Chapter 566: A Turn of Events

The terrifying great battle kept erupting within Red Stone City.

The top-tier battlefield high in the sky drew the most attention; wave after wave of massive energy storms swept outward from time to time, even brutally tearing the clouds in the sky, while the vast city below constantly trembled under such clashes. Fortunately, the city had long since become a dead city, otherwise the mere aftershocks of such fighting alone would have caused considerable casualties.

Eight top-tier students of the Tian Zhu Jing realm—Lan Lan, the Princess, Gong Gong Shenjun and others—were now joining forces with all their might to entangle the Blood-Tailed Other.

From time to time in the sky, the Blood-Tailed Other's coquettish giggling rang out, yet when that laughter fell into the ears of Li Luo and the others below who were steadily advancing, it brought boundless chill.

The Great Calamity-class Other was truly terrifying.

Even facing the joint siege of eight Tian Zhu Jing realm students, it still held the overwhelming upper hand.

Apart from the top-tier battlefield, in other directions within the city there were also battles that could not be underestimated. That was the battlefield where Jiang Jiang Qinge led the Three-Star House students against the other Others. Although the Small Calamity-class Others had been dealt with earlier, the remaining Calamity-class Others were still not to be underestimated. Fortunately, with Jiang Jiang Qinge as their stabilizing anchor, she alone held off five Calamity-class Others, slaughtering them into steady retreat and greatly boosting morale.

So the defensive line formed by the Three-Star House students was still fairly stable, and would not let those Others break into the central battlefield and interfere with the Princess and the others.

Next was Li Luo's side.

In terms of strength, their group was naturally the weakest of the three teams. The strongest in the team were Senior Ao Bai and Yuan Yuan Banshan from the Two-Star House of the Sheng Ming Wang Academy. The latter had lost to Senior Ao Bai during the House-level competition, but his own strength was also far stronger than Two-Star House students like Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan, who were at the Fourth Transformation of the Manifestation Stage.

In the past half hour, they had pushed forward at full speed and successively deployed six Purification Spirit Pearls; such efficiency was considered not low.

Of course, this was mainly because the commotion on Jiang Jiang Qinge's side was too great, attracting many of the powerful Calamity-class Others over there.

Hum!

When yet another Purification Spirit Pearl slowly rose and spread out a soothing curtain of purifying light, Li Luo and the others all involuntarily heaved a sigh of relief.

"Three more Purification Spirit Pearls and the node will take shape!" Senior Ao Bai's voice came from the very front of the team, causing a trace of joy to appear on everyone's face.

Once the Purification Node was formed, they would be able to completely break this Huan Jing, and when the purifying power erupted, even the Great Calamity Other would be suppressed. At that point the situation would inevitably shift, and their odds of victory would greatly increase.

"Move, speed up!"

Senior Ao Bai gave the order, then took the lead and charged toward another street.

The others hurriedly followed, and even Li Luo, who had fallen a little behind, immediately caught up.

As for Senior Ao Bai becoming the core of the team, he truly didn't mind at all. Following at the back let him slack off a little, which was actually easier. Although most of the Others had been drawn away by Jiang Jiang Qinge's side, residual Others still appeared from time to time, and Senior Ao Bai, as the team's core, naturally attracted more firepower.

He would have been more than happy to let Senior Ao Bai bear all the pressure so they could smoothly complete the mission.

While Li Luo was thinking these thoughts in his heart, the team had already sped through the broken street, and half a minute later turned into another street.

And the instant they charged into this street, a strange wind suddenly whipped up out of nowhere, howling straight toward the group.

That strange wind was quite bizarre. Although everyone had Xiangli surging around them at all times to protect themselves, in this instant it was entirely dissolved by the strange wind, and immediately everyone was chilled to the bone.

"Be careful, it might be an Other attacking!"

The sudden incident made Li Luo startle, and he hurriedly shouted sharply.

Everyone was instantly alarmed; the Xiang Palaces within their bodies violently trembled, Xiangli surged completely, driving out the chill from their bodies, while their gazes warily fixed on the surroundings.

But to everyone's surprise and suspicion, after the strange wind swept past, no trace of any Other was seen; the street was deathly silent.

"What's going on?" Sun Sun Dasheng knit his brows tightly and muttered.

The others also exchanged uncertain glances.

This eerie silence lasted for a minute, and someone couldn't help asking: "Senior Ao Bai, what do we do now?"

Hearing these words, Li Luo's eyes flickered. He looked toward the very front of the team and saw Senior Ao Bai's tall, slender figure standing there motionless, without responding to the others' question.

Li Luo's gaze subtly hardened, sensing something was off.

Behind Senior Ao Bai, Yuan Yuan Banshan also felt something was strange. He stretched out his hand to grab the former's shoulder and asked worriedly: "Brother Ao, what's wrong with you?"

Boom!

The instant Yuan Yuan Banshan's palm landed on Senior Ao Bai's shoulder, a startling burst of Xiangli suddenly erupted from within the latter's body. At the same time, Senior Ao Bai's five fingers formed a fist, and with a backhand, a thundering punch slammed into the utterly bewildered Yuan Yuan Banshan's chest.

Puchi!

This sudden attack caught Yuan Yuan Banshan completely unprepared. He immediately spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his burly body flew backward, scraping a trail of dozens of meters across the ground, and was directly blasted into Became Heavy on the spot.

This turn of events directly stunned everyone.

No one had expected Senior Ao Bai to suddenly attack Yuan Yuan Banshan!

Moreover, because of that instant of their stunned hesitation, Senior Ao Bai once again seized the chance to strike like lightning. Two palm shadows appeared, carrying extraordinarily thick and domineering Xiangli, like layer upon layer of giant waves rolling, and swiftly slammed viciously toward the two people closest to him.

A sharp sound of breaking wind exploded.

Among those two was Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan, who had been following Senior Ao Bai all along, trying to get closer to him.

At this moment his face was deathly pale, and he said in horror: "Brother Ao, have you gone mad?!"

Although he and Senior Ao Bai were both Two-Star House students, the gap in their strength was actually quite large. Now that Senior Ao Bai struck with a full-force palm, he could only muster all his Xiangli and hastily meet it.

Boom!

But the instant they collided, he understood the gap between them even more clearly. Senior Ao Bai's Xiangli surged like giant waves, instantly shattering his own Xiangli, and then tremendous force poured down like a mountain torrent, caving in his chest and sending him flying backward while spurting fresh blood wildly.

In just a few breaths of time, the three people closest to Senior Ao Bai, including Yuan Yuan Banshan, were Zhong Jie Shi Bei Zhong.

The main reason for such an outcome was that Senior Ao Bai's attack was too utterly unexpected.

Fortunately, the ordeal of Yuan Yuan Banshan and Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan gave Li Luo and the others, who were a little further back, time to recover their wits. Their faces full of horror, they hurriedly retreated violently, putting distance between themselves and Senior Ao Bai.

"Senior Ao Bai, what exactly is going on with you?!" Jing Jing Taixu's face was dark as iron as he shouted sharply.

Sun Sun Dasheng and Lu Ming were also full of horror and bewilderment.

This turn of events came too bizarrely and suddenly. No one had expected that Senior Ao Bai, as the leader of their team, would suddenly attack the others.

Li Luo's expression was uncertain, his gaze fixed intently on the lowered-head Senior Ao Bai, and he said: "I'm afraid this Senior Ao Bai is already somewhat not in control of himself?"

Jing Jing Taixu, Sun Sun Dasheng, and Lu Ming's pupils shrank at his words.

"You mean... he's been controlled?" Lu Ming bit her silver teeth and said in a low voice.

Li Luo did not answer, because at this moment Senior Ao Bai slowly raised his head, and the four people present were instantly horrified.

Senior Ao Bai's appearance was expressionless, no longer bearing that smile as refreshing as a spring breeze. And most bizarrely, within his pupils there was actually a strange moth with dark-red wings.

The blood-red moth slowly flapped its wings, seemingly continuously secreting blood-red pollen. That pollen dyed Senior Ao Bai's pupils blood-red, while blood-red substance also continuously flowed from the corners of his eyes.

Like blood tears, it was hair-raisingly horrifying.