Chapter 1827: World Sovereign

The sound of flowing years, like the murmur of water, echoed in Li Luo's ears, traversing past and present.

He opened his eyes.

The familiar heaven and earth entered his pupils, yet the world had already changed beyond recognition.

Li Luo's gaze grew ever more profound, like a sage who had endured endless years, then he slowly turned his head to look at Jiang Jiang Qinge beside him, who at this moment was also staring at him in a daze.

As Li Luo returned from the river of years, it seemed, as if fated, that certain things had begun to change.

And the surging memories within Jiang Jiang Qinge's heart kept surfacing one after another.

These were memories from the Sect Master. Previously, in the fragmented memory images within them, Jiang Jiang Qinge had seen that masked man's figure. Although his face was hidden behind the mask, Jiang Jiang Qinge was so deeply familiar with Li Luo that she recognized him at a glance.

That was how she told Li Luo that she had seen him in the Sect Master's memories.

And now, those fragmented images were growing ever clearer.

It was... sealed away in the years, a little girl holding the masked man's large hand, following him across the Outer Shenzhou continent to temper herself through cultivation, cutting through thorns and brambles, enduring countless trials.

The helpless little girl, under his guidance, gradually blossomed into brilliance.

In that instant, Jiang Jiang Qinge's heart even stirred a trace of childlike adoration toward Li Luo, causing an involuntary flush to rise on Bai Xi's fair cheeks.

Truly inexplicable!

"Sister Qing'e, it's been a long time," Li Luo said with a smiling face at this moment.

In reality, only a moment had passed, but within the river of years, he seemed to have lived through countless springs and autumns.

Moreover, now that he knew everything, looking at Jiang Jiang Qinge again, Li Luo couldn't help but find things even more interesting.

Hearing Li Luo's laughter with its inexplicable meaning, Jiang Jiang Qinge said in a low voice with a flushed face, "From now on, you're not allowed to call me Sister Qing'e anymore!"

In her soft, low voice, there was a touch of shyness.

Li Luo laughed, "Oh? Then I can't exactly call you Little E, can I?"

Jiang Jiang Qinge shook her head and said, "That's her name. Just call me Qing'e."

Li Luo said with perfect seriousness, "I didn't expect our relationship to be this tangled, but it doesn't matter — we each call it our own way. I call you Sister Qing'e, and you can call me Master."

Jiang Jiang Qinge said, embarrassed and annoyed, "You're her master, not mine!"

Watching Jiang Jiang Qinge, who had so rarely been broken down like this, Li Luo couldn't help but burst into laughter. When the mist cleared, what relationship Jiang Jiang Qinge and the Sect Master actually had seemed to have lost all need for investigation.

Perhaps, the word "fate" was always ineffably wondrous.

Li Luo reached out and took hold of Jiang Jiang Qinge's slender hand, their fingers interlocking tightly. Then he raised his head and looked at this heaven and earth. At this moment, the authority of the world had mostly fallen into the hands of the Dark Sect Master.

With the great fortune of the Sect Master and the Source of All Evil, and the prestige accumulated through the years, the Dark Sect Master was about to become the "World Sovereign."

Li Li Tianwang, Zhen Zhong Jie, Yan Changsheng, Su Ying, and many other Outer Shenzhou Heavenly Kings had already shown despair on their faces.

But at this very moment, the river of years rippled, as if an invisible wind had blown in from some distant age.

Secrets once buried within the years quietly awakened, influencing age after age.

Everyone suddenly remembered the founder of the Faceless Holy Sect.

He was a man wearing a mask, with a head of grey-white long hair. In ancient times, he founded the Faceless Holy Sect, leaving behind for posterity the power and path to resist the invasion of the Dark World.

The wind between heaven and earth seemed to freeze.

The Heavenly Kings, especially Yan Changsheng and Su Ying, the two among the Six Sons of Faceless, had their pupils tremble violently at this moment, and a thick disbelief surfaced on their faces.

Because upon that horizon, Li Luo rose from a twelfth-grade golden lotus, his grey-white long hair fluttering in the wind behind him. He clenched his hand, and a mask appeared in his palm, which he then gently placed upon his face.

In that instant, his image and the aura he radiated perfectly merged with the shadow of that founder who had created the Faceless Holy Sect.

And so, everyone understood.

"Th-this... the Faceless Holy Sect was actually founded by Li Luo?!" A storm of shock surged through the hearts of all living beings in the world.

Yan Changsheng and Su Ying exchanged a trembling glance, then both hurriedly knelt and bowed toward the direction where Li Luo stood.

And at this moment, Li Luo extended his palm and gave a gentle beckoning toward this world. In an instant, winds rose and clouds surged across heaven and earth, and all living beings clearly felt a supreme authority descending upon Li Luo without the slightest reservation.

The authority that the Dark Sect Master had seized was also entirely transferred at this moment.

The Dark Sect Master's face drained of color. She, too, stared at Li Luo in shock and said, "You actually traveled along the river of years into the past and changed it!"

Li Luo smiled and said, "Not changed. I merely filled in what should have happened in the first place."

The Dark Sect Master's face darkened. At this moment, she finally experienced the terror of this "Faceless."

The Years Aspect can only reflect the river of years, surveying the ages, but cannot intervene within them. Yet Li Luo, relying on the Faceless's "omnipresence," forcibly projected himself into the past. Even if only as a shadow of the years, he could still play an unimaginable role.

"Dark Sect Master, everything should come to an end now."

Li Luo's voice was filled with calm. When he became the founder of the Faceless Holy Sect, he had already become the most illustrious figure in the river of years, and all later eras had benefited from his grace and protection. This prestige and fortune would surpass even the Sect Master's.

So at this moment, even though the Dark Sect Master possessed both the great fortune of the Sect Master and the Source of All Evil, along with her prestige through the years, she could no longer rival him.

The authority of the world, at this moment, descended entirely upon Li Luo.

At this moment, Li Luo stood upon the twelfth-grade golden lotus. The world roared, and endless streams of flowing light gathered in Li Luo's hand, transforming into a scepter. At the top of the scepter flowed a river of stars, containing billions upon billions of stars, each one seemingly formed from the world's Aspects and Grades.

When Li Luo held the Grade Scepter, all living beings in the world prostrated themselves in worship.

And Li Li Tianwang, Zhen Zhong Jie, Yan Changsheng, and Su Ying — these four newly ascended Sovereigns — felt even more clearly that at this moment, Li Luo's will had completely replaced that of the Outer Shenzhou world.

That was...

The World Sovereign!

He had finally forged this supreme realm.

The Dark Sect Master silently watched this scene. At this moment, Li Luo had already surpassed her in rank, and she could feel this world's hostility and rejection toward her.

She understood that, in this contest, she had ultimately lost.

Li Luo looked at her calmly and waved the scepter in his hand.

"Annihilation should be sealed away," he said lightly, like a supreme deity passing judgment.

The world trembled.

And the Dark Sect Master saw countless black specks of light drift out from within her body — that was her tenth-grade Annihilation Aspect. But now, under Li Luo's edict as "World Sovereign," it had actually begun to be stripped away.

The speck of light representing the Ten-Rank Extinction Visage, the moment it left Sect Master An's body, was covered layer upon layer by rank and buried deep within the world.

Sect Master An was unwilling to sit and wait for death. A vicious glint flashed across her eyes, and she directly transformed into a black light, plunging into the Dark World, attempting to use her own power of the "Source of All Evil" to merge herself into the Dark World.

In doing so, although she would dissipate, she would be able to leave the chaos behind.

But the moment her figure moved, time and space seemed to freeze at this instant. Li Luo stepped across the void and arrived before her.

Li Luo gazed at Sect Master An's familiar pretty face and smiled, saying: "Come to think of it, you've occupied this body for so long, it's time to return it to its original owner."

A mocking sneer surfaced on Sect Master An's cheek as she said: "You mean the original consciousness of this body? Do you think such a weak ant could leave behind even the slightest trace under my erosion?"

"Every trace of that Li Li Lingjing's consciousness has been wiped clean by me, not a shred remaining."

Li Luo, however, shook his head and said: "You only erased the consciousness within this body, but not all of it."

He clenched his hand, and a serpent staff appeared in his grasp. The staff was cast as if from emerald bamboo, covered all over with snake scales, emanating a cold, eerie aura.

It was the Emerald Bamboo Green Serpent Staff.

A treasure that Li Luo had once given to Li Li Lingjing. Later, during the fierce battle between the House Luolan Mansion in Daxia City and Shen Shen Jinxiao, when Li Li Lingjing was being devoured by Shen Shen Jinxiao, this serpent staff had fallen into Li Luo's hands.

Just as Sect Master An had said, Li Li Lingjing was like an ant in her eyes, with no power to resist whatsoever, so there was no possibility that any of Li Li Lingjing's consciousness remained within this body.

But within this serpent staff, there was still a faint trace remaining.

This trace was extremely subtle; even the Divine Fruit Li Tianwang would be unable to detect it, but in Li Luo's eyes at this moment, that sliver of consciousness shone as brilliantly as a star.

Li Luo gripped the Emerald Bamboo Green Serpent Staff and thrust it directly into Sect Master An's chest.

After her own Ten-Rank Extinction Visage had been sealed away by Li Luo deep within the world, Sect Master An now had no power to resist.

The Emerald Bamboo Green Serpent Staff melted at this moment, fully merging into Sect Master An's body.

The next instant, one of Sect Master An's pupils suddenly began to writhe. Then, this pupil gradually transformed, becoming narrow and elongated, until it finally turned into a green serpent pupil.

When one of Sect Master An's pupils became a serpent pupil, her aura began to plummet wildly, and the black specks of light dissipating from within her body grew increasingly turbulent.

This indicated that she could no longer even hold on to her own body.

"Sect Master An, everything is truly over."

Li Luo extended his palm and gently brushed it across Sect Master An's right pupil. As his fingers passed over, this pupil also slowly began to turn into a green serpent pupil.