Chapter 1287: Chu Qing's Assault

Chapter 1287: Chu Qing's Assault

Bang!

Rocks that had been burnt black like charcoal continued to roll down. In the distance, many spectators watched in shock and disbelief.

Zhao Zhuoyan had been defeated?!

He was a second-grade Duke, the Grand Commander of the Divine Tiger Guardians. Had he really been defeated by a Greater Heavenly Resonance Tier cultivator?

What an unbelievable turn of events.

Although the gap in their strength had narrowed thanks to the assistance of the two thousand Guardians, Li Luo was only at the Greater Heavenly Resonance Tier. Zhao Zhuoyan had an edge in that he possessed various abilities and methods that only a Duke could access.

On the top of the mountain, a look of surprise surfaced in Lu Shuanglu's beautiful eyes. However, she was not as shocked as the others. In the brief moment of their earlier clash, she could tell that Li Luo had exhausted all his means in this final strike. Triple resonant palaces and six resonances. Two of his resonances had even reached the ninth-grade. Based on this alone, his resonant power reserves could rival those of a first-grade Duke. When one added in the domineering power of his Destiny-grade Duke Art...

The truth was that Zhao Zhuoyan had been too careless.

That stunning arrow earlier was intimidating, but it had consumed an extremely large amount of energy. Li Luo had exhausted more than half of his resonant power for it.

This made one wonder if he could use it a second time.

"He went all-out with his strongest attack and defeated Zhao Zhuoyan to frighten the others," Lu Shuanglu said with a light smile. Li Luo had acted decisively, killing the monkey to scare the chickens.

At this point, the two Divine Tiger Guardian groups had suffered from a backlash following Zhao Zhuoyan's defeat. Close to half of the two thousand Guardians spat out blood. Their energy undulations were chaotic and many even fell from the sky as well.

Second Grand Commander Zhao Zhu watched on with a pale face. He tried to hold the army together, but it was hard to hide their defeat.

"How's this possible..." he muttered. This conclusion was totally different from how they had imagined it would be. They had managed to ambush Xia Yu, their greatest threat, successfully. Li Luo was merely at the Greater Heavenly Resonance Tier. No matter how hard he tried, there was no way he would be able to stand up against Zhao Zhuoyan, right?

Yet Zhao Zhuoyan was the one that had fallen.

They were just a group of defeated soldiers now, so there was no way they could snatch the Sovereign Pearl from Li Luo anymore.

In other words, they had failed their mission completely.

Zhao Zhu broke out in a cold sweat when he realized this. He could imagine how furious Zhao Jiyun would be when they returned empty-handed. The other four Guardians in the Ten Thousand Beast Guardians would definitely laugh at the Divine Tiger Guardians over this failure.

Zhao Zhu and the other Dukes watched on with complicated looks as Li Luo flew off before their very eyes.

Suddenly, Lu Shuanglu's eyes changed. She looked into the other end of Black Soul Peak and noticed a beam of light shooting up into the sky. A mighty aura filled the air.

Black light flooded the skies, and a flag could be spotted within it. A boundless black ocean was emblazoned on the flag.

"The Blackwater Guardians from the Bloodline of Heavenly Emperor Qin?!"

Lu Shuanglu frowned when she saw this. The commotion over here had been so great that the other Heavenly Emperor lineages had been drawn over.

Li Luo stopped in his tracks and his face darkened when he saw this. He could sense an extremely dominating presence amongst the ocean of black light locked onto him.

"Li Luo, this is bad. It's the Blackwater Guardians from the Bloodline of Heavenly Emperor Qin. They're here!" Xia Yu shouted out in a hurry.

Upon closer inspection, they had way more Guardians as well.

At the same time, another stream of immense energy surged up from the other corner. A vast shadow emerged in the sky with a red flag flying high, covering the sky and sun itself.

"That is..." Li Luo's heart sank.

"It's the Heaven Devouring Guardians from the Bloodline of Heavenly Emperor Zhu!"

They had dragged their feet for too long. The armies from the other two Heavenly Emperor lineages had arrived. Li Luo sighed in his heart. He looked in the direction of the Blackwater Guardians. It was like an endless black swamp with no end in sight. Within it were many fierce figures wearing full suits of black armor.

"Grand Commander Li Luo, you guys made too much of a fuss. I had no choice but to come and take a look. I am here on orders, so it's nothing personal. Hand over your Sovereign Pearl immediately."

An impressive voice boomed from the direction of the Blackwater Guardians.

Li Luo looked over and saw that a handsome and muscular figure was the source of it. Rings of gold and silver could be seen on both of his wrists, and he gave off an almost heroic temperament.

It was Chu Qing, someone he was relatively acquainted with.

On his side was another familiar figure.

She wore a light-green dress and looked extremely beautiful. Her skin glittered like light reflecting off water, looking soft and moisturized. Who else would it be but Qin Yi, the Fairy of Water?