Chapter 291: with translation of chapter title, then ===GLOSSARY=== with list of named entities appearing in these lines

293. Chapter 288: The demon ape emerges from the mysterious gate, divine weapons are about to be born; the Tai Bai Sect Lord domineeringly establishes rules 【Seeking monthly ticket】

Crack-crack—!

Lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, spring thunder rolled on!

Amid the dense black clouds, sudden electric flashes appeared, like dragons and serpents surging, occasionally flashing and casting brilliant light.

The whole Divine Condor Ridge was veiled in thick fog, and within the fog an eerie divinity churned, as if another world had been moved into this heaven and earth.

As if the two worlds were linked together!

Inside Divine Condor Ridge.

Inside the elders' exclusive workshop.

A terrifying explosive bang burst out, a crisp sound that made everyone's hearts jolt.

Many were stunned and bewildered, watching in shock as Li Che, seemingly instantaneously enraged, slapped the statue to pieces, sending countless wood chips flying.

Time seemed to freeze at that instant, each shattered wood chip hanging in the air as its fall slowed.

Those with weaker cultivation sensed nothing, failing to notice the changes that occurred on the wood carving after Li Che slapped it to pieces.

But some powerful divine cultivators possessed keen perception; their link to heaven and earth gave birth to a world-soul, greatly enhancing their investigative ability.

The changes appearing on the shattered wood chips were captured by the world-soul and clearly reflected in their minds.

Gong Shu Jing Jun suddenly rose from his chair, his divine aura throughout his body seeming hard to restrain.

Even when Elder Sun, upon hearing the Dao, carved a Divine Condor imbued with the sage-hand intention, he had never been this surprised.

"How is this possible?"

"How could this be!"

Gong Shu Jing Jun, a Divine Fetus cultivator, his immense world-soul trembled as he finely scanned, observing the Two-heart Great Sage within the shattered, exploding wood chunks.

The look of surprise on his face grew ever more intense.

Besides Gong Shu Jing Jun, the inner sect grand elder Fang Han Shu and third elder Ding Zi were also extremely surprised.

Both were also Divine Fetus cultivators, so they naturally noticed as well.

"So... the shattering of the Divine Condor was intentional!"

"Did he deliberately let the Divine Condor crack?"

Ding Zi was an exceptionally gentle woman; although a Divine Fetus cultivator, she was inconspicuous among the many Divine Fetus cultivators of the Qianyuan Divine Sect, being gentle and low-key, with a mild temperament and not overbearing.

Even her presence was weaker than that of the fourth elder, Ji He Shan.

But at this moment, the world-soul she released was also immensely fervent, drawing the gazes of countless cultivators.

Fang Han Shu nodded, stroking his beautiful beard: "Indeed... this should be one of his Divine Condor techniques."

"A sight to behold, supernatural craftsmanship!"

Fang Han Shu rarely praised so highly; as a grand elder of the inner sect of the Qianyuan Divine Sect, he was always meticulous, seldom praising anyone within the sect's inner doors.

Moreover, being a scholar, his conduct was even more nitpicky, liking to find faults.

Yet this time Fang Han Shu could not help but utter praise.

Li Che's move... he really hadn't expected that!

So the Divine Condor could be carved like this!

Truly an eye-opener; Fang Han Shu was curious as to how Li Che managed it.

On the other side.

Supervisor Hong Shifo's eyes, which were almost narrowing, suddenly opened, a flicker of surprise appearing for the first time in his depths.

Capable of making his heart surge despite his exalted state.

It must be said, the fifth elder of Divine Condor Ridge... indeed has some skill.

He couldn't help but look toward the distant, steady figure of Lü Tai Bai seated in the grand master's chair.

Had he known all along?

Lü Tai Bai... had he long known that this Li Che could find a way to break the impasse?

At the same time.

Beside Lü Tai Bai, the Sect Leader's wife widened her eyes, watching Li Che, who seemed to fly into a rage and smash the wooden carving to pieces, her mind seemingly crashing in that instant.

Xixi also widened her eyes like the Sect Leader's wife, her mouth opening wide as well.

No wonder Xixi's father has such a temper—he's just hot-headed!

Xixi's temper is indeed learned from her father!

Xixi, who occasionally wanted to pull out her Immortal Craftsman Blood-Fire Bodhi Gatling 'pat-pat-pat' to set off fireworks, found a suitable excuse.

Lü Tai Bai actually was not as calm inside as he appeared.

At the moment the wood carving Li Che was carving first showed a crack, his heart actually surged as well.

But Lü Tai Bai, having guessed something about Li Che's background, and seeing that Li Che did not stop his actions despite the Divine Condor's cracks, his composed demeanor gave rise to suspicion.

As the world-soul probed, sure enough, Li Che was hiding something.

"Madam, it seems... you're really going to lose."

Lü Tai Bai laughed.

Sect Leader's wife Xuan Qi Sha was startled: "His mindset has exploded, smashing the wooden carving... wait!"

Xuan Qi Sha was no fool; as a Half-Sacred Divine Symbol cultivator, her perception was not weak either.

Soon she discovered that on those shattered wood carving fragments lay a lifelike statue of the Two-heart Great Sage deity.

Each fragment was carved with it!

"Hiss—!!!"

"This... this..."

The sect leader's wife Xuan Qisha was bewildered.

Can it still be like this?

She had thought Li Che's mindset had exploded, and had already figured out how to comfort Xixi's father.

As it turns out, you're telling me Xixi's father has only just begun to enter that state?

"Husband, what does he intend to do?"

Xuan Qisha turned her head to look at Lu Taibai, her big eyes blinking.

Lu Taibai's silver hair fluttered in the breeze, and he smiled gently: "Just watch and you'll know."

What does Li Che intend to do……

How would he know?

But Lu Taibai had long been accustomed to displaying a mysterious and all-knowing demeanor before his wife; anyway… let the wife imagine it herself.

Xuan Qisha let out an "ah" and turned her head, her eyes gleaming.

Xixi was dazed, her little face flushed, and she became excited.

She turned her head to look at Jin Taishui, who was following beside her.

"Little Jinzi, just watch and you'll see how awesome my dad is!"

Jin Taishui felt a bit bewildered; he hadn't asked anything, so why are you pointing at me to do something?

And the surrounding Divine Eagle Masters weren't fools either; gradually, they also sensed something was off.

Because the divinity between heaven and earth didn't scatter, but instead surged wildly toward the shattered divine-wood fragments that Li Che had slapped apart, arriving with even greater speed and ferocity!

Dense and numerous……

Between heaven and earth, it seemed as if tens of thousands of divine vortices had appeared!

What…… is happening?!

"Quick, look at those fragments! On them… on them… there are carvings!"

"So that's how it is, so that's how it is!"

"Unbelievable! Is this Elder Li's Divine Eagle Technique?!"

……

Many Divine Eagle Masters exclaimed in surprise.

Tang Xiejia, sitting beside Gongshu Jingjun, suddenly rose to his feet.

"This kind of method……"

"It seems like the Tang family's mechanism crafting technique!"

Tang Xiejia's eyes gleamed, as if light shone within them.

Zhou TianShui and Yun Haiyang, whose spirits had been utterly depleted, felt their hearts tremble, their primordial spirits spreading, and finally they too sensed something was off.

Each tiny fragment turned into a vortex that attracted divinity!

Next, they saw the Er Xin Dasheng divine statue carved onto those tiny fragments!

At that moment, they likewise discovered something different!

"Take a look at these fragments—aren't they extremely slender, like monkey hair?"

"They are quite slender, but still a bit thicker than monkey hair!"

The Divine Eagle Masters' perception remained keen.

Zhou TianShui and Yun Haiyang, the two Divine Eagle Masters, seemed to have sensed something, as a flash of inspiration streaked through their minds.

"Earlier, Elder Sun said he had finally seen the second form of Er Xin Dasheng……"

"What Elder Li carved today…… could it be, could it be that Er Xin Dasheng still has a third form?"

"If that's truly the case, Elder Li……"

"Today we must truly succeed in carving a Half-Saint Divine Eagle!"

……

……

Six-Eared Prison Lotus Divine Monkey Er Xin Dasheng Guiyi Miao.

Inside the silent Guiyi Miao.

A white Flying Thunder Chess Piece drifted upward, emitting a faint glow.

Next, a hand materialized out of thin air, clenched tightly, and the chess piece anchor point of this Guiyi Miao was grasped by Li Che in his palm.

He wore a black robe that fluttered, his ink-black hair whipping wildly in the wind.

Appearing in this Guiyi Miao was Li Che's long-prepared 【Picture Immortal】 avatar.

The Picture Immortal avatar bore one-fifth of Li Che's divinity and blood vitality.

Of course, the purpose of having this Picture Immortal avatar of Li Che appear in the Guiyi Miao was not combat, but to observe the temple god, convey that impression to the main body through observing the temple god, and thereby accomplish the carving of the temple's divine eagle!

Li Che's Picture Immortal avatar stood in the Guiyi Miao, white candlelight flickering faintly, unable to illuminate the whole temple, leaving most of it swallowed by darkness, somewhat cold and desolate.

The avatar Li Che walked to the altar and saw the statue of Er Xin Dasheng, the temple god, robed in a kasaya.

Then, he sat cross-legged.

Raising his hand, Li Che's Picture Immortal avatar activated the Dao Fruit Divine Ability granted to his main body.

Divine Ability—Bright God!

Hummm——

Within the Guiyi Miao, it seemed a breeze stirred, and then all the candle flames extinguished at the same time.

As if an invisible being had blown them out with its mouth!

Afterward, Li Che's Picture Immortal felt his mind being pulled into a dizzying vision.

Opening his eyes again, he was met with an extremely noisy sound, countless spirit monkeys spreading across the mountain ridges—golden, brown, reddish-brown, white, gray, black……

Monkeys of various colors leapt nimbly among the tree branches in the forest, their nonstop chittering filling the air.

"This is……"

The painted immortal Li Che felt a faint tremor in his heart.

Afterward, an old monkey leaning on a staff, his eyes filled with the light of wisdom, smiled at Li Che and spoke politely.

"Venerable one, please follow this old monkey; our king has been waiting for you."

The painted immortal Li Che remained silent, following the old monkey and the surrounding chattering monkeys as they ventured deeper into the mountain ridges.

"Our king is going to become a Buddha!"

"Hehehe, a Buddha? Is a Buddha higher, or is the Great Sage equal to heaven higher?!"

"It should be the Buddha who's higher?"

"Regardless of whether we become Buddhas or Great Sages, our king will bring us along; we little monkeys also have a chance to taste what it's like to become a Buddha!"

"You're dreaming! We can only be bodhisattvas! Nonsense, we can only be novice monks!"

"Ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh!"

……

Lush green grass grew everywhere, and on the towering trees on either side whose tops vanished into the sky, the monkeys leapt nimbly, their various excited chatter constantly drilling into Li Che's ears.

Li Che felt a faint tremor in his heart.

The scene turned.

Under the old monkey's guidance, on a large stone at the base of a waterfall pouring down, he saw a figure wearing resplendent golden scale armor, a gold crown on his head, two phoenix feathers towering and draping down, shouldering a radiant golden iron divine staff, leisurely eating a juicy water‑honey peach there.

"Become a Buddha? The path to Buddhahood?"

"Monkeys, once you walk that path to Buddhahood, after our king becomes a Buddha he'll take you to the Buddha's realm to enjoy bliss!"

The monkey who lifted the golden iron divine staff burst into laughter, a mighty aura surging as he tapped his toe and shot straight up three thousand zhang into the clouds in an instant!

Li Che's painted immortal avatar felt only that everything before him was spinning.

After the scene changed and became clear,

he saw flames covering the mountain, blazing red fire shooting to the sky; where the ridges had once been abundant with fruit, now monkey corpses lay everywhere—almost exactly the same as the scene he had witnessed earlier in the Guiyi Miao of the Fire‑eyed Mystic Shock Spirit Monkey.

Li Che stared, stunned.

Next, he saw a tattered figure—armor torn, crown askew, phoenix feathers shattered—turn into a golden light that slammed into the mountain's wind and fire.

Thick black smoke billowed, blackening everything; those golden eyes shed tears that trickled down.

"Ah…… ah……"

The monkey who had once been extraordinarily handsome was now utterly destitute.

He clutched the golden iron divine staff, planting it in the earth scorched to an utter black.

He wandered the entire mountain, lost and dispirited.

Seeing one charred monkey corpse after another, he came to the mountain's base and saw the stone stele that had once been vividly bright, overgrown with vines.

The stele was burned, cracked all over, and the three characters "Huaguo Mountain" carved upon it had become indistinct.

The lost and dispirited monkey approached the stele; there, the wise old monkey who had once guided Li Che knelt before it, and on the stele were the bloody traces where his palm had been dragged down—a harrowing sight.

Li Che watched this from afar, and his heart could not help but tremble.

So the one who had guided him was that old monkey?

Was it that Fire‑eyed Mystic Shock Spirit Monkey?

The battered monkey cradled the old monkey in his arms, tears trickling down, his head shaking as the vigor he once possessed vanished completely.

"My king's monkey children……"

"Ah——!!!"

A long howl.

Instantly, the battered monkey erupted in a rolling wave of fiery energy that scorched and twisted the air, spreading in a flash across the entire lone, desolate mountain.

Every monkey corpse lying on the ground turned completely into ash that drifted away.

At the same time.

The monkey's fur all over his body exploded outward, countless hairs scattering across the mountain.

The monkey staggered, then flashed back to the spot where the golden staff lay.

The next moment, he seized the golden staff, tapped his toe to the ground, and in an instant a ring‑shaped blast of energy exploded as his body vanished into the void.

Li Che's painted immortal avatar stood silently amid the mountain ridges.

The scene turned again, and the flow of time seemed to speed up.

The withered mountain, after the blaze, endured one spring and autumn after another.

Then, greenery flourished and life returned.

The waterfall that had once been cut off sprang back to life, pouring down countless bursts of water!

And in the forest, the sound of "ooh ooh ooh" echoed.

One spirit monkey after another leapt and darted across the mountain ridges, agile and lively.

Full of spirit, full of ambition, carefree and unrestrained!

Li Che stared somewhat dazedly at this scene……

The next moment, the painted immortal Li Che's dark robe billowed, his black hair fluttering as he looked ahead.

He saw a black lotus blooming in midair.

Upon the lotus sat a monkey draped in a great red kasaya, kind‑eyed and benevolent, wearing a cloud‑wrapped golden headband, his gaze devoid of emotion or desire.

The black flame lotus vanished.

The monkey, wearing a kasaya, walked down from the lotus platform, strolling among the lush branches and leaves, amidst the mountains where mountain flowers bloomed profusely.

The furry palms pressed together, reverent and compassionate.

He walked among the mountain ridges, as lively monkeys leapt swiftly to his side, chittering and calling nonstop.

"Old monkey, who are you? Where did you come from?"

"How could you appear in our Flower Fruit Mountain?"

"Flower Fruit Mountain welcomes outside monkeys, eat fruit."

A little monkey brought over a juicy, watery peach.

The emotionless, desireless monkey took the peach, his eyes flickering.

"You little monkeys, don't you recognize me?"

"Old monkey, which mountain's monkey are you?!"

The chittering sounds echoed without cease.

The old monkey wearing a kasaya sighed.

"The false cannot become true; everything is already illusory..."

"Buddha, having walked the path to Buddhahood, what I sought... is merely letting go?"

The old monkey took off the kasaya.

"There is no mountain, no water, no fruit, no monkey..."

The old monkey sat cross-legged.

His palms pressed together.

Instantly, as the mountain's spirit monkeys cried 'oh-oh', they turned into drifting monkey hairs, all floating toward the old monkey and merging into his fur.

After the old monkey slowly lowered his pressed palms.

His eyes opened.

What met his eyes...

Only a barren mountain remained.

Li Che's Painting Immortal clone stood silently upon the mountain ridge that had suddenly fallen silent.

He watched the aloof, cross-legged black lotus, the old monkey who had gathered the mountain's spirit monkeys and drifted away, and slowly exhaled.

The image thus completely vanished.

Inside the Guiyi Miao.

The Painting Immortal clone Li Che remained seated on the ground.

He gazed at the tear sliding from the corner of the eye of the monkey in a kasaya on the altar.

The seated Painting Immortal Li Che slowly rose, his black robe billowing.

He looked at the monkey in a kasaya seated on the black lotus platform.

The next moment, he raised his hand and touched his brow.

Hummm—

The heavenly earth chessboard turned!

It instantly enveloped!

Accompanied by a soft sound.

"Divine ability..."

"Pass through the hidden!"

He slowly opened his eyes; everything inside the Guiyi Miao remained as before, unchanged.

The Painting Immortal Li Che lifted his gaze toward the deity on the altar.

This look left him stunned...

But he saw.

The deity Er Xin Da Sheng on the altar, at this moment, each of his monkey hairs seemed to have turned into a tiny monkey, as if countless monkeys clung to his body.

In the breeze, they swayed lightly.

Beneath the bloated form of countless clinging monkeys, Er Xin Da Sheng's indifferent, withered, unfeeling gaze slowly swept over and fell upon the Painting Immortal clone Li Che.

This is...

Is this the deity's true form?!

Boom——!!!

A terrifying will crashed down in an instant!

"Hum-bang——"

Li Che's Painting Immortal clone instantly exploded, turning into thick ink mist.

The ink mist dissipated.

Inside the Guiyi Miao, the candle flames reignited.

Then came a faint sigh.

Accompanied by a murmur.

"Having become a carefree Buddha, yet still a mountain king."

When, inside the Guiyi Miao, the Painting Immortal clone Li Che used the Pass-through-the-hidden divine ability to observe Er Xin Da Sheng, witnessing that extremely strange scene, and at the instant the deity, as if come alive, blasted him...

Li Che's true self then received the memory images from his clone, the feelings and thoughts of the deity perceived by the divine ability's bright god, surging tumultuously into his mind.

And at this time.

Li Che, using nine strokes, finished carving the rough embryo of the divine condor.

At the instant he received the message.

Li Che's eyes flickered, and he changed his carving method……

His qi and blood were suppressed within the carving knife; the tremendous force, in each falling stroke, actually performed an extremely fine cut in a skillful way.

The Dao fruits of 【Dragon Elephant Golden Vajra】 and 【Immortal Artisan】 began to vibrate in harmonious resonance.

In Li Che's mind appeared the bloated Second Heart Great Sage.

The carving knife in his hand did not stop!

The thick gloomy mist seemed to sense something, resonating with his carved divine condor, and slowly proliferated.

……

……

Li Che almost completely isolated his mind and spirit at this moment.

Regarding the outside situation, he had lost all perception; the frequency of the 【Immortal Artisan】 Dao fruit beating in his chest was too fast, too violent, as if it were about to burst out of his chest!

After observing the scene where the Second Heart Great Sage transformed monkey hairs into myriad spirit monkeys.

He then chose to perform an extremely unique carving technique!

He used ordinary wood to make it, not as a special tribute to Elder Sun, but because Li Che had his own calculations!

The texture of ordinary wood is relatively brittle; compared to other spiritual woods, it is like tofu, and will shatter with slight force.

Such tofu-like material offers a huge operational space.

Just as a skilled chef can cut a block of tofu into thousands of fine strands.

Li Che also used the same method, cutting this piece of ordinary wood into thousands of fine elongated fragments!

These fragments, though not as fine as monkey hairs, allowed Li Che to carve the likeness of a single spirit monkey upon them; in fact, each spirit monkey was merely a differentiation of the Second Heart Great Sage.

The carving of these monkey hairs was done by Li Che during the carving process, outlining with controlled qi and blood skillful force, and carving with the force that permeated the ordinary wood.

When the wood carving exploded, countless monkey hairs scattered, which was the process of finishing!

On the countless drifting wood shards that exploded, lifelike spirit monkeys were carved.

Each spirit monkey seemed to absorb the divinity of heaven and earth, and the mysteriously arising gloomy mist also seeped into their bodies.

When all the floating and sinking divinity had been completely devoured.

Li Che's clapped palms suddenly flung open!

The countless people around the workshop seemed to hear the incessant chattering of countless spirit monkeys.

Even the heaven-and-earth souls of divine fetus cultivators like Fang Hanshu and Ding Zi trembled, feeling dazed.

The countless bursting and flying wood shards actually seemed to flow backward in time, gradually piling up together.

Re-piled into a perfect, undamaged wood carving!

Crack—crack——!

Above the firmament, black clouds piled up, and electric snakes suddenly appeared, rolling!

Everyone's gaze was fixed on that divine wood carving, seemingly reassembled from countless fine wood shards.

The extremely intense divinity almost mellowed the air around the divine condor, distorting space as if!

It seemed as if one's mind and spirit would be snatched away by the divine condor!

Li Che clenched his five fingers around the divine weapon carving knife and exhaled a breath.

The airflow struck the divine condor, blowing away all wood shards.

Instantly, a flickering flow of light wandered over the wood carving, dazzling to the extreme, drawing in mind and spirit.

At this moment, everyone's gaze converged upon this wood carving!

Yet, in their eyes, this wood carving actually underwent various changes.

First was a kind-eyed monkey seated on a black lotus platform, wearing a cassock; then the monkey changed, becoming an enraged, roaring, enormous demon ape; finally……

Then another change: in everyone's sight, a breeze stirred, the wood carving's monkey hairs flew up, each hair seeming like a spirit monkey clinging to the carving; the monkey's cassock vanished, and its face showed an expression of carefree freedom and untroubled joy.

Buzz——

A tremendous rank pressure suddenly rippled outward in rings from the divine condor on that stand!

Each wood carving master's face flushed red, the divinity within boiling over, as if from observing too long, their mind and spirit were drawn, forcing them to break free, resulting in minor injuries.

"This this……"

"The third kind of intent! The third kind of intent of the Second Heart Great Sage temple deity!"

"Succeeded…… really succeeded!"

Each divine condor master, seeming mad, cried out in shock and despair.

There was a feeling of sudden enlightenment, and a feeling of finally comprehending the temple deity after observing it for so long!

Many gazes turned toward this wood carving that seemed to constantly shift its intent, and fervor surged in their eyes!

Lü Taibai's silver hair flew up; he lightly tapped a finger, and instantly the sword's chant rang out, brilliantly exploding.

He blocked for Xixi the spreading rank pressure.

"Nearly ninety percent of the temple deity's rank pressure……"

"This is truly a half-sage divine condor without doubt."

Lü Taibai said with a smile.

Everyone came to their senses, their eyes shining brightly.

The supervisor Hong Shifo, carrying a chessboard, also clapped his hands: "Excellent!"

"This is not an ordinary half-sage divine condor; its grasp of the temple deity's intent has reached ninety percent, and a step further would even reach the level of a divine condor holy hand!"

Supervisor Hong Shifo did not stint on praise; after all, Li Che's Divine Eagle carving was truly spectacular, even an existence like his felt a visual feast.

He gazed at that Divine Eagle, feeling a unique resonance.

「Erxin Great Sage... 」

He narrowed his eyes, gazing at this wooden carving.

「Perhaps the Freewilled Golden Iron Divine Rod mentioned by the Grand Supervisor... is related to this Half-Saint Divine Eagle? 」

However, he did not dwell on it.

A piercing, ecstatic scream rang out, shattering the silence!

「Wow! Little Gold, I told you my dad is the strongest! 」

Xixi was ecstatic, her little face flushed, hands on hips, chest and belly puffed out, proud and delighted!

The little girl turned her head to look at the Sect Leader's wife, Xuan Qisha, proudly sticking out her belly: "Sect Leader's wife, Master, you lost! My dad won! You have to pay up!"

Xuan Qisha's face also showed a hint of a smile, utterly unconcerned about her loss.

「Husband, look, your beloved wife has forced your Divine Sect to produce a Half-Saint Divine Eagle! 」

「How will you reward your beloved wife? ！」

Xixi's eyes widened instantly.

Though young, she seemed to have finally seen the world.

And Xixi's voice also broke the silence within the workshop.

Subsequently, many woodcarving masters reacted, exclamations and sighs rising and falling.

But more of it was congratulatory voices.

Gongshu Jingjun and Tang Xiejia instantly appeared beside Li Che.

The two admired the wooden carving up close, their bodies trembling slightly.

「Good, good, good! 」

「Hahaha, my Qianyuan Divine Eagle Ridge has finally given birth to another Half-Saint Divine Eagle! 」

Tang Xiejia was even more excited than Gongshu Jingjun, his burly frame trembling slightly.

「Elder Li... your carving technique is somewhat like the assembly method of my Tang clan's mechanized beasts?! 」

Li Che, hearing this, nodded; indeed, there was inspiration from the mechanized beast assembly method within.

But in reality, it was more due to the emergence of the eerie divine form from the Mysterious Void Observatory's temple.

Of course, Li Che would not say this; since Tang Xiejia had found a suitable explanation for him, Li Che readily went along.

As for others being unable to carve it with the same Divine Eagle technique, that's not Li Che's fault.

Li Che would only say...

「If you're unskilled, practice more. 」

Suddenly.

Above the firmament, leaden clouds roiled, countless cloud layers piled up and poured down, an oppressive qi surging wildly.

Li Che's face flickered with surprise as he looked up.

「This is a Half-Saint Tribulation Cloud! 」

The voice came from Lü Taibai, seated in a chair.

「The Half-Saint Divine Eagle has already traced nine-tenths of the temple god's divine rhythm, unbearable to heaven and earth... 」

「Heaven and earth will naturally send down the Half-Saint Tribulation Cloud; don't worry, it's just a minor tribulation, good for stretching the bones. 」

Lü Taibai said gently.

However.

The instant the words fell.

His gentle smile instantly froze.

Not only him.

Supervisor Hong Shifo, carrying a chessboard, and Fang Hanshu, who had unfurled the Sage's Book and begun to read, as well as Ridge Lord Gongshu Jingjun and others, all changed expression.

The next moment, several people vanished.

They appeared above Divine Eagle Ridge, where black clouds piled up, lightning serpents flashing and intertwining!

Countless massive raindrops fell from the heights!

Boom boom boom, boom boom boom...

The ground trembled, the entire ridge seeming to vibrate in an undulating rhythm.

Lü Taibai's silver hair flew, his eyes sharp.

He tore through the slanting, roaring rain.

Casting his gaze.

Instantly he saw the direction of the Six-Eared Prison Lotus Divine Monkey Erxin Great Sage Guiyi Miao!

Eerie mist surged skyward!

And within the eerie mist...

A terrifying, massive demonic ape black silhouette slowly stepped out.