Chapter 1631: Devil’s Inevitable Ash

The violet-gold dragon scale silently floated before the gigantic sacred lotus, emanating an ancient charm. It seemed to contain an inviolable law that prevented any corruption from entering the vicinity.

“Heavenly Dragon’s Ancestral Scale!”

Li Luo sighed in relief when he saw this. At the same time, he tightly clutched the other Ancestral Scale in his hand, which he had just taken out. When he saw the beam turn towards Jiang Qing’e, his first thought was to activate its power to keep her safe. In the end, it seemed she was one step ahead and had used her own.

The two were clearly of the same mind.

“Thank you, Grand Ancestor!”

Li Luo thought with utmost sincerity. The Ancestral Scales were gifts they had received from his Grand Ancestor after the events at the Celestial Mirror Pagoda. They turned out to be crucial in this battle.

On the other hand, the Five Headed Devil Abomination looked at the scale with its burning eyes. The aura it contained caused him to feel a hint of trepidation. Clearly, it had come from a Heavenly Emperor-level Heavenly Dragon.

The only way scale could block his attack was if it came from such a powerful being.

“It seems I underestimated your trump cards.” The Devil King’s words were piercing to the ears and were filled with much more killing intent than before.

The Ancestral Scale was merely a treasure, so the number of attacks it could block was limited. Otherwise, they would have long used it to win this battle.

In that case, the Xia Kingdom would only be saved if the Heavenly Emperor Heavenly Dragon were to descend in person today.

With that thought in mind, the Five Devil Heads began to slowly revolve. The Devil King would no longer waste time. At this moment, the flesh on its greenish-black hands began to wriggle and squirm, then a hundred arms burst out.

Every single arm was pale and exuded the aura of death. They all began to form strange hand seals.

“Mo... Zhong... Ma... Gu....”

The Five Devil Heads began chanting quietly in unison with the hand seals.

Everyone watched the dusky flames in the eyes of the heads spread out.

All of the heads started to burn.

This unexpected scene left everyone guessing. Why was the Devil King self-immolating?

On the other hand, Li Luo and the other three Kings had grave expressions. They could distinctly sense that as the heads of the abomination burned, a chilling evil energy was being produced in the world around them.

This energy brought about a bone-piercing chill, causing even the circulation of source origin energy in their bodies to slow.

Although they didn’t know what sort of strange art the Devil King was about to activate, they weren’t planning on sitting around until it happened. All of them immediately burst into action and launched attacks of their own.

However, once the attacks were within a thousand feet of the Devil Heads, they rapidly dissipated and turned into harmless motes of light.

At the same time, greenish-gray ash began to fall from the skies.

No one knew where they had come from. However, they enveloped the entirety of the Xia Kingdom, falling on each and every one of its territories.

The moment a speck of ash landed on an individual, it immediately reduced them to a pile of ashes.

Whether they were mortals or Dukes, all of them were powerless to resist. No one was spared from becoming dust.

In just a short span of time, the lands of the Xia Kingdom were filled with ashen graves as far as the eye could see.

Chaos ensued and terror reigned.

The ash falling within Xia City was particularly dense, and the numerous experts started to dodge in fright. Unfortunately, no matter how much they tried to run and hide, they were dismayed to discover that it was completely useless.

The greenish-gray ashes followed them like shadows and were impossible to evade. In the end, they could only stare blankly as the ashes adhered to them.

The three Kings all had ugly expressions when they saw this. They roused their Crowns, attempting to use their source origin energy to block the ashes.

They were successful, but then they realized that their Crowns were beginning to dim! This was a sign that it wasn’t completely effective.

“Just what are those ashes?” Li Luo asked solemnly.

Pang Qianyuan bitterly replied, “It is rumored that the Saturnine Hydra Devil King’s Eight Devil Heads were refined into Devil Head Furnaces. Once these furnaces are activated, they released an endless rain of Devil’s Inevitable Ashes. The ashes can erode source origin energy, and anyone it touches is reduced to ashes. It absorbs one’s life force in the process, and if it cannot be broken, it will eventually reduce even a powerful person to ashes.”

Li Luo’s eyelids twitched upon hearing this. These Other Kings truly possessed strange and unpredictable abilities. Who would even think to refine their own head for greater power?

That said, he had personally witnessed just how terrifying this move was. Even though there were four Kings working together, they were still on the losing end.

And there were only five Devil Heads right now.

If all eight Devil Heads had descended, the descent of the ashes would be at a whole different level. In fact, Li Luo felt like if a Heavenly Emperor didn’t appear, no one would be capable of resisting them.

It was no wonder the Saturnine Hydra Devil King dared to come to the Xia Kingdom alone and in search of the Pill Saint.

Li Luo’s gaze turned back towards Jiang Qing’e. The Devil’s Inevitable Ashes were clearly focused on her, attempting to disrupt her breakthrough.

“The ashes are not attempting to break through the Ancestral Scale, but rather corrupt the Transcendent Tribulation!”

The ashes were converging on the boundless light source origin that had transformed into the tribulation lightning.

When the ashes came into contact with the tribulation, the light source origin would purify it and the two forces would eliminate each other.

This led to a weakening of the tribulation.

If the power of the tribulation was insufficient, then the likelihood of Jiang Qing’e forming a Heavenly Throne and becoming an actual Transcendent Duke would decrease.

Li Luo’s expression darkened. The Five Headed Devil Abomination had found a way to bypass the undefeatable scale. This way, it could ruin the process entirely.

After all, the Ancestral Scale was only capable of protecting Jiang Qing’e herself, not the tribulation.

Its ploy was very effective, and Jiang Qing’e frowned when she realized this.

She could put an end to the tribulation by dispersing it, but then her breakthrough would be ruined. Wouldn’t she be playing right into the hands of the Devil King if she did that?

“Li Luo, the Saturnine Hydra Devil King is weakening the tribulation. If he continues, Qing’e won't be able to advance!” Pang Qianyuan said, frowning. It had to be said that the Devil King’s actions were quite venomous. It knew that dealing with Qing’e when she broke through would be detrimental to its plans.

Thus, so long as it could prevent that from happening, it would maintain its advantage and the rest would spend an even greater amount of time suffering from the effects of the ashes. This would eventually tilt the balance further and further in its advantage.

Lan Lingzi and Li Qingying’s expressions were solemn. If they didn’t provide assistance now, things would only turn more dire.

Alas, they had no real methods to deal with the Devil’s Inevitable Ashes. All they could do at the moment was use up their source origin energy to slow down its encroachment.

Li Luo thought for a moment and said, “No worries, let me help Sister Qing’e.”

The three Kings glanced at him in disbelief. How was he planning to help?

A smirk appeared on his face, then he lowered his gaze.

His six Ten-Pillar Golden Duke Bergfrieds appeared above him, and boundless resonant power rushed into the skies.

Bang!

When this happened, the skies rumbled. The three Kings were shocked to sense a special power course through the world around them.

Was another Transcendent Tribulation being summoned?

Li Luo planned to start a breakthrough of his own to incite yet another tribulation and interfere with the Saturnine Hydra Devil King’s disruptive moves.

Even the greatly experienced Kings were left flabbergasted by this unexpected turn of events.

Was this even possible?!