Desolate Devouring Art - Chapter 1631 - Mysterious Dragons Head
Chapter 1631 – Mysterious Dragon’s Head
Astral domain force surged outward in a crushing wave, and Liu Wuxie’s domain locked down a radius of three thousand miles. This time, he refused to give the Mad Demon Ancestors any chance to escape.
“What a terrifying axe!”
The cultivators watching from afar dropped to their knees as the axe behind Liu Wuxie suppressed them into the ground.
That pressure felt like a god’s might that transcended heaven and earth, and an axe that could split everything in the world. The instant it fell, heaven and earth fractured, and countless mountains collapsed in silence.
No one understood what was happening. Buildings began to crumble under the axe’s suppression, and even Liu Wuxie couldn’t hide his shock.
The world itself shifted the moment the axe appeared. The surrounding landscape twisted as if doomsday had arrived, yet it also carried the eerie sense of heaven and earth being reborn.
The axe had no physical body, but the moment it cleaved, sizzling heat erupted within the Mad Demon Ancestors’ soul seas like a raging fire, scorching their spirits.
“This ends now!”
Liu Wuxie knew he had to finish this quickly in case other experts lurked nearby. After all, countless people across the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain wanted him dead.
He had two goals in killing the Mad Demon Ancestors. One was to avenge Vanya, and the other was to obtain their resources to nourish his cultivation. At his current height, every future breakthrough only became harder, and the cracks on the Heavenly Dao Book continued to widen.
A growing premonition pressed on him that someone in the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm had already noticed him and was searching for a way to open a passage between the two realms.
The immortals of the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain didn’t truly terrify him because they hadn’t undergone the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm’s baptism, which meant the laws in their bodies remained incomplete. But cultivators from the Fleeting Cloud Celestial Realm were different, because they carried celestial laws that could further empower their immortal arts.
That reality forced Liu Wuxie to raise his cultivation at all costs and reach the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm as soon as possible. Plundering remained the fastest and most direct path forward.
If he killed the Mad Demon Ancestors and refined them, he could deepen his foundation and prepare for his breakthrough to the third-level Heaven Gaze Realm.
The Mad Demon Ancestors struggled after the axe injured their primordial spirits, and they tried to use the spiritual array to suppress Liu Wuxie. They had no idea that Liu Wuxie’s attainment in arrays could leave them far behind, and their spiritual array couldn’t threaten him at all.
“Great Five Elemental Immortal Art!” Liu Wuxie thrust his palm forward. After evolving into an immortal art, its power had intensified, and the immortal energy in his desolate world had become terrifyingly pure, giving the technique even greater destructive force.
He locked onto the one on the left, whose cultivation was slightly weaker.
“Liu Wuxie, you’re pushing it too far!” His target screamed as blood poured from his mouth, forced to face the Great Five Elemental Immortal Art before his soul sea had recovered.
Countless years had passed since a quasi-immortal had last suffered such humiliation and despair.
At that moment, the violent fluctuation of Quasi-Immortal Realm laws awakened many immortals in the Skyfall Realm, and they began searching for a way out. The wills of countless immortals spread like tides, sending messages back to their sects to learn what had happened.
The Skyfall Realm would open a rift when the world’s turbulence peaked, and that rift would allow them to leave.
When immortals entered seclusion, they often remained there for tens of thousands of years. They could return to the astral domains once every ten thousand years. However, if the outside world stayed calm, they usually chose to keep cultivating in the Skyfall Realm. They could then aim for higher cultivation realms, so they would at least possess the strength to protect themselves in the celestial realm.
When the five-element mountain descended from the sky, the entire Dalia Star shuddered violently. A vast ocean drained in an instant, and patches of land collapsed under the mountain’s overwhelming force.
The mountain looked as if it fell slowly, but it actually slammed down with lightning speed, crushing everything beneath it.
In the end, Liu Wuxie’s target couldn’t endure it any longer and exploded on the spot.
The Great Five Elemental Immortal Art was a genuine immortal art. The Mad Demon Ancestors were powerful, but they still hadn’t comprehended an immortal art, and that meant they could only die when faced with one.
If the Mad Demon Ancestors had fought at full strength, Liu Wuxie would’ve found it nearly impossible to kill them. But ever since the Heavenbound Immortal Finger had injured them, their combat strength had declined drastically.
Liu Wuxie didn’t pause after killing one of them.
The surviving Mad Demon Ancestors began forming seals to accelerate the slaughter of the Mad Demon Gate’s disciples. Wailing rose from the ground as more than five thousand disciples died out of tens of thousands.
The scene turned gruesome beyond words. Those who survived collapsed onto the ground and cursed the Mad Demon Ancestors for their inhuman cruelty because they had followed the twins for countless years only to receive this end.
“Liu Wuxie, I’ll kill you!” The surviving Mad Demon Ancestor fell into madness after watching his elder brother die. He hurled himself forward, charging at Liu Wuxie with the intent of mutual destruction.
“Hmph. You’re not even qualified to perish with me.” Liu Wuxie chuckled, then cast the Heavenbound Immortal Finger. A towering finger descended from the sky.
Whether it was the Great Five Elemental Immortal Art or the Heavenbound Immortal Finger, both carried peerless might. No one could survive beneath that finger, and only existences like Gong Gong could stand against him. That meant Liu Wuxie had become invincible when facing ordinary quasi-immortals.
When the Heavenbound Immortal Finger crushed down, the surviving Mad Demon Ancestor died as well. A black hole opened before Liu Wuxie, and he devoured the energies and laws of the two quasi-immortals, pulling everything into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron for refinement.
With the evolution of Desolate Devouring Art, each breakthrough would demand more resources.
Liu Wuxie’s gaze sharpened as he swept through the Mad Demon Ancestors’ interspatial rings. “So many treasures, and there’s also an immortal stone!”
The treasures the Mad Demon Ancestors had accumulated over countless years fell into his hands, and he fed anything he didn’t need directly to the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.
He stored the immortal stone away because he desperately lacked them now and couldn’t afford to waste even one.
He erased the imprints within the Spirit Yin Sword and the Blood Butcher Sword, as he planned to hand these quasi-immortal artifacts to the Heavenly Dao Society.
Silence fell across the battlefield. The surviving disciples dropped to their knees, trembling in fear, terrified that Liu Wuxie would slaughter them on a whim.
Aside from the ordinary disciples, more than a dozen Earth Immortal cultivators remained. The Heaven Gaze Realm experts had already died earlier, devoured by the Mad Demon Ancestors and absorbed into the spiritual array.
“Liu Wuxie, we’re all innocent! Please don’t kill us!”
“From this day on, there will be no Mad Demon Gate. Find your own paths,” Liu Wuxie said. He didn’t wipe them all out, allowing them to leave.
“Thank you for sparing us!”
The moment they realized they would live, everyone nodded frantically. They rose at once and fled, not daring to stay another moment in case Liu Wuxie changed his mind.
Liu Wuxie swept his gaze over the surroundings, and the nearby cultivators scattered instantly. His gaze felt so terrifying that it seemed ready to rip their primordial spirits out, and even Heaven Gaze Realm cultivators weren’t exempt.
In the blink of an eye, peace returned. Within a radius of three thousand meters around the Mad Demon Gate, no living thing remained, and only Liu Wuxie stood there.
When Liu Wuxie landed, he activated Ghost Pupil and scanned the entire Mad Demon Gate. The Mad Demon Ancestors had likely amassed staggering wealth over the years, and they couldn’t have carried everything inside their interspatial rings.
He knew they had hidden more treasures somewhere, and Ghost Pupil would find them even if they lay buried deep underground.
Sure enough, Ghost Pupil uncovered an underground palace far beneath the sect.
“What a strange palace. No wonder the Mad Demon Ancestors built their sect here on such a remote planet. It must connect to this mysterious palace,” Liu Wuxie murmured.
The environment on this planet looked ordinary, and the spiritual energy wasn’t especially strong either. That had always made people wonder why the Mad Demon Ancestors had chosen to establish their sect here.
Liu Wuxie went deeper and found a massive well formed by nature itself. Normally, only the two ancestors were allowed into this place, and even the sect’s elders weren’t permitted here. The well served as the entrance to the underground palace.
With a flash, Liu Wuxie dove straight down. Wind howled in his ears as he descended, and after roughly half a minute, his feet touched the ground. Because Ghost Pupil had already shown him this place, he felt no excitement or surprise.
Even so, he had only discovered this palace through Ghost Pupil, and he still didn’t know what awaited him inside. He wondered how great the treasure was for the Mad Demon Ancestors to have built their sect on such a remote planet.
He walked through a sunken passage, and damp air clung to the walls. Oil lamps hung along both sides, releasing dim light that barely illuminated the path, but darkness couldn’t hinder Liu Wuxie’s sight.
After about a hundred meters, the true appearance of the underground palace finally came into view. An ancient palace lay sealed for countless years, and its red lacquer had peeled away with the passage of time.
He pushed the doors, and a creaking groan echoed from the depths. Moist, rotten air rolled out, and Liu Wuxie immediately sealed his senses, waiting for the doors to open completely.
When the decayed doors swung wide, the palace’s interior revealed itself a few breaths later. It looked absurdly plain. Everything else had vanished in the river of history, leaving only a bare hall.
He stepped inside and found no traces on the stone walls. Time had erased them all, leaving no useful clues. Even the tables and chairs had rotted into dirt. The only thing that remained intact was a dragon’s head on the right side of the palace.
That dragon’s head looked strange because it differed from an ordinary dragon’s head. Aside from it, nothing else remained inside the palace. Still, the Mad Demon Ancestors had chosen this place for a reason.
There was no way for Liu Wuxie to know whether this place had housed treasures in the past. Even if they had, the Mad Demon Ancestors had likely refined them long ago.
He walked toward the dragon’s head. When he was five steps from it, the Heavenly Dao Book suddenly stirred, signaling that a treasure lay hidden inside it. Yet if a treasure truly sat within, how had the Mad Demon Ancestors failed to discover it through all these years?
That contradiction reeked of something strange. Even Liu Wuxie couldn’t tell whether this was danger or opportunity, as the Heavenly Dao Book always stirred when danger drew close, or treasure lay near. However, more often than not, that warning meant danger had arrived.
After all, danger and opportunity often hung on a single thread.
Liu Wuxie advanced and halted just a step away. He didn’t move closer, nor did he reach out to touch it. Instead, he examined the dragon head carefully, wary of hidden traps.
Even his divine sense couldn’t penetrate many parts of this palace, so who knew what secrets were concealed here.
