Chapter 1587 - Liu Wuxie's Death

Liu Wuxie drew on every last wisp of immortal energy he had left and poured it into his finger. The instant he unleashed the Heavenbound Immortal Finger, darkness swallowed heaven and earth, and the entire world sank toward ruin.

The spatial cracks around them kept widening. Just like in the Peach Blossom Cave, this world teetered on the brink of collapse, and once it vanished, it would force them out.

The black gate also began to creak and crack. It couldn't withstand the suppression of the Heavenbound Immortal Finger as fissures raced across its surface before it detonated into countless fragments, each shard carrying the power of samsara.

Liu Wuxie immediately summoned the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron and pulled every strand of samsara power into it.

Nalan Qiwen's expression turned grave. With the Heavenbound Immortal Finger, Liu Wuxie actually posed a faint threat to him. As a dignified expert at the Quasi-Immortal Realm, he possessed methods that could shake the heavens.

He swept his left hand through the air, fused a vast number of quasi-immortal runes into the Heavenly Sound Sword, and doubled the sword art's power in an instant.

The Heavenbound Immortal Finger could imprison heaven as it pressed down from above.

With no path of retreat left, Liu Wuxie could only choose to fight to the death.

A thunderous explosion rocked the air as both men collided with their strongest attacks. The Heavenly Sound Sword spat out tens of thousands of sword rays that sealed heaven and earth, and those rays carved dense cracks across the prison Liu Wuxie manifested.

The sight overturned everyone's understanding in an instant. How many years had it been since anyone had last witnessed the might of a quasi-immortal? That power truly devastated everything it touched.

"Immortal runes, enforce!" Liu Wuxie said, mobilizing every immortal rune he could muster. He tossed an immortal stone into the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron and crushed it down into a torrent of immortal energy.

The immortal stone exploded at once, and a golden river surged into the desolate world. The nearly dried-up, desolate world revived instantly, and every realm within it spun back into motion. With immortal runes reinforcing it, the Heavenbound Immortal Finger could already contend with a genuine immortal art.

"What a terrifying finger! This immortal art must be what Liu Wuxie got from the Peach Blossom Cave, right?" The cultivators who had retreated couldn't describe their feelings. They couldn't believe someone at the seventh-level Earth Immortal Realm could wield power to such a degree.

This had long surpassed ordinary limits, and even those at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm couldn't fathom the Heavenbound Immortal Finger. The surrounding sword aura disintegrated into powder as the Heavenbound Immortal Finger rose to the level of an immortal art.

"Wave-Breaking Slash! Divine Aquatic Sword!" Nalan Qiwen shouted, unleashing two more of his strongest attacks in succession to tear through the Heavenbound Immortal Finger.

The Heavenbound Immortal Finger began to contract, and with support from the immortal stone, Liu Wuxie recovered seventy percent of his immortal energy.

"Big brother, do you think the second uncle can kill Liu Wuxie?" Nalan Qiuhe asked. The superiority in her eyes had already vanished.

"He can," Nalan Tiancheng answered without hesitation.

Even if Liu Wuxie stood strong, he remained in the Earth Immortal Realm. The surrounding world cracked even further, and the Thousand Islands Sea Region's scenery bled through the widening fractures.

Liu Wuxie didn't hesitate and reinforced his strike with the Gate of Darkness, the Divine Purgatory Palace, the Soul Spears, the Nether Deity Harvest, and the Great Five Elemental Mythical Art. He poured every mythical art he possessed into the attack to strengthen it.

When all those mythical arts flowed into the Heavenbound Immortal Finger, its power surged again and even began to suppress Nalan Qiwen. The Peach Blossom Gate sect master's eyelid twitched at the sight, and a chill of relief ran through him. If he had faced Liu Wuxie alone, killing him would have been impossible.

"Liu Wuxie, it's futile. Stop your useless struggle," Nalan Qiwen roared, forcing even more power into his attack.

"This still isn't enough to kill me!" Liu Wuxie roared, blood dripping from the corner of his lips. His body had already taken damage everywhere, and the injuries kept spreading.

"I'll lend Brother Nalan a hand!" The Peach Blossom Gate sect master finally acted. He condensed a colossal palm and smashed it toward Liu Wuxie.

"How shameless! Two quasi-immortals are working together against someone at the Earth Immortal Realm. How despicable can they be?!"

Many people couldn't watch anymore. Liu Wuxie had already reached his limit against a Quasi-Immortal Realm opponent, and he had no way to contend with a second.

Sure enough, the moment the Peach Blossom Gate's sect master joined in, gashes ripped across Liu Wuxie's flesh, and wounds opened over his chest and back. His body looked ready to burst apart at any moment.

Even though his physique had achieved unity with heaven and earth, meaning he wouldn't die as long as the universe existed, that only held if his body remained intact. If his body shattered into dust, he wouldn't return to his peak condition easily, even if he could recover.

Liu Wuxie threw his head back and roared. Dragon scales surged across his skin, locking into place to keep his body from breaking apart.

Cracks also spread across the Heavenbound Immortal Finger under the two-pronged assault, and it looked on the verge of exploding at any moment. If anyone at the pinnacle of the Heaven Gaze Realm had faced the Heavenbound Immortal Finger, the attack would have killed them already.

"Liu Wuxie, since you killed my son, I'll avenge him with my own hands!" the Peach Blossom Gate sect master snarled, pouring more force into his palm. He reinforced it with quasi-immortal runes, and the strike slammed down like a flood.

A bloody hole ripped open on Liu Wuxie's chest, and his internal organs flashed into view. Bloody rain sprayed through the air, and fine cracks appeared on the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe. It could no longer withstand the power of the Quasi-Immortal Realm experts.

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Without the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe's protection, Nalan Qiwen would have killed Liu Wuxie long ago. The robe had absorbed most of the impact for him.

Hua Feiyu opened his eyes, his brows drawn tight. "Wuxie is in danger!" He rose and vanished, reappearing before the Spirit Sealing Institution.

Elder Han stepped out as if he had already anticipated Hua Feiyu's arrival. "Sect Master, Wuxie is in danger!"

"Is it a life and death crisis?" Hua Feiyu asked.

"It's a death crisis with a glimmer of hope. This is why I didn't alarm you before," Elder Han said, laying out what he had calculated.

Hua Feiyu's face eased slightly when he heard Elder Han's words.

A glimmer of hope didn't guarantee survival, but it still meant there was a way out. Hua Feiyu had refined the Divine Heavenly Feather Robe himself, and the moment it took damage, he sensed it.

"To threaten Liu Wuxie, it can only be a quasi-immortal," Hua Feiyu murmured.

Hua Feiyu asked as he and Elder Han entered the hall and sat to speak, "Could it be experts from the Grand Unity Sect?"

"No. We have already intercepted the Grand Unity Sect's experts at the borders, and they don't have anyone left to enter the Spirit Martial Astral Domain," Hua Feiyu said, shaking his head.

The distance remained too vast, and Hua Feiyu still had no idea what Liu Wuxie had experienced in the Spirit Martial Astral Domain.

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Liu Wuxie's vision darkened as more wounds split across his body, one after another. The power pouring out of the desolate world weakened steadily, thinning like a tide that had run out.

"Liu Wuxie, you can die now!" Nalan Qiwen said, leveling his sword at Liu Wuxie as the Peach Blossom Gate sect master's palm also pressed down on him.

The Heavenbound Immortal Finger shattered into fragments and dissolved into the void. The gap between their cultivation was too vast, and even an immortal art couldn't bridge it.

Liu Wuxie had forced an immortal art into existence, and that strain had further cracked his body. Fractures spider-webbed across him, widening with every breath. Yet just as the sword and palm were about to finish him, two figures appeared in the air.

"Kill!" Gong Gong roared, and a terrifying Witch Wheel Blade plunged from the sky and struck Nalan Qiwen.

The sight made Liu Wuxie smile brightly but painfully as his body continued breaking down without slowing.

"Gong Gong, you're too fucking late," Liu Wuxie said as one arm vanished, then his legs followed. The scene mirrored the divine son's death so closely that it felt like an echo.

The Witch Wheel Blade descended with devastating force, and Nalan Qiwen's expression changed drastically. He hadn't expected another quasi-immortal to be lurking in the shadows, much less one whose aura surpassed his.

"Peach Blossom Gate's sect master, kill Liu Wuxie now!" Nalan Qiwen barked, realizing the newcomer had come to save Liu Wuxie. If Liu Wuxie died, their goal would still be complete.

The Peach Blossom Gate's sect master didn't need the reminder. He understood immediately as he ignited his blood essence and drove a terrifying palm down from above.

Before everyone's eyes, Liu Wuxie's remaining body collapsed into a puddle of water and slid into the place where the mysterious gate had previously appeared. Scattered stones across the ground soaked up his blood and turned dark red.

However, something even stranger happened. The desolate characters vanished as well, as though they had fused into Liu Wuxie's blood.

When Gong Gong saw Liu Wuxie fall, boundless energy erupted from him and poured into the Witch Wheel Blade.

With a sharp crack, the Witch Wheel Blade snapped Nalan Qiwen's sword cleanly in two, yet the blade's power didn't weaken. It continued to crush downward.

"Second Uncle!" Nalan Tiancheng shouted, charging forward to rescue him.

Another figure appeared at that instant and launched a massacre of his own. The other Witcher Clan expert struck, and his cultivation was on par with Gong Gong's, at the Quasi-Immortal Realm.

A booming explosion shook the air, and Nalan Tiancheng's body burst into a puddle of blood.

"BIG BROTHER!" Nalan Qiuhe screamed, rushing forward.

A single palm struck, and Nalan Qiuhe exploded into a puddle of blood as well. She died without even knowing who killed her.

Nalan Qiwen roared, but he could do nothing. His nephew and niece died in front of him, and the Nalan Clan's other experts began to fall one after another.

A Quasi-Immortal Realm expert from the Witcher Clan wiped them out in a single breath.

"Let's go! We're leaving," the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves said, abandoning everything and fleeing at once.

The Oceanic Clan followed immediately. They had no intention of getting dragged further into this mess, now that two quasi-immortals stronger than them had appeared.

Quasi-Immortals also differed in rank. Ordinary quasi-immortals only comprehended a wisp of an immortal's power and couldn't condense immortal runes. But if a quasi-immortal grew strong enough, they could inscribe complete immortal runes.

The Oceanic Clan and the pirates of the Seventy-Two Caves fled in the blink of an eye. Heaven and earth split open, and a massive rift appeared across the sky as the world shoved everyone back into the Thousand Islands Sea Region.

A deafening explosion followed, and the entire world vanished into empty nothingness. Many cultivators who retreated too late couldn't avoid the collapse and were vaporized on the spot, shredded into pieces by the Quasi-Immortal Realm's aura.

The shattered black gateway couldn't withstand the impact either, and it vanished completely—along with Liu Wuxie.

"How could this be?" Nalan Qiwen stared at his own body in confusion. The Witch Wheel Blade had torn through his defenses effortlessly, and he could feel his vitality draining at a terrifying speed. How many years had it been since a quasi-immortal had last fallen?

"Run!" the Peach Blossom Gate's sect master shouted, fleeing without hesitation.

Gong Gong didn't chase him. He only swept his gaze across the chaos, searching for traces of Liu Wuxie.

With a final explosion, Nalan Qiwen's body shattered as witcher energy destroyed him completely. The Quasi-Immortal Realm's laws burst outward, dissolving into the surrounding space and returning to heaven and earth. But a pitch-black small cauldron flickered into view and devoured every strand of that energy.

Liu Wuxie had died along with Nalan Qiwen, and someone had wiped out the entire Nalan Clan as well.