Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1581 - Devastating Punch
Chapter 1581 – Devastating Punch
This wasn’t Liu Wuxie’s first time using martial souls to blow people up. He had done it once in Nightmare City, but the martial souls he had used back then were ordinary and could only blow up cultivators at the Earth Immortal Realm at most.
These martial souls were different, as every one of them came from a cultivator with powerful cultivation. The Black Crow Clan experts that Liu Wuxie had slaughtered had been the elites of their clan.
When the martial souls detonated, the blast ripped straight through the Peach Blossom Array. Once the Peach Blossom Array lost its restraint, the detonation became a reaping scythe that killed Liu Wuxie’s enemies.
Light sphere after light sphere exploded, and over a thousand cultivators vanished in just half a minute, completely vaporized by the martial souls. Screams filled the entire hall, and everyone suffered some degree of impact regardless of cultivation.
Even with the Nalan Clan’s grand elder shielding Nalan Qiuhe, the shock still rattled her hard enough to make her spit blood. Tao Xuanming fared no better, and his face turned terrifyingly pale.
This single detonation wiped out one-third of the Peach Blossom Gate’s elders. The pirates and wandering cultivators paid the heaviest price. They had assumed Liu Wuxie would die together with the Peach Blossom Gate and the Nalan Clan, leaving them free to pick over the remains.
The martial souls’ detonation shattered their fantasy completely. The number of people inside the stone hall dropped sharply, and a few hundred martial souls had already killed more than a thousand cultivators.
How many years had it been since the four astral domains had lost so many experts in a single battle? Deaths were rare, especially among Heaven Gaze Realm cultivators, yet today, Heaven Gaze experts fell in droves, and Earth Immortal Realm experts died like livestock.
Those who survived the explosion screamed from the ground, “Liu Wuxie, I curse that you’ll die a terrible death!”
“I had already warned those who weren’t involved in this matter to leave. Since you all chose to stay, you can die now,” Liu Wuxie declared as he emerged from the Heavenly Deity Monument and appeared in midair.
The detonation of the martial souls had shattered the encirclement formed by the Peach Blossom Gate and the Nalan Clan. The pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves could no longer pose a threat, but the divine race remained a concern for Liu Wuxie.
Liu Wuxie’s momentum surged to its peak after killing so many people. Even if the divine race joined the fight now, they would fail to turn the tide.
“Divinekin, what are you waiting for? Don’t forget our agreement to kill Liu Wuxie together!” the Nalan Clan’s grand elder yelled, furious that the divine race watched from the sidelines while they charged at the front.
“It’s not that they’re refusing to act, but they don’t dare,” Liu Wuxie said with a cold smirk. After absorbing so many cultivators at the Earth Immortal Realm and the Heaven Gaze Realm, their laws and energies had already become nourishment for the Ancestral Tree.
After all, some people among the dead had managed to seize treasures from the racks, and the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron had refined them all. Several of those treasures contained powerful wood-attribute energy and had become perfect nourishment for the Ancestral Tree.
The Ancestral Tree began to stir, eager to devour the divinekin. If Liu Wuxie refined every divinekin present, he could open the fifth divine gate and gain more divine force, which would in turn further strengthen his mythical arts.
Liu Wuxie wasn’t wrong. The divinekin were holding back for the humans to kill him. However, not only had they failed to kill him, but the Ancestral Tree had evolved further.
The Nalan Clan stood at a complete loss. They knew Liu Wuxie and the divine race were mortal enemies, but they didn’t know why. The divine race had never revealed to anyone that Liu Wuxie possessed the Ancestral Tree.
“Liu Wuxie, I’ll take you down with me even if I have to self-detonate!” The earlier detonation had crippled several elders of the Peach Blossom Gate, and they planned to self-detonate to kill Liu Wuxie.
Without the spiritual array’s restraint, Liu Wuxie could finally fight without restraint.
“Time to end this farce now. Do you think that these are the only tricks I have?”
Liu Wuxie laughed, never having felt a battle this satisfying, and he summoned the Heavenly Deity Monument with a wave of his hand.
With his current strength, he could only control the Heavenly Deity Monument for a few breaths, so he had to ensure he killed everyone within that window. At the very least, he had to kill those at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm because anyone else left behind wouldn’t pose a real threat to him.
Liu Wuxie smacked his lips, feeling more excited than ever. After slaughtering over a thousand experts and absorbing their laws and energies, his immortal energy finally reached saturation and desperately needed an outlet.
The immortal energy inside his desolate world grew purer. Even though he had converted most of his true essence into immortal energy, the purity still wasn’t enough. Immortal energy needed to be golden, yet most of the immortal energy in the desolate world remained pale blue, indicating a long road ahead before it turned gold.
The moment the Heavenly Deity Monument appeared, the grand elders of the Nalan Clan finally sensed true danger.
“Young Lady, run for your life!” the grand elder urged Nalan Qiuhe, as she still stood inside the stone hall.
The Peach Blossom Gate reacted the same way and tore open a path for Tao Xuanming to escape.
“Too late. No one in this hall will leave this place alive!” Liu Wuxie said calmly.
He needed tributes, as this was the first time he would use the Heavenly Deity Monument to kill. The previous time he had used it against the Black Crow Clan didn’t count. He wanted these people’s blood as tribute to the Heavenly Deity Monument, for it to see daylight again.
Thousands had already fled, but roughly three thousand people remained in the stone hall, and Liu Wuxie intended to kill them all.
No one thought Liu Wuxie was bluffing. They had learned the hard way that he wouldn’t speak so boldly without absolute confidence.
“Run!” The cultivators, finally realizing the danger, charged for the exit.
“Heavenly Deity Monument, crush!” Liu Wuxie had already declared that everyone here would die.
The Heavenly Deity Monument expanded violently and swept across the entire stone hall. The Peach Blossom Cave began to collapse, and countless spatial shards rained down from above.
“Run! The Peach Blossom Cave can’t hold on any longer!”
The cultivators outside no longer dared to watch and fled for their lives, scrambling toward the exit.
If this battle had taken place outside, the power released would have flattened Peach Blossom Island. The Heavenly Deity Monument revealed its true power, releasing a terrifying suction force that dragged everyone toward the center, recreating the same inescapable pull Liu Wuxie had endured back then.
“Divine Eternal Fist!” The Heavenly Deity Monument could suppress, but suppression alone wouldn’t kill, so Liu Wuxie resorted to the Divine Eternal Fist and poured world force and immortal energy into his fist.
As the lesser realm fell apart, darkness began to fade, and light flooded in. This battle had already alarmed the Peach Blossom Gate’s sect master, an expert at the Quasi-Immortal Realm, so Liu Wuxie knew he had to end it quickly and leave Peach Blossom Island.
The Heavenly Deity Monument alone had already shocked everyone. When the power of the Divine Eternal Fist manifested, despair sank into everyone’s hearts.
The Nalan Clan’s grand elder tried to cast a mythical art, only to discover that the Heavenly Deity Monument had suppressed their true essence, rendering any effective counterattack impossible. They could only wait for death to arrive.
Terror twisted across every face under the Divine Eternal Fist’s crushing power. A massive hole opened in front of Liu Wuxie as the lesser realm shattered and let light shine through, and the collapsing Peach Blossom Cave spawned black holes that devoured those who fled too slowly.
Only then did the divinekin finally act, unleashing their divine energy toward Liu Wuxie. As a result, the humans’ true essence weakened even further, while Liu Wuxie remained unaffected.
“I have been waiting for you to attack,” Liu Wuxie said as his gaze locked onto the fourteen divinekin. He summoned the Ancestral Tree, and its branches shot out like vines to wrap around them.
The branches burrowed into their bodies, extracted their divine energy, and condensed it into fourteen Divine Fruits.
“Refine!” Liu Wuxie refined every Divine Fruit at once, blasted open the fifth Divine Gate directly, and let divine force gush out to flood his body.
“That feels great!” Liu Wuxie continued performing the Divine Eternal Fist, and the sudden surge of divine force further amplified its power. The pressure had already forced everyone to bow their heads, yet it doubled again the moment he opened the fifth Divine Gate.
A thousand immortal runes merged into that fist, granting this mythical art a hint of an immortal art. Not a single person present—not even the Nalan Clan’s grand elder—had ever witnessed an immortal art before because only an immortal could unleash one, yet Liu Wuxie had accomplished it here.
The instant the Nalan Clan’s grand elder sensed that immortal art, his eyes nearly bulged, and his mind felt ready to split. He couldn’t imagine what kind of monster they had offended.
Even though the Divine Eternal Fist still couldn’t be considered a genuine immortal art, it already rivaled low-levelled immortal arts.
In just a few breaths, the immortal energy in the desolate world began to drain at a terrifying rate. Divine force also halted as it reached its peak.
“I don’t want to die!” Many cultivators finally collapsed under the pressure, and they exploded as the force rose. The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron refined them and poured everything back into the desolate world to keep generating immortal energy.
A cultivator at the seventh-level Heaven Gaze Realm finally failed to withstand the pressure and exploded.
The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron hovered in midair, absorbing energies and laws every time someone died. The scene horrified Nalan Qiuhe so deeply that she began to tremble, and for the first time, fear truly took root in her heart. She didn’t even dare to resist.
As the Nalan Clan’s favored daughter, she had come confidently to capture Liu Wuxie alive, yet everything had turned into this nightmare. Calling the Nalan Clan for help was pointless unless an immortal came because even a quasi-immortal would be useless now.
The strength displayed by Liu Wuxie displayed felt so terrifying that heaven and earth had begun to reject him. Once he reached the Heaven Gaze Realm, even quasi-immortals would not be his match.
With a thousand immortal runes enforcing the Divine Eternal Fist, the surroundings fell into an eternal state, and no one could sense the flow of time anymore.
“Time to end this,” Liu Wuxie said like a deity walking through the universe.
World force surged out of his body and became the last straw that crushed them. The moment that power descended, many people closed their eyes, as this devastating punch had already surpassed heaven and earth.
