Chapter 1071: Chapter One Thousand and Seventy-Nine: One Slash to Cut It Down

And the instant the voice of the observing referee fell, Li Luo stepped out first under the gaze of countless eyes, his expression calm.

At the same time, the three Xiang Palaces within his body rumbled into motion, and his powerful Xiang power was displayed without the slightest reservation.

Five resplendent Tian Zhu condensed into being behind him.

Five-Star Tian Zhu Jing!

And when Li Luo's five Tian Zhu were revealed, on the ring-shaped viewing stands, countless eyes abruptly contracted; even Senior Zong Sha, Jiang Wan Yu and the others showed considerable changes in expression.

Because Li Luo's strength had, compared to when he was in the Ling Xiang Grotto-Heaven, once again made tremendous progress!

They had originally assumed that Li Luo was at most at the Four-Star Tian Zhu Jing now, but clearly, they had still underestimated Li Luo's cultivation speed.

And Lu Ming, Jing Tai Xu, and Sun Da Sheng stared at the five dazzling Tian Zhu behind Li Luo, falling into a long silence.

This gap was even greater than they had imagined.

Amid those numerous shocked gazes, Li Luo's figure suddenly shot forth, his speed like a thunderbolt, sweeping across the vast plaza.

At the same time as his figure shot out, everyone saw a massive bow suffused with a wild, primordial aura appear in Li Luo's hand.

Sky Dragon Sun-Chasing Bow!

The moment this bow appeared, the three purple eyes upon it immediately drew in streams of heaven and earth energy, and suddenly from the massive bow there seemed to emanate a deafening dragon's roar.

The moment a Three-Purple-Eye treasure appeared on the field, it drew countless envious gazes; after all, a treasure of this level was difficult even for the top students of the Ancient Academies to obtain, let alone those of the Holy Academies?

Li Luo directly drew the bowstring, and the Xiang power within his body flowed, fusing into Dual Xiang Power, which he poured forth.

Hum!

On the bowstring, a streak of flowing-light arrow rapidly condensed into being, with waves of violent energy spreading out from it, causing the void to tremble.

This arrow, under the augmentation of a Three-Purple-Eye treasure, would require even a Seven-Star Tian Zhu Jing opponent to treat it with utmost seriousness.

Whoosh!

The next instant, the light arrow pierced through the air, like lightning rending the heavens; in a single breath, it traversed ten thousand zhang, wrapped in a storm of energy, and bombarded straight toward Wang Tao's face.

Wang Tao roared furiously, and seven resplendent Tian Zhu condensed into being behind him; the heaven and earth energy was stirred and spread like a storm.

He had no intention of yielding either; the heavy sword in his hand was likewise wrapped in extremely powerful Xiang power, sword-light soaring to the heavens as if piercing through the clouds.

"Slash!"

Wang Tao's furious roar was like thunder.

The domineering sword-light poured down, colliding directly with that light arrow.

But at the moment of impact, Wang Tao saw that light arrow suddenly split apart, and the three arrows it divided into shot forth with a swish toward the area behind him.

Wang Tao's expression darkened; it turned out that Li Luo's arrow was meant to sweep the field clean.

The three light arrows, at astonishing speed, shot toward the three team members behind Wang Tao, and at this moment those three were also startled by this sudden attack, their faces deathly pale as they cried out: "Captain, save us!"

Even the strongest among those three, a Three-Star Academy student, had only just stepped into the Extreme Sha; with this strength, they simply could not withstand a single arrow from Li Luo!

However, faced with the pleas for help from his three teammates, Wang Tao's expression remained impassive; he had no intention of rescuing them, and instead his sword-light suddenly shattered the light arrow before him, then stamped his foot, his figure charging forth like a wild bull, aimed straight at Li Luo.

This Wang Tao was also rational; he understood that his three teammates were simply not worth saving, and that instead he could seize the chance to close in on Li Luo.

Because the Three-Purple-Eye bow-type treasure in Li Luo's hand made him feel considerable threat, so it was best to engage in close combat, preventing Li Luo from employing this bow.

Boom!

Seeing Wang Tao's action, those three team members also understood that they had been abandoned, and could only helplessly erupt with all their Xiang power, pulling out every protective means they had.

But it was no use at all.

Boom, boom!

As the three light arrows shot forth, the three figures were sent flying backward as if struck heavily, blood spraying wildly from their mouths; had it not been for a force descending from the heavens to shield their bodies, this single arrow would likely have killed them on the spot.

The elimination of the three members of the Sheng Xia Academy team took only a split second.

Few paid attention to the elimination of the three; their gazes were fixed only on Wang Tao, who was shooting toward Li Luo. By now the former had already closed to within a hundred zhang of Li Luo, the heavy sword in his hand flowing with violent Xiang power, and wherever it passed, the ground was split apart.

In the eyes of many, at this distance, Li Luo would find it very difficult to employ his "Three-Purple-Eye treasure bow" any longer.

Moreover, Wang Tao possessed the strength of a Seven-Star Tian Zhu Jing, two full stars above Li Luo; this kind of direct collision was enough to eliminate Li Luo with a single sword strike.

Countless gazes stared unblinkingly at the impending collision in the arena.

Li Luo's pupils likewise reflected Wang Tao's fierce, imposing figure, yet his expression was extraordinarily calm, showing not the slightest panic at the approach of a Seven-Star Tian Zhu Jing expert.

The Sky Dragon Sun-Chasing Bow in his hand vanished.

Then Li Luo's five fingers clenched together, and a slender, archaic-looking straight saber materialized in his hand.

Dragon Elephant Saber.

On the saber's body, three purple-eye-like marks inhaled and exhaled heaven and earth energy, which made the faces of quite a few observing students turn a little green—another Three-Purple-Eye treasure!

What kind of household is this?!

That Wang Tao's eyelid also twitched; the heavy sword in his hand was already his strongest treasure, yet it was only of the Single-Purple-Eye grade.

But fortunately, his own Xiang power grade held the advantage!

A fierce glint swirled in Wang Tao's eyes; without further hesitation, his strongest trump card erupted in an instant.

The saber-light revolved, like a fierce tiger.

"Marquis-Grade Art, Wind Extreme True Tiger Force!"

Wang Tao unleashed a saber strike in which his spirit, energy, and focus were condensed to the utmost; one saw a hundred-zhang saber-light sweep across, like an ancient fierce tiger crashing through the mountain forest, diving down, all beasts fleeing before it.

With this saber strike, Wang Tao was confident that even an opponent of the same Seven-Star Tian Zhu Jing would have no choice but to avoid its edge!

However, under his gaze, Li Luo did not dodge.

Li Luo's five fingers gripped the hilt of the Dragon Elephant Saber tightly, his gaze as calm as a deep pool; although he was only at Five-Star Tian Zhu Jing, with the augmentation of his three Xiang Palaces, his own Xiang power was in fact in no way inferior to that of some Six-Star Tian Zhu Jing practitioners.

"Dual Xiang Power."

On the blade of Li Luo's Dragon Elephant Saber, a halo formed by Dual Xiang Power appeared; the Dual Xiang Power surged and flowed, with countless mysterious light-traces dancing within it, making the Xiang power brimming with spirituality.

Li Luo's eyelids drooped slightly, and the nine-scale dragon-shaped mark between his brows bloomed with radiance.

"Nine-Scale Dragon Battle Physique · Power of Nine Dragons!"

The flesh and blood within Li Luo's body seemed to turn scalding like lava at this moment; astonishing power surged forth, causing the veins on his arms to bulge.

Li Luo stepped forward, the Dragon-Elephant Blade in his hand slashing violently down toward the front.

The void instantly shattered, and at the same time the roaring sound of surging waters rang out.

The next instant, within the rift in the void, a massive black dragon could be seen roaring out; the black dragon's mouth sucked in, and the rolling, bone-chilling dark waters were swallowed by it, and instantly on its sharp dragon claws, a corrosive power flowed.

The black dragon roared, and an overwhelming might erupted forth.

The black dragon pierced downward, directly meeting that sword light like a fierce tiger.

Boom!

The next instant, dragon and tiger collided.

Violent energy storms ravaged outward.

Yet, in Wang Tao's eyes, a shade of terror surged forth at this moment, because he discovered that when the two forces collided, his sword light was almost crumbling and melting away at an unimaginable speed.

"Impossible!" Wang Tao cried out in horror.

He, a dignified Seven-Star Tian Zhu Jing expert, how could it be possible that in a direct clash he would be crushed like rotten wood by Li Luo?!

Yet, no matter how cruel the fact, it was still a fact.

The black dragon roared, unleashing terrifying might; its sharp dragon claws pierced downward, tearing through the void along with it, completely shredding that sword light like a fierce tiger.

The black dragon howled forth, carrying with it a bone-chilling aura, and crashed toward Wang Tao.

Wang Tao only just managed to erupt with all his phase force, forming a defense before him.

Boom!

The energy storm ravaged and swept through.

The phase-force defense before Wang Tao almost instantly crumbled; the black dragon pierced through, leaving a deep gully of roughly a thousand zhang on the ground.

Li Luo stood in place, his blade planted as he stood.

He looked at Wang Tao ahead, whose face still bore an expression of disbelief and terror, slowly collapsing downward.

Bang!

The sound of Wang Tao's fall was especially grating in this silent atmosphere.

On the ring-shaped spectator stands, everyone seemed to have fallen into a petrified state.

Five stars versus seven stars.

Yet the result was... a single slash to cut him down.