Chapter 551: The Second Clash with Jing Jing Taixu

The battle erupted with extreme swiftness.

Outside the ruined city, as surges of vast, violent phase force rippled skyward, the region was instantly carved into three battlefields.

The most eye-catching was the clash between the Eldest Princess and Lan Lan; both were at the Seven-Star Tian Zhu Jing, and the moment they engaged they went all out without hesitation, their vast phase force piercing the horizon like floodwaters, every collision causing the very energy of heaven and earth to tremble.

Although Lan Lan had once defeated the Eldest Princess in the House-level competition, he would never look down on her for it, because their strengths were actually quite close—the only edge he had was his trump card, the "Ming Wang Sutra."

Lan Lan also understood that to decide the victor, he had no choice but to rely on the "Ming Wang Sutra."

So in his fight against the Eldest Princess, he activated this killing move without hesitation, though such a Marquis-grade technique needed some time to brew.

Among the mountains, some sharp gazes turned toward the battlefield of Jiang Jiang Qinge and Lu Lu Jinci. Everyone understood that the Eldest Princess's purpose in holding Lan Lan back was to buy time for Jiang Jiang Qinge—as long as Jiang Jiang Qinge could capture Lu Lu Jinci within that window, it would naturally force Lan Lan to think twice.

Because according to the Mixed-level competition rules, once a member of a squad was eliminated and left the field, the points the team had earned would be deducted accordingly.

But as for the Eldest Princess's scheme, Lu Lu Jinci was clearly well aware of it, and he knew very well the gap between himself and Jiang Jiang Qinge. Back in the House-level competition, he had joined several top three-star House students to besiege Jiang Jiang Qinge, only to be instantly killed; if he dared to engage her head-on now, he probably wouldn't last ten seconds in her hands.

So, from the very start, he chose to tuck his tail and run.

Lu Lu Jinci erupted with all his phase force, then completely ignored Jiang Jiang Qinge's attacks and fled like mad.

Clearly intending to drag things out.

Jiang Jiang Qinge gave swift chase; the distance between them shrank rapidly, but to actually catch up still needed some time—after all, Lu Lu Jinci himself was at the Extreme Sha realm, and if he couldn't fight and only ran, even Jiang Jiang Qinge wouldn't find it easy to finish him off in a short while.

In the mountain forest, some gazes spying on this spot shook their heads in secret, for they had already seen, behind Lan Lan, a vast, blurry figure gradually taking shape, bringing with it an indescribable pressure.

Time, it seemed, leaned a little more toward Lan Lan's side.

Hum!

And while everyone's attention gathered on the top battlefields of the two squads, no one noticed, beneath the cover of that vast phase force, a certain battlefield where two tiny Xiangshi realm cultivators were clashing.

In Jing Jing Taixu's hand the banana-leaf fan whistled, countless cyan wind blades sweeping out; behind him, a virtual ninth-rank Wind Spirit Envoy flickered in and out of sight, making the wind blades he unleashed even more terrifyingly lethal.

Yet those whistling wind blades were all forcibly shattered by a high-speed vibrating blade-light.

At this first contact, Jing Jing Taixu's pupils contracted sharply.

"You've already reached the Fourth Transformation of the Transformed Phase stage?" he blurted.

Back in the House-level competition, Li Luo had relied on some external force to briefly reach the Fourth Transformation of the Transformed Phase stage, but in this exchange Jing Jing Taixu discovered that Li Luo's phase force had become condensed and mighty—clearly, this was a breakthrough he had completed on his own!

Facing Jing Jing Taixu's cry of shock, Li Luo's expression remained utterly calm. He stared at the man and said lightly, "I want to test whether the current you still has the right to drag me down with you."

He gripped the Xuanxiang Blade tightly in both hands.

First Layer Elephant God Power!

Li Luo's arms trembled as a brutal force surged into them. In the past, when Li Luo activated the First Layer Elephant God Power, although he could bear it, the skin of his arms would still tear with wounds; but this time, his arms were completely unscathed.

The First Layer Elephant God Power—he had borne it perfectly.

Clearly, this was due to the benefits gained earlier in "Lei Wangtan."

His physical body's strength had risen.

Feeling the elephant-like power rampaging through his arms, a smile curved Li Luo's lips. Then, with a thought, the "Thunder Furnace" within his body suddenly began to tremble violently.

Boom!

Thunder roared and exploded within his body. Li Luo clearly felt a mysterious thunder-sound wave spreading out from within the "Thunder Furnace."

Wherever the thunder-sound wave passed, flesh, meridians, bones all seemed to be awakened by some strange force, becoming unusually active and seething.

And this reaction, manifested on the outside of Li Luo's body, was a faint ripple of Lei Guang across his skin—especially within his pupils, where thunder seemed to flicker.

At this moment, Li Luo felt as if his physical body had received an immense boost.

Thus, the corners of Li Luo's mouth lifted slightly, and without hesitation he activated the Second Layer Elephant God Power of the Xuanxiang Blade.

Boom!

The Xuanxiang Blade trembled, and an astonishingly violent force, as if carrying the ancient cry of elephants, strode forward with earth-shaking steps and surged into Li Luo's arms.

His arms instantly swelled by several full sizes.

Veins writhed across them like earthworms, every tremor exhaling terrifying power.

Beads of blood seeped from the pores of his arms; the skin and flesh of his arms seemed stretched to some near-breaking limit.

His arms still transmitted sharp pain, but the smile at the corner of Li Luo's mouth gradually widened.

Because this time, the flesh of his arms had not been torn!

With the Thunder Roar Physique's amplification of his body, Li Luo finally managed to forcibly withstand the Second Layer Elephant God Power, no longer needing, as before, to rely on the restorative effect of phase force to delay.

He raised his head, his cold, grim gaze locking onto Jing Jing Taixu.

And by now, Jing Jing Taixu's face had already changed color at this series of moves, because he could clearly feel that the current Li Luo was giving off an extremely intense aura of danger.

That danger far surpassed the House-level competition.

"What on earth has this guy been through recently? How did he get this strong!"

Jing Jing Taixu's heart shuddered. Then his figure shot backward, and no longer daring to hold back, his face turned icy. The cyan banana-leaf fan in his hand trembled violently, unleashing a storm of cyan phase force; the fan whistled downward, accompanied by a faint dragon's cry.

"Dragon General Art, Heaven-Shining Wind Demon Spear!"

As Jing Jing Taixu's banana-leaf fan swept down, skyful wind energy whistled over, directly forming above him a heavy spear of greenish-black energy; the heavy spear trembled slightly, even distorting the void.

Clearly, facing the dangerous aura Li Luo brought, Jing Jing Taixu activated his strongest killing move without hesitation.

This move, in the previous House-level competition, had nearly crushed Li Luo.

The greenish-black heavy spear pierced through the void, even tearing the air apart, emitting a piercing sonic boom.

Li Luo watched the spear-shadow rapidly enlarging in his pupils, his expression calm. His hand gripped the Xuanxiang Blade tightly; across the blade, water-light flowed at high speed. Then he stepped forward and directly slashed down at the heavy spear with one furious cut.

Hum!

With that slash, the terrifying force seemed to even carve a faint trace into the void before him, while the ground ahead directly split open with a smooth blade-mark dozens of zhang long out of thin air.

The might of this slash surpassed any attack Li Luo had ever unleashed relying on himself.

Clang!

Then the blade-light fell and collided with the heavy spear.

A crisp, ringing clash of metal on metal thundered across the ruined city like an exploding bolt.