Chapter 984: The Ruthless Elder Cousin

And just as Jiang Jiang Wanyu was horrified by this "Dragon Fang Sword Shadow" that Li Luo had unleashed, the one bearing the brunt of it, General Zhao, felt even greater shock surging in his heart; the originally ferocious face now showed a thick layer of terror.

He too sensed the biting sharpness of the sword qi contained within the Dragon Fang Sword shimmering with water-light. That sword qi was pure beyond imagination—this was absolutely not a level that ordinary Marquis-rank arts could reach.

The grade of this art was likely no lower than his "Hundred Beasts Demonic God Physique."

"Impossible! This Li Luo is merely at the Extreme Fiend Realm; how could he possibly have cultivated a Marquis-rank art of this caliber?"

General Zhao was shaken to the core. Just cultivating this "Hundred Beasts Demonic God Physique" had already seen him skirt life and death countless times, enduring numerous failures before barely managing to enter its threshold. So what qualification did this Li Luo have to cultivate a Marquis-rank art of this grade?

But General Zhao no longer had time to think about this, because the pale-blue Dragon Fang Sword light had already pierced through the void and arrived. The sword light didn't appear overly sharp, but that indescribable penetrating power seemed as if it could pierce through even heaven and earth.

The jade tablet that could have saved his life had already been consumed earlier by Li Luo's "Nether Thunder Talisman Arrow," so General Zhao now had one fewer life-preserving measure.

Roar!

General Zhao let out a tremendous roar. The blood within his body suddenly began to boil at this moment, then surged toward the beast-transformed parts throughout his body.

"Hundred Beasts Demonic God Physique, Blood Beast Art!"

Streams of blood light could be seen bursting forth from within General Zhao's body. Within these blood lights seemed to be the souls of ferocious, savage spirit beasts, roaring as they gathered into one and rapidly fused together.

In an instant, as the blood light erupted, it actually transformed into a ferocious giant beast around several dozen zhang in size.

The giant beast was entirely blood-red, with fresh blood constantly flowing down. It was extremely bizarre—a dragon's head, a tiger's body, a python's tail—while its body also bore traces of numerous other spirit beasts. It looked as if it radiated an overwhelming aura of savage ferocity; in this instant, even the sky seemed to be dyed red.

The moment the blood-red giant beast appeared, it charged forward wrapped in surging blood light, its massive palm stomping on the void, rippling out wave after wave of fluctuation.

The blood-red giant beast directly collided with the Dragon Fang Sword that had pierced through the void, shimmering with boundless water-light.

At the moment of collision, there was actually no earth-shattering sound, because that sword shadow like a sliver of water-light directly and lightly passed through the blood beast's massive body. Where the sword light passed, the surface was smooth as a mirror.

The ferocious blood beast, radiating overwhelming momentum, was directly split in two. Endless fresh blood gushed forth, splashing toward the Dragon Fang Sword like a blood waterfall, but in an instant was ground away by the sword light filling it.

And the azure sword light continued silently slashing toward the pale-faced General Zhao behind.

General Zhao tightly gripped the Heavy Mountain Spear in his hand and spat out a mouthful of essence blood, spraying it onto the spear shaft. Immediately, the long spear seemed to gain a certain vitality, rapidly absorbing the essence blood, after which mysterious blood-red light patterns crawled forth.

General Zhao let out an angry roar, swung the Heavy Mountain Spear in his hand, and a blood-red spear rainbow shattered the void with crack after crack of fissures, then collided head-on with the azure Dragon Fang Sword.

Clang!

The metallic clang rang out, that crisp sound wave seeming to spread throughout heaven and earth.

The next instant, General Zhao was As If Struck Heavily, his body disheveledly sent flying backward. The Heavy Mountain Spear in his hand also let out a wailing sound at this moment. The azure Dragon Fang Sword now seemed to transform into water waves, directly washing over the Heavy Mountain Spear; wherever the water-light passed, the blood-red light patterns on it completely dissipated.

But these water waves like sword light flashed past the Heavy Mountain Spear in the blink of an eye, then swept across General Zhao's arm.

Ah!

General Zhao's shrill scream rang out. That one arm directly detached from its root, and fresh blood sprayed out like a waterfall.

Li Luo severed one of General Zhao's arms, but did not stop there. The Dragon Fang Sword's water-light, whose power had already been greatly depleted, flashed and directly slashed toward General Zhao's head like lightning.

Obviously, since he had already made his move, Li Luo naturally had no intention of sparing General Zhao's life.

Seeing this, General Zhao also understood Li Luo's killing intent, and immediately his figure retreated frantically.

But clearly the Water Dragon Fang Sword was even faster. However, just as the sword light caught up and was about to slay General Zhao, suddenly a figure appeared like a ghost in front of the latter.

Behind that figure, six resplendent Tian Zhu rotated, inhaling and exhaling the energies of heaven and earth.

That was a powerhouse from the Zhao Li Tianwang lineage. Seeing that General Zhao had run into crisis here, he immediately appeared to rescue him.

"Clansman Brother Zhao Song!" General Zhao endured the intense pain in his arm and called out.

The man named Zhao Song nodded slightly, glanced at the incoming Water Dragon Fang Sword, and directly slapped out a palm. Under this palm, tremendous phase force swept out like a flood, seemingly like a Tianhe, crashing into the incoming Water Dragon Fang Sword.

Boom!

The two collided. The Water Dragon Fang Sword immediately trembled, releasing countless water-lights, then under the ravages of that tremendous phase force, shattered into a skyful of water spray that dissipated.

The Water Dragon Fang Sword had already expended most of its power earlier, and coupled with the fact that this Zhao Song was a genuine six-star Tian Zhu Jing powerhouse, it naturally found it difficult to display much might.

After shattering the Water Dragon Fang Sword with one palm, Zhao Song lowered his head to look at his palm, where some laceration marks had appeared, and even several drops of fresh blood dripped down from his palm.

This made Zhao Song's gaze grow even more sullen. He, a dignified six-star Tian Zhu Jing powerhouse, had actually been cut to bleed several drops by Li Luo's strange Marquis-rank art—one could see just how overwhelmingly powerful this Dragon Fang Sword truly was.

Killing intent surfaced in Zhao Song's eyes. The strength Li Luo had displayed earlier had even given him a few degrees of wariness.

After all, Li Luo was still only at the Extreme Fiend Realm right now. If he truly cultivated to the three- or four-star Heavenly Pillar Realm, wouldn't he be able to pose a real threat to him, Zhao Song, at that time?

"Cannot be left alive!"

Zhao Song's gaze was sinister. However, the moment the last word fell, a green snake staff shadow wrapped in tremendous poisonous light descended from the sky, viciously smashing down toward the crown of his head.

The terrifying power contained within that staff shadow caused his complexion to drastically change.

He first sent General Zhao behind him flying with a palm, then opened his mouth and spat out a mottled tortoise shell. As the mystic light flared, it was like a tortoise shield, suspended above, attempting to block that green-light staff shadow.

However, when the green-light staff shadow descended, horror immediately surfaced on Zhao Song's face, because he saw that his Zhu Xuan Tortoise Shell, which was of the Single Purple-Eye grade, had actually directly cracked open with fissure after fissure at this moment.

The green poisonous light was like something that could seep in through any crack, directly dissolving the Zhu Xuan Tortoise Shell.

A chill rose in Zhao Song's heart. The person who had struck was truly vicious to the extreme.

"Zhao Song, retreat quickly!" At this moment, a sharp shout came from afar—it was Zhao Yan.

Zhao Song's face went pale, and without the slightest hesitation he withdrew and retreated. He finally saw clearly now that the one who had struck was none other than that Li Li Lingjing from the Li Li Tianwang lineage. This woman was an eight-star Tian Zhu Jing; she was simply not someone he could match.

And while retreating, Zhao Song decisively activated his hand seals, actually directly detonating that "Zhu Xuan Tortoise Shell." The tortoise shell shattered, and from within actually drilled out streak after streak of ghastly-white bone needles, shooting toward Li Li Lingjing's vital points all over her body as fast as lightning.

He intended to use this to delay Li Li Lingjing's offensive. As long as he could obstruct her for a moment, he could retreat, and at the same time Zhao Yan coming to reinforce would be able to block this killing star.

However, his calculations were good, but behind that green staff shadow, Li Li Lingjing's gaze was cold to the point of being almost somewhat sinister.

"I see, the one who cannot be left alive... is you!"

She seemed to be muttering coldly to herself. The staff shadow in her hand suddenly smashed through the void, while at the same time she extended a slender arm and directly, with her fleshly body, forcibly caught those sneak-attacking ghastly-white bone needles.

The bone needles pierced into her flesh, even going three points into the bone.

But Li Li Lingjing paid it no heed at all. She seemed completely unable to feel such intense pain. The staff shadow, like a poisonous python, threaded through, then directly, under Zhao Song's gaze of absolute horror, ruthlessly slammed onto his head.

Bang!

A muffled sound suddenly rang out. Zhao Song's head in this instant was like a watermelon dropped from a height.

Fresh blood and brain matter splattered everywhere, utterly bloody.

In the surrounding world, a momentary stagnation seemed to appear; gazes from all directions watched this scene in shock. No one expected Li Li Lingjing to be so ruthless and merciless, willing to injure herself just to kill her opponent.

That was a six-star Xing Tian Zhu Jing powerhouse from the Li Li Tianwang lineage!

Yet she was suddenly struck dead by Li Li Lingjing's staff as if she were a chicken!

Silence lasted for several breaths. Zhao Yan's eyes turned red in the distance; his gaze, filled with venom and ferocity, turned toward Li Li Lingjing. His figure shot forward, and his roar resounded like thunder.

"Li Li Lingjing, die for me!"