Chapter 640: How to Walk the Path of Martial Dao Celestial Immortal

Boom—!

The terrifying pressure, like waves rolling over the boundless sea, slammed down mercilessly, causing the great ships sailing on the sea to be knocked down!

The countless Dao Tree branches intertwined into a massive palm, with an apocalyptic, terrifying might that even Li Che's current Martial Immortal physique could not withstand.

He was violently smashed apart, his whole body exploding like a cannonball; his incredibly robust flesh was like a balloon, burst by the relentless pounding!

But Li Che no longer cared.

Because he had already braced that massive Dao Tree palm, walked up to the heavy Eight‑shed Pure‑Heart Dao Fruit, and saw the illusory figure concealed within the fruit.

It was the reflected illusory image of the former Dao Fruit master.

Boom—

Li Che's consciousness, in an instant, was as if struck by a mountain‑crushing force, forcibly pulled out of the void and returned to before the wooden hut.

Li Che's hair flew up, his entire body's Qi and blood ignited, terrifyingly like an intensely scorching flame that burned the heavens and earth, warping the sky!

The Martial Immortal's Qi and blood, unrestrained, rose like rolling war‑smoke.

Above his spine, Qi‑blood vortices spun with a rumbling roar, distorting space as if devouring the essence of heaven and earth.

Li Che opened his eyes, his pupils bright, emitting an ultimate dazzling radiance.

With each breath, it seemed as if he could blow the mountains and rivers apart.

Opening the Heavens Profound Immortal is the final stage of the Profound Immortal; although Li Che is only a Profound Immortal now, his foundational combat power is by no means weaker than a Earth Immortal of that tier.

As for a duel with a Heaven Immortal, there is a clear gap.

Li Che thinks that once he breaks through to the Martial Dao Celestial Immortal level, he should roughly be able to clash with a Heaven Immortal.

Celestial Immortal is the ultimate of the martial path!

Li Che also longs for it immensely, yet he has no clue how to assault the realm of the Celestial Immortal.

It is like an extremely vague realm, offering no guidance; even Qitian can unleash Celestial Immortal‑level power, but that is merely the inherent strength of Qitian's own origin.

It differs from the Martial Immortal path that Li Che follows.

Strictly speaking, Li Che's Martial Immortal path is the cultivation road first derived from the will of Heaven and Earth.

Hoo—

The Immortal Martial Seven Qi Men apertures have all been opened—seven in total, not yet perfect—but with the Seven Qi Men Immortal Martial burst, Li Che's combat power can surge linearly, allowing him to essentially contend with any Earth Immortal of that tier.

Li Che's Qi and blood aura began to gradually settle, retracting into his body; the uncontrolled burst had actually attracted a lot of attention.

Gou Ye and the boss looked over oddly, seemingly puzzled by what madness Li Che was displaying.

However, Li Che gave no explanation; after his aura calmed, his entire sinews resonated, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

He recalled the illusory figure he saw within the Dao Fruit.

Sure enough…

Just as he expected, it was not someone else but the Threefold Tathagata.

"So the Threefold Tathagata really is the master of the Dao Fruit…"

Li Che exhaled.

Now, that truly made his speculation come true.

He should be able to see the illusory masters of the other Eight‑shed Dao Fruits as well, right?

Only unsure whether he can try to see now.

The thought sprouted in Li Che's mind, spreading uncontrollably like a demon raging within his heart.

Then, without hesitation, Li Che's spirit flickered slightly and he entered directly into the Dao Tree Space.

However, as soon as he entered, the terrifying, sky‑blocking tangle of Dao Tree branches forming a palm slammed him, exploding him apart.

The Dao Tree's will, as if waiting for a rabbit, seemed to have foreseen Li Che's stealthy approach, delivering a sudden blow that left him dazed, causing his Martial Immortal Qi and blood to erupt uncontrollably again.

Boom—

Li Che's Qi and blood aura burst forth again with a booming release, like a pillar of Qi‑blood light soaring into the heavens, scattering the blue sky and white clouds above the Jail Lotus Land's firmament.

Gou Ye and the boss, who was enjoying the drifting clouds, stared blankly over.

Again?

The boss rose from his rocking chair, expressionless, hands on his hips.

Li Che, you just won't let him watch the white clouds drift?

Li Che gave an awkward smile, waved his hand and said he was fine, studying the martial path.

Regaining his composure, Li Che's face darkened slightly…

He no longer chose to enter the Dao Tree Space to observe the reflected illusory image of the former Dao Fruit master; this must involve a rule, and the Dao Tree forbids it.

However, upon learning that the Pure‑Heart Dao Fruit came from the Threefold Tathagata, Li Che's heart fluttered, and a terrifying yet bold idea sprang up.

"These Dao Fruit masters... aren't they all some Heaven Immortal deities of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?"

"Who is the master of the Chess Saint Dao Fruit? And the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit, the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao Fruit…"

The Dao Fruits Li Che relies on, the so‑called masters of those fruits, could they all be named deities of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?

That is not good news for Li Che.

It feels like an invisible great net ensnaring him, giving him a suffocating sensation.

"Is this a scheme?"

"But the Threefold Tathagata, those Dao Fruit masters... seem unaware that they are masters of the Dao Fruit!"

"It seems some powerful force has erased their mastery over the Dao Fruit!"

Li Che squinted.

Thus the Threefold Tathagata seeks to probe his identity, as if lifting a veil to uncover the true mystery.

Li Che closed his eyes, and in his mind began to calculate, as if laying each Dao Fruit out plainly before him.

……

【Name: Li Che】

【Bond: Li Nuanxi (daughter)】

【Progress: School-age (11 years old)】

【Dao Fruit: Immortal Artisan (lv9, 30%), Dragon Elephant Vajra (lv10, 20%), Immaculate Mind (lv10, 10%), Chess Sage (lv10, 5%), Immortal in the Painting (lv8, 70%), Thunder Magnetic Orbit (lv10, 2%), Dream Heavenly Master (lv5, 15%), Myriad Demons Emperor (lv10, 10%), Spacetime Golden Wheel (lv10, 0%), Great Sun Golden Crow Palanquin (lv5, 0%), Hell (lv8, 0%), Reincarnation (lv1, 0%)】

……

Li Che's pupils flickered slightly.

Looking at one Dao Fruit after another, like lanterns hanging, they continuously flashed light before his eyes, jumping nonstop.

Li Che seemed to begin sitting cross-legged, assuming each powerful existence as the master of a Dao Fruit, placing them among those Dao Fruit masters.

But, difficult……

Li Che shook his head and quickly abandoned this idea.

It is meaningless, without truly dispelling the mist, approaching the Dao tree, and seeing the illusory shadow of the Dao Fruit master reflected upon the Dao Fruit hanging there.

Li Che could not even guess who would be the master of the Dao Fruit.

Because, it feels like anyone could be……

"There's no need to think about these; even if the Three Worlds Tathagata is the Dao Fruit master, so what?"

"Even if the Dao Fruit…… harbors a great scheme, a great secret, so what?"

"I want to become stronger; I cannot be separated from the Dao Fruit. I need the Dao Fruit's power, and the Dao Fruit also needs me to help it transform and mature—mutual benefit, that's enough!"

Li Che's mind stirred slightly.

His whole person suddenly rose up; in his chest, the Reincarnation Dao Fruit began to vibrate.

Vaguely, the power of this Dao Fruit was fully described in his mind.

Reincarnation Dao Fruit……

The ability is actually not strong; the initial ability is actually used for healing injuries.

As the Dao Fruit continually transforms, only when it reaches the ultimate transformation does it gain the ability to let the dead be reborn!

It is like the power of the God-Seizer, constantly dying yet able to be reborn.

However, it is not to let the God-Seizer be reborn, but to let the deceased retain a trace of their true spirit, not extinguished—to come back to life, possessing a fleshly body.

Li Che's gaze slightly condensed.

The effect of this Dao Fruit is not as useful as Li Che imagined, regarding his combat power increase……

Actually, there are some.

Mainly, it is the ability to speed up injury recovery, equivalent to giving Li Che an immortal body.

His own Martial Immortal flesh is already formidable; combined with the Reincarnation Dao Fruit's accelerated recovery power, Li Che, as long as he is not instantly blown apart into qi, can recover his injuries, undying and indestructible!

This is Li Che's own undying and indestructibility!

"How to increase the maturity of the Reincarnation Dao Fruit……?"

Li Che's heart trembled, and the "Reincarnation" Dao Fruit jumped, as if giving Li Che guidance.

Li Che's eyes flashed: "Does one need to enter the Netherworld to obtain the Reincarnation life-death qi that lets the Reincarnation Dao Fruit increase?"

Indeed, this Dao Fruit, like the Hell Dao Fruit, is related to the Netherworld!

"The Dao Fruit master…… perhaps also has a powerful one from the Netherworld!"

"I was somewhat limited in my thinking, assuming the Dao Fruit masters all seemed to come from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, but actually, it's absolutely not absolute; the three great sovereigns of the Netherworld also have the possibility of becoming Dao Fruit masters!"

Even……

Li Che has already been able to correspond.

"The master of the Reincarnation Dao Fruit should be the Reincarnation Sovereign!"

"As for the Hell Dao Fruit, it should be one of the Death Sovereign and the Netherworld Sovereign……"

Of course, this is all Li Che's speculation.

"However, no matter what, for the Hell Dao Fruit and the Reincarnation Dao Fruit…… I should make a trip to the Netherworld; besides, there is also the Hell Fire Divine Wood of the Qitian Armor and Nezha Armor, which needs to be obtained; only thus can we reforge the fleshly bodies of Qitian and Nezha, the Third Prince!"

"Old Huang's Divine Flesh Ball can only keep their two true spirits undying……"

Li Che exhaled a breath.

He began to organize his thoughts, considering how to act next. Facing the encirclement and suppression by the Three Major Divine Factions and the Two Saints Ancient Village, Li Che must strengthen the strength of the Hell Lotus side.

And the Hell Lotus side currently mainly relies on Li Che's God-Seizer……

In the true Ancient Village, there is hardly any strong person who can step forward.

"To retrain strong individuals for the Three Great Ancient Villages, that is far too late……"

"We can only rely on the God-Seizer!"

Li Che's eyes flashed.

Fortunately, this great battle let Li Che eat his fill of oily goodness, and with the generous aid of Emperor Hong, the Human Emperor, he even successfully summoned the God-Seizers of these spirits from the Netherworld.

For example, the God-Seizer of the Immortal Emperor Toad.

"As for my wife's side, I don't know how long she can hold out; I cannot waste time, I must hurry!"

Li Che let out a long exhale.

Daughter Xixi said she would wait until she completed the inheritance of the Hell Lotus Maidens.

But Li Che perhaps can't wait any longer.

Li Che continued pondering; his daughter's eleventh birthday passed, and next, he should get busy.

He stood up, his bones and tendons crackling all over.

With a slight stir of the mind and spirit, instantly, the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao Fruit burst open, emitting an extremely intense roaring sound.

Li Che directed the Dao fruit feedback from the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao fruit to stimulate.

In an instant, his whole person entered the state of martial Dao enlightenment, beginning to temper his present martial immortal flesh.

The life-death immortal body requires accumulating and refining life-death qi.

Vital qi is actually simple—it is the heavenly-earthly essence qi—but deathly qi is comparatively difficult.

Li Che could only, like when letting the Hell Dao fruit advance, slay Nirvana divine spirits, breaking through via the life-death breath they carried on their Nirvana life-death path.

But this actually has a major limitation, because Nirvana divine spirits mainly do not rely on the life-death qi of the Nirvana life-death path to enhance themselves; that life-death qi is essentially a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, Li Che couldn't possibly slay all the Nirvana divine spirits just for this goal, could he?

Boom—

Li Che began tempering martial Dao, in front of the courtyard.

He practiced all seven gates of the wondrous martial arts once, aided by the enlightenment feedback from the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao fruit.

Myriad Transformations Dragon Elephant Furnace, Kirin Suppress Void Seal, Thousand Mountains Lone Step Void-Slashing Blade, Weeping Blood Immortal Phoenix Wither-Flourish Arrow, Six Desires Void Slay Gods Sword, Heaven-Earth Seven Glyph Blade, Battle Victory Secret Art!

Li Che now has transformed the immortal-seed martial arts into immortal martial arts, altogether these seven gates.

Among them, the original immortal-seed martial art Heaven-Treading Step was fused with the primordial water calamity to form the immortal-seed martial art.

Li Che directly switched to the Battle Victory Secret Art!

Now, in this way, among the immortal martial arts transformed by Li Che using the power of the nine primordial tribulations fused with eight tribulations, only the Ancestral Dragon Slaughter Technique remains untransformed into an immortal martial art supreme skill.

With the aid of the enlightenment feedback, Li Che also did not elevate the Ancestral Dragon Slaughter Technique to the immortal martial level.

Li Che's brows slightly furrowed, entering a storm of thought within the enlightenment state.

"Missing something… perhaps because I have not truly faced the Ancestral Dragon head-on?"

Li Che's eyes opened and closed, as if deep in thought.

"The three Ancestral Dragons of the Ancestral Dragon Ancient Village… have all fallen, even the Immortal Dragon Emperor fell, surrendered to the Netherworld, and now is a Netherworld Ancestral Dragon!"

"Suppressed by the Heaven-Reaching God Emperor, I want to see the Ancestral Dragon's soul; perhaps I must go to the boundless sea."

"Convenient… on the way."

If Li Che wanted to enter the Netherworld…

Through the Netherworld gate opened by sacrificing the entire Ancestral Dragon Ancient Village, he could conveniently enter it.

Li Che needed to enter the Netherworld and also observe the Ancestral Dragon's soul; taking the Netherworld gate on the boundless sea was the most suitable route.

Of course, Li Che could also choose to summon spirits, opening the deathly qi vortex, and enter from that place.

But…

Li Che feared that upon just entering the Netherworld from that deathly qi vortex, he would be caught by the Netherworld's overlord like a chick.

So Li Che immediately shifted his mindset, no longer using the precious Dao fruit enlightenment feedback on the cultivation of immortal martial supreme arts.

He began to ponder his martial immortal path, how to break through from the Opening Heaven Profound Immortal to strike and reach the Heavenly Immortal level!

Martial Dao Heavenly Immortal—that is a realm Li Che currently needs to painstakingly seek.

"Opening Heaven…"

"I opened the Origin Sea of the Yuanlei Heaven, achieving Opening Heaven Profound Immortal, but… is this my limit?"

"Origin Sea… in these Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, there are so many Origin Seas; if I want to assault the Heavenly Immortal, should I… open more heavens?"

"Nine Heavens and Ten Earths… Hell Lotus Land!"

Li Che's eyes glimmered slightly.

Perhaps it was the sublimation of thought brought by the Dao fruit enlightenment; at this moment, Li Che actually gave rise to a completely new idea!

An extremely bold idea!

He wants to open heaven!

Continue opening heaven!

He will continually raise the power of his Opening Heaven Profound Immortal, raising it to the point where it cannot be raised further.

Isn't it confusion?

Isn't it not knowing how to open and walk the Heavenly Immortal path?

Then let's open heaven!

When in doubt, just open heaven!

Li Che's lips involuntarily curved into a brilliant smile.

That is a sense of clear understanding after enlightenment, like a tacit understanding at a single point.

There is an exhilarating feeling as if his very soul trembles and sublimates!

Suddenly opening his eyes, Li Che's aura rose steadily.

His spine trembled and roared; the next instant, the dragon's roar burst forth, trembling and ringing!

Li Che's arms suddenly spread, his qi and blood like a crimson signal flare, again surging into the clouds above, instantly scattering the drifting white clouds.

Creak—creak…

The boss sat on the rocking chair, blankly turning his head toward Li Che's direction.

It never ends, right?

Here we go again?!

However, this time the boss's eyes changed slightly; the dog lying on the ground swished its tail, raised its head, opened its mouth, and stuck out its tongue.

"What does he want to do?"

The boss furrowed his brows, muttering.

He saw Li Che's eyes filled with endless determination.

What are you determined about?

Boom—

Yet Li Che stood up, the martial immortal aura on his body released without reservation, opening his mouth to inhale and exhale, actually drawing in the heavenly-earth spiritual energy of the entire Hell Lotus Land in a frantic gulp.

Boom—rumble!

The heavenly-earth spiritual energy above the clouds surged like a tidal wave, like a waterfall of the Milky Way pouring straight down, slamming hard onto Li Che's body.

The heavenly-earth will of the entire Hell Lotus Land seemed to awaken from slumber.

Li Che suddenly raised his head, his gaze sharp, as one after another heavenly-earth ancient symbols leapt forth, seven in total, condensing above his head into a gleaming, sharp-bladed halberd!

Heaven-Earth Seven Symbols Blade!

Li Che's palm shot up, aiming from afar at the floating Heaven-Earth Seven Symbols Blade.

Aiming at the heavenly dome of Hell Lotus Land.

Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—

The entire Hell Lotus Land seemed to be whipped up by a terrifyingly violent gale and turbulent currents.

The boss rose from his chair, his white robes fluttering continuously in the wind, his brows slightly furrowed.

"A bit crazy."

"But it's alright."

The boss said lightly.

Dog Grandpa glanced incredulously at the boss, "Is that just a bit crazy?"

What then is true madness?

"In special times, one must use special methods; with the current situation, not being a bit crazy makes it hard to break through; for him to take this path is inherently extremely difficult."

"In this heaven and earth, perhaps only he has walked this path."

"If so, then take the most solitary path."

The boss said lightly, and on his usually expressionless face, a faint arc actually appeared.

Boom—

Li Che spread his arms, muscles knotted on them, terrifying power bursting forth, vibrating.

His back like a dragon, the seven mystical martial arts vortices spun, drawing in the heavenly-earth spiritual energy, then continually pushing Li Che's power upward.

"Slash!"

Li Che stepped down, shooting up like a cannonball, appearing beneath the Heaven-Earth Seven Symbols Blade.

The next moment, a palm strike slapped onto the Heaven-Earth Seven Symbols Blade.

He forcibly turned the Heaven-Earth Seven Symbols Blade's direction.

The blade of the halberd, aimed at the heavenly dome of Hell Lotus Land, which had stirred up the terrifying storm!

"Slash!"

Li Che wanted to open heaven again…

Open the heavenly dome of Hell Lotus Land!

(End of chapter)