"Ah... ah..."
"Cracked, cracked?!"
Zhou Tianshuiās heart ached to the point of being unable to breathe, his eyes filled with agony.
It was a pain and despair only understood by a Divine Sculpture Master, knowing a perfect divine sculpture was about to be born, yet... at the final moment, an unexpected mishap occurred.
The feeling was like a knife slicing through his flesh!
Yun Haiyangās face was also twisted with pain, it failed...
The appearance of a crack on the divine sculpture meant a flaw, signifying this sculpture could never become a Half-Saint Divine Sculpture.
Perhaps Li Che might save it with exquisite technique, but the sculptureās grade would plummet.
No hope left, none at all...
Itās not just these two Divine Sculpture Masters.
Around them, many Divine Sculpture Masters and Wood Carvers at Divine Carving Ridge revealed expressions of regret.
The more perfect the performance before, the more shocking the mistake at the end.
Some Wood Carvers couldnāt restrain their emotions, disregarding the quiet atmosphere of carving, letting out long sighs and wails.
Gongshu Jingjun and Tang Xiejia were also stunned, a bit dazed.
"Failed?"
"Seems like it failed... with cracks in the wood carving, it canāt be saved."
Gongshu Jingjun leaned back in his chair, sighing.
Tang Xiejia shook his head.
"What a pity..."
Too ambitious.
From Li Cheās previous carving methods and techniques, Hong Shifu felt Li Che had the ability to achieve Half-Saint Divine Sculpture.
Unfortunately, Li Che was too ambitious, choosing mortal wood as the material.
While bearing the divinity, the materialās flaws were exposed...
"Such a pity, what a pity... it cracked!"
Sect Masterās Wife Xuan Qisha covered her exquisite head, tactically hugging it.
She felt no joy or schadenfreude, just regret.
Everyone here was technical.
Just like her past struggles to reach Divine Talisman Half-Saint level, itās just a stroke, countless failures made her nearly numb.
And now, looking at Li Che, she seemed to see her former self.
Xi Xi was dumbfounded, everyoneās reaction...
Made Xi Xiās heart leap to her throat involuntarily.
"Ah? Is Daddy going to fail?!"
Xi Xiās big eyes suddenly showed a hint of worry.
Lv Taibai tousled Xi Xiās head.
"Who said your Daddyās going to fail? Itās... just the beginning."
Lv Taibai said with a smile.
Xuan Qisha frowned: "I may not understand divine sculpture, but Li Cheās carved wood is cracked, thatās an irreparable flaw..."
"Like when Iām painting talismans, if the paper cracks... can it succeed?"
Xuan Qisha looked at Lv Taibai, with no regard for his fifth place on the Great God List: "Youāre just a sword player, what do you know about divine sculpture!"
Lv Taibai was somewhat helpless.
The wife he married, he must cherish, being criticized is deserved...
"My dear wife... donāt be impatient."
Xuan Qisha crossed her arms, snorted once, then looked back at the direction where Li Che was carving the divine sculpture.
She wanted to see how Li Che would rescue it!
...
...
Li Cheās face remained calm; when the crack appeared on the Two-Mind Great Saint statue, it didnāt stir any ripples in his heart.
Because...
He intended for this crack to appear!
Elder Sun could carve a divine sculpture from mortal wood, and it could bear mighty divinity without cracking, so how could Li Che with [Immortal Artisan] Dao Fruit not achieve this?
The reason for the cracking was entirely the Divine Sculpture Masterās deliberate act.
Disregarding the cracks, Li Cheās engraving knife didnāt pause, and the previously steady pace abruptly changed, accelerating to the extreme, in a flash, the hand holding the engraving knife flickered with countless afterimages!
Bang bang bang bangā
Immortal Artisan Dao Fruit throbbed wildly!
Snapā!
A second crack appeared on the wood carving.
Li Che was unbothered, continuing to carve.
Snapā!
Again, a cracking sound emerged, seeming to tremble everyoneās souls.
Then came the third, fourth, fifth crack...
The number of cracks increased.
The floating divinity in Divine Carving Ridge didnāt stop; it continued to madly pour into the wood carving.
The eyes of the Two-Mind Great Saint Temple God Sculpture began to glimmer with golden light!
Yet the dense cracks made the entire statue look ghastly.
Supervisor Hong Shifu, bearing a chessboard, gazed deeply at the expanding cracks, yet felt no divinity leaking from them...
Suddenly.
In the regretful eyes of all.
Li Che stopped his engraving knife.
Stepped back.
Spread his ten fingers wide, under the astonished gazes of everyone.
Struck down hard!
The entire wood sculpture shattered into pieces!
Sawdust flew, breaking into countless small blocks!
"Ah?!"
"Crazy! Elder Li went mad with shame and completely lost it?!"
"Failed carving, Elder Li smashed the wood sculpture!"
Wood Carvers around were dumbfounded, shocked like thunderstruck, uproar ensued!
Yet.
Gongshu Jingjun, Fang Hanshu, Ding Zi, and other Divine Fetus Practitioners sensed something, abruptly looking over.
Their powerful Heaven and EarthSoul clearly perceived.
The fragments of the wood sculpture shattered by Li Che...
On each piece...
Were finely carved statues of the Two-Mind Great Saint!