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Chapter 64: Wrathful Crying Hundred Demons Thunderbolt Arrow, The Ox Demon Returns
Chapter 64: Wrathful Crying Hundred Demons Thunderbolt Arrow, The Ox Demon Returns
Snowflakes danced in the air.
Li Che's spirit seemed to transform into a chessboard, encompassing the area centered around the courtyard. His pure-hearted divine nature was slowly being consumed, but Li Che clearly sensed Zhao Xuan Hai's arrival in the alley.
Zhao Xuan Hai's presence here made it clear to Li Che that the Xu family had sold him out.
They had sold him to the City Lord's Manor. Initially, Zhao Xuan Hai represented the City Lord, wanting to summon Li Che for woodcarving, but at that time, Xu He Li had blocked him.
But now, shortly after Li Che revealed his identity as a woodcarving master, Zhao Xuan Hai had come to his Independent Workshop.
Was it a coincidence?
It didn't matter, and Li Che didn't care either.
In fact, Li Che had vaguely anticipated Zhao Xuan Hai's appearance.
After all, in this world, one must always prepare for the best and worst outcomes, especially since the Xu family's attitude today was unusually strange...
Li Che had his thoughts and considerations, and he raised his guard slightly.
Now, Zhao Xuan Hai had indeed arrived.
Li Che looked up, feeling the icy chill of the heavens. In the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, the air was bone-chilling.
Raising his head, the snowflakes danced and fell from the sky, landing on the chessboard woven by the Chess Sage's Dao Fruit and the divine net of Li Che's divine nature.
It was like being roasted by a furnace, instantly evaporating!
"The Xu family... our ties are severed."
Li Che spoke softly.
With the Chess Sage's Dao Fruit activated, every move of Zhao Xuan Hai was under Li Che's control.
"Zhao Xuan Hai, a divine nature cultivator at the River of Cultivation, has yet to step into the Divine Foundation... Can I fight him?"
Li Che murmured softly.
Since Zhao Xuan Hai had come today, he would stay. As a high-level expert of the Spirit Infants Sect, Li Che would show no mercy. Such a good opportunity...
If he didn't keep him here, he would become a big problem for Xixi in the future.
"Can I keep him here?" Li Che looked down, as if observing the chess pieces on the chessboard from above.
No, he must keep him...
If necessary, he would use the 6000 rounds of Namah Gatling Wooden Crows he had saved up over the past six months to blast him to death!
As for the trouble that keeping Zhao Xuan Hai would bring.
Perhaps someone with a keen eye would realize that the Ox Demon had a close relationship with Li Che...
But what of it?
As long as Zhao Xuan Hai couldn't enter this courtyard or open the door, it didn't matter.
Separated by a door, by heaven and earth.
Whether Zhao Xuan Hai lived or died had nothing to do with Li Che.
The one who killed him...
Was the Ox Demon.
Li Che took out a cute ox mask he had prepared earlier and gently placed it over his face.
A familiar and reassuring feeling arose within him.
Looking up, his black hair danced wildly, and his eyes flashed with murderous intent.
"Zhao Xuan Hai..."
"Your Ox Demon Grandpa is here again."
...
...
Creak.
The soft snow-covered cobblestones of the alley made a faint creaking sound as Zhao Xuan Hai stepped on them.
"Li Che, born with weak legs, practiced martial arts for three years, and has now reached Bone Tempering Completion. Not bad, a martial arts genius, and also a woodcarving prodigy..."
"But Bone Tempering Completion is not enough to be feared. Being a woodcarving master may grant some understanding of divine nature, but according to Xu Beihu's intelligence, Li Che hasn't cultivated Xu Family's Suspended Thought Flowing Sword, so his cultivation hasn't entered the Lamp."
"Also not enough to be feared."
Zhao Xuan Hai's body was robust, and the heavy sword at his waist weighed eight hundred jin. Wielding it with flesh and blood alone, its killing power was extraordinary.
He, Zhao Xuan Hai, was not only a divine nature cultivator but also a skilled warrior. With his initial Pulse-connected cultivation, his python sinews and tiger bones were extremely unusual.
He came to suppress and capture a Bone Tempering Completion cultivator like Li Che, an easy task.
Even if he was a martial arts genius, he was only at Bone Tempering Completion, and it was impossible for him to make a mistake.
Suddenly, Zhao Xuan Hai took a heavy step, and in an instant, the entire narrow alley exploded with snow, creating ripples that slammed into the walls and tiles, shattering into countless snowflakes.
Zhao Xuan Hai wore an angry child's mask, his black, rough hair standing on end like needles piercing the air.
Under the mask, his eyes scanned the surroundings with madness...
In his Niwan, his divine nature trembled wildly, as if being stared at by a terrifying venomous snake! Every hair on his body stood on end!
Creak...
His ears twitched, and his pupils shrank like a snake's, as he heard an extremely faint sound, as if from a great distance...
Yet, it also seemed very close.
It was...
The sound of a bowstring being drawn! As if a divine archer had drawn a full moon, locking onto him from all directions, blocking off his escape and advance...
He had nowhere to hide, completely exposed to the divine archer. As the arrow and bowstring rubbed against each other, a faint friction sound echoed like thunder in Zhao Xuan Hai's ears.
"Who?!"
Zhao Xuan Hai roared, his blood and energy erupting. The Wrathful Compassionate Buddha's divine nature exploded out in that instant.
However, in the next moment.
The falling snowflakes were pierced and turned into powder.
A dark stream of light, like the roar of a fighter jet, enveloped by the sound of wind and thunder, tore through the snowstorm from the end of the alley, moving at an extreme speed.
Zhao Xuan Hai's wrathful eyes instantly locked onto the incoming arrow! "This is..."
"Wrathful Crying Hundred Demons Thunderbolt Arrow!"
"A remnant of the Shi Family?"
Zhao Xuanhai was a man of vast knowledge and experience, and as soon as he sensed the 'Wrathful Cry Ghost Suppress' Divinity contained within the Thunderbolt Arrow, he immediately understood who the attacker was.
Shi Family... The Shi Family's surviving Divine Nature Cultivator!
To attempt an assassination at this moment, against him?
"Shi Family... allied with the Xu Family? Attempting to assassinate me?! No... that's not right, the Xu Family wouldn't do such a thing. The Shi Family's destruction, the Xu Family must have made their move!"
Zhao Xuanhai's thoughts raced in an instant.
If not for this, who could have known... that he would walk down this alley?
Without time to ponder further, the arrow was already upon him. The wailing of a hundred ghosts filled the air, their resentment and cries enveloping the arrow, with countless ghostly shadows flitting about. Zhao Xuanhai roared, taking a step back and stomping heavily, causing his entire body's blood and Divinity to ignite like oil, erupting in a fiery explosion.
Divinity...
'Wrathful Compassionate Buddha'!
A Divinity as vast as a surging river suddenly swept through him, flowing wildly around his body.
A giant Maitreya statue, seemingly forged from flames, stood before him, its golden bell-like canopy enveloping him.
Dong!
A crisp sound rang out, like an ancient bell that had been struck with a heavy hammer after a thousand years of slumber.
The metal arrowhead seemed to freeze in midair, spinning rapidly, and as it rubbed against the Maitreya Divinity statue, countless sparks danced and leaped out.
Zhao Xuanhai's eyes blazed, his left hand turning crimson like a branding iron. His entire arm twisted and contorted like a braided dragon, blocking the arrow with a wrathful dragon-like posture.
"Wrathful Crying Hundred Demons Thunderbolt Arrow... containing the 'Wrathful Cry Ghost Suppress' Divinity, it must be from the Shi Family's heir..."
"However, this arrow technique is only barely mastered, and the Divinity it contains is merely cultivated like a lamp.
"With just this one arrow, do they think they can kill me?"
Zhao Xuanhai's nostrils flared with hot air, and his fingers, like hooks, clenched tightly. In an instant, the arrow exploded, and amidst the flying wood shavings, Zhao Xuanhai was startled.
Within the shattered arrow, there was...
A pure white, flawless Divinity chess piece, like the brightest star in the universe, floating amidst the debris.
"What kind of Divinity is this...?"
It wasn't 'Wrathful Cry Ghost Suppress', nor was it 'Suspended Thought Flowing Sword'!
It didn't even belong to the Seven Emotions!
Such purity!
For a moment, Zhao Xuanhai was captivated.
But in the next instant, the white Divinity chess piece vanished, and in its place...
Was a cute cow mask, and beneath it... a pair of dark, calm eyes.
Zhao Xuanhai was shocked, as if he had been admiring a peerless beauty only to suddenly find himself picking his nose.
The Divinity chess piece that had captivated him had suddenly transformed into the Ox Demon that had once bombarded him!
This sudden transformation almost blocked his nerves.
"Where is my Divinity chess piece?!"
Zhao Xuanhai subconsciously roared.
Li Che glanced at Zhao Xuanhai in confusion, unsure why he had such a ridiculous misconception.
But without further hesitation, Li Che clenched his fist, and the 'Pure Heart' Dao Fruit's Heaven and Earth spat out a refined iron spear.
'Dragon Elephant Vajra' directly activated its second stage, 'Wrathful Eye Vajra'!
Instantly, his blood surged and exploded.
The 'Blood Replenishment Nine Shifts' technique, triggered by the 'Wrathful Eye Vajra', pushed Li Che's combat power to the peak of the Qi Pulse realm.
Using the Thunderbolt Arrow to conceal the hidden chess piece, and then employing the 'Chess Sage's' ability to place chess pieces as he wished, Li Che appeared right before Zhao Xuanhai.
When dealing with a Divinity Cultivator, close combat was the best opportunity.
Li Che gripped the spear, and with a flick of the spear shaft, countless wind and snow exploded... it was the Xu Family's Eight-Formation Bone-Shattering Spear!
Countless spear shadows pierced through the heavens, dense and overwhelming.
Transformation Realm... Martial Technique!
Zhao Xuanhai's hair stood on end. The 'Wrathful Compassionate Buddha' Divinity, woven into the Maitreya Golden Body, was shattered by this Transformation Realm spear.
Only a Transformation Realm martial technique could counter Divinity.
The Ox Demon before him had mastered another Transformation Realm martial technique!
With the Maitreya Golden Body broken, Li Che's instant burst of power at the peak of the Qi Pulse realm unleashed a suffocating pressure, causing Zhao Xuanhai's temples to throb and his face to turn crimson.
Zhao Xuanhai was about to unleash his 'River of Cultivation' Divinity to break through the fierce Ox Demon and create some distance.
Li Che had anticipated this, and his expression remained calm.
Holding the spear in one hand and clenching his fist with the other, Li Che infused the 'Wrathful Cry Ghost Suppress' Divinity, extracted from the Divine Foundation fragments within the Thousand Analysis Hand, into this Transformation Realm punch.
The Divine Foundation level Divinity... was an unstoppable force that crushed Zhao Xuanhai's 'Wrathful Compassionate Buddha' Divinity.
The Divinity of a Divine Foundation Cultivator was inherently higher in rank, exerting a natural suppression from a higher heavenly layer.
One ring after another, one move followed by another...
It was as if an unparalleled chess player had calculated every step, even foreseeing the next several dozen moves.
Oppression, constriction, and a suffocating pressure!
This Ox Demon had become even more terrifying.
"Damn it!"
"I'm done for..."
Zhao Xuanhai muttered.
Boom!
In the next instant, the sky exploded, and countless blood and flesh flew in all directions.
Even the fluttering snowflakes were dyed red.
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