As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life Chapter 1609: 425: Emperor Xi Xi Kills and Runs—So Thrilling! The Children Live Happily in Fengdu
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Crash, crash——
Down from the walls of the city, the dark ink rain poured relentlessly, hammering against the ebony bricks. Each drop, big as peas, resembled brushes dipped in heavy ink, splattering apart and forming clouds of shadowy vapor.
This grand, awe-inspiring, enigmatic ink city stretched out and hovered in the air, like a vast chess game with crossing patterns, supporting the immense structure!
Atop the city gate, fierce winds tumbled and expanded, merging with thunderous blasts that almost blinded the oily, contorted face concealed inside the pill furnace.
Etched on the city gate were the words: Fengdu!
A black-robed figure adorned with a golden lotus sat facing away.
In that instant, it felt like the whole world had gone quiet.
“When children fight, why should we old folks intervene?”
The steady, leisurely voice emerged from the black-robed figure, akin to an ancient beast that had guarded the old city for thousands of years, somehow instilling a heavy pressure on the entity in the pill furnace.
This pressure was astonishing, since at his realm, only the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations from the Heaven and Earth Will could burden him like this!
What kind of being was this one in front of him, capable of exerting such intense force?
The oily face tucked away in the pill furnace gradually narrowed its gaze.
As anticipated…
How could a tempting human medicine like that go without a guardian?
From his spot on the wall, Li Che pivoted slowly, donning an adorable bull mask. Back in Fei Lei City, he'd used this Bull Demon Mask to shield his daughter.
Now, with his daughter setting off in a calf mask, as her father, he… naturally donned the Bull Demon Mask too.
It made perfect sense for the elder bull demon to safeguard the young calf.
In his grip, Li Che clutched the divinity crystal of the Three Pure Ranks, having trained in his study while splitting part of his awareness to monitor Xi Xi’s circumstances.
A first-level martial artist going after Xi Xi didn't warrant his involvement; his daughter required tempering, and she needed that mindset for it.
Though he stayed ever watchful over her well-being, a simple first-level fighter was something Xi Xi could probably manage on her own.
Yet this fiendish entity lurking in the pill furnace, with its savage features and constant talk of human medicine, was a threat Li Che couldn't overlook.
After all, it surpassed what Xi Xi could deal with right now.
Even if not his full self, he remained a true Divine Tribulation Great Cultivator.
From Gu Changqing, Li Che had gathered that the oily lurker in the pill furnace was probably the Yang Xuan Grandmaster, one of the Yin and Yang grandmasters from the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect.
The Yin Xuan Grandmaster excelled in poisons, whereas this Yang Xuan Grandmaster stayed more under the radar.
But at this moment, it appeared the Yang Xuan Grandmaster harbored some odd traits too.
Within the pill furnace, the oily human face narrowed its eyes just a bit.
“Indeed, what you say is quite right… It’s true we old folks shouldn’t meddle when kids fight, my mistake, hehehe.”
The plump lips of the face in the pill furnace tightened, letting out a hehehe chuckle.
All at once, flames burst forth, as though a fierce blaze raged inside the furnace, making the pill furnace spew thick black fumes. Moments later, it turned into a streak of light, speeding away along its arrival route, racing toward the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect’s mountain gate.
No trace of any wish to clash with Li Che.
Under the Bull Demon Mask, Li Che’s expression turned frosty, while his mouth edges lifted faintly.
“Human medicine?”
The even voice echoed out.
Next, a fearsome killing aura swelled like surging tides, reminiscent of the massive waves over the Grand Canal in Guangling Dao City, a colossal surge linking sky and ground, carrying the weight of the heavens and earth!
Treating his daughter as human medicine?!
Had Li Che not shown up, would this Yang Xuan Grandmaster have taken advantage of her weakness, planning to seize his daughter for pill-making?
And in the Ascending Immortal Pavilion of Guangling Dao City…
Was that also the doing of this Yang Xuan Grandmaster?
He'd learned from Gu Changqing that the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect built the Ascension Tower to brew a slow-acting poison pill, collecting riches and supplies to fuel the grandmasters’ cultivation.
So, through Xi Xi’s eyes, Li Che had witnessed the horrifying sight inside the Ascending Immortal Pavilion.
While other Divine Sects worked to suppress the enigmatic temples and their gods.
The Heavenly Pill Divine Sect… opted to ally with the Divine Sect and conspire with temple gods, instead of quelling them to claim the inheritance…
This stemmed from the Da Jing Dynasty allowing the Divine Sects to oversee the mysterious temples in their domains!
With the Imperial Court now pulling in forces from the Temple Control Bureau and the Qintian Observatory, all sorts of schemes by the Divine Sects surfaced.
Of course, sects like the Qian Yuan Divine Sect earnestly subdued mysterious temples to protect the nearby people.
They even moved the arrays of odd temples near Qianyuan Taoist City inside their own Divine Sect Mountain Gate, displaying bold resolve and strength.
But sects like the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect chose collusion with temple gods.
Buzz boom——
A low rumble akin to thunder suddenly set the air quivering with rippling surges.
Beneath the Bull Demon Mask, his frame abruptly swelled to a sturdy, massive build, with scorching qi-blood roiling fiercely, like turbulent waves, on the visible skin weaving black and red tones as if hammered from liquid metal, golden qi-blood vapor rising, coloring the ends of his hair, the whole form appearing cloaked in a sheath of golden haze.