As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life Chapter 1609: 425: Emperor Xi Xi Kills and Runs—So Thrilling! The Children Live Happily in Fengdu
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Crash, crash——
The dark ink-like rain poured relentlessly from the walls of the city, hammering against the ebony bricks. Each drop, plump as peas, resembled brushes dipped in dense ink, splattering apart into shadowy vapors.
This grand, awe-inspiring, enigmatic ink city stretched out and hovered in the air, like a vast chessboard crisscrossed with patterns, bearing the immense structure aloft!
Atop the city gates, fierce winds howled and billowed, merging with thunderous blasts that almost blinded the oily, contorted face concealed inside the pill furnace.
Etched upon the city gate were the words: Fengdu!
A black-robed figure, adorned with a golden lotus embroidery, sat facing away.
In that instant, the whole world appeared to hush into stillness.
“When children fight, why should we old folks intervene?”
The steady, leisurely voice emanated from the black-robed figure, akin to an ancient beast that had loomed over the ancient city for thousands of years, somehow instilling an overwhelming pressure on the entity lurking in the pill furnace.
Such pressure felt utterly astonishing, given his exalted realm where only the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations, invoked by the Will of Heaven and Earth, could weigh upon him!
Who exactly was this individual in front of him, capable of exerting such formidable pressure?
The oily face tucked away in the pill furnace gradually narrowed its gaze.
As anticipated…
How could a tempting human medicine like that go without a guardian?
Li Che pivoted slowly from the city wall, donning an adorable bull mask. Back in Fei Lei City, he had used this Bull Demon Mask to shield his daughter.
Now, with his daughter setting off on her path in a calf mask, it stood to reason that he, her father… would don the Bull Demon Mask as well.
An elder bull demon safeguarding the young calf made perfect sense.
In his grasp, Li Che clutched the divinity crystal of the Three Pure Ranks, having been immersed in cultivation within his study, while splitting off a thread of his consciousness to monitor Xi Xi’s circumstances.
When a martial artist at the first level went after Xi Xi, Li Che saw no reason to step in; his daughter required tempering, and she needed to approach it with the right mindset for growth.
Though he remained ever watchful over his daughter’s well-being, a mere first-level martial artist was something Xi Xi could potentially manage on her own.
Yet, this fiendish entity skulking in the pill furnace, its features twisted with malice and constantly referring to humans as medicine, was a threat Li Che couldn’t overlook.
After all, such a being surpassed what Xi Xi could deal with at present.
Even if not his full physical form, it was still an authentic Divine Tribulation Great Cultivator.
From Gu Changqing, Li Che had gleaned that the oily entity in the pill furnace was probably the Yang Xuan Grandmaster, one of the Yin and Yang grandmasters from the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect.
The Yin Xuan Grandmaster excelled in poisons, whereas this Yang Xuan Grandmaster stayed more under the radar.
But at this moment, it appeared this Yang Xuan Grandmaster harbored some unusual traits too.
Within the pill furnace, the oily human face slightly tightened its eyes.
“Indeed, what you say is quite right… It’s true we old folks shouldn’t meddle when kids fight, my mistake, hehehe.”
The plump lips of the human face in the pill furnace drew into a line, releasing a hehehe chuckle.
Abruptly, flames roared to life, as though a fierce blaze ignited inside the furnace, sending thick black smoke billowing from the pill furnace. Moments later, it morphed into a streak of light, darting swiftly back the way it had come, racing toward the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect’s mountain gate.
No trace of any intent to clash with Li Che.
Under the Bull Demon Mask, Li Che’s expression turned frosty, while a faint smirk tugged at his mouth.
“Human medicine?”
The composed voice echoed forth.
Then, a horrifying killing intent erupted in surges, reminiscent of the tidal waves surging across the Grand Canal in Guangling Dao City, a colossal surge thundering skyward and linking heaven and earth, laden with the might of the cosmos!
Treating his daughter as human medicine?!
Had Li Che not shown up, would this Yang Xuan Grandmaster have preyed on the vulnerable, scheming to seize his daughter for pill refinement?
And within Guangling Dao City’s Ascending Immortal Pavilion…
Could that have been the doing of this Yang Xuan Grandmaster as well?
Gu Changqing had informed him that the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect had set up the Ascension Tower to produce a slow-acting poison pill, amassing riches and materials to fuel the grandmasters’ cultivation.
Thus, through Xi Xi’s eyes, Li Che had witnessed the horrifying events inside the Ascending Immortal Pavilion.
Other Divine Sects worked to subdue the enigmatic temples and their gods.
But the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect… opted to ally with the Divine Sect and conspire with temple gods, shunning suppression in pursuit of their legacies…
This stemmed from the Da Jing Dynasty’s decision to let various Divine Sects oversee the mysterious temples in their domains!
Now, as the Imperial Court pulled in forces from the Temple Control Bureau and the Qintian Observatory, all sorts of schemes by the Divine Sects surfaced.
Of course, sects like the Qian Yuan Divine Sect labored earnestly to quell mysterious temples for the benefit of nearby people.
They even shifted the arrays of bizarre temples near Qianyuan Taoist City right into their Divine Sect Mountain Gate, displaying remarkable boldness and strength.
Yet, sects like the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect chose collusion with temple gods.
Buzz boom——
A deep rumble akin to thunder suddenly set the air quivering with rippling surges.
Beneath the Bull Demon Mask, his frame abruptly swelled into a sturdy, massive build, with vital qi and blood roiling fiercely like turbulent seas, the visible skin weaving black and red patterns as if tempered in liquid metal, golden qi-blood vapor rising, coloring the ends of his hair, the whole form wrapped in a shroud of golden haze.