Chapter 1795: Thousand Steles Suppress Thousand Eyes

The sacred aura of light had practically enveloped the entire Outer Shenzhou of Wanfeng, and under the infiltration of this aura, the world's energy throughout the entire Shenzhou seemed to be gradually transforming into light energy.

Anyone who bore a Light Phase cultivating here would surely feel as though aided by the gods.

This place had become the finest blessed land of light in the world.

At this moment, Li Luo wore a solemn expression as he gazed at the slender figure walking toward him through the sky-filling light—naturally, that familiar figure was none other than Jiang Jiang Qinge.

But what made Li Luo's heart skip a beat was that within Jiang Jiang Qinge's beautiful eyes, like molten gold of the setting sun, there seemed to be a strange indifference as she watched him.

He immediately panicked.

Under Li Luo's nervous gaze, Jiang Jiang Qinge walked up before him, her golden eyes indifferently sizing him up and down.

Li Luo was nearly scared out of his wits by her strange scrutiny.

Because from the current Jiang Jiang Qinge, he faintly sensed an unusual pressure, and the twelve phases within his body were as if facing a formidable foe, trembling ceaselessly.

Yet the present Li Luo had practically reached the pinnacle of phases; the Six Palaces Twelve Phases gave him sufficient confidence, and even when facing those Divine Fruit Heavenly Kings, he would not feel fear—after all, he had just suppressed a Divine Fruit Great Demon King.

But oddly, when facing the current Jiang Jiang Qinge, the twelve phases within Li Luo's body sensed an intense threat and dread.

This could only mean that during Jiang Jiang Qinge's defense of the Outer Shenzhou of Wanfeng, she had engaged in a fierce battle with the Divine Fruit Great Demon King attacking the place, and in the process, she had further awakened her own "Pseudo Ten-Rank Light Phase."

Only that one "Pseudo Ten-Rank," which surpassed the world's phase limits, could make the current Li Luo feel dread and fear.

If in the eyes of the world, a Heavenly King was like a deity, then in the eyes of a Heavenly King, the Ten-Rank—existing only in legend, pursued with everything by countless peak experts across eras yet never attained—was the true supreme God King.

But throughout history, the Ten-Rank had always remained legend, never truly appearing in the world, and the phases closest to the Ten-Rank were undoubtedly the two Pseudo Ten-Rank phases left behind by that legendary sect master.

The Light Phase and the Annihilation Phase.

Hence Li Luo also did not know whether, if one day Jiang Jiang Qinge fully awakened the power of the "Pseudo Ten-Rank," her own consciousness would be affected.

Just like now.

Li Luo stared at Jiang Jiang Qinge, who was indifferently sizing him up, his scalp tingling, and asked trembling, "Sister Jiang Qinge, what's wrong with you?"

Jiang Jiang Qinge did not speak, only quietly stared at Li Luo.

Li Luo felt the air seemed to freeze, and just as his composure was about to crumble, the corners of Jiang Jiang Qinge's lips before him slowly curled into a teasing arc.

"Scared, weren't you?" Jiang Jiang Qinge gave a light laugh, and within her usually calm and composed eyes, a rare glint of mischief surfaced.

Li Luo was stunned, grinding his teeth in frustration—he had never expected Jiang Jiang Qinge's temperament to play a little prank on him.

"Not funny at all, is this something you can joke about?" Li Luo felt a weight lift from his heart, and at the same time chided with a stern face.

"Who told you to play the self-detonation trick on me first?" Jiang Jiang Qinge also said irritably.

She had naturally been keeping close watch on Li Luo's situation the whole time; when she saw Li Luo self-detonate to fight the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King to the death, Jiang Jiang Qinge experienced for the first time what the emotion called fear felt like...

And precisely because of this uncontrollable fear, her "Light Phase" had awakened even further.

Li Luo was taken aback for a moment; he could hear the worry contained in Jiang Jiang Qinge's words, and immediately felt a warmth in his heart, his expression softening. He reached out to hold Jiang Jiang Qinge's hand and sighed, "How troublesome the Divine Fruit Great Demon King is, you're not unaware. Father, Mother, and Grandfather all disregarded themselves to trap the powerful enemy. At such a time, how could I not take the risk to fight and break the deadlock?"

Jiang Jiang Qinge's red lips pressed slightly together, her fingers slowly interlocking with Li Luo's, greedily savoring that reassuring warmth.

"How is your side?" Li Luo asked.

Hearing this, Jiang Jiang Qinge waved her jade hand lightly, and the light energy shrouding the entire Outer Shenzhou of Wanfeng suddenly surged violently, finally converging at numerous locations across this vast Shenzhou.

Li Luo's gaze swept over, taking in the entire Shenzhou, and then he saw no fewer than a thousand light steles flowing with crystalline light, standing in various places like cast crystal.

The regions within ten thousand li around each light stele were filled with light energy sacred to the extreme; not only the ground, but even the air condensed with light talismans as solid as substance.

These light talismans completely sealed off those thousand regions.

A divine light flowed in Li Luo's eyes as he pierced through to beneath those light steles.

It turned out that at the base of each light stele, a jet-black eye was suppressed. Those eyes resembled fierce beasts, extraordinarily huge, with pupils twitching madly, extremely violent, while emanating endless miasma of malice. An ordinary King-realm expert merely locking eyes with them would be gradually corrupted.

"That's... the Thousand-Eye Great Demon King?" Li Luo asked, somewhat surprised.

Jiang Jiang Qinge nodded and said, "In my duel with it, relying on a portion of the awakened 'Pseudo Ten-Rank' power of light, I reflected all its thousand eyes hidden in layers of void, then used the 'Thousand Stele Art' to seal them separately. That barely counts as subduing it."

Although Jiang Jiang Qinge spoke simply, Li Luo could sense the many breathtaking moments of their duel. After all, Li Luo knew well how powerful a Divine Fruit Great Demon King was; he had practically exhausted every means, and only by relying on self-detonation and resurrection did he wear down the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King.

"You've worked hard," Li Luo said softly.

With this, the scales of this great decisive battle were beginning to tilt toward the Shenzhou world.

"Your Life-and-Death Phase, its rank has dropped?" Jiang Jiang Qinge, who was holding Li Luo's slender hand, suddenly tightened her grip slightly. Although Li Luo was trying his best to conceal his injuries, the current Jiang Jiang Qinge, due to the further awakening of her "Pseudo Ten-Rank" Light Phase, was at a special stage of cultivation, and through skin contact she keenly sensed some anomalies within his body.

Hearing this, Li Luo obediently said, "Every resurrection consumes the rank of the Life-and-Death Phase. It's already dropped to Lower Nine-Rank now. If it drops any further, the resurrection power will fail."

"But don't worry, it's not a big problem. We can find opportunities later to repair it."

Yet Li Luo understood that raising the Lower Nine-Rank Life-and-Death Phase back to Super Nine-Rank was no simple matter; it would not only require a great deal of time, but also the finest quality Spiritual Water Marvelous Light as aid.

But there was no choice. Compared to suppressing the Nine-Serpent Great Demon King, the drop of one phase's rank was truly a trivial matter. At worst, he would just use such cheating tricks as self-detonation and resurrection less often in the future.

While Li Luo was thinking this in his heart, he suddenly felt Jiang Jiang Qinge step forward, and at the same time a heart-penetrating, faint fragrance rushed toward him.

The next moment, a soft touch was transmitted to Li Luo's lips.

His pupils dilated slightly, reflecting Jiang Jiang Qinge's delicately flushed exquisite face.

Before Li Luo could react, he sensed that as Jiang Jiang Qinge offered her red lips, a mysterious aura beyond words surged into his body from his lips.

That aura was pure and ancient beyond imagination, as if it were the first wisp of light born between Heaven and Earth in primordial chaos.

Within that aura, Li Luo felt a profound resonance of phase extremity.

Wisp after wisp of that aura flowed within his body, ultimately surging toward the Life-and-Death Phase.

Then a situation that made Li Luo's heart tremble slightly appeared: under the infiltration of those wisps of mysterious aura, the Life-and-Death Phase that had dropped to Lower Nine-Rank seemed to have taken a great tonic, and in an instant erupted with vast power.

Its rank skyrocketed instantly.

In the span of merely several dozen breaths, it leapt from Lower Nine-Rank straight back to Super Nine-Rank!

Thus Li Luo widened his eyes in shock.

It returned to Super Nine-Rank just that easily?!