Chapter 1355: The Black Cauldron Refines the Lovebirds

When Qin Qin Lian's twisted, grotesque laughter rang out across the heavens and earth, Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge's figures shot backward without the slightest hesitation. With just the two of them, there was no way they could be Qin Qin Lian's match. Right now, the only option was to regroup with the others and see if they could combine everyone's strength to put up even the slightest resistance.

Moreover, Li Luo did not doubt Qin Qin Lian's killing intent toward him in the slightest. That mad woman, even in her right mind, had wished nothing more than to kill him. Now, having fallen into corruption, her negative emotions amplified without limit, that killing intent had likely reached an utterly terrifying level.

The two pushed their speed to the absolute limit, sonic booms tearing across the sky in their wake.

"Think you can run?"

Qin Qin Lian's pitch-black vortex eyes watched the two retreating figures, and she let out a chilling smile. With a flick of her finger, space itself instantly shattered, and two chains wreathed in burning black flames, carrying terrifying energy ripples, shot straight toward the two to kill them.

Boom!

Wherever the chains passed, the void continuously crumbled, their might truly shocking.

Bolstered by the Feng Hou Zhong Jie domain, every single one of Qin Qin Lian's strikes appeared this terrifying.

Jiang Jiang Qinge watched the black-flame chains tearing through the air toward her, bit lightly on her silver teeth, and without hesitation placed herself in front of Li Luo, simultaneously activating her strongest Feng Hou technique.

"Holy Light Wheel of Sacred Radiance!"

A sacred, resplendent wheel of light surged skyward, colliding with the two black-flame chains.

Boom!

Yet the Feng Hou technique, condensed with all of Jiang Jiang Qinge's power, now appeared more fragile than ever before. The black-flame chains, like two black dragons, in the very first instant of collision, with an utterly unstoppable force, brutally blasted that sacred wheel of light into a sky full of scattered motes of light.

"Three Dragons King-Slaying Arrows!"

However, Li Luo did not let Jiang Jiang Qinge bear the pressure alone. He once again circulated the power of the Six-Tailed Heavenly Wolf, and within the bracelet, the Six-Tailed Heavenly Wolf also let out a deafening howl, squeezing out every last bit of power within its body, because it too understood just how dire the current situation was. If Li Luo was killed by Qin Qin Lian, it would have no chance of escaping either.

Man and wolf, working as one, channeled their strongest attack.

So when the two black-flame chains shattered the sacred wheel of light, arrows of light like falling stars came roaring in with the cry of dragons. As the void trembled, the arrows, even as they shattered, finally managed to force the black-flame chains back somewhat.

But this meant nothing at all.

Because the void around them was now continuously shattering, one after another black-flame chains tearing through the air, howling around them on every side.

Under absolute suppression of level, even a Heavenly Fate-grade Feng Hou technique was utterly useless.

Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge watched the ever-growing number of black-flame chains around them, and their hearts sank further and further. The current situation was, without question, a true dead end.

It was even more severe than Shen Shen Jinxiao's assassination attempt back then.

Back then, it was Jiang Jiang Qinge who, at the cost of burning her Light Heart, managed to force Shen Shen Jinxiao back. But now, with this Qin Qin Lian, who was far more powerful than Shen Shen Jinxiao, what were they to do?

Jiang Jiang Qinge's slender five fingers tightened around the sword hilt, and a look of resolve surfaced in her eyes.

But her other hand was tightly gripped by Li Luo.

Jiang Jiang Qinge froze slightly, turned her head, and saw Li Luo flashing her a brilliant smile as he said, "Don't even think about throwing your life away alone again. I don't want to go through that a second time."

"If we really can't dodge it, then it's our fate. Dying as a pair of lovebirds sharing the same doom wouldn't be a bad way to go."

Jiang Jiang Qinge fell silent for a moment, then her slender fingers interlocked tightly with Li Luo's palm as she said softly, "I just feel I've let down Master and Mistress's instructions, failing to protect you well enough."

Li Luo looked at her seriously and said, "Jiang Jiang Qinge, you've already done perfectly. And besides, I've wanted to tell you this for a long time now. Protecting me isn't your responsibility. You're my fiancée, not my bodyguard."

"On the contrary, protecting you is my ultimate responsibility. All these years, I've been working toward that too. But the pity is, you're just too outstanding. I'm always the one lagging behind."

"So the one who should be saying sorry is me. I'm the one who failed to protect you."

Jiang Jiang Qinge was stunned. She looked into Li Luo's eyes. After all these years, this was the first time Li Luo had called her by her name so seriously and directly. And what he said carried a thoroughly masculine weight.

Deep within Jiang Jiang Qinge's heart, a faint warmth and sweetness flowed, causing her Bai Yu-like cheeks to flush with a shy crimson.

"That's a bit of a double standard, isn't it? How is it that you protecting me is only right and proper, but I have no responsibility to protect you?" Jiang Jiang Qinge said.

Li Luo grinned and said, "In our family, the one who should be protected most was never me in the first place, but you, the young lady mistress of House Luolan Mansion."

"Who holds the highest status in our household? Surely you have some idea?"

"If our parents heard me saying all this, they'd surely say with disdain, 'You brat, how come it took you until now to see the truth of it?'"

Jiang Jiang Qinge broke into a smile and said gently, "It's not as exaggerated as you make it sound."

"What a lovely pair of lovebirds, so deeply in love!"

Just as the two were pouring out their hearts to each other, Qin Qin Lian's shrill, grotesque voice suddenly rang out. She stared at the two holding hands tightly, and the black vortex in her pupils spun even more violently.

"Hehe, since you're so hopelessly in love, I'll just have to make sure you don't get what you want."

"I'll use the most intense negative emotions to corrode your minds, make you cast away all feelings, and then die at each other's hands!"

"Isn't that the most cruel way to die?"

Qin Qin Lian's ear-piercing, shrill voice echoed continuously, causing countless onlookers to change color.

Boom boom!

And as Qin Qin Lian's shrill voice fell, the black-flame chains encircling Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge began to fuse together without pause. In the span of a few breaths, those black-flame chains transformed into a massive black cauldron some dozens of zhang across.

Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge were trapped within the black cauldron.

On the black cauldron, increasingly terrifying black flames blazed fiercely, while countless struggling human silhouettes seemed to emerge. They tried to escape, but were all ignited by the black flames, immediately letting out utterly anguished screams.

Boundless negative emotions were burned, then transformed into black smoke that surged toward the inside of the cauldron.

Both Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge's expressions shifted slightly. Although they both possessed resistance to evil-impurity energy, the black flames of this black cauldron were continuously burning away the phase force within their bodies. And as their phase force ran dry, their resistance to evil-impurity energy would naturally weaken as well.

It had to be said, the Qin Qin Lian of this moment was truly vicious to the extreme.

Qin Qin Lian stretched out her palm and slammed it down hard. The black cauldron plummeted like a meteor, and with a thunderous crash, smashed a massive deep crater into the earth, the black cauldron itself embedded at the very deepest point.

On her face, like that of a vengeful ghost, a twisted smile surfaced.

"I'm very curious. Between you two little lovebirds so hopelessly in love, which of you will be the one to walk out alive in the end?"