As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality Chapter 1678: If Father Were Xi Xi, What Would He Do? The Temple God Reincarnation of Yun E and Zhou Peng
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Crack, crack—
Innumerable bolts of lightning burst forth above, crackling and booming as they intertwined amid the gloomy clouds like a web spun by a spider, savage and horrifying.
The shadowy city, pitch-black where fingers were invisible, got lit up by the dazzling light.
Yet right when that illumination flashed, nothing appeared but the eerie mystic iron armor alongside the wicked followers of the Corpse God Cult, draped in dark robes and hoods, positioned atop the walls.
Inside the narrow lanes.
The chill bit deep, tension stretched to its breaking point.
Here huddled Xi Xi, Yun E, Jin Taixui, and Zhou Peng, four kids with faces brimming with childish wonder, but beneath that purity burned a gravity never felt before.
"What are they... planning to do?"
Zhou Peng's nerves had him abandoning his bun mid-bite, crushed under a crushing weight.
Yun E shut her eyes.Jin Taixui stayed quiet, balled his fists tight, and rested his palm on the blade at his side.
Xi Xi balled her hand, her expression turning profoundly somber.
"My father told me..."
Xi Xi spoke in a weighted tone.
Her gaze stretched outward, piercing through to spot, among the Black Armor Guards, a commanding presence.
Zhou Chiguo, formerly the top apprentice under Nan Lihuo, known as Zhou Daoyuan!
He even served as Xi Xi's senior brother, who once risked everything for Master Nan Lihuo by heading to Jiangnan Dao to strike at Ji Moli, only to end up... as a tool in Ji Moli's grasp.
He went so far as to bow to Ji Moli, taking on the role of Ji Moli's foster child.
When one of Ji Moli's sons perished, he swiftly filled the void and claimed the title of Ji Moli's son.
Xi Xi held a deep memory of Zhou Chiguo, not for other reasons, but purely because he had been Nan Lihuo's pupil—this fact alone made her take notice of him.
"My father said... the Clone Technique that Ji Moli practices is utterly ruthless, formed through the essence of Blood Soul, allowing Ji Moli's clone to match the full might of his true form."
"Still, this Clone Technique demands a conduit and a container; the conduit... comes from the Blood Soul, drawn from an entire city's worth, whereas the container... is the carrier of that Blood Soul, linked by Ji Moli's own lineage—his offspring."
A flicker of determination crossed Xi Xi's small, refined features.
Clearly, she had pieced together why such vast forces massed at the gates.
"Harvest Blood Soul! Build strength for Ji Moli's clone, forge the conduit!"
Xi Xi breathed out the words.
Silence, an utter hush...
Yun E and the rest sank into quiet.
No one questioned how Blood Soul got harvested; it didn't take guessing.
It's through butchering the populace!
Just as the blood debt with Nan Lihuo ignited, when Ji Moli's clone got destroyed, he naturally sought to rebuild it, which called for ample Blood Soul essence.
With Ji Moli now driven to frenzy, he launched into blatant slaughter.
Since Qi Tian City stood open, Ji Moli lacked time for gradual healing; he needed to reclaim his power swiftly, thus... raze the city!
And Luoyun City became the targeted one.
"Xi Xi..."
"Could it be... Ji Moli learned we slipped into this city, so he picked Luoyun City for the slaughter, aiming to wipe us out too?"
Worry clouded Yun E's lovely visage.
Should this hold true, it spelled disaster for their group.
The idea made Xi Xi quiver faintly.
No surprise the killers from Corpse God Cult and Hunting God Pavilion had thinned out lately; their cover might have played a part, but more probably, as Yun E suggested, once they knew of the kids' arrival in Luoyun City, those from Corpse God Cult and Hunting God Pavilion opted for a deadlier approach?
"So... did we drag doom onto this city?"
Xi Xi's lips quivered, agony twisting her features.
"Xi Xi, don't blame yourself like that; even without your arrival in Luoyun City, Ji Moli would've selected some other place to ravage..." Jin Taixui, usually wordless, broke in abruptly.
He hated seeing Xi Xi suffer, so he offered words to ease her, providing a solid justification.
And it rang true.
Without Luoyun City, some other spot in Jiangnan Dao's towns would face the carnage in the end.
"Of course, it can't be dismissed that they targeted Luoyun City on purpose, and we just happened to be here."
Yun E added her take as well.
Each possibility held weight.
"Slaughter a city... But Luoyun City holds tens of thousands of souls; is Ji Moli truly set to unleash such atrocity?"
Xi Xi drew in a sharp breath.
Her young heart reeled from the jolt.
This journey through the martial realm exposed her to a darkness unmatched in the world.
Be it the Ascending Immortal Pavilion back in Guangling Dao City.
A single Immortal Ascension Pill sparked chaos among countless cultivation clans, trading daughters for that one pill!
And here in Jiangnan Dao... wiping out a city to harvest Blood Soul for clones!
Deeds like these... such depravity... how do they keep plaguing the realm of mortals?
Her fist clenched hard as an unnameable fury boiled within Xi Xi.
Bang—!!!
All at once.
A torrent of Divinity crashed from the wall's direction.
Xi Xi, Yun E, and the others jolted in alarm, swiftly masking their auras as they peered toward the walls.
There, the Corpse God Cult's fiends in black robes and hoods unleashed a deluge of Death Qi and Corpse Qi, then gripped weapons laced with Death Qi, lining them along the ramparts, channeling their Movement, and abruptly the arrays whirred to life in motion.