As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality Chapter 1609: Emperor Xi Xi Kills and Runs—So Thrilling! The Children Live Happily in Fengdu
Previously on As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality...
Crash, crash——
From the walls of the city, ink-black rain poured relentlessly, hammering against the dark bricks. Each drop, big as peas, resembled brushes dipped in heavy ink, splattering apart and bursting into shadowy vapor.
Sprawled out and hovering grandly, the enigmatic ink city stretched like a vast chessboard crisscrossed with patterns, upholding this immense metropolis!
Atop the city gate, fierce winds howled and billowed, merging with thunderous blasts that almost blinded the warped, oily visage concealed inside the pill furnace.
Fengdu was etched upon the city gate!
A black-robed silhouette, adorned with a golden lotus embroidery, sat facing away.
In that instant, the whole world appeared to hush into stillness.
"When children fight, why should we old folks intervene?"
From the black-robed form emerged a steady, leisurely voice, akin to some primordial beast that had haunted the skies over this ancient metropolis for ages, oddly imposing a heavy burden on the entity lurking in the pill furnace.
At his stage of being, such pressure was astonishing, for only the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations summoned by the Will of Heaven and Earth could weigh upon him!
Who might this individual standing before him be, capable of exerting such immense pressure?
The oily face tucked away in the pill furnace gradually tightened its gaze.
As anticipated...
How could a tempting human medicine like that go without a guardian?
From his perch on the city wall, Li Che pivoted slowly, donning an adorable bull mask. Once in Fei Lei City, he'd sported this Bull Demon Mask to shield his daughter.
With his daughter now setting off on her path in a calf mask, it stood to reason that he, her father... would don the Bull Demon Mask too.
An elder bull demon safeguarding the young calf made perfect sense.
In his grasp, Li Che clutched the Three Pure Ranks divinity crystal, immersed in cultivation back in his study, while splitting off a thread of awareness to monitor Xi Xi's circumstances.
A first-level martial artist going after Xi Xi didn't warrant Li Che's involvement; his girl required tempering, and that demanded the right mindset for growth.
He stayed ever watchful over his daughter's well-being, yet against just a basic first-level fighter, Xi Xi could probably manage on her own.
Yet this fiendish aura skulking in the pill furnace, its features twisted in malice and forever dubbing humans as medicine, Li Che simply couldn't overlook.
Such an entity far exceeded what Xi Xi could deal with right now, after all.
Not his actual form, yet he remained a true Divine Tribulation Great Cultivator without question.
From Gu Changqing, Li Che had gleaned that the slick figure nestled in the pill furnace was probably the Yang Xuan Grandmaster, one half of the Yin-Yang duo leading the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect.
The Yin Xuan Grandmaster excelled in toxins, whereas this Yang Xuan Grandmaster kept a lower profile.
Even so, it appeared the Yang Xuan Grandmaster harbored his own odd traits.
Within the pill furnace, the oily human countenance narrowed its eyes just a touch.
"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 on the furnace's human face drew tight, letting out a chuckling hehehe.
All at once, flames roared to life, as though a fierce blaze raged inside the furnace, spewing thick black fumes from the pill furnace. Moments later, it shot off as a streak of light, hastily retreating the way it arrived, rushing toward the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect's mountain entrance.
No trace of any urge to clash with Li Che.
Under the Bull Demon Mask, Li Che's expression turned frosty, his mouth edges lifting faintly.
"Human medicine?"
The serene voice echoed forth.
Next, a fearsome murderous aura welled up in surges, reminiscent of tides surging across the Grand Canal in Guangling Dao City, a colossal breaker thundering skyward and linking to the firmament, laden with the might of the cosmos!
Treating his daughter like human medicine?!
Had Li Che not shown up, might this Yang Xuan Grandmaster have preyed on the vulnerable, plotting to seize his daughter for pill-making?
And in the Ascending Immortal Pavilion of Guangling Dao City...
Was that too the doing of this Yang Xuan Grandmaster?
Gu Changqing had informed him that the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect set up the Ascension Tower to brew a lingering poison pill, collecting riches and supplies to fuel the grandmasters' cultivation.
So, via Xi Xi's viewpoint, Li Che had naturally witnessed the horrifying sights inside the Ascending Immortal Pavilion as well.
While other Divine Sects worked to quell the enigmatic temples and their deities.
The Heavenly Pill Divine Sect... opted instead to ally with the Divine Sect and conspire with temple gods, shunning suppression in pursuit of the heritage...
This stemmed from the Da Jing Dynasty's choice to let the Divine Sects oversee the mysterious temples in their domains!
With the Imperial Court now pulling in forces from the Temple Control Bureau and Qintian Observatory, myriad schemes from the Divine Sects began to surface.
To be sure, sects such as the Qian Yuan Divine Sect labored hard to subdue mysterious temples, protecting the nearby folk.
They even braved shifting the cluster of bizarre temples near Qianyuan Taoist City right into their Divine Sect Mountain Gate, displaying bold resolve and strength.
Yet sects like the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect conspired with temple gods too.
Buzz boom——
A low rumble akin to thunder abruptly set the atmosphere quivering with spilling ripples.
Under the Bull Demon Mask, the frame abruptly swelled to sturdy proportions, scorching qi-blood roiled wildly like crashing billows, across the bared flesh, dark and crimson patterns wove as if hammered from searing metal, golden qi-blood haze rose, coloring the ends of the locks, the whole form looked wrapped in a shroud of golden vapor.