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Chapter 346: The Main Banquet, Nine-Thousand-Year-Old Ginseng Peach, the Monk Holds the Golden Pagod
Chapter 346: The Main Banquet, Nine-Thousand-Year-Old Ginseng Peach, the Monk Holds the Golden Pagoda to Battle Xixi 【Seeking Monthly Votes】 (Part 1)
The air was filled with dust and the sound of thunderous roars, as if an angry dragon king was moving its massive body, causing a shockwave that shook everything around it.
The qi stream raged, howling and wreaking havoc.
The entire divine temple was rumbling.
On the spectator stand, everyone couldn't help but stare at the hundred-zhang tall figure, resembling a giant ape, roaring towards the sky, unrestrained and unbound, a true manifestation of Heaven Mimicking Earth!
The vast divine nature's pressure was like a ten-thousand-zhang tall mountain rising from the ground, suddenly smashed and shattered, accompanied by a rumbling sound like a mountain collapsing, unleashing a devastating collapse.
Suppressed, terrifying, unrestrained, and venting! The heroes of the various divine sects, as well as the numerous cultivators who had come to observe from the Nine Cities of the Divine Capital, all felt as if their souls were subjected to an extremely intense impact.
So strong...
How could he be so strong?!
Unbeatable!
This monk from Little Harmony Temple had displayed the Vajra Incarnation, pushing the power of his Second Transformation Divine Fetus to the extreme, and even summoned a mythical weapon! Yet, he was still defeated!
Swinging his arms, he smashed the white jade brick-paved ground, leaving cracks and causing stones to fly uncontrollably, the dust swirling like a raging dragon!
Violent and rough!
It was as if two enormous beings were engaging in the most primitive fighting techniques.
For a hundred-zhang tall figure, a terrifying existence condensed from divine nature, each punch and swing carried an incredibly formidable momentum and destructive power.
Just like an ordinary person crushing an ant with a finger, it would be enough to make the ant feel like the heavens were collapsing, unable to resist!
But what truly shocked everyone was...
Li Che's divine nature secret art, Heaven Mimicking Earth, could actually reach a height of a hundred zhang. Was this his limit?
No!
A hundred zhang of Heaven Mimicking Earth... Could this really be Li Che's limit?!
At this moment, many people's hearts couldn't help but tremble, filled with doubt.
This incredibly powerful Three Pures Rank divine nature secret art, the larger it became, the more terrifying the accumulated divine nature power, and the more formidable the unleashed power!
A hundred zhang...
It was already extremely terrifying!
Perhaps... only a cultivator with a Three Transformations Divine Fetus, where their Five Viscera and Six Bowels, and every bone and joint had given birth to a divine fetus, could contend with him!
If Li Che's defeat of Zhou Chi Guo was due to the latter's Divine Fetus cultivation being at the First Transformation, making him no match for Li Che in the same rank.
Then, the defeat of the Wukong monk completely informed everyone that Li Che's mastery of this Three Pures Rank Heaven Mimicking Earth was enough to enable him to fight across ranks and decisively crush a Second Transformation Divine Fetus cultivator!
It was common knowledge that the divine nature rank pressure gap between the First Transformation and Second Transformation Divine Fetus was not as significant as that between the Divine Essence and Divine Fetus stages.
However, there still existed an extremely formidable rank suppression!
Yet, Li Che, who had just broken through to the Divine Fetus stage, managed to bridge this gap and achieve the remarkable feat of defeating a Second Transformation Divine Fetus cultivator.
Seven consecutive victories!
Seven in a row!
Including Zhou Chi Guo, Li Che had achieved a total of seven consecutive victories in the preliminary banquet, excluding the three heroes from Vast Integrity Academy, Bashu Sword Pavilion, and Dragon Tiger Sect, who were just there to make up the numbers.
Basically, each of Li Che's victories was of the highest quality!
He was truly becoming unbeatable!
It could be said that the bet between the Six Divine Sects and the Heavenly Origin Divine Sect was already half-lost.
According to Li Che's daughter, Xixi's performance, at only six years old, she easily defeated a Great Master, such a record... reaching seven consecutive victories might not be a problem at all!
Xixi had already won two in a row, and with five more victories, it would essentially declare the outcome of this century-old grand gamble.
In fact, Xixi's two consecutive victories were against the Tiandan Sect and True Martial Sect's Dragonlets, who were not weak at all!
"This father and daughter... are truly monsters!"
"The father is a monster, and the daughter is also a monster, worthy of being father and daughter!"
On the spectator stand, a powerful cultivator from one of the divine sects exclaimed, and then turned to leave the divine state.
Li Che, with his Three Pures Rank Divine Fetus secret art, Heaven Mimicking Earth, was almost invincible. Every challenger had to break through the defense of Heaven Mimicking Earth and get close to Li Che's body to have a chance.
As for Xixi, she possessed a formidable Mechanism Art. To defeat her, one had to withstand the mechanism's firepower and get close to her.
Moreover, one couldn't be affected by the firepower, as the power of the mechanism's explosion was equivalent to a Great Master's attack.
Difficult, extremely difficult!
On the spectator stand, cultivators from the Divine Capital and various divine sects began to teleport away.
Lu Tai Bai burst into laughter, his mood greatly improved.
Xixi also witnessed her father's mighty display for the first time, her mouth wide open in shock.
Father... was so fierce?!
According to this momentum, the plan would have to change significantly.
Xixi might need several decades to grow!
...
...
Inside the divine temple, dust filled the air.
The enormous Heaven Mimicking Earth began to dissipate.
Li Che's ink-colored robe fluttered in the wind, striking the air and producing a whip-like sound.
His jet-black hair danced wildly in the wind, and his breath gradually calmed. On his body, divine nature seemed to coil around him like lightning, slowly emitting a deep rumble.
"Huff..."
Li Che exhaled, and his entire body trembled with a crackling sound.
Using only divine nature without engaging his martial arts physical body made Li Che feel somewhat uncomfortable.
The blood in his body was boiling, but he could only watch helplessly watch. Fortunately, Heaven Mimicking Earth's overwhelming might provided a satisfying sense of impact, temporarily satisfying Li Che's craving for battle.
Within the Niwan Palace in his eyebrows, there was a slight sense of emptiness.
In this moment, Li Che truly exerted his full effort in activating the Divine Embryo Secret Art, Heaven Mimicking Earth.
He even infused it with the Seven Orifices Crystal Heart.
This caused Heaven Mimicking Earth to reach the limit of Li Che's current abilities, manifesting as a hundred-zhang tall figure.
However, this was not the limit of the Divine Embryo Secret Art.
It was merely Li Che's limit, as he had just broken through to the Divine Embryo realm. Even with the assistance of his Seven Emotions and Six Desires and the Golden Elixir of Lu Xuan Sword Immortal, his divine nature was vast, but it couldn't withstand the consumption.
Taking out a Lower Rank of Four Virtues Divine Essence Crystal, the Seven Orifices Crystal Heart began to throb, rapidly extracting divine essence and infusing it into the Niwan Inner Realm, filling the void.
The feeling of emptiness in Li Che's heart gradually dissipated.
With a grasp of his five fingers, a buzzing sound echoed.
The divine essence spread out, and a golden-cast tight bind suddenly floated into his palm.
The entire bind was cast in gold, intricately engraved with dense Buddhist scriptures. The divine essence from the Seven Orifices Crystal Heart washed away its Buddha light, making it appear dim and faded.
Li Che scanned it with his Star-Plucking Pupils.
【Divine Armament (Middle Rank of Five Elders): Salvation Vajra Bodhi Tight Bind (Replica Armament)】
【Craftsmanship: Forged by the Divine Armament Master of Little Harmony Temple, with painstaking effort and meticulous carving, creating a replica】
A fake?!
Li Che was astonished; this was the first time he had encountered a fake divine armament.
Of course, it couldn't be called completely fake, as this armament also possessed the quality of a Middle Rank of Five Elders and its power was indeed remarkable, containing the divine essence power of a genuine tight bind...
Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to stimulate the Divine Embryo of Ling Ming True Monkey and the Heaven Defying Face within the Heaven Earth Chessboard.
After all, it was crafted by a Divine Armament Master.
Li Che's eyes couldn't help but reveal a hint of surprise. This Little Harmony Temple... as a Divine Sect, seemed to have a much richer foundation than the Heavenly Origin Divine Sect.
The Huangmei Great Mage was a Divine Bird Master, and now, from the introduction of this tight bind, it could be inferred that Little Harmony Temple should also have a Divine Armament Master, and they had replicated a Mythical Weapon!
A Divine Bird Master and a Divine Armament Master...
The Heavenly Origin Divine Sect didn't have a single one.
It was said that Little Harmony Temple had long broken free of the control of the Dajing Dynasty and was growing wildly and savagely in Xiling Dao. No one knew just how powerful it was.
From this tight bind, one could sense the allure of Little Harmony Temple.
The divine essence contained within the bind, during the previous confrontation with Wukong Monk, had even tried to subdue his Heaven Mimicking Earth and invade his consciousness, attempting to make him submit to the Buddhist path!
Such a method was indeed somewhat sinister and vicious.
Perhaps, Xiling Dao, known as the Buddhist Land on Earth, was inseparable from the allure of Little Harmony Temple.
Even with Li Che's formidable cultivation, they dared to use Buddha light to try and make him submit.
How could the states and prefectures of Xiling Dao resist such allure? No wonder the Dajing Dynasty gradually lost control over Xiling Dao.
Little Harmony Temple... or rather, the Buddhist path in this realm, was indeed somewhat eerie.
With the Buddha light washed away, the function of the tight bind became less significant.
Li Che tore open the Qiankun space and threw the bind inside, no longer paying it any attention.
Buzz, buzz, buzz—
Li Che's eyebrows suddenly lifted.
He saw the divine nature of Queen Mother Xi Wangmu surging out from the divine palace.
A prompt appeared before Li Che.
【Participant in the Heroic Preliminary Banquet: Li Che】
【Seven Consecutive Victories】
【Obtained Qualification for the Main Banquet of the Peach Blossom Festival and Heroic Gathering】
Seven consecutive victories...
Did that automatically grant him qualification for the main banquet? Li Che was a bit surprised.
Lu Tai Bai hadn't mentioned this before; he had only said that to advance from the preliminary banquet to the main banquet, one must accumulate eighteen traces of Queen Mother Xi Wangmu's divine nature on the peach branch they held.
But now it seemed that seven consecutive victories directly granted promotion, which was indeed a shortcut.
However, it was also because of achieving seven consecutive victories that Queen Mother Xi Wangmu's divine nature automatically determined Li Che's strength to be far above the preliminary banquet level, and thus he was directly allowed to proceed to the main banquet.
"Main banquet..."
"The main banquet of the Peach Blossom Festival and Heroic Gathering, I've heard that the opponents will be even more powerful... Like the first hero of the Purple Mansion Sect from the Celestial Master Dao, who directly advanced to the main banquet, and the hero from the Southern Sea Bamboo Forest, who did the same..."
A glint of interest flashed in Li Che's eyes.
Only the main banquet of the gathering would offer rewards like thousand-year-old peaches, or even... peaches of several thousand years.
Peaches also varied in type, some for replenishing blood, some for nurturing the divine mind, and some for prolonging life...
The eight-hundred-year-old Blood Peach of Chi Dragon that Li Che obtained earlier was for replenishing blood.
In the distance, the divine essence light shrouding the table faded away."
Li Che walked over with a hint of anticipation.
The first three rounds were nauseating, and the preliminary banquet only offered a cup of tea, leaving Li Che speechless.
This round against Wukong Monk shouldn't be just a cup of tea, right? Indeed.
As the light dissipated, Li Che saw a peach with a pinkish-white hue, translucent and crystal-clear, placed on the table.
Beside the table, there was a jade wine flask and cups.
A rich aroma filled the air.
【Heavenly Material Treasure (Middle Rank of Five Elders): Eight-Hundred-Year-Old Dark Phoenix Spirit Peach】
Another eight-hundred-year-old peach! Li Che's eyes lit up.
An eight-hundred-year-old peach should be the highest quality reward for the preliminary banquet! Unlike the Blood Peach of Chi Dragon, this Dark Phoenix Spirit Peach was likely for nurturing the divine mind, providing a different kind of nourishment.
Li Che picked up the peach and took a bite.
It wasn't crisp, but rather soft, like eating a water honey peach. As he bit into it, juice splattered, and a rich fragrance filled the air!
The fruit's flesh, as it entered his mouth, seemed to come alive, instantly gaining a life of its own. It transformed into strands of cool, refreshing streams that quickly rushed towards Li Che's forehead.
In just a moment, Li Che's consciousness merged into the Niwan Palace within his eyebrows.
It wasn't a simple transformation into divine essence power, but rather, like nourishing medicinal ingredients, the clear flow continuously stimulated each Divine Essence Golden Elixir, causing them to undergo constant metamorphosis.
Li Che's Seven Emotions and Six Desires Golden Elixir had almost reached the level of embryonic breathing, capable of giving birth to an awe-inspiring divine essence.
Now, under the stimulation of the peach, these golden elixirs seemed to vaguely show signs of transforming into embryos.
"Good stuff... But it seems to have no stimulating effect on the divine embryo, only targeting the Divine Essence Golden Elixir?"
Li Che pondered.
After a few bites, the entire peach was swallowed.
Among the numerous golden elixirs, the one belonging to Lu Xuan Jianshen had absorbed the most divine essence, becoming robust and full, almost on the verge of transforming into a divine embryo, as if it only needed a tiny bit more.
The vigorous beating of the embryonic breath seemed about to explode within the Niwan Palace.
Li Che drank the entire jar of wine, which was also an excellent wine. It worked on the divine essence cultivation, nourishing each golden elixir, complementing the peach's effects.
After finishing the jar of wine, Li Che felt as if his entire being was floating, and even he experienced a sense of soul-level lightness.
(End of Chapter)
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