Chapter 1647: Annihilation Phase

The mysterious and terrifying black ray of light pierced straight through every obstruction, burrowing into Li Luo's fifth phase palace, then the black light expanded like a black curtain, descending to envelop the "Divine Fruit Wind-Fire Phase."

As the black curtain descended, the wind-fire rank power swirling around the "Divine Fruit Wind-Fire Phase" quietly subsided, allowing it to act freely.

"What is this?"

Li Luo was also horrified by the upheaval within his fifth phase palace, for in a sense, this was happening inside his own body—the black light had pierced through his flesh and phase power, entering his phase palace unimpeded.

"Senior Dan Sheng!"

Li Luo hurriedly called for help, because he discovered that after the black curtain enveloped the "Divine Fruit Wind-Fire Phase," it was about to begin taking it away, and the most terrifying part was that while taking the "Divine Fruit Wind-Fire Phase," the black curtain was also flowing out a kind of black qi. Though the black qi was thin, it was flowing within his phase palace.

Wherever the black qi passed, Li Luo's phase palace was actually beginning to emit an aura of deathly stillness.

The feeling was as if this phase palace itself was approaching death.

A tremendous unease surged into Li Luo's heart—this was the first time he had felt such a change occur in his own phase palace.

He felt that if he allowed this black qi to run rampant, let alone the "Divine Fruit Wind-Fire Phase," he probably wouldn't even be able to keep this phase palace, or even his own life.

At Li Luo's cry, Dan Sheng finally snapped out of her shock. Her expression flickered uncertainly as she said softly, "This power is also a phase of the Sect Master's, called the Annihilation Phase. This phase is overwhelmingly domineering, possessing the power to extinguish all vitality, and it is also the Sect Master's most powerful killing-type phase."

Li Luo's heart jolted. Annihilation Phase? That truly was an exceedingly rare phase. Did that mean the mysterious existence within the black coffin had already mastered this "Annihilation Phase"?

No, there should also be the Crystal Phase—after all, back in the Celestial Mirror Pagoda, Li Luo had seen this coffin take away most of the Divine Fruit Crystal Phase.

Looking at it this way, the existence within the coffin was deliberately collecting the phases the legendary Sect Master had left behind in the world? Was this its ultimate goal?

And from the information currently known, Li Luo already knew that the legendary Sect Master possessed the Crystal Phase, Wind-Fire Phase, Annihilation Phase, and Light Phase... Dan Sheng had once said that the Sect Master's strongest phase was the Light Phase, but looking at it now, this "Annihilation Phase" was probably no less formidable.

In fact, in terms of killing, destruction, and annihilation, it might even surpass the Light Phase.

Dan Sheng finally calmed the emotions in her heart, then extended her slender ten fingers. Colored silk threads gushed from her fingertips, while her own essence blood simultaneously stained them, turning the colored silk threads a crimson red.

Countless crimson silk threads surged into Li Luo's fifth phase palace. The silk threads sketched out a talisman. The talisman was ancient and unadorned, and at its center there seemed to be a demonic colorful butterfly flapping its wings, releasing a vast and majestic power.

"Mystic Butterfly Sealing Heaven Nine Talismans!"

Accompanying Dan Sheng's sharp cry, the ancient talisman suddenly trembled, one becoming nine, each occupying a different position. Nine streams of mystic light shot out in formation, as if forming an array barrier, completely encircling the Annihilation power that wrapped around the "Divine Fruit Wind-Fire Phase."

Clearly, Dan Sheng was attempting to use this to trap it, preventing it from taking the "Divine Fruit Wind-Fire Phase."

But facing Dan Sheng's blockade, the black curtain formed by the Annihilation power showed no retreat whatsoever, instead charging straight forward to collide with the talisman barrier.

When the two made contact, there was no dispersion of energy waves, yet the overwhelmingly domineering Annihilation power displayed terrifying destructive force. The black light spread, and the array barrier was being destroyed at an alarming rate.

Moreover, during this clash, the black qi formed by the Annihilation power kept emerging, like poisonous gas, causing greater damage to Li Luo's phase palace.

Li Luo was both shocked and furious. He could not tolerate this scene—if he allowed that eerie black qi to spread any further, his fifth phase palace would be on the verge of dissipating.

"Fuck off!"

That outcome was clearly not something Li Luo could accept, so in his fury, he stopped caring about much else. With a thought, the Ten Seals Myriad Phases Wheel roared and trembled. He mobilized all his power, surging it like a flood into his fifth phase palace, attempting to extinguish those Annihilation black qi.

Looking at the current situation, Dan Sheng was most likely out of options, so Li Luo could only save himself.

However, the moment he made contact with the Annihilation black qi, Li Luo understood why Dan Sheng had been so wary and even fearful of it, because the power he had formed by fusing multiple phases showed a one-sided collapse the instant it made contact.

One had to know that at Li Luo's current level, the phase power he mobilized with full force was even enough to contend with an ordinary Double-Crowned King, yet this power was as fragile as a baby's before that single strand of Annihilation black qi.

Within this black qi lurked a terrifyingly extreme intent of annihilation. This intent was eerie and profound. The moment Li Luo's phase power, surging like rivers and seas, made contact with it, it rapidly lost its vitality, continuously collapsing and turning into nothingness.

This horrified Li Luo immensely. One had to know that with his current Affinity Rank, once fusion was formed, it could barely touch the level of Beyond Nine-Rank. But right now, even a Beyond Nine-Rank phase couldn't withstand the annihilation intent within this black qi?

Just how high was the rank of this Annihilation Phase?!

In Li Luo's horror, the situation within this phase palace instantly became even more chaotic and perilous than the melee outside.

However, the situation at its worst instead gradually calmed Li Luo down. A look of resolve flashed in his eyes. If he truly couldn't resolve that Annihilation black qi in the end, then he could only make the painful choice and abandon this fifth phase palace—otherwise, if that terrifyingly domineering Annihilation intent were allowed to spread within his body, what he lost would probably be far more than just this one phase palace.

However, just as Li Luo was making his worst-case plans, within this chaotic phase palace, another force suddenly surged forth like timely rain from heaven.

That force was sacred and pure, carrying a sense of familiarity that put Li Luo's heart at ease.

It was Jiang Jiang Qinge's Light Phase power!

"Li Luo, steady your mind, don't worry, I'll help you purify it." Along with it, transmitted into his heart, came Jiang Jiang Qinge's clear voice.

Li Luo hurriedly said, "Be careful, don't let it touch that black qi. This thing is extremely domineering—it will keep spreading and corroding, affecting you!"

While he was warning her, the Light Phase power, descending like a torrential rain, had already surged toward the Annihilation black qi that was running rampant and causing destruction everywhere within Li Luo's phase palace.

The instant the two made contact, Li Luo was somewhat astonished to discover that Jiang Jiang Qinge's Light Phase power had not been eroded by that deathly stillness intent like his and Dan Sheng's had been. On the contrary, the Light Phase power was like a blazing sacred flame, intercepting the originally unstoppable black qi.

The two forces formed a standoff, grinding against each other.

"Qing'e-Zhong Jie's Light Phase power blocked the Annihilation black qi?" Li Luo found it somewhat hard to believe. Although Jiang Jiang Qinge possessed Light Phase power pure to the extreme, this black qi was something even Dan Sheng couldn't deal with. No matter how monstrous Jiang Jiang Qinge was, she was currently only at the same level as him—Seventh-Rank Unparalleled.

However, upon reflection, he recalled the origin of Jiang Jiang Qinge's Light Phase... This actually wasn't entirely without logic.

And at this moment, on the dragon head of the purple-gold celestial dragon that Li Luo had transformed into, Jiang Jiang Qinge sat cross-legged, her entire body blooming with dazzling light. At her brow, the seed transformed from the Primordial Seed flowed with miraculous light. The radiance circulated, connecting three Holy Phase Crystal Cores and one Ancient-Origin Phase Pattern.

The light patterns flowed, like a slowly blooming "Rank Divine Phase Tree."

Light aura surged forth, causing wings of light to appear behind her, holy and pure as a goddess.

Jiang Jiang Qinge was currently connected to Li Luo in mind, naturally aware of the crisis within his phase palace, so she unhesitatingly helped with all her might.

And the anomaly occurring within the phase palace simultaneously registered in Dan Sheng's perception, so she was now staring in stunned silence. The Light Phase power from Jiang Jiang Qinge had actually not been eroded by that deathly stillness aura...

Dan Sheng slowly raised her head, her gaze fixed on the slender, graceful figure seated cross-legged on the dragon head. In this world, there was no phase that could resist the erosion and annihilation of the Sect Master's Annihilation Phase—no, strictly speaking, there was only one...

And that was the Sect Master's Light Phase.

Just as expected.

That Light Phase, which since ancient times could be said to have elevated the rank of phases to infinitely close to Tenth-Rank, was right here.