Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1578 - Last Stone Chamber

Chapter 1578 – Last Stone Chamber

The Great Five Elemental Mythical Art crashed down from the sky. Liu Wuxie slaughtered everyone, including the two cave lords, crushing them into a puddle of blood before the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron swallowed them in a single gulp.

At the last instant, Liu Wuxie abandoned fifty million astral crystals and chose to devour the pirates instead. In his eyes, the pirates were richer than those fifty million, and they definitely carried more than fifty million astral crystals on them.

His guess proved right. He found 60 million astral crystals on the two cave lords. After stripping the lackeys as well, he took over 70 million from the pirates, earning an extra 20 million compared to snatching the 50 million still hanging in the air.

With a sharp flicker, Liu Wuxie vanished from the spot just as the divine race appeared among the many gathered cultivators.

“Liu Wuxie is inside!” the Peach Blossom Gate’s elders said, having already seen Liu Wuxie.

“Liu Wuxie, where do you think you’re running to?!” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder roared, surging forward to give chase.

“Quick, grab the astral crystals!” Several hundred cultivators gathered outside charged into the stone chamber, and chaos exploded in an instant. The stampede forced apart the Peach Blossom Gate and the Nalan Clan’s forces, and even the divine race found it difficult to break through the rushing crowd.

Liu Wuxie’s plan worked flawlessly. He had deliberately left the fifty million astral crystals behind to ignite a frenzy and buy himself time.

Nalan Qiuhe could only watch Liu Wuxie slip right under her nose. They had pushed themselves to their limits to finally corner him, only to fail again at the final step.

In the blink of an eye, the mob snatched the fifty million astral crystals clean. In that single second, Liu Wuxie had already fled tens of thousands of meters with several rapid bursts, vanishing without a trace.

That meant the divine race wouldn’t be able to find him quickly again. The farther the distance, the weaker the Ancestral Tree’s tracking became, and since they could sense Liu Wuxie, Liu Wuxie could sense them as well. With both sides aware of each other, they wouldn’t find him easily again.

“Young Lady, Liu Wuxie seems to have made his breakthrough to the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm,” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder said, having clearly sensed Liu Wuxie’s aura.

After his battle with the divine son, Liu Wuxie had vanished without a trace. In just a few short months, he had climbed from the lower levels of the Earth Immortal Realm to the higher levels, and the thought of making an enemy of such a monstrous prodigy sent a chill through everyone’s spine.

“What exactly did he experience in the Spirit Martial Astral Domain?” the Nalan Clan’s third elder asked, stepping forward with a grave expression. They had gathered information only from the moment Liu Wuxie had surfaced in Kaya City. Everything before that was a complete mystery.

The incident in Kaya City had happened only twenty-odd days ago, yet Liu Wuxie had stayed in the Spirit Martial Astral Domain for nearly three months. That raised the question of where he had spent the previous two months, but no one could answer it.

“Young Lady, should we go after him?” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder asked.

Nalan Qiuhe drew a deep breath.

“Chase after him!” No one understood better than she did that if Liu Wuxie kept growing, the consequences would be catastrophic, and it was better to gamble everything on a fight to the death now.

The group rushed and pursued Liu Wuxie. The divine race also moved. They had come here to kill Liu Wuxie, and the treasures were not their priority.

When Liu Wuxie finally halted, he had already entered the deeper reaches of the Peach Blossom Cave, passing countless cultivators along the way.

Liu Wuxie activated Ghost Pupil and swept his gaze across the surroundings.

“This area should be at the depths of the Peach Blossom Cave.”

Every cultivator who had reached this far was considered an expert. A stone chamber appeared not far from Liu Wuxie, and two powerhouses at the Heaven Gaze Realm had also locked onto the stone door.

Liu Wuxie didn’t hesitate. He summoned the Heretic Blade and brought it down on the stone door, shattering the restriction so cleanly that the two Heaven Gaze Realm powerhouses froze in a daze.

They exchanged a look, disbelief flashing in their eyes. “It opened just like that?” The moment Liu Wuxie stepped into the stone chamber, a violent force slammed straight into him.

Liu Wuxie spotted a massive weapon standing three meters tall, and it weighed heavily in his hands. “A Crescent-Moon Blade… what a fine treasure!” Terrifying fire energy churned within the blade, and even a casual swing would send a wave of flame rushing outward.

The two Heaven Gaze Realm powerhouses rushed in and blocked Liu Wuxie’s path.

“Hand it over!”

“Get lost!” Liu Wuxie snapped as he shook his hand. The Crescent-Moon Blade rattled violently, and a terrifying surge of blade aura erupted, stronger than the Heretic Blade.

“How arrogant! I’ll kill you myself!” The Heaven Gaze Realm expert on the right struck down at Liu Wuxie with his palm, trying to seize the blade barehanded. He moved fast, but Liu Wuxie moved twice as fast.

The Crescent-Moon Blade dropped from the sky and unleashed a brutal blade ray that tore through space and appeared in front of the cultivator at the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm.

“Damn!” That cultivator retreated without hesitation, but he was too slow. He failed to evade in time, and the Crescent-Moon Blade cleaved him straight through, splitting him into two.

Liu Wuxie felt a jolt of surprise at the Crescent-Moon Blade’s power, which exceeded his expectations, though he also felt regret that he wasn’t used to wielding such a weapon.

The remaining Heaven Gaze Realm cultivator went pale and fled without hesitation.

“Where do you think you’re going?!” Liu Wuxie roared, refusing to let him live.

The Crescent-Moon Blade shot out like a comet and pierced straight through that cultivator’s body. After killing them both, Liu Wuxie pressed deeper into the Peach Blossom Cave without slowing.

The number of stone chambers dwindled further ahead, and most of the ones he passed were empty, already opened and looted. As the outer region’s chambers emptied, more cultivators began flooding into the depths.

“The deepest stone chamber has been found! We have to hurry up!” Voices reached Liu Wuxie as he hovered in the darkness. Since it was the last stone chamber, it had to sit at the very bottom of the Peach Blossom Cave.

Liu Wuxie followed the flow of cultivators, curiosity sharpening his focus on whatever lay behind that final chamber. Ordinary treasures no longer held any allure for him. What he needed were immortal stones that could accelerate his cultivation.

Immortal stones contained immortal energy and immortal runes. With a few leaps, the space ahead suddenly brightened, which made no sense at all. The Peach Blossom Cave had been pitch-black when they had entered, and yet light now spilled out from the depths.

“What a massive gate!”

That light came from an enormous gate that illuminated a radius of tens of thousands of meters. A large crowd had already arrived and occupied the space around the final stone chamber, but no matter how long they had worked, the door refused to budge.

More cultivators continued to arrive, including the divine race and the Nalan Clan. They had also received news that the final stone chamber had appeared.

“Young Master, killing Liu Wuxie is secondary. The Peach Blossom Cave belongs to Peach Blossom Island, and we can’t allow anyone to get the treasures inside,” the Peach Blossom Gate’s elders said to Tao Xuanming.

“Don’t worry about it. Who dares to snatch from our Peach Blossom Gate?” Tao Xuanming said, confidence filling his voice. The Peach Blossom Gate stood as the strongest faction here for the moment, and no one could match them head-on.

Thousands of cultivators had already rushed over.

Liu Wuxie put on a mask and hid himself among the crowd, even using the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron to mask the Ancestral Tree’s aura. But he knew that couldn’t last forever, because the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron couldn’t keep the Ancestral Tree wrapped indefinitely.

By now, the Nalan Clan, the Peach Blossom Gate, and the divine race had all arrived, and even more experts continued to pour in.

“Get lost! Since you can’t open it, let others try!” The pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves arrived as well, led by their strongest expert at the eighth-level Heaven Gaze Realm. He strode forward with other cave lords and drove nearby cultivators away.

No one dared to offend the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves, so the crowd could only part and make room.

The stone chamber gate towered at thirty meters tall and stretched fifteen meters wide. The immortal runes across it remained largely intact.

The Peach Blossom Cave would close in two days.

If they failed to open it within those two days, they would have to wait another decade.

The pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves joined forces and struck the restriction together, and the immortal runes finally began to shatter.

“We’ll help!” More cultivators joined in and attacked the restriction as the number of immortal runes continued to drop.

“Young Lady, should we act?” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder asked in a low voice. Anyone could predict that the treasure inside the final stone chamber had to be priceless, and whoever seized it would gain the chance to dominate an entire astral domain.

“Snatch it!” Nalan Qiuhe said, her eyes flashing with ruthless light.

Everyone began rubbing their hands, excitement boiling, ready to charge the instant the door opened.

Liu Wuxie disguised himself as a middle-aged man and drifted through the crowd. At one point, he was within five meters of Nalan Qiuhe, and she walked right by him without noticing.

After breaking through in cultivation, Liu Wuxie had completely masked his aura. As long as he didn’t mobilize his true essence, even a cultivator at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm wouldn’t notice him.

Cracks spread across the restriction, and only a few immortal runes remained. As more Heaven Gaze Realm experts joined the assault, the crowd erupted into cheers when the restriction finally broke, as though they could already see treasures beckoning from within.

With a gate this large, the inner space had to be vast and packed with riches. Now they only had to open the door, and with no mechanism in sight, brute force remained the only path.

However, the door weighed too much, and opening it proved far from easy. Worse still, it was sealed so tightly that Liu Wuxie wouldn’t be able to rely on the Dragon-Grasping Hand to pry it open with ease.

“Everyone, make way and let me try!”

Since no one could open it, they could only try smashing their way through. A burly man with cultivation at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm stepped forward.

An uproar rose from the crowd. “It’s the Ironhead Emperor!”

Rumor had it that the Ironhead Emperor practiced the Ironhead Art and could destroy a mountain with his head, which said everything about how terrifyingly hard his skull was.

The Ironhead Emperor shot out like a thunderbolt and slammed into the massive stone door. Shards exploded outward as a giant hole tore open in the door.

The moment the door opened, boundless immortal energy poured out, and everyone’s faces lit up as they greedily inhaled it, including Liu Wuxie, who drew it into his body.