Chapter 1177 He Hid It From Her
A huge bronze tripod was suspended in the air, its body covered with cracks. Purple flames surged wildly along the lines, interweaving with the dark red light coming from the tripod to form a vortex.
The ancient runes engraved on the body of the tripod are collapsing one by one, turning into red smoke that fills the surroundings.
"It's here!" Luo Li turned her wrist, and the chaotic soul fire turned into chains, trying to wrap around the cauldron and stabilize its operation.
However, as soon as it came into contact, the flames were swallowed up by the power within the cauldron, causing even more violent vibrations.
Meanwhile, the battle outside intensified.
Seeing that she couldn't move the Sun-Devouring Cauldron, Luo Li could only turn around and go outside to help.
Nian Nu controlled the Ice Phoenix to confront the Sun-Eating Lord. The collision of ice and fire exploded layers of air waves in the sky.
Xuan Mu, Xie Shiyuan and Wen Xingyan were overwhelmed by the massive puppets. The three of them formed a battle formation with their backs to back. The sword light, water curtain and flame intertwined, but they could not withstand the puppets' successive attacks.
"This is not a solution!" Xuan Mu's soul-binding rope had been burned to pieces.
He looked at the ever-growing puppets and suddenly remembered Luo Li's instructions before she left. He gritted his teeth and rushed towards Nian Nu, "Nian Nu! The mastermind behind the killing of your people back then was someone else! You've been deceived!"
This sentence really made Nian Nu pause, and Bing Feng's attack was also slowed down for half a second.
However, at this moment, a dark golden light suddenly came from behind her, and it was the Sun-Eating Lord who took the opportunity to launch an attack.
"Be careful!" Luo Li's cry came from a distance. Nian Nu turned hastily, his cold energy condensing into a shield, but was knocked back by the blow.
She crashed into the city wall, blood oozing from the corner of her mouth, her eyes filled with resentment and anger: "You really still want to kill me!"
"Shut up!" The golden light around the Sun Devouring Lord dimmed a bit, and a trace of pain flashed in his eyes. "Back then, your father sacrificed his soul to suppress the Burning Heaven Cauldron. I promised him to protect you... but now you want to destroy everything!"
Nian Nu stood there in a daze, and this moment of distraction gave the group of puppets an opportunity to take advantage.
Countless puppets pounced on the crowd with their fangs and claws bared. Seeing this, Luo Li unleashed the power of chaos without reservation, transforming into a huge glazed barrier that temporarily blocked the puppets' attack.
"There's no time to explain!" Luo Li looked at the Sun Devouring Lord. "The power within the cauldron has gotten out of control. Someone must sacrifice their soul to reseal it!"
The Sun-Eating Lord was silent for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand and took off the dark red crystal core from his forehead.
The moment the crystal core left his body, his hair turned white at a visible speed, and his face instantly aged. "This is the core power I extracted from the Sun Devouring Cauldron back then. Perhaps it can..."
Before he finished speaking, Nian Nu suddenly rushed towards the Sun Devouring Lord, and the chain wrapped around his neck like a poisonous snake: "Hand over the Sun Devouring Cauldron!"
"Nian Nu! Are you crazy!" Xuan Mu wanted to rush over, but was stopped by more puppets.
Luo Li's eyes flickered back and forth between the cauldron and Nian Nu. Suddenly, she noticed that the flame birthmark on Nian Nu's neck was pulsating with the cauldron's vibrations, and a bold idea came to her mind.
"Xuan Mu! Lead everyone to evacuate!" Luo Li shouted, and the Chaos Soul Fire transformed into ropes to entangle Nian Nu and the Sun Devouring Lord. "Your blood resonates with the Sun Devouring Cauldron. Perhaps only by joining forces can we reseal it!"
"What did you say?!" Nian Nu and the Sun-Eating Lord exclaimed at the same time.
"There's no time!" Luo Li stuffed the dark red crystal core into Nian Nu's hand, "Trust me this once!"
Nian Nu stared at the crystal core in her hand, then at the aged face of the Sun Devouring Lord. The hazy fragments of her memory suddenly became clear—the second uncle who always secretly brought her snacks when she was a child, the man who comforted her with red eyes at her parents' funeral...
"Okay!" Nian Nu gritted his teeth and nodded, holding the Sun-Eating Lord's hand and pressing the crystal core between his eyebrows.
The blood power of the two people flowed into the Sun-Devouring Cauldron along the contact point. The flame birthmark and the runes on the cauldron lit up at the same time. The purple flame was gradually suppressed and began to turn into a normal red.
Luo Li took the opportunity to activate the power of chaos to help the two stabilize the power in the cauldron.
As the three people continued to inject their power, the cracks in the Sun-Devouring Cauldron began to heal, and the collapsed runes re-condensed.
Finally, with a deafening roar, the Sun-Devouring Cauldron returned to calm, and the purple flames completely dissipated, leaving only a soft red halo.
Nian Nu and Lord Shi Ri fell down exhausted. Luo Li caught them in time and put them in a safe place.
"It's over..." Luo Li breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the Sun-Devouring City which had returned to peace.
However, just as she relaxed, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her body - the excessive use of the power of the origin of chaos had caused her soul to suffer a backlash.
"Ali!" Xuan Mu and others rushed over and supported the staggering Luo Li.
Luo Li forced a smile: "I'm fine...but you guys..."
Her voice became weaker and weaker, and her consciousness gradually became blurred.
Before she lost consciousness, she seemed to see a familiar figure flash by in the void.
Ah Ming...
On the other side, the unconscious Nian Nu saw a long-forgotten memory in his dream: that year, his father voluntarily sacrificed his soul in order to prevent the Sun-Devouring Cauldron from going out of control.
Before his death, he entrusted the young Nian Nu to the Sun Devouring Lord, and asked him to announce Nian Nu's death and send her out of Sun Devouring City to ensure her safety...
When Nian Nu woke up, the Sun Devourer Lord was standing by her bed. The two looked at each other, and years of misunderstanding vanished in that moment.
"Second uncle..." Nian Nu's eyes were red.
The Sun Devouring Lord smiled with relief: "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back..."
At this time, Luo Li was receiving treatment in a courtyard not far from the city.
Song Wanbai looked at her who was unconscious with a serious expression.
Beside her pillow, a faint light suddenly flashed from Di Xuanming's life tablet...
The faint light of the life card flickered like a firefly and turned into a shadow in an instant.
Di Xuanming's pale face appeared in the void. His fingertips lightly touched Luo Li's bloodstained brow and he murmured softly, "Wait for me."
The shadow dissipated, and Song Wanbai did not notice anything unusual.
He stood up and walked out of the room.
Shi Heng and Lan Xiaoxiao asked anxiously, "How is Ah Li?"
Song Wanbai said, "Don't worry, he's just a little weak. He'll wake up tomorrow."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good."
The next day——
Luo Li slowly opened her eyes in the morning light, and what came into view was the swaying shadow of the sycamore tree outside the window.
She tried to move her fingers and found that there was still a burning pain in her spiritual veins.
"Awake?" Song Wanbai pushed the door open carrying the spiritual porridge. Seeing her trying to get up with her arms, he quickly held her shoulders. "Don't worry. Your spirit is damaged. You need to rest for at least three days."
"Nian Nu and the others..." Luo Li's voice was hoarse.
"They are all fine." Song Wanbai handed the medicine bowl to her lips, "Eat something first."
Luo Li narrowed her eyes slightly, "Am I being attacked back?"
Song Wanbai nodded, "That's right."
"Strange," Luo Li lowered her eyes and looked at the palm of her hand. "Now that I'm quite powerful, mobilizing that little bit of Chaos Origin should be easy. Why did it backfire?"
And suffered such a severe backlash...
Song Wanbai was silent for a moment, his fingertips brushing over the shimmering jade slip on the table. He spoke slowly, "Perhaps it's related to the Sun-Devouring Cauldron. The power sealed within this cauldron isn't ordinary, but rather the ancient Sun-Devouring Fire, capable of incinerating everything. Perhaps there's some subtle repulsion between it and the origin of Primordial Chaos. Forcibly suppressing it with the power of Primordial Chaos is like trying to put out a fire with water; you'll naturally be torn apart by the dual forces."
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden rapid sound of breaking through the air outside the window.
Shi Heng pushed the door open with a solemn expression, the sound transmission stone in his hand burning intensely. "Ah Li, a spatial crack has appeared southeast of Buli City, and the aura emanating from it... is exactly the same as when the Sun Devouring Cauldron went berserk."
Luo Li sat up suddenly, groaning as the wound was pulled, but she ignored Song Wanbai's attempts to stop her and grabbed Shi Heng's wrist: "Is there a figure in the crack?"
"No. But..." Shi Heng hesitantly unfolded the jade slip, revealing a faint bronze pattern on half of it. "The substance condensed at the edge of the crack is exactly the same as the casting material of the Sun Devouring Cauldron."
Luo Li lowered her eyes. Was the Di Xuanming she saw just an illusion before she passed out, or...
She took the pill and said, "Take me there first!"
Everyone hurried out of the yard. Strange dark purple clouds were rolling in the sky, and strands of energy were wandering among the clouds like spider webs.
When they arrived in the southeast, the space crack had expanded to several feet. A low humming sound could be heard from the depths of the dark rift from time to time, and the air was distorted and deformed.
Luo Li covered her aching soul, the power of chaos surging in her palm, but it was shattered by an invisible force three feet away from the crack.
It can resist the chaotic power when the world was first created. Isn't it demonic energy? Where does this power come from?
"This aura..." Lan Xiaoxiao took a half step back, her hair lifted by the energy flow. "Compared to when the Sun Devouring Cauldron went out of control, it seems even more violent."
Luo Li immediately said, "Send a message to Xuan Mu and ask her to explain the origins of the Sun Devouring Cauldron."
Lan Xiaoxiao responded, and a spiritual pattern condensed on her fingertips and sank into the sound transmission stone.
Not long after, Xuan Mu's response came through the sound transmission stone. "Nian Nu and the lord only know that the Sun Devouring Cauldron was one of the three great treasures of ancient times. Due to some reasons, it lost most of its power and flowed into the Sun Devouring Territory. It is guarded by Nian Nu's former mother clan. We don't know much else. What happened?"
Luo Li didn't explain much, but just asked him to check the origin of the Sun-Devouring Cauldron in the Sun-Devouring Territory, and then cut off the sound transmission stone.
Shi Heng's expression was slightly serious: "What should we do?"
Luo Li raised her eyes and said, "Use the formation to suppress it first. I will go to the Tower of Gods and the Chaos Jade to look for clues."
Luo Li gathered the power of chaos at her fingertips, drawing complex array patterns in the air.
Song Wanbai immediately understood what was happening and threw out twelve formation flags from his sleeves. The flags fluttered in the wind, forming the prototype of a powerful formation.
Song Wan's white sleeves fluttered, and under his control, the formation flag turned into a stream of light and penetrated into the ground.
Lan Xiaoxiao's water-based spiritual power and Shi Heng's flames were injected into the center of the formation at the same time, interweaving into a pale golden light curtain, temporarily blocking the tendency of the crack to expand.
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