Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1477 - Giant Shadow
Chapter 1477 – Giant Shadow
The three of them moved with coordination that could only be called flawless. Fiery handled suppression, Xiao Rou locked the opponent down, and Liu Wuxie delivered the attacks.
The pressure of the flames made Gong Shan feel as though he had dropped into a fiery furnace of inferno, and Xiao Rou’s vines clamped onto him and bound his movements. The Divine Purgatory Palace and the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art tore away Gong Shan’s ability to resist entirely.
Destructive power ripped through space as countless spatial fragments condensed into crystal shards that hovered before Liu Wuxie. As the fragments drifted down near him, the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron devoured them all and strengthened his Great Spatial Mythical Art.
As the Great Spatial Mythical Art grew stronger, it tightened its restriction over Gong Shan’s movement as well, slowing him dramatically. That slowdown gave Liu Wuxie the opening he needed.
With a loud rumble, the colossal palm dropped from the sky and detonated with a deafening explosion, making Xiao Rou clamp her hands over her ears. Even then, the roar still rattled her until dizziness washed over her. The sound struck like a great bell, echoing through her soul sea. Fiery fared no better, as the same thunderous blast forced it to retreat a step.
Gong Shan stood at the very center of the impact, and the blow left him dazed, stripping away his ability to judge what was happening. A moment later, the Divine Purgatory Palace followed and descended as well.
The Great Five Elemental Mythical Art had already battered Gong Shan into a stupor, and the power of the Divine Purgatory Palace surged with unstoppable force. The successive impacts generated a powerful shockwave that swept outward, shattering every towering tree in the area.
“Please don’t kill me!” Gong Shan yelled. He didn’t want to die, and watching Shi Yangyun die right before his eyes had already broken him from within.
The True Samadhi Fire cut off his path the instant he tried to flee, and the Divine Purgatory Palace crushed him into a puddle of blood when it dropped on him. Even so, his cultivation at the Earth Immortal Realm kept him from dying completely.
Liu Wuxie followed up by summoning the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron to devour all the energy and convert it into laws that merged into the desolate world.
After absorbing two cultivators at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm in succession, the laws within the desolate world grew even more terrifying. With that done, he finally consolidated his cultivation after making two consecutive breakthroughs.
A large number of people appeared in the distance, instantly drawing the attention of the fifty-odd people already present.
“We need to go now!”
The Heavenly Deity Valley was massive, but it had its limits. At best, it only compared to a small-scaled planet, and an Earth Immortal could traverse that distance within a single day.
Liu Wuxie placed Xiao Rou into the desolate world and stowed Fiery into the beast pouch, then set off alone at full speed.
Not long after he left, his Communication Talisman lit up with a message from his senior brother. He had been too busy forcing a breakthrough in his cultivation, so he hadn’t noticed the messages his senior brother had left behind earlier.
“Junior Brother, I’ve found trails on the third junior brother. Come quickly,” Sun Xiao’s voice sounded anxious, and he left behind a marking for Liu Wuxie to follow. Shortly after, a scene unfolded before Liu Wuxie: a massive monument stood high above the Heavenly Deity Valley, piercing the sky.
“What is this place?” Liu Wuxie asked in confusion. This marked the first time he had ever seen a monument on this scale.
More importantly, he could sense the monument’s immense aura even through the Communication Talisman. It seemed likely that his eldest senior brother had received a message from his third senior brother and then discovered this place.
The Heavenly Deity Valley and the Astral Sea did not belong to the same world. Liu Wuxie and Sun Xiao had searched the Astral Sea earlier, so it made sense that they couldn’t find any trace of their third senior brother.
So the third senior brother had entered the Heavenly Deity Valley as well, and the earlier messages had stopped at the Astral Sea. Every sign suggested that his third-oldest brother had encountered danger in the Astral Sea and had sought their master’s help. Then, he had fled into the Heavenly Deity Valley and vanished.
After entering the Heavenly Deity Valley, Sun Xiao had naturally received the third senior brother’s call for help. After all, Liu Wuxie barely knew his second and third senior brothers, and he had practically no contact with them because they hadn’t exchanged any Communication Talismans.
As a result, Liu Wuxie received no news after entering the Heavenly Deity Valley, and he had even missed his senior brother’s earlier message because he had thrown himself into cultivation.
“I hope they’re not in danger,” Liu Wuxie said as he vanished and moved to find the monument.
His senior brother had only given him a marker as a reference point, so Liu Wuxie still didn’t know the exact location.
“It’s Liu Wuxie!” Many people spotted Liu Wuxie the moment he emerged from the forest. That was especially true for the Dark Evil Emperor, whose hatred for Liu Wuxie sank into the bone so deeply that he wanted to chew Liu Wuxie’s flesh and drink his blood.
As they swept in from four directions, Liu Wuxie had no way to avoid them and could only choose the weakest point to break through. When he swept his gaze outward, he saw three cultivators charging from the right who looked weaker, with only one at the eighth-level Earth Immortal Realm, while the other two remained at the seventh level.
In the other directions, even the weakest had reached the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm, and heading that way would have been no different from walking into danger.
Those who reached the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm and carried their own artifact could stall Liu Wuxie for a few breaths, and that was all the time the others needed to close in and form an encirclement around him.
When the three cultivators saw Liu Wuxie heading their way, joy lit their faces because they hadn’t expected him to come toward them. The distance between them collapsed rapidly, swallowing ten thousand meters in the blink of an eye.
“Great Darkness Mythical Art!” The three cultivators prepared to strike, only to discover they had lost every trace of Liu Wuxie.
Liu Wuxie had escaped before the darkness dispersed, vanishing without leaving a single mark. The area the darkness laws could cover wasn’t large, mainly because the laws there proved too resilient.
Once Liu Wuxie slipped out of the darkness, he continued to streak forward without slowing.
The Dark Evil Emperor had already locked onto Liu Wuxie, and he surged after him the moment Liu Wuxie flew out from the darkness.
A large group of cultivators streamed behind the Dark Evil Emperor, forming a grand party of over fifty people in pursuit, all of them at the high levels of the Earth Immortal Realm.
Most of them chased after Liu Wuxie simply because of the crowd, and they didn’t even know why. Since everyone had gone after Liu Wuxie, they assumed following along was the right move.
Moreover, Liu Wuxie’s possession of a fragment of the Great Dao of Wood naturally stirred the envy of countless people. If a reason were needed, his ability to kill Earth Immortal Realm cultivators while still at the Void Realm more than sufficed.
Liu Wuxie didn’t dare to pause for even an instant. The pursuers behind him kept closing in, especially the Dark Evil Emperor, who even ignited his own essence and swore to kill Liu Wuxie.
Xiao Yuetian and the others were no pushovers, and each of them carried a powerful cultivation.
If he fell into their hands, the outcome would be obvious: they would tear him apart and divide whatever remained.
Liu Wuxie flew through the Heavenly Deity Valley without a clear direction, and he even summoned the Ghost Pupil to scan his surroundings for the monument’s location. As long as he found the monument, he could bring his senior brothers back safely.
As for the way back to the Astral Sea, Liu Wuxie still didn’t know it for the time being. When he descended, he saw no entrance anywhere besides the astral clouds.
Pushing his speed to the limit, Liu Wuxie actually matched the pace of cultivators at the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm, which only deepened the frustration of those chasing behind him.
They had cultivated for thousands of years, yet they couldn’t even compare to a junior at the fifth-level Void Realm, and they could even tell Liu Wuxie’s bone age sat only in his twenties. How could they not burn with frustration when they watched him surpass them like this?
“Liu Wuxie, let me see where you can run. I’ll hunt you down wherever you go,” the Dark Evil Emperor’s voice echoed out, slamming into Liu Wuxie’s ears.
He wasn’t wrong because they would have a chance to capture him as long as Liu Wuxie stayed within the Heavenly Deity Valley. When it came to true essence reserves, Liu Wuxie still fell short compared to an expert at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm.
There was a vast gulf between being able to rival Earth Immortals and truly being one.
As the distance between them kept shrinking, Liu Wuxie grew more and more anxious. He even changed his course repeatedly, yet the Dark Evil Emperor found him every single time.
The ordinary cultivators at the Earth Immortal Realm started gasping for breath as they fell into the second wave of pursuers.
After flying for about two hours, Liu Wuxie had burned his true essence down until only one-third remained, and this kind of high-intensity travel felt no different from fighting.
“Liu Wuxie, it’s best if you surrender. We can sit down and negotiate. It’s not even important if we kill you, and we should focus on leaving this place first,” Xiao Yuetian said, trying to coax Liu Wuxie into surrendering.
He wanted Liu Wuxie to sit down with everyone and discuss a way out. As for the treasures, killing Liu Wuxie would be pointless anyway, since Liu Wuxie had already refined them.
Right now, they pursued a single purpose: to pry as much information as possible from Liu Wuxie, including the mythical arts, the purity of true essence, and how he fought cultivators above his cultivation level.
“Xiao Yuetian is right. We should sit down and have a talk,” echoed the ordinary cultivators at the Earth Immortal Realm, urging Liu Wuxie to stop running.
Even with deep true essence reserves, the chase couldn’t continue forever, and who knew when it would finally end.
The Dark Evil Emperor tore through space, and his speed doubled.
Liu Wuxie did the same, controlling the surrounding space and reducing spatial resistance, allowing him to double his speed as well.
“Damn it! He doesn’t know what’s good for him!” Xiao Yuetian snapped. As an expert at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm, he had spoken in such an amicable tone, yet Liu Wuxie still refused to give him face.
The pursuit carried on as Liu Wuxie kept circling, fully aware that shaking them off would be nearly impossible. His mind raced as he sent another message to his senior brother, but received no response.
A bad feeling crawled up Liu Wuxie’s spine at once, and he wondered if his senior brother had also been trapped or if something had happened to him.
“Spread out as much as possible. I don’t believe that he can fly out of this place,” the Dark Evil Emperor said. He served as the leader of the pursuit team and issued orders to compress Liu Wuxie’s escape routes further.
If anyone managed to intercept Liu Wuxie, they only needed to stall him for a breath, and the others could close in immediately.
When he saw that circling no longer worked, Liu Wuxie had no choice but to change tactics.
The pursuers began to spread out. “Alright!”
The fifty-odd pursuers immediately formed a massive ring, ensuring Liu Wuxie would fly straight into their net no matter which direction he chose. That formation left him with only one option: keep flying forward.
No one knew how much time passed as the mountains slid backward in a blur, until Liu Wuxie finally spotted a faint shadow ahead. Dense fog masked the shadow, leaving him unable to make it out clearly.
“That is…” Liu Wuxie’s pupils narrowed when Ghost Eye pierced through the fog.
Roughly ten thousand miles away, a massive shadow loomed and blotted out the sky. He recognized it in an instant, and disbelief surged across his face. Even with all his experience, shock still hit him to the core.
