Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1494 - Reduced to Nothing
Chapter 1494 – Reduced to Nothing
The Divine Alchemy Sect elder’s head shot into the sky and vanished into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron before he could even scream. An expert at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm fell just like that in merely three breaths.
Darkness kept spreading as the two sects’ elders frantically searched for a way to communicate with each other.
Liu Wuxie had made the Great Darkness Mythical Art even more terrifying by fusing it with the Great Yin-Yang Mythical Art. When yin, yang, darkness, and light merged, they birthed an entirely new form of mythical art.
The Heavenly Dao Society’s party repeated the same tactic, only this time they switched their target to an elder of the Grand Unity Sect, and the method worked like magic.
Under Liu Wuxie’s command, the battle formation’s potential erupted to its absolute limit. One initiated the ambush, another pinned the target down, a third suppressed them, a fourth struck, and the final attacker delivered the killing blow.
Every link meshed perfectly, turning the fight into a banquet of killing and a carnival of slaughter.
Even cultivators at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm couldn’t resist the Heavenly Dao Society’s battle formation unless someone at the Heaven Gaze Realm released a domain. Even if Liu Wuxie possessed countless means, he still couldn’t break the restriction of a domain.
When darkness faded and light returned, scattered limbs littered the ground, and a thick stench of blood rolled through the air. The crowd sucked in a cold breath at the sight, unable to believe what they were witnessing.
Only five people remained, helpless, rage burning on their faces. Fury filled them, yet they still couldn’t change anything.
“So many people died?”
The crowd had seen nothing once darkness had fallen, and only now, as it lifted, did they realize the scale of the slaughter.
“How did Liu Wuxie do it? Even if they joined forces, how could they possibly kill experts at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm?” The surrounding crowd erupted into a heated debate, everyone desperate to understand how Liu Wuxie pulled off such a heaven-defying feat.
They had assumed the Heavenly Dao Society could, at best, surround opponents with the battle formation, because killing them would be far harder.
After all, they had faced thirteen experts at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm, figures who stood at the very summit of the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain.
Once again, the Heavenly Dao Society reshaped history, and people would remember this battle.
History always repeats itself with eerie similarity. Ever since Liu Wuxie had arrived in the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, he had rewritten history repeatedly. The Sky Cloud Star and the Tranquil Meteor Star had both become stepping stones for his rise.
The Moon Tribulation Incineration Array began to contract, and only five people from the Grand Unity Sect remained.
At that moment, the upper echelons of the Heavenly Dragon Sect arrived. The Heavenly Dragon Sect had dispatched a powerful formation of a hundred elders at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm upon learning that the Grand Unity Sect had sent experts.
When the elders saw that the Heavenly Dao Society had already slain eight people, shock spread across their faces.
The Grand Unity Sect didn’t dare to send more people, because Mount Dragon City belonged to the Heavenly Dragon Sect. If they sent more, they would only suffer more casualties.
Moreover, the Grand Unity Sect had already run out of time to reinforce, and the Moon Tribulation Incineration Array activated once more.
The hundred elders from the Heavenly Dragon Sect quickly took their positions around the area to prevent the Grand Unity Sect’s elders from fleeing.
The massacre continued, but this time it didn’t rely on darkness. The Heavenly Dao Society kept using ambush, suppression, and execution, and the sheer simplicity of the method left the Grand Unity Sect’s elders completely at a loss.
Their combat strength didn’t drop, but their will to live was shattered. The moment the hundred elders of the Heavenly Dragon Sect appeared, they understood they had no chance of survival. Even if they broke through the Heavenly Dao Society’s formation, they still couldn’t break through the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s encirclement, which meant death awaited them either way.
With a loud explosion, another Grand Unity Sect elder detonated, and his laws poured into the desolate world.
“Self-detonate together!” In the end, the Grand Unity Sect’s elders chose to detonate altogether, determined to drag a few down with them even in death.
The crowd around them retreated even farther when they heard that the elders at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm would self-detonate. If they exploded, the sheer force would wipe out one-third of Mount Dragon City.
A self-detonation from the Earth Immortal Realm rivaled a strike from the Heaven Gaze Realm, and the Moon Tribulation Incineration Array couldn’t possibly withstand it.
“Set up a barrier!” The hundred elders from the Grand Unity Sect immediately drew their weapons and thrust them into the sky.
In the next second, a powerful barrier materialised and sealed the remaining four elders of the Grand Unity Sect inside it, along with the members of the Heavenly Dao Society.
That protection ensured the explosive force wouldn’t spread into Mount Dragon City.
The four elders began to swell, a clear sign that detonation had already begun.
“A’Lei, A’Li, guard the array core!” Liu Wuxie roared, and the two giants swiftly withdrew to seize the core positions.
In that instant, Liu Wuxie charged into the battlefield and did something no one could comprehend as he attacked the four elders head-on.
Pure madness drove the move, because charging at four elders about to detonate looked no different from courting death.
“Liu Wuxie, since you’ve come to die, I’ll grant your wish,” said one of the elders.
No one had expected Liu Wuxie to abandon such a favourable situation and choose to clash head-on with the Grand Unity Sect elders, an act that looked wildly irrational.
If he had relied on the battle formation, he could have worn them down and killed them slowly. But the situation wasn’t as simple as others assumed. If the four elders detonated themselves, the blast would still sweep up the Heavenly Dao Society. Even survival would come with catastrophic injuries.
Liu Wuxie refused that outcome, and that refusal forced him to do whatever was necessary to prevent their detonation.
Sure enough, the four elders halted their detonation the moment they saw him charge in. They knew that if they killed Liu Wuxie, the battle formation would collapse on its own, giving them a chance to escape.
“What’s Liu Wuxie doing? Is he courting death?” The Nine Dragon Palace’s elders grew anxious. If Liu Wuxie died, what would happen to the Nine Dragon Palace’s cooperation with the Heavenly Dao Society?
Moreover, the Nine Dragon Palace had already fallen out with the Divine Alchemy Sect, making cooperation impossible.
“Is that kid insane? He’s trying to confront four experts at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm alone?” The Comet Temple’s elder also couldn’t understand Liu Wuxie’s intent.
Disbelief filled everyone’s eyes because to them, Liu Wuxie’s move looked like a suicide mission.
They had witnessed his combat strength. He could contend with one cultivator at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm, but not four at once.
As the distance closed, countless vines burst from the ground to assist Liu Wuxie by restricting the four elders’ movement.
The True Samadhi Fire appeared, and the surrounding space collapsed, crystallising into spatial crystals on the ground as netherwind surged from the abyss, making everyone feel uncomfortable.
The apocalyptic scene returned, a vast, suffocating power gathering before Liu Wuxie. It surpassed space-time and dao, as though it didn’t exist in this world at all. Even those in the Heaven Gaze Realm felt their breathing quicken.
“There’s a terrifying power emerging,” said the Divine Sun-Moon Palace’s palace lord, his heart tightening under the pressure.
Once this attack was released, even the barrier might not be able contain it.
“Retreat! Retreat immediately!” Yan Guichou shouted to everyone.
As eternal intent brewed, it spread across heaven, earth, the sun, the moon, and the stars.
In that moment, silence swallowed all of Mount Dragon City. Eternal intent settled over everything, capable of forcing things into an everlasting stillness.
“So that’s it! Liu Wuxie has comprehended the profundity of eternity!” Realisation struck the Divine Sun-Moon Palace’s palace lord.
He finally understood how the upper echelons of the Heavenly Dao Society had reached the Earth Immortal Realm so quickly. Liu Wuxie had grasped the profundity of eternity and could place everything into an eternal stillness, allowing cultivation to progress without being affected by the flow of time.
Even so, Liu Wuxe still couldn’t accomplish it alone, and he had borrowed the Heavenly Deity Monument. The independent space inside it already existed in an eternal stillness with no flow of time.
Many cultivators in the Earth Immortal Realm shook their heads, refusing to believe it. “This is impossible! Liu Wuxie is only at the Void Realm. How could he have comprehended the profundity of eternity?”
They thought that even if Liu Wuxie had somehow comprehended the profundity of eternity, he still shouldn’t have been able to command the laws of heaven and earth.
“That is the reality, though, and we have no choice but to believe it,” said the Divine Sun-Moon Palace’s palace lord with a wry smile as he tried to convince himself it wasn’t an illusion.
Eternal intent continued sweeping outward, already affecting tens of thousands of meters.
Everyone stared at the world as it seemed to slow dramatically, with the laws of heaven and earth visibly disturbed.
The expressions of the four elders from the Grand Unity Sect became solemn as they finally realized Liu Wuxie hadn’t charged in to perish with them, but he had charged in to kill them.
“Self-detonate! Self-detonate now!” The elder who had shouted for detonation earlier bellowed again. Eternal intent pressed down until suffocation, and even breathing became a luxury.
“Don’t you think it’s too late for you to self-detonate now?” Liu Wuxie sneered. He lifted his fist overhead and assumed the Divine Eternal Fist’s stance.
Boundless shockwaves swept outward as countless heaven and earth laws poured into the punch. The desolate world roared as immortal energy surged, and the power of that strike exceeded the scope of mythical arts. It stood between mythical and immortal arts, surpassing the former and falling short of the latter.
The Divine Eternal Fist stirred, and Liu Wuxie fired the punch in an instant, feeling the true essence in his desolate world drain at a terrifying speed.
That was exactly why Liu Wuxie had waited until now to use it. If he had used it rashly against thirteen people and failed to kill them all, he would have been the one to die, because the Divine Eternal Fist could nearly drain him dry.
With only four people left, even if this punch failed to kill all four, it would still cripple them heavily. Zhuge Ming, Xiao Rou, and the others could finish the rest.
“Divine Eternal Fist!” Liu Wuxie roared.
He transformed into a dragon as he hovered in the air, and the punch carried the will of a divine dragon along with the will of eternity.
The instant his fist descended, the surroundings plunged into primal chaos as space vanished entirely. The ground ruptured into a bottomless black hole that looked like a gateway to hell.
That earth-shaking punch swept out like a storm and erased everything in its path into nothingness.
The four elders closed their eyes and forgot to resist, already drowning in eternal intent.
