Chapter 1299: Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty Zhang

The arrival of the Fallen Demon Tide caused the Boundary River Domain to become exceptionally chaotic and perilous for the following period of time, with all manner of strange aberrations appearing one after another. Although those who could carve out a living in the Boundary River Domain all possessed some degree of strength and means, every day there were still some unlucky ones who perished.

Among them were not lacking Marquis-level powerhouses.

But the Boundary River Domain did not become desolate because of this; instead, more and more powerhouses poured in from Outer Shenzhou, because everyone understood that when the Fallen Demon Tide arrived, the Boundary River Treasure Domain would not be far from opening.

And the Boundary River Treasure Domain was the most alluring opportunity in this Boundary River Domain, filled throughout with Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, not lacking top-tier or even supreme-grade ones.

If one could luckily obtain a single supreme-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure within, even if one had no use for it personally, simply tossing it to the Golden Dragon Treasure House would certainly allow one to exchange it for an extremely astonishing amount of cultivation resources.

Faced with such a temptation, not to mention rogue cultivator powerhouses, even the Top-Tier Within Marquis of the various Li Li Tianwang lineages could not resist.

After all, Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures were practically hard currency at the Marquis Realm.

Therefore, even though news of Marquis-level powerhouses perishing kept coming from various places every day, people still continued to pour into the Boundary River Domain one after another, preparing for the soon-to-open Boundary River Treasure Domain.

However, because the Boundary River Domain was gradually becoming more perilous, it caused more and more cultivators to pour into cities like Tianlong City and Abyss City—great fortresses built by the various Li Li Tianwang lineages and top forces.

Although living expenses in these places were steep, the advantage was safety; after all, they were guarded by top-tier strange arrays, and could also ward off the erosion of those strange aberrations.

Moreover, beyond the Boundary River Treasure Domain, there was also the even more terrifying "Black Rain Ghost Calamity."

Therefore, during this period, Tianlong City appeared more boisterous and prosperous than ever before; of course, what came with it was the maintenance of order, and these tasks were all dumped onto the heads of the Tianlong Five Guards.

Apart from this, because the Fallen Demon Tide had brought about the appearance of large numbers of aberrations, although no aberration traces had appeared in the suburbs of Tianlong City, Tianlong Ridge was enormously vast, and the many hunting grounds belonging to Tianlong City were distributed across various regions.

These regions had also begun to show traces of aberrations.

These hunting grounds could produce all kinds of materials for refining Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, their value extraordinary, so the Five Guards also had to eliminate aberrations at the first moment, to prevent the hunting grounds from being polluted and eroded.

This caused the Tianlong Five Guards to be taking on enormous numbers of tasks every day, so busy they could hardly cope.

The Dragon Fang Guard was naturally not exempt, and Li Luo and Jiang Qing, over the following half month, had almost only very little time to stay and rest in Tianlong City; the rest of the time, they were out executing missions.

It was worth mentioning that, after that previous trip to the Boundary River Falling Star Platform, Li Luo's Tian Xiang Jing had now reached the level of nine thousand eight hundred zhang.

That's right, this time Li Luo had only improved by two hundred zhang.

This was even less than a fraction of the improvement from the first time he absorbed star beads.

But Li Luo was quite satisfied with this, after all, when he first came to the Falling Star Platform, his Tian Xiang Jing was only six thousand zhang—how could the difficulty of improvement possibly compare to now?

With his Tian Xiang Jing at his current level, to improve even a few more zhang required extremely astonishing potential and talent.

After all, even someone as strong as Ning Meng of the Holy Light Ancient Academy, who possessed a mid-ninth-grade Light-Chasing Beast Aspect, had only reached nine thousand eight hundred zhang at the Da Tian Xiang Jing, and Wu Changkong had only reached nine thousand six hundred zhang, already surpassed by the current Li Luo.

Therefore, Li Luo's nine thousand eight hundred zhang, in the eyes of many, was already an extremely terrifying foundation.

He could even begin to make preparations to break through to the Marquis Realm.

But Li Luo was not satisfied by this, because his goal was the ultimate limit of the Da Tian Xiang Jing—the Ten Thousand Zhang Tian Xiang Jing!

This was the most difficult extreme realm before the Marquis Realm; compared to it, those extreme realms Li Luo had previously reached were undoubtedly child's play.

But Li Luo did not feel fear, because he could feel that his own potential was still abundant; as long as he was given a bit more time and opportunity, the Ten Thousand Zhang Tian Xiang Jing was not impossible.

Moreover, he wanted to make some more improvements to his strength before the Boundary River Treasure Domain opened, so during this period, he had also been frantically taking on missions—earning dragon essences was secondary; what he wanted more was to temper himself in those battles again and again, squeezing out his potential.

Under his efforts giving everything he had, in nearly a month's time, his Tian Xiang Jing did make slight progress, improving by twenty zhang.

So to be precise, the current Li Luo had already reached nine thousand eight hundred and twenty zhang.

At the same time, he welcomed another session at the Boundary River Falling Star Platform.

At this Falling Star Platform session, Li Luo still chose to help the other three guards refine star beads, because he needed a large batch of dragon essences to purchase some things he had his eye on, preparing for the upcoming Boundary River Treasure Domain.

At the same time, this time after absorbing the star beads, Li Luo's Tian Xiang Jing gained an improvement of one hundred zhang.

In the end, his Tian Xiang Jing reached nine thousand nine hundred and twenty zhang.

At the time, this Tian Xiang Jing shocked tens of thousands of people in the Tianlong Five Guards, because they had not seen a Da Tian Xiang Jing with such a deep foundation in many years; even Li Zhihuo, Li Fuluo, and these other Guard Lords, when they were at the Da Tian Xiang Jing, had also far from reached this level.

Everyone's hearts were extremely shaken, because they seemed to faintly see again that a Ten-Pillar Golden Stage would probably truly be forged not long from now.

If it came to that, the Dragon Fang Guard would possess two peerless prodigies who had forged Ten-Pillar Golden Stages.

If it truly reached that step, Li Luo and Jiang Qing's starting point at the Marquis Realm would surpass that of Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan back in the day.

This made everyone's mood extremely complicated; this engaged couple was too monstrous, and in the future Tianlong Five Guards, probably no one could shake them.

As for the shock of others, Li Luo had no time to pay attention, because he was troubled by the remaining eighty zhang—at this step, even he could not push it forward in the short term.

To break through that barrier, an opportunity was probably needed.

After all, back then Jiang Qing had also relied on the Nine-Stripe Sacred Heart Lotus in the Little Chentian to take that step.

But Li Luo quickly let it go; having reached this step, there was no need to be anxious about what came next, he only needed to wait for things to come together naturally.

So after this session at the Boundary River Falling Star Platform ended, Li Luo chose to rest for several days; at the same time, during this period, there was also an important matter worthy of his constant attention.

That was...

After a long period of gestation, Li Hongyou was finally about to break through to the Marquis Realm.

Dragon Fang Guard headquarters.

Li Luo, Jiang Qing, Li Fuluo, and others had all gathered outside a cultivation tower, and at this time within that cultivation tower, there were constantly tremendous surging phase force fluctuations, like ocean waves, layer upon layer piling up.

A massive energy vortex formed at the top of the cultivation tower, frantically swallowing and spitting out the world's energy.

Inside that tower, naturally, was Li Hongyou cultivating.

Her breakthrough this time had already lasted for several days.

Everything was going smoothly; when Li Hongyou chose to break through, her Tian Xiang Realm had already reached nine thousand six hundred zhang, already on par with Wu Changkong, the former head of the Celestial Star Hall of the Tianyuan Ancient Academy. Coupled with her lower-ninth-grade phase nature and an extremely compatible top-grade Foundation Establishment spiritual treasure, these advantages made her breakthrough to Marquis rank a straightforward matter.

Moreover, it should be right now.

Boom!

Accompanied by the massive energy vortex at the top of the tower suddenly erupting with a roar, the energy vortex then transformed into a torrent flowing down, completely sinking into the tower, and everything returned to calm.

After some ten-odd breaths, a massive pillar of light suddenly shot skyward; within that pillar of light, a crimson-colored Marquis Stage slowly condensed into being.

Seeing this, a smile immediately surfaced on Li Luo's face.

From this moment on, Li Hongyou was also a Marquis-level powerhouse.