Chapter 1127: Lantern Detonation
Chapter 1127: Lantern Detonation
As soon as the flame in Zhou Yao's lantern died out, ten vicious Crab Others charged towards them. The twisted faces on their shells spewed out corruption that sprayed across the squad.
Feng Lingyuan's eyes lit up and her resonant power exploded.
Just as she was about to strike, someone quickly ran to her. He pushed Zhou Yao to the side, and she stared at him in surprise. Following this, he lifted up his lantern, which was not too bright.
"Li Luo?!" Zhou Yao was shocked. She quickly told him, "Your light isn't strong enough to block them! Take cover quickly!" Feng Lingyuan, Duan Mu, and Li Hongyou were astonished too. If Zhou Yao, a True Seal-grade with a lower eighth-grade light resonance, was unable to withstand it, how would Li Luo, who only had a light resonance as his secondary resonance, be able to do it?
However, Li Luo was not bothered by them. He looked directly at the corruption that was spreading towards them. Behind it were countless Crab Others charging forward in a united attempt to drown them out in a white torrent.
He focused on the mysterious Auric Halo in his body.
The three resonant palaces within him reverberated, and a huge amount of resonant power was poured into the halo.
At this moment, the Auric Halo turned a little.
Suddenly, the huge amount of resonant power that had flowed into it vanished completely.
At the same moment, a dazzling ball of light arose up from the center of the Auric Halo. As it slowly ascended, endless brilliance burst out of it like a resplendent star.
Li Luo did not sense an overwhelming amount of resonant power from the glow of light. However, he could feel that it contained an incomparably pure form of holy energy.
It was as if all the resonant power that he had poured in had been refined into light resonant energy that contained the purest cleansing and divine power.
He did not understand how this had happened. However, he was glad to see it. He had full control over the light, and it flew from his fingertips into the lantern in his hands.
An extremely shrill cry erupted from the twisted faces on the human skin lantern. At the next moment, the lantern began to expand rapidly. The glorious light was unable to be contained, so it started bursting at the seams.
A moment later, the lantern expanded like a bulging rubber ball.
"It's going to explode!"
Li Luo's eyes twitched uncontrollably when he realized what was hapenning. He did not expect this move of his to overwhelm the human skin lantern.
Feng Lingyuan and the others were stunned to see this too.
However, there was no time for them to talk about it. The human skin lantern had reached its limits. At the next moment, it exploded with a loud bang.
Countless streams of divine light zipped across the area, shrouding it in a radiant glow. It was like the sun rising from the swamp.
Holy light enveloped the entirety of the swamp, covering tens of thousands of feet. Countless Crab Others that were caught in it disintegrated instantly. A huge hole appeared in the white mist around the black swamp, and the pitch black water underneath it suddenly turned clear.
It felt like the whole area had been cleansed of all corruption all of a sudden.
The chaos in the surroundings transformed into a moment of tranquility.
The surface of the lake remained calm. There was no white mist. There were no Others.
The squads from both colleges were dumbfounded for a moment.
No one had expected such a sudden development.
Just what was that overbearing holy light? It was so domineering that it could instantly cleanse all of the corruption in their surroundings?!
At this point, even Yue Zhiyu's cute face was full of shock. For a moment, she thought that Jiang Qing'e had arrived to help.
It was incomparably pure and pristine light energy.
This was one whole level above her lower ninth-grade light resonance!
However, Jiang Qing'e was clearly not the one behind this.
Yue Zhiyu's shocked gaze turned towards the Heavenly Origin Ancient College's side. Li Luo was standing at the front of the group, and the lantern in his hands had exploded.
Without a doubt, this entire debacle had been created by Li Luo.
But how had he done it?! With his secondary light resonance? How was that possible?!
Wei Chonglou stared at Li Luo without blinking. Who could've guessed he still had such an ace hidden away?
Li Luo quickly recovered from all of the surprised gazes. He suppressed the turmoil in his heart and shouted in a hurry, "Quick! Quick! We have to make full use of this opportunity to move!"
Feng Lingyuan similarly snapped back to attention. The Others in the surroundings had been completely wiped out and even the white mist was gone; this was the perfect chance for them to cross the swamp. Otherwise, they would be trapped by the Others once the white mist returned.
She gave the order decisively. Everyone in the squad ran with all their might. They stepped on the water's surface and sprinted towards the city in the depths of the swamp.
Seeing this, the squad from the Hallowed Coruscation Ancient College followed.
The two squads made full use of this brief opportunity to quickly cross the water.
As they were running, they did not notice the group of people far behind them. These people were also flabbergasted.
It was none other than the Murderous Ghost Horde.
The leader with the blood coffin was taken aback. After a few moments of silence, he dryly commented, "What fearsome cleansing power."
The riotous behavior the Others had exhibited earlier was instigated by him. He had originally planned to kill off some of the students to weaken the group. However, things had taken an unexpected turn.
Luckily, they had kept their distance. If not, they would have been caught up in the explosion and ended up as collateral damage. Although they wouldn't have been completely eradicated like the Others, they would have been spotted and possibly injured.
One of the individuals with a black coffin said, "It seems to be the work of that Heavenly Pearl kid."
"Such pure divine energy couldn't possibly have been created by someone at the Heavenly Pearl Tier."
"Could he have some kind of expendable artifact?"
The one with the blood coffin pondered for a moment as his underlings bickered.
"Let's follow them. There is a Ten Thousand Skin Devil Heart Pillar in the city, so the All-Beings Devil King must have prepared something. We'll let them suss out the opponents and exhaust their energy first."
"This is one of the spirit motherlodes of the Fifth Minor Earthly Branch Realm, so there is sure to be an extremely rare treasure under the Devil Heart Pillar. The Lord has instructed us to retrieve it."
The ones with black coffins nodded. They avoided the area that had been purified and sneakily moved through the black swamp towards the same destination.
There were no more attacks launched at the two ancient college squads, and the groups arrived smoothly at Black Swamp City.