As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life Chapter 1656 - 435: Immortal Artisan’s Fifth Shedding, the Second Kind of Primordial Dao Tribulation; State Preceptor Invites the Underworld to Join Him [Vote for Monthly Ticket]...
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Rumble!
A horrifying blast burst forth!
Sound waves thundered fiercely, quaking the skies and ground, shuddering across every direction!
It felt like endless lightning strikes detonating inside the mountain, with billions of Wanxiang Nine Divine Mechanism Seals igniting all at once, the tremors mimicking the rumble of a thunder pool!
Crack, crack——!!
The ground quivered and the skies reeled!
Mountains and rivers rocked wildly!
The whole Divine Carving Ridge in Golden Light Prefecture shook violently, fissures spreading nonstop, forming a thick web of cracks...
Within the Divine Sculpture Master Workshop at the ridge's base, the frantic master sculptors and Wood Carvers crafting divine sculptures bolted outside in panic, their frames shaking without control, overcome by dread.
Glancing back, they stood frozen in shock because...
The mountain was splitting apart!
That enormous, snow-capped Stone Mountain started fracturing from within, as though cleaved by a massive axe, forming a deep gash.
The split ran from the peak straight down to the bottom.
Snow piled up over days cascaded in an avalanche, booming with devastating force as it plunged to the foot of the mountain!
However, a savage gust blasted from the torn mountain interior, resembling a whirlwind spiraling upward into the air, while the brilliant Blazing Blood Radiance gleamed like the splendor of a volcano bursting, radiating without end.
It pierced directly into the pitch-black, cloud-filled sky overhead!
Cries of alarm and sheer fright poured from the lips of the numerous master sculptors who fled to the clearing, petrified beyond measure, having never witnessed anything like it, pondering what catastrophe had struck?
They raised their eyes to the heavens, where storm clouds churned violently, packed with lightning twisting like dragons and snakes, fury sweeping the firmament!
Boom——!!!
Deep inside the fractured Stone Mountain.
A figure burst out in a ragged fashion, sturdy and powerful, brimming with unmatched vitality, none other than Tang Sanjia.
At this moment, Tang Sanjia's expression brimmed with thrill, bordering on insanity!
"It worked..."
"Hahaha, it worked!"
"It really worked!"
Tang Sanjia wept with joy, wild with delight, consumed by frenzy, and touched by grief...
A torrent of feelings flooded his chest.
Boom——!!!
The fearsome blasts kept detonating from the Stone Mountain, and then, under the stares of all, an utterly dreadful humanoid Mechanical Beast emerged, standing a hundred zhang tall, radiating a fearsome aura and presence, shattering free from the mountain's core.
As though... it had leaped from the rock itself!
A monstrous bellow thundered out, and that colossal hundred-zhang humanoid Mechanical Beast soared into the boundless sky thousands of miles away, jolting the realm, with ferocious shockwaves clashing together, churning the clouds like raging ocean waves, its power world-shaking and completely horrifying!
Across Golden Light Prefecture, be it the Divine Sect Branch or the Qintian Observatory, the various powerhouses from the Temple Control Bureau detected this disturbance, chills running down their spines, as they hurried swiftly toward the source.
Nan Lihuo, Zhang Qing Zheng, Zhu Hong Dou, and fellow Divine Sect powerhouses were left stunned.
They had only just reached the area, already sensing the suffocating, dread-inducing pressure extending over the heavens and earth.
They spotted Tang Sanjia too, perched amid the massive snow heap from the avalanche, cackling madly, a sight that left them reeling.
"It worked!"
Tang Sanjia bellowed with laughter.
Nan Lihuo, who knew Tang Sanjia best, felt a jolt of surprise.
It worked?
What exactly succeeded? That Mechanical Beast...
Nan Lihuo was privy to certain secrets, aware that Tang Sanjia concealed a Supreme Mechanical Beast within the mountain...
It stemmed from the Tang Family’s ancient mechanism legacy.
Truth be told, the hidden knowledge Tang Sanjia believed was his alone, many others had uncovered, though few managed to refine that Mechanical Beast to perfection.
Not even a prodigy Mechanism Master from the Tang Family like Tang Sanjia, who fully embodied the Tang Family’s mechanism principles, had achieved it—so how could mere outsiders?
Yet now, as the earth trembled and the Stone Mountain crumbled.
It appeared the Mechanical Beast had triumphed!
Nan Lihuo lifted his gaze, beholding the immense, glowing humanoid Mechanical Beast hovering far above in the skies, its Blazing Blood Radiance beaming fiercely.
A crushing, horrifying pressure nearly ready to engulf the hills and woods, covering the vast heavens and earth.
Nan Lihuo's gaze wavered, catching sight of a silhouette upon the Mechanical Beast.
A silhouette absent for years, but vaguely recognizable.
"Li Che..."
Nan Lihuo's eyes grew faintly damp.
Word of Qianyuan Dao City facing siege from the court army had spread back, details of the second clash remained unclear, yet the first battle saw Qianyuan claim a magnificent win, even destroying a clone of Ji Moli.
This report brought mist to Nan Lihuo’s eyes.
The grudge from the city’s slaughter felt somewhat eased by these tidings.
Moreover, updates on Li Che and Xi Xi's rising roles and standing in Qianyuan Dao City reached Nan Lihuo via Supervisor Hu Yingyue during links with the Dao City Imperial Heavenly Observatory.
Recalling that young girl from before, a sense of pride flickered in Nan Lihuo’s eyes.
"Truly wonderful." Nan Lihuo’s mouth curved into a grin.
Li Che and his daughter kept advancing in strength, climbing to greater heights, and as their old mentor, he shared in the glory.
Bliss welled up from deep within.
...
...
Rumble——!!!
Li Che perched in a meditative pose on the summit of the Divine Machine Armored Heavenly Armor, every filament of the Divine Machine Monkey’s fur appearing vividly real, drifting and fluttering amid the winds.
Tempests raged nearby, as though vibrant lights wove together.
By his ear, a colossal bell seemed to toll, resounding without cease, like rousing dormant deities.