Desolate Devouring Art

Chapter 648 - Hunting

Many people who harbored ill intentions secretly followed Liu Wuxie, planning to launch sudden ambushes while he was distracted.

The outer region was flat and open, and Liu Wuxie stood beneath a towering mountain, the summit piercing into the clouds.

"The Celestial Realm also had countless towering peaks, but this peak holds a unique beauty," murmured Liu Wuxie as he turned around and left. He didn't choose to set foot on this mountain as this mountain was the home of the infamous Snowmen, and venturing recklessly would be dangerous.

As for ten-thousand-year Snow Lotuses, they could only be found at the summit of such snowy mountains.

After making a detour from the towering peak, Liu Wuxie came upon a vast, mirror-like lake. The lake was frozen, and its surface gleaming like a polished mirror reflected his image when he walked on it.

The lake was devoid of trees or mountains for hundreds of miles, and a human walking on it was no different from an ant. He quickened his pace to cross the lake, and numerous shadows flickered in the distance, gathering from the surroundings.

When they stepped on the frozen lake, a chill rose to their feet, and the temperature was unimaginably cold, enough to make anyone standing on it uncomfortable.

"Liu Wuxie, you can't escape now!" A group of people emerged from the distance. They were disciples of the Heavenly Origin Sect who had finally found Liu Wuxie's trail.

As soon as they spotted Liu Wuxie, they crushed a Communication Talisman to inform Bai Yuan and the nearby Heavenly Origin Sect disciples to reinforce them.

"Catch up to me if you want to kill me!" Liu Wuxie said and increased his speed. There were two Transcendent Plume Gate's disciples stunned in place.

"Is Liu Wuxie doing this on purpose? There's no cover on the lake, and this is no different from exposing himself deliberately," said a Transcendent Plume Gate disciple.

Logically speaking, Liu Wuxie should find shelter in mountainous regions, making it difficult for others to find him. But the frozen lake was vast, and anyone could spot him easily.

"Hiding isn't a long-term solution, and there will be a battle sooner or later. By revealing himself, he managed to disperse his enemies' forces. After all, it will be difficult for him to resist if he was fully surrounded," said the other Transcendent Plume Gate disciple, seemingly to have seen through Liu Wuxie's intentions.

"Senior Brother Zhou Ge, you're saying that he's deliberately luring them here to take them out before they can regroup?" asked the other Transcendent Plume Gate disciple.

If Zhou Ge's prediction was correct, Liu Wuxie would be too terrifying, planning to wipe out everyone from the Heavenly Origin Sect.

"I've studied him over the past few days, and there's that possibility based on his usual tactics. He'll strike while their forces are still divided," Zhou Ge said, nodding. He himself would’ve used the same strategy as Liu Wuxie.

Since a battle was unavoidable, why not remove the enemies while they were scattered? The more his enemies died, the higher odds he would have on this round.

What Zhou Ge said was right. Liu Wuxie had intentionally shown himself on the frozen lake to lure disciples of the Heavenly Origin Sect and Azure Crimson Gate. After killing Wei Xiu, Liu Wuxie had read his memories and discovered that the Heavenly Origin Sect, Azure Crimson Gate, and Indigo Cloud Gate had secretly joined forces.

There were over five hundred disciples altogether, and he was no match even if he could unite the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion disciples. Not to mention that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion disciples weren't united.

If Liu Wuxie wanted to resolve this crisis, he would only kill as many people as he could while they were still dispersed.

Ten Heavenly Origin Sect disciples swiftly gathered. They were Bai Yuan's group, who rushed over upon receiving the news.

However, as Liu Wuxie constantly changed his direction, Bai Yuan and others couldn't determine his exact location.

Liu Wuxie stopped after routing through the icy lake.

"Liu Wuxie, why aren't you running anymore?" The ten Heavenly Origin Sect disciples panted as they circled him, readying their weapons.

"Exhausted at such a short distance? And you call yourselves so-called geniuses of the Heavenly Origin Sect?" Liu Wuxie sneered, looking at the Heavenly Origin Sect disciples, who were panting heavily.

"Don't waste time talking to him! Don't let him slip away again!" commanded Mao Shi. He had reached the ninth level of the Astral River Realm, and his words carried weight as the captain of this small group.

Those in the surroundings fell silent and formed a tactical formation surrounding Liu Wuxie.

"Do you think garbage like you people can hold me?" Liu Wuxie sneered. He knew he had to end the battle quickly before reinforcements came. He didn't use True Strike; instead, he used his ice dao technique.

After refining the corpses of the three Ice Spirit Serpents, Liu Wuxie's ice dao technique contained a hint of the Ice Spirit Serpents' characteristic, capable of catching his opponents off guard.

Silver streaks shuttled through the group. Unlike martial techniques with fixed patterns, dao techniques could adapt to the wielder, taking on various shapes such as a longsword or ice.

"What is this dao technique?" The faces of the ten Heavenly Origin Sect disciples changed, and Liu Wuxie had caught them off guard.

In just half a breath, three disciples of the Heavenly Origin Sect had a hole in their bodies, and they were frozen in ice without any blood dripping out.

"How is this possible?" The three struck disciples stared blankly, their vitality rapidly draining away.

Miao Shi was stunned, and a hint of solemnity flashed in his eyes. He wielded a longsword and initiated the opening stance of the Great Supreme Sword.

Liu Wuxie might have broken the Great Supreme Sword, but the version practiced by these disciples was altered, and the true secrets of this technique were only available to the sect's upper echelons.

"Decent sword technique, but it's a pity that you people are trash," said Liu Wuxie as he vanished, striding the Seven Dipper Steps and shuttling through the remaining seven people in the form of an afterimage.

The battle was a one-sided massacre, and Liu Wuxie's strength grew with each passing moment. Corpses littered the ground, their energies devoured by the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron to strengthen the desolate world.

As the death toll continued to increase, it didn't take long before Miao Shi was the only one left standing.

"H-How are you so powerful?!" Miao Shi panicked with fear creeping onto his face. He couldn't believe that Liu Wuxie had killed nine disciples in just three moves.

"You're just too weak," Liu Wuxie replied, his tone laced with disdain.

Facing brutal honesty, Miao Shi was left speechless. Perhaps they were all garbage in Liu Wuxie's eyes.

"You lured us here on purpose?!" Miao Shi's cultivation was ordinary, but he was highly intelligent. Among the younger generation, he was only second to Wei Xiu.

"Looks like you're not entirely foolish," Liu Wuxie acknowledged with a smile before swinging down with the Heretic Blade, splitting Miao Shi into two. He cleaned up the battlefield quickly and threw all the corpses into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron to be refined by the demonic flame, before injecting the purified laws and spiritual energy into the desolate world.

After killing the ten disciples from the Heavenly Origin Sect, Liu Wuxie casually appeared on the other side of the frozen lake.

The Transcendent Plume Gate hadn't left yet and wasn't far from Liu Wuxie, who walked from the south to west and ran into Liu Wuxie unexpectedly.

"H... He's alive!" The youth with Zhou Ge exclaimed in shock, having assumed that Liu Wuxie was long dead. Perhaps because he was too shocked, his voice was a little loud and reached Liu Wuxie's ears.

"Brother Liu, don't be bothered with him. My junior brother means no disrespect," Zhou Ge said. He had no intention of making an enemy out of someone so powerful as Liu Wuxie unless he could kill the latter in one strike.

If he failed to kill Liu Wuxie, he would have to be prepared to face the latter's relentless retaliation.

Liu Wuxie nodded slightly. If Zhou Ge showed a hint of hostility against him, he wouldn't hesitate to kill them.

After briefly glancing at the two, Liu Wuxie turned and walked away, leaving Zhou Ge and his companion behind.

"Senior Brother Zhou Ge, if Liu Wuxie is alive, does that mean they're all dead?" The disciple's chest heaved heavily as he struggled to calm his nerves. Moments ago, he had felt a chill running down his spine when Liu Wuxie's gaze had fallen on him.

"They're most likely dead," Zhou Ge said with a wry smile before leaving with his junior brother, afraid they would be caught in the conflict. Such a large-scale massacre had never occured before. He had a feeling that the death toll this year would be the highest.

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Bai Jin stood before the soul tablet and fell silent, watching ten soul tablets shattering. Even Qian Chong and Wang Ba were speechless.

They couldn't figure out how ten people died simultaneously, which made no sense. They weren't the only ones baffled; the other sects were equally puzzled. First was the Azure Crimson Gate, and now it was the Heavenly Origin Sect.

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The word of Liu Wuxie's appearance at the frozen lake spread quickly, and in just an hour, Liu Wuxie ran into several groups.

"Liu Wuxie, stop running!" Jia Fengmao yelled as he led his team in hot pursuit. Aside from him, there was another disciple in the pinnacle of the Astral River Realm, closely chasing after Liu Wuxie.

"Why are you so persistent?" Liu Wuxie's voice was calm. His pace kept changing, but he maintained a steady distance of about a hundred meters before stepping off the frozen lake and vanishing into the pine forest.

"Quick, he must be exhausted!" Jia Fengmao's eyes gleamed with excitement at the thought of killing Liu Wuxie.

The entire Heavenly Mountain was filled with rumors of Liu Wuxie possessing a large amount of Golden Spirit Fruits, and everyone was rushing over as they wanted a share of it.

Some continued to pursue Liu Wuxie, and others weren't willing to get involved.

"Liu Wuxie, get lost! Stop hiding!" Jia Fengmao roared as they followed Liu Wuxie into the pine woods, but they couldn't find him anywhere. When they sensed that Liu Wuxie's aura lingered in the surroundings, they knew he must've gone into hiding.

The ten were alerted with their weapons raised, wary of Liu Wuxie's ambush. But the surroundings were quiet, and there was no sound from the surroundings.

Just when everyone's nerves loosened, demonic chains shot out from the ground and bound onto their ankles.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye, and the ten from the Heavenly Origin Sect couldn't react in time. After all, who could've guessed that Liu Wuxie had laid such a trap in the snow for them?

Those weren't ordinary chains but the Demonic Purgatory Chains from the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron. Once bound, they wouldn't be able to break free, and only those who were vastly stronger than Liu Wuxie could rely on their laws to shatter the demonic chains.

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