Chapter 0964: Li Luo's Discovery

Visibility was bad due to the mountain being shrouded in mist, and one's other senses were naturally dulled here.

Li Luo, Qin Yi, and the group marched forward while maintaining some distance between themselves. Their eyes scanned the surroundings as they remained vigilant.

When they first entered the area, there were quite a number of rogue cultivators heading in the opposite direction. Some of them were even injured, clearly escaping from the disciples of Sacred Void Resonance Sect, judging from their sad appearances.

However, Li Luo and the group were not bothered by their presence. They maintained their pace and marched forward, swiftly disappearing into the thick mist.

This went on for dozens of minutes.

Suddenly, Qin Yi, who was at the front of the group, stopped in her tracks. Her expression had turned serious. As the others looked over in the direction of her gaze, they could see a vague silhouette walking out of the mist.

Li Luo looked over too, a serious expression on his face. They didn’t look out of place at all, except for the fact that they were wearing the robes of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect.

There was hardly any emotion on their faces, no spirit within their eyes. Clearly, they were not real humans.

When the disciples of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect emerged from the mist, they did not say anything. An instant later, huge amounts of resonant power surged up within them and extraordinarily powerful arts were activated. A barrage of resonance arts flew towards the group like raging waves.

Without any hesitation, they took out their treasured artifacts and activated their own arts, preparing to defend themselves.

Qin Ying, Li Lingjing, and the other strong Heavenly Pearl Tier cultivators took a stand at the front and deflected the majority of the attacks that came charging towards them.

Li Luo, Qin Yi, and the weaker ones stood on the sidelines and dissipated the remainder of incoming attacks.

With this formation, they would have no trouble defending against the attacks of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect's disciples under ordinary circumstances. However, Qin Ying's face changed a little after the two sides exchanged blows for a while. He exclaimed, "Something is off! Their resonance arts seem to contain some kind of hidden energy that can erode the resonant power in our bodies!"

Another expert replied, "Indeed. What exactly is this energy? It's so domineering!"

Even Qin Yi nodded slightly in agreement. "My resonant power has also been slightly eroded. But the feeling is weaker."

However, there were many shocked faces as soon as they heard her. They knew that Qin Yi possessed a lower ninth-grade water resonance, which was an extremely high resonance grade. It was an extremely challenging thing to erode resonant power like hers.

The fact that even their ordinary disciples could pull off such a feat demonstrated that the Sacred Void Resonance Sect truly was the most formidable sect in the world in its time.

However, a thought flashed in Li Luo's mind while the others were surprised by this development.

He did not change his expression, but he clenched his fingers tightly. Two resonant powers surged up within his body and rapidly merged into dual resonance power.

This bit of energy contained Vestiges of Spirituality, providing it sentience. At this moment, his resonance grade was comparable to Qin Yi's lower ninth-grade water resonance.

Right at the same moment, there was another wild attack charging towards them from a disciple of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect. Li Luo punched towards it to counter.

The two resonant powers clashed openly. Li Luo could clearly sense that his dual resonance power was eroded slightly as well.

There was truly a hidden kind of power within the attacks from the disciples of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect that could weaken their opponents' resonant power.

In fact, this power was something Li Luo was very familiar with.

It was... the Acquired Resonance Flame.

These attacks from the disciples of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect contained the traces of the Acquired Resonance Flame.

“So, the Acquired Resonance Flame has the function of igniting and weakening others’ resonant power?”

Li Luo felt taken aback at this discovery. He had no idea the Acquired Resonance Flame had such a use. At the very least, the Acquired Resonance Flame that he had cultivated was not capable of doing the same.

How could the flames from the disciples of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect do so?

Li Luo could not help but get excited over this new discovery. This was truly practical and effective. If his Acquired Resonance Flame could also gain erosion properties and he merged it with his resonant power, his offensive capabilities would improve by one fold.

But how could he do it?

Should he fuse the Acquired Resonance Flame directly with his resonant power? He had already tried such a simple method in the past, and it did not work out.

"Perhaps there is a trick I need to learn? Or is a more complete cultivation method required?"?Li Luo thought to himself.

This was highly plausible. After all, the foundation of an ancient sect like the Sacred Void Resonance Sect went deep. It was likely leagues above the Heavenly Emperor powers today. Naturally, their special methods were not something that could be easily learned.

As Li Luo was pondering over this, the defenses of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect's disciples were attrited steadily by the group. Their group ultimately had the advantage based on their strength and cultivation levels.

As long as they did not encounter the elite disciples, they should have no issues advancing.

Noticing this development, Li Luo calmed the excitement in his heart. He put the idea of the resonant power that could erode that of others onto the back of his mind for now.

Perhaps he would be able to find more clues about it in the gilded hall. Minimally, he would need to understand more about the ancient and mysterious Sacred Void Resonance Sect.

With that in mind, he continued making his way deeper into the mountain.

There were other disciples from the Sacred Void Resonance Sect along the way, and their resistance steeped in intensity as they advanced. In the end, casualties started to form within Li Luo's group as well.

The fact that the disciples of the Sacred Void Resonance Sect could ignite and weaken their resonant power was really giving them a headache. Even though they had the edge, their resonant power was getting depleted rapidly against these unusual opponents. It was causing a much greater toil on them than ordinary battles.

Unless there was an overwhelming gap in strength, anyone would have trouble fighting foes capable of eroding one’s resonant power.

Nonetheless, Li Luo's gaze was getting more and more passionate as he saw the others struggling. He looked deep into the depths of the mountain. His interest in the Sacred Void Resonance Sect was increasing exponentially.

He was going to make his way into the gilded hall to have a closer look one way or another.

As they slowly progressed, the group finally entered the deeper regions of the mountain. At this moment, golden light could be seen faintly glowing in the thick mist.

Everyone began to look more excited as they marched on.

However, a wave swept in from the front as soon as their expressions of excitement surfaced. The mist was slightly blown away for a moment, and eight stone platforms appeared in front of them.

On each platform was a young person sitting in the lotus position. They sat there like guardian statues, watching the group approach with calm and empty eyes.

However, their robes were different from those of the ordinary disciples earlier. They were much more elegantly designed, and the disciples themselves exuded an air of dominance just by being present.

Seeing this, the expressions of Li Luo and the group grew more serious. They understood that these eight people were the elite disciples that guarded the massive gilded hall.

There were eight eight-pearl experts.

Breaking through would be an arduous task.

Li Luo scanned the surroundings and noticed that there were multiple corpses lying around the place. Some of the blood was still fresh. Clearly, a recent attempt had just failed miserably, and all of them had been slaughtered.

"Take care of yourself. I may not be able to look after you when we fight them later," Li Lingjing told Li Luo.

Even she could not let her guard down against such strong foes.

Li Luo nodded, and the dragon sigil on his forehead glowed brightly.

On the other side, the eight elite disciples had not said or done anything. They simply watched the intruders charge towards them. A brief moment later, they started forming hand seals.

Weng!

Astonishing amounts of resonant power burst into the sky.

A bright flame flared up, and numerous phoenixes materialized above. The birds cried out sharply as they covered the sky and rained down upon the crowd of intruders. It was a truly frightening sight.