Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1579 - Slaughter

Chapter 1579 – Slaughter

Everyone greedily drew in the immortal energy pouring from the crack in the stone door, and even Nalan Qiuhe couldn’t resist. After all, immortal energy existed only in legends.

Across the four astral domains, places that could give birth to immortal energy were extremely rare. Even the immortal stones that still existed in the astral domains were in the hands of immortals.

The crack remained far too narrow for an ordinary person to squeeze through. The Ironhead Emperor stepped back, rubbed his smooth head, then drew a deep breath and charged again with even greater force. He lunged like a ferocious tiger and shot forward like a thunderbolt.

With a deafening rumble, the stone door finally detonated and shattered into countless fragments, letting even more immortal energy surge out. Through the broken opening, everyone could see a lavishly decorated hall and a shrine dedicated to a mysterious middle-aged man, the apparent owner of this Peach Blossom Cave.

“Charge in!”

The instant the door gave way, the cultivators closest to it sprang forward and rushed into the stone hall.

“Get lost!” the third cave lord roared, blasting the cultivators trying to force their way inside back out of the entrance. Even cultivators at the pinnacle of the Earth Immortal Realm had no qualification to join this feast.

Only cultivators at the Heaven Gaze Realm could contend for what lay within. Close to 10,000 people rushed in at once, and the entryway instantly turned into a stampede.

Booms rang out in rapid succession as cultivators at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm slammed their palms down and slaughtered over a hundred cultivators in an instant. Blood splashed across the hall. No one had expected the final stone chamber to erupt into such a monstrous upheaval.

Those at the lower levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm got blasted back out.

“There are immortal stones and immortal arts inside! Get them!” they roared in fury and tried to force their way in again.

“Young Lady, let’s go in as well!” The Nalan Clan’s elders finally moved. All of them had reached the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm, and their cultivation even surpassed the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves as they ripped open a gap with brutal speed.

More cultivators at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm poured inside, leaving the Earth Immortal Realm cultivators stranded outside.

Liu Wuxie also activated his movement technique and shot forward like a comet, slipping through the chaos. Even the cultivators at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm failed to stop him. The moment he stepped into the hall, he realized it sprawled far larger than he had imagined.

The hall’s layout looked unusual. Towering racks lined both sides, displaying various items, while a raised platform stood at the center with a large portrait hanging above it, depicting a commanding middle-aged man.

The man in the portrait looked handsome, with bright eyes that radiated powerful spirituality. Only a true master painter could capture someone’s features with such vivid presence.

“Grab them!” There weren’t many items on the racks, only a little over twenty, but with so many people flooding in, only a handful would walk away with anything.

“This is mine!”

“Get lost!”

“ARGH!”

“Don’t kill me!”

Chaos instantly swallowed the hall. Experts collided head-on, and dozens of people fought over a single treasure, screaming and clawing at one another.

The moment Liu Wuxie entered, he didn’t even spare the racks a glance and locked onto the box beneath the portrait instead. Instinct told him it held a peerless treasure, while the rack items were, at best, powerful cultivation or martial techniques.

Immortal energy seeped from that box, indicating it contained immortal stones.

Over thirty experts lunged for the mysterious box at once. The box stood barely thirty centimeters tall and fifteen centimeters wide, yet it dragged more than thirty cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm into a desperate contest.

The pirates of the Seventy-Two Pirates led their lackeys in a brutal fight and successfully seized several treasures amid the slaughter.

The Nalan Clan’s grand elder struck out with his palm, intercepting other experts and creating an opening for Nalan Qiuhe. “Young Lady, we’ll stop them while you go retrieve the box!”

“Alright!” Nalan Qiuhe dashed forward, leaving an afterimage as she shot straight toward the box.

“Young Master, you go take it! That belongs to our Peach Blossom Island, and there must be secrets on how to reach the Immortal Realm. If our Peach Blossom Gate can produce an immortal, we’ll be able to rise to a first-tier sect!”

For the moment, only the Nalan Clan and the Peach Blossom Gate held the highest chance of taking the box. One stood as a first-tier superpower, while the other ruled locally and had brought an army of experts, turning the fight for the mysterious box into a direct contest between two giants. Whenever other forces tried to force their way in, the Peach Blossom Gate’s experts knocked them back immediately.

“Lady Nalan, I’m sorry, but the Peach Blossom Cave belongs to Peach Blossom Island. Once I get my hands on it, I will share it with you,” Tao Xuanming said. He moved a step faster than Nalan Qiuhe, edging ahead of her.

Nalan Qiuhe didn’t answer. She summoned a long whip and snapped it toward the box, trying to seize it from a distance.

Anger flashed across Tao Xuanming’s face. Lust ruled his habits, but he still knew how to weigh gain and loss, and the mysterious box mattered far more than any cooperation with the Nalan Clan. If the Peach Blossom Gate seized it, they could rise into a first-tier superpower.

Right now, the Peach Blossom Gate still stood beneath the Nalan Clan in this cooperation, which forced him to swallow his pride. But a true powerhouse would stand as an equal, not as a lackey.

More experts kept pouring into the hall, but none of them could match the Peach Blossom Gate’s force, since the Peach Blossom Gate had brought close to a hundred experts. The intruders couldn’t break through the defenses, and even the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves had no option unless the great cave lord personally appeared.

After all, the third cave lord had only reached the eighth-level Heaven Gaze Realm. He had tried to break through several times and failed every time, so he could only grit his teeth and turn his attention back to the treasures on the racks.

Just as the mysterious box was about to fall into Nalan Qiuhe’s hands, a strange hand appeared out of nowhere and seized it outright.

Tao Xuanming thought the box had already fallen into his grasp, only for Nalan Qiuhe to snatch it first. Then, just as Nalan Qiuhe believed it would land in her hands, someone else beat her to it.

“The Dragon-Grasping Hand! It’s Liu Wuxie!” The instant the Dragon-Grasping Hand appeared, it exposed Liu Wuxie’s identity on the spot.

No one had expected Liu Wuxie to have hidden among them this entire time, revealing himself only now. He had relied on his formidable means to slip past everyone’s eyes until this decisive moment.

“Stop Liu Wuxie and don’t let him escape!” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder roared, ordering the exits to be sealed to prevent Liu Wuxie’s escape. As long as Liu Wuxie stayed inside the hall, they still had a chance to kill him.

By now, people had already seized the treasures on the racks. Some who grabbed a treasure died even before it warmed up in their hands, and corpses piled up inside the hall, filling the air with a nauseating stench of blood.

The Peach Blossom Gate’s experts didn’t need the Nalan Clan to command them. They immediately tightened into an encirclement around Liu Wuxie.

The moment someone called Liu Wuxie’s name, the third cave lord halted and led five hundred pirates into the ring. Dozens of divinekin also followed, staring at Liu Wuxie icily.

Since his identity was exposed, Liu Wuxie stopped bothering to hide. He removed his mask and revealed his true face to everyone, still youthful and arrogant, with a faint smile resting on his lips.

“Liu Wuxie, I didn’t expect you to be so bold as to come here. Today will be the day you die,” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder said, stepping forward and releasing his aura, determined to kill Liu Wuxie before he could refine the treasure.

More than thirty experts at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm stood present. With the exits sealed and a divinekin powerhouse among them, how could Liu Wuxie possibly break out?

“Everyone uninvolved, leave at once. Otherwise, don’t blame me if you get caught in the battle,” Liu Wuxie said with disdain. Now that he had reached the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm and gained control of the Heavenly Deity Monument, it was time to settle accounts with the Nalan Clan.

Since these people had delivered themselves to his doorstep, he wouldn’t mind slaughtering them all. He had decided long ago that he would begin his killing spree the moment he gained control of the Heavenly Deity Monument.

“What arrogance! You’re still talking tough even when you’re about to die,” the experts of the Peach Blossom Gate sneered, provoked by Liu Wuxie’s words. They refused to believe Liu Wuxie could stand alone against so many experts.

The Peach Blossom Gate alone had brought over a hundred experts. Add the seven from the Nalan Clan, over a dozen from the divine race, over five hundred pirates, and the rest, and even a cultivator at the Quasi-Immortal Realm wouldn’t walk out alive.

Liu Wuxie hadn’t yet opened the box, but he felt certain it held an extraordinary treasure, likely immortal stones. The Heavenly Dragon Sect possessed an immortal stone that remained a treasure even after being drained for countless years. The value of a complete immortal stone was obvious.

“Stop wasting time with him. He’s cunning, and it’s best if we end this battle quickly,” the Nalan Clan’s elders said, having studied Liu Wuxie’s past.

Ordinary experts at the Earth Immortal Realm retreated far away, unwilling to miss a battle on this scale. Even without treasures, simply witnessing this clash would count as a gain.

A terrifying surge of energy swept outward and formed endless ripples around Liu Wuxie. Space buckled and collapsed as the six elders of the Nalan Clan attacked together. The Peach Blossom Gate followed, their elders forming a formation and unleashing a crushing force like a towering mountain pressing down from the sky onto Liu Wuxie.

“Come!”

Instead of retreating, Liu Wuxie charged forward. Sweeping the surrounding aura away, he casually pushed his palm out and stopped the six elders of the Nalan Clan from closing in.

Now that Liu Wuxie could circulate the five elements, the desolate world could sustain itself, and every mythical art he unleashed carried world force.

The instant Liu Wuxie charged out, he released a roar that made his enemies’ soul seas tremble. Soul Spears materialized at once, and soul attacks became the sharpest blade against cultivators in the Spirit Martial Astral Domain.

Thousands of Soul Spears appeared, and the sight stunned countless people.

“It’s the Spirit Clan’s Soul Forge Art! How did he manage to cultivate it?!”

The Spirit Clan’s Soul Forge Art had vanished ages ago, and its loss had driven the Spirit Clan into gradual decline.

Liu Wuxie struck without discrimination. He had already warned the people not involved in this matter to leave. Since they had stayed behind, fate would decide their lives.

Cultivators at the Earth Immortal Realm and lower levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm couldn’t withstand the Soul Spears. They clutched their heads and screamed as pain tore through them.

“ARGH!”

In less than half a breath, Liu Wuxie slaughtered more than seventy people, even before the six elders of the Nalan Clan could reach him.