Chapter 1346 - Yin-Yang Energy

No one understood human nature better than Liu Wuxie. After he distributed several interspatial rings to the disciples, their respect toward him deepened at once. One even started addressing him as "Senior Brother Liu" outright.

Indeed, money made the world go round.

A faint smile tugged at Liu Wuxie's lips; he had achieved his goal. From today onward, his status in the Heavenly Dragon Sect would rise. These were true disciples with high standing in the sect, and winning their support would make his next plan proceed more smoothly.

"Senior Brother Liu, what should we do next?" asked a disciple in a flattering tone.

"Go back down," Liu Wuxie said. Vanya and the others were still on the fifth level, and he had to rejoin them quickly in case the Grand Unity Sect moved against them.

Since he entered the Divine Sun-Shooting Tower, he had only slain a little over two hundred Grand Unity Sect disciples so far. Though he killed three hundred people on the first level, only two hundred belonged to the Grand Unity Sect, with the remaining hundred coming from various forces.

In other words, more than a thousand Grand Unity Sect disciples were unaccounted for, and they could make a move against Vanya's group.

Without the tower's suppression, their speed soared. Liu Wuxie tossed the Great Divine Sun Crystal into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron and began refining it.

Though he couldn't refine the entire Great Divine Sun Crystal anytime soon, nothing pressed him to do it immediately. Demonic flames billowed from the cauldron and wrapped the crystal, extracting its light-attributed energy to fuse into the desolate world.

As he refined the Great Divine Sun Crystal, Liu Wuxie sensed his physique growing stronger. The crystal also served as a blacksmithing material. He had cultivated his physique up to unity with heaven and earth, so refining it was only natural.

When they returned to the sixth level, they found many demonic beasts fleeing. Their commander had died at Liu Wuxie's hands, so the demonic beasts dared not linger in the Divine Sun-Shooting Tower for another moment, and the abyssal devils made the same move.

The faceless clan, the ghost clan, the oceanic clan, and the rakshasa clan had all vanished as well.

Liu Wuxie summoned Avici Hell to crush down on the Great Divine Sun Crystal, drawing even more light laws into the desolate world. After absorbing too much dark-attribute energy in the Netherworld, the world grew gloomy and eerie; as light laws poured in, it shifted to half day and half night.

Circulating the Desolate Devouring Art, he watched day and night intertwine like two fish chasing one another.

"Yin-yang fish!" Liu Wuxie exclaimed inwardly, shocked to see yin and yang laws manifest in the desolate world. They represented day and night, light and darkness.

Everything in the world was bound by yin and yang—female and male; day and night; light and shadow; death and rebirth.

They were all manifestations of yin and yang. The birth of yin and yang energies in the desolate world signaled the cycle of life and death.

"I remember the Great Yin-Yang Mythical Art belongs to the Buddhist Clan, that's practically impossible for ordinary people to comprehend," Liu Wuxie murmured.

It circulated among the Buddhist Clan, who preached karmic effects that perfectly matched life and death as he described. Where there was cause, there was effect; where there was birth, there was death.

Now that the desolate world could switch between day and night once again, it was developing into an independent world, brimming with yin and yang energies.

A terrifying aura began to brew within Liu Wuxie's body as the gateway to the third-level Primal Origin Realm emerged. Even he hadn't expected a breakthrough this soon.

Though the desolate world teemed with yin and yang energies, it didn't mean Liu Wuxie had comprehended the Great Yin-Yang Mythical Art. This mythical art rarely circulated outside; he would have to visit the Buddhist Clan to cultivate it.

However, he had yet to find any trace of the Buddhist Clan in the astral domain.

"We're on the fifth level now," someone exclaimed. They had unknowingly made it back to the fifth level while Liu Wuxie was immersed in cultivation.

Suppressing the urge to make a breakthrough, Liu Wuxie looked around for Vanya and the others.

"There are so many people here!" the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples exclaimed, discovering a crowd of cultivators on the fifth level.

When Liu Wuxie activated Ghost Eye, he saw over a thousand people gathered in the distance, besieging Vanya's group. Mythical arts rained from the sky, putting Vanya's party under immense pressure. They had been fighting for an entire day and night and had nearly exhausted their true essence.

The Moon Tribulation Incineration Array was powerful enough to trouble even cultivators at the Void Realm, but it carried a fatal flaw: Vanya's group would eventually run out of true essence.

No matter how they moved, the enemy attacked them in waves, leaving them no chance to catch their breath.

A murderous intent burst from Liu Wuxie so fiercely that it nearly sent the nearby Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples flying away.

"Junior Brother Liu, what's going on?" The surrounding disciples didn't have Ghost Eye and couldn't see that far.

"Grand Unity Sect, you're all courting death!" Liu Wuxie wasted no time explaining and executed the Great Spatial Mythical Art, vanishing on the spot.

The Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples finally came to their senses and sprinted after him. They hadn't comprehended the Great Spatial Mythical Art and could only chase on foot.

Vanya's hair was in disarray, and her steps were unsteady. She had exhausted almost all her magical force.

A'Lei and A'Li were also covered in wounds. Guarding the spiritual array's core, they took the brunt of the attacks.

As for the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples, they gritted their teeth to hold the line, but their true essence was nearly gone. They had consumed all their pills and could now fight only on their own will.

"Everyone, continue! Kill them all!" bellowed the leader of the Grand Unity Sect's party, an elder at the pinnacle of the Primal Origin Realm.

Over a thousand people charged at the Moon Tribulation Incineration Array, retreating only when exhausted so the next batch could take over. As time passed, flaws began to appear in the spiritual array.

𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

A Heavenly Dragon Sect disciple failed to withdraw in time and took a longsword to the chest. As long as the enemy could force an opening, the Moon Tribulation Incineration Array would collapse on its own.

Crowds layered the battlefield's perimeter. Most didn't know Liu Wuxie had secured first place, as they remained on the fifth level to watch, knowing they couldn't compete for it.

"Bastards of the Grand Unity Sect, you will all die once Senior Brother Liu returns!" the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples roared. After three days of training aboard the warship, Liu Wuxie's will had taken root in them, and they stood their ground even as several disciples sustained heavy injuries.

"What a joke! Liu Wuxie has already died up there; don't expect him to save you people," sneered the Grand Unity Sect disciples. They had received word that the demon clan and the abyssal race had joined forces against Liu Wuxie. They were confident he was dead, so how could he possibly come to the rescue?

"Thunderclap Sword!" Space rippled as a terrifying sword descended from the sky at blistering speed.

"Senior Brother Mu Qingshan is here! The Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples are dead!" Many Grand Unity Sect disciples cheered at the sight, assuming Mu Qingshan had come to help.

The Thunderclap Sword was a Void Realm weapon of unimaginable power, comparable to a cultivator's strike at the Void Realm. If it fell upon the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples, the casualties would be catastrophic.

To everyone's surprise, however, the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples laughed when they saw the Thunderclap Sword. No one knew better than them that Liu Wuxie had already taken it away.

Before arriving, Liu Wuxie had summoned the Thunderclap Sword. After several days of refining, he erased its imprint, and using it to slaughter Grand Unity Sect disciples was pure irony.

"Wait, the Thunderclap Sword is targeting us!" The Grand Unity Sect disciples finally sensed something was wrong, and even the elder stood dumbfounded.

The Thunderclap Sword was Elder Wang's lifebound artifact, and many had witnessed Elder Wang hand it to Mu Qingshan.

When the Thunderclap Sword descended, the hundreds it locked onto were immobilized. None could resist its might without a cultivator at the Void Realm, but the strongest among them were only at the Quasi-Void Realm.

Facing the Thunderclap Sword, the Grand Unity Sect disciples turned pale and trembled. They couldn't fathom why Mu Qingshan would attack them.

With a deafening rumble, the Thunderclap Sword carved a path of blood and rain, vaporizing hundreds of Grand Unity Sect disciples.

Staring at the massive crater, the Grand Unity Sect's elder stood dumbstruck.

"How could this be?!" the elder muttered. He couldn't accept that the comrades fighting beside him had vanished in the blink of an eye.

Not only the Grand Unity Sect disciples, but also the surrounding spectators, were dumbfounded. When a figure slowly slipped out of space, they finally understood.

"It's Liu Wuxie!" someone yelled.

At Liu Wuxie's name, the Grand Unity Sect disciples froze, and many bolted without hesitation. He had become a demon rooted in their hearts; many never wished to see him again in this lifetime.

When the Grand Unity Sect's elder saw Liu Wuxie, he staggered and nearly fell.

Meanwhile, the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples cheered at Liu Wuxie's appearance as interspatial rings rained into their ranks.

"Replenish your true essence!" Liu Wuxie yelled. He hadn't kept any interspatial rings from those he killed earlier and gave them to the hundred disciples.

After today's battle, these hundred disciples would obey him without question. Anyone could see he was buying their loyalty, but no one found it improper. He had played the favor to perfection by using the Grand Unity Sect's belongings to secure the Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples' allegiance.

With pills to consume, the hundred disciples quickly recovered most of their true essence.

"Fight!" The hundred disciples hurled themselves back into battle as soon as their true essence returned.

Liu Wuxie's sudden arrival threw the Grand Unity Sect into a panic, and they no longer dared to linger. They fled without a second thought.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Liu Wuxie roared. His breakthrough to the third-level Primal Origin Realm was imminent, and he needed a vast amount of energy.

The energy and laws within these people would be more than enough to carry him through.