Chapter 580: One Slash

Above the deathly silent Red Stone City.

The Red Armor General's gaze was cold and cruel as he looked at those hollow-eyed students, his voice hoarse and slightly sharp as he muttered to himself, "Which one should I kill first?"

Now that the situation was entirely under his control, everyone in his eyes was no different from pigs and lambs awaiting slaughter.

The Red Armor General's gaze shifted, finally landing on Lan Lan's figure. It was this person who had gravely wounded the Blood-Tailed Other with a Marquis-class technique earlier, and even he had felt quite a shock at the power of that technique. If it had been before fusing with the Blood-Tailed Other, even he would have been gravely wounded if he had taken it head-on.

"Being able to cultivate a Marquis-class technique while at the Tian Zhu Jing realm — this kind of talent and fortune is indeed rare." The Red Armor General smiled indifferently, then extended a finger, pointing from afar at Lan Lan, whose eyes were hollow as she was trapped within the Huan Jing. At his fingertip, viscous blood-light energy rapidly condensed.

"But consider yourself unlucky. Snuffing out geniuses is this general's favorite thing to do."

And just at the instant the Red Armor General was about to strike the killing blow, his crimson pupils suddenly constricted, his gaze violently shooting toward the ruined city below.

Because at that instant, he sensed an extremely powerful energy fluctuation suddenly appearing within the city. That energy was filled with a baleful, murderous aura, and even he, in his current state, felt an intense threat from it.

Boom!

The instant the Red Armor General's gaze turned toward the city, a blood-red pillar of energy roughly a hundred zhang thick suddenly shot skyward. The blood-red energy was extraordinarily violent, bursting into waves of energy shockwaves in the sky. Immediately, a foul wind rose between heaven and earth, and a murderous aura spread everywhere.

The entire Red Stone City began to tremble, and even cracks like giant pythons began to spread in a certain place within the city.

The Red Armor General's face was dark and cold, his eyes filled with killing intent as he stared at that blood-red pillar of energy. He could see a figure slowly rising into the air within that pillar.

He stared at that figure, his brow slightly furrowing.

He remembered this person — seemed to be just a minor Xiang Shi Jing cultivator. Such strength in this kind of situation was no different from cannon fodder. But why had this kid suddenly erupted with this level of energy?

The strength of that energy had clearly reached the level of the early Da Tian Xiang Jing.

Within the blood-red pillar, Li Luo at this moment, although he had suddenly possessed power comparable to the Da Tian Xiang Jing, his appearance had become extraordinarily wretched. The most obvious sign was his constantly tearing flesh — savage wounds breaking open across the surface of his body.

That was because his physical body simply could not fully withstand this level of power, so it directly caused erosion to his flesh.

And this was only the trauma to his physical body.

For Li Luo at this moment, what was even more dangerous was the killing intent and violent emotions that had suddenly erupted like a flood within his heart. Under the assault of these emotions, his originally handsome face had now become savage, and blood veins kept crawling through his pupils.

From a certain perspective, the current Li Luo, apart from not having a distorted outer appearance, actually looked somewhat similar to the Red Armor General.

"Point Guard Here"

Li Luo clung tightly to the last sliver of clarity in his heart. He understood that he absolutely could not let the killing emotions occupy his mind now, otherwise he would lose his reason and degenerate into a killing monster. When that happened, not only would he be unable to deal with the Red Armor General, it would backfire terribly.

At the same time, Li Luo clenched his palm, and a white, round, smooth pearl appeared in his hand.

It was precisely the "Sacred Light Calming Heart Pearl" he had previously obtained in the Golden Dragon Arena. Although this item was only a top-grade White-Eyed treasure, it possessed the effect of calming the heart and focusing the spirit, able to weaken the assault of killing emotions.

He quickly stuffed the pearl into his mouth. Immediately, a stream of icy cool breath surged into his body. That breath caused Li Luo's spirit to lift, as if his mind had become much clearer, and at the same time, the blood veins crawling through his pupils gradually stopped.

Then he raised his head, his gaze filled with killing intent locking onto the Red Armor General.

"You have given me quite a surprise. I didn't expect that a mere Xiang Shi Jing cultivator would actually be hiding such a trump card," the Red Armor General said indifferently, staring at Li Luo.

"You deranged lunatic, you won't even remain a proper human being, yet you insist on turning into this ghostly appearance." Li Luo mocked. His voice had also become extraordinarily hoarse, because the violently extreme energy within his body had eroded and destroyed his vocal cords.

Every word he spoke now sent intense pain through his throat.

Upon hearing this, the Red Armor General said disdainfully, "Kid, you are far too naive. Your eyes only know simple good and evil, and you have no understanding of the true nature of the world. The so-called Others are born from the negative emotions of our human race. As long as humanity exists, the Others will never disappear."

"Attempting to exterminate the Others is itself the most foolish act. If you truly wish to prevent the existence of Others, there is only one way — to fuse the two into one. When good and evil are united, naturally there will no longer be Others running rampant. At the same time, we can obtain tremendous power from it. Why wouldn't we do it?"

"Our method is the true way to save all beings from suffering."

Faced with the Red Armor General's crazed rhetoric, even though Li Luo's heart was now full of killing intent, he still could not help but shake his head.

"You really are a lunatic. If everyone fused with Others, wouldn't the whole world be filled with monsters like you?"

The Red Armor General let out a cold laugh, puffed out his chest, revealing the writhing, seductive human face there, and said, "What's wrong with this appearance? You are still too narrow-minded. This is the true 'True Self.' Right now, you are simply having your thoughts obscured by the clumsy human body. When you truly experience the power of this body, you will naturally understand that the 'True Self' is the strongest thing in the world."

At this point, the Red Armor General suddenly stopped, his eyes cold and playful as they fixed on Li Luo, and said, "This power of yours should come from an external object. Judging by the degree your flesh has been eroded, you can probably only hold on for a very short time. Moreover, although your power is strong, it doesn't exceed mine by much. So if you are counting on it to break the situation, I'm afraid you are being a bit naive."

It turned out that the previous nonsense had merely been him using some secret art to sense the strength of Li Luo's power.

Li Luo's expression was cold. The Red Armor General's words were not wrong. His "Tian Ji Zhou" only had the upper scroll and was incomplete, so even if he went all out, it was difficult to mobilize all the power of the Three-Tailed Heavenly Wolf. His current limit was the early Da Tian Xiang Jing. This level of power was merely comparable to the Red Armor General's. If they truly fought it out like this, at best he would only be evenly matched with his opponent.

But as the Red Armor General had also said, his physical body was far too weak and simply could not hold out for long. Otherwise, once it dragged on, before the Red Armor General could gravely wound him, his own flesh would be eroded into white bone by the Three-Tailed Heavenly Wolf's power.

But his earlier bout of nonsense with the other party had also been deliberate on his part, buying a little time.

Li Luo slowly raised his palm, in which he held a straight blade with a mottled, ancient-looking blade body.

It was precisely the Jin Yu Zhu Xuan Xiang Blade.

Staring at the mottled blade body, a strange glint flashed in Li Luo's eyes.

At the instant his own power had surged earlier, he had noticed the Jin Yu Zhu Xuan Xiang Blade suddenly trembling violently. As that massive energy poured into the blade body, Li Luo discovered that deep within the blade body, there was actually a golden imprint residing.

That imprint was supreme and noble, emanating a majesty as if it stood above heaven and earth.

That was... a King's imprint.

This imprint clearly came from the previous owner of the Jin Yu Zhu Xuan Xiang Blade — Dean Pang Pang Qianyuan!

"No wonder that Gong Gong Shenjun coveted this blade so much before. It turns out deep within this blade, there is still an imprint left by a King-level powerhouse hidden away."

Li Luo took a deep breath, his eyes burning with fervor. Previously, he had been unable to discover this King's imprint, which he figured must have been because his own strength was insufficient. Based on his speculation, this imprint could only be triggered by reaching the strength of the Tian Xiang Jing.

With this imprint present, the might of the Jin Yu Zhu Xuan Xiang Blade would be elevated to a much higher grade.

And right now, it would also become a great killing weapon.

Li Luo's five fingers slowly tightened around the hilt, then his cold, sinister gaze shot toward the Red Armor General.

He only had one strike's worth of opportunity.

But with the help of the "Wang Zhe Yin" within the Jin Yu Zhu Xuan Xiang Blade, one strike was enough.

At this thought, Li Luo no longer hesitated. He took a single step forward, and immediately, a sky-filling wave of blood-red energy whistled over, pouring directly into the Zhu Xuan Xiang Blade in his hand. The blade body trembled violently, and a piercing, shrill blade-humming sound rang out. One could see hundreds of zhang of blade-light shooting out from the blade body. The blade-light swirled, even cutting open deep, dark black marks in the void.

His face expressionless, he directly slashed out with one strike.

The blood-red blade-light rapidly condensed before the blade edge. After only a few breaths, a blade-wheel several hundred zhang in size took shape. The blade-wheel spun madly, emitting an indescribable cutting force. As the blade-wheel trembled, that piercing blade-humming sound echoed across a hundred li.

"Thousand Flowing Water Blade Wheel." Li Luo's indifferent voice rang out along with it.

Then, he swung the blade down.

At the instant it swung down, the "Wang Zhe Yin" deep within the blade body trembled slightly, as if a wisp of mysterious golden-yellow breath flowed out, streaming into that blade-wheel.

Whoosh!

Then a blood-red blade wheel flashed out.

In that instant, it was as if heaven and earth had been sliced apart.

A thousand-zhang-long, smooth blade scar appeared out of thin air on the ground below, nearly cleaving Red Stone City in two.

The blood-red blade wheel tore through the void and arrived.

The blade wheel was reflected in the eyes of the Red Armor General; at this moment, the latter's face, as well as the enchanting face on his chest, instantly underwent a drastic change and a thick terror, because from that incoming blood-red blade wheel, they clearly sensed the aura of death.

This kid's surging power is clearly no different from his own, so why is this blade so terrifying?!