Desolate Devouring Art-Chapter 1358 - Arrangements

Chapter 1358 - Arrangements
The two nodded their heads with all their might. The right servant added, "The young master has really returned!"
Right at this moment, Liu Wuxie stepped into the Liu Clan's grounds, but many people remained too busy with their tasks to notice his arrival.
"My son has come home!" Liu Dashan roared, his shout alarmed the entire Liu Clan as countless people dropped what they were doing and turned to look at him. His voice rolled across every corner of the Liu Clan like a shockwave.
Xu Lingxue and the other three women froze when they heard his cry. Their figures blurred as they shot out like four comets, disappearing.
Because the voice had come from the direction of the main hall, Liu Wuxie quickened his pace, each step carrying him dozens of meters forward until he finally appeared not far from the main hall.
Liu Dashan already stood outside the main hall, and when he saw the familiar figure approach, he became so emotional that he could not utter a single word.
"Big Brother Liu!" Four voices cried out together as four figures rushed over, enveloping Liu Wuxie in familiar warmth and fragrance.
"I'm back," Liu Wuxie said, gently wrapping his arms around the four women. Shortly after, Liu Xiucheng, Liu Dazhi, and Liu Wuxie's mother also stepped into the main hall, and the Liu Clan's elders, along with Liu Tian, Liu Xing, and the other juniors, quickly gathered there as well.
"Let's talk inside. What does it look like for us to gather outside here?" Liu Xiucheng said.
The four women finally released Liu Wuxie, though reluctantly, and followed him into the main hall. With that, all of the Liu Clan's upper echelons had assembled.
"Wuxie, when did you get back? When are you leaving again after this?" Liu Dazhi asked.
"Second uncle, I can only stay for three days this time. In three days, I will have to leave. But don't worry about it. It didn't come back alone, and the others are already setting up an interstellar teleportation array. It won't take long for the True Martial Continent to merge with the astral domain," Liu Wuxie said, beginning to share what he had experienced over the past year.
The conversation went on for two whole hours, and everyone listened in a daze as Liu Wuxie recounted his journeys. When they heard that Liu Wuxie had spent over a month as a slave, their hearts all clenched in anxiety. Upon learning that Liu Wuxie would leave again in three days, the main hall fell into a heavy silence.
"Grandfather, father, I might need to take some people with me back to the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain. I don't need a lot, just fifty will be enough. They will be the vanguard to lay down roots in the astral domain," Liu Wuxie said, looking toward his grandfather and father.
Many uncertainties and dangers lurked in the True Martial Continent, and he could not afford to let the Liu Clan's foundation crumble. Once these elites reached the astral domain, they could establish a new branch of the Liu Clan there and allow it to flourish.
"You don't have to worry about that. I will personally pick them out," Liu Xiucheng said. Although he had not involved himself in clan affairs over the past year, he decided to handle this matter himself. These fifty people needed to carry the purest Liu Clan bloodline and possess absolute loyalty to the clan.
It was inevitable that some people would forget the responsibilities they had once borne as their horizons broadened in the astral domain. Thus, these fifty disciples had to be elites among elites, with unshakable loyalty to Liu Wuxie.
Not long after Liu Wuxie returned, a message arrived from the Heavenly Spirit Celestial Academy. The Heavenly Dao Society had also received news of his return, and everyone there was already waiting at the main gate for Liu Wuxie's return.
"I need to make a trip to the Heavenly Dao Society. I will come back later so we can eat together," Liu Wuxie said as he rose to his feet. He also had matters to discuss with the Heavenly Dao Society so they could make the necessary arrangements.
"Go on. We'll wait for your return," Liu Xiucheng said. He understood that fate destined Liu Wuxie to achieve great things, and sentimentality could not bind his path.
This time, the four ladies accompanied Liu Wuxie, and the five of them arrived in the city a few minutes later. The Heavenly Dao Society had now become a superpower in the True Martial Continent, and its products had spread to every corner of the land.
Xu Yilin stood at the very front of the waiting crowd, and he could clearly feel his body trembling slightly. Bi Gongyu and the others waited anxiously beside him. Mu Tianli, Tian Xing, and the representatives of the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion rubbed their hands together in excitement. All of them had waited far too long for this moment.
When five figures slowly approached, everyone could finally make out Liu Wuxie's silhouette in the distance.
"They must've been waiting for a long time," Jian Xing'er said.
Thousands of members of the Heavenly Dao Society stood in neat formation, their ranks split into two groups lining both sides of the street. Countless commoners and cultivators surged toward the scene, all eager to catch a glimpse of Liu Wuxie with their own eyes.
"Greetings, father-in-law, mother-in-law," Liu Wuxie said, bowing respectfully to Xu Yilin and his wife. Without the care they had given him in his youth, there would be no Liu Wuxie of today.
"Good! Good!" Xu Yilin's voice choked as tears streamed down his cheeks, and he gently helped Liu Wuxie back up to his feet.
"Master!" Bi Gongyu stepped forward with Lan Yu and Hu Shi, and the three of them performed a deep bow to Liu Wuxie.
"Get up," Liu Wuxie said, lightly lifting the three back to their feet with a wave of his hand. He then walked beside Xu Yilin and his wife, with Tian Xing and the others following behind him into the main hall.
The hall was magnificent, large enough to hold more than a thousand people at once. After everyone took their seats, Liu Wuxie did not sit in the main seat; instead, he let his father-in-law occupy it. After all, he had entrusted the Heavenly Dao Society to his father-in-law's care.
Mu Tianli, Tian Xing, Yi Xuan, Miao Jianying, and the others had all become part of the Heavenly Dao Society's upper echelons by now. Bi Gongyu, Lan Yu, and Hu Shi each headed the Alchemy Hall, the Blacksmith Hall, and the Spiritual Array Hall, respectively.
"Big Brother!" A chubby figure rushed over and pounced onto Liu Wuxie.
"Song Ling, how did you get even fatter?" Liu Wuxie asked speechlessly. They had only been apart for a little over a year, yet Song Ling had gained a shocking amount of weight in that time.
"I don't know either. I keep getting fatter no matter how I cultivate," Song Ling said helplessly.
Liu Wuxie activated the Ghost Eye and peered into Song Ling's body, and his pupils shrank slightly. In the past, when his Ghost Eye had not advanced, what he could see had been limited. But now that it had evolved into the Ghost Pupil, he could see beyond flesh and blood.
"I understand what's going on with your body now. I'll give you a cultivation technique later," Liu Wuxie said. With so many people present, it wasn't the right time to explain; they could discuss it in detail later.
"Wuxie, are you going to leave again?" Tian Xing asked.
"I only have three days, and I'll keep things short," Liu Wuxie said. There was no need for him to mince words here—everyone present was closest to his heart, and he had never forgotten any of them, nor their names.
"Three days? So short?" An uproar erupted the moment they heard that Liu Wuxie had only three days left to stay.
"Wuxie, tell us what we have to do," Xu Yilin said. Since Liu Wuxie had so little time, they naturally had to give everything they had to support him.
Once again, Liu Wuxie recounted his experience in the astral domain, leaving everyone filled with disbelief and admiration. None of them had expected him to go through so much in just over a year. Not only had he secured a firm footing in the astral domain, but he had also laid down a solid foundation there for the Heavenly Dao Society.
They only needed to select the elites of the Heavenly Dao Society to follow Liu Wuxie into the astral domain. In at most three to five years, they would fully complete the interstellar teleportation array, and everyone would be able to reunite then.
After a round of discussion, everyone agreed to send the younger generation with Liu Wuxie, giving them greater opportunities. As for choosing who would go, Liu Wuxie did not interfere and left the selection to his father-in-law and the others.
After more than a year of tempering, Miao Jianying, the Liu Clan's disciples, Jiang Le, Yu Zhibai, and Shen Rong had all grown into formidable figures capable of standing on their own.
"I will host a guide tonight in the Liu Clan, and all of you have to be there. It'll waste too much time for me to guide each of you individually, and I will do my best to take care of as many of you as I can," Liu Wuxie said. He stayed in the Heavenly Dao Society for four hours before leaving at noon, as there were still many matters he needed to handle.
Upon hearing that Liu Wuxie would personally guide everyone in their cultivation, they erupted into cheers. After all, only grandmasters of dao art were qualified to host such a guidance session.
Together with the four ladies, Liu Wuxie headed toward the depths of the True Martial Continent.
Beast's roar echoed through the mountains as a ball of fire streaked through the sky toward Liu Wuxie.
"Fiery!" Liu Wuxie rushed forward the instant he saw Fiery.
"Big Brother Liu!" A person leapt down from Fiery's back.
"Gu Yu!" Liu Wuxie exclaimed as the two men stepped forward and hugged.
Ever since they had parted ways in the Sacred Ground, Liu Wuxie had not seen Gu Yu again. He had only heard that Gu Yu went out for solitary cultivation to seek revenge on his behalf.
Fiery paced proudly around Liu Wuxie, looking incomparably mighty, and its fur had grown even more lustrous than before.
In the past year, while Liu Wuxie was away, Fiery had not stayed in the Liu Clan either. It had gone out to temper itself as well and met Gu Yu by chance, after which the two had ventured across the True Martial Continent together.
After bidding everyone farewell, Liu Wuxie left with the four women and Fiery, tearing through space as they departed.
Along the central axis of the True Martial Continent, a group of people worked busily as the Han Clan had sent a hundred experts to help with the construction of the interstellar teleportation array.
As for Han Shan, Han Shi, and Song Ying, they devoted themselves to preparing the project's preliminary stages.
Dark sparks flickered across the sky as an astral storm began to gather overhead. Fissures had already appeared throughout the True Martial Continent, and several earthquakes had shaken it in the past year.
"Junior Brother Liu, you've returned!" Han Shan immediately set aside what he was doing and hurried over.
"How is this location?" Liu Wuxie asked.
"From a geographical standpoint, this place is excellent. The construction should be completed in three years," Han Shan said, leading Liu Wuxie on a tour of the area.
They had already laid down a vast concealing spiritual array that covered a radius of ten thousand meters, ensuring that no outsider could step into this place. This would be where they spent the next three years.
"I'll have to trouble you three then," Liu Wuxie said politely.
"This is what we're supposed to do. Don't sweat about it," Han Shan replied. The preliminary phase had only just begun, and he still had many things to oversee; he had no time to keep Liu Wuxie company.
"Let's go," Liu Wuxie said, walking around the site with the four ladies to make sure nothing was amiss before leaving.
On the summit of a remote mountain, the five of them leaned against each other, while Fiery lay a short distance away, snoring loudly in its sleep.
"Big Brother Liu, why am I still not pregnant?" Xu Lingxue asked. They had already consummated their marriage before Liu Wuxie left, yet she still had not conceived.
"That's perfectly normal. The higher our cultivation, the lower the chance of pregnancy. Some can't even conceive that after reaching the highest level of cultivation, their bodies resonate with heaven and earth," Liu Wuxie comforted.
Xu Lingxue had been brooding over her inability to get pregnant and had even wondered whether there was something wrong with her body. After hearing Liu Wuxie's explanation, the four women all let out a collective sigh of relief.
"Then we..." Xu Lingxue said with a mischievous smile. Since they were already husband and wife, there was no need for her to feel shy about such matters.
"The heaven as a quilt and the earth as a bed," Liu Wuxie said. He swept his hand out and set up a massive spiritual array, concealing the entire mountain.