As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life Chapter 1708: 446: Immaculate Heart Tao Fruit Five Transmutations, Primordial Water Tribulation; Fighting Prison Lotus Demon Saint Qi Tian Mysterious Temple...

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Li Che entered a profound meditative state atop the Dominator Tower in Mo City Fengdu, initiating the Fifth Transmutation of the Immaculate Heart Taoist Fruit. His mind cleared to immaculate purity, unleashing raging storms that isolated him in a void-like realm, while his Essence, Qi, and Spirit surged, rapidly refining Divinity and transforming his divine embryos—including the Heaven and Earth Transformation Spirit True Ape, Seven Emotions, and Six Desires Evil Extermination Lu Xuan Sword Immortal. As the transmutation peaked, a powerful pulling force drew him into the vast Dao Tree Space, where the towering Dao Tree loomed eternally, and he gazed upon the swaying Pure Heart Tao Fruit, reflecting on its vital role in empowering his divine cultivation and the Underworld through awakened skills like Soul Capturing.

A mighty power is undoubtedly built from numerous formidable experts.

The essence of any influential group lies in its heroic figures!

Looking upon the seven-hued Immaculate Heart Dao Fruit, Li Che's gaze involuntarily shimmered.

The immense sky and land stirred, with fierce gales abruptly rising.

Space appeared to ripple like waves, as time and space quivered faintly, the surges striking the Dao Fruit and causing it to rock before dropping from the Dao Tree!

Shimmering in seven colors like glazed crystal, it seemed ethereal and dreamlike!

The enlarged Immaculate Heart Dao Fruit hovered right in front of Li Che, looking as though it was sculpted from multicolored gems, utterly stunning, casting forth brilliant beams of light!

All at once…

The pristine and solid exterior of the Immaculate Heart Dao Fruit started to flake off, similar to its earlier evolution, sloughing away like old skin.

As the Dao Fruit molted, an infinite hazy vista instantly unfolded before Li Che's vision.

Within that vista.

The lengthy river flowed with remarkable serenity, without even the tiniest disturbance; it wasn't that the waters lacked motion, but they were held in check by the silhouette perched on a drifting leaf upon the river's surface.

That silhouette was seated in lotus position on just one floating leaf, as if merged seamlessly with the cosmos.

A heart throbbed powerfully—that was the Seven-orifice Exquisite Heart, radiating intense luminosity from the chest, enveloped in seven-colored glow, like a deity concealed inside.

That silhouette detected Li Che's stare.

Gradually, the eyes parted, revealing nothing but boundless void within.

With merely a single look.

All things fragmented and faded into quietude, the Dao Fruit's vision dissipating entirely.

His mind felt on the verge of rupturing.

As though pulled taut by the horrifying might, ready to burst, the Seven-orifice Exquisite Heart hammered at a frightful pace, as if on the brink of detonation!

Vertigo assailed him!

Disorientation gripped him!

The surroundings whirled in chaos!

Atop the Dominator Tower, Li Che remained seated in meditation, breathing raggedly; he sensed his forehead cracking apart, while the divine essences from those mighty foes slain in Mo City flooded wildly into the Inner Scene of the Energy Center.

Everything was consumed.

Furthermore, Li Che retrieved a Divine Crystal of the Lower Three Pure Ones, and upon holding it, a tremendous pull emerged, draining every bit of divinity from the crystal.

This influx of divinity rushed into the Seven-orifice Exquisite Heart, then channeled toward the various Divine Fetuses.

Only through this could Li Che sense the insatiable hunger from the Inner Scene of the Energy Center starting to subside.

Like parched earth finally kissed by nourishing rain, droplets landing on barren sands.

Before him, luminous streams drifted like fragrant vapors and curling mists, gently coiling.

[Dao Fruit Level 7, Five Sheddings, Dao Guide (Seven-orifice Exquisite Heart) ascension, Dao Tribulation (Primordial Heart Cleansing Stream)]

Hua la la —

It was as if Tianhe waters cascaded, following their path with the resounding hua la of downpour, like cleansing the emptiness into oblivion, reforming the primordial river channels of the heavens and earth!

A soft milky-white glow gradually formed in his sight, crafting a message following the Dao Fruit’s Five Sheddings.

A well-known aura of impending catastrophe bore down directly on Li Che’s soul, threatening to erode it utterly, as if his whole existence teetered on annihilation.

Dao Tribulation!

A fresh Dao Tribulation!

Li Che's eyes flared with an intensely vivid gleam.

As anticipated, the Immaculate Heart Dao Fruit's Five Sheddings had birthed a Dao Tribulation too, and to Li Che's astonishment, it was an entirely novel form of Dao Tribulation!

The third calamity!

“It’s different…”

Li Che whispered.

“Primordial Dragon Elephant Flame, Primordial Sky-cutting Storm, Primordial Heart Cleansing Stream…”

“Fire, Wind… Water?”

“Unlike the three calamities of the present world, which are Netherworld Fire, Shenxiao Thunder, and Destructive God Wind…”

“And now the Dao Tribulations manifested by my three Dao Fruits, are fire, wind, and water, three types of primordial calamities.”

Li Che couldn't help but crease his forehead.

He had assumed the Dao Tribulations from the Dao Fruit were the Three Calamities Tribulation.

Yet now, it appeared there might be a distinct path for Dao Tribulation?

Similar to the Dragon God Lineage treading the Ancestor Dragon Tribulation route, the tribulation path Li Che followed… was it also unique to him, apart from this realm?!

As ideas emerged, his turbulent soul slowly steadied.

Then, illuminations began to manifest in his view.

[Dao Tribulation (Primordial Heart Cleansing Stream): Guiding Dao to engender tribulation, primordial world, Primordial Water Tribulation, spiritual communication with god]

With the persistent murmur of running water, the authentic prompt materialized before his eyes.

Primordial Water Tribulation!

Indeed…

The prior two as Primordial Fire Tribulation and Primordial Wind Tribulation…

“Five Elements? Not quite, the Five Elements are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, but now there’s the Primordial Wind Tribulation, it surely can’t be the Five Elements…”

Li Che pondered, feeling a bit perplexed for the moment.

What additional calamities lay ahead?

For an instant, Li Che brimmed with curiosity and anticipation…

Besides, as his daughter matured further, more Dao Fruits would emerge; in theory, Dao Fruits could number in the thousands—did that imply thousands of Dao Tribulations as well?

Likely not; various Dao Fruits might yield identical Dao Tribulations.

There had to be a set quantity of Dao Tribulations.

Composing himself, Li Che's stare intensified; his five fingers relaxed, and the Three Pure Ranks Divine Crystal in his grasp had, at some point, crumbled to dust, hua la, scattering from Li Che's palm.

Li Che pressed on with his cultivation, drawing forth another Divine Crystal, clutching it tightly; the Seven-orifice Exquisite Heart pulsed, and divinity poured in frenziedly at once.

“Huh—”

His soul quivered faintly.

Dao Tribulation!

Confront it head-on!

Bang—

With a dazzlingly resonant roar, Li Che’s dark and sturdy locks whipped about savagely; the environment began to shift, and his whole form was drawn soundlessly into the Dao Tribulation Space.