When Lin Lei drew the Purpleblood Softsword, the Tyrannosaurus understood that Lin Lei intended to fight him head-on!
As a Saint Realm dragon, the Tyrannosaurus was naturally immensely proud.
"BOOM!" With just one furious step, the entire earth trembled and cracked apart, and surrounding trees snapped and toppled over. The Tyrannosaurus, whose body was as massive as a small mountain, launched itself into midair, its flame-red eyes blazing with hellfire as it glared down at Lin Lei.
Lin Lei didn't dare let his guard down.
"Prequart, your body is so enormous. Surely you can spare a bit of dragon blood," Lin Lei said with a shake of his head.
"You insult me! You insult the noble Saint Realm dragons!" The Tyrannosaurus — Prequart — suddenly opened his maw, and a torrent of black dragon flame surged forth, engulfing Lin Lei entirely. The figure of "Lin Lei" instantly dissolved into nothingness.
Prequart whipped his head around.
Lin Lei was already above him: "Watch out. I'm starting my attack." Lin Lei spoke with surprising politeness.
"Hmph." Prequart felt even more humiliated. Rage fueling him, his entire body accelerated to a terrifying speed. The sonic boom of "BOOM!" erupted as the Tyrannosaurus attempted to slam his colossal body into Lin Lei.
But hadn't he noticed Lin Lei's astonishing speed?
"Cunning, this Tyrannosaurus." Lin Lei's body dissolved into a phantom of wind, sidestepping in an instant. A black blur slashed through the space where he had been — the Tyrannosaurus's tail.
"WHOOM—" The tail whipped through the air so fast it generated a massive wind blade that tore outward. Surrounding trees and boulders were sliced cleanly in half as if they were tofu. One after another, the great trees crashed to the ground.
The wind blade generated by the tail's speed alone was this devastating — so how terrifying was the tail itself?
"That tail. I can't block it head-on." Lin Lei's expression turned grave.
"Whoosh!" Lin Lei's speed surged to its absolute limit, yet it produced only the faintest whisper of wind. His mastery of wind had grown far beyond what it was twelve years ago. The Tyrannosaurus's entire body suddenly erupted with scorching hellfire, and the surrounding air temperature skyrocketed to a horrifying degree in an instant.
To attack, Lin Lei would have to enter the range of the hellfire.
Dark green-black energy surged across Lin Lei's body. Relying on the Pulse Guard, he plunged straight into the black flames.
"Swish!" The Purpleblood Softsword transformed in an instant into a streak of violet lightning, as though piercing through space itself. The horrifying speed, pushed to its extreme, caused spatial distortion — the blurred space produced faint overlapping afterimages. The violet streak of light slashed diagonally across the Tyrannosaurus's body.
Mystery of Wind — Spatial Overlay.
Squelch!
The Purpleblood Softsword split open a wound a full meter long and thirty centimeters deep. Yet not a single drop of blood flowed from the Tyrannosaurus, because his scales were far thicker than thirty centimeters.
"His defense really is formidable. I couldn't cut through with a single strike." Lin Lei was inwardly shocked. The Spatial Overlay attack, for all its power, was still a notch below Hibkinson's Phantom Void Sword. Lin Lei's comprehension of the "speed" realm was still somewhat behind Hibkinson's.
After all, the man had cultivated for thousands of years.
"If you have any guts, face me head-on, Prequart!" the Tyrannosaurus roared. He could clearly sense that Lin Lei was too fast. But just as he finished shouting those words, and before Lin Lei could even reply, dozens of black tentacles — nearly invisible amidst the hellfire — emerged from the Tyrannosaurus's body and enveloped Lin Lei in an instant.
"Tentacles?"
Lin Lei was startled. At the same time, he felt the tentacles binding him completely grow bitterly cold. Rather than worrying about his situation, Lin Lei was inwardly puzzled: "Tentacles, like an octopus — how can a Tyrannosaurus..."
"Boss, that's the 'Ice Tentacles' from Darkness magic," Bei Bei's voice echoed in Lin Lei's mind.
Lin Lei understood immediately.
The Tyrannosaurus turned his head, his flame-filled eyes locking onto Lin Lei: "Lin Lei, prepare to die." But before he could attack, the dark green energy waves rolling across Lin Lei's body began to churn and expand at extreme speed... As the energy field swelled, the Ice Tentacles trembled.
"BOOM!" They were finally squeezed until they burst.
The Pulse Guard had already reached two hundred and fifty-six layers — its power was more than ten times what it had been before.
But the moment Lin Lei burst the Ice Tentacles, "Swish!" the lightning-fast tail lashed toward him once more. Lin Lei's body dodged immediately, yet the edge of the Pulse Guard was still grazed. The tremendous force transmitted through the tail made his body shudder involuntarily.
"The Tyrannosaurus's strength is no ordinary thing," Lin Lei thought with alarm.
With this Tyrannosaurus's power, even someone at the Hederson level might not be able to do anything to him.
"ROAR~~" The Tyrannosaurus bellowed in fury. The terrifying sound waves were compressed into a narrow area, blasting directly toward Lin Lei. The deafening waves made Lin Lei's ears ring, and then the Tyrannosaurus charged at him like a madman.
The distance between them was only a hundred meters, but as the Tyrannosaurus hurtled forward, his body kept shrinking in size.
Yet the momentum of the charge grew even more terrifying.
"ROAR~~" In an instant, it was as though heaven and earth were splitting apart.
At the same time, a gray mist materialized from nothingness, blanketing an area of several hundred meters and enveloping Lin Lei along with it.
"I can't let him hit me." Lin Lei paid no mind to the mist. His speed shot to its absolute limit as the Purpleblood Softsword in his hand began to dance. At the last possible moment, he evaded the Tyrannosaurus's charge, and then drove his sword into the creature's body—
The sword intent flowed like drifting clouds, combining the two diametrically opposed concepts of Spatial Stagnation and Spatial Overlay into the Rhythm of Wind. Its power surpassed even the Phantom Void Sword.
"Squelch!"
The thick scales split open along a crack.
"ROAR~~" The Tyrannosaurus howled in pain, and blood gushed from the wound, a full meter long.
From a distant hillock, Xini, Taylor, and Sasa cheered when they saw the dragon blood spraying through the air. A smile appeared on Dilia's face as well. It was clear that Lin Lei held the upper hand. In truth, he hadn't even performed the Dragon Blood Warrior transformation.
The Tyrannosaurus suddenly dove straight toward the ground.