Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1518 - Chant
Chapter 1518 – Chant
Liu Wuxie pulled Zhuge Ming aside and sent him straight into the Heavenly Deity Monument.
The instant Zhuge Ming stepped inside, he froze in shock. He finally understood how the Heavenly Dao Society had grown so quickly. Without wasting a breath, he sat on the Dao Comprehension Stone and started cultivating.
Liu Wuxie and the others stepped onto the auction platform. The moment they appeared, countless people sprang to their feet, especially those from the Grand Unity Sect and the Divine Alchemy Sect, whose eyes flashed with ferocity.
“What’s going on? Why did the Heavenly Dao Society suddenly gain so many experts at the Heaven Gaze Realm? Liu Wuxie even reached the second-level Earth Immortal Realm!” Exclamations erupted from every direction, and the Heavenly Dao Society’s party left the crowd utterly dumbfounded.
Xu Lingxue had reached the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm, and she stood out beside Liu Wuxie like the perfect match for him. Along with Mu Tianli, Song Ling, Fiery, and Xiao Rou, the Heavenly Dao Society now had nine people who had reached the Heaven Gaze Realm.
Xiao Luo and the others remained stuck at the Quasi-Heaven Gaze Realm, but they would still be able to make their breakthroughs smoothly in a few more months at most.
Venerable Grand Unity narrowed his eyes and finally realized how badly he had underestimated the Heavenly Dao Society. Even the elders who had stopped Venerable Grand Unity earlier now regretted it, bitterly wishing they had sold more assets and done everything possible to stop Liu Wuxie. That regret came far too late to matter.
The Heavenly Dao Society had planted its feet firmly now, and nothing could shake it. After the asset verification finished, the Heavenly Dao Society and the Heavenly Dragon Sect moved onto the auction platform to inspect the raw stones. No one could tell which stone held the Primordial Indigo Aura.
“Young Master Liu has truly opened my eyes. I’m truly impressed,” Elder Wu Hen said as he approached.
“Elder Wu Hen, you flatter me,” Liu Wuxie replied politely.
The raw-stone sale began with a full ten thousand people taking part. Someone finally lost patience and spent two hundred thousand astral crystals on a single raw stone.
The stones appeared nearly identical, yet Liu Wuxie’s gaze swept across the entire field, encompassing all five thousand raw stones in a single glance. He didn’t even bother using Ghost Pupil; the primordial laws were powerless to obscure his sight.
He carried the primeval laws of his desolate world, and that allowed him to see through them effortlessly. With Ghost Eye assisting him, his sight pierced the raw stones as though they were transparent.
The Quasi-Immortals also relied on their own means. They couldn’t do anything as heaven-defying as Liu Wuxie, but they could still faintly sense the presence of Primordial Indigo Aura.
“You all stay here,” Liu Wuxie said, and he strode into the raw stones to begin choosing.
Hua Feiyu gave a signal, and an expert at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm followed behind Liu Wuxie to protect him.
The Grand Unity Sect grew restless, already searching for a chance to kill Liu Wuxie.
As for the other sects, most of them ignored Liu Wuxie entirely, especially those who hadn’t managed to buy a single treasure. They desperately tried to buy a raw stone with Primordial Indigo Aura inside.
The Divine Alchemy Sect could only stand far off, their faces twisted with venom, because they didn’t even qualify to take part in this event.
The Grand Unity Sect shouldn’t have qualified either, but they had mortgaged a planet to the Skybrim Pavilion in exchange for five million astral crystals. That transaction had bought them the right to participate.
Liu Wuxie crouched in front of a raw stone.
“…” he murmured at the stone, spilling a stream of incomprehensible chants that left everyone nearby baffled.
“What is Liu Wuxie doing? Is he chanting a spell?” The surrounding crowd all turned their eyes toward him.
It wasn’t far-fetched to call him the biggest winner of this auction. Not only had he reached the second-level Earth Immortal Realm, but the Heavenly Dao Society’s overall strength now even rivaled ordinary second-tier sects.
The Skybrim Pavilion had ranked them first among the second-tier sects, not because of their strength, but because it valued their potential.
After Liu Wuxie finished chanting his ‘spell,’ he bought that raw stone. He didn’t stop there; whenever a stone caught his eye, he would chant again, and the onlookers teetered on the verge of insanity.
Most importantly, no one could make out what Liu Wuxie said. Even the pinnacle Heaven Gaze Realm elder behind him looked utterly lost.
A few sects had already bought several raw stones and opened them on the spot. When they split the first stone, it revealed nothing.
As more raw stones cracked open, five sects cut their stones and failed to find a single Primordial Indigo Aura. Confidence wavered instantly, and some even began to suspect that the Skybrim Pavilion had deceived them.
If no one found any Primordial Indigo Aura in the raw stones, the Skybrim Pavilion would immediately become the target of everyone’s fury. Their status would also plummet, and no one would attend their future auctions.
Shattered stones littered the ground, and even Elder Wu Hen fell silent at the sight. They had sold twelve raw stones in total, and not a single one had produced a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura.
During that time, Liu Wuxie had already examined hundreds of raw stones and selected ten, spending a total of two million astral crystals. With that single move, he burned nearly half of his astral crystals and was now left with only three million.
Cradling the ten raw stones, Liu Wuxie muttered another gibberish chant and readied himself to cut them open.
The other sects stopped picking raw stones altogether. They had too few astral crystals left and didn’t dare keep to throwing money into the void.
The Heavenly Dragon Sect stepped forward and gathered around Liu Wuxie, forming an encirclement to prevent any sneak attack.
Liu Wuxie split the first raw stone with a clean strike, and a purple strand of energy flashed inside.
“The Primordial Indigo Aura!” The entire auction erupted the moment the Primordial Indigo Aura appeared.
Envy surged through the crowd when Liu Wuxie pulled a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura from the very first raw stone. Even the Quasi-Immortals widened their eyes in disbelief, and a flicker of shock crossed their faces.
Using their own methods, they had detected faint ripples of Primordial Indigo Aura in specific raw stones, but they had never been entirely sure.
Liu Wuxie reached out, seized the strand of Primordial Indigo Aura, and tossed it straight into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron to refine it on the spot. His aura climbed as more of his true essence converted into immortal energy. He didn’t pause as he split a second raw stone immediately, and another strand of Primordial Indigo Aura lay within.
“This is impossible! How could he have managed to detect the Primordial Indigo Aura in the raw stones?” Those from the Divine Alchemy Sect teetered on the edge of insanity.
Liu Wuxie not only cut out Primordial Indigo Aura right in front of them, but he also refined it to raise his cultivation further. The Primordial Indigo Aura’s greatest use lay in converting true essence into immortal energy, and that reality made everyone’s eyes turn bloodshot with envy.
Even Elder Wu Hen raked his fingers through his hair.
“It has to be that chant! Didn’t you see him chanting earlier?” someone yelled, remembering how Liu Wuxie had recited something every time he chose a stone, though no one knew what it meant.
“That must be it! That chant must be able to communicate with Primordial Indigo Aura!” With no better explanation, everyone latched onto the chant and blamed it for everything.
Liu Wuxie kept cutting. When he opened the third stone, another strand of Primordial Indigo Aura appeared. He found another strand in the fourth stone as well, but he didn’t absorb it. He sent one into Xu Lingxue’s body and sent the other into Murong Yi’s body.
He continued opening stones, and Primordial Indigo Aura appeared in all ten raw stones. He gave every Heaven Gaze Realm member of the Heavenly Dao Society, except Fiery and Xiao Rou, a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura each. With that nourishment, a strand of immortal energy finally appeared within their bodies.
As for Fiery and Xiao Rou, one was a divine beast, and the other was a vine demon. They didn’t need immortal energy to cultivate.
Xu Lingxue benefited the most from the Primordial Indigo Aura. As for those who didn’t receive the Primordial Indigo Aura, Liu Wuxie forcibly extracted a strand of primordial law and injected it into their bodies.
Without reaching the Heaven Gaze Realm, they wouldn’t gain anything even if they managed to absorb a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura.
Liu Wuxie didn’t absorb the final strand of Primordial Indigo Aura, and he didn’t inject it into anyone else either. Instead, he lifted his head and looked straight at the crowd.
“This strand is for two million astral crystals. Anyone interested?” Liu Wuxie asked, holding the strand of Primordial Indigo Aura in his palm and auctioning it on the spot. Elder Wu Hen staggered and nearly fell flat on his face.
Everyone swallowed hard, staring in disbelief. Liu Wuxie had bought the raw stones for two hundred thousand astral crystals each, yet now he wanted to sell a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura for two million astral crystals.
“Liu Wuxie, have you gone insane for astral crystals? Our Scarlet Cloud Gate is willing to pay five hundred thousand for this strand of Primordial Indigo Aura,” said the Scarlet Cloud Gate’s sect master.
“Then you guys can continue to choose your raw stones. Don’t blame me for not warning you. Without my chant, you might not find a single strand of Primordial Indigo Aura even if you buy thirty raw stones,” Liu Wuxie said, deliberately hammering home the idea that his chant determined everything, so everyone would believe his success came from it.
He only shrugged when no one wanted to buy his strand of Primordial Indigo Aura. He didn’t force the sale. Two million sounded expensive, but it looked like a bargain compared to wasting money on raw stones and getting nothing, and several sects had already spent as much as six hundred thousand without finding a thing.
“Liu Wuxie is famous for his schemes, and we finally got to see it today!” Countless hostile gazes locked onto Liu Wuxie, and everyone felt provoked.
They didn’t realize they were reacting exactly the way Liu Wuxie wanted them to. He scanned the crowd calmly. From the start, he had never intended to sell that strand of Primordial Indigo Aura; he only wanted everyone to understand how hard it was to find one.
“Liu Wuxie, what are you doing? It’ll never sell at that price,” whispered a few elders of the Heavenly Dragon Sect.
“That’s a secret,” Liu Wuxie replied with a faint smile. It still wasn’t time to reveal it, and he had already dug another pit and waited for someone to jump in it.
After he hawked it for a long time, no one showed interest in the strand of Primordial Indigo Aura. No one felt stupid enough to buy it for such a ridiculous price, and Liu Wuxie ultimately refined that strand himself, releasing an even more terrifying aura outward.
“This is strange. Liu Wuxie is only in the Earth Immortal Realm, and how did he refine the Primordial Indigo Aura?” Even the Heaven Gaze Realm cultivators couldn’t see through Liu Wuxie’s body with their own eyes.
“That feels great! With these Primordial Indigo Aura, I’ll be able to make my breakthrough to a higher level soon,” Liu Wuxie said, stretching his body as he walked back toward the raw stones.
Elder Wu Hen’s eyelid twitched violently as he watched, and the urge to throw Liu Wuxie out surged through him. If Liu Wuxie kept picking out every raw stone containing Primordial Indigo Aura, what would remain for anyone else? The rest of the raw stones wouldn’t sell, and the Skybrim Pavilion would lose money in the end.
They had chosen this method of sale precisely to bundle everything together and maximize profit.
Liu Wuxie wandered through the raw stones and recited an incomprehensible chant every time he bought one. He inspected hundreds more and chose fifteen in the end. He set those raw stones aside, then continued selecting more.
The other sects refused to fall behind. They gathered not far from Liu Wuxie, desperate to learn his chant. Several of them even copied him outright, pressing their hands onto raw stones and reciting strange chants of their own.
