Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1596 - Revenge Begins
Chapter 1596 – Revenge Begins
All the slaves turned to look at Liu Wuxie, confused. Some looked lost, some hesitated, and others brightened with raw excitement.
A few older slaves shouted the instant recognition struck, “It’s Liu Wuxie!”
After all, only Liu Wuxie and He Yingwu had escaped from Anlu Star back then. At the same time, many others had rushed into the teleportation array and died at the hands of the elders from the Immortal Slaughter Palace after their arrival.
Later, the older slaves had learned from the guards that Liu Wuxie had not only escaped, but he had also slipped past the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s pursuit.
The moment the older slaves saw him with their own eyes, they started crying.
“I have come to help everyone escape this suffering and return your freedom to you,” Liu Wuxie said, lifting a hand until the surroundings fell silent.
Disbelief spread across the crowd when Liu Wuxie promised them their freedom.
“Is it true? Will we be free from being slaves?” the slaves who were brought during the past year asked. They didn’t know Liu Wuxie and could only stare in confusion.
The instant Liu Wuxie spoke of freeing all the slaves, Yu Wentai began to tremble in terror. Without slaves, who would mine the vein? If the Immortal Slaughter Palace learned the truth, they would be the first to tear him to pieces.
“Young Master Liu, I’m begging you! I’ll give you whatever you want! If you release these slaves, the Immortal Slaughter Palace will tear me apart!” Yu Wentai cried as he lunged forward and fell to his knees.
“The Immortal Slaughter Palace won’t exist much longer,” Liu Wuxie replied with a faint smirk. Thousands of golden rays then shot out and drilled straight into the soul sea of Yu Wentai and every guard present.
In an instant, Liu Wuxie turned them into his devotees. Their cultivation wasn’t high, but they still held value, and if he used them correctly, he could make them a blade that cut deep into the Immortal Slaughter Palace.
Liu Wuxie flicked his gaze to Tian Can, who stepped forward with a stack of martial souls in his hand. Yu Wentai and the guards moved as well, and they wouldn’t hesitate to take their own lives the moment Liu Wuxie gave the order.
“Get going. This is my gift to the Immortal Slaughter Palace,” Liu Wuxie said, waving them off.
Yu Wentai and the guards all used the teleportation array to leave Anlu Star. With that, only Liu Wuxie, Tian Can, and the slaves remained on this planet.
“Liu Wuxie, can you please accept us? We have nowhere to go, even if we leave this planet.”
Many of the guards had low cultivation, and if they left, someone would recapture them and force them back into slavery.
With this many people, arranging a future for them wouldn’t be simple.
“Who’s the leader among you?” Liu Wuxie asked, already certain the slaves had someone who held them together.
“My name is Zhang Yi. Young Master Liu, what instructions do you have for us? I will pass it on to them,” an expert at the Heaven Profound Realm said as he stepped out, cupped his hands, and bowed toward Liu Wuxie.
“I won’t ask anything of you. Anyone who wants to stay can stay. As for those who wish to return to the Laman Astral Domain, I won’t stop any of you. If you have nowhere to go, I will make arrangements for you all to leave the Laman Astral Domain,” Liu Wuxie said, addressing the slaves clearly.
“Everyone heard that? If anyone wishes to stay on the Laman Astral Domain, you can choose to stay behind. If any of you still have family around, you can go and find them,” Zhang Yi shouted as he relayed the message.
They had seized many slaves by force, and they had even dragged some away along with their families.
The sea of slaves soon split into several groups, yet no one chose to remain behind on Anlu Star.
“Young Master Liu, the teleportation array is guarded by experts from the Immortal Slaughter Palace. How are we supposed to leave?” Zhang Yi asked respectfully after he finished organizing everyone.
“Tian Can, take them off this planet and come back to join me.”
Liu Wuxie was certain Tian Can had a treasure that could carry everyone off-world.
“Understood!” Tian Can said. He immediately summoned a crystal coffin, opened it, and guided all the slaves inside.
A massive independent space lay within the crystal coffin, large enough to hold everyone.
After the last slave entered, Tian Can vanished from Anlu Star and headed toward the Laman Astral Domain. Those who wished to remain in this astral domain were released first, and then Tian Can sent the rest to the Thousand Islands Sea Region, because only the Mei Clan could absorb so many people at once.
The Heavenly Dao Society had already dispatched people to the Mei Clan to discuss mining the deep-sea veins. They happened to be short on manpower, and these slaves arrived at exactly the right moment.
Liu Wuxie didn’t lack resources, and he understood that it wouldn’t take long for these slaves to grow into a force to be feared, stationed in the Thousand Islands Sea Region.
Only Liu Wuxie remained on Anlu Star by the time he finished the arrangements. He summoned a divine dragon, sent it burrowing underground, and harvested an entire ore vein in one sweep.
Astral stones could no longer do much for him, but he could still use them to buy loyalty and bind people to him.
He left behind a small spiritual vein, enough to sustain life on Anlu Star.
“The show should start soon, and I can’t miss this event,” Liu Wuxie said, turning into a comet and leaving Anlu Star behind.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace occupied the south of Laman Star, sprawling across a vast territory with several cities clustered around it.
Yu Wentai led more than a thousand guards, who disguised themselves before entering Laman Star and creeping toward the Immortal Slaughter Palace.
Whenever people spoke of the Immortal Slaughter Palace, they inevitably spoke of Tranquil Peace City, their headquarters. Tranquil Peace City sat right beside the Immortal Slaughter Palace, and most of their assets lay concentrated inside the city.
A day later, Liu Wuxie entered Tranquil Peace City as a disguised young scholar. He sat inside a restaurant and watched the Alchemy Hall in the distance. It was one of the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s assets.
The Alchemy Hall stood vast and imposing, funneling astonishing profits into the Immortal Slaughter Palace daily, as though it minted money without end.
Countless precious herbs and pills sat on display, and customers streamed through without pause.
“Let’s start with you,” Liu Wuxie said, setting his teacup down.
Those around him had no idea who he was speaking to. Every devotee he had forged was bound to his will; he could sense their location and command them at any moment.
At that moment, an unremarkable man stepped into the Alchemy Hall and scanned the room, searching for the best position. This place belonged to the Immortal Slaughter Palace, and anyone who dared to cause trouble here would be courting death.
No expert stood guard, because the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s name alone frightened troublemakers into silence.
The man paused beside a pill shelf, and a strange talisman suddenly flew from his hand and burst with a violent surge of power.
No one understood what was happening before the talisman detonated.
Back in the Thousand Islands Sea Region, Liu Wuxie had slaughtered countless pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves and refined countless martial souls, and they finally became useful now. The martial soul that exploded carried the might at the low level of the Heaven Gaze Realm.
A Heaven Gaze Realm detonation carried monstrous force. In a single instant, the entire Alchemy Hall collapsed into ashes, and every herb and pill within it vanished into ruin. The cultivators inside were blasted outward by the shockwave.
The sudden catastrophe left everyone stunned. The enemy stood in the open while Liu Wuxie remained in the dark, and he intended to torment the Immortal Slaughter Palace step by step.
Just a heartbeat earlier, a towering pavilion stood there, and now it lay flattened into ruins.
“What’s going on? Who dared to cause trouble in the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s territory?”
The streets erupted into chaos as cultivators rushed in from every direction to see what had happened.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace’s disciples stationed in Tranquil Peace City sprinted over at once.
“Damn it! It’s the aura of a martial soul!” the disciples spat as soon as they arrived and caught the lingering aura hanging in the air.
Martial souls had already spread through the four astral domains, and even the Abyssal Race had purchased them.
“Who is it? Get out here!” the disciples roared. Every one of them had formidable cultivation, and none of them was beneath the Primal Origin Realm.
No one answered them, and most bystanders retreated far away, unwilling to incur the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s wrath.
Within the Laman Astral Domain, the Immortal Slaughter Palace ruled as the strongest force. The other sects couldn’t compare, and only the Azure Thunder Sect could contend with them.
Back then, Liu Wuxie had used the Azure Thunder Sect’s name to slip out of the Laman Astral Domain.
Right then, a second mushroom cloud bloomed on another street with a deafening blast. A blacksmithing workshop disintegrated, and every artifact and material within it evaporated into dust.
When the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s disciples rushed there, they found no clues at all, as the person who had detonated the martial soul had vanished along with the explosion.
More people gathered in the streets, whispering in disbelief, “How could this be? Who dares to provoke the Immortal Slaughter Palace?”
Not long after, explosions chained across Tranquil Peace City. Each detonation brought down another Immortal Slaughter Palace asset in ruins, and in the blink of an eye, they had lost more than a hundred assets.
The shock immediately alarmed the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s upper echelons, and they dispatched large numbers of experts at the Heaven Gaze Realm to Tranquil Peace City to investigate the truth.
“That’s enough here. It’s time for the other assets,” Liu Wuxie said. He didn’t linger in Tranquil Peace City. He wanted to avoid a sweeping crackdown like the Nalan Clan had used in the Spirit Martial Astral Domain.
He didn’t avoid them out of fear. He refused to clash with the Immortal Slaughter Palace head-on, and when the time came, he would meet them on his own terms.
Tian Can still hadn’t returned, which meant Liu Wuxie had to keep his edge sharp and his movements cautious.
After investigating, the Immortal Slaughter Palace eventually concluded that the Heavenly Dao Society had launched a counterattack. They immediately sealed off Tranquil Peace City and began searching for Liu Wuxie.
However, before they could truly react, Liu Wuxie had already left the city and appeared on another planet. This planet produced astral crystals in vast quantities, making it one of the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s most important veins.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace had built a city around that astral crystal vein, and vast quantities of astral crystals were shipped out every single day.
Liu Wuxie blended into the crowd and entered the city. Immortal Slaughter Palace disciples patrolled the streets after receiving orders to tighten defenses and guard against raids from the Heavenly Dao Society.
Liu Wuxie easily converted several Immortal Slaughter Palace disciples, then released several martial souls.
A violent rumble erupted from underground. The astral crystal vein shattered, and countless astral crystals turned into ashes.
As report after report arrived, the Immortal Slaughter Palace watched its assets shrink. Most importantly, Liu Wuxie left no trace behind. By the time their experts arrived to investigate, he had already disappeared.
Just like that, Liu Wuxie continued sweeping through the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s assets. He used faith energy to control ordinary disciples, then used martial souls to demolish what they guarded.
Three days slipped by without anyone realizing, and the Immortal Slaughter Palace had already lost about half of its assets. At the same time, Liu Wuxie had nearly burned through his stockpile of martial souls, and he had used almost all the ones he had carried back from the Thousand Islands Sea Region.
That meant he would have to act personally if he wanted to keep destroying the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s assets.
Yu Wentai had returned to the Immortal Slaughter Palace.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace’s elders demanded, anger flaring the moment they saw him return without approval, “Yu Wentai, what are you doing back in the sect instead of Anlu Star?”
“Liu Wuxie has gone to Anlu Star, and I have pressing matters to report to the palace lord,” Yu Wentai said urgently.
