Chapter 1150: Meeting Li Li Lingjing Again

The sudden appearance of Li Li Lingjing before his eyes clearly startled Li Luo quite badly. He stared at her, and perhaps because of the half Green Snake mask she wore, her fair cheeks seemed to carry a somewhat eerie, bewitching quality at this moment.

Only that gaze of hers remained just as familiar as ever.

"Y-you, how are you here?" Li Luo blurted out in shock.

Li Li Lingjing fell briefly silent, then smiled and said, "Obviously, I'm also on a mission."

Li Luo suddenly understood: "You're also one of those 'Shagui Troop'?"

Li Li Lingjing nodded: "More or less."

Li Luo's gaze grew somewhat complicated. Who could have imagined that when he met Li Li Lingjing again, the positions of both sides had undergone such a reversal. If judged purely by identity, the two of them at this moment should have been mortal enemies.

Meeting Li Luo's gaze, Li Li Lingjing appeared quite composed, and said, "Li Luo, you know I'm never a good person."

Li Luo said softly, "Cousin Li Lingjing, that's only because what happened back then changed you. I believe that the noble lady of Xiling who once walked with sword in hand longed for the light more than anyone."

Li Li Lingjing was slightly stunned, fell into a stretch of silence, then said with a wistful air, "Perhaps."

Li Luo was about to speak when he suddenly felt his vision growing blurry at this moment. That was because the malevolent Qi within his left arm was counterattacking wildly, causing even his mind to begin being affected.

Li Li Lingjing noticed his condition and said, "You focus first on suppressing the malevolent Qi inside you. The 'True Demon Embryo' in your left arm—I'll help you deal with it."

Saying this, she paused, then added, "If you still trust me."

Li Luo smiled, sat cross-legged on the spot, closed his eyes, completely let down his guard against the outside world, and then began wholeheartedly defending his body, resisting the erosion of the malevolent Qi.

Seeing Li Luo so utterly unguarded, a trace of imperceptible softness flashed deep within Li Li Lingjing's cold, dark eyes. Then she knelt beside Li Luo, directly reached out and lifted Li Luo's grotesque, horrifying "Ghost Arm."

The instant she touched the "Ghost Arm," she immediately felt a surge of extremely chilling Qi rush in, while countless eerie whispers kept welling up in her mind, attempting to corrode her consciousness.

But such erosion might be terrifying for an ordinary person—Li Li Lingjing, however, was unmoved. Her heart was like a pool of dead water; no matter how those negative emotions churned, they could not alter her actions.

She stared at Li Luo's "Ghost Arm," thinking briefly. In truth, simply chopping off Li Luo's left arm would allow her to cleanly take the "True Demon Embryo"—that was the Blood Coffin Man's plan—but she clearly could not actually do such a thing.

So she could only adopt a gentler method.

Li Li Lingjing's red lips parted, and two of her pearly teeth grew sharp at this moment, like snake fangs. Then she directly bit down on Li Luo's wrist.

The next instant, surging waves of malevolent Qi churned forth, beginning to flow along Li Li Lingjing's red lips and pour into her body.

And as Li Li Lingjing began absorbing the power of the "True Demon Embryo," Li Luo's originally tightly furrowed brow gradually eased. However, he had by now blocked out his perception of the outside world, wholly focused on mobilizing the phase force within his body to drive out and repel the malevolent Qi.

As Li Li Lingjing drew out the "True Demon Embryo" from Li Luo's left arm, she gave a sweep of her sleeve, and one saw greenish-black smoke, laden with countless shrieks, billow out from her body.

Within that smoke, something eerie seemed to be slithering, like a strange serpent.

The greenish-black smoke began rapidly spreading, and finally seemed to form a thick barrier, completely enveloping the great hall within it.

Because she had not resorted to the most brutal method of severing the arm, Li Li Lingjing's absorption of the "True Demon Embryo" required some time. And now the Blood Coffin Man was about to arrive—this barrier might buy some time.

"Hopefully it's in time."

Li Li Lingjing's eyes closed slightly as she focused on drawing out the "True Demon Embryo."

A short while later.

Outside this great hall blanketed by dense greenish-black smoke, the Blood Coffin Man's enormous body crashed down with a thunderous impact, directly smashing several walls into fragments scattered across the ground.

The Blood Coffin Man now looked grotesque. He stared at the great hall shrouded in greenish-black smoke before him and roared, "Green Snake, I will not rest until one of us is dead!"

He strode forth, charging straight into the greenish-black smoke.

And as the Blood Coffin Man stepped into the greenish-black smoke, the flesh on his body seemed to be gnawed by some invisible force. In the span of a few short moments, ghastly white bone was actually exposed.

But the Blood Coffin Man was unmoved. His gaze seemed to pierce through the thick smoke, locking onto the great hall at the center.

Step after step, shreds of rotting flesh fell away, turning into blood and filth all over the ground.

"Green Snake, with your mere 'Ghost Worm Fog,' you still cannot stop me!" he let out a low, violent snarl.

One saw on the Blood Coffin Man's bizarrely twisted body, among the flesh and blood, what seemed like eye after eye opening. The eyes radiated blood-light, and wherever the blood-light shone, countless "dust"-like things invisible to the naked eye instantly melted away.

He moved his feet, steadily closing in on the great hall.

Meanwhile, outside the smoke, Feng Lingyuan, Li Hongyou, Yin Yue Zhiyu and the others had also rushed over in haste. They stared at the greenish-black smoke before them, their expressions extremely unsightly.

From within the smoke, they sensed an intense, dangerous aura.

This made them dare not step into it lightly.

"Combine your attacks and melt this greenish-black smoke away!" However, the few of them were all top-tier figures and quickly came up with a response. Though they dared not recklessly charge in, they could use a method of attrition to swiftly break through it.

Thus, the next instant, surging waves of phase force swept out, falling into the greenish-black smoke and immediately battering it into constant churning, with faint signs of it shrinking.

Seeing it was effective, everyone was delighted and increased their attacks.

But the moment they intensified their assault, Li Li Lingjing inside the great hall felt the pressure. She was splitting her attention many ways—not only did she have to draw the "True Demon Embryo" out of Li Luo, she also had to block the "Blood Coffin Man," and now she had to withstand the attacks of Feng Lingyuan and the others as well.

Listening to the heavy footsteps faintly coming from outside the great hall, a fierce glint flashed in Li Li Lingjing's downcast eyes. With a shift of her mind, she directly activated a certain power lurking within her body.

The next instant, on Li Li Lingjing's fair skin, greenish-black snake scales actually emerged, and even on her smooth forehead, a greenish-black sharp horn slowly drilled its way out from the flesh.

At this moment, the bewitching quality about Li Li Lingjing undoubtedly grew even stronger.

She was straining to buy time, striving to resolve the problem of the "True Demon Embryo" in Li Luo's left arm before the Blood Coffin Man arrived.

And so time swiftly slipped away under Li Li Lingjing's bitter endurance.

Until a certain moment.

Boom!

A thunderous roar came from before the great hall. The great hall's heavy doors instantly exploded apart, and the Blood Coffin Man, his entire body streaming with blood, stood before the doorway. His eyes, filled with killing intent and madness, fixed upon the interior of the great hall.

Especially when he saw Li Li Lingjing's red lips biting down on Li Luo's arm, the violence in his eyes intensified to the extreme.

"Green Snake, you should not have coveted what is mine!"

"I will crush you to death with my own hands, and take every piece of flesh from your body to feed my treasure!"

The Blood Coffin Man spoke words chilling to the bone, yet his hands showed no hesitation whatsoever. One saw mud-like flesh and blood coalesce from his palm, directly forming a flesh-and-blood long spear.

On the long spear, there was even a ghastly eye, weeping tears of blood, staring open.

"Green Snake, you shall die together!"

The Blood Coffin Man grinned ferociously. The next instant, the flesh-and-blood long spear in his hand had already left his hand, wrapped in a fierce killing intent, and was hurled directly at Li Li Lingjing and Li Luo.

Judging by this momentum, if struck, Li Luo and Li Li Lingjing would be pierced through simultaneously.

Li Li Lingjing sensed the spear roaring toward them with a piercing sonic boom; her brows furrowed slightly, yet she had no intention of dodging. Instead, she silently mobilized her power, and the green-black snake scales on her skin surface grew even more chillingly cold.

Clearly, she intended to withstand it head-on.

Wooo!

The spear whistled down with a sharp shriek, but just as it was merely a dozen feet away from Li Luo and Li Li Lingjing, suddenly, brilliant light seemed to bloom across heaven and earth.

Boom!

A pillar of light, imbued with an unimaginable sacred aura, crashed down from the great hall's dome, instantly melting the dome itself. Then, the pillar descended, engulfing that flesh-and-blood spear.

Sizzle! Sizzle!

Under that purification power refined to the utmost extreme, the flesh-and-blood spear seemed to emit a piercing sound, then directly evaporated into a wisp of black smoke at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Endless light poured down, illuminating every corner of the great hall.

The sudden light caused the Blood Coffin Man to pause in surprise; he raised his head to look at the dome of the great hall, and then saw a tall, graceful silhouette slowly descending from within that light.

Behind her, two Light Spirit Envoys radiated sacred brilliance, with Light Phantasmal Power swirling around her body, flowing like holy water.

On her back, the Light Phantasmal Power condensed into four wings of light, shimmering brilliantly under the refraction of the radiance.

It was as if the Goddess of Light had descended to the mortal realm.

At this moment, Jiang Jiang Qinge finally arrived.