Chapter 209: The Onslaught of Divine Fury
by xennovelCackling laughter rang out—
Black crows beat their wings as they scattered in terror from the dense forest, along with numerous early spring sparrows.
It was as if they had encountered an unspeakable shock!
Every bird’s eyes shimmered with panic, as if one mis-timed wingbeat could mean being shattered into pieces, dragged into an abyss!
Within the forest, trees glowed and a mighty wind roiled like crashing tides!
A colossal statue of a Thousand-Arm Guanyin materialized out of nowhere, crashing to the ground and compressing the softened, snow-melted earth into a deep sinkhole.
The lotus pedestal spanned across, its densely packed rollers spinning at high speed as they flung dirt and silt into the air.
Li Che, masked with an Ogre Mask, his black hair flying and his dark robe billowing in the wind, charged forward.
His garments bulged with the force of his muscles, each taut sinew trembling and roaring like a fierce dragon.
Blood and divine essence erupted wildly from his flesh, channeling into the Guanyin Lotus Main Battle Tank.
The myriad arms of the Guanyin statue stacked before him formed a gesture that sent a shockwave forward.
Li Che’s eyes turned cold and ruthless—a spark of savagery boiling within.
The cosmic chessboard view within the Guanyin Lotus Main Battle Tank overlapped perfectly with his own sight.
The cross-shaped symbol of slaughter and decisiveness locked onto its target.
A terrifying surge of air roared as the ground buckled imperiously, cracks snaking outward as the collapsing silt was devoured!
“Demon Child…”
The adorable Cute Cow Mask split at the brow to reveal a single, piercing eye.
That lone glance overflowed with murderous intent!
Li Che was a fiercely protective father.
Having just arrived at Daocheng, he knew little about the inner workings of the city—its roster of strongmen or whether the complex web of the cosmic chessboard had been detected.
In truth, Li Che was in the dark.
By his usual cautious nature, this move shouldn’t have been made.
But driven by a father’s need to protect, such conduct was hardly blameworthy!
For the sake of his daughter, with a forbidden scale provoked, Li Che chose to take the initiative.
Though he couldn’t literally shove a cannon barrel into his foe’s mouth and blow him up,
he had to make sure the Demon Child felt the weight of his threat.
Even though Li Che knew this blast might not kill the Demon Child outright, death or survival was a separate matter.
Whether it worked or not was entirely up to Li Che!
Boom!
Fire in the cannon!
His eyes suddenly flashed with dazzling golden electricity as if all his vital energy was sucked away and channeled directly into the Guanyin Lotus Main Battle Tank.
“Bang——!!!”
In an instant!
A fearsome surge burst forth, erupting from the gaps in the stacked thousand-arm Guanyin. The intense white heat vaporized the melting snow in an instant!
The ground turned dry and hard!
As if an enraged dragon was howling in the wind!
The slanting spring rain shattered into a hazy mist under the explosive shock.
Then, two successive avalanche-like Guanyin Lotus Bombs—each equivalent to the power of a hundred Divine Chess Pieces—were hurled by Li Che into the Guanyin Lotus Main Battle Tank.
A single blast wasn’t enough?
He unleashed a triple salvo!
Fire in the cannon!
The benevolent Guanyin’s eyes suddenly blazed with brilliant golden light.
The mechanism’s seal, marked with the character “Lin,” ignited as if set aflame.
In that split second—
An even more dazzling golden light burst forth!
Bang——!
Bang——!!!
The golden radiance streaked so fast that it seemed to drag into a deep blue hue!
In an instant!
The heavens lit up. The explosive flashes from these three blasts overshadowed even the blazing midday sun!
Three shafts of gold shot forth sequentially, tearing apart the sky!
Scorching, searing, obliterating, boiling—
The very air twisted and cracked as it was torn apart.
Everywhere, the spring breeze and chill rain were halted as if sliced by three terrifying fiery cannonballs that connected like a line across the heavens!
The booming explosions were deafening; even the shockwaves from the blasts caused the ground to split, collapse, and shatter into pieces!
All the nearby trees moaned under the strain, bowing and scattering under the pressure!
Neat columns of golden light lined up.
They resembled the fiery tails of comets.
They tore through the sky!
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On the main road.
Several swift Jiao Horses suddenly grew weak in the legs, their terrified hooves restless and agitated.
Even ordinary horses collapsed in fear, causing the convoy on the main road to descend into chaos.
The caravan from Jingguang City, pulled by swift Jiao Horses, quickly regained control.
However, the pandemonium in the other groups still affected them.
The main road was left in shambles!
The cries and whinnies of noble horses, coupled with the sound of tumbling wagons, filled the air.
Within the Jingguang caravan,
Elder Jiao Shaoqiu suddenly opened his eyes and appeared atop a carriage roof.
Meanwhile, Wei He—tasked with escort duty—had already positioned himself on another carriage roof, hands behind his back, his black hair swaying in the gale.
“What is this…?”
Wei He asked in astonishment.
Elsewhere,
Jiao Shaoqiu, Lu Yao, Wang Kuyu, Zhu Chaoyang, and others felt a shiver down their spines.
This spectacle…
They were dreadfully familiar with it.
After leaving Jingguang Mansion, their convoy had once suffered an assassination attempt by the professional Golden-Faced Assassins of Lie Shen Pavilion from the Hunter God Pavilion.
On that occasion, a burst of golden light erupted, followed by a magnificent mushroom firework a hundred meters tall!
It released a terrifying, furious, and desolate mushroom firework!
Smart enough to guess, they realized it must have been the work of the Underworld…
The Hunter God Pavilion must have conspired with the Corpse God Sect to attack the convoy; otherwise, why else would they deploy five golden-faced assassins in a rash assassination attempt?
The result? They were annihilated on the spot.
It was likely that the Underworld’s mushroom cloud had wiped out the Corpse God Sect unit that had reached an accord with the Hunter God Pavilion.
So…
“Is the Underworld bombarding Daocheng?”
Lu Yao muttered.
His head throbbed with confusion.
His scalp tingled and his mouth went dry.
No…
Is the Underworld going to overturn everything?
What mad souls are these?
Directly bombarding Daocheng? Have they really got it in for us?
Not only Lu Yao; every cultivator from Jingguang Mansion who had witnessed that terrifying mushroom cloud firework now felt an icy chill run down their spines.
Li Qingshan had long since climbed out of his carriage, standing in stunned silence watching the scene unfold.
Such a dramatic spectacle seemed entirely unrelated to Li Qingshan.
XiXi clapped excitedly inside the carriage, anticipation written all over her face!
“Fireworks!”
“Time for fireworks!”
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Atop the majestic and imposing walls of Daocheng,
the towering ramparts loomed like a mass of dark mountains.
In full armor, armed soldiers of the Divine Guard Army manned the battlements. Their armor clanged as they craned their necks in puzzled awe.
They watched in bewilderment as three blazing comets, trailing fiery tails, streaked across the sky…
At a loss for how to respond.
Bang——!!!
A tremendous surge of energy erupted. Among the Divine Guard, a mighty presence, enshrouded in swirling blood and divine energy, slammed his foot down, and the entire wall trembled.
It rocketed into the clouds.
But the three cannonballs moved too fast…
Like three furious serpentine dragons, they barreled forward with indescribable might, akin to an all-consuming wildfire!
“Divine Archer?!”
The seasoned Grandmaster of the Divine Guard, whose perfect unity of body and spirit commanded the troops, furrowed his brows.
A surge of intense danger washed over him.
Yet, as the city’s commander, he still had to act.
Whoosh——!
He yanked a mighty divine sword from his waist. Hundreds of sword strikes merged into one enormous sword shadow that flipped abruptly, aiming a vicious slash at a Guanyin statue ablaze with golden light.
He intended to deflect this blast and follow through by stopping the subsequent linked barrages.
But—
The moment his sword tip touched the Guanyin,
an icy dread and overwhelming crisis burst forth like a dam breaking under the torrents of a heavenly river, submerging him in its wild, cascading waters!
An ultimate peril swept over him like an unstoppable tide!
The explosion shattered midair!
It was as if a massive golden flame lotus bloomed overhead, unleashing a devastating shockwave!
Meanwhile, one of the other two cannonballs, seemingly diverted by some unseen hand, skewed off course and raced deeper into Daocheng!
Within the roaring, fiery blast,
a grimy, weather-beaten figure, shrouded in a tangle of innate true energy, tore through the flames and crashed back onto the city wall, his face twisted in dismay.
As he turned his head,
he witnessed the ancient heart of Daocheng…
Two brilliant mushroom firework bursts erupted in midair.
The commander stood rigid, stupefied.
Daocheng…
had been bombed.
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Within a sprawling courtyard, lined with flowing wine cups and graceful pavilions with winding corridors,
the Demon Child rode a slender girl, grasping her ponytail, his face alight with excitement as he gazed at the sky.
It was happening…
His wife had arrived!
A mysterious lotus mark etched on his brow trembled continually—a feedback, a signal, a sympathetic connection from deep within his soul!
He sensed his wife’s arrival!
Yet his excitement was short-lived.
Beneath heavy dark circles, his eyes suddenly locked in concentration.
Two golden comets, ripping through the air like lightning, descended in rapid succession.
“What is this?”
The Demon Child’s eyes narrowed, a trace of confusion crossing his features.
He had once leaned over Qin Fenghuo and spent some time in Jingguang Mansion.
He had witnessed with his own eyes the terrifying mushroom firework that wiped out the Hunter God Pavilion!
But in his memory, such fireworks were never meant for long-range attacks; they required Mechanical Spirit Cranes to deliver and then be dropped from the skies.
That was the Underworld’s method for erasing the Guanchao Pavilion stronghold of the Hunter God Pavilion in Jingguang Mansion.
Yet…
This golden light…
made the Demon Child’s hair stand on end!
Rumble——!!!
A terrifying roar erupted, surging forth in rolling waves!
But that golden light had already appeared above the luxurious mansion in the expansive and elegant gardens!
The Demon Child felt a sudden disorientation.
It was as if golden petals were falling, the earth quaking, and somewhere a benevolent Guanyin intoning a reincarnation chant!
“Get out! Save me!”
Cold sweat beaded on the Demon Child as the slender girl beneath him had long since collapsed, her body completely limp.
And he himself had hardly a strength left to move.
It was the terror of being singled out!
Fear gripped him, freezing his muscles.
An overwhelming dread, mixed with his pounding heart, surged within him!
Boom——!!!
Three figures radiating a flowing golden hue, exuding an intense aura of death and decay, interlocked above the mansion!
These were the three Cursed Golden Corpses of the Corpse God Sect, comparable to the supreme Grandmasters of cursed corpses!
At his most fearful moment, the Demon Child felt as if Death itself had marked him.
Muttering something like, “The Underworld will have you die by midnight—who dares keep you past dawn?”
The memory of when Qin Fenghuo’s body had its head cruelly severed outside Jingguang Mansion against his will came flooding back.
He tumbled off the girl, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.
Boom——!!!
A brilliant explosion, as radiant as the noonday sun, burst midair.
Two dazzling mushroom clouds unfurled!
The three cursed golden corpses valiantly braced their bodies against the blast!
The contorted visage of Guanyin shattered, swollen and exploding, as furious divine energy lashed out wildly!
The cascading shockwaves from the mushroom clouds were so fierce that even the golden aura of the three corpses couldn’t hold them back!
Bang——!!!
The mansion in the elegant courtyard was instantly shattered by the forceful air currents, debris—soil and stone—soaring skyward alongside the cold spring rain!
It all happened in an instant.
Over Daocheng, waves of overwhelming divine perception swept across the sky.
The very air stilled, dust particles suspended mid-flight!
Many divine senses trembled, astonished by the massive, long-range blast that carried such vast destructive power over tens of miles!
Under their watchful gaze, the scene was overwhelmingly spectacular!
It was as if golden columns pierced the sky, crisscrossing and cascading down, colliding with the golden auras of the cursed corpses and exploding midair!
Terrifying air currents raged in the skies, as domineering shockwaves and scorching tides relentlessly battered downward!
“Such fierce divine energy… triggering an explosion so violent that it radiates with an intensely corrosive residual aura!”
“What a technique!”
“Is this Mechanical Art?!”
Numerous powerful divine perceptions collided in the void, chattering like onlookers.
“Huh?! Corpse God Sect!”
“What a crew!”
“Looking for death!”
……
Some of the divine perceptions, after colliding, seemed to discover something and erupted in astonished, fervent agitation.
Corpse God Sect…
In Daocheng, they were nothing more than despised, rat-like villains—no one wanted any association with them.
Yet the Sect’s methods of concealment were formidable—a single Corpse God Orb could seal away all the morbid energy, corpses’ essence, and the Undead Curse Seal.
Day-to-day, if the Corpse God Sect’s nefarious techniques weren’t exposed, they’d appear no different than any ordinary cultivator.
Thus, tracking these dark souls wasn’t an easy task.
Unless one deployed a deity of Maternal Origin; but…
Even in Daocheng, those deities stood securely atop their peaks—in and out of Bizarre Temple, regularly severing connections with the outside world.
How could they act on a mere Corpse God Sect scum?
Two mushroom firework bursts had produced three Cursed Golden Corpses. Even in Daocheng, they were considered major players!
Bang bang bang——
A fierce barrage of dominant aura raged.
In Daocheng, powerful figures had now emerged.
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A colossal explosion, like thunder, reverberated across the sky.
The surging shockwaves and pressure torrents raced outward like breaking waves—the true moment of reversal had arrived, roaring incessantly!
The clamor resounded continuously.
At the balconies of the opulent pavilions,
figures spilled forth—Daocheng’s prominent families, wealthy merchants, disciples of the Divine Sect’s outer court, and more…
All watched eagerly from the railings, marveling at the distant, exploding twin mushroom clouds.
Amid the storm,
City Lord Su Huai Li’s robes whipped in the wind as he clutched the railing, veins bulging under the strain.
He was all too familiar with these fireworks!
They were like the Underworld’s signature!
They were as if Daocheng was offering the Underworld itself as a gift, proclaiming…
The Underworld—has arrived!
Long Tai, clad in armor, stepped beside Su Huai Li, squinting up at the resplendent fireworks and their unstoppable might in amazement.
“This raging divine energy is comparable to a Primordial Transformation expert unleashing an all-out self-destruct bomb,”
Long Tai remarked, his eyes glittering.
“Its speed is remarkable, with an overwhelming impact.”
“Those three Cursed Golden Corpses are surely taking a hit.”
“And those residual shockwaves… tsk tsk tsk, if the divine power were even stronger, it’d be a devastating weapon indeed.”
“On the battlefield, one explosion would silence everything,”
Long Tai’s eyes shone brightly.
Su Huai Li trembled slightly, stiff in the neck as he looked toward Long Tai.
“Captain Long, do you really think… you can withstand these mushroom fireworks?”
Long Tai paused, then his lips twitched.
He glared at Su Huai Li in incredulity.
“Is it too late for me to call in sick to the General?”
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The fierce wind howled, and searing heat billowed around.
Li Che’s black hair flew wildly as he sported the adorable Cute Cow Mask, his eyes ablaze with determination.
He slowly exhaled a long breath.
“Whew—”
“That feels good.”
Regardless of whether he killed his opponent or not,
this triple salvo had filled Li Che with satisfaction.
It was enough to intimidate the Demon Child—even if it didn’t kill him outright, it would expose the Demon Child’s affiliation with the Corpse God Sect, causing no small amount of trouble.
Hmm?
Beneath his mask, Li Che’s Star Plucking Gaze twitched.
In the next moment, it sprang up, drawing the Guanyin Lotus Main Battle Tank into his grasp in an instant.
His body spun in midair, fingers clenching tightly.
A White Feilei Chess Piece was grasped firmly in his palm.
Once he secured the chess piece completely,
he was suddenly back inside the carriage.
And after the Ogre vanished,
a fearsome pressure crashed down—trees were bent flat to the ground, unable even to rebound.
A figure clad entirely in golden armor, like a blazing meteor, shot in with shoulders and crown adorned by three burning golden flowers, circling continuously.
The Golden Armored Divine General slowly opened his eyes, and his intimidating aura swept over like a long golden blade cutting through everything.
Crack, crack, crack—
Countless trees were severed at the waist, splintering and soaring through the air!
Clatter, clatter…
Soil, shattered wooden splinters, and tree branches flew everywhere.
The Golden Armored Divine General’s sweeping divine perception roared along with the explosions.
“They’re gone?”
“Escaping that fast?”
“And such keen perception…”
A soft voice murmured from his lips.
Then the Golden Armored Divine General hovered in midair, his gaze descending onto a vast lotus-shaped crater gouged out of the soft earth.
“Is this the Underworld spoken of by Little Su?”
“The audacity of that scoundrel who killed the Master’s offspring.”
The Golden Armored Divine General twisted his neck, and countless golden lightning bolts danced wildly, accompanied by the smell of charred flesh.
In a blink, his figure vanished.
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The mushroom cloud steadily descended from the sky, gradually dissipating.
The Demon Child’s hair, disheveled and wild, began to calm as his racing heartbeat returned to normal, his ferocious green visage softening.
He exhaled deeply, surveying the wrecked courtyard.
His face turned ashen.
“The Underworld…”
“That’s quite the show of force…”
“They must have sent the Corpse God Envoys to capture my wife—all of them are probably dead now.”
“So ruthless… the Underworld!”
“Are you teaching me a lesson? Is it because of my wife?!”
The Demon Child bared his sharp, corpse-like fangs, his expression wild and ferocious.
His demeanor bordered on madness.
Gazing at the brilliant, falling fireworks that painted the sky,
his whole body trembled—a mix of excitement and madness.
“A wife like this… makes everything so much more enticing!”
He bit his finger, a drop of dark blood falling and instantly spreading into a pool on the ground.
He began to form intricate hand seals, chanting sutras.
Slowly, the blood pool spun, sending spurts of crimson water colliding and exploding into a mist of blood.
From within the blood pool, a powerful Corpse God Will surged out. In an instant, a blood-red giant hand erupted, grabbing his feet and drawing him in completely.
After the blood pool vanished,
Bang bang bang——
Three Cursed Golden Corpses slammed into the ground, shattering the courtyard floor into rubble as countless bricks and stones exploded outward.
Crack, crack, crack——
Scorching heat and the uncontrollable discharge of undead energy exuded from the three corpses, their faces contorted in brutality as charred flesh bubbled and turned.
One of them, a scum of the Corpse God Sect who had barely reached the cursed corpse level, suffered terrible injuries with half his body burned to a pulp, his wounds corroded by potent decay.
The three cursed golden corpses, working in unison, managed to withstand the devastating mushroom firework explosion, barely holding them back.
But soon, they all sensed impending doom.
The Demon Child invoked his blood pool secret technique and fled.
Yet in doing so, his identity was revealed; the dense stench of death and decay clung to him—escape was now impossible.
Above Daocheng, waves of overwhelming energy surged forth.
The Temple Guardian Division, the Imperial Watch, the Qianyuan Divine Sect Inspection Peak, the Divine Guard Army…
Experts from all major factions poured in, mercilessly overwhelming his foes.
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Inside the carriage,
Li Che removed his mask and leaned against the compartment. The cosmic chessboard had long since retracted.
“So strong…”
“Daocheng truly is far different from Jingguang City.”
“Fortunately, the maneuverability of my Feilei Chess Pieces is unrestricted and instantaneous—otherwise, a slight delay would have let the enemy pinpoint my position!”
Li Che wiped the sweat from his brow.
The thunderous sound of the Guanyin Lotus Main Battle Tank’s barrage was not trivial; if anyone had focused their divine perception, they could have located him.
Still, Li Che’s escape skills were top-notch.
“That martial will… seems like the ‘Wanlong Fushen’—but far stronger than what Ji Haihui employs.”
“It even surpasses Ji Mo Li’s Martial Saint Will; obviously, his raw strength exceeds that of the Martial Saint by miles.”
“Ji Mo Li’s disciple stationed in Qianyuan Daocheng, You Liqing?”
“And Su Huai Li came to Daocheng… likely to pledge loyalty to him.”
Impressive…
Clearly a top-tier Grandmaster, radiating the brilliance of three blossoms!
Right now, Li Che was definitely no match for him.
Yet inside Li Che’s chest, the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao Fruit pounded relentlessly.
It was pulsing with anticipation, excitement, and longing…
longing, anticipation for a battle!
Li Che pressed his hand to his chest, thinking, ‘Not yet.’
He was a father—he couldn’t afford a pyrrhic victory.
After all, he had his family to support.
Calming his thoughts, Li Che leaned back in the carriage.
“Not enough… still not enough…”
“At least the power equivalent to five hundred Divine Chess Pieces of the highest order from an Avalanche Guanyin Lotus Bomb is required to severely injure a true Heavenly Practitioner or a Golden Body-transcended Divine Practitioner.”
“Yet if I were to use Divine Chess Pieces of the Primordial Transformation level, a hundred should suffice…”
“I have already accumulated enough Primordial Transformation-level Divine Chess Pieces by slaying the Divine Guardian, Huang Xi Long, and Yuan Jingang—enough for one final blast.”
“But another issue remains… the Guanyin’s thousand-arm cannon might not withstand the power of a hundred Primordial Transformation-level chess pieces equivalent—while the material of Fire God Furious Dragon Wood is good, it might fail under such explosive pressure.”
Li Che closed his eyes, deep in thought, reviewing his cannon-blasting experience.
Bombarding Daocheng was exhilarating,
but its impact was not yet significant enough.
To truly shake Daocheng to its core, to make the entire city tremble, the current power was far from sufficient.
“Spirit Wood… materials… Primordial Transformation Divine Chess Pieces…”
Li Che leaned back against the soft carriage seat and exhaled slowly.
“I must quickly fuse the Black and White Collapse into the Xiangong cannon projectile…”
“And perhaps attempt a fusion of the Black and White Collapse with the explosive force of the Avalanche—two disparate forces colliding. The power would be unimaginable!”
Li Che’s eyes widened, sparkling with renewed brilliance.
The Xiangong Dao Fruit pulsed vigorously, igniting new ideas within him.
The crowd returned to the carriage, and Li Che’s ever-watchful Painted Immortal Clone rejoined them.
The caravan regained order and resumed its journey.
Inside the carriage, Li Che activated the Xiangong Dao Fruit, his mind abuzz with innovative designs as the fruit’s stimulation spurred him on.
After nearly half a day, the Jingguang caravan finally reached the foot of a majestic city.
However, just as the Jingguang caravan, under Elder Jiao Shaoqiu’s watchful eye, was about to be granted entry without inspection,
“Hold it.”
A calm voice resonated,
followed by an overwhelming aura that swept over the city walls of Daocheng. An eagle’s cry echoed.
Atop the enormous white-headed, purple-eyed eagle’s back, a Golden Armored Divine General, arms crossed,
his fierce gaze descending like falling judgment, silenced all noise.
Boom——!
A shaft of golden light descended.
The ground shook violently.
A figure clad entirely in golden armor—You Liqing—had landed, blocking the Jingguang caravan’s path.
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