Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1491 - Truth Revealed
Chapter 1491 – Truth Revealed
As the Memory Talisman hovered above the Three Thousand Weakwater, everyone held their breath. Pure energy streamed into the spiritual talisman, and a bizarre scene unfolded right before their eyes.
Right in front of them, the Three Thousand Weakwater began dissolving the Memory Talisman into two.
“It’s really a fused Memory Talisman!” murmured the crowd. No one could fake the Three Thousand Weakwater, and anything steeped in it would return to its original state, even the body.
A newborn baby’s body held no impurities, and the Three Thousand Weakwater could cleanse it and restore it to that state. That was precisely why Yan Guichou coveted the Three Thousand Weakwater.
Two Memory Talismans appeared in Liu Wuxie’s hands, one resting on each palm.
“Impressive. You even embedded a quasi-immortal rune in it,” Liu Wuxie said, studying the two spiritual talismans as a faint curl tugged at his lips.
The Divine Alchemy Sect had no experts at the Quasi-Immortal Realm, so they could never have fused the two talismans themselves. The Grand Unity Sect clearly had paid a steep price to crush the Heavenly Dao Society.
Quasi-Immortal Realm cultivators rarely acted lightly because their involvement could ignite war between sects, yet the Grand Unity Sect had still done it. Even if that Quasi-Immortal Realm expert hadn’t appeared in person, the quasi-immortal rune said everything.
“Liu Wuxie, can we see what the Memory Talismans looked like before they were fused?” the crowd asked, pressing closer curiously.
Liu Wuxie nodded, then flicked his finger and sent the first Memory Talisman out to replay the scene of the group battling the Golden-Horned Bull. The scene stopped at the instant the victim consumed the pill, and he never turned around.
“I get it now! He never turned around in the actual recording!” The Comet Temple’s elder said.
When the second Memory Talisman rose into the air, the scene played out the same way, with the victim consuming the pill, yet he still hadn’t turned around.
“Look! The pill in his hand isn’t from the Heavenly Dao Society!” Someone with sharp eyes cried out, spotting at once that the pill the victim swallowed had nothing to do with the Heavenly Dao Society.
That meant the Quasi-Immortal Realm expert had forcibly erased the real pill, and everything finally became clear to everyone.
“Li Hong, how do you explain this now?” Liu Wuxie asked with a smile, and his murderous intent thickened by the breath.
The other members of the Heavenly Dao Society glared at Li Hong as well, their fury rolling out in visible waves.
“Liu Wuxie, even if this Memory Talisman is fake, we have witnesses to prove that those two died because they took the pills produced by the Heavenly Dao Society,” the two men said as they stepped out from behind Li Hong.
With Li Hong’s lies exposed and his so-called proof reduced to forgery, they clung to testimony as their next refuge.
“Witnesses?” Liu Wuxie asked, his gaze settling on Cui Sheng.
“That’s right, witnesses!” Cui Sheng said, grabbing at that final lifeline. After all, what could Liu Wuxie do about it? Rewrite someone’s mind?
“Who’s the witness?” Liu Wuxie asked, and he looked past Cui Sheng to the people behind him.
If exposing a forged talisman took even a little effort, testimony would be the easiest part for Liu Wuxie to dismantle.
Two men stepped out from behind Cui Sheng and said, “We saw with our eyes that those two had swallowed pills produced by the Heavenly Dao Society before their death.”
“Oh?” Liu Wuxie said. He offered no argument or denial, only that single syllable.
In the very next moment, two golden rays shot out and drilled straight into their soul sea. By the time they noticed the golden rays, they had already lost any chance to react.
The Heaven Gaze Realm experts who had retreated to a distance watched in disbelief, and they wondered if Liu Wuxie meant to silence the witnesses by taking their lives.
Liu Wuxie turned calmly toward the crowd and said, “I believe everyone has heard of the Great Conversion Mythical Art, right?”
The instant the name left his lips, an uproar erupted from the crowd.
“How is this possible? Liu Wuxie has comprehended the Great Conversion Mythical Art?” Fear crawled across every face. That meant Liu Wuxie could convert anyone into his servant.
“He’s a monster to comprehend such a heaven-defying mythical art!” Countless people cried out, pounding their chests in frustration.
Compared to Liu Wuxie, they felt they had thrown away the countless years they had spent cultivating.
Cui Sheng’s face drained of color the moment he heard of Great Conversion Mythical Art. They had calculated everything except this, because no one had expected Liu Wuxie to have mastered it. Until now, only Fiery had known about it, and even the four women remained unaware.
About a minute later, the two men who had testified earlier looked at Liu Wuxie with reverence. They bowed and greeted, “Master!”
“Speak. What really happened?” Liu Wuxie asked.
“I’m Shi Tan, and he’s Yin Wei. Half a month ago, an elder of the Grand Unity Sect approached us, promising to give us two top-tier eighth-grade spiritual pills and fifty thousand astral crystals if we helped them with something,” Shi Tan said.
So it turned out the Grand Unity Sect had been slandering the Heavenly Dao Society from the shadows all along.
“You should have known that if you had told us about it, we could have also afforded to reward you with those resources,” Liu Wuxie said. He didn’t understand why they had never come to the Heavenly Dao Society, because with his temperament, he might even have doubled their reward.
“The Grand Unity Sect is too despicable. They seized our families as hostages,” Yin Wei said, fury twisting his face.
They didn’t want to become tools for anyone, but with their families in the Grand Unity Sect’s hands, they had no choice.
When the truth spilled out, even the crowd couldn’t stomach it anymore. No one had expected the Grand Unity Sect to be that despicable. Was this really how a superpower behaved?
“The Grand Unity Sect is too despicable!” Many people began cursing openly. They couldn’t believe the Grand Unity Sect they revered would stoop to such underhanded tactics.
With that, everything clicked into place: the Grand Unity Sect and the Divine Alchemy Sect had stood behind it all, aiming to destroy the Heavenly Dao Society.
“Everything is clear now, or do you want me to take your lives personally?” Liu Wuxie asked as he turned toward Li Hong and Cui Sheng, forcing them to face their end. He couldn’t be bothered to dirty his hands on trash like them; his target had always been the Grand Unity Sect, and these people were nothing more than its tools.
“Run!” Li Hong shouted and lunged to flee, because only death awaited him now that the truth had been exposed.
“Where do you think you’re going?” Luo Hai roared.
Yet just as Luo Hai moved to act, countless vines burst from the ground and wrapped around Li Hong’s group of seven, binding them in place. The sight instantly baffled everyone, and even Luo Hai couldn’t tell what had happened. Everyone could sense that the one who acted stood even stronger than Luo Hai, at least at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm.
“If you walk away like this, what face would the Heavenly Dao Society have left?” Liu Wuxie said. He had barely moved from the beginning, yet he had controlled everything from the shadows like a puppeteer.
With experts now filling the Heavenly Dao Society, they would fear no one, even without any Heaven Gaze Realm cultivators.
The seven men remained imprisoned, and the more they struggled, the tighter the vines bit, forcing them to bare their teeth in pain.
“Xiao Rou, ease up. Don’t kill them. I still need them alive for medicine testing later,” Liu Wuxie said, and the vines binding the seven immediately loosened.
With the truth exposed, the Heavenly Dao Society’s pills stood proven clean, and those who had doubted them felt their guts fill with regret.
“It’s all the Grand Unity Sect’s fault! If not for them, the Heavenly Dao Society wouldn’t have hiked up their prices by twenty percent!”
Everyone ground their teeth in hatred, thinking of paying twenty percent more in the future when buying pills.
If not for the Grand Unity Sect, the Heavenly Dao Society would never have needed to hike prices at all.
When Liu Wuxie returned from the Outer Astral Spacetime, Hua Feiyu told him the Heavenly Dao Society’s pills had threatened the entire Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain’s layout. If other sects couldn’t sell their pills, it would only be a matter of time before they united against the Heavenly Dao Society, so the best choice was to match prices and leave everyone room to survive.
If the Heavenly Dao Society kept selling at such a low price, its pills would eventually dominate the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain. But in that case, even sects that had allied with them would one day turn their blades on them.
Liu Wuxie had already been searching for a reason to hike the prices, and Li Hong had delivered that excuse right to his doorstep. With that, Liu Wuxie raised prices reasonably and exposed the Grand Unity Sect’s scheme in the same stroke. Rogue cultivators didn’t earn resources easily, and some second-tier sects needed pills in large quantities, so how could they not burn with fury now that they had to spend more?
The Grand Unity Sect became a street rat overnight, with everyone calling for its downfall, and its prestige collapsed even further than before. A building took ages to raise, yet it could topple in a single moment.
As the crowd’s anger shifted, their curiosity followed, and they began wondering what Liu Wuxie would do next with Li Hong’s group.
“Are you all curious how these three people died?” Liu Wuxie asked, and he pointed at the three corpses on the ground.
Everyone shook their heads because now that they knew those three hadn’t died from consuming the Heavenly Dao Society’s pills, curiosity about the actual cause gnawed at them.
“Liu Wuxie, stop with the suspense and tell us already,” someone said.
He could have revealed it immediately, but instead, he left everyone hanging, pushing them toward the edge of madness.
To poison cultivators at the high levels of the Void Realm, the poison had to be extraordinary. It was likely capable of killing Earth Immortal Realm cultivators as well, and no wonder fear still lingered on so many faces.
“I borrowed these from the Nine Dragon Palace, and I won’t reveal their origin for now. But I believe some of you can probably guess it,” Liu Wuxie said, and he took out the ingredients Luo Hai had brought back from the Nine Dragon Palace.
“Could it be the Profound Azure Gate?” someone murmured.
Many elders knew of the feud between the Profound Azure Gate and the Nine Dragon Palace, and they also knew the two sects had fought recently, with multiple battles breaking out between them. More importantly, the Profound Azure Gate stood at the top in the use of poison across the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, because they lived near the Blood Fiend Battlefield and seldom interacted with cultivators from the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, leaving most people ignorant of their methods.
