Chapter 1549 - Killing a Quasi-Immortal

With the incantation supporting her, the Spirit Clan's chieftain unleashed an ancient force that swept across the sky. Her grasp of the incantation was higher than Liu Wuxie's, and her Spirit Clan bloodline naturally resonated more strongly with the Soul Forge Art.

The two chieftains of the Black Crow Clan were at the Quasi-Immortal Realm, and they immediately felt their advantage collapse.

The Spirit Clan's chieftain cried out, "Soul Spear!"

Two thick Soul Spears erupted and locked onto the Black Crow Clan's chieftains.

The instant the Soul Spears formed, darkness blotted out the sky, and the entire Sky City trembled violently. For the first time, Liu Wuxie watched quasi-immortals fight in person, and the devastation they unleashed swept outward in rolling waves.

"Members of the Spirit Clan, retreat to the Sky City!" Liu Wuxie yelled, ordering everyone back into the city. The spillover from a quasi-immortal clash could erase them in an instant.

The elders reacted at once and led the Spirit Clan into the spiritual array. Explosions continued to burst in the sky, plunging everything into boundless darkness. The Soul Spears radiated an overbearing might, as if they could suppress the heavens themselves. Ordinary warriors of the Black Crow Clan trembled so badly they forgot to resist.

Liu Wuxie finally made his move. "Gate of Darkness!"

Liu Wuxie drew on the surging dark-attribute energy and began harvesting the Black Crow Clan warriors' lives. With the two quasi-immortals unable to suppress him, he slaughtered without hesitation. Large groups of the Black Crow Clan vanished at once, crushed beneath the Gate of Darkness.

"Nether Deity Harvest!"

After cultivating the complete version of the Soul Forge Art, Liu Wuxie's soul sea had expanded by more than threefold, and the Nether Deity Harvest surged several times stronger than before.

A grim reaper manifested in the sky with a scythe in its grasp, and a single sweep harvested the Black Crow Clan's warriors in great swaths.

"Quick, fall back immediately!" Heirad roared, ordering the Black Crow Clan to retreat.

The Black Crow Clan tried to withdraw at full speed, but Liu Wuxie killed faster still. When the Heretic Blade appeared, it suppressed the Black Crow Clan's warriors completely, reaping lives like wheat.

In less than a thousandth of a second, tens of thousands of the Black Crow Clan warriors died. Out of more than a hundred thousand warriors, more than half had already fallen, and the scene turned terrifying beyond words.

The slaughter still didn't stop. The chieftain drove the Soul Spear through the sky and forced it toward the Black Crow Clan's quasi-immortals.

"Black God!"

Two spears shot toward the Soul Spear. This was a clash of soul energy, and the slightest mistake could inflict heavy damage directly on the soul.

A clash between souls didn't create an earth-shattering roar like mythical arts. Instead, it sounded like countless palms rubbing together, and the noise made everyone's skin crawl.

Liu Wuxie darted away immediately, refusing to get caught when the soul energy detonated.

When the Soul Spear and Black God exploded, a ripple spread outward. The shockwave whipped the sky into a whirlwind and caught escaping Black Crow Clan warriors in its aftershock.

The two Black Crow Clan quasi-immortals clutched their heads as the Soul Spear's aftershock battered their soul seas.

Liu Wuxie didn't need to lift a finger; the aftershock alone from a quasi-immortal clash wiped out tens of thousands of the Black Crow Clan warriors. Fortunately, the Spirit Clan had retreated in time and returned to the Sky City, or their losses would have turned catastrophic.

When the soul energy slammed into the defensive spiritual array, the impact rebounded instantly. By now, the center of the battlefield had plunged into complete chaos.

Liu Wuxie kept hunting the Black Crow Clan warriors along the perimeter while the three quasi-immortals clashed at the center. Their battle raged until the sky turned dark and split apart.

Only now did Liu Wuxie truly understand why quasi-immortals rarely acted in the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain. Here, the sky stretched boundlessly, and nothing surrounded them except the Sky City.

If they had fought on a planet, the aftermath would have annihilated it instantly, even if it had been a first-tier planet. Terrifying quasi-immortal runes surged outward in every direction.

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron hovered in mid-air and continuously devoured the quasi-immortal runes. After swallowing them into the desolate world, Liu Wuxie could gradually convert them into immortal runes. As the number of immortal runes he possessed increased, controlling immortal artifacts in the future would become easier.

The three quasi-immortals fought to a standstill, and the Spirit Clan's chieftain still couldn't easily kill the Black Crow Clan's chieftains.

Liu Wuxie slowed his slaughter as the remaining Black Crow Clan warriors scattered and retreated into the distance. He had only massacred so efficiently earlier because they were packed together and handed him the opportunity.

𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Soul Fire surged, several times stronger than when Liu Wuxie had used it before, and enveloped the two Black Crow Clan's chieftains.

"God of Darkness!" the two Black Crow Clan's chieftains roared. They carved seals with their hands and manifested two Gods of Darkness, wielding spears, tearing open a gap as they forced their way through the Soul Fire.

But right at this moment, Liu Wuxie finally struck. "Divine Eternal Fist!"

Liu Wuxie didn't dare to draw on the Heavenly Deity Monument's power at the moment.

After all, Ariel had already reverted to her ancestral form, and he couldn't afford to injure himself again. If he used only the Divine Eternal Fist, it would merely drain all his true essence at most.

His goal was simple: help the chieftain suppress the two quasi-immortals of the Black Crow Clan. If she killed even one, the Black Crow Clan would no longer threaten the Spirit Clan.

The intent of eternity descended, slowing everything into stillness and restricting the two quasi-immortals. It wasn't because Liu Wuxie alone had become that powerful, but because the Spirit Clan's chieftain coordinated with Liu Wuxie by using his soul energy.

The power of the Divine Eternal Fist climbed higher and higher until it rivaled cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm.

Right at this moment, the Spirit Clan's chieftain attacked, firing a white Soul Spear that pierced through the heavens.

The two quasi-immortals of the Black Crow Clan raged. "Damn it all!"

They were dignified powerhouses at the Quasi-Immortal Realm, yet they had been forced to this extent because only immortals could truly kill them with combined strength.

The Soul Spear shot out and locked onto the Black Crow Clan quasi-immortal on the left.

"Wuxie, you only have to hold him off for half a breath," the chieftain said. As long as Liu Wuxie restrained the other quasi-immortal for half a breath, she could kill the one she targeted.

"Okay!" Liu Wuxie replied, giving a firm nod. "Great Five Elemental Mythical Art! Myriad Dragons Unity! Great Darkness Mythical Art! Nether Deity Harvest!"

Liu Wuxie unleashed every mythical art he had and smashed them toward the other Black Crow Clan's chieftain.

His plan worked. With those mythical arts layered together, and with the Divine Eternal Fist suppressing the field, Liu Wuxie managed to restrain the other quasi-immortal.

The terrifying part wasn't the mythical arts themselves, but the wisp of immortal runes fused into them. The immortal runes provided the true suppression and pinned the other Black Crow Clan's chieftain down.

"Break!" the Black Crow Clan's chieftain roared. He tore through the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art, the Gate of Darkness, the Nether Deity Harvest, and the other mythical arts.

Liu Wuxie's heart jolted as he realized he had still underestimated a quasi-immortal's strength. He retreated rapidly because he had already completed his task of holding the quasi-immortal for half a breath.

At the same time, the Soul Spear pierced through the sky and appeared before the other quasi-immortal. It punched through the eyes of the Black Crow Clan's chieftain and burst out from the back of his head.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. The Black Crow Clan's chieftain died before the other chieftain could even react, and the one with a pierced soul sea froze in place, eyes vacant.

"Collect!" Liu Wuxie yelled.

Everyone froze. Liu Wuxie had done the unbelievable and summoned the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron to swallow that quasi-immortal. Even with his soul sea pierced, he still wasn't fully dead, because his quasi-immortal laws remained intact inside his body.

The moment the Black Crow Clan's chieftain entered the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, countless Demonic Purgatory Chains shot out, bound him, and dragged him into the cauldron's depths.

Ever since the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron had refined the Divine Devouring Pythonbeast, it had evolved, and its suppression had grown ten times stronger than before. The Black Crow Clan could only watch their chieftain get taken away, unable to do anything.

The Spirit Clan's chieftain stood stunned as well. That was the body of a Quasi-Immortal Realm. Did Liu Wuxie truly not fear that the energy would blow him apart?

The Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron returned to the desolate world, and Liu Wuxie immediately summoned the Heavenly Deity Monument to suppress it above the cauldron. With both forces pressing down, the pierced Black Crow Clan chieftain finally calmed.

Then, demonic flame surged and began stripping the quasi-immortal runes away. A vast tide of quasi-immortal runes poured into the desolate world and stirred a black storm.

"Black Crow Realm!"

A new realm formed in the depths of the desolate world right beside the Abyssal Realm, as boundless Black Crow laws flooded in.

The birth of a new realm brought clear benefits, as it meant the desolate world would continue to expand. Every expansion made Liu Wuxie's future breakthroughs even harder, and enlightenment alone would become useless.

Liu Wuxie's comprehension had already surpassed that of ordinary cultivators, yet the desolate world demanded a terrifying amount of resources for every breakthrough. For others, making a breakthrough meant stepping into the next level. For Liu Wuxie, it meant dragging an entire world forward on his back.

The desolate world expanded by one-third, and Liu Wuxie nearly wanted to cry. The desolate world that had once brimmed with true essence and immortal energy emptied in an instant.

"If I can refine the Black Crow Clan's quasi-immortal, it will definitely be able to fill my desolate world up," Liu Wuxie murmured. However, he forced himself to set it aside for later because he still needed to strengthen his cultivation first.

Boundless laws continued pouring into the desolate world, further solidifying everything within it.

"So many astral crystals!" Liu Wuxie gasped. He stared in shock when he found over thirty million astral crystals inside the interspatial ring of that Black Crow Clan chieftain. And that didn't include the other treasures.

A broad grin spread across Liu Wuxie's face. He hadn't expected killing a quasi-immortal to yield such a massive haul, and the ring held many excellent items as well—mostly Black Crow Clan treasures. Liu Wuxie refined them without hesitation and fused them into the desolate world.

Logic said that refining so many treasures alongside a quasi-immortal's body should have pushed Liu Wuxie into a breakthrough. Yet he showed no sign of one, and the mismatch made him suspect something had gone wrong.

He scratched his head, even more confused.

"I understand now! The Black Crow Realm absorbed all the Quasi-Immortal Realm's power to strengthen itself, and it only fed the laws back to me," Liu Wuxie murmured as he stared at the Black Crow Realm.

Among the lesser realms forming within the desolate world, the Black Crow Realm had become the largest by far.

Liu Wuxie lifted his head toward the remaining quasi-immortal from the Black Crow Clan. If he killed this quasi-immortal, too, he felt certain he could break through to the sixth-level Earth Immortal Realm, and greed flashed across his face as he stared at the remaining quasi-immortal like he was staring at a treasure.

As the only Black Crow Clan chieftain left, he ordered the Black Crow Clan to withdraw. "Retreat!"

He knew he had little chance if Liu Wuxie and the Spirit Clan's chieftain pinned him between them.

In an instant, the Black Crow Clan fled without hesitation. Even a dignified expert at the Quasi-Immortal Realm ran like a homeless dog.

"Where do you think you're going?" Liu Wuxie demanded. He surged forward at once, eager to give chase.

"Wuxie, don't chase after a cornered enemy," the Spirit Clan's chieftain said, stepping out to stop him.

This was the Spirit Clan's territory, where they held the advantage. Once they crossed into the Black Crow Clan's territory, that advantage would vanish.

Liu Wuxie could only watch the Black Crow Clan's chieftain escape, pity tightening his expression. With his target gone, he could only turn his sights to the ordinary warriors of the Black Crow Clan.