Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1532 - Fighting the Heaven Gaze Realm
Chapter 1532 – Fighting the Heaven Gaze Realm
More than twenty experts at the Earth Immortal Realm immediately closed in and formed a tight encirclement around Liu Wuxie.
Liu Wuxie recognized two of the elders at once. He had nearly died at their hands when he had first entered this mountain range. He didn’t spare them another glance and instead turned his eyes to the three powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm, because they were his true opponents.
When he stood there without moving, the cultivators surrounding him grew more and more furious. A mere cultivator at the third-level Earth Immortal Realm dared to disregard them so completely.
“Why waste words with him? Kill him and seize the Sacred Soul Flower!” Even with powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm looming overhead, everyone still refused to back down, their eyes fixed on the sky.
Only three powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm stood there, while elites like them filled the crowd, and more people kept joining them. The three Heaven Gaze Realm experts didn’t belong to the same side, so a real fight would force them to rely on their own methods.
“Are you sure that you all want to make a move?” Liu Wuxie asked. He didn’t want to start a massacre because he intended to keep a low profile after arriving in the Spirit Martial Astral Domain. But if they insisted on acting against him, then they could only blame themselves when he turned ruthless.
The Heretic Blade appeared in his hand. Liu Wuxie had no intention of using the Soul Forge Art or the Nether Deity Harvest because he had reserved those two soul techniques for enemies at the Heaven Gaze Realm. If he revealed them too early, those powerhouses would immediately become cautious.
Dozens of cultivators surged inward, and their combined auras rose into a tidal wave that slammed toward him, lifting debris off the ground. The pond had long since dried up, leaving only a veil of mist hanging above their heads. They offered no explanations and struck at once. All were at the higher levels of the Earth Immortal Realm, and the sheer pressure of their combined attack could shake heaven and earth.
The ground shook violently as countless trees vanished. Ripples swept through like a gale, and spiderweb cracks spread across the surrounding walls.
Boulders exploded, the earth collapsed, the sun and moon dimmed, and space itself looked as though someone had severed it. Facing such a spectacular strike, Liu Wuxie stayed calm and watched the attacks rush toward him.
Suspended in mid-air, the three Heaven Gaze Realm experts narrowed their eyes, an ominous feeling crawling up their spines. They couldn’t describe it, but Liu Wuxie’s composure felt deeply wrong.
Even an ordinary cultivator at the first-level Heaven Gaze Realm would find it difficult to escape this level of siege. No one could fake the kind of confidence Liu Wuxie carried.
That confidence rose from deep within him. He formed seals, and the Heretic Blade hovered in the air.
“Dragon-Grasping Hand!” Against ordinary Earth Immortals, he couldn’t even be bothered to use the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art.
Even though the Nine Heavenly Dragon Forms could let him transform into a dragon, he refused to draw that much attention. The Dragon-Grasping Hand sufficed, and it manifested dozens of dragon claws in mid-air before slamming down.
No one could resist those descending claws, because the laws within them crushed like a falling star.
“This is bad!” Everyone felt danger at once and tried to retreat, scrambling to avoid the dragon’s claws.
The dragon claws moved like phantoms, slipping through space as if it offered no resistance, and they seized all twenty-odd experts in one sweep. Bones cracked under the pressure. In that same instant, the Heretic Blade shot forward like a scythe harvesting wheat.
Within a single breath, all twenty-odd experts around Liu Wuxie died on the spot, their blood painting the sky red. The three powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm exchanged glances, deep shock flashing in each other’s eyes.
The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron appeared without warning and swallowed everyone at once, leaving only faint remnants of primordial spirit energy in the air. That was enough for reincarnation, yet Liu Wuxie devoured them all, leaving nothing behind.
Even after he devoured so many Earth Immortals, the desolate world gained little true essence or laws. It had already reached its limit, and further expansion had become difficult.
More figures rushed in from the distance, and within minutes, more than a hundred experts poured into the canyon, with even more still arriving. They hadn’t witnessed the slaughter just now, and the three powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm couldn’t be bothered to explain. If these newcomers died as well, only a few competitors would remain for the Sacred Soul Flower.
More importantly, the three powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm wanted to use this chance to probe Liu Wuxie’s limits. The scene of him slaying twenty-odd people earlier had shaken them to the core.
Every expert within a radius of ten thousand meters rushed over, and by now the number had already reached two hundred, forming a massive crowd.
The sheer number made Achiel’s eyelids twitch. He couldn’t imagine Liu Wuxie having any chance against so many people, because he didn’t know Liu Wuxie had already refined the Sacred Soul Flower. As for the Heavenly Deity Monument, Liu Wuxie hadn’t mentioned it to him at all.
Even during Liu Wuxie’s seclusion, Achiel had remained inside the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron the entire time.
“It’s him! I saw him collect the Sacred Soul Flower with my own eyes!” Among the two hundred newcomers, some were rogue cultivators, while the rest came from various major sects, organized in groups.
“Kid, I don’t care who you are. If you don’t hand over the Sacred Soul Flower, do you know what awaits you?” Threat after threat hammered into Liu Wuxie’s ears.
“How noisy,” Liu Wuxie said. He didn’t care to waste words because he wanted to end this quickly. He had already killed two experts from the Nalan Clan, and endless trouble would follow if they discovered his identity.
So Liu Wuxie struck first. He vanished in a blur and left only an afterimage behind.
The Dragon-Grasping Hand excelled in wide-area slaughter, and dragon claws filled the sky. Liu Wuxie tore through the crowd like a wolf among sheep, killing without restraint, and he casually punched down an expert at the ninth-level Earth Immortal Realm.
“This is bad! He’s stronger than he looks! We have to unite!” an Earth Immortal roared. If they kept fighting separately, Liu Wuxie would pick them off one by one, and it would only be a matter of time before they all fell. Before long, everyone formed a circle around him, planning to grind down his true essence.
“You think you can be my match by joining forces?” Liu Wuxie sneered and sped up his slaughter. He even cast the Great Darkness Mythical Art, plunging the area into darkness and leaving the nearby cultivators disoriented.
A vast amount of soul energy locked onto Liu Wuxie as cultivators unleashed soul attacks from all sides. He immediately cast a Soul Shield, raising a defensive layer to protect himself.
Those attacks formed into arrows inside Liu Wuxie’s soul sea, yet the Soul Shield dissolved them again and again.
“How is this possible? Our soul attacks are useless against him!” Plenty of cultivators here possessed formidable souls, yet every one of their soul attacks failed against Liu Wuxie.
Roars rose from every direction. They felt their soul energy collide hundreds of times, and every attempt failed. Meanwhile, the slaughter never slowed, because each descent of the Dragon-Grasping Hand claimed another life.
From midair, the three powerhouses realized their divine senses couldn’t pierce the darkness. In an instant, they lost control over the battlefield.
The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron’s suction force strengthened, and even cultivators who hadn’t died yet were dragged in and swallowed whole, bound by the Demonic Purgatory Chains. Demonic flame refined them at once, and shrill screams burst out from within the cauldron.
The law of darkness held for fifteen minutes before gradually fading away. When the darkness finally vanished, almost no one remained standing. Out of more than two hundred people, only thirty-odd still stood on their feet.
A cultivator at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm clutched his head, unable to believe what he saw. “T-This is impossible!” He had watched life after life vanish before his eyes.
“Monster! He’s a monster!” Those who survived no longer dared to fight and fled in panic, their dao hearts already shattered by Liu Wuxie.
“Since you have come, you can all stay behind,” Liu Wuxie said. He refused to let news of the Sacred Soul Flower leak, which meant he had to erase everyone here, including the three powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm.
Even though he didn’t know many people in the Spirit Martial Astral Domain, plenty still recognized him. If the news of the mythical arts he used were to spread, someone would identify him sooner or later. The safest solution was to silence everyone.
Countless demonic chains shot down from the sky and bound the fleeing cultivators in place.
“Please spare me! I shouldn’t have come!” The Earth Immortals begged for mercy, pleading with Liu Wuxie to spare them. The Heretic Blade answered instead, sweeping in a circle and slaying every remaining Earth Immortal.
These people came from various sects and served as pillars in their own forces. Liu Wuxie slaughtered them all without hesitation.
Hissing breaths sounded through the air as the three powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm inhaled deeply, chills running down their spines. Even for them, killing that many experts through mythical arts would prove difficult unless they unleashed their domain.
With every Earth Immortal dead, Liu Wuxie lifted his gaze to the three powerhouses in the sky, fighting intent blazing in his eyes. He needed the cleanest path forward, and that meant ambushing and killing two first. Even if his soul attacks couldn’t finish the last one, he could still end it with the Divine Eternal Fist.
The three powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm shifted in mid-air and took up positions that formed a triangle, trapping Liu Wuxie within.
“Thank you for helping me get rid of these pests. I don’t like to waste time. Hand over the Sacred Soul Flower, and I will guarantee your safety out of this mountain range,” said the Heaven Gaze Realm powerhouse on Liu Wuxie’s right.
“Zhen Yiming, what a brilliant tactic.” Sneered the Heaven Gaze Realm expert on the left side.
“Qu Wu, cut the sarcasm. If you want to get your hands on the Sacred Soul Flower, I won’t let either of you down,” said Qu Wu, who was a famous powerhouse in the Spirit Martial Astral Domain.
The Heaven Gaze Realm expert standing before Liu Wuxie was Li Huang, and he remained silent as the weakest among the three. If they fought, only Zhen Yiming and Qu Wu held the best chances to seize the Sacred Soul Flower.
“If I can get my hands on the Sacred Soul Flower, I won’t treat either of you unfairly,” Qu Wu said with disdain in his tone. He had no intention of letting Zhen Yiming get ahead of him.
He carried plenty of astral crystals, and what he truly lacked was a top-tier treasure like the Sacred Soul Flower that could expand his soul sea.
“Since we can’t reach an agreement, whoever captures that kid first will obtain the Sacred Soul Flower. What do you think about it?” Zhen Yiming said. He knew the other two would never yield the flower, so only raw ability could decide it now.
Whoever captured Liu Wuxie first would claim the Sacred Soul Flower, and the contest would remain fair.
“Agreed,” Qu Wu said at once, accepting the proposal without hesitation, and even Li Huang nodded as well.
From the beginning to the end, Liu Wuxie didn’t speak a single word. He kept his eyes locked on Li Huang and Qu Wu because their soul seas were weaker than Zhen Yiming’s, and that made them his biggest targets.
