As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life Chapter 1825 - 472: Fairy in the Painting – Fifth Shedding, Primordial Withering Branch, Blood Moon Night Breakthrough · Unparalleled Martial Immortal...
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At one time, Li Che wondered if this immense heaven and earth could actually be the Strange Que.
"Even if it truly is the Strange Que... it could be a realm beyond the grasp of the ordinary, hidden within the nine heavens and ten earths' mysterious queues."
Li Che’s eyes gleamed with brilliant light.
Staring at the Dao Tree, he felt its profound power and enigma.
On the Dao Tree, the [Fairy in the Painting] Dao Fruit completed its five transmutations, radiating boundless glow, before turning into a dark cloud stream interlaced across heaven and earth.
The Dao Fruit floated outward, crystal clear and pure, resembling a droplet of ink dripping from a ink-soaked wolf brush.
Dark within, yet it held immense majesty and expanse capable of depicting a starry cosmos.
The Dao Fruit suspended in front of Li Che, then ink-black mist erupted like surging fog.
Scenes then wove together before his vision.
Within those scenes emerged an infinite white void, a limitless cloud ocean, the purest white expanse between heaven and earth.
Atop the boundless white clouds sat a solitary figure.
This figure shone with pure whiteness—white hair, white brows, skin transparently white, even blood flowing white.
In its grasp was a pen of white jade and white bristles, untouched by any ink's darkness.
It held the stance of wielding a wolf brush, as if eternally paused amid heaven and earth.
Abruptly, the figure cast down its gaze, bridging the heavenly void, the primordial cosmos, the boundless realms, slamming straight into Li Che.
White, luminous eyes met Li Che’s pitch-black pupils.
Suddenly, Li Che spotted a speck of black.
From the divine figure’s forehead, the blackness spread rapidly, then exploded outward, engulfing the whole white realm.
The white being blackened completely, the white cloud sea morphed into a dome of black clouds.
"Hahaha..."
"If I cannot achieve it, then let successors attain it! Generation after generation, someone will surely succeed!"
Rumble—
With that declaration, the void shattered, myriad black clouds disintegrated.
Like the majestic proclamation of a supreme god descending in glory, yet rank too low, none could perceive it.
Heaven and earth crumbled apart, Li Che’s consciousness shattered alongside.
He departed the Dao Tree Space.
Qitian Inner City.
In the courtyard.
Wind and rain raged fiercely, droplets hammered down relentlessly on the rebuilding Qitian Inner City.
Li Che’s eyes snapped open, his raven-black hair whipped wildly as he steadily released a long breath.
Before him, golden light swirled like ink vapor, slowly shaping into layered visions.
[Dao Fruit level 7, five transmutations, Dao Guide (Ten Fierce Brushwork) advanced, Dao Tribulation (Primordial Withering Branch)]
Boom—!!!
The heavenly rumble echoed thunderously in his ears.
It felt like Li Che’s thoughts plunged into utter turmoil right then.
Inky light text gathered into a clear notification!
A familiar, ominous aura of approaching catastrophe surged from every side, fixating on his form inescapably, as if a horrifying force aimed to erupt through his 36,000 pores, obliterating his flesh and blood!
The fourth tribulation!
Had arrived!
Li Che’s awareness sharpened instantly!
Following the primordial fire tribulation, wind tribulation, and water tribulation, at last a fresh Dao tribulation emerged!
Triggered by the Fruit of the Heavenly Dao from Within the Painting, now evolved through its fifth transmutation!
Primordial Withering Branch!
Primordial... Wood tribulation!
Li Che’s eyes drifted shut briefly; he sensed the unavoidable Dao tribulation force bursting from his body’s depths, like innumerable tiny branches sprouting and flickering endlessly, each withering pulse sapping his life force and years.
This was an extraordinarily terrifying disaster!
Li Che’s eyes flew open, his nostrils flaring with deep, thunderous breaths.
His quickened respiration, alongside the fourth calamity’s onset, drew him nearer than ever to that elusive secret.
He felt on the verge of seizing that vital essence!
What varieties of Dao tribulations existed?
Wood, water, fire... perhaps gold and earth tribulations too, echoing the five elements!
Yet the additional primordial wind tribulation hinted Dao tribulations transcended mere five elements...
"Regardless of the Dao tribulations’ numbers..."
"I’ve gained a fresh objective: the Dao tribulation’s arrival lets me enhance a Divine Seed Martial Arts, merge the Dao tribulation, and ascend it to Immortal Seed Martial Arts tier."
"Channeling it within might propel me further along the Martial Immortal path..."
"The Eight Wonders Sect Divine Seed Martial Arts has been refined and elevated—perhaps henceforth the Eight Wonders Sect Immortal Seed Secret Technique!"
The technique Li Che had refined and advanced.
The Eight Wonders Sect’s divine seeds ascended from divine to immortal seeds...
Transforming into Eight Immortal Martial Arts!
When fully deployed, the spine’s mighty dragon quakes, as though eight martial immortals descend to suppress all at once!
How overwhelmingly dominant would that prove?!
Dao Tribulation, Guide!
Li Che jerked his head up, his jet-black hair morphing into fearsome divine whips that lashed violently!
His mighty physique resounded with metallic clangs, for within his flesh and blood, countless seeds burgeoned swiftly, greedily draining his vitality, blood, flesh, and essence qi!
Sprouting then, piercing through skin, extending into frenzied tendrils—cycles of withering and blooming in endless vitality rebirth!
Boom—
Li Che gradually parted his eyes, reliving the repeated rending of flesh, the chaotic thrash of withered and thriving branches.
He was no longer the frail one unable to endure even an instant of Dao Tribulation might.
Even within the Dao Tribulation Space, forbidden from unleashing Eight Wonders Sect and relying solely on raw bodily power, he could still withstand the Withering Branch’s force...
Before him, light manifested anew.
[Dao Tribulation: Primordial Dragon Elephant Flame (30%), Primordial Sky Slash (3%), Primordial Heart Cleansing Stream (1%), Primordial Withering Branch (1%)]