When the thin, blood-red blade noiselessly sliced across the doll, a strange sound rang out.

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Li Luo's expression immediately turned pale and thousands of blood-red marks appeared on his entire body, oozing out fresh blood. As a result, he looked like a terrifying bloody figure.

At the same time, a terrifying force descended upon him like a rampaging dragon, rushing into his body and wreaking havoc. This was the backlash of utilizing the Dragon Blood Affliction Art on an opponent he shouldn't have.

As expected, when the gap between the two was too large, the Dragon Blood Affliction Art would severely punish the user.

"It's arrived,"

Li Luo thought to himself. Despite what was happening, he remained incomparably calm. How could he not have foreseen a result others could? Furthermore, the Dragon Blood Affliction Art wasn't very effective against outsiders to begin with.

What Li Luo truly wanted to test was if he could forcefully resist the backlash.

The Archaic Runes between Li Luo's eyebrows burst with incandescent violet-gold light, and the full power of the middle ninth-grade Heavenly Dragon resonance was activated. At the same time, the blood that covered his body began to boil. Those who were nearby heard the roar of an ancient dragon.

The Heavenly Dragon essence within Li Luo's body had become much denser due to the middle ninth-grade resonance, causing his body to become much more robust. As he urged with all his strength, the numerous injuries on his body began to swiftly heal, but the backlash was like a rushing tide, continuously battering him in waves, leaving behind countless injuries.

However, his body never collapsed from the backlash, which also meant that he was able to resist it!

The Absolute Resonance Halo had sensed the backlash rushing through his body and let out a terrifying suction power that absorbed all of it.

As Li Luo attempted to resolve the backlash, Fang Xingyun's attack neared and he roared, "Li Luo, you're naive if you think that this could have stopped me. Just let me eliminate you now!"

The mighty thunder dragon manifestation accompanied his shouts.

But just as he had shouted, Li Luo suddenly raised his head and his gaze turned sharp.

Fang Xingyun's heart sank. Had this brat managed to resolve the backlash? He was unbelievable! This also meant that the curse would soon activate!

As this thought ran through Fang Xingyun's mind, he suddenly heard a harsh ripping sound.

His eyes shrunk and he raised his head to look at the seven Duke Bergfrieds above him. One of them had a humongous crack running through the middle!

This deep crack then caused the Duke Bergfried to break into two!

Energy gushed out of it like a tide, dissipating into the world around him.

At the same time, the Duke Bergfried began to show signs of collapse as pieces broke off, transforming into motes of light that were reabsorbed into Fang Xingyun's body.

"What sort of demonic art could be so terrifying?!"

Turmoil surged up within Fang Xingyun's heart. Li Luo's art had directly broken one of his Duke Bergfrieds, and even though it was temporary, it had caused the situation to change!

"It doesn't matter! I have to defeat him with utmost speed!"

Fang Xingyun thought to himself. A merciless glint appeared in his eyes. He no longer cared about the Duke Bergfried, instead condensing all of his resonant power and channeling it through his Thunderlight Halberd to strike Li Luo as hard as he could.

Unfortunately, with the loss of one Duke Bergfried, the thunder dragon manifestation and its radiance began to dim at a rapid pace. A smile formed on Li Luo's bloodied face, and he swung Dragon Elephant Thunder Blade. This strike caused the void to split apart, and deafening roars blasted out of the rift he had created. A moment later, three gigantic dragons rushed out of the gap, all with different energies that quickly fused together, transforming into an ancient, mottled banner.

This was the Three Dragons’ Heavenly Banner Canon!

"Three Divine Dragons’ Demon Smiting Light!" Li Luo swiftly waved the banner, and colorful divine light spewed out, crushing everything in its wake as it crashed into the thunder dragon manifestation. РαΝǒBƐṤ

Naturally, the might of the Three Dragons’ Heavenly Banner Canon had been augmented by the middle ninth-grade Heavenly Dragon resonance.

Bang!

When the two attacks clashed, the world turned silent momentarily. After which, terrifying energy tempests spread out from the epicenter of the impact, turning one mountain after another into piles of debris and uprooting even the lakes, causing water to rush outwards like a pressurized torrent.

The people who had been locked in battle nearby were immediately forced to retreat.

Despite the chaos, Lu Qing'er and the Thunder Tribulation Sage College's sixth-grade Duke's ice sculptures were immovable. Any energy that entered the radius around them was assimilated into wisps of cold air.

Those outside the minor world were closely watching the source of the cataclysmic impact.

The dust had yet to settle.

Soon, they saw a tall figure standing in the sky with a head full of shining, violet-gold hair.

It was Li Luo!

Numerous cheers rang out. Li Luo had actually survived Fang Xingyun's killing move!

That was a Destiny-grade Duke Art unleashed by a seventh-grade Duke! The lower seventh-grade Dukes who were watching had shock written all over their faces. They couldn't understand what was going on. No matter how demonic and talented a second-grade Transcendent was, he couldn't possibly be this strong, right?

Transcendent geniuses were rare but not unique in the world! But who had ever seen one do something like this?

They then turned their focus from Li Luo to Fang Xingyun, who was not far away. At this point in time, the latter's expression was incomparably ugly. The fact that Li Luo had weathered his attack was a great blow to his confidence. He felt aggrieved in his heart! He knew that the only reason why Li Luo had managed to survive that blow was because of that damned curse!

"Vice Principal Fang, it looks like your seventh Duke Bergfried is about to vanish," Li Luo helpfully informed him.

Fang Xingyun's expression turned aghast when he heard those words, quickly turning to look at the heavily damaged Duke Bergfried. It was as Li Luo had said, the Duke Bergfried's radiance had dimmed immensely. At this point, it was unable to maintain its form, transforming into motes of starlight that were reabsorbed by his body.

Fang Xingyun had directly fallen to the sixth-grade! He felt a chill run through his body. This also meant that his thunder energy Worldspace Domain would dissipate.

Its suppressive abilities had vanished.

He was a little dazed by this entire chain of events as he looked at Li Luo. Despite being inflicted with the full power of the backlash, the brat was still looking as vigorous and as lively as ever. Furthermore, without the suppression brought about by the Worldspace Domain, his resonant power was beginning to strengthen further!

The situation had turned.

As Li Luo looked at Fang Xingyun's crestfallen and disorientated expression, his smile turned even more radiant.

"Vice Principal Fang, it looks like you're a sixth-grade Duke now. That is something I'm not worried about."

After saying those words, a savage-looking, dragon-shaped greatbow appeared in his right hand. Li Luo had a lot of experience and confidence in dealing with sixth-grade Dukes after all. Thus, there was not much suspense left in this battle.