Chapter 1660: Jiang Jiang Qinge's Identity

When Dan Sheng's low, quiet words rang out in the somewhat dilapidated courtyard, Li Luo felt a chill suddenly shoot from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head, and on that handsome face, a thick color of shock surged forth.

It's not that the Light Phase is within Sister Jiang Qinge's body, but... Sister Jiang Qinge herself, is that pseudo tenth-grade Light Phase?!

She is not a living being, but a phase incarnation?!

This information was too shocking—so shocking that given Li Luo's temperament, his mind was now blank, but after a brief pause in his thoughts, Li Luo hurriedly looked toward Jiang Jiang Qinge beside him, for such terrifying information, to Jiang Jiang Qinge herself, was the greatest blow.

He was worried Jiang Jiang Qinge could not accept it.

However, when Li Luo saw Jiang Jiang Qinge's expression, he discovered that her eyes were only slightly dazed, and she did not seem to have lost emotional control as he had imagined.

"Sister Jiang Qinge!" Li Luo reached out and tightly grasped Jiang Jiang Qinge's slender hand; that delicate little hand was icy cold at this moment, clearly Jiang Jiang Qinge's heart was not as calm as her surface.

Jiang Jiang Qinge's thick, brush-like eyelashes trembled lightly; she looked at Li Luo, her red lips quivered, yet she could not say anything.

The fact that the usually composed, strong Jiang Jiang Qinge could show such an expression showed just what monstrous waves this information revealed by Dan Sheng had stirred in her heart, and seeing this made Li Luo's heart ache.

So Li Luo stretched out his arm, wrapped it around Jiang Jiang Qinge's slender waist, and pulled her tightly into his embrace. He took a deep breath, and beside Jiang Jiang Qinge's ear said in a low voice: "Jiang Jiang Qinge, no matter what you are, one thing can never change—you are my wife Li Luo's wife! You are also the matriarch of House Luolan Mansion! You are the beloved daughter in the eyes of Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan!"

Li Luo's voice entered Jiang Jiang Qinge's ears, stirring up enormous ripples in the lake of her heart, and those ripples seemed to possess some miraculous power, actually causing the monstrous waves in Jiang Jiang Qinge's heart to gradually calm down at this moment.

In the end, within those brilliant golden beautiful eyes, the usual tranquility gradually returned.

But Jiang Jiang Qinge did not break free from Li Luo's embrace; instead, she gently nuzzled his neck with her cheek, their temples brushing, the utmost intimacy.

Feeling Jiang Jiang Qinge's ice-cold body begin to regain warmth, Li Luo also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then asked Dan Sheng, who was watching the show nearby: "Senior Dan Sheng, why do you believe Sister Jiang Qinge is that 'pseudo tenth-grade Light Phase' incarnation? And how could a phase take human form, and possess the same intelligence as a human? That's too absurd."

Dan Sheng said calmly: "Ordinary phases naturally do not possess such marvels, but a phase approaching 'tenth-grade'—how could it be viewed with ordinary eyes?"

"That is the supreme, paramount grade in the world, the true pinnacle of the world, and the ultimate end pursued by generation after generation of Heavenly Kings across countless eras."

"If you feel the term 'pseudo tenth-grade' is not concrete enough, then let me put it another way... Jiang Jiang Qinge, she is the Goddess of Light walking the world, the source of all light."

"Is this perhaps easier to accept?"

Li Luo was silent for a moment, then suddenly nodded thoughtfully: "So I have a Goddess of Light as my wife? That does sound a bit better."

"Uh..."

Even Dan Sheng was thrown off for an instant by his leap-of-thought logic—at such a solemn, grave moment, you still have to show off?

And Jiang Jiang Qinge, hiding in Li Luo's embrace, could not help but pinch his waist.

"Perhaps, Jiang Qinge is the Sect Master's bloodline descendant." Li Luo gave a dry laugh; he only wanted to ease the solemn atmosphere, and at the same time threw out another possible conjecture.

Dan Sheng said with some pride: "The Sect Master has always been utterly alone, and she possessed such grand ambitions, such extraordinary talent, such heaven-defying gifts—how could anyone in this world make her bear offspring?"

The implication being, across those eras, there was not even a single existence worthy of the Sect Master's notice, so where would any bloodline descendant come from?

"The Sect Master is a woman?"

Yet Li Luo keenly caught the key point in Dan Sheng's words, somewhat astonished—that stunning, ancient existence, whom countless later Heavenly Kings looked up to and admired, was actually a woman?

Dan Sheng nodded slightly.

Li Luo asked curiously: "Does that Sect Master's appearance resemble Sister Jiang Qinge's?"

Dan Sheng hesitated for a moment, then said: "The Sect Master naturally also possessed matchless beauty, but she had no need for such things, so she wore a Ghost God mask year-round to conceal her appearance, causing the world to revere her and other beings to fear her."

"However, this pair of golden eyes does resemble the Sect Master's very much." She gazed at Jiang Jiang Qinge's mysterious and deep beautiful eyes, like molten gold at sunset, and sighed.

Li Luo's heart stirred, and he asked: "Then, could Sister Jiang Qinge be the Sect Master's incarnation?"

However, to this, Dan Sheng firmly shook her head and said: "There are indeed similarities with the Sect Master in Jiang Qinge, but they are two entirely different people."

"In the Sect Master's final moments, she stripped away all her own phases, which shows she no longer had the strength to suppress the 'Evil Annihilation Phase' within her body, and could only seal it away in an extreme manner to prevent her other phases from being polluted and devoured. And Jiang Qinge's formation must have involved the Sect Master's hand; there is even a great possibility that the Sect Master used her own bone and blood to forge a body for her, merging it with the Light Phase to form a unique existence in the world. So if viewed from this angle, Jiang Qinge really could be considered the Sect Master's bloodline descendant."

However, Jiang Jiang Qinge showed no ripples of emotion at this; she held no great expectation for whether she was that Sect Master's bloodline descendant. In her heart, only Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan were like father and mother.

Li Luo held Jiang Jiang Qinge close. Not a bloodline descendant, nor the Sect Master—so then the greatest possibility was, as Dan Sheng had said, that Jiang Jiang Qinge's true form was indeed that Light Phase incarnation.

But just as he had said earlier, no matter what Jiang Jiang Qinge was, one thing could not change: Jiang Jiang Qinge was his wife, the matriarch of House Luolan Mansion.

"Telling you this news is not to make you panic, but to prepare you mentally, because the 'Evil Annihilation Phase' has already revealed itself, and in the future it will inevitably come after Jiang Jiang Qinge—it will not let her go, for in this world, she is the only existence that can contend with it." Dan Sheng said solemnly.

Li Luo's heart sank; being targeted by such a terrifying existence, what a crushing pressure that was.

"I will not allow anything to hurt her." Li Luo said slowly, his tone resolute.

Perhaps that 'Evil Annihilation Phase' was indeed not something he could contend with at present, but no matter what it was, to hurt Jiang Jiang Qinge, it would have to step over his corpse first.

They were husband and wife; they should face any peril hand in hand.

Jiang Jiang Qinge's arm wrapped around Li Luo's waist also could not help but tighten slightly, her eyes flowing with warm, gentle color.

Dan Sheng looked at the beautiful scene of the two leaning on each other, and could not help but laugh, saying: "I really wonder what the Sect Master would think if she saw this scene."

Then Dan Sheng continued: "By my estimation, perhaps the moment Jiang Jiang Qinge steps into the Heavenly King realm, her Light Phase will fully awaken and return to the rank of 'pseudo tenth-grade'."

Li Luo was silent for a few breaths, then asked: "After the Light Phase fully awakens, will it have any effect on Sister Jiang Qinge? There won't be any melodramatic nonsense like memory loss and then abandoning the feelings between us, right?"

"That won't happen; full awakening should just be restoring power. Her mind will not undergo any change, after all, the years she has experienced are what she truly lived through as a living being." Dan Sheng said.

Li Luo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the information Dan Sheng had given still brought him tremendous urgency. He had already witnessed the terror of that 'Evil Annihilation Phase', and moreover, under its banner there was such a massive organization as the Guiyi Hui. If in the future they truly began to hunt Jiang Jiang Qinge, with his current strength, he could not protect her at all.

Therefore, although this return to Daxia had brought him to the Seventh-grade Unparalleled, he could not indulge himself and stop here.

His strength still needed to be further elevated!

Perhaps, once things in Daxia stabilized a bit, he would have to begin closed-door cultivation to refine the 'Divine Fruit Wind Phase'.

Great chaos was coming to the world; only by elevating his strength could he protect those by his side.