Chapter 1739: The Unfamiliar Li Li Lingjing

The instant that young woman stepped out from the spatial vortex, a terrifying pressure no less than what Li Luo had brought, like the arrival of an apocalyptic storm, directly enveloped this battlefield spanning millions of miles.

Under this pressure, the armies of the Outer Shenzhou Alliance cast alarmed gazes one after another.

This mysterious woman who had suddenly appeared—was she also a peak expert comparable to a Nine-Lotus Unparalleled?!

But just who was she, and where did she come from?!

Ling Zhu Xuan, Xiao Lingzhu, Li Li Tianji, and many other leaders of the allied forces all changed color. Although they did not sense any source of malice like that of an Other on this woman's body, judging from her earlier strike intercepting Li Luo's attack, she was clearly an enemy, not a friend!

"She's someone from the Return-to-One Assembly!"

Thus in an instant, everyone guessed her identity. Among the current ten Outer Shenzhous, if one excluded the Dark World, the force that could still give birth to an existence of the Nine-Lotus Unparalleled tier was, apart from the Return-to-One Assembly, unlikely to have a second choice.

"The Return-to-One Assembly actually gave birth to a Nine-Lotus Unparalleled?" Ling Zhu Xuan and the others exchanged glances, each seeing the look of horror on the other's face. The mood that had just relaxed because of Li Luo's appearance tensed up sharply once more.

If this mysterious woman truly was a Nine-Lotus Unparalleled of the Return-to-One Assembly, then the situation that had just been reversed was likely to become perilous once again.

And while the allied forces were stirring up a huge commotion, Li Luo's gaze also paused, as if frozen, on the mysterious woman's beautiful cheeks.

That face could no longer be described as familiar.

This was the first time Li Luo had seen Li Li Lingjing since the battle of the Great Xia capital back then.

Counting the time, it had already been six or seven years apart.

Actually, after Li Luo came out of seclusion, he had used the channels of the Great Xia Alliance to inquire about news of Li Li Lingjing. Although he gathered quite a bit of intelligence regarding the Return-to-One Assembly's actions, there was not a scrap of information about Li Li Lingjing among them.

As if over these several years, Li Li Lingjing had completely vanished from this world.

Until this moment...

Li Luo saw her once again.

But...

The Li Li Lingjing before his eyes gave Li Luo an extremely unfamiliar feeling.

Although her appearance had not changed, the aura emanating from within her was utterly different from before. Her eyes were ink-black, not a single trace of white to be seen, like an eerie dark vortex that made one's hair stand on end.

The Li Li Lingjing of the past, although because of that unique cultivation method she gave off a sense of darkness, whenever she interacted with him, Li Luo could still feel a sense of familiarity hidden beneath that darkness.

But now... that sense of familiarity had vanished completely.

Li Luo's gaze gradually slid to the bamboo staff in Li Li Lingjing's hand. This bamboo staff looked exactly like the weapon he had once given Li Li Lingjing—the Emerald Bamboo Green Snake Staff. It had always accompanied Li Li Lingjing before. But now this bamboo staff displayed a ghostly black color, and like her pupils, it emanated a disturbing aura.

Li Luo's heart sank little by little, as if falling into an abyss.

The path Li Li Lingjing had chosen was like walking at the edge of a black abyss. With the slightest misstep, the last sliver of clarity within her would be devoured, and she would completely become a bizarre fusion of human and Other.

Li Luo had always harbored worries about this. He had repeatedly tried to persuade Li Li Lingjing to leave the Return-to-One Assembly, but some paths, once walked into, how easy was it to talk of stepping back out?

Moreover, Li Li Lingjing was also unwilling to step back out.

And in the end, the deepest unease in Li Luo's heart appeared before his eyes in an extremely cruel manner... The current Li Li Lingjing was no longer the familiar Cousin Li Lingjing. Although he did not know exactly what had happened to her over these years, the last sliver of clarity she had preserved in the deepest part of her heart had undoubtedly vanished.

The her of now might have already become a bizarre puppet manufactured by the Return-to-One Assembly.

At this moment, an irrepressible ache, fury, and killing intent toward the Return-to-One Assembly welled up from the depths of Li Luo's heart.

And while Li Luo was aching and furious because of the unfamiliar Li Li Lingjing before him, the allied armies were in panic and unease. After all, the appearance of a Nine-Lotus Unparalleled who was clearly an enemy, not a friend, would undoubtedly change the situation once more.

Only, amid that great panic, there was still one gaze, staring dazedly and in disbelief at Li Li Lingjing's figure.

That was Li Li Rouyun.

The Li Li Tianwang line had even relocated their mountain-protecting grand formation to the Heavenly Star Great Plains, and as a member of the Dragon Fang Line, Li Li Rouyun was naturally among them as well.

Clatter.

And at this moment, a jade-ruler treasure in her hand slowly dropped to the ground, producing a crisp sound. Her eyes were filled with horror as she gazed at that all-too-familiar graceful figure in the void.

As Li Li Lingjing's biological aunt, during those years when the latter was deeply eroded by the True Erosion Spirit Demon, it had been Li Li Rouyun who took care of her. So rather than saying the two were aunt and niece, it might be better to say they were like mother and daughter...

Therefore, when Li Li Lingjing appeared, how could Li Li Rouyun fail to recognize her.

"Biaoge, she, she... is she Li Lingjing?!" Li Li Rouyun turned her head with difficulty, looking at Niu Niu Biaobiao beside her, her eye sockets reddened, and said trembling.

Niu Niu Biaobiao was actually not very familiar with Li Li Lingjing, but having been together with Li Li Rouyun for many years, he had long heard her, on many nights, sorrowfully muttering Li Li Lingjing's name, so he clearly knew Li Li Rouyun's feelings for her.

"It probably isn't her, right? Li Lingjing has been gone for so many years, there's no reason she would have become a Nine-Lotus Unparalleled." Niu Niu Biaobiao hurriedly grasped Li Li Rouyun's hand and tried to persuade her.

Because he knew that, given Li Li Rouyun's feelings for Li Li Lingjing, whether or not that mysterious woman was the latter, it would deal Li Li Rouyun an extremely heavy blow.

"No, that is her."

Li Li Rouyun shook her head, tears sliding down from her eye sockets, and said agitatedly: "Li Lingjing really didn't die! I've told you before, I always felt like I'd sometimes seen her figure, that she had come to find me!"

Niu Niu Biaobiao's face sank slightly. Li Li Rouyun had indeed told him this before, but at the time he had only thought it might be Li Li Rouyun missing her too much and producing an illusion...

"A'yun, calm down. Even if she really is Li Li Lingjing, her current state is like a person yet not a person. This is absolutely not the little niece you know." Niu Niu Biaobiao said in a low voice.

Li Li Rouyun's tears flowed wildly. She did not know exactly what Li Li Lingjing had gone through, nor did she know why Li Li Lingjing had become a Nine-Lotus Unparalleled manufactured by the Return-to-One Assembly. But seeing that once bright and dashing young girl, after enduring countless torments, become like this, Li Li Rouyun felt as if her heart were shattering.

"Li Lingjing, my poor child."

Li Li Rouyun was heartbroken beyond words, her body went limp as she leaned against Niu Niu Biaobiao, tears streaming down. Li Li Lingjing's life had been too bitter, so bitter it broke the heart.

If she could, she would even be willing to trade her own life to obtain peace and smoothness for this ill-fated child.

Seeing Niu Niu Biaobiao, who was so grief-stricken she was nearly fainting, he sighed inwardly, reached out and brushed across her neck, and with a pulse of phase force, directly knocked her out temporarily.

Although the commotion here was only an inconspicuous corner of the battlefield, it did not escape Li Luo's perception, because when Li Li Lingjing appeared in this state, he knew it would bring Li Li Rouyun a painful shock.

Li Luo was silent for several breaths, then his figure moved. When he appeared again, he was already in front of Li Li Lingjing.

At the same time, Li Luo glanced at the distant void, where the aura of the Sin-Debt Demon King was still climbing at a terrifying speed, attempting to charge into the Nine-Lotus Unparalleled and break the deadlock.

"Cousin Li Lingjing, are you going to stop me?" Li Luo slowly spoke.

"Li Li Lingjing" appearing at this moment was undoubtedly to block him, to prevent him from disrupting the Sin-Debt Demon King's advancement.

This was something Li Luo could not accept. Otherwise, if the Sin-Debt Demon King really stepped into the Nine-Lotus Unparalleled at this moment, then the situation that had just begun to improve would once again fall into an abyss.

Facing Li Luo's question, the Li Li Lingjing ahead still did not answer. She merely slowly raised the pitch-black snake staff in her hand, pointing it at Li Luo.

On that snake staff, a terrifying power slowly emanated.

This power caused Li Luo's pupils to suddenly contract.

Because he had once seen this kind of power, it was...

the power that came from the "Extinction Aspect."