As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality Chapter 1656: Immortal Artisan’s Fifth Shedding, the Second Kind of Primordial Dao Tribulation; State Preceptor Invites the Underworld to Join Him...
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Rumble!
An immense blast thundered forth!
Sound waves boomed akin to raging thunder, quaking the skies and ground, shuddering across every corner!
Countless lightning strikes seemed to detonate inside the peak, while billions of Wanxiang Nine Divine Mechanism Seals ignited at once, sending tremors like the rumble of a stormy abyss!
Crack, crack——!!
The ground quivered and the skies reeled!
Mountains and streams rocked violently!
The whole Divine Carving Ridge in Golden Light Prefecture shuddered nonstop, fissures snaking endlessly, forming a thick web...
Within the Divine Sculpture Master Workshop nestled at the ridge's base, the expert sculptors and Wood Carvers busy etching divine sculptures bolted outside in panic, their frames shaking wildly, overcome by sheer dread.
Glancing over their shoulders, they stood frozen in shock, for...The peak had cleaved apart!
That enormous, frost-blanketed Stone Mountain fractured from within, as though cleaved by a mighty blade, splitting into a vast chasm.
The divide ran from the summit straight down to the roots.
Snow piled up over days cascaded in a massive torrent, booming with devastating force as it plunged toward the valley floor!
However, a savage gale burst from the ruptured mountain core, twisting like a whirlwind that pierced the heavens, while the brilliant Blazing Blood Radiance gleamed like a volcano's fury, radiating without end.
It pierced directly into the pitch-black clouds overhead!
Cries of alarm and fear burst from the lips of the numerous master sculptors who fled to the clearing, gripped by utter horror, having witnessed nothing like this before, puzzled over the catastrophe?
They gazed skyward, where ominous clouds churned wildly, packed with bolts that twisted like coiling dragons and snakes, fury lashing the firmament!
Boom——!!!
Deep inside the fissured Stone Mountain.
A sturdy figure burst free in disarray, powerfully built and brimming with 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, gripped by frenzy, yet touched by grief...
A torrent of feelings flooded his soul.
Boom——!!!
The fearsome detonations kept bursting from the Stone Mountain, and then, before the eyes of all, an utterly horrifying humanoid Mechanical Beast emerged, soaring a hundred zhang tall, radiating a dread aura and might, shattering free from the mountain's core.
As though... it had leaped from the rock itself!
A monstrous bellow rang out, and that colossal hundred-zhang humanoid Mechanical Beast surged into the boundless skies, jolting the realm, its ferocious shockwaves clashing fiercely, churning the clouds into ocean-like swells, its power world-shaking and profoundly alarming!
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 racing down their spines, as they raced toward the source at full speed.
Nan Lihuo, Zhang Qing Zheng, Zhu Hong Dou, and fellow Divine Sect powerhouses were stunned.
They had barely reached the scene when the suffocating, dread pressure blanketed the heavens and earth.
They also spotted Tang Sanjia, cackling madly amid a snowdrift the size of an avalanche, his wild look leaving them reeling.
"It worked!"
Tang Sanjia roared with laughter.
Nan Lihuo, who knew Tang Sanjia best, felt a jolt of surprise.
It worked?
What had succeeded? That Mechanical Beast...
Nan Lihuo held certain hidden truths, aware that Tang Sanjia concealed a Supreme Mechanical Beast within the mountain...
It stemmed from the Tang Family’s ancient mechanism legacy.
In truth, the mystery Tang Sanjia believed private was known to many, though few could refine that Mechanical Beast to perfection.
Not even a prodigy like Tang Sanjia, steeped in the Tang Family’s mechanism arts, had managed it—so how could mere outsiders?
Yet now, with the land quaking and the Stone Mountain crumbling.
It appeared the Mechanical Beast had triumphed!
Nan Lihuo lifted his gaze, staring at the immense, glowing humanoid Mechanical Beast hovering far above, its Blazing Blood Radiance blazing fiercely.
A crushing, fearsome pressure nearly barreled through the peaks and woods, enveloping the vast expanse.
Nan Lihuo's gaze wavered, catching sight of a silhouette upon the Mechanical Beast.
A form absent for years, but oddly recognizable.
"Li Che..."
Nan Lihuo's eyes grew faintly damp.
Reports of Qianyuan Dao City under siege by imperial forces had arrived, details of the second clash still pending, but the initial fight had ended in Qianyuan's resounding triumph, even felling a clone of Ji Moli.
This tidings stirred tears in Nan Lihuo's eyes.
The grudge from the city's slaughter felt somewhat eased by these words.
Moreover, the shifts in Li Che and Xi Xi's ranks and roles within Qianyuan Dao City had been relayed to Nan Lihuo by Supervisor Hu Yingyue during links with the Dao City Imperial Heavenly Observatory.
Recalling that young girl from before, a spark of pride lit Nan Lihuo's eyes.
"Truly wonderful." Nan Lihuo's mouth curved into a grin.
Li Che and his daughter rose ever mightier, climbing ever loftier heights, and as their old mentor, he shared in the glory.
Elation welled from deep within.
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Rumble——!!!
Li Che perched in meditation upon the crown of the Divine Machine Armored Heavenly Armor, every filament of the Divine Machine Monkey’s fur appearing vividly real, drifting and dancing in the breeze.
Tempests raged nearby, as though hues of light wove together.
By his ears, a colossal bell seemed to toll, resounding without cease, like rousing dormant deities.