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Chapter 71: The Aged Temple Deity's Head and Xu Family's Spirit Child
Chapter 71: The Aged Temple Deity's Head and Xu Family's Spirit Child
In an instant, the snowflakes were torn apart, turning into powder.
Li Qingshan wore a cat-faced mask, his hunched figure emerging from the mysterious temple.
He leaped onto a lush green pine tree, standing tall like a spear.
Beneath the black cat-faced mask, his eyes glowed with a faint light.
"Li Che, with his mind and spirit immersed, has been observing the deity for two hours. I hope he can withstand it and not be harmed by the deity's divinity..."
Li Qingshan muttered to himself.
Then, he turned to look into the distance and saw a figure in a white robe and a white mask walking slowly through the snowy forest. His loose hair fluttered in the snow.
The smooth, flawless white mask had no facial features.
The man had several statues hanging from his waist, each the size of a palm and carved with the image of a child, some worshipping Buddha, others crying, each with unique and lifelike expressions.
However, few of them possessed divinity, obviously not the work of a master sculptor.
"You've shown yourself again..."
"After appearing repeatedly, are you here to fight me once more?"
The pale-faced man spoke, his voice slightly hoarse.
Li Qingshan narrowed his eyes, staring at the wooden sculptures hanging from the man's waist, "Sacrificing to the temple deity... Are you really that bold?"
The man let out a soft sigh and shook his head, "It's just a desperate measure, a last resort... If you were in my shoes, wouldn't you do the same?"
"After all, we are mere rural cultivators, not the privileged disciples of the Divine Sect with abundant resources, nor the Divine Martial Reserves of the Grand Jing Dynasty's Shrine Guard, who are supported by the imperial martial arsenal. Everything we have... we have to fight for ourselves."
"Sacrificing... is also a gamble."
Li Qingshan shook his head, not saying more.
Everyone who does evil will find their own reasons, and others cannot sway their thoughts.
"Come on, although most of my divinity has not left the mountain, I am still capable of playing with you."
Boom! Countless snowflakes exploded from the snowy ground, and Li Qingshan's body was surrounded by his divinity. Behind the pale-faced man, a disc-like Divine Foundation emerged.
The two engaged in battle.
Li Qingshan intentionally drifted away from the battlefield, heading deeper into the forest for a more secluded confrontation.
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Inside the mysterious temple, the candlelight flickered incessantly.
Li Che's heart pounded. This was the boldest thing he had ever done.
Even bolder than the first time he decided to kill.
However, his impulsiveness was not a fleeting emotion, for he had the "Thunder City Chess Sage" to rely on. If anything felt amiss, he could activate his Dao Fruit and instantly teleport to the city's chess piece anchor point.
Li Qingshan had mentioned that the temple deity of a Ten Capitals level mysterious temple was equivalent to a Divine Foundation Cultivator, far stronger than an ordinary Divine Foundation Cultivator.
But now, Li Che believed that a Divine Foundation level existence should not be able to block his Dao Fruit ability.
With this thought, Li Che's eyes burned with intensity.
His five fingers opened and closed, gradually lowering onto the "Three-eyed Wrathful Lord Spirit Child Deity Statue" with its angry expression.
In an instant, an extremely scorching sensation spread from his palm, as if he were grasping not a statue, but a red-hot branding iron that had been forged through countless hammerings.
Li Che's brows furrowed, his mind filled with caution.
His arm glowed with a jade-like mist.
The embryonic divine ability, Thousand Analysis Hand! Faintly, it seemed as if strands of divinity were being drawn out from the temple deity sculpture, gradually forming into the shape of a chess piece.
However...
It was far more challenging than when he had condensed divinity chess pieces from the deceased Zhao Xuanhai.
It was like...
Pulling out a deeply buried wooden branch from the ground, its roots entangled and intertwined, making it extremely difficult to extract.
Nevertheless, Li Che was patient. Slowly... he pulled with care.
It was as if he was engaged in a tug-of-war with the slumbering temple deity.
A thick and resilient strand of divinity seemed to be extracted from the deity statue, swirling around the fingertips of Thousand Analysis Hand.
In Li Che's consciousness, two hours passed in what felt like a fleeting moment.
As the sky gradually darkened, Li Che immediately released his hold.
He retreated and jumped down from the altar.
Inside the mysterious temple, the flickering candlelight illuminated the wooden statues painted with red lacquer, as if they were staring at him strangely.
Li Che, however, was oblivious to this, his heart stirred with excitement. He raised his hand.
The jade mist enveloped his palm, and half of a chess piece emerged.
The chess piece was condensed from an extremely dark divinity, but it was only half-formed.
Yet, the strength of this divinity surprised Li Che, seeming even more robust and terrifying than the Divine Foundation fragment he had obtained from the Sir Family Patriarch.
Li Che narrowed his eyes, and as he raised his hand, his Pure Heart Dao Fruit pulsated.
In the next moment, he expelled a pure divinity, forming a white chess piece.
As his divine cultivation improved, the number of pure divinity chess pieces he could condense increased.
Li Che hid the divine chess piece beneath the altar, marking it as a coordinate anchor point.
Since he could absorb the temple deity's divinity...
He would naturally find opportunities to visit more often.
First, he set a coordinate, making future travel much easier.
The sky was darkening, and Li Qingshan had yet to arrive.
Li Che did not wait any longer.
He turned to glance at the three-eyed spirit child temple deity sitting high on the altar, then with a sudden burst of force, he shot out of the mysterious temple.
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Returning to the inner city, Li Che removed his disguise and stored the mask, clothes, and other items in his Heavens and Earth Space.
He then went to the Golden Radiance Pavilion to order some wine and dishes before returning to his own courtyard.
His wife, Zhang Ya, was practicing martial arts diligently in the courtyard. Ever since Li Che taught her, she had been training hard every day, knowing that she had started late and wanted to catch up with her husband through hard work.
“Husband.”
Zhang Ya, dressed in a training outfit with a narrow waist belt, accentuated her curvaceous figure.
Li Che's lips curved into a smile, and he walked behind Zhang Ya, wrapping his arms around her from behind. "Wife, do you need your husband to teach you how to practice boxing?"
Zhang Ya's face turned slightly red.
After a long while of cuddling, Lao Chen, who was sitting under the eaves drinking from a gourd, finally couldn't bear to watch. "Cough, cough, cough... Li Che, I'm still here!"
"Can you two lovebirds stop showing off in front of an old man?"
Lao Chen raised his gourd, clearly annoyed.
"Hey, you're still here? Didn't you go for a walk?" Li Che turned around, feigning surprise.
"Move to another spot, and you won't see us, right?"
Lao Chen was furious, feeling that he couldn't stay in this house anymore. This Li Che... wasn't as honest as before!
Fuming, Lao Chen hugged his wine gourd, preparing to leave home.
"Old Chen, on your way, could you pick up Xi Xi and Lu Dadao from the Xu Family Divine Cult Academy?"
Li Che's voice drifted out, light and casual.
Lao Chen was even more annoyed. Oh, this life is unbearable!
However, Lao Chen still quickly went to the Divine Cult Academy, picked up Xi Xi and Lu Chi, and held Xi Xi with a face full of smiles and affection. His thoughts of leaving home gradually faded.
Li Che may not be a good person, but Lao Chen had his little treasure, Xi Xi.
The next day.
After sending Xi Xi and Lu Chi to the Divine Cult Academy, Li Che went to the Independent Workshop.
After reaching the Qi Pulse stage in martial cultivation, the usual practice was to circulate the qi and blood within the body, store qi in the five viscera, and rotate the Minor Heavenly Cycle to accumulate and strengthen inner qi. This was the main focus of this stage of cultivation.
It was a labor-intensive process.
Li Che did not neglect the cultivation of divinity either. Practicing the [Wrathful Maitreya] divinity and refining Zhao Xuanhai's divine aura chess piece, it was undeniable that Li Che's divine aura cultivation was growing at an extremely fast pace.
The divine aura stream in his Pineal Interior was continuously expanding.
After completing the daily required practices,
Li Che put on a hood and a Cuteness Bull Mask, transforming into the Ox Demon. He activated the [Chess Sage] Dao Fruit, using the anchor point under the altar in the Mysterious Temple to observe the situation there, and then initiated the Thunder City Chess Sage's teleportation.
With a flick of his fingers, Li Che gripped a white chess piece.
In an instant, he found himself in the dimly lit "Three-eyed Wrathful Lord Divine Child Mysterious Temple."
The temple was extremely quiet, with the pungent smell of candle smoke filling the air.
Li Che rubbed his hands and floated up to the altar, beginning to absorb the temple deity's divinity.
It took about two hours to absorb half a divine aura chess piece, and two days to gather a complete one.
This efficiency was vastly different from when he absorbed Zhao Xuanhai's divinity.
Days passed one by one.
Ten days slipped by like sand through the fingers.
Li Che had not even started on the wooden sculpture he promised to Young City Lord Cao Qingyuan.
Knowing the purpose of the City Governor's Mansion in recruiting master carvers, Li Che lost his motivation to start carving.
In the Mysterious Temple,
Li Che skillfully jumped onto the altar and stared at the "Three-eyed Wrathful Lord Divine Child Temple Deity," who seemed both angry and wronged.
"Old friend, I'm back..."
He aimed to refine the fifth temple deity divine aura chess piece today.
"Almost finished refining Zhao Xuanhai's divine aura chess piece... My current [Wrathful Maitreya] divinity has barely reached the 'Cultivating Nature River' level. After this, I won't have Zhao Xuanhai's divine aura chess piece to refine anymore."
"Fortunately, the temple deity's divine aura chess piece is also part of the 'Wrathful Divinity' lineage..."
"I just don't know how much more of this temple deity's divinity I can extract. Will it be enough... to help me establish my Divine Foundation?"
Li Che showed his bright white teeth and skillfully began to manipulate the temple deity's almost lacquered head.
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Dark clouds piled up layer upon layer, creating a suffocating atmosphere with lightning snakes darting through them.
Cold raindrops cascaded from the sky, splattering on the ground and bursting into mist, shrouding the world in a veil.
In the inner city, at the Xu Family residence.
Outside the Divine Cult Academy.
Lightning illuminated the towering, black figures. They were dressed in black clothing, wearing hoods and children's masks, silently crossing the rain.
"The Xu Family Divine Cult Academy... still has two Spirit Children."
"The Xu Family old ghost has already made a deal with the City Governor's Mansion... and is pretending not to see anything."
A towering figure pressed down on his hood.
"Heh? Two Spirit Children? Since we're here... we'll take all the Spirit Children from the Xu Family Divine Cult Academy."
"Move quickly, catch them, and take them to the City Governor's Mansion."
"Once this is done, our Yang Family can organize the clan members to leave Thunder City immediately."
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