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Yet even such a powerful being was kept in the dark, unable to detect anything amiss.
This implies that the other party’s Corpse Curse Mark must be of an incredibly high Rank!
Because if a master like Nan Li Huo, of the Ten Cities, of the Nine Luminaries, encountered someone bearing the Corpse Curse Mark, they would always find something strange under the scrutiny of their Divine Sense.
Even if it were the Eight Extremes Corpse Curse Seal, if it were not well concealed and leaked even the slightest aura, it would attract the attention of an Elemental Appearance master like Nan Li Huo.
"Is the other party mingling within the Divine Sect, possibly a high-ranking insider? Or could it be an ordinary disciple? No... It must be a high-ranking insider. Without powerful enough Cultivation, one simply cannot conceal the Seven Elements Corpse Curse Seal, and it would be discovered immediately..."
"Thus, the other party’s Cultivation must be at least at the Void Aspect!"
Li Che narrowed his eyes.
Li Qingshan once speculated that there was a big fish within the Divine Sect, but even he could not determine who it was.
Now it seemed there was indeed something to it.
The Corpse God Cult... truly pervasive, even managing to infiltrate the inner workings of the Divine Sect!
"The Seven Elements Corpse Curse Seal?"
"What I had previously suppressed was only the Eight Extremes Corpse Curse Seal, so naturally, it spread without being able to detect the other person."
"But now it’s different..."
Li Che’s eyes opened and closed, his aura murderous.
"You, yourself... have delivered the handle into my hands!"
With but a thought.
Li Che’s spirit sank into the Heaven and Earth chessboard within the Chess Saint’s Dao Fruit.
The LV3 Chess Saint’s Dao Fruit wielded even greater suppressive power now.
The white bony hand transformed from the Seven Elements Corpse Curse Seal was suppressed right in the center of the chessboard, encircled by the chess pieces formed by the Pure Heart Divinity, holding down the bony hand!
The rich Corpse Qi and Death Qi escaped from that chilling white bony hand, even the Pure Heart Chess Pieces were faintly showing signs of being washed away.
Each chess piece vibrated slightly!
"The suppression is very difficult... It is no wonder it’s a Seven Elements Corpse Curse Seal. If such a curse were to be inflicted into Xi Xi’s body, she would surely be in unbearable pain, or even driven to stark madness by the Corpse Qi and Death Qi... neither human nor ghost."
"Damn it!"
At this thought, Li Che’s anger became uncontrollable.
Thinking of his daughter’s future torment, Li Che’s killing intent surged, feeling that he had been too lenient with Shangguan Qinglei.
He should have subjected him to the Thousand Spider Threads!
Li Che cursed inwardly!
However, what he hated and was more wary of was the hidden high-ranking member of the Corpse God Cult manipulating Shangguan Qinglei!
Humming—
Suddenly, Li Che’s spirit condensed.
He saw the chilling white bony hand that was suppressed in the Heaven and Earth chessboard suddenly begin to tremble.
Those five bony fingers moved crackling, as if turning into five extremely sharp spears, aiming to puncture the void and tear apart the bindings of the Heaven and Earth chessboard!
"Remote manipulation? Trying to recall this Corpse Curse Seal?"
"Wishful thinking!"
Li Che became serious, and a coldness rumbled in his eyes.
With a focus of his spirit, he controlled the Pure Heart Divine Chess Pieces to press down aggressively.
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In a secret chamber shrouded in darkness.
A silhouette, enveloped within dark smoke, suddenly shuddered.
Within the mist, a pair of ghostly eyes flickered with a fierce light.
"Discovered?"
"Who exactly is it... who can suppress my ’White Bone Bodhisattva Lethal Claw Mark’?"
A coldness appeared in the haunting eyes.
"Then... let us fight!"
The figure in the black mist shook its hands out of the black robe, and in an instant, ten bronze fingers intertwined with a dense death qi and corpse qi, furiously forming strange hand seals.
Around him, countless ghostly figures suddenly appeared.
Crack, crack, crack, crack—
Chilling bone claws ceaselessly reached out from the dark ghostly figures, slowly stretching into the whirl of dark mist in front of the shadowy figure.
The dense array of chilling bone claws emerged simultaneously.
It felt like crossing the bridge of hell, where countless bony hands reach out from the River Styx, filled with the unwillingness and wails of the departed souls.
Grasping at the newcomer’s feet, they sought to drag him into the underworld.
"Come, let’s have a contest!"
The shadow in the mist let out a low laugh, somewhat crazed, somewhat twisted.
"Parent-Child Corpse Curse Seal, with the main seal still in my possession, how could you suppress the sub-seal?"
"Mother calls."
"Child returns—!"
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Above the Shangguan Family mansion.
A mass of red clouds rolled in instantly, a tremendous divine sense sweeping across, burning and twisting the air with its intense heat!
Within the red clouds, Zhu Hong Dou’s eyes burned with a crimson flame, and behind her, a distorted figure of a deity emerged, its body aflame, animal-bodied and human-faced, indistinct but certainly not a Void Aspect, it was a true Elemental Appearance!
Zhu Hong Dou’s black hair instantly stood on end and turned red. She was clad in an armor made from red crystals, holding a long spear, and two ghostly dragon shadows spread from her feet.
Firewalking Red Emperor Flame God Aspect!
In an instant, it was as if a dazzling sun hung over the Shangguan mansion.
"Shangguan Jie, you old fool, come out!"
Zhu Hong Dou bellowed, "Otherwise I’m coming in to kill!"
Within the Shangguan mansion, there was silence for a moment before Shangguan Jie rose into the air, his beard and hair flying, his anger uncontrollable.
The extreme Divinity of Fear spread in the air.
"This is too much! My son is already dead. What more do you want, Zhu Hong Dou?"
"Do you really want to exterminate the Shangguan Family?"
Shangguan Jie’s Extremely Terrifying God Plunderer Divine Aspect soared into being, endless terror divinity swirling as if black clouds rising in the sky, seizing the souls of those who beheld it. Find your next adventure on empire
His hair fluttered wildly as he looked coldly at Zhu Hong Dou. In terms of presence, he even seemed to surpass Zhu Hong Dou by a fraction.
However, the divine phase method cultivated by Zhu Hong Dou was obtained from the Golden Temple’s Divine Tower on Golden Light Peak. Although only a low grade, it was still superior to his divine phase method.