Chapter 777: Li Luo's Plan

The news that Li Luo's battle with Zhong Ling for the position of Great Banner Head had been moved up by a month quickly spread throughout the Qingming Banner, and even the other three banners caught wind of it, sparking much discussion.

Everyone was somewhat surprised. Although Li Luo had firmly established himself within the Qingming Banner this past month, and his achievements in the Evil Demon Cave were extremely impressive, the main reason for his accomplishments was the existence of the Fifth Division. Although the Qingming Banner's Fifth Division had always been stuffed with troublemakers in the past, those who could be troublemakers always had some real strength, so the Fifth Division's overall strength was actually not weak. And Li Luo had mastered the Nine-Turn Dragon Breath Evil Refining Art, so

Only in Li Luo's hands could the Fifth Division unleash such tremendous power.

But this was a mutually reinforcing relationship.

Once Li Luo lost the Fifth Division's support, he would be reduced to his original form. Everyone would remember that his own strength was actually only at the Evil Palace realm, while Zhong Ling was at the Golden Evil Body realm.

The gap between the two sides could not be ignored.

And the Great Banner Head contest relied entirely on each person's own ability. At this point, if Li Luo were smart, he should instead postpone the Great Banner Head contest, yet he had actually taken the initiative to move it up.

This made people wonder—had this Li Luo been driven mad by his achievements in the Evil Demon Cave?

Did he really think that the "Combined Qi" power from the Evil Demon Cave belonged to him?

Similar talk circulated among the banner members of the four banners. Clearly, not many people were optimistic about Li Luo for the Qingming Banner's Great Banner Head contest a month from now.

As for Li Luo himself, he paid no heed to these rumors and continued to maintain his packed cultivation schedule.

Every day, he used the Nine-Turn Dragon Breath Art to condense Earth Evil Mysterious Light, then refined Upper-Grade Origin Evil Pills. In his spare time, he tempered the phase arts he cultivated, especially "Black Dragon Dark Water Banner," the Marquis-grade art he regarded as his trump card. Although he had now cultivated the Marquis-grade art "Black Dragon Dark Water Banner," there were also realm distinctions among Marquis-grade arts. He was currently only at Small Completion, still an extremely long way from true Da Cheng Jing or even Great Perfection realm.

Distance.

As for the newly cultivated high-grade Dragon General art "Dragon Fang Thunder Flow," Li Luo also practiced it frequently, never letting up.

Beyond this, he also trained daily with the Fifth Division banner members to strengthen their "Combined Qi" coordination.

Then came the wait for the once-every-seven-days "Happy Cave Sweep."

Time slipped by unnoticed, and in the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.

During this half month, Li Luo's first Water Light Phase Palace had completed its enhancement, thoroughly stepping into the Great Evil Palace realm. The limit of Earth Evil Mysterious Light it could contain had also increased from the previous five thousand to ten thousand.

A full doubling!

However, this enhancement held no great meaning for Li Luo at the moment, because he still had two Phase Palaces that hadn't been filled. No matter how much the first one was enhanced, he had no plans to cultivate it further for now.

After all, enhancing the other two Phase Palaces was the pressing priority, because once a Phase Palace's enhancement was complete, the phase power within would also receive a strengthening and amplification—this was what Li Luo needed most right now.

Although in terms of phase power's depth, he was confident that beneath the Evil Body realm, there should be very few who could match him, unfortunately, his next opponent was not only at the Evil Body realm, but also a Golden Evil Body. …The gap between realms wasn't so easy to bridge. Otherwise, during this period, such talk deeming him arrogant and overconfident wouldn't have been circulating among the four banners of the Dragon Fang Vein.

And over this past half month, through arduous cultivation, the Earth Evil Mysterious Light in Li Luo's second Wood-Earth Phase Palace had already reached a count of one thousand four hundred. This efficiency was quite high, but to fill the second Wood-Earth Phase Palace within a month, there was still some gap, let alone the third Dragon Thunder Phase Palace... Even though these two Phase Palaces were of lower grade than the Water Light Phase Palace, the containment limit for Earth Evil Mysterious Light

Was only around four thousand.

But Li Luo didn't actually need to fill these two Phase Palaces completely.

Because with the enhancement of the first Water Light Phase Palace complete, Li Luo could now transfer the five thousand strands of Earth Evil Mysterious Light within it into the second Phase Palace.

So he could completely rely on this Earth Evil Mysterious Light to directly begin the enhancement of the second Phase Palace.

This was the advantage of multiple Phase Palaces. In Li Luo's plan, during his next phase of cultivation, he would set the goal of filling all three Great Evil Palaces to their absolute limits. Even though he was fully capable of beginning to charge into the Evil Body realm during this process, he would deliberately hold back.

Hold back.

Because he was forging an undefeated foundation.

His ultimate goal was to attempt to charge into the Evil Body realm carrying thirty thousand strands of Earth Evil Mysterious Light!

Once successful, his foundation would be extremely solid. When he then stepped into the Evil Body realm, he should be able to leap directly past the Silver Evil Body!

And most importantly, this would create an excellent foundation for his later forging of the Glazed Evil Body.

The Glazed Evil Body could only be tempered out by someone whose talent, potential, and foundation were all exceptional. Once this step was achieved, their future path to becoming a Marquis would become far smoother.

This was also why many outstanding prodigies would rather waste some time in the Evil Body realm, all attempting to condense a Glazed Evil Body.

This was planning for the future.

Now, Li Luo was steadily advancing step by step according to his own plan. And Evil Demon Cave cultivation also occupied a large proportion in his plan, because the Earth Evil Mysterious Light gains brought by the Evil Demon Cave were not inferior to the combination of his Nine-Turn Dragon Breath Evil Refining Art and Upper-Grade Origin Evil Pills.

Inferior.

During this period, Li Luo had led the Fifth Division to conquer up to the thirty-fourth floor.

This achievement caused the Qingming Banner's ranking to rise several places. However, as the floor number increased, Li Luo also began to feel some pressure. Previously, during his first cave sweep, he had led the Fifth Division in an unstoppable charge, slaying through several floors in succession. But now at the thirty-fourth floor, basically each cave sweep

Could only maintain a result of one floor.

Of course, the gains hadn't decreased much, because as the floor number increased, the final rewards were far more generous than before.

Everything was within Li Luo's expectations.

Until the twentieth day, when Li Luo welcomed his fifth Evil Demon Cave run in the Qingming Banner, the opponent for this third day's banner division contest made his face show a look of astonishment.

Of course it wasn't just him—when they saw the matchup list displayed on the light screen, Zhao Zhao Yanzhi, Li Shi, and Mu Bi beside him were also somewhat dumbfounded.

"What the hell?" Mu Bi couldn't help but curse.

"Although I knew this day would come eventually, I didn't expect it to be earlier than I thought." Zhao Zhao Yanzhi shook her head.

Li Shi also let out a sigh.

Li Luo gave a helpless smile, and for a moment was a bit lost for words.

He stared at the light screen and saw that opposite the Qingming Banner's Fifth Division, the opponent that appeared was the Dragon Scale Vein's Holy Scale Banner, First Division.

This was the second-ranked banner division, its strength second only to the Dragon Blood Vein's Golden Blood Banner.

And the leader of the Holy Scale Banner's First Division was precisely that person whose name resounded loudly among the younger generation of the five Dragon Veins, hailed as one of the Twin Jades of the Dragon Vein... Dragon Scale's Lu Lu Qingmei.

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