Chapter 1623: Evil Register Ashes

The purple-gold dragon scale hovered quietly before the enormous sacred lotus, ancient divine resonance radiating from it, as if imbued with some special rule, causing the domineering, utterly evil aura to be blocked outside entirely, unable to encroach.

"Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale!"

Seeing this, Li Luo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, while at the same time quietly putting away the other "Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale" he had been gripping in his hand. When the Black Demon King had attacked Jiang Jiang Qinge earlier, he had already been prepared to activate his own "Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale," but he hadn't expected Jiang Jiang Qinge to take the lead and summon this treasure first.

What a true meeting of minds.

"Great Great Grandmother, thank you!" Li Luo silently offered his thanks. This Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale was the meeting gift given to him by the Dragon race's Great Great Grandmother inside the Celestial Mirror Pagoda earlier, and this gift had now played a crucial role.

As Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief, the five-headed form of the Black Demon King, its eyes burning with black flames, stared darkly at that ancient dragon scale. It contained a trace of an aura that even made its heart palpitate—clearly, this item must have come from the Dragon race's Heavenly King, the Heavenly Dragon.

Only the ancestral scale of such a being could resist its Eight-Headed Evil Light.

"It seems I've underestimated the cards you hold."

The Black Demon King's words were dark and grating, but the towering killing intent within them was even stronger than before.

The Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale was indeed extraordinary, but in the end it was only an external item of a Heavenly King. Using it to block the Black Demon King for a moment was certainly feasible, but if one truly thought this item could frighten it into retreat, that would be far too wishful thinking.

Unless the Heavenly King Heavenly Dragon descended in person, today, no one in this Great Xia could save them!

At this thought, the five ghost-faced heads on the Black Demon King's neck slowly rotated. It had no intention of dragging things out any longer. The flesh on its blue-black arm writhed, and a hundred hands actually grew from it.

Each palm was a sickly pale white, with deathly energy flowing over it, and now these hands writhed and formed one strange hand seal after another.

"Mu, hong, ma, gu..."

And those five ghost-faced heads also let out low chanting sounds. As the curse technique operated, everyone saw the black flames in the eyes of the five ghost-faced heads on the Black Demon King's neck blaze fiercely, then spread outward, enveloping the entire head.

The five ghost-faced heads were instantly ignited.

This sight left many faces full of bewilderment—why had the Black Demon King suddenly self-immolated?

But Li Luo, Pang Pang Qianyuan, Lan Lan Lingzi, and Li Li Qingying all wore solemn expressions, because they could clearly sense that, as the Black Demon King's five ghost-faced heads were ignited, a wave of energy—utterly cold and evil to the extreme—seemed to be manifesting between heaven and earth.

That wave of energy made even them feel a bone-piercing chill, and the origin power they themselves had stirred was affected.

Although the four did not know exactly what method the Black Demon King was about to employ, they understood they could not let it carry it out smoothly, so they all struck, launching attacks of tremendous, overwhelming force.

But when their attacks approached within a hundred zhang of the Black Demon King's body, they were rapidly eroded, ultimately dissolving into a sky full of shattered light specks.

And at this moment, bluish-gray ashes suddenly began to fall from the sky between heaven and earth.

No one knew where these bluish-gray ashes came from, but in an instant they swept across the entire Great Xia. At this moment, in every region of Great Xia, these bluish-gray ashes drifted down without cease.

Once the bluish-gray ashes landed on a person, they would suddenly spread out, transforming into a bluish-gray grave mound filled with coldness, burying that person within it.

Under the erosion of these strange ashes, whether ordinary people or titled marquis-level powerhouses, almost none could offer the slightest resistance. Their fate, without exception, was to become one bluish-gray grave mound after another.

Thus, in just a short moment, countless grave mounds appeared across the land of Great Xia, looking utterly bizarre.

The entire Great Xia was shrouded in fear and chaos.

Here in Great Xia City, the drifting bluish-gray ashes were even denser. The various powerhouses of Great Xia fled in panic, trying to avoid the falling ashes, but ultimately they discovered that such evasion was utterly useless.

These ashes clung like shadows; no matter how they resisted, they simply could not disperse them. In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the ashes stained their bodies and transformed into grave mounds to bury them.

Pang Pang Qianyuan, Lan Lan Lingzi, and Li Li Qingying, seeing this scene, also wore exceedingly ugly expressions. They urged the king crowns above their heads, sending down vast origin power to form a protection.

The protection formed by origin power did somewhat hinder the erosion of the ashes, but the king crowns above Pang Pang Qianyuan and the others' heads were also continuously growing dimmer—a sign that their origin power was being affected.

"What is this ash?" Li Luo asked, his expression solemn.

Pang Pang Qianyuan said somewhat bitterly: "Legend has it that the eight ghost heads of this Eight-Headed Black Demon King were long ago refined into a 'Ghost Head Furnace.' Once this furnace is activated, it will cause 'Evil Register Ashes' to descend ceaselessly between heaven and earth. This ash can erode origin power; wherever it falls, any living being will be buried by a grave mound, and the grave mound will continuously drain vitality. If it cannot be broken for too long, ultimately flesh, blood, and bone will all turn to ash."

Li Luo's eyelid twitched slightly. These foreign-kind kings truly had unfathomable strangeness—they could even refine their own heads...

Still, he had finally witnessed with his own eyes the horror of this Eight-Headed Black Demon King. The four king-realm powerhouses on their side joining forces were still completely suppressed by it.

And one must remember, right now it was still only in its five-headed form.

If truly when its eight heads descended and its state returned to peak, Li Luo felt that unless a Heavenly King appeared, probably no one would be able to check it.

This Eight-Headed Black Demon King truly already possessed the momentum of a Great Demon King—no wonder it dared come to Great Xia to scheme for the so-called "Pill Saint."

Li Luo's gaze shifted toward Jiang Jiang Qinge's position. At this moment, the "Evil Register Ashes" sweeping across heaven and earth clearly focused special attention on her side, attempting to interfere with her breakthrough.

"Those 'Evil Register Ashes' aren't going toward the Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale, but are eroding the Peerless Tribulation!"

Li Luo suddenly discovered that the sky-covering "Evil Register Ashes" actually chose to surge toward the "Peerless Tribulation" formed above Jiang Jiang Qinge by the vast light-origin power, and in doing so, avoided the "Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale" instead.

When those "Evil Register Ashes" entered the coverage range of the Peerless Tribulation, they immediately caused the light origin power filling it to frantically purify them. The two forces constantly pulled against each other, grinding each other away.

But as a result, the momentum of the Peerless Tribulation began to wane.

And if the Peerless Tribulation's accumulation was insufficiently massive, it would be difficult to successfully forge the Peerless Divine Throne and achieve the Peerless Marquis rank.

Li Luo's expression grew heavy. The Black Demon King was not entangling itself with the "Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale," but instead planned to pollute and erode the Peerless Tribulation, thereby destroying Jiang Jiang Qinge's achievement of the Peerless Marquis rank.

After all, the Heavenly Dragon Ancestral Scale could protect Jiang Jiang Qinge herself unharmed, but could not protect the forming Peerless Tribulation.

It had to be said this move was very effective. Jiang Jiang Qinge, seated cross-legged within the enormous sacred lotus, now also had her beautiful brows tightly furrowed, caught for a moment in a dilemma.

Although if she merely dispersed the Peerless Tribulation and terminated this breakthrough, then this erosion would naturally dissipate along with it—but wouldn't doing exactly that play right into the Black Demon King's wishes?

"Li Luo, the Black Demon King is trying to weaken the Peerless Tribulation, thereby affecting Jiang Jiang Qinge's breakthrough!" Pang Pang Qianyuan's brows were tightly knit. It had to be said, the Black Demon King's eye for things was extremely sharp. It knew that the threat Jiang Jiang Qinge's breakthrough to the Peerless Marquis rank would bring would be even greater than theirs.

So as long as it interrupted Jiang Jiang Qinge's breakthrough this time, the situation would always remain in the Black Demon King's control, and it would have more time to wait for its own state to recover to peak.

Lan Lan Lingzi and Li Li Qingying both wore grave expressions. Now that the Black Demon King had set its sights on Jiang Jiang Qinge's Peerless Tribulation, if they did not lend assistance, this breakthrough would likely be unprecedentedly difficult.

But facing the "Evil Register Ashes" laid down by the Black Demon King, they had no way to counter it, and could only rely on the king crowns to emit origin power and barely hold on.

And just as they were feeling somewhat at a loss, Li Luo fell briefly silent, then his expression calmed as he said: "It's fine, I'll help Sister Jiang Jiang Qinge."

Pang Pang Qianyuan, Lan Lan Lingzi, and Li Li Qingying all looked over in astonishment. Given the current situation, under these "Evil Register Ashes" filling heaven and earth, how could Li Luo help Jiang Jiang Qinge complete her breakthrough?

Meeting their astonished gazes, a hint of a smile rose in Li Luo's eyes, and then his eyelids lowered slightly.

Six Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms manifested above his head, and in an instant, a vast, surging phase force fluctuation shot skyward.

Boom!

As Li Luo pushed his own six Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms to the limit, a strange rumbling sound seemed to reverberate between heaven and earth. The next moment, Pang Pang Qianyuan, Lan Lan Lingzi, and Li Li Qingying sensed with some shock a special energy fluctuation emerging between heaven and earth.

That was... another Peerless Tribulation?!!!

Li Luo intended to use himself as bait, triggering a Peerless Tribulation to draw the Black Demon King's erosion and interference toward himself and away from Jiang Jiang Qinge!

At this moment, even though the three of them were all worldly and well-experienced King Realm experts, they could not help but stare in dumbfounded amazement.

How could this still be possible?!