Chapter 710: Igniting the Light Heart

Blazing radiance burst forth, as if to purify every impurity in the world.

Everyone present could only feel light flooding every corner of their vision; even the world's energy itself seemed to be assimilated in that instant.

This radiance seemed to last a long while, yet also seemed to last only a heartbeat.

When the crowd gradually felt their vision return, they saw an unusually bright and clear heaven and earth; the malignant Qi that had been drifting between heaven and earth had now vanished completely, giving an incomparably pure and clean feeling.

The next instant, everyone's gaze hurriedly turned toward Shen Shen Jinxiao's position.

There, Shen Shen Jinxiao stood quietly.

He seemed to raise his head in some bewilderment, staring at the three remaining Marquis Platforms in the void. At this moment, those three Marquis Platforms were like snow mountains meeting raging flames, melting away at a startling speed.

Layer upon layer of energy substance kept collapsing, whipping up energy storms across heaven and earth.

And with every layer the Marquis Platforms melted, Shen Shen Jinxiao's face turned a shade paler; the surging, tremendous phase force around him and his Marquis might weakened along with it.

After only a few breaths, the last three Marquis Platforms shattered completely.

Puchi!

A mouthful of fresh blood finally sprayed from Shen Shen Jinxiao's mouth. In his eyes, fury and disbelief were surging; this violent emotion nearly drowned out his reason.

Because he could not believe that a situation that had been entirely within his grasp had actually turned into this!

He, a Sixth-Rank Marquis, had not been defeated by the combined assault of three Marquis-level experts, but had instead had his six Marquis Platforms directly shattered by Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge—two juniors he had never taken seriously at all!

What a terrible price this was.

And most critically, the Light Heart he had schemed for so long… he had not obtained it either.

He could not understand how, even though Jiang Jiang Qinge had ignited her Light Heart, she could possibly have erupted with such a level of power. Could a Ninth-Rank Light Heart truly be this powerful? Shen Shen Jinxiao stared at Jiang Jiang Qinge ahead with an extremely grim expression. At this moment, the latter's body kept radiating wave after wave of terrifying light-attribute phase force; at her chest, a Light Heart blazed dazzlingly, burning

with raging flames.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and feeling the phase force within him rapidly weakening, Shen Shen Jinxiao understood that with the situation having evolved to this point, he had miscalculated completely today.

"Li Luo, Jiang Jiang Qinge… I really did underestimate you two."

"But don't get cocky… Jiang Jiang Qinge, you ignited your Light Heart, and the price you will pay far exceeds your imagination. Heh, very well—if I can't have it, destroying it is fine too."

"Without the Light Heart, I still have other means. Now that Great Xia is in chaos, I have plenty of paths to ascend in the future."

"I will become even stronger. When that time comes, believe me, for the price paid today, I will make you repay it a hundredfold."

Shen Shen Jinxiao's voice grew somewhat hoarse, and a thick current of malice flowed within it. It was clear that his heart was now brimming with fury. After all, he had schemed for Jiang Jiang Qinge's Ninth-Rank Light Heart for so many years; just as success was within reach, Jiang Jiang Qinge had pulled off this mutual-destruction move, causing his

scheme to fail utterly.

However, faced with his cliché villain lines, Jiang Jiang Qinge was unmoved. Her eyes were icy as she said: "Trying to run?"

Her heavy sword swept down, a beam of light-sword Qi slashing straight toward Shen Shen Jinxiao's physical body.

At this point Shen Shen Jinxiao had already been gravely wounded. Seeing Niu Niu Biaobiao, Xi Chan, and Duze Yan were about to break free on their end as well; the moment she entangled him again, Shen Shen Jinxiao would fall into a joint encirclement. But before Jiang Jiang Qinge's sword-light could fall, Shen Shen Jinxiao's body began to show signs of melting. His face collapsed rapidly, looking like a wax figure, horribly distorted, until his body turned into a

heap of flesh that slumped down.

"Jiang Jiang Qinge, the ignition of a Light Heart is irreversible. When it burns out completely, that will be your death!"

"Li Luo, just watch helplessly—watch her Light Heart burn to nothing, and in the end watch her die right in front of you!"

As Shen Shen Jinxiao's body turned into a heap of flesh, his cold, curse-like voice still spiraled through this stretch of heaven and earth.

Li Luo's blood-smeared face also changed drastically at this moment.

Jiang Jiang Qinge expressionlessly drove her light-attribute phase force to purify the pile of flesh into nothingness, but within it she detected no trace of Shen Shen Jinxiao's aura. Clearly, this bastard had long prepared an escape route.

Although he had escaped, Shen Shen Jinxiao had paid an extremely heavy price. The destruction of six Marquis Platforms was a grievous wound for any Marquis-level expert, so even though he had fled now, he might not actually survive.

Of course… just as Shen Shen Jinxiao had said, the price on her side was equally heavy.

With the strength of the Tian Zhu Jing, attempting to crush a Sixth-Rank Marquis—the power gap between them could not be bridged by any ordinary means.

"Sister Jiang Qinge, are you alright?" Li Luo's condition was also extremely poor at this moment, but he still forced himself to endure the searing pain within him and hurriedly grabbed Jiang Jiang Qinge's arm. His gaze was fixed dead on the position of her heart, where the Light Heart was unusually dazzling, and at the same time

burning unceasingly.

He felt the surging, tremendous light-attribute phase force within Jiang Jiang Qinge, yet on his handsome face he forced a strained smile: "Sister Jiang Qinge, hurry and extinguish the Light Heart. Shen Gou has already run; there's no need to keep fighting desperately."

Jiang Jiang Qinge said nothing. Those pure, clear golden eyes simply looked at him quietly, with a trace of a smile.

"Did you hear me?!" Looking at her gaze, Li Luo suddenly grew very agitated.

Jiang Jiang Qinge extended a slender, jade-like hand and grasped Li Luo's trembling palm.

Feeling the delicate, cool warmth between their palms, Li Luo's emotions finally calmed a little. He said hoarsely, "Really can't be stopped?"

At this moment his mind was almost in complete chaos. Facing Jiang Jiang Qinge's situation, his meager Evil Palace Realm strength was of absolutely no help.

"Li Luo, calm down." Jiang Jiang Qinge said softly.

Li Luo's eyes were blank. How could he possibly calm down in this situation? If he had known earlier that Jiang Jiang Qinge's life-risking technique carried such a heavy price, he would rather have activated the mysterious token a second time just now.

At this moment, Cai Wei, Yan Yan Lingqing and the others also hurried over, looking at Jiang Jiang Qinge with deep worry, because they had also heard Shen Shen Jinxiao's words.

Jiang Jiang Qinge had ignited her own Light Heart! And it was unstoppable. In other words, Jiang Jiang Qinge had now directly entered a countdown to death?

And at this moment, high in the sky, tremendous phase force erupted.

Seeing Niu Niu Biaobiao, Xi Chan, and Duze Yan finally broke free of their restraints at this moment, then their figures dropped down rapidly.

"Uncle Biao, quick, quick, save Sister Jiang Qinge! She ignited her Light Heart to drive back Shen Shen Jinxiao!" The moment Li Luo saw Seeing Niu Niu Biaobiao, it was as if a drowning man had grabbed a life-saving straw.

"She ignited her Light Heart?!"

Hearing this, the faces of Seeing Niu Niu Biaobiao, Xi Chan, and Duze Yan all changed.

Then Seeing Niu Niu Biaobiao and Xi Chan stepped forward quickly, both staring at the position of Jiang Jiang Qinge's heart, where the Light Heart seemed like a lit furnace, continuously releasing wave after wave of astonishing light-attribute phase force.

That light-attribute phase force was also saturated with powerful vitality, so at this moment Jiang Jiang Qinge's complexion appeared increasingly rosy, as if she were in extremely good condition.

But everyone understood this was the reaction brought by the ignition of the Light Heart. Once the Light Heart burned out completely, Jiang Jiang Qinge's vitality would likely be cut off along with it.

"This kind of Light Heart is also called an Energy Heart. Only those with an extremely high-grade phase aspect, who day after day temper their own heart with their own phase force, can transform their own heart into an Energy Heart." "To be honest, even we Marquis-level experts have rarely truly seen anyone condense an 'Energy Heart,' let alone ignite one… we have never seen it at all, so we don't know how to stop it either." Xi Chan's willow brows were tightly knit,

feeling it was extremely tricky.

Seeing Niu Niu Biaobiao's face was also solemn, his brows furrowed into the shape of the character chuan.

Upon hearing this, Li Luo's heart sank. Even Niu Niu Biaobiao and the others, these marquis-level powerhouses, were unable to stop the sacrificial burning of the Light Heart?

Boundless irritation surged up from within his heart, causing Li Luo's entire body to tremble at this moment.

The others also fell silent, their expressions extremely unsightly.

Although they had repelled Shen Shen Jinxiao, the atmosphere at this moment was instead even more oppressive than before.

Jiang Jiang Qinge gently sighed, grasped Li Luo's hand, and was just about to speak when her expression suddenly shifted. Her somewhat icy gaze looked toward the void ahead.

"Who's there?!"

The moment the shout rang out, she struck out with a palm. Dazzling light-attribute force swept forth and struck that patch of void.

And with the strike of her palm, everyone present immediately saw, to their great astonishment, the void there rippling slightly, as if a layer of foam were slowly receding.

And as the foam receded, a stranger was hovering in the air, his gaze looking down at everyone from above. "Heh, interesting... the one who has ignited the Light Heart has such keen perception that she even found me out after I'd been watching the show for so long."