Chapter 74: Nirvana Extermination Realm, Luo Li is Formidable
"Luo Li, I will definitely burn your divine soul for billions of years…"
Ye Hao's tone was grim. First, he had his bones excavated by Luo Li, and now she had directly annihilated Northern Liang, which was his homeland.
This made Ye Hao wish he could instantly teleport before Luo Li and shatter her to death.
However, with the nation's fortune in turmoil, he could not leave the Imperial Capital at all; he had to stay behind to suppress the nation's fortune.
He could only send a message to Xiang Yu, ordering him to go and suppress her.
…
"Eh, what's going on?"
Gu Qing, who was cultivating, had just broken through to the peak of the Fifth Layer of the Void Dao Realm. He was thinking of pushing through to the Sixth Layer in one go but was interrupted by a dragon's roar.
His divine sense swept out, and the officials in the Imperial City were one by one as if they had lost their parents, their faces ashen, their auras listless and chaotic.
Their cultivation realms were dissipating.
And the five-clawed golden dragon appearing over the Imperial Capital was also mournfully crying out, its dragon body shrinking.
"Someone is shaking the foundation of Ye Hao's empire…"
"Who is it? Luo Li?"
Gu Qing murmured with joy, feeling certain it must be Luo Li.
This female villain was truly extraordinary.
With a single move, she had caused Ye Hao to suffer heavy losses.
He came out of seclusion to find He Ni and spoke.
"He Ni, so a Heavenly Dynasty isn't that invincible after all."
"Nonsense."
"A Heavenly Dynasty rises and falls by the nation's fortune."
"His Heavenly Dynasty was only recently established, its foundation is insufficient. It's normal for him to be successfully ambushed."
"Then do you want to do something big?" Gu Qing was itching to make a move.
"You focus on your cultivation. Just leave the rest to me."
He Ni naturally wanted to.
She just felt that Ye Hao might be a reincarnated great power and also possessed an Innate Spirit Treasure, making him difficult to strike.
But after Luo Li's move, she suddenly discovered that Ye Hao didn't seem as powerful as she had imagined.
Perhaps there was a chance to steal the nation-protecting divine artifact.
She wasn't entirely sure; she would observe a little longer!
…
Xiang Yu received the message and immediately had his great army attack the city, handing Determined Sun City over to his deputy general as well as Yan Liang and Wen Chou.
He himself led his personal guards and arrived at Northern Liang in just a few breaths of time.
"So beautiful…"
Xiang Yu was instantly captivated by Luo Li's perfect appearance.
He saw Luo Li, her spirit unparalleled, holding a divine spear, bathed in a sacred radiance, as one with heaven and earth, like a god of war from the nine heavens.
One strike to destroy a city.
"Stop."
Xiang Yu returned to his senses, looking at Luo Li with both anger and possessiveness.
Luo Li's Dao methods were perfectly integrated, resonating with the myriad Daos of heaven and earth. One could tell at a glance that she was a natural Dao seed, flawless and perfect.
Such a person's future achievements would be limitless.
It was just a pity…
Xiang Yu held absolute loyalty to Ye Hao.
Ye Hao wanted Luo Li dead, so he could only make Luo Li die.
"The Hegemon-King of Western Chu?"
"I'll give you a chance. Submit to me, and I can spare your life."
Luo Li's eyes flowed with divine light. She saw that Xiang Yu was a Superior God Body, his blood essence like a vast ocean, faintly showing signs of his blood essence transforming into a dragon.
Such a person, even in an Immortal Great Sect, would surely be an existence holding power.
No wonder he was able to annihilate one vassal king after another for Ye Hao and trample over holy lands and sects.
This not only gave her the idea of taking him for her own use.
Furthermore, subduing Xiang Yu would have many benefits for her plan to annihilate the Divine Phoenix Empire.
"Submit to you?"
Xiang Yu was angered to the point of laughing.
He, a Venerable, was being looked down upon by a King Realm cultivator. This was simply a humiliating disgrace.
"Is it very funny?"
Luo Li's body was crystalline, she wore a phoenix crown, and her magnificent phoenix skirt rustled, noble as a deity.
"Do you think you're invincible after killing a few ants? Fine, let me show you the gap between an ant and a true dragon of the nine heavens."
As soon as the words fell, Luo Li's divine spear trembled, and the void shattered. A phoenix, carrying boundless flames, charged directly at Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu's pupils shrank abruptly. Sensing the power of the phoenix's divine ability, his divine soul trembled, experiencing a great terror of impending death.
The flames enveloping the phoenix were too scorching, revealing a great terror of incinerating all things.
This was, in fact, true.
This was the Phoenix Nirvana Fire.
An existence that even the Divine Fire Realm ancestors of the Luo Clan had to avoid its edge. Even though the one using it now was Luo Li, it was still not something Xiang Yu could withstand.
"Nine Dragons Break the City…"
Xiang Yu roared and unleashed his strongest ultimate art. Nine true dragons appeared in the air, but before they could fully form, they were torn apart and incinerated by the phoenix.
With a boom, Xiang Yu and his personal guards were engulfed by the phoenix.
Hundreds of elite Profound Core Realm and Spirit Refining Realm cultivators were instantly killed without a trace left.
And Xiang Yu.
His entire body was burning with raging flames, incinerating his god body, divine soul, and cultivation all at once.
The pain of a burning divine soul made Xiang Yu's face ferocious and distorted.
"Kneel, release your divine soul, and you may live."
Luo Li pointed with her divine spear, her expression cold and sharp.
"If I weren't injured, you would be no match for me."
He had been severely injured by the backlash of fortune, his divine soul heavily damaged. He could, at most, exert thirty percent of his strength.
If he were at his peak, he could have easily avoided the Phoenix Nirvana Fire.
Without the Phoenix Nirvana Fire, a mere King Realm cultivator, he could extinguish with a wave of his hand.
Luo Li ignored him and looked to another place in the void.
"Come out!"
Feng Chu, Pang Tong, manifested from the void. Heaven and earth fell silent for a moment. He seemed to have become the center of the world, with laws circling him and the myriad Daos following him.
"Saint Realm Third Layer…"
Luo Li's gaze sharpened. If Pang Tong had not leaked a killing intent just now, she would not have detected a Saint Realm expert hiding nearby.
"Are you going to surrender, or will you make me move?"
Pang Tong said indifferently.
"Heh, a Saint, so what? Die."
Luo Li suddenly summoned an ancient mirror. A pale golden light shone upon Pang Tong's body.
"Hmm?"
"What kind of treasure is this?"
Pang Tong's expression changed drastically as he felt his own Dao methods dissipating and his body melting, and it was completely irreversible.
His vast Saintly Dao laws, upon contact with the pale golden light, immediately melted away like snow.
Pang Tong wanted to leave, to escape the mirror's illumination.
But as soon as he was illuminated by the pale golden light, his divine abilities were instantly dissolved.
At this moment, Pang Tong felt no discomfort at all. On the contrary, he felt wonderful, as if he were floating on air, and even his divine soul felt sublimated.
The power of this treasure mirror was truly bizarre.
"No…"
Pang Tong was dissolved until only his saintly skeleton remained. As his divine soul dissipated in the final moment, he let out a roar of unwillingness.
In his past life, he died before his apprenticeship was complete. In this life, it was the same.
"Hu!"
Luo Li retracted the treasure mirror, her face as pale as paper, her delicate body trembling slightly.
Although the power of the Nirvana Extermination Realm was terrifying, the consumption of divine soul power was also terrifyingly immense.
That's right, the Nirvana Extermination Mirror was an Innate Different Treasure, activated by the power of the divine soul.
With her divine soul, which had undergone nirvana several times, being stronger than even a Venerable Realm cultivator's, she could only maintain it for a few breaths of time. Fortunately, she had managed to kill Pang Tong.
"The Light of Annihilation is indeed as terrifying as they say…"
A joyful color appeared in Luo Li's phoenix-like eyes.
The Nirvana Extermination Realm was an Innate Different Treasure. Before she refined it, it was called the Grand Void God Realm.
The initial form of the Grand Void God Mirror possessed a pure innate origin, capable of perfectly carrying one's own Dao and Dharma, allowing one to refine a Dao that was uniquely their own.
After watching the battle between Gu Qing and Zhang Yang, and seeing the power of the Sun Mirror, Luo Li immediately thought of fusing her own indestructible origin of myriad kalpas with the Phoenix's true meaning of nirvana.
She forged the Light of Annihilation.
With a single thought, she could annihilate the myriad Daos, and it could also assist her in nirvanic rebirth, making her divine soul immortal and indestructible.
Thinking of this, Luo Li arrived before Xiang Yu in a single step. Her phoenix-like eyes were indifferent, her red lips parting slightly. "Are you truly unwilling to let me plant a Slave Seal on you?"
"A rebel can be killed but not humiliated." A trace of fear appeared deep within Xiang Yu's eyes.
Luo Li's Light of Annihilation was simply too bizarre and terrifying.
Even a Saint who patrols the heavens and earth had no power to resist whatsoever.
He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid that Luo Li would suddenly ambush Ye Hao. The consequences of that would be unimaginable.
"Since you don't know what's good for you, then go die."
Luo Li pierced him with her spear. The Phoenix Nirvana Fire burned fiercely, and in an instant, it burned him until only his head remained.
A pair of eyes were wide open, unable to rest in peace.
Luo Li flicked her long spear, and Xiang Yu's head flew into the void, appearing above the Imperial City.
Who knew how many informants were in the Imperial City.
The moment they saw Xiang Yu's head, they were first in disbelief, then wild with joy, immediately sending the message back.
"The Hegemon-King of Western Chu has been beheaded?!"
"Hahaha, it seems a powerful expert from the Star Temple has made a move."
"Follow me and kill. Let's annihilate the rebel Ye Hao together."
Previously, they were convinced that Ye Hao had the support of a mysterious power, so they had always been restrained.
Now that they saw the Star Temple take action, the various powers of the world no longer had the slightest hesitation.
What a joke, even the Star Temple had made a move. How could a mere child like Ye Hao possibly resist?
"No…"
Ye Hao's body was torn apart by the backlash from within. Blood sprayed wildly, every drop crystalline and splendid, containing a terrifying power that could shatter and kill experts.
He despairingly shook his head slowly.
Before Luo Li appeared, reports of victory had drifted into the Imperial Capital like snowflakes.
How had the situation turned so drastically in the blink of an eye, with uprisings breaking out everywhere, causing the army to suffer heavy losses.
What was even more terrifying was that some experts were directly massacring cities, plundering resources and wealth.
This was the most fatal blow.
Ye Hao had no time to think further and immediately summoned the civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures.
"My beloved ministers, the world is in rebellion. How should we respond?"
"…"
The group of civil and military officials no longer had their previous fanaticism. Each one looked as if they had lost their parents, their expressions filled with panic and unease.
They looked at Ye Hao on the dragon throne, one by one silent.
Some who were not summoned by the system directly began to feel resentment towards Ye Hao.
They had previously proposed not to fight on multiple fronts and to appease the aristocratic families and sects as quickly as possible.
But Ye Hao had insisted on acting autocratically, dispatching troops everywhere to attack, confiscating properties and exterminating clans.
Now look, he had forced all the aristocratic families and sects of the world into rebellion.
The newly established dynasty might not even last a month.
And he still had the audacity to talk about slaying immortals and slaughtering gods, of exterminating the Star Temple.
He couldn't even handle a mere Luo Li, so where did he get the face to say such things?
Pah.
Trash is trash. Even with the support of many powerful experts, he was still mud that couldn't be plastered on a wall.
"Hmph!"
Ye Hao sensed the malice from the crowd as their loyalty plummeted.
He let out a cold snort, his face ugly, as if he had swallowed several dead mice.
At the same time, he was immensely flustered inside, not knowing what to do.
After all, since he started his rebellion, he had relied on the system and had been unstoppable, victorious in every battle.
When had he ever encountered such a catastrophic situation?
"Your Majesty, the current crisis mainly stems from the Star Temple. As long as Your Majesty captures Luo Li and brings her to justice, putting her on a public trial, perhaps the crisis will be resolved."
Zhuge Liang stepped forward and said.
"Are there any other options?"
Ye Hao pressed.
In truth, he also knew the root of the trouble was Luo Li, but he had already sensed that Luo Li had killed Pang Tong and Xiang Yu.
It seemed there really was a Seventh Layer Saint Realm expert protecting Luo Li.
Without the blessing of the nation's fortune, he could not suppress his opponent. Going there would be a fruitless trip.
Therefore, capturing Luo Li was completely unfeasible.
"…" Zhuge Liang was stunned.
Wait, you can't really be unable to deal with a mere Luo Li, can you?
Ye Hao was so embarrassed he wished the ground would swallow him whole.
Who the hell would have thought the nation's fortune would collapse?
If the nation's fortune hadn't collapsed, he would have a way to suppress even a Divine Fire Realm expert.
Besides, he was absolutely not lying.
He could summon historical and mythological figures from Huaxia. Given enough time, he could even summon Sun Wukong.
In that case, what did a mere Star Temple amount to?
"Then what about dealing with Gu Qing?"
If he couldn't even handle these two, then he was beyond saving.
He could just wait for annihilation.
"I can!"
Ye Hao's answer this time was very decisive.
In the Imperial Capital, he could suppress the nation's fortune while splitting his attention to suppress He Ni.
At worst, teleporting her away would not be a problem.
…
"You fool, you're finished."
He Ni glanced at the Fortune Golden Dragon, a look of confusion in her eyes as she murmured.
"He doesn't seem like a reincarnated expert…"
She investigated Ye Hao's recent actions and the current situation.
Ye Hao was too foolish, showing not the slightest bit of an emperor's strategy.
Although no one knew that the dynasty Ye Hao established was a Heavenly Dynasty, which could develop recklessly without restraint.
Fighting on two fronts is a major taboo, but Ye Hao went ahead and opened five battlefronts.
Furthermore, Ye Hao's iron-fisted suppression of the aristocratic families and sects had thoroughly enraged the heroes of the world.
After all, which expert doesn't have a family or sect?
Now, his ambition had outstripped his grasp.
Once the country fell into chaos, the Heavenly Dynasty would instantly collapse.
She didn't even need to make a move. She just had to wait for Ye Hao to be killed by the backlash of fortune and then go pick up the Nation-Protecting Divine Artifact.
Thinking of this, He Ni gently stroked her flat stomach. Everything was ready, all that was needed was the east wind.
"Tsk, is the invincible-type emperor protagonist about to be finished…"
"Luo Li is formidable."
Gu Qing's eyes flickered. He sent a message to Luo Li and, after receiving a reply, was silent for a long time.
Ye Hao's style of action was very much like a protagonist.
One word: reckless. Just charge forward and leave the rest to the system.
Who knew that Luo Li would, by a lucky mistake, strike his fatal weakness.
At this point, probably even the system couldn't save Ye Hao.
But then again, Luo Li was truly ruthless and vicious. At such a young age, under the banner of revenge, she was massacring cities everywhere, wanting to destroy the billions upon billions of living souls of the entire empire.
It was as if these living beings were ants on the ground to her, and she felt not the slightest bit of pity.
It seemed she would have to guard against her in the future.
This kind of heartless great villain, a natural-born traitor, might backstab him one day.
…
"Where are you going? Come back!"
Bai Wuya scolded.
"Father, I…"
Bai Suying stammered.
She had been caught red-handed trying to sneak out, which made her heart panic.
Although she was several hundred years old, this was the first time she had ever done such a thing.
"You are not to see Ye Hao again. Are you treating my words as a passing breeze?"
Bai Wuya stroked his beautiful beard, his gaze like a knife, speaking word by word.
"I'm not, I didn't. I'll go back right now."
Bai Suying's face was ashen. This was the exact tone and manner Bai Wuya had used when he severed ties with her sister back then.
Bai Wuya had a fierce and domineering personality, believing he was the only one in authority. He would never allow his children to defy his will.
"It's good that you're not."
Bai Wuya's expression eased slightly, and his tone also calmed down.
"Yingying, you are a married woman now. You must put your husband's family first. You two should live your lives well and stop meddling in other people's business."
"I understand, Father."
Bai Suying had been nurtured in Confucian culture since she was young, so she naturally understood the principle of a married woman following her husband.
But with such a great upheaval happening in Ye Hao's empire, she wouldn't feel at ease if she didn't go take a look.
"Mm! Go on!"
Bai Wuya grunted, his phoenix eyes narrowing slightly.
Bai Suying had inherited her Dao companion's personality; she was soft-hearted and kind. He had to watch her closely.
She couldn't be harmed by the Ye Zhentian father and son again.
"Master, the Ye family father and son have led the Embroidery Guard to surround our residence."
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