Chapter 1169: The Furnace of All Beings, the Ninth Rank Dragon Aspect

A dazzling blade light swept out, tearing the heavens, wrapped in an indescribable sharpness and tyranny, chopping toward the White-Pupil True Demon again and again, swift as lightning.

The White-Pupil True Demon swung its scythe to meet it, accompanied by countless agonized shrieks.

"Clang!"

The crash of blade against scythe rang out, and the void where the two stood showed signs of collapse; the vast shockwave of energy ravaged a hundred li, and the Zhongsheng Palace below was nearly razed flat.

Yet this clash caused Li Luo's eyes to narrow, for the cold, sinister energy transmitted through the Dragon Elephant Blade had suddenly dimmed the radiant light resonance pulsing along the blade.

Clearly, the White-Pupil True Demon's power had grown stronger again!

Previously the White-Pupil True Demon had only been at the strength of a Second Rank True Demon, but now that power was rapidly approaching that of a Third Rank True Demon.

This was undoubtedly because it had devoured those faces on its chest!

Li Luo's heart chilled. The methods laid down by this Zhongsheng Demon King were truly terrifying—even at such a stage, it could still improve step by step.

If it were truly allowed to devour and fuse all the remaining faces, the White-Pupil True Demon would likely become a genuine Third Rank True Demon.

At that point, even with the power of the Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf, he probably wouldn't find it so easy to slay it.

"Hehe!"

At this moment, the White-Pupil True Demon, whose power had surged by a large margin, let out an eerie giggling sound. Then its body began to writhe, and two figures identical to itself crawled out of the flowing wax oil, each holding a white scythe.

The moment these two avatars of the White-Pupil True Demon appeared, they swept along with them a torrent of malevolent aura and came lunging to kill Li Luo.

Li Luo slashed out a blade light of ten thousand zhang of radiance, sending the two White-Pupil True Demon avatars staggering back.

But the true body of the White-Pupil True Demon let out a piercing shriek at this moment. The scythe in its hand actually slit open its own belly, and from within, chilling wax oil poured out in torrents, within which a white three-eared furnace rose and sank.

The three-eared furnace was ghastly white all over, releasing billowing cold, sinister aura. Upon the body of the furnace seemed to be inscribed patterns—a sacrificial scene, as if countless numb human figures queued forward, finally leaping into a furnace, boiling themselves down into a cauldron of white human-skin wax oil.

Clearly, facing Li Luo's aggressive pressure, the White-Pupil True Demon had also brought forth its true methods and begun to counterattack.

"Zhongsheng Furnace!"

The shriek of the White-Pupil True Demon pierced heaven and earth. It extended a finger, and wisps of aura seemed to gather at its fingertip—those auras all came from Li Luo. As they converged, they formed a faint, blurry shadow that, upon a closer look, resembled Li Luo.

The White-Pupil True Demon tossed the shadow into the three-eared furnace, then the furnace lunged forward, the void shattered, and the furnace vanished in a bizarre manner.

Meanwhile, Ning Meng, Feng Lingyuan, and the others watched with slightly changed expressions as a massive furnace suddenly appeared out of thin air at Li Luo's location, directly swallowing him into itself in a bizarre fashion.

Boom boom!

Inside the white furnace, a hint of surprise also appeared in Li Luo's eyes. He had clearly been on guard, yet he hadn't expected the White-Pupil True Demon's method to be so bizarre that it could directly ignore spatial distance and trap him within the furnace.

Li Luo's gaze swept around. Inside the furnace, the four walls were coated with thick white wax oil, and this wax oil was still growing at a terrifying speed, constantly squeezing in toward where he stood.

Looking at it this way, the furnace was more like an internal organ, intending to crush and devour whatever it swallowed.

Within Li Luo's body, a torrent of radiant light resonance surged forth, and the Dragon Elephant Blade in his hand slashed straight down.

"Dragon Elephant Divine Might!"

The blade wheel of light formed by the Dragon Elephant swept out, hacking fiercely at the four walls of the furnace. Though layers of wax oil were split apart, fresh wax oil immediately surged forth endlessly, eroding and swallowing the blade wheel of light.

Seeing this, Li Luo knew that ordinary methods probably wouldn't allow him to escape this furnace.

"Kid, you're just a mere Tian Zhu Jing—why do you always have to provoke these terrifying things?" From within the crimson bracelet, the howl of the Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf suddenly rang out, filled with boundless helplessness and complaint.

"It wasn't me who provoked it," Li Luo replied casually.

"And now isn't the time for complaints. Let's join forces and take care of it first."

The Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf said irritably, "This True Demon is no weaker than me. If you hadn't converted my power into light resonance, we might not have been able to suppress it earlier."

"Now you're trapped inside its furnace again—escaping is already hard, let alone taking care of it!"

Li Luo smiled and said, "You can't do it alone, but add me in, and there shouldn't be any problem."

The Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf snorted, "Arrogant brat."

Li Luo paid no more attention to the Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf. He gazed at the furnace walls squeezing in, pondered briefly, and a decisive look surfaced in his eyes.

He took a deep breath, his five fingers tightened around the Dragon Elephant Blade, and with a shift of his mind, he directly activated the "Dragon Seed True Pill" within his body.

Dragon Seed True Pill: Dragon Transformation!

Roar!

A deafening dragon cry seemed to reverberate from within Li Luo's body. Li Luo's frame shot up section by section; dragon scales surfaced on his skin, and his palms transformed into sharp, hard dragon claws.

His ash-white short hair grew rapidly, cascading behind him like a white waterfall.

A dragon might that reached the extreme surged outward in waves with Li Luo himself as the source. Under the awe of this dragon might, the expanding inner walls of the furnace actually trembled and began to melt away.

At this moment, Li Luo once again took on the form of an extremely ferocious half-dragon humanoid.

Inside the crimson bracelet, the Five-Tailed Heavenly Wolf also sensed Li Luo's transformation. That dense dragon might caused even its wolf pupils to show a trace of shock.

However, this was not yet over.

Li Luo felt the terrifying power coursing through his physical body at this moment, and once again a calm, low voice sounded in his heart.

Dragon Seed True Pill: Ascending Dragon!

The Dragon Seed True Pill within his body erupted with endless mysterious light at this moment, and the mysterious light fell directly into the third resonance palace within his body—the Dragon Lightning Resonance Palace.

At this moment, the endless mysterious light landed upon the body of the dragon shadow coiled within the rolling thunderclouds, and the next instant, the dragon shadow let out a deafening roar.

The dragon shadow's body began to shoot upward section by section at a terrifying speed!

The rolling thunderclouds could no longer conceal it.

Roar!

The heaven-shaking dragon cry echoed continuously, and finally subsided into calm.

The thunderclouds slowly contracted, and the next moment, a majestic, ferocious dragon head poked out from within them; sharp fangs jutted from its dragon maw, wrapped in Lei Guang.

And at the very same moment, behind Li Luo, an illusory figure appeared. The figure resembled him, yet seemed to have a great dragon coiled around it, radiating an extremely ferocious pressure.

Simultaneously, the energies of heaven and earth surged over in torrents, swallowed whole by this illusory figure, and finally transformed into vast resonance power that poured into Li Luo's body.

That was... a Ninth Rank Spirit Envoy!

Dragon Spirit Envoy!

Li Luo's pupils also transformed into dragon pupils filled with oppressive might at this very moment. Feeling the terrifying power coursing through his body, the corners of his lips slowly curled into a smile.

He could finally experience what the true Zheng De Jiu Pin phase was truly like.