Chapter 379
In a pitch‑black space, a black flame lotus burns quietly.
At the edge where the lotus burns, space twists, and faintly fine cracks appear, as if all light has been sucked away.
Within the black flame lotus, a graceful girl's figure appears, her black hair flowing like a waterfall, her dark‑date eyes gazing at Xixi, a smile filling her face.
Kill…… him?
Xixi blinked, looked at the older sister before her, and felt the unquestionable tone in the older sister's words.
It seemed as easy as squashing an ant, utterly domineering—could it really be that simple?
Of course, for Xixi now, the question is whether to kill him or not.
Besides, where is this place, where is this older sister, inside Xixi's body?
Xixi isn't stupid; she was clearly just in the thousand‑zhang high sky, battling Zhang Yunlong, who had completely surrendered himself to the Temple God.
Now…… why have I appeared here?
Is this inside Xixi's body?
Xixi had a guess in her heart—Zhang Yunlong kept saying there was something strange hidden inside her body, wanting to take it out and show it to him.
Zhang Yunlong just likes to look at others' trump cards; if he sees that someone else's trump card is inferior to his own, he feels satisfied and happy.
Xixi originally thought there would be nothing strange inside her body.
Now it seems……
Hey, there really is!
"Can I kill him?"
Xixi asked curiously.
"Yes."
The black‑long‑straight girl gave a light smile and replied.
"Then kill him—no need to save face for Xixi the Great Emperor!"
Xixi immediately grinned, hands on hips, puffing out her little belly.
"Well……"
The girl said softly.
Boom——!!!
The black flame lotus, its petals began to fall off one by one, slowly turning into a stream of black flame.
……
……
Thousand‑zhang high sky, the wild wind howled!
Drop after drop of rain was sliced apart by the immense purple sword qi, exploding into mist, unable to approach in the slightest.
Within a few feet before Xixi, his body covered in purple divine god armor, Zhang Yunlong stood suspended in midair, the god‑shrine firmly embedded in his back.
Behind him, countless purple feathers gathered into wings that slowly unfurled, as if the clashing of blades rang out—each purple feather like an extremely sharp sword blade.
Zhang Yunlong had victory in his grasp, teasingly staring at the little girl who seemed to have fainted from the impact of his sword intent.
Xixi closed her eyes, her long lashes trembling continuously.
Zhang Yunlong let out a low laugh: "Just this much……"
"Without your mechanisms, you don't even have the qualifications to fight me."
Zhang Yunlong shook his head, feeling a bit bored.
He revealed his trump card—how overbearing, how mighty; his trump card is absolutely the strongest.
Yet Li Nuanxi's trump card couldn't even appear before being crushed by him.
So Zhang Yunlong found it uninteresting.
He wanted a quick battle.
Directly using the Temple God's power to exterminate this little girl……
Even though he looked down on Xixi's mechanisms…… even Zhang Yunlong couldn't deny that Xixi's talent is truly strong!
Even stronger than him—at six years old she reached this level, able to stand in the champion's contention of the Fledgling Dragon Victory Assembly, which Zhang Yunlong cannot match.
Because he cannot match her, he is jealous; because of jealousy…… he wants to destroy her!
This girl, what makes her stronger than Zhang Yunlong!
Die!
Kill this girl.
The so‑called champion of the Fledgling Dragon Victory Assembly must be him.
Hum——
Behind him, the purple‑sword‑blade wings suddenly spread, their razor‑sharp edges aiming at Xixi.
Then, with a sudden shake, it seemed as if a soaring sword intent filled the heavens!
It thrust violently toward Xixi's brow, at extreme speed, the air seeming to be cut into distorted phantoms!
However.
A sudden chill rose in Zhang Yunlong's primordial spirit perception, his hairs standing on end, every inch of flesh tightening and trembling.
An immense threat made the Temple God's divinity flowing in his flesh and bones tremble incessantly!
What…… is this situation?
Zhang Yunlong's pupils narrowed slightly.
His former unrestrained smile instantly collapsed.
In his primordial spirit perception, Xixi now seemed to have become an 'abyss', madly devouring everything around.
Whether air, divinity, or heaven-and-earth spiritual aura, all were swallowed up, and the surroundings seemed to present a state of collapse!
The temple god's divinity surged violently in his blood vessels; in the next moment, the temple god seemed to have regained its will, controlling his flesh, wanting to retreat swiftly.
But……
Can't retreat!
Zhang Yuanlong felt the temple god inside him utterly terrified and stunned by some dreadful existence, becoming completely rigid.
Like a cat encountering a real tiger, he had the impulse to bury his head into the ground.
Behind him, scorching darkness burned, that was the fire of darkness……
Light that devours everything!
In Zhang Yuanlong's eyes, his forehead aperture faintly throbbed, and he saw Li Nuanxi open her eyes.
In those pitch-black eyes, black flames seemed to burn.
Calmly gazing at him, as if looking at a corpse.
That gaze……
Unlike the earlier girl who was excited to madness by bombarding the mechanism, she seemed like a completely different person.
A faint gaze fixed on Zhang Yunlong; Zhang Yunlong only felt his heart prickle, boundless fear instantly spreading from all directions, engulfing his body.
"You……"
Zhang Yunlong opened his mouth.
Then.
He discovered that the girl raised her hand, her five fingers were incredibly smooth, without any obstruction……
She seized his neck!
At the instant his neck was seized……
The god shrine deeply embedded in his flesh and blood.
It was actually expelled by an invisible force.
The purple tadpole sigils covering every part of Zhang Yunlong's body actually faded away bit by bit like a tide.
As the god shrine was squeezed out, the powers that had clearly merged into his bones and flesh were actually forcibly extracted.
Finally……
It completely returned to the god shrine, being deprived and separated from his body.
A feeling of loss and of falling from a height instantly spread through Zhang Yunlong's heart, making him almost want to wail loudly.
But Zhang Yunlong dared not cry.
He stared in terror at the cold-looking girl gazing at him.
The girl's chubby hand gripped his neck, as if pinching an ant.
And what made Zhang Yunlong feel most fearful was……
Zhang Yunlong felt that the temple god he had proudly nurtured, enshrined in the god shrine embedded in his back, trembled in terror.
When all the temple god's divinity had completely departed from Zhang Yunlong's flesh and blood.
Zhang Yunlong saw Li Nuanxi indifferently staring at him.
She slowly opened her mouth.
"I've heard……"
"Are you looking for the deity?"
……
……
Shendu Second City.
Inside the great tent.
Numerous mighty ones felt their hearts and spirits tremble slightly; they all raised their heads to watch the situation unfolding in the sky thousands of zhang high.
They could faintly make out the battle situation between Zhang Yunlong and Li Nuanxi.
Zhang Yunlong completely surrendered his flesh to the temple god, allowing the temple god to fully occupy his flesh and blood, remodeling his body with the temple god's divinity, thereby granting Zhang Yunlong an extremely terrifying power.
Under this power, Li Nuanxi, who held exquisitely delicate and explosive mechanisms, fell into a disadvantaged position, being completely suppressed and beaten by Zhang Yunlong.
Lü Taibai's brows knit tightly, his eyes flashing with a harsh glare.
Silver hair flew, his large sleeves whipped wildly, and the Taibai sword incessantly hummed within his sleeves.
When even his trump-card mechanisms could not blast Zhang Yunlong, Lü Taibai intended to intervene; in fact, he also saw Li Che preparing to act.
Given his understanding of Li Che, this fellow would care more about his daughter's safety than he does.
But Li Che did not act; instead, a strange color appeared on his face.
Then he simply stopped there, quietly gazing at the sky thousands of zhang high.
Huh?
Lü Taibai slightly startled.
Then he raised his head to look at the sky thousands of zhang high; the world's soul trembled slightly, and he instantly sensed the past.
Yet he felt the sky-filling howling purple sword qi vanish with a boom, and the pervasive, intertwining, immensely vast temple god divinity also completely dissipated!
Lü Taibai, still not having figured out what happened.
He then saw Zhang Yunlong, whose flesh had been occupied by the temple god, the god shrine embedded in his body actually being expelled from his physique.
Then Xixi stepped forward in the void, and under the support of two Prison Lotus Wind-Fire Golden Light Wheels, she seized Zhang Yunlong's neck.
With a crack.
That clear, crisp voice, even if it echoed in the sky a thousand zhang high, yet every area on the ground could hear it crystal clear.
Broken… broken?!
Zhang Yunlong's neck was twisted off?
Moreover, not only was Zhang Yunlong's neck twisted off, but it seemed that at this moment, even Zhang Yunlong's vitality was extinguished in that twist!
Everyone's heart jumped.
Then, they saw Xixi casually flick her wrist, and Zhang Yunlong's neck twisted awry, his body like a torn rag, flung down from the high altitude at great speed.
"Ah?!"
"Yunlong junior brother!"
"Ahhhh! Junior brother!"
…
Within the Purple Mansion Divine Sect, cries of shock and terror instantly rang out!
Hum—
The Purple Robe Marten Temple's Lian Gonggong instantly flickered, appearing out of thin air beside Zhang Yunlong's body, which had lost focus and whose neck was twisted off.
He furrowed his brows and grabbed Zhang Yunlong's body.
However, the instant he grabbed it, Lian Gonggong's expression changed, as if scalded, and he directly flung Zhang Yunlong's body away with acceleration.
The cultivators of the Purple Mansion Divine Sect, seeing this, had their faces instantly darken further.
"Alas—"
A soft sigh issued from the mouth of the Purple Mansion Divine Sect's Sect Leader Wuji, tinged with regret.
Afterward, Zhang Yunhu, Zhang Yunfeng, and other cultivators of the Purple Mansion Divine Sect saw Zhang Yunlong's body in the process of falling.
From his seven orifices—mouth, nose, eyes, etc. —black flames spewed out completely, like an empty porcelain vessel burned hollow inside.
Lian Gonggong, having flung Zhang Yunlong's body away, also realized that his actions were somewhat unjustifiable.
His body flashed, he caught up to the falling corpse of Zhang Yunlong, and his divine essence burst forth, forming a great net that ensnared the corpse.
During the fall, he gradually slowed its speed.
Finally, it landed gently upon the plaza that had become a charred wasteland.
He laid Zhang Yunlong's corpse flat on the ground.
Whoosh—!
A sudden shriek burst forth from the sky a thousand zhang high.
It came from the shrine hovering in midair, which was erupting with towering purple divine essence, and a temple god within let out a shriek!
The temple god's mighty divine essence surged like a wave, purple sword qi continually swirling; countless purple sword qi, like myriad swords returning to the sect, suddenly sliced the firmament, converging into a colossal purple great sword resembling a purple flood dragon!
On the tip of the purple great sword, black and white light constantly collided, causing the air within a ten-zhang radius to ripple with wrinkles like waves!
Clang clang clang—!!!
The sword sang, trembling; divine essence surged like a tide!
Ripples vibrated, the black, white, and purple sword gleams flowed!
However.
In Xixi's eyes, as dark as black dates, there was no emotional fluctuation.
She clenched her five fingers.
Instantly, a purple dragon-serpent coiled, and a purple-flame serpent spear with a fire tip appeared in her hand.
She gripped it fiercely; the spear trembled!
The air instantly exploded!
The purple-flame serpent spear with fire tip instantly turned into golden light, like a burst of arrows, instantly piercing the shrine, as if boring through the temple god within!
Boom—!
The shrine instantly became covered with extremely fine cracks!
It whistled down from a thousand zhang high.
With a boom—
The purple-flame serpent spear with fire tip pierced the shrine and was nailed to the ground.
The ground sank, then circular ripple-like cracks burst and expanded, spreading until the edge of the white jade plaza, where they were halted by the four great commanders of Shendu's Xuanwei, only then ceasing.
Crack—
An exceedingly crisp sound, like a tile shattering, a pebble bursting apart.
The shrine pierced by the purple-flame serpent spear with fire tip was covered with extremely fine cracks, finally…
Accompanied by the shattering sound, it turned into countless tiny fragments, thousands upon thousands, scattering across the ground with a clatter.
That exceedingly sharp purple sword qi also vanished without trace.
Only remained the divine spear that pierced the shrine and pinned the temple god, its shaft still faintly swaying on the ground.
Dead… died?!
The person died, and the temple god… also died!
At this moment, the sound of drawing in cold air echoed incessantly.
Lian Gonggong glanced at the purple-flame serpent spear with fire tip, then at Zhang Yunlong's lifeless body, and lifted his head.
He then saw two wind-fire golden light wheels continuously rotating, holding aloft a six-year-old little girl, her tiny body floating freely ten zhang above the plaza.
Xixi opened her eyes, consciousness returned, and she instinctively crossed her arms over her chest, lifting her little belly.
She saw Zhang Yunlong lying on the ground, and also saw the shrine shattered by the nail.
That temple god…
Really got killed!
Miss……so awesome!
Xixi took a deep breath.
Miss's awesomeness is Xixi's awesomeness!
Xixi crossed her arms over her chest, lifted her head, proudly flaunted, and her two sky‑reaching braids shot up into the clouds.
Elder Lian's eyes were filled with complex emotion.
This little girl……what monster is hidden inside her body?!
Zhang Yunlong, you say you……why provoke him for no reason?!
It was fine, why did you provoke this thing?
Originally, if bombarded a little by that terrifying mushroom cloud explosion mechanism, one would likely be severely injured, might not die, and could still survive.
And now……
He's dead, right?
Elder Lian sighed, the Chick Dragon Victory Assembly……death is quite normal; previous sessions also weren't without deaths.
After all, sometimes there have been Chick Dragons who displayed perhaps powerful suicidal explosive means.
Like Shi Xuan, who masters such power, but simply does not wish to use it.
But killing someone is still quite rare.
The Heroes' Victory Assembly sees more cases of killing, but the Chick Dragon Victory Assembly……is just a brawl among a bunch of kids, the strongest being at most a Supreme Three Flowers Grand Master.
Under the gaze of a group of pinnacle experts and great gods, wanting to cause a death is truly not an easy task.
However, this session……
The Chick Dragon Victory Assembly……actually had a death.
The one who died was none other than the Purple Mansion Divine Sect's First Chick Dragon!
Boom——!!!
"Obstinate wretch!"
A terrifying aura erupted instantly, almost in a flash, in the Purple Mansion Divine Sect's main banquet area.
A figure appeared, pulling countless afterimages, sleeves whirling wildly behind, appearing atop the white jade plaza now scorched black and reduced to ruins.
Came to Zhang Yunlong's corpse side.
A powerful Heaven-Man Induction swept over; this person's eyes flashed with anger and grief, surging forth, muscles and bones inflating like balloons, hair whipping wildly, Daoist robe lashing the air.
He fixed his gaze on Xixi floating in the air.
Heaven-Man Induction seemed to summon rolling heavenly thunder, space itself seemed to twist, the oppressed vibrations never ceased, countless shockwaves trembled.
Like a mountain collapsing, it ruthlessly pressed down on Xixi's body.
It aimed to directly press Xixi down from the high sky and make her fall.
Elder Lian's brows furrowed slightly.
Purple robes fluttering, his frail body, five fingers spread, he slapped toward the appearing Daoist.
"Please don't be angry, sir; the fault lies entirely with our household, for we failed to stop this calamity."
Boom——!!!
Elder Lian intervened, the Daoist's aura seemed to ease somewhat, apparently out of respect for Elder Lian's status, giving him face and ceasing his attack.
But in the instant Elder Lian relaxed his breath.
Yet this Daoist's eyes suddenly sharpened, his raised arm came down hard, five fingers spread, golden light flowed, a golden sword burst forth wildly, like a howling flood dragon charging toward Xixi floating in the air.
Bang——!
A colossal palm slammed down violently, the vast heavenly-earth spirit surged mightily.
Li Che didn't know when he had already appeared beside Xixi.
Heaven-Earth Embodiment Divine Fetus Secret Technique activated, directly enveloping Xixi, protecting her.
Enveloping Xixi within, Li Che placed his palm on her shoulder, one hand behind his back, the ink‑colored robe embroidered with golden lotus on his person rustling.
His gaze indifferent as he watched the Daoist who had made the move.
Heaven-Earth Embodiment clashed with the golden sword light……
Divinity and blood‑qi exploded violently, but the powerful aura was quickly suppressed by Elder Lian, and the Four Great Leaders of Shendu's Mysterious Guard also rushed in.
All eyes were razor‑sharp as they gazed at the black‑robed Daoist from the Purple Mansion Divine Sect who had made the move.
That black‑robed Daoist's Daoist robe fluttered, the black jade hairpin on his head seemed to reflect light, his eyes gleamed with icy coldness and killing intent.
Staring at Xixi enveloped by Li Che's Heaven-Earth Embodiment.
"Little girl……what a vicious method!"
The black‑robed Daoist's icy words burst from his mouth.
Li Che then rubbed Xixi's head: "Not bad."
"Zhang Yunlong didn't even bother with the bottom line of being human, offering his own flesh and blood to feed the temple god; he never wanted to live, and Xixi simply fulfilled his wish to die."
"Our Xixi truly loves to help others."
"Awesome."
Xixi, hearing this, went dumb‑founded, lifted her head, blinking her big black eyes.
"Ah‑ha?"
"Dad, are you serious?"
Li Che chuckled: "Dad, of course I'm serious—he himself wants to die, so sending him on his way isn't that just loving to help others?"
Xixi instantly broke into a radiant smile, shaking her head, her mood light and cheerful.
She naturally didn't believe Li Che's nonsense.
But, having her father so unconditionally stand by her side, she was very happy!
She couldn't bear to see her own father act like the father of the Third Prince, who, for the sake of the so-called greater good, abandoned his son and even schemed against him in the end.
Xixi felt her father was the best in the world!
Xixi also wanted to be the best with her father!
"Preposterous!"
The black-robed Daoist of the Purple Mansion Divine Sect had a fierce look flash in his eyes and shouted a rebuke.
"The Young Dragon Triumph Assembly is supposed to be a fair contest, but this little girl…… why did she strike so viciously?!"
Killing intent rolled off the black-robed Daoist.
"Hahaha——"
Suddenly, a terrifying sword intent swept across, and a blade of silver light flashed forth.
That black-robed Daoist felt an immense pressure on his shoulders, then saw Lu Taibai with silver hair flying, sleeves whipping wildly, stepping on silver sword light as he approached.
He looked at the black-robed Daoist as if he were an idiot.
"Feeding one's own flesh and blood to the temple god to gain peerless temple god power, only to be killed by my Lu Taibai's disciple—skill determines outcome, being killed is just desserts! When has the Young Dragon Triumph Assembly's dueling ever been without the risk of death?"
"Past Heroes' Triumph Assemblies and Young Dragon Triumph Assemblies have had deaths—how come? If disciples of those divine sects and aristocratic families can die, why can't yours from the Purple Mansion Divine Sect?"
Lu Taibai stood with hands behind his back, his overbearing pressure like a mountain, unreasonably weighing down on the black-robed Daoist.
The black-robed Daoist's face flushed red as his divinity and blood were completely suppressed within.
Compared to Lu Taibai, who stands atop the heavenly gate pass and the great divine register, this black-robed Daoist is still far behind.
"Zhang Xuanlei, enough…… Yunlong's skill was inferior, gather his corpse and return."
Suddenly, a faint voice echoed from the Purple Mansion Divine Sect's main banquet area, drifting over.
The black-robed Daoist called Zhang Xuanlei instantly filled with resentment.
His eyes bloodshot, he said: "Sect leader…… my son……"
"Enough, still not satisfied with causing a laughingstock?"
Zhang Xuanlei's words had not yet left his mouth.
He was interrupted by a frown from the purple-robed Daoist Zhang Wují.
"Our Purple Mansion Divine Sect can afford to lose, can afford to be defeated—since we lost, we lost. Even if Zhang Yunlong weren't killed by Li Nuanxi, the final outcome wouldn't be any better. Don't you understand, as his father?"
Zhang Wují flicked his duster: "Usually you let him be spoiled, you should teach him strictly—now look, he's arrogant, provoked by setbacks, impulsive, abandoning even the basic decency of being human."
"He clearly has excellent talent for raising temple gods, yet he can't bear even a single failure, unwilling to accept a loss, choosing to let the temple god devour his flesh and blood to gain peerless temple god power……"
"Winning would only make him a cripple!"
Zhang Wují's scolding made Zhang Xuanlei's eyes almost burst, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.
He said no more, gathering Zhang Yunlong's corpse.
Zhang Yunlong's corpse was left only as a shell, its bones, organs, and flesh completely burned to ash by the Hell Lotus Fire.
If not for the father-in-law stepping in to suppress it with divinity.
Possibly even this mortal frame would have been burned away.
Zhang Xuanlei carefully cradled his son's corpse, his eyes brimming with killing intent, his resentment deep.
Too fast……
It happened too fast.
Zhang Xuanlei never expected Xixi to, after Zhang Yunlong completely offered himself to the temple god, gain the temple god's possession and still be able to kill Zhang Yunlong.
He couldn't understand it, but it didn't stop his anger at seeing Zhang Yunlong dead.
"What a fine Half-Saint Li, you raised a fine daughter, saying my son Zhang Yunlong abandoned his principles, offering everything to the temple god, raising temple gods……"
"But isn't your precious daughter just like that?"
"Your daughter also raises temple gods! Without the temple god's power, how could she kill my son!"
Killing intent surged between Zhang Xuanlei's teeth.
His words echoed, making the mighty ones of the various divine sects and aristocratic families in the tent feel their hearts shaken.
Li Nuanxi, raising temple gods?
Probably not the Purple Mansion Divine Sect's way of raising temple gods.
Ji Moli sat at the banquet table, picked up a cup, took a sip of wine, and lightly laughed: "Hell Lotus, raising…… it seems what this little girl harbors inside is precisely the Eight-Armed Hell Lotus Wrathful Third Prince Temple God of the Golden Light Prefecture!"
"What boldness, daring to raise a Four Sovereigns Temple God!"
"Not afraid of being backlashed by the temple god!"
"Great Master Huang Mei, do you say it is or isn't?"
Ji Moli looked toward the not-far Huang Mei and said.
Huang Mei pressed his palms together and nodded.
"His courage is indeed great."
……
……
Zhang Xuanlei obviously intentionally leaked this statement.
Whether Xixi is truly raising a temple god or not, nobody knows.
But at least, after Zhang Xuanlei threw out those words, Xixi became the target of many.
The sect leader of the Qianyuan Divine Sect, Lu Taibai, now wields the Dao Tribulation Sword, a half-step Divine Tribulation expert, awaiting to assault the Three Calamities Nine Tribulations and step into Divine Tribulation.
And as the Young Sect Master of the Qianyuan Divine Sect, Li Nuanxi raising such a mighty temple god is an attempt to drive a wedge between her and Lu Taibai.
Even if Lu Taibai doesn't mind, the powerhouses of the various divine sects will also keep it in mind, because Li Nuanxi, who raises a Four Directions temple deity, is very likely to become the main pillar of the Qianyuan Divine Sect in the future.
Put another way, the Qianyuan Divine Sect will gain the assistance of a Four Directions temple deity in the future; for the sect, the help is immense, the improvement immense.
Li Che's eyes flickered with a cold, ruthless intent.
Zhang Xuanlei gave a cold smile: "Li Half-Saint, your daughter killed my son; this grudge… I, Zhang Xuanlei, will remember it. At the Heroes' Triumph Assembly… the poor dao will return."
"Grudges between children naturally should be accounted for on us as their parents!"
Li Che's aura of Heaven and Earth surged around him, as if a deity were speaking, booming and shaking.
"What you say makes perfect sense."
Li Che responded lightly.
Zhang Xuanlei gave Li Che a deep look; he didn't quite understand, but where did this Li Che, who had undergone a single transformation of the divine fetus, get such strong confidence and assurance!
Zhang Xuanlei carried Zhang Yunlong's corpse, step by step, immensely heavy, each step feeling as if he were accumulating killing intent, returning to the Purple Mansion Divine Sect's main banquet area.
He even ignored the sect's claim of no blame, his heart filled with resentment, and went straight to his own main banquet area, sitting at the table, gently stroking Zhang Yunlong's corpse with sorrow.
The purple-robed old Daoist Zhang Wuji sighed, flicked his whisk, and let out a soft sigh.
He knew Zhang Xuanlei bore some resentment toward him.
But although Xixi really did kill Zhang Yunlong, Zhang Yunlong was surely doomed to die anyway, and furthermore, Zhang Yunlong had fed and sacrificed himself to the temple deity, wrapping himself in power far exceeding that of a fledgling dragon, in order to kill Li Nuanxi...
"He who kills will be killed… what fault is there?"
All that can be said is that the disciples of the Purple Mansion Divine Sect have been addled by the prestige of being the top divine sect of Dàjǐng, plus the invincible divine power of matching a temple deity's rank gained from raising one, making them somewhat overbearing and arrogant.
A soft sigh.
Zhang Wuji shook his head slightly.
Raising a temple deity has its benefits and drawbacks……
Going on like this, the Purple Mansion Divine Sect does not know where it is headed.
Of course……
What made Zhang Wuji increasingly worried was still something he vaguely saw and sensed.
His gaze swept over and landed on Xixi, whom Li Che, after dispersing his Heaven and Earth manifestation, was leading by the hand.
That instant of icy chill and stillness was like the terrifying divine might of an abyss being split open……
Zhang Wuji's eyes were deep and gloomy.
Even faintly……
There was a concealed, compressed scorching heat.
Could it really be……
A temple deity?!
Temple deities…… are all dead gods; only deceased gods enter temples.
Inside that little girl……
Perhaps it is a truly living……
God!
……
……
The tense, sword-drawn atmosphere dissipated as Zhang Xuanlei brought Zhang Yunlong's corpse back to the Purple Mansion Divine Sect's main banquet area.
Xixi remained where she was, while the purple-robed, fluttering Lian Gonggong looked at her with a complex expression, partly incredulous.
"Six years old, six years old and becoming the champion of the Peach Blossom Assembly hosted by the Empress… truly legendary."
"Our household has hosted several Peach Blossom Assemblies, yet this is truly the first time we've seen……"
Lian Gonggong stared at Xixi, his face openly astonished.
Although this little girl has caused quite a stir, one must admit that Lian Gonggong never thought Xixi could win the championship when, with the Thousand-Armed Guanyin seated on a lotus as her main battle platform, she planted a soaring golden mushroom cloud before the emperor and empress.
Does this girl truly harbor a temple deity within her, just as Zhang Xuanlei said?
Lian Gonggong exhaled a breath.
He walked up to Xixi's side and bowed slightly.
Li Che and Lu Taibai exchanged a glance, then both darted away, handing the stage over to Xixi; from now on, she would be the focus of Shendu today!
"Congratulations to Li Nuanxi, the first fledgling dragon of the Qianyuan Divine Sect, for winning this year's Fledgling Dragon Assembly!"
"Congratulations……"
"She has obtained the nine-thousand-year-old peach!"
Lian Gonggong bowed and said.
Yet his voice was like thunder, forming rolling sound waves that blasted out, echoing everywhere, spreading in all directions, exploding inside and outside the Second and Third Cities.
The crowd, stunned speechless by the situation, all snapped awake!
It was as if a gong's sound exploded beside their ears!
Upon hearing this, Xixi instantly burst into a happy smile she could no longer contain.
Although her face was pale from having her blood and divine essence drained by the Thousand-Armed Guanyin battle platform,
but the joy and exhilaration of victory could not be held back!
Most importantly,
Xixi finally won the championship, earning the nine-thousand-year-old peach for her mother!
Xixi lifted her head and chest, the happy arc at the corners of her mouth rising uncontrollably.
Lian Gonggong also smiled.
He had Xixi wait a moment, then, with lowered head and deferential steps, he took small hurried steps toward the main banquet seat where the emperor and empress sat.
However, just as he was about to receive the nine-thousand-year flat peach reward and hand it to Xixi,
But Her Majesty the Empress reached out and lightly pressed down.
"I will personally confer the award."
A faint smile appeared on the Empress's beautiful, dignified face.
Her gold hairpin trembled, her magnificent robes fluttered, the Empress lifted the flat peach, and was about to leave her seat.
However…
She had just risen.
But a hand seized her white-as-jade wrist.
The Empress was startled.
On the Emperor's face, shrouded by blood and divine nature, one could not see joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness.
Yet an indisputable voice rang out.
"This reward."
"I will bestow it."
I have come to bestow.
End of Chapter
