Chapter 1775: The Duel of Spells

Li Luo stood with a solemn expression above the Great Xia City, hearing countless wails of pain and fear in his ears, voices coming from countless living beings across the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou.

This is the power of the Divine Fruit Great Demon King; with a mere gesture, he plays with the lives of an entire Divine Region as if they were in the palm of his hand, a power enough to instill soul-deep terror.

No wonder the Li Li Tianwang of Outer Shenzhou in the past exhausted every means to block the Great Demon Kings of the Dark World outside the Wang Hou Battlefield; otherwise, if these terrifying existences truly descended upon Outer Shenzhou, the slaughter and destruction they would cause would be truly horrifying.

Li Luo gazed at the Nine Serpent Great Demon King sitting behind the chessboard; he did not strike directly because in his perception, the Nine Serpent Great Demon King before him seemed both real and illusory, so even if he struck, he could not break this so-called "Nine Serpent Curse."

The duel between the two sides was different from all previous encounters.

If Li Luo cannot dispel this "Nine Serpent Curse," then this confrontation will be a victory for the Nine Serpent Great Demon King, and as the living beings on the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou continue to die, the "Ancient Divine Ruins Demon-Subduing Array" here will also collapse, thereby affecting the entire great formation.

Therefore, the immediate priority is to break the "Nine Serpent Curse."

Li Luo's gaze shifted, shining like the blazing sun, illuminating countless living beings across the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou; in the next moment, the Ten Thousand Aspects Wheel behind him roared into motion, and brilliant, holy light swept forth.

Light Aspect!

The sky over the entire Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou seemed to brighten in that instant; light descended upon every corner of this Divine Region, carrying vast purifying power that covered the living beings contaminated by the "Nine Serpent Curse."

The purifying power surged, attempting to cleanse the bizarre blood snakes drilling out from the flesh and blood.

Under the purification of the Light Aspect, the bizarre blood snakes indeed showed signs of melting, but mere breaths later, they were reborn within the flesh and blood of the living beings, and upon their rebirth, they seemed to have developed resistance even to the Light Aspect.

Thus, very quickly, the purification of the Light Aspect failed completely.

This terrifying growth rate made even Zhen Lingshuang, a Li Li Tianwang, feel her scalp prickle with unease; the opponent's "Nine Serpent Curse" was too terrifying.

"A mere Light Aspect dares to dispel my Divine Fruit Aspect?" the Nine Serpent Great Demon King laughed.

Li Luo remained expressionless; with a flick of his finger, surging, vast "Great Formless Fire" swept out from the fire cauldron at the center of the Ten Thousand Aspects Wheel, and this "Great Formless Fire" descended from the heavens, covering countless living beings.

Since purification was useless, let us try the refining power of the Great Formless Fire.

With Li Luo's Current State, the Great Formless Fire he could control was vast to a terrifying degree; in an instant, the entire Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou seemed to be lit up by countless torches.

Looking down from the far end of the sky, one could see star-like fires dotting the Divine Region.

The Great Formless Fire precisely wrapped around the blood snakes growing from the flesh and blood of the living beings, and under the scorching of the Great Formless Fire, the blood snakes seemed to emit painful hisses, but in the next moment, the blood snakes drilled straight into the depths of the living beings' flesh and blood; in this situation, for the Great Formless Fire to continue refining, it would first have to refine the flesh and blood of these living beings as well.

Seeing this, Li Luo could only stop the advance of the Great Formless Fire.

After all, he could not truly refine the living beings on the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou along with those bizarre blood snakes; otherwise, would the result not be no different?

"Hehe, if you do not act a bit faster, the Nine Serpent Curse will begin to mature," the Nine Serpent Great Demon King reminded with a smile.

"Look, living beings have started to die."

With a casual point of its finger, countless blood bubbles appeared; within the blood bubbles, many living beings could be seen screaming in despair, and on the flesh and blood of their bodies, the blood snakes that had grown reached nine in number.

And in the instant the ninth blood snake appeared, all the wailing ceased abruptly.

Those living beings, whether human or beast, had all the vitality in their eyes completely dissipate; then their pupils began to turn blood-red, and finally, blood snakes slowly drilled out from their pupils, beginning to spread in all directions.

They had completely become nests of blood snakes.

"Damn it!"

Zhen Lingshuang's beautiful face turned iron-green; holding her Purple-Gold Dragon Halberd, she could not help but strike, and the roar of the Heavenly Dragon shook the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou, as if the vast, mighty power tore the sky apart.

The domineering power of the Heavenly Dragon Aspect smashed through the void and struck the body of the Nine Serpent Great Demon King.

However, the power of the Heavenly Dragon Aspect seemed to strike a phantom, passing straight through without causing the slightest effect on the Nine Serpent Great Demon King.

The Nine Serpent Great Demon King paid no heed, only smiling and saying, "Li Luo, it seems you cannot protect this Divine Region."

"Li Luo, what should we do?" Zhen Lingshuang could not help but grow anxious; they had not expected the Divine Fruit Great Demon King of the Dark World to be so terrifying, and with merely its first move, it had plunged countless living beings on the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou into a desperate situation.

Li Luo did not answer; his eyes reflected the living beings on the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou contaminated by the Nine Serpent Curse, and he could clearly see the bloody scene of blood snakes devouring flesh and blood to constantly give birth.

These blood snakes originated from the Divine Fruit Aspect of the Nine Serpent Great Demon King.

Therefore, all flesh and blood in the world containing vitality was its place of parasitism; it could not be defended against, nor could it be dispelled.

No, there is a way to dispel it.

Li Luo formed a seal with one hand; in the next moment, the twelve aspect natures within the Ten Thousand Aspects Wheel roared into motion, began to rotate, and finally merged completely together.

In this moment, all the Super-Nine Grade Aspect Natures within his body transformed into a single Aspect Nature.

That was...

The Death Aspect!

The power of the Death Aspect, vast and mighty, swept forth, transforming into countless black light points; these light points pierced through space like black flying insects, landing on countless living beings, and then drilling into their flesh and blood.

In the next moment, countless living beings suddenly discovered with some terror that their flesh and blood began to wither at this moment; they could even clearly feel a strong death energy spreading within their flesh and blood.

In a mere instant, their flesh and blood began to die.

Their death had entered a countdown.

But as the vitality in their flesh and blood was severed, those blood snakes consequently lost the nourishment to grow strong, began to truly wither, and finally turned into wisps of blood smoke, vanishing into thin air.

This is removing the firewood from under the pot.

The Nine Serpent Curse was thus dispelled.

The smile on the Nine Serpent Great Demon King's face froze slightly, seeming somewhat bewildered; it apparently did not expect Li Luo to possess such a wondrous Aspect Nature, using death energy to erode the flesh and blood of living beings into dead matter; in this way, its Nine Serpent Curse naturally could no longer be born from flesh and blood.

After a brief moment of bewilderment, the Nine Serpent Great Demon King smiled with amusement and said, "Some tricks, but... although the Nine Serpent Curse is dispelled, what then of these living beings eroded by death energy?"

"Death has already eroded them; it cannot be changed. Even if you disperse the death energy now, they will still die."

"Tsk tsk, your method seems even more ruthless than ours."

However, facing the Nine Serpent Great Demon King's mockery, Li Luo did not answer; just as the death energy was about to completely overwhelm their consciousness, he activated the Ten Thousand Aspects Wheel again, merging the aspects, and the Death Aspect transformed into the Life Aspect.

With a flick of his finger, it seemed as if the sweet rain of life descended upon the world.

As the sweet rain fell, the death energy within the living beings began to dissipate; the originally withered flesh and blood actually revived with brand new vitality, becoming full of strength.

In an instant, on the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou, countless living beings wept with joy.

They all knelt on the ground to worship; Li Luo's transformation between life and death, in their eyes, was like that of the supreme deity who controlled life and death.

The smile on the Nine Serpent Great Demon King's face vanished completely; its crimson serpent eyes swirled with gloom as it said, "Using death energy to sever the vitality of living beings' flesh and blood, causing the Nine Serpent Curse to be unable to be born from flesh and blood as nourishment, and then using life energy to restore vitality."

"Life and Death... an Aspect Nature that has never appeared before."

"Interesting. No wonder you dared to intercept me."

Li Luo's expression grew increasingly cold; fortunately, he possessed the Life-and-Death Seal, otherwise this clash would have left him able only to watch helplessly as the beings of the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou were toyed with at will by the Nine Serpent Great Demon King.

However, now that the Nine Serpent Curse has been broken, it is time for him to act!

Boom!

Behind Li Luo, the mysterious and magnificent Wheel of Ten Thousand Phases slowly rotated; within the great cauldron of fire at its center, the boundless and surging Great Formless Fire roared into motion. He extended his palm and grasped from within that fire cauldron.

In an instant, a resounding, earth-shaking sound of blade ringing echoed forth.

Li Luo reached out and drew a blade from the fire cauldron.