Desolate Devouring Art

Chapter 268 - Fighting True Core Realm (1)

Now that Liu Wuxie had grasped the limits of the Xue Clan, he planned to wipe out all the elites before dealing with the True Core Realm expert. This was because the others could no longer pose a threat to him.

Boundless blade intent filled the sky, forming terrifying waves enveloping all the elites.

“Fatality Blade Art—First Fatality Form!” Liu Wuxie had reached perfect mastery of the first form. Empowering it with metal attributes further fortified the power of the blade aura.

The path of the blade aura was marked by exploding heads. To Liu Wuxie, the Xue Clan’s formation was nothing more than a child’s game, posing no real threat. As the death toll rose, the Xue Clan’s elites fell like wheat before a scythe.

Xue Shixiong and Xue Dingtian felt as if their hearts were bleeding. This was the foundation of the Xue Clan, nurtured over centuries, and yet so many were falling in the blink of an eye.

The Xue Clan’s disciples trembled in fear as they watched this scene from afar, and horror filled their eyes.

“Ancestor, stop him!” Xue Dingtian roared. The Xue Clan couldn’t afford any more losses; they wouldn’t be able to recover.

In a clan, having one or two experts standing at the top of the pyramid was enough. The key lay in the intermediate forces. If all of them died, the Xue Clan would gradually decline.

Xue Shixiong took a step forward. He didn’t need Xue Dingtian to remind him because he knew this was a critical moment for the Xue Clan.

When he swept out with his cane, the rapid air compression produced an explosion in the surroundings, with ripples of shockwaves sweeping toward Liu Wuxie.

The power of an expert in the True Core Realm was terrifying as it contained divine power. But it was a pity that Xue Shixiong didn’t practice any divine art and had merely awakened a hint of divine power. He could only use it crudely and didn’t know how to use it efficiently.

This was because the method of cultivating divine arts could only be found in the cultivation world.

“Hmph, I’ll deal with you later!” Liu Wuxie snorted in disdain and vanished. When he dodged Xue Shixiong’s attack, the attack continued to head towards the Xue Clan’s elites.

“Quick, retreat!” Xue Dingtian roared, ordering the Xue Clan’s elites to retreat. Their ancestors' strength would kill them if they continued to stay behind.

However, the elites were a step too late. Who could have predicted that even an expert in the True Core Realm would be unable to keep up with Liu Wuxie’s movement technique?

The shockwave swept through dozens of people, causing them to explode and blood to splatter on the ground. This brutal scene was beyond anyone’s anticipation.

Fan Zhen initially had some worries, but as the battle progressed, he realized his concern was unnecessary. He couldn't help either way because no one could enter the Immortal Burial Array.

Liu Wuxie was determined to go all out with no room for retreat. It was either victory or death with no third option.

“He’s a monstrous genius!” The Treasure Pill Pavilion’s higher hierarchy was also present to cheer on Liu Wuxie.

Only Mu Yueying watched by the side quietly, but the shock in her eyes grew as the battle progressed. She knew someone in the Marrow Cleansing Realm couldn't face someone in the True Core Realm.

Even if someone in the Marrow Cleansing Realm had countless accumulations, they couldn’t be considered a genuine cultivator without reaching the True Core Realm. It was like the difference between immortals and mortals; the difference was even more significant than the moon and a firefly.

This gap couldn’t be bridged even without powerful cultivation or martial techniques.

However, Liu Wuxie had broken this rule, easily avoiding the attack from an expert in the True Core Realm. So much so that he even set up a spiritual array that Xue Shixiong couldn’t resolve.

She came from the world of cultivation and naturally had vast experiences, yet she was genuinely shocked at this moment.

Xu Yilin and Yang Zi stood among the spectators, tears welling in their eyes.

A few days ago, they had travelled to Imperial City to handle some matters. Upon arrival last night, they had received news of Liu Wuxie challenging the Xue Clan.

Their attempts to locate Liu Wuxie had proven futile, despite scouring half of the Imperial City. They had even sought help from Bi Gongyu.

“Big Brother Liu has produced an outstanding son!” Xu Yilin’s hands trembled with excitement and concern. He was worried about Liu Wuxie’s safety.

As the battle raged, Liu Wuxie had no time to care about anything else. Being fully immersed in this fight, he had isolated himself from all distractions.

Every move emerged in his mind, and the death count continued. Liu Wuxie would leave behind a bloody trail wherever he went.

More than half of the Xue Clan’s elites were dead, and this made Xue Shixiong’s eyes bulge. He didn’t dare to act rashly now, fearing that his attack might kill the Xue Clan’s elites instead. But he could only watch Liu Wuxie butcher the Xue Clan’s elites if he didn't act.

The people gathered in the surroundings couldn’t flee because of the spiritual array enveloping the entire Xue Clan. Their only chance of survival was to kill Liu Wuxie.

“Liu Wuxie, you little bastard! Fight me if you have the guts!” Xue Shixiong chased behind Liu Wuxie, but he couldn’t catch up. He could only roar furiously and use thirty percent of his strength, which couldn’t threaten Liu Wuxie.

Xue Shixiong’s earlier attack had accidentally killed dozens of the Xue Clan’s elites, so he didn’t dare attack at full strength.

“Old bastard, I’ll deal with you after killing them all. I’ll let you live for a little longer.” Liu Wuxie increased the speed of his hunting. The entire field was covered in blood as the remaining Xue Clan’s elites fled in various directions. They were terrified of Liu Wuxie.

"Don't scatter into the crowd!" Xue Dingtian's voice boomed. If these individuals dispersed among the throng, Xue Shixiong would have no opportunity to confront Liu Wuxie without resorting to eliminating all other Xue Clan members to clear the space for battle.

However, it was too late because those people had lost their rationale and only wanted to survive. The remaining Xue Clan’s elites ran into the crowd, using the low-level members to buy time for them to escape.

“Garbage!” Liu Wuxie despised these people the most, using the lives of the weak to buy time for themselves.

Performing the Overlord Fist, Liu Wuxie unleashed a vast wave of fire containing demonic flame that swept toward the crowd. Everything in the path of the fire disappeared and was devoured by the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

Liu Wuxie was determined to wipe out the Xue Clan to push himself to a higher realm. The massacre resumed, and not a single one was spared except the old, weak, sick, and disabled. Women and children weren’t his targets, as he wasn’t a monster.

His goal today was to wipe out all the combatants in the Xue Clan.

In just fifteen minutes, the Xue Clan lost over a thousand members and had few combatants left.

Xue Yu was hidden in the crowd, collapsed on the ground with his face pale. Half a year had passed, and he had only reached the pinnacle of the Spirit Cleansing Realm. He wasn’t even in the Marrow Cleansing Realm and was nothing compared to Liu Wuxie.

The Xue Clan's death count increased as spiritual liquid increased in the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

Xue Dingtian had reached a state of numbness, his eyes bloodshot, harboring a voracious desire to annihilate Liu Wuxie.

With so many casualties, space had been cleared, and the surroundings were empty. This made it convenient for Liu Wuxie to fight Xue Shixiong now. Not a single elite from the Xue Clan remained.

The Bai Clan’s ancestor and patriarch looked at each other with deep fear. If Liu Wuxie survived that battle, they would do anything to resolve their feud, even at the expense of offering resources to seek Liu Wuxie’s forgiveness.

“Old bastard, it’s your turn now!” The Heretic Blade was covered in blood, and Liu Wuxie’s white robe was dyed red. When Liu Wuxie returned to the field, the ground was heavily damaged, with craters everywhere. Almost all of the Xue Clan’s buildings were destroyed.

Through this incident, the Xue Clan had suffered a fatal blow.

Xue Shixiong slowly walked toward Liu Wuxie, his murderous intent manifesting in various forms. This was divine art, letting even murderous intent take form.

His murderous intent would alternate between a sword and blade, meaning that Xue Shixiong wanted to tear Liu Wuxie apart.

“Little bastard, I’ll rip you to shreds! I’ll make everyone dear to you pay the price, slaughtering the men and condemning the women to a life of servitude at brothels, enslaved for generations!”

The fact that someone from the True Core Realm uttered such words could only hint at the boiling rage within Xue Shixiong at that moment.

“You old mutt, based on your earlier words, I’ll ensure your entire Xue Clan is buried alongside you!” Xue Shixiong’s earlier remarks had crossed Liu Wuxie’s line of tolerance, and he was prepared to eliminate anyone who dared to overstep it.

Liu Wuxie pointed the Heretic Blade at the Xue Clan, and a battle would unfold at any moment. The people he had killed earlier were just the beginning because the real fight was about to begin.

If Xue Shixiong weren’t killed, the Xue Clan wouldn’t be wiped out. In the worst scenario, they would be reduced to a second-tier clan and could make a comeback if given a century.

However, if the Xue Clan lost their True Core Realm expert, the Xue Clan would instantly become the target for many people. After all, the Xue Clan had offended many people throughout the years when they were in power.

Liu Wuxie and Xue Shixiong stood ten meters apart, looking at each other. They could see the murderous intent in each other’s eyes.

Those outside the spiritual array held their breaths and didn’t dare to say a word, fearing they might miss out on things.

“Do you all think he can hold his ground against Xue Shixiong?” Many Imperial Academy’s teachers discussed this among themselves. While they may not have been fond of Liu Wuxie, his performance that day had left them in awe. It was an inherent human trait to admire strength.

“It won’t be easy, but I believe him!” an intermediate teacher said with a longing expression.

Experts would not only receive respect but also jealousy. After all, Liu Wuxie had reached such heights at such a young age, and it was natural that everyone couldn’t accept it.

Even the headmasters from the previous two generations had arrived. They were both in the True Core Realm and had come out of their seclusion.

“What’s going on? It has been over a century since there was a battle that involved True Core Realm experts,” Luo Zhaojun asked with her brows furrowed.

When Fan Zhen explained everything, Luo Zhaojun staggered upon hearing it was Liu Wuxie again. She had also witnessed Liu Wuxie’s death match with Qin Shi, but that wasn’t long ago, and he was now challenging an expert in the True Core Realm.