Chapter 1597: Slaying the King!

Buzz!

The dark, mysterious sword formation was like a primordial beast of destruction, hovering over the horizon, endless dark sword-light flowing within it, faintly forming a sword prison whose end could not be seen.

And at this moment, deep within the sword prison, countless dark sword-lights were colliding and merging.

A terrifyingly fierce sword intent was unleashed, causing the void to collapse ceaselessly, and as billions of sword-lights collided, the sword-chime sounds converged together, that peculiar sound wave blending as if into some ancient, primordial musical notes.

The notes formed a mysterious melody.

A melody that even King-realm experts suddenly found hair-raising—the King Burial Melody.

Visible to the naked eye, the sound waves spread out from the sword prison, their speed so fast it seemed capable of freezing space; wherever the sound waves passed, everything became still.

At this moment, whether it was Pang Pang Qianyuan, Lan Lan Lingzi, or the four Evil Kings, a shade of dread welled up in their eyes.

Because when that dark sword-light sound wave spread, the origin cores within their bodies all trembled faintly at this moment—a sign of being faced with an extreme threat.

In other words, the destruction sword technique Li Luo was currently executing could truly threaten their origins.

What overwhelmingly fierce and ferocious Unparalleled Art was this?!

And while they were stunned, Li Luo struck without the slightest hesitation. The Sacred Phase crystal core between his brows, like a divine being's vertical eye, blazed to its utmost brilliance at this moment, as if an ancient Celestial Dragon were roaring within, the dragon's roar piercing through time and space.

The vast, majestic Dragon origin erupted in full at this moment.

Li Luo's face was fierce, his palms thrust out, and that dark sword-light sound wave slashed directly toward the Fox Charm King, its speed so fast that even a King-realm expert could not dodge.

The fur on the Fox Charm King's fox body all bristled at this moment, its pupils shrinking to pinpoints. The nine skeletal fox tails behind it, laden with the densest evil-thought origin, swiftly traced patterns in the void, forming a full nine blood-red talismans.

Whoosh!

The nine origin talismans stirred up a heaven-shaking evil howl, rolling up a sea of blood as they met the sound-wave sword-light.

Sizzle!

Yet the instant they made contact, the blood talismans—one after another—condensed with the Fox Charm King's own origin power, were sliced apart as easily as tofu, the evil-thought origin imbued upon them rapidly dimming under the sword-light's scouring, ultimately dissolving into nothingness.

All nine origin talismans shattered in the blink of an eye.

Horror welled up uncontrollably in the Fox Charm King's eyes. The origin power contained within Li Luo's sword-light was unimaginably domineering, so much so that even its own origin power could not withstand it.

This sight let the Fox Charm King know that facing Li Luo's killing move, it could no longer take it head-on.

So the next instant, the Fox Charm King's figure flickered, transforming into myriad black fox shadows—some shooting skyward, some plunging deep into the earth, others piercing through space itself—making them impossible to pursue.

But even such a wondrous escape art was utterly useless now, because the sound-wave sword-light seemed to seep in everywhere; no matter where one was, the sound waves followed like a shadow.

Bang! Bang!

And so in an instant, from the sky, the earth, and the depths of the void, countless foxes' shrill, miserable screams rang out one after another.

Far away, the void shattered, and a black shadow fled in disarray—it was the Fox Charm King. But now its entire body was covered in deep sword wounds, from which a domineering, razor-sharp origin fluctuation emanated, ceaselessly eroding the Fox Charm King's body.

Moreover, of its nine skeletal fox tails, only four remained.

The once heaven-devouring ferocious might was now utterly deflated.

At the same time, the void where the Fox Charm King stood was still collapsing ceaselessly, with dark sound-wave sword-lights surging in from all directions of the void, sealing off the space it occupied entirely.

At this moment, the Fox Charm King could only shriek: "Save me!"

It had never imagined that it, a dignified Other-realm King, would be forced into such a perilous situation by an Unparalleled Sixth Grade. The current situation was that the sound-wave sword-light clung like a maggot on bone, impossible to shake off, and as the sword-light eroded in wave after wave, the Fox Charm King could clearly feel its own origin being ground away ceaselessly.

If this situation continued, it would be extremely dire.

In the distant horizon, the Fish Chi King, Corpse Wang King, and Yao Liang King also changed color at this sight. When King-realm experts of the same level clashed, unless one possessed an especially powerful method, it was generally very difficult to inflict a fatal wound on the other—after all, each had transformed into origin, their life-preserving methods and tenacity of life were unimaginably strong. Take the Fish Chi King, for instance: it had been locked in confrontation with Pang Pang Qianyuan for decades, yet neither had been able to do anything to the other.

But who could have expected that this greenhorn Li Luo, the moment he appeared, would force the Fox Charm King into a desperate situation.

Are the young experts of the Ten Outer Shenzhou all this ruthless nowadays?

But regardless, they could not sit by and watch the Fox Charm King truly be slain by Li Luo here. The loss of an Other-realm King was something even they could not bear.

But at this moment, the three King-realm experts Pang Pang Qianyuan, Lan Lan Lingzi, and Li Li Qingying were eyeing them covetously, preventing them from acting.

"It seems we can only bring out the item my lord bestowed." The Fish Chi King's dead-fish-like grey-white pupils swirled with a cold, sinister light as it spoke.

As the words fell, it opened its mouth and spat out a palm-sized piece of black hide, upon which countless eerie, sinister runes were inscribed.

The black hide swelled in the wind, in the blink of an eye growing to several dozen zhang, like a scroll. At this moment, a dark vortex churned upon the scroll, and gradually, a head slowly emerged.

That head was cyan in color, with a sharp solitary horn on its forehead, and eyes like molten lava. And when this head appeared, the evil-thought aura surging through heaven and earth instantly swelled to an extremely terrifying degree.

A pressure enveloped the entire world.

"That is..." Lan Lan Lingzi and Li Li Qingying's expressions shifted slightly at the sight of this cyan-faced, single-horned head.

"One head of the Eight-Headed Black Demon King, though it is not a true head—it is drawn using its flesh and blood as material," Pang Pang Qianyuan said in a low voice.

Lan Lan Lingzi's expression was ugly. That Eight-Headed Black Demon King was an existence at the peak of the Three-Crowned King tier, and there were even rumors it had hope of advancing to Great Demon King, becoming the topmost tier among the Others. So even if it was merely the imprint of one of its heads, it still brought them an extremely powerful pressure.

The Fish Chi King then bowed slightly with reverence toward that cyan-faced, single-horned head, then pointed, and the cyan-faced head transformed into a streak of cyan light that pierced through the void toward Li Luo in the distance.

Li Luo immediately sensed it, and his expression could not help but harden. The opponent's move was too sudden, directly breaking the balance. For him to respond now, he could only resist with his sword formation, but if he did so, the Fox Charm King would surely take the chance to escape.

And forcing the opponent into a desperate situation this time had already been somewhat unexpected, so if he failed to slay the Fox Charm King now, the other party likely would not give him such an opportunity again in the future.

After hesitating for several breaths, Li Luo could only sigh inwardly—after all, preserving himself was the priority.

However, just as Li Luo was about to use his sword formation to protect himself, Pang Pang Qianyuan's voice came from afar: "Li Luo, just do what you need to do! Leave the rest to me!"

Pang Pang Qianyuan extended his palm, and a dark-gold colored golden cup flashed into view. The cup was extremely exquisite; on its body, a golden dragon coiled, its tail and head forming the handle of the cup, and wondrous fluctuations emanated from it, filling the world.

Lan Lan Lingzi glanced at the golden cup and said: "You're going to use the Dragon Bone Holy Cup? You've been using this item to seal the Calamity for years, and its energy is nearly exhausted. When the time comes, if you want to use it to shelter some students of the Saint Zhu Xuan Star Academy, you won't be able to."

This Dragon Bone Holy Cup was currently the strongest trump card in Pang Pang Qianyuan's hands. He had originally planned to use it to protect some students of the Saint Zhu Xuan Star Academy when facing a desperate situation, as a final fallback, which was why he had been reluctant to use it. He hadn't expected that now, he would take it out of his own accord.

"Before, there was no choice but to plan for the worst, but now that Li Luo has returned with strong reinforcements, the situation has eased considerably. If he can truly slay the Fox Charm King now, it would be a tremendous blow to this Calamity." Pang Pang Qianyuan's expression was resolute, and then the "Dragon Bone Holy Cup" in his hand suddenly shot through the void. The next instant, an ancient, colossal dragon shadow flew out from within the Holy Cup, and the dragon shadow, laden with vast power, intercepted that cyan-faced, single-horned head.

"Dean Pang, thank you!"

Pang Pang Qianyuan's decisive strike also delighted Li Luo, and he dared not delay. The next instant, he drove the King Burial Melody to its full power, and the "Sacred Phase crystal core" between his brows bloomed like a blazing sun with dazzling mystic light.

The overwhelmingly domineering sound-wave sword-light swept toward the Fox Charm King. The origin power contained within the sword-light was razor-sharp to the extreme, directly tearing apart the Fox Charm King's tough body at this moment, dismembering it in an instant.

The Fox Charm King let out shrill, agonized, venomous screams. Its own origin power was being worn down ceaselessly by the "King Burial Melody"—that ancient, melodious tune to outsiders' ears was, for it, a death-chanting curse.

The Fox Charm King exerted its full strength, madly fleeing beyond the sound-wave sword-light, trying to break free.

Vast, boundless evil-thought origin energy continuously surged out from within its body, resisting this first movement of the "Burial King Song."

Seeing this, Li Luo also desperately drove the last wisp of power within his body. His face was taut to a nearly ferocious degree; having fought to this extent, he had already begun to sense that the power of the Heavenly Dragon Formation was starting to show signs of exhaustion.

At the rear where the Five Heavenly Dragon Guards formed their array, over ten thousand people were deathly pale, yet still clenched their teeth stubbornly, maintaining the formation to provide Li Luo with power.

"Just a little more, just a little more!"

Li Luo gritted his teeth. The Fox Charm King's physical body was on the verge of completely collapsing — as long as he held on for a moment longer, he could blast it apart and inflict a fatal wound.

But he was already utterly spent, and yet the Fox Charm King, in its death throes, was forcibly enduring the "Burial King Song" and gradually escaping the range covered by the sword light.

And just as these two sides were locked in their frantic contest of strength, suddenly sacred, radiant light resonance erupted between heaven and earth, and a graceful figure descended from the sky, landing before the Heavenly Dragon Formation.

It was Jiang Jiang Qinge!

"Li Luo, don't forget — I'm still the Dragon Fang Envoy." At the same moment, her soft laughter drifted over, falling into Li Luo's ears like the sound of heavenly music.

Six ten-pillar golden platforms shot skyward, and the surging, sacred light resonance perfectly merged into the Heavenly Dragon Formation.

In that instant, it was as if sweet rain had descended from heaven.

Li Luo's power, on the verge of drying up, seemed to have met its life-saving sweet spring. He could not help but throw his head back and let out a long howl, pouring this final power into the "Burial King Song."

The ancient, melodious tune, amid the clash of sword-chimes, suddenly rose high and rang out between heaven and earth.

Yet the Fox Charm King's pupils at this moment filled with a look of absolute horror. It was clearly just one step away from escaping the killing zone of this sonic sword light, but unfortunately...

Overwhelming, razor-sharp sonic sword light swept in.

The Fox Charm King's body suddenly froze in midair.

Then, the next instant, countless shocked gazes across heaven and earth saw the Fox Charm King's body begin to crack apart, the thick evil-thought origin energy scattering, stirring up a cold, dark wind between heaven and earth.

The Fox Charm King's body completely dissipated.

Only a origin core, flowing with crimson liquid, spun round and round. Within that origin core, a black fox shadow could be seen, its face showing fear and panic.

Heaven and earth fell silent.

Even Pang Pang Qianyuan, Lan Lan Lingzi, Li Li Qingying — these King-realm powerhouses — could not help but be moved at this moment. No one had expected that this Fox Charm King would, today, have its true body beaten to destruction by Li Luo himself!

He really had... slain a King!