A Gentleman's Revenge Doesn't Wait Overnight

Heavenly King Li felt his heart skip a beat. A sense of foreboding rose within him, and he hastily stood up, laughing from afar. "Chen Shi has returned? Whose praises is Chen Shi burning high incense for here? Hurry over to this place!"

Last time he escorted the Niraya Divine Tree to the Heavenly Court, he suffered attacks from numerous Daluo Golden Immortals and was severely injured. He had been recuperating ever since, and even now, his injuries had not yet fully healed, with many wounds still dotting his body.

He was originally a disciple of Dipankara Buddha, a man of Buddhism, who had achieved godhood through his physical body while concurrently cultivating the Dao of Immortality.

In the Earthly Immortal Realm, such practitioners who were both gods and immortals had a special designation known as achieving saintliness through the physical body.

The word "saint" here referred to the simultaneous cultivation of immortals and gods to transcend the ordinary and enter sainthood.

Qi refiners who achieved saintliness through the physical body tended to possess formidable physiques and extremely powerful regenerative abilities. Heavenly King Li should have recovered from his injuries long ago, but alas, the ones who struck this time were existences at the Daluo Golden Immortal level, causing his injuries to linger to this day.

Chen Shi walked toward the appointing platform, saying, "Heavenly King Li, I am talking to my Godmother! Godmother, you must seek justice for my child, and absolutely cannot lightly spare that person... My apologies, Heavenly King Li, I will come over after a brief word with Godmother... Your child almost died in that villain's hands. Especially at Spirit Vulture Mountain, where a single misstep and the Great World Honored One probably wouldn't have let me go either..."

Beads of sweat the size of soybeans