As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life

Chapter 436: Chapter 175: Burning Mountains and Boiling Seas for Guanyin Lotus, No More Hunting God Pavilion in Golden Light Prefecture

Whoosh whoosh!

The heavy rain poured down, obscuring the sky for thousands of miles.

The darkness was oppressive and suffocating, as if it were night!

The winter clouds brought a more terrifying force than the summer rain, imposing a great pressure upon the entire Golden Light Prefecture City.

It seemed as though the heavens and earth were inclining, the mountains and rivers shattering!

Watching Tide Pavilion.

The carriage raced swiftly, its hubs spinning, kicking up splashes of water that continuously shattered the puddles.

After navigating many winding roads in the city, the carriage finally eased its way back to Watching Tide Pavilion.

They arrived before an unremarkable pavilion.

The figure, wearing a black robe and a black iron mask, slowly alighted from the carriage, donned a rain hat, and held it against the torrential winter rain, as the raindrops beat upon the hat, exploding into a hazy mist.

He knocked on the door, which opened a crack, and a black-robed figure eyed him up and down.

Then, they opened the door wide and let him into the house.

Inside the house.

The man with the black iron mask walked briskly, circulating his qi and blood as he walked, steaming his body dry.

He made his way to the center of the room, where a figure wearing a golden mask was busy with paperwork.

Suddenly.

The figure in the golden mask stopped their work, looked up, and stared at the figure in the black iron mask, frowning slightly.

“Did someone follow you here?”

The man in the black iron mask was startled: “My lord, what makes you say that?”

“My ‘Cautious Inquiry of the Divine’ is trembling… it indicates there’s a problem with you, or rather, you’ve brought back an enormous threat.”

The figure in the golden mask, hurriedly stood up from behind the desk.

His eyes became exceptionally sharp.

“Moreover… for my ‘Cautious Inquiry of the Divine’ to tremble, it indicates that the powers of the newcomer are certainly remarkable.”

The figure in the golden mask swung his large sleeves dramatically behind him, his body emitting a powerful and distorted force.

“Such a small Mansion City and yet, spreading our operations is proving to be so troublesome.”

“First a mission failure, losing two Nine Luminaries Assassins, and now a tail following you…”

“It truly is vexing!”

The figure in the golden mask sighed heavily.

The operations spread out by Hunting God Pavilion do have targets set by the headquarters.

If this monthly report is sent back to the headquarters, he fears they would scoff at him.

Hunting God Pavilion isn’t newly settled in Golden Light Prefecture City; Watching Tide Pavilion is their operation, and the Pavilion Master of Watching Tide Pavilion is one of their own, trained over a long period.

Now, directly taking over Watching Tide Pavilion should have been a seamless transition.

Suddenly,

The golden mask narrowed his eyes, twisted his head abruptly, and his figure had already appeared outside the door.

Whoosh whoosh!

The wind howled, and the raindrops shot like bullets!

The rain beat on the golden mask, slowly sliding off.

He stared at the distant sky, where, amidst the chaotic whirlwind, it seemed as if a great sun was setting into the sea, gradually sinking and vanishing.

The atmosphere around seemed to roll out with scorching breath.

“The silence of Martial Dao Will, roaring unwillingly at the heavens and earth…”

“A Great Grandmaster has fallen.”

“Within Golden Light Prefecture City, the only recognized Great Grandmaster… Xue Dufu!”

The figure in the golden mask spoke somberly.

And the man in the black iron mask trembled uncontrollably.

“How could this be?”

“How could Xue Dufu, of all people?”

“I just discussed a partnership with him. He agreed to offer a price to continue the assassination of Li Che and his wife Zhang Ya!”

The man in the black mask exclaimed in shock.

He had just left, and Xue Dufu, this Great Grandmaster…

Were he actually killed in the city?

“The fact is as it is… A Great Grandmaster has fallen.”

The man in the golden mask shook his head, trusting his own senses.

“The Four Sovereigns Eight Arms Prison Lotus Wrathful Third Prince Mysterious Temple… without even initiating the Temple God Resonance, a Great Grandmaster has fallen… chaos is gradually surfacing.”

“With great opportunities ahead, chaos ensues.”

“This Temple God Resonance Gathering… might far exceed past expectations!”

The figure in the golden mask seemed unsurprised.

In Divine Capital, Dao City, and other major cities, if a Four Royal Mysterious Temple initiates a Strange Que and opportunities manifest, brutal killings follow likewise.

The fall of a Divine Element True Person in the scramble for Four Imperial opportunities isn’t considered strange.

“However, I must clarify that this event has no relation to my Hunting God Pavilion, otherwise… as Xue Dufu was a Great Grandmaster under Ji Moli, albeit only a Master of Divine Gang, it could still bring trouble upon me.”

“Don’t be made a scapegoat for others.”

A calm voice emitted from beneath the golden mask.

The man in the black iron mask bowed, his body slightly trembling.

The golden mask shook his head and turned, intending to walk back to his desk to continue the papers he hadn’t finished.

Suddenly.

His stride halted abruptly, the moment his foot stamped on the wooden floor.

Like the forceful beat of a large drum, sound waves spread in all directions.

The eyes of the man in the golden mask narrowed, his pupils under the mask constricted.

Divinity burst forth uncontrollably from his body, swirling chaotically.

He slowly turned, looking towards the distant courtyard.

There…

Lay a wood carving, silently falling along with the rain.

It was a Guanyin statue seated on a lotus pedestal.

With benevolent brows and a mudra in hand.

Falling with the raindrops.

The man in the golden mask’s eyes narrowed.

With every hair on his body standing on end and his pores exuding intense heat,

a suffocating thrill surged from his chest, uncontrollably spewing forth the instant he locked eyes with that Guanyin wood carving!

What is this?

Why…

Though it appears to be just a wood carving, does it invoke such a bone-chilling sensation in him?

As if it could burn mountains and boil seas!

As if it could eradicate all life!

But…

It’s just a wood carving!

The next instant.

The golden mask’s body steamed with blood and divinity, a Shen Yuan Golden Elixir enveloped in mighty divinity suddenly emerged!