Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1574 - Hundred Men Slaughter
Chapter 1574 – Hundred Men Slaughter
Liu Wuxie knew he had to finish this fast, and the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art immediately condensed into a terrifying millstone that ground down from the sky, swallowing the entire stone cave.
With a thunderous blast, the whole stone cave shuddered, and Li Wuji’s body collapsed into a puddle of liquid, flattened by a single palm.
After killing Li Wuji, Liu Wuxie stepped out of the stone chamber. The moment he emerged, he spotted over a hundred people rushing in from three directions. They hadn’t been far to begin with, hovering only about ten thousand meters from this stone chamber.
For experts like them, crossing ten thousand meters took only the blink of an eye.
“Stop him!” A roar rolled through the crowd as they tried to halt Liu Wuxie and seize his treasures.
“You’re all courting death!” Liu Wuxie snarled, sweeping his gaze over them. None of these people was weak, and a few even stood at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm. If it were one-on-one, Liu Wuxie wouldn’t fear them at all, but facing this many at once left him with slim odds.
With the Heretic Blade in hand, Liu Wuxie aimed for the weakest seam and chose to carve his way out. Blade rays burst outward, flooding the darkness with a crimson curtain.
Since Liu Wuxie had chosen to kill, he would kill cleanly and leave terror behind.
“Great Five Elemental Mythical Art! Gate of Darkness! Divine Purgatory Palace! Soul Spear! Nether Deity Harvest! Soul Fire!” Liu Wuxie unleashed his entire arsenal in a single breath, throwing the cultivators rushing in into instant chaos.
The Gate of Darkness and the Divine Purgatory Palace slammed down with unstoppable momentum. Aside from those at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm, the Earth Immortal Realm, and low-level Heaven Gaze Realm cultivators couldn’t even slow his advance.
Those who charged at the front naturally died first, as Soul Spears surged without restraint and pierced dozens of soul seas. Nether Deity Harvest looked even more horrifying, summoning a reaper with a scythe that harvested primordial spirits.
“My primordial spirit!” Many people clutched their heads and screamed as someone harvested their primordial spirits, and the agony felt ten thousand times worse than death.
In less than half a minute, bodies began dropping in patches. The eyelids of those at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm twitched, stunned by the power Liu Wuxie unleashed.
“You’re Liu Wuxie!” an expert from the Peach Blossom Gate cried out after sensing the true essence Liu Wuxie released.
“He’s Liu Wuxie?”
Over the past few days, every person on Peach Blossom Island had heard of Liu Wuxie’s name. After all, the Nalan Clan, the Peach Blossom Gate, the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves, and even the divine race were all hunting him down, so everyone had grown curious about the man who could draw so many pursuers.
Liu Wuxie didn’t find it strange that his identity surfaced as the slaughter continued. Soul Fire spread outward, forcing cultivators at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm to retreat, none of them daring to touch that fire.
Under Liu Wuxie’s relentless assault, he tore open a path through the encirclement.
An expert of the Peach Blossom Gate stepped in and unleashed a powerful sword ray to block Liu Wuxie’s route.
“Liu Wuxie, you’re going nowhere!”
“An expert!” Liu Wuxie murmured. The one intercepting him was an eighth-level Heaven Gaze Realm expert from the Peach Blossom Gate. He had already crushed a Communication Talisman to summon Tao Xuanming and the others for support.
The elders of the Nalan Clan had all reached the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm. Once they joined forces with the Peach Blossom Gate, killing Liu Wuxie would become effortless.
The moment Tao Xuanming received the message from his sect’s elder, he immediately passed the news to the Nalan Clan.
“Let’s hurry over!” Nalan Qiuhe took the lead, shuttling through space as she closed on Liu Wuxie’s location at terrifying speed.
“Relay the news to the elders of the Peach Blossom Gate’s elders to stop him at all costs!” Nalan Qiuhe said to Tao Xuanming as they rushed, ordering the elders of the Peach Blossom Gate to intercept Liu Wuxie, even if it cost them their lives.
If Liu Wuxie escaped, the consequences would be unimaginable. Not only would the Nalan Clan face destruction, but the Peach Blossom Gate also wouldn’t be spared because Liu Wuxie’s vengeful nature meant he would never let either of them off.
Tao Xuanming nodded and immediately notified the Peach Blossom Gate’s elders to intercept Liu Wuxie at any cost.
When the Peach Blossom Gate’s elders received the message, they chose a kiting strategy and linked up with others, forming a tightening encirclement around Liu Wuxie.
Liu Wuxie had already killed fifty to sixty people, and those still standing were all experts. The moment they learned who he was, they threw themselves at him again and again without caring whether they lived.
After all, the Nalan Clan had issued a bounty of five million astral crystals and a ninth-grade spiritual pill on Liu Wuxie, and even splitting it among themselves would still leave an enormous reward.
Liu Wuxie soon found himself trapped, and breaking out of the encirclement became a problem. Among the remaining cultivators, aside from those at the Heaven Gaze Realm, the rest stood at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm.
Liu Wuxie had clearly sensed the Peach Blossom Gate’s elder sending a voice transmission to Tao Xuanming.
“Don’t blame me for being merciless since all of you are forcing me,” Liu Wuxie snarled, his gaze turning glacial as murderous intent brewed in his chest. Since they insisted on courting death, he didn’t mind granting their wish.
Without hesitating, he unleashed his strongest attack. “Divine Eternal Fist!”
The instant he struck, the surrounding space collapsed inch by inch, unable to withstand the pressure of Liu Wuxie’s aura. After killing so many and absorbing their laws, Liu Wuxie could unleash the Divine Eternal Fist without restraint.
The Divine Eternal Fist formed in the sky like a millstone and instantly locked onto everyone.
“Shit!” Everyone felt as though they had fallen into an abyss, freezing the moment the Divine Eternal Fist fixed onto them. Only the Peach Blossom Gate’s elder at the eighth-level Heaven Gaze Realm could barely move.
“What a powerful attack!”
Everyone quickly realized that their soul attacks couldn’t harm Liu Wuxie. His Soul Shield stood firm and unbreakable, and perhaps only someone at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm could tear it open.
“Run!” Panic finally erupted through the crowd as they chose to flee, leaving the Peach Blossom Gate to face the strike head-on.
“Die!” The Divine Eternal Fist plunged from the sky and erupted into a violent storm. Even the entire Peach Blossom Cave trembled under that immense power, and countless people turned their heads toward the commotion.
“What’s happening over there? Is it a clash between experts at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm?” Cultivators far away couldn’t see the scene, but they could sense the violent fluctuations, and only experts at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm could create tremors like that.
“A treasure must’ve appeared! That’s the only explanation why powerhouses at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm would clash!” If it were only a quasi-immortal artifact, it wouldn’t justify a battle on this scale. After all, cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm could already refine quasi-immortal artifacts as long as they had enough materials.
Liu Wuxie didn’t hesitate and poured every shred of energy from those he had killed into the Divine Eternal Fist.
Under that crushing force, over ten Earth Immortal Realm cultivators couldn’t endure it and were erased by the Divine Eternal Fist. The sight turned gruesome as shredded flesh sprayed across the surroundings.
“Liu Wuxie, you’re a demon!” Those at the lower levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm fared no better. They were helpless prey beneath the Divine Eternal Fist.
“I’m a demon?” Liu Wuxie sneered. “Treasures naturally belong to the capable. You all gang up on a single person, and you’re not demons yourselves?”
As Liu Wuxie spoke, he forced even more power into his strike, and suffocating pressure crushed down from the sky, plunging the surroundings into stillness. That was the intent of eternity.
Cracking sounds rang out through the surrounding space, and each crack marked another life taken by Liu Wuxie.
The Peach Blossom Gate elder’s eyes lit with fury. The young master had ordered them to hold Liu Wuxie back at all costs, yet they had never expected him to stand his ground against Heaven Gaze Realm opponents like this.
If Liu Wuxie ever broke into the Heaven Gaze Realm, wouldn’t that mean even Quasi-Immortal Realm cultivators wouldn’t be his match? At that point, only immortals would be able to kill him.
“Let’s end it here,” Liu Wuxie said.
Silence settled over the surroundings, and only three eighth-level Heaven Gaze Realm experts escaped, while everyone else died without exception.
In barely a minute, he had slaughtered over a hundred experts, a feat so horrifying that it numbed the minds. The three survivors fled in terror, having completely lost the courage to face Liu Wuxie again.
After unleashing the Divine Eternal Fist, the desolate world dried out by a large margin. Ten million astral crystals detonated, condensed into liquid, and poured into the desolate world. Only Liu Wuxie could burn resources at such a terrifying pace.
“I should get going.”
Liu Wuxie had no time to chase the three eighth-level Heaven Gaze Realm experts. Even if he caught them, he knew he wouldn’t have much of a chance of victory.
The Divine Eternal Fist could suppress them, but it still wasn’t enough to kill them outright. If he could mobilize the Heavenly Deity Monument, then the Divine Eternal Fist would be able to finish them.
Liu Wuxie left behind an afterimage and plunged deeper into the cave. He had wasted too much time here, and others had already opened more stone chambers and claimed their treasures. Time pressed hard because he had only found quasi-immortal artifacts so far, and those couldn’t help him break through in cultivation.
Even if he refined them, they would only increase the quasi-immortal runes inside his body and wouldn’t help much. Only true immortal runes could push him into a cultivation breakthrough.
After about five minutes, Tao Xuanming, Nalan Qiuhe, and the others finally arrived. They fell silent the moment they saw the torn space left behind by the battle.
The Peach Blossom Gate’s elder, who had escaped earlier, also returned, his expression bitter.
“Didn’t I tell you to stall him no matter what? Where the hell is he right now?!” Tao Xuanming snapped at the battered elder.
“Young Master, it’s not that I didn’t want to stall him, but he’s simply too powerful. Out of more than a hundred of us, only three managed to escape alive,” the Peach Blossom Gate elder said, looking wronged. He had tried everything he could, but every effort proved futile before Liu Wuxie.
Hissing breaths rose from the surrounding crowd when they heard Liu Wuxie had slaughtered over a hundred people. None of those who entered the Peach Blossom Cave were weak, so hearing that Liu Wuxie had killed them so easily overturned everyone’s understanding.
Some of the dead came from the mainland, while others came from Peach Blossom Island. They all possessed formidable cultivation, but they had all died here.
“Which way did he go?” Nalan Qiuhe asked. Her voice held none of its earlier composure, and the long chase had ground her patience into dust as she watched Liu Wuxie slip away again and again.
“He went that way,” the Peach Blossom Gate elder pointed, not daring to hide anything.
“We go in the opposite direction,” Nalan Qiuhe said, choosing instantly. They had already fallen for Liu Wuxie’s trick once, and she refused to repeat that mistake.
After running in the opposite direction for a long time and still finding no trace of Liu Wuxie, Tao Xuanming finally lost his composure and cursed, “Liu Wuxie, damn you!”
They had outplayed themselves this time. Liu Wuxie hadn’t tricked them this time, and they had simply become victims of their own suspicion. Sometimes, the more paranoid one became, the easier they were to fool.
