Chapter 1805: Ice Fall

Sect Master An stood in the sky, gazing at her own palm with a trace of surprise. She actually knew very well how this body had come to be, and the original consciousness of this body had long since been wiped clean away.

Of this, she was very certain.

After all, no matter how tenacious that former consciousness had been, before absolute power it was still as weak as an ant.

But earlier, when she had intended to thoroughly grind away Li Luo's flesh and blood traces so that he could no longer have any possibility of resurrection, her palm had shown a slight, subtle deviation.

Although Li Luo had still been grievously wounded, this sense of slipping from her control caused the smile on Sect Master An's cheeks to subtly recede, her eyes filled with icy coldness.

"What I intend to do, no one can defy."

Therefore, she extended a finger, and a stream of annihilation black light burst forth from its tip, piercing through layer upon layer of space in an instant, howling toward Li Luo's falling head.

Clearly, Sect Master An meant to utterly destroy any possibility of Li Luo's resurrection, grinding away his rank completely.

And seeing this, the various Heavenly Kings of Outer Shenzhou all felt their eyes about to split, letting out piercing howls and roars, attempting to intervene and rescue.

But their rescue attempts were all blocked completely by Sect Master An.

And Li Luo's rapidly falling head could only watch helplessly as the annihilation black light descended from the heavens. At this moment he was at his weakest, utterly unable to resist.

That annihilation black light contained the power of the Tenth Grade, something no ordinary Heavenly King could withstand.

Could it be that today truly was the moment of his fall?!

Screech!

Just as the annihilation black light rapidly expanded in Li Luo's pupils, suddenly a world-shaking phoenix cry rang out across heaven and earth, filled with an aura of extreme cold that could freeze the world.

A vast flood of icy cold, carrying the power of rank, swept across the sky.

A crystal-clear ice luan spread its wings and swept past. At the ice luan's brow, a Primordial Seed burned violently, erupting with incomparably powerful icy-cold rank power.

Li Luo gazed at that ice luan, and his heart jolted violently, because from the ice luan's body he sensed an extremely familiar fluctuation.

That was... Lv Qing'er!

She had burned her Primordial Seed!

Blood veins instantly crawled into Li Luo's eyes. He understood her plan: she was burning her Primordial Seed completely, using it to unleash a final burst of power to shield him from a certain-death calamity.

"Qing'er!" Li Luo let out a grief-stricken roar.

Amid his roar, the ice luan that Lv Qing'er had become also turned its head slightly, its phoenix eyes fixing on him. That gaze was no longer as icy and indifferent as before, but carried a lively, intelligent light.

Just like that radiant, graceful young girl of the academy back in those days.

And in the end, she left not a single word behind, but resolutely and decisively burned her Primordial Seed completely. Surging icy flames ignited across the ice luan's body, and finally collided fiercely with the annihilation black light.

Boom!

The firmament was torn apart. Even though Lv Qing'er had sacrificed her Primordial Seed and given everything, that massive ice luan body was still rapidly erased under the erosion of the Tenth Grade annihilation power.

In the span of a mere moment, the ice luan vanished completely from heaven and earth, leaving only a clear cry that seemed to carry a hint of regret, gradually fading, then perishing.

However, the all-out strike she had unleashed by offering herself as a sacrifice ultimately managed to block that annihilation black light, buying Li Luo a sliver of respite.

With both flesh and rank erased by annihilation, even resurrection had become impossible.

"Qing'er!"

In Outer Shenzhou, Lv Sui and Yu Yu Hongxi's eyes were crimson as they let out despairing wails of grief. Watching their daughter perish brought them heart-wrenching agony.

The many Heavenly Kings of Outer Shenzhou also showed grief in their eyes.

This battle was too despairing.

Sect Master An's overwhelming strength pressed the world of Outer Shenzhou until it could barely breathe. They simply did not know how they were supposed to win this fight.

Sect Master An stared expressionlessly at the ice and snow drifting down across the sky, her gaze growing colder as it fixed on Li Luo's head, and she said lightly, "So I really can't kill you?"

Her own will being thwarted again and again had thoroughly enraged Sect Master An.

"I'd like to see how many more people are willing to throw away their lives to save you."

Sect Master An extended her palm. Black light flowed across it, bringing a terrifying threat — that was the Tenth Grade power capable of erasing even a Heavenly King's rank.

Her palm pressed down gently, and layer upon layer of space collapsed abruptly.

Surging, vast annihilation black light descended with an even more terrifying destructive momentum, ruthlessly bearing down to obliterate Li Luo.

And this time, no one could save him.

Li Luo's pupils reflected the descending destructive black light. At this moment, he felt true, genuine death. Under the absolute suppression of that pseudo-Tenth Grade annihilation power, every one of his methods had lost its effect.

The destructive black light arrived in an instant.

And just as Li Luo's eyes turned crimson and he was about to muster his remaining strength to fight to the death, the void where he stood suddenly collapsed. Sacred light power flowed forth, transforming into a magnificent holy lotus to shelter him.

"Qing'e-Zhong Jie?!"

Sensing that familiar sacred xiàng power, Li Luo was slightly startled. What surprised him was not Jiang Qing'e's intervention at the critical moment, but the shocked discovery that within this surge of sacred xiàng power was mingled a dark, evil, ancient power of malicious intent.

Two powers that should have been opposed to each other now intertwined, forming a special sanctuary.

Boom!

The annihilation black light poured down, but was gradually blocked by this holy lotus that shimmered in black and gold.

The sudden upheaval shocked everyone.

Including Sect Master An.

Her expression suddenly changed, and her gaze abruptly shifted away from Li Luo, toward the distant sky.

That was where the "Divine Demon Lock" bound Jiang Qing'e.

The spikes that had originally extended from the "Divine Demon Lock" had pierced into Jiang Qing'e's flesh, devouring the light power within her body and pinning her down completely.

But now Jiang Qing'e's long hair, which had always been pinned up, had all come loose, cascading down over her shoulders, her waist...

Her eyes had been fixed on Li Luo all along.

She had watched with her own eyes as Li Luo's body was blasted into dust by Sect Master An, leaving only a head falling. If not for the powerful vitality a Heavenly King possessed, that single palm strike would have been enough to end Li Luo's life.

At that moment, Jiang Qing'e felt as if her heart had stopped beating.

An unprecedented terror and killing intent surged madly forth from the deepest part of her heart.

"Li Luo..."

Jiang Jiang Qinge's hands slowly tightened into fists. Her eyes, which had originally both been a brilliant, sacred gold, now had, at the very depths of her right pupil, wisps of darkness so sinister they defied description beginning to flow forth.

Gradually, the darkness grew more and more intense, until it actually turned her right eye into a color as black as ink.

At the same time, of the twelve sacred wings of light behind Jiang Jiang Qinge, half were also stained by the darkness, becoming an interweaving of black and white.

As if a deity and a demon shared one body.

The drastic change in Jiang Jiang Qinge caused every living being in the world to look on in astonishment. Even Jiang Li Tianwang and the others revealed shock in their eyes, because at this moment they had actually sensed, from within Jiang Jiang Qinge's body, an aura of malice that was extremely ancient.

That aura... ancient, primordial, as if it were the source of all malice.

That was... the Origin of All Evil!

A monstrous wave surged in everyone's heart; they stared at this scene in disbelief.

They could not believe that Jiang Jiang Qinge, who almost embodied light itself, actually possessed within her the power of the Origin of All Evil!

Even the Sect Master of the Abyss could not help but reveal a look of astonishment. She gazed at Jiang Jiang Qinge, feeling that familiar power of evil pushed to the extreme, and her voice rang out across the world.

"Back then I sensed that the Origin of All Evil had left behind a portion of its power, but I was never able to find it. I had originally assumed it had dissipated with the passage of time. So it turns out... it was hidden in the last place I would have thought of."

"Extreme light conceals extreme darkness."

"Your light was too brilliant, veiling the darkness. Only when your own negative emotions surged to their most overwhelming could this darkness be awakened."

"Truly unexpected — those two who fought each other to the death actually joined hands at the last moment to lay down such a contingency for me."

"However..."

A playful smile suddenly rose on the Sect Master of the Abyss's cheek.

"In that case, doesn't this god of light who guards the world become not so different from me?"

"How about it — join hands with me, and together create a new world?"