Chapter 1787: Nine Lives

When Li Luo transformed into a celestial dragon, branded the "Twelve Aspects Emperor Wheel" onto his flesh, and surged forward wrapped in that devastating might to pierce through the void and ram straight into the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King, the latter's cold, grim face also changed drastically at this moment.

"Are you mad?!"

The Nine-Serpent Great Demon King roared in horror and fury. How could this Li Luo be so insane, using his own flesh to bear that devastating might that even made its heart tremble? Such behavior was simply seeking death!

"You want to perish together with me?!"

But in the blink of an eye, the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King understood Li Luo's plan.

Didn't all those Heavenly Kings of Outer Shenzhou harbor this kind of one-for-one scheme?

However, after witnessing the fates of the Yin-Yang Great Demon King and the others, the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King was clearly far more prepared. So the next instant, its figure turned into a streak of blood light and fled directly, while the viscous flesh-and-blood cloud covering the sky of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou plummeted down at this moment, transforming into layer upon layer of rotting flesh-and-blood ramparts standing in the path of Li Luo's charge.

Clearly, the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King had no intention of taking Li Luo's self-destruction head-on.

But it clearly still underestimated just how terrifying Li Luo's current state was.

Li Luo not only bore the devastating might brought by the "Twelve Aspects Emperor Wheel," but at the same time he also burned his own rank and foundation without holding anything back.

He left himself no path of retreat.

That resolute momentum caused countless experts across the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou to cast complicated gazes.

Lü Qing'er, who was doing her utmost to pin down two Great Demon Kings, suddenly raised her head at this moment. Her Binghu-like eyes gazed blankly at the magnificent, dazzling rainbow light streaking across the horizon.

She could naturally sense that Li Luo was currently in a state of burning himself.

In such a state, regardless of whether the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King ultimately survived, at the very least, Li Luo was bound to walk the path of death.

"Li, Li Luo!"

Lü Qing'er's ice-cold pupils trembled uncontrollably, and the heartscape that had already been sealed by ice could not help but ripple outward in circles at this moment.

The celestial dragon formed by Zhen Linshuang also let out a sorrowful dragon's roar at this moment.

"Li Luo!"

On the battle lines outside the Great Xia Ducheng, those old friends acquainted with Li Luo—such as Seeing Yu Lang, Pang Pang Qianyuan, the Princess, and many others—all had reddened eyes.

"Kill!"

Seeing Yu Lang's beard and hair stood on end, killing intent billowing from his eyes. Gripping his wind blade, his crimson eyes launched a frenzied assault on the Aberrant King before him—every move a life-risking technique.

But no one could stop Li Luo.

The celestial dragon radiating endless might tore through space. The instant it made contact with the flesh-and-blood rampart, the devastating might it unleashed utterly destroyed the Divine Fruit rank power contained within the rampart.

That indestructible celestial dragon body constantly split open with deep wounds at this moment, dragon blood splashing across the world like a shower of golden rain.

Layer upon layer of rotting flesh-and-blood ramparts were utterly destroyed in an instant.

The Nine-Serpent Great Demon King, whose figure was fleeing backward at an unimaginable speed, had a flash of shock cross its pupils. Its crimson snake eyes reflected the devastating stream of light streaking across the sky.

At this moment, the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King knew that this attack, formed by pouring out all of Li Luo's foundation, could no longer be dodged.

The opponent had directly sealed off every inch of space in this stretch of heaven and earth.

This was truly a determination to perish together with it!

And upon realizing there was no way to avoid the outcome, the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King's gaze also turned sinister. A blood mark appeared at its brow, and then the blood mark split open, revealing a crimson Divine Fruit radiating vast divine resonance and might that slowly drifted out.

The instant this crimson Divine Fruit appeared, the entire world seemed to be suppressed by a terrifying power.

"Wanting to perish together with me—I'm afraid you don't have that qualification!"

The Nine-Serpent Great Demon King laughed coldly and furiously. The next instant, the crimson Divine Fruit transformed into a blood-red stream of light that whistled forth, vast and mighty, directly tearing apart the firmament. Wherever it passed, rotting flesh and blood grew in the void, hanging in the sky like flesh-and-blood trees—utterly bizarre.

That was because the Divine Fruit rank was simply too powerful, so much so that even the world itself was corrupted by it.

Clearly, facing Li Luo's life-risking killing move, the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King dared not hold anything back, and instead pushed its own Divine Fruit rank to the absolute limit.

Thus, under the horrified gazes of countless living beings of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou, two streams of devastating light finally collided with a thunderous crash.

The instant of impact, it was as if two blazing suns had risen in the firmament.

The vast, surging rank-might directly swept into every corner of the world.

Yet no roar of sound rang out at all, as if even sound waves had been annihilated in this collision.

Countless shattered purple-gold dragon scales poured down from the sky, and wherever they fell, they instantly transformed into dragon-scale mountains across the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou, giving birth to countless rare treasures of heaven and earth.

Wherever the dragon blood splashed, whether human or spirit beast, all underwent transformation, their strength surging greatly.

Countless living beings of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou gazed sorrowfully toward the edge of the firmament, because at this moment, everyone clearly sensed that Li Luo's aura had completely and utterly vanished from the world.

"Holy shit, Li Luo!"

Seeing Yu Lang let out a heart-wrenching roar. He stared blankly at the void at the edge of the firmament, his eyes about to split apart, the hand gripping his blade hilt trembling ceaselessly.

The auras of both Li Luo and the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King vanished beneath the impact of this devastating collision.

Vanished so utterly.

In a clash of this level, even a Heavenly King-level expert would find it hard to survive!

That kind of devastating force would grind even rank itself to dust.

Li Luo's killing move was simply too terrifying—terrifying to the point that even he himself could not endure it.

So even Seeing Yu Lang, who had always been full of confidence in Li Luo, did not dare to hope that he could survive such an attack.

Countless living beings of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou knelt and prostrated themselves on the ground, praying with reverent hearts.

And those old acquaintances of Li Luo were grief-stricken beyond measure.

Lü Qing'er's Binghu-like beautiful eyes also stared blankly at the void. The ripples in her heart-lake instead gradually calmed at this moment—no, that should be a kind of deathly stillness.

She raised her head, her eyes reflecting the two Great Demon Kings eyeing her menacingly ahead.

One of them was also a Great Demon King who had forged two ranks.

The next instant, vast frost swept out from beneath Lü Qing'er's feet. In the span of a breath, the world within a radius of several million li was entirely sealed in ice, and an unimaginably enormous ice lotus slowly took shape, as if to eternally freeze this stretch of heaven and earth.

But just as the ice lotus was about to take shape, suddenly blood-flame descended from the firmament. Wherever the blood-flame fell, it directly melted the ice lotus that Lü Qing'er had formed by pouring out all her foundation.

"Hiss hiss."

At the same time, a cold, snake-like voice abruptly rang out across the world.

Countless living beings across the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou were instantly chilled to the bone, endless terror rising in their eyes.

It was the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King!

He hadn't actually died!

Under Li Luo's unleashing of such a terrifying killing move, this Nine-Serpent Great Demon King could still survive?!

Is the Divine-Fruit Great Demon King truly this terrifying?!

At this moment, in the hearts of who knew how many living beings, a thick sense of despair welled up.

And under the gazes of those countless despairing beings, at the far end of the heavens, a blood flame ignited out of thin air, then began to swell rapidly, finally transforming into a raging blood flame that blotted out the sky.

And within the blood flame, a towering demonic figure slowly walked out.

It was precisely the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King!

When this demonic shadow stood upon the horizon, the last sliver of hope in the hearts of those King-realm experts fighting across the various battlefields of the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou was utterly and completely shattered.

Now that Li Li Tianwang has fallen, who else could possibly withstand the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King?

"Heh heh, what a Li Li Tianwang."

Meeting those countless despairing gazes, the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King let out a bone-chilling light laugh: "Such world-shattering destructive power truly exceeded my expectations. If it had been some other Divine-Fruit Great Demon King, you might really have grievously wounded me."

"But unfortunately, if you wanted to perish together with me, then you've picked the wrong target."

A crimson snake tail slowly slithered out from behind the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King, and only now did people notice that of the nine blood serpents originally behind him, one had completely vanished.

The Nine-Serpent Great Demon King had become the Eight-Serpent Great Demon King.

At the same time, the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King's indifferent voice rang out across the Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou, stirring up thick despair and terror in countless living beings.

"This sovereign was born with nine lives; even in death I can use them to be reborn. You want to throw your life away against me? Can you afford it?"