Chapter 1021: The Other

When Li Luo's somewhat gloomy words rang out, Qin Yi beside him immediately felt a chill run through her body, and majestic phase force like a clear spring roared out from within her, transforming into countless water droplets around her, forming a defensive posture.

Simultaneously behind her, four resplendent Tian Zhu condensed into existence like stars, inhaling and exhaling the energies of heaven and earth.

Her gaze was wary and vigilant as she stared at the graceful figure of "Li Li Lingjing" ahead. This Other indeed was bizarre, able to transform so perfectly that one could hardly spot any outward flaw.

Although Li Luo's suspicion was admittedly a stretch, so his words were more likely a probe, but in the current environment, excessive caution was in fact a life-saving trump card.

Li Luo gripped the saber hilt tightly, his gaze cold and wary as he stared at that extremely familiar figure.

And within Li Luo's and the other's wary gazes, the slender body of "Li Li Lingjing" seemed to tremble slightly, then laughter rang out.

Only that laughter did not come from her mouth, but from within the thick long hair at the back of her head. Then the long hair automatically parted, revealing a pale, twisted face at the back of her skull, its eerie gaze fixed on Li Luo and the other.

The twisted face at the back of her skull let out a piercing laughter, which seemed to contain some bizarre power; merely hearing it caused countless negative emotions to well up within one's heart.

Seeing this scene, Li Luo and Qin Yi completely gave up the last shred of hope in their hearts. The "Li Li Lingjing" before them was indeed transformed by that Other.

Li Luo's probe was not wasted effort; perhaps it was also because the Other before them had no interest in continuing the act with them.

"Hiss hiss!"

The twisted ghost face erupted with a sharp, piercing sound. Viscous, blood-red energy spurted from its mouth, actually turning the head of black hair into blood-red hair.

In the next instant, the blood-red hair seemed to come alive, rapidly intertwining and transforming into two fanged blood serpents. With a lash, the blood serpents pierced through the void at a startling speed, shooting violently toward Li Luo and the other.

A chilling force filled with filth and negative emotions roared forth, causing even Li Luo's breathing to falter slightly. Yet the speed of his hand was not slow, and his archaic straight saber had already taken the lead in slashing down.

The saber light swept down, tearing a mark in the void, within which the sound of raging waters surged. In the next instant, a majestic, lifelike black dragon shattered the void as it charged out, wrapped in a stream of ghastly cold nether water. As the nether water surged forth, it rapidly merged with the black dragon, instantly causing the dragon's momentum to surge. The dragon claws swung, and dozens of zhang of massive, deep claw marks appeared directly on the ground.

A corrosive force emanated from the claw marks, continuously dissolving the ground, its destructive power astonishing.

Marquis-rank Art, Black Dragon Nether Water Banner! Great Perfection Stage!

Clearly, facing this Other of unknown depth, Li Luo did not dare to underestimate it in the slightest. The moment he struck, it was a fierce killing move.

Qin Yi's side also had a solemn pretty face at this moment. The four resplendent Tian Zhu behind her spun at high speed, and a phantom identical to herself emerged—that was the Water Spirit Envoy.

The moment the Water Spirit Envoy appeared, it drew the water-attribute energies of heaven and earth to surge toward Qin Yi.

She extended her slender hand, and a flow of green jade light could be seen. Her jade fingers plucked like strumming a zither, emitting a crisp sound like jade stone. Then the jade light erupted, transforming into a green jade hand seal several zhang large, which collided with the roaring blood serpents.

Marquis-rank Art, Star-Plucking Green Jade Hand!

Boom!

In the next instant, an extremely violent and astonishing energy shockwave erupted, tearing deep marks into the ground.

And at the point of collision, the two blood serpents condensed from dripping blood hair suddenly opened their fang-filled maws. Within those maws, a pair of pale human hands actually grew. The human hands formed bizarre hand seals, and instantly viscous blood mist roared forth.

As the blood mist swept past, both Li Luo's Black Dragon Nether Water Banner and Qin Yi's Green Jade Hand Seal dissolved in an instant.

Li Luo and Qin Yi both changed expression slightly upon seeing this. They had not held back at all in their previous attacks, yet they had not expected them to be broken so easily.

And in the moment their expressions changed, the figure of "Li Li Lingjing" ahead suddenly vanished eerily into thin air.

At the same instant she vanished, the blood mist before Li Luo suddenly writhed, and "Li Li Lingjing" condensed into existence. The Emerald Bamboo Green Serpent Staff in her hand had at this moment become a ghastly white bone—looking closely, it was unmistakably a thigh bone still with flesh and blood clinging to it.

The thigh bone in "Li Li Lingjing's" hand, like a club, swung lightly toward Li Luo's head.

Vast, majestic blood light swept and roared atop the thigh bone, faintly transforming into a sinister ghost face. Countless shrill wails rang out, bewitching the mind.

As the bone smashed down, Li Luo immediately felt a terrifying force sweep over him, a force far beyond what Tian Zhu Jing could compare to!

On Li Luo's brow, the Nine-Scale Dragon Seal erupted with resplendent light. On the surface of his body, dragon scales faintly appeared, and as his flesh and blood trembled, a powerful force erupted as well.

"Nine-Scale Heavenly Dragon Battle Body, Nine Dragon Force!"

"Thunder Roar Body! Fivefold Thunder Sound!"

"Triple Elephant God Power!"

In this instant, Li Luo directly unleashed all his secret techniques. The Thunder Roar Body even reached the level of Fivefold Thunder Sound, because his Dragon Thunder Phase had evolved, causing the thunder power within him to grow strong, finally allowing this art to reach perfection.

The phase force within Li Luo also surged and churned, merging into vast, majestic dual-phase power. As the phase force flowed, spirit marks flickered faintly within it, filling the phase force with spirituality.

The three Tian Zhu behind him became even more resplendent at this moment, madly absorbing the energies of heaven and earth.

Li Luo gripped his saber and slashed out. In an instant, the saber light flowed like starlight, and the vast force caused the void to subtly distort, then collided head-on with the ghastly white thigh bone smashing down.

Clang!

As saber and bone collided, violent energy tremors rang out, the sound of metal accompanied by sparks flying. The ground where Li Luo stood instantly cracked and collapsed.

A tremendous force poured down like a flood. Even though Li Luo had activated many secret techniques, the palm gripping the saber hilt was still torn open at the Hukou in this instant, fresh blood flowing down along his palm.

The dual-phase power flowing on the saber blade was continuously eroded by the filthy, blood-red energy emitting piercing wails. Had it not been for the spirit marks contained within the dual-phase power, it would likely have collapsed completely in an instant.

The power revealed by "Li Li Lingjing" was almost overwhelming.

And just as Li Luo's saber light was about to completely shatter, Qin Yi also hurried to reinforce. She opened her red lips, and a blue water droplet roared out, seemingly containing within it a vast lake and ocean. This water-system light pearl appeared unassuming, yet was as heavy as a mountain. As it flew out, even the void was compressed into a slight distortion.

This item was precisely Qin Yi's dual purple-eye treasure, the Hao Han Heavy Water Pearl.

The Heavy Water Pearl transformed into a flash of water and heavily struck the thigh bone swung by "Li Li Lingjing." Immediately a humming sound rang out, and vast gravity descended, managing to freeze the roaring blood-red ghost face atop the thigh bone for an instant.

And Li Luo's figure took the opportunity to retreat violently.

He appeared beside Qin Yi, the hand gripping the saber hilt trembling constantly, and said, "I must thank Fairy Qin for her intervention."

Qin Yi said in a solemn voice, "If you truly died at its hands, I wouldn't be able to escape either."

"Its strength should be around Xiao Tian Xiang Jing, not as strong as Senior White Ape said. I think it should not be the true body of that Other," Li Luo said rapidly. From the previous contact, he had roughly gauged the strength of the Other before him.

"Xiao Tian Xiang Jing is still more than enough to kill the two of us," Qin Yi said, her beautiful eyes looking at Li Luo. "Li Luo Dragon Head, if you don't bring out the trump cards you used to kill Tian Miao and Zhao Yan before, I'm afraid it will be very hard for us to escape."

The two of them, one at Three Star Tian Zhu Jing and one at Four Star Tian Zhu Jing, even though both could be considered the cream of their peers, clearly could not deal with the Other before them by normal means.

"This thing can merge into the blood mist, ghostly and unpredictable. If we don't trap it, I find it hard to finish it in one strike," Li Luo said, looking at the Other. At this moment, the latter's body dissipated again, merging into the blood mist and vanishing.

An Other in this form was even harder to deal with. If Li Luo activated the power of the Three-Tailed Heavenly Wolf and it sensed the crisis and chose to temporarily hide, it would instead put Li Luo in the awkward position of having strength but nowhere to use it.

Hearing this, Qin Yi gazed at the spreading blood mist with her beautiful eyes, pondered slightly, and said, "On this point, I can actually help."

"Oh?" Li Luo's brow lifted slightly. This Qin Yi actually had a method to trap an Other whose strength reached Xiao Tian Xiang Jing?

"It seems Dragon Head Li Luo has forgotten what happened at the Dragon Pool Struggle."

Qin Yi smiled faintly, then did not wish to say more. Her slender jade hands suddenly formed seals, and the gemstone earring hanging from her fair earlobe dropped down, simultaneously blooming with countless rays of light.

These rays of light intertwined, gradually transforming into a water-gleaming palace that covered this entire region.

Gazing at this somewhat familiar water-gleaming palace, Li Luo suddenly recalled how, during the Dragon Pool Contest, Qin Yi had summoned a Shuidian strange formation that blocked all of Li Li Tianwang's faction's prodigies.

This water-gleaming palace appeared to be a strange formation with replication power — anyone who fell into it would be entangled by replicated water shadows.

And as the water-gleaming palace took shape, the blood mist that had originally spread everywhere gradually receded. Somewhere ahead, a blood shadow emerged — the aberration that had transformed into Li Li Lingjing revealed itself.

The moment this blood shadow appeared, light and shadow immediately wove together on the mirror-like ground beneath its feet, and then a "water shadow fake body" identical to it was replicated out.

The moment the "water shadow fake body" appeared, it swept forward wrapped in dense corruption energy, lunging at "Li Li Lingjing."

"Li Li Lingjing" let out an eerie laugh as it met the attack. Vast, majestic corruption energy rolled down like a river of blood, continuously dissolving the "water shadow fake body."

Clearly, the "water shadow fake body" was ultimately fake — it could not truly withstand "Li Li Lingjing."

"Li Luo Dragon Head, please hurry. This time I don't have the blessing of the 'Fire Lotus Camp,' so my replication power is also greatly weakened," Qin Yi said through gritted red lips, urging him on.

Li Luo nodded slightly. From within the crimson bracelet on his wrist, what seemed to be the howl of a wolf echoed out. The very next instant, violently wild crimson energy surged out like a flood, pouring into Li Luo's body.

Boom!

Li Luo's aura surged instantly at this moment. His energy fluctuations rose at a startling speed, and in the span of a brief moment, it once again reached the limit that this Lingxiang Cave Heaven could endure.

Xiao Tian Xiang Jing!

Feeling the astonishing energy flowing within his body, Li Luo's expression was quite calm. He did not become intoxicated by it — after all, he was someone who had commanded eight thousand banner troops and wielded marquis-level power, so Xiao Tian Xiang-level energy was only a small matter in his eyes.

Li Luo's bloodstained hand once again tightened around the saber hilt. His gaze coldly fixed on "Li Li Lingjing" trapped within the water palace. His foot stamped down violently, and wild energy poured forth like a mountain torrent. Thunder instantly crackled across the void with a deafening roar.

Li Luo's figure shot out explosively like Lei Guang, killing intent rising on all sides.