As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality Chapter 1680: If Father Were Xi Xi, What Would He Do? The Temple God Reincarnated as Yun E and Zhou Peng
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By then, the Corpse God's will had started to exert its power over them.
As a result, Xi Xi's plan to activate the Thunder Chess Piece for teleportation and lighten the load on Yun E and the others grew far more challenging.
Should Xi Xi manage to advance to the Divine Embryo Realm, the might of her Heaven and Earth Soul would allow her to effortlessly carry Yun E and the rest to safety.
Yet, Xi Xi's current level of cultivation remained firmly in the Yuan Xiang Realm.
In the end, Xi Xi chose to teleport out of the city by herself.
A tough dilemma now confronted Xi Xi.
Would she seek out her allies and battle by their side, or forsake them to ensure her own survival?
This choice weighed heavily on her.
Forcing a mere seven-year-old like Xi Xi into such a harrowing decision was utterly heartless.
Yet Xi Xi barely paused before she swiftly decided to head back to Luoyun City.Deep inside the heart of that seven-year-old Xi Xi burned an astonishing resolve beyond what anyone could imagine!
"Little girl, you've grown up..."
Li Che let out a gentle sigh.
Xi Xi picked what she believed to be the correct path, though to Li Che, nothing mattered more than Xi Xi's own life.
In this entire world, no existence held greater value than Xi Xi's...
But Xi Xi remained oblivious to this truth.
"But it's not much growth."
Li Che had considered instructing Xi Xi on the ways of "selfishness," yet upon reflection, he saw no need for it.
"Provided I grow powerful enough, Xi Xi will never need to grapple with dilemmas of "selfishness," so... why subject the girl to such brutality?"
Li Che recalled the vision of Da Xixi amid rivers of blood and piles of corpses, her eyes mirroring the horrors of battling through that endless carnage once before.
What endless torment, what profound agony, what countless selfish decisions had she endured to reach that dreadful point?
Xi Xi and Da Xixi... they weren't the same.
Da Xixi lacked any backing.
Xi Xi, however, had support.
Xi Xi possessed her father.
"Ji Moli..."
Aboard the flying sword, Li Che abruptly snapped his eyes open, and within his gaze, faint wisps of golden mist appeared to drift lazily.
A torrent of fierce and unyielding killing intent exploded outward.
"Qi Tian City is on the verge of opening—do you intend to head there for battle?"
"Yet you must first see if the Underworld permits it."
The sudden outburst of killing intent from Li Che immediately caught the attention of the other three on the flying sword.
Lv Qiankun, Fang Hanshu, and Lv Taibai all turned their heads toward him.
They couldn't fathom the reason behind Li Che's abrupt surge of such potent killing intent, or its intended target.
Still, Lv Taibai narrowed his eyes involuntarily, his features shifting from thrill and anticipation to a grave seriousness.
That killing intent from Li Che...
Was it possible that Xi Xi faced some peril back in Luoyun City?
If so...
Lv Taibai's own eyes ignited with killing intent.
Boom—!!!
The flying sword's velocity spiked in an instant, tearing through the dark heavens like a blade.
...
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Luoyun City.
Crimson glows kept bursting forth from the narrow lanes.
The faces of Yun E, Zhou Peng, and Jin Taixui showed subtle shifts.
They shared looks, a trace of sorrow flickering in their gazes.
"It looks like Xi Xi... has left us here," Zhou Peng murmured with a pang of regret.
Yet his voice carried no accusation, merely a touch of sorrow...
Considering they could very well perish in this place.
"It's not abandonment—there must be some other cause. Xi Xi wouldn't just desert us like that; likely... an unforeseen issue arose."
"Could it be this blood light clinging to us?"
Yun E sensed the inner quakes of the temple god.
It fought relentlessly against the blood light, but the sheer volume overwhelmed it, and the potency proved too great—even with the temple god's help, Yun E failed to purge it entirely.
Gradually, the blood light amassed around their throats, shaping into a crimson emblem.
It resembled a bizarre and ominous bloom, as if it heralded doom.
"We've been branded!"
"Flee!"
Yun E urged without delay.
At the same time, high above Luoyun City, inside the grinding wheel formation woven from the Corpse God's will, a hideous and warped face scanned downward, its stare locking fiercely onto the city.
"Roar—!!!"
A bone-chilling bellow thundered across the midnight expanse.
The instant after.
As Jin Taixui, Zhou Peng, and Yun E fled, an immense pressure bore down upon them.
Bam—
All three dropped to their knees.
In dread, they glanced back at the residents crammed into every home across Luoyun City...
The throngs of people, resembling soulless puppets, lurched forward unsteadily, their necks glowing with blood light that coalesced into crimson marks.
Like puppets on strings, they emerged from their hiding spots as controlled cadavers.
Yun E and his companions stared in terror at the unfolding horror.
Boom—!!
The earth trembled fiercely.
Yun E and the others couldn't resist looking over, spotting Zhou Chiguo clad in rattling black armor, his expression carrying a subtle detachment.
"Where's my junior sister?"
Zhou Chiguo eyed the trio, a smirk tugging at his lips.
"What a shame and waste—she fled too quickly to behold the full slaughter of the city..."
Zhou Chiguo lifted his hand and gestured downward lightly.
The elite Black Armor Guards at the Great Grandmaster rank closed in swiftly, seizing Yun E and the other two.
"I once... saw a city massacred with my own eyes, and it shook me to the core."
"That was when I grasped how insignificant my strength truly was against overwhelming power."
Zhou Chiguo spoke evenly.
"I craved that kind of might, so I decided to align myself with them."
He drew in a deep, measured breath.