As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality Chapter 1788: Opening the Coffin to Find the Great Saint’s Remains, Personally Placing the Equal to Heaven’s Face on the Great Saint
Previously on As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality...
With the Fang Family Ancestor's return, all will be secured!
All those beasts lusting after Qi Tian’s remains—every one of them—must perish!
Yet for the moment, Li Che chooses to wait patiently.
For he has another task at hand.
Buzz—
Li Che stood before the stone coffin, an ancient, plain casket resting silently at the heart of the Mysterious Temple.
Raising his eyes, he gazed toward the rear of the Mysterious Temple, where the Temple God’s Divine Sculpture statue sat upon an altar.
Still, this Temple God Divine Sculpture lay fully hidden beneath the densest Mysterious Fog, its features beneath utterly impossible to make out.
Even so, through the churning mist, finely wrought armor etchings emerged faintly: lock armor, golden silk robe, cloud boots, flowing cloak, and two soaring Phoenix Feathers!
The longer he stared at the divine sculpture, the heavier the crushing pressure weighed on him, like a pair of blazing eyes glaring through the Mysterious Fog.
The full Equal to Heaven’s Face quivered faintly.
A powerful pull tugged at it; from deep inside that ancient stone coffin, a fierce attraction to the Equal to Heaven’s Face radiated outward.
This legendary artifact now seemed to have stirred its complete divine power.
That explained why Li Che avoided clashing with the five Second Calamity Divine Tribulation Venerables first, rushing instead to the stone coffin to claim the moment.
A wildly audacious plan blazed fiercely in Li Che's heart.
These rival factions hunger for Qi Tian’s body, plotting to snatch his remains from Qitian Temple and block his revival.
Why not flip the script for Li Che?!
Let Qi Tian...
Rise ahead of time!
Feasible?
No clue; Li Che lacks any method to rouse Qi Tian.
Yet if the gods of these factions trust in Qi Tian's awakening, then it must be real—maybe needing special triggers, or simply not the right hour yet?
No matter what, Li Che vows to test it...
Truthfully, a thrill of eager excitement stirs deep within Li Che; he burns to learn if this realm's Qi Tian ties to the mythical Qi Tian from his past life's legends.
Legends across both lives align eerily—the Third Crown Prince, Saint Manifestation True Monarch, Tian Peng, Qi Tian... even the Four Heavenly Kings—sparking deja vu in Li Che.
Does a profound mystery hide in the clashing myths of these worlds?
And might it...
Guide him to a way back to his old world?
Possible?
Should a path to his prior world appear, Li Che would eagerly escort Xi Xi home for a glimpse—at least that realm, compared to this chaotic one, brims with stability.
As a Martial Immortal, Li Che needn't proceed so warily; few threats challenge him there, not even jets or cannons.
Thus, he could serenely witness his daughter's coming of age.
Tsk—
Li Che breathed out lightly, golden fire suddenly blazing in his eyes.
Within his chest, the Immortal Craft Dao Fruit quivered!
As if the Equal to Heaven’s Face fused to his flesh burst apart, skin splitting, the Star Plucking Pupil unveiling from his forehead!
Endless Analysis, Peering into Illusion and Returning to Truth!
His gaze swept from the Mysterious Fog-shrouded Qi Tian Divine Sculpture to land on the ancient stone coffin.
The stone coffin appeared profoundly aged and battered, its crude carvings seemingly hacked out in haste, chisel scars everywhere, rough and unpolished, like a makeshift burial box.
Raw and unadorned.
Li Che's hand pressed onto the ancient coffin, tracing one Prison Lotus motif after another, which shimmered with sacred glow, swaying delicately like leaves in a soft gust.
Star Plucking Pupil, Thousand Analyzing Hands—the instant his palm contacted the stone coffin, its inner workings dissected themselves in his thoughts.
Truthfully, dead simple: the lid just rests on top, no nails binding it sealed.
Simply shove it aside.
Thump, thump, thump thump thump—
Only the thunderous beats of his racing heart filled Li Che's ears, pounding without cease!
Thrill, eagerness, strain...
A torrent of feelings flooded Li Che's mind.
Qi Tian...
Li Che's eyes grew intricate but steadfast; in his chest, the Immaculate Heart Taoist Fruit throbbed, Dao Fruit Power flooding his soul, instantly steadying his spirit.
In his consciousness, the Heaven and Earth Transformation Spirit True Ape Divine Embryo rested mute, its bellows silenced.
This divine embryo, forged from the inheritances sealed in the Equal to Heaven’s Face, bore a natural link to Qi Tian.
Heave it open...
The intent formed in Li Che's mind, and next instant, golden qi-blood erupted—Pure Martial qi-blood twisting into a gleaming golden ray that rocketed upward, crashing hard against Qitian Temple's dome.
Rumble—
Qitian Temple shuddered wildly, like the ground and peaks convulsing.
Afar, the five Venerables—who had pushed the Black Bull Demon God Venerable and Sea Flipping Nine Infants to the brink—halted dead.
"He’s going to open the coffin!"
Zhang Wuji's face darkened gravely.
Chan Wen Ascetic Monk, Dajing Emperor Lu Wenchang, the female Guanyin, and the others also riveted their stares.
Their lethal strikes paused briefly, ferocity waning sharply.
All eyes locked on the Mysterious Temple's center, watching the stone coffin's lid slide away.
Boom—!!!
Pure Martial qi-blood forged a soaring qi pillar, stabbing the heavens!
Li Che's sinews surged, his Martial Immortal Golden Body's base quaked, blood surging through every channel with earth-shaking cries!