Chapter 1237: Terrifying Harvest
The overpowering World's End River Meteors fell from the sky one after another. Th.ê most uptodate novels are published on n(0)velbj)n(.)co/m
Li Zhihuo acted first. The immense ice resonant energy from his five Duke Bergfrieds soared into the sky and transformed into a giant ice dragon.
Then the ice dragon let out a thunderous roar, and four beams of icy dragonbreath shot out of its mouth.
The dragonbreath turned into four enormous freezing vortexes, confronting four of the World's End River Meteors head-on. This caused a commotion amongst the crowd, and everyone watched in awe.
It was extremely rare to see someone going for four World's End River Meteor at the same time. After all, Star Plucking was a tremendously straining act that could easily lead to injuries if one wasn't careful. Li Zhihuo had always been wary of it and did his best to avoid taking damage.
However, the Dragon's Fang Guardians were going to collect more Star Pearls than the Dragon's Blood Guardians thanks to Li Luo and Jiang Qing'e. This did not really mean anything practically, but the morale of the Dragon's Blood Guardians would inevitably take a hit.
As such, Li Zhihuo had to make up for it in some other way.
The enormous, freezing vortexes collided directly with the four World's End River Meteors. Ice-cold resonant power exploded instantly, and the surface of the meteors froze up.
The speed at which the World's End River Meteors were falling gradually slowed down.
Nonetheless, the terrifying impact was nothing to scoff at—the meteors completely ripped the four enormous freezing vortexes apart. Countless ice flakes fell from the sky, causing the temperature to plummet.
Li Zhihuo's face turned serious as he felt the tremendous pressure. He took in a deep breath, and his pupils slowly turned ice-blue.
The ice dragon that had materialized continued to spew out powerful dragonbreath. Coupled with the vortexes and his ice resonant power, he tried to reduce the terrifying force of the meteors further.
At this moment, the spot where Li Zhihuo stood in the sky turned into a domain of ice that chilled everyone to the bone.
As Li Zhihuo gave it his all, the four World's End River Meteors finally came to a stop. The ice vortexes surrounding them slowly carried them over to the golden lotus platform of the Dragon's Blood Guardians.
"All hail our Guardian General! The Guardian General is invincible!"
The Dragon's Blood Guardians shouted in excitement. If they let Dragon's Blood Envoy Yuan Tianzhao refine all four meteors, they would end up with around 28,000 Star Pearls.
A smile finally appeared on Li Hongque's gloomy face. "It’s fortunate we have such a dependable Guardian General."
"Tsk."
A cold snort came from the distance when Li Zhihuo successfully collected all four World's End River Meteors. This had come from Li Foluo, who gave Li Zhihuo a hostile glance. What a bastard. He had always been above the rest by obtaining one more World's End River Meteor than the others. Now he wanted to beat them by grabbing two more? Wasn't he adding too much pressure to the other Guardian Generals?
Li Foluo took a step forward, and the sky behind him became crimson all of a sudden. The faint projection of a giant volcano appeared behind him. The volcano erupted and lava covered the whole sky. The silhouette of a dragon could be faintly spotted in the lava.
Quasi ninth-grade dragon resonance. Upper eighth-grade lava resonance.
Submerged in the lava, the dragon manifestation had crimson scales. It was hundreds of thousands of feet long, flying across the sky. Burning hot magma dripped from its sharp fangs.
This dragon manifestation was the result of Li Foluo channeling all the energy he could from the Dragon Fang Formation.
Then the giant meteor began to shrink at an astonishing speed.
Li Hongque and the others at the Dragon's Blood Guardians were originally elated that they had obtained four World's End River Meteors. However, the looks of delight on their faces had completely vanished.
Some of the disgruntled Dragon's Blood Guardians complained. "Ah, the Dragon's Fang Guardians got three World's End River Meteors. Our lead over them is getting smaller again."
"Exactly. Jiang Qing'e and Li Luo are simply ridiculous. I have never seen anyone purify a meteor to such an extent."
As the members of the Dragon's Blood Guardians discussed among themselves, Li Hongque's face turned dark. "Shut up, everyone. Don't ride on the coattails of others. It takes a lot of energy and concentration to purify a World's End River Meteor. No matter how exceptional Jiang Qing'e is, she's merely a first-grade Duke. Li Luo is even worse, at the Greater Heavenly Resonance Tier. How many more do you think they can refine? I predict they will last four rounds at most. After that, the responsibility will be handed back to Luo Jiang. We will be able to catch up then."
When the others heard this, they understood immediately. Sure, Jiang Qing'e and Li Luo were exceptional, but could their stamina hold out?
With that, the Dragon's Blood Guardians gradually calmed down.
The Five Guardian Armies then concentrated on their tasks once again.
The Dragon's Fang Guardians continued to attract the attention of others from time to time. With Jiang Qing'e and Li Luo working together, they continued to purify and produce World's End River Meteors of three hundred feet one after another.
The others understood immediately when they saw the repeated success. This meant that the first time wasn't a lucky fluke—the two of them really had the means to do it consistently.
Just like this, the hours passed by. The World's End River Meteors continued to fall, and they finally reached the fourth round.
No one had any complaints about their harvest.
The Dragon's Fang Guardians had a total of 139,000 Star Pearls at. In contrast, they had only accumulated a total of 50,000 to 60,000 Star Pearls in seven rounds during previous month's Falling Star Terrace. Now they had more than twice that amount!
This was an absolutely terrifying increase.
The other four Guardian Armies were speechless when they saw the terrifying harvest. Even the Dragon's Blood Guardians had fallen into complete silence.
Li Hongque clenched her fists tightly and her face turned extremely grim.
However, her gloominess faded away when she noticed that the brilliance of Jiang Qing'e's Duke Bergfried had dimmed a little.
Li Luo was also taking a longer break and his eyes were closed.
Clearly, the mental and physical exhaustion was finally catching up to them.
A smile appeared on Li Hongque's face. She said coldly, "They finally can't endure it anymore. I almost thought they were made of steel."
However, her delight only lasted for a few seconds.
Her cold gaze turned towards the Dragon's Fang Guardians once again when she saw Li Hongyou approach the duo. Suddenly, Li Hongque remembered Li Hongyou's resonance, and a burning rage flared up within her!
“That bitch! She actually dared to take action?!”