Chapter 1344: The Mutated Shen Yunge

"Shen Yunge?!"

The figure that had suddenly appeared ahead, blocking Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge's path, was none other than Shen Yunge from the Beast Spirit Hall.

Everyone was shocked and caught off guard by this.

"Shen Yunge, what are you doing?!" Qin Beiming roared like thunder, glaring at Shen Yunge's figure from afar with a mixture of shock and fury, unable to understand what the latter meant.

In this perilous situation, they desperately needed Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge to break the deadlock, yet Shen Yunge had popped up to block them — there was simply no justifying this.

After all, if the terrifying thing within that blood-red flower bud was truly allowed to gestate and emerge, none of them here would be able to escape; even Shen Yunge himself would be nothing more than a dead man.

"Shen Yunge, are you trying to get us all killed?!" Strong practitioners from other forces also roared in anger one after another.

Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge frowned slightly as well. They exchanged a glance, and the latter said softly, "Something's off about him."

On Shen Yunge's body, a clear aura of malice was rising — a sign of contamination.

"He's been contaminated? But we already purified him earlier," Li Luo said, puzzled.

Jiang Jiang Qinge's bright eyes turned to the little golden snake coiled around Shen Yunge's wrist. The snake's pupils had already turned pitch-black, continuously oozing a foul-smelling black liquid.

"Because the one contaminated is his natal spirit beast. Earlier, only he received the purification, but the snake did not."

"But that little snake hasn't come into contact with many Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures, so how could it be contaminated?" Li Luo still found it very strange. Only those who had come into contact with Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures would be infected by the "Black-Eyed Ghost Curse," but Shen Yunge's Golden-Scaled Heavenly Python was usually in a state of feigned sleep, so by all rights it shouldn't have had any chance of being infected.

Moreover, for some unknown reason, Li Luo keenly sensed that the "Black-Eyed Ghost Curse" afflicting this Golden-Scaled Heavenly Python seemed far more ferocious than any kind they had seen before.

Jiang Jiang Qinge shook her head slightly. She too couldn't figure out why Shen Yunge's Golden-Scaled Heavenly Python had been hit, but there was no point in discussing it now, because Shen Yunge had clearly been infected by the Golden-Scaled Heavenly Python. The bond between the two was too close — if the python suffered, Shen Yunge couldn't escape it either.

"There's no time to waste on him here. Since he carelessly brought this on himself, then we can only..."

A cold killing intent surfaced in Jiang Jiang Qinge's bright eyes.

"Kill man and snake together!"

The instant her words fell, Jiang Jiang Qinge's graceful figure had already decisively shot forth. One saw resplendent, dazzling light-phase power erupt, and a flawless ten-pillar golden platform appeared above her head, drawing in the energy of heaven and earth, transforming it into rolling light-phase power.

Three halos formed from her Nine-Rank Light Phase manifested behind her head, blessing her.

Jiang Jiang Qinge E Shou Chi Zhong, her graceful figure like a streak of flowing light, crossed paths with Shen Yunge in an instant, and that sacred sword light ruthlessly pierced through the latter's chest.

Jiang Jiang Qinge's figure appeared behind Shen Yunge, but there was no relief in her eyes — instead, they grew even more Solemn.

Because when the sword light had pierced Shen Yunge's body earlier, she had sensed a terrifying aura of malice entrenched within the latter, which had directly dissolved all of her light-phase power.

Jiang Jiang Qinge's figure moved, retreating back to Li Luo's side. Her beautiful eyes had grown much more solemn at this moment, and she said in a low voice, "Be careful, he's gotten much stronger!"

Li Luo's expression also grew somewhat solemn, and he said, "This Shen Yunge is probably a chess piece the mastermind planted in advance!"

Jiang Jiang Qinge was briefly stunned, then nodded slightly and said, "This Return-to-One Association is truly terrifying. No one knows how many more trump cards they still have."

While the two were speaking, Shen Yunge lowered his head somewhat stiffly, staring at the bloody hole in his chest. The struggle in his eyes grew even more intense at this moment.

But just then, the Golden-Scaled Heavenly Python on his wrist suddenly let out a piercing sound, then slithered up along his arm, actually burrowing into the bloody hole on his chest.

The next moment, the bloody hole on Shen Yunge's chest writhed and, at the same time, healed at a startling speed, until the bloody hole vanished.

But where the bloody hole had disappeared, a hideous snake head poked out — the sight looked rather eerie.

But Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge had no mood to care whether his form was eerie, because at this very moment, an extremely violent energy fluctuation erupted abruptly with Shen Yunge as its source.

The intensity of that energy directly caused Qin Beiming, Li Zhihuo and others in the distance to involuntarily change color.

"Upper Fifth Rank Marquis?!"

At this moment, Shen Yunge's energy fluctuation was already in no way inferior to Qin Beiming's. In fact, this energy seemed to still be slowly swelling.

At this moment, everyone's hearts couldn't help but sink.

Faced with Shen Yunge in this form, even Qin Beiming might not be able to break through, let alone Jiang Jiang Qinge and Li Luo!

Although they all knew Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge's combat power far surpassed those of the same rank, and the former even possessed an Upper Third Rank Six-Tailed Heavenly Wolf, even so... it would probably be very difficult to contend against Shen Yunge, whose strength had now reached that of an Upper Fifth Rank Marquis!

But at this point, aside from Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge, who had a chance to approach that blood-red flower bud and stop it from continuing to grow, everyone else was left far behind.

Thus, the hopeful gazes many had raised earlier now couldn't help but dim once again.

Regarding those gradually dimming gazes, there was no ripple in Jiang Jiang Qinge's bright eyes. She didn't care about others' opinions either. The reason she was fighting with everything she had right now was simply because Li Luo was still in the thick of it, and that was why she would give it her all.

Jiang Jiang Qinge tilted her head slightly, looked at Li Luo, and asked, "An Upper Fifth Rank Marquis as an enemy — are you afraid?"

Hearing this, a smile surfaced on Li Luo's handsome face. He flicked the crimson bracelet on his wrist lightly with his finger and said, "Wolf Bro, time to get to work."

From within the bracelet, the Six-Tailed Heavenly Wolf let out a helpless roar. Its Third Rank strength, facing an Upper Fifth Rank Marquis-level enemy, was honestly a bit inadequate.

This kid, why does he always end up in these high-stakes fights?

But what could it do?

After all, this kid's backing was just too powerful.

So the next moment, the Six-Tailed Heavenly Wolf's ferocious energy poured out almost without reservation, surging entirely into Li Luo's body.

Li Luo felt the raging, surging energy within his body, gripped the Dragon Elephant Blade tightly with his five fingers, and then unhesitatingly activated the Dragon-Seed True Pill within him.

Dragon Transformation!

His body rose inch by inch, gray-white hair growing like a waterfall, flying behind his head, while his palms and the soles of his feet transformed into sharp dragon claws.

The half-dragon-man form appeared once again.

Heavenly Dragon True Body!

But Li Luo did not stop there. He activated the Heavenly Dragon True Body once more, and instantly an ancient, pure dragon might erupted from within him. The ferocious, mysterious purple-gold dragon-scale armor once again covered his body.

On the Dragon Elephant Blade in his hand, purple-gold dragon scales also protruded from the blade's edge, forming extremely savage serrations that looked exceptionally sharp while brimming with a fierce aura.

With Dragon Transformation and the Heavenly Dragon True Body, Li Luo's physical body's strength had already reached an astonishing level, fully capable of withstanding the Six-Tailed Heavenly Wolf's extremely ferocious energy rampaging within him.

An overwhelmingly powerful might radiated from Li Luo's body like a storm.

This level of might was already approaching that of a Lower Fourth Rank Marquis.

Sensing this might, many of the strong practitioners present couldn't help but cast sidelong glances. Such an abnormal Da Tian Xiang Jing was truly too rare.

Qin Yi cast her gaze from afar. She looked at that towering, dragon-like figure wielding the Dragon Elephant Blade under the onslaught of towering malice, and her gaze couldn't help but freeze for a moment.

Such bearing truly belonged to the foremost figure among the younger generation of Outer Shenzhou.

As Li Luo revealed his many hidden cards on his side, Jiang Jiang Qinge's side also blazed with brilliant light. One could see wings of radiance slowly unfurling behind her, while at her smooth brow, mysterious light patterns condensed into a point of light.

Mid ninth-grade Light Phase, Ancient Tracing Phase Patterns!

At the same time, among her hair, the Holy Thorn Crown through which sacred light flowed gradually saw blood-red color spreading, until it finally transformed into a blood-red Blood Thorn Crown.

The blood light reflected off that exquisitely beautiful, sacred countenance, instead accentuating a somewhat eerie, contrasting quality, making the present Jiang Jiang Qinge breathtakingly beautiful to the extreme.

Wave after wave of phase-power pressure spread continuously from within Jiang Jiang Qinge's body, like surging tides.

At this moment, Jiang Jiang Qinge truly resembled that peerlessly holy Goddess of Light, dazzling to the point of being blinding.

She held the heavy sword of sacred light in her hand, her gaze cast toward Li Luo, her red lips lightly curving into an arc, as a soft voice came.

"Li Luo, are you ready?"

Li Luo laughed heartily in response, the Dragon Elephant Blade in his hand slowly rising.

Ahead, Shen Yunge stood like a demon, overwhelming malevolent energy billowing outward, while further in the distance, an eerie and enormous blood-red flower bud swayed gently, forming a blinding backdrop.

Li Luo's bold, clear laughter spread throughout the arena.

"Everyone, watch closely."

"Today, we husband and wife, will join hands..."

"To slay a fifth-grade!"