Chapter 1562: The Great Counterattack

Whoosh!

Between the vast heavens and earth, a torrential downpour poured, the raindrops pitch-black and bone-chilling, emanating an unbearably uncomfortable, frigid aura. If one was stained by too much of it, it would stir the evil thoughts buried deep within the heart, gradually causing one to lose reason.

The black rain blanketed a continuous region spanning tens of thousands of miles, shrouding mountain range after mountain range, plain after plain.

And at this moment, an extremely brutal, fierce battle was erupting within this region.

Countless pillars of phase force light shot up into the sky, towering Marquis Platforms stood amid the heavens, breathing in the energy of heaven and earth, scattering the black rain while simultaneously launching attacks against the countless aberrations surging out from the streams formed by the converging black rain.

The two sides were locked in a vicious slaughter.

Some Marquis Platforms descended from the sky like mountains, wrapped in a majestic, ferocious might, forcibly suppressing and slaying a low-rank True Demon. But before they could rejoice, several True Demon aberrations launched a surprise attack from the shadows. The thick, pitch-black miasma of evil thoughts condensed into a giant palm, directly tearing those Marquis Platforms apart.

Puchi!

The Marquis Platforms shattered. A Marquis-tier powerhouse in midair was grievously wounded on the spot, blood spraying wildly, the phase force around his body instantly wilting. He turned to flee in absolute terror, but a True Demon aberration sprouted ghastly pale wings composed of countless arms, soaring into the air. Its sharp, twisted claws, like blades, sliced his body to pieces in an instant.

Shredded flesh and blood rained down, rapidly turning pitch-black under the staining of the black rain.

Such brutal battles were breaking out one after another in every corner of this battlefield.

Li Li Tianwang's faction's second great counterattack was still advancing with bitter difficulty.

It was only because the black rain was far too troublesome. Fighting within it caused the negative emotions within one's heart to constantly rise, eventually turning into chaos and slaughter, stripping one of reason.

Conversely, the aberrations, within the black rain, were like fish in water, their combat strength surging greatly.

Boom! Boom!

In one battlefield among the mountain ranges, Li Fuluo led the Dragon Fang Guard in a frenzied charge, tearing through the countless aberrations surging from ahead. At this moment, the Dragon Fang Guard had split into groups of a hundred, joining forces to snipe True Demon aberrations.

Everyone's eyes were bloodshot with killing intent. They drove the phase force within their bodies, converging it into fierce attacks that hacked toward the twisted aberrations pouring out from the surging black streams.

"Damn it, there's too many, we can't kill them all!"

Li Fuluo slashed out with a blade. The sharp, domineering phase force blade-light forcibly shattered a mountaintop while also obliterating five Third Rank True Demons. He panted heavily twice, his gaze falling on the long blade in his hand. After several days of ceaseless combat, this Marquis-tier treasure he had only recently acquired had already begun to show some cracks.

"Guard Commander, our advance is far too slow!" Not far to the side, Luo Jiang wiped the blood from his face and shouted.

Li Fuluo's gaze swept toward the directions the other four Guards were advancing in, and he saw countless pillars of phase force light erupting there as well. Among them, he sensed the phase force fluctuations of Li Zhihuo and the others. Those fluctuations were extraordinarily intense, clearly indicating they too had been dragged into a bitter fight.

"This damned black rain!" Li Fuluo gritted his teeth. The pitch-black torrential rain had turned the world before his eyes into a colorless one. That pitch-black hue carried the scent of death—it was precisely this black rain that had caused their casualties to be so heavy.

"Li Li Qingpeng, Li Li Jiluo, and the Academy Head are fighting in the depths. They're aiming for the Black Rain Jingguan. As long as they destroy the Black Rain Jingguan, the black rain will cease. So we must pin down the main aberration army!"

"Everyone, the second batch move up, the first batch fall back, recover your phase force in the center, and eat every single pill we've distributed!" Li Fuluo roared.

Yet even a roar like this could not carry far before being swallowed by the pitch-black curtain of rain.

"Guard Commander, can Academy Head Li Li Qingpeng and the others really destroy the Black Rain Jingguan?"

"And what about Great Guard Commander Li Luo, and Jiang Longya Envoy? Since they returned, they haven't shown themselves at all. If they joined in, the battle should be much better." Luo Jiang asked anxiously.

Li Fuluo frowned tightly. He had actually vaguely heard that Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e seemed to be preparing something with Li Li Qingying, the Pulse Head. If they succeeded, it might reverse the tide of the battle, but what exactly it was, he wasn't very clear either—that belonged to the highest level of secrecy.

"Stop asking so much nonsense, do your own job!" Li Fuluo said in a low voice. Then he gazed toward the depths of this battlefield. From there, an extremely terrifying fluctuation of phase force was faintly emanating—surely it was their side's top Marquis-tier powerhouses assaulting the Black Rain Jingguan.

However, Li Fuluo did not think they could succeed.

After all, during the first great counterattack, the nine top Marquis-tier powerhouses on their side had failed to destroy the Black Rain Jingguan. Let alone now, with one of the clan's elder top Marquis-tier powerhouses gravely wounded and no longer able to fight.

So they only had eight top Marquis-tier powerhouses left.

Li Fuluo let out a heavy sigh within his heart, then banished his distracting thoughts, his gaze turning sharp and fierce. For he saw, in the mountain forest ahead, the earth suddenly collapse, and a True Demon aberration resembling a giant spider appear within his line of sight.

That True Demon aberration had a head composed of twisted, terrifying human heads, and its razor-sharp spider legs were formed from bloodstained white bones.

Seventh Rank True Demon!

Li Fuluo's face twitched slightly, and he said sharply: "Luo Jiang, lead the squad into formation, follow me and cut it down!"

He let out a long howl. Six Marquis Platforms above his head erupted with majestic phase force. Behind him, Luo Jiang led several hundred Dragon Fang Guard members, channeling their phase force to bolster him.

Li Fuluo transformed into a stream of light and charged upward. Vast phase force scattered the black rain, and a thousand-zhang blade-gleam tore through the long sky, slashing toward the Seventh Rank True Demon.

The Seventh Rank True Demon let out a bizarre shriek. Its sharp white-bone spider legs tore through the sky, wrapped in rolling miasma of evil thoughts, meeting the blade-gleam head-on.

Clang!

A terrifying storm of energy ravaged outward, utterly destroying this stretch of mountain forest, and tearing deep abyss-like fissures into the earth.

The fierce battle continued.

Boom! Boom!

In the deep region of the vast battlefield, an even more intense great battle was erupting, for this was the main breakthrough point where Li Li Tianwang's faction had concentrated their high-end forces.

This battlefield's Black Rain Jingguan was right here.

In midair, eight figures hovered in the void. Their entire bodies emanated a terrifying pressure of phase force, causing the void to tremble violently. Within a thousand-zhang area around them, even the black rain could not approach.

Above each of the eight hovered nine towering, mountain-like Marquis Platforms.

Clearly, these eight were Li Li Tianwang's faction's most powerful combat strength in this great counterattack—Ninth Rank Top Marquis!

And Li Li Qingpeng and Li Li Jiluo were naturally among them.

At this moment, their gazes were Solemn as they looked ahead. There, the original mountain ranges had vanished, forming a collapsed giant cavern, pitch-black within, filled with black water.

Seen from afar, it resembled a black eye embedded in the earth, utterly bizarre.

And on the surface of the giant black lake stood a Jingguan roughly ten thousand zhang tall. That Jingguan was horrifying in the extreme, piled from countless corpses, while countless ghastly pale corpse-banners fluttered in the wind upon it—those corpse-banners were all transformed from countless human skins.

Bizarre fluctuations spread outward from the Jingguan, converging in the sky into endless black clouds. Within the black clouds churned a terrifying miasma of evil thoughts, which finally transformed into black rain and poured down.

This was precisely the Black Rain Jingguan.

The black rain within a region spanning tens of thousands of miles was all caused by this Black Rain Jingguan.

However, as Li Li Qingpeng, Li Li Jiluo, and the other eight Ninth Rank Top Marquis-tier powerhouses broke through layer upon layer of obstacles and began to approach the Black Rain Jingguan, the earth abyss near the black lake suddenly surged with a vast, mighty miasma of evil thoughts. Immediately after, bizarre figures slowly walked out from within.

They were humanoid figures, their appearance almost identical to ordinary people, except their eyes were pitch-black, while black water continuously slid down from the corners of their eyes like black tears, sending chills down the spine.

There were roughly a dozen or so of these figures. Among them were men, elders, women, and also silently playing children.

But as these extremely humanoid True Demons appeared, the expressions of Li Li Qingpeng, Li Li Jiluo, and the others grew extremely Solemn, for they had clashed with these True Demons more than once before.

Among the aberrations, the more powerful the existence, the closer to human form.

The dozen or so True Demons before them were the ninth-grade True Demons born within this black rain.