extracting every last trace of law from within him.
A full day passed as Xu Lingxue and Murong Yi remained in seclusion, stabilizing their cultivation.
Miao Jianying completed his breakthrough in just half a day. Afterward, he stood guard at their side, silently protecting the three of them.
Three days later, Liu Wuxie finally opened his eyes. Apart from some lingering damage to his primordial spirit, his body had fully recovered.
