Chapter 655: then translation of chapter title

Li Che took out the Hellfire Divine Wood.

A piece of divine wood that had surpassed the Two Saints simply stirred the hearts of all Divine Roc Great Immortals; the hundred thousand great rivers of the Guiyao Cave were the gathering place with the most Divine Roc Great Immortals.

Instantly, pairs of envious and jealous eyes shot forth.

However, these Divine Roc Great Immortals and Immortal Hands merely harbored a desire to learn, wanting to see what this expert shielded by Nuwa could carve out.

Is it wanton destruction of heavenly treasures, or truly making full use of it, to completely unleash the efficacy of the divine wood that had surpassed the Two Saints?

Actually, the Divine Roc Great Immortals and Immortal Hands present all knew that this ox demon was none other than Ksitigarbha, the immensely powerful Martial Immortal of the mortal realm.

And Ksitigarbha, back in the Primordial Heaven, had already conquered the Divine Roc Great Immortals and Immortal Hands of the Guiyao Cave with the Divine Roc techniques he displayed at the Immortal Craft Immortal Hand Assembly hosted by the Immortal Lord Laozi.

Ksitigarbha is truly a Divine Roc Great Immortal, even a Divine Roc genius with hopes of reaching the level of the Divine Roc Ancestral Immortal's techniques!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

Among the hundred thousand great rivers, the Divine Roc Great Immortals and Immortal Hands of the Guiyao Cave drifted out one after another, hovering in the air, surrounding the pyramid where Li Che sat cross-legged to watch.

Li Che did not begrudge these Divine Roc Great Immortals and Immortal Hands their gaze; their eyes were pure, existing solely for the sake of technique.

Li Che actually didn't mind showing off a trick before them.

Transforming into Nuwa's Divine Roc, Nuwa, who sits in command of the netherworld's mouth, also silently observed Li Che's carving through the statue.

On the pyramid.

Li Che took out the snake scale given by Nuwa, which contained the eighth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph within.

The powerful Martial Immortal will surged forth; his five fingers clenched tightly, crushing the snake scale fiercely, and instantly the Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph contained within leapt out.

Raising his hand, he tapped his brow; instantly the Heaven-Earth Chessboard expanded widely.

It seemed to form a unique domain, enveloping this eighth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph imbued with Nuwa's insight within the chessboard, suppressing it so it would not drift away and return to heaven and earth.

Hum—

Accompanied by a distortion, countless primordial sources of heaven and earth surged forward, and the eighth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph gradually transformed into a graceful female figure.

It bore a resemblance to Nuwa's appearance.

After all, it was Nuwa's insight, so this Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph simulated Nuwa's form.

"It actually gave rise to will, as if it had become a true living being!"

Li Che's eyes narrowed slightly, his heart inevitably shocked.

Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyphs can actually become true living beings!

Truly not vulgar!

Li Che could not imagine how difficult it would be to comprehend the ninth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph!

That Nuwa could comprehend the nine Heaven-Earth Glyphs and become the Divine Roc Ancestral Immortal of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is truly unimaginable.

Besides Nuwa, perhaps only within Black Sumeru does a Divine Roc Ancestral Immortal still exist.

The Martial Immortal will within Li Che's brow's cinnabar field surged forth, ascending to the Heaven-Earth Chessboard; his eyes burst with brilliant light as he gazed upon the graceful figure condensed from the Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph.

This was a contest of will; Li Che needed not only to defeat this Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph on the level of will, but also to make it submit, in order to achieve comprehension.

Will is like a blade; Li Che seemed to display the carving techniques he had mastered throughout his life.

In his chest, the Immortal Craft Dao Fruit jumped wildly, emitting a thunderous roar.

That eighth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph seemed to condense blade after blade of carving-light, forming an extremely difficult problem for Li Che to solve.

This was not merely a simple clash of will; it was also a collision of Divine Roc techniques!

Around the pyramid, the Divine Roc Great Immortals and Immortal Hands stared, dazzled and stunned, sucking in cold breaths!

They even put themselves in Li Che's shoes to solve the problem posed by this eighth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph; many Divine Roc masters, puzzling over it, almost clutched their heads, on the verge of madness.

How could it be this hard?

Is this the pain one must endure to become a Divine Roc Ancestral Immortal?!

Solving these problems might as well be death!

Li Che also felt great pain, but this pain came with the Immortal Craft Dao Fruit's maturity skyrocketing.

The Immortal Craft Dao Fruit, being Li Che's first obtained Dao Fruit, has now become very difficult to increase its maturity.

Yet each time he comprehends a Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph, it is an opportunity for the Immortal Craft Dao Fruit to surge; this time is no exception.

And while Li Che, aided by the Immortal Craft Dao Fruit, solves these problems, he is actually being infused with the knowledge of these problems, wildly enhancing his Divine Roc techniques.

Hum—

Li Che's will struck out with a blade, like the light of a carving knife, slashing toward the graceful figure condensed from the eighth glyph.

The two were like players placing pieces outside the Heaven-Earth Chessboard, using the carving knife's shooting light as pieces; each dropped piece seemed to explode in a noisy, bursting clash.

This time was no exception!

However, the blade-light Li Che's carving knife slashed this time collided with the blade-light of the figure formed from the eighth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph; blade energies intertwined, producing countless flickering collisions.

Finally, with a clang, it burst.

The blade-light shattered; the blade-light of the eighth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph was blasted apart by Li Che's sheer force.

Li Che's blade-light finally gained the advantage, slashing toward the graceful woman.

The graceful woman's body grew dim.

Li Che's will, like a blade, continued to strike, continually shattering the opponent's blade-light and striking her body.

Slowly, the graceful female figure condensed from the eighth Heaven-Earth Ancient Glyph faded, turning into a hovering glyph.

Countless seven-colored lights spilled forth from it.

Li Che's will rose to a stand, crossed over from the chessboard, and stepped forward to stand before the eighth glyph.

He reached out and pressed down on the eighth glyph.

Countless seven-colored threads streamed from the eighth glyph, entwining Li Che's will throughout his body, finally merging completely into his will.

Li Che, sitting cross-legged atop the pyramid, suddenly opened his eyes.

The heaven-and-earth chessboard dispersed.

In the next moment, his will turned into a stream of light that returned and drilled into the center of his brow.

Li Che felt his martial immortal will suddenly surge at this moment, becoming even stronger and more powerful!

Exhale—

Inhale—

With each exhale and inhale, seven-colored streams of light seemed to overflow from his mouth and nose.

In Li Che's pupils, ancient symbols continuously rotated.

But what excited Li Che even more was.

The golden streams of light flickering in the depths of his eyes intertwined to form a prompt.

【Dao Fruit: Immortal Artisan (lv10, 0%)】

Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit!

Finally, the eighth metamorphosis!

It's done!

Li Che's lips curled into a smile.

With Nuwa's aid, Li Che directly propelled the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit to the eighth metamorphosis, achieving a leap!

This gave Li Che more confidence to upgrade the Hell Equal Heaven Armor and Hell Third Prince Battle Armor.

Moreover, not only that, because the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit's metamorphosis boosted his martial immortal will, Li Che felt even more confident for another day!

The strength of will naturally feeds back into greater strength!

Hum—

The vast heaven and earth again burst forth with a powerful suction, seeking to draw Li Che in.

However, Li Che directly chose to give up.

Dao Tree Space—Li Che can now freely choose whether to enter.

Now, Li Che needs to carve the Third Prince Battle Armor; under the watch of many strange demon cave Immortal Crane immortals and great immortals, there's no need to enter the Dao Tree Space.

Li Che's seven-colored gaze lifted, looking toward the pyramid where Nuwa was.

He slightly nodded, thanking Nuwa for her help.

However, Nuwa merged with the pyramid, turning into a statue, and did not respond to Li Che.

Li Che withdrew his gaze, intending to begin carving.

However, in the instant he withdrew his gaze, his heart trembled slightly.

In his mind, it was as if a flash of electric light shot through, and a bold idea and possibility suddenly burst forth.

Nuwa……could she be the master of the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit?!

Could it be?

The possibility……is very great!

Li Che suddenly somewhat understood: if Nuwa truly is the master of the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit.

This also explains why, during their extremely difficult times in the mortal world, Li Che awakened his first Dao Fruit, the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit, which helped his family overcome the crisis.

Because Zhang Ya is Nuwa's reincarnation, she therefore awakened the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit……

Li Che's gaze instantly flickered with a hint of complex color.

The Immaculate Mind Dao Fruit is related to the Three-Lives Tathagata; the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit is related to Nuwa.

Every master of a Dao Fruit is related to the imperial-level immortals of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths!

This is a scheme at the imperial level!

No, it should be said……it is a scheme that even involves the imperial-level immortals!

Because these Dao Fruit masters seem to have lost their memories of the Dao Fruit, they do not know why they became Dao Fruit masters.

Li Che shook his head, suppressing the strange feeling in his heart.

Regardless of the Dao Tree, regardless of any schemes among the Dao Fruit masters, Li Che cannot control them.

What he must do now is to turn all assistance into his own strength.

The Dao Fruit is also his assistance!

Li Che's greatest confidence now lies in the power of the Kai Tian Martial Immortal; continuing to open the heavens and assault the Heavenly Immortal realm is the key.

The increase in his own strength will not be affected by the Dao Fruit; the martial power transformed is genuine strength and foundation.

Although the Dragon Elephant Golden Body Dao Fruit also involves martial strength……

Actually, strictly speaking, the Dragon Elephant Golden Body Dao Fruit is also an assistance, merely providing martial insight; however, the cultivation gained after breakthrough is truly solid.

Dragon Elephant Golden Body Dao Fruit……which imperial-level immortal is it related to?

Strictly speaking, the Dragon Elephant Golden Body Dao Fruit is the first Dao Fruit Li Che obtained.

The Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit was obtained as the first Dao Fruit due to his daughter's birth, counted as an extra Dao Fruit; whereas the Dragon Elephant Golden Body Dao Fruit is the one formally obtained after his daughter turned one.

The two differ in meaning to each other.

Rumble—

Following the metamorphosis of the Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit, Li Che's comprehension of the Divine Crane techniques grew ever deeper.

Suppressing his emotions, Li Che's gaze became pure; his five fingers spread, and instantly, heavenly-earth ancient symbols flickered with light above his palm, intertwining into a carving blade.

Heaven-Earth Seven Symbol Blade!

Using this as the carving blade!

Just the appearance of this move shocked all the Divine Crane great immortals of the Strange Demon Cave.

And Li Che began to condense the eighth heavenly-earth ancient symbol, merging it into the Heaven-Earth Seven Symbol Blade.

Slowly, the Heaven-Earth Seven Symbol Blade grew another inch, transforming into the Heaven-Earth Eight Symbol Blade!

Hum—

The sharp blade qi rampaged incessantly, slicing through the void, even cutting away the nothingness within the void.

Li Che's eyes widened as he felt the Heaven-Earth Eight Symbol Blade at this moment, his emotions surging; another trump card was added to his hand!

Taking the Hellfire Divine Wood, carving the present Heaven-Eight Symbol Blade upon it was incredibly smooth, like a red-hot branding iron gliding over butter.

Li Che began carving armor that would fit the Third Prince.

This was a close-fitting armor; Li Che directly carved it according to the Third Prince's childlike stature, engraving each plate with a Mechanism Divine Seal, which itself was woven from eight Heaven-Earth ancient symbols.

Link after link, they interlock!

Such incredibly fine carving left countless Divine Condor Great Immortals dumbfounded.

This is something they could never accomplish!

One could say that Li Che now is, between Heaven and Earth, the Divine Condor Great Immortal closest to the Divine Condor Primordial Immortal!

Carving the armor took Li Che little time; the will within the Hellfire Divine Wood had been suppressed by the Dao Tree, so now Li Che's carving required hardly any effort.

As the blade light swept over, the Heaven-Earth Eight Symbol Blade trembled; the faceplate, armguards, breastplate, and greaves all took shape, their surfaces etched with the Hell Lotus pattern, drawing the essence of the Hell Lotus into them, allowing the Third Prince to perfectly unleash the power and abilities of the first-generation Hell Lotus Son.

Moreover, the armor contained a two-layer transformation; as a custom-made armor, it also encompassed the plating needed when the Third Prince assumed his eight-armed, three-faced dharma aspect.

Rumble—

When the carving was finished, the armor, flowing with erupting hellfire, hovered between Heaven and Earth.

The armor seemed to possess life of its own; even without the Third Prince donning it, it appeared to take on a humanoid form, freely wandering and leaping about between Heaven and Earth.

Thick black clouds piled up from the firmament of the Divine Forge Heaven.

Countless intertwining lightning bolts, along with the will of Heaven and Earth, gestated within.

However, the eventual calamity condensed into a terrifying blade gleam—that was the power of the Heaven's Will Cleaver!

Li Che suddenly rose to his feet, striding between Heaven and Earth, the Heaven-Earth Eight Symbol Blade surging upward against the flow, assaulting the firmament!

Boom—!!!

Two blade lights collided, releasing a terrifying explosion that rolled outward.

Li Che flicked his finger, shooting out a black chess piece that expanded in midair, transforming into the Hell Equal Heaven Armor.

His entire body turned into a stream of light, flowing into the Hell Equal Heaven Armor.

He unleashed the Heaven-Eight Symbol Blade, striking repeatedly.

Countless blade lights struck against the descending gleam of the Heaven's Will Cleaver; he didn't know how many strikes he had made, but Li Che felt his will nearly exhausted.

Only then did he finally shatter that Heaven's Will Cleaver!

In a haze, Li Che saw nine Heaven-Earth ancient symbols, his gaze fixed on the ninth as he tried to discern its final secret.

He felt as if his eyes were staring directly at the blazing sun, stimulated to the point of tearing up.

I can't see it, I simply can't see it!

The ninth Heaven-Earth ancient symbol, I simply can't see it!

Li Che stood within the control cabin of the Hell Equal Heaven Armor, his black hair flying wildly as he let out a furious roar and long howl.

The will of Heaven and Earth receded.

The Third Prince's Hell Battle Armor instantly took shape.

However, it was directly taken by Li Che into the Heaven-Earth Chessboard.

Having done all this, Li Che did not rest; his bones and sinews trembled without cease as he again condensed the Heaven-Eight Symbol Blade, beginning to engrave the eighth Heaven-Earth ancient symbol into the remaining symbol slots on the Hell Equal Heaven Armor.

This was a preset position; since he was reforging the Hell Equal Heaven Armor, Li Che had left a backup, which now took effect, elevating the armor's rank outright.

Rumble—

The number of Heaven-Earth ancient symbols within the Hell Equal Heaven Armor kept increasing, for each Mechanism Divine Seal bore the engraving of seven Heaven-Earth symbols; thus, to change it required a complete overhaul!

Li Che gripped the Heaven-Eight Symbol Blade; each strike caused the Equal Heaven Armor to tremble, granting its aura a boost.

Roar—

Upon the Hell Equal Heaven Armor, firelight burst forth—the hellfire that burned and twisted the void, containing the power of death and annihilation.

The Equal Heaven Armor seemed to have fully come alive; even without Li Che's control, it possessed a terrifying might!

Within the pyramid, Nüwa opened her eyes, her heart slightly trembling.

"This mechanism armor… actually integrates the Heaven-Earth Eight Symbols within—what a bold idea; which Divine Condor Great Immortal would dare do such a thing!"

"But this should be the limit of this Equal Heaven Armor."

"Even the Hellfire Divine Wood cannot bear a perfect engraving of the Heaven-Earth Nine Symbols."

Nüwa felt a bit regretful, yet she also greatly admired it.

In fact, even if she were to carve and craft it, she would likely only reach this level.

Of course, this is not the limit of her Divine Condor artistry, but the limit of the material.

The Hellfire Divine Wood can only reach this height.

However, Li Che's carving bears his own style.

For instance, the Mechanism Divine Seal, with the Heaven-Earth Eight Symbols engraved within it—this is Li Che's Divine Condor style, and also the foundation for his future proving the Dao as a Divine Condor Primordial Immortal!

Nüwa raised her hand, and a stream of primordial essence poured from her palm.

She intended to lend Li Che another hand of strength.

Otherwise, if Li Che continued carving like this, he would surely be thwarted by the will of Heaven and Earth.

The upgrade of the Hell Equal Heaven Armor would inevitably fail.

After twice consecutively triggering the slash of the Heaven's Will Cleaver, the second strike of Heaven and Earth's will would surely be even more terrifying than the first!

Hum—

Nuwa's primordial source flowed out, enveloping the pyramid where Li Che stood and the Hell Equal Heaven Armor shrunk to normal size, as if turning into a colorful divine stone that continually burst with brilliant light.

Li Che sensed it, but did not pay attention.

He continued carving, his heart completely immersed.

Originally, Li Che thought upgrading the Hell Equal Heaven Armor would be too simple.

Before the Immortal Craft Dao Fruit had undergone eight transformations, Li Che planned that upgrading the Hell Equal Heaven Armor would surely fail.

But now, having received Nuwa's aid and after the Immortal Craft Dao Fruit's transformation, Li Che had a chance of success.

Boom—

No one knew how long had passed; each stroke Li Che carved made the Hell Equal Heaven Armor's aura rise, shaking the entire Divine Craft Heaven.

Boom!!!

When the final stroke fell.

Click-clack—

The colorful divine stone, solidified from Nuwa's primordial source around them and wrapping the Equal Heaven Armor and Li Che, instantly seemed to be carved open from within.

It exploded with a boom!

Then Li Che entered the cabin of the Equal Heaven Armor, let out a long cry, as if controlling a supreme divine ape, flipping and soaring skyward.

As if a myth were reenacted!

The divine ape emerged!

He roared toward the azure heavens!

Clenching his five fingers, the As-you-will Golden Hoop Staff trembled into appearance.

Aiming at the re-formed Heaven Intent Cleaver above the Vast Heaven.

He swung the staff!

Seizing the moment, to open heaven again!

(End of chapter)