Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1617 - Killing a Quasi-Immortal
Chapter 1617 – Killing a Quasi-Immortal
The instant Liu Wuxie unleashed the Great Five Elemental Immortal Art, Chu Zhongtian couldn’t hide the fear on his face. An invisible shackle snapped shut around him, locking down his primordial spirit, physique, and soul sea all at once.
Yet the true terror didn’t come only from the Great Five Elemental Immortal Art. The axe behind Liu Wuxie loomed like an axe of primordial chaos, as if it could cleave the heavens apart with a single fall.
The Azure Thunder Sect’s elders huddled together and whispered, “Sect Master, Liu Wuxie already possesses the means to slay a quasi-immortal!” Meanwhile, upper echelons from the various sects across the Laman Astral Domain streamed in behind them.
“It’s truly unbelievable that a cultivator at the Heaven Gaze Realm is capable of unleashing an immortal art. This has toppled everything we know in the cultivation world,” the Azure Thunder Sect’s sect master said, a wisp of shock lingering on his face.
He couldn’t help asking himself whether he could withstand that descending palm if he stood in Chu Zhongtian’s place.
A five-elemental mountain took form in the sky, thousands of times stronger than before, and the power of an immortal art surged through it. Thousands of runes fused into that immortal rune as the divine mountain started to descend.
Meanwhile, the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s palace lord tried again and again to break through Tian Can’s defenses, and every attempt crashed into failure.
“Divine Soul-Seizing Needle!” Chu Zhongtian unleashed his strongest attack without holding back, pouring everything he had into it. Heaven and earth shifted in an instant as the ground collapsed and black miasma billowed up from below.
“A mere quasi-immortal is nothing before an actual immortal art,” Liu Wuxie murmured, his eyes devoid of emotion. The axe behind him seemed to answer that calm and flew out, bringing down a devastating strike.
No one expected the axe to carry offensive power. Domains usually imprisoned and suppressed. No one had ever heard of a domain that could attack.
Even the quasi-immortals watching from afar scratched their heads in frustration, unable to make sense of it.
Under its might, the Divine Soul-Seizing Needle shattered on contact, breaking down into laws of heaven and earth before vanishing without a trace.
“Shit!” Chu Zhongtian cried out and retreated at once, refusing to linger for even a heartbeat. His attacks couldn’t touch Liu Wuxie, and that meant Liu Wuxie had already become untouchable.
Liu Wuxie’s cold voice thundered across the clouds, “Die!”
Within a radius of thirty thousand miles, demonic beasts detonated one after another, and their blood dyed the sky red like a deity’s wrath.
Liu Wuxie released his aura laced with the will of an Immortal Emperor. Empowered by thousands of immortal runes and boundless immortal energy, the five elemental divine mountain crashed down from above. It was a strike meant to erase everything in its path.
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That palm carried not only the power of the five elements, but also the world force.
“Palace Lord, save me!” Chu Zhongtian screamed in panic. The divine mountain’s suppression pinned him so completely that he couldn’t move at all, and even a quasi-immortal looked insignificant in front of an immortal art.
Unless Chu Zhongtian also wielded an immortal art, he could never face the Great Five Elemental Immortal Art or kill Liu Wuxie. Yet almost no quasi-immortals had ever managed to comprehend immortal arts.
Chu Zhongtian had reached the Quasi-Immortal Realm only within the past millennium, and he couldn’t even grasp a shadow of it, much less form an immortal art.
The palace lord couldn’t split his attention. He barked an order at Sima An and the others, forcing them to intercept Liu Wuxie at all costs.
At that command, over a hundred Heaven Gaze Realm experts surged toward Liu Wuxie without hesitation, and the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s upper echelons threw themselves into the assault.
“Too slow!” The desolate world throbbed, and immortal energy surged outward like a tide, hurling Sima An and the others away. They couldn’t even get close to Liu Wuxie, let alone kill him.
“Time to end this farce!”
After flinging Sima An and the others aside, Liu Wuxie locked onto Chu Zhongtian and pressed down with his right hand.
The five-elemental mountain fell, like an entire heaven collapsing onto Chu Zhongtian. In the next breath, a quasi-immortal became minced meat beneath it.
As Chu Zhongtian burst apart, countless Quasi-Immortal Realm laws spilled into the air, only for a black hole to appear and devour every last thread of energy and law from his remains.
Even for Liu Wuxie, executing an immortal art demanded a price. He might have comprehended an immortal art and wielded terrifying immortal energy, but he still stood only at the first-level Heaven Gaze Realm.
The moment he released that immortal art, a vicious backlash tore through him as the Laman Astral Domain’s laws tried to erase him.
“Heavens? So what? I’ll still trample everything regardless!”
Tens of millions of astral crystals detonated and fused into him, forcing his injuries to mend.
One strike had nearly drained him, burning through most of the immortal energy in his body. If he had pushed the Divine Eternal Fist into an immortal art and unleashed it, it would have emptied him in a single blow, and that was exactly why he never chose it.
Chu Zhongtian’s death stunned everyone into silence, including the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s palace lord and Tian Can. Even their clash faltered as they turned to stare.
As he watched Chu Zhongtian vanish, coldness flooded the palace lord, and unease wrapped his heart like iron. He knew he would die the moment Liu Wuxie and Tian Can joined forces.
He reacted instantly. The palace lord produced an ancient-looking plaque. Its aura was at least several million years old. The expression of the Azure Thunder Sect’s sect master shifted the instant he saw it.
“Liu Wuxie, I want you dead!” the Immortal Slaughter Palace Lord roared and crushed the jade plaque in his hand. The moment it broke, the surrounding space shuddered, and no one could tell what he had just triggered.
“Master, he’s notifying the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s immortal,” Tian Can said grimly.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace sheltered immortals in deep seclusion, hiding in the far reaches of the cosmos to conceal their presence from the heavens and avoid discovery by the Celestial Realm. Only a life-and-death crisis and secret arts could wake them.
A violent ripple rolled out from the depths of the universe. Somewhere impossibly far away, an old man opened his eyes and released a boundless aura, and the pressure swept outward, awakening more immortals.
In the four astral domains, every first-tier sect relied on an immortal as its foundation.
“Kill as many as you can,” Liu Wuxie ordered, and he began his massacre.
He and Tian Can plunged into the crowd and butchered every Immortal Slaughter Palace cultivator they could reach.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace Lord retreated the instant the slaughter began, dodging Liu Wuxie’s killing range. He had already summoned the ancestor, and an immortal would arrive soon.
Sima An and the others froze when they saw Liu Wuxie charging straight at them, shock stealing their ability to resist. The Heretic Blade appeared in Liu Wuxie’s hand, and he swung it down and killed Sima An on the spot.
The remaining elders finally snapped out of their fear and tried to resist, but Liu Wuxie released his domain, locking them in place. The Heretic Blade flew by itself, dragging a curtain of blood across the sky.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace’s elders fell like wheat before a scythe, and death claimed them before they could even raise their hands.
Experts from the other sects watched from a distance and sucked in cold breath, stunned into silence by what they were witnessing.
“This is too terrifying! How long has it been since a quasi-immortal last fell in the Laman Astral Domain?” The Azure Thunder Sect’s elders spoke with fear carved into their faces.
The slaughter didn’t slow. Liu Wuxie cut Gong Yangbo down with a single strike, and Fan Gaojie died under the shock of Liu Wuxie’s immortal energy.
More than a hundred elders had stood there a moment ago, and only a few dozen remained in the blink of an eye. In just a handful of breaths, Liu Wuxie slaughtered wave after wave of pinnacle Heaven Gaze Realm cultivators.
When the Heretic Blade drifted toward Niu Yichang, it halted in midair.
Niu Yichang had already braced for death, yet the Heretic Blade never fell, no matter how long he waited.
“Get lost and leave the Immortal Slaughter Palace,” Liu Wuxie said, then flicked his hand and blasted Niu Yichang out of the encirclement.
Niu Yichang had cared for him during his days inside the Immortal Slaughter Palace, and Liu Wuxie repaid that debt. The others received no such mercy, and Liu Wuxie slaughtered them all.
“Leave?”
Niu Yichang smiled bitterly after the blast sent him to his safety, then pressed his right hand to his forehead. He would rather die than accept mercy from Liu Wuxie.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace Lord watched the deaths with fury, and even if the ancestor killed Liu Wuxie, none of those elders would return. Those elders formed the foundation of the Immortal Slaughter Palace, and losing them meant tens of thousands of years without recovery.
Over a hundred Heaven Gaze Realm cultivators lay wiped out, shredded flesh and thick resentment choking the air. The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron emerged and devoured everything, refining their energies and resentment into the desolate world.
Then the entire world dropped into dead silence.
No one understood what had happened because time, space, and laws all froze in place. Even a river went still, frozen mid-flow.
“This is bad! An immortal has acted!” The Azure Thunder Sect’s sect master shouted and retreated at once. The power of an immortal carried devastation too vast to gamble against.
“Tian Can, enter the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron!” Liu Wuxie roared, and Tian Can vanished into the cauldron.
Liu Wuxie didn’t even look back at the Immortal Slaughter Palace Lord. He had no time left. He had to flee before the immortal’s strike arrived, and safety lay only in leaving this place.
“You want to leave after killing? Not so easy!” a prestigious voice echoed through space and arrived on Laman Star, and the Immortal Slaughter Palace’s ancestor finally acted, releasing an overwhelming wave of an immortal’s aura.
Even the will of an immortal could kill quasi-immortals. Liu Wuxie possessed the means to slaughter quasi-immortals, but he still fell short to counter a true immortal, and that was why he ran without hesitation.
A black imprint tore open the sky and appeared above Laman Star, and it locked onto Liu Wuxie the instant it formed. No matter how he fled, that imprint followed, and his situation worsened with every breath.
This was an immortal’s power that could kill across an impossibly long distance.
Liu Wuxie understood at once that he couldn’t shake the imprint. Even if he ran to the far corners of the four astral domains, that black imprint would still find him.
The Immortal Slaughter Palace Lord stood his ground and bared a brutal smile as he watched.
“Liu Wuxie, you’re dead!” he roared.
Once Liu Wuxie died, he planned to whip his corpse for three thousand days and ensure Liu Wuxie never reincarnated.
As the black imprint bore down, Liu Wuxie’s expression sank into iron heaviness. He activated the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe and pulled out every artifact he could muster.
Even so, the black imprint pierced through Quasi-Immortal Realm armor, tore through the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe, and punched straight into his body.
