Chapter 1542 - War

Liu Wuxie stepped out of the courtyard and stared at the Black Crow Clan, letting silence settle over him. He wanted nothing to do with this mess, yet he knew he couldn't cleanly pull away and leave now.

The trouble had started because of him, and the Black Crow Clan had mobilized its army after sensing the threat he represented. The Feathered Emperor had shown him kindness, and Liu Wuxie couldn't watch the Spirit Clan get wiped out. The realization boxed him into a dilemma.

Once he stepped into this mire, he would struggle to tear himself free.

The Spirit Clan had already mobilized their warriors, and they flew to the edge of the restriction. They hovered there in formation, waiting for the order to charge into the sky.

The gap between the two races was far too large, and the Spirit Clan's numbers weren't even one-tenth of the Black Crow Clan's. This battle carried no suspense at all.

In the past, when the Black Crow Clan had invaded, the Spirit Clan had only managed to endure by leaning on the Sky City's defenses. But the situation had shifted now, because the Black Crow Clan had summoned elite forces with no less than thirty cultivators at the high levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm.

With such a terrifying lineup, the Spirit Clan stood on the brink of destruction. The Spirit Clan's warfare remained too simple because individual combat could never match the might of coordinated combat. If the Spirit Clan had trained an elite troop—something like the Heavenly Dao Society's Moon Tribulation Incineration Array—they would be able to sweep through all their enemies.

It felt as though everyone had forgotten about Liu Wuxie entirely, because the whole Spirit Clan threw themselves into the war, aside from the old, young, and disabled. Even the Spirit Clan's elders who had been in seclusion inside the castle emerged one after another, yet their number of cultivators at the high levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm still fell short of the Black Crow Clan.

When Liu Wuxie stepped out of the courtyard, he found himself in an open area that offered him a clearer view of everything.

Ariel gripped a long pike and wore golden armor that made her look valiant. She was still exploring the Soul Forge Art and had yet to master it, having only grasped its first form—Soul Spear.

"Hand over that human brat, and I will consider letting your Spirit Clan's bloodline continue," said a burly man in black armor as he strode out from the Black Crow Clan's ranks. His pitch-black feathers gleamed beneath the sunlight, their glare so sharp that others could not meet his gaze head-on.

He had reached the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm, and his strength felt terrifying. As long as Quasi-Immortals didn't come out, the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm stood at the summit of the astral domain.

"Heirad, cut the crap and fight if you want a war," Ariel said, then led an army of over ten thousand Spirit Clan members to charge out, their ranks forming a stark contrast against the Black Crow Clan's army of one hundred thousand.

Black and white forces split into two camps and faced each other across the sky.

The Black Crow Clan demanded that the Spirit Clan hand over Liu Wuxie because they could only erase the Soul Forge Art by killing him. After all, the previous Feathered Emperor had relied on the Soul Forge Art to slaughter them and nearly wiped out their entire clan.

In the end, the Feathered Emperor had forced the Black Crow Clan to join forces with the Abyssal Race to restrain him, and both sides had paid an immense price. That battle had shaken heaven and earth, and the fighting had even spilled from the Spirit Martial Astral Domain to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain.

Liu Wuxie felt surprised that the Spirit Clan refused to hand him over. He had initially thought the Spirit Clan would consider that option, but they didn't even bother with refusal and went straight to battle.

"Since your Spirit Clan is courting death, don't blame me for not showing you any mercy," Heirad said, then commanded the Black Crow Clan to surge forward like a tide.

Cracks spread rapidly across the restriction above the Sky City. The restriction had endured for a million years, and frequent attacks from the Black Crow Clan had worn and broken many areas.

The Spirit Clan didn't excel at repairing the restriction. If they asked the human race for help, it would be no different from inviting wolves into the house.

The battle ignited in an instant.

Liu Wuxie saw the chieftain standing before the main hall with a calm expression. She truly lived up to her reputation as a Quasi-Immortal expert, maintaining her composure even as a calamity threatened to wipe out her entire race.

Rumbling echoed through the sky as various mythical arts slammed into the restriction, and the shockwaves from those impacts could easily destroy an entire planet. For now, the Sky City remained safe because the restriction absorbed most of the force.

But if the restriction shattered, those attacks alone could flatten the Sky City and instantly kill all the children in the city.

A portion of the Black Crow Clan didn't attack at all; instead, they focused on cracking the restriction.

Cracks crawled across the restriction like a spiderweb, and many Spirit Clan children cried out in fear. The Spirit Clan's army couldn't hold off the Black Crow Clan, because the Black Crow Clan outnumbered them too severely.

With a loud explosion, a hole opened in the restriction in less than a minute, and a Black Crow Clan warrior slipped through and dashed toward the children with the intention of wiping out the Spirit Clan entirely.

"Stop them!" Ariel roared furiously, sweeping her pike out and sending several Black Crow Clan members flying. But she had no time to retreat, because a swarm of Black Crow Clan flocked over to pin her down and stop her from rescuing anyone.

More Black Crow Clan warriors slipped through the restriction and descended onto the Sky City.

The Spirit Clan's chieftain closed her eyes as she sensed the two chieftains of the Black Crow Clan. If she moved, the two chieftains would act as well, and they wouldn't hesitate to destroy the entire Sky City with one palm strike.

A black spear flashed in front of a three-year-old child, and the strike threatened to kill if it landed. But just as the spear came within a few inches of the child, a hand reached out of nowhere and caught it.

"Not even sparing the children. Has your Black Crow Clan sunk to such madness?" Liu Wuxie asked furiously. He had taken many lives over the years, but every one of them had deserved to die. Children remained innocent, so no one should pass down the previous generation’s feud to them.

A terrifying force erupted from Liu Wuxie, traveled through the spear, and blasted that Black Crow Clan warrior away. In the next breath, several Black Crow Clan members charged at Liu Wuxie, while more poured through the hole in the restriction.

"Brat, how dare you stand in our way!" the Black Crow Clan warrior roared because the only purpose of this invasion was to kill Liu Wuxie. Now that he had revealed himself, they immediately turned their spearheads toward him and formed an encirclement.

"Kill him!" The Black Crow Clan warriors shouted as dozens of them unleashed their attacks at him.

"Garbage." Liu Wuxie's eyes flashed, and the Soul Shield negated every incoming soul attack. He immediately cast the Dragon-Grasping Hand, and dozens of dragon claws ripped down toward the attackers.

"Crack!" Blood splashed as the attackers, who were only at the lower levels of the Earth Immortal Realm, died under Liu Wuxie's palm strike with ease.

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron appeared and swallowed every Black Crow Clan corpse.

"What dense dark-attribute energy! This is perfect to help me temper the Gate of Darkness," Liu Wuxie said with a devilish smile. He hadn't expected that killing the Black Crow Clan would strengthen the Gate of Darkness.

More Black Crow Clan members surged over, scattering out to hunt the defenseless children.

Seeing that, Liu Wuxie vanished and left afterimages behind as he hunted down every Black Crow Clan warrior who slipped in. He spared no one, and he even reaped the life of a low-level Heaven Gaze Realm cultivator with the Nether Deity Harvest.

The Spirit Clan watched quietly, and gratified smiles appeared on their faces. Ariel battled in the sky, and relief eased her chest when she saw Liu Wuxie cutting down every Black Crow Clan warrior who slipped past the restriction.

After Liu Wuxie wiped out the intruders, he shot into the sky. He formed seals and conjured spiritual runes to repair the hole at high speed. He didn't stop there. He continued conjuring spiritual runes that spread across the restriction like ripples, reinforcing it further.

Many Black Crow Clan warriors tried to tear open holes elsewhere, only to realize the restriction had instantly grown ten times stronger than before. The restriction had become unbreakable, and even experts at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm couldn't pierce the spiritual array Liu Wuxie had set up.

Liu Wuxie had fused spiritual arrays, barriers, and restrictions into one seamless whole.

With the Sky City secured, the Spirit Clan no longer had to split their focus, but this still wasn't a long-term solution. The Spirit Clan remained severely outnumbered, and injuries began to pile up on their side.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Spirit Clan warriors carried the wounded back to Sky City for treatment, and some injuries proved so severe that those warriors could no longer fight.

Liu Wuxie glanced up at the sky and let out a soft sigh. "I'll treat it as repaying the Feathered Emperor's kindness."

He vanished from the Sky City and plunged straight into the heart of the battlefield.

Countless Black Crow Clan warriors had locked onto Liu Wuxie from the very beginning, but they couldn't kill him while he stayed within the Sky City's boundaries. Now that he stepped out of the restriction and appeared on the battlefield, a swarm immediately flocked over without hesitation.

Liu Wuxie alone drew the attention of over ten thousand Black Crow Clan warriors, and the sight looked spectacular. Even so, he remained composed in the face of that sea of enemies.

"Dragon-Grapsing Hand!" The weaker Black Crow Clan warriors died before they could even close the distance. With that, a massacre began.

If the Spirit Clan got wiped out, Liu Wuxie wouldn't be able to face the Feathered Emperor if they were to meet again. Before the Feathered Emperor had disappeared, he had begged Liu Wuxie to look after the Spirit Clan, and Liu Wuxie treated this as fulfilling that final promise.

After Liu Wuxie brutally slaughtered over a hundred Black Crow Clan warriors, the battlefield fell into a brief, stunned silence. The war between the two races had only raged for fifteen minutes, and until now, no one had truly died; at worst, they had only suffered serious injuries.

Liu Wuxie's act of killing so many Black Crow Clan warriors instantly sent the Spirit Clan's morale surging.

"We can't allow him to leave!" Heirad roared, then sent several experts at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm straight toward Liu Wuxie, determined to kill him at any cost.

"Soaring Dragon!" Liu Wuxie's body suddenly swelled as he transformed into a divine dragon, and a dragon roar echoed out for tens of thousands of miles.

He swung his dragon tail, and the Black Crow Clan warriors charging in all burst apart, unable to withstand the impact.

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron immediately swallowed every corpse, and the Gate of Darkness grew stronger and stronger. Liu Wuxie could feel it clearly. If he summoned the Gate of Darkness now, its power would be at least twice what it had been before.

"Dragon clan? Is that brat a member of the dragon clan?" The Black Crow Clan finally panicked. If Liu Wuxie truly belonged to the Dragon Clan, things would become troublesome in an instant.

"He doesn't belong to the dragon clan. He has only refined the remains of a divine dragon, allowing him to evolve a divine dragon's body," said a Black Crow Clan expert at the higher levels of the Heaven Gaze Realm. He could tell at a glance that Liu Wuxie wasn't a dragon.

"Dragon Dive!" Once the massacre began, Liu Wuxie had no intention of stopping until the other side lay butchered to the last warrior.

In terms of mythical art, even the Black Crow Clan's experts at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm couldn't compare to Liu Wuxie. In terms of soul technique, the Soul Shield protected him, while the Heavenly Dao Book formed a second line of defense. That meant the Black Crow Clan's soul attacks wouldn't have any effect on him at all.