Chapter 1788: Resurrection Art

The words of the Nine-Snake Great Demon King sent a chill into the hearts of countless living beings across the Outer Shenzhou of the Eastern Region—did this not mean that to truly slay the Nine-Snake Great Demon King, one would have to kill it nine times over, severing every snake tail, before it could truly be destroyed?

What an inhuman difficulty this was.

Earlier, even Li Luo, that peerless prodigy of this world, had poured out every last reserve and burned his very self to forge a force of destruction, only to barely sever one tail of the Nine-Snake Great Demon King.

And now that Li Luo had fallen, who else could cut down the remaining tails?

The despair in the hearts of countless living beings deepened.

"A pity, a peerless prodigy. Had you truly been allowed to keep growing, in the future you would likely have become another Sect Master of the Faceless." The Nine-Snake Great Demon King's cold, cruel gaze slowly swept across the countless living beings of the Outer Shenzhou of the Eastern Region.

"But you destroyed one of my tails. Next, I shall repay it with the flesh and blood of every living being on this Outer Shenzhou of the Eastern Region."

With Li Luo's fall, no one on this Outer Shenzhou of the Eastern Region could keep the demon king in check any longer.

And so the "Primeval Divine Ruins Demon-Trapping Array" of this Shenzhou would no longer be safe.

Amid those countless gazes of despair and terror, the Nine-Snake Great Demon King stepped on a lotus of flesh and blood, descending from the edge of the heavens. A slaughter feast was about to sweep across the entire Outer Shenzhou of the Eastern Region.

Lü Qing'er's icy pupils gazed at the Nine-Snake Great Demon King walking toward the Outer Shenzhou of the Eastern Region. Within those cold eyes, ice-flames slowly rose. Between her smooth brow, a Primordial Seed surfaced—and without the slightest hesitation, she ignited it.

A terrifying surge of ice-attribute rank power rose with it.

"Oh? An acquired-perfection Primordial Seed, playing at self-destruction again? But your self-destruction still hasn't earned the right to make me pay a tail for it." The Nine-Snake Great Demon King paused its steps and said with a faint smile.

But Lü Qing'er paid no heed to its mockery. At this moment, her heart-state had fallen into utter deathly stillness, and the ice-attribute rank she was unleashing was fiercer than ever before.

Since Li Luo had already fallen, then she would inherit his will.

In the end, it was nothing more than death.

The Primordial Seed between Lü Qing'er's brows erupted completely.

However, at that very instant, a palm suddenly reached out from behind Lü Qing'er and pressed down on her shoulder. A surge of vast, mighty power spread out, forcibly suppressing the Primordial Seed on the verge of detonation.

"I say, you're getting a little too cocky..."

"Nine lives is indeed a lot, but unfortunately..."

A light laughter, abrupt and clear, rang out across the heavens and earth at this moment, causing the hearts of countless living beings on the Outer Shenzhou of the Eastern Region to tremble violently, their eyes flooding with an incredulous frenzy.

The cold smile on the Nine-Snake Great Demon King's face also stiffened little by little. Its gaze looked past Lü Qing'er, where a familiar figure that made its pupils tremble slowly walked out.

It was... Li Luo, who should have perished in that self-detonation!

And at this moment, that broad-shouldered, handsome young man looked up at it, grinned, and in his casual smile there seemed to be a thick vein of mockery.

"Grandpa knows resurrection arts."

Li Luo's casual, light laughter echoed across the Outer Shenzhou of the Eastern Region, causing countless living beings to slowly widen their eyes in disbelief.

The self-detonated Li Luo had actually come back to life?!!

In hearts that had been plunged into despair, the fires of hope once again blazed up fiercely.

Although Li Luo's resurrection was utterly inconceivable, this did nothing to dampen the wild joy of those who had narrowly escaped death.

In the desperate abyss, dawn had returned!

"Holy shit, that works too?!"

Seeing Yu Lang, whose face had been full of grief and heartbreak, stood dumbfounded. Li Luo's methods now were too inhuman—this casual operation of resurrecting himself was already like that of a true deity.

The Nine-Snake Great Demon King's nine lives were already shocking enough, and yet Li Luo's side was even more monstrous—self-detonating and then coming back to life?

This was simply cheating.

And there was no need to speak of Seeing Yu Lang's shock—even the Nine-Snake Great Demon King, powerful as it was, was now somewhat stunned. Even though its memories contained many inheritances from the Dark World, it had found no similar experience among them.

Self-detonated, and then resurrected unscathed?

This was even more monstrous than their kind!

"Impossible! You are merely a lingering image, trying to interfere with me!" The Nine-Snake Great Demon King's face changed as it let out a sharp howl. The next moment, it activated its Divine-Fruit rank, transforming into a flesh-and-blood demonic palm that covered the heavens, and slammed it down toward Li Luo's position.

But the next moment, as the void behind Li Luo trembled, the mysterious and grand Ten Thousand Phases Wheel manifested, and a vast surge of rank power washed out, resisting and dismembering that flesh-and-blood demonic palm.

The Nine-Snake Great Demon King's face instantly grew ugly to the extreme.

That unique power—it really was Li Luo!

Moreover, after his resurrection, Li Luo had recovered everything to its original state, including the Ten Thousand Phases Wheel that had self-detonated earlier and the twelve phase natures that had been burned.

Faced with such a sudden change, even the vastly experienced Nine-Snake Great Demon King was stunned.

Did this world truly possess such a monstrous method?

If Li Luo could truly resurrect again and again, then wouldn't his difficulty to kill be higher than that of any Divine-Fruit Li Li Tianwang?

And while the Nine-Snake Great Demon King's heart was shaken with horror, Li Luo looked toward Lü Qing'er and said with a smile, "Don't go blowing yourself up over every little thing. My tricks aren't something you can learn."

Lü Qing'er's Binghu-like eyes stared blankly at Li Luo's handsome face. Ripples rose in the depths of her gaze. Her red lips moved slightly, yet she could not bring herself to say anything. She merely tilted her body slightly, slipping Li Luo's hand off her shoulder.

Li Luo leaned closer and asked, "Qing'er, it seems your emotions weren't sealed away completely?"

Earlier, when she had learned of his fall, the emotions Lü Qing'er had unleashed had seemed terribly turbulent and fierce.

Lü Qing'er's fair, beautiful face returned to cold indifference, but she did not answer.

Li Luo gave a helpless smile and said no more. His figure slowly rose into the air, and behind him the Ten Thousand Phases Wheel once again began to form in reverse, the twelve phase natures rumbling and moving within it.

Phase natures reversed!

Twelve-Phase Emperor Wheel!

In the Nine-Snake Great Demon King's crimson snake pupils, Li Luo's figure was reflected, along with the reversed Ten Thousand Phases Wheel behind him. That force of destruction that had left such a deep impression on it earlier had appeared once more.

At this moment, the Nine-Snake Great Demon King even felt an impulse to turn tail and flee.

"You understand, right?" Li Luo said with a smile.

The Nine-Snake Great Demon King took a deep breath, its gaze dark, vicious, and cruel, and said, "I don't believe you can truly resurrect yourself unscathed, again and again, without limit."

Even the Sect Master of the Faceless Holy Sect from back then could not do such a thing. This Li Luo now has only forged four ranks and has yet to even nurture a Divine Fruit—how could he possibly achieve this?!

"There's no need for unlimited resurrection. Just one more life than you is enough." Li Luo said calmly.

As his words fell, he did not hesitate in the slightest. His body twisted, and he transformed into a Celestial Dragon. The "Twelve-Phase Emperor Wheel" was once again branded onto the dragon's body. As vast power surged, the Celestial Dragon bore the wheel, became a streak of rainbow light, and in a stance that feared no death, charged toward the Nine-Snake Great Demon King.

This time, all living beings across the Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou held their breath, watching this scene.

Even from other Shenzhous, Li Li Tianwang cast his gaze in attention.

The Nine Serpent Great Demon King was furious; the power of Li Luo's self-destruction was too terrifying. Once unleashed, it would shake even heaven and earth, sealing the space, making escape impossible.

"I want to see just how many times you can resurrect!"

In the end, with no path to retreat, the Nine Serpent Great Demon King let out a sharp roar, once again activating the Divine Fruit, pushing his own power to its absolute limit, and charging to meet Li Luo's destructive self-destruction.

Boom!

Terrifying power of rank surged forth in vast waves.

At the edge of the sky, two figures radiating immense power simultaneously vanished into nothingness.

However, this time, the living beings of Outer Shenzhou, having learned from before, watched the sky in silence. They were no longer grieving, but watching with tension.

Seeing Yu Lang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and murmured, "You really intend to resurrect again."

The entire vast Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou fell into an eerie silence.

This silence lasted for less than half an incense stick's time.

Two spots of void suddenly twisted simultaneously; the next moment, Li Luo, wearing a smile, and the Nine Serpent Great Demon King, with a face darkening to a terrifying degree, stepped out from within them at the same time.

And everyone noticed that this time, the snake tails behind the Nine Serpent Great Demon King were reduced to only seven.

Clearly, Li Luo's self-destruction this time had once again traded away one of the Nine Serpent Great Demon King's lives.

The entire Eastern Region of Outer Shenzhou erupted in fervor at this very moment.