Chapter 967: Everyone Gathers

The figures of Li Luo, Li Li Lingjing, and Zhu Zhu Dayu leaped swiftly over courtyards and towers, rapidly advancing toward the core area of the Golden Hall.

At this moment, the vast Golden Hall had already begun to fall into chaos.

The eerie black mist continuously surging from behind had already revealed its terrifying nature—wherever it passed, everything seemed to be swallowed, even the buildings here vanished into the black mist.

Li Luo glanced back from time to time, his gaze solemn. After Li Li Lingjing broke the restraints of its main body, this "Erosive Spirit True Demon" had instead grown even more unbridled, but perhaps because of the suppressive effect of the "Spirit Phase Cave Heaven," this "Erosive Spirit True Demon" was actually not as terrifying as the one they had previously encountered in the Western Tomb Dark Domain that wore Li Li Lingjing's face.

But the key point was that back then, Li Luo and the others still had their respective banner troops with them, and under the combined Qi power, they were enough to contend against marquis-level experts. Yet now, they had no such powerful reinforcements and could only rely on their own strength.

The difficulty was clearly not small, because according to Li Luo's estimate, even though this "Erosive Spirit True Demon" was suppressed, its power had probably already reached the extreme of the Tian Zhu Jing.

At present, even if Li Li Lingjing, Qin Ying, Zhu Zhu and these other Eight-Star Tian Zhu Jing joined forces, they probably still wouldn't be able to contend against it.

Li Luo's brows knit tightly. If he could, he would rather withdraw from this "Golden Hall," but the eerie black mist surging from the outer perimeter had cut off their retreat.

He turned his head to glance at Li Li Lingjing following closely behind. On the latter's fair, pretty face, a trace of color had begun to appear.

Earlier, Li Luo had used his own water phase, wood phase, and light phase phase power to cast several restorative phase arts on Li Li Lingjing, which could accelerate the recovery of her phase power and injuries.

While thinking these thoughts, Li Luo and the other two leaped over the top of a towering courtyard wall. His gaze swept toward the rear, then suddenly paused in a certain direction.

That area had already been shrouded by the black mist, but within the thick black mist, there actually existed a blank region.

From a distance, Li Luo vaguely saw that within that blank region, there seemed to be a human figure.

"Is that... the lantern-bearer we saw earlier?"

Li Luo's heart stirred slightly. That lantern-bearer should be considered the highest-ranking person in this Golden Hall, and his strength should also be extraordinary, but he was muddled like a walking corpse—despite the black mist now shrouding everything around, he showed no movement at all.

As Li Luo was pondering this, he suddenly sensed movement ahead. His gaze shifted, and he saw a plump figure nimbly streaking toward them.

"Sister Zhu!"

Zhu Zhu Dayu was overjoyed at the sight of that figure.

The newcomer was none other than Zhu Zhu, whom they had met once before.

That Zhu Zhu was also rather plump in build—this was the hallmark of the Zhu Li Tianwang lineage. She landed ahead, her gaze sweeping over Zhu Zhu Dayu before locking onto Li Luo and Li Li Lingjing.

"Sister Zhu, they're all my friends, they've taken care of me along the way," Zhu Zhu Dayu said.

Zhu Zhu nodded and showed a kindly smile toward Li Luo and Li Li Lingjing: "I should thank the two of you, friends."

Most of her attention was on Li Li Lingjing. She had previously seen the latter take action outside the Golden Hall, so she knew the other's strength was extremely formidable.

"Do you know what's happening over there?" Zhu Zhu asked, her plump finger pointing toward the distant black mist, her face turning solemn as she asked.

She had been collecting Spirit Phase Golden Dew here earlier, when she suddenly sensed the commotion from behind.

"It should be some kind of aberration that has mixed into the Spirit Phase Cave Heaven," Li Luo said.

He did not reveal the intelligence about the "Erosive Spirit True Demon"—after all, this matter also concerned Li Li Lingjing, and he figured she would also care about others knowing of her experience of being eroded and corrupted.

Zhu Zhu was shocked upon hearing this: "How could an aberration possibly have mixed in? So many top experts from the various powers were all stationed at the entrance!"

At that entrance, the various Li Tianwang-level powers had all sent top experts, among them no shortage of high-grade marquises above the seventh rank—such strength could be considered first-rate even on the Outer Shenzhou.

Li Luo spread his hands.