Chapter 1454: Evolve, Heavenly Dragon Phase!

"What an extraordinary little girl. Are all the people from your Saint Mystic Star Academy this monstrous nowadays?" the middle-aged man said slowly.

"There's still quite a gap compared to him." On Lü Qing'er's exquisitely beautiful face, deep blue frost rapidly spread, lending her at this moment an additional special charm.

The middle-aged man said: "Your ice seal can only trap me for the time it takes one incense stick to burn."

Lü Qing'er said softly: "One incense stick's time is enough."

The middle-aged man smiled and said: "It seems you have great confidence in Li Luo."

Lü Qing'er's ice-clear beautiful eyes looked toward the distant mountains, at that upright figure holding a thunder blade. Deep within her eyes flowed a trace of deep attachment, but this trace of attachment, as she continuously unsealed the restraints of the Holy Ice Seed within her body, was gradually becoming distant and cold.

This emotional indifference caused Lü Qing'er's heart to ache faintly, but she was powerless to stop it.

"I've always had great confidence in him."

She murmured softly, as deep blue frost spread like a tide. In just a dozen or so breaths, her figure was transformed into a vivid ice sculpture.

At the same time, the middle-aged man also gave up struggling, allowing the frost to cover his body.

"Although your thoughts are beautiful, when you open your eyes again, the one standing before you will absolutely not be Li Luo."

As his final word fell, his body also completely transformed into an ice sculpture.

The change on their end also caught the eyes of many people, who immediately felt some amazement. No one had expected that a Marquis Realm expert of the Lower Sixth Rank would actually be held back by Lü Qing'er, who was merely at the First Rank Marquis Realm.

Outside, Lü Ruyan also witnessed this scene, and immediately her coquettish face turned somewhat unsightly, because she knew clearly that this was the power of the Holy Ice Seed.

"Lü Qing'er!" In Lü Ruyan's eyes, jealousy surfaced. To obtain the recognition of that "Holy Ice Seed," she didn't know how much effort she had put in over the years. But who could have imagined that all those years of effort still couldn't compare to a wild girl who had returned from the Outer Shenzhou!

She was very unwilling.

And this time was her final chance.

She absolutely had to snatch the Holy Ice Seed back!

Lü Ruyan took a deep breath, calmed her surging emotions, then sneered inwardly. That fool Lü Qing'er thought swapping out a Sixth Rank Marquis could change anything.

Did Lü Qing'er really think Li Luo could defeat Fang Xingyun?

That was a genuine Upper Marquis.

No matter how many tricks Li Luo had, they would be useless in the face of such a gap.

Therefore, she very much looked forward to the disappointment that would rise in Lü Qing'er's eyes when she opened them again.

Li Luo's grip on the saber handle slowly tightened, with traces of blood seeping between his fingers. That sudden palm strike from Fang Xingyun earlier had actually carried very strong threatening force; if he hadn't used the solid defense of the Dragon Elephant Thunder Blade, he really might have been injured by that palm strike.

"An Upper Marquis is far harder to deal with than a Sixth Rank Marquis." He sighed inwardly. This Fang Xingyun was only a Lower Seventh Rank Marquis, yet the pressure he brought him far exceeded that of the previous Shui Baoping, Yan Feng, and others.

The gap between a Mid Marquis and an Upper Marquis was truly like a chasm.

The difficulty of today's match could truly be said to be maxed out.

While Li Luo was sighing, Fang Xingyun had no intention of saying more to him. He saw Fang Xingyun rapidly form a mysterious seal with one hand, and the next instant, the seven Marquis Platforms in the sky trembled violently, as rolling thunder light actually spread out, covering this mountainous region.

Wherever the thunder light passed, it seemed to form a domain.

Within this domain, the thunder-attribute energy between heaven and earth began to grow vigorous, while energies of other attributes were dissipating.

Boom!

Thunder clouds condensed in the sky, with thunder weaving through them like giant pythons.

This was Fang Xingyun's Marquis Domain!

Within the domain, the energy of heaven and earth would be controlled by Fang Xingyun. If someone below the Seventh Rank Marquis Realm was within it, they would find it even harder to mobilize the energy of heaven and earth to empower themselves.

This would undoubtedly be an immense suppression.

And this was also where the advantage of an Upper Marquis lay. Once the Marquis Domain was deployed, this place became one's home-field advantage.

Back then in the Boundary River Treasure Domain, Qin Qin Lian single-handedly suppressed so many Mid and Lower Marquis Realm experts in the Boundary River Domain until they had no temper, also because of the existence of the Marquis Domain.

And as Fang Xingyun deployed his Marquis Domain, everyone understood that he had no intention of giving Li Luo any chance to resist.

Li Luo also felt that with the deployment of that Marquis Domain, a strange oppressive force descended from between heaven and earth.

However, he remained quite calm about it. The two Ten-Pillar Gold Platforms above his head suddenly erupted with strange rumbling sounds, and at the same time, six phase affinities manifested above the Marquis Platforms.

Surging vast waters flowed within them, carrying sacred bright light.

Towering ancient trees stood tall, rooted in boundless brown earth, upright and unyielding.

Thunder clouds spread, with the shadow of a Heavenly Dragon appearing, emanating ancient dragon might.

"Your Lower Seventh Rank Marquis Domain might still have some effect on others, but against me, it may not be as good as you imagine."

Li Luo said with a smile. The Ten-Pillar Gold Platforms flowed with an aura of perfection and completeness, which held an extremely strong attraction to the energy of heaven and earth. Therefore, even though Fang Xingyun's Marquis Domain formed some suppression, it could not shake Li Luo's resonance with heaven and earth.

This was also one of the sources of confidence for an Unparalleled Prodigy to "leap three ranks" on many occasions. The Ten-Pillar Gold Platforms possessed a certain resistance when facing the suppression of a Marquis Domain.

Moreover, compared to Qin Qin Lian's, the Marquis Domain before him was simply like a small witch meeting a great witch.

"Furthermore, targeted suppression isn't something only you can do."

At Li Luo's thought, the Heavenly Dragon Phase erupted with an earth-shattering dragon roar. That dragon roar was ancient and pure, and a purple-gold Heavenly Dragon coiled above the Ten-Pillar Gold Platforms. The might of the Heavenly Dragon swept across the land.

Under this might of the Heavenly Dragon, Fang Xingyun's expression changed for the first time, because he saw that the Thunder Dragon and Silver Dragon phase affinities manifested on his own seven Marquis Platforms had actually dimmed slightly under the dragon might of Li Luo.

"This is... the Heavenly Dragon Phase?!"

Fang Xingyun's expression grew slightly solemn. He himself possessed the Dual Dragon Phases, so he naturally understood the dragon race extremely well, and thus also understood what Li Luo's Heavenly Dragon Phase represented. It was the sovereign of dragon phases, holding a suppressive force over many other dragon phases.

Fang Xingyun felt slightly speechless in his heart. He had originally intended to use the Marquis Domain to create some suppression on Li Luo, but the suppression didn't work, and instead Li Luo activated the Heavenly Dragon Phase to suppress his Dual Dragon Phases in return.

Fortunately, this suppression wasn't too obvious, not enough to affect the situation.

"After all, it's only a Virtual Ninth Rank Heavenly Dragon Phase."

Fang Xingyun breathed a slight sigh of relief in his heart, but also began to feel a sense of crisis. This Li Luo was really a bit evil, with tricks and trump cards emerging endlessly. He still had to end this quickly.

Boom!

However, just as this thought flashed through his mind, he suddenly saw a smile appear on Li Luo's face that made him feel somewhat uneasy, and at the same time, the latter's playful voice came: "Do you find the grade of my Heavenly Dragon Phase a bit low?"

"Then let me give you a little performance!"

Fang Xingyun's heart skipped a beat, a cold expression appearing on his face, and he directly retorted: "No need!"

Immediately he stretched out his palm, and a gathering of thunderclouds seemed to form within it. The next instant, they transformed into ten thousand thunder pythons, pouring down toward Li Luo in a world-shattering manner.

"What kind of performance is this? Just get off the stage already, you weirdo!"

Li Luo's pupils reflected the sky-filling thunder, and a murmur rose in his heart.

"Little Dragon Sacred Seed."

"Evolve!"

"Mid ninth-rank, Heavenly Dragon Aspect!"