Chapter 1135: Detection

Amid the chaotic battlefield, the area where Li Luo stood had turned into scorched earth, violent thunder power raging and roasting the ground pitch black.

At this moment he stood holding his saber, brilliant light bursting from his eyes.

Behind him, nine dazzling Tian Zhu slowly rotated, absorbing the energy of heaven and earth like a whale gulping, and an extremely powerful phase force fluctuation also radiated from within Li Luo's body at this moment.

Drawing numerous shocked gazes.

"Nine Star Tian Zhu Jing!"

Even though they were in the middle of a great battle, someone still could not help crying out in shock.

Even Feng Lingyuan, Yin Yue Zhiyu, Wei Chonglou and the others, who were locked in fierce combat with those great evil Qiao, were drawn by this powerful phase force fluctuation, and then they saw the nine Tian Zhu rotating behind Li Luo.

Their expressions immediately could not help changing.

For top students of the Upper Academy of the Celestial Star Academy like them, Nine Star Tian Zhu Jing was difficult, but after all each of them possessed outstanding talent and ninth-grade phase affinity, so when they were at Tian Zhu Jing, some of them had reached this step as well.

However, when they completed the accumulation of nine-star Tian Zhu, they had already entered the Four Star Academy, yet Li Luo had reached this realm at the Three Star Academy level.

This seemingly differed by only one year between them, but they all understood very well just how astonishing the difficulty within was.

Even proud Yin Yue Zhiyu had to admit that she could not have done this at Three Star Academy; even though her background, talent, and resources were all lacking nothing, in the end she still fell short by a little.

But now, Li Luo had done it.

The crowd's gazes were somewhat complicated; no wonder this Li Luo had won Jiang Jiang Qinge's favor — this kind of talent, combined with his background and that handsome, dashing appearance, any woman would spontaneously feel a measure of goodwill toward him.

Wei Chonglou, on the other hand, was grinding his teeth inwardly, his heart irritated — damn it, this rival's competitiveness was too strong, and he already had a marriage pact with Jiang Jiang Qinge, and to make matters worse Jiang Jiang Qinge herself favored Li Luo greatly; the depth of that affection was something even outsiders could sense.

Therefore, this wall that was as solid as metal without the slightest crack — even he felt tremendous pressure.

This was truly too hard to dig at.

Facing the many shocked gazes around him, a brilliant smile also surfaced on Li Luo's handsome face; this day had finally arrived.

Nine Star Tian Zhu Jing!

For this step, he had undergone much accumulation and preparation, and heaven did not disappoint the diligent — he had finally ascended to this realm.

The extreme of Tian Zhu is nine pearls.

And those who reach this realm have an incomparably solid foundation, so they have always been called "Marquis seeds" — as long as he did not meet with misfortune and die midway, reaching Marquis Realm would only be a matter of time.

Feeling the surging phase force flowing within his body, the strength of that phase force was incomparably more powerful than his previous Seven Star Tian Zhu Jing.

"This is Nine Star Tian Zhu Jing!"

"Within Xiao Tian Xiang Jing, even those at the True Seal level probably cannot defeat me."

"Below Da Tian Xiang Jing, I should be invincible."

"And against Da Tian Xiang Jing, even without relying on the Five-Tailed and the Great Blood Poison Art, I should still be able to take one down with me."

Of course, this kind of Da Tian Xiang Jing referred only to those whose "Celestial Phase Diagram" was around a thousand zhang or so, not those in the late Da Tian Xiang Jing stage around eight thousand zhang like Feng Lingyuan and Yin Yue Zhiyu.

Having just completed his breakthrough, Li Luo's own state climbed to its peak, and his hearing and perception also reached the most acute level at this moment.

He could clearly sense the energy flow at any spot on the battlefield.

"Li Luo, since you've already advanced to Nine Star Tian Zhu Jing, go sweep up all the evil Qiao on the field first!" Feng Lingyuan also came back to her senses, then shouted.

Li Luo nodded, just about to act, when his expression suddenly paused.

"Eh?"

A hint of surprise and doubt suddenly appeared in Li Luo's eyes, because he sensed that within a patch of shadow in the distance, there actually existed some cold, eerie fluctuations.

"There are still other creatures spying?!"

Li Luo's heart jolted, then his expression shifted; with a clench of his palm, the Sky Dragon Sun-Chasing Bow appeared in his hand.

The next instant he directly drew the bow and loosed an arrow; an energy light arrow of tremendous momentum tore through the void at lightning speed, and before anyone could react, it shot straight into that patch of shadow.

Li Luo's sudden attack left everyone somewhat stunned.

"What madness are you up to?" Wei Chonglou frowned and shouted.

But soon their astonishment faded, replaced by horror.

Because they watched with their own eyes as Li Luo's energy light arrow fell into that patch of shadow, the void there immediately warped, and immediately afterward, roughly ten figures appeared in their line of sight in an extremely abrupt manner.

These ten figures were extremely eerie; behind each of them was carried a coffin, and the coffin on the back of the leader was even blood-red as blood, giving an extremely uneasy feeling.

The rest carried black coffins.

A dense, cold aura, mixed with a kind of malice, radiated from their bodies.

"Who are these people?!" Feng Lingyuan, Yin Yue Zhiyu, Wang Kong and the others were all full of horror, clearly thrown off balance by this group that had suddenly appeared.

They could tell at a glance that the people before them were not other creatures, yet their bodies emanated malice.

At a glance they were not good folk, and could not possibly be their allies.

But in this "Little Chen Heaven," besides the teams from the two great ancient academies, there were actually teams from other forces mixed in?

Everyone was horrified.

While Feng Lingyuan and the others were shocked, the "Ghost Coffin Crew" that had appeared were also somewhat startled; originally they had planned to wait until the two great ancient academy teams were locked in even fiercer combat with the evil Qiao before launching a sudden ambush, but they had not expected their tracks to be suddenly discovered by Li Luo.

The blood coffin man was startled for a moment, then grinned broadly; his gaze fixed on Li Luo, his eyes full of cruelty and greed, and he laughed: "Nine Star Tian Zhu... not bad, quite a fine ingredient."

"Since you discovered us first, then we'll give you a reward."

"Go, take him out, but don't kill him." He turned his head and ordered two black coffin men.

The two black coffin men's faces immediately revealed savage smiles: "Boss, don't worry, we'll chop off his limbs and deliver him to you."

These black coffin men of theirs all possessed Da Tian Xiang Jing strength; although Li Luo had advanced to Nine Star Tian Zhu Jing, two black coffin men were enough to suppress him.

The next instant, the two figures suddenly shot out, surging black mist energy sweeping from their bodies, the energy extremely cold, faintly carrying the flavor of malice.

And the blood coffin man turned his gaze toward the strongest on the field — Feng Lingyuan, Wang Kong and the others; a wild, vicious light flickered in his eyes, and majestic, surging cold energy shot skyward, transforming into gray-black mist that blotted out the heavens.

At the same time he strode into the battlefield.

Many students were intimidated by his momentum and retreated in disarray; the dangerous aura on the blood coffin man before them was simply even more terrifying than those great evil Qiao.

The blood coffin man's lips curled into a cruel smile; with a sweep of his sleeve, cold energy whistled forth like a frigid tide, sweeping toward the surrounding students.

"Hmph!"

But just at this moment, the ground suddenly trembled. Emerald-green phase force swept in, and one green-wood tree after another sprouted from thin air, forming a wall that blocked the entirety of that cold, sinister energy.

That cold energy was extremely vicious; the moment the two came into contact, those green-wood trees withered one after another.

A figure appeared atop one of the green-wood trees. That soft, bewitchingly handsome appearance belonged to none other than the Third Seat of Tianyuan Ancient Academy—Duanmu.

He had been the first to free his hands, so he now stepped in to block the Blood Coffin Person's attack.

"What freakish thing are you? Get lost!"

Duanmu's face was icy. Above his head, a magnificent "Heavenly Phase Diagram" slowly unfurled; within it surged a verdant green, as if it were an ancient forest brimming with life.

He gazed at the approaching Blood Coffin Person and, without wasting words, abruptly formed hand seals—his hands blurring into afterimages—as tremendous phase force surged skyward.

From within that enormous "Heavenly Phase Diagram," vast heaven and earth energy descended, merging together with his own phase force.

The next instant, a colossal green hand appeared in the sky. The giant hand formed a seal, its surface seemingly covered in ancient, mysterious patterns, and it pressed down with an overwhelmingly domineering bearing.

Seeing this, the Tianyuan Ancient Academy students present could not help exclaiming: "That's Senior Duanmu's 'Green Wood Buddha Hand'! That's a Spirit-derivative-grade Marquis Art!"

Clearly, facing this mysterious Blood Coffin Person, Duanmu did not dare be careless in the slightest, and went straight to unleashing his strongest technique.

The green Buddha hand came pressing down with the weight of a mountain, yet not a trace of fear appeared on the Blood Coffin Person's face. He lightly patted the blood coffin on his back; the coffin lid cracked open a little, as if blood-red tentacles stretched out from within, then pierced straight through the Blood Coffin Person's back.

The next instant, a fissure split open across the Blood Coffin Person's chest, and a blood-red, grotesque eye burrowed out from within.

Xiong Xiong!

The blood eye blinked, and surging blood-red flames swept forth, charging head-on against the descending green Buddha hand.

Boom boom!

The two collided, instantly erupting in a heaven-shaking clash of energy. But the onlookers soon turned pale as they saw the green Buddha hand rapidly withering under the burning of those blood flames.

In the span of a few breaths, Duanmu's strongest technique had turned to ash scattered across the sky.

And the Blood Coffin Person strolled through that ash, flashing a contemptuous, savage grin at Duanmu.

"Is this all you proud geniuses that your ancient academy has poured its heart into raising?"