Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1572 - Divine Crimson Sun Spear
Chapter 1572 – Divine Crimson Sun Spear
Liu Wuxie had watched everything unfold with his own eyes. Lady Rong slipped out each day to gather news for him, and Peach Blossom Island had turned bustling and loud now that the Peach Blossom Cave would open in two more hours.
The Peach Blossom Pavilion had filled with guests, and every one of them had come for the Peach Blossom Cave.
“The divine race!” Liu Wuxie narrowed his eyes, spotting their presence.
They had arrived on Peach Blossom Island, too. Ever since his battle with the divine son, they had increased their presence, appearing across various astral domains.
The discussion carried over from another courtyard and slipped into Liu Wuxie’s ears. “A decade ago, someone found an incomplete immortal art in the Peach Blossom Cave!”
“I’ve heard that there are hundreds of large and small caves. After so many years, most have been opened, and only a dozen remain untouched. Those lie the deepest and likely contain rare treasures.”
The Peach Blossom Cave sounded like the tomb of a deceased powerhouse, with treasures hidden within. It opened only once a decade, and someone struck it rich every time.
Before long, everyone began pouring out of the Peach Blossom Pavilion and streaming toward the Peach Blossom Cave.
“Young Master, will you come back?” Lady Rong asked. In the three short days they had spent together, she had grown attached to Liu Wuxie, and she suddenly threw herself into his arms, sobbing softly.
“These astral crystals should be enough for you to buy your freedom. Find a good man and marry him,” Liu Wuxie said, producing ten thousand astral crystals to thank Lady Rong for caring for him over the past three days. This wasn’t a small amount, and it would be more than enough for her to redeem her freedom.
Lady Rong wept, “Thank you, Young Master. If there’s an afterlife, I’m willing to do anything for you.”
Liu Wuxie left her behind and merged into the crowd, heading toward Peach Blossom Cave. Tens of thousands of cultivators surged forward together, and the spectacle filled the eye.
The Peach Blossom Gate had sent many experts into the Peach Blossom Cave. A decade ago, they had secured a rare weapon with unrivaled power.
After traveling for about an hour, the crowd reached the highest point of Peach Blossom Island, where a strange peak stood waiting. Tens of thousands of cultivators packed the surroundings, and Liu Wuxie spotted Tao Xuanming and Nalan Qiuhe among them.
With the search for Liu Wuxie likely to drag on, they saw no reason to forgo such a grand event.
“The Peach Blossom Cave is opening!” someone shouted as the mountain rose, revealing a vast cave entrance beneath it.
No one could imagine who possessed the ability to lift an entire mountain into the air, and perhaps only a powerhouse at the Immortal Realm could manage it. Many secretly guessed the cave was an immortal’s tomb, or maybe an immortal had left all his treasures there after ascending to the celestial realm.
Whooshing winds tore through the air as everyone scrambled to be the first to enter the Peach Blossom Cave. Liu Wuxie moved with them, vanishing in a flash. The instant he executed his movement technique, Nalan Qiuhe suddenly turned to look in his direction, and that silhouette struck her as strangely familiar.
“Young Lady, did you notice something?” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder asked.
“The silhouette of that person resembles Liu Wuxie,” Nalan Qiuhe remarked, though she had never met Liu Wuxie in person. She had collected many Memory Talismans about him, including the event in the Peach Blossom Nunnery.
“Does that mean Liu Wuxie has entered the Peach Blossom Cave?” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder asked, frowning.
Nalan Qiuhe insisted. “My intuition has never failed me. That person has to be Liu Wuxie.”
“This is bad!” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder said, suddenly slapping his thigh.
“Grand elder, what’s the problem?” the other Nalan Clan elders asked. If Liu Wuxie went in, wouldn’t that be their best chance to kill him? Why would the grand elder react like this?
“Liu Wuxie is a chosen one, and that means his luck is heaven-defying. If he enters the Peach Blossom Cave, he’s bound to obtain treasures. If he uses those treasures to make a breakthrough in his cultivation, the consequences would be dire,” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder replied.
Word had already spread that Liu Wuxie was a chosen one.
“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s rush in and kill him before he finds any treasure,” the other elders said, immediately grasping the severity of the situation.
News had already spread that Liu Wuxie possessed a treasure capable of boosting cultivation.
If he obtained another treasure and hid inside the Heavenly Deity Monument’s eternal world, no one would be able to find him unless an immortal personally came to search.
The Nalan Clan quickly shared news of Liu Wuxie’s entry into the Peach Blossom Cave with the Peach Blossom Gate. The Peach Blossom Gate immediately acknowledged the danger and dispatched even more experts into the cave.
The moment Liu Wuxie entered the Peach Blossom Cave, he realized the interior far exceeded his expectations. Darkness stretched endlessly, and finding the caves wouldn’t be easy, but Ghost Pupil gave him an overwhelming advantage. He activated Ghost Pupil the instant he stepped in, letting his sight pierce immeasurable space and reach deep into the Peach Blossom Cave.
“What a vast area. The space here has been carved out, much like the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s lesser realm,” Liu Wuxie murmured.
The cultivators who entered didn’t hesitate and rushed deeper at astonishing speed. The local cultivators of Peach Blossom Island moved the fastest, as they were already familiar with the routes from previous visits.
“I nearly opened a cave door last time, and I have to open it this time, no matter what!” several voices shouted from afar. They had nearly succeeded before, but time had run out and forced them to leave.
Ghost Pupil stretched farther and farther, and Liu Wuxie began to pick out strange stone caves. Some caves already stood open, while others were sealed so tightly that even a quasi-immortal would struggle to break them.
Liu Wuxie quickly locked onto one particular cave. The moment Ghost Pupil pressed against the stone door, his instincts screamed that a priceless treasure waited behind it.
Many caves held nothing at all, and cultivators would waste enormous effort only to find emptiness. The caves lay far apart, and with that, tens of thousands of cultivators gradually scattered in every direction.
The Peach Blossom Cave would close in five days, and anyone left behind would suffocate to death. That meant everyone had to leave when the time came, whether or not they obtained treasure.
Liu Wuxie burst forward, crossing vast distances, and he found almost no one nearby.
Liu Wuxie narrowed his eyes as he realized why Ghost Pupil couldn’t pierce through. “A restriction made with immortal runes!” he murmured. The door stood protected by a restriction formed from immortal runes.
That discovery only confirmed his suspicion that Peach Blossom Cave was a lesser realm created by an immortal. If that was true, then everything here had been left behind by an immortal.
“Immortal arts are useless to me, and I already know plenty of immortal arts. My cultivation is the only thing holding me back, so it would be perfect if a large amount of immortal stones were inside.”
Powerful immortal arts lay beyond his reach, while low-grade immortal arts offered him nothing. If he could find something between an immortal art and a mythical art, that would be perfect.
Immortal stones contained immortal energy. If he absorbed them, he could convert more true essence into immortal energy, and that would make controlling the Heavenly Deity Monument far easier in the future.
If another cultivator stood there, cracking open a door reinforced by immortal runes would be nearly impossible, and even an expert at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm would need at least a full day. But immortal runes meant nothing to Liu Wuxie.
He summoned the Heretic Blade and chopped down. The Heretic Blade carried over a hundred immortal runes, and once they gathered into a single point, they formed a terrifying blade ray.
With a loud crack, the door’s immortal-rune restriction detonated and tore apart under Liu Wuxie’s strike. Every restriction had a weak point, and once he found it, breaking it became simple. On the other hand, other cultivators could only rely on brute force.
Once the restriction collapsed, Liu Wuxie took a step back and executed the Dragon-Grasping Hand, conjuring a massive dragon claw.
“OPEN!”
He used the Dragon-Grasping Hand to open the door from a safe distance, wary of whatever awaited inside.
When the door finally swung wide open, a dusty stench rolled out in a thick wave.
Several cultivators lurked nearby in the darkness. They had found this cave, too, but Liu Wuxie had beaten them to it.
Liu Wuxie had already noticed them, yet he didn’t care, since they were only at the Earth Immortal Realm. The thunderous rumble of the door carried far through the cave.
“Someone has opened the door!”
Normally, people opened doors on a large scale on the last day, yet one had opened on the first day itself. That felt unusual.
“The restrictions of immortal runes must have weakened a great deal over time.”
Even if that were the case, it should have still taken at least several hours to open one.
People began tracking the sound and rushing toward it. The moment the door opened, Liu Wuxie sent his divine sense inside and detected a terrifying aura spilling out from a spear.
“What an excellent spear!” He didn’t need spears, but he could arm the Heavenly Dao Society with them.
Though the Heavenly Dao Society had several experts at the Heaven Gaze Realm, they lacked suitable weapons. That weakness could become fatal in war, since most of their artifacts were still at the level of the Primal Origin Realm.
The cultivators lurking in the dark stared greedily at the spears.
The moment Liu Wuxie stepped inside the stone chamber, he muttered, “A quasi-immortal artifact!”
Quasi-immortal artifacts differed greatly in strength. The Heavenly Deity Monument was one such artifact, yet it had once surpassed even true immortal artifacts. Even after falling to the quasi-immortal grade, it still outclassed most artifacts of the same tier.
“Divine Crimson Sun Spear, what a fine weapon.” Liu Wuxie said as he reached out and seized the spear. Its artifact spirit had long since departed, making it easy for him to claim.
Without an artifact spirit, refining it would be simple. Anyone could inject a wisp of soul energy and gain control.
The Divine Crimson Sun Spear felt heavy in his grip, weighing over five thousand kilograms, and its solidity pressed into his palm.
Liu Wuxie thrusted the spear once and shattered the surrounding space in single motion. “What a prize!” he muttered.
Three cultivators stepped out and demanded, “Brat, hand that spear over!”
“You want it?” Liu Wuxie asked with a cold smirk. He was amused that three experts merely at the higher levels of the Earth Immortal Realm dared to provoke him.
“Attack!” the cultivator in the center roared. They had already sensed more experts rushing over, drawn by the sound of the door opening. Inside the Peach Blossom Cave, even the slightest commotion traveled far.
As they moved, they unleashed their Earth Immortal Realm aura at Liu Wuxie.
“Go,” Liu Wuxie commanded. He did not summon the Heretic Blade. Instead, he gripped the Divine Crimson Sun Spear. Even without refining it, he could still wield it as a weapon.
When he channled true essence into the spear, the quasi-immortal runes activated. A terrifying surge erupted and locked onto the three. Their expressions instantly hardened as they failed to comprehend how Liu Wuxie could manipulate a quasi-immortal artifact with his cultivation at the Earth Immortal Realm.
To manipulate a quasi-immortal artifact demanded a vast amount of true essence and even immortal energy to sustain it.
