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Chapter 298: Who Says the Netherworld King Lacks a Peak, the King of the Netherworld Ascends to Slay
Chapter 298: Who Says the Netherworld King Lacks a Peak, the King of the Netherworld Ascends to Slay the Demi-Saint【Seeking Monthly Votes】 (Part 1)
The Yin and Yang divide, and reincarnation turns.
The stars shine upon the Big Dipper!
Using the aura of the Chess Sage's Dao Fruit merged with the Star Wood, Li Che crafted a mask, the Netherworld King mask designed by him.
Infusing the essence of the Dao Fruit into the mask, Li Che was confident that even a Heaven Gate Martial Saint would find it challenging to detect his aura, given the level 5 Chess Sage Dao Fruit.
This was Li Che's first attempt at integrating the power of the Dao Fruit into an external object, transforming this Netherworld King mask into a unique divine armament.
Clenching his five fingers, he placed the mask over his face.
The left side black, the right side white, the stars glittered, and his eyes shone like the stars and the moon.
His jet-black hair billowed wildly from behind, as if it were a cape, and Li Che's entire aura became obscured, making it seem as if he couldn't be sensed.
Closing his eyes, he opened them again.
Strictly speaking, this was Li Che's fifth mask, following the Ox Demon, Door God, Divine Monkey, and Thunder Dragon, representing a new identity.
It held a different concept and significance from Black and White Unchanging, Alcohol Sword Immortal, You Liqing, Cat Face, and others.
What is the King of the Netherworld? The top-tier existence in the Netherworld, managing the life and death of souls, overseeing reincarnation, and maintaining the moral order of the Six Realms—a crucial role in upholding the balance of the universe.
Li Che intended to establish the Netherworld King as one of the top-tier powers in the Netherworld.
Wearing the Netherworld King mask, Li Che closed his eyes, and his entire body's aura began to dissipate.
The Netherworld lacked top-tier combat power, and it was even possible that such power did not exist, a consensus among various forces.
So far, no one had witnessed a Heaven Gate Martial Saint or a Divine Embryo Great Deity standing at the pinnacle of cultivation in the Netherworld.
This significantly diminished the Netherworld's deterrence.
Slowly opening his eyes, Li Che's dual pupils suddenly filled with the intertwined lines and colors of the chessboard, and the entire world seemed cold, desolate, and bleak in his pupils.
What he saw through his pupils seemed not to be the real world but rather the netherworld.
"King of the Netherworld..."
Li Che took a step forward, and in an instant, the Heaven-Earth Chessboard soared into the sky above the house, spinning rapidly, yet it blocked all auras, leaving no one aware of its presence.
Li Che's figure instantly teleported away.
Appearing again, he stood in the Heavenly Origin position of the Heaven-Earth Chessboard.
He sat cross-legged.
An ancient city, as black as ink, enveloped in the aura of death, rose higher and higher.
Wearing the black and white Netherworld King mask, with a golden lotus embroidered on his ink-colored robe, Li Che sat high atop the city walls, his hair fluttering in the raging wind.
"Such a Netherworld King!"
Li Che exhaled.
In a single breath, his long exhalation stirred, and his mind instantly sank into his flesh, observing the flowing blood in every inch of his body and the intricate network of blood vessels.
His spine seemed like a dormant dragon, slumbering within his body, containing explosive power. The five meridian nodes, driven by vital qi, would flow through the five Mystic Gates with transplanted Divine Seeds, causing the vital qi to surge significantly, as if it had been enhanced five times.
It took Li Che over half a year to successfully open the fifth Mystic Gate.
At this moment, with five Mystic Gates opened, Li Che was an extremely rare case.
Even You Liqing, a Supreme Grandmaster with exceptional talent, had only opened two Divine Seeds.
Li Che didn't know if anyone in the world had successfully opened the eight Mystic Gates and transplanted eight Divine Seeds.
If there was, it would be extremely rare.
At least, in the path of Divine Seed transplantation, Li Che was at the forefront, with few able to match or compare with him.
The only shortcoming of Li Che now was the gap in his personal strength.
Because his foundation was so solid, breaking through to the Martial Saint realm would be more challenging for him than for ordinary people.
Sensing the dormant five Divine Seeds, if he were to simultaneously explode all five...
What kind of power would exploding five Divine Seeds unleash? Li Che didn't know, as he had never tried it before...
You Liqing exploded two Divine Seeds and perished, his physical body unable to bear the strain, turning to ashes.
And Li Che?
His breath was hot and boiling.
Seated atop the peak of the Ink City, Li Che resembled a Netherworld King overlooking the City of the Dead, witnessing the cycle of life and death, the Six Realms of Reincarnation!
"But it's still not enough..."
Li Che closed his eyes, and in the next moment, he abruptly opened them.
The power unleashed by the explosion of the five Divine Seeds... might be quite extraordinary.
However, it couldn't be considered the true strength of the Netherworld King.
To claim it as the Netherworld's most formidable power...
Li Che felt it was far from sufficient.
"The power of the Temple Deity is the key..."
Li Che stood up from atop the Ink City, his jet-black hair fluttering, making a booming sound.
Beneath the Netherworld King mask, his eyes were cold and emotionless, and his unfeeling gaze flickered slightly.
In an instant, he directly executed the Flying Thunder Teleportation.
He didn't even need to make the initial move of grasping the Flying Thunder Chess Piece.
Buzz!
In a mere moment, Li Che teleported from the Divine Sect's mountain gate to the tranquil temple of the Two-Hearted Great Saint, a strange temple.
His mind stirred.
Instantly, four Temple Deity chess pieces, reflecting the Buddha's light, floated around him.
These were the Temple Deity chess pieces Li Che had extracted from the Six-Eared Hell Lotus Divine Monkey and the Two-Hearted Great Saint Temple Deity over the past half year.
There were a total of four.
Beneath the Netherworld King mask, Li Che's eyes flickered with a mysterious light.
He had transplanted five Divine Seeds into the five Mystic Gates.
Could he, in the Ascending State, add five more Temple Deity chess pieces to the five Mystic Gates with transplanted Divine Seeds?
In that state...
Li Che's heart pounded, and just thinking about it made his blood surge wildly with anticipation.
"That would be a fully enhanced Ascending State!"
"Let's call it the Netherworld King Ascending State!"
The original Ascending State relied on the power of the Temple Deity to stimulate and enhance the physical body's strength.
If one were to add the Mystic Seed's Human Shackle, which had burst open...
Perhaps this would be the strongest state Li Che could unleash!
His boiling emotions were suppressed, and he calmed down.
Li Che's gaze fell upon the temple deity on the altar, the flickering candlelight resembling the deity's restless heart.
Beneath the mask, Li Che's lips curved upwards slightly.
The black and white mask shimmered with starlight, and in an instant, he vanished as if teleporting, reappearing before the temple deity's statue.
His five fingers spread out like jade, and he placed them on the Two-Hearted Great Sage's forehead.
He gently caressed it.
The touch felt exquisite!
With his Thousand Analyzing Hands, he absorbed!
Boom!
Suddenly, within the enigmatic temple, a fierce whirlwind arose, and the air surged!
It took about half a month to complete the absorption of a divine chess piece.
Now, Li Che estimated that the fifth Two-Hearted Great Sage Temple Deity divine chess piece should be ready!
Inside the enigmatic temple, the white candlelight flickered incessantly, as if silently howling.
Slowly...
The candlelight ceased its flickering and returned to stability.
In Li Che's hand, there was an additional black temple deity divine chess piece, with Buddha light swirling around it.
The air currents twisted, and the void collapsed!
The fifth temple deity divine chess piece had finally been completed.
Beneath the Netherworld King's mask, Li Che's face was crisscrossed with lines, deep and vast like the starry sky above.
He clenched his five fingers, and the temple deity chess piece fell into the Heaven-Earth Chessboard, landing on the Heavenly Origin spot, pressing down on the crisscrossing lines of the chessboard.
Li Che leaped off the altar and glanced at the temple deity statue, which was slightly trembling and gradually calming down.
"Forgive me," Li Che said with a smile and a fist.
Then, his entire body twisted and vanished into thin air, disappearing without a trace within the enigmatic temple.
Only the flickering candlelight remained, indicating that someone had just been in the temple.
The Two-Hearted Great Sage Divine Monkey, draped in a monk's robe, had eyes that seemed to glimmer with golden light atop the Divine Eagle.
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...
Qian Yuan Shen Zong, Disciple City.
Elder Hall.
Creak.
Li Qing Shan wore a thin coat and looked at Mu Poppo, who had already fallen asleep, before stepping out.
The night was deep, but the courtyard was illuminated by a faint light.
He walked along the corridor with a hunched back, and under the black eaves, icicles hung like stalagmites, sharp and piercing.
Li Qing Shan looked towards the study, where the light was emanating from.
Being very familiar with the Ox Demon's style, Li Qing Shan narrowed his eyes.
Today was Xi Xi's birthday, and according to Li Che's past actions, he should take a day off and not be working in the study late at night.
He should be sleeping soundly with his wife and daughter.
In other words...
Li Che, or rather, the Netherworld, was about to make a move!
Li Qing Shan's back hunched, his gaze deep and mysterious, as he slowly exhaled.
Ding!
Suddenly, Li Qing Shan took out a mirror fragment from his waist.
It was the Netherworld Divine Communication Mirror.
Li Qing Shan glanced at it, and his eyes widened, his pupils trembling.
Because in the Divine Communication Mirror, a new person had appeared.
[Netherworld King]: Tonight's target is the Su Family. To ensure nothing goes wrong, I, the King, will take action.
[Ox Demon]: Received.
[Door God]: Received.
[Divine Monkey]: Received.
[Thunder Dragon]: Received.
...
Li Qing Shan stared blankly at the information in the Netherworld Divine Communication Mirror.
Seeing that person's message, his mind seemed to shake violently.
Who is this?!
Is there really such a figure in the Netherworld?!
The Netherworld... the Netherworld King?!
With 'King' as the suffix, is this the leader of the Netherworld?!
Li Qing Shan's heart pounded fiercely, and finally, a high-ranking member of the Netherworld had appeared?
Someone even higher than the Thunder Dragon?
It was known that the Thunder Dragon could kill a Martial Saint, so what kind of existence could be even stronger than the Thunder Dragon?!
This was the foundation of the Netherworld!
In fact, Li Qing Shan had heard many rumors circulating in Qian Yuan Dao City recently.
It was said that although the Netherworld was mysterious and its methods enigmatic, it was not to be feared because it lacked a truly powerful figure to suppress all!
Not to mention the strong practitioner, Lu Tai Bai, who stood at the peak of the Great Jing Cultivation, ranked fifth on the Divine List, and was a formidable presence guarding the seventh pass of the Heaven Gate.
Just take the Temple Administration with Feng Zhiqi, the Heaven-Qi Supervision with Hong Shiffo, and the Dao Lord Mansion with Dao Lord Yue Huanglong... These top-tier strong practitioners were the key to supporting a power.
However, the Netherworld seemed to lack a strong practitioner to uphold its reputation.
As a member of the Netherworld, Li Qing Shan felt indignant.
You know nothing about the foundation and mystery of the Netherworld!
Although he, Cat Face, also knew nothing.
But seeing a single leaf, one can sense the autumn—from the Netherworld's enigmatic methods, there must be a top-tier existence supporting the entire power and foundation!
Take the Flying Thunder Chess Piece, which can teleport instantly—such a method is extremely difficult to trap, even with divine talismans. How could a power without a solid foundation possess such a technique? And then there's that Ink City...
The Netherworld is truly unfathomable!
So, as a member of the Netherworld, Li Qing Shan felt proud. He couldn't bear to hear people disparage the Netherworld!
Unfortunately, Li Qing Shan couldn't refute them because, as a member of the Netherworld, he had never seen its high-ranking strong practitioners.
But now...
They're here!
Finally, they've arrived!
Every inch of Li Qing Shan's body trembled!
He slowly took out his Cat Face mask and placed it on his face!
Then, he made a reply on the Divine Communication Mirror.
Cat Face: Received!
With that, she clenched her five fingers, and her entire body vanished from the Elder Hall.
She reappeared in the courtyard of Liuxiang Alley.
Wearing a green robe, Li Qing Shan looked through the cat face mask towards the courtyard, and his heart skipped a beat.
In the courtyard, one figure after another stood motionlessly.
Ox Demon, Door God, Divine Monkey, Thunder Dragon, Black and White Unchanging, Alcohol Sword Immortal, You Liqing, Dragon Lady, Xue Dudu, Long Tai, Bluebird...
Almost all members of the Netherworld had gathered here.
Li Qing Shan felt honored to be able to attend the Netherworld's second full assembly.
He was just about to greet Li Che, who was wearing the Ox Demon mask, when his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
A terrifying aura engulfed the entire courtyard.
Li Qing Shan's neck stiffened, and he felt as if time and space had frozen in that moment.
The raging wind howled and poured down from above.
With great difficulty, he lifted his head.
Above him, a pitch-black city appeared, shrouded in deathly energy.
It was Ink City!
On the city walls, a figure stood, clad in an ink-colored robe, with black hair swirling wildly in the wind.
The King of the Netherworld!
This was the King of the Netherworld! Li Qing Shan saw his black and white rotating mask and eyes that seemed to encompass the entire starry sky.
Just a glance was all it took.
Li Qing Shan felt as if he were facing a towering, enormous being that had risen from the ground, so vast that it seemed to envelop the entire planet.
Could there be such a colossal existence in this world?
It was like a giant dog magnified countless times! Li Qing Shan's body drenched in cold sweat, his hands and legs trembling, the mere glance from that enormous being seemed to threaten the extinction of his soul.
Terrifying!
This was the pillar of the Netherworld... the King of the Netherworld!
Who said the Netherworld lacked formidable figures? Li Qing Shan's heart raced with excitement.
He bowed deeply, his fists clenched in a ninety-degree salute.
"Cat Face of the Netherworld, paying respects to the King of the Netherworld!"
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The mountains were shrouded in clouds, and the night sky was deep, like an ink painting that couldn't be broken through. The howling wind scattered snowflakes across the heavens and earth, freezing the cold night.
(End of Chapter)
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