Desolate Devouring Art

Chapter 473 - Sea Whirlpool

The sudden change caught everyone by surprise, including Liu Wuxie.

The dragon palace began to crumble after the Heavenly Dragon Seal and Dragon Clan Scepter were taken, and the dragon palace began to sink into the sea.

Endless seawater surged from the surroundings, and the ink-jade pillars began to shatter under the powerful water current. Everything happened so quickly that no one could react in time.

The sea demons reveled in their newfound strength as the seawater surged over their terrain, drastically altering the environment to their advantage. With the dragon aura waning, many seized the opportunity to advance on Liu Wuxie. Capturing him meant claiming all his secrets and treasures.

Liu Wuxie and Gu Yu stood still, allowing the seawater to lift them.

“Big Brother Liu, what should we do now?” Gu Yu panicked a little because he just had to find a safe place to cultivate after retrieving the Dragon Clan Scepter to make swift breakthroughs in his cultivation. He couldn’t maintain his composure like Liu Wuxie in the face of life and death.

“Wait!” Liu Wuxie said because the time wasn’t right. They would naturally escape this place when the time was right, not to mention the dragon palace hadn’t collapsed entirely despite the number of cracks increasing.

The rocks on the ground began disappearing, and the massive dragon bone began sinking. Once it sank to the bottom of the sea, no one would have a chance to retrieve it because it would fall into the hands of the sea demons.

“Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron, retrieve it for me!” The dragon’s skeleton was the real treasure, and there was no way Liu Wuxie could let it fall into the hands of the sea demons. After all, Liu Wuxie planned to extract the divine dragon’s laws from the skeleton and cultivate a true dragon’s body.

The majestic skeleton, reaching ten thousand meters long, was devoured by the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

When the vortex vanished, it was replaced by a colossal whirlpool. The seawater, initially restrained by the dragon’s aura, began to pour in more rapidly once the dragon's skeleton had disappeared. The influx intensified, quickly forming a storm that roared toward Liu Wuxie and Gu Yu.

“Hold onto me!” Liu Wuxie shouted, extending his hand toward Gu Yu. As the torrent surged closer, he braced himself, ready to withstand the crushing wave.

The waves roared ferociously, and the seawater swept away those in the Heavenly Phase Realm.

When the wave crashed into them, Liu Wuxie felt like a mountain had slammed into him, but he endured the discomfort in his chest as they were swept into the ocean.

The speed was too fast. It was too late for Ding Ye and others to react because who would’ve thought that Liu Wuxie would retrieve the skeleton, letting the dragon’s aura disappear? The seawater pouring in wasn’t fast, but waves swept at them when the skeleton disappeared.

Liu Wuxie used the force of the wave to carry them into the ocean, and everything was flawlessly calculated. The wave brought them a few kilometers away before finally slowing down.

When they looked back, the dragon palace collapsed and sank into the ocean.

“Hurry up! We can’t let him escape!” Ding Ye controlled the water current to traverse swiftly in the sea at an incredible speed. Lin Feng and the Wolf Fang Regiment’s leader were closely behind to prevent Liu Wuxie and Gu Yu from escaping.

However, the sea demons were more terrifying because their speed doubled when they entered the ocean. A thousand meters was just a few breaths of time for them.

Ding Ye and others were much stronger than Liu Wuxie, especially Lin Feng, who had comprehended the element of water. This meant he could traverse the ocean effortlessly, swiftly narrowing the gap between him and Liu Wuxie.

Liu Wuxie was also becoming anxious to see them closing in on them. He might’ve shaken them off temporarily, but they would be surrounded by sea demons in two hours at most if they couldn’t shake them off thoroughly.

The shark sea demon had already notified the nearby sea demons to form a blockade to trap Liu Wuxie in the sea, ensuring that the treasures would fall into the hands of the Sea Demon Clan.

There was no trick to use in the sea, and Liu Wuxie’s Nine Heavenly Crane Dance was futile. Even though his speed wasn’t as fast as on land, ordinary cultivators in the low levels of the Astral River Realm couldn’t catch up to him, apart from the few pinnacle Astral River Realm cultivators.

However, their greatest threat was the sea demons because thousands swiftly approached after receiving the shark sea demon’s call.

The dragon palace had stood hidden for countless years, concealed by the surrounding reefs. The sea demons were oblivious to its presence, as the reefs effectively camouflaged the palace.

Liu Wuxie could still calmly find a direction to break out at first, but their escape routes were constantly being compressed as more sea demons gathered from the surroundings.

Ultimately, Liu Wuxie could only grit his teeth and head to the area with fewer sea demons.

A group of yaksha passed by and formed a blockade in Liu Wuxie’s path.

“Get lost!” Without hesitation, Liu Wuxie summoned the Heretic Blade to his hand. He swung it horizontally, his movements swift and precise. Though his strength was not as formidable underwater as it was on land, his power had significantly increased since reaching the second level of the Heavenly Phase Realm.

As Liu Wuxie swung the Heretic Blade, the yakshas blocking his path were swiftly decapitated. These low-level sea demons were mere obstacles, intended to buy time for their more powerful allies to arrive. The sea demons were desperate, sacrificing their own lives to delay Liu Wuxie.

Buzzing sounds came from behind as two meteors streaked across the water.

“This is bad! It’s a sea demon close to the Nascent Transformation Realm!” Liu Wuxie’s face became solemn because the situation was unfavorable to them. Aside from the pinnacle Astral River Realm sea demons, even sea demons who were close to the Nascent Transformation Realm had appeared.

The approaching sea demons moved at twice his speed, and with such close proximity, it was only a matter of time before they caught up. To make matters worse, sea demons were converging from the other three directions as well.

The situation was dangerous because the most significant danger didn’t come from the humans but from sea demons.

“Big Brother Liu, leave me and escape by yourself!” Gu Yu suddenly pulled his hand away from Liu Wuxie, urging him to flee alone. Gu Yu's presence was slowing Liu Wuxie down.

“Cut the nonsense!” Liu Wuxie snapped, not willing to waste any more time. He grabbed Gu Yu’s hand tightly and continued to flee. They were almost panicking, and Liu Wuxie even attempted to head upwards, only to find more sea demons diving down.

This meant they could only dive deeper, and their speed would gradually slow down due to the water pressure.

“This is strange. The seawater here is getting colder!” Liu Wuxie noticed an odd phenomenon because the surrounding seawater was getting colder. He had comprehended the ice element; ordinary cold couldn’t affect him.

Meanwhile, Gu Yu was shivering from the cold, struggling to endure the frigid temperature.

“Big Brother Liu, have you noticed that no sea demons are blocking us in this direction?” Gu Yu pointed out a strange phenomenon.

The sea demons intercepted their paths whenever they tried to change direction, but there were no sea demons ahead in this direction. This meant there was a high chance they could survive if they continued to escape in this direction.

Liu Wuxie had already observed the same anomaly and had chosen this path accordingly. However, his keen sense of caution told him that such an anomaly was often a sign of hidden danger. The absence of sea demons could be a trap, and he remained vigilant, refusing to let his guard down.

“They’re heading towards the sea whirlpool!” the sea demons communicated as they pursued them.

Humans were unfamiliar with sea whirlpools, but sea demons knew them well. The sea whirlpool was a forbidden area in the sea where no sea demons dared to approach. Even someone in the True Profound Realm couldn’t escape if they went in.

The sea whirlpool was also called the abyssal zone, which was bottomless, and no one knew what was inside. Those who got sucked in were killed without an exception.

“Intercept him before he enters the sea whirlpool!” The two elderly sea demons chasing from behind gave the order as sea demons formed two rows, holding hands as a powerful water current was produced, which created a passage.

As the sea demons' experts entered the passage, their speed surged dramatically. Meanwhile, those behind them employed their clan’s techniques to amplify the water current’s velocity. This combined effort enabled them to close the gap of thousands of meters in the blink of an eye.

Ding Ye and others didn’t give up, as they pursued relentlessly. Most of the other human cultivators had lost their sense of direction, and some had lost their lives to the sea demons.

After all, how could the sea demons allow humans to escape into the sea?

The relentless pursuit of Liu Wuxie had led to significant casualties among the human cultivators, with eighty percent of those from Blood Sea Abyssal Island perishing. The Wild Lion Gate had been destroyed, leaving only the remnants of Ding Feng Hall and the Wolf Fang Regiment, both now rendered powerless.

Liu Wuxie could smell the scent of the sea demons and channeled all his true essence into his acupoints to increase his speed.

The sea demons were swiftly closing in, but they needed about fifteen minutes to catch up with him. The temperature of the surrounding seawater continued to drop, but it was still barely within their tolerance.

“What’s going on? Our speed seems to be increasing!” Liu Wuxie noticed a strange phenomenon because his speed was getting faster, which defied logic. His speed should be slowing down instead of accelerating.

The speed of the sea demons was also accelerating and was three times faster than before. As they were already within attack range, a sea demon transformed into a yaksha and shot a water arrow at Liu Wuxie’s back.

Liu Wuxie retaliated against the water arrow with Frost Finger, creating an ice shield to block it.

When an explosion occurred underwater, the force produced by the blast pushed Liu Wuxie forward, but the powerful force caused Gu Yu to throw up a mouthful of blood. That attack was comparable to the Nascent Transformation Realm, and Liu Wuxie didn’t take it easy either.

However, Liu Wuxie wasn’t in any danger for now due to the suppression steles protecting his internal organs.

“Liu Wuxie, stop running! The sea whirlpool is ahead of you; you will die if you carry on. But if you’re willing to submit to the Sea Demon Clan, we will consider sparing your life!” The two elderly sea demons’ faces changed after failing to kill Liu Wuxie with one strike.

They hadn’t expected Liu Wuxie to be so powerful, capable of surviving their attack. But they didn’t know that Liu Wuxie had used all his strength, which was his strongest trump card.

If he engaged with the two elderly sea demons in a real fight, they would easily kill him with one strike, and it wouldn’t make a difference even if Liu Wuxie used the Earth Binding Chains. Not to mention, using the Earth Binding Chains would exhaust his soul energy, which meant they would fall into the hands of the Sea Demon Clan.

“Sea whirlpool!” Liu Wuxie’s face changed. He knew the sea whirlpool’s danger; it was impossible to flee if one entered. Every sea region had a whirlpool, rumored to be connected to the earth’s core.

However, no one knew whether this was true because anything that came within a thousand meters of the sea whirlpool would be sucked in and vanish without a trace.

There had been a previous experiment where someone tied a rope around their body and ventured into the sea whirlpool. The outcome was swift and grim: the rope snapped, and the person vanished without a trace.

“Hmph, falling into the hands of you sea demons will also be a dead end!” Liu Wuxie sneered. He would instead enter the sea whirlpool than fall into the hands of the Sea Demon Clan.