Chapter 91: Divine Armament, Wrathful Horse Mask

Chapter 91: Divine Armament, Wrathful Horse Mask

Crack!

Amidst the dark clouds, lightning snakes through the sky, and winter thunder booms.

Snow and rain pour down, pattering onto the mortal realm.

The rain falls in a continuous stream from the broken brim of the hat, only to be instantly evaporated by the powerful Qi and Blood!

Cao He only feels his divine nature within, unable to even activate it, as if it's being suppressed by a higher-tier divine nature!

This Divine Foundation is far superior to his own rank!

Ninth Luminance, or even Eighth Apex?

Boom!!!

Cao He's mind feels like it's about to explode.

When the Ox Demon appeared before him, Cao He was surprised but not worried at all, even thinking that the Ox Demon was courting death.

After all, Cao He is very different from Yang Jing. Yang Jing's will was devoured by a Divine Foundation, leaving him without any fighting spirit, and he fell into the Ox Demon's trap, killed by hidden weapons.

Cao He, however, has a clear mind and robust divine nature. Although slightly injured by Li Qingshan, his Qi and Blood cultivation remains formidable! A mere Ox Demon, as long as he dodges the hidden weapons, what else can it do?

But...

Feeling the Ox Demon's breath so close by.

The scorching heat, like a raging fire, makes him unable to stir his Wrathful Buddha divine nature!

"Divine... Divine Foundation?!"

Cao He's eyes widen in disbelief as he looks at the Ox Demon beside him, his expression beneath the horse mask filled with shock.

No...

How can the Ox Demon be a Divine Foundation cultivator?

How is that even possible?

Isn't he just a Qi and Blood warrior?

Looking at the back of the Ox Demon's head, the divine nature emanating a powerful and oppressive aura, Cao He seems to hear countless wrathful roars.

His divine perception senses a majestic existence, sitting high above, with a vertical eye on its forehead, wrathful to the extreme!

"Your divine nature... Three-Eyed Wrathful True Monarch?!"

"No... no! This is impossible!"

Cao He screams in near-madness.

Three-Eyed Wrathful True Monarch...

In the entire Thunderstrike City, wasn't it only Cao Guang who successfully cultivated it?

Cao Guang repeatedly offered sacrifices outside the city at the Mysterious Temple of the Spirit Infants, and only then did he obtain the Divine Foundation Technique, forging the Ninth Luminance Supreme Three-Eyed Wrathful True Monarch Divine Foundation!

How could the Ox Demon in front of him have such a Divine Foundation?

At this moment, Cao He's mind races, even considering the possibility that the Ox Demon is Cao Guang in disguise.

But he quickly dismisses this ridiculous idea.

A cold killing intent emanates from the Ox Demon.

Cao He regains his composure, his hair standing on end, and he bites his tongue, the pain bringing him back to his senses.

With a sharp whistle, the Wrathful Buddha divine nature manifests on his body, weaving together the Buddha Golden Armor!

The Ox Demon's Shocking Spear, already stabbed down forcefully!

A loud bang echoes!

Terrifying force ripples, and the air swirls!

The Buddha Golden Armor, a secret technique of divine nature, is easily pierced, and the Blood-Inscribed Thunder Gun, a Divine Armament, stabs into Cao He's body, shattering his shoulder!

"Not good!"

Cao He's heart races.

The intense pain almost drives him to the brink of insanity. His surging Qi and divine nature burst forth from the blood-red spear.

Using his divine perception, he manipulates his divine nature, and in an instant, the spears on his back whistle and shoot towards the Ox Demon like reverse spikes!

Although the Ox Demon's Divine Foundation suppresses Cao He's in terms of rank, it's not a pure cultivation realm suppression.

So, Cao He can still resist!

But...

Only once.

Li Che's eyes flicker, and the next moment, after reaching level 3, he activates the second stage of Wrathful Eye Vajra for the first time!

Instantly, Li Che's body trembles, and the sound of metal clashing fills his muscles, like booming thunder!

His already robust physique expands further, bulging with muscles, and his eyes shine brilliantly, like the brightest stars in the heavens!

His exposed skin resembles molten iron, and his large muscles twitch like giant pythons. His fingers, like hooks, grasp the Shocking Spear, which has thickened with his body's growth!

Unparalleled in strength, the ultimate physique!

Wrathful Eye Vajra!

Perfectly matched with the Three-Eyed Wrathful True Monarch Divine Foundation!

Wrathful eyes with wrathful nature!

Like a volcano erupting after intense suppression!

Bang!

The air surges, and the spear piercing Cao He's body recoils with a blast, unleashing a burst of power!

The turbulent air swirls, mixed with the pungent scent of blood and shattered flesh.

Cao He grunts, and the spear force explodes within him.

Eight-Linked Bone-Shattering Spear!

A supreme martial skill!

Reaching the pinnacle!

Eight bursts of inner Qi explode within him, making Cao He, even with his Mystic Pulse Qi and Blood cultivation, feel like his insides are churning into a mess!

His organs, muscles, and bones are all smashed into a pulp!

Unstoppable...

He can't block it!

Is this the Ox Demon?!

Immense fear, killing intent, and unwillingness surge within Cao He's heart.

His divine nature is stimulated to the extreme, coiling around the spears shooting towards the Ox Demon like venomous snakes.

But the Ox Demon effortlessly flicks them away with a finger.

He withdraws the spear and sweeps it down.

In an instant, Cao He's body trembles, like a peacock spreading its tail, as countless spear shadows envelop him.

Cao He screams, but he has no power to resist, and he is slammed onto the roof, falling towards the green stone ground at high speed.

Mid-air, his entire body has already turned into mush.

Bang!

Blood mists explode!

As Cao He hits the ground, he is already dead. The divine nature within the Divine Foundation, free from suppression, ravenously devours Cao He's flesh and blood, causing his mangled body to twitch strangely.

Boom!

A spear tip lands, shattering the Divine Foundation into pieces.

In the end, only fragments of the Divine Foundation remain, and the twitching mush becomes still.

"Pat!" A crisp sound echoes.

The blood-stained wooden statue of the Desire Comparable to Corpse Meat Bodhisattva, its face red, falls to the ground and slides away.

Cold snowflakes, mixed with piercing rain, patter onto the ground.

Li Che descends gracefully, his masked eyes scanning the wooden statue.

His fingers clench, and the statue shoots towards him, landing in his hand.

His palm suddenly turns jade-colored, emitting a jade aura.

Thousand Analysis Palm activated!

...

[Wooden Statue (Ninth Luminance Inferior): Desire Comparable to Corpse Meat Bodhisattva]



[Craftsmanship: Carved from a Ten-Tier Spirit Wood "Spirit Willow", it fuses the Six Desires Divinity, the Desire Divinity, and contains Corpse Curse power. It can condense the Corpse Curse Seal, locking onto a target. When sleeping with it, it can increase lust.]



...

Li Che's eyes suddenly turned cold.

Six Desires Divinity?

Corpse Curse Seal?

This horse-faced Divinity Foundation Cultivation, the Wrathful Compassionate Buddha Divinity, most likely came from the City Lord's Mansion. At this node, he was eavesdropping outside the house.

Planning to place this Corpse Meat Bodhisattva wooden sculpture and leave, it was obvious that he intended to utilize the Corpse Curse power within the Corpse Meat Bodhisattva sculpture.

"Corpse Curse Seal, a type of mark? Looks like they're planning to imprint this Corpse Curse Seal on Xixi!"

Li Che's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

Undoubtedly, this should be City Lord Cao Guang's doing.

Li Che closed his eyes, and his Chess Sage Dao Fruit trembled slightly, making his thoughts exceptionally clear. Gradually, he also analyzed the cause and effect.

"Cao Guang is unwilling, unwilling to let an exceptional Divine Child slip away right under his nose. But because of Li Qingshan's presence in the city, he dares not make a big fuss."

"So he created this statue, intending to imprint Xixi..."

"It's more like selling a favor, so is it a favor for the Prefecture City? Corpse Curse power, this is the method of the Corpse Deity Sect, which means there are also strong members of the Corpse Deity Sect in the Prefecture City!"

Li Che took a deep breath, and his five fingers clenched tightly. In an instant, the wooden sculpture exploded into countless wood chips.

A strand of black energy, like a poisonous snake, spewed out from the wooden sculpture, coiling around Li Che's Thousand Analysis Arm, which had a jade-like hue.

He stared coldly at this strand of Corpse Curse power.

Li Che's expression remained unmoved, and when he killed Cao He, this strand of Corpse Curse power had already entered his body.

Unlike a divinity, it exuded a faintly sinister aura.

The Chess Sage Dao Fruit trembled slightly.

In an instant...

This strand of Corpse Curse power was absorbed by the Chess Sage Dao Fruit into the chessboard.

It was placed among the black Three-Eyed Wrathful Vajra Spirit Infants Temple Deity Divinity chess pieces.

The Corpse Curse power... trembled and dared not move.

Obviously, the Temple Deity's rank... was above it.

After suppressing this strand of Corpse Curse power, Li Che dispelled his Wrathful Vajra Transformation and walked over to Cao He's corpse, beginning to skillfully extract the divinity chess pieces and then search the body.

The Wrathful Compassionate Buddha Divinity had condensed a total of nine divinity chess pieces, all of which were of the initial rank of the Divinity Foundation.

Li Che's Three-Eyed Wrathful Vajra Divinity Foundation was not polite at all. It directly trembled and started devouring the divinity chess pieces, accelerating the solidification of the wheel.

In addition, there was also a medium-grade Heaven-Earth Jade, which had the same rank as the one from Elder Yang. Its internal space was naturally vast, and Li Che unceremoniously collected it.

The four long spears that Cao He had used to counterattack were also taken by Li Che without hesitation. With the perception of his Thousand Analysis Palm, he realized that although these spears were not divine armaments, their special material allowed them to conduct divinity, making them quite precious.

Finally, his gaze fell on the horse-faced mask.

"Huh? It didn't break?"

Li Che was surprised. With his Wrathful Vajra Transformation, combined with the divine armament Shocking Spear, he had used the Eight-Linked Bone-Shattering Spear Technique, which was so powerful that even Cao He's fleshly body, a mystic pulse martial artist, had turned into mush.

Yet this mask... was still intact. Li Che picked up the mask.

His Thousand Analysis Palm activated, and information flooded into his mind.

...

[Divine Armament (Ten Capitals Superior): Wrathful Horse Mask]



[Craftsmanship: Crafted from a Ten-Tier Spirit Wood "Horse Face Pine" by a master craftsman, it can slightly enhance the Wrathful Divinity and alter one's aura. It has extremely high hardness and can preserve one's appearance.]



[Control: Wrathful Divinity Method, Cultivation Like River and above]



...

Another divine armament? Although it's just a Ten Capitals divine armament, it's still a divine armament, and all divine armaments are extremely precious.

Li Che couldn't help but feel reluctant to part with it. A mask divine armament... was quite rare.

Removing the Cute Cow Mask and putting on the Wrathful Horse Mask, Li Che indeed felt that his divinity circulation became smoother.

It was quite magical, but his Thousand Analysis Palm soon deciphered the mask's crafting technique.

With Li Che's craftsmanship, he could easily replicate it.

"I can upgrade my Cute Cow Mask as well."

Li Che smiled slightly and then turned to glance at the City Lord's Mansion.

He pointed his finger at the rain curtain, and a porcelain bottle fell into his hand. He sprinkled powder onto the corpse of Cao He, whom he had killed, and slowly, the body turned into a pool of blood, which was washed away by the rain.

This was the "Corpse Powder" that Li Che had personally prepared using his Immortal Artisanry skills, and the effect seemed excellent.

Level 3 Immortal Artisanry indeed had superb craftsmanship.

With a light tap of his toes, his figure suddenly shattered the rain and disappeared without a trace.

...

...

City Lord's Mansion.

The wind and rain intensified, and lightning serpents surged.

The light flickered, creating a mix of brightness and darkness within the pitch-black building.

Seated cross-legged on a meditation cushion, he had a bowl of blood and a statue of a Three-Eyed Wrathful Vajra Spirit Infant Temple Deity in front of him.

He clapped his palms together, and his body was enveloped in intertwining smoke.

Slowly, the blood in the bowl gradually disappeared, as if it had been drunk by the wooden sculpture.

Finally, when the blood in the bowl was completely consumed, Cao Guang's eyebrows seemed to have an extra vertical eye, and he suddenly opened it, shooting out a hidden black light that penetrated the wooden sculpture.

With a bang, the wooden sculpture shattered into four pieces, and a dense strand of divinity burst out from it, screaming and filled with wrath, only to be devoured by Cao Guang's Divinity Foundation Wheel!

Cao Guang's face turned slightly red, and he licked his tongue before calming down.

"Divine Child's blood... is indeed nourishing."

"The absorbed divinity is vast and delicious."

"If it were an exceptional Divine Child, it would be even more delicious!"

Cao Guang opened his eyes, and a hint of regret flashed in them.

Unfortunately, this exceptional Divine Child could only be sent to those guys in the Prefecture City.

Suddenly, Cao Guang's expression changed slightly, and his body instantly shot out, tearing through the wind and rain to stand on the rooftop.

His eyes stared fixedly at the direction of Li Che's house.

His breathing rose and fell heavily.

A mix of grief and anger welled up within him.

"Second Uncle... the Thousand Buddha Carving Banquet is about to begin... you... didn't make it in time."

Cao Guang sighed, suppressing the turbulent divinity.

Only he, Cao Guang, and Li Qingshan could have silently killed his Second Uncle Cao He, a Divinity Foundation Initial Realm cultivator, in the vast Thunderstrike City! Cao Guang had received intelligence that Li Qingshan had gone to meet his old lover on the night before he was about to leave Thunderstrike City.

That's why he dared to send Cao He on this errand.

It was just a matter of handling business, and there was no need to lay a hand on Li Wanxi.

But who could have imagined...

Just a small disturbance, yet Cao He was still killed by Li Qingshan's hammer.

The people from the Divine Sect were as domineering as ever!

With his fist clenched, he let the cold winter rain drench his body.

"Li Qingshan!"

...

...

"Achoo!"

Inside Xu Family's Divine Cultivation School.

Li Qingshan was sleeping while hugging Mu Granny when he suddenly sneezed loudly.

He narrowed his eyes, "Two Divine Foundation auras are fluctuating... They appeared and then disappeared. What's going on?"

"It's so strange."

"If we're going to prepare the Thousand Buddha Carving Banquet, we should wait until I leave Thunderbolt City, right?"

"Yes, yes... I can already feel it. The divine nature I brought from the mountains... it's getting closer and closer."

Li Qingshan narrowed his eyes.

...

...

The next day, at dawn.

The rain and snow hadn't stopped.

The courtyard where Li Che's family lived had become much livelier.

Dabo's family had packed their luggage, with large and small bags piled up on the cart, which had arrived early at Li Che's family gate.

The merchant group Li Che had contacted was already waiting outside the alley.

"Husband, do we really not need to bring these?"

Zhang Ya was reluctant to leave many things in the courtyard and wanted to pack them all, even unwilling to discard the kitchen utensils.

"We can buy these things again when we reach the prefecture city. It's inconvenient to bring them on the road."

Li Che rubbed Zhang Ya's head.

"Moving from the outer city to the inner city, and then from the inner city to the prefecture city... I thought our lives would get better, but I never imagined it would be this good... It's like a dream, and I worry that when I wake up, everything will be fake."

Zhang Ya leaned on Li Che's arm, and the couple stood in the empty courtyard.

Li Che couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia.

It was the museum, and even he never imagined...

Everything had changed because of his daughter's birth.

"Daddy, can I bring my tricycle?"

Xixi was also packing her belongings, and the little girl was reluctant to leave.

"Of course you can."

Xixi immediately brightened up.

Since they had already started packing a few days ago, all they needed to do today was load the items onto the carriage.

The escort leader of the prefecture city merchant group hurried over and respectfully bowed to Li Che, "Master Li, everything is packed. Should we set off now?"

This merchant group was not from Thunderbolt City but was headquartered in Golden Light Prefecture City. The journey to the prefecture city was not short, and they would pass through many cities and venture into wild mountains and forests. Having the merchant group as company would be safer.

If Li Che were traveling alone, he would have set off without hesitation, but with his family, it was a different matter.

"Escort Leader Qian, thank you for your help."

Li Che returned the bow and handed him a red envelope with a smile.

This escort leader, Qian He, was a Qi Pulse Warrior who had opened his meridians. He was quite skilled and originally from the prefecture city, only escorting the merchant group to Thunderbolt City.

"Master Li, you're too kind. It's only natural to accept money for services," Escort Leader Qian respectfully replied to Li Che.

A woodcarving master like him held a high status even in the prefecture city.

Li Che held an oil-paper umbrella as he helped Xixi, Zhang Ya, and Dahu onto a carriage. A charcoal brazier inside the carriage dispersed the cold, and the soft materials made it very comfortable.

Li Che boarded another carriage filled with wood, saying he could carve wood sculptures during the journey and sell them upon reaching the prefecture city.

Of course, this was just Li Che's excuse. He wanted this carriage for convenience.

However, Li Che had inherited the Yang Family's wealth and didn't lack money, so renting an extra carriage wasn't a big deal.

Old Chen and Dabo's family were in the carriage behind.

The wheels rolled, crushing the rippling green stone ground.

Zhang Ya lifted the curtain, her red lips pressed together as she gazed at the courtyard with reluctance.

"Let's go!"

After everyone boarded, Escort Leader Qian mounted a fine horse, with a knife at his waist, a hat on his head, and a wave of his hand.

The caravan slowly moved forward, rolling along the long green stone street.

Perhaps they knew Li Che was leaving Thunderbolt City.

Many woodcarvers from Xu Family's Woodcarving came to see him off.

In the crowd, Li Che also spotted Zhao Xuan and Wang Zhengpin, with whom he had practiced martial arts.

Now, they had also entered the inner city after opening their meridians.

"Daddy, why didn't Uncle Xu You come?"

Xixi leaned out of the carriage window, disappointed at not seeing the person she wanted to meet. She turned back to ask Li Che.

"Uncle Xu You might be busy. He'll come to see you in the prefecture city when he's free. You must practice diligently and surprise him later."

Li Che patted Xixi's head and smiled.

Xixi imagined that scene... and felt motivated. She nodded her little head vigorously.

Li Che, however, narrowed his eyes at the rainy street.

Xu You... why didn't he come?

Was it because he couldn't bear to part, or was there another reason?

...

...

At the city gate.

Another carriage slowly drove out, and the coachman, wearing a hat, whipped the reins.

The horses quickened their pace, galloping forward.

Inside the swaying carriage, Li Qingshan sat comfortably against a cushion.

Beside him was Xu Family's Mu Granny.

Mu Granny seemed to know something and frowned as she looked at her old lover, "Li Qingshan, are you really going to leave like this?"

"The Thousand Buddha Carving Banquet organized by City Lord Cao Guang is obviously suspicious... It's probably related to the missing divine children. Why aren't you stopping him?"

"Weren't you, Li Qingshan, the most righteous and just?"

Li Qingshan held Mu Granny's palm, "Don't worry."

Mu Granny struggled, but she couldn't break free, so she let him caress her hand.

Li Qingshan gazed out the carriage window at the misty green mountains and waters, and smiled.

"If I don't leave, how dare Cao Guang start the sacrifice?"

"If he starts the sacrifice, then I'll have an excuse... to hammer him to death."

Hearing this, Mu Granny breathed a sigh of relief.

Her eyes shone with admiration.

That's right, this was the righteous and just Qingshan she knew.

"Are you going alone?"

Mu Granny seemed to think of something and asked with concern.

Li Qingshan smiled.

"Probably."

"There's also... a hero."

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