Chapter 575: Jiang Jiang Qinge Makes Her Move

"Damn it, this Red Armor General really was hiding in Red Stone City!"

Amid the ruins, Lu Ming's bright eyes looked toward the upheaval in the sky, and her pretty face immediately changed color as she bit her silver teeth and said angrily.

"This is bad. This Red Armor General has the strength of the Tian Xiang Jing. Although it's unclear whether it's Lesser Tian Xiang or Greater Tian Xiang, right now all eight captains are completely spent—how could they possibly still fight a Tian Xiang Jing at full strength?" Jing Jing Taixu's face also darkened.

"This treacherous bastard!" Sun Sun Dasheng cursed outright.

Although Li Luo's expression wasn't great either, he didn't appear angry or unwilling. After all, he had vaguely anticipated this beforehand, but even if one could anticipate such a thing, there was nothing to be done about it. The Blood-Tail Other was something they had to eliminate, with no room for negotiation.

And the faction the Red Armor General belonged to was the chief culprit behind the fall of the Black Wind Empire. Their relationship with the Others was complicated and equally untrustworthy.

The current situation was indeed terrible.

The Blood-Tail Other was on its last breath, not yet slain. If they left now, everything they had done before would come to nothing.

Li Luo stared at the Red Armor General's figure in the sky, icy killing intent flowing in his eyes. Then his gaze flicked to the crimson bracelet on his wrist. The opponent's strength was Tian Xiang Jing, which was indeed an unreachable gap for him personally, but he wasn't entirely without means to respond.

The Three-Tail Sky Wolf had the strength of Da Tian Xiang Jing, and the kind that qualified to attempt the Marquis Realm. In terms of power, beneath the Marquis Realm, the Three-Tail Sky Wolf counted as top-tier. Back in the Dark Cavern, even that equally powerful Smiling Face Demon had been swallowed whole by the Three-Tail Sky Wolf. So in Li Luo's perception, neither this Blood-Tail Other nor the Red Armor General should match the Three-Tail Sky Wolf.

If he truly brought out this trump card, he still had confidence he could take care of the Red Armor General.

Li Luo's eyes flickered. If things truly reached the worst-case scenario, even if he was unwilling to expose the Three-Tail Sky Wolf—a trump card he had been saving for the future "Prefectural Sacrifice"—he would have no choice but to play it.

And while Li Luo was thinking these thoughts, the atmosphere above the city had frozen almost solid.

The Princess, Lan Lan, and the others all wore murderous expressions, their eyes full of fury. After all, anyone who had someone jump out and steal the fruits of their labor at such a moment would find it hard to stay calm.

But anger served no purpose. Their situation was indeed terribly dire, because the eight of them likely didn't have much strength left. With that, fighting a Tian Xiang Jing meant their odds of victory were extremely low.

"What do we do?"

The eight captains' gazes met, all brimming with resentment and unwillingness.

Lan Lan's face was dark, no longer his usual composure. At this point, because he had performed the "Bright King Sutra," his phase force was nearly completely drained, leaving him with no strength to deal with the Red Armor General.

It wasn't that he couldn't perform the second "Bright King's Three Bows," but the price would be an unbearable weight.

"Let me try."

As the eight captains hesitated, a pleasant, calm voice suddenly rang out.

Everyone looked over and was astonished to see

Jiang Jiang Qinge step forward into the air.

"Jiang Qinge..." The Princess was also somewhat astonished. She hadn't expected Jiang Jiang Qinge to step forward. Although Jiang Jiang Qinge possessed a ninth-grade Light Phase, she was still only at the Extreme Sha Stage of the Earth Sha General rank, and there was a non-negligible gap between that and the Heavenly Gang General rank. Her earlier strike that heavily wounded the Blood-Tail Other was more because Light Phase force countered the Others, and the latter had been worn down to exhaustion by them.

But the current Red Armor General was not an Other, and was at full strength.

How could Jiang Jiang Qinge fight him?

The other captains were also somewhat shocked, but this wasn't the time for many words, and they had no other options. Jiang Jiang Qinge stepping forward surely meant she had some confidence.

After Jiang Jiang Qinge's voice fell, she paid no attention to the others' expressions. Her slender jade hands formed a seal, and the ninth-grade Light Spirit Envoy behind her suddenly transformed into streams of sacred smoke that flowed back into her body. At the same time, from the location of her heart, sacred radiance seemed to bloom forth.

Boom!

The next instant, an extraordinarily vast and pure surge of Light Phase force shot skyward. The Light Phase force was so dense it almost condensed into faint, shifting light patterns flowing around Jiang Jiang Qinge's body.

The strength of that Light Phase force made all eight captains' pupils contract.

Such majestic phase force truly rivaled that of some Tian Zhu Jing!

"A ninth-grade Light Phase—is it really that monstrous?" Qin Yin Yue couldn't help but widen his eyes. Between the Extreme Sha Stage and Tian Zhu Jing there was only a single grade's difference, but the distinction between them was the difference between an Earth Sha General and a Heavenly Gang General. They had all walked this cultivation path themselves, so they understood the gap between the two very well.

Yet now, Jiang Jiang Qinge had forcibly, at the Extreme Sha Stage, erupted with phase force intensity no weaker than Tian Zhu Jing. What an inconceivable sight.

Even on the Princess's dazzlingly beautiful cheeks, a look of shock appeared. After a good while, she finally smiled and said, "Jiang Qinge, you really are a treasure, hiding such a trump card."

Jiang Jiang Qinge's display naturally also caught the Red Armor General's eye. The look in his eyes beneath his faceplate shifted as well, and he said slowly, "A ninth-grade Light Phase—no wonder you're so formidable."

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"However, in this general's view, your method has merely temporarily boosted your phase force. Even with a ninth-grade Light Phase, you can't maintain this level of phase force for long. So how long can your state last? One strike? Two strikes?"

But Jiang Jiang Qinge paid him no heed. She merely said lightly, "You'll find out if you try."

Then she curved two fingers together and pressed down through the air.

Hum!

The instant her fingertip fell, the vast and powerful Light Phase force immediately gathered like a flood, converging at her fingertip. In just a few breaths, it condensed into an extraordinarily sacred beam of light. On the surface of the beam, mysterious light patterns circulated, emanating an enigmatic glow.

This beam seemed to contain an extremely terrifying high temperature. Around it, the air was distorted by the heat.

Jiang Jiang Qinge's strike was extremely decisive, without the slightest hesitation. The beam wrapped in

mysterious light patterns pierced through the void, aimed straight at the Red Armor General.

The beam reflected in the Red Armor General's pupils, and it made him rise a hint of solemnity. A ninth-grade Light Phase was indeed heaven-blessed and could not be underestimated.

Everything was prepared on his end now—he couldn't capsize in a gutter because of this.

Thinking this, crimson light immediately surged from the armor on the Red Armor General's body. Vast and powerful crimson phase force swept out like a sea of fire, sweeping across the horizon. The sky in that area seemed to ignite.

Tian Xiang Jing!

Everyone looked at that towering phase force, and their expressions all sank. The Red Armor General truly was Tian Xiang Jing!

Only by stepping into the Tian Xiang Jing could one use one's own phase force to ignite the world, and simultaneously assimilate the world's energy for one's own use.

Could Jiang Jiang Qinge's attack truly threaten the Red Armor General?

While everyone was thinking this, the Red Armor General had already thrown a punch. The fiery phase force in the sky howled over, transforming into a hundred-zhang flame Quan Yin, carrying violently extreme power, slamming down to clash head-on with that sacred beam.

One breath later, the two collided.

But to everyone's astonishment, the collision produced no ripples or sound whatsoever, because that sacred beam vanished into thin air the instant it made contact.

This sight left the Red Armor General stunned for several breaths.

How could the opponent's attack be so utterly fragile?!

"Not right!"

But in the next instant, the Red Armor General sensed something was wrong. His gaze snapped to another direction, and he saw in horror that a beam of light had silently streaked across the void, heading straight for the bound Blood-Tail Other!

"Fell for it!" The Red Armor General raged. Jiang Jiang Qinge's true target had never been him at all—she had wanted to erase the Blood-Tail Other!

The frontal attack just now was merely a decoy!

Yet he had previously exerted his full strength to counter, and now, as he tried to shift his position by circulating his Xiang Force, he was a split second too late; thus, he could only watch helplessly as that beam of light tore through the air, aiming straight for the Blood-Tailed Abomination.

The sudden turn of events in the arena likewise made everyone present's faces light up with joy.

"Who has strength to spare? Quick, send reinforcements!"

"As long as we slay the Blood-Tailed Abomination, we can use the Spirit Mirror to escape directly!" Lan Lan said rapidly.

But at this moment, everyone had exhausted their Xiang Force and seemed powerless to send aid.

Hearing this, Gong Gong Shenjun let out a bitter smile and stepped forward.

"In that case, I shall make a desperate attempt; if I can help even a little, so be it."

As his words fell, he took a deep breath, and then a silver light shot directly from his mouth; within that silver light, a silver dragon seemed to writhe with claws and fangs, its momentum ferocious.

Roar!

Amidst the dragon's faint yet distinct roar, two sharp attacks pierced the void and, one after the other, slammed directly into the heavily wounded and listless body of the Blood-Tailed Abomination.