Chapter 1133: The Strange Egg

Feng Lingyuan, Wei Chonglou, Duan Mu and the others all looked stunned, clearly shaken by the information Yin Yue Zhiyu had revealed. After all, although they had known Li Luo had some tricks, Li Luo himself was still only at Tian Zhu Jing. Even if he could leap ranks to defeat some Xiao Tian Xiang Jing, those Great Evil Ghouls were Da Tian Xiang Jing!

Even some students from the upper division of the Celestial Star Academy would struggle when facing these Great Evil Ghouls, since the aberrations were bizarre and their vitality was tenacious, making them extremely difficult to eradicate.

But now, Li Luo had relied on his Tian Zhu Jing strength to kill two Great Evil Ghouls?

Yet judging from Yin Yue Zhiyu's expression, she clearly wasn't joking.

Li Luo looked at their shocked gazes and said helplessly, "Didn't you check the Merit Board?"

Wei Chonglou's eyelid twitched. When he checked the Merit Board, he naturally only watched his own ranking and the changes in the top ten. Who would pay attention to Li Luo's movements?

Feng Lingyuan seriously summoned the "Merit Board," and sure enough, she saw Li Luo's name in seventeenth place. The Grade-A merit behind it proved that Li Luo should indeed have slain Great Evil Ghouls.

"Did you use that so-called external power of a refined beast? This place is within the projection of the 'Living Beings Ghost Skin Domain.' The fierce, violent power of refined beasts will attract the erosion of malicious Qi." Feng Lingyuan frowned and asked.

Li Luo shook his head and said, "Just a few other minor tricks."

A flash of surprise crossed Feng Lingyuan's eyes. Li Luo could contend with Great Evil Ghouls without relying on external refined beast power? Were the foundations of this Third Young Master of the Dragon Fang Lineage really that terrifying?

Wei Chonglou's expression also shifted slightly. Slaying Great Evil Ghouls wasn't too difficult for people of their caliber, but for Li Luo at Tian Zhu Jing to manage it was truly a bit frightening. After all, when he himself had been at Li Luo's level, he hadn't possessed such means.

So at this moment, even Wei Chonglou had to admit that this Li Luo seemed even more troublesome than he had imagined.

Duan Mu didn't dwell on this topic for too long. His gaze turned toward the massive deep crater ahead, where the blood pool and white pillar were far too eye-catching.

"This must be that Ten Thousand Skin Evil Heart Pillar, right?" Duan Mu's androgynously handsome face grew solemn as he spoke.

Then he stared at the bloody "skinners" hanging in midair, his expression growing even darker. "These 'human candles' that have been flayed of their skins are the students who were abducted."

"I saw some familiar faces among them. Although they've already lost their skins, I can still faintly sense them."

The others were all horrified. These blood-and-flesh 'human candles' were actually the abducted students?

But then, thick shock and fury welled up in their hearts. After all, these students were their companions, yet now they had been transformed into such a horrifying state.

"There's still vitality in their bodies. The Great Evil Ghouls abducted them, probably intending to use their essence blood to forge the Ten Thousand Skin Evil Heart Pillar," Feng Lingyuan said.

Yin Yue Zhiyu's pretty face also darkened. She stared at the churning blood pool and said with disgust, "Let's just strike directly and destroy this Ten Thousand Skin Evil Heart Pillar."

She stepped forward. Brilliant, radiant light-phase power erupted from within her body, transforming directly into a hundred-zhang torrent of light that blasted toward the Ten Thousand Skin Evil Heart Pillar.

The others didn't stop her. Someone did indeed need to make a probing strike at this point.

Boom!

The light-phase power slammed into the white giant pillar. The next instant, boundless malicious Qi surged out from within, and the light-phase power—replete with sacred, purifying aura—was scattered in a single rush.

Glug glug!

At this moment, violent bubbles suddenly rose in the blood pool below, and then everyone saw pallid human skins emerge from within.

The human skins rapidly swelled, as if viscous blood was being pumped into them. Within a few breaths, one figure after another appeared above the blood pool.

These figures were enveloped in surging malicious Qi. Their pupils were a bloody red, with blood constantly streaming out, like tears of blood.

When Feng Lingyuan, Yin Yue Zhiyu and the others saw these figures, their expressions grew extremely ugly, because those faces were all quite familiar to them. They were precisely the skins of the students who had been made into "human candles" hanging in midair.

Only now, those skins had been filled with blood and had formed into a kind of aberration.

And besides the aberrations formed from the students' skins, Evil Ghouls after Evil Ghouls also drilled out from the depths of the blood pool, among which even the figures of Great Evil Ghouls appeared.

Looking at an aberration army of this scale, everyone present understood that a bitter battle was unavoidable.

To destroy the Ten Thousand Skin Evil Heart Pillar, they had to clear out the aberrations guarding this place.

Moreover, the most terrifying thing wasn't the Great Evil Ghouls that had appeared, but rather that as more and more aberrations emerged, a vortex began to form in the blood pool.

Deep within the vortex, a strange egg roughly a zhang in size could faintly be seen. This strange egg was pallid all over, seemingly woven from layer upon layer of human skins. It frantically gulped down blood, and on the surface of its shell, one distorted, grotesque face after another bulged out.

Everyone felt a terrifying wave of malicious Qi emanate from the strange egg at this moment, as if something horrifying was being gestated within.

But before anyone could speak, the numerous aberrations and Evil Ghouls in the blood pool had already surged forth like a tide, then pounced murderously toward the group's formation.

"Meet the enemy!"

Feng Lingyuan's pretty face was icy. Her own phase power erupted completely at this moment. Countless gray-black rays of light shot explosively from beneath her feet, directly piercing through several Evil Ghouls charging at the very front.

Above her head, her "Tian Xiang Diagram" manifested, drawing in the energy of heaven and earth.

Yin Yue Zhiyu, Duan Mu, Wei Chonglou and the others also held nothing back. The strength of top-tier Da Tian Xiang Jing erupted fully. After clearing some aberrations blocking their path, they locked onto the most threatening Great Evil Ghouls.

The remaining students also struck one after another, engaging the aberrations.

In an instant, an intense great battle erupted. Phase power fluctuations surged skyward, and one Tian Xiang Diagram after another, along with Tian Xiang Jin Yin, emerged in succession.

Li Luo gripped the Dragon Elephant Blade. His blade light swept down, shattering the void. A black dragon riding frigid underworld water roared forth, directly cutting down all the aberrations ahead. Only two Evil Ghouls, brimming with vitality, dragged their mangled bodies and continued to pounce murderously with ferocious momentum.

Whoosh!

Two beams of black light imbued with death Qi whistled forth, landing on the two Evil Ghouls and directly dissolving them into black, foul-smelling water.

Li Luo turned his head and saw Li Hongyou standing not far away, holding the "Mystic Wood Fan," smiling at him.

"Thanks, Senior Sister Hongyou," Li Luo said with a smile. Actually, he didn't really need help on his side, but Li Hongyou had clearly still followed beside him to ensure his safety.

"The great battle has begun. These Seven Star Tian Zhu aren't enough anymore."

Li Luo glanced at the seven resplendent Tian Zhu floating behind him. He looked at the tide-like aberrations ahead, yet not a trace of fear showed in his eyes. Instead, they burned with scorching battle intent.

The three Xiang Palaces within his body hummed and trembled. His state had reached its peak.

At this moment, Li Luo understood that the opportunity he had been waiting for had arrived. So he took out the "Spirit-Comprehending Lotus" he had obtained earlier. At the center of the lotus leaf, a small purple-gold fish swam in the tiny puddle of water.

Li Luo reached out his hand, using phase power to draw out that "Spirit Lotus Mysterious Essence," then took out the "Tian Chi Pill."

He first stuffed the "Tian Chi Pill" into the fish mouth of the "Spirit Lotus Mysterious Essence," then pressed his hands together. As his phase power erupted, he directly compressed the "Spirit Lotus Mysterious Essence" into a ball of light.

Next, Li Luo used the Dragon Elephant Blade to cut a wound on his chest and stuffed this ball of light inside.

His own blood flowed down, washing over the ball of light. Immediately, a surge of tremendous energy swept toward his limbs and bones.

Feeling the power within his body that was beginning to rapidly intensify, Li Luo's gaze also grew scorching. Then, gripping the Dragon Elephant Blade, he directly charged proactively toward the numerous aberrations ahead.

At this moment, he needed a thoroughly exhilarating battle to completely refine and absorb that massive surge of energy, then borrow its power to complete this long-planned breakthrough.

Nine Star Tian Zhu Jing!

And as an intense great battle erupted around the blood pool, in the shadows not far away, a figure bearing a blood coffin on his back was also spying on the scene.

"What a lively scene."

Then the Blood Coffin Man's gaze turned toward the strange egg bobbing up and down within the blood pool vortex. At this moment, the blood coffin behind him shook violently, and from the cracks in the coffin lid, blood-red eyeballs seemed to be emerging one after another.

The Blood Coffin Man pressed down hard on the coffin lid, his gaze fixed on that strange egg with greed and longing.

"This is..."

"A True Demon Egg!"