Chapter 1773: Returning to the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou

When the rainbow light Li Luo had transformed into pierced through layer upon layer of space, crossing the vast distance between the Outer Shenzhou at extreme speed, it appeared directly above Daxia City in the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou.

With his current realm and strength, the distance across the Outer Shenzhou that once required several months to traverse now took no more than the time of a single incense stick.

And just as Li Luo's figure descended, the space beside him violently twisted, and immediately two graceful figures stepped out from within.

The woman in the lead emanated a bone-piercing coldness capable of freezing heaven and earth; her ice-blue long hair swayed gently around her slender waist, and instantly the entire Great Xia Nation began to see frost drifting down.

That was Lv Qing'er.

The other woman had a tall, well-proportioned figure, clad in a form-fitting dragon-scale battle armor; the fine dragon scales flowing with purple-gold luster extended along her voluptuous, domineering form, revealing breathtaking curves.

This was naturally Zhen Linshuang.

Both women had been dispatched to assist Li Luo in defending the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou.

After all, the Dark World had poured out in full force. Li Luo could only concentrate his efforts on dealing with the opposing Divine Fruit Great Demon King, and as for the other Great Demon Kings that followed, he had no energy to spare. At this moment, he needed his own other Heavenly Kings to contain them; otherwise, if left unchecked, the living beings of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou would face a calamity of destruction and slaughter.

A single Great Demon King unleashing slaughter would be enough to dye the heavens with blood and bring true destruction.

Li Luo's gaze fell on Lv Qing'er. Speaking of which, ever since the decisive battle at the Heavenly Star Great Plain ended, he had been in closed-door cultivation within the Spirit Phase Cave Heaven, and it had already been over three years since he last saw her.

"Qing'er, I haven't congratulated you yet on advancing to Heavenly King." Li Luo said with a smile.

The current Lv Qing'er was a Heavenly King who had forged two Ranks. In terms of strength, she was even a notch stronger than Zhen Linshuang beside her, and this was only because Lv Qing'er's accumulated foundation was somewhat shallower; otherwise, relying on her perfected Acquired Primordial Seed, it was not certain she couldn't have forged three Ranks upon her initial advancement to Heavenly King.

In fact, if given enough time to accumulate, the Outer Shenzhou would likely gain another Divine Fruit Heavenly King.

Lv Qing'er nodded slightly, her voice cool and clear: "Congratulations to you as well on forging four Ranks, with the Divine Fruit in sight. In this battle, you need only focus on dealing with that Divine Fruit Great Demon King; as for the other Great Demon Kings, I will do my utmost to resist them."

"Be careful," Li Luo urged.

The moment his words fell, Zhen Linshuang proactively drew closer. Her originally arrogant purple-gold dragon pupils now carried a hint of undisguised admiration. She gazed at Li Luo and smiled brightly: "Li Luo, if you truly can defeat the Divine Fruit Great Demon King, I can call you Master."

Li Luo's expression instantly stiffened. Even Lv Qing'er, whose emotions were sealed in ice, couldn't help but cast a strange glance from her frost-flowing eyes.

Li Luo laughed dryly: "Chief Zhen, there's no need to bring up the misunderstanding from back then."

He was also a bit helpless. Back then in the Dragon Clan, because of that misunderstanding, Zhen Linshuang had wanted to grind his bones and scatter his ashes. Yet now she was the one proactively bringing it up again, and clearly not only without resistance, but even somewhat... eager to try?

Had this mother dragon become so wild in temperament after advancing to Heavenly King?

"My Dragon Clan admires the strong. In the past, you weren't worthy of my notice—how would I dare let you be my Master? But now you are about to forge the Divine Fruit, the most pinnacle existence in heaven and earth. If you truly were my Master, I naturally wouldn't resist." Zhen Linshuang said with a smile. She gazed at Li Luo's body, a covetous gleam flowing in her beautiful eyes—such a perfect and powerful bloodline was truly exhilarating and hard to restrain.

Her blunt, wild words instead made Li Luo a bit unable to bear it. He could clearly sense that Zhen Linshuang now seemed to be very hungry for him.

So he shook his head, said no more to her, and cast his gaze downward toward Daxia City.

At this moment, above Daxia City, violent spatial ripples kept surging forth, and whenever the space rippled, a King-realm expert radiating powerful pressure would tear through the void and arrive.

That was because before reaching the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou, Li Luo had activated the "Primordial God Ruins Demon-Subduing Array," transmitting his command to every King-realm expert on the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou.

Thus at this moment, all the King-realm experts on the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou had already gathered at Daxia City.

Countless gazes, filled with deep reverence, adoration, looked up at the three figures on the horizon radiating boundless might.

Li Luo's gaze swept once, and he detected that the number of King-realm experts on the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou had already reached over a hundred.

Clearly, during the settlement period of Year Ten of Heavenly Fortune, the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou had also birthed quite a few newly-advanced King-realm experts.

And among the King-realm experts before him, Li Luo also saw some familiar faces.

So his figure flashed, and he appeared before those people.

"Everyone, it's been a long time."

Gazing at Li Luo who had suddenly appeared before them, Pang Pang Qianyuan, Yu Lang, Lan Lan Lingzi, Vice Principal Suxin, the Eldest Princess and others were all momentarily somewhat dazed. Even though the latter had long since restrained his own Rank, that god-like pressure seemed to emanate from the depths of the soul, impossible to ignore.

Even Pang Pang Qianyuan, who had now reached the peak of Three-Crown King, still felt an oppressive sense of looking up at a towering mountain when facing Li Luo at this moment.

And if even Pang Pang Qianyuan was like this, there was no need to mention the others—particularly the Eldest Princess. Although she had now reached Nine-Pin Marquis, with this level of strength, just getting close to Li Luo made her inexplicably feel a suffocating sensation, let alone meeting his gaze directly.

That feeling was as if a fox in the mountains faced a giant dragon that had suddenly descended from the sky. Even though the giant dragon bore no ill intent, the absolute suppression brought about by the disparity in power still made one's heart inevitably fearful.

So for a moment, everyone couldn't help but feel constrained.

Li Luo, sensing this change, also felt somewhat helpless.

But at this moment, it was still Yu Lang who gritted his teeth and stepped forward two paces, then tremblingly extended his fist, and with a twisted expression as if facing death, gently tapped Li Luo's chest, then said with immense excitement: "Did you see that? I punched a Heavenly King!"

Everyone smiled.

With Yu Lang's clowning and joking, the atmosphere instantly eased considerably, and the suffocating pressure brought by Li Luo only then faded slightly.

Li Luo also smiled and returned a punch to Yu Lang, laughing: "Not bad, you've actually reached Double-Crown King."

The current Yu Lang still had slightly long hair; when the wind blew, his shoulder-length hair swayed. The youthful arrogance and unrestrained air of the past had completely vanished, and his mature face was etched with the marks of hardship and vicissitudes. The man who once called himself a man like the wind at the South Wind Academy now appeared to possess the true charm and bearing of a powerhouse.

Moreover, Li Luo also noticed that Yu Lang's situation was somewhat peculiar. A powerful origin force radiated from his entire body, yet his own Affinity Rank had actually dropped to Second Rank.

This was an extremely rare occurrence. After all, anyone who reached the King-realm would have their own affinity sublimated along with it, but Yu Lang's Affinity Rank had instead become lower.

Li Luo pondered slightly and immediately understood—it was because of that demonic art inherited from the Formless Saint Sect: the Primordial Transformation Art.

Clearly, Yu Lang had embarked on a path different from the rest.

At this moment, Pang Pang Qianyuan also looked at Li Luo, his face filled with complexity and emotion as he laughed: "Our Saint Mystic Star Academy has finally produced a true Heavenly King."

"If our Outer Shenzhou can survive this calamity, I will definitely apply to the Academy Alliance to have our Saint Mystic Star Academy promoted to the fifth Ancient Academy. When that time comes, Li Luo, you must not refuse the position of Principal."

Li Luo naturally smiled and agreed.

Afterwards, Li Luo briefly conversed with Vice Principal Suxin, the Eldest Princess and the others. These two, who in Li Luo's younger days had been the most powerful women of Great Xia Nation, now both displayed an unconcealable constraint when facing Li Luo, who had achieved Heavenly King.

The might contained within a Heavenly King was far, far greater than that of the Unparalleled Marquis back then.

Li Luo's gaze also turned toward the House Luolan House headquarters within the city. On the headquarters plaza where the House Sacrifices had once been held, he saw the figures of Cai Wei, Yan Yan Lingqing and others.

He smiled at the two women from afar, but did not go over again. After all, with his current Heavenly King might, even Vice Principal Suxin and the Eldest Princess couldn't bear it; Cai Wei and the others would only feel it more intensely.

At this moment, Li Luo vaguely sensed a flavor of "the heights are lonely and cold."

Fortunately, he still had Jiang Jiang Qinge, as well as Li Taixuan and Dantai Lan.

In the end, Li Luo did not say any stirring words. He simply raised his head, gazing toward the end of the heavens. Boundless world-destroying black rain kept descending, and black meteors carrying an aura of destruction pierced through layer upon layer of space, finally crashing down upon the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou.

A terror that defied description, in that instant, enveloped the entire Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou.

The heavens turned dark, and violent black rain poured down.

In the pitch-black rainstorm, a figure like a demon god slowly walked out. Behind it, enormous nine tails seemed to sway slowly, and when lightning tore through the darkness and cast its light, countless living beings finally realized that the nine tails behind that demon-god figure were, in fact, nine colossal serpents streaming with fresh blood.

That is...

The Nine-Serpent Great Demon King.