Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1487 - Pills Causing Death
Chapter 1487 – Pills Causing Death
Liu Wuxie also took a keen interest in this once-in-a-century auction. With so many treasures set to appear, he intended to buy a few and use them to push himself into the seventh-level Void Realm. After all, the current Heavenly Dao Society didn’t lack astral crystals.
After killing the Dark Evil Emperor and the others, Liu Wuxie had collected nearly three hundred thousand astral crystals from their interspatial rings. They had robbed countless people over the past year, but in the end, they only ended up fattening his pockets.
Adding the hundred thousand he had obtained earlier, the total astral crystals on him now reached four hundred thousand.
In the past month alone, the Heavenly Dao Society had taken in massive deposits. With the additional income from pills and martial souls, he could mobilize at least two million astral crystals. The sum was so terrifying that even the Heavenly Dragon Sect couldn’t produce such a sum on short notice.
After bidding farewell to his master, Liu Wuxie returned to the Heavenly Dao Society. The Heavenly Dao Society had already undergone a complete transformation as manpower continued to surge.
Under Zhuge Ming’s careful selection during this period, he sent promising talents to the Heavenly Dao Society, and it had already expanded into an organization with over ten thousand people—a pace that felt nothing short of frightening.
When Liu Wuxie returned, everyone converged at once and set down whatever they had brought into the main hall.
“Master, this is the ledger of our pill sales.”
“Master, this is for blacksmithing runes.”
“Master, this is for array runes.”
“…”
“Wuxie, this is our recent earnings and operational details,” Mu Tianli said, producing a booklet.
It didn’t take long for a thick stack of ledgers to pile up in front of Liu Wuxie.
The past month’s sales proved even more explosive than he had expected.
“There’s no need to show me the ledgers anymore in the future. Senior Mu, you can handle all affairs about the Heavenly Dao Society from now on, and all of you can discuss it with him if you have anything.
“There are more pressing matters to deal with now,” Liu Wuxie said. He didn’t spare the ledgers even a glance, because these people were his trusted confidants.
Since he had already decided to let Mu Tianli manage the Heavenly Dao Society, he refused to overstep and meddle.
More importantly, he hadn’t founded the Heavenly Dao Society so he could manage everything himself; he founded it so loyal followers could handle matters on his behalf.
Once the Heavenly Dao Society matured, he would let go completely and allow them to develop on their own.
When they heard Liu Wuxie had urgent matters, everyone pulled back their ledgers so he could speak freely.
“Wuxie, what do you need us to do?” Mu Tianli asked, genuinely touched. Though he had been presiding over the Heavenly Dao Society, the pressure on him had been enormous.
However, Liu Wuxie’s words just now had fixed his position. This meant that from this moment onward, everyone in the Heavenly Dao Society would have to obey his orders.
“Cultivate,” Liu Wuxie said. The Heavenly Dao Society had expanded too quickly, and the newly recruited disciples advanced rapidly in their cultivation. If the upper echelons couldn’t keep pace, they would struggle to give orders to those disciples.
“We’ve been too busy lately, and we don’t have the time to cultivate at all,” Mu Tianli said. He spoke the truth, and everyone else nodded along.
Everyone had been working day and night without any time to cultivate. Their cultivation hadn’t budged in the past month, while the cultivation of the ordinary disciples rose rapidly.
“It won’t waste your time,” Liu Wuxie said. With a wave of his hand, he whisked everyone away into the desolate world. He brought them straight into the Heavenly Deity Monument, into the independent world overflowing with immortal energy.
The moment they arrived, everyone froze in shock at the sight of such a paradise.
“There are no time laws here, and you can all cultivate for however long you want. Don’t come out without reaching the Earth Immortal Realm,” Liu Wuxie said, setting a minimum requirement for everyone to reach the Earth Immortal Realm.
He produced a large amount of resources, crushed them, and fused them into the Heavenly Deity Monument to help everyone break through in their cultivation.
Liu Wuxie didn’t idle either. He sat in the independent world and guided their cultivation while pushing them to comprehend the profundity of the Divine Eternal Fist.
As everyone stepped into the Heavenly Deity Monument, the auction organizers sent an invitation to the Heavenly Dao Society, calling them to the once-in-a-century auction.
However, time did not flow here, so it froze the instant they stepped in, and a hundred years passed inside the monument.
Everyone began to make breakthroughs, and in just a hundred years, Luo Hai reached the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm, nourished by immortal energy.
Xu Lingxue and the others improved by the day as well. Halfway through their cultivation, Liu Wuxie suddenly brought the four women away, and they vanished without a trace.
The instant they disappeared, Vanya opened her eyes, and a hint of sorrow flashed through her pupils. Everyone understood perfectly well why Liu Wuxie had taken them away.
After a storm of passion, the five lay together on a soft bed. Through dual cultivation, the four ladies’ cultivation became even more refined.
Nourished by immortal energy, Mu Tianli’s cultivation finally broke through to the first-level Earth Immortal Realm.
When Liu Wuxie returned to the independent world within the Heavenly Deity Monument, he formed seals. He infused various laws into their bodies, using countless Earth Immortal Realm laws to refine their cultivation further.
A thousand years passed in the blink of an eye, and no one remained in the Void Realm, as everyone was now at the Earth Immortal Realm.
Luo Hai’s cultivation stopped at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm and still couldn’t take another step. Comprehending heavenly dao didn’t depend on accumulation, but on a sudden flash of enlightenment.
Even Song Ling, who usually disliked cultivation, reached the third-level Earth Immortal Realm. He radiated a powerful aura, and his special constitution, the Primal Chaos Physique, had also gradually begun to reveal itself.
Next, Liu Wuxie had them spar to consolidate their cultivation. He even selected some mythical arts and taught them, further strengthening their combat strength.
Just like that, another thousand years slipped by. That meant they had spent two thousand years in the Heavenly Deity Monument’s independent world. Yet time still didn’t flow outside, and those two thousand years amounted to only a split second in the outside world.
That was the meaning of eternity; it placed heaven and earth in an eternal state.
After they grew familiar with the various mythical arts, their cultivation finally came to an end.
After two thousand years of seclusion, Liu Wuxie’s comprehension of the Divine Eternal Fist increased, and the desolate world had also become even more complete.
Aside from the Divine Eternal Fist, Liu Wuxie spent most of his time comprehending the Heavenly Deity Monument, hoping to grasp it as soon as possible.
When everyone left the monument and returned to the main hall, they all felt as though an entire lifetime had passed.
“Am I dreaming?” Hu Shi asked, touching his face in disbelief. He wondered if he had been dreaming.
They had all reached the Earth Immortal Realm. Even if they didn’t stand at the peak of the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, their cultivation alone could earn them considerable status.
Most importantly, they were incredibly young, like toddlers compared to the other Earth Immortals who had cultivated for thousands of years.
“Leader, the Skybrim Pavilion has sent an invitation over,” said a young man who entered the main hall with an invitation in his hand.
When Mu Tianli accepted the invitation, he only glanced at it once before handing it to Liu Wuxie.
“Everyone, go back to work,” Liu Wuxie said, keeping the invitation. The auction only came once in a century, so he naturally had to attend. He hadn’t expected Skybrim Pavilion to be the host.
He had also learned about the Skybrim Pavilion from the Nine Dragon Palace’s palace lord. Back then, Shi An brought the Cloud Stone from the Skybrim Pavilion, and that single act set in motion everything that followed. With the auction still five days away, he didn’t feel pressed yet.
A deacon rushed in just as Mu Tianli was about to leave the main hall.
“Leader, there’s trouble! Someone has surrounded our Medicinal Hall, claiming that a person died after taking our pills!”
Mu Tianli had nurtured this man himself, and he usually carried a steady temperament, so he wouldn’t lose his composure like this without reason.
“Slow down and tell me what happened,” Mu Tianli said, his eyes turning cold. The Heavenly Dao Society’s pills went through meticulous selection, and their quality far surpassed the pills of other sects. How could they possibly cause death?
“Just earlier, more than ten experts brought three corpses over and piled them at our Medicinal Hall’s entrance, blocking the other customers from entering, and insisted that those three had died after consuming our pills,” the deacon reported everything in detail.
“We’ll go take a look,” Liu Wuxie said as he rose to his feet, heading toward Mount Dragon City.
Mu Tianli and Bi Gongyu followed behind him, moving with terrifying speed now that they had reached the Earth Immortal Realm. They arrived outside the Medicinal Hall in less than fifteen minutes.
Over the past month, the Heavenly Dao Society’s Medicinal Hall had expanded, buying out surrounding shops until it now occupied several thousand square meters.
At this very moment, a large crowd had gathered outside the Medicinal Hall, forming multiple rings.
“If your Heavenly Dao Society doesn’t give us an explanation today, don’t even think about opening your doors for business!” A rough and booming voice echoed through the street, drawing even more attention.
The Heavenly Dao Society’s Medicinal Hall had already filled with people, and the crowd outside had grown into a sea of bodies.
“What happened?” Those gathered around looked on in confusion. They didn’t know what was going on, so they turned to those beside them.
“I heard that someone died after consuming the Heavenly Dao Society’s pills, and these people have come to demand an explanation.” Those who arrived first began explaining to those who came later.
In under fifteen minutes, people jammed the entire street to the brim, and cultivators even filled the sky above it. After all, the Heavenly Dao Society had been dominating the alchemy market for the past month, seizing nearly seventy percent of the market.
The other sects couldn’t even sell their pills now, and the Divine Alchemy Sect naturally suffered the most brutal hit. The Heavenly Dao Society had essentially swallowed up the Divine Alchemy Sect’s market share.
Initially, it wouldn’t have been so easy for the Heavenly Dao Society to defeat the Divine Alchemy Sect, and it would have ended in mutual destruction if they hadn’t been careful.
However, Liu Wuxie had cut off the Divine Alchemy Sect’s supply of spiritual herbs, which amounted to severing both of its arms. Without any supply of spiritual herbs, they could only refine a limited number of pills each day.
The Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain demanded an enormous quantity of pills daily.
Since people could no longer buy from the Divine Alchemy Sect, they could only buy from the Heavenly Dao Society instead.
Once they grew used to the Heavenly Dao Society’s pills, they naturally wouldn’t buy from the Divine Alchemy Sect any longer.
This was how the Heavenly Dao Society had managed to dominate the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain’s market share in just one month.
“This can’t be true. I’ve also taken pills produced by the Heavenly Dao Society, and there are no side effects so far. The quality of the pills is also far superior to the other sects.”
Many cultivators refused to believe it and continued to trust the Heavenly Dao Society’s pills.
“You never know. Who knows what ambitions the Heavenly Dao Society are hiding? Maybe they’re planning to poison every cultivator in the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain. This way, the Heavenly Dao Society will be able to monopolize all the resources.”
Voices rippled through the crowd, with some believing the Heavenly Dao Society aimed to wipe out every cultivator in the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain.
Once all the cultivators were dead, the Heavenly Dao Society could naturally become the superpower here.
“That makes sense. The Heavenly Dao Society has been growing too rapidly, and something does feel strange about them.”
Even the cultivators who had initially supported the Heavenly Dao Society began to waver, as their rapid rise had stirred discontent among many.
