Chapter 79: Mysterious Spirit Child, the Ancient Ascendant of the Divine Foundation

To master the seven emotions... can one become a god?

The gods fell within the Guiyi Miao.

And he... can he ascend to godhood by this method?

Li Che didn't know, nor had any notion... this matter was far beyond his current self.

Moreover, his divinity had only just begun to be grasped; he hadn't even forged a single Divine Foundation, yet he was pondering these... truly meaningless.

Li Che's divinity was advancing rapidly, mainly thanks to external aids.

Anger‑Weeping Subduing Ghost contains a fragment of the ancient ancestor of the Si family's Divine Foundation, thus he now easily reached the Nurturing Nature Like a River realm.

Furious Amitabha was forged by refining Zhao Xuanhai's eighteen Divine Chess Pieces into Nurturing Nature Like a River.

As for the newly cultivated Chaotic Joy Bewildering God, it is slower; after all, the divinity has only just been condensed... to reach Nurturing Nature Like a River, it should still require some time.

But at his current rate of refining chess pieces, it shouldn't take long.

There's also the Yang family's Heart Shock Surprise Steel, the fourth divinity... we should be able to try it again.

Both Anger‑Weeping Subduing Ghost and Furious Amitabha are at the Nurturing Nature Like a River realm; one plus one... I wonder if it can match a Divine Foundation?

Li Che's eyes widened slightly, and the room instantly filled with a chaotic intertwining of various divinities, dazzling each other.

There were faint wailing cries, ear‑splitting sounds of fury, and also distant‑and‑near ethereal laughter...

Divine phenomena erupted everywhere.

Li Che sat cross‑legged, a gentle breeze brushing his robes, his black hair streaming sideways.

His eyes shone clear, the Pure Heart trembled, yet it prevented him from being affected by the divinity, avoiding side effects such as twisted expressions, emotional loss of control, and chaotic will.

For example, when Si Mu Bai cultivates Anger‑Weeping Subduing Ghost, he intermittently weeps uncontrollably.

When Zhou Ruoguan practices Chaotic Joy Bewildering God, he cannot help but laugh incessantly.

Those are merely side effects of cultivating divinity.

Li Che paced slowly, moving to the window.

The dim eastern sky glimmered faintly, but was quickly shrouded by thick black clouds.

"I feel... at the limit..."

"The flesh body has reached its limit."

Li Che frowned as he attempted to withdraw the Pure Heart that maintained balance, spreading the three divinities simultaneously.

In the Qi Pulse Realm, his flesh body's qi and blood erupted uncontrollably, trembling slightly, bones resonating, giving a sense of divinity spiraling out of control.

Without the Pure Heart's suppression, he might already be displaying all sorts of blunders now.

For example, weeping uncontrollably, speech interspersed with incessant laughter, occasional angry red eyes...

Even without activating Vajra Transformation, his flesh body, bolstered by the innate power of the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao Fruit, is fundamentally rock‑solid and unparalleled, yet bearing three divinities at once strains it.

Of course, it may also be because the pressure of bearing three divinities far exceeds that of bearing just one...

It is far from the simple arithmetic of one plus one plus one equals three.

However, if Li Che activates Vajra Transformation or Furious‑Eyed Vajra, he should easily withstand the impact of three divinities.

In short, his flesh body's transverse cultivation is still insufficient.

"No wonder Senior Qingshan said that to forge a Divine Foundation, the flesh body must not be too weak... when the flesh body cannot bear divinity, it gets controlled by the divinity, loses self, so how can one speak of a Divine Foundation?"

Li Che now feels this deeply.

Martial path cultivation is crucial and must not be abandoned.

Now he is merely at the entry of the Qi Pulse, still needing to achieve the Profound Pulse, the Divine Pulse, and even break into the Grandmaster realm!

Although he can actively trigger the Dao Fruit to obtain unparalleled transverse cultivation of the flesh body.

But his own foundation cannot be neglected.

The more varieties of divinity he refines, the stronger his flesh body must become; should the flesh lag behind the growth of divinity...

Once emotions spiral out of control...

It would probably lead to a social death, right?

……

……

For the entire day, Li Che never left his house.

He neither went to the independent workshop nor anywhere else.

It's not that he was unwilling; he was waiting.

Li Che is not foolish, and he doesn't think everyone in the world is a fool.

The more often Niu Mo appears, the more often he strikes...

The chance of exposure grows larger.

And he, with Xixi, rushed to kill the Yang family; Zhang Xiangyang saw it.

Even if one cannot confirm that Niu Mo is Li Che, merely based on Xixi's thread, the day should not have been calm.

There will always be some storms that strike.

Thus, Li Che chose to stay at home, quietly awaiting a great tide.

Of course, during the waiting intervals, he did not neglect cultivation; in his spare time, he studied the two divine martial arts he obtained: 'Python Dragon Cannon' and 'Cloud Hawk Treading Clouds Soaring'.

Divine martial techniques are still martial techniques... they must be mastered as one would in martial path cultivation.

As for the Nine-Star Rank Divine Secret Technique 'Joyful Flying‑Head Barbarian', Li Che has not begun cultivating it.

Divine secret techniques differ slightly from divine martial techniques.

Divine martial techniques can be approached as ordinary martial arts; the Dragon Elephant Vajra Dao Fruit can grant enhancement.

But divine secret techniques require invoking divinity, manipulating it via a unique pathway...

Belonging to the category of "Law", it requires comprehension of the spell category.

The 【Mí Tuó Golden Robe】 is also a Nine Luminaries-level divine secret art; Li Che has only just barely entered the threshold up to now.

……

……

Fēiléichéng, the lord's manor.

A white silk-like figure, swift as thunder, rushed back from outside, landing on the ground, its breath rising and falling.

Behind it followed a figure on the brink of death.

Cao Qingyuan sensed it, immediately sped over, and seeing the two in such a state, he was greatly startled.

"Father……"

Cao Qingyuan was somewhat shocked, wasn't it said to go outside the city to block that mysterious expert suspected of coming from the Divine Sect?

How did it end up like this?

Plus the two patriarchs of the Yang and Xu families, that makes four Divine Foundation cultivators, and even his father, a mid-stage Divine Foundation cultivator, is holding the fort; yet somehow someone got injured?

"Second Grandfather……"

Cao Qingyuan looked at the injured cultivator who had practiced the 【Furious Mí Tuó】 and stepped into the Divine Foundation realm; his mask shattered, revealing an extremely aged face.

At this moment the old man's face was pallid, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, his injury severe.

"It's fine…… after consuming some divine essence and resting a while, he'll be alright."

The old man lightly waved his hand and said.

"Divine Sect cultivators are indeed beyond what we country cultivators can match…… even if the opponent's Divine Foundation main body is absent, with most of their divine power concealed, they can still suppress us four-to-one……"

"This person is certainly no ordinary Divine Sect cultivator; just which branch of the Qianyuan Divine Sect does he belong to?"

"This person's qi and blood martial arts…… have probably already reached the master level, relying solely on qi and blood martial arts to suppress us……"

"His divine power is not revealed; he has not used any divine secret arts or divine martial techniques, relying purely on qi and blood martial arts……"

Lord Cao Guang removed his mask, his expression gloomy and uncertain.

"I know about the Yang family's matter…… the attempt to capture the spirit child failed; only the An family's spirit child was sent over, and the Xu family's two divine talents, especially that upper-grade spirit child, were again unsuccessful in capture."

"Or is it that the Ox Demon is meddling again?"

Lord Cao Guang sat in the grand master's chair, the divine power on his body fluctuating, his expression calm.

Cao Qingyuan heard this, his eyes flickering.

"The Ox Demon…… once again made a move, rescuing Li Che's daughter Li Nuanxi; this is no coincidence, and…… the Ox Demon's relationship with Li Nuanxi is extremely close, I suspect……"

Cao Qingyuan repeated his speculation.

Cao Guang took a sip of hot tea.

"You suspect…… Li Che is the Ox Demon?"

"That Li Che is merely a lowly bone-tempering cultivator; moreover, three years ago he was just an untrained mud-legged peasant—how could he be the Ox Demon?"

"Do you think he's concealing his cultivation? Able to hide his cultivation before us many Divine Foundation cultivators?"

Cao Qingyuan stiffened his neck, yet still nodded.

"Somewhat interesting…… if he really is the Ox Demon, that would be rather unbelievable."

Cao Guang chuckled.

"That old man of the Yang family has also returned; seeing the Yang family exterminated…… he's likely to be furious."

"That old fellow originally managed the family with thrift and calculation; yet the result…… is the miserable fate of all the family's experts perishing; although there are still many relatives outside the city, how could those relatives…… prop up a clan?"

"That old fellow is likely to go mad."

"Just perfect…… Qingyuan, go on a trip and leak your speculation to the Yang family elder."

"Regardless of whether Li Che is the Ox Demon……"

"For many people, no evidence is needed; a mere suspicion is enough."

"In fact, even if Li Che is not the Ox Demon, he must still have an extremely important connection to the Ox Demon…… that upper-grade spirit child Li Nuanxi has also truly annoyed me, causing the loss of many of my subordinates' lives, right?"

"An unknown spirit child—better destroyed……"

Cao Guang, seated solemnly on the sandalwood grand master's chair in the high hall, expressionlessly drank a mouthful of jade-green tea.

It seemed that just a few words decided the fate of that innocent, pure-hearted girl.

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……

The sky gradually grew dim.

In an instant it went from morning to evening.

In the study, Li Che finished refining the divine chess pieces, looked up at the sky.

In the courtyard.

Xixi happily played with her twisty car, giggling "heeheehee" nonstop.

Zhang Ya practiced martial arts earnestly nearby, sweat pouring like rain.

Everything was tranquil and harmonious.

Just as if……

the calm before the storm!

How long the tranquility lasted is unknown; when the sky turned completely black,

Li Che suddenly opened his eyes; within his chest, the Dao Fruit 【Chess Sage】 trembled slightly.

The heaven-and-earth chessboard enveloping the house, its lines intertwining and quivering……

On the chessboard appeared an extremely intense divine aura, like a vast, grinding-disc-like great sun, extremely conspicuous and dazzling on the chessboard map.

It seemed as if screams were everywhere—like crying, laughing, and raving—dense and thick, covering sky and earth, now far, now near……

That was……

The tyrannical divinity of a God Foundation cultivator!

Unrestrained, utterly undisguised!

Like the crest of a river tide lifted tens of meters high, wrapped in a surging momentum, rolling forward!

Li Che abruptly lifted his head.

「Has he arrived……」

「Yang family old coot! 」

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