Chapter 1559: Revealing the Details

When Li Luo's group returned to Zhao Shenjiang City, Li Li Tianji immediately announced the combat-preparation order for an imminent second major counterattack, which undoubtedly caused an enormous stir.

After all, the previous major counterattack had only been a month ago, and that time, the Li Li Tianwang lineage had not achieved any obvious results. They had failed to destroy even a single Black Rain Viewing Platform, yet paid a heavy price for it: massive casualties and the grievous wounding of a veteran top Marquis.

This caused the morale of the Li Li Tianwang lineage to slump somewhat during this period.

After all, if they could not destroy the Black Rain Viewing Platforms, the Black Rain would keep pouring down without end, and the Other Beings would surge in endlessly like a tide. They would be trapped in this meat grinder, paying a heavy toll in casualties every single day.

And after the hard clash of the last major counterattack, everyone could see that this eruption of the Other Tide was especially ferocious, and with the Li Li Tianwang lineage's current strength, it would be very difficult to resolve it in the short term.

So launching another major counterattack in such haste right now would only add to the casualties.

But since this was ultimately an order from Li Li Tianji, the troops under the Li Li Tianwang lineage, though perplexed, still chose to obey. However, the hired Marquis-level experts had much stronger objections and were somewhat reluctant about it.

Especially the four top Marquis of the Ninth Grade who had been brought in at great expense.

Two of them were particularly resistant. Although the Li Li Tianwang lineage offered high pay, one's life was ultimately more important. The fate of that veteran top Marquis of the Li Li Tianwang lineage who had been grievously wounded and nearly died in the previous counterattack had frightened them.

It was too dangerous here.

So they had even begun to entertain the thought of leaving the Li Li Tianwang lineage and going over to the Qin Li Tianwang lineage, because that side possessed a method to neutralize the Black Rain, making the pay easier to earn.

But no matter how much the people below buzzed with discussion, as the orders from Li Li Tianji, Dantai Lan and these lineage heads were conveyed down, the massive army of the Li Li Tianwang lineage began to operate in an orderly fashion. The experts of every lineage were making combat preparations for the upcoming second major counterattack.

And it was precisely at such a moment that another piece of heavyweight news arrived.

It was that the Qin Li Tianwang lineage announced an alliance with the Zhao Li Tianwang lineage, intending to thoroughly drive back the Other Tide and push it back to the Boundary River Domain.

At the same time, the Qin Li Tianwang lineage issued a grand recruitment decree, widely inviting powerful experts and top Marquis from all sides of Outer Shenzhou to join this war, and they even offered many heart-stirringly attractive conditions.

Once this news spread, it immediately caused a huge shock within the Li Li Tianwang lineage's battle lines. Quite a few of the hired experts were tempted and began to harbor thoughts of switching sides.

After all, judging by the current situation, the Li Li Tianwang lineage's counterattack had suffered a setback and would be bogged down in a prolonged stalemate, while the Qin Li Tianwang lineage possessed the means to neutralize the Black Rain. Now allied with the Zhao Li Tianwang lineage, their offensive would surely be unstoppable.

By then, the Qin Li Tianwang lineage might have already pushed the Other Tide back to the Boundary River Domain and seized vast tracts of territorial resources, while the Li Li Tianwang lineage's side was still stuck at Zhao Shenjiang City.

No matter how you looked at it, the Qin Li Tianwang lineage's side had the brighter future.

Thus, before the Li Li Tianwang lineage's major counterattack had even begun, morale had already begun to waver.

But regarding the unrest among the people below, the higher-ups like Li Li Tianji and Dantai Lan paid it no heed for the time being, because words were useless at this point. To stabilize morale, they had to quickly derive the "Evil-Dissolving Array" on their side.

Only with a means to counter the Black Rain could their second major counterattack truly be carried out.

Zhao Shenjiang City, the deep rear mountain behind the City Lord's Manor.

"That Qin Yi's 'Spring Rain Evil-Dissolving Array' works by leveraging her 'Water Affinity' and 'Rain Affinity' at its core, then with the assistance of several top Marquis, it is expanded to form a vast Spring Rain. This Spring Rain has the effect of diluting the Black Rain, thereby weakening the Black Rain's corrosive effect, while at the same time the Spring Rain's restorative power can boost the troops fighting within it."

"This array cannot be deployed by anyone else, because they don't possess the Water Affinity and Rain Affinity, and even those who do possess these two Affinity Ranks don't have as high a grade as Qin Yi."

"Qin Yi received the Qin Li Tianwang lineage's 'Water Sacred Seed', so her Water Affinity can be elevated to Upper Ninth Grade, and combined with her Mid Ninth Grade Rain Affinity, only an Affinity Rank of this grade can dilute the Black Rain."

"In other words, to construct the 'Evil-Dissolving Array', the Affinity Rank is the key."

"Qing'e, although you don't have an Upper Ninth Grade Light Affinity, fortunately you possess three Mid Ninth Grade Light Affinities..." On a mountain peak, the three lineage heads Dantai Lan, Li Li Tianji, and Li Li Qingying were all present, and at this moment Li Li Qingying was explaining the core of the "Spring Rain Evil-Dissolving Array" to Dantai Lan and Li Luo before her.

"Lineage Head Li Qingying, your perception is mistaken." Li Luo suddenly laughed and cut off Li Li Qingying's words.

"One of Qing'e-Zhong Jie's Light Affinities has already evolved to Upper Ninth Grade."

As Li Luo's words fell, at Jiang Jiang Qinge's smooth brow, a sacred vertical mark appeared, then slowly split open, and a sacred crystal core was revealed like the vertical eye of a deity.

The Light energy between heaven and earth suddenly began to boil, emitting a strange rumbling sound.

Shock and astonishment flooded the eyes of Li Li Tianji and Li Li Qingying. When Jiang Jiang Qinge had left previously, hadn't she only had three Mid Ninth Grade Light Affinities? How could she have evolved an Upper Ninth Grade one in just two short years?

Is evolving an Upper Ninth Grade Affinity that easy?

The two were, after all, King-level experts, yet even Li Li Tianji, whose strength had reached the peak of the Double-Crowned King, had not evolved an Upper Ninth Grade Affinity to this day. So they knew full well just how difficult an Upper Ninth Grade Affinity was.

Even for a peerless prodigy, without the aid of a Sacred Seed, it would be very difficult to evolve an Affinity to Upper Ninth Grade before the King-level, right?

Isn't this a bit excessively monstrous?!

Watching the two lineage heads in shock, Dantai Lan merely smiled faintly and said with a hint of pride: "There's nothing strange about this. Even a Sacred Seed has to bow its head before my little E."

Li Li Tianji and Li Li Qingying felt this claim was a bit outrageous. A Sacred Seed was the very foundation of every major Li Tianwang lineage—a treasure forged by seizing the fortune of heaven and earth, condensed only by the hand of a Li Tianwang. And even a Sacred Seed had to bow its head to Jiang Jiang Qinge?

How could that be...

Li Li Tianji had just been about to shake his head when he suddenly thought of something. In the next instant, his pupils contracted sharply, and he stared at Jiang Jiang Qinge with an incredulous gaze, crying out involuntarily: "Could it be, could it be that she, she's the legendary Original Seed?!"

Li Li Qingying's face also showed horror. What could make a Sacred Seed bow its head, besides an Original Seed? After all, the ultimate end of a Sacred Seed was to evolve into an Original Seed!

But how exceedingly rare was an Original Seed—it was a seed capable of dazzling an entire era, with the potential to reach the Li Tianwang realm in the future!

And Jiang Jiang Qinge was actually an Original Seed?!

The two lineage heads exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock and wild joy in each other's eyes. They understood perfectly well what this signified. Did this not mean that their Li Li Tianwang lineage, after the Old Ancestor, could actually produce another Li Tianwang?

Regarding their shock, Dantai Lan expressed great satisfaction. Now you know how outstanding my little E is, don't you?

At the same time, she patted Li Luo's shoulder and said: "Then do you also know what Xiao Luo is?"

It seemed Dantai Lan no longer intended to hide this information, after all, the current Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge had already grown up, and there was no longer any need to worry about covetous gazes.

Li Li Tianji and Li Li Qingying looked over suspiciously. What did Dantai Lan mean by that? Could Li Luo also be some kind of special seed? They really couldn't tell at all.

Could he be a Lucky Seed?

Being able to take an Original Seed as his wife—any way you looked at it, he was a man of great fortune.