Chapter 1027

When Qin Yi deployed her techniques to intercept Li Li Wuyuan, Qin Ying, and the others under control, Li Li Lingjing's figure shot forth like a streak of light.

She gripped the Green Snake Staff and charged straight toward the Corrupting Spirit Demon.

At this moment, the Corrupting Spirit Demon's blood sea had been frozen, significantly impairing its condition—it had relied on the blood sea to obscure the regulatory suppression of the Spiritual Phase Heavenly Realm, and now that the blood sea was frozen, this concealment had naturally developed flaws.

Thus, the terrifying pressure emanating from within the Corrupting Spirit Demon was continuously weakening, and its power had undoubtedly plummeted.

Shhh!

A streak of emerald poison light pierced the sky, carrying an exotic fragrance, and slammed toward the Corrupting Spirit Demon.

Sensing the incoming attack, the Corrupting Spirit Demon paused, extended its palm, and its palm's flesh writhed, transforming into a twisted human face that opened its mouth and shrieked, spewing forth a black light saturated with corruption.

The black light collided with the poison light, and the poison light was swiftly dissolved.

Even though the Corrupting Spirit Demon had been greatly weakened, its power still far surpassed Li Li Lingjing's Nine-Star Tian Zhu Jing.

Yet Li Li Lingjing showed no fear; her figure flashed and blocked its path.

The Corrupting Spirit Demon stared at Li Li Lingjing, a strange expression appearing on its face; its crimson, snake-tongue-like tongue involuntarily flicked out to lick its lips as a cold voice spoke: "No. 3, you and I are both aberrations, yet now you choose to protect a human? How absurd."

Li Li Lingjing stared coldly at this No. 1 aberration and said calmly: "Don't equate yourself with me—you're a worthless fool who doesn't even know who you are, drowned in endless negative emotions; do you still remember your original name?"

The Corrupting Spirit Demon froze for several breaths, a look of confusion surfacing in its eyes—it truly could no longer recall its name; then, who was it?

The confusion lasted a moment, then endless negative emotions surged forth; its face twisted further into grotesqueness, its gaze drooling as it fixed on Li Li Lingjing: "No. 3, you are truly unique. Precisely because of this, I will devour you today!"

"Devour you, and I will become the most perfect Corrupting Spirit Demon! In the future, I will even become the King of Aberrations!"

As the words ended, the Corrupting Spirit Demon spat out a blood-red light hundreds of zhang wide; from within the blood light emerged a pale, giant-like hand, its palm's flesh writhing as a razor-sharp flesh-and-bone spike gradually pushed forth.

Zzzz!

The flesh-and-bone spike pierced through space, striking Li Li Lingjing at an unimaginable speed.

This assault was devastatingly sharp—wherever the spike passed, even space was sliced open. Though the Corrupting Spirit Demon's energy had been weakened by the frozen blood sea, the sheer force of its strike remained terrifyingly potent, far beyond Xiao Tian Xiang Jing.

Li Li Lingjing retreated rapidly, swinging the Green Snake Staff to unleash countless streaks of poison light, yet each streak dissolved instantly upon contact with the flesh-and-bone spike—there remained a vast gulf in power levels between them.

Seeing this, Li Li Lingjing drew a deep breath; her eyes gradually turned crimson as intense murderous and violent emotions rose within her.

Finally, she formed a single hand seal.

Zzzz! Zzzz!

Behind her, nine brilliant Tian Zhu surged violently, then began to spread crimson hues within them; in mere moments, the nine dazzling Tian Zhu behind Li Li Lingjing had completely transformed into blood-red.

The nine blood-red orbs rotated, their scarlet glow piercing the eyes.

Li Li Lingjing's previously tied-up long hair now cascaded down like a waterfall, reaching her slender waist; as the strands stirred in the wind, she exuded a distinctly demonic aura.

Behind Li Li Lingjing, a colossal Black Serpent materialized; its originally dark-black scales now stained crimson, appearing from afar like a devouring blood serpent.

Clearly, facing the terrifying Corrupting Spirit Demon, Li Li Lingjing could no longer hold back—she had to unleash every technique, for she must stop the Corrupting Spirit Demon and buy Li Luo some time.

Li Li Lingjing gripped the Green Snake Staff, her slender figure charging directly toward the flesh-and-bone spike; behind her, the blood-red Black Serpent slithered down and coiled around the staff.

She swung the staff, enveloped in vast energy; the Black Serpent roared and clashed head-on with the massive bone spike.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

In the high sky, within mere moments, they clashed over a dozen times; each collision between staff shadow and bone spike unleashed terrifying energy shockwaves, even cracking the fabric of space with jagged fissures.

With every impact, the blood-red Black Serpent on the staff let out a pained shriek, yet Li Li Lingjing remained unmoved; her crimson eyes blazed with mad fury.

As she unleashed wave after wave of near-frenzied assaults, when the final staff strike fell, the flesh-and-bone spike finally reached its limit and exploded violently.

Li Li Lingjing flashed backward, her hair fluttering; her hand gripping the Green Snake Staff was drenched in blood—the sheer recoil from the direct clashes had shattered her palms.

"No. 3, you too were once lost in darkness, yet now you dare to shield a human with the folly of a cicada trying to stop a cart—you know full well the gulf between us; keep fighting, and you will die," the Corrupting Spirit Demon observed Li Li Lingjing with strange curiosity.

"Though you still cling to your self, you are ultimately a heartless one—this emotion is utterly superfluous to you."

Li Li Lingjing lowered her gaze slightly; within her crimson eyes, murderous and violent intent churned. She gripped the Green Snake Staff tightly—the icy touch along its surface stirred a faint ripple deep within her heart.

The Corrupting Spirit Demon before her did not understand.

Precisely because she had witnessed the despairing darkness, she wished to preserve the last sliver of light.

That sliver of light was a beacon and a hope.

Just as in the abandoned courtyard of the Xi Ling Li Shi, where she sat motionless in a wheelchair, awaiting the dissolution of her sanity, she had seen that boy suddenly appear before her.

In that instant, Li Li Lingjing had seen a glimmer of hope upon him—so she had offered the jade pendant and resolved to fight to the death.

Thus, that sliver of light was Li Luo.

Lose that sliver of light, and she would no longer be Li Li Lingjing.

She would become the Corrupting Spirit Demon.

Li Li Lingjing clenched the Green Snake Staff, expressionless; suddenly, one of the nine blood-red Tian Zhu behind her emitted a cracking sound.

One Tian Zhu seemed to compress violently, then collapsed—but as it collapsed, an astonishingly immense energy erupted forth.

That was Li Li Lingjing directly detonating one Tian Zhu!

To gain a brief surge of enhanced power—this was the final resort of a Tian Zhu Jing cultivator.

"A futile gesture, beyond salvation," the Corrupting Spirit Demon observed, shaking its head coldly.

Its two black horns upon the forehead began to writhe; at their tips, two crimson eyeballs slowly opened, their pupils appearing as overlapping shadows, endlessly multiplying like an infinite kaleidoscope.

"Infinite Death Eyes!!"

The crimson eyeballs trembled, spewing forth a pure black death light; wherever the death light passed, all things were annihilated—even the celestial and terrestrial energies were reduced to lifeless stillness.

Li Li Lingjing drew a deep breath; the violent energy from the shattered Tian Zhu was now fully channeled into the Green Snake Staff in her hand.

Then, the three purple eyes on the staff blazed brilliantly; the next instant, the staff writhed and transformed into a colossal green serpent.

The green serpent coiled, shielding Li Li Lingjing within.

Green Serpent Seat!

Boom!

The death light pierced through space and struck the coiled green serpent directly—immediately, the serpent shrieked as its scales began rapidly melting.

Li Li Lingjing's eyes darkened slightly, then without hesitation, she self-detonated another Heaven Pearl again!

Boom!

Fierce energy roared out, empowering the Green Snake.

"A dying struggle." The Soul-Eroding True Demon twisted into a grotesque, grimacing smile; another beam of death-light shot from the eye in his demonic horn, directly tearing a massive gash in the coiling Green Snake.

Yet facing the Soul-Eroding True Demon's terrifying attack, Li Li Lingjing remained expressionless; even as fresh blood spilled from the corner of her mouth, she remained unmoved.

Then she self-detonated Heaven Pearl after Heaven Pearl.

Boom! Boom!

The booming sound of the Heaven Pearls exploding rang out continuously.

In the distance, Qin Yi, who was currently entangled with others, could not help but cast a moved glance; self-detonating Heaven Pearls like this—wasn't Li Li Lingjing afraid of damaging her foundation?

Was this Li Luo worth her risking her life like this?

Qin Yi's gaze held a touch of complexity.

And when Li Li Lingjing's Heaven Pearls reached the fourth self-detonation, her own condition had become extremely dire; scarlet fresh blood spilled from the corner of her mouth, dripping continuously down her sharp chin.

Boom!

At this moment, the pitch-black death-light had completely torn the Green Snake apart.

Li Li Lingjing knew that self-detonating Heaven Pearls at this point could no longer block the opponent's attack, so she clenched her jade hand, and a jade bottle appeared in her palm.

Boom!

The death-light pierced through; the Green Snake completely shattered, finally turning into a dim Green Snake Staff that fell from the sky.

The backlash sent Li Li Lingjing's figure flying backward; gazing at the pursuing pitch-black death-light, she endured the violent churning of qi and blood within her body, then moved to crush the jade bottle and swallow the Number Two Aberration inside.

The pitch-black death-light rapidly magnified in Li Li Lingjing's pupils.

And just in that instant, Li Li Lingjing suddenly felt her flying body collide with something; then she felt a powerful arm wrap around her waist, simultaneously dissolving all the raging, violent power wreaking havoc within her body.

Li Li Lingjing looked up in astonishment, then saw that familiar, handsome face.

It was Li Luo.

However, at this moment, Li Luo was surging with extremely ferocious scarlet energy; his originally gray-white hair was now dyed a blood-red color, and a terrifying aura rose up like a hurricane across the heavens and earth.

He held Li Li Lingjing with one arm, while his other hand held a blade, which he casually slashed down.

Hum!

In that instant, it seemed a hundred-zhang blade-light suddenly appeared; the blade-light was scarlet, with the faint sound of a wolf howl filled with killing intent resonating across the sky.

The firmament seemed to be cleaved open at this very moment.

The blade-light sliced through the void and collided with the death-light.

In the instant of collision, the death-light shattered, turning into a sky full of light points.

The fierce wind howled; above the sky, Li Luo stood in mid-air holding a straight blade, his gaze fixed on the distant Soul-Eroding True Demon with a touch of ferocity and brutality, his voice like a violent thunderclap.

"Dog thing, have you been arrogant enough?"

"If you have, isn't it my turn?!"