As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality Chapter 1704: Devouring the Four Heavenly Kings—Li Che’s Monster Rearing, Unstained Heart’s Fifth Molting

Boom—!!!

A ferocious gale roared violently, unleashing a savage presence.

Suddenly, Li Che raised his head in shock, watching as the void cracked open, revealing from its fractured depths a city pitch-black like ink.

Towering and timeless, the city extended over the turbulent streams of space, coexisting eternally with the passage of time.

Enveloped in vast divine might, it gleamed like a dark, illusory shimmer, causing Li Che's eyes to narrow steadily.

His gaze shifted to the city entrance, where four characters came into view.

[Nine Nether City]

Nine Nether City!

Li Che's heart quivered faintly, as though he glimpsed a colossal black lotus blooming from within the city, its cursed black flames twisting and expanding, scorching vast lands and vaporizing oceans, annihilating entire realms!

Faintly, along the city walls, Li Che noticed cool moonlight dispersing, as if wings of feathers were set to carry it skyward toward the lunar orb.

A supreme Goddess appeared there, resembling an eternal divinity bathed in the moonlit glow of Guanghan Palace.

Li Che's brow furrowed a touch.

At the Goddess's side stood a burly figure clad in golden armor, bearing a ferocious pig's head, clutching a nine-toothed nail rake.

The pair positioned themselves atop the city battlements.

With intricate expressions in their eyes, they peered across the distance.

As though piercing through fractured voids of time and space, their stares met Li Che's in a tense confrontation.

Buzz—

The city faded away.

In Mo City, the gales and turbulence began to subside.

Li Che remained within Mo City, his forehead creased deeply.

Nine Nether City...

Hidden deep in the Netherworld?

Yet that doesn't fit, for that city... it shares a profound link with the Prison Lotus, and isn't that enormous black lotus precisely the Prison Lotus?

Thus, the Temple Gods from which Yun E and Zhou Peng reincarnated, do they hail from this Nine Nether City?

Li Che's heart couldn't avoid a slight quiver.

Are both those Temple Gods aligned with the Prison Lotus faction?

Their emergence near Xi Xi—was that mere chance?

Xi Xi's ties to the Prison Lotus run far too deep, from the Prison Lotus Curse to the supposed past life etched in her soul...

Furthermore, after slaying Dead Ji Molie before, the monk called Golden Cicada had been revealed lurking behind Ji Molie.

Golden Cicada...

Equaling Heaven, Golden Cicada... Li Che's eyes glinted briefly.

Buzz buzz buzz—

Like the mournful cries of lost spirits resounding, faint rays of light converged gradually ahead.

The captured souls of Yun E and Zhou Peng emerged from the Netherworld.

Since their cultivation levels stayed low, retrieving the souls proved hardly challenging, costing Li Che no effort at all.

Yet Li Che sensed that the Temple Gods residing in them had vanished.

Maybe those Temple Gods lingered back in Nine Nether City, barred from returning even after the soul retrieval succeeded.

Li Che considered invoking Summoning Gods, but despite the seeming proximity, the immense distance made it impossible to employ.

He let out a soft sigh.

For the moment, this would suffice.

Yun E and Zhou Peng's eyes fluttered open, with Zhou Peng's plump features withdrawing, reforming into Little Fatty.

"Uncle Li... Lord..."

Yun E's eyes opened, her delicate lashes quivering softly as she shifted back to her youthful self, her look settling on Li Che with a fleeting odd glint.

Next to her, Zhou Peng scratched his scalp, eyeing his form with puzzled curiosity.

Details gradually seeped into their thoughts, clarifying their present circumstances for them.

Captured souls?

Yun E and Zhou Peng shared a look, both exhaling in relief.

Even existing in a new shape, still... survival remained a blessing.

"Don’t call me Lord, just call me Uncle Li." Li Che said with a light laugh.

"Xi Xi is waiting for you outside, go... although your life form changed, you can still cultivate and grow stronger, even easier than before."

"But your Temple Gods inside, I can’t summon them back... they’ve been summoned to Nine Nether City." Li Che said.

Yun E nodded: "Uncle Li, it’s okay, we all understand."

"Nine Nether City is located at Prison Lotus Lake..."

"Belonging to the Prison Lotus camp..."

"The Temple Gods of Zhou Peng and me are from the Prison Lotus camp, reincarnation just follows the will of the Prison Lotus, trying to break the current Prison Lotus situation."

Yun E spoke gently, the lunar divine mark on her forehead glowing faintly.

"As long as we return to the Prison Lotus City, we can restore the Temple God’s power to the physical body, achieving great leaps and breakthroughs."

"Temple Gods appearing in the world, even within the Strange Que are heavily suppressed, coupled with our weak cultivation, unable to unleash the Temple God’s power..."

"Temple Gods are fallen deities, naturally unable to exert divine power perfectly, and we bear the Temple God, power further diminishes."

"Of course, if our cultivation succeeds, bearing Temple God power, even if imperfectly, we can make leaps... then we would be significant aid to Uncle Li."

Yun E’s gaze sparkled with light, holding a hint of anticipation.

Her look toward Li Che shone intensely, like stars swirling in its depths.

At her side, Zhou Peng observed Yun E's demeanor, scratched his head, and felt a touch of gloom.

He knew that kind of look all too well.

Maybe the hand he clutched in that abyss was just a fleeting Nan Ke dream.

Li Che's brow creased lightly but eased quickly, setting aside further thoughts on the Temple Gods.

The Mysterious Temple manifesting in the world, linking with the Strange Que...

This forges a special bond between the realm and the Strange Que, a tie that profoundly shifts the world's dynamics; the Mysterious Temple's rise spills forth divinity, enabling countless cultivators to advance, shatter their cultivation barriers, and herald a magnificent age of cultivation.