Chapter 1354: Sis, You're at the Wrong Table!

The figure that walked out from the malevolent vortex had disheveled hair, a cold, fierce face, and eyes so black they resembled vortices, constantly streaming with black water of malice.

That appearance was unmistakably Qin Yi's mother, Qin Qin Lian!

Horror appeared on the faces of everyone present, especially people like Qin Beiming from the Qin Li Tianwang lineage, who found it hard to believe that Qin Qin Lian would be emanating such a vast, dense aura of malice.

"Palace Master Qin Qin Lian, she—she was corrupted by the curse too?!"

Qin Beiming's entire body turned cold. The current appearance of Qin Qin Lian was not unfamiliar to them, because Shen Yunge had looked the same before—the only difference was the intensity of the malevolent aura they radiated.

Moreover, Qin Qin Lian's eyes had turned pitch-black, like two black vortices, with viscous black liquid constantly sliding from the corners, dripping down her cheeks.

It seemed the degree of curse erosion was even deeper than Shen Yunge's.

"Damn it, why is it that everyone deeply corrupted by the curse is from our Qin Li Tianwang lineage?" Qin Beiming's face was ashen. Although Shen Yunge was not technically part of their Qin Li Tianwang lineage, he shared one thing in common with Qin Qin Lian: before entering the Treasure Domain, he had almost always stayed in Abyss City.

But even though Qin Beiming sensed some coincidence, he could never have imagined that the mastermind behind all this had been personally brought to their side by Qin Jiujie.

"Mother!"

Qin Yi's pretty face went deathly pale. She stared at that familiar figure with disheveled hair, looking like a vengeful ghost, and her heart ached. Although in daily life she had many complaints about Qin Qin Lian's domineering ways, no matter what, the two were mother and daughter, and Qin Yi had always suppressed her dissatisfaction, trying her best to accommodate this overbearing mother.

Seeing Qin Qin Lian in such a state now, she was naturally panicked and heartbroken.

"Master!" Chu Qing also wore an ugly expression, letting out a low growl, trying to wake Qin Qin Lian.

But clearly it had no effect. As Qin Qin Lian completely stepped out of the malevolent vortex, a terrifying wave of malice began to sweep out from her body, completely shrouding and covering this stretch of heaven and earth.

Then everyone felt the surrounding space seemed to grow viscous at this moment, as if they were mosquitoes caught in a spider's web, even their movements becoming sluggish.

"It's over. Why did a corrupted eighth-grade Feng Hou come here? Were all the upper-grade Feng Hou in the Boundary River Domain wiped out?" Lü Shuanglu's pretty face also went pale, and even despair surfaced in her eyes.

She felt she was really unlucky—what was the point of coming to this Boundary River Domain to play? She hadn't gained any benefits, and the dangers kept getting more terrifying each time.

The previous Shen Yunge at least gave them some hope of defeating him, but the moment Qin Qin Lian appeared, it truly left people despairing to the point of suffocation.

Beside her, Zhang Cuicheng could only sigh helplessly and say, "It looks like we're going to die here."

Lü Shuanglu cursed angrily, "Shut up! It's all your fault for insisting on coming to find Li Luo!"

Zhang Cuicheng pursed his lips. My looking for Li Luo has nothing to do with you—weren't you the one who wanted to watch the excitement and voluntarily took the mission to follow along?

But he also knew Lü Shuanglu was on the verge of a breakdown right now, and he wasn't good at arguing, so he simply shut his mouth and frowned, thinking about a way to survive.

And similar mental breakdowns were happening to almost everyone present.

Even Li Luo.

"This is bad. That crazy woman actually got corrupted."

The moment Li Luo saw the vengeful-ghost-like Qin Qin Lian, his scalp immediately went numb. This woman's mental state was already twisted to begin with—now that she was eroded and corrupted, wouldn't she be even more terrifying?

The key point was that Qin Qin Lian was originally an eighth-grade Feng Hou strong practitioner. Now corrupted to this extent, her strength would inevitably increase.

On their side, the strongest was only Qin Beiming, an upper fifth-grade Feng Hou. As for him and Jiang Jiang Qinge, they had just exhausted every means at their disposal, using the "Heavenly Dragon Wolf Malice" poison to take down Shen Yunge, who was also an upper fifth-grade Feng Hou.

But just that one dose of "Heavenly Dragon Wolf Malice" had drained most of the Heavenly Dragon essence blood from Li Luo's body, and it would be difficult to produce a second one in a short time.

Moreover, Li Luo seriously suspected that even the "Heavenly Dragon Wolf Malice" might not be able to threaten Qin Qin Lian.

After all, the gap in their levels was simply too great!

So at this moment, even Li Luo couldn't help wanting to curse out loud.

Damn it, sis, you're at the wrong table!

An upper-grade Feng Hou should be at that table over there!

Here it's just a bunch of kids—together we wouldn't even be enough for you to beat!

"This Qin Qin Lian really is both crazy and blind!" Li Luo gritted his teeth and cursed.

Beside him, Jiang Jiang Qinge's exquisitely beautiful jade-like face was now filled with solemnity, because the situation had suddenly reversed again. Qin Qin Lian's appearance would plunge them into an unprecedented crisis.

An eighth-grade Feng Hou strong practitioner was already enough to rank among the top-tier experts of Outer Shenzhou. With Kings not appearing and ninth-grade rarely seen, eighth-grade Feng Hou were practically the top combat power of every Li Tianwang lineage.

Faced with such a gap, whether it was Li Luo's poison or her own one-grade ten-pillar Golden Platform, both were as fragile as tofu.

She naturally wouldn't vent her emotions by cursing like Li Luo. Instead, her mind flashed like lightning, calmly calculating how to break the deadlock—at the very least, she had to protect Li Luo.

While everyone present was in shock, Qin Qin Lian's black vortex-like pupils slowly rotated, and a cold, hoarse voice rang out: "The energy pool has been destroyed. Since that's the case, then let your flesh and blood become the nourishment for gestation."

As her voice fell, they saw a huge blood-red petal slowly droop from that blood-red flower bud. What was horrifying was that a giant mouth full of fangs and sharp teeth drilled out from the petal. The giant mouth slowly chewed, emitting an eerie crunching sound.

"Will you go in yourselves?" Qin Qin Lian's black vortex-like pupils gazed at everyone, asking without a trace of emotion.

Yet everyone stepped back several paces with terror on their faces. This Qin Qin Lian was truly crazy—asking them to walk up and be eaten on their own?

Qin Beiming steeled himself and said, "Palace Master Qin Qin Lian, please come to your senses—we're all on the same side!"

He clung to his last shred of luck, trying to awaken even a sliver of Qin Qin Lian's consciousness.

Yet more people could no longer suppress the terror in their hearts and began to flee backward in despair, trying to escape.

At this moment, a black light spot slowly rose from the crown of Qin Qin Lian's head, then suddenly expanded. In just a few breaths, it covered this stretch of heaven and earth.

The next instant, black flames could be seen spreading from the earth and the void, turning this stretch of heaven and earth into a black sea of fire.

At the same time, everyone felt as if they had lost their connection with the world's energy.

Immediately, countless people cried out in horror: "Feng Hou Domain!"

This was the signature ability of an upper-grade Feng Hou strong practitioner—directly taking complete control of a region, where the world's energy moved according to their will, and others could not mobilize it at all.

As such, within the domain, others were naturally weakened.

The only way to counter a Feng Hou Domain was to use another Feng Hou Domain against it, contesting ownership of the region.

But among those present, the highest level was Qin Beiming, and his upper fifth-grade Feng Hou was still far from being able to deploy a Feng Hou Domain.

In the void, chains condensed from black flames shot out, directly binding those who tried to flee like lightning. They tried to resist, but even when they summoned their Feng Hou Platforms, the result they met was the raging black flames surging over, and their entire Feng Hou Platforms began to collapse under the black flames.

Piercing screams rang out one after another.

Faced with an upper-grade Feng Hou, those Feng Hou strong practitioners at first-grade and second-grade were practically like ants.

The black flame chains scorched them until their flesh split open, then dragged them back alive. With a casual toss, they fell into the fanged, sharp-toothed mouth gaping on the blood-red petal.

That grotesque giant mouth began to chew, and immediately the sounds of flesh and bone being crushed rang out, with gushing blood seeping out.

But the flower petals grew an even deeper, fresher red.

Then, to everyone's horror, they discovered that the blood-red flower bud, which had stopped growing moments ago, had actually begun to grow once more.

Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge also watched the scene with grim expressions, then the two of them slowly retreated. Right now, they could only rejoin the others and see if they could gather enough strength to resist it.

The moment they moved, Qin Qin Lian's eyes, swirling with a pitch-black vortex, shifted toward them. Her gaze landed on Li Luo first, and Li Luo saw that on her ghost-like cheeks, an exaggerated, twisted arc had torn open from the corner of her mouth.

The next instant, her laughter, brimming with endless distortion and venomous hatred, rang out across the heavens and earth.

"Look what I've found."

"Li Luo!"

"Isn't that Li Li Jingzhe so amazing? Can he still save you this time?"

"Li Luo, I will make you die in the most painful way possible, then use your bones to carve a likeness of you, and send it to Li Li Jingzhe, and to Dantai Lan, and to Li Taixuan!!!"

"Hee hee hee hee hee!"