Chapter 1676: Candle Yin Mingwang

Deep within the shattered earth of the battlefield, the strange formation cracked as well, exposing two figures hidden in the shadows—two old acquaintances.

Qin Jiujie.

Spirit Eye Mingwang.

Li Luo hovered in the air, his gaze flowing with an icy killing intent as he locked onto the two. In his perception, both Qin Jiujie and Spirit Eye Mingwang had now stepped into the Three Crown King realm—clearly their levels had advanced over these five years.

"You scourges of the Guiyi Hui are once again seizing the chance to gather life energy!"

When Li Luo's perception had earlier blanketed this stretch of heaven and earth, he had keenly detected that the vitality between heaven and earth was fading. An ordinary King-realm powerhouse might have assumed it was normal, but Li Luo knew of the Guiyi Hui's matter of collecting the "Golden Fruits," and so he suspected that somewhere on this battlefield, a strange formation laid down by the Guiyi Hui should be hidden.

After careful perception afterward, he finally discovered the place where the life energy was vanishing, and only then struck without hesitation.

"Li Luo!"

And as for their own exposure, Qin Jiujie and Spirit Eye Mingwang's faces also darkened. They raised their heads to stare at that young figure, a shade of wariness surfacing in the depths of their eyes. Once, the other party had been no stronger than an ant in their eyes—especially Spirit Eye Mingwang, who back when they first met in the Spirit Phase Cave Heaven, Li Luo had not even been ennobled.

But now?

Li Luo's feats of slaying the Seven-Headed Black Demon King, heavily wounding White Scorpion, and the Holy Banner two Three Crown Demon Kings had long since spread throughout the Ten Great Outer Shenzhou.

Although their own strength had also advanced over these years, stepping into the Three Crown King tier, they were merely on par with White Scorpion and Holy Banner. Whatever means Li Luo had used to heavily wound them, it still proved that the current Li Luo could likewise threaten them.

That youth who had once been like an ant in their eyes could now make them both feel a crushing pressure.

Moreover, this place was still the Eastern Domain Alliance's home turf.

Under the other's banner, there were fully several dozen King-realm powerhouses.

Sneaking in here to harvest the Life Fruits had already been somewhat risky, but they had relied on the shielding means cast by Li Li Tianwang, believing that as long as they did not cause too great a disturbance, even peak Three Crown Kings would find it hard to detect their traces. Who could have known that Li Luo would actually discover the clue.

"The two of you—we've got plenty of old grievances between us. Since we've met today, let's settle the matters of the past while we're at it." Li Luo's words were calm, yet killing intent surged forth unceasingly.

Back then in the Spirit Phase Cave Heaven, this Spirit Eye Mingwang had wanted to kill him. At the same time, Li Li Lingjing's tragic ordeal and calamity back then—this Spirit Eye Mingwang was the instigator, so even if it were just to avenge Li Li Lingjing, this Spirit Eye Mingwang deserved death.

As for Qin Jiujie, that was an even deeper blood feud. In the changes of the Boundary River Domain back then, Li Jingzhuo's fall—this Qin Jiujie was a major driving force behind it. Although in the end Li Jingzhuo turned misfortune into blessing, being reborn and stepping into the Li Tianwang realm, this grudge could not simply be forgotten because of that.

The Li Luo of the past did not have enough strength to pose a threat to them, but things were different now.

That youth of back then was now the undisputed number one person of this Eastern Domain Outer Shenzhou, and looking across the entire Ten Great Outer Shenzhou, he could be considered illustrious in fame.

And just as Li Luo's killing intent revealed itself, a dazzling streak of light-rainbow also pierced through the void at astonishing speed, appearing above this stretch of battlefield in an instant.

Within the light, a slender and tall graceful figure was revealed.

It was Jiang Qing, holding the Sacred Phoenix Parasol. She had sensed Li Luo's killing intent over here, and at the same time detected the two Three Crown Kings that had suddenly appeared, so she had rushed to reinforce him.

"Qin Jiujie, Spirit Eye Mingwang?"

The moment she appeared, her beautiful eyes focused on those two figures exuding terrifying might, and she identified them.

"Since you've come, then don't leave. Your Guiyi Hui caused this Convergence War, and it's time you paid some price for it." Jiang Qing said in a cold voice. Between her smooth brow, sacred tree markings flickered in and out of sight, emanating fluctuations of the Light Position.

At the same time, on this vast battlefield, several King-realm powerhouses belonging to the Eastern Domain Alliance also swept in from all directions, sealing off this entire region.

Toward the Guiyi Hui, everyone hated them extremely.

This was a true cancer of the Outer Shenzhou!

Li Luo's handsome face was as calm as a deep pool. A momentum like an abyss or a prison spread out from within him, causing this stretch of space to tremble violently.

The youth of back then had shed all his greenness. Now, he bore the heavy burden of the hopes of over a hundred Wang Chao empires and countless living beings in the Eastern Domain Outer Shenzhou.

Eight dazzling, extreme Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms shot up into the sky. Ten kinds of dense Origin power flowed out from them, finally converging together to form a magnificent Unparalleled Divine Throne.

At the same time, the mysterious Myriad Phases Wheel manifested in the void, with five Phase Palaces reflected within. As the Myriad Phases Wheel rotated, the energy of this stretch of heaven and earth was forcibly drawn in, transforming into torrents that poured into the Myriad Phases Wheel.

As Li Luo advanced into the peak of Ru Ba Pin Unparalleled, the abilities displayed by this Myriad Phases Wheel were growing stronger and stronger.

Right now, just its domineering control over the energy of this stretch of heaven and earth had already surpassed an ordinary Three Crown King. Under the Myriad Phases Wheel's forceful draw, Li Luo's combat endurance was also nearly inexhaustible.

So the current Li Luo, once battle began—as long as the opponent had no means to seal and suppress him—could outlast you until you cried.

This was the terrifying endurance brought by the Myriad Phases Wheel.

And this point, Qin Jiujie and Spirit Eye Mingwang felt deeply, because when Li Luo's Myriad Phases Wheel appeared, they clearly sensed that, relying on their Three Crown King tier, they actually could not quite compete with Li Luo for the energy between heaven and earth.

But Li Luo did not waste more words with them. The Myriad Phases Wheel roared and trembled, the Ten Phases directly merged, and finally above Li Luo's brow, transformed into a divine tree.

Position Divine Phase Tree!

This time's Position Divine Phase Tree was rather peculiar. Its trunk was densely covered in purple-gold dragon scales, while atop its canopy, a purple-gold Heavenly Dragon coiled and wound, releasing boundless dragon might.

Super-Ninth Grade, Heavenly Dragon Phase!

Li Luo waved his sleeve. From within the sleeve, endless purple-gold light swept out, accompanied by a heaven-shaking dragon roar that rang out. Nine Heavenly Dragons, each a hundred thousand zhang in size, soared across the sky. Finally, the nine dragons gathered, forming a Purple-Gold Dragon Seal.

Upon the Dragon Seal, nine dragons coiled around, emanating an aura of supreme and noble Holy Emperor, with billions of living beings kneeling in worship, revealing an overbearing dominance of "none but me."

Unparalleled Art, Nine Dragon Holy Emperor Seal!

At the same time, this Dragon Seal was driven by the Super-Ninth Grade Heavenly Dragon Phase, so naturally Position Divine Light flowed upon it. Then it violently shattered the void, directly pressing down to suppress Qin Jiujie and Spirit Eye Mingwang.

As the Dragon Seal descended, layer upon layer of void was sealed and forbidden by it—there was simply no path of retreat.

And facing Li Luo's opening strike that carried the Position Divine Light in a dimensionality-reducing strike, Qin Jiujie and Spirit Eye Mingwang's expressions could not help but change somewhat. However, they did not just sit and wait for death. The next instant, above both their heads, vast and towering three-layered King Crowns manifested, causing heaven and earth to rumble.

Billions of Origin Talismans whistled out from the King Crowns, transforming into a Tianhe torrent, rising to meet the descending Dragon Seal.

Boom boom!

When the two collided, the shockwave they triggered directly affected a region of several hundred thousand li. The energy of heaven and earth swept like raging waves, stirring up an energy storm between heaven and earth, causing mountains to deform and rivers and lakes to shift.

However, even though Qin Jiujie and Spirit Eye Mingwang had exerted their full strength, that Dragon Seal was still pressing down at a slow pace. After all, the Position Divine Light it carried was too domineering—even the Origin power of two Three Crown Kings, pure and vast to the extreme, found it somewhat difficult to dissolve.

Jiang Qing did not stand on ceremony with these cancers of the Guiyi Hui either. Seeing that Li Luo had a slight advantage, she struck without the slightest hesitation. One could see vast light gathering behind her, transforming into twelve sacred wings of light.

At the same time, the Light tree markings flickering in and out of sight at her brow became even clearer.

That was four Upper-Ninth Grade Light Phases forcibly brought together, a Position Divine Phase Tree transformed from Light pure to the extreme.

Although there was a slight gap compared to Li Luo's, it still gave birth to the power of Position.

Light Position!

Jiang Qing swung the Sacred Phoenix Parasol. A spear-rainbow of light pierced through heaven and earth, with the Light Position entwined upon it, slashing toward Qin Jiujie and Spirit Eye Mingwang.

And with Jiang Qing's strike, the Qin Jiujie and Spirit Eye Mingwang who had originally still been barely holding on finally changed color. These two were too freakish—both carried the power of Position. That was a Li Tianwang's means—it was simply cheating.

However, just as the two were about to use their Mi Fa to escape, their gazes suddenly sharpened, because the void behind them shattered at that moment, and the layers of space sealed by Li Luo were broken through.

And from the depths of the shattered void, a massive, ancient divine wheel likewise emerged. The next instant, magnificent divine light swept out like a primordial beast, colliding head-on with the attacks of Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge.

Boom!

As the terrifying energy storm raged, the rank-based attacks unleashed by Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge were both erased.

"Heh, what an overbearing Ten-Phase King." At the same time, an indifferent laugh came from the depths of the void, and a figure stepped through the void, slowly approaching.

Li Luo's pupils contracted slightly at this moment. He stared fixedly at the divine wheel in the depths of the void, and his low voice rang out.

"Myriad-Phase Wheel?!"

Then he recalled certain intelligence given by the Academies Alliance, and his eyes narrowed at once.

"The Guiyi Society, chief of the Thirteen Nether Kings, Candle Shadow Nether King?"