Chapter 700 - Yin and Yang Millstone

Elders from the Hou Clan and Azure Crimson Gate descended from the warship. They formed into a battle ring and surrounded Liu Wuxie.

As for the other disciples in the Astral River Realm, they couldn’t interfere in a battle of this scale. They knew they would only be cannon fodders if they went up to join the fight with Liu Wuxie.

“Make your move!” Liu Wuxie commanded. He was confident to deal with one or two people in the Nascent Transformation Realm, but the difficulty was high against over ten people. This meant he couldn’t afford to be careless in this fight.

Boundless shockwaves swept out, uprooting the trees from the ground. Space began to shatter, as the laws in the mundane world were pale compared to those in the cultivation world. A black hole formed and started devouring everything in its surroundings, including the uprooted trees.

Over ten thousand people gathered at the mountain range’s outskirts. Cultivators from the Imperial Capital who could still move assembled a hundred miles away, heeding Fan Zhen’s strict prohibition against venturing closer. Any attempt to approach the battlefield risked exposing them to devastating shockwaves capable of shredding them instantly.

“He’s no ordinary foe! Attack together!” The one who spoke was an elder from the Azure Crimson Gate, and they wanted to kill Liu Wuxie more than the Hou Clan.

After all, the Azure Crimson Gate had suffered immense losses during the Ten Grand Ceremony, with the death of an entire generation of true disciples.

The Hou Clan also shared the same sentiment and allied with the Azure Crimson Gate to eliminate Liu Wuxie. They drew their weapons and unleashed various dao techniques.

Below, the mortals watched in awe and terror. They couldn’t comprehend the display of power; all they could perceive were the tremors rippling through the fabric of space itself.

Liu Wuxie had accessed his opponents carefully. Aside from Hou Clan’s grand elder, who was in the seventh level of the Nascent Transformation Realm, the other elders from the Azure Crimson Gate ranged from the fifth- to sixth level.

As for the other Hou Clan’s elders, they were comparatively weaker and only lingered around the first- and second-levels of the Nascent Transformation Realm.

With such a luxurious formation, anyone could imagine their hatred for Liu Wuxie.

Liu Wuxie planned to eliminate the opponents in low levels of the Nascent Transformation Realm slowly, and turned his attention to them.

“Fight!” Liu Wuxie roared, disappearing in an instant. Using Ghost Eye, he tracked every subtle movement of the ten enemies before him. He couldn't afford to hold back; this battle required every trump card he possessed.

Liu Wuxie swung the Heretic Blade, which had grown stronger with the help of the Celestial Descent Bead.

While there was only one move in the mysterious blade tip, the True Strike likely had other moves beyond a simple downward chop.

Relying on the Celestial Descent Bead, Liu Wuxie comprehended the other move. The two moves were entirely different; the first was a chop, and the second was a slash, which he used now. He managed to comprehend the essence of this blade technique.

“Don’t hold back! Bring out your full strength!” cried an elder from the Azure Crimson Gate, wary the Hou Clan might be reluctant to contribute. After all, they were forcibly dragged here by Liu Wuxie in the first place.

Before their offense could begin, Liu Wuxie had vanished once again.

“Ice Shield!” A towering ice shield manifested around Liu Wuxie, neutralizing the dao techniques flying at him.

Meanwhile, he seized the opportunity to charge at the low-level cultivators in the Nascent Transformation Realm.

“Dodge quickly!” Everyone had realized that Liu Wuxie was targeting the weakest links among them.

“Too slow!” Liu Wuxie snorted. Aside from comprehending his martial and dao techniques, he had also reached the pinnacle in the Nine Heavenly Crane Dance, appearing within the crowd like lightning bolts.

When Liu Wuxie swung his blade, he unleashed a storm of blade auras, covering half the sky. His speed was so staggering that no one could keep up with him.

The four cultivators in the Nascent Transformation Realm who were locked wanted to break away from Liu Wuxie’s pursuit. However, the ice dao technique came into play as the surrounding temperature plummeted dramatically.

The drop in temperature greatly hindered their speed, with ice sealing the space around them.

“Die!” Liu Wuxie unleashed his murderous intent. He had been suppressing himself for too long. Though he had managed to slay Grandmaster Hai, the fury in his heart had yet to be extinguished.

The blade storm split into four and struck the four enemies simultaneously.

The Hou Clan’s grand elder tried intervening, but it was too late. Liu Wuxie had already isolated them by relying on the ice dao technique, and he switched seamlessly between the two dao techniques.

The Azure Crimson Gate was also unwilling to let Liu Wuxie prevail, as losing a few of their own would spell disaster for the battle. An elder from the Azure Crimson Gate lunged at Liu Wuxie with a frenzied attack, aiming to stall him and allowing the Hou Clan to retaliate.

“You deserve death!” Liu Wuxie turned to look at that elder from the Azure Crimson Gate, scaring the latter into trembling in fear as Liu Wuxie’s gaze was too terrifying. The Earth-Binding Chains shot out like a phantom and coiled around Azure Crimson Gate’s elder before he could respond.

The elder couldn’t budge no matter how he struggled. After capturing one person, Liu Wuxie charged at the four elders from the Hou Clan.

With a sharp crack, his blade struck down and sent the first elder into oblivion.

The spectators gasped in awe at this scene, and cheers erupted from them despite their inability to comprehend the fight. Everyone’s mood was piqued after Liu Wuxie killed the first opponent.

In just half a breath after the fight began, Liu Wuxie had killed one and immobilized one. This was a terrifying feat, but the Hou Clan’s grand elder could only howl in anguish, helpless as he watched his kin fall.

“Liu Wuxie, you’re courting death!” The others leaped toward Liu Wuxie, driven by a burning desire to tear him apart.

Liu Wuxie’s speed was terrifyingly fast, and none of his opponents could perceive his movements.

A loud crack echoed as the second expert in the Nascent Transformation Realm was killed. Liu Wuxie could easily kill cultivators in the low levels of the Nascent Transformation Realm in one strike.

It was unthinkable that they lost two elders in the Nascent Transformation Realm in such a brief span. Liu Wuxie was too terrifying, as no one could keep up with his speed and dao techniques.

“Liu Wuxie, die!” the remaining two out of the four roared. The blade aura had already isolated them, and they couldn’t dodge. Left with no choice, the remaining enemies charged recklessly at Liu Wuxie, desperation etched on their faces. They seemed willing to drag him down, even at the cost of their lives.

“I told you that you’re not qualified to fight me!” The Demonic Purgatory Chains appeared and wrapped around their feet, immobilizing them before burrowing into their bodies to extract the laws within.

It didn’t take long before the two were reduced to empty husks of skin, tumbling down lifelessly.

This scene sent chills down everyone’s spine. They had ten cultivators in the Nascent Transformation Realm earlier but instantly lost four.

Prince Yong Xian watched in silent dread, his gaze mixed with ferocity and fear. Liu Wuxie was too terrifying, and he wondered if the latter was still human. He couldn’t comprehend how an ordinary human could achieve such a feat.

They were all cultivators from the cultivation world, and Prince Yong Xian let out a frustrated howl at how Liu Wuxie could suppress them all.

Meanwhile, the other spectators were utterly mesmerized, with a mix of awe and yearning.

The Hou Clan’s grand elder wore a grave expression as Liu Wuxie’s strength had far exceeded his expectations. The elders of the Azure Crimson Gate also wore a grim expression at this sight.

“Liu Wuxie, I didn’t expect you to be so powerful.” one of them muttered, and it was unheard of for someone to praise their enemy.

“Cut the crap and come at me together!” Liu Wuxie didn’t want to waste time talking to them. He aimed to end the fight quickly in case another complication arose. He resolved to kill them all before taking his in-laws with him. From today onward, no one could ever use his in-laws to threaten him again.

The remaining six cultivators in the Nascent Transformation Realm exchanged a look with murderous intent gushing from their eyes. They hadn’t dared to use their full strength previously as they knew Liu Wuxie had a heaven-defying treasure like the Heavenly Dragon Seal.

After all, many people were present when Liu Wuxie had killed Deng Yong, and tales of that battle had long spread throughout the Southern Province.

Not many people knew about the Annihilation Fist, as the commotion was too great, driving all the spectators to flee from the Thorn Peak Valley.

When Liu Wuxie clasped his hands together, boundless poisonous miasma gushed out from the desolate world. He wasn’t in a hurry to bring out the Heavenly Dragon Seal and fused the poisonous miasma into ice.

She Bishi’s poison was lethal enough to kill someone in the True Profound Realm, but Liu Wuxie’s current cultivation was too low to comprehend the profundity of the Poison Art. True poison was intangible and invisible, drawn from the void with no requirement to cultivate deliberately.

“What’s this power?” The Azure Crimson Gate’s elder exclaimed with shock as Liu Wuxie began to trace Yin and Yang with his hands. As yin and yang energies swirled, this filled the sky and formed a massive cage to lock down the surrounding space.

There were legends that a mysterious powerhouse had comprehended the Great Yin-Yang Art in ancient times and was capable of inverting heaven and earth. This technique was long lost through time, and even Liu Wuxie had only heard of it before.

“Attack!” the Hou Clan’s grand elder roared.

The six cultivators struck together in unison, their power tearing apart a spatial rift. A shovel-like weapon appeared in the hands of the Hou Clan’s grand elder, and the surrounding space around Liu Wuxie vanished with a sweeping motion.

A pitch-black void appeared with black wind gushing out from it. The other cultivators weren’t weak and unleashed various attacks. There was even one who summoned ten thousand swords raining down at Liu Wuxie.

This was an apocalyptic scene, making the spectators hold their breaths, all with envy on their faces.

Xu Yilin grew anxious as the situation didn’t look favorable to Liu Wuxie. After all, the combined attack of six experts in the Nascent Transformation Realm was comparable to the attack of someone in the pinnacle of the Nascent Transformation Realm.

Though Liu Wuxie’s physique was comparable to the high levels of the Nascent Transformation Realm, there was still some gap between their strength.

“Target his primordial spirit!” The Azure Crimson Gate’s elder had practiced a soul-attack technique. His soul energy threaded into thin needles that drove into Liu Wuxie’s soul sea.

If it were someone else in the Astral River Realm, they would’ve died with their soul sea pierced. But ever since Liu Wuxie had managed to advance in the Soul Forge Art, the Soul Shield encased his soul sea. No matter how the Azure Crimson Gate’s elder attacked, it couldn’t pierce through the last Soul Shield.

“What’s going on? His soul sea is impenetrable!” the Azure Crimson Gate’s elder gasped, stunned. No one would believe him if he told them his soul energy couldn’t pierce through the soul sea of someone in the Astral River Realm. But that was the undeniable reality before him.

“It’s my turn now!” Their attacks had pushed Liu Wuxie to the brink, like a violent gale threatening to consume him.

The energies coalesced into a massive millstone above, spinning with devastating power. The oppressive weight descended without warning, catching his six opponents completely off guard.