As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality Chapter 1826: Fairy in the Painting V: Shedding the Primordial Withering Branch, Breaking Through the Peerless Martial Immortal During the Blood Moon Night...
Previously on As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality...
Having endured the repeated flashes of the Withered and Flourishing Branch,
Li Che at last grasped a thread of Primordial Wood Tribulation,
He lifted his palm leisurely, revealing a bean blacker than ink in his grasp. Solid in form, it concealed the force of the Tao Tribulation. Should it invade the body, it would voraciously drain vitality, lifespan, and Essence Qi...
"Even though it’s merely one grain... tens of thousands down the line would prove utterly horrifying."
"Into which Divine Seed Martial Arts should this Primordial Wood Tribulation merge?"
To elevate those Divine Seed Martial Arts into Immortal Seed Martial Arts?
Li Che swiftly reached his choice.
From his array of Divine Seed Martial Arts, he selected the least prominent one.
"The Blood Tears Divine Phoenix Life and Death Arrow serves as an archery technique, but truthfully, owing to my possession of countless Immortal Work Barrett, I’ve overlooked this bow skill. Now... time to explore it deeply."
"Henceforth, I will emerge as an Immortal Arrow Hero!"
A faint smile tugged at Li Che’s lips as he concealed the Withered and Flourishing Branch calamity seed within the arrow.
The fresh title for this martial art arose in Li Che’s thoughts.
Immortal SeedBlood-Weeping Immortal Phoenix Withering Glory Arrow!
BOOM——
Li Che rose from the meditation yard, his vigorous Qi-Blood roaring and bursting out, as he commenced martial arts practice inside the Qi Tian Inner City!
He started drawing in the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi present throughout the Qi Tian Inner City.
Yet it proved insufficient.
As he absorbed some Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, vast quantities of divinity rushed in, blending relentlessly, attempting to invade his frame.
A potent allure assailed him, seductively urging Li Che onward, as though clamoring excitedly that devouring divinity would propel his cultivation to explosive heights, granting deity-like might in an instant!
This enticement was downright terrifying!
"I must still achieve breakthrough to the Martial Immortal Realm within the human world. Though the human world carries traces of divinity, it remains a Martial Arts Pure Land compared to Strange Que."
Li Che pondered deeply.
The Martial Dao Will thundered forth, golden radiance exploding from his eyes, his flesh gleaming brightly, his ebony locks tinged with golden glow, surging upward with a fierce roar, staunchly repelling the seduction!
BOOM——
A single fist thrust outward, shattering myriad divinities, isolating nothing but pristine Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, which charged like a golden dragon, surging into his body and coursing everywhere!
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Moments slipped away steadily.
In the blink of an eye, half a month had flown by.
Beyond Qi Tian City, the scene brimmed with unprecedented bustle.
The Qitian Temple God’s revival loomed near, set to bolster the Earthly Ghost Emperor’s ascent to Martial Immortal Realm—the sole such powerhouse in five millennia of tides!
The entire human world watched intently, and word had spread to Strange Que, drawing gazes from gods across rival factions.
Countless souls amassed outside Qi Tian City, chiefly martial artists journeying from the Four Seas and Eight Desolates to pursue their cultivation.
Some trudged on foot, others dashed forward, many depleting their Qi-Blood en route.
At long last, they converged beyond Qi Tian City.
The colossal Qi-Blood tide blotted the heavens, an unprecedented assembly of martial artists blanketing the land.
Their potent Qi-Blood nearly scattered the ambient divinity.
Sunset blazed like flames, the crimson sun dipping westward, bathing the realm in fiery hues akin to the martial artists’ own Qi-Blood.
True Martial Divine Sect Master Shi Jian led his disciples to encamp distantly outside Qi Tian City, as if in reverence.
Grand Prospect Dynasty officials clustered thickly, while Da Li Royal Court’s elite generals donned disguises, traversing the East Sea to reach Qi Tian City’s fringes.
Across the East Sea’s raging waves, Martial Saint powerhouses skimmed the waters, converging outside Qi Tian City to behold the Martial Immortal breakthrough.
For the latest Martial Immortal lingered only in dusty tomes, a legendary mark in history’s pages.
Tension thickened within Qi Tian City.
All felt the Earthly Ghost Emperor’s Martial Immortal challenge drawing perilously close.
Lv Taibai and Lv Qiankun bore crushing pressure.
Fang Hanshu, having concluded his Jade Talisman epiphanies with Qi Tian’s aid, rejoined Lv Taibai, his Confucian robes billowing, beard swaying elegantly.
"Something doesn’t feel right..."
Lv Taibai drew a heavy breath.
Fang Hanshu clutched the Holy Sage Book, distilling the Jade Talisman’s legacy: "Naturally, something’s amiss. The Underworld has provoked countless foes, especially now viewed as allied with the Prison Lotus Camp..."
"Thus, myriad powers dread its rise. The Earthly Ghost Emperor’s Martial Immortal breakthrough demands heavenly validation, and foes will doubtless scheme in shadows to thwart it."
Fang Hanshu remarked calmly.
Lv Taibai perched in a Qi Tian Outer City tavern. The Outer City had reclaimed its splendor, echoing the majestic Qi Tian City of old at its zenith.
Its populace rivaled peak eras, commerce thrived anew with vendors crying wares and great factions embedding themselves.
"Western Regions Buddha Land, Ten Thousand Rivers, Wushen Mountain... Martial Gods from them lurk nearby, backed by the All Gods Camp—they surely plot no good."
"Likely, as the Earthly Ghost Emperor surges toward Martial Immortal, some will bait the tribulation with their flesh, amplifying the Martial Immortal Tribulation’s fury! Such a ploy to doom the Earthly Ghost Emperor..."
"A mere Divine Tribulation, flung like a moth into flames to summon doom, trading one Underworld titan for a mighty rival—what a sharp, gratifying stroke?"
Fang Hanshu let out a soft chuckle.
Yet, reshaped into Soul Capturing by Li Che, Fang Hanshu knew the Earthly Ghost Emperor was truly Li Che.
As the sunset fully vanished, the crimson sun erased from the human world!
A massive moon disk ascended the heavens, its silvery glow cascading over the mortal realm.
Qi Tian City erupted in clamor.
"Quick! The Qitian Temple God manifests atop the Inner City tower!"
A voice bellowed.
Excitement flushed faces, witnessing a god’s personal descent!
Instantly, ripples spread like a stone in a pond.
Qi Tian City’s vast avenues jammed with throngs, the Inner City gate swarming with bodies.
Chiefly martial artists streaming from afar, Qi-Blood ablaze with zeal.
Zealous stares fixed on the stooped Old Monkey atop the Inner City tower.
The Old Monkey, in simple garb, bore a slender golden rod like a bamboo staff, tapping it lightly as a walking stick.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Below, masses surged.
Qi-Blood amassed like roaring flames, a bottomless ocean, poised to rend the firmament, unsettling stars and moon.
Nightfall brightened markedly.
"Such multitudes..."
The Old Monkey sighed faintly.
A Martial Immortal breakthrough truly shook the human world. In this age, such immortals were exceedingly scarce.
None could quell the rapture of Divine Martial Dao advancement, a fatal lure.
Buzz—
A violet blaze seemed to ignite and ascend.
It coalesced into purple flames encasing a warped shadow.
Black robes billowed with a rustle, golden crown gleamed dazzlingly, purple fires churned, shifting to dragons or elephants at turns.
"Are you prepared?"
Gazing at the hulking form materializing from void, its ferocious Qi-Blood, titanic vitality, the Old Monkey narrowed his eyes.
"My thanks for your efforts, senior."
Li Che’s gaze deepened darkly, purple flames weaving into unbound, dancing locks.
"Proceed, depart Qi Tian City—break through beyond its walls."
"Qi Tian City straddles Strange Que and human world borders, unfit for breakthrough."
"Fully retreat to the human world."
The Old Monkey instructed.
Li Che inclined his head.
Next instant, his toes pressed down.
He vaulted forth, landing beneath Qi Tian Inner City walls, treading Outer City soil.
Uproar exploded immediately.
Myriad martial artists’ eyes converged on the Earthly Ghost Emperor’s form.
Concealed operatives from myriad factions peered from taverns and teahouses dotting Qi Tian City.
Li Che flung wide his arms, dark robe’s vast sleeves whipping wildly behind.
Then he strode from the city.
The masses parted like tides, forging a path from Qi Tian City, forsaking the Mysterious Fog’s shelter.
Qi Tian City plunged into hush, deathly still.
Beneath myriad stares, under universal scrutiny.
Li Che crossed Qi Tian Outer City’s gate.
His black boots met the soil beyond Qi Tian City.
In that moment.
Monstrous Qi-Blood seethed, primal purple fire rampaged, Blood Qi pierced the vault!
The lofty silver moon turned blood-red!
Divinity everywhere cowered under pressure, Eight Desolates’ Essence Qi tidal-surged!
As though the body’s martial seal fully shattered!