Crack.

Lightning flashed, illuminating the world in a ghastly white.

Countless dark clouds gathered behind Li Cheng颐. As he raised the golden longsword, the dark clouds spun faster, forming a massive vortex.

An indescribable solemnity, mixed with a sinister sense of authority, emanated from him.

Silver hair danced, robes billowed, and the black sword mark between his eyebrows began to glow with a faint silver light.

"That is... Bai Lu?!"

Kui Ling, watching Li Cheng颐's dramatically altered form below, wore an expression of incomprehensible astonishment.

That image, that power... it couldn't possibly be produced by Bai Lu, who only had four or five seals.

But now... the truth was before her eyes.

That massive rift, capable of contending with Huo Qingkong, was emitting terrifying black energy, staining the sky black and gradually turning day into night.

"How could he!?" Kui Ling staggered forward, seemingly trying to see more clearly.

But she was immediately held back by the Holy Spirit and the others.

The Holy Spirit sighed, saying nothing, just watching the sky. There, the previously hopeless situation seemed to have taken a new turn.

At this moment, in other parts of the garrison.

Teams of disciples, led by their stewards, gathered and formed formations, working together to resist the red light and black snowflakes.

Layers upon layers of love silk were woven together, successfully filtering out the black snow and red light.

"Is that really Senior Brother Bai Lu?!" Bai He stared at Li Cheng颐, suspended in the sky, confronting Huo Qingkong, his face filled with disbelief.

"I knew Senior Brother Bai Lu was the strongest! He will definitely save us!!" Qiu Chen revealed a mindless expression of joy.

"Wake up! Those black snowflakes are emanating from Senior Brother Bai Lu. The situation is still unclear. Senior Brother Bai Lu has only been cultivating for a few years, how could he suddenly become so strong!?" Bai He retorted.

"To confront a situation like Senior Brother’s, Senior Brother Bai Lu definitely can't afford to worry about too much! How can you not understand that!?" Qiu Chen said, his face flushed with excitement.

"But what's going on with Senior Brother Huo Qingkong? How could he suddenly turn into that terrifying form? Could it be the legendary qi deviation?!"

The Seven Emotions Holy Spirit Art was not supposed to have qi deviation, but Huo Qingkong's current appearance was extremely similar to the qi deviation described in stories.

Zhao Yuan, on the other hand, continued to stare blankly at the sky, at Huo Qingkong, without saying a word.

If the fact that her eldest brother was becoming demonic was something she couldn't accept at all, then Bai Lu's sudden eruption was equivalent to another heavy blow to the depths of her heart.

She looked at the gleeful Qiu Chen beside her, who kept saying that Senior Brother Bai Lu would definitely not abandon them and would save them.

Looking at that excited, flushed face, a strange fire suddenly rose in her heart.

"No!! Senior Brother won't forget us!! He's not demonic!! He's still there!! He's just momentarily confused! He's still him!!!"

She suddenly erupted completely!!

She screamed hysterically, clutching her head.

The screams deafened more than a dozen disciples gathered around her.

Suddenly, she leaped out of the protective love silk network, her Wisdom Sword lighting up under her feet, carrying her out of the formation and towards Huo Qingkong.

She was resolute, with an unprecedented determination on her face.

"I will prove it to you!! He is still him!! He is not demonic! He is still the eldest brother who loves everyone and wants to save everyone!!!"

The formation did not have any blocking or attacking effect on internal disciples. She was actually able to break through the formation's light barrier and rush towards the blood-colored pillar in mid-air.

However, as soon as she was exposed, her skin began to squirm and bulge, and countless blood-colored pustules began to grow on her face, neck, arms, and thighs.

Human faces bulged out of the pustules, emitting shrill screams.

Before she could even fly halfway, she had completely transformed into a mass of human-headed tumor-like agglomeration, unrecognizable.

"Zhao Yuan!!!"

Bai He and the others below shouted, but it was already too late.

No one expected that someone would seek death at this time, rushing out of the formation's protection range.

Everyone's attention was highly focused on the two people in the sky. By the time they noticed Zhao Yuan, it was already too late.

The Holy Spirit Taoist slowly lowered his raised hand and sighed softly.

At this time, in the sky.

Huo Qingkong was shrouded in a blood-colored pillar of light, piercing the sky and becoming the only pure light in this world. He didn't pay any attention to Zhao Yuan flying out from behind him. Compared to the power around them, Zhao Yuan's screams were completely insignificant, drowned out by countless screams, making it impossible to distinguish them.

The red light shone all around, dyeing everything that was gradually falling into darkness into a crimson color.

"Ridiculous!" Huo Qingkong faced Li Cheng颐, countless layers of voices sounding, "Can't you see the huge rift behind you? The cold air it emits is enough to freeze the entire world and destroy all living things. Only by destroying a devil like you can the world truly usher in peace!!"

He didn't notice at all that in the places illuminated by his light, all living things began to squirm, with pustules of varying sizes growing on the surface of their skin, and human faces of varying sizes growing on the surface of the pustules.

All the human faces howled in pain, emitting sharp and evil sounds.

"All beings, quietly await hope!!"

Huo Qingkong raised his black-red longsword and roared to the sky.

At this moment, his belief as a world-destroying restorer and his benevolent side seemed to combine in a strange angle, falling into a fragile balance. As a result, his self seemed to have become somewhat subtle.

Rift?

Li Cheng颐 was stunned and turned his head slightly to look.

Sure enough, the rift had reappeared and was constantly emitting terrifying chill.

"So that's how it is..." His expression turned stern, "It is precisely your terrifying evil energy that forces me to release an equally powerful force. This is not my fault! The power to freeze everything is born to freeze you, to seal you!!"

As for the accidental injuries to others, that was just the price that would inevitably be paid when saving the world. If hardship had no price, how could its difficulty and preciousness be highlighted!

If there was no price, then hardship would not need to be saved.

For a time, the two men's eyes met, and they saw the substantial will in each other's eyes.

Since breaking through the seventeenth seal, Li Cheng颐 had never used his full strength. At this time, after fusing with the Flower Scale Garment, he not only possessed the strength of the seventeenth seal, but also the enhancement of the Flower God Garment level, the strengthening of Flower Language.

Not to mention anything else, just the Shadow Dragon King's Flower Language ability, which could amplify all his balanced qualities, had been greatly improved.

What's more, the Flower Language of the Seven Emotions Holy Spirit Art had also been greatly improved in power.

At this time, his actual combat power far exceeded the seventeenth seal, reaching a level that he could not even calculate.

Plus that inexplicable mysterious trait feeling.

Without a reference, Li Cheng颐 himself didn't know what realm he was in.

The previous three great demons were just a warm-up for him, and only a normal warm-up.

"If that's the case..." Huo Qingkong held his sword horizontally in front of him, and a large amount of viscous blood suddenly appeared on the black-red longsword.

"Instant Hell."

He tapped the tip of the sword with one hand, and the point of contact between his finger and the tip of the sword lit up with a dazzling blood light.

"Thousand Blades!"

Boom!!!

In an instant, countless blood-colored sword blades lit up out of thin air in front of him and flew out, like countless blood-colored eyes.

The sword blades turned into sword light, intersecting and condensing into a blood-colored fan-shaped storm, covering most of the surrounding sky and blasting towards Li Cheng颐 above.

This move was slow to activate, but the speed after the explosion had far exceeded twenty times the speed of sound, reaching fifty times, sixty times, or even higher.

With just a flash of light, Li Cheng颐 felt a pain all over his body, and countless blood-colored storms had completely submerged him.

Only a piece of blood color remained in mid-air, covering him, rushing into the black cloud vortex, and flying to the end of the sky, who knows how far away.

"Bai Lu!!" In the formation below, Kui Ling couldn't help but exclaim.

"Don't be impulsive!"

The other elders next to her quickly held her back.

"No matter what Bai Lu has become now, at least judging from his momentum, his strength is definitely not weak. To be able to trigger such terrifying changes in the celestial phenomena, Bai Lu must also have a huge secret hidden in him! Don't worry!" The Holy Spirit Taoist said in a deep voice.

He had been in contact with the Demon Emperor and knew that Bai Lu had an extremely ancient and evil strange aura hidden in him.

"Sense carefully, Bai Lu's aura is still there."

Hearing this, Kui Ling quickly sensed carefully and found that, as he said, Bai Lu's aura was still in the sky, and Huo Qingkong had not relaxed his vigilance and was still staring at the sky without moving.

"Bai Lu... how could he become like this!?" She couldn't understand how her previously cute and pure child had suddenly turned into such a strange and evil image.

"Is that really Bai Lu?"

She even had a hint of doubt in her heart.

How long had Bai Lu been practicing? It was impossible for him to face Huo Qingkong head-on, let alone the current Huo Qingkong, who could kill even top experts like True Fire with a single sword. How could he fight?

"No matter who he is, the current battle is no longer something we can interfere with..." The Holy Spirit Taoist said in a low voice.

Kui Ling was silent and looked around.

At this time, if it weren't for the great formation covering and protecting everyone, the Faceless Sword Sect's garrison would probably be like some scattered ordinary disciples outside, with countless human-faced pustules growing all over their bodies, rolling on the ground in pain.

"What on earth is happening to this world??"

She murmured.

Elsewhere.

Bai He and Qiu Chen each gathered their disciples together to form a formation, using Wisdom Swords to form a formation, shielding the top and resisting the red light from shining through the great formation.

"...Senior Brother Bai Lu!!" Seeing Li Cheng頤 being submerged by the sword light, Qiu Chen couldn't help but cry out in worry.

"It'll be fine... It'll be fine... The sect leader and the others are still here, it'll be fine..." Bai He prayed incoherently beside him.

He didn't even know who to pray to. After Zhao Yuan flew out of the formation and instantly turned into a twisted mass of flesh tumors, he was completely dumbfounded.

Not just him.

All the hundreds of disciples who saw this scene were stunned.

Everyone knew that Zhao Yuan loved and admired Huo Qingkong the most, but at this time, the red light released by Huo Qingkong actually completely distorted and contaminated her...

This terrifying scene completely destabilized the already terrified disciples.

"It appeared!! Senior Brother Bai Lu is fine!!"

Qiu Chen's shout pulled him back from his panic.

Bai He looked towards the sky.

In the sky, where the blood-colored sword blade storm had submerged, two golden sword marks rapidly lit up.

Although the blood-colored storm was extremely thick, it couldn't cover up the two golden lights that were getting brighter and brighter.

Boom!!!

The golden light turned into two golden swords, more than ten meters long, which rushed out like tearing a curtain, tearing the storm and cutting off large swaths of blood-colored sword light.

Li Cheng颐's upper body daoist robe had been completely shattered, revealing his strong body covered in dragon scales below.

The antlers on his forehead had now turned into sharp, curved black dragon horns, and his eyes had also changed from pitch black to pure golden vertical pupils.

Hiss.

Behind him, a pair of huge dragon wings, tens of meters long, tore through his back and stretched out.

(End of this chapter)