Chapter 1147: Zhong Sheng Palace

When Li Luo felt the spatial fluctuations come to a halt, an extremely chilling aura rose from beneath his feet, an aura that made his entire skin itch, with a vague illusion that his flesh was about to peel off on its own.

Li Luo lowered his head and saw that the stone slabs beneath his feet were a mottled, ghastly white, with faint traces of bloodstains upon them. When he raised his gaze, everything within sight was the same color.

As if the floor beneath his feet had been transformed from the skin of a dead giant, it was hair-raising.

Li Luo took a deep breath, suppressed the tingling itch rising over his skin, and surveyed his surroundings.

At this moment, they seemed to have appeared on a receiving platform. Before them stretched an endless complex of palaces, silent and still, yet incomparably vast.

Cold and deathly silent, unsettling.

Behind Li Luo, Feng Lingyuan, Yin Yue Zhiyu, Li Hongyou and the others also came to their senses. Their faces turned solemn as they gazed at the endless palace complex before them; its scale was even more magnificent than the previous "Water City."

"It seems this is the end point of this 'Summon Mission,'" Feng Lingyuan said in a low voice.

"The other squads should have been forcibly drawn here as well," Yin Yue Zhiyu spoke up.

Li Luo's heart stirred at those words. If that were the case, then Jiang Jiang Qinge should also be in this "Zhong Sheng Palace," only apparently at a different location. This made his mood inexplicably lift with joy, for it meant that the two of them were drawing closer and closer to meeting again.

"There's a message coming from the Ancient Spirit Leaf!" Li Hongyou suddenly said.

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly sank their minds into the "Ancient Spirit Leaf" on the backs of their hands, and immediately sensed information flowing into their hearts.

"The Zhong Sheng Demon King used the 'Ten Thousand Skins Evil Heart Pillar' to nurture seven 'True Demon Embryo Eggs,' and at the same time invited the 'Shagui Troop' of the 'Guiyi Hui' as external aid. Currently four of the 'True Demon Embryo Eggs' still remain. If they are allowed to fuse, it will draw a sliver of the 'Zhong Sheng Demon King's' will to descend."

"We hope all students will give their full cooperation to prevent the 'True Demon Embryo Eggs' from successfully fusing."

"The fusion of the 'True Demon Embryo Eggs' requires the 'Heavenly Ghost Altar' at the central location of the 'Zhong Sheng Palace.'"

Feng Lingyuan and the others examined the information transmitted by the Ancient Spirit Leaf, their brows all tightly furrowed. The "blood eggs" they had previously seen in the blood pool were precisely those so-called "True Demon Embryo Eggs."

Moreover, those eerie squads carrying coffins on their backs had actually come from the "Guiyi Hui."

That unfathomably strange faction.

"Clearly a faction of the human race, yet colluding with alien creatures — truly detestable!" a student cursed.

Li Luo, however, glanced at his own "Ghost Arm." Strictly speaking, three and a half "True Demon Embryo Eggs" had fallen into the hands of the "Shagui Troop" and the Evil Ao Troop, and the so-called half was in his own left arm.

"Everyone, the pressing matter at hand — I suggest we immediately head for the 'Heavenly Ghost Altar' and at the same time converge with the other squads. This 'Zhong Sheng Palace' is bound to be fraught with danger. We must gather all our strength to contend with those 'Evil Ao Troop' and 'Shagui Troop' members," Feng Lingyuan said after a brief moment of thought, her voice low and grave.

Naturally, no one present objected.

Thereafter the group set out immediately. Streams of phase force rose around them as they maintained formation and vigilance, beginning to step into this vast palace complex that reeked of deathly stillness and cold.

And just as Li Luo and the others began to move, in a cold, gloomy hall within this "Zhong Sheng Palace," figures carrying coffins on their backs likewise appeared one after another.

Ah!

At this moment, these black-coffin bearers were staring at a bizarre figure in the center of the hall. That figure was several meters tall and burly, blood-red all over, like a flayed giant. Lumps of flesh kept bursting forth from its body, and upon them grew faces twisted in agony.

A white spine burst out from its body, forming what looked like a scorpion's barb, drilling out from the position of its tailbone.

The face of this bizarre figure was also exceptionally ferocious, but from its appearance one could still faintly make out that this was precisely the Blood Coffin bearer Li Luo and the others had faced.

He had ultimately seized half a "True Demon Embryo Egg" and fled at the opportunity.

Hiss! Hiss!

At this moment, the Blood Coffin bearer's state was clearly somewhat out of control. His eyes brimmed with slaughter and madness as he repeatedly slammed his own body against the pillars of the great hall, destroying wantonly.

But the other black-coffin bearers did not stop him.

After quite a long while, the Blood Coffin bearer finally gradually regained some of his reason. A few roars escaped his throat, and at the same time his crimson gaze shot toward the shadows ahead as he snarled, "Are you hiding over there watching me make a fool of myself?!"

The faint sound of footsteps came from the shadows, and then a slender, graceful figure stepped out from within them.

She held a green snake staff like emerald bamboo in her hand, half a mask covering her cheek. The eyes beneath the mask were eerily cold enough to chill the heart.

"Judging by the state you're in, it looks like you're about to completely lose yourself," she said flatly, gazing at the monster-like Blood Coffin bearer before her.

"Green Snake! It's all your fault — you pulled half of my men away, otherwise I would have slaughtered those little brats from the academies clean long ago. How would I be in this state now, having only snatched half a 'True Demon Embryo Egg'!" the Blood Coffin bearer roared, his eyes brimming with killing intent as he stared at the woman called "Green Snake."

"And at least I managed to snatch half a 'True Demon Embryo Egg.' What about you? You came back empty-handed!"

"Green Snake" replied in a casual tone upon hearing this: "I merely ran into a 'monster.' And lucky for me it was me; if it had been you, you might have died very cleanly."

The Blood Coffin bearer flew into a rage on the spot, but in the end he still suppressed his emotions and hissed, "Green Snake, bring your men and move with me. I'm going to take back that other half of the 'True Demon Embryo Egg.'"

"I'm going to tear that little bastard called Li Luo apart alive!"

"Green Snake" had originally been too lazy to pay him any heed, but the Blood Coffin bearer's last words caused her gaze to suddenly flash as she asked, "That other half of the 'True Demon Embryo Egg' fell into the hands of that student called Li Luo?"

"Yes! That little bastard — nothing more than a mere Tian Zhu Jing — yet he keeps ruining my plans. If it weren't for him this time, how would I be in such a sorry state?!" the Blood Coffin bearer roared.

"Green Snake, if you help me this time, in the future there will be a place for you within the 'Shagui Troop'!"

Beneath Green Snake's mask, her eyes glinted with an unsettling, eerie coldness. Her slender five fingers gripped the green snake staff, feeling the icy touch transmitted from it, and then she stared at the Blood Coffin bearer and asked, "Can you find him?"

"I have the other half of the 'True Demon Embryo Egg' inside me, so I can sense his approximate location. He's already arrived at the 'Zhong Sheng Palace.' There's absolutely no way he can escape!" the Blood Coffin bearer said with a savage grin.

The emerald-green snake staff in Green Snake's hand tapped lightly against the floor, and the light in her eyes gradually calmed as she gave a slight nod: "Agreed."

Hearing that she was actually willing to help, the Blood Coffin bearer was somewhat taken aback. He had originally intended to offer more promises, but the other's decisiveness instead put him on guard.

"Green Snake, I'm warning you — this 'True Demon Embryo Egg' is mine. Even if we snatch it back in the end, I won't share it with you!" he warned.

Beneath Green Snake's mask, her red lips seemed to curl slightly at that moment, revealing a smile of ambiguous meaning.

Then she nodded.

"Fine, I'll go with you to find him."