319: Chapter 319 Two Lifetimes

"Pfft—ah!"

Under the backlash of the formation, countless surviving martial artists from the Huayu Association, as well as those transferred from Wangchen Temple and the Hall of Valor, vomited blood violently.

They fell from the high sky like dumplings.

With just a single strike, the four Abyssal Demons shattered the defensive line that Jiang Luoli had painstakingly maintained.

The entire team of martial artists reached the brink of collapse in an instant.

Morale plummeted to rock bottom, and the emotion of despair spread like a plague among the survivors.

The wind howled, and the air was thick with the stench of blood.

Jiang Luoli stood at the very front of the battle line, her queen's phoenix dress embroidered with phoenixes remaining spotless amidst the smoke and dust of the battlefield.

She raised her head, looking up at the four Abyssal Demons of the Transcendence Realm in the sky, who were descending slowly like demonic gods, radiating a suffocating pressure.

There was no running away.

And there was no stopping them either.

With the lessons of Teacher Wang Jin and Su Wanyue before her, Jiang Luoli's heart was strangely calm.

She knew it was her turn.

On this land called Blue Star, she had once been that proud, overbearing, and high-and-mighty heiress of a financial conglomerate.

In the investment world of Great Yin, she was the official queen, second only to one and above all others, the mother of the nation.

Her whole life, she had been fighting and scrambling.

Always holding her noble head high.

Never bowing her head to anyone.

Even when facing the man who made her grit her teeth in hatred, yet whom she couldn't help but fall in love with, she always carried a touch of a queen's haughty charm.

"Actually... I wish I could hear you call me 'Queen' one more time."

"That is my favorite title."

"'Senior' is too immature; I don't like that."

Jiang Luoli murmured softly, a bright smile curving at the corners of her lips.

She turned her head slowly.

Her gaze crossed the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.

Looking toward the direction of the distant base camp.

There, was the man she deeply loved.

"My King, Luoli cannot walk with you any further."

Jiang Luoli withdrew her gaze, and in those captivating phoenix eyes, all the vulnerability and lingering attachment were completely tucked away.

Replacing them was the pride and nobility that were carved into the very bones of the Queen of Great Yin.

"Martial artists of Great Xia, open your eyes and watch!"

"See exactly how to beat these things!"

Jiang Luoli shouted sharply.

She did not take a single step back, facing the terrifying pressure of those four Abyssal Demons of the Transcendence Realm.

With one step, she stomped heavily into the void.

"Boom—!!!"

As she took this step, a surge of intense heat erupted from within her body.

Blazing flames, like a volcano that had been dormant for ten thousand years suddenly erupting, engulfed her tall and curvaceous figure.

That was from the depths of her origin.

The most tyrannical...

Phoenix Nirvana Fire.

"President, what are you doing?"

"You cannot have another accident; let us do it!"

The martial artists behind her widened their eyes in horror.

Realizing what Jiang Luoli intended to do, they scrambled to dissuade her.

"Exactly, you are the strongest among us; if you die, we are truly finished."

"No need for more words."

"Today, this Queen will use this remaining body to open another path of survival for you all."

Jiang Luoli sneered repeatedly.

Facing the four Fourteenth Stage Abyssal Demons that were launching a fatal strike simultaneously, attempting to wipe the entire war zone off the map, this Transcendent Heroic Spirit, who only had Thirteenth Stage cultivation, made a decision that was crazy to the extreme.

She not only burned all of her spiritual power and lifespan.

But at this moment, she also sacrificed her noble "Phoenix Fate," which defied the heavens and changed her destiny, entirely to the Heavenly Dao.

"Phoenix Dances... in the Nine Heavens!"

Accompanied by a high-pitched, mournful phoenix cry that resounded through the heavens.

The blazing flames filling the sky rapidly intertwined and gathered in mid-air.

Transforming into a massive phoenix-wing shield that covered the sky and blocked the sun!

This shield was not just composed of spiritual power.

It also contained the national fortune of the Great Yin Dynasty passed down to her for hundreds of years, as well as Jiang Luoli's heaven-defying Phoenix Fate.

"Bang—rumble!!!"

The combined strike of the four Fourteenth Stage Abyssal Demons, enough to destroy the continent, slammed heavily against that phoenix-wing shield.

The land of the entire Southern War Zone sank crazily under this collision, and the seawater rushed backward.

However.

That phoenix-wing shield, exchanged with Jiang Luoli's life, although it was trembling violently.

Although its surface was covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

It actually, forcefully, held on!

At the Thirteenth Stage, she had forcefully blocked the fatal joint strike of four Fourteenth Stage Abyssal Demons for the tens of thousands of surviving martial artists behind her.

Not only that, but the backlash of the Nirvana Fire clung to the bodies of the four Abyssal Demons like maggots on a bone.

It crazily consumed and burned most of the energy origin within them.

Causing them to let out painful roars.

It looked like these four Fourteenth Stage Abyssal Demons were not going to survive because of this clinging flame.

This battle was undoubtedly a success.

However, the price of blocking this strike was that Jiang Luoli's life had reached its end.

After blocking the attack, that massive phoenix-wing shield shattered into sparks filling the sky.

And Jiang Luoli in mid-air.

Her delicate body, wrapped in flames, had already begun to disintegrate inch by inch, starting from her fingertips.

She did nothing.

Jiang Luoli just hovered in mid-air, letting her body turn into dust bit by bit.

She slightly lifted that arrogant chin, like a proud queen.

Her eyes swept over the Abyssal Demons and martial artists below, who were shocked into speechlessness.

Finally, she turned her head and saw the white-haired man in the base camp.

She took one last look at Su Chen.

In that look, there were a thousand words.

"Heh..."

"Two lifetimes, and still I cannot seek a complete ending..."

"So be it."

"It is all fate."

Jiang Luoli's gaze moved away from Su Chen.

When she spoke again, her voice returned to being cold and arrogant.

"I, Jiang Luoli."

"In life, I was a hero; in death, I will not kneel!"

"This time, I, Jiang Luoli, can be considered to have died gloriously..."

Her body had already disintegrated up to her chest.

On that stunningly beautiful face, a relieved smile bloomed, carrying a hint of a little girl's smugness and cunning.

"Burning myself, this can be considered truly tragic and heroic."

"This time."

"At least I didn't lose to that slutty fox who pretends to be tragic."

After these words fell.

This Queen of Great Yin, who had been proud for two lifetimes, amidst the golden flames filling the sky, completely disintegrated and vanished into smoke.

...

Base camp, secret chamber.

Su Chen, curled up on the ground and clutching the broken blade and butterfly hairpin tightly, stiffened suddenly.

A streak of light pierced through the obstacles of space and drifted down quietly.

The light dissipated.

In Su Chen's hand, there was now a luxurious phoenix robe embroidered with a spreading golden phoenix, its edges charred black.

On it.

There seemed to remain a faint trace of belonging to that proud woman.

The cold fragrance of plum blossoms.

Su Chen let go with one hand and grabbed the phoenix robe tightly.

Burying his face deeply into the fabric that smelled of burnt material.

"Crack..."

The six-sided black ice in the depths of his soul.

After grabbing the phoenix robe.

Emitted another dull, crisp sound.

Of the six-sided black ice sealing Su Chen, three sides were now covered with fine cracks.