Chapter 1168: Li Luo Battles the True Demon

A resplendent blade-light swept across the horizon, and the cold "white rain" that had been falling from the sky was completely evaporated beneath that blade-light; even the thick, pitch-black clouds overhead were shredded apart as the blade-light raged through them.

The howling white sea of fire was also doused by the sacred aura contained within the blade-light.

One blade fell, and the heavens were emptied.

Every gaze in the arena widened sharply at this moment—for the first time, an attack from the White-Pupil True Demon had been truly broken.

One after another, gazes couldn't help but turn toward the sky, where they saw Li Luo standing with blade in hand before Jiang Jiang Qinge. Incomprehensibly surging light-element phase power poured from within him, making him appear as if he had become a god of war of light itself.

The intensity of that light-element phase power had even surpassed Jiang Jiang Qinge's, whose Heavenly Phase Chart had reached ten thousand zhang!

"Is that the power of the refined beast?"

"Li Luo actually withstood the erosion of the Demon King of All Beings?"

"How did he do it?!"

Feng Lingyuan, Yin Yue Zhiyu, and the others were all visibly shaken. That Li Luo possessed an external force from a refined beast comparable to a Marquis-tier powerhouse was no secret, but in their understanding that power was unsuited to a situation like this—because from the very start the Vice-Dean had warned everyone that the fierce, baleful energy of a refined beast within this "All-Beings Ghost-Skin Lantern" would instead draw in the will-erasure of the Demon King of All Beings.

But judging by Li Luo's appearance now, he had clearly neutralized that erosion.

This was especially shocking, after all, it was equivalent to having played a game of wits with that terrifying existence from an entirely different level.

Jiang Jiang Qinge at this moment was also staring, slightly dazed, at the tall, straight back before her. That head of ash-gray hair fluttered lightly in the wind, and resplendent, dazzling light-element phase power surged out from within him in waves, like a storm.

She watched for a breath, and then the corner of her lip curved into a faint smile.

More than a year apart, and Li Luo had grown ever more mature—he had actually begun to give her a sliver of a sense of security.

"Be careful," she finally reminded softly.

Li Luo heard her, smiled and nodded. His condition now was better than it had ever been; the fierce, baleful energy that originally belonged to the Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf had been wholly converted into light-element phase power through the aid of the "Golden Wheel."

"Second-grade Marquis tier."

Li Luo also felt the current grade of the Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf. After this slumber and advancement, it had reached the peak of the second-grade Marquis tier.

Such an advancement rate could not be called slow, and the reason, naturally, was that following Li Luo in the Dragon Fang Vein had brought it considerable benefits.

But although this power was strong, it also brought Li Luo a bit of trouble—converting it into light-element phase power had caused him a massive loss of essence blood.

If the surging light-element energy hadn't been coursing through his body at this moment, Li Luo would long since have fainted from the massive drain of essence blood.

But there was no helping it—if he hadn't converted the Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf's fierce, baleful energy into sacred light-element phase power, he likely wouldn't have even gotten past the hurdle of the Demon King of All Beings' will-erasure, let alone slaying the White-Pupil True Demon.

Surging light-element phase power rose from the surface of Li Luo's body; the light was so dazzling it even faintly transformed into light-flames, drifting ceaselessly.

Li Luo's gaze was sharp as he stared at the White-Pupil True Demon ahead. He didn't waste a single word. His foot stamped down, resplendent light spread forth, and his figure appeared before his foe as if by teleportation. The Dragon-Elephant Blade in his hand swung, and the firmament split apart with it.

The blade-light slashed straight toward the White-Pupil True Demon's neck.

In the White-Pupil True Demon's sharp, pallid palm, rolling miasma of malice swiftly condensed into a white scythe dripping with cold, waxy oil, and it swung its blade to meet the strike.

Clang! Clang!

In an instant, it seemed as if countless blade-lights and scythe-shadows appeared in the void. Every collision between blade-light and scythe-shadow directly tore apart a stretch of empty space, and as the aftershocks spread, one section of the All-Beings Palace after another below crumbled into ruins.

That kind of terrifying collision made the faces of many Da Tian Xiang Jing students go pale—even a touch of such aftershock would shred them to pieces in an instant.

However, what gave the crowd some cheer was that in this fierce exchange, Li Luo, relying on the sacred and purifying effect of his light-element phase power, was undeniably gaining the upper hand.

Clang!

Countless scythe-shadows abruptly dissipated at this moment, and the White-Pupil True Demon was blasted backward. In its ghastly white pupils, a violent fury seemed to rise—the situation had shifted from absolute domination at the start to this, and it was clearly filled with boundless resentment and rage.

The White-Pupil True Demon let out a piercing shriek, and the skin on its body was seen to suddenly bulge with bump after bump. Those lumps of flesh detached from its body and swiftly rose into the air.

Then those skin-sack bumps swelled in the wind, and in the blink of an eye transformed into giant, ghastly-white human-skin lanterns.

Each lantern's surface was covered in layer upon layer of ghastly-white skin-sacks. As they writhed, savage, twisted, agonized faces appeared upon them—utterly grotesque.

Poof!

Within the lanterns, candle-flames suddenly ignited.

The next instant, ghastly-white flames set the human-skin lanterns ablaze, transforming directly into a skyful of white light that howled toward Li Luo's position.

The human-skin lanterns contracted violently, emitting a terrifying miasma of malice.

Li Luo's gaze turned solemn. Knowing the might of these human-skin lanterns, he dared not be careless. His grip tightened on the Dragon-Elephant Blade, and then, pouring out all his strength, he swung it down slowly.

As the Dragon-Elephant Blade descended, boundless light-element phase power poured forth.

Only within that light-element phase power, it seemed as if countless blue elephants and golden dragons came striding through the air.

"Dragon-Elephant Divine Might!"

Blue elephants and golden dragons circled, transforming into giant blade-wheels. These blade-wheels appeared more sacred and resplendent than ever before.

A skyful of blade-wheels, their momentum vast and magnificent.

Hum!

The next instant, countless light-element Dragon-Elephant blade-wheels shot forth and collided with the swarm of human-skin lanterns, immediately stirring up terrifying waves of energy across heaven and earth.

The firmament seemed to be splitting apart, and even this stretch of space showed signs of distortion. Beyond the space, a glimpse of a realm of spirit mountains and blessed lands was revealed.

All the students recoiled in terror. The human-skin lanterns that had been binding and sealing Ning Meng and Wu Changkong were also caught in the blast, and the two broke free.

Ning Meng leapt to Jiang Jiang Qinge's side. Her fair cheeks were now marked with a few scorch-traces, and her hands gripped a mottled great club tightly.

She tilted her face up, watching the two figures locked in a frenzied slaughter in the void above, and couldn't help but say: "Xiao'e, your fiancé has some skill, doesn't he?"

Her jet-black eyes sparkled as she stared at Li Luo, whose entire body now radiated resplendent light-element phase power. She couldn't help but lick her little lips—such intense light-element phase power was truly mouth-watering; she really wanted to cling to his back and take two big gulps.

Wu Changkong, who had fallen nearby, had a somewhat disheveled look. He stared at the slaughter in the sky, his gaze a little sullen—clearly he hadn't expected that, in the end, it would be Li Luo who stepped forward.

After this battle, the glory of this occasion would largely be stolen by Li Luo.

"In the end, it's just borrowed power from an external object."

These words rolled around in Wu Changkong's throat, but in the end he didn't voice them, because he understood that saying such a thing wouldn't win him any face—instead it would only earn him a measure of contempt from those around him.

A Marquis-tier refined beast's external force wasn't something just anyone could borrow; one careless moment and one's own self would be eroded.

Moreover, the hardest part of this matter was needing to withstand the contamination under the gaze of a Three-Crowned King Demon King—to be honest, even that single point alone meant that even if he, Wu Changkong, possessed a refined beast's external force, he likely wouldn't dare to make the attempt.

But Li Luo had dared—and succeeded.

While they were speaking, the clash in the void had not paused for even a moment. The Bright Dragon-Elephant Saber Wheels kept colliding with the human-skin lanterns, like meteorites crashing together, and terrifying energy ripples filled the world.

However, amid such collisions, a single Bright Dragon-Elephant Saber Wheel pierced through the defenses of those numerous human-skin lanterns and, like a phantom, appeared before the White-Pupil True Demon.

The White-Pupil True Demon swung its scythe directly downward, meeting the saber wheel.

Hum!

At the instant of contact, the saber wheel shattered, yet no overwhelmingly vast energy was released. Instead, like a blazing sun, it erupted with a brilliance so dazzling it reached the extreme.

Under that intense light, the White-Pupil True Demon's eyes instantly began to sting, and the vision before it warped and twisted.

At the same time, the White-Pupil True Demon was suddenly overcome by a sense of unease, and its figure shot violently backward.

But it was already too late.

From within that dazzling brilliance, a figure burst forth, the Dragon-Elephant Saber in its hand spewing out a thousand-zhang saber light, which then sliced straight across the White-Pupil True Demon's waist.

The saber light carved a thousand-zhang-long scar across the void.

The White-Pupil True Demon's retreating figure was, at this moment, split cleanly in two.

The lower half of its body, under the domineering holy saber light, was dissolved into nothingness.

The White-Pupil True Demon, keeping its upper half, drifted backward. From the severed spot, ghastly white, chilling wax oil continuously dripped, and the aura of malice permeating its body seemed to weaken at this moment.

The many students, seeing this scene, immediately revealed wild joy on their faces and then burst into cheers.

Since the White-Pupil True Demon had appeared until now, this was the first time it had truly suffered a grievous wound!

Feng Lingyuan, Yin Yue Zhiyu, Li Hongyou and the others also showed delight in their eyes. Li Luo's surprise saber strike had clearly achieved an extremely obvious effect.

With the White-Pupil True Demon wounded, the battle should be stable now, right?

Just as they were thinking this, the White-Pupil True Demon let out a piercing shriek, and its twisted, sharp hand seemed to be forming a seal.

The next moment, everyone saw that among the four human faces on the White-Pupil True Demon's chest, one of them had begun to wriggle, wearing an expression of terror.

The direction it wriggled toward was precisely the White-Pupil True Demon's face.

The human face finally landed on the White-Pupil True Demon's face, and then the two faces seemed to overlap together—no, it would be more accurate to say that the face of the Blood Coffin person had been eaten by the White-Pupil True Demon's face.

Because the instant it devoured the Blood Coffin person's face, the lower body that had been sliced off the White-Pupil True Demon actually regenerated at an astonishing speed.

Even its aura grew stronger by another degree.

Everyone was so startled by this bizarre scene that cold chills rose in their hearts.

Li Luo's pupils also contracted slightly, and then his figure shot forth violently, holy saber light pouring down as he launched a fierce offensive.

Facing Li Luo's attack this time, the White-Pupil True Demon merely swung its scythe to block. It retreated step by step, yet on its chest, the second face of the Blood Coffin person also showed a thick expression of terror, and then wriggled along the flesh toward the White-Pupil True Demon's face.

Clearly, once this second Blood Coffin person's face was devoured by the White-Pupil True Demon, its power would increase once again.

However, during this process, it seemed no one had noticed that when the White-Pupil True Demon was devouring the face, the fourth face—belonging to Li Li Lingjing—also began to writhe at this moment, and quietly started gnawing on the third Blood Coffin person's face.

You eat, and I eat too.