As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life Chapter 1808 - 469: Early Awakening of Equaling Heaven, The Irate Third Crown Prince, Three-Eyed Risk Victory True Monarch [Monthly Ticket Requested]...

For millennia, he sat withered in the Qitian Inner City, steadfastly guarding Qitian.

At long last today, it crumbled into ashes, becoming scattered sand, dust unto dust, earth unto earth.

A former Supreme who sat unmoving for thousands of years, letting flesh and blood desiccate, cultivation base fading away, ultimately opting to transform into a Temple Guardian Cursed Corpse King, reclaiming Supreme battle strength, but failing to transcend prior to death.

In the end, he could not withstand the relentless blade-like passage of time.

The Equal Heaven Temple ancestor, Fang Family progenitor Fang Xinyuan, met his end in combat.

Even Li Che felt profound emotion; this was an unparalleled existence, enduring endless eras, protecting Qitian with iron will, forever preserving a pure heart akin to an unstained blue lotus.

Light always shone in his gaze, trailing the splendor of Qitian.

Overhead in the firmament, flames surged like ocean waves, the pill furnace crushed and detonated, spewing four-hued bizarre fires that blanketed the sky.

A pair of Supreme eyes blazing with fire, morphing into an eternal forge of scorching inferno, charged forth to slay, aiming to clash with the heartbroken Qitian amid his surge of feelings!

But.

Qitian abruptly lifted his head, eyes flashing divine radiance like bolts of lightning, vast murderous aura soaring skyward, the Ruyi Golden Cudgel gripped in his hand thrusting forth and smashing down, ripping space apart like fractured glass, cracking it into a spiderweb!

Golden armor resounded around his form with metallic clangs, the Phoenix Feather Purple Gold Crown atop his head billowing, golden radiance erupting from the precious staff in his grasp!

That Supreme proved no worthy opponent; realms might match, yet the disparity in fighting prowess yawned too wide.

Qitian unleashed the Combat Victory Secret Technique!

As if seizing the Great Dao of heaven and earth, he fused it into one mighty cudgel strike, unleashing devastation and slaughter without rival!

The Supreme's forehead center got punctured clean through, a shrill scream echoed out, dense deathly qi billowing over the fiery sea, accompanied by a resounding clang like exploding flesh and bone.

In the midst of the blaze, a gigantic mass of meat burst apart like dazzling fireworks.

Qitian, brandishing the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, advanced boldly through the emptiness, striding amid the fiery downpour, his back cloak resembling sunlight woven into fabric, his foot boots crafted from harnessed thunderbolts.

A god reborn, utterly domineering and matchless; five Supremes banded together in assault, only to have their Supreme foundations demolished, sundered by a single cudgel blow—the Qitian Stick hiding ultimate arcane mysteries—each Supreme rent asunder, gore spraying across the void around Qitian, greedily absorbed by his freshly restored body to bolster its might.

This clash verged on total domination.

Qitian dominated the heavens, revealing the essence of a Great Saint, the true nature of Combat Victory!

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Li Che bowed his head toward Fang Xinyuan's remains, now reduced to drifting sand and utterly dispersed.

Having merged with Temple God Divinity and endured divine corrosion, he became a Temple Guardian Cursed Corpse fully etched with Curse Corpse runes; when those shattered, even his body disintegrated, ultimately dissolving into airborne dust.

Li Che let out a soft sigh; he had attempted a rescue, yet sadly failed.

Whoo whoo whoo—

A gentle wind arose, gradually dispersing myriad sand grains back into heaven and earth.

Maybe this marked the finest conclusion for the Equal Heaven Temple Ancestor, who meditated withered for thousands of years, shielding Qitian across millennia. Sealed inside Qitian for ages, he also yearned to witness the wider world.

A subtle flicker appeared in Li Che’s eyes as he gazed at the sand-cleared ground, where a lustrous crystal stone gleamed brightly.

Abundant Dao Yun swirled inside the crystal stone.

The crumbling Great Dao resembled decaying leaves drifting down, those fallen leaves forming the Dao Yun Divine Crystal...

Li Che abruptly remembered this saying, spotting the Dao Yun Divine Crystal resting silently on the ground, brimming with Dao Yun that manifested as leaf-shaped divine markings.

All told, three leaves adorned it—a Three-leaf Dao Yun Divine Crystal!

This represented the fallen Great Dao of Equal Heaven Temple Ancestor Fang Xinyuan...

Li Che understood Dao Yun Divine Crystals well; the Four Imperial Taoist Divine Crystals from the human realm held scant Dao Yun, yet proved helpful for cultivators facing One Disaster One Tribulation.

However, genuine Divine Tribulation Cultivators required cultivation Dao Yun Divine Crystals rich in Dao Yun, patterned into leafy divine forms.

Exclusively the Three Pure Ranks Mysterious Temple could genuinely produce Dao Yun Divine Crystals.

The feeblest variant was the One Leaf Dao Yun Divine Crystal; Li Che had acquired one before, feeding it to the Temple God Meat Ball birthed by Yellow Sword Wine...

This Equal Heaven Temple ancestor served as Qitian's disciple, mentored by Qitian himself, advancing deep along the cultivation road to its zenith, nearly brushing the divine threshold, grazing the Great Dao.

With his Great Dao now collapsed, it coalesced into a Dao Yun Divine Crystal.

Not merely the inferior One Leaf Dao Yun, but a potent Three-leaf Dao Yun, encapsulating his Dao and arcane insights.

Fang Xinyuan bequeathed two legacies to the world: a Jade Talisman to Fang Hanshu, bearer of his intent, and the Three-leaf Dao Yun Divine Crystal...

Li Che bent low, seizing the Dao Yun Divine Crystal...

A cozy warmth pulsed endlessly from the Divine Crystal, bearing Fang Xinyuan’s Dao and arcane secrets.

Amazement and intricacy flickered in his eyes.

Possibly, this stood as the final gift from the Qitian Grandmaster to the mortal realm.

The Dao Yun inside proved truly extraordinary.

Vastly superior to the earlier One Leaf Dao Yun Divine Crystal, a faint impulse stirred in Li Che’s heart; he resolved against cultivating with this Dao Yun Divine Crystal, instead planning to give it to Yellow Sword Wine’s Temple God Meat Ball, enabling Yellow Sword Wine to assimilate Fang Xinyuan’s Dao and arcane secrets.