Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1573 - Ten Sets of Armor

Chapter 1573 – Ten Sets of Armor

A quasi-immortal artifact naturally carried formidable laws of the Quasi-Immortal Realm, and cultivators in the Earth Immortal Realm could practically never manipulate one. Even a powerhouse in the Heaven Gaze Realm would struggle to wield it.

Yet Liu Wuxie handled the Divine Crimson Sun Spear with ease, splitting its thrust into three afterimages and striking all three of them at once.

Everything happened in a flash. From the start, they had misjudged him. They believed he had broken the restriction solely with the Heretic Blade. Never did they expect that his own combat strength could contend with upper-tier Heaven Gaze Realm experts.

They couldn’t endure the Divine Crimson Sun Spear’s might and exploded on the spot, bursting into three bloody clouds. The entire exchange lasted less than half a breath, and the battle ended just like that.

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron manifested, swallowed the drifting bloody clouds along with the scattered laws, and Liu Wuxie immediately left. The moment he stepped out, he sensed several presences surging in from the distance.

When the newcomers closed to within a few hundred meters and realized they couldn’t catch him, they unleashed soul techniques instead, sending four heavy soul attacks through space to appear directly before Liu Wuxie.

“You people are courting death!” Competing with him in soul arts amounted to suicide.

Soul Spears formed in an instant and struck back. The four cultivators rushing in paled on the spot. They had never expected Liu Wuxie’s soul energy to surpass theirs tenfold, leaving them no room to dodge the spears.

“Run!”

Their first instinct was to flee. The Peach Blossom Cave held plenty of other caves, and there was no need to fight Liu Wuxie to the death here.

Liu Wuxie refused to relent once he launched his counterattack.

The Soul Spears shrieked through the air and enveloped the four attackers. Each stood at the peak of the Earth Immortal Realm, far from ordinary, no matter where they hailed from. Yet before those descending spears, they trembled uncontrollably.

Four shrill screams rang through the Peach Blossom Cave and reached countless ears. Everyone had entered the Peach Blossom Cave less than two hours ago, and screams at this moment made no sense at all.

Normally, everyone focused on dismantling the restrictions sealing the stone doors. Who had time to fight?

The Soul Spear pierced the four attackers’ soul seas, leaving their corpses hovering in midair. Then the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron appeared without warning, swallowed their bodies, and refined them into liquid energy that streamed into the desolate world.

Once Liu Wuxie finished dealing with them, he vanished and headed toward the next cave. If a treasure like the Divine Crimson Sun Spear could appear there, he couldn’t help anticipating what might come next.

A quasi-immortal artifact held priceless value, but without an artifact spirit, it would face an extremely difficult path toward becoming an immortal artifact. Otherwise, the Divine Crimson Sun Spear would have been worth far more.

Not long after Liu Wuxie disappeared, many cultivators rushed in from afar, and grim expressions settled over their faces as they sensed the lingering aura in the air.

“It’s Liu Wuxie’s aura!”

Nalan Qiuhe had rushed over at once, trusting her sharp intuition, but she was still a step too late.

Tao Xuanming clenched his fist and swung it in frustration as he stared into the empty cave. “Damn it! That brat managed to get away,”

They had only just entered the Peach Blossom Cave, yet Liu Wuxie had already killed seven people and seized a treasure. Tao Xuanming’s frustration burned so hard that he wanted to smash something.

“Young Lady, we have to find Liu Wuxie immediately, or the consequences would be dire if he finds more treasures,” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder said. Everything was unfolding exactly as he had feared. If Liu Wuxie gathered enough treasures inside the Peach Blossom Cave, he would turn into their nightmare.

“Chase after him!” Nalan Qiuhe ordered. She followed the residual trace of Liu Wuxie’s aura and pursued at full speed.

However, not long after they left, a hidden ripple spread, and Liu Wuxie stepped out from the Heavenly Deity Monument.

“You people are still too young to compete with me,” Liu Wuxie murmured. He shot off in the opposite direction, having deliberately left his aura behind to lure his pursuers away.

Just like that, Nalan Qiuhe and the others chased the lingering remnants of Liu Wuxie’s aura until it faded completely.

Nalan Qiuhe stopped abruptly. “We’ve all been fooled!” They had been chasing for one hour before she realised something was amiss.

“You’re saying that Liu Wuxie didn’t run in this direction?” Tao Xuanming asked. He had also sensed something wrong, yet he couldn’t put it into words. After chasing the residual aura for so long, they still hadn’t found a single trace of Liu Wuxie, nor even any stone caves nearby.

“Damn, Liu Wuxie! He tricked us!” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder roared.

Let alone killing Liu Wuxie, by charging blindly like this, they had even thrown away their chance to compete for treasures. By the time they turned back, others would have already claimed the other caves.

They had long heard Liu Wuxie was as sly as a fox, but none of them had experienced his craft firsthand. Now the chill crawling up their spines told them the truth—Liu Wuxie wasn’t merely sly, he was a monster.

Meanwhile, Liu Wuxie pushed deeper into the Peach Blossom Cave and chose a stone door that no one had ever opened.

Pitch-black darkness swallowed the surroundings, and divine sense could only cover a limited range. This meant that finding a stone door was a matter of luck. But Liu Wuxie possessed Ghost Pupil, which allowed him to locate multiple stone doors with ease.

Those stone doors hid deep inside the Peach Blossom Cave, concealed so thoroughly that ordinary eyes would never find them.

With no one around, Liu Wuxie stopped before another stone door and summoned the Heretic Blade again. He cleaved down, shattered the restriction in less than half a breath, and then immediately cast the Dragon-Grasping Hand at the stone door.

The entire stone door began to creak, ripples spreading outward like waves. Opening it would inevitably draw attention, yet there was no avoiding it. The Peach Blossom Cave was too vast, but even the smallest sound echoed far.

When the stone door finally swung open, no powerful aura rushed out at all, and Liu Wuxie’s brows knitted. He began to suspect the cave was empty.

With that doubt in mind, Liu Wuxie stepped into the stone chamber, and a row of shelves instantly seized his attention. He drew a deep breath, then froze on the spot as his eyes landed on what sat upon them.

“Ten quasi-immortal armors! What a stash!” Liu Wuxie exclaimed. Ten sets of armor lay neatly arranged, each already at the level of a quasi-immortal artifact, and none of them fell short of the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe he wore.

Once donned, an armor set could withstand a quasi-immortal’s strike and also negate the force unleashed by cultivators in the Heaven Gaze Realm. If there had only been one set, Liu Wuxie wouldn’t have been this shaken, but ten sets meant he could arm everyone around him.

He did not need these armors himself, since he possessed the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe. Armor protected only the chest and back, while the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe guarded his entire body, making it far more precious.

“Brat, stop right there!” a voice rang out just as Liu Wuxie moved to collect the ten sets.

Liu Wuxie turned and saw an old man with cultivation at the first-level Heaven Gaze Realm.

“And who the hell are you to tell me to stop?” Liu Wuxie asked coldly. Ignoring the old man, he cast the Dragon-Grasping Hand, swept up the ten sets of armor, and tossed them into his interspatial ring without hesitation.

That brazen act thoroughly enraged the old man.

“Brat, do you know who I am?!” the old man roared, yet he still didn’t rush forward to stop Liu Wuxie. If he killed Liu Wuxie, the ten sets of armor would still fall into his hands.

“I don’t care who the hell you are. Get lost!” Liu Wuxie snapped. He needed to move to the next cave before anyone else arrived. He had a simple strategy of seizing everything before anyone opened their own stone door.

People had explored the Peach Blossom Cave for countless years, and most caves already stood empty. The few remaining caves held the essence, guarded by stronger restrictions that made them far harder to open.

“You’re courting death! How dare you speak to me in this manner! I’m the island lord of the Devilish Fiend Island, Li Wuji!” the old man snarled, his beard trembling with rage. As soon as he finished, he lunged forward, reaching for Liu Wuxie with blinding speed.

Liu Wuxie had heard rumors of Li Wuji’s ruthlessness. He had betrayed and killed his master, seized his master’s wife, then fled to Devilish Fiend Island and ruled it like a king. A person like him would be scorned by all on the mainland, which was why he had no choice but to hide in the Thousand Islands Sea Region.

“How annoying!” Liu Wuxie had no interest in Li Wuji because he would kill anyone who blocked his path without hesitation.

As Li Wuji struck, Liu Wuxie immediately summoned the Heretic Blade. A terrifying surge of Quasi-Immortal Realm laws burst forth, and Li Wuji’s expression changed on the spot.

He jerked his hands back the instant he sensed the danger, but the Heretic Blade still swept in along a tricky trajectory.

“Garbage!” Li Wuji cursed, retreating rapidly, yet Liu Wuxie’s strike moved faster still and arrived before him in the blink of an eye.

Rushing sounds ripped through the air as more people dashed over, drawn by the laws of a quasi-immortal artifact. Every time a stone door opened, countless cultivators would swarm in.

Liu Wuxie had anticipated this long ago, which was why he needed to reach the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm as quickly as possible. Only then could he truly hold his ground against experts at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm.

The Heretic Blade reached Li Wuji in a blink, and it was too late for him to withdraw fully. With a loud crack, the blade severed both of his hands in a single strike, and blood sprayed into the air.

“ARGH!” Li Wuji screamed, unable to believe that an Earth Immortal Realm expert had inflicted such a severe injury.

“Brat, I want you dead!” Li Wuji roared. He lunged at Liu Wuxie, determined to drag him down with him, and his body began to swell as he prepared to self-detonate.

Li Wuji could regrow his hands, but he knew Liu Wuxie’s second strike would sever his neck if he didn’t gamble. Having lived this long, he made his choice in a fraction of a moment.

“Hmph, do you think you can kill me through self-detonation?” Liu Wuxie sneered and cast the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art.

He would need real effort against a third-level Heaven Gaze Realm opponent, but someone at the first level? He had killed plenty like that along the way.

The Great Five Elemental Mythical Art descended, and Li Wuji trembled in fear, forgetting to resist entirely. His swollen body shrank back, and the mythical art immobilized him.

“Who the hell are you?” Li Wuji demanded, still unable to recognize this unremarkable-looking scholar.

“You won’t get the chance to know,” Liu Wuxie said, as the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art fell from the sky.