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Chapter 212: Xixi's Absence at the Restaurant (Part 2)
Chapter 212: Xixi's Absence at the Restaurant (Part 2)
His cat-like face...
Would no longer be the lowest of the low in the City of the Dead!
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Li Che changed into the robe of a Second Guest Advisor of the Celestial Chancellor's Office.
He arrived at the Eight Treasures Multi-Roofed Celestial Observatory Treasure Tower, located under the white jade arched bridge that spanned across the river in the city.
Shangguan Qinghong had already familiarized herself with the operations of the Celestial Chancellor's Office under Sang Yu's guidance, so Sang Yu became the supervisor, leaving everything to Shangguan Qinghong.
In the spacious first-floor hall, Shangguan Qinghong was using divine essence to activate the cleaning divine talismans, removing dust and ensuring the displayed goods remained pristine.
Accompanying Shangguan Qinghong were several other officers who had just joined the Celestial Chancellor's Office.
The Celestial Chancellor's Office was divided into ranks: Inspector, Deputy Inspector, Junior Inspector, Celestial Chancellor, and Officer.
Shangguan Qinghong had already climbed to the position of Celestial Chancellor in the Jin Guang City Celestial Chancellor's Office.
But in Dao City, she would have to start over as an officer.
However, Li Che's Second Guest Advisor status in the Dao City Celestial Chancellor's Office was comparable to that of a Junior Inspector.
"Brother Che!" Shangguan Qinghong exclaimed excitedly, waving at Li Che when she saw him.
The officers working with Shangguan Qinghong also looked over curiously, noticing Li Che's Second Guest Advisor robe and feeling surprised.
Li Che waved back at Shangguan Qinghong, and the two chatted for a while.
"Can you call Lu Yao, the Deputy Inspector, for me?" Li Che said with a smile.
Shangguan Qinghong immediately went to find him, and soon, Lu Yao and Shangguan Qinghong descended the stairs, with Tang Ren by their side, his aura noticeably expanded.
"You broke through?" Li Che looked at Tang Ren, slightly surprised.
"Yes, what's the point of waiting? The Temple Deity Resonance in Jin Guang City is over, and it's time for me to break through. I want to see if I can get lucky and be accepted as a personal disciple by the Sect Master." Lu Yao chuckled.
It was clear that Lu Yao held a grudge against Tang Ren for not achieving anything during the Temple Deity Resonance Assembly.
Li Che smiled but said nothing more. He secretly made a mental note to help Xixi find an opportunity to break through as well.
Moreover, if Xixi could forge her divine foundation, she would have a better chance in the upcoming Sect Master's personal disciple assessment.
Although Jiao Shaoqiu said that the assessment wouldn't focus solely on cultivation and combat strength, but rather on fate, who would believe that?
Having stronger abilities would undoubtedly boost one's confidence.
Li Che didn't waste any time and told Lu Yao about his intentions.
"You want to observe the Strange Temple's Temple Deity?"
"Yes, I heard you want to take the test to become an elder of Divine Eagle Ridge? You'll need to observe more Temple Deities to improve your wood carving skills."
Lu Yao nodded.
"Dao City is different from Jin Guang City. There are many guest advisors, and they often preside over the observation of Temple Deities."
"If you want to go, I can arrange it for you."
"As a Second Guest Advisor, you can enter up to the Six Ministries Strange Temples, but considering your low cultivation level, you can only go to the Seven Elements Strange Temple..."
Lu Yao said with a smile.
In Dao City, there were a total of ten Six Ministries Strange Temples, and there were even more Seven Elements and Eight Extremes Strange Temples.
However, they were all under the jurisdiction of the Temple Guardian Office, and ordinary people couldn't easily set foot in the Strange Temples.
Even accomplished cultivators from the martial world couldn't enter casually and needed to apply for permission.
Li Che's eyes flashed, and he thought of the Fire-Eyed Divine Shocking Sacred Ape Temple Deity, a deity of the Eight Extremes rank, which he had attracted with his divine foundation and the divine perception technique.
The Seven Elements Strange Temple would suffice.
Li Che didn't dare to easily use the divine perception technique in the higher-ranked Six Ministries Strange Temples...
Moreover, the Six Ministries Strange Temples were far more dangerous. For example, Jiao Shaoqiu, the outer sect elder of the Divine Sect, had suffered a severe injury while exploring one of the Six Ministries Strange Temples.
His primordial spirit's golden body had shattered, causing him to fall from the Divine Essence True Person realm to the Primordial Spirit realm.
Therefore, for safety, Li Che could even apply for an Eight Extremes Strange Temple.
But he decided against it and opted to test the waters at the Seven Elements Strange Temple first.
"The Seven Elements Strange Temple..."
Lu Yao pondered for a moment.
He then listed a few Seven Elements Strange Temples within Dao City for Li Che.
"How about this one... the Hundred Turns Worry Dream Osmanthus Rabbit Strange Temple?"
"Oh?"
"This Strange Temple is within the Yun family's jurisdiction. The Yun family is a thousand-year-old clan in Dao City, and Yun E is from this massive family."
Lu Yao nodded.
Then, Lu Yao led Li Che to the Celestial Chancellor's Office tower.
They waited for less than half an hour before five guest advisors from the Celestial Chancellor's Office arrived, including one Second Guest Advisor and four Third Guest Advisors, making a total of six people with Li Che.
"We have enough people; let's set off now."
Sang Yu was called over as well.
Since Lu Yao had something to do, he asked Sang Yu to help.
Sang Yu had another identity; he was the younger brother of Sang Guanyin. Sang Guanyin had followed Nan Lihuo from Dao City to Jin Guang City for cultivation.
In terms of talent, Sang Yu truly couldn't compare to his sister.
However, Sang Yu was a brother who always listened to his sister, so he was very polite to Li Che, the father of his dear sister's beloved junior disciple.
"The Hundred Turns Worry Dream Osmanthus Rabbit Strange Temple actually has a counterpart of the same divinity level, a Six Ministries-ranked Strange Temple, also under the control of the Yun family."
"It's called the Wanting Terror Jade Tower Cold Immortal Strange Temple, and the Yun family has been researching this Strange Temple for a thousand years."
"The Yun family's rise... is related to the fact that one of their ancestors had a resonance rate of ninety-nine percent with the Temple Deity of this Strange Temple."
"It was this ancestor who laid the foundation for the current Qianyuan Dao City's thousand-year-old Yun family and their Divine Embryo Ancestor."
Sang Yu and Li Che rode in the same carriage, and Sang Yu smiled as he introduced, "The Temple Deity hidden within Yun E's body..."
Li Che's eyes flickered slightly, thinking of the terrifying Temple Deity within Yun E...
But he remained silent.
The carriage moved swiftly through the heavy rain, creating splashes as the wheels turned rapidly.
Soon, the carriage stopped, and they arrived at a Strange Temple.
Experts from the Temple Guardian Office and the Yun family stood guard outside, forming a cordoned-off area, blocking all paths leading to the Strange Temple.
This Strange Temple was located within the city, surrounded by a hazy mist from which faces occasionally appeared and disappeared.
Howling, wailing, and shrieking...
A myriad of sounds surrounded them incessantly, captivating their hearts and souls.
Even as they approached, a powerful sensation of dizziness overwhelmed them, as if they were about to fall into a deep slumber.
"The Celestial Observation Bureau's envoy, leading the Bureau's guest scholars, has arrived to observe the temple deity."
As soon as Sang Yu stepped out of the carriage, he was stopped by the Temple Guardian Office's divine messengers.
In the distance, within a leisure pavilion.
Two figures sat facing each other.
One figure wore the grand supervisor's robe of the Temple Guardian Office, exuding an incredibly powerful aura, as if merging with the heavens and earth, with a dazzling primordial spirit surrounding his body, terrifying to behold.
Sang Yu clasped his fists and bowed, speaking loudly.
This person was Wu Gang, the grand supervisor of the Temple Guardian Office in Dao City, with an exceptionally high cultivation base, a Grandmaster who had achieved the unity of heaven and man.
He not only oversaw this Hundred Turns Worry Dream Osmanthus Rabbit Mystic Temple, but also the Wanting Terror Jade Tower Cold Immortal Mystic Temple.
In fact, each of the Six Ministries Strange Temples had a powerful Grandmaster-level cultivator in charge.
There was no other way; these Six Ministries Strange Temples were too dangerous if they rebelled.
As for even stronger cultivators, they had to oversee the Five Elders and Four Divine Strange Temples.
Beside Wu Gang was an elderly man with a billowing robe, possessing an incredibly powerful primordial spirit. Just a glance from him made Li Cheng feel suppressed.
On the way, Sang Yu had introduced this elder as the Yun family's guardian of the Strange Temple, a Golden Body Zhenren who had transcended the Golden Body, Yun Taisan.
The powerful primordial spirit scanned the carriage, examining the six guest scholars of the Celestial Observation Bureau.
After scanning them three or four times, he finally agreed to let them pass.
The inspection was strict, but considering the nature of the Strange Temple, such thoroughness was necessary.
"Go ahead, you only have three hours to observe the temple deity. When the time is up... you will be expelled."
Sang Yu spoke.
The six guest scholars of the Celestial Observation Bureau stepped forward, passing through the torn Wicked Pagoda's wicked mist. Along the way, they could hear the roars of the strange creatures emanating from within the Wicked Pagoda.
A small temple stood, appearing rather dilapidated, with spider webs covering the corners and dead spiders hanging from them.
Li Cheng's gaze swept across the temple, landing on the temple deity on the altar.
It was a rabbit-headed human-bodied temple deity.
With a pristine white rabbit head, its body was that of a woman dressed in ancient, simple clothing.
Quite bizarre.
The eyes of the rabbit temple deity were bloodshot, and although it was a sculpture, it seemed incredibly lifelike. Anyone who looked into its eyes felt their spirit sink.
One after another, large fat rabbits jumped out of the rabbit temple deity's body, filling the entire Strange Temple.
Then, as if swallowing their forms, the fat rabbits' mouths constantly squirmed, devouring everything in their path, be it the ground, pillars, or their flesh...
Li Cheng raised his hand and touched his forehead.
Star Plucking Eye!
Golden light rippled and spread out.
Everything became clear, revealing the true nature beneath the illusion!
Illusions, dreams...
The temple deity's divinity was incredibly dense, permeating every corner of the Strange Temple.
Looking at the other colleagues, the Second Rank Guest Scholar had already broken free from the dream, and he glanced at Li Cheng, who had also escaped the dream, with a hint of surprise.
This Second Rank Guest Scholar was a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator, and it was only after summoning his divine form that he managed to break free with difficulty. It seemed he hadn't expected that Li Cheng, a mere Divine Foundation Realm cultivator, would be on par with him.
Li Cheng smiled and nodded, finding a corner to sit cross-legged.
He began to observe the rabbit temple deity, using the Immortal Dao Fruit to peel away the various carving techniques used in the sculpture, and then simulating and recreating the carvings in his mind.
Three hours passed quickly.
"Halt!"
A thunderous voice echoed from outside the Strange Temple.
It startled the cultivators still trapped in their dreams.
One of the Third Rank Guest Scholars had been dreaming since entering the temple, dreaming repeatedly of being eaten by rabbits. Cold sweat drenched his body, and his face was pale.
Li Cheng stood up, stretched lazily, and then looked intently at the rabbit temple deity on the altar.
With a flick of his finger, a Flying Thunder Chess Piece silently dropped onto the altar.
Li Cheng didn't linger and left the Strange Temple with the others.
The spring rain continued to drizzle.
In the leisure pavilion.
Wu Gang, the grand supervisor of the Temple Guardian Office, and Yun Taisan, the Yun family's elder, sat facing each other, sipping tea.
"No abnormalities, I assume?"
"None, it seems."
The two nodded at each other, smiling, but their smiles held a hint of caution and vigilance.
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Deep into the night, all was quiet.
The pounding rain poured down on the black tiles, creating a mist that obscured their vision.
Dark clouds rolled, and spring thunder rumbled.
The lightning illuminated the Listening Thunder Lane, causing Li Cheng to slowly open his eyes in the independent workshop's small courtyard.
The raindrops falling from the black tiles formed a curtain.
Li Cheng sat cross-legged, bathing in the raindrops falling at high speed, and the wind that scattered as they exploded.
Li Cheng's eyes were clear and bright.
The Niwan Palace between his eyebrows faintly glowed.
In the Divine Brightness True Ape Technique, a divine law that merged with the Untainted Heart Divine Foundation, golden divinity continuously flowed from the Heaven and Earth Chessboard's Heaven-Touching Face, integrating into the Divine Foundation.
It outlined the form of a true ape.
Now, the progress was about ninety percent complete.
"It's almost done."
Li Cheng exhaled.
He couldn't help but anticipate the dominance of the divine form condensed by the Three Pure Ones' techniques.
"It's a pity I didn't succeed in one go; otherwise, I could have tested the True Ape Staff Technique on the little rabbit tonight."
Li Cheng raised his hand, stretching his fingers.
The next moment, he clenched his fist.
The raging airflow seemed to be torn apart by his sudden grip.
As he firmly grasped the Flying Thunder Chess Piece.
Li Cheng's black silk robe billowed, and his black hair whipped in the wind.
He had appeared in the Hundred Turns Worry Dream Osmanthus Rabbit Mystic Temple.
Li Cheng smiled at the temple deity, and his eyes couldn't help but flash with a mysterious light.
Even Li Cheng's mood couldn't help but lift as he hummed a little tune.
"Little rabbit, open the door..."
On the altar.
The rabbit temple deity suddenly trembled in fear.
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