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

The fierce wind howled and snow whirled about.

The fire at the Heart Monkey Temple began gradually to diminish.

Li Che, wearing a conical hat and a Cute Bull Mask, stood on a large tree, engulfed in a black robe, fluttering in the winter snowstorm.

Beneath the mask, his pupils reflected the gradually fading firelight of the Heart Monkey Temple.

He sighed softly.

Master Faxing, it wasnʼt that Li Che didnʼt want to save him, but that he was beyond saving.

Burned out completely...

Still alive, barely clinging by a breath.

When Li Che killed Xuanli and broke the Thousand Soul Banner and other such spirit-nurturing techniques, as Master Faxingʼs thoughts emptied, he had already cut off his lifeline, leaving without any regrets.

This was a Master worthy of respect.

With his own life, he maintained the current glory of the once great tradition of the Equal Heaven Temple.

The Heart Monkey Temple was, after all, one of the three legacies passed down from the Equal Heaven Temple.

Master Faxing preserved the last vestige of face for the Heart Monkey Temple.

Li Che watched solemnly, the Heaven and Earth chessboard spread out again, centering on himself as a Stellar Position, expanding to encompass the entire Heart Monkey Temple within it.

Ensuring that all the evil people of the Corpse God Cult were dead, he then dispersed the Heaven and Earth chessboard, vanishing into the snowscape like a breeze.

When his figure reappeared.

He had already returned to the workshop courtyard in Falling Flower Alley of the Golden Light Prefecture.

Snow drifted from the sky.

Li Che stood amid the falling snow. This time, he had truly gone all out, successfully killing a Silver Gang Cursed Bronze Corpse.

He had killed a Seven Elements Corpse God Envoy.

Although it was only a Seven Elements Lower-rank Corpse God Envoy, this also meant that in terms of combat power, Li Che had now reached the level of Grandmaster Completion.

If he hadnʼt Ascended the Tower, and without the help of the Temple God Divinity Chess Piece, he would still have the potential to fatally strike at the Grandmaster Posterior Realm.

Summarizing and replaying this battle.

Li Che was elated. This battle… was his most righteous battle yet, except for the Barrett snipe shot by Horse Face.