Chapter 1112: Something's Not Right

The huge, strange, blood-red creature crawled out of the Devil Heart Pillar. The "evil" character on its face wriggled slowly. It had no expression, but if it did, it would undoubtedly be one of ruthlessness as it stared at the four fellows that had attacked the pillar. Monstrous amounts of corruption surged out like a swampy deluge, as if it was solid, horrifying everyone in the area.

"How can there be a Greater Evil Spirit in a B-class mission?!" Zong Sha was nearly at a loss for words.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Evil Spirit Hordes also contained Greater Evil Spirits. They were extremely vicious and were considered to be amongst the strongest of the Greater Heavenly Disaster-class Others.

Only those at the Greater Heavenly Resonance Tier could stand up to them.

Under ordinary circumstances, the Greater Evil Spirits were a small number of the Evil Spirit Horde. Based on the college's estimates, Greater Evil Spirits would only appear in an A-class missions. Thus, Zong Sha and the rest were stunned to see one right in front of them.

"Get back!" Li Luo ordered decisively as his face turned serious.

The Greater Evil Spirit stood at the peak of the Greater Heavenly Disaster Others. Now that Feng Lingyuan and the other team's leader had fallen behind to hold back the previous enemies, the situation would be hard to handle.

However, the Greater Evil Spirit was quick to act. As soon as its voice faded, it jumped out of the pillar. An Other that was hundreds of feet tall stood in front of them, several times larger than the Evil Spirits seen earlier. The smell of rot permeated the air around it.

The Greater Evil Spirit tore two pieces of blood-red skin off its chest with its sharp claws. The skins rapidly rose into the air and expanded.

After a short while, the skins were dozens of feet wide with twisted faces wriggling on their surfaces.

Suddenly, the two pieces of skin turned into streams of crimson light. One shot towards the retreating Li Luo and his group, trapping them in a cage.

Zong Sha and Lu Jinci reacted without any hesitation. Their resonant power surged up and they struck back ferociously.

Bang!

When the two clashed, a low, muffled sound could be heard. The skin cage looked weak and flimsy, but it did not break apart. At the same time, countless black lines extended from the twisted faces on the cage. The black lines slowly stretched across the whole cage, resembling veins that possessed extraordinary resilience whilst having an unsettling appearance.

The faces of Zong Sha, Lu Jinci, and the group changed. A gold seal appeared above Zong Sha's head as he roused all of his strength. However, he wasn't able to break through the skin cage.

"What a terrifying skill!" Lu Jinci exclaimed as his eyes twitched in fear. The Greater Evil Spirit had casually activated an ability, and it was powerful enough to leave them in such a pathetic state. The difference in their strengths was simply too great.

At this moment, the blood-red skin that reeked of corruption blocked the sky above them, ready to entrap them in every direction.

Radiant Heavenly Pearls appeared behind Li Luo one after another. At the same time, the golden water pearls in his waterlight resonance palace shattered, and the source origin energy fused with his resonant power.

In the blink of an eye, eight Heavenly Pearls appeared behind Li Luo, and immense amounts of resonant power swept across the field.

"Nine Scales Sanctified Dragon's Body, Nine Dragons' Might!"

The Dragon Sigil between Li Luo's eyebrows lit up. Draconic roars echoed from within his body and wild energy gushed into his flesh and blood torrentially.

"Thunderpeal Avatar, Five Sonic Pulses!" Thunder boomed within his body and lightning crackled on his skin.

Li Luo gripped his Dragon Elephant Blade tightly and slashed down at the next moment.

"Dragon Elephant Blade, Dragon and Elephant's Divine Might!"

The golden dragon and green elephant roared to life from within the Dragon Elephant Blade, each emitting a blade of energy that left a scintillating trail of light behind. The blades energy were exceptionally sharp, and when they combined, the different streams of energy created a fearsome Dragon Elephant Blade Wheel.

The blade wheel hummed as it spun, causing the void around it to rip and tear.

The Dragon Elephant Blade Wheel then flew across the void, clashing directly with the skin. The two energies began to struggle as they eroded each other wildly before an ear-piercing explosion was heard.

The stalemate lasted for only a few moments before scars appeared on the blood-red skin. In the end, the scars expanded rapidly. A soft

hiss

could be heard, then the skin was torn apart by the blade wheel.

The faces on the skin let out frightening shrieks. At the next moment, the human skin turned into black smoke and dissipated into the wind like scattered ashes.

Zong Sha and Lu Jinci's lips could not help but to twitch a little as they witnessed this scene. Earlier, they had struck the human skin together but were unable to do anything to it. Now, Li Luo had torn it apart with a single slash.

"I'm supposed to be stronger than him... yet...!" Zong Sha muttered.

However, he understood that Li Luo's strength could not be judged by normal standards. Back in the academic evaluation, Li Luo had defeated three Illusory Seal-grades coming at him together.

Nonetheless, it was comforting to know he had such a monstrous team member.

"Ah!"

A cry came from the distance just as they heaved sighs of relief. Li Luo and the rest looked over in a hurry. The four students from the other squad had been trapped in a cage as well, but they had failed to break free.

The skin kept on contracting with the four within, and they had been squeezed to the point that blood was spewing out of their bodies. The faces on the skin greedily lapped up the blood.

Seeing this, Li Luo decided to help them out.

"Let go of my people, filth!"

Before Li Luo could act, an angry shout resounded from the distance like a thunderclap. At the next moment, blade energy flew across the sky like a bolt of heavenly lightning, viciously slicing through the skin cage that had entangled the four students.

There was an extremely fearsome stream of lightning on that blade energy. As it roared past, it reduced the skin tp ashes.

The four people trapped in it fell onto the floor pathetically. Their bodies were full of injuries as if they had been savagely bitten by wild beasts.

Someone landed in front of the four of them. Huge resonant power surged up and the thunder clouds filled the sky above.

Zong Sha exclaimed with shock when he saw the individual that had just entered the fray, "It's Deng Changbai, ranked sixth in the Upper Hall."

Li Luo took a glance at him. He was a young and strong man with disheveled hair. He had an exaggeratedly large blade with a bolt of lightning circulating around it, looking quite tyrannical.

Li Luo could vaguely recall the info that he had read earlier. Deng Changbai, nicknamed Lightning Blade, had an upper eighth-grade lightning resonance.

Although he was not as renowned as Feng Lingyuan, he was still an impressive cultivator.

Deng Changbai gave Li Luo a glance upon arrival, then he looked further towards his back. There was a slender figure in black clothes walking towards them with light steps.

It was none other than Feng Lingyuan.

"Deng Changbai, when did you find the courage to compete with me?" Feng Lingyuan asked casually as she walked up to Li Luo and took a glance at Deng Changbai.

Deng Changbai frowned a little. He was clearly afraid of Feng Lingyuan from the look in his eyes. He quickly looked away and turned towards the Greater Evil Spirit in front of him. "Feng Lingyuan, there's no way you haven't noticed that something is wrong here. There shouldn’t be a Greater Evil Spirit here. The intel provided by the college seems to be wrong.”

Feng Lingyuan sighed a little. She looked over at the pale Devil Heart Pillar and replied, "You're still as slow as ever. Do you think there's only one Greater Evil Spirit here?"

Deng Changbai's face changed completely. "What do you mean?!"

Li Luo and the rest were stunned too.

Feng Lingyuan's face had no expression. As soon as she finished speaking, a strange voice sounded off from the Devil Heart Pillar. The stench of fresh blood strong enough to sting the nose gushed out of it, and at the next moment, a skeletal hand reached out.

As the fresh blood continued flowing, two more Greater Evil Spirits slowly emerged from it.

They had no facial features, only the twisted "evil" characters decorated their heards. Corruption soared through the sky, and the void vaguely began to twist.

Everyone sensed a chill run up their spines when they saw this.

Three Greater Evil Spirits? Wasn't this a B-class mission?