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Chapter 548: Let Xixi Know Her Father is Always Here, the Bitter Sea Siege of the Prison Lotus Begins (Part 2)
Chapter 548: Let Xixi Know Her Father is Always Here, the Bitter Sea Siege of the Prison Lotus Begins (Part 2)
Li Che understood what Yun He was thinking.
"Do you want me to represent Cloud Peak Village in the Divine Gambling Battle?"
Li Che asked.
Yun He's face immediately lit up with a broad grin.
"Cloud Peak Village has performed exceptionally well in this Divine Gambling Battle. Yun Huang and Yun Lei have both shown great promise. If I were to participate, I might hold the two children back..."
"So, if Mr. Mo Che were to participate, it would be the best."
Yun He trusted Li Che's strength and cultivation, which was definitely higher than his own.
"Is there a cultivation limit for the Divine Gambling Battle?" Li Che smiled.
He did not object to participating. After all, Xixi represented Earth Village, and Li Che could also represent Cloud Peak Village.
Moreover, by participating, Li Che could personally experience the situation Xixi faced, so he was not averse to it.
"There is. The cultivation limit for the Divine Realm is up to the Fusion Dao Realm..."
"Meaning, those at the Sever Dao Realm or higher are not allowed to participate."
Yun He immediately clarified.
Li Che laughed, "Then how do you know I'm not at the Sever Dao Realm?"
Yun He froze, realizing that Mr. Mo Che... why wouldn't he be at the Sever Dao Realm?
Li Che, seeing Yun He stiffen like a statue, laughed, "Just kidding, my cultivation meets the rules."
Yun He couldn't help but say, "Mr. Mo Che, you must not conceal your cultivation. The cultivation screening for the Divine Gambling Battle is personally overseen by an immortal will."
"If the immortal will detects any issues, our Cloud Peak Village will be disqualified and will have to pay a hefty fine in resources!"
"Cloud Peak Village can't afford that."
Li Che nodded, "I understand the situation. Don't worry, I won't exceed the limit."
Regarding his own cultivation, Li Che was indeed just a Divine Being who had just ignited his Divine Flame.
Naturally, he would not exceed the limit and attract the fixation of the immortal will.
"Clang—!!!"
The bell resounded, its waves rippling out in layers, spreading across the entire Divine Treasure City.
This was the signal to gather.
All the ancient village cultivators staying at the inns left their rooms and headed toward the Myriad Buddha Tower Square.
On the immense plaza, numerous Buddha towers rose from the ground. Inside these towers, lifelike divine carvings sat as if they were true Buddhas, overlooking all living beings.
These divine carvings were of the highest quality, all crafted by the hands of divine artisans. The main tower’s divine carving was even more lifelike, as if it had come to life, with its eyes sparkling and gathering life energy.
This divine carving was the work of a great divine artisan!
A height and realm that even the current Li Che had yet to reach!
These Myriad Buddha Towers, filled with divine carvings, stood here, with invisible array energies intertwining. Clearly, the Myriad Buddha Tower was a terrifying divine carving array.
One thousand three hundred ancient village teams gathered in the plaza.
The lifelike divine carving in the main tower opened its eyes, came to life, and spoke the rules that everyone already knew.
After the rules were stated, the chanting of Buddhist mantras echoed throughout the plaza.
Then, each ancient village team was enveloped by a beam of light.
Yun He exchanged resources for a Divine Treasure Warrant and handed it to Li Che. This Divine Treasure Warrant was exchanged for a hundred One-Leaf Dao Essence Divine Crystals and three hundred Four Emperors Divine Essence Crystals.
These resources were earned by Yun Huang and Yun Lei in the divine gambling selection.
Now, with Li Che’s decision to participate, Yun He, without hesitation, bet everything on this divine gambling battle.
He placed all the future and hope of Yunxiao Village on this divine gambling battle.
The Divine Treasure Warrant exchanged by Yun He was on par with those exchanged by the Four Emperors’ Upper Ancient Villages.
"Mr. Mocheng, I entrust this to you."
Yun He said solemnly.
Then, he was expelled from the Myriad Buddha Tower area by an invisible force.
The space trembled, and the chanting of mantras emitted distorted spatial energy.
The Dao Fruit [Golden Time-Space Wheel] in Li Che’s chest trembled slightly, absorbing and consuming this spatial energy to enhance itself.
However, this spatial energy was only a fleeting moment.
The transmission ended, and the one thousand three hundred ancient village teams were all teleported into the Divine Treasure Sky’s cave heaven.
The Bitter Sea Grotto!
Rushing waves collided, creating endless roaring sounds.
As far as the eye could see, a dark black sea, heavy like molten iron, seemed to emit a bitter taste.
Li Che realized he was standing on an island.
The island was large, with numerous figures standing on it, totaling one thousand three hundred people, each a Divine Realm cultivator.
The weakest were the Three Disasters Supreme, from ancient villages of the same rank as Yunxiao Village.
Of course, Yunxiao Village was slightly stronger. For a middle-tier ancient village like Yunxiao Village, there was only one participant in the Thousand Villages Divine Gambling Battle.
The strongest were the Fusion Dao Divine Beings, whose auras were terrifying.
Most of them came from the Three Pure Ones and the Four Emperors’ ancient villages.
Li Che focused his Physical Body Power, changing his gaze and scanning the area, looking at a figure draped in animal skin.
This figure...
It was a Fusion Dao cultivator from Earth Village, with a robust and broad body, clearly following the path of body refinement, but using divine essence to refine his body, walking the path of a Fusion Dao Martial God.
Based on the information from Earth Village, this person was one of the two Fusion Dao cultivators leading the Earth Village team, Tuoba Long.
This person was extremely fierce, and because of his identity as an Earth Village cultivator and the presence of the Prison Lotus Maiden, Tuoba Long had become a target for all sides.
"What are you looking at?! If you have the guts, come at me!"
Tuoba Long’s thick hair danced wildly, his gaze sweeping over the other cultivators.
Even Li Che was included in this.
Li Che smiled, but his eyebrows soon raised.
A mountain’s shadow appeared on the boundless dark black sea opposite the island, with Buddha light reflecting on the sea, and the mountain rising from the ground.
"Spirit Mountain!"
"The Spirit Mountain Grotto is said to be the headquarters of Black Mount Sumeru, right?"
"Wrong, the headquarters of Black Mount Sumeru is in the Formless Heaven. This Spirit Mountain Grotto is just a projection of Spirit Mountain."
...
Many Divine Realm cultivators began to exchange information.
"The rules state that the Divine Children need to cross the Bitter Sea to the seventh island and deliver the Divine Treasure Warrant to us, and we just need to hold the warrant and reach the ninth island where Spirit Mountain is located to complete the Thousand Villages Divine Gambling Battle."
"Making the Divine Treasure Warrant gain ten times the resources!"
A Fusion Dao Divine Being’s breathing quickened.
Undoubtedly, this was a feast for the strong.
Holding the Divine Treasure Warrant and stepping onto Spirit Mountain, bathed in Buddha light, the warrant would gain ten times the resources.
No matter how many Divine Treasure Warrants one held, stepping onto Spirit Mountain would still grant the expansion!
So...
There was a huge temptation!
Buzz—
The chanting of Buddhist mantras echoed.
Then, it seemed as if a pair of embroidered cicada-patterned eyes opened in the sky above Spirit Mountain.
Infinite Buddha light swept over, containing immortal power.
It swept over every Divine Realm cultivator, exposing their cultivation levels, leaving no room for concealment.
Li Che’s cultivation was also exposed, with his Divine Flame burning brightly on the divine platform, indicating that he was a Divine Flame Divine Being.
Divine Flame Divine Being...
Many of the strong who had been paying attention to Li Che scoffed and turned away.
"Hey, the interesting part is the situation with the Divine Children..."
"Can the Prison Lotus Maiden really cross the Bitter Sea?"
"I heard that the bets on her failing have reached up to ten times, that’s impressive."
"Hahaha... This divine gambling battle was prepared for the Prison Lotus Maiden!"
"The Thousand Villages Divine Gambling Battle is also known as ‘Crossing the Bitter Sea for the Prison Lotus,’ have you all forgotten?"
The voices around him were incessant, and beams of light shot out from the island, with the gazes of the strong all focused on the battle situation of the Divine Children.
Li Che stood with his hands behind his back, his black robe embroidered with golden lotus patterns fluttering in the wind. His brows furrowed slightly.
"The Bitter Sea Grotto and the Prison Lotus... I see."
Li Che seemed to recall hearing about such an event in the mortal world.
He never expected that he would be involved in this way right after arriving in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
"Encircling the Prison Lotus Maiden..."
"They estimate my daughter will lose ten matches? The tenth match’s bet has already appeared?"
"Ha... they really look down on Xixi."
Li Che stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze growing deeper.
He instructed Yun Huang and Yun Lei to use the Divine Art Mechanisms to protect Xixi. In addition, he gave Xixi some extra items...
These items were enough to break all the rules.
He wanted Xixi to shock everyone at this "Bitter Sea Grotto and Prison Lotus" competition!
Bitter Sea Grotto and Prison Lotus?
No, it would be the Prison Lotus overturning the Bitter Sea!
...
...
First Island of the Bitter Sea.
Above the Bitter Sea, there were nine Buddha Islands, each with a Myriad Buddha Tower Formation that could be used to teleport to the next island.
To teleport from the first island to the second, one needed to use ten Divine Treasure Warrants. From the second to the third, twenty were required, and so on, increasing by ten for each subsequent teleportation.
To reach the seventh island, one had to hand over the Divine Treasure Warrants to the Divine Realm experts in the village, who would complete the final crossing and help them reach the ninth island, the Spirit Mountain Island. There, the Divine Treasure Warrants would inflate, granting immense wealth!
The amount of resources the Divine Treasure Warrants could inflate depended on luck.
This was a form of high-stakes gambling.
The first island was vast.
However, each ancient village typically sent only two or three Divine Children, so the first island gathered thousands of Divine Children.
Bang, bang, bang—
The Divine Children's eyes were sharp, and their fighting spirit was high as they immediately gathered their respective teams.
They then began searching the island for the Prison Lotus Maiden!
The Divine Children from the ten strongest ancient villages of this session exuded an overwhelmingly dominant aura, mercilessly displaying their power on the island.
They made no effort to hide their search for the Prison Lotus Maiden.
After all, the first defeat of the Prison Lotus Maiden would result in a sixty-fold inflation of the bet!
Everyone wanted to claim the first kill on the Prison Lotus Maiden!
The noise and chaos erupted instantly.
Of course, besides targeting the Prison Lotus Maiden, the Divine Children teams from various ancient villages also sought out weaker Divine Children, aiming to seize their Divine Treasure Warrants.
Some teams that were not at the top of the power rankings planned to quickly gather enough Divine Treasure Warrants to teleport to the second island, aiming to be the fastest to hand over the warrants to the Divine Realm experts on the seventh island.
That way, their mission would be complete.
...
...
On the seventh island.
Li Che stood with his hands behind his back, staring at the water curtain formed by the surging waves of the Bitter Sea.
The water curtain reflected the image of the area with the most concentrated divine aura.
Not only Li Che, but all the Divine Realm cultivators on the seventh island squinted their eyes, the atmosphere tense.
...
In the image.
On the first island.
In the dense forest, birds flapped their wings in terror, scattering in all directions.
A figure burst into a mist of blood, rocketing out like a cannonball and slamming into the trunk of an ancient tree, embedding itself in the wood, blood gushing out in torrents.
Hum—
A long spear emitting purple flames, like a venomous snake, instantly pierced the heart of the Divine Child pinned to the tree.
As it was pulled out, the heart exploded.
The Divine Child instantly lost all power, drained of life, and fell to his death in the tree trunk.
Xixi gripped the Purple Flame Serpent Spear with her five fingers, her eyes cold and ruthless, filled with killing intent.
She held nothing back, and for those Divine Children who sought to claim her first blood and the sixty-fold bet, she used lethal techniques, taking their lives directly.
The divine gambling battle was not just about resources but also about one's life!
So, Xixi showed no mercy.
Pfft, pfft—
Two sounds of blood spewing echoed.
Two figures, their backs breaking through the air currents, crashed into the ground beside Xixi, leaving trenches in the forest floor.
They panted heavily, their chests rising and falling.
Xixi looked over, recognizing the two other Divine Children from Earth Village.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
On the tree trunks surrounding the forest.
Powerful divine aura fluctuations continued, and the air was filled with intense energy.
Spear-like figures rapidly descended, impaling the surrounding tree trunks.
The strong wind howled, rustling the leaves of the ancient forest.
The many Divine Children from the ancient villages stood on the tree trunks like bats in the night, their eyes gleaming as they stared at Xixi.
"Prison Lotus Maiden..."
"You shouldn’t have come to this Thousand Villages Divine Gambling Battle."
"Stop the chatter and kill the two Divine Children from Earth Village first."
"If we can force the Prison Lotus Maiden to give up resistance and accept the Prison Lotus curse, turning her black, we’ll gain even greater wealth than a sixty-fold bet!"
...
Cold, mocking, and teasing voices rang out from the surrounding Divine Children.
Xixi's eyes filled with killing intent.
These people weren’t even pretending anymore...
She never expected that the rules of the Thousand Villages Divine Gambling Battle would be like this.
They were supposed to be in a tournament, but now it was like this...
"Bitter Sea Grotto and Prison Lotus..."
This was aimed at her!
She recalled Tuoba Ye’s words, and a realization dawned on her. Tuoba Ye had said that even if her parents really came to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, she shouldn’t easily seek them out or reunite with them.
Otherwise...
It would bring disaster to her parents!
A wave of anger surged in Xixi’s heart like a volcanic eruption.
She took a deep breath.
Looking at the increasing number of Divine Children on the tree trunks and the two Earth Village Divine Children who were on the verge of collapse, a flicker of concern appeared in her eyes, despite the rage.
(End of Chapter)
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