Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1520 - You Dumbass

Chapter 1520 – You Dumbass

The sudden voice caught everyone off guard and yanked their attention toward it. It came from neither the Absolute Frost Palace nor the Comet Temple, but the Azure Profound Gate, and the price they offered could drive countless people insane.

“Has the Azure Profound Gate gone insane? They only have a little over one million astral crystals left, and how are they going to pay? Most of the planets under their jurisdiction raise venomous creatures, so even if they mortgage them, who would want to take them over?” The crowd erupted into debate, convinced the Azure Profound Gate had lost its mind. After all, what was the point of spending fifteen million astral crystals for a chant?

When the Azure Profound Gate’s offer rang out, Liu Wuxie’s face hardened, and pain twisted his expression.

“Are there any other offers?” Liu Wuxie asked.

Everyone knew the Azure Profound Gate stood in cahoots with the Grand Unity Sect.

The Grand Unity Sect might have lost the right to bid, but not the Azure Profound Gate, and they could buy the chant on their behalf. No wonder Liu Wuxie’s face turned ugly the instant the Azure Profound Gate raised the price.

“Hahaha! Liu Wuxie really smashed his own foot with the stone he lifted this time!” Laughter burst from the crowd. Liu Wuxie had tried to seize this chance to earn astral crystals, only to end up selling the chant to his enemy instead.

Though the Azure Profound Gate and the Heavenly Dao Society hadn’t clashed head-on, the Azure Profound Gate had repeatedly tried to cause trouble for Liu Wuxie during the earlier bidding, and everyone could clearly see the signs.

The Divine Sun-Moon Palace withdrew the moment the price crossed ten million because it was their limit. The other sects also shook their heads, and no one else offered a higher price.

“Liu Wuxie, here are seven million astral crystals. We will deliver the remaining eight million to the Heavenly Dao Society within three days,” said the Azure Profound Gate’s sect master. He wrote a debt note and branded it with Heavenly Dao’s laws. If they failed to deliver the remaining astral crystals within three days, the heavenly dao’s restraint would bind them.

After reaching their level, they no longer feared threats or even life and death, but they feared the heavenly dao’s restraint most of all. Once the heavenly dao bound them, it would strip away all hope of ascending to immortality and drag them into an endless cycle of reincarnation.

Back then, Liu Wuxie had sworn in the heavenly dao’s name that he hadn’t borrowed a single astral crystal from the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and that was why the Divine Alchemy Sect had plunged straight into his trap.

“Where did the Azure Profound Gate get seven million astral crystals from?” The crowd looked stunned. The Azure Profound Gate had already spent a large sum of astral crystals, and they should have had only about one million left.

“The Grand Unity Sect loaned them five million.” Someone with sharp eyes noticed an elder of the Grand Unity Sect standing among the Azure Profound Gate’s ranks earlier.

“So that’s it!” Realization spread across the crowd. Though the Grand Unity Sect hadn’t participated openly, they had been pulling strings from the shadows all along.

As Liu Wuxie accepted the seven million astral crystals with apparent reluctance, everyone from the Azure Profound Gate broke into satisfied grins.

“Liu Wuxie, you can tell us the chant now,” said the Azure Profound Gate’s sect master.

Liu Wuxie had already taken the astral crystals, so he had to hand over the chant now.

“Send someone over. I don’t want others to overhear,” Liu Wuxie said reluctantly, as if he had no way to salvage the situation anymore.

The Azure Profound Gate’s sect master nodded, and an elder at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm stepped forward.

To protect himself, Liu Wuxie had already stationed two elders at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm nearby. If the Azure Profound Gate’s elder dared to act, they could save Liu Wuxie immediately.

“You can speak now,” said the Azure Profound Gate’s elder, who was called Zhuang Qiao. Everyone present knew him. He held a high status in the sect, second only to the sect master, essentially a grand elder, and it made perfect sense for him to step forward. After all, the sect master couldn’t come personally, because that would be beneath his status.

“Lean closer,” Liu Wuxie said, beckoning Zhuang Qiao nearer. He had already activated the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe, prepared for Zhuang Qiao to strike.

Zhuang Qiao had no choice but to comply, and they ended up nearly face-to-face. The two elders of the Heavenly Dragon Sect stayed half a step from Liu Wuxie, ready to move at a moment’s notice.

The four of them practically pressed together, forming a bizarre, cramped scene.

“You dumbass, I won’t tell you anything,” Liu Wuxie whispered, his voice no louder than a mosquito.

Zhuang Qiao had already sealed the surrounding space to keep anyone from overhearing the chant, and fury immediately surged through him when Liu Wuxie insulted him.

“Liu Wuxie, how dare you!” Zhuang Qiao roared.

“I have already told you the chant. Are you going to silence me?” Liu Wuxie said righteously, and Zhuang Qiao’s raised palm froze mid-air as he digested Liu Wuxie’s words.

The two elders from the Heavenly Dragon Sect immediately pulled Liu Wuxie behind them, shielding him.

“Is that really the chant?” Zhuang Qiao asked.

“That’s right. That’s the chant,” Liu Wuxie answered with a straight face, not explaining at all.

Zhuang Qiao remained skeptical because the chant sounded wrong, more like an insult than anything else.

“Zhuang Qiao, what’s the chant?” The people below could no longer wait and demanded to know it.

Zhuang Qiao naturally refused to reveal the chant. The Azure Profound Gate had spent fifteen million astral crystals on it, so how could he possibly share it with everyone?

If they excavated enough Primordial Indigo Aura, they could sell the chant afterward for at least twenty million astral crystals.

“Elder Zhuang, give the chant a try,” urged the Azure Profound Gate’s sect master. After all, they had spent fifteen million astral crystals for it.

The chant only carried value if it could actually uncover the Primordial Indigo Aura.

Zhuang Qiao walked over to the raw stones, and Elder Wu Hen immediately grew tense. Liu Wuxie had already uncovered over sixty strands of Primordial Indigo Aura, and Elder Wu Hen feared Zhuang Qiao would repeat the same harvest.

In full view of everyone, Zhuang Qiao crouched down, murmured the chant exactly as Liu Wuxie had, and pressed his right hand onto a raw stone. He waited for a long time, then frowned, unable to understand why the raw stone gave no reaction.

A moment later, he figured out the most likely reason. This raw stone probably didn’t contain any strand of Primordial Indigo Aura, so it failed to respond. Without hesitation, he shifted to the next raw stone. Then his eyes flickered with hope as he caught a faint red sheen within them.

“Primordial Indigo Aura!” Zhuang Qiao instantly turned ecstatic. He seized the stone and rushed to an open opening, split it without the slightest hesitation, and revealed a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura inside.

“The chant really works!” A buzzing roar swept through the surroundings. The chant had been proven effective, and Zhuang Qiao had cut open a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura.

The Azure Profound Gate erupted into celebration, practically dancing in place. That meant the Azure Profound Gate would finally rise, and even the Grand Unity Sect’s upper echelons watched with smiles.

“I have already given you the chant, and I’ll take my leave now,” Liu Wuxie said to the Azure Profound Gate, then turned to leave the auction hall.

In the blink of an eye, the Heavenly Dragon Sect and the Heavenly Dao Society vanished completely. The other sects, however, didn’t rush to leave, because they wanted to pry the chant’s secret from Zhuang Qiao.

Since the Azure Profound Gate had gained an edge with the chant, they planned to obtain more Primordial Indigo Aura. Zhuang Qiao threw himself back into picking raw stones, but strangely, that earlier feeling of peering into the raw stone never appeared again.

The moment that happened, the Azure Profound Gate’s sect master went pale. He immediately wondered if the raw stones contained no more Primordial Indigo Aura, and a terrible premonition seized him.

Everyone from the Grand Unity Sect furrowed their brows as well, sensing something wrong even though they couldn’t put it into words.

The Azure Profound Gate’s sect master finally couldn’t endure it and asked, “Elder Zhuang, what are you doing?”

“These raw stones don’t contain any Primordial Indigo Aura,” Zhuang Qiao said bitterly. He had already checked over thousands of stones, but none of them carried any red glow.

“Skybrim Pavilion, what do you mean by this? Why have you put up so many garbage stones for sale?” The Azure Profound Gate’s sect master immediately turned and questioned Elder Wu Hen.

“That’s impossible!” Elder Wu Hen snapped up a raw stone, gave it a light crack, split it open, and revealed a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura inside.

“This is weird. Zhuang Qiao had checked that stone earlier!” The sudden appearance of Primordial Indigo Aura instantly dispelled the Azure Profound Gate sect master’s doubts. It proved that more Primordial Indigo Aura still existed among the raw stones.

“Could it be that the chant Liu Wuxie sold to Zhuang Qiao is fake?” The surrounding crowd immediately felt something was off. Yet Zhuang Qiao had uncovered a strand earlier, so the chant shouldn’t have been fake.

Speculation rippled through the crowd in an endless stream.

Some claimed Zhuang Qiao deliberately misquoted the chant so no one could learn it; others speculated he wanted to monopolize it; and still others suggested the Azure Profound Gate didn’t want to share it with the Grand Unity Sect.

……

After Liu Wuxie and the others returned to Vermilion Star, they stepped into the teleportation array and left.

“Wuxie, what is the chant?” The Heavenly Dragon Sect’s elders asked the moment they departed, no longer interested in blaming Liu Wuxie and only wanting to learn the chant.

“Chant? What chant?” Liu Wuxie asked innocently with a shrug, as if no chant had ever existed in the first place.

The elders around them exchanged looks, completely thrown by Liu Wuxie’s answer.

“The chant you sold to Azure Profound Gate, what else?” another elder asked, pressing him.

“Do you really want to know?” Liu Wuxie asked with a mysterious smile.

“That chant is too precious, and we’re only curious. It’s best if you don’t tell us,” several elders stepped forward to stop Liu Wuxie, urging him to keep silent. It didn’t matter whether Liu Wuxie had sold it or not, because the Heavenly Dragon Sect was doing well and didn’t care about the chant.

“It’s alright. If you want to know, I’ll tell you,” Liu Wuxie said, clutching his stomach as he held his laughter back with incredible difficulty.

Everyone could tell Liu Wuxie had been suppressing his laughter ever since they had left the auction house.

“You can’t say it aloud. Someone might be eavesdropping,” Zhuge Ming said as he appeared before everyone and released his Heaven Gaze Realm aura, making it obvious he had successfully broken through.

“Let him speak,” Hua Feiyu said because he understood his disciple well.

They had already destroyed the Divine Alchemy Sect and crippled the Grand Unity Sect in this auction, and now the Azure Profound Gate had fallen into Liu Wuxie’s trap as well.

At the sect master’s words, everyone turned to Liu Wuxie with growing curiosity.

Mu Tianli and the others watched eagerly, desperate to learn the chant.

“You dumbass, I won’t tell you anything,” Liu Wuxie blurted out the vulgar line openly, instantly sparking a chorus of laughter.

“Liu Wuxie, why are you cursing us?” Several elders of the Heavenly Dragon Sect jumped in fury. Liu Wuxie didn’t have to tell them if he didn’t want to, but why did he have to insult them?

“That’s the chant,” Liu Wuxie said, spreading his arms innocently.

“You’re trying to say that’s the chant you gave Zhuang Qiao?” Sun Xiao asked, finally catching what Liu Wuxie meant.

“What else would it be?” Liu Wuxie rolled his eyes at Sun Xiao. When had he ever suffered a loss?

Everyone fell into silence for a full ten seconds before they exploded into laughter.

“Hahaha!” They laughed until they clutched their stomachs.

Even Hua Feiyu couldn’t hold back a chuckle at his disciple’s shameless teasing.

“Liu Wuxie, you’re too vicious!” an elder said, giving Liu Wuxie a thumbs-up.

Everyone from the Heavenly Dao Society laughed until tears rolled down their faces. “I can’t take it anymore! I’m getting stitches from laughing!”

Even Achiel froze in brief shock when he understood, then finally grasped what had happened.

“This is absolutely brilliant!” The more they thought about it, the harder they applauded Liu Wuxie’s scheme. Not only had he earned so many astral crystals, but he had also fooled the Azure Profound Gate completely.

“The Grand Unity Sect spent so many astral crystals, even going as far as using the Azure Profound Gate to buy the chant for them. I want to see Zhuang Qiao’s face now when he recites the chant!” Zhuge Ming said, laughing even harder as he imagined the scene.

“But something doesn’t add up. Zhuang Qiao did uncover a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura,” Hu Shi said, still unable to understand it.

“That’s naturally your master’s handiwork. That was the only way to make them believe that the chant is real. The Grand Unity Sect will surely try to force the chant out of the Azure Profound Gate, and there’s a show to watch now,” Sun Xiao explained.

With this scheme, Liu Wuxie had successfully driven a wedge into the alliance between the Grand Unity Sect and the Azure Profound Gate. When Liu Wuxie revealed the chant to them, Sun Xiao knew he had manipulated the scene to make Zhuang Qiao uncover that strand of Primordial Indigo Aura.

Liu Wuxie had relied on Ghost Pupil to guide Zhuang Qiao to a raw stone containing a strand of Primordial Indigo Aura, solely to dispel their doubts. If Liu Wuxie hadn’t done that, the Grand Unity Sect and the Azzure Profound Gate would never have allowed them to leave.

Meanwhile, back at the auction, Zhuang Qiao choked with frustration as he selected a dozen more raw stones. Yet, he couldn’t uncover even a single strand of Primordial Indigo Aura after splitting them open.

The people gathered around stared in bafflement at Zhuang Qiao. Hadn’t he obtained the chant from Liu Wuxie? Why couldn’t he cut out another strand of Primordial Indigo Aura?

The Azure Profound Gate’s sect master finally couldn’t take it any longer and questioned Zhuang Qiao, “Zhuang Qiao, is there something wrong?”

“I don’t know either. I recited the chant, and not a single word was wrong. How did this happen?” Zhuang Qiao said, and despite standing at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm, his face filled with grievance like a wronged child.

“What’s the chant?” asked the Azure Profound Gate’s sect master.

“You dumbass, I won’t tell you anything,” Zhuang Qiao whispered into the sect master’s ears.