Chapter 1761: A New Aspect Affinity

The instant that destructive orb of light, formed by the mutual reversal and collision of ten Aspects, exploded, a vast and surging surge of Rank-power also swept out from within Li Luo's body.

At the same time, he activated his strongest defensive measure.

"Dragon Blood Ancient Tracing Art!"

"Dragon Ancestor Physique!"

Li Luo's body suddenly swelled at this moment, his blood and flesh boiling, and as a heaven-shaking dragon roar sounded, a massive Celestial Dragon form was revealed, its violet-gold dragon scales glittering brilliantly, flowing with an indestructible luster.

The Celestial Dragon Li Luo had transformed into this time appeared more majestic and divine than ever before; its massive body nearly reached a hundred thousand zhang, and from afar it looked like a continuous mountain range standing between the heavens and earth.

As the massive dragon body slowly swam, terrifying power was released, causing the void to emit the sound of shattering under unbearable strain.

Moreover, because Li Luo had activated the "Dragon Ancestor Physique"—the most powerful physique of the dragon race—ancient dragon patterns now appeared inscribed on every single violet-gold dragon scale. At this moment, the Celestial Dragon Li Luo had become seemed as if it were the true Ancestor of Dragons!

Mysterious, ancient, powerful!

If Zhen Linshuang were here, her heart would surely surge and she would find it hard to restrain herself.

With the Dragon Ancestor Physique activated in Li Luo's current state, he had absolute confidence in his defense—even an attack launched by a Heavenly King-tier powerhouse who had forged two Ranks, he could withstand head-on.

However, facing that "Ten-Aspect Orb of Light" emanating a terrifying aura of destruction, Li Luo still felt a stinging pain erupting throughout his flesh and blood.

Li Luo sensed the terrifying power released from within the "Ten-Aspect Orb of Light," yet a peculiar sense of astonishment arose in his heart, because this kind of reversed-Aspect power application he had once performed similar deductions of during his closed-door cultivation over these years.

His original intention had been to leverage the advantage of his ten Aspects to create an unrivaled art.

But the difficulty of mutually reversing Aspects was extraordinary, so even though Li Luo had labored for years, he had only kept this art in the depths of his heart, never truly giving it form.

But now... he was seeing it upon this "Heavenly King Calamity."

The energy circulation within contained traces of his past deductions, and also parts he had never deduced.

A sudden realization arose in Li Luo's heart—this Heavenly King Calamity was, in essence, derived from his own Aspects, and thus the nature of its power circulation also originated from him.

He had kept such deductions in the depths of his heart, and the Heavenly King Calamity had naturally and silently stolen them.

And at this critical moment, it had delivered him a "great gift."

A "great gift" sufficient to kill Li Luo.

At this moment, Li Luo felt both joy and shock in his heart—joy because the unrivaled art he had deduced now had a clear direction in this instant, and shock because the orb of light driven by the "Ten-Aspect Heavenly King Calamity" before him was far too terrifying. Surely it wouldn't actually kill him?

But being alarmed now was meaningless, because the destructive power of that orb of light had already swept in.

At the instant of contact, Li Luo's hundred-thousand-zhang massive dragon body actually began to crumble, the violet-gold dragon scales containing astonishing defense paling in an instant, then turning to dust...

Intense pain surged from all over Li Luo's body.

It was the erasure of flesh and blood everywhere on his body.

Li Luo was horrified in his heart. He knew that with his current defense, even an attack launched by a Heavenly King-tier powerhouse who had forged two Ranks could be withstood for a time, yet now he couldn't resist this destructive orb of light?

Could its power already rival that of a Heavenly King-tier powerhouse who had forged three Ranks?

That was too outrageous!

Li Luo felt both shock and fury in his heart, but he also understood that he had to endure now. He had gone through countless hardships and exhausted his heart's efforts to reach where he was; if he died in the end beneath his own Heavenly King Calamity, that would be far too absurd!

Roar!

The Celestial Dragon Li Luo had transformed into erupted with a heaven-shaking dragon roar, his Celestial Dragon bloodline pushed to its absolute limit at this moment. Simultaneously, the Water Aspect, Light Aspect, and Wood Aspect within his body all circulated, emanating boundless vitality to repair the shattered flesh and blood.

Li Luo planned to rely on the Celestial Dragon flesh body's powerful recovery ability to stubbornly withstand this killing move of the "Ten-Aspect Heavenly King Calamity," and he believed the opponent's energy wasn't infinite either—as long as he dragged things out long enough, he could survive this tribulation.

And once the tribulation was survived, he would successfully advance to Heavenly King, undergo a transformation from then on, and leap to become a true peak of the world.

But immediately after, Li Luo realized he had still somewhat underestimated the domineering degree of this destructive orb of light from the "Ten-Aspect Heavenly King Calamity."

Even though he exerted all his effort to repair his body, in just a short moment, nearly half of that hundred-thousand-zhang massive dragon body had been ground into dust.

Dragon blood splashed across the sky, dyeing even the Divine Tier red.

Li Luo was driven mad by pain, his dragon pupils entirely crimson.

But just as Li Luo gritted his teeth and stubbornly endured, suddenly vast light swept out from within his body, the light bringing endless vitality to repair his shattered dragon body.

That was... the power of light from Jiang Qing'e.

"Li Luo, how can your Heavenly King Calamity be so terrifying?!" At the same time, Jiang Qing'e's alarmed voice also reached his heart through the blood patterns she had previously left on Li Luo's palm.

Li Luo could only smile bitterly at this; he hadn't expected that this "Ten-Aspect Heavenly King Calamity" would actually use his own not-yet-fully-deduced technique against him, and... the effect was so good.

At this, Li Luo could only find bitter comfort in self-consolation—seemed like the unrivaled art he had deduced during these years of closed-door cultivation was quite formidable in power...

However, with Jiang Qing'e exerting all her strength to drive the power of light and bring vast vitality, the speed at which the "destructive power" eroded Li Luo's dragon body was indeed slowed.

Thus Li Luo's remaining fifty-thousand-zhang dragon body became a battlefield between the two powers at this moment.

Dragon blood continuously splashed like a rainstorm, washing over the Divine Tier.

Endless pain assaulted Li Luo's heart, stirring surging waves in his sea of consciousness, yet he always kept a clear mind, quietly watching the aura of death emitted when flesh and blood were annihilated—and when, after death, vast vitality surged in, it brought the breath of life.

Death and vitality, in every piece of flesh of the massive body, intertwined with each other, waging battle, like a hymn of life.

Li Luo felt something in his heart.

This was actually also a kind of decay and prosperity.

From deep within Li Luo's body, a stream of cyan-yellow power flowed out—that was the power of Decay-Prosperity from the "Decay-Prosperity Heart Lotus."

Over these years, Li Luo had tried to use the power of the "Decay-Prosperity Heart Lotus" to give birth to a brand-new "Decay-Prosperity Aspect."

But no matter how hard he tried, the "Decay-Prosperity Aspect" was always difficult to birth.

Only now did he understand that relying solely on the "Decay-Prosperity Heart Lotus," it was fundamentally impossible to birth a brand-new "Decay-Prosperity Aspect."

"Although the Decay-Prosperity Aspect can no longer be born, it is not a dead end."

Within Li Luo's heart echoed the interwoven sounds of death and vitality transmitted from every piece of flesh; the breath of death and life rippled in his heart, circling each other.

The cyan-yellow power representing "Decay-Prosperity" also surged into it at this moment.

Li Luo fell into a state of enlightenment at this moment.

His massive dragon body, under this mutual erosion of death and vitality, continuously dissolved.

Because of the unified-heart state granted by "Divine Perception," Jiang Qing'e also sensed that Li Luo's state was somewhat peculiar, so she did not disturb him, but instead exerted all her strength to channel the vitality emanating from light into him, helping Li Luo alleviate the crisis of his flesh body's collapse.

Thus, it seemed to persist for a very long time, yet also as if only an instant.

When Li Luo's Heavenly Dragon body had shrunk to less than ten thousand zhang, his tightly shut dragon pupils suddenly snapped open, a dragon claw reached out, and a wisp of "green-yellow" phase force was seen condensing over.

The moment this phase force appeared, Yan Changsheng and Su Ying in the Spirit Phase Grotto-Heaven both jolted, looks of shock and doubt surfacing in their eyes.

"That is... the Wither-and-Flourish Phase?"

"Why does it seem a little different?"

And while the two were in shock and doubt, the wisp of "green-yellow" phase force between Li Luo's dragon claws suddenly began to undergo violent changes—seen at its very deepest core, a strand of black-and-white color actually surged forth.

Black and white, from the inside out, spread and dyed outward, and in just a few breaths completely transformed that green-yellow power representing "Wither-and-Flourish" into a black-and-white hue.

The black-and-white phase force slowly rose, like a wisp of flame.

Li Luo's dragon pupils stared at this black-and-white flame, and a thick surge of wild joy welled up from deep within his eyes, because this was a phase attribute!

It was born from the "Wither-and-Flourish Phase."

But it was a sublimation beyond "decay and prosperity."

So this was not the "Wither-and-Flourish Phase," but rather the one representing life and death...

The Life-and-Death Phase!